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Jul 20, 2008 10:55
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Maitre d': Ms. Zacchara, your lunch appointment called. He's running about 10 minutes late.
Claudia: Oh, thanks.
Claudia: Hello? It's Claudia. Yeah, I got your message. Thank you. Um -- listen, I ran into a little problem myself. Do you think we could just reschedule our lunch for another day? Okay, great, thanks.
Karpov: I want to avoid friction with the Zaccharas. And, more importantly, with your former associate, Mr. Morgan.
Sonny: Well, you don't ask for much.
Karpov: There is no reason I can't advance my own interests without compromising anyone else's. America is a wonderful country, a land of plenty. There is a lot of things to go around.
Sonny: If you want assurances, you should be asking somebody else.
Karpov: You -- a man of your influence is the ideal person to help promote my business, an ambassador of some sorts. You can ease my entry into this wonderful community.
Sonny: What do I get?
Karpov: What do you want?
Sonny: Okay, if -- if I get involved in any way, you can't compete or challenge with my old organization.
Karpov: Done.
Sonny: Done?
Karpov: Yes.
Sonny: Okay. I'll consider your request.
Robin: Well, it looks like we dodged a bullet.
Patrick: Yeah, looks like it's only a bruise. So, this singing thing shouldn't be a problem.
Anna: Good. That's a relief, really.
Noah: Yeah.
Anna: You know, I mean, he's a brilliant performer. I don't wish him any ill, much. Chip: So, I got a press interview, radio interviews for next week. I'll reset for --
Eli: Just give me a minute, Chip, will you?
Chip: No, Eli, we don't have time for this.
Eli: Okay. Hey, Doc, I just want you to know there are no hard feelings.
Patrick: Good. We were just commenting how we enjoy your concerts, so --
Eli: Uh -- look, you know, I'm going back to the hotel now. You know, once you get past the paparazzi and the crazies, why don't you come up to my room, we'll have dinner together, all right?
Anna: Me?
Eli: Mm-hmm.
Anna: Oh. Why don't I come with you now?
Eli: Come on, sweetheart. You know -- you know what it's like. I mean, the moment I'm seen with anyone, it's all over the place.
Anna: Yeah. Well, I would rather not be someone that you can't be seen with in public. So, why don't I just pass on forever?
Eli: I don't know why you're so mad, it's --
Anna: Do I look mad? Am I mad? I'm not mad.
Eli: It's just part of the job description, you know? I mean, I got to protect the old image. I mean, as beautiful and sexy a grandma as you are, it just doesn't fit with the profile. You know what I'm saying?
Noah: You're an arrogant bastard, you know that?
Noah: Sorry, Chip.
Jax: Look, Kate, you and I have had a great working relationship, so far, and I'd really like to keep it that way. But at the end of the day, I am a businessman, and I have to protect my investment.
Kate: As do I.
Jax: Yes, but we've been going in the same direction up until now. I'm just saying, just choose your words a little more carefully next time. Okay?
Kate: I did overreact just a little. Well, I don't know. Somehow the idea of Claudia Zacchara involved with "Crimson" just set me over the edge.
Jax: I am not selling to Claudia Zacchara.
Kate: Okay, good.
Jax: So, just relax.
Kate: That's a relief because we can't afford to have all of our work tarnished by an association with a crime fam -- oh, duh.
Jax: What? You were saying?
Kate: Sonny is not involved with the business.
Jax: Right, of course, just -- yeah.
Kate: I get it, Jax, okay?
Jax: It's okay, 'cause I can't afford an association with a Zacchara either so --
Kate: We're on the same page.
Jax: Yeah, it appears that way. That's good.
Kate: Jax, there's just one little caveat. Carly excels at making trouble, and, quite frankly, I am tired of being the target of choice. I do not take kindly to sabotage in my business or personal life.
Jax: Yeah, I've already -- I've already talked to Carly that I won't be putting up with any more interference. Yeah. I've reached my limit, and she knows that.
Jason: Who knows the truth?
Maxie: You, me, Johnny, Lulu, Spinelli. Lulu's starting to feel really guilty, okay? Not just about what she did to Logan, but because Johnny is taking the blame.
Spinelli: Yeah, assuming that Lulu's rights could be protected by an able attorney like the brusque lady of justice Diane, well, maybe a full confession would be advisable.
Maxie: Lulu has a mother who's a vegetable in a rocking chair over killing a guy, and I don't think it's going to take much to put Lulu in the same condition.
Spinelli: It's very sweet that you're so, you know, protective over Lulu.
Maxie: I'm scared for myself, okay? I don't want to go to prison as an accessory to murder. I don't want to break Mac's heart. I never should have started lying about this.
Jason: No, no, no, no, you did the right thing. I want you to stay here with Spinelli.
Maxie: Well, what are -- what are you going to do?
Jason: Well, I'm going to -- I'm going to try to fix this.
Lucky: You don't do anyone any good hanging around here.
Lulu: You cannot make me stay away from Johnny, so don't make me fight you about it.
Lucky: Listen, why don't I buy you a cup of coffee --
Lulu: I said that I'm fine!
Trevor: Johnny, you and I know your father. The worst things are for you, the more dangerous he becomes.
Johnny: There's not much I can do about that from in here.
Trevor: Just shut your mouth and talk to nobody. You know how far your father will go to protect you. And if you don't handle this right, there will be people who die.
Johnny: You want to help me out, Trevor? Get me out of here.
Lulu: Is Trevor getting you out?
Johnny: That's his job. Don't worry about that. Are you okay?
Lulu: I'm not good. I'm having second thoughts about pretty much everything, and I had a really stupid impulse.
Johnny: What did you do?
Lulu: I have a gun in my purse.
Sonny: That didn't take long.
Claudia: It's a small world, don't you think? One of my father's bodyguards recommended the Curtain, said it was kind of a mob hangout. Boy, were they right.
Sonny: You should try the borscht.
Claudia: Oh, is that what you and Andrei Karpov were talking about? Sonny Corinthos, newly-retired kingpin, meeting with one of Eastern Europe's most notorious gangsters? All you came away with was a taste for beet soup? I don't think so.
Matt: If there's no heart problems, what does that mean?
Nikolas: Hey.
Leyla: Hey.
Nikolas: What, uh -- what's your impression of that new doctor over there?
Leyla: Why do you ask?
Nikolas: Well, he's working on a Cassadine foundation grant. I'm just curious to know what the nurses think about him.
Leyla: So --
Matt: Just check to see if the patient is allergic to penicillin, and I will order up the antibiotics.
Nadine: Will do, Doctor.
Matt: Yes.
Nadine: Got it.
Matt: Nurse Crowell, somehow I ended up getting all the credit for the kid who came into the clinic this morning. Not that I don't deserve it, but I thought you did really well, too.
Nadine: Uh --
Matt: Don't think I didn't notice.
Nadine: No big deal.
Matt: Still, you made me look good. I love looking good. So, how about I buy you dinner?
Nadine: Are you asking me out?
Matt: Well, is that a problem for you?
Jax: I just saw Kate.
Carly: Wow, do I get a running commentary every time you see your business partner? Because if you think it helps, it doesn't.
Jax: No, I just wanted to give her a heads up in case Claudia Zacchara called, that I won't be selling my shares to her.
Carly: So, you told Kate all about that?
Jax: Well, yeah, that's uh -- that's how I run my business. Full disclosure, that's how I hope to run my marriage, too.
Carly: Mm-hmm. Kate can't stand me, and she won't be happy until you hate me.
Jax: Oh, Carly, come on, give me a little more credit. Look, I take a lot of pride in my business. I always have. And I don't like to lose. I always knew that I had to be successful, but I never understood why until you.
Carly: What did I do?
Jax: See, it's not all about winning or profit margins. It's about our life together. My success allows me to give you and Morgan and the children we don't have yet a great life with security and freedom. I mean freedom to do whatever we want, to see things, to learn about new things and never have to worry. There's a whole world out there, Carly. I mean, I want -- I want us to take Morgan to Paris, for instance, to see the "Mona Lisa" in person. And when he studies roman history, I want to -- I want to walk him through the forum myself. And there's things that I want to see with you, through your eyes. Uh -- I can give us the world, Carly. What I can't handle is your lack of trust and these destructive games that you insist on playing. And I want us to get past this. But I swear to you, if you sabotage my business with "Crimson" one more time, I'll leave you.
Kate: Clarice, I need you to set up a meeting with Roger Canfield in 45 minutes.
Clarice: I'll set it up and notify Jax.
Kate: No, Jax is going to be late.
Clarice: He is?
Kate: And when he asks why, you're going to tell him that you spoke to Carly and that she promised she would relay the message.
Clarice: You're submarining Mr. Jax's wife.
Kate: I've been patient with Carly. I really have, but she took the first shot. She went after my relationship with Sonny. She went after my reputation. She's undermining my business partnership and now my magazine. I mean really, Clarice. How much is a girl supposed to take?
Clarice: I'm surprised you put up with her as long as you have. You never allowed it when you were running "Couture."
Kate: Did you think I was going soft?
[Inaudible]
Kate: Well, ahem, the gloves are off, Clarice. If Carly lies to Jax one more time, Jax has told me that he's going to leave her, and it will be so much easier to deal with Jax once Carly is out of the picture.
Claudia: We dealt with Karpov when I was living with my Uncle Rudy in Milan.
Sonny: Why should that interest me?
Claudia: These people are dangerous. They have no code, no honor. They've been expanding throughout Europe, and it makes sense that they want to move into the U.S.
Sonny: Now, it's -- it's a big country.
Claudia: And Port Charles is the perfect point of entry, but Karpov is new here. He doesn't know the area. He doesn't know the players. So he needs someone to facilitate things. Enter you, newly-retired and bored out of your mind.
Sonny: Actually, not that bored. I mean, it's not really your concern, so --
Claudia: Well, it is my concern because these people are dangerous, and I would hate to see the balance of power upset.
Sonny: Well, I understand that you aren't allowed, you know, access to your family business. Now you're interfering with mine. It's not a good thing. You know what I mean?
Claudia: I'm thinking of my little brother here, the same way you're thinking of Jason. You are thinking of Jason, aren't you? What do you think he'd say about you and Karpov?
Sonny: Call him. Ask him.
Johnny: Get the gun out of here, Lulu. Take it outside and throw it in the trash.
Lulu: I can't stand the idea of you being locked up for something that I did. I thought I could use this to help you get out. I'm so sorry. I just -- I wanted to help, but everything that I do is making this worse.
Johnny: Okay, you need to get out of here. If you get caught with a gun in a police station, you're going to get arrested.
Lulu: No, I'm not leaving you. You can't pay for something that I did.
Johnny: You need to trust that I'm going to get out of this, Lulu, but if you go through with this now, we're all screwed.
Lucky: Where's my sister?
Harper: She's in with our V.I.P. murder suspect.
Johnny: Okay, try to calm down. You need to get out of here before you get caught.
Lulu: No, I can't do this anymore. I have to tell Lucky the truth.
[Lucky goes to the interrogation room]
Johnny: Back off, or I'll kill her.
[Johnny pulls gun on Lulu]
[Jason walks into the police station]
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Jul 21, 2008 10:13
Mel
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and Burn Notice crazy!
Claudia: These people are dangerous. They have no code, no honor. They've been expanding throughout Europe and it makes sense that they want to move into the U.S.
Sonny: It's -- it's a big country.
Claudia: And Port Charles is the perfect point of entry. But Karpov is new here. He doesn't know e area, he doesn't know the players, so he needs someone to facilitate things. Enter you, newly retired and bored out of your mind.
Sonny: Actually, I'm not that bored. And it's not really your concern, so --
Claudia: Well, it is my concern 'cause these people are dangerous and I would hate to see the balance of power upset.
Sonny: I understand that you aren't allowed, you know, access to your family business. Now you're interfering with mine. It's not a good thing. You know what I mean?
Sonny: Call him. Ask him. _________________________________________________________________________________
Lulu: I can't do this anymore. I have to tell Lucky the truth. It'll be better if the truth comes out.
Johnny: Back off or I kill her.
Lulu: Johnny, don't this.
Johnny: Back off!
Lucky: Lulu's right. You don't want to do this.
Johnny: Move.
Lucky: You're making a big mistake.
Mac: Put the gun down and let her go. Put it down. Put it down. You're only making things --
Mac: Lulu!
Johnny: Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Leave the keys or she's dead.
Mayor Floyd: Ok, ok, ok. All right, all right, all right. Just -- just don't hurt her. Don't hurt her.
[Engine starts]
Lucky: Stop! Give up or I'll shoot.
Lulu: What are you doing? Are you crazy?
Johnny: I won't let you confess.
[Police sirens] ______________________________________________________________________________
Maxie: What do you think is taking Jason so long? Doesn't he realize I'm losing my mind?
Spinelli: You know, Maxinista was most prudent in confiding in stone cold.
Maxie: What do you think he meant when he said he would fix it? Is he going to talk to Johnny or lulu first?
Spinelli: Have no fear. Stone cold excels at handling the direst of situations.
Maxie: I get that you worship Jason, like the cricket and the master.
Spinelli: Grasshopper.
Maxie: And he -- he -- he has really good street smarts. But Jason is horrible with communication skills. There's no way he's going to be able to convince Lulu to keep her mouth shut. She can't handle the pressure.
Spinelli: Fair Lulu's emotions have been known to run slightly amok, but she would no doubt heed the voice of reason that Stone Cold presents --
Maxie: Spinelli, Lulu is a basket case, ok? She's blaming herself for killing Logan, completely forgetting the fact that he's a psycho whack-job who tried to murder her.
Spinelli: Point taken.
Maxie: It's almost like Lulu would be happier if Logan had raped me and then killed her because she wouldn't be able to feel guilty. She'd be dead.
Spinelli: Look, now you're just speaking in conundrums.
Maxie: I really hate this, Spinelli. I just hate it. _________________________________________________________________________
Harper: Put out an a.p.b for John Zacchara and Lulu Spencer. Set up road blocks on all the routes goin out of town.
Mayor Floyd: My car was just stolen outside by an armed felon. What kind of a fun house are you people running around here?
Lucky: You tell me where Johnny's taking Lulu.
Jason: I have no idea.
Lucky: Like hell you don't. Your timing was way too perfect. You show up. Two seconds later, Johnny's making a run for it?
Harper: I'm thinking you got the gun into Johnny and worked out the escape route. And when I tried to take him down, you threw my shots.
Jason: Lulu was too close. You could've blown her head off. _________________________________________________________________________
Lulu: I don't
Johnny: We got away.
Lulu: Yeah, for how long?
Johnny: Long enough for us to ditch this car. They can't follow too close. I've got a hostage.
Lulu: Kidnapping is a federal crime and they already had you under arrest for murder. And I'm the one who killed Logan.
Johnny: You were protecting yourself.
Lulu: I stabbed him to death and the police think it was you.
Johnny: Yeah, you were going to confess to clear me.
Lulu: And you should've let me. Instead, you want to ruin your whole life.
Johnny: Yeah, well, hell of a pair, aren't we? ________________________________________________________________________________
Sonny: Jason might not take your call, but he picks up from my number, so go ahead and call him and tell him that you saw me having lunch with Andrei Karpov.
Claudia: You don't think I'll do it?
Sonny: It's fine with me if you do.
Claudia: Ok. You called my bluff. But you're on thin ice. That man is dangerous.
Sonny: Yeah? Well, it was lunch, nothing more.
Claudia: No, it was business, and by business, I don't mean you negotiating a coffee export to Siberia.
Sonny: You're a Zacchara. I don't trust you.
Claudia: If you think Andrei Karpov is a man that you can trust --
Sonny: Mm-hmm.
Claudia: You would be dead wrong.
Sonny: Ok, thank you. I'll consider that, if I ever do business with him. Now, you can go out that way or you can go out that way.
Claudia: How long did your retirement last, sonny? All of two months?
Sonny: Um -- _______________________________________________________________________
Carly: You're giving me an ultimatum? I have to be honest all the time or you're going to leave me?
Jax: I would love for you to be completely honest all the time. But all I'm asking for right now is for you to stop sabotaging my business with Kate.
Carly: Ok, fine. Then you tell Kate to stop hitting on you.
Jax: How many times do you need to hear this? Even if Kate was hitting on me, it wouldn't matter because we're business associates. I told you that I'm going to stop socializing with her and I intend to stick to my word.
Carly: How about not being business partners with her anymore? That would be perfect.
Jax: Well, I certainly won't be selling my shares to Claudia Zacchara now, will I?
Carly: So find someone else to sell them to.
Jax: Listen, you need to understand something. I'm invested in "Crimson" and I'm going to make sure that it turns a profit. And it might take one or two years. And if you can't find a way to trust me, then we're in serious trouble.
Carly: I do trust you. I trust you and I love you. And maybe I'm just protecting my interests.
Jax: Meaning what?
Carly: You're a good guy and you're giving Kate the benefit of the doubt. But you know what? That woman didn't get to where she is without playing some games of her own.
Jax: You know what? I'm not going to argue about Kate anymore. All I want you to do is promise me that you won't sabotage my business dealings again. Can you do that? Come on.
Carly: Fine. I promise I won't. Kate's not worth all this tension between us.
Jax: Thank you very much.
[Phone rings]
Jax: This is Jax.
Clarice: Jax, where are you?
Jax: I'm at home. Why?
Clarice: You were supposed to be here half an hour ago. Roger Canfield is due any minute. Kate told him you were going to be at the meeting.
Jax: Why didn't you tell me about it?
Clarice: I spoke to Carly twice to set and confirm. She promised she give you the message.
Jax: Yeah, I'm on my way.
Carly: You're on your way where?
Jax: To the crucial business meeting you didn't tell me about.
Carly: What are you talking about? Wh --
Kate: How did he sound?
Clarice: Well, it's hard to tell, you know. He's always so polite. But I'm sure he believed me about setting up the meeting with Carly.
Kate: Well done. At the very least, it'll set up another fight with Jax and Carly and maybe, if we're lucky, Jax will decide he's had enough altogether.
Clarice: You like Jax. Do you really want to tank his marriage?
Kate: I think he deserves far better than Carly. ______________________________________________________________________
Nadine: Thanks for coming over. We have a couple minutes. He's with a patient.
Nikolas: Who? Who's with --
Nadine: Matt. Dr. Hunter, of course.
Nikolas: I don't follow you.
Nadine: Remember I told you he was beyond mysterious on that phone call?
Nikolas: Yes.
Nadine: Well, and he was talking to Logan Hayes the day he was killed?
Nadine: Ok, well, you have to admit that that's kind of suspicious and -- anyway, he asked me out on a date.
Nikolas: I'm sorry. And what does your date have to do with any of this?
Nadine: Well, I'm pretty convinced that he had something to do with the counterfeit drug ring. So when we're out to dinner, I'll make small talk, get him to trust me, and then I'll veer the conversation over to the phony drugs and he'll tell me everything he knows. ________________________________________________________________________
Clarice: Mr. Jacks, you made it judt in time
Jax: Are they still in there?
Clarice: They went in just a minute ago.
Jax: Great, thank you. Roger, good to see you again. I take it I haven't missed too much.
Kate: No, we were just getting started.
Jax: Ok. The last time we spoke, you were ready to make a substantial buy with a two-year contract, roger.
Roger: I was.
Kate: Roger is a little concerned about the recent publicity you and I have received.
Jax: Oh, well, you don't believe everything you read, do you?
Roger: Well, I'm discriminating, of course.
Jax: It was clearly a -- a paparazzi stunt, that picture. Nothing really worth talking about.
Roger: Well, it did seem a bit trivial.
Kate: Now, I already told roger that the preview circulation numbers look fantastic and there will be at least three feature articles using "la crue" cosmetic products exclusively.
Roger: That's a reasonable offer. However --
Jax: Roger, we just actually closed the European distribution so your market access will increase by 30%.
Roger: Then I think we have a deal. Send me the paperwork.
Jax: Wonderful. Thank you.
Roger: The two of you are quite a team. _____________________________________________________________________
Sonny: Any good businessman diversifies, and Karpov is looking into legitimate ventures.
Claudia: Karpov is smart enough to know that you are not ready for retirement. You controlled a pivotal piece of territory.
Sonny: I signed over everything to Jason. From what I hear, he's doing fantastic. I'm not looking back.
Claudia: No, you're looking in the mirror and wondering, is this all there is?
Sonny: No, I'm not. And you know what? You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Claudia: Oh, yeah, no, I'm sure your life is very exciting now --
Sonny: Yes.
Claudia: With all the trips to the warehouse and letting those coffee beans run through your fingers, driving up the sale of your latest shipment of java.
Sonny: Mm, mm.
Claudia: Face it, sonny.
Sonny: Mm-hmm?
Claudia: It's not about the money. It's about the power. It's about the risk. It's about getting away with it over and over again. And you don't like to take orders from anyone, not even your best friend, so y want back in. Karpov is opening a door for you to do that. ________________________________________________________________________
Maxie: I'm really sorry, Spinelli.
Spinelli: No, there's no need to apologize.
Maxie: Yes. I'm completely freaking out, bouncing around like a superball because I feel safe with you and I don't think you'll judge me.
Spinelli: Well, I wouldn't.
Maxie: I would never take advantage of you. You know, like I did when we had sex.
Spinelli: Look, The Jackal assures Maxinista he did not feel taken advantage of --
Maxie: That's because you're too nice and you don't want to make me feel bad.
Spinelli: Actually, I think Maxinista misinterprets the Jackal's --
Maxie: Spinelli, you're so sweet and you would never say one word against me, even when you're seeing me at my absolute worst.
Spinelli: Or best.
Maxie: Now you've gone too far.
Spinelli: No, it's just -- Maxinista is most lovely.
Maxie: Yeah, it was really lovely me to be so scared that I needed to be wanted.
Spinelli: You are wanted and treasured and esteemed --
Maxie: You are my best friend and you gave me what I needed. I used you for sex. What kind of friend would do that?
Spinelli: The jackal has repeatedly mentioned, he did not feel used in any --
Maxie: This can't be good. Hi, Dad.
Mac: Where are you?
Maxie: What happened?
Mac: John Zacchara just took Lulu hostage at gunpoint and escaped in the mayor's car.
Maxie: Oh, my God.
Mac: We've got Jason Morgan in custody.
Maxie: What? Jason? Why?
Mac: He may be an accomplice. I need you at the station now. ________________________________________________________________________
Lulu: What are you doing?
Johnny: Trust me.
Lulu: You're driving in a circle.
Johnny: We're going to the warehouse district. It's full of alleys and dead ends, it's a perfect place to leave a car.
Lulu: No, we can't get away on foot.
Johnny: We won't have to.
Lulu: We will get caught. They'll start shooting at us. We have to stop.
Johnny: Lulu, don't. You're going to make us crash.
Lulu: We have to turn ourselves in -- it's the only way.
Johnny: No, it's not.
Lulu: I can tell them the truth. It's all my fault. I brought the gun into the PCPD. You saw the gun, you panicked. You were just trying to protect me -- what are you doing?
Johnny: No phone calls. We have to focus on getting away.
Lulu: But --
Johnny: Do you believe in me?
Lulu: Yes, but --
Johnny: Then just believe in me for a little longer, ok? _______________________________________________________________________
Nikolas: Well, I have to give you credit for your -- for your enthusiasm, I really do.
Nadine: Don't patronize me.
Nikolas: I'm not. I'm not. It's actually one of your more admirable qualities. I just think you might be jumping to conclusions here about Matt Hunter, that's all.
Nadine: I know he's here on a fellowship that you endowed, so you might be a little biased. But how much do you really know about the guy?
Nikolas: His records have been carefully reviewed. There was nothing there that sent up a red flag.
Nadine: He's not exactly going to put counterfeit drug ring on his resume.
Nikolas: No, I think we would agree on that.
Nadine: And he's the perfect inside man for a drug cartel. He has access to all the meds as a doctor. And he's still got to have tons of student loans to pay off, even with the fellowship.
Nikolas: It's quite a leap from student loans to drug peddling, don't you think?
Nadine: Well, I heard him talking about distribution on the phone call. And before you argue, he's got the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect a talented young doctor?
Nikolas: Uh, you would?
Nadine: Ok, fine. If you don't believe me, I'll get the proof all on my own.
Nikolas: No, you won't.
Nadine: What? You think I can't do it?
Nikolas: No, it's not that. It just that if there's even a chance that you might be right about him being corrupt, you can't go on a date with him. ___________________________________________________________________
Sonny: That was a beautiful speech, but you don't know a damn thing about me.
Claudia: Actually, I know you pretty intimately.
Sonny: We -- we had sex once. We spent the next few months destroying each other. So what?
Claudia: You were decent to me the other night. I'm just trying to return the favor. Karpov is not a man you want to be in business with.
Sonny: All right, you did a good deed. I heard the warning and I'll think about what you said.
Claudia: Well, I really hope that you mean that because -- look, you bring a new guy into town -- balance of power shifts. That's not good for my family either.
Claudia: Hello?
Harper: We need you downtown for questioning.
Claudia: Why?
Harper: Your brother john is an armed fugitive.
Lucky: So how'd you get the gun to Johnny?
Jason: I didn't.
Lucky: Where is Johnny headed with Lulu?
Jason: I -- lucky, I don't know.
Lucky: Lulu's life is on the line. Don't you even give a damn?
[Door opens]
Diane: This conversation is over. My client says nothing further without benefit of counsel.
Lucky: Fine. You don't want to talk to me, you tell her where Johnny took Lulu.
Mac: Where did you lose the car? Then search the packing district on foot if you have to. What's he doing here?
Maxie: He was with me when you called. He's friends with --
Mac: I'll deal with that later. Listen, did Lulu discuss with either of you about helping John Zacchara escape? __________________________________________________________________
Lulu: It doesn't look like anybody's here.
Johnny: Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. This will be a good place for us to hide out for a while.
Lulu: I can't believe we made it all the way to Manhattan.
Johnny: My family's got a bunch of cars and boats that aren't registered to the Zaccharas. It'll be a while before they can pick up a trail. They're probably in the warehouse district trying to find us, so we should be safe for a while.
Lulu: For now. It'll only be a matter of time until the cops find us. And now you're even in more danger for me. ________________________________________________________________________
Kate: Wow. You see, that was a spectacular save. If roger had pulled out, it would've been disastrous for "Crimson." But because of you, it all worked out to our advantage.
Carly: Hey. How'd the meeting go?
Jax: It went well.
Carly: Great. Then maybe we can clear this up together. I never got a call. I never spoke to anyone, nor did I get a message. This meeting was just as much a surprise to me as it was to you.
Kate: I'm really sorry, Carly, but I distinctly remember Clarice calling you, once yesterday and then once again today to confirm.
Clarice: Yes, I spoke to you twice. I've got the times on my phone --
Carly: You're a liar. You both are. I never spoke to Clarice. Kate is trying to set me up to look bad.
Kate: Jax, do you really think that I would jeopardize a crucial meeting in order to make Carly look bad?
Carly: Ok, I am telling you the truth. I never got a message. Tell me you believe me.
Carly: It's a simple question. Do you believe me, or do you believe Kate?
Jax: I can't believe you would do something like this again, after the conversations that we've had.
Carly: You're going to take Kate's word over your own wife?
Jax: Yes, I'm going to take Kate's word, because Kate and Clarice are professionals, and they wouldn't jeopardize the magazine.
Carly: I am telling you the truth. I swear, I never got a message about a meeting.
Jax: Why don't you just admit that you've been caught in a lie and be done with it, Carly?
Kate: Jax, you know what? It -- it all worked out fine.
Carly: Boy, you're loving this, aren't you? It's taking everything for you not to smile right now. You listen to me. Kate is trying to take advantage of what we went through with Michael. She knows we're hurting, and she's working it.
Kate: That is not fair, Carly. Have been nothing but sympathetic about your tragedy. You know, you really should think about grief counseling.
Carly: You better shut your mouth, or I will shut it for you.
Kate: Oh, my.
Carly: You listen to me. She is trying to destroy us, and you're helping her. Jax, you're believing her over me, your wife. I'm the person you swore to love, honor, and respect. Wow. Who's the biggest liar here?
Kate: Jax, I'm -- I'm sorry. This is clearly about me.
Jax: No, listen, it's not your fault, ok? This has nothing to do with you. This is about me and Carly. It's just -- it's got to stop.
Jul 21, 2008 10:28
Part 2 - Monday, July 21, 2008
Nadine: You don't get to vote on who I date.
Nikolas: Look, I wouldn't presume to dictate your personal life. You're obviously free to see anyone you like, unless they're a suspected drug dealer.
Nadine: But you think I'm wrong about that.
Nikolas: I do, but on the slight chance that you -- that you might be right, you have to cancel this dinner.
Nadine: Because you think he might get violent and attack me with a butter knife?
Nikolas: No, I'm just saying it might be wise to take a little precaution here.
Nadine: Look, patients are in danger because they're getting placebos, the wrong medication, and so far, no one's been able to figure out where they're coming from, and now, this huge lead has landed right in my lap. I'm not going to brush it off.
Nikolas: I just -- I just -- i don't want you working this guy for information.
Nadine: I can be very subtle.
Nikolas: Oh, right. No offense, but subtlety's not one of your strong suits.
Nadine: You haven't seen what a great people person I am? I mean, Aunt Rayleen says that i could sell ice to the eskimos.
Nikolas: I'm sure you could.
Nadine: I can lie with the best of them if it's for a good cause.
Nikolas: Excuse me.
Nadine: Mm-hmm.
Nikolas: Lucky, what's up?
Lucky: I'm at the station. Listen, Lulu's been taken hostage by Johnny Zaccarah.
Nikolas: All right, I'll be right there. I'm sorry. ______________________________________________________________
Matt: Wow, you look great.
Nadine: Thanks.
Matt: You ready to go?
Nadine: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this. _____________________________________________
Jason: Lulu is the one who killed Logan. Johnny covered for her and got arrested for murder.
Diane: Who else knows the truth?
Jason: Maxie and Spinelli.
Diane: Well, what about the gun that john used to escape?
Jason: The gun -- lulu must have smuggled the gun in. I came here to talk to Johnny. Johnny walked out of this room with a gun to Lulu's head. Harper was going to take a shot. There's no way he was going to hit Johnny, so I shoved him aside so he wouldn't hit Lulu.
Diane: Ok, ok, so, hypothetically speaking, there's no way that you could have been involved in any of this, right? Because it occurs to me, as it will occur to the police, that you helping Johnny escape would be a very smart way to make peace with the Zaccharas. _________________________________________________________
Mac: Tell me again, why were you visiting John Zacchara?
Maxie: I felt bad for him.
Mac: Since when? What has he ever done for you?
Spinelli: Well, Maximista has a kind heart, and you know, both she and the jackal believe the mob prince to be innocent of the unworthy one's demise.
Mayor Floyd: Wait a minute. That psycho was itching to pull the trigger and blow Lulu Spencer away.
Maxie: That is ridiculous. There's no way that Johnny would shoot Lulu.
Spinelli: You know, Maximista is correct. See, the mob prince has a deep-abiding affection for the blonde one, so --
Mayor Floyd: You're Morgan's flunky, aren't you? Maybe you smuggled in that gun.
Maxie: No, Spinelli was with me the whole time.
Mayor Floyd: We'll see. I want him held as a person of interest.
Maxie: You can't arrest Spinelli for no reason.
Mac: Maxie, you need to leave.
Maxie: Ok, but I'm not leaving without him.
Mac: Fine, take him with you. I'll see you at home.
Mayor Floyd: Oh, so now you're protecting suspects?
Maxie: Thanks, Dad.
Nikolas: Lucky, hey, what happened?
Lucky: Lulu -- she sat in the squad room for half the afternoon waiting to see Johnny. When she got in, he put a gun to her head and used her to get away.
Harper: They found the mayor's car. No sign of Zacchara or Lulu. ________________________________________________________
Johnny: You ok?
Lulu: Yeah, it's a warm July night. For some reason, I'm freezing.
Johnny: Shock.
Lulu: All that tough talk, and I can't even pull off a jailbreak.
Johnny: We're in this together, Lulu.
Lulu: Yeah, well, you wouldn't be on the run from the cops if I hadn't brought in that gun.
Johnny: You still don't get it, do you?
Lulu: You would have been better off if you had just never picked me up that night.
Johnny: Lulu, my life was hell before you showed up. You gave me a reason to care, a reason to live. Lulu, I love you. ______________________________________________________________
Kate: I used to have assistants.
Clarice: You're a hard woman to keep up with.
Kate: Well, you manage. You did well today, Clarice. That phone call sheet? Nice touch.
Clarice: You took quite a gamble arranging a crucial meeting with no assurance that Jax could be tracked down in time, or that he would take your word over Carly's, and the gamble paid off.
Kate: Look, I am not proud that I had to resort to dirty tricks, but Carly's combative attitude was making i t nearly impossible to work with Jax, and I need him to launch this magazine.
Clarice: He certainly seems committed to making "Crimson" a success.
Kate: As am I.
Kate: Clarice, I think you can call it a night. Nice job today.
[Kate sighs]
Sonny: Hello?
Kate: Hi there. So, um, I'm in the mood to celebrate before I leave for Paris tomorrow.
Sonny: Something good happen?
Kate: Actually, I closed an advantageous deal. You want to come over? There's champagne and caviar.
Sonny: Oh, you know how much I'd love to, but I got business I got to take care of.
Kate: Really? At this hour? Aren't the coffee beans all asleep?
Sonny: Yeah, well, you know, it's already morning in some parts of the world. Maybe I'll swing by when I'm done, because I don't want you leaving for Paris without saying goodbye.
Karpov: This is Karpov.
Sonny: Yeah. It's Sonny Corinthos. I'm ready to discuss your offer. ________________________________________________________________
Spinelli: Oh, God. The Jackal is gravely concerned because while there's no doubt that Stone Cold acted to protect fair Lulu, now the law-abiding ones assume that he's an accessory in the mob prince's untimely flight.
Maxie: What the hell was Johnny thinking trying to take Lulu hostage? Spinelli: Perhaps he feared conviction and subsequent incarceration?
Maxie: No. Johnny doesn't scare that easily, not when it comes to himself. But he definitely goes into rescue mode over Lulu and she was all dramatic and flipped out over trying to help him.
Spinelli: Do you think that maybe fair Lulu brought him the gun?
Maxie: I'll bet she snuck it in her purse, on impulse. Luke Spencer's daughter trying to take all these big chances. I'm sure when she got inside, she completely freaked out, and Johnny had to improvise, play the whole hostage thing, out they went.
Spinelli: Well, perhaps the law-abiding ones will come to the same conclusion and release stone cold.
Maxie: Well, except Lulu's boneheaded move will probably cost her boyfriend his life.
Lucky: Hey. It looks like Johnny's taken off on foot with Lulu. All right, she must be so scared, not that Johnny gives a damn.
Nikolas: And you're sure that Jason's a part of this?
Lucky: He shoved Harper out of the way so he wouldn't get shot.
Nikolas: But why would he put himself on the line for John Zacchara?
Lucky: Jason showed up right when Johnny was making his break. It has to be more than a coincidence.
Jason: I just have to get out of here.
Diane: Dare I hope that telling the truth about Lulu killing Logan Hayes is part of the plan? No, I didn't think so.
Jason: You know what? The cops can dig all they want. There's no evidence tying me to Johnny's escape.
Diane: Unfortunately, and all concern for Lulu aside, you did obstruct an attempt to capture an escaping murder suspect. And despite my brilliance, that's going to cost you at least one night in jail.
Claudia: How in the hell would I sneak a gun into John?
Mac: You tell me.
Claudia: I don't know. Why don't you ask Lulu Spencer? He was probably protecting her. She's been making trouble for him since the beginning.
Mayor Floyd: By holding a gun to her head?
Claudia: I don't know what is going on here. But I'll tell you something. If you hurt my brother, I will come down so hard on this department.
Mac: Your brother is considered armed and dangerous. My men are authorized to use deadly force to stop him. So if you make contact with him, you'd better tell him to surrender or he will be killed. ______________________________________________________________________
Lulu: Ok. I'm terrified and I've done a terrible thing, and I honestly don't see how we're going to get out of \ it, but you --
Johnny: Out of what? Do you even know?
Lulu: You don't need to say that you love me just to keep me calm.
Johnny: I am saying it because it's true. I love you. You completely changed my life and there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be than here with you. _______________________________________________________________
Matt: So, um, thanks for coming to dinner with the new guy in town.
Nadine: I'm still pretty new here myself.
Matt: Yeah.
Nadine: So, how did you pick this place?
Matt: I had a coupon.
[Nadine laughs]
Matt: No, I'm kidding. One of the residents actually recommended it, said the food was pretty above average.
Nadine: Well, that's good. I'm starving.
Matt: Nervous?
Nadine: Excuse me?
Matt: Well, you're trying hard to hide it but it's obvious that you're on edge. Are you worried that I might take you in a dark alley and sell your body for black market organs?
Nadine: That hadn't crossed my mind, but now that you mention it, that's kind of scary.
Matt: No, I wouldn't. I would be a lousy criminal. I would leave a trail of evidence and make more than a few incriminating remarks. I think the cops would be on to me in under a minute so --
Nadine: Oh.
Matt: I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Nadine: Oh, that's good to know. If I seem a little nervous it's just because I'm not a big dater. I mean, I don'tgo around accepting an invitation from just any guy who asks.
Matt: And there was just something about me you couldn't resist?
Matt: Is that somebody you know?
Nadine: Oh, man, you are new. Sonny Corinthos, major mob kingpin. ________________________________________________________________
Karpov: I'm pleased you got back to me so quickly with a decision.
Sonny: I can't accept your offer. But I do have one of my own. _______________________________________________________________
Carly: Hi. I owe you an apology.
Jax: It's a little late for that.
Carly: Not for hiding some message from Clarice because that never happened. You can talk to Mercedes. She never got a message either.
Jax: All right, Clarice was very specific. She spoke to you twice.
Carly: I am apologizing for putting you on the spot in front of Kate and Clarice. Ok? What goes on between us is private and that's how we should handle it.
Jax: There's nothing to handle. I've just come to pack a few things and that's it.
Carly: Where are you going? Are you going to go to Rome? Are you going to find Brenda and tell her how your wife doesn't understand you?
Jax: I'm going to the hotel, ok?
Carly: For the night?
Jax: I don't know. However long it takes me to figure out what comes next.
Carly: You're leaving me.
Jax: Yes. Does that surprise you after the conversations that we've just had? I'm not going to do this anymore, Carly. I want a separation. _________________________________________________________________
Sonny: Thank you.
Matt: Ok. I'm obviously losing ground to the underworld. What's the fascination with the mob?
Nadine: No fascination. Although I do admire men who take risks.
Matt: A-ha. So there's more to you than just the kind, caring nurse?
Nadine: A lot more. What about you?
Matt: Nothing. I'm all work, no play. Well, except for tonight, of course.
Nadine: I find that hard to believe. You strike me as a risk-taker, actually.
Matt: Oh, yeah? What was your first hint?
Nadine: Your attitude. You seem to enjoy defying authority.
Matt: You seem very observant. Should I be complimented or concerned? ________________________________________________________________
Sonny: Ok, first of all, I am not interested in coming out of retirement. I can suggest transport routes, cooperative public officials, who to deal with among local factions. I want to be an adviser, not a representative.
Karpov: You're a cautious man.
Karpov: I admire that. This could be an effective way for us to get comfortable and establish trust.
Sonny: Like I said before, you don't compete with my old organization. No violence, no hostility, no conflict at all. You leave Jason Morgan alone. _________________________________________________________________
Cop: You've got a visitor.
Cody: I'm Cody Paul. We met at the hospital.
Jason: Yeah, while I was doing community service. I thought you got arrested.
Cody: A friend hired Diane miller to represent me. She got me acquitted. Diane's probably going to have you out of here in less than 24 hours and I thought you should be prepared.
Jason: For what?
Cody: I offload cargo on pier 17. A ship came in from Russia the other day and the owner was there to supervise. A guy named Andrei Karpov. Karpov's supposed to be a major crime figure in Russia. Now his people are looking to hire crews in Port Charles. Sounds like he's getting in business here and I thought you should know.
Jason: Why?
Cody: You run the mob in Port Charles now.
Jason: Is that what people say?
Cody: I don't blame you for not trusting me. But ask Diane. She'll tell you. I'm honest about what I do and why.
Jason: So why warn me?
Cody: There were two or three times at the hospital when you could have made trouble for me and you didn't.
Jason: I appreciate this. If you hear anything about Karpov, who he's doing business with, you know, who he's meeting with, just let me know.
Cody: No problem. ______________________________________________________________________
Lucky: You should have seen the look on Lulu's face. She was so terrified.
Nikolas: I'm sure she was. She and Johnny took a huge risk with this.
Lucky: Well, do you think it was a scam? That Lulu was in on it with Johnny?
Nikolas: It's the only explanation that makes any sense to me.
Lucky: No way. Lulu was just as shocked as the rest of us.
Nikolas: Well, think about it, Lucky. She's defended him every step of the way. Breaking him out of here is just the kind of impulsive thing she would try and do.
Lucky: I just -- I still can't believe she would help.
Nikolas: Really? How many times has her mother done the same thing for Luke? ____________________________________________
Maxie: Worst case scenario, Johnny gets gunned down. Lulu loses her mind and ends up in a rocking chair sitting next to her Mom at Shadybrook.
Spinelli: That's a most dire prediction. Perhaps a more hopeful outcome might be projected?
Maxie: Ok, Lulu turns herself in and tells all. I get arrested for accessory to murder.
Spinelli: An equally worst case but not necessarily --
Maxie: This is such a disaster, Spinelli. It's like a train wreck and we're just waiting for the collision.
Spinelli: The Jackal stands ready to listen to Maxinista's fears and frustration however she may choose to express them.
[Knock at door]
Maxie: That's probably the police right now trying to get evidence.
Spinelli: Ok, let cooler heads prevail.
Claudia: Spinelli, get on your computer. Look up security footage, credit cards, whatever it takes to help me find my brother before the police kill him. _______________________________________________________
Johnny: Listen to me. Until I met you I was dead on the inside. All right, I'd do stupid things, take ridiculous chances.
Lulu: That's exactly what you're doing right now.
Johnny: But we're together and that changes everything. I don't care what we're running from or how long we have to run. You've given me something to hope for.
Lulu: Like what? A life sentence? Lethal injection? Electric chair?
Johnny: I'll get us out of this somehow. As long as we're together.
Lulu: Come on, Johnny. I'm the reason why we are on this fire escape in the middle of Manhattan and the cops are probably going to start shooting at us at any second. How can you love me when I have created this mess?
Johnny: We're going to be ok.
Lulu: I wish I could believe you.
Johnny: We'd better get inside before the cops show up.
Lulu: Your parents own this place?
Johnny: I do, in a way.
Lulu: What does that mean?
Johnny: You'll find out. After you. ________________________________________________________
Carly: Well, I can't believe you'd leave me over some cheap trick by Kate Howard.
Jax: Yeah, and I can't believe that you won't stop lying.
Carly: I'm not lying. Guess what? Kate is. Why would I risk losing you over something so petty and stupid, Jax?
Jax: Because you can't help yourself, Carly. Because every time we make up and we move forward, we end up in exactly the same place. And I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to be so hurt and disappointed that I forget what I loved about you.
Carly: I won't let you.
Jax: Look, I'm just here to pack some things.
Jul 23, 2008 09:33
Tueday, July 22, 2008 part 1 Claudia: We have to find john before the police do.
Maxie: Excuse me, we?
Claudia: This is a list of all the different cars and boats that my family owns that are under false names, and I knowJohnny's got to be using at least one of them.
Spinelli: Ok, the -- the search is not as -- as simple as Vixenella imagines.
Claudia: Why, what's the problem?
Maxie: Spinelli's too nice to say it, but I'm not. What gives you the right to barge in here and order him around?
Claudia: I suggest you help me encourage Spinelli to find my brother or you're going to be very sorry you didn't. _______________________________________
Nikolas: So the police seem to think that you helped break Johnny Zacchara out of here, but that really doesn't make anysense to me.
Jason: I can't tell you anything.
Nikolas: The police found -- found the mayor's car in the factory district, but there's no sign of Johnny or Lulu. I'm here as a concerned brother, ok? You helped Emily when -- when Zander took her. You went after them and -- and you helped your little sister. Now I'm asking you to help mine. I mean, you -- you would've done anything for Emily, right? Ok, so for Emily's sake, if -- if you know anything about what happened, please, just tell me. ______________________________________
Lulu: So who lives here? Is that you?
Johnny: Yeah, it's me and professor Siegel. He's my piano teacher. He's lived here for years.
Lulu: But it doesn't seem like anybody's been here for a while.
Johnny: No, he's usually at the shore for the summers.
Lulu: When's the last time you saw him?
Johnny: It's been a while. My mother found him when I was a kid. He -- he used to come to the house and teach me lessons all the time. I'd come here every once in a while, in this apartment. God, last time I remember, he was a professor at Julliard and an accompanist for classical singers, opera singers. I remember, once, my mom took me to Carnegie Hall to see him perform. He taught me a lot about music,not just how to play, but how to listen.
Lulu: And did you keep taking lessons from him after your Mom died?
Johnny: Yeah, for a couple of years. But, gradually, as my father got sicker, I had to stop. This place, this apartment --
Lulu: Your escape.
Johnny: Yeah, it's the one place where everything made sense. Because music is basically about order. Every note is essentially the same. It's just a matter of how you arrange them.
Lulu: I never thought of it that way.
Johnny: Music kept me sane for a long time. I guess you could say saved my life.
Lulu: And then I came around and put you in danger all over again. _____________________________________
Jax: No, unfortunately, we have different ideas about what love means. And I refuse to settle for the kind of love you're willing to give me.
Carly: I know I've made mistakes. But, you know, so have you. I'm not giving up on us.
Jax: There is no "us", Carly. Now, I've been thinking, maybe there never really was. ______________________________________
Anthony: You get that ex-wife of yours on the phone. You tell D.A. Alexis Davis --
Ric: Anthony, you need to slow down and just come up with a strategy --
Anthony: Shut up. Where's my son?
Trevor: I had a meeting with John this afternoon.
Anthony: Where is he now?
Trevor: Scorpio was pressing him to confess and cop a plea bargain. I backed the cop off and calmed the kid down.
Anthony: You idiot. Don't you know how to turn on your radio? John got his hands on a gun, took Lulu Spencer hostage and escaped.
Trevor: When did this happen? Is he hurt?
Ric: No, not as far as we know, no thanks to you.
Trevor: Listen, Richard, I just had a meeting with the kid.
Ric: Yeah, you just had a meeting with the kid, your client, who you left so helpless, so reckless that he hijacks a -- a -- the mayor's car, drives off, and he takes an innocent girl hostage in the process.
Trevor: When did that happen? Did he call in?
Ric: No, as a matter of fact. The car's been abandoned. But an A.P.B. has been put out with express instructions to use deadly force.
Anthony: My son is out there somewhere running for his life with every cop in town taking pot shots at him. And if John dies -- listen to meI will cut your heart out and feed it to you. ______________________
Spinelli: There is no need for dark promises of any kind. We're all very concerned about Johnny --
Maxie: What Spinelli is trying to tell you is that he only takes orders from Jason, not the Zaccharas.
Claudia: Jason's in lockup.
Maxie: Then I guess he's not available to tell Spinelli to start any computer searches for Johnny or Lulu or anyone else.
Claudia: Does she speak for you?
Spinelli: Vixenella must know that the Jackal holds her in the highest esteem and empathizes with your fear and concern with regards to your vanished sibling, as we all are concerned about the well-being of --
Claudia: Ok, but wait a minute. What if -- what if she asked you to help me? Would you help me?
Maxie: Never going to happen.
Claudia: Really? Really, even if I reminded you of that conversation we had at the Crimson office? You remember the one, Maxie, where we found out what kind of person you really are?
Maxie: Don't even think about blackmailing me.
Spinelli: Blackmail? What has Maxinista done? _______________________________________
Mac: Look at it this way, Mayor. Having your car stolen from an escaping murder suspect could get sympathy from voters.
Mayor Floyd: Commissioner, I look like an idiot and so do you. How the hell did John Zacchara get that gun in here? And why haven't your people been able to find him?
Mac: Any luck?
Lucky: Not so far.
Mac: Look, the Mayor's not going to like Nikolas Cassadine questioning a suspect.
Lucky: Listen, I hate playing this Emily card, but that's all we have. Let's just give Nikolas a few more minutes.
Nikolas: Jason, I'm not here on behalf of the police. All I care about is Lulu. Whatever -- whatever you tell me right now, I swear --
Jason: I can't -- I can't -- I can't help you.
Nikolas: All right, well, can you at least tell me -- what about the gun? What do you know about the gun? How -- do you know how he may have gotten it in?
Jason: No, I don't.
Nikolas: He didn't get it from you?
Jason: No, he -- no, he didn't get the gun from me.
Nikolas: Ok, you -- you came in here to speak with Johnny, right? Is that right?
Jason: Yes, I came in here to speak with Johnny. Lulu was already in here with him.
Nikolas: Do you honestly believe that she would smuggle a gun in here?
Jason: Yeah, I do. Where else is he going to get a gun from? I mean, I hear that Lulu has been near hysterics because she's so upset about Johnny being arrested.
Nikolas: Well, if she did bring it in here, he put her up to it and then turned on her.
Jason: Well, he did drag her out of here at gunpoint. But the problem is I don't think Lulu's a hostage. That makes heran accomplice. And that puts her in even more danger.
Nikolas: Right. ____________________________________________
Lulu: You should have let me confess that I killed logan.
Johnny: In self defense. Logan attacked you.
Lulu: Because I literally drove him crazy. Even after I started seeing you, I let him believe that we still had a chance when I knew we didn't.
Johnny: Logan used Maxie to upset you. He blamed everything bad thing that ever happened to him on you.
Lulu: Don't make excuses for me.
Johnny: They're reasons, not excuses.
Lulu: I should've had a clean break. Instead, I was telling logan things he wanted to hear when I knew it wasn't true.
Johnny: That gave him no right to come after you.
Lulu: I didn't mean to kill him.
Johnny: You had every reason to be terrified. You had just seen what he did to Maxie.
Lulu: Well, what if I was wrong the the time when I hit him with a pipe wrench? I mean, what if he really wasn't going to hurt me? ________________________________
Carly: There's no us? Is that what you say to all your wives before you leave them?
Jax: They have nothing to do with this.
Carly: You get to mention Jason or Sonny whenever you feel like it, but I can't mention that I'm wife number five --
Jax: There's no point in fighting about the past when you weren't even a part of it.
Carly: When Courtney left you for Nikolas, you didn't fight for her. You just walked away, kind of like the way you're walking away from me now, the way you walked away from Skye when Brenda showed up. Can't really count Alexis because that was a marriage of convenience. Who the hell knows what happened with Miranda? But you married all those women, and you promised to lovethem all, and when the going got tough, you left.
Jax: I think you're simplifying.
Carly: I haven't even mentioned Chloe or Brenda, the two women you didn't marry. But you promised to love them forever, until what? You didn't?
Jax: Yeah, well, you know what? My brother already gave me the same lecture about my unwillingness to stay in a marriage when it isn't working. So, thanks, but I've heard it.
Carly: So I'm as crazy as Jerry for expecting you to live up to your wedding vows? Is that what you're saying?
Jax: Ok, you know what? Perhaps I did give up a little too easily on some of my relationships. I didn't -- I didn't fight for Courtney until it was too late. And I was pretty dreadful to Skye. But I planned to spend the rest of my life with you.
Carly: Really?
Jax: Yes, really.
Carly: Is that why you're walking out the door?
Jax: No, I'm walking out the door because I don't want to fight about everything all the time. I don't want to fight about the hotel --
Carly: We're partners in the hotel.
Jax: And my business associates.
Carly: Kate is the only one --
Jax: And the constant lies.
Carly: I didn't lie. I didn't lie. And you know what? It doesn't matter because you lied to me, too.
Jax: No, no I didn't.
Carly: Yeah, you did. You kissed Kate, and you didn't tell me. That's a lie by omission.
Jax: That doesn't even compare you going behind my back to Claudia Zacchara, of all people.
Carly: We talked about that. I -- I thought I was helping, Jax.
Jax: Oh, really? You thought you were helping?
Carly: Yeah.
Jax: Well, maybe in the Carly world of logic that makes sense, ok. But I refuse to keep running from crisis to crisis. And I will not be the second or third or nineteenth priority in your life. And you know what else I'm sick of? I am sick of our entire relationship always being on the line every time we have a fight.
Carly: Well, that's on you because you're always ready to walk out the door.
Jax: Well, you never notice me until you're on the verge of losing me.
Carly: That is not true.
Jax: Really? Let me -- let me tell you something. You create a crisis. You get caught. Then you're really sorry and --and we make up and everything is going great for a while. But then it just -- I deserve better and so do you.
Carly: Does that make it easier for you to walk out the door, by blaming everything on me?
Jax: Call it whatever you want.
Carly: Jax. Jax. Jax. __________________________________________________
Nikolas: So you saw everything. You saw Johnny drag Lulu out of h
Jason: Yes, I saw it all. Lulu was terrified. That's why I -- I don't think it was planned.
Nikolas: Well, if it wasn't, that means they don't have an escape route, right? They're going to get caught eventually.
Jason: Yeah, possibly.
Nikolas: Do you think the police have enough on Lulu to charge her as an accomplice?
Jason: I don't know what that freak -- I don't know what the cops have. But the longer Lulu's out there, the more danger she's in.
Nikolas: Do you think he would ever hurt her?
Jason: No, I don't, but these idiots have orders to use deadly force.
Nikolas: Right.
Jason: If Lulu's in the wrong place at the wrong time --
Nikolas: Right. All right, I appreciate your help. Thanks.
Lucky: What did he say?
Nikolas: Not much.
Mac: Did you ask him about the gun?
Nikolas: Yes, I did.
Mayor Floyd: What is going on over here? Why was Nikolas Cassadine allowed to question the suspect?
Nikolas: Why did you allow Johnny Zacchara to take off in your car with my sister in it?
Mayor Floyd: Excuse me?
Mac: Mayor, come here.
Lucky: You were in there for quite a while. Jason must have said something.
Nikolas: Well, Lucky, am I talking to my brother right now or to a cop?
Lucky: You know I don't give a damn about my badge when it comes to Lulu.
Nikolas: Ok, Jason didn't arrange for the gun. He thinks Lulu is in on it.
Lucky: Lulu was terrified. I saw her face. It was real.
Nikolas: Yeah, ok.
Lucky: I've got to take this.
Nikolas: All right.
Nadine: Hey, I heard about your sister. How can I help? _____________________________________
Leyla: Most of us wear scrubs in the hospital
Matt: Yeah, well, all I did was take the wrong woman to dinner.
Leyla: Nadine did that? What on earth did you say to her?
Matt: Yeah, everything was going fine until some report came on the news about some girl being held hostage down at the police department and -- jumped up. Her fusili ended up all over my shirt.
Leyla: That's because the hostage is Lulu Spencer.
Matt: So? Was she shot?
Leyla: Lulu is Nikolas Cassadine's little sister.
Matt: Ok, and so I deserve to smell like pasta sauce all night long now?
Leyla: No, Nadine just cares deeply about people. That's all.
Matt: Well, then she should be careful or find a new line of work. Caring is just asking to get hurt. __________________________________
Claudia: Maxie's not quite the little angel that you think she is.
Maxie: Spinelli knows better than anyone how messed up I am, and we're still friends. I'm not going to let you ruin that.
Claudia: Ok, well, that's your prerogative. But we are wasting time here, and it would be a lot easier for everyone if you would just run the trace for me.
Spinelli: The Jackal is most confused, not to mention alarmed, by the -- the -- by the undercurrents of --
Maxie: I'm not going to be blackmailed, ok? You better listen very closely, Spinelli, because it's pretty bad.
Spinelli: Ok, look, the Jackal assures Maxinista nothing that she could ever --
Maxie: Claudia showed up at the crimson offices one day and offered me $10,000 to sleep with her brother, Johnny. She said I'd get another $10,000 if Lulu would walk in on it.
Spinelli: But you -- you turned her down, right?
Claudia: [Chuckles]
Maxie: I took the deal.
Spinelli: Well, did you succeed in your somewhat mercenary seduction?
Maxie: I probably would have if this whole mess with Logan hadn't happened.
Spinelli: Why would you agree to such a soul-killing arrangement?
Maxie: Because $20,000 is a lot of money to me.
Spinelli: But considering the repercussions, not only for the fair Lulu and the mob prince, but Maxinista's self-pride --
Claudia: Spinelli, you are missing the point.
Maxie: Because he's too sweet and loyal to think like you.
Claudia: Ok, well let me put it to you this way. Maxie here was willing to sleep with my brother for money, ok? That means she's for sale to the highest bidder. _______________________________________
Ric: Well, I guess if I were a good son, then I would stay here and help you out, but unfortunately, I have things to take care of.
Trevor: Richard, it's time to work on the spin. I will meet yoat the police station.
Ric: Don't bother, Trevor. I've got it from here on out. Thank you.
Trevor: Don't you even think for a second I'm going to turn John over to you --
Anthony: Enough already. Will you please stop fighting and get Johnny out of this? Because if anything happens tohim, you're both going to pay.
Ric: Reality, Anthony, please. Just join us for a minute, ok? Because the truth of the matter, all threats aside, in orderfor your son to stayalive,I've got to stay alive.
Anthony: [Chuckles] You've got one treacherous kid there, a little dim as well. He really doesn't seem to understand that if Johndies, you both die with him.
Trevor: Now you be quiet for a minute. For years now, I have been cleaning up after Johnny while you, old man, you sat in the corner tied up in your straight jacket drooling on yourself. I did the best I could to teach him everything he needs to know.
Anthony: Yeah, so you could take over. But I fooled you, Trev. I got better.
Trevor: Yeah, and a lot of good that did. You know something? I could give a damn how many threats you make because if anything bad happens to Johnny, it is on you. _______________________________________
Lulu: I just keep thinking about the night I hit him with the wrench. I was wrong then. He was not the text message killer. What if I was wrong again?
Johnny: I was there, Lulu. Remember? He had his hand over your mouth.
Lulu: Yeah, to keep me from screaming. He wanted to explain.
Johnny: Ok, will you listen to what you just said? You had just found a whole string of evidence that tied Logan to the killings. You thought hehad just killed your best friend. You had every reason to think you were next.
Lulu: Well, he loved me. He was desperate for me to love him back. Desperate people make mistakes.
Johnny: Ok, but, come on, you had just seen what he did to Maxie. He wasn't a victim in either situation. He attacked Maxie, busted through my door with an axe -- what were you supposed to do?
Lulu: Are you saying Logan deserved to die?
Johnny: I'm saying you had every right to defend yourself.
Lulu: Well, maybe you can kill someone and not feel bad about it. I can't.
Jul 23, 2008 09:35
Trevor: Let's get this straight, once and for all. I spent a good part of my life protecting John. And I even ran this business while you were out roaming around in your garden looking for your dead wife.
Anthony: You helped him because you wanted to use him as a figurehead, Trevor. The worst day of your life was the day I started to get well.
Trevor: No, I raised that kid because nobody else could be bothered to. And I have always put John's best interests first. I told you right from the start that Lulu Spencer is not one of them. She is an immature brat, and she neither understands nor respects the reality of John's life nor the danger that surrounds him. Oh, God, I knew this thing was going to happen. That's why I tried to send her away the first time that John laid eyes on her. But no, no, no, you -- you -- you wouldn't have it. You wouldn't hear of it. You wanted to encourage that relationship. You wanted to use Lulu for leverage. And now the truth of it is you put your own son's life at risk, not me.
Anthony: You find my son for me, Trevor. And when you do, we'll set him free. Lulu Spencer is going to die. ________________________________________
Nikolas: Lulu's been asking me for help with this for months. She kept telling me how confused she was about her feelings for this -- this guy, Johnny, and I just --
Nadine: It's hard to sort that stuff out sometimes.
Nikolas: I've just been so preoccupied with my own stuff. I really didn't listen to her. I should have just kept telling her over and over -- stay away from him, stay away from him. I could have kept her busy at the -- at the clinic. I could have invited her to come live at Wyndemere for a while. I could have -- I don't know. I nstead, I told her to follow her heart.
Nadine: That's never bad advice.
Nikolas: I don't need any platitudes right now, thank you.
Nadine: Well, you followed your heart with Emily, didn't you? Wouldn't you do that again? _____________________________________________
Ric: Look, I got to admit, I was astonished to find out that you, of all people, helped Johnny and Lulu escape. It does occur to me that you're trying to broker a truce between yourself and my employer. After all, you did try to burn Anthony's house to the ground. So if you were afraid of retaliation, it's a smart move, Jason. But you botched the whole thing, ok? Now johnny is in more danger than ever, and so is Lulu.
Jason: Should I call for a guard?
Ric: I'm just trying to help, Jason.
Jason: You want to help? Get out. _________________________________
Maxie: Claudia is right. I'm an awful person. I think only of myself, and I'll do whatever it takes to get what I want. But you've always known that about me. Yes, I would have been happy to seduce Johnny and get the money. I would have enjoyed hurting Lulu's feelings. But I've also helped her when she's been in some major trouble.
Claudia: To get points with John.
Maxie: Sometimes I have an agenda. That's just how I think. But, Spinelli, you're my best friend, and I've done my best to be a good friend to you as well. And I'm just -- I'm asking you, don't trust Claudia, ok? She's not on your side.
Spinelli: The Jackal appreciates your honesty. Your attempt to turn the Jackal against Maxinista has failed, but the Jackal forgives Vixenella for her harsh attempt at leverage. He realizes that she's just motivated by her deep concern for her missing sibling.
Claudia: Isn't there some way that you can help me? I helped you when you were sick. I helped Jason, too.
Spinelli: If stone cold authorizes your request, I would be more than happy to provide my expert assistance.
Claudia: I'll be back.
Maxie: You're really disappointed in me, right? _______________________________________________
Lulu: I don't care how scared I was. I took a human life.
Johnny: Ok, but Logan attacked you. He could've killed you.
Lulu: Yeah, maybe, maybe not, but I can't go back and apologize. I can't explain to him how scared I was.
Johnny: You don't have to.
Lulu: Well, I need to be held accountable for what I did. I can't act like Logan didn't matter. He didn't deserve to die.
Johnny: Ok, Lulu, think for a second about what really happened, what you really saw. You saw Logan attack Maxie. He threw her across Kate's desk. For all you knew, Maxie was dead. He then busted through my door with an axe, for god's sakes, not to prove to you how much he loved you or because you broke his heart. No, he wanted to make sure that you didn't tell anyone what he did to Maxie.
Lulu: Yeah, but I had enough time to go call the cops or to leave or to get help, but I didn't. I froze. I panicked just like my mother did the night Rick Webber died. _____________________________________________
Carly: You going to say goodbye to Morgan?
Jax: Wow, that's low.
Carly: Why? Morgan loves you. He's lost Michael. He's lost Sonny. And now you're leaving him.
Jax: No, I'm not leaving him. I'm plan to call him every day and go to every one of his karate classes. I'll spend as much time with Morgan as you will allow me to.
Carly: I wouldn't keep Morgan away from you. He loves you.
Jax: Yeah, and I love him, too. But it's not fair to try to use him to get me to stay, ok?
Carly: I don't care. I don't care. If that's fighting dirty, I'll do it. I'm going to do whatever it takes because I know you want to stay married to me. I'm just trying to stop you from making a huge mistake.
Jax: Oh, really? So you're doing me a favor. Is that what you're saying?
Carly: You know, you obviously don't want to fight for this marriage. So I'll -- I'll do the fighting. We're not perfect. We've been through hell. We've both made mistakes. But when I said for better or worse, I wasn't kidding.
Jax: Neither was I. I just never signed up for misery.
Carly: Well, you know, maybe sometimes misery is a part of the deal, Jax. You ow, marriage is like any other long-term investment. You have rough spots, but you're richer in the end. That's the point of taking wedding vows, so you stick around when you feel like leaving. I'm keeping my vows. What about you?
Jax: I have been every bit as committed to this marriage as you have.
Carly: Really? That's why you're walking out the door again.
Jax: As I mentioned before, the only time you seem to notice me is when I'm walking out the door.
Carly: And you say I'm manipulative? You know being abandoned is one of my greatest fears, and every single time something doesn't go your way, you leave.
Jax: I've tried to make this work, carly.
Carly: And when I don't respond the way you want me to respond, you leave.
Jax: You promised not to undercut my investment in "Crimson," and you turn around, and you did exactly that.
Carly: This is not about your investment. It's about Kate --
Jax: No, this has nothing to do with Kate.
Carly: Oh, ok.
Jax: This is about trust and respect.
Carly: I trust you, and I respect you. But there's no way I'm going to let Kate ruin our marriage over a lie.
Jax: You knew exactly -- you knew exactly what was at stake when you lied about the meeting.
Carly: No one left a message. Why won't you believe me?
Jax: I don't want to fight anymore. I'm done.
Carly: You know what? You know that Kate set me up. You're using this as an excuse to leave, and if I didn't love you so much, I might let you go.
Jax: Oh, you ain't letting me do anything. ______________________________________________
Spinelli: The Jackal could never pass judgement on any of Maxinista's choices. In fact, he admired how she refused to be blackmailed by Vixenella. It was -- it was most courageous to tell the truth.
Maxie: No one's ever believed in me as much as you, except for Georgie. Even when I would do crazy, stupid stuff and she'd be furious, she would never g ive up on me.
Spinelli: Wise Georgie -- I miss her.
Maxie: Me, too. I think she would be really happy that we're friends. In a way, it's like the last thing she gave me, my connection with you. You really are my closest friend, and I would never want to do anything that would ruin that. I'm glad that you forgave me.
Maxie: Anyway, I better go. It's getting late.
Spinelli: Wait -- wait -- Stone Cold told us that we should stay together. Would -- spending the night be out of the question?
Maxie: Mac would blow a gasket. Actually, he's going to be working for the rest of the night, so I guess all I would have to do would be leave him a message that he won't get until tomorrow. ___________________________________________
Ric: Look, an A.P.B. that justifies deadly force is excessive. It's unwarranted. John Zacchara is no more a threat to the public than you are. We don't even know if Lulu Spencer has been taken hostage.
Mac: You're wasting your breath. I am not downgrading the A.P.B.
Ric: Mac, if there's a shoot out, Lulu could get hurt.
Lucky: Thank you. We hadn't thought of that.
Ric: Boys, the mayor is out dealing with the press. Now the sooner you two can diffuse the situation, the better it's going to be for everybody.
Nikolas: Hey, tell me where your son took my sister.
Nadine: Nikolas --
Nikolas: Where are they?
Anthony: Your sister brought that gun to John, didn't she? If anything happens to my son --
Nikolas: Look, if you want to spirit your son off to some -- some other country, I really don't care, but you're going to tell me where my sister is.
Anthony: Oh, you don't care. You mean I have your approval?
Nikolas: You just tell John, let Lulu go.
Anthony: If I knew the whereabouts of my son and little Lulu, why am I here?
[Phone ringing]
Nikolas: To cover your own back and make yourself look innocent when you know it was all your doing.
Anthony: Listen to me. There is no way my son pulls a stunt like this on his own. Your sister talked him into it. She's nothing but trouble. She's unstable. She's a nutcase just like your mother.
Nikolas: You son of a --
Anthony: Hey --
Mac: Nikolas.
Ric: Let go, let go. Come on.
Lucky: You need to go home. You're not helping anybody. ____________________________________
Lulu: My mother lost her mind because she thought she killed someone. She panicked like I did. She was defending herself, and when my dad tried to help get her to face the truth, she couldn't stand it.
Johnny: That was your mother, not you.
Lulu: But I could still confess. I mean, my -- I could get a good lawyer, and my family would be behind me. At least it would be telling the truth.
Johnny: Lulu, it's a little too late for the truth to matter to anyone.
[Knock on door] __________________________
Ric: Look, Commissioner Scorpio is just making a bad situation worse, mayor. But if you were to remove the deadly force from the A.P.B, I'm sure everyone --
Mayor Floyd: That thug tried to kill me and stole my car.
Ric: If we give John Zacchara the opportunity to turn himself in, I think everybody could save face.
Mayor Floyd: I would rather see the PCPD take effective action.
Trevor: If Johnny releases Lulu, you can take the credit.
Ric: Exactly.
Mayor Floyd: What if he doesn't? What if he blows her brains out? I promised the voters to be tough on crime. I intend to keep that promise.
Claudia: Johnny would never hurt anyone, especially Lulu.
Mayor Floyd: Tell that to Logan Hayes.
Claudia: The police forced John into this, and you are going to hunt him --
Mayor Floyd: For all we know, you smuggled that gun in here and helped him escape.
Ric: Ms. Zacchara wasn't even here, mayor.
Mayor Floyd: She may also have helped her brother kill Logan Hays. I understand the evidence is leading in that direction.
Ric: Oh, be careful, mayor. You might want to avoid a libel suit by changing the subject. ___________________________
Anthony: I could sit here as long as you can. I got nothing else to do. I'm inclined to think Lulu brought John that gun. You know, hysterical girl not thinking clearly, and her brother's a cop so nobody bothered to search her. Now, the only person who could have arranged for that gun is you.
[Chuckles] Maybe you were trying to get on my good side -- help my son escape to make amends for burning my house to the ground.
Jason: Don't know what you're talking about.
Anthony: Listen, if John dies, I'll have nothing to lose. I'll kill you first, and then I will bring a reign of chaos and terror on this town the likes of which no one has ever seen. So I suggest you put your people to work, Mr. Morgan, and make damn sure my son comes home safe. _____________________________________________________
Maxie: I thought you couldn't look for Johnny and Lulu without Jason's permission.
Spinelli: Uh, the Jackal must await Stone Cold's approval only to disclose the pertinent data. Besides, the sooner the Jackal begins the hunt, the better the chances he'll find find Lulu and the mob prince. Do you have any idea where they might flee?
Maxie: Well, what is it that you have so far? Because this is just a bunch of numbers and dashes. It doesn't really make sense.
[Knock on door]
Mac: Maxie, it's your father.
Maxie: The one time he checks his messages.
[Knocking on door]
Mac: Open this door.
Maxie: I'm coming.
Mac: There's no way you're spending the night here now or ever.
Maxie: This is my personal life, and you can't interfere.
Mac: You're not shacking up in a criminal's apartment, in Jason Morgan's living room.
Spinelli: Oh, if I may intercede on Maxinista's behalf --
Mac: Stay out of this, Spinelli.
Maxie: Don't talk to Spinelli like that.
Spinelli: Stone cold only wishes Maxinista to be safe as we all do.
Mac: You're not staying here. Do you understand? I'm not going to lose another daughter.
Spinelli: Perhaps to honor wise Georgie you should obey your well-meaning, if apoplectic parent.
Mac: Now come on, let's go. The squad car is waiting downstairs.
Maxie: Oh, I'm not going anywhere in a squad car.
Mac: With the lights and sirens.
Maxie: I'm serious.
Mac: Do you understand? I'm keeping you safe, Maxie, whether you like it or not.
Maxie: All right, I'll just find my own way home or stay here.
Mac: I don't have time to argue.
Maxie: Fine, you win. We'll ride home in the squad car. But I swear, as soon as we get there, I'll hightail it to the metro court and have sex with the first bell man I can find. __________________________________
Nadine: John Zacchara would never hurt Lulu.
Nikolas: No, maybe not intentionally. But if I know Lulu, she would do anything to save him. Throw herself into the line of fire -- what happens if she gets too close when the police start shooting? How close was Michael to Sonny when he got hit?
Nadine: It's not going to be the same thing.
Nikolas: I mean, I know I shouldn't talk like that. It's just --
Nadine: Well, sometimes you have to say things out loud to take away the power. ______________________________
Lulu: [Whispering] We should go back out the window.
Johnny: No.
Lulu: But it could be the cops.
Johnny: It's not. They would have said so by now. It's just a nosy neighbor, I'm sure. Be right there. ____________________
Jax: Look, I refuse to waste any more of my time or your time living the way we are now, making up one moment and then crashing into a brick wall the next.
Carly: Then you stay and give us a chance.
Jax: I have stayed, carly. I have tried. We just -- we just need to let this be over.
Carly: It breaks my heart that you don't believe me about the meeting because that means you think I set out to deliberately hurt you, and I wouldn't do that. And you're -- you're letting Kate rip our marriage apart.
Jax: Kate is not a threat to you. I do not know how else I can say it, but if you can't trust me enough to take me at my word, then there's no point in --
Carly: How about you taking me at my word about the meeting?
Jax: Forget about the meeting.
Carly: Ok, you saying that means that you know Kate set me up.
Jax: It's too late for it to matter.
Carly: Ok, really?
Jax: Yeah.
Carly: You want to leave me, you go ahead, but you kiss me goodbye first.
Carly: See, you do love me.
Jax: Yeah. I always will.
Carly: Jax.
Carly: Jax!
[Car starts] ______________________________
Maxie: Well, thanks for bringing me home. I can't believe Mac made such a fuss.
Spinelli: Uh, the top cop loves you very much.
Maxie: I love him, too.
Spinelli: And he clearly disapproves of your association with the Jackal.
Maxie: Mac is wrong a lot when it comes to my personal life. Besides, you're my best friend in the whole wide world. Thanks for helping me today.
Spinelli: The Jackal is at fair Maxinista's service.
Maxie: I'll see you tomorrow.
Spinelli: Ok.
Maxie: Bye, Spinelli.
Spinelli: Bye.
[Maxie screams] __________________________________
Claudia: I want Spinelli to help me find my brother, but he won't touch his keyboard without your permission. So I'm asking you, Jason -- help me find John.
Jason: You don't need Spinelli. You know that Johnny is going to contact you soon. When he does, you just let me know. I may be able to work something out.
Claudia: Ok, I'll tel you when he calls. I'll tell you if you promise -- promise me that you'll help him. _______________________
Nikolas: I appreciate the concern, but I'm all right. Really.
Nadine: You attacked a man in a wheelchair in the middle of the police station, and your sister's been kidnapped. How could you possibly be all right?
Nikolas: Ok, I'm terrible. Do you feel better now?
Nadine: No, I feel awful. But I think that if you talk about this stuff instead of keeping it bottled up inside, it'll help --
Nikolas: Nadine, it's not -- it won't change anything, ok? The one thing I learned about Emily's death is that sometimes the worst really does happen. ___________________________________________________
Man: Who are you and what are you doing here?
Johnny: I'm Joe. I was a, uh -- student of professor Siegel's. He taught me piano when I was a kid, and I moved to Chicago and we kept in touch. He saidI was always welcome .
Man: So you just decided to visit?
Lulu: Well, I'm starting at NYU in the fall.
Man: And you are?
Lulu: Uh, Linda. Joe's been talking about wanting to see professor Siegel for a while, and I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity. He's an amazing piano player. He has to decide if he's going to go the classical route or if he's going to continue with the band, and who better to go to for advice than his old teacher?
Man: That's a nice story. Only trouble is, professor Siegel is dead.
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Maxie: Are you insane?
Matt: Would you take it easy?
Maxie: No. You stay away from me. I'm calling the cops.
Spinelli: Fiend!
Matt: Why are you --
[Spinelli grunting]
[Spinelli whimpering]
Matt: Calm down, man.
Spinelli: I'll get you.
Matt: Relax. Would you just try and relax? Ok?
Maxie: You leave spinelli alone. ____________________________________
Diane: As I mentioned earlier, you will not be getting out of here tonight.
Jason: Ok. How -- how bad is it?
Diane: It's too early to tell. The police officer in question, detective David Harper, maintains that he had a clean shot at Zacchara and that your actions --
Jason: Diane --
Diane: And that your actions enabled Zacchara to escape and take a hostage. Now in legal parlance, that's called aiding and abetting. And if Johnny Zacchara kills anyone while at large, the charge against you could be as an accessory. It also means that if he kills an officer of law enforcement, the charge will be murder with special circumstances.
Jason: Against me?
Diane: I find it so ironic that with all of your past alleged crimes you could now be facing a lethal injection for stopping a cop from shooting a lovestruck twenty-something-year-old girl. __________________________________________________________
Sasha: Mr. Corinthos.
Sonny: Ms. Donev. What did you need to see me about?
Sasha: Mr. Karpov wanted me to discuss the finer points of his deal with you.
Anthony: Those are string beans, and I want them cooked. Waitress: [Breathless] Ok.
Claudia: Do you really want to draw attention to yourself like that?
Anthony: Don't give me attitude, Claudia. You could see I'm not in the mood. Just tell me where your brother is. _________________________________________________________
Lulu: Wow. That's really terrible. When did the professor die?
Sal: Couple of months ago. My sister and I, we have the apartment downstairs. We always used to hear the professor playing. Then he stopped.Guy never went anywhere, not without letting us know. So I came up, knocked on the door, finally busted in. I found him dead.
Johnny: How did he die?
Sal: Seemed peaceful. It was in his sleep.
Johnny: That's nice. I mean, it's nice to know that the professor wasn't met with any sort of violence. He was truly a gentleman whose life was all about music.
Sal: And his students. Matter of fact, he talked about them all the time, even the ones who left. Funny thing is, I don't ever remember him sayingthe name "Joe." ________________________________________________________
Maxie: Back off.
Matt: Would you put that thing down?
Maxie: I'm not kidding, perv. I'll do it.
Matt: He attacked me.
Maxie: Spinelli, go get help.
Matt: In my own living room, I might add.
Spinelli: First of all, I would never leave you alone with a shirtless marauder.
Maxie: Your living room?
Spinelli: And secondly, I think we have little to fear from Dr. Hunter.
Maxie: He's walking around without his clothes on in my living room. My living room! Were you going to tell me that you're in the wrong house?
Matt: No.
Maxie: That's it.
Spinelli: Wait -- wait. He doesn't actually appear very hostile.
Maxie: He's half-naked claiming he lives here, Spinelli.
Matt: I do live here.
Maxie: I'm going to call the hospital and tell them that you snapped a bolt.
Robin: I guess you didn't get my message about your new roommate. ______________________________________
Sasha: So Mr. Karpov left your meeting believing that you had reached an understanding.
Sonny: Yeah, um -- I only want to work as a consultant. I'm willing to suggest transportation routes, public officials who may, you know, take a liking to Mr. Karpov. I can introduce him to -- to other parties when we share the same interests. But I will notbe taking an active role. And this is important -- a deal-breaker. Mr. Karpov has to peacefully coexist with my old organization.
Sasha: Mr. Karpov is not a man who takes orders.
Sonny: Well, that may be a problem. _____________________________________
Claudia: I haven't heard from Johnny yet. But I know that he's still trying to put distanca between himself and the police.
Anthony: If they haven't caught up with him already. He could be lying in a ditch somewhere after little Lulu ran off and left him.
Claudia: Don't underestimate John, daddy. He's capable of taking care of himself.
Anthony: You better pray nothing happens to your brother. If it does, I will send you straight to hell. ___________________________________
Nikolas: I'm not going to sit here and moan about my -- my pain and grief, all right? I -- I get it. I understand. Everybody suffers losses.
Nadine: It doesn't make them hurt a less. Nilas: No, it's just -- i don't know. I -- I know I've been very blessed throughout my life. I mean, a few years back, I was in a car accident down by the river. Lost control, flipped the car. There's no way I should have survived that. But I did. Same way Emily survived cancer. I fought so hard for her, prayed so hard. I was so determined for her to -- to try and take some strength from me. And she did. And I'd like to believe that's one of the reasons she pulled through. As crazy as that sounds, I believe that.
Nadine: I don't think that sounds crazy.
Nikolas: But I -- I really started to believe, nadine, that the worst could never happen. It just couldn't happen. That no matter how hopeless things got, in the end, they'd turn around for Emily and me.
Nadine: You and emily shared a connection, the type of connection people would do anything for.
Nikolas: Emily -- but she's dead. That's the point. That someone who's -- who's so kind and so generous and has everything to live for can be taken away from you so senselessly. So could Lulu.
Nadine: You don't know that.
Nikolas: Well, Emily's death also taught me that you could run out of miracles. That the people that are so precious to you, the people that you'd do anything for, even die for -- you're helpless to save them, really. ________________________________________________
Jason: Just tell me the best case scenario.
Diane: I convince a judge that you were an innocent bystander who acted heroically and prevented an overzealous cop from shooting an unarmed hostage.
Jason: Ok, good. That's what happened. That's the truth. I mean, not the hero part, but that's --
Diane: I reserve the right to apply any hyperbole I deem necessary to get you out of this. Unfortunately, you have an extensive police record. You have been tried on murder twice. You were convicted once. That was reversed. You were acquitted once, thanks to my brilliance --
Jason: Yeah, Diane. I know all this. I know.
Diane: Any competent D.A. -- And Alexis Davis is more than competent-- is going to argue that you were in that squad room to help Johnny Zacchara escape. That you furnished him the gun with which he took Lulu hostage.
Jason: Lulu -- Lulu brought the gun in.
Diane: Do you have any proof?
Jason: No, I don't. She's the only one that could have brought it in. The cops aren't going to search her. It's Lucky's sister. She killed Logan. She doesn't want Johnny to pay, and she freaked out.
Diane: Where do you think Lulu got the gun?
Jason: I -- I don't know, Diane. Johnny, maybe? Edward Quartermaine? She's living at that house. He's got a gun collection.
Diane: Good. I can petition the court for a warrant to determine whether or not Edward Quartermaine is actually missing a gun. Now, let's just assume that he is. Then I will argue that Lulu Spencer acted alone, that she brought the gun in to Johnny, at which point the case against you for aiding and abetting completely falls apart.
Jason: No. Don't go for the warrant. No.
Diane: I am not suggesting that we give up Lulu Spencer as the individual who killed Logan Hayes. I am simply saying that the courts will be far more lenient on a hysterical girl as opposed to --
Jason: Ok, did you just -- you just told me that helping Johnny escape makes Lulu accessory, right? So if Johnny kills a cop, she could get murder with special circumstances. Is that right?
Diane: That is -- that is an extreme interpretation.
Jason: Diane, yes or no?
Diane: It's possible, yes.
Jason: Ok. Don't tell the cops anything. Lulu's a hostage. That's it. End of story.
Diane: It's a good thing that you pay me so much money, because you make it extremely difficult to mount a competent defense.
Jason: I owe it to Carly and Spinelli to cover for Lulu, ok? Just find another way to get me released, please.
Diane: That may not be as easy as it sounds. ___________________________________________________________
Maxie: Robin, I am sorry. I don't care how crazy Mac is making you. You -- you can't let Matt Hunter rent out Georgie's room.
Robin: Listen, I'm sorry that you had to find out this way.
Maxie: You -- you could have sent leaflets, or maybe Chris Martin to sing me a telegram, but it's still just not going to happen.
Robin: There's a rental agreement.
Maxie: You don't really have the right to make that kind of agreement.
Spinelli: It does seem a bit strange. And -- I mean no disrespect to the burgeoning one -- but even slightly presumptuous to have rented out wise Georgie's room without warning.
Robin: All of Georgie's stuff has been put into storage, and the room has been repainted and redecorated.
Maxie: Yeah, because Mac was convinced that you were going to move back here once that baby's born.
Robin: But I am fine in my own apartment. My baby and myself will be very happy. I was just trying to stop Mac from hounding me and end the discussion.
Maxie: So because you don't want to deal with Mac, that gives you the right to rent out my sister's room to a total stranger?
Robin: Come on. No one wanted that room to be a shrine to Georgie, even you.
Spinelli: That's actually true. I've heard you say as much.
Robin: There are always people on the hospital staff looking for affordable housing. People that spend their days saving lives. So I put up a bulletin in the locker room, and I don't know. I just thought that Georgie would have liked her room to be used for such a purpose.
Spinelli: That is indeed the spirit of who wise Georgie was.
Maxie: Well, wise Georgie's not around anymore. Just her sister, the selfish bitch. And that egotistical jerk cannot stay in her room.
Matt: Well, that egotistical jerk has put down a deposit and has a key.
Maxie: Unfortunately, Robin legally can't make that --
Matt: Commissioner Scorpio signed a lease and he owns the house, so unfortunately, you have no say in the matter. I live here. Get used to it. __________________________________________________
Nikolas: Just the waiting and the not knowing is killing me right now. Nadine: Some people are more comfortable taking action.
Nikolas: People like you?
Nadine: And you.
Nikolas: My instinct is to hire an army of P.I.'S to track Lulu down and get her out of this. But Lucky thinks it'll put her in even more danger. You have an opinion on that? I'm sure you do.
Nadine: I know you want to fix this for your sister, like any big brother would. But I think you should listen to Lucky on this one. It might just make things worse.
Nikolas: Worse? How can they get any worse? My -- my little sister's on the run with her boyfriend, who happens to be accused of murder and is armed, and is it safe to say, dangerous?
Nadine: But not to Lulu. You don't actually think he's hurt her.
Nikolas: No, no. I mean, I said -- I said I don't think he would hurt her deliberately, but bullets don't discriminate. They don't care if you're an innocent bystander. I mean, again, think of Michael Corinthos. Lulu, she's just -- she did this on impulse, I know it. She just went charging into this mess because she's got her mother's heart and her father's recklessness. See? See, she's one of those people. She's one of those people who -- who believes that in the end, everything is going to be all right. Love conquers all. And nobody ever dies. But they do die.
[Clearing of throat]
Sam: Bad time? _________________________________________
Lucky: Elizabeth, has -- has Lulu made contact with you?
Elizabeth: No, why? What's the matter?
Lucky: She came down to the station to see Johnny. Before I -- before I knew it, he had a gun to her head and was using her to escape.
Elizabeth: Oh, my god. He took her hostage?
Lucky: Johnny is a murder suspect, and the force is going to be going after him guns a-blazing. The only thing I can think about is her safety.
Elizabeth: I can't believe he took her hostage. She was so sure of him.
Lucky: Nikolas thinks that Lulu was in on the escape. That she and Johnny are working together.
Elizabeth: Ah, yeah. I can believe that. She would do anything to help him.
Lucky: Ok. If that is true, she may make contact, but I -- I doubt she'd be willing to risk calling her brother the cop.
Elizabeth: So you think she's going to call me?
Lucky: She trusts you. She may think because of what happened with you and Jason that you'd be more willing to understand her situation and able to help her.
Elizabeth: I just got out of surgery. Let me see if she's tried to call. I have three messages.
Lucky: Please let that be Lulu. __________________________________________________
Sal: Where do you think you're going?
Lulu: Joe.
[Johnny sighs]
[Playing melody]
Sal: I know that song.
Johnny: It's a song by Billy Joel. It's called "Nocturne." I didn't learn it with the professor, but I learned it because of him. He taught me how to appreciate music.
Lulu: Can't you see he's telling the truth? ________________________________________
Sonny: What I can do is I can arrange meetings with congressmen, but I'd advise Mr. Karpov to do that in -- you know, not to do that in person. If he does, make sure there's a lot of security around.
Sasha: Yes. I'll be sure to convey that to him. You know, I have to wonder, though. Why is a man with your connections, with your strength, available to act as a facilitator when it's so obvious that you should be in charge?
Diane: Well. Well, this is an unexpected pleasure. Hi. I'm Mr. Corinthos' attorney, Diane Miller.
Sasha: Sasha Donev.
Diane: Donev. That name sounds familiar. Have we met?
Sasha: I don't believe so.
Diane: I pride myself on knowing everyone that Mr. Corinthos works with.
Sasha: Well, we don't work together.
Diane: Oh, really?
Sasha: Not yet.
Diane: So how did you two meet? ___________________________________
Anthony: You wanted this to happen. That's why you were so sloppy getting rid of Logan's body. You want Johnny out of the way.
Claudia: If you actually believe that, then you have lost your mind. I would never hurt John. He's the one person in the world that I actually love.
Anthony: You don't think I see what's going on? You don't think I know why you didn't come to me for help with this mess?
Claudia: I didn't come to you, daddy, because you're a poor excuse for a father and Johnny hates your guts.
Anthony: And that's your fault. You poisoned my son against me, you lying slut.
Anthony: Instead of the son I wanted from my first wife, I got you, a poisonous tramp. I should have drowned you the day your brother was born. I should have known you'd try to destroy him.
Sonny: You know what? You might want to lower your voices. People are trying to eat here.
Anthony: Hey.
Sonny: You understand this is a restaurant, you know?
Anthony: You don't tell me what to do. You don't tell anyone what to do. You've got no power anymore. No respect.
Sonny: You call this respect? Yelling at a woman? Your own daughter? You think that's respect?
Anthony: This is none of your business.
Sonny: I know you're scared because your little boy is --
Anthony: Scared?
Sonny: You shut your mouth. And you shut it right now, or I'll dump you out of that damn wheelchair and you'll crawl out of here like a cockroach. Need a ride home? _________________________________________________
Sam: Hi. I -- I just -- I've seen reports all over the news that Johnny Zacchara escaped police custody after taking Lulu hostage.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, I think it's fairly safe to say that, unfortunately, Lulu helped him stage the whole thing. I -- I don't think she's in any direct danger from Johnny, but --
Nadine: But she's in the middle of a police manhunt now, and naturally, Nikolas is worried about his sister. So I was just trying to support him.
Sam: I -- I would do the same thing for Lucky, if I could. I mean -- I just -- I know he's probably scared to death for his sister. And my first impulse was to actually go to him, but we did just stage a very public break-up, for a good reason, because infiltrating drug smugglers is not going to be easy if I -- I'm a cop's girlfriend.
Nikolas: Sam, you put yourself in that situation, you're going to end up in more danger than Lulu is.
Sam: Yes, I do know that. But it's all going to be worth it if I can nail whoever is responsible for putting fake drugs into hospitals and clinics like yours, and that's that.
Nadine: Someone would actually hire you to pilot one of the boats that's carrying these drugs?
Sam: Not yet, but I do have some leads. Good ones, actually. I mean, I think this will actually be my way in. But Lucky is my first responsibility. I just -- I want to know if he's ok. _______________________________________________
Lucky: Was it -- was it Lulu?
Elizabeth: No, I'm sorry.
Lucky: It was a long shot.
Elizabeth: Your sister is smart. She knows what it means to be on the run. One of the advantages of being Luke Spencer's daughter, right?
Lucky: Yeah, well, if I thought she was thinking like my dad -- but she's not.
Elizabeth: Why do you say that?
Lucky: Because I was at the station when she showed up to see Johnny. I saw her. I -- I talked to her right before all this happened. And I -- I could tell that something was very wrong. And I just -- I should have done something about it.
Elizabeth: You couldn't have known the two of them were going to break out.
Lucky: She was tense. She was fidgeting. It's almost when she started talking to me, she was lost in her own head. She didn't talk to me. It's almost like I've seen this. I've seen this before. Just reminded me of --
Elizabeth: What?
Lucky: My mom, right before she lost her mind. ______________________________________________
Sal: It's obvious that you are who you say you are. Starting to believe your story.
Lulu: Well, you can't be too careful.
Sal: Sad, but true -- Linda.
Lulu: So, you won't turn us in if we're staying here?
Sal: Well, the apartment's been closed up ever since the professor died, and he never mentioned having any family. Nobody's even come by to claim his stuff. So if he said that you could stay with him, then as far as I'm concerned, you're free to use the place.
Lulu: Oh, thank you.
Johnny: Really appreciate it.
Sal: No problem. You got any work lined up yet?
Johnny: Not yet. I was going to start looking tomorrow.
Sal: Do you teach piano as well as you play it?
Lulu: Sure. Joe used to give lessons all the time back in chicago.
Sal: Great. My sister, Lourdes, she used to take lessons from the professor. He said that she had promise and she loves music, so I want her to keep it up. I'll pay you for it.
Johnny: I'd be happy to teach her, but you don't have to pay me. I owe you.
Sal: Joe, new york is a lot more expensive than Chicago, bro. Trust me, you're going to need the money.
Johnny: All right, then. But I'll find another way to pay you back.
Sal: Good enough. Uh -- I'll have Lourdes come up and say hi to you guys, ok?
Lulu: Thanks again.
Johnny: What are you doing?
Lulu: Getting the hell out of here before he calls the cops.
Jul 23, 2008 10:52
Robin: I realize now that when I rented you the room, I didn't tell you the truth, that that was my cousin Georgie's room.
Maxie: My sister, who just recently died. And the idea of a stranger living in her room is unthinkable.
Matt: Your family issues are not a concern to me. I made a deal in good faith.
Maxie: Are you always this obnoxious? Does it come naturally to you?
Spinelli: It's clear that the dispassionate doctor missed the sensitivity portion of his training. See, wise Georgie's family still struggles with her loss, as do all who knew her.
Matt: This is a great house on a nice, quiet street. I've got kitchen privileges and a garage that I can park my car for next to no money. Which is great, because I am going to be paying back my school loans for the rest of my life. I moved in, I've unpacked, I'm here -- just get used to it.
Robin: Wow, I just unleashed a complete jerk on the entire family, I am so sorry.
Maxie: It's not your fault Matt Hunter is a complete ass.
Spinelli: You were just acting in the spirit of your cousin.
Maxie: And then trying to keep Mac from kidnapping your baby, I get it.
Robin: Yeah, but now you have to deal with -- that.
Maxie: Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure Spinelli and I can find a way to send Dr. Hunter screaming into the night. ______________________________________________
Nadine: Well, Lucky seems to be doing a lot better than his brother.
Sam: Really? What does that mean?
Nikolas: All right, well, when I found out that John took Lulu from the police station, I went down there and went off on Anthony Zacchara.
Sam: Oh.
Nikolas: Yeah. Attacked a man in a wheelchair, not one of my finer moments.
Sam: Ouch, yep.
Nadine: Lucky was handling things, doing his job. I mean, he seemed worried and I'm sure it would have helped to have had you there but, you know.
Sam: But, what? He doesn't really need me?
Nikolas: Yes, he does, he cares about you, Sam
Sam: Yeah, I know, Nikolas. I don't need to constantly be reminded and reassured. Uh, great, I just sounded like one of those whiny, pathetic women, didn't I?
Nadine: No, you sounded like a woman in love. __________________________________
Sasha: That was quite a passionate display that your employer put on.
Diane: Mr. Corinthos is a passionate man, the last of a dying chivalrous breed.
Sasha: Yes, but to take on Anthony Zacchara in public?
Diane: Oh, so you know who Anthony Zacchara is.
Sasha: As does anyone who reads a newspaper. So his daughter, Claudia, she must be quite special to Mr. Corinthos for him to come to her rescue that way.
Diane: Mr. Corinthos is a not a man easily intimidated, Miss Donev, but I suspect you already know that. Now, what business did you say you were in again?
Sasha: Coffee. I represent the consortium of growers who are interested in doing business with Mr. Corinthos. _________________________________
Claudia: Come in, for a minute? Um, thank you for stepping in back there.
Sonny: Your father was out of line.
Claudia: Would you really have dumped him out of his wheelchair and made him crawl like a cockroach?
Sonny: Yeah, it's what he deserved.
Claudia: Yeah, he deserves a lot worse than that, but it doesn't mean he's going to get it. I mean, people are afraid to stand up to my father, you know. So, why did you?
Sonny: I've been screamed at, I don't like it. I mean, not in public but close enough to know how it feels. And, um, for a long time I couldn't fight back and I always promised myself that I would shut him up -- so I wouldn't have to listen to that garbage. And I won't, but I just want to get something clear with you right now. I did for you what I would do for anyone. Your father was wrong, I would not tolerate it.
Claudia: The guy that used to scream at you, did you make him crawl?
Sonny: The guy that used to scream at me -- the guy that used to scream at me is dead. _______________________________________________
Diane: Thank you, officer.
Jason: Why did you come back? They found Lulu and Johnny?
Diane: Not that I know of. Which is a good thing, especially if Johnny's out there committing armed mayhem somewhere.
Jason: Ok, so I'm still not getting out of here tonight, is that what you're telling me?
Diane: Despite your lack of cooperation, I am using my best efforts to get the charges against you dropped. But I do need your input on another matter. Do you think Sonny would ever cheat on Kate?
Jason: What?
Diane: After our last extremely frustrating legal consultation, I felt the need for a very strong, very dry martini or three. So I called up Max, and I asked him to meet me at the Metro Court. Unfortunately, since Max has returned to Sonny's employ, he doesn't have time anymore to socialize. Yet another glaring example of Sonny's extreme selfishness. You know, I would think that Sonny would be so happy that Max has come back to work for him, that he would encourage a personal life, but I digress.
Jason: What are you, what are you talking about?
Diane: I am -- I am unsettled. Not on my behalf, but on behalf of Kate Howard. See, I always thought that when sonny cheated on her, it would be with Carly.
Jason: Ok, you still haven't told me what Sonny did.
Diane: Sonny was at the Metro restaurant having drinks with a very attractive blonde. And when I walked over to say hi, his attitude and body language told me I had just caught him in the middle of doing something illicit. __________________________________________
Sam: Lucky, oh my gosh, I have been so worried about you. You must be going crazy about Lulu.
Lucky: We put out an APB. It took some doing, but we got the state police to drop the authorization on the use of deadly force. It's no guarantee that there won't be a shoot out, but it reduces the chances.
Sam: Ok, all right. Well, do you have any leads?
Lucky: Nothing, which doesn't make it feel any better. But, you know what, you just can't disappear like that, the way Lulu and Johnny did, without having plans in advance. You know what, I didn't want to believe it, but I'm starting to think that Lulu was in on this escape. She may have even planned it. _____________________________________
Lulu: Our pictures have been all over the news by now. It's just dumb luck that Sal didn't recognize us already, but he will.
Johnny: Ok, Sal doesn't strike me as someone who is willing to turn anyone into cops.
Lulu: But he was so suspicious.
Johnny: Because he liked professor Siegel, and he didn't want anyone breaking in and robbing the place. But he bought our story.
Lulu: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he believed you. But still, he was so suspicious.
Johnny: No, as far as Sal knows, we are Joe and Linda from Chicago. Yeah, but that's all going to change when your mug shot is plastered all over the news. I'm not going to risk us getting caught.
Johnny: Ok, then we might as well stop running. Because every time we stop for gas, every time we pass someone on the street, we risk someone recognizing us. Hey, we're relatively safe here. We might as well stay here and formulate a long term plan.
Lulu: I'm just -- I'm so scared. You wouldn't have broken out of jail if it wasn't for me.
Johnny: I'd do it again.
Lulu: If the police catch us, if anything happens to you.
Johnny: I'm not going anywhere. Ok, we're safe, relatively, and we've got each other. That's all that matters. ____________________________________
Maxie: I didn't want to make Robin feel worse, but I have so much going on in my life right now, I can't deal with matt living in my sister's room. He's a miserable excuse for a human being.
Spinelli: But a first rate physician. Well, in -- while I'm grateful for the doctor's medical efforts, I will help you rid him from the premises.
Maxie: Of course you will.
Spinelli: You know, we could find him alternative accommodations at a discount, Stone Cold owns many properties. Or maybe a discouraging visit from one of Stone Cold's many protectors of the night.
Maxie: No, I can't have jason's people showing up here threatening to break Matt's kneecaps. I'm just going to have to figure out another way to get rid of him.
Spinelli: Between the two of us, we should be able to come up with something. After all, we are the resourceful duo that helped track the text message killer through the city sewer no less, risking life and limb.
Maxie: And a very expensive pair of shoes, I really liked those shoes.
Spinelli: So after all that, dealing with dr. Dispassionate should be a snap, right?
Maxie: Spinelli, thanks for rushing to my defense earlier. You really are my best friend. _____________________________________________
Nadine: What areyou doing Matt: I was spot checking the meds, making sure that none of them were counterfeit.
Nadine: Well, we're already checking everything as it comes in, so this is going above and beyond the call.
Matt: I would like to avoid handing out any more useless meds. We haven't done such a good job of that so far, and I assume you'd want the same thing.
Nikolas: I saw the extra light on back here, is there a meeting I don't know about?
Nadine: Um, Matt and I were just talking about spot checking the meds to make sure that we don't endanger any more patients.
Nikolas: Oh, good, good. I'm glad the two of you are on top of it. You can never be too careful, right? ____________________________________
Sam: Luck, I wanted so bad to go to the police station to be with you, to give you whatever support that I could possibly give you. I know you must have been going crazy not having anyone to talk to.
Lucky: I know why you stayed away, after all the trouble that we went through to stage a public break up.
Sam: Ok, but, um, listen. There is good news because I think I'm making progress. I think I am really close to being hired on one of the ships -- Llucky : Do you know how much I hate your putting yourself at risk? I mean, you're the only one that seems to be making any progress.
Sam: Yes, I know, but do you realize the only thing I hate is spending time away from you?
Lucky: So do I. But the truth is, there's nothing I can do for Lulu at this point, so --
Sam: So we are going to continue pretending that we are broken up. I can do this as long as you know that you are in my heart. ___________________________________________
Diane: I have nothing but admiration for Kate Howard. Professionally, because I care so deeply about fashion and she is both a leader and an icon. Not that you would understand.
Jason: Probably not.
Diane: But I also happen to care about her as a friend, and she has given up so much for Sonny. She would never have left Manhattan or "Couture" if it weren't for him. Now she is putting her reputation on the line to launch "Crimson" from the hinterlands, and she's putting her heart on the line by agreeing to marry Sonny. And he is doing something behind her back.
Jason: He had drinks with a woman.
Diane: Sasha Donev, you ever heard the name?
Jason: No.
Diane: Neither have I, and I have drafted every deal memo and contract for that coffee business ever since Sonny put me on retainer. So there is no way that she was representing any coffee consortium.
Jason: Is that why Sonny said he was meeting her?
Diane: Sonny didn't actually say much. Anthony Zacchara was sitting at a table in the restaurant and he was screaming at his daughter and Sonny went to rescue her.
Jason: Tell me, tell me about that. What happened?
Diane: Well, I assume that Anthony was venting his worry over Johnny and he said something to the effect of how he should have drowned Claudia the day that her brother was born. And so Sonny got up, went over, intervened and escorted Claudia from the restaurant.
Jason: I want you to call Max right away, I want you to tell him that Sonny had an altercation and a confrontation with Anthony Zacchara. I want you to up the guards and I want him to double check the security. Anthony might not be as calm as you like to think.
Diane: Here you are in lock-up, and you're worried about Sonny. And I just have to wonder if the positions were reversed, would Sonny do the same thing?
Jason: Diane, please, just take care of it for me, please.
Diane: I am calling Max now, but you never answered my question. Do you think Sonny is sleeping with Sasha?
Jason: Sonny's going to marry Kate.
Diane: Ever since Michael was shot, a lot of Sonny's actions don't make sense, and I'm sure you've noticed the same thing. __________________________
Claudia: You know why my father lost it like that, right?
Jason: Because he's a pig.
Claudia: Well, he's a pig who doesn't like to be out of control. My brother escaped from the PCPD tonight.
Sonny: With Lulu Spencer as a hostage.
Claudia: Please, that girl is nobody's hostage. She's the one who brought the gun into John and probably came up with the whole idea in the first place.
Sonny: Regardless, if anything happens to Lulu there's going to be a line of people looking for revenge.
Claudia: Are you going to be one of them?
Sonny: Hey, Luke Spencer and i go way back, and I've known lulu for a long time. And I'm telling you, if she is harmed in any way, it's going to a problem.
Claudia: You cannot punish my brother for his stupid problems and mistakes.
Sonny: Forget your brother, forget your brother. You need to figure out a way to get Johnny to turn himself in before he gets shot, or worse, kills a cop. And that's murder --
Claudia: With special circumstances, yeah, I know. But Johnny's not an idiot, Sonny. He's not going to shoot a cop.
Sonny: If he's as smart as you think he is, he wouldn't be on the run. Your brother's in serious trouble, he's not thinking clearly, as usual. You need to think for him.
Claudia: Why do you even care?
Sonny: I don't care. Like I said before, I've known Lulu for a long time, I don't want her to have to watch her boyfriend get shot down like a dog. __________________________________
Lulu: I should be loving every minute of this, these are the stories I grew up on. My parents fell in love running from the law, overcoming all odds.
Johnny: You jumped in pretty quickly to help me cover, maybe it is in your blood.
Lulu: Mm. Then why do I feel like I'm drowning? The only time that I haven't been terrified since this whole thing started is right here, right now. But I can't help thinking that it's not going to last.
Johnny: Don't worry about what happens next. Stay here with me. Come on, I love you, and I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I promise.
Jul 24, 2008 09:18
Lucky: I will be in soon. If anything comes up in the meantime, I'm on my cell. Ok. No word on Lulu.
Sam: Hey, look, maybe -- maybe that is a good thing.
Lucky: You know what? I appreciate your attempt at optimism.
Sam: Hey, excuse me, but cliches exist because often they are true, and maybe at this point, no news is good news. I mean, there wasn't a shootout or anything. That's good.
Lucky: That's a good point.
Sam: You know what a better point is. Once you go out those doors, your world is going to come crashing in, so until then, here I am.
Lucky: Are you expecting someone?
Sam: No.
Elizabeth: Sam, it's Elizabeth. Are you home? ___________________________________________________________________________
Sonny: I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Have a seat. Karpov: I woke up to some rather disturbing news.
Sonny: Ok. Karpov: My representative, Sasha, informed me that your meeting last night came to an abrupt end, specifically because you chose to intervene in an gument between Anthony Zacchara and his daughter. I'm sure you can understand why this concerns me greatly. _______________________________________________________________________
Carly: This is getting ridiculous. Three arrests in 48 hours? It's got to be some kind of a record.
Jason: Diane's handling it right now.
Carly: Oh, but still. Are the police that unimaginative they can't come up with something else to do than arrest you every time something goes wrong in this town? We can't sit still with this, Jason. It's ridiculous.
Jason: It's -- no, Carly, don't do anything.
Carly: You bet I'm going to do something, starting with getting you out of here. Then you're going to help me find Lulu, and we're going to bring her home.
Jason: Ok, the whole Lulu situation is a lot more complicated than you think.
Carly: I know what's going on with Lulu. Lulu's nobody's hostage, least of all Johnny's. And this whole jailbreak thing is a product of her fevered little mind. ______________________________________________________________
Logan: All you care about is Johnny. You don't give a damn about me.
[Lulu screams]
[Gunshot]
Johnny: Shh, shh. ___________________________________________________________
Sam: Just a minute. I'll be right there, Elizabeth. What is she doing?
Lucky: I don't know, but I guess we're about to find out.
Sam: You have to get out of sight.
Lucky: Listen, just don't let anything slip about the counterfeit drug raid --
Sam: I know. Go!
Lucky: I don't want Elizabeth involved.
Sam: I know. Hold on.
Elizabeth: Hey, hi.
Sam: Oh, hi. Come on in.
Elizabeth: Did I wake you?
Sam: No, no, not at all.
Elizabeth: I know I should have called first. I do have an excuse, if you want to hear it.
Sam: Oh, ok. I followed an impulse, and you can tell me to shut up if you think it's none of my business.
Sam: Oh, now I'm really curious.
Elizabeth: Ok, well, I'm sure you know that Lulu has disappeared, and whether she's really a hostage or just following the man she loves, I couldn't say, but either way, Lucky is terrified for his sister. And since the two of you aren't together anymore, he doesn't have anybody to help him, you know, with his fear, so I was hoping that maybe I could convince you to be that person again. ____________________________________________________________
Sonny: I agreed to this quasi partnership with you because you present an attractive offer. In return for specific information on how Port Charles operates, you pay me a lot of money. But not nearly enough for you to police my life or question my associates. Now, look, if you got a problem with that, then we can end this right now. We could just walk away, no harm done. Karpov: I have every intention of making our deal work, but i don't want unnecessary troubles with zaccharas. You putting yourself into the middle of a domestic dispute between Anthony and Claudia is the very definition of trouble.
Sonny: For me, maybe. It had nothing to do with you. Karpov: Guilt by association.
Sonny: You had -- you shouldn't even concern yourself, because Anthony Zacchara won't be a factor much longer. Karpov: What makes you say so?
Sonny: His son is a fugitive, and he's making wrong decisions because he's in love. Right now, he's on the run with his girlfriend, and it is a good chance his pattern's going to hold up. He's going to do something stupid, because he's not very bright, and the cops have orders to use excessive force, so what's going to end up happening is Johnny's going to get himself killed, and his father Anthony is going to fall right over a cliff into madness. ____________________________________________________________
Jason: Ok, Carly, now I need you to listen to me, because the worst thing you can do for Lulu is come up with some plan that doesn't have a chance of working. It's going to make everything worse.
Carly: That's nice. That's great, thanks.
Jason: I'm not -- I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm not trying to fight you. I will -- I will be glad to tell you everything I know, but i need you to promise me you're not going to do anything. How many times have we been down this road?
Carly: Why did you get to decide? Lulu's my cousin.
Jason: Because it's my life. It's the one I chose. I know what I'm talking about.
Carly: Ok.
Jason: Ok, you know what? Maybe I should come at it from a Carly direction. Do you think I would ever do anything to hurt Lulu?
Carly: No. I trust you, Jason. You know that.
Jason: Hey, that's good. That's -- that's progress.
Carly: Great, I got a big problem with going home and sitting quiet in my room when Lulu's life is on the line. _________________________________________________________
Johnny: Whoever cleaned this place out must have gotten rid of all the food in the kitchen. We're going to have to go out at some point for some supplies.
Lulu: What? We can't.
Johnny: Lulu, we have to eat.
Lulu: We're fugitives, remember? We're not some romantic couple on a holiday in New York. We're -- go out? That's asking to get caught.
Johnny: Well, I'm willing to risk being arrested or being involved in a nice shootout for a strong cup of coffee.
Lulu: You're making jokes?
Johnny: Guess not. Sorry.
Lulu: No, I'm sorry. Just because I'm freaking out doesn't give me the right to jump all over you.
Johnny: No, you're right. We're fugitives, and if you're uptight, you have every right to be.
Lulu: It's not so much being on the run. It's Logan. I can't get him out of my head. He said I would never get over him, and I'm starting to see what he meant. _______________________________________________________________
Tracy: Thank you for meeting me.
Nikolas: I take it this is about Lulu.
Tracy: Instinct told me to check my father's gun cabinet, and there is a handgun missing. I believe that Lulu took it to Johnny and that this whole jailbreak thing was her idea.
Nikolas: Yeah, I wish I could say I'm shocked, but --
Tracy: Big news -- this isn't Lulu having first sex at the boathouse. She's putting her life in the hands of a very dangerous criminal who is reckless on a good day, and I can't reach Luke. Do you know where he is?
Scott: Well, I was hoping that I could answer that for you. Me and my beautiful daughter Serena's down at the bahamas, you know, and I know that Luke's been on one of his skin-diving trips. However, we didn't go into any rummy bars or bordellos.
Tracy: How long have you been back?
Scott: About 20 minutes or so. Why?
Nikolas: You haven't checked any messages?
Scott: Well, you know, it's hard to check messages when you're in 60 feet of water down there diving, you know. Why? Something happen?
Tracy: I hate to be the one to tell you this, scott. It's about Logan.
Scott: What has the kid done this time?
Nikolas: He's dead, Scott. ___________________________________________________________
Sam: I am not really sure what to say. I never really expected you to be encouraging me back to Lucky.
Elizabeth: Yeah, well, I'm a little surprised myself, but in my eyes, the breakup wasn't really fair, because no matter what you thought, you saw that day, Lucky and I are not romantically involved. We're parents together, and that's it.
Sam: Yeah, well, maybe that's what you think, and that's probably what Lucky thinks, too, but I am an invested observer, and I can clearly see that the two of you are connected on a deeper level. I -- I'm in -- I'm in actually no rush to get my heart handed back to me again. I -- I'm not really good. I think the whole town really knows what a bad reaction I have, and I really don't want to put myself through that again.
Elizabeth: I can understand wanting to protect your heart, but sometimes it's just not necessary. Sometimes, you can find a guy who will recognize your heart as the precious gift it is and honor and respect it like I like Lucky.
Sam: Wow, you haven't always felt that way.
Elizabeth: Well, lucky and I have had our problems, but we've both learned from them. But just don't give up on him. That's all I came here to say.
Sam: Thank you.
Elizabeth: Sure.
Sam: You know, it's weird. Now that I'm getting to know Elizabeth a little bit, I'm actually finding ways to respect her, like the way she genuinely cares about you. ______________________________________________________________ Karpov: I made contact with the congressman you recommended. I'm anticipating a mutually beneficial relationship.
Sonny: Good, good, I'm glad to hear that. And I'll contact Sasha about any transportation routes. Anything else? Karpov: Oh, now that you mention it, I'd appreciate it if you'd arrange an introduction to Jason Morgan.
Sonny: Why? Karpov: Well, I find it productive to meet face-to-face.
Sonny: Ok, you don't have to -- you don't have to meet face -- you're not going to have any dealings with Jason at all. You're not going to compete with him, infringe on him in any way. That was our deal. Karpov: Well, if my meeting with Jason makes you uncomfortable, consider the request withdrawn.
Sonny: That'll work. Max, show our guest out. Karpov: It's been a pleasure, Mr. Corinthos.
Max: Mr C, I've got to say it. This was a terrible idea to begin with, and it's getting worse by the minute. _____________________________________________________________
Anthony: Wait in the hall for me.
Claudia: Or you might want to wait outside. That way you'll be closer to the clean-up in case I decide to throw my father off the balcony.
Anthony: Have you ever noticed that all this family talks about is violence? Why is that, Claudia? I mean, there are plenty of other things to discuss. How about this weather we're having? No, seriously, there's politics. I mean, there's a potentially historical presidential race going on as we speak. But you put two Zaccharas in a room, and it's always about the violence or the hatred or the striking out. Hurt first, the Zacchara way.
Claudia: What's your point?
Anthony: I lost my temper last night, said horrible things. I came to tell you I'm sorry. ___________________________________________________________
Spinelli: Oh, Maxinista, a true sight for sore eyes.
Maxie: I brought fortifications.
Spinelli: Ok, the Jackal is much obliged and grateful for your consideration. Did you pass a restful night, despite the interloping presence of Dr. Hunter in your previously sacrosanct domicile?
Maxie: I didn't see him. He must have gotten back after I went to sleep last night and left before I woke up, which works out perfectly, because if I never have to see that self-involved jerk again, it would be way too soon. I mean, I can't believe robin rented out that room. She doesn't even live there.
Spinelli: Well, I'm sure the expectant one's intentions were honorable.
Maxie: Whatever, I'm not even really worried about that. I'm more concerned about finding Johnny and Lulu. Any leads?
Spinelli: The Jackal regrets to report that despite countless hours of video culling from the area where the mayor's car was found, no clues to the whereabouts of the fugitive ones has surfaced.
Maxie: You could have just said no. But maybe you missed something. I'll take a look.
Spinelli: While the Jackal is always pleased to have Maxinista's assistance. He fears that the fugitive ones may prove untraceable. _____________________________________________________________
Jason: We both want the same thing. We want Lulu back safe, facing minimal fallout. I need you to trust me to make that happen.
Carly: Ok, but I don't like being managed, Jason.
Jason: Well, don't -- don't make me manage you, ok? I'm going to let you in when the time is right, but now things are too volatile. Johnny and Lulu, they're scared. They're nervous. These guys right here are so embarrassed, they're trigger-happy. This is not a good situation right now, Carly.
Carly: Ok, I get it. I get it. You will fill me in on everything.
Jason: Yes, I'm -- I'm going to tell you everything.
Carly: I'll stay out of it. For now.
Jason: Ok, first thing you need to know -- Johnny did not kill Logan. Lulu did.
Carly: Are you sure about that?
Jason: Yeah, I am.
Carly: How do you know?
Jason: Spinelli told me, and Lulu confessed.
Carly: It had to be self-defense, Jason.
Jason: Logan broke into Johnny's apartment with an ax. He came after Lulu. She panicked. She was scared, obviously. She stabbed him. Johnny walked in. Logan was dead. That's when the cover-up started.
Carly: How long have you known about this?
Jason: I don't -- a day or so after it happened.
Carly: Oh, my God. And I'm just finding out about it now?
Jason: You know what? Lulu told me not to say anything. I need you to trust me right now, Carly.
Carly: Let me tell you something. If Lulu trusted you, she wouldn't have broken Johnny out of lockup. _____________________________________________________________
Sonny: Max, I appreciate, you know, leaving Jason to come work for me, but I didn't hire you as a consultant or a shrink. You're my bodyguard, the same as it's always been. You don't get to tell me how to conduct my business.
Max: Part of being a bodyguard is anticipating a problem. Now, Karpov is a heavy hitter. The guy is a straight-up criminal.
Sonny: Yes, so what?
Max: Well, so a couple of things. You swore to Kate that you were out of the business. Now you're going around aligning yourself with the Karpovs behind her back. Mr. C., You are a smart man.
Max: You must know that you're putting yourself in a situation that could blow up in your face. Now, if I didn't know better, I'd think that you were in that deliberately self-sabotaging mode that you disappear into.
Sonny: I know exactly what I'm doing, Max. You don't say a word to Kate, and no one has to worry about anything. Excuse me.
Max: I -- I hope not.
Sonny: You really think Jason would rise up against me?
Max: You tell me. If you were in charge, if you had taken over for someone who swore they were out clean and then they turned around and they made an alliance with one of your competitors, what would you do? There are faster ways to commit suicide than waving a red flag in front of Jason.
Sonny: How come you're not assuming that I'm -- I'm helping him instead of betraying him?
Max: I never said betray.
Sonny: Well, you implied it, Max.
Max: Things have been tense between you and Jason ever since Michael got hurt. Now you're helping Karpovs move in on his territory.
Sonny: I'm working with Karpov to keep him out of Jason's way. I'm helping Karpov so he leaves Jason alone. That's not betrayal. That's protection. __________________________________________________________
Carly: This is really bad. I mean, I think Lulu is more fragile than we realized. Her biggest fear is looking in the mirror one day and realizing she's lived her mother's life. How do we know that hasn't already happened?
Jason: What do you mean?
Carly: What if Logan raped Lulu? Luke raped laura, and then Laura turned around and killed her stepfather, a man she loved. I mean, not the same way Lulu loved Logan, but man, you've got to admit, the parallels are pretty scary. I'm sure Lulu is freaking out right now. She probably sees herself a few years down the road, sitting in some mental ward. I don't know, maybe I could have helped her if I knew. I just feel --
Jason: I'm sorry if I -- if i handled it wrong. I just reacted, you know --
Carly: No, it's not your fault. I'm not saying that. I'm just -- I'm really afraid for my cousin. I think Lulu's nightmare has just begun. _______________________________________________________
Scott: Listen, I want Commissioner Scorpio to meet me down at the police station. I want a detailed report of what happened to my son, how he was killed, and I -- and I want to know what the department is doing about finding his killer. Goodbye.
Tracy: Scott, I'm very sorry for your loss.
Scott: Oh, come on, Tracy. You hated Logan. You always looked down your society snout at him. He was never good enough for Lulu. You tried to get him out of town many times. Maybe you decided to get rid of him for good.
Tracy: Are you serious?
Scott: You're capable of that, Tracy. You're capable of anything. Maybe you made a deal with Johnny to get him out of Lulu's life permanently, huh?
Nikolas: Hey, settle down. All right, your son was just killed. Just let it settle before you start making accusations you can't back up.
Scott: You people treated Logan like something you'd scrape off your penny loafer. I wasn't there for him in this life, but I'm stepping up now. He was a human being. He was my son, dammit, and I'm going to find out who killed him, and they are going to pay. You got that? __________________________________________________________
Johnny: I can handle a little trip to the store, Lulu.
Lulu: You are the one that's supposed to be armed and dangerous. Your face is the one that is probably plastered all over the newspapers and the news. I can be anonymous.
Johnny: Yeah, not with that mug.
Lulu: Flattery will get you anything you want.
Johnny: Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for.
Lulu: Seriously, I'll go out, and I'll get a -- a hat and sunglasses, and no one will even notice me.
Johnny: You have been through enough.
Lulu: I had a nightmare, big whoop.
Johnny: Yeah, it is a big whoop. Look, it just reaffirms what you said, that you're drowning in guilt over Logan.
Lulu: It was a nightmare. I've had them before. I probably will have them again, but it doesn't make me helpless.
Johnny: Do you plan on always being this stubborn?
Lulu: What you see is pretty much what you get.
Johnny: Then you'll need some cash.
Lulu: Wow. Let me just take a second to congratulate myself. When you bust a guy out of jail, it really helps when he is equipped with tons of cash, a getaway car, and a preplanned getaway bag.
Johnny: Well, I aim to please.
Lulu: Any special requests?
Johnny: Yeah, one.
Johnny: Be safe. And chips and salsa.
Lulu: Oh, you got it. ______________________________________________________________
Anthony: I got to tell you, it took me by surprise the way Sonny rushed to your defense like some black knight in tarnished armor. Last I knew, you were supposed to have despised each other.
Claudia: Well, maybe even sonny has his limits. Maybe he didn't think it was appropriate, you know, for a father to be screaming at his daughter in the middle of a crowded restaurant about how he wished he drowned her when she was a baby.
Anthony: You know I didn't mean that.
Claudia: No, I really don't.
Anthony: If that's true, it breaks my heart. We haven't been good to each other, Claudia. That's your mother's fault. It is. She turned you against me, and I couldn't trust you after that. She tried to make you over into her own selfish image, and she succeeded too well. You got greedy. You got hungry for more power than any woman should ever have. I regret that. I regret what's between us. I wish we could have been closer. But things are what they are. That hunger for power makes you dangerous to John. I can't let that stand.
Claudia: Yeah?
Johnny: Can you talk?
Claudia: Um, I would love to talk to you, but it is really not the best time right now.
Johnny: Dad's there?
Claudia: Yeah, something like that.
Johnny: All right, I understand. I just want you to know I am safe.
Claudia: All right.
Johnny: I'll be in touch.
Anthony: That was John, wasn't it?
Claudia: Uh, no, actually that was Sonny. He just called to make sure I was safe.
Anthony: Aww, I'm touched.
Claudia: Oh, yeah, right. You know, I am starting to see sonny in a whole new light, daddy. Maybe I should go after him after all. I mean, you know how us power-hungry women are. Got to have that access.
Anthony: Don't waste your time. Sonny retired. He cut his own power off at the knees. You'll need a better ally than Corinthos to protect you.
Claudia: Oh, yeah? So I need protection now? So much for your apology.
Anthony: Believe it or not, Claudia, I love you -- in my own way. But I got to be honest. I love your brother more. I want him back. Every hair in place. If that does not happen, the finger of blame will point directly at you.
Jul 24, 2008 09:35
Carly: How long until you're out of here?
Jason: I have no idea. The cops are convinced I am in on this. They think I have the gun in here somehow.
Carly: It had to be Lulu.
Jason: Yeah, I think so, too. It's a page right out of your book, Carly.
Carly: It is, isn't it? If I weren't so worried about her, I would be proud.
Jason: Oh, you should be worried. She's in way over her head right now.
Carly: How do we help her?
Jason: I've got to get to them first. The good news is, Johnny ditched the cops. They have no leads.
Carly: Just when you think things can't get worse. _______________________________________________________
Scott: Security around Johnny Zacchara. And what was Lulu, the motive for my son's murder, doing in there in the first place?
Mac: There was no reason to keep her out, Scotty.
Scott: You don't think so?
Lucky: Listen with all due respect, my sister was a victim, too. She was taken hostage at gunpoint.
Scott: Oh, come on, Spencer, if you believe that, you're going to be back writing parking tickets. Your sister is up to her neck in this. ________________________________________________________
Tracy: Scott Baldwin does not make it easy to feel sorry for him.
Nikolas: No. Well, I certainly don't have any use for him, even less for Logan, but he was Scott's son. He's entitled to be upset that he died.
Tracy: It's how he chooses to express that grief that concerns me. It's history repeating itself. Logan falls in love with a beautiful blonde who loves him back until the dangerous rogue shows up. Except this time, somebody dies. And once again, Luke Spencer is nowhere to be found. _______________________________________________________
Sal: Hey, joe. It's Sal. You home?
Johnny: Hey, come in. This must be your sister.
Sal: Yes, it is
Lourdes: Hi, I'm Lourdes.
Johnny: Hi, Joe Carpenter. Nice to meet you.
Lourdes: Hi.
Sal: You know, Joe used to be a student of professor Siegel's back in the day. He was pretty good.
Lourdes: Oh. I'll be honest. I wasn't too happy about my brother forcing a piano teacher on me that I did not know. But now that I know you learned from the master, I'm all over it.
Sal: All right, well, listen, I'll let you guys get to your lesson. And you behave, ok, Mija?
Lourdes: So, what are you prepared to teach me? ____________________________________________________________
Diane: Hello.
Max: Hey.
Diane: Sonny around?
Max: I expect him back soon.
Diane: Why are you so nervous?
Max: Me? I'm not nervous. Just happy to see you. You're not around here as much as you are at the coffee house.
Diane: Well, my business is mostly with Jason these days. You miss the action?
Max: Oh, you know, a little bit. But I'm glad to be back with Mr. C. He needs me like you wouldn't believe.
Diane: Why is that? Oh, he's just not thinking so clearly lately.
Diane: Care to be more specific?
Max: It's nothing I should be hypothetically discussing.
Diane: Ok. Well, then, I tell you what. Why don't you listen while I float a theory? Last night Sonny is at the Metro Court having drinks with an attractive, mysterious blonde. And then suddenly, here you are, fiddling with your tie, looking at the mail upside down, sweating. Which tells me everything I need to know. Hypothetically speaking. _________________________________________________________
Maxie: Are you ok? You're acting a little weird. Have you literally been staring at this computer all night?
Spinelli: Sleep is a luxury the Jackal can't afford. I must track the wanted ones before the forces of law and order Bonnie and Clyde them.
Maxie: Ooh. I know who they are. You might think that I don't, but Bonnie and Clyde, that's one of Mac's favorite movies.
Spinelli: Yeah, it's a classic film from an era of massive change. I mean, not only in the way that movies and music were made but the way that we, the universal we, you know, perceive ourselves and each other, civil rights, women's lib, political upheaval, sex, drugs, rock and roll.
Maxie: You're starting to babble. I think that maybe we should take a small break. A little rest on the couch.
Spinelli: You know, it warms the Jackal's heart that Maxinista is caring for his well-being.
Maxie: Of course I care about you, Spinelli, I'm like, tuned in to you. That's how I know something is wrong.
Spinelli: I mean, nothing's really wrong. Well, in fact, everything's wrong. The original blonde one killed the crabby commando and is now on the run with the mob prince. Stone Cold is being unfairly incarcerated. The irony, of course, being that this is the one crime he's been accused of he actually didn't commit, and now to make matters worse, you and I succumb to our basic instincts and now -- now the Jackal fears that you'll find it painful or embarrassing to remember and therefore will seek to place distance between us and that would distress the jackal greatly, becaue I have come to depend on and look forward to my encounters with the beautiful Maxinista.
Maxie: Spinelli. You're so sweet. And don't worry. Our night of sex has already been forgotten. Anyway, I need to go. You definitely need to take a nap.
Spinelli: Wait, wait, you're leaving?
Maxie: Yeah, I should get to the office before Kate does or I can kiss my job goodbye. But just let me know. Call me if you hear anything about Johnny or Lulu, ok? ___________________________________________________________-
Lourdes: I can't get the proper placement.
Johnny: I'm sure you can. Come on. Ok. Ok. Ok, now try it on your own. Good. Excellent.
Lourdes: You know, you're an awesome teacher.
Johnny: I'm nothing compared to professor Siegel. I'll tell you that.
Lourdes: I think you're better than him any day of the week. I mean, no offense to the dead or anything.
Johnny: This is your first lesson. You'll change your tune soon enough.
Lourdes: No. Hey, can I ask you a personal question?
Lulu: I was going to get everything frozen.
Johnny: Oh.
Lulu: Hi.
Johnny: This is Lourdes, my very talented new piano student. Lourdes, this is Linda, my girlfriend.
Johnny: Everything go ok?
Lulu: Everything went fine. ________________________________________________________ Lucky: I don't appreciate your implication.
Scott: Who's implying? I'm saying it straight out. Jailbreak. Tried and true Spencer method. Now, Lulu is a Spencer through and through, and so are you, for that matter. Hell, you might have known what was going on. You probably helped facilitate it.
Mac: You'd better watch it, Baldwin. You're making a serious accusation about one of my best officers.
Scott: And you might even be mixed in it, too, mac. You hated Logan. He slept with your daughter. Even though it was some game that she cooked up.
Lucky: Wait, you're starting to sound paranoid.
Scott: Yeah, well, maybe Logan should have been a little more paranoid. He might not be dead right now. But he is. And he's my son. My only son. Nobody gives a damn but me. So I am putting everybody on notice now. The police department, the D.A.'S office, and the mayor. No one will get one minute of sleep until my son's killer is brought to justice. _______________________________________________________
Jason: Diane is going to get the release. This might be worth a lot of money. The best thing you can do for lulu is just be easy for her to find, ok? And if she contacts you --
Carly: I will call you. I promise. You take care.
Lucky: ( To Claudia) You better be here to offer information on where your brother took my sister. ______________________________________________________
Diane: Is sonny cheating on Kate with Sasha?
Max: Oh, if only.
Diane: You want Sonny to cheat on his fiancee and break her heart.
Max: Of course not. Look, Miss Howard is nice lady. I know how much you like her. I'm just saying being unfaithful to kate would a lot less dangerous than --
Diane: Than what, Max?
Max: It's better if you don't know. After all, you work for Jason, too.
Diane: What does Jason have to do with Sonny meeting Sasha?
Max: Nothing. Please, Diane, you're going to have to leave this one alone.
Diane: You know, I got the sense that she was a professional of some sort. That she was perhaps even an attorney. So if she is meeting Sonny on behalf of a client --
Max: Karpov.
Diane: Who?
Max: Andrei Karpov. He's a heavy hitter from Russia. He's moving his organization in here to Port Charles.
Diane: That explains why sonny was looking so uncomfortable. I caught him mid-negotiation with one of Jason's enemies.
Max: The boss doesn't see it that way.
Diane: I'm pretty good at linear thought, Max. It has served me well. And if I connect these dots properly, Sonny's about to enter into some sort of business arrangement with one of Jason's direct competitors.
Max: Warning. We are now entering the inter-dynamics of the organization. The part that you never wanted to know about. You'll be a lot happier if you keep it that way.
Diane: This is -- this is insanity. Why would Sonny goad him, practically --
Sonny: Goad who, Diane? And what are you doing interrogating my employee? Why don't -- if you got something to say, say it to me.
Diane: Fine. Why have you suddenly decided to join forces with Jason's enemies? Death wish much? ______________________________________________________
Maxie: Thank you guys. I'll see you later.
Scott: Hello, Maxie.
Maxie: Scott, you're back. Yeah, just in time to find out that my son was murdered by Johnny Zacchara because of Lulu.
Maxie: I'm really sorry about what happened to Logan.
Scott: I want more than just sorry. You're right in the middle of this. You're the link between Lulu and Logan.
Maxie: What makes you say that?
Scott: Because you slept with him to get over on Lulu. You know, that silly little bet that you had? Now you and Lulu work together. And you're a nosy little thing, so I know you know what happened to Logan and I want you to tell me. Step by step. ____________________________________________________________
Claudia: I haven't heard from John. Ok? I don't know where he is. But I am willing to talk to anyone who will listen and tell them Johnny is completely innocent of all these ridiculous murder charges.
Lucky: Well, I can't quite say the same thing about the kidnapping of my sister.
Claudia: Are we done here?
Lucky: Why? Jason claims he had nothing to do with Johnny's escape.
Claudia: Everything I do is not about John. Happen to like Jason, ok? He's a very powerful man who's in a position to do me a lot of good. And I am hoping to take advantage of his isolation. You know, get him when he's vulnerable. Ingratiate myself. So that when he gets out of here, he's going to want to get me in bed --
Lucky: Ok, ok, you know what, I'm not -- that's too much information.
Claudia: Just so you know, I told Lucky Spencer that I was here to seduce you.
Jason: Why would you do that? Because I didn't want to tell him that I'd heard from John. ____________________________________________________________
Lulu: The kitchen is up and running.
Johnny: Oh, great. Time's up. But good job on our first lesson.
Lourdes: You really think so?
Johnny: Eh -- no, you got potential.
Lourdes: You know, it really helps to be inspired. I really look forward to learning from you and --
Johnny: Good. See you next time.
Lourdes: All right, uh -- bye.
Lulu: So. How do you like the new outfit?
Johnny: I like.
Lulu: You like?
Johnny: I like even more if you got chips and salsa.
Lulu: I knew I forgot something.
Johnny: Now tell me you're joking. Tell me you're joking.
Lulu: How do you propose to thank me if I remembered?
Johnny: I might stop.
Lulu: Stop what?
Johnny: This.
Lulu: No! ________________________________________________________
Spinelli: Maxinista?
Carly: Hey. Are you alone?
Spinelli: Yes.
Carly: Ok, great. I just came from Jason and he told me everything.
Spinelli: Uh, can the Valkyrie be more specific?
Carly: I know Lulu killed Logan and Johnny's covering for her. I know you're looking for them. Have you had any luck?
Spinelli: Unfortunately, not a clue.
Carly: Ok, I'm going to help you.
Spinelli: Oh. Well, the Jackal would be most appreciative of the fearsome one's input.
Carly: Well, the best way to keep Johnny and Lulu safe is to get rid of these murder charges hanging over Johnny's head. So the first thing we need to do is prove Johnny's innocent. What?
Spinelli: What? I'm just shocked that you would wish to implicate Lulu in the simian's death.
Carly: That's not the plan here, Spinelli.
Spinelli: Ok, then, I'm sorry. What did I miss?
Carly: Ok. We're going to exonerate Johnny and Lulu the old-fashioned way. We're going to frame somebody else.
Jul 26, 2008 12:24
Sonny: I value you as an attorney, Diane. I pay you a lot of money to give me advice, so it troubles me when I see that you jump to conclusions. I start questioning your discretion and your judgment.
Max: Ms. Miller was just surprised --
Sonny: Do you see that I'm talking to her right now? Do you see that, Max?
Diane: All right. I -- I apologize --
Sonny: Ok.
Diane: For overstepping.
Sonny: All right.
Diane: And I can certainly understand if you wish to release me from retainer. In fact, seeing that conflicts of interest will certainly arise due to the fact that I now represent both you and Jason, I think it's probably best for everyone concerned if I resign.
Sonny: No, no, no, no, no. You're not going anywhere. _________________________________________
Jason: Did Johnny say where he and Lulu were headed?
Claudia: No. When he called, I was with my father, and I couldn't talk to him, so I just stayed on the phone long enough to hear that he was ok.
Jason: Did you trace it yet? Did you trace the number?
Claudia: No, the number was blocked. There is no way for me to know where my brother is without getting my father involved. And that's why I'm here. I -- please, I need you to help me find him.
Spinelli: The Valkyrie's desire to protect fair Lulu is a sentiment shared by the Jackal, who, of course, would be honored to assist in your valiant attempt to cast suspicion away from the burdened blonde one and free her from a life on the run, as it were. However, the Jackal feels a brief consultation with stone cold might be in order prior to putting --
Carly: The sooner we frame Ric Lansing for Logan's murder, the sooner this will be over. And Lulu can come home. _____________________________________
Maxie: I already told everything I know to the police. If you would like to read my statement, I'm sure my dad can make you a copy.
Scott: I've already read it. You spoke to Logan twice the day that he died.
Maxie: So?
Scott: So, I want to know what was said.
Maxie: Which time?
Scott: My son was murdered and dumped by the side of the road. I'm not playing games here.
Maxie: I'm sorry. I know what it's like to lose someone you love by violence.
Scott: I know you do. That's why you're going to tell me what happened to my son. ______________________________________
Lulu: What are you working on?
Johnny: A song that professor Siegel must have been working on. I found it in some old music book.
Lulu: He meant a lot to you, didn't he?
Johnny: Yeah. Well, this is the one place I could come to and forget about everything, you know. Where I could forget about my father and actually be a normal kid for a change.
Lulu: Well, you don't get more normal than Joe and Linda from Chicago.
Johnny: Yeah. Well, if anyone's going to buy me as a struggling musician looking to makes ends meet, I should probably practice before giving amy more lessons.
Lulu: I think you sound great.
Johnny: Aside from all the incidental notes. The professor must be flipping in his grave.
Lulu: Well, if Lourdes is any indition, I think you're a wonderful teacher. And I think professor Siegel would be very proud of you.
Johnny: Yeah. Well, Lourdes is a fast learner. If I'm going to stay well ahead of her, I should probably practice. I think you can help me.
Lulu: Yeah -- no.
Johnny: Come on, sit down.
Lulu: I am completely tone deaf, and I have no rhythm.
Johnny: Come on, I thought you loved the blues.
Lulu: Yeah, to listen to, not to play. I can barely manage "Chopsticks."
Johnny: Well then, it looks like I have my work cut out for me. Come here. We're going to start with some scales.
Lulu: Great.
Johnny: All right. Come on. All right, this is C, D. You have to push it to make it work. E, F, G, A, B, C.
Lulu: Oh, wow. That was hard.
Lulu: Maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away.
Johnny: No, it's too late. They've probably heard us playing.
Lourdes: It's Lourdes.
Johnny: It's ok.
Lourdes: Hi. Sorry to interrupt. Do you have a minute? _______________________________________
Maxie: The day Logan died, I ran into him on the Elm street pier. He was with some new doctor from the hospital.
Scott: What doctor?
Maxie: A resident there. Matt Hunter. He's almost as big of a jerk as Logan was. But even Matt had a problem with the names your son was calling me.
Scott: All deserved, I'm sure.
Maxie: I'm no saint, but neither was your son. Logan just went around blaming everyone else for his problems. Matt ran him off and I went back to work. That's when Logan showed up at our "Crimson" offices, saying he wanted to get back together with Lulu. She, you know, politely declined and Logan -- he got pissed. He stormed off, obviously went to start a fight that he didn't win. And that's the last time I saw him.
Scott: Logan loved Lulu. All she ever did was lie to him and jerk him around.
Maxie: Lulu was completely honest with Logan. She told him it was over.
Scott: Yeah, because of you. Because you slept with him. Otherwise, Lulu and Logan would still be together.
Maxie: Ok, you don't know that.
Scott: Yeah, I know that Johnny Zacchara killed Logan and you helped.
Jax: You need to keep your voice down and let her go. _______________________________________
Spinelli: The Jackal has heard countless tales of how you and your yet to be born progeny were made to suffer at the hands of Darth Lansing in the confines of a regrettably secret room. So naturally, the Valkyrie has malicious feelings toward --
Carly: Do I hate Ric? Yes, I do. Not just for what he did to me, but for what he did to Sonny. I think Ric deserves a special place in hell. But right now, all I care about is clearing Lulu of any involvement in Logan's death as quickly and as safely as possible. And the only way we can do that is if we pin it on someone else.
Spinelli: If not for revenge, why chose the demented one?
Carly: Ric's the one that hired Logan to be Anthony's attendant. That didn't work out. It's not such a stretch to believe that Ric had him killed because he knew too much.
Spinelli: See, sadly, the Jackal's acquainted with many of the pertinent details of the unworthy one's demise, none of which could be finessed in amy way to implicate Darth Lansing.
Carly: Oh, come on, Spinelli, start. You can make it happen.
Spinelli: The Jackal also fears that if you were to alter any aspect of the case, the law-abiding ones would be alerted, and that would make the mob prince and even the fair one look even more guilty.
Carly: So you have to make sure the police don't find out. Aren't you the best? Isn't that why Jason pays you so much money?
Spinelli: Ok. Look, the Jackal's cyber skills aren't the issue here. It's -- Darth Lansing's whereabouts at the time of the crabby commando's demise are the grave concern here. Because, see, what the Valkyrie seems to be forgetting is that there's a very real chance that Ric has an airtight alibi, which would negate --
Carly: So we get rid of his alibi. What is wrong with you? You're acting just like Jason.
Spinelli: Oh, the Grasshopper is flattered by the comparison to his master, and in the same vein feels like he must bestow some stone cold-like wisdom and say, do nothing. As difficult and as painful as that may be, the wisest course of action is indeed to watch and wait.
Carly: Yeah. Watch and wait. Ok, neither one of those are my best events. __________________________________________
Sonny: I'm not in competition with Jason, so there is no conflict of interest.
Diane: Well, as I understand it, your new business associate, Mr. Karpov, will almost certainly take an adversarial view towards Jason and his business interests.
Sonny: Then you understand wrong, Diane, because I'm only working with Karpov to keep him out of Jason's way.
Diane: Ok. Well, I'll make certain that Jason understands that.
Sonny: Ok, you're not going to say anything to Jason because this conversation that we're having right now is attorney-client privileged.
Diane: And that's why you want to keep me as your attorney. Sonny: I'm happy to work with you. That's why I don't want you telling anybody about my business. Not even Jason.
Max: There's nothing to worry about, Diane. The boss is just looking out for Jason.
Sonny: Exactly.
Diane: Yeah. I highly doubt that Jason will see it that way. The act of dealing with Karpov in the first place may or may not be viewed as hostile. Keeping it a secret fairly screams betrayal.
Sonny: I would never betray Jason, and he knows it. __________________________________________
Claudia: I came to you as soon as Johnny called. I mean, it's time for you to hold up your end here. I need you to help me.
Jason: I said Johnny would make contact and he has. Now, the best thing for you to do is just stay out of it.
Claudia: No, John needs my help.
Jason: Your brother managed to break out of here. He managed to lose the cops and disappear without your help. Laying low for a while isn't going to be a problem for him.
Claudia: I don't want John to have to look over his shoulder all the time for the rest of his life and wonder if somebody is going to recognize him from the news. There's got to be something that I can do to help him.
Jason: If Johnny needs you, he's going to call you. Right now the cops are watching you 24/7. If you go to him, he could get caught.
Claudia: I'm not stupid, Jason. I know how to cover my tracks.
Jason: Ok, but why take the chance, Claudia? Obviously, he's got a place to hide. He's got some type of transportation. He probably has cash from one of your safe houses. Once the APB gets old, he should be able to make it out of the country.
Claudia: Come on, if it were you, would you just write off someone that you love that easily, just accept that you would never see them again for the rest of your life and walk away without a second thought? __________________________________________
Sonny: I gave everything I built to Jason. Why would I turn around and try to destroy it, Diane?
Diane: Is that a rhetorical question? Or do you actually want my objective opinion?
Sonny: I don't want your objective -- because, you know what, you've already decided that I'm wrong.
Diane: I'm the one who handled the transfer of ownership when you took control of the coffee company and gave everything else to Jason. I watched as you signed away Michael and Morgan. You hated that bargain the day you made it, and you hate it even more today. You resent Jason for the part he played in it, and Jason knows that.
Sonny: What I resent is that Jason helped Carly take away my sons. That hurt me. But it has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
Diane: Your decision to work with Karpov may be interpreted as retaliation. Now, if you don't want Jason to make that same conclusion, then tell him what you're doing and why.
Diane: Jason's in custody right now, right?
Diane: Right.
Sonny: Do you think he needs to deal with what we are talking about right now?
Diane: I think he needs to hear from you. What you choose to tell him is your own business. _____________________________________
Claudia: John trusted me. He came to me for help, and I handled everything completely wrong. I should have made Logan disappear completely like Johnny wanted, dumped his body in the harbor. But instead, I left a trail that led the police directly to my baby brother. So maybe I should have listened to my father. Maybe I should have let him handle it.
Jason: Why didn't you?
Claudia: Because I don't want him to have any more leverage on John. I just thought it would be easier if I took care of everything on my own. It would be simpler, cleaner. In a way, now I've ruined John's life. You understand? There has got to be a way to fix this. There has to be something that I can do.
Jason: Sometimes the hardest thing is to accept that you are no good for the people you love.
Claudia: That's very zen of you, but it doesn't apply in my situation. John needs me. And I'm going to help him. _____________________________________
Lourdes: I'd like to thank you for my lesson earlier.
Johnny: There's no need to thank me, it's my job.
Lourdes: Yeah, I know. But still, I just really appreciate you being so patient with me. And professor Siegel was the same way. And you kind of remind me of him. That's why I brought you these flowers, because professor Siegel always liked to have --
Johnny: He liked fresh flowers sitting on the piano. I remember.
Lourdes: Yeah.
Lulu: Ok, yeah. I'm going to go put these in some water.
Lourdes: I hope you don't mind that I stopped by, Joe.
Johnny: No, not at all. The flowers were a very thoughtful gift.
Lourdes: Well, now it seems official, you teaching me and all. I think professor Siegel would be happy that we found each other. ________________________________________
Scott: All right, this has nothing to do with you.
Jax: No, you're yelling at one of my employees in my hotel, and you're disturbing the guests. If you don't calm down, I'll have security walk you out. Do you understand?
Scott: Do you know what kind of a badge I carry?
Jax: Yes, Mr. Baldwin, I am very well aware of your appointment to special prosecutor. But I doubt that the Mayor would look to kindly to you manhandling the police commissioner's daughter, especially in front of potential voters.
Scott: Mayor Floyd has no chance of getting re-elected when bodies are getting dumped by the side of the road.
Jax: I am very sorry for your loss, but yelling at Maxie is not going to bring your son back. And neither will revenge. As a matter of fact, some innocent people could be hurt in the process.
Scott: Well, you know, now I'm not surprised about your concern over Lulu. I mean, you're married to her cousin. And the Spencers, they stick together. You know they like to lie, cheat, cover up murders, whatever. Well, that's not going to happen this time. Whoever killed my son is going to pay.
Maxie: Oh, jeez. Thank you so much for getting rid of him.
Jax: You need to be careful, you know. Scott Baldwin -- he can be dangerous when properly motivated. _______________________________________
Max: Boss?
Claudia: You know, for a coffee importer, you have an awful lot of security.
Sonny: There's only two reasons you would be here. One is your father's treating you badly again, and you're spiraling out of control. Or you've heard that I'm working with Karpov, and you're going to use it against me.
Claudia: You've got me all figured out, don't you?
Sonny: You're not that complicated.
Claudia: Really? Maybe you can just read people well. I mean, that would explain why you stayed in this business so long, and why you jumped at the first chance to get back in.
Sonny: I'm not back in.
Claudia: Really? You keep telling yourself that. You know, when you love something as much as you do, and you're as good at it as you are, you can't let it go.
Sonny: I may just do it to prove to people that I can.
Claudia: Ok. Keep telling yourself that. ____________________________________
Mac: If you're here to complain about the new boarder hogging the bathroom, you're going to have to take it up Robin. She's the one that rented him the room.
Maxie: Only after you insisted she move into it.
Mac: Maxie, I don't have time to get into all the reasons why robin would be better off away from Patrick. Let's just leave it at -- he's an egotistical jerk who will always put his needs before Robin's and the baby's.
Maxie: Well, Patrick is a prince compared to Dr. Matt Hunter, who is egotistical beyond belief. And just so we're clear, I hate that he he's living in Georgie's room. But at least this is a situation I can focus on, something I can deal with, unlike the nightmare of Johnny taking Lulu hostage.
Mac: You know what the best thing you can do is to let me know if Lulu makes contact with you.
Maxie: Dad, I'm like the last person Lulu would ever want to get in touch with. She hates me, and I'm not exactly a fan of hers. I mean, if we didn't work together, I'd have no use for her.
Mac: If that were true, you wouldn't be here to help.
Maxie: I love that you always think that of me, but I'm actually not here to help. I'm here to see Jason.
Mac: Wait -- whoa. Wait a minute. About what?
Maxie: It's personal.
Mac: Maxie, Jason Morgan is dangerous, ok? Geing involved with him, that will get you killed.
Maxie: I'm not sleeping with Jason Morgan if that's what you're worried about. I came here to talk to him about Spinelli.
Mac: Well, he's not much better.
Maxie: I thought that we talked about you staying out of my personal life.
Mac: How is Spinelli in your personal life?
Maxie: Dad!
Mac: Ok, fine. This is me backing off.
Maxie: Thank you.
Maxie: Scott Baldwin is on a warpath, and you don't do something soon, he's going to figure out that Lulu killed Logan. ______________________________________
Ric: Well, you are the one who called this meeting. The least you could do is show up on time.
Scott: All right. Skip the attitude, Lansing.
Ric: I'd like to skip the whole thing. Frankly, Baldwin, I really have no interest in listening to you condemn my client, yet again, with absolutely no shred of proof.
Scott: Well, first of all, innocent people, they don't break out of jail, and they don't go on the run.
Ric: Oh, they do when they're being railroaded.
Scott: The only one being railroaded was my son Logan. I don't know what kind of dirt you had on him and forced him to take that job, wheeling that foolish old mobster around. And it put him in constant conflict with Johnny, which eventually led to his murder.
Ric: Oh, look, I'm very sorry you lost --
Scott: No, you're not sorry. Don't even say that. You didn't give a damn about my son. Nobody did.
Ric: Look, the sad truth is that you didn't really even know your own son. And if you would have made more of an effort, you would have realized that Logan was volatile and deeply disturbed. And whoever killed him, probably acted in self-defense. _______________________________________
Carly: Hey.
Jax: Hey.
Carly: I'm glad you called. This has been the most frustrating day, and just knowing you wanted to see me has made it all better.
Jax: Carly, I didn't ask you here to get back together.
Carly: I'm not naive. I know it's not going to happen overnight, you know. But talking is good, and if we sat down and we had a drink, we could work things out.
Jax: I don't have time. I'm sorry.
Carly: We can't fix things, Jax, if we don't make time.
Jax: I didn't ask you here to talk about the separation, ok? I have a meeting in Montreal this afternoon. And I was on my way to the airport, and I saw Scott Baldwin questioning Maxie Jones. Apparently he thinks that Lulu is responsible for his son's death.
Carly: Does Scott think Lulu stabbed Logan?
Jax: No, he thinks that Lulu is the reason that Johnny and Logan fought, and he also believes that Lulu led Logan on. Apparently the same way Laura did with him.
Carly: Oh, my God. You know, leave it to Scott Baldwin to make a bad situation worse to bring his convoluted past into it.
Jax: I know you're going to move heaven and earth to help her. I just want you to be careful.
Carly: I already have been trying to help her. I love her, Jax. She's more than just a cousin to me.
Jax: I know.
Carly: We're very similar. We make the same mistakes. And when I found out that she was held hostage, I knew that she was faking it because I would do the same thing.
Jax: Yeah, that's what I thought.
Carly: I spent almost the whole morning trying to come up with ways to help Lulu, and then you call me and here I am. Because as much as I love Lulu, there's nothing more important to me than us.
Jax: Hey, I'm not saying you should ignore a family emergency. That's not what I meant when I said that you weren't committed to this marriage.
Carly: I'm not trying to make you feel guilty, ok? I'm not. Because if Lulu had called me and asked me to drive the get away car, I'd be with her right now. But she didn't. I can't do anything to help Lulu, so I want to focus on you and me, fixing what went wrong and holding us together.
Jax: We're not together, Carly. And I don't know if wever will be again.
Carly: Stop, stop, ok? We're married and we love each other. And right now we're in a really bad place. But come on, Jax, whether you see it or not, we're both to blame.
Jax: I just don't want to fight anymore, Carly. I'm afraid that you will think that's what marriage is. I mean, you argue, you break up, and then you get back together only to fight again, and then the fights get worse, d the reconciliation time is shorter. And then before you know it, there's nothing left. There's no love left. And I don't want our marriage to become a trap where we hurt each other on purpose.
Carly: You would never try and hurt me, and I know that. And even at its worst, our marriage is the best thing that's ever happened to me, and I am not going to lose it.
Jax: What if it's already lost?
Carly: You know what? You don't want to give me the benefit of the doubt right now, so I'm going to give it to you. You're frustrated and you're making some bad choices. But you are still the man I love, and I'm not going to give up on you.
Jul 26, 2008 12:38
Lourdes: So, when did you move to Chicago?
Johnny: When I was 14, my parents divorced. And my mother packed up me and my sister, and we moved in with my grandmother.
Lourdes: That must have been hard, leaving all your friends.
Johnny: Well, I don't know what I miss more, my friends or the city.
Lourdes: Yeah, I know what you mean. I lived here all my life. Well, not this building. But, you know, this neighborhood. You know, my mom passed away when I was a baby, and my dad was killed when I was 12. And Sal's been raising me here ever since.
Johnny: That must be difficult, to lose both your parents at such an early age.
Lourdes: Yeah, Sal has helped me through it though. We don't always get along, but he's a good brother for the most part. So, wait, what about you? Are you and your sister close?
Johnny: Yeah, well, sometimes I feel like she's the only person I can count on.
Lourdes: Does she still live in Chicago?
Johnny: California. Her husband's based out there.
Lourdes: Oh. Wow. You must miss her a lot. Is she going to come to New York to see you play?
Lulu: Who's coming to New York?
Lourdes: Oh, Joe was telling me about his sister and her husband.
Lulu: Oh, yeah, they're great.
Lourdes: So, you met his sister and her husband? _______________________________________
Jax: A successful marriage requires trust. It's as simple as that.
Carly: I couldn't agree more.
Jax: You went behind my back with Claudia Zacchara. You won't believe me when I tell you that I won't have an affair with Kate. And you sabotaged a very important meeting to keep me away from her.
Carly: Kate set me up. She's the one who is lying. And see this right here, what's happening between us, is the reason because she wants to break us up. She wants me to lash out so I drive you to her arms, and I'm not going to give her the satisfaction.
Jax: It sounds like you are pursuing me to get back at Kate.
Carly: No, I don't give a damn about Kate you know what? Ok, I do. You know what? I think she is a vindictive, selfish bitch. But I'm not going to do anything about that because that would undermine the magazine and your investment. Nothing matters more to me than you. So I'm trying really hard right now not to lash out because of my hurt feelings, or get sucked into a fight about a lie that I didn't tell because I have to show you how good we are together, Jax. Because -- no, stop. We promised to spend the rest of our lives together, and that's what we are going to do.
Jax: I'm late. I just -- I got to go to the plane. I'm sorry. Be careful, ok? __________________________________________
Lucky: Instead of wasting our time talking to Spinelli, we should be out there looking for our sister.
Nikolas: Lucky, he may be the only one who knows where she is. I mean, if she needed a fake I.D. Or money transferred into an untraceable account, he would be the first person she went to.
Lucky: I wish I could be as sure as you are that Lulu was willing to participate in this.
Nikolas: Ok, Tracy Quartermaine informed me that there was a gun missing from Edward's collection.
Lucky: And there is no proof that Lulu took it.
Nikolas: Come on. A gun goes missing from the house that our sister lives in, and shortly thereafter, her boyfriend breaks out of jail holding one on her. Now, tell me you honestly believe that's a coincidence?
Spinelli: Greetings, brothers of the blonde one. How may the Jackal be of service?
Lucky: We're here to ask you a few questions about Lulu. ________________________________________
Sonny: Which is it, blackmail or sex?
Claudia: Does it really matter?
Sonny: It will to my fiancee, so if you're here to self-destruct, do it with somebody else. I'm not interested.
Claudia: It's a good thing that I'm not here for sex. I need to find my brother. Need to get him out of the country until somebody else takes the fall for Logan Hayes' murder. Wouldn't your new partner be able to handle the arrangements?
Sonny: Your father would, too. I am sure right now he's getting a new identity and a plane waiting.
Claudia: My father is obsessed with Johnny. He's never going to let him leave.
Sonny: So you come to me, the man who held your brother hostage, who doesn't care if he lives or dies, asking for my help?
Claudia: Did I say I was asking?
Sonny: Max. It would be a mistake to blackmail me, so I'm going to let you walk out of here and pretend we never had this conversation. _______________________________________
Jason: Just tell me exactly what Scott said.
Maxie: Ok, he didn't come out and accuse Lulu of stabbing Logan, but he definitely thinks she's responsible for his death. Man, you should have seen how mad he was. At least now I know where gan got his temper.
Jason: Did Scott hurt you?
Maxie: He grabbed my arm, but Jax walked in and said he was going to call security.
Jason: Are you ok?
Maxie: I'm fine. I just got a preview of how Scott's going to react when he finds out Lulu killed his son.
Jason: But this was self-defense.
Maxie: Lulu put logan into a coma last winter. There's no way that Scott's going to buy that whole self-defense thing again. He's going to want lulu to spend the rest of her life in prison. Never mind that Logan got exactly what he deserved. Why am I so worried about someone I can't even stand? I mean, if the roles were reversed, Lulu wouldn't lose a second of sleep over this. I'm sorry, I'm putting all this on you, and you can't do anything about it while you're in here.
Jason: You were right to come to me with this. It just helps me to have all the information I can.
Maxie: Ok, well, now that you have this information, how the hell are you going to use it to get Johnny and Lulu out of this?
Jason: I never said I could. ________________________________________
Lulu: I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with Joe's family.
Johnny: It's difficult with them living so far away.
Lourdes: How long have you been together?
Johnny: Since September.
Lulu: I was hitchhiking and Joe picked me up.
Lourdes: Not like you're not a good guy or anything, but, I mean, getting in the car with a complete stranger -- that's crazy. I mean, for all you knew, he could have been some psycho killer.
Lulu: Hmm, he seemed harmless.
Lourdes: Hmm. You got lucky. So why were you hitchhiking in the first place?
Lulu: Oh, my ex-boyfriend was cheating on me, and I got in a fight. Excuse me.
Lourdes: Is she ok? ______________________________________
Spinelli: Is the Jackal permitted to make a call?
Lucky: To whom?
Spinelli: The brusque lady of justice should be present prior to answering any and all questions.
Lucky: Listen, I am not here as a cop. I am here as a brother who is afraid for his sister.
Spinelli: Then why did the law-abiding one find it necessary to flash his credentials upon entering?
Nikolas: Just to make sure you'd let us in. So, where's Lulu?
Spinelli: Sadly, the Jackal is not privy to the mob prince's chosen path of flight with his helpless hostage.
Nikolas: We know the truth.
Spinelli: To what truth would the blonde one's brooding brother be referring?
Lucky: You don't have to cover for Lulu. We know that she brought the gun into the station. Did you help her plan the escape?
Spinelli: The blonde one gave no indication that she was planning anything, much less than springing Johnny, as it were, from the hallowed halls of the PCPD.
Nikolas: You sure she didn't mention anything to you?
Spinelli: The only person fair Lulu confides in anymore is the son of darkness. _________________________________________
Claudia: Have any charges been brought against Jason Morgan? Well, then, when is he getting released? You can't keep him in lockup forever.
[Knock on door] You know what? Never mind. I'll take it up with the commissioner. What does my father want now?
Ric: Your father is far too busy screaming at my father to use me as his carrier pigeon. May I? Thank you. No, I came here all on my own.
Claudia: And why is that?
Ric: Well, because I think I can be extremely helpful to you.
Claudia: Oh, really? Well, I'll tell you something, the only help that I'm interested in is getting my brother out of this mess.
Ric: That's exactly what I plan to do. _______________________________________
Scott: I appreciate that you're letting me do this. Reporter: I'm sure we'll all sleep better knowing this guy is off the street.
Scott: Yes. Reporter: In three, two, one. I'm here with special prosecutor Scott Baldwin whose son, Logan Hayes, was brutally murdered and dumped in front of a clinic in the warehouse district. The prime suspect, John Zacchara, managed to escape police custody late last night. Can you tell me more about that, Mr. Baldwin?
Scott: Johnny Zacchara broke out of jail with the help of his girlfriend Lulu Spencer. She smuggled a gun into the police station and pretended to be held hostage. She and Johnny are armed and dangerous and on the run. ___________________________________
Jax: Can you call the tower in montreal? I want to make sure that there are no delays. I have to get to this meeting on time. I hope the weather holds out.
[Cork pops]
Carly: Champagne?
Jax: How did you -- what -- what are you doing, Carly?
Carly: You know what? I think it's so sweet that you keep my favorite champagne stocked on the jet. Would you like some?
Jax: No, I can't have any. I have to have a clear head for this meeting.
Carly: Well, you know what? At least we get to spend some time together. Flying is like time out of time, you know -- no one to bother us, no crisis we have to solve, no one gets to leave even if they want to. We just get to focus on each other.
Jax: Yeah, if you want to ignore our problems, which I just can't right now, I'm sorry.
Carly: Ok, then tell me your problems, and I will do whatever I can to solve them.
Jax: Ok, well, you don't lean on me when you are hurting, and I know that there's always a valid reason. But in the end, I still feel shut out, and then I bury myself in my work. Which requires me to, you know, work with Kate, sometimes. That upsets you -- you get all bent out of shape, and then before you know it, two people that never want to fight are always fighting.
Carly: We're not fighting now.
Jax: That's because you haven't listened to a word I've said.
Carly: I heard what you said. I just don't agree with all of it.
Jax: Right.
Carly: Because the thing that you're missing is with everything we've done wrong -- it doesn't outweigh everything we've done right. We have a life together. Day in and day out, we've shared memories and moments. You want to give that up?
Jax: No, I want us to get better, or I want us to let go.
Carly: I'm not letting go.
Carly: I love flying with you. Some of our best times have been on this plane.
Jax: It's not going to work. I'm telling you right now.
Carly: You don't want me to remind you of how much fun we've had. You just choose to convince yourself that our marriage has been nothing but nonstop misery?
Jax: I never said it was misery.
Carly: You used the word miserable.
Jax: I never said it was nonstop misery. I was very clear about our good times and bad times, ok?
Carly: Well, I choose to revisit the good. I want to think about all the times we've flown to Montreal. I want to think about how you asked me to marry you there. Maybe it's a coincidence that you're having a business meeting in a city that means so much to us. But I think that without you even knowing it, you're going back to a place that makes you happy, yes. So, you know what? Instead of trying to put so much distance between us, why can't we reconnect? _______________________________________
Mac: I see in the past 24 hours you've had visits from Carly, Claudia Zacchara, her father, as well as their attorneys, Nikolas Cassadine, and my own daughter. Wow, either your popularity is on the rise, or could it be that they know you have information about John Zacchara and Lulu Spencer's whereabouts? I wouldn't be surprised if you planned the whole thing, Jason. And you know what, it's actually not a bad idea. You break Johnny out of jail, you use Lulu as a terrified hostage, and just like that, Anthony Zacchara is eternally grateful. Everyone wins, right? Everyone but Lulu. You put that little girl's life in on the line. And for what, Jason? A truce that's going to last a couple of months at the most?
Jason: You know I can't say anything without my attorney.
Mac: Oh, boy. Why am I surprised to hear that? Wow, you trained him well, Sonny. Jason's got no conscience at all.
Sonny: You've been in lockup for a while.
Jason: Got no evidence -- they're going to have to release me soon.
Sonny: If you need some help getting out here, all you got to do is ask. ______________________________________
Claudia: If you have a way to get John out of this mess, why am I just hearing about it now?
Ric: Oh, well, you were far too busy handling things on your own. You know, running around covering for John and ultimately making him look more guilty. I'm not complaining. I mean, after all, it is arrogance like yours that keeps me in business.
Claudia: I made a mistake, ok? I made a lot of them. Do you want a list? Do you want me to confess every single one of my mistakes and my fears and make you feel all empowered, seriously? You know what? If that's what it takes to get my brother out of this mess, I am perfectly willing to grovel and cry.
Ric: More to the point, what are you prepared to give me if I can get your brother Johnny acquitted? __________________________________________
Lulu: Where's Lourdes?
Johnny: She went home.
Lulu: I'm sorry about that. Running out of the room isn't exactly subtle. I might as well be wearing a shirt that says "person with something to hide."
Johnny: Lourdes doesn't suspect a thing.
Lulu: She's too busy falling all over you to notice.
Johnny: Are you jealous?
Lulu: More like grateful. Her crush on you is the only thing that's probably stopping her fromoing to the police.
Johnny: As far as Lourdes is coerned, we are Joe and Linda from Chicago.
Lulu: Yeah, a struggling piano teacher and his emotionally unstable girlfriend.
Johnny: You're making too big a deal out of this.
Lulu: I freaked out in front of her.
Johnny: Ok, but as far as Lourdes knows, you're still just hurt over your ex-boyfriend cheating on you, ok?
Lulu: My ex-boyfriend is dead because of me.
Johnny: Lulu, what happened to Logan -- it's not your fault. Ok, I know you don't believe me, but I'm going to keep telling you until you do. _______________________________________ Reporter: [On television] Can you tell me more about that, Mr. Baldwin?
Scott: [On television] Johnny Zacchara broke out of jail with the help of his girlfriend Lulu spencer. She smuggled a gun into the police station and pretended to be held hostage. She and Johnny are armed and dangerous and on the run. I am offering $100,000 reward to anyone who comes forth with information that leads to an arrest and conviction. I urge anyone out there that sees them to call the police. Not only for their own safety, but for the sake of my son because he deserves justice. A tragic story like this will be on the news for weeks. You can kiss your career goodbye, Mac. As far as the yor's bid for re-election -- out the win -- _________________________________
Lucky: Campaigning for the Mayor will have to wait.
Nikolas: You need to go back on the air and retract that ridiculous reward before it gets our sister killed.
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Monday, July 28, 2008 - Part 1
Scott: You two can make all the racket you want. Johnny Zacchara murdered my son and I want his head on a stick.
Nikolas: But you put up a reward to capture him and now Lulu's a target.
Scott: Yeah, well, she knew what she was doing when she helped him escape.
Lucky: Baldwin, if the wrong person sees that bulletin, Lulu could wind up dead. Is that really what you want?
Reporter: John Zacchara and Lulu Spencer were last seen stealing a city official's car at gunpoint outside the police precinct in port Charles. Zacchara was under arrest for the murder of Logan Hayes. A reward of $100,000 has been offered for any information --
Lourdes: Sal, come here. You got to see this.
Reporter: Leading to Zacchara's capture and arrest.
Johnny: The port Charles police have no clue we're in Manhattan. We've got a safe place to stay, a relatively plausible cover story, and -- hey, we don't need to sneak away to the Zacchara garden shed for some privacy.
Lulu: That's the best part.
Lulu: No, no.
Johnny: What is wrong?
Claudia: Where's the proof that you can save John from a murder charge?
Ric: We'll get to that. First, I kind of want to know what's in it for me.
Claudia: Blackmail? Or is this extortion? Either way, you're speaking a language I understand.
Ric: Claudia, what I want to know is what you're prepared to give me in exchange for your brother's freedom and his life.
Claudia: Whatever you want.
Jason: Like I said, there's no evidence against me. Cops are going to have to release me soon.
Sonny: Meanwhile, everything I built, everything I entrusted to you is vulnerable.
Jason: The business is not at risk, Sonny.
Sonny: You know that because?
Jason: Because the Zaccharas are dealing with Johnny right now. They don't have any time to make any type of hostile moves. South American partners, that whole situation is stable. All shipments are on track.
Sonny: But who's running things? Come on, Diane? Bernie?
Jason: I'm running things.
Sonny: Well, from in here, your rivals know that you're out of commission. They could be making a move. They could be taking advantage of you. You know, you never know what's coming in weeks or months.
Jason: Bernie is keeping me informed. There's nothing to worry about right now.
Sonny: Yeah, but you -- you could be underestimating the damage.
Jason: Why -- why are -- why are you pushing me so hard?
Sonny: Because I don't think you're being realistic about this situation.
Jason: If you came here to tell me something, just tell me.
Jason: I mean, do you want the business back?
Ric: This is Logan Hayes' service record. Read it for yourself.
Claudia: "Corporal Hayes pulled a knife on Private Krespy, accusing Krespy of flirting with Hayes' female companion. A fight ensued. Hayes stabbed Krespy in the arm." So you're planning on making a defense out of the idea that whenever there was a problem with Logan and a woman, he would go after the competition with a knife?
Ric: That's an oversimplification, but yes.
Claudia: Ok, well, a barroom brawl is a lot different than a murder charge.
Ric: It speaks to a pattern of behavior, Claudia. Look, I can argue that Johnny probably killed Logan in self-defense.
Claudia: Then why did he cover it up?
Ric: Because Johnny had been railroaded once before by Logan's father. Special prosecutor Baldwin was sure to get a conviction and Johnny figures "nobody's going to believe my story," so he takes off.
Claudia: What about the kidnapping, Ric? What about fleeing custody? I mean --
Ric: Look, all of those lesser charges can be pled down. The first order of business is to make sure that Johnny beats the original murder charge.
Claudia: You know, you're selling me a great big load of maybe here. The truth is you have no way of knowing whether or not you can make John a free man or even if you can keep him alive.
Scott: Johnny and Lulu, the lovebirds, they're up to their necks in this.
Lucky: There's no proof of that.
Scott: Sure, there is. Lulu, a chip off the old Spencer block.
Nikolas: Will you just -- you just listen to me for a second? You put out a reward. It just brings out all the crazy people. They'll shoot first and ask questions later.
Lucky: She could be killed.
Scott: Well, she should've thought about that before she got mixed up in this.
Nikolas: Could you show a little bit of compassion here?
Scott: Where was the compassion for my son?
Nikolas: He was obsessed with her. That's not Lulu's fault.
Scott: Yeah, it is her fault. She's the one that messed -- started this whole thing. She played Logan against Johnny and then she cozied up to Logan. She was running around with Johnny. Logan was in love with her and that provoked Johnny to kill Logan.
Lucky: You cannot put this crime on Lulu.
Scott: Yes, I can. She killed Logan. She might as well stuck the knife in herself.
Johnny: What's wrong?
[Lulu chuckles]
Lulu: My parents used to always tell me these exciting stories about being on the run. And it seemed like it was going to be a rite of passage for every Spencer, and here I am, nervous wreck.
Johnny: You're doing great.
Lulu: Except for all my panic attacks.
Johnny: No, you're braver than I am. You're the one that went out and stocked up on food and supplies while I stayed here in this apartment safe and sound.
Lulu: I just wish that I could relax.
Johnny: Just try to act natural.
Lulu: Right, Joe and Linda from Chicago.
Johnny: Two ordinary people hanging out in my dead piano teacher's apartment.
Lulu: I just thought of something. What if your dad remembers that you had lessons from Professor Siegel and he tracks us down?
Johnny: My mother took care of all the lessons. My father never even thought about things like that. It'll never cross his mind that we're here, ok? We made a clean getaway. Sal and Lourdes bought our cover story. We got nothing to worry about.
Lulu: Right.
Reporter: John Zacchara is the son of the reputed mob boss Anthony Zacchara, and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Sal: Lourdes! What are you yelling about?
Lourdes: It was a funny commercial, but it's over. You missed it.
Sal: Que? Tu estas loca? You almost gave me a heart attack here. I thought you had a psycho coming out of the closet or something. Nina, estas loca.
Carly: You don't need your tie.
Jax: Carly, we can't do this. I'm sorry.
Carly: We are doing this.
Jax: You know, it's possible that you could seduce me without much trouble right now --
Carly: We're past possible --
Jax: No, this is not like one of the fights that we've had about the hotel, you know, where you persuade me by going home and having sex. It's not the same thing.
Carly: Yeah, but that is one of your strong suits. It really is.
Jax: Will you stop, please?
Carly: You're so flexible, willing to adapt. It's so amazing. Most people are way stubborn.
Jax: Yeah, that's really good, but flattery is not going to get you anywhere.
Carly: I'm being honest. That's all, just honesty.
Jax: Carly, I wanted a separation because our marriage is in trouble, ok? You can't fix this by stowing away on my jet and sitting on my lap.
Carly: I'm not trying to fix it. I'm trying to remind you of something that you already know. I love you and you love me and we're better off together than we'll ever be apart.
Jax: No, no, no, not this time.
Carly: You know what? Let's look at this from a different perspective. We are 30,000 feet up in the air. Neither one of us can leave. So we might as well make the best of it.
Jax: No, you just -- you're not taking this seriously.
Carly: I am taking it seriously.
Jax: You're only putting me first because I moved out.
Carly: That's not true.
Jax: I'm not -- I'm not going to do this. I -- I -- I'm just not.
[Carly sighs]
Carly: Ok. I have never been with a more sweet and kind and accepting man. Do you remember the night that we were getting ready for bed and the reality of losing Michael hit me like a ton of bricks and I couldn't stop crying? And you laid there with me and you talked to me and you calmed me down. And you were reminding me of all the wonderful, joyful times that we had with Michael.
Jax: Yeah. Yeah, we were laughing about something. I can't remember what it was.
Carly: I don't either. But you touched my heart, like you always do. And I know being married to you has been the happiest time of my life. And if you were honest with yourself, you'll admit that you have been happy, too.
Jax: No, I have.
Carly: Ok, but then can that just be enough for right now? Can, right here in this moment, we just be happy together?
Sonny: I was just offering my help. It doesn't mean I want to take back the business.
Jason: Are you sure?
Sonny: You agreed to take control on one condition, that I sign away my kids. I have done that to keep my family safe. Nothing's changed. I'm out, I'm staying out.
Jason: Ok, so why do you keep showing up telling me how I should be running things?
Sonny: Because, as -- as your friend, I see that you're not doing things right. I've worked more than a decade, adding territory, building power, and I just see that you're letting things fall apart.
Jason: What are you talking -- nothing's falling apart.
Sonny: When things start to go downhill, they slip quickly. If you're not strong enough to hold on to the territory, everybody's in danger.
Ric: I'm not a magician, Claudia. The mess you and Johnny made trying to cover up Logan's murder is not going to be easy to clean up.
Claudia: If you think it's such a lost case, then why are you here?
Ric: It's called damage control, sweetie. We want to make sure that John doesn't end up behind bars for the rest of his life, or worse yet, gunned down by the police. First things first, John's going to have to turn himself in.
Claudia: Yeah, I doubt that's high on his to-do list.
Ric: Really? Did he try to contact you? Ok, you know what, Claudia? If this is going to work out between the two of us, you are going to have to trust me. Now, John's on the run and he's not by himself. He's got an emotional young woman with him.
Claudia: I don't give a damn about Lulu Spencer.
Ric: Well, I'm sure you don't, but Johnny does, and right now, Johnny's thinking about her and worrying about her and he's not thinking too rationally right now. So sooner or later, that's going to trip the both of them up. And Scott Baldwin will get his revenge.
Nikolas: All you're trying to do is get revenge on Luke and Laura, Scott, by persecuting their daughter.
Scott: Lulu is poison.
Lucky: You make one more crack about Lulu, I swear --
Scott: I tried to warn Logan that Lulu was going to break his heart, but he wouldn't listen to me. He was in love with her. And guess what? She ended up getting him killed.
Lucky: Logan was violent.
Scott: He has a temper. So do I. It's not a crime.
Lucky: We have testimony from independent sources -- Kate Howard, Dr. Matt Hunter -- on the last days of Logan's life, that he was combative, that he was delusional for Lulu, that he showed up at her workplace insisting they get back together.
Scott: Well, you know, what it sounds a little bit like what your father did to your mother. But everyone said that he was, you know, romantic and he was the hero. So why is my dead son to blame for the fact that he went after Lulu the same way that your father went after Laura?
Anna: Hello.
Robin: Hi. You look great, as always.
Anna: Well, thank you. You look gorgeous, too. You're one of those fabulous pregnant women who stays exactly the same, except for that cute little bump right there.
Robin: Oh, cute is not exactly the word that springs to mind. So listen, I have two more patients and then I'm going to do a quick change and we'll go.
Anna: Good. Where we going?
Robin: Eli Love's concert.
Anna: Oh, no, no, no.
Robin: Yes, yes, yes. Look, I know that you will not take his calls, but he finally got through to me and despite the bruised jaw, he gave us all backstage passes.
Anna: Whoopdedo. How amazing. Well, you just have great fun with Patrick.
Robin: No, three passes, as in you're supposed to come, too.
Anna: I would rather stick needles in my eyes.
Epiphany: The ambulance called five minutes ago. They'll be arriving in the E.R. any second.
Matt: Well, go ahead and book an O.R. because the patient needs surgery.
Patrick: May need surgery. We monitor him for at least 24 hours.
Matt: Do you -- do you have a date that you have to go on, because I'm sure that's fine. I'll just find another neurosurgeon who would be willing to supervise when I operate.
Patrick: You don't slice a guy's head open for the hell of it.
Epiphany: Ok, I'll see one of you downstairs.
Matt: So does anyone question the judgment of the mighty Dr. Drake or -- really, am I the first?
Patrick: Knock yourself out, slick. I already treated him for migraines the first time he was in here. What I say goes and I say we wait. And you're late for rounds.
Noah: Patrick, did you page me?
Patrick: No, it must've been robin. They're talking about Eli Love and Anna looks pretty annoyed.
Noah: Well, she should be. She's much too good for that lowlife.
Robin: Mom, you love going to Eli's concerts.
Anna: Yeah, I used to. That's before I discovered he's about as shallow as a mud puddle. You know, he writes beautiful lyrics and they used to make me happy. And now I know he doesn't mean any of it. It just -- it -- it -- it makes me feel like I want to throw up.
Robin: Well, yeah, but you still have your pride.
Anna: Who's questioning that?
Robin: No one will, if you just show up to the concert.
Anna: Honey, I don't have to prove anything to anyone. And, quite frankly, I'm kind of grateful to Eli, to pointing how superficial I've been, having any negative issues to do with being a grandmother. So I want you and Patrick to have a fabulous time and I will see you later. Love you.
Patrick: That didn't look good.
Robin: Nope, she won't go.
Noah: Good. I mean, why would she want to after the way that jerk treated her?
Robin: To show him what he's missing.
Lucky: You can't compare Logan to my father.
Scott: You're right. Logan never raped Lulu.
Nikolas: All right, you know what, you know what? Stop right there. That's between Luke and Laura. That's not for you to judge.
Scott: It was still a criminal act.
Nikolas: Why don't you stop taking out all that rage and -- and jealousy on Lulu? She's not responsible for her parents' choices.
Scott: She is responsible for the mess that she's gotten herself into. And if you think I'm going to let my son's killer ride off into the sunset, you think again.
Nikolas: My god, if Laura could hear you --
Scott: Well, she can't hear me because of your father.
Lucky: You've been carrying this grudge for decades. Now you just see a chance for payback.
Scott: Look, I loved Laura. I never gave up on her, in spite of all your father's drunken promises. I tried to warn Logan. I knew what he was going through, but I never in a million years thought it would cost my son his life.
[Piano playing]
[Lulu sighs]
Johnny: Ok. Come on, just copy my notes one octave lower.
Lulu: I have to be the world's slowest learner.
Johnny: No, you're doing great.
Lulu: No, I'm not. You're just saying that to keep me distracted.
Johnny: You've almost got it. Let's try it one more time, ok?
Johnny: Good. That wasn't half bad, was it? Hey, stick with me. You'll be playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in no time.
Lulu: Oh, good.
Lourdes: Joe, it's me.
Johnny: Relax.
Johnny: Hi.
Lourdes: Hi. I -- I was wondering if you could give me another lesson.
Lulu: Already? Sweetie, you -- you already had your lesson this morning.
Lourdes: I haven't practiced since Professor Siegel died and I'd like to catch up. But if it's a bad time --
Johnny: No, no, no, it's -- it's -- it's fine. Have a seat. We'll pick up where we left off this morning.
Lourdes: Great. So... where did you study in Chicago?
Claudia: I don't know where John is. For all I know, he could be in Milan.
Ric: Come on, Claudia, you're smarter than this. You know John's only hope is to bring this case to trial and get a good lawyer to get him acquitted.
[Claudia chuckles]
Claudia: And that would be you?
Ric: Listen, I got your father released. I can do the same thing for your brother. But it's going to cost you.
Claudia: Well, we haven't discussed what it's going to cost me yet.
Ric: You haven't told me what you're willing to offer.
Claudia: Well, I don't like games when it comes to my brother's life. And it's on the line, so I'll tell you what. I'll make this really simple, really easy for you. I don't have to give you a damn thing. All I have to do is turn you over to my father.
Jason: Come on, I spend one night in lock-up. How many times have I done that? It doesn't mean I'm losing control of anything.
Sonny: Maybe not. But you might've been losing control when you forced me to sign away my -- my kids.
Jason: Wait, you -- you wanted out. You wanted a new life.
Sonny: You sure did use it as leverage. And you weren't going to give up until Carly got revenge --
Jason: This isn't -- this isn't about revenge for me or for Carly. You know what this is about.
Sonny: You and Carly keep blaming me for what happened to Michael. And for whatever reason, you turned against me to work with her to take away my kids. The only thing good that came out of it is that I'm out of the business. And I'm not going to lie to you. It's not easy. But it's your business now. That's fine. And if you suffer half the losses I did, you'll understand my pain.
[Door closes]
Jul 29, 2008 12:03
Robin: My mother should go to the Eli Love concert to prove to him, but more importantly to herself, that she doesn't care. You know, she doesn't need his rock star attention to be the beautiful, empowered woman that she always has been.
Patrick: And it wouldn't be a bad idea for Eli to see her eat his heart out when he realizes she doesn't give a damn.
Noah: Yeah, but if she doesn't want to go, you're not going to make her go.
Patrick: Well, no, robin can't, but you could.
Noah: Oh, no, no, no, no. Keep me out of this, please.
Patrick: Dad, come on. She trusts you, and she -- you know, I think you could do it, and plus, you look like the guy.
Noah: Please, I like to think I have a little bit more depth of character than Eli Love.
Robin: Well, then prove it. Talk to her.
Noah: If she doesn't want to go, I can't make her go either.
Robin: You can. You can convince her. It really is the ego boost that my mom needs right now.
Noah: Look, I'd really love to help Anna out. You know --
Robin: Thank you, Noah, very much.
Noah: You're welcome, I think.
Patrick: I'm all about helping your mom beat this self-centered rock star guy, but what do you expect to happen at the concert that's going to make her turn around?
Robin: Mm, I'm working on that.
Sam: I need to see a doctor as soon as possible. I think I pulled a muscle in my shoulder.
Nadine: Sure, I will put you in room three. Follow me.
Sam: Perfect. Thank you.
Nadine: You may have to wait a while to see the doctor.
Sam: Hey.
Lucky: Hey.
Sam: I am so happy to see you. I've missed you so much.
Lucky: You know, I'm hating this undercover thing more and more all the time. Not only are we not spending any time together, I have to worry about you.
Sam: Ok, I know. I hate not being together, too, but our breakup is a success. Everybody's buying it.
Lucky: Good -- is there any progress on your part?
Sam: Ok, yes, there is. It's funny that you mention it. I just got back from a meeting with this Russian guy, Andrei Karpov.
Lucky: No, I never heard of him.
Sam: Ok, all right, well, he's looking for a local captain to supervise imports and exports, and he was very specific about what he wanted. He wanted somebody who had the ability not to ask questions. Me.
Sam: Import-export -- that's usually a vague term for mob.
Sam: Yeah, I know, I know. I talked to one of my contacts, and he says that he's a heavy-hitter in international shipping. How much do you want to bet that his cargo is counterfeit drugs?
Diane: I have obtained a court order for my client's release. There is no proof that Jason Morgan intentionally aided or abetted John Zacchara's escape. Therefore, you are obligated to release him.
Mac: Jason blocked detective Harper's shot at John Zacchara.
Diane: Jason saved Lulu Spencer's life when a trigger-happy cop might have shot her head off. My client's swift intervention prevented a tragedy. Judge Randall sees it that way. It's all right here in the court order.
Mac: You know what? You should advise your client that if he makes contact with Johnny or Lulu, he should advise them to contact us.
Diane: Once again, I have so earned my retainer. Judge Randall just issued a court order for your release. Commissioner Scorpio is processing the paperwork as we speak. You are -- you will be out of here in no time.
Jason: Thank you.
Diane: You're welcome.
Jason: Have you -- have you heard from Sonny?
Diane: I had a meeting with him this morning. Why?
Jason: Well, he came to see me, and he wanted to know who was, you know, watching the business while I was in lockup.
Diane: And you said?
Jason: I am, and things are calm with the Zaccharas' south American partners. Everything's good there, but he said something about being vulnerable to rivals. Do you know what that was about?
Diane: Rivals? Perhaps Sonny simply misses being in charge.
Jason: No, he doesn't -- he doesn't want the business back, Diane, so I'm just kind of trying to figure out what's going on.
Diane: That is anyone's guess.
Jason: What'd you guys talk about this morning?
Diane: Jason, anything that I discuss with Sonny is subject to attorney-client privilege, and I owe him the same loyalty and discretion that I owe you.
Johnny: I studied at the Sherwood music conservatory.
Lourdes: Yeah, sounds fancy.
Johnny: I liked it all right. The professors were ok, but I always liked professor Siegel the best.
Lourdes: So, did you go to any concerts when you were living in Chicago?
Johnny: Yeah, my mother would take me to this place called Nichols hall to hear chamber music.
Lourdes: So wait, no rock or blues?
Johnny: I did the club scene every once in a while. Is this a piano lesson or an interview?
Lourdes: Sorry. I really think you're an interesting guy.
Johnny: No, actually, I'm pretty ordinary.
Lourdes: Ordinary people live in the same neighborhood most of their lives like yours truly, but here you are, showing up out of nowhere at a professor's apartment like you jumped out of the sky or something.
Claudia: You should have told my father about Logan's knife-happy history before you hired him to push my dad around in a wheelchair.
Ric: Sorry to disappoint you, but that's not really something you can blackmail me with.
Claudia: Oh, really? Excuse me? There's one person in this world that my father loves, and that's Johnny, and you knew that Logan and Johnny had bad blood, and you knew that Logan had a history of violence.
Ric: What -- what am I, clairvoyant? All of a sudden, I'm going to be able to predict the outcome?
Claudia: See, I don't know if my father's going to see it like that. I'm thinking that he might figure you could have avoided this entire situation if you hadn't hired Logan in the first place, or in the very least, Ric, if you told my father about the potential for violence here.
Ric: That's some pretty dark, paranoid reasoning.
Claudia: Yeah, well, my father's the poster child for paranoia. He's looking for someone to blame this on, and I'll tell you what. I wouldn't mind if some of the heat that's been landing on me landed on you instead.
Ric: Why don't you go ahead? You go tell Anthony. And when he kills me, you lose your one chance to get your little brother acquitted.
Claudia: Maybe.
Ric: Yeah, maybe? What's plan b, Claudia? How are you going to get -- how are you going to save your brother? Look, I suggest we stop making threats and start thinking as allies.
Carly: Wasn't that better than fighting?
Jax: Oh, yeah. You're unbelievable, you know that? But I love you too much to settle for just part of your heart.
Carly: You have all of my heart, didn't I just prove that to you?
Jax: No, Carly, seducing me won't solve our very real problems.
Carly: Ok, so why don't we deal with our problems one at a time, in between having sex, let's say for the rest of our lives?
Jax: You're unbelievably persuasive.
Carly: Does that mean yes?
Jax: No, it's my way of saying that you're trying to distract me from this business meeting. That's not going to work.
Carly: I don't care about this meeting, because I wanted to be with you. You want our marriage to be a priority, and so do I.
Jax: We should have landed by now.
Carly: Uh --
Jax: What?
Carly: I asked Darren to circle. He thinks we're a good couple, so he agreed. Probably going to miss the meeting. No way you're going to make it in time.
Jax: Well, you know what? Fortunately for me, I don't have to wait for the plane to land.
Carly: What?
Lucky: You know, I think we should scale back our original plan.
Sam: Now, lucky, when we're finally making progress?
Lucky: You've already made contact with this Karpov character. I can take it from here.
Sam: No, forget it.
Lucky: Listen, just tell me if there's anything I can use. I can run a background check.
Sam: No, you cannot run a background check. What if there are moles in the department? You go around asking questions, you're going to blow my cover before I even get the job.
Lucky: Listen, the whole point is to keep you from putting yourself in danger. I don't like the sound of this guy, and if this slime-bag is running this drug ring, who's to say he hadn't even put a tail on you already?
Nikolas: Well, I'm so glad that I was able to contribute millions of dollars to build this nice secret clubhouse.
Sam: You know, I'm glad you're here. You have good timing. Will you please remind your brother that we put a plan into motion that carries a certain amount of risk, but the end does justify the means? And while you're at it, let him know that I am a big girl who can take care of herself.
Sonny: What's that?
Max: Oh, you got a delivery.
Sonny: You order some vodka?
Max: Yeah, it's from Karpov.
Sonny: Here.
Max: Oh, thanks.
Sonny: Hey, it's a bribe. You keep your mouth shut about Karpov. I don't want Jason to know about my deal with him.
Max: Yeah, no problem.
Max: But chances are he's going to figure it out on his own, boss. I mean, Karpov's in town, he's got to be dealing with somebody.
Sonny: I don't want -- I don't want your warning. Just want you to do your job.
Max: Yes, sir. I take it you just came from seeing Jason.
Sonny: I don't even know why I bothered. He used to be grateful for my advice. He had respect, and now --
Max: He still does, boss.
Sonny: No, well, you know what? Ever since Michael got shot, he's lost his trust in me. I tried to talk to him, give him my honest opinion. He misinterprets what I'm trying to do.
Max: Boss, the thing with Michael shook him up pretty bad. Maybe if you just went to him and told him how you are feeling and what you --
Sonny: I'm not going to -- what do I have -- what more can I say, max? I'm done.
Sonny: It's best for everyone that Jason doesn't know about my dealings with Karpov.
Claudia: You know, you keep bringing up this alliance idea, and I'm just wondering what the catch is.
Ric: There's no catch, just a simple arrangement where everyone benefits. Your beloved brother John goes free, and I get Johnny's sister and Anthony's daughter as an ally on the inside.
Claudia: You sprung my father so that you could be in his inner circle. So why do you keep coming after me?
Ric: Anthony has a way of playing people off against one another.
Claudia: Oh, yeah, he loves playing you and Trevor off each other.
Ric: Yes, he confides in us when it's convenient. He lies when it suits his fancy. Look, I pride myself on being very good at reading people, but your father is a master manipulator.
Claudia: Ok, so the attorney doesn't trust his client?
Ric: Something like that.
Claudia: Well, even if I could help you, not that I would -- look, my father pretty much shut me out of everything, so there's not a lot I can do.
Ric: Look, you have an in with John. That is all I need.
Claudia: Fine. Get my brother cleared of all these murder charges. I will be your ally. Shake.
Ric: I was kind of hoping for more than just a handshake.
Claudia: Oh, yeah, how much more?
Ric: Physical contact solidifies a relationship, you know.
Claudia: You want me to sleep with you? You want me to sleep with you to save my brother?
Ric: Well, come on, it's not so cryptic as all that. I think we can have a mutually beneficial relationship in and out of bed.
Claudia: Ok, here's the deal. Get my brother cleared of all these murder charges. On the day he's acquitted, I will happily go to bed with you.
Johnny: Linda's family didn't really approve of her moving to new York.
Lourdes: I thought you said Linda got accepted to NYU.
Lulu: I did.
Johnny: She also got accepted to northwestern.
Lulu: Where my mom went. They wanted me to stay close to home, but Joe and I wanted our freedom.
Lourdes: So it's kind of like you ran away?
Sal: Lourdes, are you in there?
Sal: Hey, Linda, how are you? I got your note about taking another lesson.
Lourdes: Well, Joe is a great teacher.
Sal: Look, I'm really glad you're into it, but I can only afford to pay for one lesson a week, so --
Lourdes: You know, I'd be able to afford a lot more music lessons if the Zaccharas didn't kill dad.
Sal: Lourdes!
Robin: Hi.
Sonny: Looks like you two worked things out. How's -- how's the baby?
Robin: Perfectly healthy.
Sonny: You need to realize what an amazing woman you have here.
Patrick: I do, Sonny.
Robin: Yeah, so I'm here on behalf of another amazing woman, my mother, the grandmother-to-be.
Sonny: Anna?
Robin: Yeah, her self-confidence has taken a blow lately, and I could really use your help.
Epiphany: The patient is resting comfortably in his room. You might want to look at his chart.
Matt: Swelling is down.
Epiphany: No need for that O.R.
Matt: If this is your way of rubbing it in that Dr. Drake's diagnosis was correct, I'm good, actually, because I've got the reminder right here.
Epiphany: You know, you might want to work with the members of this staff instead of against them, because some of us have been bandaging heads while you were still skinning your knees. Ann: Excuse me, hi. I had a page from Dr. Drake, sr.
Noah: Hey, thanks for coming.
Anna: Oh, hello. So, before you start, I imagine that this is a pep talk about me going with robin and Patrick to Eli's concert, no?
Noah: Yeah, pretty much.
Anna: Ok. No, before you start this whole speech, I'd like you to know that I would prefer a dinner invitation from you than all of this other stuff. We have been so busy reacting to our impending grandparenthood that we haven't actually had a chance to catch up as friends.
Noah: I -- I would absolutely love to.
Anna: Good.
Noah: But I don't want you to use me to hide from Eli Love.
Jax: Hey, you might want to buckle up. Even though we're flying at a low altitude, when I open that door, the cabin pressure's going to drop, and you might get sucked out, so --
Carly: Are you insane?
Jax: Are you buckled up?
Carly: I am not going to lose you over some stupid -- Jax!
Lulu: I'm so sorry that you lost your father.
Johnny: I had no idea that he'd been murdered.
Sal: Our father used to own a diner by the docks. He was an honest businessman trying to make a living, but then the Zaccharas took over that part of town, and they forced him to pay protection money and turn a blind eye to their late night warehouse activities. Our father refused, and three days later, he was killed in a car accident. Nobody could prove anything, and they told me to keep my mouth shut, or I'd end up just like him.
Lulu: That's terrible.
Johnny: I'm sorry.
Sal: Me too. Those Zaccharas are pigs, bleeding people for their money, and if you stand up to them, you die. You know, some day, somebody's going to wipe them all out like they deserve.
Nikolas: Well, if you're asking me to weigh in on your continued involvement, I'd say it's your choice.
Lucky: Thanks a lot. Am I the only one who realizes Sam could be risking her life?
Sam: Wait, my life.
Nikolas: I -- I'm concerned for her, too. It certainly wouldn't disappoint me if you decided to back off. I'd actually feel better if you would, but you're driving the only lead we have right now. If we're going to stop this drug ring, you're probably the best shot we have.
Sam: Oh, how about your only shot.
Nikolas: Look, I'll -- you decide, ok? Just be careful.
Lucky: No.
Sam: Wait, wait. Don't say anything, please. Let me, ok? I know that you are sick with worry over Lulu, and the last thing you need to be is worried about me, too. Not only can I handle myself, but for the first time in a long time, I actually feel like I have a purpose, a reason to get up in the morning, so I'm begging you, lucky, please. I'm asking you to believe that I know how to do this. Trust me.
Ric: In case you haven't heard, Claudia, Jason hates me so much it borders on psychotic.
Jason: You know what? Just call me when you're done with this.
Ric: No, no, no, don't be so secretive, Jason, really. I know the only reason that you're here is because you know that Claudia's been in touch with Johnny. Thank you for confirming that.
Jason: Whatever miracles Ric has promised you on Johnny's behalf, he's lying.
Ric: Oh, you're so sure of yourself, aren't you? Sitting in judgment of the whole world, smug in your own superiority, living that inviolate code of loyalty.
Jason: You know nothing about loyalty.
Ric: Really?
Jason: Yeah.
Ric: Neither does Sonny, apparently. He's working with Andrei Karpov.
Jul 29, 2008 06:40
Patrick: Fascinating, isn't it?
Robin: What?
Patrick: What goes into a rock 'n roll show. Everybody running around, fixing lights, the sounds, tuning guitars -- all for one guy. No wonder his ego has no boundaries.
Robin: I don't know whether to say, "look who's talking" or "it takes one to know one."
Patrick: It also explains why my father fell for his world so instantly and completely that he fell off the wagon.
[Robin sighs]
Patrick: Hey.
Robin: Hmm?
Patrick: My father disappoints me on a regular basis. He's not going to do that to you. If he said he's going to get your mom here, he will.
Robin: I hope so. My mom needs to get a little bit of revenge.
Lulu: I can understand why you're so angry. To have your father taken away like that must have -
Sal: Do you mean murdered for saying no to the Zaccharas? Yeah, that was a bad day.
Lourdes: At least old man Zacchara eventually went down for something.
Sal: He didn't get what he deserved. Zacchara didn't even end up in prison. They threw him in some cushy nuthouse and even that didn't stick. The guy comes out, "oh, feel sorry for me, I'm mentally ill." His fancy lawyer just gets him released. Some day, Zaccharas are finally going to pay.
Sam: Thank you very much for meeting with me.
Karpov: I was very intrigued by your application. One doesn't often run into women with salvage experience and especially such an attractive one at that.
Sam: Oh, aren't you sweet. Wow, you know, being on this ship makes me realize how much I've missed it. I don't think anything can compare.
Karpov: Perhaps you've been keeping the wrong company.
Sam: Perhaps.
Karpov: I assume you can captain.
Sam: Oh, in my sleep.
Karpov: I took the liberty of having my people speak to the harbor master. He recommended you as not only competent, but discreet. Nothing is more critical to me than discretion.
Sam: I -- I completely understand that. As long as I get paid in cash every week, I couldn't care less what your cargo holds.
Jason: Whatever miracles Ric is promising you on Johnny's behalf, he's lying.
Ric: Oh, you're so sure of yourself, aren't you? You sit in judgment of the whole world, smug in your own superiority, living that inviolate code of loyalty -
Ric: Neither does Sonny, apparently. So he's working with Andrei Karpov? I can only imagine how happy Andrei Karpov must've been to have locked into a partnership with Sonny, who clearly is showing that he wants to get back to his old mob king ways. That's the shortest retirement in history, isn't it? What was it this time for Sonny, two months? You can see now how clearly it was a good idea to dump the organization on you because that freed Sonny the ability to trade up. You're looking at a formidable pair of adversaries.
Jason: You might as well just stop because I don't believe a word that comes out of your lying mouth.
Carly: Hey, honey. How was your meeting?
Jax: I thought I covered my tracks pretty well. I guess I forgot how resourceful you can be.
Carly: I don't mind you forgetting. It keeps the element of surprise alive.
Jax: How'd you find me?
Carly: Give me a cell phone, five minutes, and motivation and I can find anybody.
Jax: No, really, how did you find me?
Carly: I know my husband. I figured it out. I know you wouldn't stay at the Belle Maison because you would figure that's the first place I'd look. And you like being close to your hotels, just like when you lived next to the metro court. You like to walk through anonymously and watch people work. This place fit the bill. You can even see the Belle Maison from across the street.
[Jax chuckles]
Jax: Yes, very impressive.
Carly: Thanks for noticing.
Jax: Oh, excellent choice.
Carly: I thought you'd approve.
Jax: You seem pretty sure of yourself, don't you?
Carly: No, just sure of us.
Jax: So how did you get in? Did you pick the lock or bribe a housekeeper?
Carly: I didn't have to run a scam. I told them who I was. We may be separated, but I'm still Mrs. Jacks and that's a title I plan on keeping for the rest of my life.
Robin: Mom should be here by now. Maybe Noah wasn't able to convince her after all. She can be very, very stubborn.
Patrick: Sounds like somebody else I know.
Robin: I don't know what you're talking about.
Patrick: Robin, at the risk of sounding obnoxious and hovering, I'm going to say it anyway. Stress is not good for you and the baby. Frankly, considering all the reasons you should be worried about your mother, like rebel uprisings and Kung Fu battles over nuclear codes, showing up to an Eli Love concert is not a big deal.
Robin: Listen, Eli was a jerk. He cast her aside because she's about to be a grandmother, which is something she was already struggling with.
Patrick: Yes, what Eli did was very insensitive, but I don't think he meant to hurt her.
Robin: Well, he did and she needs to be here to get over it.
Patrick: For herself or so you can implement this crazy plan of yours?
Eli: Hey, hey, look who's here.
Patrick: Hey, yeah, thanks for the tickets.
Eli: You're very welcome, mate. Like I said, no hard feelings, but you did try to damage the merchandise. I mean, in this business, you know, faces matter. So I gave you the backstage passes on the condition that you would bring Anna. Is she here?
Robin: I was under the impression that you wanted nothing to do with her because she's about to be a granny. So why would you care if she's here or not?
Anna: I'd love to know the answer to that myself.
Jason: Karpov might have been in Manhattan. Sonny might be there at the same time. It doesn't mean they're conducting business.
Ric: Come on, Jason, you're running a crime network. You can't afford to be this naive. Organizations are always looking to expand their network. Karpov has been in Port Charles for the last two weeks. He set up shop at the curtain restaurant. He's been taking meetings. Sonny's had two of those meetings with him. On the second one, he handed over his pocket congressman on Karpov's behalf. Now, look, I -- I understand that you would've known about all this activity if you hadn't been tied up with the whole Johnny-Lulu melodrama. But I am telling you the truth here. Whatever Sonny's intentions were when he originally handed over the mob to you, they changed when you weren't looking. Sonny wants back in. And instead of giving you the respect of asking if he could have the business back, which he so impulsively gave over, Sonny got in bed with the enemy.
Jason: You should be careful who you let in your house.
Claudia: You just made a really big mistake.
Lulu: Um, so what happened to your father's diner? Did you take it over?
Sal: No. To continue this cycle? Protecting the same thugs that killed my dad? You know what? I make my living other ways. Me and my buds do, you know, guys that I grew with that I know have my back.
Lulu: Well, sometimes friends make all the difference.
Sal: Yeah.
Lourdes: Hey, those guys aren't Sal's friends. Friends don't bring you down or force you to take chances that will land you in jail or even worse.
Sal: I wouldn't look down my nose if I were you, Lourdes. It's because of those guys that you don't go hungry. It's because of those guys you get to buy your trendy clothes and school supplies, not to mention piano. And maybe you're right. Everything would've been different if those animals had not killed papa! I'm sorry. You guys don't need to be hearing this.
Lourdes: Poor Joe looks shell-shocked, like the thought of real gangsters killing real people never occurred to him. Is Chicago mob-free now, Joe?
Jax: Carly, I really, really appreciate the effort, you know, expensive candles, rare wine, but it's a wasted effort.
Carly: I wouldn't say that.
Jax: Nothing has changed, ok? We're still separated and I'm not sure if I can continue in our marriage.
Carly: Wow, that wasn't the vibe I was getting on the airplane.
Jax: Look, I'm still attracted to you, but that doesn't make our problems magically disappear.
Carly: You're not just attracted to me, you're in love with me. Our separation hasn't changed that. The only way you could get distance from me was to jump out of the stupid airplane.
Jax: I was late for a meeting.
Carly: No, you felt your defenses coming down, just like they are now. Admit it.
Carly: Guess who that is.
Jax: Why? Who do you think it is?
Carly: It's room service. I ordered strawberries and whipped cream. Yes, I pulled out all the stops.
Giselle: Hello. Jax, I'm so pleased we agreed to do this.
Claudia: The way that you just handled Jason is a perfect example of why I don't trust you.
Ric: Care to elaborate?
Claudia: You didn't have to tell Jason anything about Sonny working with Karpov. You did it out of spite. And all you managed to do was take an already volatile situation and make it worse. Even my -- my freak-show of a father would slam you for making such a stupid move.
Ric: I think you're missing the bigger picture here, Claudia. If Jason were inspired to launch a preemptive strike against the Karpov organization, then they would take him out, which would save the Zaccharas the trouble. More so, if there were a Karpov-Morgan mob war, then that would funnel funds away from the manhunt for Johnny, which would save his life. So as I can see it, you should be thanking me, twice -
Claudia: You know what? You know what? Rationalize it all you want, Ric. The only reason you told Jason that Sonny was working with Karpov was to hurt him, was to throw it in his face that Sonny's not loyal to him anymore.
Ric: Come on.
Claudia: You know what? You know what that tells me? It tells me that you have brother issues that you can't get past and that you're volatile. You're dangerous. And I'll tell you, I don't want anything to with you.
Spinelli: Stone Cold, The Jackal has been awaiting your triumphant return. Do-do-do! The brusque lady of justice phoned with news of your impending release. And I planned a small, but -
Jason: Ok, ok, that's fine. Thank you. I need you to focus right now. I need you to get on the computer because I need your help right away.
Spinelli: Jackal senses a dire situation?
Jason: I hope not, but I need you to prove it for me. Ric just told me that Sonny's working with a European boss named Andrei Karpov.
Spinelli: Well, that -- that doesn't ring true. Why would Mr. Sir endanger his family all over again by detouring back into the underworld? Surely, Darth Lansing, who's been known to lie as easily as breathe, was just trying to rattle you.
Jason: Well -- well, it's possible, but I want to know for sure, so get on it. Get on it right now. Let's go. Find out everything you can on Andrei Karpov at his last known location. And I want you to find out if there's a link between Sonny and him.
Spinelli: And if there is?
Jason: It wouldn't be good.
Carly: Well, Jax wasn't expecting me when he made whatever plans with you.
Jax: Yes, Carly's right. I wasn't expecting her, so I didn't get a chance to tell her yet that I bumped into you and decided to take the opportunity to get some "Crimson" business done while I'm here in Montreal.
Giselle: I'm hearing two different things. Are we having this meeting or not?
Jax: Yes -
Carly: Not.
Giselle: Forgive me for being not subtle, but a word to the wise -- possessive wives are so passé. "Secure" and "independent" are the buzz words this season.
Jax: Yes, well, on that note, Giselle and I better get to business before it gets too late. Now, if you rush to the airport, you'll probably make it home in time to tuck Morgan in. So, safe trip.
Eli: Look, Anna, I am so glad that you decided to grace me with your presence.
Anna: Mm, yeah, I almost didn't because you're an ass. And quite frankly, I have better things to do. But a good friend reminded me that I don't actually have to like you to listen to your music.
Eli: You're still mad at my little faux pas.
Anna: Faux pas? Do you even know what that means? You dismissed me as being too old for a perennial adolescent such as yourself.
Eli: I apologize, ok, from my heart. The thing is, Anna, I am crazy about you, all right? And if you doubt that, then consider the fact that I got my jaw pounded on, not once, but twice, in your honor. I still want you backstage.
Anna: Well, that's saying something, isn't it?
Eli: Look, I -- what I said was really, really rude and disrespectful. I don't know, I just -- you know, spur -- spur of the moment thing. I don't know why. I don't know. I got caught up in it. I want a second chance with you.
Anna: I don't know why I should. I mean, really. Fool me once and all that.
[Anna sighs]
Anna: But I guess you're allowed one egregious mistake. Besides, I hear your new single's pretty cool.
Eli: Oh, I'm so excited for you to hear it.
Chip: Five minutes, Eli.
Eli: All right, five minutes.
Chip: Here we go.
Eli: Here we go. My favorite part, just five minutes before we go on. Do you feel excitement?
Robin: Do you see him?
Patrick: Yeah, he's right there.
Robin: Oh, hey, thank god. I didn't think security would let you through.
Max: Oh, well, when I realized they were doing a body search, I went back to the car to stow the special equipment you requested, assuming we're still a go?
Robin: Yeah, yeah, why wouldn't we be?
Max: Well, I -- I just thought you might've reconsidered. I mean, as far as plans go, this one is pretty drastic, Carly-worthy even.
Patrick: Max, I think you should be the one to reconsider. You know you're taking orders from a pregnant hormonal mother-to-be?
Robin: Shh. Sonny told you to do whatever I want, right?
Max: He did.
Robin: Ok, then all you have to do is kidnap Eli Love at gunpoint and we're good.
Ric: You know, I really wish you wouldn't have this knee-jerk reaction, Claudia. You could do a lot worse than having me on your side. To be perfectly honest, boy, you need me.
Claudia: I need you?
Ric: Yes, you tend to lose focus, dear.
Claudia: Oh, I'm so -- you're accusing me of being unfocused when you don't know whether or not you want to destroy Sonny or be his best friend?
Ric: Oh -
Claudia: About the only thing you're clear on, Ric, is Jason.
Ric: Mm-hmm.
Claudia: You hate Jason -
Ric: Yup.
Claudia: Because he's closer to Sonny than you will ever be and there is nothing you would rather than to drive a permanent wedge between the two of them. That is the only reason that you told Jason about Sonny's deal with Karpov. And that tells me that you're incapable of rational strategy when your brother is involved.
Ric: You know what I'm hearing?
Claudia: Hmm-mm.
Ric: I think it's the same thing that your father would be hearing right now and that is sympathy for the enemy, for Sonny, for your bedmate, for -
Claudia: Ah -
Ric: Or for Jason.
Claudia: I slept with him once.
Ric: I don't know. Well, whatever that -
Claudia: Once.
Ric: Relationship is that you have with him, but obviously it's personal. Otherwise, why would you care if Jason knew what Sonny's deal with Karpov was?
Claudia: I don't know. Maybe I don't want to wake up one morning and find out that a mob war broke out in the middle of the night.
Ric: Ok, once again I ask, why do you care? Shouldn't your main focus be Johnny's survival? See? It's a clear indication of how your focus is split. Look, Claudia, I can help you with Johnny, and I am more than willing to do so in exchange for a few considerations. So I'm going to put the offer out one more time. Deal or no deal?
Claudia: Bring Johnny home safe and get him acquitted, you can have whatever you want from me.
Johnny: I guess it's safe to say I've been unaware of the reality of certain things.
Lulu: Joe's all about music. Real world stuff doesn't even penetrate. He wouldn't be aware of what mobsters are doing in Chicago or anywhere else.
Sal: Yeah, well, you know, you should consider yourself lucky because the Zaccharas are a sorry fact of life around here. They extort you for protection. They run the loan sharks. They flood the streets with drugs.
Johnny: I can only imagine the pain that you guys have been put through.
Lourdes: You want to know something creepy-weird? Professor Siegel used to teach one of them. This kid? A Zacchara.
Jason: What -- what's that right there? What's that link?
Spinelli: Uh, it just, I mean, confirms what we already know. Andrei Karpov emerged as a major crime figure after the breakup of the Soviet Union, currently based in St. Petersburg, major ties to drug smuggling and arms sales. He's expanded into several European cities, notably London and Prague.
Jason: No mention of the U.S.?
Spinelli: None. Doesn't this implicate that Darth Lansing may have lied, because -- even if Mr. Sir wished to swim again with sharks, why would he do so with a super villain based on the other side of the planet?
Jason: I don't know, but keep digging. If Karpov's been in Port Charles, he left some kind of trail.
Spinelli: Ok, I'm currently accessing a list of Karpov's known associates, seeing what their current locations are. Sasha Donev?
Jason: Diane saw Sonny meeting her at the -- at the Metro Court. What's her tie to Karpov?
Spinelli: She's the super villain's chief legal counsel, and her credit cards indicate that she's in residence at the metro court.
Jason: Ok, I want you to find security footage right now, whatever it takes. Spinelli, I want absolute proof before I confront Sonny.
Jul 29, 2008 06:42
[Cheers and applause]
Eli: Thank you, thank you. This next song I am going to dedicate to a very special lady. I think she knows who she is.
Eli: Tell me her name 'cause I really want to see her you tell me her game 'cause I need exit strategy oh, what a tragedy but I know she's not what's best for me and I know she'll cause me harm and I know she'd rather fly away to someone else's arms oh, it's true the world wants a mystery but I need to know one thing what's Victoria's secret tell me if the clothes she wears will expose all of my weakness woman, I just can't let go 'til I know Victoria's secret whispering a love song in my ear Victoria's secret will haunt me today do I really need to know her name you show me that face is it really what it claims to be you show me that brain is it really based in fantasy oh, it's barely yes, she seems to get the best of me of what little there is left and it seems that she's controlling me like a robot in a trance and it's true we don't learn from history but I've got to know one thing what's Victoria's secret tell me if the skin she bares will expose all of my weakness woman I just can't let go 'til I know Victoria's secret whispering a love song in my ear Victoria's secret will haunt me today do I really need to know her where will I find peace of mind in a photograph of holidays that little girl from yesterday what was that name did I ever really know her what's Victoria's secret tell me if the clothes she wears will expose all of my weakness woman I just can't let go 'til I know Victoria's secret whispering a love song in my ear Victoria's secret will haunt me today did I ever really know her
Singers: Victoria's secret
Eli: Will haunt me today will you ever really know her
Eli: Will haunt me today can we ever really know her name
Robin: Oh, no, this is war.
Lourdes: Look at this sweet-faced little boy. It's crazy to think that he grew up to be an evil Zacchara.
Sal: No cute kiddie picture changes who this guy is, where he came from, what's in his blood.
Johnny: Was Professor Siegel aware of how your family's been hurt by the Zaccharas?
Sal: Siegel lived here for decades and watched the Zaccharas come to power. They probably threatened him or forced him to teach their kid how to play. Or maybe the professor was just such a nice guy, he wanted to be a good influence. You know, either way, it's ancient history and I'm done talking about it. What do I owe you for my sister's extra lesson?
Johnny: It's on the house.
Sal: Thanks, Joe. Lourdes, let's go. We've imposed on these nice people long enough. Come on.
Lulu: Talk about surreal. I mean, can you believe that Lourdes was obsessing over your family?
Johnny: And why shouldn't she? The Zaccharas destroyed her family.
Spinelli: Thanks, Marty. The e-mail just dropped. Yeah, thanks. Um, noble Marty, the front desk manager at the Metro Court, kindly agreed to send security footage taken on the day in question at the restaurant.
Jason: All right, you got it, play it. There you go. You're telling me that's Karpov's lawyer?
Spinelli: And Mr. Sir. I'll fast forward to see how long the meeting lasted.
Jason: You know what, just stop it.
[Jason sighs]
Jason: Ok, go ahead. This is where Diane came in.
Spinelli: Right.
Jason: Keep going.
Spinelli: Now it appears Mr. Sir is heading to Vixenella's table.
Jason: Stop it, I've seen enough.
Spinelli: Yeah, ok. This is troubling, yes, but it's not necessarily the conspiracy it looks like, right? Surely, Mr. Sir would not attempt to undermine you while you were being unfairly incarcerated.
Claudia: We need to talk.
Jason: I don't think you're going to tell me anything I don't already know.
Anna: Why are we waiting here for Patrick, right next to Eli's limo? The last thing I want to do is to see that jackass again.
Robin: Because I, uh, I feel safe here. You know, those Eli Love fans are crazy. They can't back here, so -
[Crowd murmuring]
Eli: All right, guys, thanks a lot. See you next year, yeah? All right.
Fan: Great concert, Eli.
Second fan: Thank you. Thank you.
Eli: Did you like the show?
Anna: I think your girlfriend liked it, yeah. But she looks kind of old for you. What is she, 24 or something?
Eli: Oh, you've got to be kidding. That's just a little bit of onstage fun. I hardly know the girl.
Anna: [Mimics Eli] Onstage fun.
Gunman: Comply, Mr. Love, there's no need for this to get ugly.
Eli: Are you freaking kidding me?
Anna: Aah!
[Gunman groans]
Eli: Oh, that was amazing.
Jax: Well, thanks for bringing that "Couture" sample insert.
Giselle: Well, just make sure if your partner has any notes, she gets them to me within the next week. You must know by now how Kate likes to dawdle.
Jax: By the way, I spoke with warren yesterday.
Giselle: Mm-hmm.
Jax: I suggested that besides the inserts, that we should get "Couture's" inside cover ad space for "Crimson" for the first two months. He thought it was a great idea.
Giselle: Well, Warren is my publisher. I'm happy to do whatever he asks.
Jax: Even though it's the last thing you want to do?
Giselle: Even then.
Jax: Let's put our cards on the table, shall we?
Jax: I know that you would love nothing more than to see Kate and "Crimson" fail in the most humiliating way possible, right?
Giselle: Kate and I have a long history that has nothing to do with you.
Jax: I agree. It's the present that concerns me. You see, I'm the main investor in "Crimson," which means Kate's success is important to me. So why don't you and I figure out a way to make Kate's win your triumph, too?
Giselle: I like the way you think, Mr. Jacks.
Jax: I was hoping you'd say that. Now we just need to iron out the details. Well, Carly, I didn't expect to see you back.
Carly: I am -- not to be possessive. I'll just make myself comfortable while you guys finish your meeting. I came prepared to wait.
Jax: My wife and I are having a bit of a disagreement on the concept, when "no" means "no."
Giselle: Your wife strikes me as the type of woman who doesn't have "no" in her vocabulary. In any event, Carly seems to have decisively won this round. Enjoy your legs.
Nikolas: I got your message. What's so urgent? I just saw you at the clinic.
Nadine: [Whispers] He's perfectly positioned, so come on, let me have it. Don't hold back.
Nikolas: [Whispers] What-- what are you talking about?
Nadine: Just yell at me. Tell me I'm going back on my word for asking for a salary or something. Just go.
Nikolas: That's ridiculous. Why would I do that?
Nadine: No, I don't need money, but I need Matt to think that I need the money so he'll cut me in on the drug scam.
Nikolas: Didn't you already try that?
Nadine: Yeah, but it wasn't definitive. I need proof.
Nikolas: Well, how are you going to get it?
Nadine: I'm going undercover.
Nikolas: [Normal voice] That is the dumbest thing that I've ever heard.
Jerry: It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Mr. Karpov.
Karpov: And you as well. Or should I say, all of you -- Mr. Craig, Mr. Broslan. I found Mr. Moreau particularly intriguing.
Jerry: Really, and why is that?
Karpov: I have started moving shipments in this harbor, cargo of a very unique nature. And I'd like you to assist me in the realization of my endeavor.
Jerry: Well, you see, my -- my services come at a very high premium, Mr. Karpov.
Karpov: I understand that you are very efficient and very discrete. Those qualities, I'm willing to pay dearly for.
Jerry: I assume you know what you're inviting by running resources through the harbor. Port Charles is mob infested. There are so many warring factions that citizens literally trip over them every day. You poke a stick at the wrong person, they might rear up and strike.
Karpov: That won't be a problem for me. I've got Port Charles' biggest gun on my payroll.
Jason: I'm going to talk to Claudia, ok? I want you to go upstairs and you keep looking for information. And do not tell anybody what you are doing, and yes, I mean Maxie.
[Claudia laughs]
Claudia: It doesn't take a genius like Spinelli to figure out what he's working on. You want confirmation about whether or not Sonny's working with Karpov.
Jason: Wouldn't you?
Claudia: Yeah, absolutely. I'm here to save you some time and some trouble.
Jason: Well, you know something?
Claudia: Mm-hmm, I was at the curtain restaurant when Sonny was there meeting with Karpov. I asked him about it, and he confirmed they were in fact conducting business.
Jason: And you just decided to tell me this right now? That's -- that's nice. Is that why you're here?
Claudia: You helped me out more than once. I wanted to return the favor. There's a lot more to this story than you know, Jason, and you need to hear it before you put a bullet in Sonny's head.
Carly: Mm, that's a good one. You don't want some?
Jax: No, thanks.
Carly: More for me. They're right here if you want some.
Jax: Well, I've got to give you a little credit, Carly. You're really hot right now.
Carly: You inspire me.
Jax: Well, I'm flattered. Well, enjoy your strawberries.
Carly: You're really going to watch television right now?
Jax: Mm-hmm, it relaxes me after a long day of work.
Carly: Yeah, but I can think of other things that relax you.
Jax: I'm sure you think so, but I just don't want to play anymore,
Carly. I'm not going to let you seduce me back into a marriage that isn't working for me.
Nadine: Look, I deserve be compensated for all those hours I'm putting in at the clinic.
Nikolas: [Whispers] Stop arguing with me, please.
Nadine: Why can't you just pay me? It's not like you don't have buckets of cash lying around.
Nikolas: This is absurd. I'm not doing it.
Nadine: Oh, no, I will not let you walk away from me. Where are you going? Where are you going? Stop -- no -- I'm not letting this go. Come on.
Nikolas: Are you out of your mind?
Nadine: No, I won't let this go. You were brilliant! He bought every word.
Jerry: And who exactly do you hold in your pocket, Mr. Karpov?
Karpov: I'd rather not just say for the moment.
Jerry: Would you be willing to share the exact nature of your business?
Karpov: Counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
Jerry: Ah, lots of money to be made there.
Karpov: Exactly. I'm expanding into the states and I want to base my operation out of Port Charles.
Jerry: And what exactly do you want from me?
Karpov: You would coordinate lendings and distribution for a substantial salary, of course.
Jerry: Of course.
Karpov: And if you prove to live up to your reputation, I'd be willing to cut you in on future profits. Interested?
[Cell phone rings]
Jerry: Oh, excuse me.
Karpov: Take it. I have a call to make myself.
Jerry: Jerry Jacks. Alexis, darling, I was just thinking about you. Oh, come on, your skepticism moves me. Yes -- no -- yes, I am trying to tell you the truth, I mean, at least half of it.
Sam: Hello?
Karpov: Hello, Ms. McCall?
Jerry's voice: I'm trying to -- yes, I'm trying to -
Sam: Hi, Mr. Karpov. I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon.
Karpov: You made an excellent impression. I'd very much like you to accept the job as my new captain.
Sam: Great, yes, absolutely, I accept.
Karpov: I will let you know the details of my first shipment. Welcome to the Karpov organization.
Sam: Thank you, sir. Oh, my god, I got the job.
Lucky: Whoopee.
Sam: Whoopee? What are you talking about, Lucky, this is a great news. I think I may have something already.
Lucky: What do you mean?
Sam: Well, when I was talking to him, I recognized a voice in the background. I mean, I can't say positively, but I am almost sure that I know who it is.
Claudia: When I confronted Sonny about his meeting with Karpov, he not only defended his actions, he stressed that his association with Karpov would not hurt you in any way.
Jason: You didn't -- you didn't tell me all this when I was in lock-up and you were desperate for my help. You didn't step up and say Ric was right when he laid the story on me. Why are you doing it right now?
Claudia: I considered warning you before, ok? But Sonny practically blackmailed me into keeping my mouth shut. And to be honest with you, I took him at his word. But for what it's worth, I think he was being completely honest and telling the truth when he said he didn't mean you any harm.
Jason: None of this concerns you, so I suggest you make a smart choice and you stay out of it.
Claudia: Fine, I just thought you deserved to know. You know, um, do you remember when Spinelli was rambling? He was delirious with fever and he was going on about the weird dynamic between you and Sonny? He spoke a lot of truth. Sonny's going to back you into a corner, whether he's conscious of it or not. And, Jason, you're going to have to make a choice here. You're going to have to be Sonny's friend, or you're going to have to react like a bona fide mob boss. Step up, do whatever it takes no matter what the cost. Good luck with that one.
Johnny: I'm not stupid. I've always known that my family profits from other peoples' pain. That the power and the money, it comes at the expense of real human begs. But I've just seen it from afar. I've never had to stare at it like that, right in the face.
Lulu: You're not responsible for what your father or Trevor have done.
Johnny: Ok, but I never lifted a finger to change anything. I was too busy jockeying for position.
Johnny: All right, that's it. When this is over -
Lulu: No, but we don't know if this will ever be over or if we'll ever be able to go back home because of what I did.
Johnny: No regrets, Lulu. Hey, Sal was right. What he said, it just proves that the way I was living my life before was wrong. But we're going to change that, together. I love you.
Logan's voice: You'll never get over me.
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Robin: Do you mind if I join you? The baby's really craving french toast. Anna: You don't have to use the baby as an excuse. I'm not going to fight with you. Sit down. Robin: That's good, because i wasn't sure that you even wanted to speak to me after what I did last night. Anna: You're my daughter, and i love you. That being said, setting me up to save eli from a staged kidnapping was not only unnecessary, but it was probably one of the more humiliating moments of my life. Sonny: You got nothing to be embarrassed about, max. Max: Try telling that to milo. He looks worse than I do. Oh, god. Diane: Sonny, I cannot file these contracts without -- [Max sighs] Diane: Max. Max: Hi. Diane: What happened to your face? Max: Oh, don't worry. It looks a lot worse than it really is. Diane: It looks like you've taken a brutal beating. Was this karpov's men? Max: Not exactly. Diane: Well, please tell me it wasn't jason's people, because a civil war even between gangsters is too horrible to contemplate. Sonny: You seriously think jason would set max up like that? Diane: I don't know. I certainly hope not. But in light of present circumstances, it might be wise if you actually discussed this with jason. Sonny: Max, tell her how you got hurt. Max: I'd rather not, boss. Sonny: What do you mean you'd rather not? You and diane are involved and you always tell me you've got to be honest in relationships. Go ahead and tell her. Max: It's just that I'm not supposed to talk about the jobs I do for you. Sonny: Well, I will make an exception in this case. Max: I really wish you wouldn'T. Sonny: Max, tell -- Diane: Max, just tell me. Max: I got my butt kicked by a grandma. Carly: I can't think of a better way to start the day. Jax: No, no. I meant what I said last night. I'm not going to let you win. Sam: Have you seen lucky? Nadine: Uh, not yet. When he gets here, I'll bring him back. Sam: Ok, thank you. Nadine: Isn't all this sneaking around getting kind of exhausting? Sam: Yeah, a little bit. But I think it's going to be worth it as long as we can catch whoever's supplying the counterfeit drugs. Nadine: So you really think this karpov guy is behind it? Sam: I don't know. I'm definitely not going to know for sure until I can check the freighter and see what the cargo is, but it really is the only lead we have. Nadine: Maybe not. I'm doing some undercover work of my own. Nikolas: No, you're not. Nadine: Matt hunter could be the key to bring down the entire counterfeit drug operation. As a doctor, he has access to plenty of medication. Nikolas: So? The same could be said about anyone on the staff at the hospital. Nadine: Yeah, but I didn't hear anyone else talking about illegal drugs on the phone. Nikolas: [Scoffs] That doesn't prove that he's involved in distribution. Nadine: Which is exactly why i need to go undercover, so I can get the proof we need. Nikolas: That's ridiculous -- that's a ridiculous idea. Nadine: How much do we actually know about matt hunter except for what he's disclosed on his fellowship application? We don't even know he's telling the truth. Nikolas: Well, if that's the case, then the man's a sociopath and you shouldn't be putting yourself in danger like that. Nadine: Um, sam's the one who's about go work for a russian mobster. Sam: No, no, no, no. I know how to take care of myself. Nadine: So do I. Nikolas: I -- I would prefer that neither one of you were involved in this. But I'm going to go ahead d guess that there's nothing I can do to stop you. Nadine: There's nothing you can do to stop me, either. Lucky: Shh. This is one sorry excuse for an undercover operation. I'm sorry, but anybody could have walked in and overheard you talking about the case. Nikolas: Nadine and I, we're going to go up front and -- i don't know -- see who's coming and see who's going. Let's go. Sam: I missed you last night. Lucky: You know, I think it's time maybe we rethink this whole breakup plan. Carly: You know me, jax. I'm not going to give up until you give in. Jax: Well, that is not going to happen. Carly: Well, you're wasting your time to fight me because i see the way you look at me. I know you still want me. Jax: Wanting you and wanting to be in a dysfunctional relationship with you are two entirely different things. Carly: I wouldn't be here fighting for you if our marriage wasn't important to me. I know I haven't made it a priority, but that's going to change. And I am sorry if I have neglected you. Jax: Look, I'm not insensitive. I know you struggled with what happened to michael. But grief isn't the only reason you stay embroiled with sonny and jason. It's where you want to be. Carly: This isn't about sonny and jason. It's not. Jax: No. Carly: So don't make it out them. This is out us, ok? And I am notoing anywhere until you believe that I want to fix this. Johnny: Where the hell have you been? Lulu: I was getting food. I told you. Johnny: Yeah, I figured you were going to go to the hot dog vendor on the corner. I didn't know you were going to the grocery store. Lulu: I got sick of takeout. How does chicken casserole sound? Johnny: You're going to cook? Lulu: I thought we could do it together. Johnny: I barely know how to boil water. Lulu: How did you get this far in life without ever having to cook for yourself? Johnny: I had servants. Lulu: Oh. Well, that would explain why you never do the dishes or make the bed. Johnny: And what about you? When did you learn how to cook? Lulu: I earned a sunshine badge mixing cereals together to make trail mix. And when my grandma lesley made meals, I licked the spoons. Johnny: So you don't actually know how to cook chicken casserole? Lulu: No, but I found the recipe in a magazine. Here. It has directions. How hard can that be? Diane: Anna devane attacked you? Max: She thought me and milo were trying to kidnap eli love. Diane: Well, how did she get that impression? Max: Well, we were wearing masks, and we tried to grab him as he got into his limo. Diane: I assume they did this under your orders. Sonny: Uh, well, robin scorpio is an old friend of mine. This character, eli love, was treating her mom badly, and robin wanted this guy to see anna kicking butt. Diane: Specifically max's butt? Sonny: I -- wait. Max and milo, they were just doing what robin told them to do, because I told them to do whatever robin told them to do. And robin's happy. I'm happy. Now, I'm going to give max and milo a bonus, and they're going to be very happy. And right now, we don't -- we don't need to hear any lectures, right, max? Diane: That's easy for you to say. You're not the one whose face was beaten to a bloody pulp -- by a granny. Max: It looks a lot worse than it really is. Diane: Don't try to put a good face on this. Not that you could, because it's easy to see that you are hurting. Max: My neck is a little sore. Diane: Would a massage make you feel any better? Max: You brought the table? Diane: Of course. It's out in the car. Why don't you go start setting up while I finish with -- finish with sonny? Max: All right. Sonny: You got a massage table? Diane: Max appreciates it. You know, I just might get one as a wedding gift for you and kate. Sonny: Don't bother. Diane: All right. Back to these contracts. You need to look them over and make sure that they reflect -- Sonny: Uh, diane? Diane? Sit down. Does jason know about my deal with karpov? Anna: See, there was nothing worse than a past-her-prime spy buying into a staged scenario designed to help boost her self confidence. Robin: That wasn't the only reason I did it. Anna: Well, I don't believe that you seriously wanted sonny's men to kidnap eli and -- and break his kneecaps. Robin: That would have been a perk. Anna: Yeah. But violence is never the answer, ever. It's a necessary evil in some occupations, however. Robin: Ok. I admit that I wanted eli to see you in action. Because I don't want you to think that being a grandmother changes who you are. You're still the same incredibly sexy, super spy that you've always been. Anna: Thank you. I appreciate the thought. But it's unnecessary. You know, eli may have bruised my ego, but I'm certainly not going to let him undermine my self confidence. Robin: Good. Well, I'm sorry that I went overboard. I just wanted to remind you that you're my hero. Anna: As long as you believe in me, I don't give a damn what eli thinks. Ric: I assume that this invitation means you're still onboard with my plan to exonerate your brother. Claudia: That depends. Are you going to tell sonny that jason knows he's working for karpov? Johnny: Can't we just cook these beans with the ends on? Lulu: The recipe says you have to break them off. Johnny: Why? Lulu: I don't know. Maybe they're poisonous. Johnny: Well, only one way to find out. Lulu: No, don't -- don't -- don't -- don't -- don'T. If you get sick, I'm going to be stuck making this by myself. Johnny: This cooking was your idea, missy. Lulu: Yeah, I thought it would be fun to do it together. Johnny: Well, the kitchen in this place isn't exactly built for two. Lulu: The kitchen is small, but it has all the essentials. Johnny: Except for counter space. Lulu: It could be fun to improvise. Johnny: If you say so. Lulu: It is not that bad. Johnny: You know, at this rate, I think we'll be ready to have chicken casserole for breakfast. Lulu: Oh, my gosh. I will help you break off the ends. Just let me finish cutting up these carrots. Jax: Ok, this isn't funny. I've a meeting to get to. Carly: Ok. Let's go. Jax: I'm not going to show up at the meeting with my wife handcuffed to my side, am I? Carly: Well, then I guess you have to reschedule. Jax: You know, I realize that you probably think that this is really cute and everything, but I have a lot of money riding on this deal, so -- Carly: What's more important, business or your marriage? Jax: You know, one of the reasons our marriage is in trouble is your belief that because I don't ask you to leave the room every time I discuss business, you somehow think that my work is unimportant. And you couldn't be more wrong. So, you need to take this a little more seriously. Carly: I was just trying to make a point that I want to be with you. I do think what you do is important, and I do take it seriously. And I respect you. And I won't keep you here against your will. Jax: Ok, then un-cuff me. Carly: I will. As soon as I find the key. Ric: Since when do you care if sonny and jason are best of friends or mortal enemies? Claudia: Karpov is the wild card in this entire equation. There's just no telling whether he's going to respect the boundaries that are being set. Ric: Well, there's always a chance that karpov could go back on his word. Take sonny out along with jason. Claudia: Is that what you're hoping for? That jason will kill sonny for betraying him? Ric: If that were my plan, would it bother you? Sonny: It's obvious you don't approve of my deal with karpov. Diane: I am concerned. Sonny: Concerned enough to tell jason? Diane: As you pointed out, our conversations are covered under attorney-client privilege. Sonny: So you haven't told jason? Diane: No. Sonny: And you can't tell me if maybe, you know, somebody else might have said something to him? Diane: Neither jason nor any of his associates have ever mentioned the name andrei karpov to me. Sonny: Good. Diane: Which means that there is still time for a full disclosure. Pcpd visitor log indicates that you went to see jason shortly before his release. Sonny: I offered to help jason. He turned me down. Diane: Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Sonny: You know, he's going to have to -- you know -- he's going to run the organization the way he thinks fit, and if i see he's making a mistake, i can't do anything about it. So he's just going to have to fix it on his own. Diane: I just assumed that, had jason been receptive to your overture, you would have told him about andrei karpov. So, with that objective in mind, might I suggest a meeting between you and jason? Sonny: No, no, no. Listen. There's -- there's nothing to discuss. Jason's doing what he thinks is right, and so am I. Chip: Eli. We don't have time for this. Ok? We need to be on the road now. Eli: I don't care. I'm not going anywhere till i see anna. Agent: Or you can call her from the bus. Eli: She won't answer her phone. I have to talk to her in person. Chip: If we don't leave right now, then you're going to have to deal with the fallout on this. Eli: I don't care. I'm not going anywhere till i see her, all right? Epiphany. Is robin here? Epiphany: Dr. Scorpio's not in yet. Eli: When -- when do you expect her? Epiphany: Are you sick? Eli: Am I sick? Epiphany: Do you require medical attention? Because if not, I suggest you get your butt back on that elevator and stop wasting my time. Agent: Come on, eli. You heard her. Let's go. Eli: Look, look. Robin's the only one who can convince anna. Epiphany: That you're an ass? I think that she's figured that all out on her own. Eli: What is wrong with everybody? So -- so I freaked out that she was a grandma. She's obviously proved she's way more than your average grandmother. I mean, you should have seen her last night. She took down a couple of armed guards with just a couple of punches and kicks. She was -- she was incredible. Chip: Yeah, and she made it painfully clear she wanted nothing to do with you. Now, let's get on the road, where there's plenty more groupies where they came from. Eli: I'm not going anywhere without anna, all right? [Elevator dings] Eli: Anna. Uh -- Anna: What? Eli: I -- I want to talk to you. Anna: I've heard everything you need to say. Eli: No. No, not this, all right? Anna: What? Eli: I want you in my life. Nikolas: I understand that you want to help me. I st think there's better ways to go about it than digging dr. Hunter for information. Nadine: He's the only lead I've got. Nikolas: Yeah. Listen. I want you to cross check the batch numbers to the drugs here at the clinic with the health department's list of placebos. Nadine: They have been checked and rechecked. And for the record, paperwork is not my idea of helping. Nikolas: What are you doing here? Your shift doesn't start for another hour. Matt: Yeah. Well, I'd rather be here dispensing aspirin than watching patrick drake, god's gift to neurosurgery, cut a man's head open for no apparent reason other than just to satisfy his overblown ego. Nikolas: Dr. Drake is an excellent surgeon. I doubt he would perform a procedure on a patient if it wasn't actually necessary. Matt: Until you have gone to medical school and examined the patient in question, I don't think you're qualified to weigh in on the best course of treatment. Nikolas: Oh. Well, as a -- as a former patient of dr. Drake, I actually am qualified to speak on his character, as well as his skills as a surgeon, which I think are unparalleled. So instead of trying to compete with him, I suggest that you try and learn something from him. I mean, otherwise, what's the point of me paying you to be re? Nadine: I bet right now you're wondering if working for nikolas cassadine is worth the money. Believe me, I wonder the same thing myself sometimes. Sam: If you came here to warn me again that this plan is dangerous, save your breath, lucky. I'm not changing my mind. Lucky: I'm not trying to change your mind. Sam: Ok, but you still hate the idea that I'm going undercover. Lucky: No, it's that I hate what it means, us pretending to break up. Sam: Ok. Lucky: I miss you. Sam: It will be over soon. I promise. Lucky: But I need you now. Especially with lulu somewhere still out there with Johnny.
Jul 31, 2008 05:49
Johnny: Why don't I take care of the carrots and you go on bean duty? Lulu: I'm sorry. Johnny: It's ok. Lulu: No, it's not. I -- we were having fun, and then -- then, I've got to go and freak out. Johnny: Well, I have a confession to make. Peeling the ends off of beans and throwing them in a bowl isn't exactly idea of a good time. It's close. But why don't we skip that part and go straight to dessert. There's a great little gelato place down -- Lulu: I appreciate what you're trying to do, but we cannot hide from this forever. Eventually, the police are going to know that I'm the one that killed logan. Johnny: Nope, they're not. The police think I did it and they've got the evidence to back it up. Lulu: One minute logan was running at me and the next minute I could feel the knife jerking in my hand. That was the feeling of me killing him. Johnny: Look, lulu, you can't think about that. Lulu: No, I can't stop! Killing logan is like a nightmare that I can't wake up from. Sonny: The only reason I'm working for karpov is to keep him out of jason's way. If I go public by stepping in, then it would imply that I have doubts about the way jason's running the organization. I don't want to undermine jason in any -- in any way. I want to just stay behind the scenes. Diane: I don't doubt your intentions. In fact, I find them reassuring, as I'm sure jason would if you would simply tell him. Sonny: He has too much to worry about, diane. Diane: What if he hears about it from somebody else? Sonny: He knows I would never betray him, diane. [Doorbell rings] Karpov: Is mr. Corinthos available? Max: He's in a meeting. Karpov: I hope our agreement isn't causing difficulties. Max: I'll let the boss know you're here. [Knocks on door] Sonny: Yeah? Max: Andrei karpov's here. Sonny: Show him in. Karpov: I'm interrupting? Sonny: No, no. We were just -- we were finishing up here. This is diane miller, the greatest lawyer in the world. That's andrei. Diane: Mr. Karpov. Karpov: It's a pleasure. You have excellent taste. I've always had a weakness for redheads. Max: Uh, miss miller is a highly-skilled professional. That is, she's an attorney, and she's brilliant, and you need to back off. Karpov: Do all your bodyguards speak without respect? Sonny: No. Sometimes, max has problems with boundaries. Diane: Yes. Sonny: Thank you. Diane: Yes. Sonny: Thank you. Diane: Mr. Karpov. Sonny: Max, what are you doing? Want a drink? Karpov: Yes. Is everything in order? Sonny: Uh, we -- we may have run into a problem. Karpov: I'm very sorry to hear that. Jax: Ok, first you stow away on my plane, then you sabotage me in the middle of a meeting, and now you handcuff us together. When is this going to stop? Carly: When we're back together. Jax: Handcuffing us together and pretending to lose the key, carly, is not going to impress me. Carly: You know, I'm serious, i have no idea where the key is. Jax: Just tell me where you left it. Carly: If I knew where the key was, we would be uncuffed by now. I don't know where it is. Jax: Where did you see it last? Carly: I -- I think right here. Jax: Well, it's not there, is it? Carly: No. Jax: So you must have moved it, because I certainly didn't move it. Maybe it's over here. Carly: I didn't move it either. You know, what if it's on the floor? Oh! Jax: Are you ok? Carly: Yeah -- better. Jax: I knew it, the whole thing's just a set up. Where's they key? Where's the key? Carly: I don't know. Johnny: I'll get rid of the knife. Lulu: It's not the knife, it's what I did. Johnny: You defended yourself, and I'm going to keep telling you that until -- Lulu: If I'm so innocent, why did you take the blame? Why are we on the run? Why don't we go back to the police and tell them exactly what happened? Johnny: Why do we even have to think about this, huh? Right now, this minute, why do we have to think about turning ourselves in? We're here together, that's all we need. Lulu: It's temporary, it's not going to last. Johnny: Ok, so why waste the time that we have now? We're here, together, making chicken casserole. It sounds like an ordinary thing, but who knows if we'll get to do it again? So I'm going to enjoy every second of it. Lulu: Snapping beans and cutting carrots for a casserole neither of us knows how to make? Johnny: We'll make it up as we go along. If it turns out inedible, we'll still be together. Robin: My mother isn't interested in anything you have to say. Anna :I wouldn't go that far. Robin: Mom. Anna: No, um, it's ok, I don't see any harm in just hearing the man out. Eli: Would you excuse us for a minute? Thanks. All right, just -- I want to thank you for the save last night. It was -- it was amazing. Anna: Happy to help. Is that it? Eli: No. Anna: Well, it's just -- robin's waiting for me. Eli: I don't want it to end like this -- in fact, I don't want it to end at all. Look, I can handle you being a grandmother. I just -- I just couldn't handle you walking out of my life. Chip: Eli -- we, uh, really, really need to be going here. Woman: Not until you say hi to your son. Nadine: When nikolas asked me to help out at the clinic, i thought it would be a good way to make some extra cash. If I would have known he was so tight with his money, I would have just picked up some extra shifts at the hospital. At least there I make enough to cover my rent and help pay for my sister's medical expenses. Matt: What happened to your sister? Nadine: She got shot last year, she's been in a coma ever since. I found this great permanent care facility. But the cost is about to break me. Let's just say I could use some extra cash and fast, or we're both going to be out on the street. Matt: Well, if I hear of anything, I'll let you know. Nadine: Thanks. Matt: Yeah, no problem. Nadine: So I was thinking actually -- Nikolas: I, uh, I gave some thought to your request and, uh, and you're right. You do deserve a raise. I spoke to payroll and, uh, you get an extra $2,000 a week starting with your next paycheck. Nadine: Nikolas, that's -- Nikolas: No need to express your gratitude. You earn every penny of it. Matt: Well, it looks like your money problems are solved. Wish it was that easy for me. Nadine: Yeah. Sam: Hey, I know you're worried about lulu. You should focus on finding her and not the counterfeit drug ring. Lucky: There's a lot of innocent people being hurt. I just can't ignore that. Sam: Ok, look, you out of anybody can be honest to me. And if I can't do anything else, at least I can listen to you vent. Lucky: The longer that lulu is gone, the worst the situation is going to get when she gets back. Especially now that baldwin has put a bounty on her head. Well, you're going to find lulu. Lucky: But what if I don't? What if I can't save my sister? [Cell phone rings] Sam: Excuse me, I have to take this. I'm sorry. Hello? Yeah, yeah, I can be there in 10 minutes. All right, thank you. I've got to go. It could be a lead. Lucky: I have to get back to work. Sam: All right. Lucky: So just be careful. Sam: Ok, bye. Diane: Max, I never knew you were so forceful. Flexible, yes, but this is a side I've never seen before. Max: Karpov is out of line. Diane: You, on the other hand, were spectacular. Defending my honor and putting that chauvinist in his place. It was brutish and manly of you. Max: You deserve to be treated with consideration. Diane: And while I do appreciate the sentiment, standing up to andrei karpov might not have been the wisest of tactics. Max: I don't give a damn who this guy is or how well connected he might be. I'm not going to sit around and let someone insult you like that. Diane: Thank you, max. You are truly a wonderful, wonderful man. But just keep in mind that i couldn't bear it if anything ever happened to you, especially because of me. Max: I'm not afraid of andrei karpov. Diane: It's his partnership with sonny that has me concerned. Because if jason were to ever find out, there could be an all out mob war, and you could get caught in the middle. Max: Diane, jason is not going to go up against mr. C. Diane: That's what sonny is counting on. But jason needs to start thinking like a leader. And in a purely professional sense, sonny's actions are disloyal. They might even be condered overtly treacherous. Sonny: Ok, I'm going to make myself clear again. I am not going to work with you if you interfere with jason's business. Karpov: I am abiding by the agreement. Sonny: All right, um, the pier that I told you to offload the shipment is free at the moment. But that can change because jason might need it for his own cargo. So we're going to have to re-route to another destination. Karpov: That would put us behind schedule, but it will be worth it if this little detour ensures your cooperation if my guys brush their teeth like they clean their room, Johnny: I hope you're hungry. Lulu: Uh, I feel badly leaving you to finish the cooking when it was my idea. Johnny: Not a problem, it turns out I'm a lot more talented than I realized. Close your eyes. Lulu: Why? Johnny: The sooner you close them, the sooner you find out. Lulu: Oh, ok. Johnny: Keep them closed, no peeking. Lulu: I am, but what is the big surprise? Johnny: In a minute, you're going to open your eyes and see for yourself, but not yet. Ok, sit down to your left. [Lulu giggles] Johnny: It's just a chair. It won't -- all right -- open up. Lulu: Aw, oh, peanut butter and jelly. Johnny: I told you. I didn't know it, but I am talented. Jax: How long is this going to take? Locksmith: Well, these things can be pretty tricky to open, it's all in the design. Cops don't want your average criminal to be able to pick the lock and get away. Jax: Oh, it's great. If you could hurry it up, I'd appreciate it, I have a business meeting to get to. Locksmith: I don't blame you for losing track of time. I wish the mrs. And I could be spontaneous like this. Carly: We like to keep things interesting, don't we, honey? Jax: Yeah, never a dull moment. Locksmith: If I were you, buddy, I wouldn't be complaining. I mean not everybody is so blessed to have such a beautiful wife, with an appetite for adventure. I mean, you really are a lucky man. Carly: Did you hear that? You are lucky to have me, jax. Jax: Yeah, the luckiest guy in the world. Eli: I need a little help here, guys -- agent: You know the deal, trish. You come anywhere near eli, you forfeit child support. Trish: Go have a seat, I need to talk to your dad alone. Robin: Hey, my name is robin. What's your name? Boy: Elijah. Robin: Hey, I like that name. These are pretty cool, mind if i play with them with you? Eli: You know, bringing the kid here and throwing him in my face isn't going to get you a penny more. Trish: I didn't come her for more money, I came because elijah wanted to meet his father. Eli: Fifteen minutes in the back of a tour bus doesn't qualify me to be his father. Trish: How can you look at your son and not feel anything for him? [Knock on door] Jerry: Mr. Karpov, I didn't expect to see you quite so soon. Karpov: May I? Jerry: By all means. Jerry: Had I known you wanted to speak with me, I would have arranged to meet somewhere a little bit more discrete. Karpov: A building not owned by your brother. Jerry: I guess I like to keep my business ventures separate, mr. Karpov. Karpov: You seem to have quite a few conflicts of interest in this town. Your brother, the district attorney. How do I know you won't let them stand in the way of our arrangement? Ric: Thanks for coming. Sonny: You said it was important. Ric: It still surprises me that you are actually willing to listen to what I have to say. Sonny: That's one of the benefits of getting out of the organization. I have nothing left for you to exploit no matter how hard you try. Ric: Well, I'll always be thankful that you were able to walk away from the situation that ultimately cost you so much. And if your fresh start gives us the opportunity to have a better relationship between the two of us, so be it. But if not, I'm still glad that you walked away when you did. Got to be hard, though, to be separated from both your boys, give up custody. Sonny: I try not to think about what carly did, I just, you know, I focus on what I have. A legitimate business. Kristina, whenever I get to see her -- alexis gives me the ok. And a beautiful woman who loves me. Ric: Is that enough? Sonny: What do you mean is that enough? Ric: Well, I'm just wondering. Sonny: Oh Ric: I mean, are you ever tempted to get back into the mob? Sonny: Are you fishing for information or are you offering me a job? Jax: Thanks for your help. Locksmith: All right, you two enjoy the rest of your visit to montreal. Carly: Ok, feel free, you know, to go get cleaned up and get ready for your meeting. I won't do anything to stop you. Jax: I already missed the meeting, carly. Carly: I'm sorry. Jax: I don't think you are. Carly: Oh, jax, I didn't mean to lose the stupid handcuff keys. I wasn't trying to sabotage your business, I just wanted you to admit that you love me and that you are coming back to me. Jax: I haven't asked for a divorce, have I? I asked for a separation, and you can't even honor that? Carly: Well, you didn't ask for anything, you just walked out the door. Jax: Oh, ok is it -- Carly: And I was completely honest with you, about wanting you back. I'm not going to give up on us. So you know what, I'm going to stow away on planes, and I'm going to show up in your hotel room, and I'm going to handcuff myself to your side if that's what it takes, I don't care. Jax: You have to give me a reason to trust you. Carly: Ok, fine, tell me how. Jax: You have to listen to me, ok, listen. Accept what I'm trying to tell you. This is the first stop on a series of business meetings that I have. After this, I have to go to paris, then hong kong and australia. And you can follow me to every one of those destinations, but it won't bring us closer together, carly. Ok, I just need time to think things over, and so do you. Carly: I don't need to think about anything because I love you, and I want our marriage to last forever. But if you need time to think and if tt's what's going to bring you back to me, then i won't follow you. Jax: No, no -- that implies a promise that I can't make right now. Carly: Ok, you know what, we belong together. If you need to go away to remember that, then I want you to go. And I'm going to wait for you and I'm going to miss you. And if you decide to come back early-- I will welcome you back with open arms. Chip: It's a little late in the game to expect eli to step up and be a father. Agent: Yeah, and not to mention the violation of the agreement. Patrick: What's going on? Epiphany: Eli love just got a visit from his son and he's not taking it so well. Trish: Face the fact that you have a son. Eli: I never asked to be their kid's father, all right? How much is it going to take me for you and the kid to get out my life forever? Trish: I'm not here for more money. Robin: What kind of car is this one? Patrick: That is a pontiac gto. And this black one right here, that's a mustang. Someone likes the muscle cars, huh? Robin: This is elijah. Patrick: Hey, buddy, I'm patrick. Robin: Patrick likes cars almost as much as you do. Patrick: Oh, yes, I do. I used to collect these when i was probably your age. See this one right here? This is a great car, this is a camaro. Back in the day all the nascar drivers used to race this like all the legends, like darrell waltrip and dale earnhardt and ricky rudd. This car was so fast they changed the rules for nascar just so the other drivers could keep up. It's a fast car, elijah. Nadine: What's your problem? Nikolas: Excuse me, what are you doing? Nadine: I was this close to convincing matt that I'd do just about anything for money. And you had to go and drop two grand in my lap. Thanks a lot for blowing my cover. I thought I told you I didn't want you involved. Nadine: Oh, I'm sorry, I must have missed the part where i take orders from you. Nikolas: Ok, nadine, in the off chance that matt hunter is guilty of anything worse than having a bad temper, I'm not going to let you put yourself at risk to prove it. Nadine: Let me? Nikolas: Yeah. Nadine: Look, I know you are a prince and everything. But you cannot tell me what i can or cannot do. If I work matt for information, you can't stop me. Nikolas: The hell I can'T. I'm not going to sit back and watch one more person I care about die. Nadine: You care about me? [Horse neighs] Sam: Hey. Lucky: You know, people are going to get suspicious if i keep hanging around my brother's clinic when he's not even here. Sam: I know, I'm sorry, this couldn't wait for tonight. I got my first assignment, I am landing my first shipment for karpov. Lucky: Ok, when, where? Sam: Well, he hasn't told me anything yet. Lucky: Ok, when they do, you need to let me know. Sam: No, no, no, no -- no cops. Lucky: Sam, I don'T. Sam: I mean it, lucky -- no cops. You cannot have any of your men bust the shipment. Jerry: What you see as weakness mr. Karpov, I see as a potential asset. You see, now that I am dating the lovely district attorney alexis davies, I have an inside track on the local law enforcement and what they're planning. We're going to have enough trouble moving your product through corinthos territory without ving the police complicate our lives further. Karpov: As long as I have sonny on my payroll, jason morgan won't lift a hand against me. Corinthos is my insurance policy. Ric: Well, I would be thrilled to offer you a position with the zacchara organization, but it's really not up to me. Anyway, I can't imagine that you would want to work for somebody like anthony. Sonny: No, no, I wouldn't want to. Any more than I would ask jason to step aside. A deal is a deal, and I got out for a reason. Ric: But you could get pulled back in, right?. Sonny: Jason tells me everything's running great, he's doing fine, he doesn't want my help, doesn't need anything. Ric: How does that make you feel? Sonny: How does that make me feel? What kind of question is that? Ric: Look, sonny, you took jason under your wing, you brought him into this business and now it's his. Power like that changes people. I'm just saying that -- are you sure that jason is still loyal to you? Or do you think he is going to eventually see you as a threat? Claudia: I'm glad you're both here. I think it's time we get everything out in the open
Jul 31, 2008 06:53
Eli: You are not going to do this to me.
Trish: Do what? Make you grow up?
Chip: Can you just lower your voice so we can all discuss this -
Trish: Expect you to act like a father?
Anna: Can you help me out here?
Epiphany: Sure, lead the way.
Anna: All right. So, Elijah, what do you say? Would you like to go see the inside of a real live ambulance?
Elijah: Yeah, sure.
Epiphany: I think that can be arranged, if it's all right with you.
Trish: Of course.
Epiphany: Come on. You're going to love this.
Trish: Thank you. I know I shouldn't be doing this in front of my son.
Anna: Don't mention it.
Eli: Shouldn't have brought the kid here in the first place.
Anna: Could you just move away from Eli for one second?
Robin: Mom.
Eli: Thank you, Anna. At least somebody's got some bloody sense.
Nikolas: Well, of course I care about you. Haven't I made that clear?
Nadine: Still, it's just nice to hear.
Nikolas: Yeah, I mean, come on, when I was going back and forth with the surgery, you were the one person that I felt like I could be the most honest with, and -
Nadine: Well, I'm glad you could confide in me.
Nikolas: Yeah, and you -- and you helped me set up the clinic to honor Emily. Couldn't have done that without you. Not to mention what you've done for me personally. Yeah, you're important to me.
Nadine: Well, I -- I feel the -
Nikolas: So it's kind of like you're my sister, you know.
Nadine: Sister?
Monica: Well, you're just in time, actually. I am going home shortly.
Jason: That's good. I -- just wanted to see you here, and I wanted to just wish you well and tell you in person that I won't be able to come see you once you go home.
Monica: Let me guess. You are afraid that it would be too dangerous for you to be around me, right? Well, I have a simple solution for this.
Ric: This is a private conversation.
Claudia: Oh, my favorite kind. It's just so rare that I see the two of you together.
Sonny: You know what they say about curiosity?
Claudia: And the pussy cat. Oh, please, you're going to have to do a lot better than that if you're trying to threaten me, especially about my brother. I'd do anything for John. And here you sit, the two of you, brothers, ostensibly on opposite sides. It makes me wonder -- do you tell each other your deadliest secrets?
Eli: Oh.
Anna: Hey, back off.
Trish: I wish I could have done that.
Anna: My pleasure.
Trish: Watching it was almost just as good, and it's all I needed. I'm going to get my son now. The tabloids are going to love this.
Eli: Tracy -- oh.
Robin: What's the matter, Eli? You feeling your age?
Eli: Oh, I think I broke something.
Anna: Let's hope it's your bottomless ego.
Patrick: Before we scrape you off the floor and boot you out of here, there's something I need to tell you.
Eli: You guys having fun?
Patrick: I would say as far as public communication goes, this is about as good as it gets.
Eli: You bloody sadist! Give me a hand.
Patrick: First of all, for every guy who is a father who is trying to do the right thing, who is maybe not sure what it means to be a father, shut up and listen.
Nadine: Yeah, I've been hearing that my whole life. I remind people of their sister. It's just so condescending and unimaginative, and coming from someone who already is those things, it makes it worse.
Nikolas: Unimaginative? Look, what I said to you was meant to be a compliment.
Nadine: "Almost like a sister" is not a compliment. It implies that I'm not your equal. It implies that I'm not even a woman.
Nikolas: Nadine, I'm your employer. What do you -- what do you want me to say?
Nadine: So -- so I guess that means you can't take me seriously?
Nikolas: No, that's not it.
Nadine: Well, guess what? You don't just get to -- to dish out orders and expect me to fall in line, ok? Because I -- I am a grown woman.
Nikolas: I know -
Nadine: And I am most certainly not your sister, ok?
Nikolas: Ok, ok.
Nadine: So I want to go undercover or -- or put my life at risk or go dancing down main street, I am damn well going to do it.
Nikolas: Ok.
Nadine: And don't you dare say you think I'm cute.
Monica: The mob is not a life sentence. You can still get out.
Jason: I don't want to argue with you about this. Are you going to be ok?
Monica: Oh, I'm going to do one day at a time, and I'm going to make every effort to live my life as truthfully as I can, which is why I have a problem with the way things have worked out for you, Jason.
Jason: That's my choice.
Monica: No, actually, if you think about it, you didn't have a choice.
Jason: I don't want to -- I don't want to do this.
Monica: I know you don't. I know you don't want to do it. I know you don't want to see the damage that Sonny has done, because to see that is just too painful.
Ric: I work for you, Claudia. I'm paid very well to make sure that your best interests are kept at heart.
Claudia: Yeah, forgive me if that doesn't exactly inspire confidence right now.
Ric: Any secrets that I may have -- let's say strategy for helping your fugitive brother -- I don't really you think you want me discussing that in front of someone.
Claudia: How do I know you weren't?
Ric: What's the point of this exercise?
Claudia: The point is my brother John and bringing him home safe. That's all I care about right now, and here you are sitting with -- with your brother, ostensibly the enemy, doing what, Ric? Am I supposed to believe that you buried the hatchet and you're bonding now after all these years?
Sonny: Well, you know, Ric wasn't exactly clear why you wanted to meet me.
Claudia: Maybe he thinks you're ready to turn against Jason.
Johnny: You barely touched the masterpiece I made you.
Lulu: I hate to tell you this, but -
Johnny: What? It is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You can't screw it up.
Lulu: Really? First, there's the choice of bread. I'm not a wheat fan. Secondly, there is the choice of peanut butter. You have creamy. You have crunchy.
Johnny: I don't believe this.
Lulu: And then there's the all-important peanut butter to jelly ratio. I still have some peanut butter in my mouth from the first bite. Everybody knows you're supposed to do at least 50/50 of peanut butter to jelly.
Johnny: Eat.
Lulu: No.
Lulu: No, is that all you want?
Johnny: Yeah. Come on. You're going to eat it and like it.
Lulu: No, no! Ok, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
Johnny: Ok.
Lulu: No fair.
Johnny: On second thought...
Patrick: Whether you meant to or not, you have -
Noah: What's going on?
Anna: Your son is giving Eli some much-needed enlightenment.
Eli: Talking about -- Trish knew the deal going in. I mean she -- she wasn't waiting in the back of the tour bus with me because she thought I'd make a good father.
Patrick: You helped create another person, and there's no escaping that, and that person has a right to expect certain things from you. You can and should expect certain things from yourself, like getting to know who he is, figuring out what he likes, what he needs, expecting something of yourself. And I know it takes time out of your glamorous, fast-living lifestyle, but there's a reward in it. Raising a child is a privilege, and the fact that you're running away, abandoning your son, it's a direct insult to the other guy who's trying to do the right thing. You're exactly what women hate about men.
Lourdes: I knocked, and when no one answered, I figured no one was here. I was just going to leave a note, and -- awkward.
Lulu: I didn't realize that you had a key.
Lourdes: Yeah, I used to come up and water professor Siegel's plants. I am really sorry.
Johnny: So you were going to leave a note?
Lourdes: Yeah, Sal needs help with the compressor in the truck, so -- whenever.
Johnny: All right, I'll do it now. It's ok.
Lourdes: Joe's a great guy.
Lulu: Yeah, he is.
Lourdes: So is there anyone else like him back home?
Lulu: I -- I'm sorry?
Lourdes: His family, are they all into music, too?
Lourdes: Oh, so he's a -- a renegade.
Lulu: When I -- I met Joe, I didn't know that he was into music, but when I heard him play, it was like seeing into his soul.
Lourdes: So he's it for you? Wasn't there another guy?
Monica: You know, you have the luxury of distance now, Jason. You can see what you couldn't before, all that you walked away from to go and work for Sonny. You can see that your family loved you, however imperfectly, and that you had a chance at a whole completely different kind of future.
Jason: I just can't wonder about things that didn't happen. I made choices, and I have to live with those choices now.
Monica: And Sonny took a world of options away.
Jason: No, Sonny warned me about the consequences before I ever took the job.
Monica: And that's how you have rationalized it for so long. You've been telling yourself that Sonny is an honorable man, Sonny is a loyal friend. Well, Sonny has shown by his behavior to others and to you that he is none of those things. And Jason, he is not worthy of your loyalty.
Claudia: Loyalty is a funny thing. You know, people count on it, but it doesn't always last, and sometimes it was never there to begin with. I mean, take the two of you, for example. You're brothers. One might assume you have some sort of loyalty to each other.
Sonny: Well, loyalty isn't one of Ric's strong suits. That's the problem, see.
Ric: Well, loyalty is a two-way street. Otherwise, it's blind obedience, which some people are better at than others.
Claudia: What about you, Sonny?
Sonny: What about me?
Claudia: Are you loyal?
Sonny: Extremely, to those people who are loyal to me.
Claudia: That's exactly how I feel. If you're loyal to me, I can't do enough for you, but if you burn me, you're dead to me.
Ric: What is the point to all of this?
Claudia: The point is, how far can any of us really trust each other?
Chip: Have the limo meet us at the loading dock. I don't want anyone seeing Eli in this condition.
Eli: I hope you're not having any regrets.
Anna: Oh, me? No. You know, the only thing I regret was ever trying to get to know the man behind the musician you know, the real Eli Love. You're just a shallow narcissist.
Noah: You know, I think Eli suffered more brain damage than we thought in that operation last year. Otherwise, he'd realize that the groupie parade's going to come and go. He'll never find anybody quite as amazing as you.
Anna: Oh, thank you. I just can't believe it took me so long to work out what a loser he is.
Noah: We all -- we all fell for it, though. I mean, you know, when you see the guy putting all that energy and passion on stage, you think there's more to it. But people can surprise you, and where you found that stuff out about being a father, I'll never know. If you put that into practice, then you're going to be an amazing dad.
Edward: And I want cook to prepare all of her favorite dishes.
Alice: Already taken care of.
Edward: This is going to be a very difficult period of adjustment for Monica, transitioning from rehab back to real life, so please don't pick any fights with her, ok?
Tracy: That is real life.
Edward: Just for pity's sake, just please be discreet, Tracy.
Tracy: Daddy, I don't have the time or the energy to coddle Monica.
Edward: You owe her this much. After all, you pushed her to the brink with that stupid lawsuit.
Tracy: She practically killed my husband on the operating table.
Edward: Oh, where is that reprobate Luke now anyway, huh?
Tracy: That's not the point.
Edward: The point is that Monica is family.
Tracy: Yes, and she tricked my brother into marrying her.
Alice: Shh, ix-nay on the ickering-bay. She's here.
Edward: Oh, what the hell do you want?
Scott: I want justice for my dead son.
Tracy: Really? Why are you here?
Scott: Because Lulu's on the lam, and I got a feeling that she gave you a call for help.
Tracy: Oh, the old Baldwin intuition, and that's never led you astray.
Scott: When I find out that Tracy is lying, I am going to arrest you for aiding and abetting. Do you want to go to jail for that worthless drunk and Luke Spencer's daughter?
Edward: No, we -- you never did a damn thing for your own son while he was alive. Why should you be playing the grieving father now?
Scott: You don't know anything about being my son.
Tracy: The son you didn't give a second thought, and now you're the great avenger?
Scott: You'll see. You'll see, Tracy.
Tracy: Well, it's too bad Logan isn't around to see too little, too late.
Alice: This isn't about Logan. It's about Mr. Scotty here using Lulu as a way to get back at Mr. Luke.
Edward: Oh, seems to me that she's got your number.
Tracy: Revenge for Luke taking Laura away from you?
Scott: This has nothing to do with that ancient history.
Alice: You're using this as an excuse to carry on your grudge.
Edward: Mm-hmm. It's abuse of office.
Tracy: I have a deal for you. You get out now, and I won't press charges.
Scott: Press charges? I'm going to send Lulu to prison.
Tracy: For what? She was taken out of the police station at gunpoint.
Scott: Then how come you're not more worried about her? She knew what was happening. I am going to prosecute her.
Edward: If you come here to hurt that little girl, I -- I -
Jason: I didn't realize it was you who took care of that stuff.
Spinelli: Well, the grass does not trim itself.
Jason: Be a little faster if you didn't do it one blade at a time, wouldn't it?
Spinelli: Stone Cold, it's -- it's not about getting it done faster. It's about being at one with each blade of grass, passing through the dharma gate, understanding without words.
Jason: Yeah, when Carly decorated this place, I -- you know, I didn't really understand why she put all this grass stuff -- I still don't get it.
Spinelli: Well, I can explain. It brings a natural element to help balance out the decor.
Jason: Well, thanks for taking care of it.
Spinelli: Perhaps it's because I'm in a calmer state after my communion with nature, but it seems the master is troubled.
Jason: Yeah, I went up to the rehab to talk to Monica to basically tell her that I'm not going to be able to see her when she gets back to the house.
Spinelli: Because of your new responsibilities?
Jason: No, because I can't do what she wants me to do. You know, I -- I want to help her, but I can't walk away from the business.
Spinelli: Especially at this crucial time and in light of the new disturbing information I've uncovered.
Jason: It's about Sonny?
Claudia: You claim to be out of the business.
Sonny: It's not just a claim. I am, cross my heart.
Claudia: And hope to die.
Ric: What do you want, Claudia?
Claudia: The Zacchara family is taking you at your word that this isn't just a ploy, that you're not biding your time to come after us, and you are the legal representative of this family, so we trust that you're always working in our best interest, doing your best to get John home safe.
Sonny: Let's just say for the sake of argument that I'm secretly still in the business. Why would I put in with Ric?
Claudia: Oh, because he's brilliant and highly motivated.
Sonny: Yeah, but we don't really like each other.
Claudia: No, well, you know what? Churchill didn't really like Stalin, but he still needed him to win the war. Now, maybe you got the idea that the Zacchara family would be thrown into chaos and vulnerable if Johnny were to disappear, and Ric here is in a unique position to make that happen.
Ric: You know what? These are all really interesting observations, Claudia, but I have some place I need to be. Thanks, Sonny.
Sonny: I don't like to be threatened.
Claudia: I don't recall making any threats.
Sonny: Well, you were dangling that you might tell Ric that I'm doing business with Karpov.
Claudia: I got your attention, didn't I?
Lourdes: Your parents must be freaking out.
Lulu: About what?
Lourdes: You moving to New York with this hot guy. I mean, Sal would hunt me down like I was some type of -- I don't know -- criminal. Does your family know about Joe?
Lulu: Yeah, yeah, they know about him, but I am past the age where they tell me what to do.
Lourdes: What about Joe?
Lulu: Joe is past that age too.
Lourdes: Is he close with his family?
Lulu: We don't really worry about what our family thinks. We are just focused on us and starting our new lives.
Lourdes: See, that's what's so weird. I mean, you guys move do here from Chicago, and you're about to start college soon, and I hardly ever see you leave this building. Now, I think Joe going downstairs was the first time he's ever left this apartment. It's like you guys are hiding out here or something.
Jul 31, 2008 06:54
Monica: Well, don't all knock yourselves out at the welcome.
Edward: Welcome home, dear.
Alice: So nice to have you home, Dr. Q. You have a seat right here.
Monica: Look, I was in rehab. Not an old folks' home.
Tracy: Well, Scott, I think now would be a good time for you to leave. You could go under your own steam, or perhaps we could enlist Alice here to try one of her signature moves. How about the "spinning impaler"?
Alice: Ooh, that's a good one. But I wouldn't want to upset Dr. Q.
Monica: Upset her? No, actually, it would make her day.
Alice: Oh.
Scott: Take it easy, Alice, all right? Throwing me out isn't going to do any good. Because all of you could be brought up on charges.
Monica: Whoo, happy days.
Scott: Except you, Monica. You see, Lulu was living here while she was planning Johnny's escape, so you're all guilty of aiding and abetting. All I have to do is call the judge and get a warrant. This is water.
Monica: Ok, Scott. Get your warrant if you want, but in the meantime, this is my house and you are trespassing. So Alice, I think you should go ahead and try out your "spinning impaler."
[Knuckles crack]
Scott: All right, listen. I'm going to be back. With a lot of police.
Tracy: Bring backup.
Edward: You'll need it.
Tracy: So, Monica. How's it feel to be back?
Monica: Like I've walked into a house of morons.
Nikolas: Any word on Lulu?
Lucky: I was hoping maybe you'd heard from her.
Nikolas: No, I haven't.
Lucky: The Zaccharas, they're set up to get somebody out of town in a hurry. They'd have vehicles, they'd have money, they -- they'd have it ready and waiting.
Nikolas: I know, yeah. Well, if that's the case, then the odds are Lulu's safe. I mean, I honestly doubt that Johnny was really holding her hostage.
Lucky: Then why hasn't she called yet?
Nikolas: Lucky, because one reason is, you're a cop and she wouldn't want to put you in that position.
Lucky: I'm her brother. She knows that. That comes first.
Nikolas: What's going on? Something else happen? Huh?
Lucky: I was on the computer at the office, and I was trying to find a lead. Three, four in the morning -- I was fried, I was getting nowhere. I thought I should maybe lay down, so I found this couch in an empty office. You know, I just wanted to catch, like, 15 minutes. I'm starting to fall asleep as I'm lying there. As I start to drift, I wake up, because I feel like I'm having this panic attack. My heart is just pounding against my chest. Because I feel like if I -- if I let myself fall asleep, that I'm going to keep plunging into this darkness. I don't know. I just feel like I'm losing it.
Nikolas: No I wouldn't say that, Lucky. I think maybe you're afraid to lose more than you already have. Mom's basically gone. You lost your wife. Your dad's M.I.A. with a bad heart. Lulu's on the run. Your girlfriend's going undercover with a bunch of drug dealers. I understand.
Lucky: Sam, that's what's she's doing. She'll be ok. You're right about Lulu.
Nikolas: What about you?
Lucky: What about me?
Nikolas: Are you ok?
Lucky: I'm not the one that's being hunted -
Lucky: Just afraid that we're not going to see Lulu alive again.
Lulu: Things are going to get a little crazy once I start school and Joe's into the whole music thing, so right now we're enjoying the time that we have together.
Lourdes: This is New York, ok? There are millions of musicians trying to get work, and being good isn't enough. Yeah, Joe needs to put himself out there. Trying to get stuff.
Lulu: He will.
Lourdes: He's wasting his time and who knows what opportunities? He can't do this halfway.
Lulu: We can do this however we want.
Lourdes: If Joe's going to have a real chance at making it, it's going to mean late nights and clubs and parties. Talking to the right people. He's going to need someone to hang with that. Not some clingy girl that's going to hold him back. No offense.
Johnny: All loaded up.
Lourdes: Thanks for helping Sal out.
Johnny: Yeah, glad I could do it.
Lourdes: Linda and I were just talking about how you need to get yourself out there. Show the world all that talent and that killer smile of yours. Now, I know a couple people at some clubs that can set you up.
Johnny: Thanks, but I'm not ready yet.
Lourdes: Well, if you change your mind, just let me know.
Johnny: Thank you.
Lulu: That girl is trouble.
Nikolas: Look, I'm terrified for Lulu, too, but I also have a lot of faith in her. She'll make it through this.
Lucky: You're right. You know, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have this meltdown with you. I mean, you have your home life to contend with. A new clinic. It's been used to funnel counterfeit drugs and -
Nikolas: Yeah, right. Not to mention an overzealous nurse that wants to ride to the rescue all the time.
Lucky: What do you know about this Dr. Matt Hunter?
Nikolas: Oh, god, please tell me that you're not buying into Nadine's suspicions, too, are you?
Lucky: You think she's wrong?
Nikolas: Well, I think that she's caught up in the drama of trying to prove something -- anything.
Lucky: Yeah, Sam, she's going through the same thing. You know, I admire the way she's putting herself out there, but this whole undercover feels -- it's not wrong, exactly -
Nikolas: No, I know, but it's not wrong, but it feels out of character for her.
Lucky: Right.
Nikolas: When Nadine -- this nurse -- goes on about her clues and theories, it kind of reminds me of the way we all used to be, you know? The four musketeers. You know, it really makes me miss Emily. A lot.
Lucky: You know, it's not the same. It's a different kind of loss. But I miss Elizabeth, too.
Nikolas: Yeah. She was the love of your life. You thought you were going to spend the rest of your life with her.
Nadine: Just keep that bandage dry and we'll see you in a couple of weeks, ok?
Patient: Thank you.
Nadine: You're welcome.
Matt: What the hell?
Nadine: Oh. I was just spot checking the meds. I figure we can't be too careful.
Matt: The meds have already been switched before they come in here. No one is sneaking in and -
Nadine: Switching them? That's what you were going to say, right?
Matt: Yeah, but -
Nadine: That's not what I was doing.
Matt: I never said it was.
Nadine: Ok, if you even mention this to Nikolas, I mean, if my name is even associated with the counterfeit drugs, I could lose my job. I'd be totally screwed.
Matt: I know that. And I also know that you don't need a raise. Nikolas just gave you one.
Nadine: Right. As if that even -
Matt: What? What?
Nadine: My sister was caught sabotaging the hospital to set it up for this big HOM takeover. So it took a long time and a lot of phony smiles before people stopped looking at me with suspicion, wondering if I was capable of the same thing. I think everyone's capable of something like that if they get pushed far enough into a corner, don't you?
Matt: Why are you telling me all of this?
Nadine: The amount of money they offered my sister -- I couldn't make that in ten lifetimes at this job. Not even with the money Nikolas offered me with this big huge raise.
Matt: What the hell are you up to?
Monica: If this weren't so insulting, it would be laughable. Water in the vodka bottle. What's in the scotch and bourbon decanters? Root beer?
Edward: Well, we just didn't want you to have to face temptation.
Monica: Do you think you can hide liquor from a dedicated drunk?
Tracy: You certainly became an expert.
Alice: Miss Tracy. I don't think that's the way -
Tracy: You're not paid to think. Monica, when you left, we found booze all over the house, in every water bottle.
Edward: Mm-hm. Do you know that cook tried to put a fire in the kitchen and nearly burned down the house?
Monica: Well, cook should have had a fire extinguisher. Anyway, it's my house, and if it burns down, so be it.
Edward: Monica, but -- we are your family, dear, and we are standing by you.
Monica: Well, then, stand by me. Don't condescend to me. Don't talk down to me or walk on eggshells.
Edward: Fine.
Tracy: Fine. If that's the way you want it. And how about you? Drop this childish habit of saying "it's my house."
Monica: Because it is my house. Alan gave it to me.
Tracy: And we're all squatters.
Monica: Well, basically. I have allowed you to stay here.
Edward: It is a family estate, dear, and like it or not, we are your family.
[All talking at once]
Spinelli: I checked Mr. Sir's offshore accounts and found money transfers from one of Mr. Karpov's holding companies. It is a most distressing situation. And you know, now that I've brought this information to light, I am worried -
Jason: You did good.
Spinelli: What does Stone Cold plan to do now?
Jason: Nothing for now.
Spinelli: Well, no doubt this betrayal cuts deeper in light of your mother's plea.
Jason: One thing has nothing to do with the other, Spinelli.
Spinelli: You turned your back on your family to work for Mr. Sir. And now must distance yourself further from your mother as well as Jake and Elizabeth, because running the mob makes them a target. All this, you did for Mr. Sir. And now he repays you by turning to the enemy. You may not say it, Stone Cold, but I will. Knowing your true nature, you deserve better.
Lulu: Either her crush has gotten dangerous, or she has the idea that we're hiding something.
Johnny: Tell me what she said.
Lulu: She wanted to know why we weren't leaving the apartment.
Johnny: And what did you say?
Lulu: Basically that we can't get enough of each other.
Johnny: Oh, so you were honest.
Lulu: She wasn't thrilled. I mean, I think she seriously wants to be the piano teacher's pet.
Johnny: I can handle a simple crush, Lulu.
Lulu: Oh, so you're used to girls throwing themselves at you.
Johnny: Hey. The one that I really cared out did just the opposite, remember? You pushed me away.
Lulu: Yeah, not anymore.
Lourdes: Linda? Joe? It's me.
Johnny: Oh, my god.
Lourdes: Are you up for giving me another lesson?
Johnny: Sure.
Lulu: Wow, ok. Guess I'll be making dinner.
Johnny: Go on. We'll pick up where we left off.
[Clears throat]
Lourdes: I hope you're not mad at me for interrupting, Johnny.
Patrick: Ok, so, what do you think?
Robin: I think you should call your dad and see what they want for dinner.
Patrick: Robin, what do you think about the patient?
Robin: I'm worried about my mother.
Patrick: That's all we've done, is worry about your mother. Your mom and Eli. What about me? What about spending a little time with the baby's father?
Robin: I want to do that, too.
Patrick: But?
Robin: But my mother at a dinner with your father, who happens to look exactly like you -- so what if she rebounds?
Patrick: We're not going to do this. We're not going to do this. We're not going to think about your mother and my father getting together romantically. It's not going to happen. So we're not going to do this.
Robin: You're right. You're right.
Patrick: You're right.
Robin: It's totally silly.
Patrick: Ok.
Robin: So.
Patrick: So, what do you think?
Robin: I'll be right back.
Noah: I think, in time, you're probably going to miss Eli and that rock star thing.
Anna: Ah, no. Not in the slightest. No. I swear. When they were wheeling him out of my life forever, I didn't even have the smallest twinge of regret. Nothing.
Noah: Ok.
Anna: Oh, my gosh.
Noah: What?
Anna: No. You know what I'm thinking? That last summer, when I was attracted to you because I thought you looked like Eli?
Anna: Maybe I was attracted to Eli because he looks like you.
Noah: Probably should say something noble right now. What the hell.
Matt: You've been dropping hints every single time that we talk, so if you have a business proposal, just come out and make it.
Nadine: How do I know I can trust you?
Matt: You can trust that I'm sick of being poor. And you can trust that I would love to get my hands on the kind of money that they offered your sister. So tell me something useful, or stop wasting my time.
Nikolas: Hey, hey, don't speak her that way. Not ever.
Nadine: Nikolas. He -- he -- Nikolas: I don't care. It doesn't matter. You treat her with respect or you're done here, do you understand?
Matt: Yeah. Yeah.
Nikolas: Go.
Nadine: You totally blew it.
Nikolas: I don't -
Nadine: I was just about to get him to admit something!
Nikolas: This needs to stop. This is getting ridiculous.
Nadine: I was getting it all on voice mail. N
ikolas: Give this to me. No more investigating.
Nadine: Wait a minute.
Nikolas: Just leave Matt Hunter alone and stay out of trouble, will you? God.
Nadine: Oh!
Jason: I don't want to accuse Sonny of anything yet, you know? There's got to be something -- there's got to be something else going on. You've got to believe it. You've got to believe maybe he's getting information from Karpov. Maybe he's in such deep grief over Michael that Karpov's taking advantage of him. I don't know.
Spinelli: Perhaps -- with all due respect, perhaps Stone Cold needs to believe that because the alternative is too painful. That Mr. Sir, a man you once looked on as a father and a person you respected above all others is maybe not deserving of your loyalty. That he's truly betrayed you.
Claudia: Oh, that was a long and intense phone conversation.
Sonny: Were you spying on me?
Claudia: Oh, come on, it's not that hard to figure out it was Karpov. You should enjoy it while it lasts. Because sooner or later, Jason is going to figure it out.
Sonny: Jason's better off not knowing.
Claudia: He wouldn't be worthy of the trust you put in him if he couldn't figure it out. But see, I think you want him to. I think it's a slap in the face because he helped Carly take away your kids.
Sonny: I'm acting in Jason's best interest.
Claudia: Keep telling yourself that. When it sounds like revenge and it looks like revenge, baby, it's revenge.
Johnny: My name's Joe.
Lourdes: No, it's not. I saw the news bulletin. You're John Zacchara, son of mob boss Anthony Zacchara. You killed some guy upstate and took your girlfriend as hostage, except obviously she's no hostage.
Johnny: I did not murder Logan Hayes. It was self-defense, ok? But his father is the special prosecutor and he was trying to put me away on murder. I'm not saying that I'm a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm no killer.
Lourdes: See, that's why I didn't tell Sal or anybody else. Your father killed mine. And if Sal knew the truth, he would put a bullet through your head.
Johnny: I know. And I can't defend what my father and his people did to your dad. And I understand if you and Sal hate me.
Lourdes: You're a good person. And you don't have to worry. I won't tell anyone your secret. I won't say that you're John Zacchara.
Aug 1, 2008 05:09
Lulu: I'm glad we came here. I like seeing the places you loved as a little boy.
Johnny: I just wish you could have met professor siegel.
Lulu: I think he'd be happy that he helped us hide. But we can't stay here anymore. Lourdes knows that we are not joe and linda from chicago. And we can't risk her turning us in.
Johnny: I've never felt safer than i feel here with the two of us.
Lulu: All i have done is cause trouble for you. If i go back to port charles, i can turn myself in, and you can finally get away for good. Not just from the cops, but from your father and your family.
Johnny: Are you saying you want to leave me?
Sam: Oh, my goodness.
Lucky: Good morning.
Sam: Are you ready to play doctor?
Lucky: Don't tempt me the way i've been missing you.
Sam: I keep telling myself the deeper undercover i go, the sooner we find out who is smuggling the phony drugs, and the sooner we can have a very public reconciliation. And stop -- mm-mmm. Mm-hmm.
Spinelli: Subdued greetings, stone cold.The jackal regrets he has to inform you of another daunting development.
Jason: Yeah. Just go ahead, say it.
Spinelli: Mr. Sir has received a second transfer into his account in the grand keys. The payer is one of commandant karpov's holding companies.
Sonny: So i made a call to the union bosses. Can't wait to meet you. Whenever you're ready, i'll get everybody together and introduce you.
Karpov: Then i was right. This alliance works for both of us.
Max: Ms. Howard.
Kate: Bonjour, max.
Max: We weren't expecting you back so soon.
Kate: Oh, wait. I have something for you.
Max: Ok.
Kate: Ah. Voila.
Max: Thank you.
Kate: I hope it fits.
Max: Great.
Kate: Ok, now, where is my fiance?
Max: I'm sorry. You can't go in there right now.
Kate: I can't wait another second to -- oh.
johnny: Don't push me away now, lulu. We're in this together.
Lulu: What about lourdes?
Johnny: Lourdes is fine. I talked her down. She's not going to tell anyone who we really are.
Lulu: You think because she has a major crush on you that she's in your corner?
Johnny: Ooh, somebody's jealous.
Lulu: No, i am scared.
Johnny: Lourdes is fine, ok? What's the harm of a little crush if it's going to help her keep our secret?
Lulu: The zaccharas killed her father. A part of her has to want revenge.
Johnny: Is that what you would say if it were your father?
Lulu: Yes. I don't blame you for what your family has done. I know that you're different, but lourdes doesn't.She may be quiet for now. But eventually she's going to want more.
Johnny: She can't have more. I'm all yours.
Lulu: Trust me. I'm not blaming lourdes. She sees the cutest guy in the world, and she knows his deepest darkest secret. And she sees that as an emotional connection. Eventually, she is going to try to seal it with a kiss, and you are going to turn her down. And she'll be upset, and who knows what she is going to do. But it's going to be bad.
Johnny: You've got it all figured out, don't you?
Lulu: Even of she doesn't go to the police, i could see her telling this whole story to her brother. So before we have some lovesick piano student and her gang-banger brother breathing down our necks, we need to figure out what we're going to do.
lourdes: It's lourdes.
Lulu: Hi, lourdes.
Lourdes: Hi, johnny. Are you busy?
Nikolas: Hey, claudia. It's nikolas. I'd appreciate a call back from you. I still haven't heard from lulu. I need to know if your brother has gotten in touch with you. Thanks. Working hard?
Nadine: That's what you pay me for.
Nikolas: You need some help?
Nadine: No, thanks.You've helped enough. Unless you don't trust me to do this either.
Nikolas: Nadine, rearranging the coffee bar is a long way from going undercover and trying to incriminate matt hunter.I'm not going to apologize for stopping you.
Sam: Stop. Ok, ok. Stop, stop, stop. We need to stop before someone catches us. You know, the only good thing about this separation is it makes me want you more.
Lucky: No, worse is just pretending that we don't care about each other.
Elizabeth: Hey, nikolas.
Elizabeth: I knew i'd find you here.
Nikolas: Here to help?
Elizabeth: No, no. I'm sorry. But can i speak with you? Maybe we can go in the back room.
Nikolas: Yeah.
Nadine: There are some patients in the back, but i can give you some privacy. It's not like i have anything better to do.
Elizabeth: Is she ok?
Nikolas: Yeah, she'll get over it. What's going on?
Elizabeth: Well, i hate to bother you with this again, but i am still really worried about lucky.
Maxie: Well, i e-mailed them to you five minutes ago, and as soon as you take a look at them, we can put this story to bed.
Matt: Listen, you wacked-out bimbo.
Maxie: Thank you so much, marcel. You have no idea how grateful kate will be. Excuse me. I'm conducting business here.
Matt: Where's my garage door opener?
Maxie: How would you like it if someone just barged into the o.R. While you were performing surgery? Oh, that's right. No one trusts you enough to let you perform surgery.
Matt: Ok, you stole my garage door opener. I couldn't get my car out of the garage to get to surgery.
Maxie: Hey, i'm very busy. I have better things to do than play "who took my garage door remote" with you.
Matt: Ok, look. I get that you don't like me. Really, i don't care. Join the club.
Maxie: You don't think you've earned it?
Matt: I get up, i go to work. I mind my own business.I come home.
Maxie: You ate my tofu.
Matt: No, no, no. See, i don't touch the stuff.
Maxie: It disappeared. Along with mac's bologna.
Matt: Oh, wait. By tofu, do you mean that gelatinous white substance that looked like it was grown in a petri dish? Because -- like, i put that down the disposal. The disposal didn't even like it. But the bologna was great. Thank you.
Maxie: You have your own shelf in our refrigerator, so feel free to buy yourself some groceries and put them on it.
Matt: I was hungry and the bologna looked great. And it was delicious, actually. So can i just get my garage door opener and --
maxie: If you lost it, you're going to have to pay to replace it, or better yet, just find another place to live, ok?
Matt: No. Really, i like where i live. The location's great. And it bugs the crap out of you. So, i mean, really, it's perfect.
Spinelli: Has stone cold given more consideration to a course of action vis-a-vis mr. Sir's dealings with the russian rogue?
Jason: I haven't decided anything yet.
Spinelli: It may be seen as a sign of weakness to dally for too long. I mean, even if mr. Sir considers sharing his knowledge of the inner workings of his former organization, it could give the russian rogue an opportunity to formulate an attack plan.
Jason: I can't believe sonny's going to give karpov anything that's going to hurt me.
Spinelli: Your faith in mr. Sir is touching, if not a bit misplaced, given that he's having secret meetings with the enemy.
Jason: I don't know what sonny's doing, spinelli.
jason: Yes.
Diane: Jason, i'm due to file these articles of incorporation at the courthouse in a few minutes.
Jason: Can you give us a few minutes, please?So how long have you known sonny's been working with andrei karpov?
Kate: I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were in the middle of a meeting.
Sonny: No, no, no.
[Kate laughs]
kate: I just couldn't wait to see you.
Sonny: Oh, i see. We're just finishing up. How was your trip?
Kate: It can wait, sonny.
Karpov: You two shouldn't delay your reunion for me. Your wife is charming.
Kate: Oh, actually, we're not quite married yet, but i do like the sound of that. Your wife.
Sonny: Kate howard, the future mrs. Corinthos, this is andrei karpov.
Kate: Mr. Karpov, it's a pleasure.
Karpov: Indeed. I will find my own way out.
Sonny: No, i'll let you out. I'll let you out.
Kate: Good-bye.
Sonny: Thank you. We'll do it again.
Karpov: Yeah.
Sonny: I missed you
kate: Mm-hmm So --
sonny: Yeah.
Kate: Andrei karpov. I don't remember you mentioning him.
Sonny: Probably not. He's new.
Kate: Mm-hmm. Look at you. Taking over the world without any ties to the mob.
Sonny: Forget about that. How was paris?
Kate: Oh, paris. Paris is far too romantic a city not to be with the one that you love. I can't wait to be there with you.
Sonny: Next time. I promise.
Kate: You promise?
Sonny: Yeah.
Kate: Ooh. So --
sonny: Hmm?
Kate: What have you been doing while i was away?
Sonny: Oh, just missing you, basically, you know, but you're here now so make it up to me.
Kate: All right
Lourdes: You know how you can't stop going over and over the notes in your head? That's what keeps happening to me. I keep dreaming about our lessons. I really do.
Johnny: Well, you're very talented, lourdes.
Lourdes: In my dreams, you're not joe. You're johnny. You don't mind me calling you johnny, do you?
Johnny: Don't you have some errands to run?
Lulu: You want me to leave, now?
Johnny: Well, you might as well. I'm going to be caught up with this lesson.
Lourdes: I'm a little early. I couldn't wait.
Lulu: Oh, yeah, that's fine. I have plenty to do.
Lourdes: I don't think lulu likes the idea of leaving us alone.
Johnny: Well, you're the only one who knows who i really am. And since my father and his people had your dad killed, she thinks you might hate me for it.
Lourdes: But you had nothing to do with my dad's murder, right?
Lourdes: That's why i could never hate you, johnny.
Lulu's right. If sal found out, he would kill you.
Johnny: That's why you can never tell him.
Lourdes: If lulu just knew me a little, she'd know i wouldn'tlet anything happen to you.
Johnny: Thanks. That means a lot to me.
Elizabeth: Lucky is frantic with worry over lulu. And i know you are, too. But with lucky being a cop, he's trained to take action. And instead, he's sitting in that squad room, day after day, listening to baldwin make lulu an accessory to murder.
Nikolas: So what are you thinking? That lucky might be a loose cannon here?
Elizabeth: I'm thinking he needs someone to confide in. He's going to turn all of his anger and his fear in on himself. And you've seen how bad that can be.
Nikolas: Yeah, i know. But he's been sober a long time. I don't think he'll do anything that self-destructive.
Elizabeth: Me neither. But the worst thing for him is to feel helpless. It goes against his nature.
Nikolas: Well, i could talk to him about it.
Elizabeth: Ok. But he's not going to confide in you.'Cause he knows you are as worried about lulu as he is.
Nikolas: What are you saying? What would you like me to do?
Elizabeth: I am saying lucky needs sam. He trusted her. He confided in her. She would understand what he's going through.
Nikolas: I thought that you didn't trust sam.
Elizabeth: Well, i've seen how good they can be together. And it's the worst possible time for them to be breaking up.
Nikolas: I certainly agree with that Ok. Well, i'll see what i can do to help.
Elizabeth: Thank you.
Nikolas: All right. Bye.
[Sam clears throat]
sam: That was, um, awkward.
Diane: Sonny's business dealings are covered by attorney-client privilege. I can no more volunteer information about him than i can disclose your dealings to him. However, now that you know the truth, sonny believes that his work with karpov neither conflicts with nor compromises you in any way.
Jason: Ok. Wow, that's -- what do you believe, diane? You and max could have warned me that sonny's working with andrei karpov.
Diane: I urged sonny in the strongest possible terms. I begged him, jason, to make a full disclosure, and he declined.His attitude appeared to be that you never needed to know he was working with karpov, and then if you did find out, you would simply assume that sonny, in fact, was acting in your best interests.
Karpov: Did the shipment arrive?
Jerry: Right on schedule. Does this place fit your purposes?
Karpov: Indeed. Keep this up, and we'll do very well together.
Jerry: Yes, i heard counterfeit drugs were good business. You've clearly turned it into an industry.
Karpov: That's just barely touching the surface. The real money is in the hard stuff. If that's not a problem for you, we'll all be rich.
Jerry: Well, there will be only one problem for any of us. And that's jason morgan.
Karpov: Not to worry.
Morgan has been handled.
Kate: So i hired helmut to take the photos. You're going to love him. And -- oh, i found the perfect cufflinks. Now i hope you don't mind. I picked them up for you.
Sonny: Very nice.
Kate: Oh, you like them. Why are you all cross-eyed?
Sonny: I'm not. I mean -- no, i couldn't come up with anything nicer, yeah. But you know what? It just seems like you're more excited about planning the wedding then you are about marrying me.
Kate: Are you being serious?
Sonny: Well, i'm just saying.
Kate: Ok, fine. You know what? We're just going to stop all this planning right now. Yeah, we are. And you and i, we're going to go to vegas or mexico or your island, and we're going to get married. Just you and me
sonny: And not have the wedding of the century? You would -- you couldn't live with yourself.
Kate: Sonny corinthos, you are the reason for all of this. I finally found the man that i want to marry, all right? It happens to be the man that i very first fell in love with. So, yes, i am enjoying myself with all of this planning. And i am sure i'm going to make myself completely crazy over something like cocktail napkins. But at the end of the day, the bottom line, what really matters is when the minister pronounces you and i husband and wife. He's talking about us. Everyone else can just simply disappear. And we can begin the rest of our lives together.
Sonny: Your designer dress would be wasted.
Kate: Nothing's wasted on you.
[Cell phone vibrates]
sonny: Are you vibrating?
Kate: Well, are you in the room? I have to go to work.
Sonny: You have to go to work? What do you mean?
Kate: I have to go to work. I'm sorry. I'm going to make it up for you. You know what? Actually, i have a littlepresent for you in this bag. Sonny: Really?
Kate: I do, yeah. I was going to save it for our honeymoon, but i think i'm going to show you a little paris tonight.
Sonny: I'll make you a special dinner.
Kate: Oh, my goodness. He's gorgeous, and he cooks. How lucky am i. Au revoir.
Sonny: Max, you're lurking.
Max: I'm sorry, boss.
Sonny: Well, you should be, because you know i'm not supposed to be interrupted when i'm having a meeting with karpov. Especially, ms. Howard. I don't want her to know that i'm doing business with him.
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