February 6, 2002 Transcript
"We Would Both Like to See you Walk Out of Here Tonight"

Sonny: It's all right. I'll make this go away.

Courtney: I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't run that red light.

Sonny: Ok, this is -- this is important, all right? Don't say anything to anyone except --

Courtney: But his --

Sonny: Shh!

Courtney: His sister is lying!

Sonny: Listen to me. It's Alexis' job to get Taggert removed from the case. Yours is to keep quiet. The more you say, the more they'll twist what you say --

Courtney: I am innocent.

Sonny: For the last time, ok? For once, you got to listen to me. Do not say another word.

Sonny: Taggert. Don't do this. You'll regret it.

Taggert: You threatening this police officer, Sonny?

Sonny: I'm going to threaten this whole damn department if you peruse this. You got a personal interest against me. You're the last person who should be assigned to this case.

Taggert: I was the first person on the scene.

Sonny: Then file a report and turn it over to somebody else.

Taggert: You mean somebody on your payroll, right?

Sonny: You do not want to use my sister to come after me, Taggert.

Taggert: Elizabeth Webber is in surgery right now, ok? She could die. Do you get that?

Sonny: Yeah, I get it.

Taggert: Your sister was behind the wheel of the car that put her there, ok? Now, if your sister is so innocent, why is it two of your goons beat the emergency team to the scene, huh? Why were they there, helping her flee the scene when I showed up?

Sonny: They were assisting her to a stoop so she could be, you know, at a safe place from the accident. That's what's going on.

Taggert: A stoop?

Sonny: Yeah, yeah.

Taggert: Where, in Benson hurt, Sonny? How is it they were there so soon, huh? Maybe it's because you have a habit of having people tailed. Courtney found out she was being followed, she started speeding, she ran a red light.

Sonny: You can't get me on your own, so you're going to try to get to me through a 20-year-old girl?

Taggert: Whatever it takes, Sonny.

Alexis: It's going to take a hell of a lot.

Alexis: Did Ms. Matthews actually leave the scene of the crime? I mean, did you or one of your police officers have to pursue her?

Taggert: You know what? If I didn't show up when i did, Sonny and his goons would have had her at the Canadian border by now.

Alexis: No, that's not what I asked you. But I'll take that as a no. Ms. Matthews did not leave the scene of the crime. You're just using his sister as a way to provoke Sonny, which would be abusing your position as a police officer to carry out a personal vendetta. Let me ask you something. Did you order a blood alcohol test on your sister, or are you dragging that out to buy her some time?

Taggert: Both suspects are being treated exactly the same, despite the fact that only one of them is guilty. Now, you know, your client may be new in town, but she's already chosen to protect Sonny, ok? Just like she chose to lie when two of Sonny's goons accosted A.J. Quartermaine right in front of her. You know, for somebody who's known Sonny only a couple weeks, you catch on fast. And that doesn't exactly inspire my confidence in her truth-telling capabilities.

Officer: Lieutenant?

Alexis: Are you actually going to charge us with something, or can we go?

Taggert: You see, it looks like this -- this situation just got a whole lot more complicated. Looks like your client was driving without insurance.

Sonny: All right. You know what? If mike let his insurance lapse, arrest him.

Taggert: Doesn't work that way. Your client's not going anywhere.

Taggert: Your client was driving without insurance. That's a violation against the motor vehicle code.

Alexis: You know a judge is going to throw that out before the paperwork makes it out of central booking.

Mike: I don't know how all this happened.

Sonny: It's what always happens. You let things slide, and then somebody else gets hurt.

Mike: What, are you blaming me?

Sonny: We both saw Courtney take those keys. If you knew your insurance was expired, why didn't you stop her? Oh, I know why. Because you were too busy playing Mr. Hero, defending her against big bad me, right? You know what? You should just leave before you make things worse.

Courtney: You're threatening to arrest me because my father fell behind on his insurance payments?

Alexis: Courtney, just let me handle this.

Courtney: No, I didn't do anything wrong!

Taggert: You know, driving without insurance is against the law.

Alexis: What, are you going to let him bait you?

Courtney: It was an honest mistake, ok? I didn't know that my father --

Alexis: Courtney --

Courtney: Didn't have insurance.

Alexis: Don't say another word.

Taggert: So your father gave you the car, but he neglected to tell you the information about no insurance, right?

Courtney: No, he didn't tell me because he didn't have the chance. My father and my mom and Sonny were arguing and I didn't want to listen to it anymore, so i grabbed the keys and I left.

Taggert: So you were upset?

Sonny: She's not saying another word. Come on. Ok. You need to quit this. Not another word.

Courtney: My god. You think I did it, don't you? You think this accident was my fault.

Courtney: You think I caused this accident, don't you?

Sonny: It doesn't matter.

Courtney: It does to me. I'm looking you in the eye, swearing up and down that I crossed that intersection on a green, and you believe everybody else.

Andy: Look, Tag, what you're trying to do won't fly.

Taggert: The car Courtney Matthews was driving had no insurance, Mike Corbin let it lapse. My sister and Elizabeth Webber were on the receiving end of her car when she plowed through a red light.

Andy: Give Corbin a ticket, then. But evidence at the accident site indicates that Courtney Matthews wasn't speeding. Her blood alcohol level was normal. Do you have a witness that saw her run the red? All right. Do you have any evidence?

Taggert: Don't ever question my authority. All right? We got a chance to get Sonny Corinthos. His sister's the leverage we've never had.

Courtney: I keep telling you I am not responsible for the accident, and you keep acting like I'm not here, like I need some sort of legal strategy. I am not the one who ran the red light.

Sonny: Ok, you know, it's not that I don't believe you. I'm just -- I'm trying to be smart.

Alexis: Courtney, it's my job as an attorney to separate my personal feelings from my job, and my job is to make this situation go away. There are agendas going on in this police department that you don't know anything about. Now, you may very well be innocent, but --

Courtney: I am!

Alexis: But they are going to twist it to make it look like you are not. It is very idealistic to think that an innocent person telling the truth does not get bullied by the system. He knows that. It doesn't mean that he doesn't believe you. It doesn't mean that i don't believe you. But we both know this game, and we would both like to see you walk out of here tonight.

Sonny: Taggert? If that woman witnessed the crash, why didn't she tell anybody at the scene? Instead she shows up here. Pretty damn convenient. What do you think?

Taggert: Maybe you didn't pay her off quickly.

Sonny: Yeah?

Alexis: The only thing that you've accomplished here is making this longest attempt at harassment of my client over his sister is going to blow up in your face.

Andy: All right, calm down. No one's getting arrested.

Taggert: Yet.

Andy: I spoke with Comm. Scorpio. He's decided to issue Michael Corbin a summons for the insurance and issue Courtney a summons for running the light. So you're free to take her home.

Courtney: Ok.