Lucky: Tracy may not believe it, but my dad loves her. And if he isn't calling her about money, then there is a problem.


Sam: All right, well are you sure he's not just off on some bar crawl?


Lucky: Not if he's sending me messages in code through you, all right, that means he doesn't want Tracy involved and he's trying to protect her.


Sam: Ok, then what do we do?


Lucky: We find those jewels and get them to my dad.


Sam: Jewels, what jewels?


Lucky: Read the message.


Sam: "Liberate the stowaway marbles, wheel them down to papa at the purple papoose.'


Lucky: See, marbles are Spencer code for jewels. See, they're smaller and easier to transport than currency.


Sam: Oh.


Lucky: So, let's see. Wheel, wheel -- it probably means roulette table. Let's -- hey where are the marbles for the roulette boards?


Sam: A-ha. So, ah, ooh, ok, I'm impressed. All right, now what about the purple papoose?


Lucky: The purple papoose is my dad's favorite place in Mexico. Listen I better get -


Sam: No, no, no, no, no. You're not going alone. Your father sent that email to me, so obviously we're in this together.


Lucky: Are you sure?


Sam: Yes, I am sure, Mexico, here we come.


Elizabeth: Being a single mom is like walking a tightrope. You move carefully, one step at a time, and if you start to lose your balance you find your way again and then you just keep on going.


Robin: Unless you fall.


Elizabeth: No, no, you never fall; you never fall because you never, ever look down. You don't let yourself think all those terrible thoughts because then you will scare yourself into not seeing all the good things. Like the first time Cameron told me that he wanted to be a doctor. Or the first time Jake picked up his little sippy cup all by himself.

Robin: See, that's the life that I want to have with my child. I want to be able to appreciate all the little things.

Elizabeth: You know, stop doing this, and stop scaring yourself. It's a waste of time and energy.


Robin: When you're right, you're right. Well, I guess I need to, uh, have a will.


Elizabeth: Wow, so much for positive thinking. Ok, yeah, you should. They're not that hard to come up with.


Robin: Yeah, I should, and I should think about who I will want to raise my child if something were to happen to me. My mom's life isn't really set up for it, and I'm not so sure it would be fair to ask uncle Mac to raise yet another generation.


Elizabeth: What about Patrick? He is the father.


Robin: Patrick never wanted to be a father in the first place.


Carly: Jason, don't tell me I shouldn't be here, I just need you to calm me down.


Jason: All right, what happened?


Carly: I mean it's good that I came here instead of just going with my first impulse, right?


Jason: Yes, yes, it's good.


Carly: You know it would have been so easy, so easy. Like that, I would have had him. I mean, in two minutes, in two minutes, we were right there, we were going for it. He's deluded, he's deluded, he is clinging to the fantasy that he is going to turn in to some new man so he can be good enough for Kate. As if she is worth the time or the energy. As if she could fill sonny's bottomless pit of need and selfishness.


Jason: Ok, so you had a fight with Sonny?

Carly: No, I had a fight with Kate in the lobby of the metro court. She walked up to me and she started lecturing me about my cruelty to sonny. How I need to stop, how I need to leave him alone and stop blaming him for what happened to Michael. And then, I need to go to grief counsling, grief counseling! That bitch is trying to tell me what to do with my kid. Do you know it took everything in me not to physically throw her out of my building.


Jason: I kind of wish you had.


Carly: Do you mean that?


Jason: Nah, I mean, it would cause more problems than it solved. She would have ran to Jax and Sonny would have came down on you. But you know what; it's good to see you like this, even though you're a little mad.


Carly: I'm mad; I'm mad enough to rip her hair out of her head and go have sex with Sonny, just because I can.


Kate: Mr. Corinthos, it's always a pleasure to see you, but you have no idea how busy my day is today.


Kate: Oh, my day just improved considerably.


Sonny: Let's go to the island.


[Chuckles]


Sonny: You will love the cabana, and we'll gamble we'll do all kinds of things; we'll make love on the beach.


Kate: I've been waiting for my invitation, what's your time frame?


Sonny: Now, today.


Carly: I know that having sex with Sonny wouldn't, you know, fix anything. I'm happy with Jax. I want to be happy someday. You know, it's good to have goals, right, Jason?


Jason: Yeah, yeah, it is.


Carly: You know I just miss Michael all the time. And as horrible as it is to say, I am tired of hurting and I am tired of feeling empty. It's easier to fight with Sonny; it's easier to blow my life apart because that's familiar. I know how to do that.


Jason: So it's easier to hurt yourself?


Carly: Yeah, because then I'm responsible for the pain. It doesn't come from a phone call telling me that my little boy is shot and his life is basically over. Sleeping with Sonny has familiar results. Yeah, we'll blame each other, and the accusations will go back and forth on who wanted who first. But Kate's heart would be stepped on and hopefully she'd be gone. That would be an added bonus. Jax would be devastated, but, you know, he'd have the excuse he needs to leave and Sonny and I would be back to where we know.


Jason: The problem is I just took over this business to keep you and the kids away from Sonny. So if you're having second thoughts, you need to tell me right
now.


Jax: I'm delighted to have you with us.


Spinelli: Uh, greetings, white knight, ruthless corporate raider. Uh, and deepest thanks, for now the truth has been revealed.


Jax: Excuse me?


Spinelli: My real and true teacher was standing before me all along.


Jax: What teacher?


Spinelli: Now I know what makes the feminine heart race and flutter. It's no mystery -- it's you, Jasper Jacks, the epitome of all that is smooth, charming, and debonair. And I want to be just like you.


Carly: Sex with Sonny and getting back together with him are two totally different things. One's a possibility, the other will never happen.


Jason: Why?


Carly: Because Michael is in a permanent coma because I couldn't stay away from sonny. I mean, after I married Jax, I was still caught up in Sonny's life, and Michael's paid the price for it.


Jason: It's a lot more complicated than that, Carly.


Carly: I know. I know that, you know, I know that we've all made mistakes and we've all made choices -- stupid, selfish, arrogant choices. Assuming that we could keep Michael safe, assuming that the craziness and the fighting wouldn't get to him, and we were wrong. So the only thing I can change from now on is how -- how I handle things in the future.


Jason: That's exactly right.


Elizabeth: Hey.


Patrick: Hey.


Elizabeth: I don't mean to interfere.


Patrick: But?


Elizabeth: But clearly you are not thinking straight.


Patrick: Well, I'm sure you're going to tell me what I'm not thinking straight about.


Elizabeth: Do you have any idea how many parents are out there who would kill to be with their children? Men and women being shipped off to war, parents losing custody, and then there's you.


Patrick: I know.


Elizabeth: You're letting your fear win. Your fear of commitment, your fear of settling down, your fear of responsibility.


Patrick: Maybe that's not true, Elizabeth, maybe I'm just genuinely not ready to be a father. Either way, I'm giving Robin what she wants, but she won't let me
close.


Elizabeth: Then figure it out, because you are giving up the opportunity, the privilege, to raise your child with the woman you love. I know men who would pay any price to have what you are throwing away.


Patrick: Robin is determined to do this on her own.


Elizabeth: It doesn't mean she wants to, it doesn't mean she has to.


Carly: Do you realize you just talked me out of having sex with Sonny?


Jason: No, I didn't.


Carly: Well, fine, you got me to talk myself out of it, which I suppose is more effective. I know that it is better for Morgan and me to stay away from Sonny, I know that. And I know I should let him live in his fantasy world with Kate, but God, I'd like to make her pay and just stick it in her face. I almost feel sorry for him, when I'm not furious with him.


Jason: Maybe Sonny has to get through this any way he can. We all do.


Jax: There's no skill involved. I enjoy the company of women, that's all.


Spinelli: Yes, as do I, but my ardor is rarely returned. And when it is, as in the case with wise Georgie, I am too blind to see what's right in front of me. But you, you're an artist; you're refined and highly skilled.


Jax: No, there's no skill involved.


Spinelli: Look, have you ever -- have you ever battled in the face of the one you love? Have you ever thought you were making progress with a fair lady only to realize that she is a courtesan or a sister of Sappho? Have you ever made a bold and fearless move, only to be accused of despoiling not a well experienced maiden but a sample of haute couture?


Jax: No, not -- I don't think so. Look, Spinelli, if you just be yourself -


Spinelli: No, no, myself isn't good enough. But my heart won't give up, it won't understand why everyone else can have love except I, the Jackal.


Jax: Are you in love with anyone in particular?


Spinelli: Indeed, but she can't see it. Even though I would make any sacrifice to be with her, I would gladly change any part of my life to win her favor. If I could just, if I could just transform to be the kind of man that she desires, I would -- I would willingly give up all that I am to become who she wants me to be.


Jax: All right, all right, I'll help.


Spinelli: Huzzah.


Jax: Ok, don't use that word.


Spinelli: Oh.


Jax: Ok, and another thing you need to know -- above all else, love's a gamble.


Carly: You're still so loyal to Sonny, after the way he treated you.


Jason: Well, we'd been friends a long time.


Carly: You know, last night, when we were fighting and I told him how I almost ran away with Morgan and he said I was lying, that I was just jerking you around trying to get you to do what I wanted you to do... that's what Sonny thinks about you and me.


Jason: Well, however it happened, he signed his kids away, he's going to feel like we betrayed him.


Carly: Do you regret it?


Jason: I'd do it again.


Sonny: Listen. [Clears throat] We will leave right now, right? Staff will have everything ready; you don't have to worry about clothes because you won't have any on.


Kate: Sonny, I can't just vanish. I'm about to launch a major American fashion magazine.


Sonny: Listen to me, ok? We'll go swimming and do whatever you want to do, make love under the stars. What do you think? Come on, let's go, let's go, let's go, come on.


Kate: People are depending on me, Sonny. I have a conference call with Warren and Giselle.


Sonny: You can take that on the island.


Kate: It's in five minutes. I have a six-page promo spread in "couture," and I've barely even begun. I'm gonna be lucky if I get out of here by midnight. But the thought of you and me under the stars -


Sonny: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.


Kate: Is going to get me through the rest of the afternoon. But everything I have, Sonny, is literally on the line right now.


Sonny: I understand. [Clears throat loudly]


Kate: Ok, can we take a rain check?


Sonny: Yeah, yeah, sure, any time you want.


Kate: Sonny?


Sonny: What?


Kate: I'm going to come up with some dates really soon.


Sonny: Ok, don't worry about it.


Kate: I'm sorry.


Sonny: Hey, you're going after, you know, your dream. I respect that.


[Sonny laughs]


Jason: Sonny thinks he can have a new life. Maybe he can, but his kids still need to be protected. That's why I took over the business, Carly, to keep you guys safe.


Carly: Alexis started all this, you know. She wants sonny to give up Kristina -- and he won't. So Alexis went to Jax, and Jax came to me and he asked me to talk to Sonny. I don't know if it's sweet, or naive, that Jax don't realize by now what sonny and I do to each other. You know, how dangerous it is to put us in the same room when we are this angry and hurt over what happened to Michael. And the thing is, as furious as I am at him and how much I regret ever being with him, he's still Michael's father, you know. We share so many memories, Michael's whole life. Sonny is the only person who understands how bad it hurts to lose my little boy.

>> On the next "General Hospital" -


Jax: You have to treat love like a game.


Kate: Dear God.


Claudia: We meet again.


Robin: Elizabeth could not be more wrong. I am doing this all on my own.


Robin's voice: Got everything under control.