Monday, December 10th, Part !
Luke: I'm not much of a sticklkl you want me to have the operation, i said i'd have it. Let it go!
Tracy: I want you to start actively fighting to live instead of tempting fate. And then i want you to tell me what you're planning so i can decide whether or not i want to take the ride.
Kate: It's not fair, sonny. It's not fair for you to show up here acting all tender and concerned like your only agenda is to keep me safe.
Sonny: I want to be with you. But things are not stable right now and i have to know i can protect you.
Kate: And all it will cost is everything that matters to me?
Ric: Well, it appears i missed the beginning of a fascinating conversation. Why would little jake be in danger?
Lucky: This doesn't concern you.
Ric: Well, the sudden rash of stranglings in this town are very much my business, officer spencer. Do you have reason to believe that the man who killed emily would go after your son?
Georgie: Maxie, i can't find my history book. Have you seen -- maxie? Maxie, maxie? Maxie! Oh, my g-- maxie, maxie, please talk to me -- maxie, please, please, please talk to me!
georgie: Maxie, look at me.
Maxie, look at me! Breathe, please! Breathe, please, please, please!
Maxie, don't you dare do this to me! Please breathe, please!
[Maxie gags]
georgie: Oh, my god.
[Maxie coughs]
georgie: God, thank you. Please keep breathing. Please, please breathe. Hold on.
[Coughing]
georgie: Hi -- hi, my name is georgie jones and i'm with -- i'm with my sister, maxie. Someone broke into our house and -- and strangled her. Please get here right now! Please hurry!
Lucky: I was warning jason to stay away from elizabeth.
Ric: Still beating your head against that brick wall, huh?
Lucky: Yeah, that's something i do on a regular basis, especially now that anthony zacchara killed emily. She wouldn't have been on his radar if she hadn't been jason's sister.
Ric: Doesn't that make you feel the least little bit responsible on some level? Nah, of course not -- right. Well, your little sister was murdered and you haven't done a thing to help the investigation. Ah, maybe you're immune to it. Just one more innocent casualty, right?
Mac: Lucky?
Lucky, we need your help. Someone just tried to kill maxie. Let's go -- move!
Sonny: I shouldn't have -- i shouldn't have installed the security or assigned the guards with-- without your permission. But i swear to you, i didn't -- i didn't do it, you know, because i was trying to take away your independence. I did it to accomplish two things -- protect you and i didn't want to alarm you.
Kate: Well, that's very considerate. I'm not sure i believe you.
Sonny: Oh, come -- kate, come on. What -- what do you mean, you're not sure you believe me? Why are you being so impossible?
Kate: I'm trying.
Sonny: You say one thing, then you change the rules.
Kate: What, what, what, what? Example.
Sonny: Uh -- ok. You asked me not to break your heart for your own good, not to shut you out, not to tell you when things are dangerous, and things right now are -- are dangerous, but you don't -- you don't -- you're not hearing me I -- ok, i -- you know, i love you, right? And i want to keep on loving you. But i can't do that if you're a target because you're involved with me.
Diane: Oh, very funny, alexis!
Alexis: I knew i'd find you here.
Sonny: You know what? I was in the middle of talking to her.
Alexis: I know, i understand. I'm terribly sorry but i'm afraid i'm going to have to ask you to leave my client's property. Otherwise, it will be well within her rights to have yo arrested for trespassing.
Luke: Why, you are pretty damn mad at somebody.
Tracy: You! For treating your life with such callous disregard! I am furious at you that you refuse to put me, your children, or anybody else ahead of your infantile insistence on living life on your terms!
Luke: Wife, for God's sake, you're supposed to know me better than anybody. So i had a couple of heart attacks. All right -- three. So what am i supposed to do -- roll up into a ball and not be me?
Tracy: Luke, i get that you are the last of the great 1960s rebels. Live for today, tomorrow be damned. But let me remind you that most of those people
that were busy waving their freak flags high never lived to tell the tale, and, luke, you're the strongest person i know. If you put your mind to
surviving, you will survive. But everything i have seen since you had your first heart attack shows me you're quitting. You're letting death take you.
It's so cowardly -- who are you?
Mac: Ok. It's ok, you're ok. Here, sit back a little bit. Let me see your neck. Thank God you walked in when you did.
Maxie: I was, um, really scared.
Mac: I know, i know, sweetheart. It's over now, ok? It's over and i promise you we're going to find whoever did this, and i will personally make him sorry.
Lucky: Maxie? What -- what can you tell us about this guy?
Maxie: I -- i didn't even see anything.
Mac: Ok, listen, listen, sweetheart. Just start at the beginning, ok?
Maxie: Ahem. Um --
mac: Just tell me exactly what happened.
Maxie: Uh -- ahem. I -- i was in a hurry to -- to change and he -- he must've already been here because i went to go up the stairs and then all of a sudden, i had a cord around my neck.
Lucky: You didn't hear anything?
Maxie: Just his breathing.
Mac: Ok, all right. Georgie, what about you?
Georgie: I was on autopilot. I -- i was running through the door looking for something and, all of a sudden, i saw maxie on the ground and somebody running past me.
Mac: Then you saw him?
Georgie: For a split second.
Lucky: Can you identify him?
Ric: Why would someone want to kill maxie? Unless, of course, she witnessed something incriminating during the night of the ball? Well, you got to give it to him -- nikolas knows how to throw one hell of a party. Of course, your sister is dead, but it doesn't seem to trouble you much at all.
Jason: I want -- i want my attorney.
Ric: Yeah, yeah, i know. Don't worry -- the formidable ms. Miller will be along, i'm sure, eventually. But in the meantime -- near-death
experiences make you think, don't they? Well, that is, if you're capable. I know that my perspective on a few things has certainly changed since that
night.
Hmm. Sonny's blood literally flows through my veins now. My brother -- my long-detested brother -- saved my life. And my father was the catalyst. I
don't know -- or maybe it was kate. Either way, he asked. First time in his life he actually showed that he cared. Huh -- not that i'm looking for any
kind of warm, fuzzy family reunion anytime soon, but -- the one thing that hasn't changed for me, jason, is the absolute contempt that i hold you in with
the way you trashed elizabeth's life. You played on her infatuation with you, and you -- you took advantage of her vulnerability during the breakup of her
marriage, not because you were serious but because you wanted to satisfy your own selfish needs. You are a shallow, heartless bastard and i think lucky is
absolutely right to want you away from elizabeth and her kids. Because the fact of the matter is, jason, wherever you go, death and destruction always
follow.
Skye: You know, i'm going to stop you right there and save us both some time.You see, lorenzo's estate is still tied up in probate and if your offer concerned buying his waterfront property, i'm afraid i'm really not at liberty to sell.
Trevor: I understand -- red tape can drive you nuts. That's why it pays to have friends in albany and washington who can help out.
Johnny: I wanted to discuss this matter with skye personally.
Trevor: Oh --
johnny: I thought you understood that.
Trevor: I'm sorry, john. It's not nice to keep a lady waiting and when i didn't hear from you, i thought you weren't coming.
Johnny: Yeah, something unexpected came up. I had to handle it personally.
Kate: Sonny wasn't trespassing, per se. I -- let him in.
Diane: Oh -- oh, you let him in? Well, maybe you need to take a moment, confer with your client and clarify her position since the shoe is now so obviously on the other foot -- well, so to speak. Maybe it's time for me to get a keep-away order served on kate.
Alexis: Ah, do whatever you want, but i do have an enforceable order that your client seems to be disregarding, so i'm going to have to take it to the next level and get a restraining order and that way, if he comes over again, he'll be in really big trouble.
Diane: Well, i wouldn't say that that's a shoo-in. Kate has created a hazard to sonny's health and well-being.
Alexis: Oh, that's absurd.
Diane: By refusing to implement proper security measures, she has made this property a dangerous nuisance.
Alexis: Did you just make that up?
Diane: Does it sound like i made it up?
Alexis: Yes, that's not a law.
Diane: Well, it would to you.
Alexis: It's stupid. He's trespassing.
Sonny: Ok, you know what? I'm out of here.
Kate: Sonny, that's not necessary, you don't --
sonny: No, it's. It's ok.
Diane: It is so unfortunate that you felt compelled to involve this woman in a minor dispute that could so easily have been handled between you and sonny. It's going to make things incredibly difficult, not to mention very expensive. Oh, well. Guess we'll just have to wait for the other shoe to drop.
Alexis: Her threats -- empty. You don't have to give in to any of those. I just want you to know that i can win this if you want me to. And that way, you can get sonny to stop controlling your life for good.
Luke: Wife, it's me. Me -- i'm the guy who never quits if it matters, and if you think that my own life doesn't fit that category, you don't know me as well as i thought you did.
Tracy: Maybe i don't, because lately, you are an enigma.
Luke: I don't believe in that lovely little fantasy of angels and afterlife and in the sky with the bearded old man. I believe that this world is all we get, and i'm ok with that. I have no complaints. I love my life. For the first time in a long, long time, i'm not anxious to give that up. And i'm not anxious to set you free on an unsuspecting world as the merry widow.
Tracy: So, you have beaten odds that would've flattened other men and you've done it with strength and will and courage. I need you to harness those and focus on survival. And i want you to do it for me, because you make my life worth living, and i don't know what i'd do without you.
Luke: I'm happy to oblige.
Tracy: Hmm.
Luke: The only thing i won't do is stop living my life my way.
Tracy: That was record time -- congratulations! You made it back to square one in record time -- why do i bother? Why do i bother? Why do i bother?
Lucky: Anything you can remember about this guy can be helpful.
Mac: Yeah, even if it doesn't seem important.
Georgie: I've told you everything.
Mac: All right, look -- try a general description.
Georgie: I don't know -- he was medium, medium height, medium build. Brownish hair, i think, but --
black. He was definitely wearing black.
Mac: Ok, good, good. That's a start.
Georgie: I think he sent me a text message.
Mac: What do you mean?
Georgie: Well, i got a message earlier today and it said "seen your sis?" I didn't think anything of it when i got it, but maybe it was -- it was a warning that someone was coming after maxie.
["Carol of the bells" plays]
johnny: I assume trevor told you that i've recently taken over my father's business enterprises.
Skye: Congratulations. How nice for you.
Trevor: We'll see. John's eager and that's good, but he's inexperienced. Fortunately, he's got me to teach him the ropes -- right, johnny?
Johnny: I'm interested in acquiring lorenzo alcazar's waterfront holdings.
Skye: So i understand.
Trevor: It is a complex negotiation, but i'd be happy to show you how to simplify it.
Skye: You know what? It doesn't matter. Even if i could, i'm not really ready to sell any of lorenzo's assets at this time.
Johnny: You haven't really had enough time to make an informed decision. I hope you go home and reconsider.
Det. Harper: This is the statement you gave on the night of emily's death. I'd like to go over it.
Jason: I got nothing to add to that.
Det. Harper: I'm hoping you'll think of something that possibly escaped your attention on the night in question, being understandably in shock and all.
Jason: Is diane on her way?
Det. Harper: Probably, but i'd like to take a stab at this anyway. It's starting to appear less
likely that anthony zacchara killed your sister, which means whoever murdered emily and possibly leticia juarez is still at large. Now, you're obviously a
trained observer -- you were first on both scenes. Did you see anything to indicate another suspect, any signature you might have recognized that
might point the finger at someone we haven't considered?
Diane: Unless you are planningon arresting my client, i have come to take him home.
Det. Harper: Just asking a few questions.
Diane: Oh, yeah? Well -- well, you'll pardon my skepticism, but this department has a well-established history of harassing mr. Morgan any time you can't solve a case.
Det. Harper: Mr. Morgan's rights have not been violated. But emily had rights, too, and if her brother knows anything that can help us catch her killer, he needs to speak up.
Cassius: Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's ok, it's cool.
Kate: What?
Cassius: Nurse johnson pulled e.R. Duty. She has no idea you're late.
[Crash]
cassius: Oh.
Kate: Oh --
[kate chuckles]
kate: Oh, thank God. She's -- she's a stickler for punctuality.
Cassius: She's a stickler for everything.
Kate: Is she as hard on you as she is on me?
Cassius: Please -- she's harder, like for some reason she expects something of me. I just don't know what it is yet.
Kate: Hmm, maybe you represent a do-over.
Cassius: Hmm -- pardon?
Kate: From what i understand, epiphany -- nurse johnson -- has somewhat of a volatile relationship with her son, something about unmet expectations?
Cassius: Oh, on her part or his?
Kate: Um -- both, i think. I think he -- he wanted her to accept him at face value and she wanted him to be a doctor.
Cassius: Hmm. That's interesting because, well, what does he do?
Kate: Some sort of computer whiz. He used to work for my boyf-- a friend.
Cassius: That's a shame. Yeah, i figured you would get attached, though, so --
kate: Are you flirting with me?
Cassius: What -- me? Well, maybe just -- just a little bit, just a little bit.
Kate: It wouldn't be because i used to work for "couture," you know, editor in chief thing?
Cassius: "Couture"? What is -- what -- what, the fashion rag?
Kate: Right.
Cassius: What does that have to do with me?
Kate: Well, you're -- you're handsome.
Cassius: I'm blushing. Um -- i'm not a model. I'm -- i'm a singer.
Kate: Really?
Cassius: Mm-hmm.
Kate: You any good?
Cassius: You better believe it. You see, i have some expectations of my own to live up to, so -- we'll talk.







