Friday May 30 - Part 1

Nikolas: Look, i don't care what it costs. Move the drilling to a more eco-friendly area or i pull out my backing. It's as simple as --
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[Spinelli whimpers] mmm. Mmm. Hmm. Oh -- bad idea. Oh.

Jason: What's wrong with you?

Spinelli: I'm just trying to mobilize, that's all.

Jason: How bad are you hurt?

Spinelli: Pretty bad --i'm paying the price for the pursuit of male perfection, is all.

Carly: Hey, mercedes, when you're done with that, can you take morgan out for a while? Maybe to my mom's?

Mercedes: Sure. Is everything ok?

Carly: Yeah, jax is coming home, and i don't want morgan to hear us fight.

Jax: Then why don't we try dealing with each other instead?

[Door shuts]

alexis: Diane just gave me some very surprising news.

Sonny: Jason's taking over. I'm out of the business.

Alexis: Glad to hear that, but i was referring to the fact that you gave custody of the children over to carly. That you've signed a termination of your parental rights.

Sonny: Yeah.

Alexis: I'd like you to do the same thing for kristina.

nikolas: I apologize for that. I just got distracted for a moment and thought that you were --

claudia: Yeah, you thought that i was your fiancee. Nikolas: Right, right. There's a part of me that'll never stop hoping to see her again. I guess it's just a reflex.

Claudia: Yeah.

Nikolas: Yeah.

Claudia: Your guy, alf -- alfred? He's having my clothes washed. I'm taking it that emily used to wear this old robe sometimes?

Nikolas: Yeah. Occasionally she would.

Claudia: You know -- were you guys going to get married and live in this creepy old house together? I mean, i'm not criticizing. You should see where my family lives. I just -- i imagine that everything in this place reminds you of emily.

Nikolas: Yeah.

Claudia: Do you ever think of moving out or starting over?

Nikolas: Eh, it wouldn't matter. She'd be with me no matter where i am.

Claudia: Let me give you a little piece of advice, ok? You seem like a really decent guy. At some point, sooner or later, you're going to have to put one foot in front of the other and realize that you have a future.

Nikolas: You -- you really wouldn't understand.

Claudia: Try me.

Nikolas: It wouldn't make sense to you, unless you've been completely in love with someone, and then lost them.

Claudia: Love is a disaster waiting to happen. Especially for anyone in my family.

Maxie: Federico cabrero is the new name in the fashion world. Everyone who's anyone wants to get invited to one of his parties, and he called to invite me, personally.

Lulu: He's just sucking up to kate.

Maxie: Federico and i had an amazing time in new york. He said he wants me to bring a date, someone worthy of my fabulousness, is how he put it. His loft is amazing. You'd have a great time. Besides, you owe me.

Johnny: I meant a gift, or helping you out in some way.

Maxie: Oh, you'd be helping me. And the magazine. You'd be that little extra flash to put us over the top. The perfect accessory.

Johnny: You're going to have to find somebody else to accessorize you.

Maxie: You don't know what you'll be missing.

Lulu: I think he does.

Johnny: Maxie, thank you for the offer. I'll talk to you later.

Lulu: Bye.

Lulu: Ow. Does it hurt to crash and burn that hard?

Maxie: Oh, that wasn't a total loss.

Lulu: Really? Because johnny could care less about federico fashion and you.

Maxie: That's fine. But your boyfriend still owes me a favor.

Lulu: Well, show a little pride and try not to collect.

Maxie: You wish. Ahem.

Lulu: Well, you can't hide your desperation no matter what you wear.

Lulu: Huh.

[Maxie chuckles]

spinelli: Fair samantha has been kind enough to instruct me in the ways of pumping up. But, as stone cold can see, the jackal is less than adept and has a long, arduous road ahead before he can achieve physical prowess.

Jason: Why -- why are you doing this?

Spinelli: To enhance myself in maximista's eyes.

Jason: You're working out because of maxie?

Spinelli: If i can increase my muscle tone, acquire, as it were, a six pack and guns, then maybe she'll view me as a worthy romantic partner.

Jason: Why are you here?

Spinelli: I didn't want to startle the customers in the coffee house with my less than manly yelps of pain, so i retired here to the confines of mr. Sir's office. Please do not tell him i trespassed in his domain.

Jason: You know, that's something we need to talk about. I'm taking over for sonny.

Alexis: I know it must have been very difficult for you to give up your rights --

sonny: A lot more than difficult, alexis.

Alexis: You did the right thing. You put your kids in front of yourself, and it shows how much you love them. So i'm just asking that you give the same consideration to your daughter.

Sonny: Alexis, do you think kristina would be better off without me?

Alexis: No, i don't, sonny, because i know that she loves you. She has a relationship with you that i think is important. I just want to be able to control the boundaries of that relationship, so that i can ensure her safety. I want to keep her protected. I want to keep her away from the bodyguards. I want to keep her away from you being arrested and all that goes with it. What i'm not going to be able to protect is how she feels about you. Because at some point, she's going to find out what you do.

Sonny: Mm-hmm.

Alexis: Probably from a friend at school, but she's going to find out that you're a criminal. I have watched the way michael struggled with who you are, what you did. How the lines between right and wrong were always blurred for him. He wanted so much to believe that what you did was ok, that the violence was ok. He wanted so much to be just like you.

Sonny: Michael wanted a lot of things, and he's not going to have any, now is he, so --

alexis: Morgan will and kristina can, and you need to create a future for her that is unencumbered by the violence in your life.

Sonny: I know this means a lot to you --

alexis: Don't say no. Don't say no.

Sonny: Listen --

alexis: If you love her, you will do what's best for her.

Sonny: I lost michael. I gave up morgan. I can't. I can't give up -- i can't, i can't give up kristina.

Carly: You're going to go over to grandma bobbie's house and she's going to make you macaroni and cheese with the crust on top. I know that's your favorite. You have fun, ok?

Morgan: Ok.

Jax: Hey, how about we go to the park this weekend and practice your t-ball?

Morgan: T-ball, great.

Jax: Ok.

Carly: We'll see. We'll see about that Come on. All right. You have fun. I love you, baby. I'll see you in the morning.

Mercedes: Bye.

Carly: Bye.

Jax: We'll see? What does that mean?

Carly: Well, you know, he's lost his brother and his father. I don't want him to set his hopes on a future that seems less and less likely.

Jax: Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself?

Carly: Don't you think you should admit it? Our marriage is falling apart.

Alexis: So you'll do this for your sons, but you won't do it for your daughter?

Sonny: Don't do that. That's -- that's not what this is about.

Alexis: Out of all three of them, why are you choosing --

sonny: You know i love kristina.

Alexis: Then prove it. Then sign the termination of your parental rights.

Sonny: And that's going to change everything? I'm not going to walk away from kristina any more than i'm walking away from michael or morgan.

Alexis: You gave up custody to carly.

Sonny: I signed a piece of paper, that's all it was. Carly blames me for what happened to michael. She wants to punish me. She wants to hate me, so i'm letting her.

Alexis: Wow.

Sonny: She was about to run with morgan. She's lashing out. I'm an easy target. If i fight her, it's going to make it worse. Eventually, you know, she'll just see reason.

Alexis: So that's why you're doing this. Because you think that she'llgive the kids back to you.

Sonny: Hey, i've known carly a long time. The more you fight her, the crazier she's going to get, ok? Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, she'll come around, ok? She'll admit she's wrong.

Alexis: She's not wrong.

Sonny: I'm changing. I'm trying to do something different. For my children. Jason's running the business. I'm keeping the coffee business because it's legitimate.

Alexis: So this is just an empty gesture? So you're just using this to placate carly?

Sonny: Oh. Do you want to get involved in this, alexis? I don't think you do. We're going to work things out is what i'm saying to you.

Alexis: Do you hear yourself? Do you really hear yourself? Do you know that your son is in a permanent coma? I am trying to protect our daughter! And all that you can do is play games with your ex-wife?

Carly: I feel like i'm being tested. You -- you sympathize and you try to support me, but when i push too hard, you jump on a plane to go see brenda? Or you run across town to go see kate? What the hell is that?

Jax: Kate and i are business partners.

Carly: You weren't taking care of business standing there in the hotel lobby, jax.

Jax: No, we weren't. We were talking about sonny's decision to give up morgan.

Carly: Oh. How the hell is it any of kate's business what sonny and i do with our children?

Jax: Kate doesn't think that you should have asked sonny to give up his sons, and she disagrees with him for giving in.

Carly: Oh, wow. Hooray for kate. Did you thank her for her insight?

Jax: No, i agree with you. You know that.

Carly: Well, next time, you can tell kate to butt out and mind her own business.

Jax: Oh, what if i said the same thing about jason? Every time you go running across town to him?

Carly: Hey, you can't compare kate to jason. Kate is a snob and she is playing you.

Jax: You're absolutely wrong. You can compare the two.

Carly: Right now, i feel like jason is the only person on earth who supports me and who understands me and gives a damn about how i feel.

Jax: Jason is in the same business as sonny. I mean, the violence that you're trying to protect morgan from, it follows jason around as well. So when are you going to cut your ties from him? Huh? When are you going to make that clean break?

Ric: Anthony, i think it was a smart move to blow up jason's first shipment, but i think we should hit him again before he has a chance to regroup.

Trevor: We?

Anthony: I'm listening.

Ric: Just level a warehouse. Torch another shipment.

Trevor: Jason is going to retaliate. He is probably planning his move right now.

Ric: No, he's not. He's distracted. He's still grieving over michael. Look, sonny didn't give him any transition time. He dropped the business right into his lap. This is the best time to eliminate him.

Trevor: Richie.

You got a personal vendetta against the man. That's always a bad reason to make a move.

Ric: Look, jason is a glorified hitman, ok? He doesn't have any affinity for leadership or for planning, but he is very good at killing people. So we got to neutralize him before he neutralizes us.

Trevor: There is a big difference between fear and caution. Unfortunately, my son, you never learned that.

Anthony: Trevor, your son might be right. Jason has proven very hard to kill. This could be our chance to finish him off.

Trevor: Then you better send the best. Because if you try to take him out, eliminate him, and you miss? Jason's going to retaliate. And unlike you, my son, mr. Morgan usually hits what he's aiming at.

Spinelli: The jackal had no idea that stone cold had aspirations to replace mr. Sir.

Jason: I didn't. Sonny wanted this. I agreed so he would give custody to carly of michael and morgan.

Spinelli: You've never demonstrated even the slight interest in taking charge. You don't preen with power like mr. Sir, and you express discomfort when giving orders. I mean, you're a doer, not a desk sitter.

Jason: Doesn't matter.

Spinelli: I mean, i have no doubt that you will handle your increased responsibilities with aplomb, but any satisfaction that you take will soon greatly diminish. And hapless things befall those who are dissatisfied in their work.

Jason: Spinelli, everybody's safer this way, ok? And its not as if there's something better out there waiting for me.

Diane: Please tell me you are not considering using mr. Grasshopper as an alibi.

Jason: I don't need an alibi.

Diane: One of your shipments was just burned to a crisp in the harbor. Presumably, the handiwork of the zaccharas. You send me out of the room so that you can confer with max. Hypothetically speaking, the only possible topic of conversation was retaliation.

Spinelli: The jackal complies. Um, first -- oh, oh, oh -- a word or two with the brusque lady of justice Firstly, the jackal would be an exemplary alibi and stands ready to validate stone cold's lack of guilt in any and all charges leveled against him.

Diane: Anyone who lets you near a witness stand is committing litigatory suicide.

Spinelli: Secondly, the jackal would hope that the tense, but supremely competent mob lawyer would advise her client to follow his heart, rather than take on any responsibilities that could prove burdensome or worse

Nikolas: A bit cynical about love, are you?

Claudia: Well, ok, for the zaccharas? Love is just another excuse to lie. My father was so in love with johnny's mother that he shot and killed her.

Nikolas: Oh, nice.

Claudia: It's good -- a good role model, right?

Nikolas: Yeah. Well -- well, my father was -- was literally obsessed with my mother, and my uncle, he just followed suit. I mean, for a long time, i -- i was afraid to fall in love because i -- i thought that i would end up in that same desperate corner, you know?

Claudia: So, ok, so how were you able to have a happy, normal, healthy relationship with emily?

Nikolas: Because she was the exact opposite of the cassadines, no ulterior motives, no hidden agendas, none of that. She just -- she broke through my defenses, and i felt safe with her.

Claudia: Wow. What a concept.

Nikolas: I mean -- yeah, right. Even -- even when we were fighting and -- and living apart, still had a connection with her.

Claudia: No wonder you're so devastated she's gone.

Nikolas: Yeah, she took a piece of me with her when she died. I wake up every morning feeling empty. Hmm, it's really hard to imagine my life without her.

Sam: Hey.

Spinelli: Oh, fair samantha. Ow. Gosh, um, thank you for responding to my summons. Um --

sam: Yeah, it looks like we might have done a few too many reps.

Spinelli: The jackal aches in places he did not know could be sore.

Sam: Ok, this is good. This is actually really good because you're using muscles that you normally wouldn't use, and i just think a few more sessions, and you'll loosen up just fine.

Spinelli: The jackal must regretfully decline. Pain is a most powerful deterrent.

Sam: Well, what about maxie?

Spinelli: Look, there's got to be some other form of enhancement that would attract maximista that does not provoke stiffness in my peroneus longus.

Diane: Mr. Grasshopper has a rather obscure way of putting things, but occasionally a glimmer of insight manages to shine through, and i have to concur with him. This is not a job you seem to want.

Jason: I've run things before.

Diane: Believe me. I am not complaining. You are far less erratic than sonny is. His demands were often unreasonable. His need to be in control at all times was burdensome, to say the least, but it brings me to my point. I'll bet every shoe in my closet that sonny tries to take all this back very soon.

Max: Diane.

Diane: Hi, max.

Max: Hi, uh, i hate to interrupt, but i need to talk to the boss about a retaliation strategy. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Jason: Ok, there's nothing to discuss. I'm handling it myself.