Robin: Well, when you run out of charts to throw around, we can move to the supply closet.

Patrick: You know what? I tried to defend the guy and you heard him.

Robin: The guy, meaning your brother?

Patrick: If anyone knows what he's going through, it's me.

Robin: Maybe you don't.

Patrick: No, living up to Noah Drake, the man, the myth, the legend, the great disappearing father?

Robin: Ok, that's not what I meant. You were projecting your own experience onto your brother, your half-brother, whatever.

Patrick: Robin, what am I supposed to do?

Robin: I don't know. Go have a beer with the guy. Go to a game. Try to bond with him on that level and then work your way up to the big stuff. And don't be surprised if it doesn't happen overnight.

Patrick: You know, honestly, that's not even why I'm upset. Once again, I'm reminded who my role model is. And I don't want to make the same mistakes as he did.

Robin: Parenting isn't a gene. It's not something you inherit. You're going to make a great father.

Patrick: Are you sure about that?

Lulu: Mom -- mom, please, wake up. I think I felt her hand move. I think -- I think -- I think she's coming back.

[Footsteps]

Nikolas: What did you find out?

Lainey: I'd like to speak to you out in the hall.

Lulu: No, this affects our mother. She is going to hear this. And then when we're done, you need to call the doctors at the institute in france and tell them that she's relapsing.

Lainey: Lulu, I pulled laura's file. Her status is unchanged.

Lulu: It's only been a short while, but she was getting so much better.

Lainey: She wasn't.

Lulu: I talked -- I talked to her. I talked to her doctor.

Nikolas: Lulu, it's --

Lulu: No, this happened! It's real.

Lainey: There's no Dr. Mcginnis on staff here at shadybrook, and there's no indication that laura has responded since her relapse in November of 2006.

Lulu: No. No, no, no!

We had a health concern.

Turned out to be nothing...

Matt: Oh, really, whatever you have to say, I don't want to hear it.

Robin: Well, you're stuck in that bed, so I guess you're going to have to listen to me.

Matt: Well, is it going to be something like, you know, "Patrick is a great guy" or something to that effect? Look, I know you have to believe that because you have his kid inside of you, but really, I've seen enough to know -- you know, know better.

Robin: Really? Well, how was he supposed to react when since the very beginning all you've been doing is picking fights with him, challenging him, goading him?

Matt: Was I supposed to just bow down?

Robin: You acted like a jerk, and he thought you were one. He just didn't know that there was a pretty good reason for it.

Matt: Just because we share a couple strands of dna doesn't give him the right to have an opinion.

Robin: You certainly have an opinion of him. You've already pegged him as the chosen child just because he got to have a relationship with your father, as if you missed out on some awesome father-son experience. But I'll tell you the truth. After Patrick's mother died, Noah became a drunk, until he disappeared from his life completely.

Matt: And somehow they just managed to get past that?

Robin: It was very difficult for patrick to forgive his father, and it took a lot for him to let him back into his life, and when patrick found out what noah had done to you, he stuck up for you, the one who he shares a few strands of dna with, but you know what? You're probably right. You have it all figured out, so I'll just stay out of it.

Noah: Well, now you know the truth about me. Pretty disgusting, isn't it?

Anna: Yeah, it's sad, a bit disheartening. The only thing that can make it worse at this point is if you went somewhere and had a drink.

Noah: Wow, well, I was just thinking about that. The smell, the burn in the back of the throat, the bang as the endorphin bell is rung.

Anna: Yeah, so then you're just trashed the rest of your life in the process. I mean, you can't undo what you did to Patrick and his mom or Matt and his mom. I believe that you can do a hell of a lot better in the future.

Noah: Well, your faith in me is astonishing under the circumstances. Should make me want to pull myself up by my bootstraps and go to an aa meeting instead of the bar.

Lainey: Lulu, when there's something difficult for us to face, sometimes the mind will create a coping mechanism, a way for us to deal with it.

Lulu: Can you please just test my mom to be sure?

Nikolas: We'd appreciate it. Thank you.

Lainey: I'll arrange for the tests, not because I think there will be any change in her condition but because I want us all to be on the same page so we can move forward together, ok? Nikolas and

Lucky: Thank you.

Lulu: Oh, my God.

Nikolas: Ok.

Lucky: You heard what Dr. Winters said.

Lulu: It was all in my head.

Nikolas: It's just a way for you to cope with things, lulu, a way to survive. You don't have to beat yourself up.

Lulu: No, don't -- you don't want me to lose my mind over it. Too late. I have been having conversations with our catatonic mother and the doctor -- oh, my god, then talking about the clinic in france and how her recovery --

Nikolas: It's ok.

Lulu: Oh, my god.

Nikolas: It's ok.

Lulu: Oh, my god.

Nikolas: You're going to get better.

Lucky: Right, we're all going to help you.

Lulu: None of it was real. None of it was real. I was so happy. It was like a miracle.

Nikolas: Ok.

Maxie: Women all over the world want to be kate howard, have kate howard's fabulous life. I'm talking to her, and it hits me. None of her family is going to her wedding. Isn't that sad?

Spinelli: I'm sure any lack that she feels will be more than compensated by the joy of wedding Mr. Sir.

Maxie: You don't understand. Even vain, self-centered fashion goddesses like Kate and myself need to feel connected to someone, besides the someone that we're sleeping with.

Spinelli: Well, her staff will be in attendance -- you know, the savvy if not entirely trustworthy Clarice and the radiant Maximista.

[Phone rings]

Spinelli: Oh.

Maxie: And poor lulu. Even though lulu doesn't have my dedication to the job, they really should let her out of that looney bin, just for the day. After all, she's not only Kate's second assistant, but she's Sonny's friend, or her dad is, anyway. Oh, well, I guess we'll just have to take pictures so she knows what it's like.

Spinelli: We?

Maxie: You're going to be my date, aren't you? What about you? Who are you taking to Sonny and Kate's wedding?

Sonny: I had the same reaction at first, that connie cut her ties from the past because she was ashamed, but it wasn't -- it wasn't like that. She just saw how the game needed to be played.

Olivia: She bailed. It's ancient history. I don't think about those days anymore.

Sonny: No?

Olivia: No.

Sonny: How about your brother Vito when he snuck into the confessional, and you told him all your sins with the guy you liked?

Olivia: He told the entire neighborhood about that.

Sonny: Yeah, you're a legend.

Olivia: So Vito is going to spend an extra eternity in purgatory for that one, so just --

Sonny: So you -- you never think about the old days, right?

Olivia: All right, I was pissed at connie, ok? She was always the star of the family. Then all of a sudden she decides she's too good for any of us.

Sonny: No, she thought that because of her -- she wouldn't achieve her dreams. She felt that, you know, being kate howard would get her places that Connie Falconeri wouldn't. She -- you know, it wouldn't have mattered, because she has that ambition. She would have made it, but we've all made mistakes. I made some. I know you've made some.

Olivia: Yeah, I did just about every crazy, stupid thing there was to do, including dating you.

Sonny: Thank you.

Olivia: By the way, making a career out of the mob is no genius move either.

Sonny: Well, your family never thought I was good enough for Connie, so --

Olivia: Well, you were pretty wild, when you started running with Joe Scully. Yeah, believe me, there was more than a few hail marys said for divine intervention to keep connie away from you.

Sonny: It worked.

Olivia: Yeah, she ditched you, became Katherine Hardwicke Howard. Now after all these years, you know, pick you up like something she found on the bottom of her designer shoe, decides you're good enough to marry after all.

Marty: A piece of heaven on earth.

Carly: It's a spa, Marty.

Marty: Well, when they finish the renovations, you are going to want to live there.

Carly: Did Jax want to discuss any of the changes I made on the design?

Marty: I haven't heard from him.

Carly: Thanks.

Kate: Carly.

Carly: Any questions about your lease will be directed towards marty.

Kate: Marty can't relay this particular message. So, you had sex with sonny in the back of a limo, hmm? You used his grief to manipulate him, to seduce him.

Carly: If that's what you want to tell yourself.

Kate: You used Michael as an excuse, as a free pass to do whatever the hell you want. Well, that's all over. Sonny and I are in love, and we're getting married.

Carly: I'll alert the media.

Kate: I don't trust you, especially now that you've trashed your own marriage. You have nothing left to lose, so stay the hell away from my husband.

Carly: He's not your husband yet.

This sunday through saturday

Sam: Hey. Lucky, why would you come through the front door?

Lucky: I'm sorry. I just wasn't thinking. I just -- I just needed somebody to talk to.

Sam: What happened?

Lucky: Lulu called me. She sounded so happy, I mean happier than she's ever been in months. She said that I just needed to come down to Shadybrook and that Nikolas was coming, too. I just was hoping that she had some kind of breakthrough. Instead, she said that our mother was awake. And for an instant, I just -- I wanted to believe.

Sam: Oh, Lucky.

Lucky: Yeah, my mom -- she was just... nothing had changed. She was just the same, you know. She wouldn't respond. It's like Lulu was hallucinating.

Lulu: You don't have to stay. I'm sure you have better things to do than babysit your crazy sister.

Nikolas: Oh, stop it. You're not crazy.

Lulu: I went from seeing visions of Logan to talking to mom.

Nikolas: I know, but I think you saw Logan out of guilt. As for mom, you heard what Lainey said. You mind was just trying to -- to cope with everything. Come on, I should know how this works. My life was occupied by an illusion of Emily, remember?

Lulu: You had a brain tumor. What happened to me -- what's going on is not normal.

Nikolas: So what? So what? I'm glad you got to see mom and take strength from her, even if it was in your mind. She helped you, didn't she? Yeah?

Lulu: Yeah, she did.

Nikolas: She did, and that's exactly what she'd want to do for you. Maybe there's a -- I don't know -- another name for what happened. Maybe it's love.

[Lulu scoffs]

Nikolas: Yours for mom, and hers for you.

Kate: Oh, so you admit you're trying to undermine my marriage.

Carly: If things were so great, I wouldn't be able to.

Kate: But you aren't able to, Carly. You see, that's what burns you, the fact that sonny's actually happy with me, so you're just going to keep throwing yourself at him, trying to drag him down to your level.

Carly: First of all, if you ever accuse me of using my grief over Michael to manipulate someone, I will kill you. Second of all, if I need to, I will go to Sonny whenever I want to, and if you have a problem with that, you take it up with him.

Kate: Fine, Carly. Sonny and I have been very honest. We have no more secrets.

Carly: Oh, I'm sure you could come up with a few.

Kate: So what? You're going to start spreading lies about me again?

Carly: I don't have to. No, I don't have to, because eventually, sonny will realize that you're not the little angel he's been waiting for.

Kate: Well, Sonny knows exactly who and what I am, and he loves me, and he's going to marry me.

Carly: Then you, my friend, will get exactly what you deserve.

Kate: Sonny and I share a connection that you will never understand. It runs deeper than you will ever know. I am the woman he's been waiting for.

Sonny: I love Kate. I admire Kate.

Olivia: Yeah, what else is new?

Sonny: She had a goal, and she made sacrifices to reach it. If she had to do it over again, would she do some things differently? Of course she would. Who wouldn't? Connie reinvented herself, because let's face it, there's not a -- there's not a lot of high fashion success stories coming out of, you know, 19th avenue and 86th street. And there's something else. If she had kept one foot in the old neighborhood and a plan b to fall back on, that's pretty much admitting you're not going to make it.

Olivia: You know what, Sonny? There's a lot of ways to make it, ok? And there's a lot that you got to give up to get there. Connie's problem was that she never looked back.

Sonny: Maybe it was. Maybe more than you know. I talked to her. She misses Sal's corny jokes, Nonna's crazy superstitions. She misses who she was and the people who loved her.

Sonny: And I just -- I just want to bring some of that past to the wedding.

Olivia: Well, that is actually kind of sweet. What are you thinking? Like, get pasquale to make some of her favorites, get some real food, or are you thinking like a cake from Aunt Rose or what?

Sonny: I was thinking of you coming to the wedding.

Patrick: So, how'd it go with Dr. Fox?

Matt: Is this where I'm supposed to share my condition with my big brother?

Patrick: Look, Matt, you want to ignore that we're related. I can't do that. I'm not made up that way.

Matt: Sure, you are. So am I. I mean, we're father's sons.

Patrick: My father cheated on his wife, abandoned his illegitimate son, dove into a bottle, and destroyed his medical career. That's -- that's not in my genetic code. I'm not following those footsteps.

Matt: Ok, hooray for you.

Patrick: Look, you're not crazy about me, and I don't necessarily like you, but we're brothers, and I'm not going to walk away from that.

Lucky: Lulu -- she -- she hallucinated entire conversations. She even said that she had a visit from a doctor who said that our mother would get better.

Sam: Lucky, look, at least you and Lulu's real doctor know what you're dealing with and you can actually help her now.

Lucky: It's like she's just falling, and there's nothing i can do to stop it. No one can.

Lucky: She's going to be just like her mother. She's going to be still and silent and lost forever.

Lulu: So, here's the bad news.

Lulu: So, here's the bad news. I -- I'm crazier than I thought. I needed you so badly that i made you up in my head. I guess nikolas is right. You were real to me, and you were here for me when I needed you most. You saved me, mom.

Maxie: Clearly, you're antisocial by choice, but your best friend is getting married. You have to be there.

Spinelli: Not that we would ever think of telling you what to do.

Maxie: He's going. Of course he's going. You can't just not show up and hope they don't notice.

Jason: I told Kate I wasn't going.

Maxie: Kate invited you personally, and you just said no to her face? He can't be that rude.

Spinelli: I think honest is the word we're looking for. He was being honest.

Maxie: Honesty is overrated. If you don't show up to Sonny and Kate's wedding, it'll look like you don't support them getting married. Well, you can't just put a bad vibe on their whole day.

Jason: I'm going to meet with Bernie.

Maxie: No, no, no, you have to go to the wedding, because it shows that you support Sonny and support Kate, and if their marriage gets off to a good start, then maybe Kate's heart won't be broken and "Crimson" won't go down the tubes, and then my fashion career will be saved.

[Door closes]

Maxie: Well, you understand, don't you?

Spinelli: In truth, I fail to see the correlation between stone cold's wedding attendance and your future fashion career.

Maxie: Trust me, spinelli. We have to figure out a way to get jason to go to that wedding.

Kate's voice: Sonny asked me out again. I said no again. He's always in trouble, and he and olivia are kind of dating, but olivia walked in right then, and sonny said, "you're done with me. Isn't that what you said? You don't care if I go out with your cousin." Olivia told him to knock himself out, which really got under my skin, because it was like she was saying I could have an old pair of tennis shoes. I got mad enough at her to say yes to him, so here it goes. I've got a date with sonny corinthos.

Olivia: Why in the hell would you want me at your wedding?

Sonny: You and Connie were very close, right?

Olivia: Sonny, we haven't seen each other in almost 20 years, and the last time we did, we had a barn-burner of a fight. Connie went storming out of here. She's never come back to Bensonhurst.

Sonny: I think kate stayed away because she -- you know, she feels bad about what she did. I want to make things right for her. I know that you can help me.

Olivia: Why don't you -- why don't you start with someone she actually gets along with, like my brother Vito or maybe someone a little older, a little more forgiving like her aunt on her mother's side?

Sonny: Because the family never approved of the life that i chose. You think they're going to believe when I tell them I've gone legit, and last thing I want to do is -- is bring somebody to the wedding who's going to -- who's going to try to talk Kate out of marrying me. Look, you've always been stand-up with me. You've never judged me. You've been honest with me.

Olivia: I'm a real sport.

Sonny: I mean, forget the flirting and all that, you know, and the fighting, and you know that when I am serious, I am serious. I love Kate, and I want to do this for her.

Olivia: All right, I will come to your and Connie's wedding.

Sonny: Kate. Her name's Kate.

Olivia: Yeah, right. I just hope you know what the hell you're getting into.