March 4, 2002 Transcript
"I Think that He's Telling the Truth and I Think
that you Should Listen to Him"

Sonny: You're a liar, Jax.

Jax: What?

Sonny: You never quit. First, you try to shut down my warehouse. Now you're trying to use my sister against me.

Jax: Even you couldn't possibly believe that.

Sonny: You don't think so?

Jax: You know, I'm trying to do you a favor here, Sonny. You're not making this easy.

Sonny: Tell me something, Jax. What noble impulse brought you to me, the man you hate? You're trying to do me a favor?

Jax: Well, as you're so fond of pointing out, you saved my brother once. I figured you've got one coming.

Sonny: Oh. Right.

Jax: There's also the fact that A.J. Quartermaine is dangerous. Now, he may have easily been written off before, but something's changed. Now, I assume it has something to do with Michael, but that's not my concern.

Sonny: And Courtney is your concern?

Jax: A.J. Has the look of a man with nothing left to lose. He's pulled a young, innocent girl into whatever twisted revenge plot he's got concocted against you, and for some reason, i find that unacceptable. But you're right, I do despise you, but I guess not enough to let your sister fend for herself against the likes of A.J. Quartermaine.

Sonny: You're a good liar, Jax, better than I thought.

Jax: A.J.'s probably had Courtney this entire time, which puts him a considerable distance ahead of you when it comes to influence. There's no telling what he's filling her head with.

Sonny: Janine claimed she spoke to Courtney and that she's staying with a friend.

Jax: Courtney's with A.J. And if she's lying to her mother, that means he's gotten to her already.

Sonny: Then what would you like to have happen? You want me to go to A.J., Tear him apart so then the cops can be ready and waiting to take me to jail? Is that what you want?

Jax: You're unbelievably paranoid. You know that?

Sonny: Thanks for the information, Jax. I'll -- you know, I'll keep it in mind. You can go now.

Jax: Listen, Sonny --

Sonny: I -- you can go now.

Alexis: What is going on in here? I can hear the two of you all the way down the hall.

Sonny: Oh, great, you showed up. Take your friend out of here.

Alexis: What did you do?

Jax: I made an error in judgment. Don't worry, it won't happen again.

Alexis: Jax, wait, wait.

Jax: There's no reason for me to stick around. I've said what I'd come to say.

Alexis: Yeah, but I didn't get a chance to hear it, and I would love to hear it. What did you accuse him of this time?

Jax: What happened to you?

Sonny: Let him go.

Alexis: I am not going to let him go, and nothing happened to me. I'm doing what I do. I'm protecting my client.

Jax: Yeah, well, try protecting him from himself.

Alexis: Will someone please tell me what the hell is going on?

Jax: I came here -- after a long, hard debate, I might add -- to help Sonny help his sister.

Alexis: What do you know about Courtney?

Jax: Her whereabouts. Are you listening?

Sonny: He's lying.

Jax: Yeah, see, this is where I came in.

Alexis: Wait, Jax. And this is true?

Jax: You're going to accuse me of lying as well?

Alexis: No. Of course I'm not. Listen to him.

Sonny: I have. I -- over and over again. I'm evil incarnate. I'm -- I'm a threat to all good women everywhere, and that includes you, because, see, Jax has decided to bring me down. That all started by condemning my warehouse. Then he had his trick, Skye, make false accusations about me threatening her. That was a lie like this is a lie, but, see, the difference is he knows damn well that I care about Courtney. And if I thought that A.J. was hurting my sister, I may lose my temper. You understand what I'm saying? Laws can be broken, charges could be brought, and I may even go to prison, which would solve all of Jax's problems. No muss, no fuss. So I could either take Jax's word at face value and walk right into a trap or I could just thank him very politely and ask him to leave, which is what I did. So why are you stopping him?

Alexis: Because I think that he's telling the truth and I think that you should listen to him, and if you don't, I think that you will regret it.

Sonny: All right. One more time, Jax, from the top.

Jax: Ok. I asked Carly about A.J. I wanted to gauge just how bad Courtney's situation could be. She gave me an earful. She told me things about A.J. that probably wouldn't come as a surprise to you because you know what A.J.'s capable of.

Sonny: That's right, I do.

Jax: Well, then admit this is where he's been heading from the start since the first time he laid eyes on your sister. The guy's diabolical. He doesn't care about hurting a young girl to further his vendetta against you.

Sonny: Ok, what about your vendetta against me?

Jax: Oh, come on, could you just take me out of -- could you take me out of the equation long enough to look at this objectively? You took A.J.'s son.

Alexis: He's making sense, Sonny.

Sonny: Ok, so you're saying that A.J. managed to hide Courtney since the night of the accident. Nobody else has seen her but you, the man who would love to see me in jail, who just happened to walk by A.J.'s penthouse and see Courtney? Is that what you're trying to tell me? What are you trying to say, then?

Jax: No, no, no, that's not how it happened, ok? I went to A.J.'s and I saw a jacket that clearly wasn't his or Skye's. And later on, I went to Alexis' and there was a box of clothes with a matching piece.

Alexis: That's exactly right. I had that box out of Courtney's things that I was going to give to Janine, and Jax saw it and he asked about it.

Jax: And later, I went to A.J.'s to investigate. I broke into the place, and your sister -- she whacked me over the head with a laptop. I got to give her this much -- she's brave and stubborn. She's also clearly convinced that A.J. is her friend, someone she can trust. If you're too damn proud to accept this, then you're sister's going to suffer for it. No, no, no. No, you don't. Not so fast.

Sonny: Get out of my way.

Jax: Not until we get something straight. I didn't tell you about A.J. just so you could go over there and kill him.

Sonny: You don't get to say what I do.

Alexis: Think before you act. Think about the consequences and how they're going to affect the people that you care about, and don't do anything that you'll regret.

Jax: Just for the record, if any harm should come to A.J., I'll personally see to it that you're put away.

Sonny: Is everybody finished?

Alexis: Oh, boy.

Jax: No, let him go, Alexis.

Alexis: I'll go with him.

Jax: Let him go.

Alexis: He's going to need an attorney.

Jax: You've done all you can.