January 7, 2003 Transcript
"He's Not the Father"

Faith and Ned make out on the docks. Ned backs her up against a piling.

Faith: Here?

They kiss more savagely as Alexis arrives at the docks just in time to see them.

Ned and Faith sway along the docks clinging to one another - kissing in between sentences.

Ned: I want to start pushing Corinthos.

Faith: I've been ready for a long time.

Ned: Ok, now, listen. (Faith kisses his neck) His wife is opening a club under Kelly's.

Faith: Mm-hmm. The diner?

Ned: Yeah, you know the place. (Ned kisses her neck)

Faith: Yeah, I've been by.

Ned: Good. They've knocked down some walls in the cellar.

Faith: Mm-hmm.

Ned: I want the details. Sonny's footing the bill.

Faith: Oh. I can check it out.

Ned: Good. I see building violations --

Faith: Mm-hmm.

Ned: Union problems, contractors not showing up -- that kind of thing.

Faith: I can do that.

Ned: You can?

Faith: Mm-hmm. No problem.

Ned: We'll distract Sonny --

Faith: Mm-hmm.

Ned: With this club, and then we'll move on to real money.

Faith: Things keep going wrong till Sonny falls.

Ned: That's right -- and we win big.

Cameron walks toward Kelly's when he sees Alexis outside the door crying and wiping her eyes..

Cameron: Alexis?

She turns around to see him and then turns back.

Alexis: Cameron, this isn't a good time.

Cameron: Is the baby all right?

Alexis: Yes. Yes.

Cameron: Then why are you crying?

Alexis: I'm not crying. It's just my eyes tear when it's cold.

Cameron: Then why don't you go inside?

Alexis: Because I want to stand out here, if that's all right with you.

Cameron: Do you mind if I watch you suffer?

Alexis: You should be used to it by now.

Cameron: Alexis, what's wrong?

Alexis: Don't you have someplace to be right now?

Cameron: No.

Alexis: If I tell you, will you go away?

Cameron: Maybe.

Alexis: (embarrassed) It was Ned and some blonde having sex on the dock.

Cameron: Good for Ned.

Alexis looks up at him surprised.

Alexis: You know, if you hurry up, you could catch them probably still in action and you could root them on.

Cameron: Well, I have to admit I'm surprised.

Alexis: Then you can only imagine how I feel.

Cameron: Why should you care?

Alexis: Because I do, all right? I don't know why. I just do.

Cameron: Seems to me Ned's finally showing some respect for himself.

Alexis: "Respect"? By having sex with a stranger on the dock in the middle of the winter in public?

Cameron: How do you know she was a stranger?

Alexis: You're right. You know what? You're right. I don't have any right to be upset about -- about this. It's none of my business. I've been pushing him away for months, and now he's gone.

Cameron: Except for the baby.

Alexis: Kristina is not your concern.

Cameron: You know, it's interesting -- just from a clinical point of view -- the way you use the child against Ned.

Alexis glares at him and shakes her head.

Cameron: It's sort of narcissism meets control with an undertone of paranoia.

Alexis: I just want to take a minute to catch my breath and then maybe go have a cup of coffee.

Cameron: Mm-hmm. Get back to work.

Alexis: Maybe. (she walks toward Kelly's door)

Cameron: So you don't have to feel the pain.

Alexis: (she flies back to him with her arms outstretched in anger) You know what? Do you have to have the last word? Is that what this is about? Is that why you won't drop this?

Cameron: Kind of. So you caught Ned doing something out of character, and it took you by surprise.

Alexis: Brilliant.

Cameron: So you're a little jealous and a little turned on. (she signs and shakes her head) And you're already planning to use it against him, aren't you? Anything to keep Ned away from his daughter.

Alexis: That is not what's happening at all.

Cameron: So what's the next step, Alexis? You going to drag him into court, declare him unfit, ruin his life?

Alexis: Cameron, you are so off base. Honestly, you don't know what you're talking about. And for some reason, I can't get you to stop talking, but you have no right to be pursuing this conversation --

Cameron: What about Ned's rights as a father?

Alexis: What is this with you and Ned? Why are you so concerned about Ned? You don't even know him.

Cameron: Why can't you appreciate that Ned simply wants --

Alexis: Why can't you appreciate that I don't want to talk about this anymore?

Cameron: Why can't you appreciate that Ned simply wants to be close to his child?

Alexis: Because it's not his child.

She's disappointed in her admission.

Alexis: He's not the father. Are you satisfied?

Alexis: (Shaking her head) I can't believe that I -- I just said that. My god.

Cameron: Ned isn't the father of your baby?

Alexis: Will you just leave?

Cameron: Does he know that?

Alexis: Cameron, leave it alone. (She starts to walk away)

Cameron: You're letting Ned think he's the father, aren't you?

She comes back to him angrily.

Alexis: Do you mean to be such a jerk? Has it ever occurred to you that the biological father may be a problem and that Ned took it upon himself to help?

Cameron: So he does know.

Alexis: Of course he knows. The biological father was asking a lot of questions one night. Ned happened to have been there. He stepped in and declared himself the father before I could stop him.

Cameron: Actually, that's kind of gallant.

Alexis: It was the best solution he could think of at the time. From the start, I planned to be a single parent.

Cameron: Doesn't Ned get any points for trying to help out?

Alexis: I appreciate everything that he's done, but I never asked for his help.

Cameron: Raising a child is a huge responsibility.

Alexis: Which I'm capable of handling.

Cameron: You and Ned were together for a long time, weren't you?

Alexis: We were engaged, and at the moment I'm glad that we're not married.

Cameron: Maybe you could make that count for something if you could find a way to raise this child together.

Alexis: Why do you care about this so much?

Cameron: I appreciate what Ned's trying to do.

Alexis: Is this some sort of a male bonding thing?

Cameron: No. I abandoned my own son.

Carly is at the old speakeasy underneath Kelly's when Faith strolls in.

Carly: What do you want?

Faith: Do you know who I am?

Carly: Who cares?

Faith: You're Sonny Corinthos' wife?

Carly: Yeah, you're Rosco's widow. I saw you at Club 101 with Sammy Tagliati. What do you want?

Faith: (Walks up to the bar) Just to look at the old place, that's all.

Carly: Why?

Faith: My grandmother used to own it.

Faith: I always wondered what this place would look like.

Carly: Grandma never showed you around?

Faith: No. My father told me about it. She had to give him up for adoption when he was just a little boy. All I know is that her name is Catherine and that this place used to be a speakeasy. Do you know that?

Carly: I've heard all kinds of stories.

Faith: Yeah, yeah, my grandfather Marco -- he owned it. Catherine ran the place -- at least that was the plan. There was a big shootout the night it opened. (Walks back around the bar and stands in front of Carly) My family lost everything they had in 30 seconds. Maybe less. You know they say this place is haunted? If you're out in the alleyway at night, you can hear dance music from the 1920s.

Carly: Hmm. Never heard anything. And I don't believe in ghosts.

Faith: Neither do I. Yeah, it's fate. That's what you got to watch out for. It'll turn on you in a second.

Faith stares at her as she turns and leaves.

Cameron: The boys wanted to go to Vermont, but I didn't feel like we had the time, so we stayed in Florida, went deer hunting in the panhandle like we had for years.

Alexis: "The boys" meaning your sons?

Cameron: Yeah. It was the last week of the season, so the woods were full of hunters. I made sure the boys wore their vests.

We start to see Cameron's memory as he speaks. Cameron, dressed in hunting clothes, is walking in the darkened woods with a shotgun under his arm.

Cameron: I was just a few feet ahead, looking for a stand that we'd put up the year before. And then I heard a shot - (gunshot sounds) Way too close.

Cameron turns around and walks through the woods back to where he had come from.

Cameron: I turned around and saw Peter.

We see a young man lying on the ground with blood all over his chest. Cameron leans over his body.

Cameron: He was -- he was on the ground.

Cameron: (His voice wavering) He had taken a hollow point to the chest. There was nothing I could do. My younger boy just stood there. He blamed himself.

The camera pans up the body of the younger boy looking at his brother on the ground. It's Zander Smith.

Cameron: He disappeared after the funeral. I haven't seen him since. He needed his father, and I shut him out.