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Sep 23, 2008 11:02
Liasonite Domenica
Carly: Convention scheduled for late October. Anything i should know about?
Marty: Not so far. Prep has gone smoothly. No unusual requests.
Carly: Great. I love my staff. You guys make my job easy. Wait a minute. I spoke too soon.
Marty: What's the matter?
Carly: Who ok'd the convention guests having the top floors?
Marty: Mr. Jacks.
Carly: That's a terrible idea. We can't give them the best view at group rate. We need to put them on floors four through six.
Jax: Hold off on that, marty.
Carly: Why?
Jax: Because you and i need to discuss it first, that's why.
Marty: Let me know what you decide.
Carly: Why are you so agitated?
Jax: Because you pulled the same trick earlier today on an equally small matter. You can't just go around undoing every decision i make.
Carly: And you can't expect me to stop having an opinion just because i'm not going to be Mrs. Jacks anymore.
Spinelli: Hold still, please.
Jason: For what?
Spinelli: This will only take a second.
Jason: What -- what are you doing?
Spinelli: The tailor needs Stone Cold's measurements for the tuxedo he'll be wearing to Mr. Sir's nuptials.
Jason: You don't have to worry I'm not going.
Olivia: This better be good, Vito. I'm on my lunch hour. But being the good sister that i am, my brother calls, says the magic word "emergency," here I am. So are you going to talk, or are you going to make me guess? I said I got stuff to do.
Vito: Really? Does that stuff have anything to do with Sonny Corinthos?
Kate: Aw, your concept for the shoot sounds fabulous, Helmut. I'm so grateful you could take time out of your busy schedule. There's no one I would rather take my portrait. Are you kidding? I'm honored. Ok. I'll see you soon. Well.
Sonny: Hi.
Kate: Hello.
Sonny: Groom-to-be ready to report for wedding duty, as promised. Just point me in the right direction, and I'll do whatever you want me to do.
Kate: Oh, really? Whatever?
Sonny: Well --
kate: Hmm, ok. Well, first you can start by telling me the truth about why you so mysteriously disappeared last night. I suggest you tell me the truth. Otherwise, there won't be a wedding.
[footsteps approaching]
Maxie: I got to your room just in time. I saw this guy in the hallway, he was staring at the wall, waving his arms around. When I tried to walk by him, he yelled at me. He made me inch my way along the opposite wall and kept going on and on about how people are always walking all over his tarp.
Lulu: Melvin. He paints imaginary murals. He says it makes sense of inner chaos.
Maxie: Oh, well, patients like that must make you feel normal. I brought you a goodie bag.
Lulu: Thank you.
Maxie: Some magazines and some trashy novels. I read this one. I dog-eared some pages for you. A breakdown from Crimson so you'll be up to speed when you come back. And hold on to your bed - I brought you a new dress from Federico's line. I know you don't like fashion, so I got it in my size. I figured you can just hang it to remind you of the exciting world that's waiting to welcome you back. Don't you think I'll look insane in this? Freudian slip, sorry. Lulu, come on, you have company. What's wrong with you? I thought you'd be in a good mood today. You do know Johnny was acquitted, right?
Lulu: Yes, it's the best news ever.
Maxie: Then what's with the face?
Lulu: I'm just having trouble adjusting here. It turns out i'm crazier than I thought.
Jason: What -- stop!
Spinelli: I'm just trying to avoid a catastrophe. The Fashionista will be apoplectic if stone cold shows
up leather-clad to her nuptials because he didn't order the appropriate attire in a timely fashion. Huh, fashion, you know, just a --
Jason: Did you hear what I said to you?
Spinelli: I believe Stone Cold indicated he wouldn't be attending.
Jason: Wow, so you can hear me, which means you're choosing to ignore me. Bad habit. Break it.
Spinelli: I must have inadvertently picked that up from Maximista who regularly ignores the Jackal's sage advice and does exactly as she pleases. It is a rather effective method of getting one's way. In this case, her way.
Jason: Of course, Maxie. I should have guessed. How is she involved?
Spinelli: Well, she's charged the Jackal with the task of getting you to attend the wedding, and I do not wish to fail her.
Jason: And I do not wish to punch you. Find another way to impress your girlfriend. I'm going to work.
Spinelli: Girlfriend.
Sonny: I guess that's the look.
Kate: What look?
Sonny: That got you where you're at today, that gives Giselle nightmares at night.
Kate: Is it working?
Sonny: Um, no, because i think it's cute, sexy.
Kate: Yeah, see, now you're deflecting.
Sonny: No, i'm calling your bluff, because, you know, I know that whether i tell you where I was last night or not, I bet you wouldn't call off the wedding.
Kate: Oh, you think I wouldn't?
Sonny: No, because it's not nice and you know it would devastate me to not be your husband. You are just trying to control me because all your minions got everything covered.
Kate: So now you're calling me a control freak?
Sonny: Uh, takes one to know one.
Kate: Oh, really? Wow. Well, this just gets better and better, doesn't it? Ok, Mr. Smug, it is not about control. It is about caution. You run off with some mysterious errand, and then you come back in all charming with the dimples, trying to dazzle and distract me. All signs point to you being up to no good.
Sonny: It's very good.
Kate: Well, why don't you let me be the judge?
Sonny: Because then it wouldn't be a surprise.
Kate: What kind of surprise?
Sonny: The kind you can't know until it's time. But I will say this -- it is going to be worth the wait.
Olivia: It's not irritating enough you're checking up on me, now you feel entitled to interrogate me, too?
Vito: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who's checking up? I'm at the coffee shop minding my own business. Who knuckleheads me? Paulie Rinaldi. Says, guess who's back in town? I say, who? He says, Sonny Corinthos. Tells me he was talking to Sonny Corinthos right here at Frankie's bar where I happen to know my sister went last night. Doesn't take a brain surgeon, Olivia.
Olivia: Yeah, lucky for you. So Sonny and I raised a couple last night, so what?
Vito: So how did this miraculous reunion come about?
Olivia: Gloria Cerullo.
Vito: Gloria Cerullo? Bossy grandma Gloria Cerullo?
Olivia: What do you think, I'm lying? Why would I lie?
Vito: Oh, maybe because you have something to hide?
Olivia: Oh, please, Vito. Don't be such a big brother. Mrs. Cerullo called me. She said Sonny talked to her, said he needed to arrange a meeting, what should she tell him? I said, what the hell, why not?
Vito: I'll tell you why the hell not. Because that goomba was trouble when you dated him back in high school and even worse trouble now. Do I got to remind you that Sonny Corinthos is a flippin' mobster?
Olivia: A flippin' retired mobster who happens to be marrying our cousin Connie. That's why Sonny came. He wanted to invite me to the wedding.
Carly: I understand that you're not inclined to believe anything I have to say, but i am not trying to provoke you or get your attention. I'm just doing what I always have done, I'm looking out for the hotel.
Jax: Ok, well, I'm not going to argue with you because it's counter-productive, so just put the conventioneers wherever you want. That's not why I tracked you down.
Carly: Ok.
Jax: We have to discuss the divorce proceedings. Come on, Carly, it's not like it's a surprise or anything.
Carly: No, I, uh -- it's just really hard hearing you say that, "divorce proceedings."
Jax: Yeah.
Carly: Why -- why do we have to rush into court so quickly?
Jax: Well, what's the point in waiting?
Carly: No point, I guess.
Jax: I want this to be as painless as possible for both of us.
Carly: That would be a nice trick if you could pull that off.
Jax: I don't want some, you know, shark representing me, so I want somebody who I know and trust.
Carly: Please, do not tell me you're going to ask Alexis.
Jax: No, I want Alexis to represent me. Unless, of course, you object. And maybe even if you do.
Carly: Really? Well, I do object, jax. I object to the whole damn thing.
Maxie: Obviously, you're depressed. It's no wonder. This room is hideous. I mean, look at this furniture. It's horrible. In the real world, no sane person would live like this.
Lulu: I get what you're trying to do.
Maxie: Ok.
Lulu: You think if you babble long enough, what I just said will become unsaid and then we can pretend that I'm not losing my mind. I get it, it's embarrassing.
Maxie: Why don't you tell me why you would think such a thing.
Lulu: Maxie, I don't know if I would trust you with something so personal.
Maxie: I'm going to try really hard not to be offended by that. Look, Lulu, I know this is
awkward, ok? Our relationship used to be simple -- pure, instinctive hate. But things have changed and we had to learn to depend on each other.
Lulu: More like I had to learn to depend on you.
Maxie: I think it went both ways. I thought after everything that happened with Logan, we would be in a different place where we could talk about things -- important things, real things. But if that's just me projecting, we can stop.
Lulu: No, no, no, it's not. I just -- I have to take a minute for that to sink in. Ok, so when I first got here, I was so flipped out about seeing Logan, choking on guilt, I was cut off from Johnny and my brothers and you and Kate, everything that was familiar and safe, so I would go and talk to my mom. Even though she's catatonic, it still helps for me to say things out loud to organize my thoughts. So, um, one day, I was there and I was crying, my head in her lap, and I felt the softest touch. And she said that everything is going to be ok. And I looked up and she was there, lucid. She was awake. She was saying everything that I needed to hear to get through Johnny's trial.
Maxie: So far, I mean, I don't see the bad thing. So -- so your mom's awake? That's great, Lulu. Unless she had another relapse.
Lulu: It turns out that she was never awake. I made the whole thing up in my head. Apparently, I have been delusional for weeks. I guess seeing Logan was a warm-up for the main event.
Maxie: I have no idea why I just did that. I'm sorry.
Lulu: No, that's ok. No harm done.
Maxie: I'm really sorry, Lulu. I just -- I didn't realize the hell you've been going through. But at least you know now, right? And you can get help.
Lulu: You sound exactly like Nikolas, putting a positive spin on everything.
Maxie: No, I'm just trying to be realistic. As I see it, you've got two choices. You can give up and stay locked in here with people who get upset over murals that don't even exist, or you can take the help and get out of here and enjoy what life is really all about. I mean, God, Lulu, think about everything you are missing. You have Johnny, this great guy who loves you, one of the most fantastic jobs on the face of the planet, and the opportunity to irritate me on a daily basis. I don't see what could be more of an incentive than that. So it's settled. You'll just concentrate on getting better and get out of here and come back to work. So I should go, because the doctor said that I shouldn't stay too long. I don't want him to kick me out. But, you know, if you need anything, just give me a call on my cell phone.
Lulu: Maxie?
Maxie: Hmm?
Lulu: For somebody that I can't stand on a regular basis, you turned out to be a pretty good friend.
Maxie: I know. It's weird, right?
Olivia: Hit me. I'm going to need to be fortified for this one.
Vito: Ok, stop stalling. Please, tell me you turned Sonny down.
Olivia: You wouldn't be here if you thought I had.
Vito: Damn it! Why do you put yourself through all this?
Olivia: Why would I give up a chance to go to a big, splashy, high-society wedding, starring none other than our cousin Connie?
Vito: You want a list? Sonny Corinthos is dangerous to your body, on account of he's
had a career in crime since before he dropped out of high school. And to your heart, since he's already broken it once.
Olivia: Vito, please. He barely even scratched the surface. Sonny was hot. We hung out for a while and then we didn't. He was one of a very long string of guys that I went through in those days. It was high school, ok? It was ancient history.
Vito: Me thinks she doth shoot her mouth off too much.
Olivia: Oh, screw you.
Vito: Huh, Sonny ought to worry about that.
Olivia: Not any more. Not even really that much back then. Sonny was always after Connie. And now by some bizarre twist of fate, he's marrying her. He's marrying Kate Howard, but that's another discussion, so -- Sonny invited me to the wedding as a surprise present for Connie, ok? That's all he's about. It's Connie, ok? So I said yes.
Vito: Because you two are such great friends. Did you happen to mention the last time you got into a fight when Connie came back? How you called your friend a phony and basically ran her out of Bensonhurst?
Olivia: No, no, Vito. That is not fair. Connie walked away because she wanted to because that's what that girl does. She spent half her life not looking back, so don't even try to put that on me.
Vito: You know what? I got a kitchen to install. [Speaks Italian] Please, sis, for once, think first.
Kate: Is it musical? Did you get John Mayer to sing at our wedding?
Sonny: Who?
[Kate sighs]
Kate: Ok, um, is it something to wear?
Sonny: Uh --
Kate: Oh, I know what it is. It's for our honeymoon.
Sonny: Ah -- we -- I'm not saying.
Kate: Oh, Sonny.
Sonny: Yes?
Kate: A little hint? Just a hint?
Sonny: No, no, not even. Is this hot? Sit -- just sit down for one second. Here's the thing, ok?
Kate: Ok.
Sonny: Look at me. I don't want you to worry. I don't want you to anticipate disaster. I'm a legitimate coffee importer. All our secrets are out.
Kate: Oh, um, well, in the interest of full disclosure, you should know I went to see carly yesterday.
Sonny: You don't have to account for your time. You can do whatever you want.
Kate: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Sonny: You're welcome.
Kate: I just thought you should hear it from me, i told her in no uncertain terms that she should stay away from you.
Carly: I'm sorry. I'm sorry for snapping at you. I have no right. My head knows that our marriage is over, but my -- the rest of me is having a hard time catching up.
Jax: I can relate to that.
Carly: I'm going to be honest with you. Alexis and I have a lot of bad road behind us. I realize that's not your experience with her. I respect that. It will be very hard for me to have her rip me apart or take a stand against me.
Jax: Ok, fair enough. I'll find someone else to represent me.
Carly: Thank you.
Jax: You know, this divorce isn't easy for me either. The last thing I want is for you to feel like you're being punished for what you did.
Carly: Did I blink my eyes? How did we end up here?
Jax: I think you know the answer to that.
Carly: Yeah, I do. I do. The end of our marriage is -- well, I made it inevitable, so you have every right to get through it the best way you can. So forget what I said. If you want Alexis to represent you, then that's the way it should be. And your attorney is here, so I better go find one of my own.
Alexis: Well, hi. You wanted to see me?
Jax: Yeah. I'm not sure why anymore.
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