February 19, 2004 Transcript
"Did You Tell Sonny That He's Kristina's Father?"

Alexis arrives at Carly's house. She sees Lorenzo there.

Alexis: (to Carly) Can I speak with you alone?

Lorenzo: You make it a habit of barging into other people's houses and ordering them to leave?

Alexis: I asked to speak to Carly.

Carly: Lorenzo's right. Maybe I don't want to speak with you. How can you just come in here and expect a little heart-to-heart chat?

Alexis: I came to make peace, you saved my life, and I would prefer to do it without an audience.

Lorenzo: Yeah, I imagine that'd make you uncomfortable, being the brother of the man you murdered. You know, it still bothers my niece that you've never paid for killing her father. And I tell her not to worry. But sooner or later, you will. I'll be back later to pick you up.

Lorenzo leaves.

Alexis: Did you tell him?

Carly: Lorenzo?

Alexis: Sonny. Did you tell Sonny that he was Kristina's father?

Carly: You hope not, don't you?

Alexis: There's a little girl's life at stake. He'll take her from me, and he doesn't give a damn about my parental rights. I'll give you anything.

Carly: I don't want anything from you, Alexis.

Alexis: You have nothing to gain by doing this, Carly. There's absolutely nothing --

Carly: Ok, Alexis, I'm going to give you a little hint here. You want a favor? You say "please."

Alexis: Please.

Carly: Fine, I will be quiet for now. And you can have your precious daughter all to yourself. But just remember, Alexis, I have a very, very bad temper, and I do not appreciate the way that you look down on me. So be nice, Alexis. Otherwise Kristina will be calling Sonny "daddy" before you know it. Do you understand?

Alexis: Perfectly.

Wyndermere. Emily and Helena are arguing.

Helena: You don't belong in this house.

Emily: I gave Nikolas this house. I bought it for him as a Christmas present. You're the one that doesn't belong here.

Helena: No, you were a tragic mistake for Nikolas. You brought him nothing but pain, and you --

Emily: No, Nikolas and I loved each other.

Helena: No, it was my grandson's infatuation with you that cost him his life. You should have died. You should have bled to death.

Emily: Mom wondered how that tourniquet came loose, but you know, don't you?

Helena: If not for you, Nikolas could have gotten down that stairwell or escaped on the helicopter. He would be alive now!

Alexis: Get away from her.

Alexis: Nikolas has every intention of Emily living in this home.

Helena: Oh, you have no say in this, Natasha.

Alexis: I'm the executor of this estate, which gives me full authority to carry out his wishes. His first is that you be disowned.

Helena: How like you to usurp Nikolas' position now that he's dead. You've never had power, so you have to use his.

Alexis: The only power the Cassadines ever had was based on lies and treachery. Nikolas was the one good thing in a family of maggots incapable of any genuine emotion.

Helena: Oh, and no one ever bestowed any emotion on you because you were the poor little waif that no one could love. Nikolas was far superior to you in every way.

Alexis: Nikolas was superior to every Cassadine that came before him. Stavros and Mikkos were hateful. Stefan had a glimmer of hope until you destroyed it with your constant barrage of cruelty. Nikolas despised all of you.

Helena: Oh, you have no idea how Nikolas felt.

Alexis: I know that Nikolas felt that Emily was the one loving thing that ever happened to him. If anyone has any right to be in this home, it's Emily, and, you, madam, have no authority to force her out.

Helena: Well, Emily is a disgrace, a disgrace to Nikolas' memory, and I don't want her in this house. (Helena turns to Emily) I find it totally unacceptable.

Helena leaves.

Alexis: I'm sorry that you had to hear that.

Emily: No. The hardest part was talking about Nikolas in the past tense. Why is it so easy for you to believe that he's gone? I mean, you're already fighting over his estate and what he would have wanted and who will live where. I mean, they haven't even found the body yet.

Alexis: I meant what I said. You're welcome to stay here as long as you like.

Emily: Well, I'll just stay long enough to say a final goodbye to Nikolas.

Alexis is sitting at Nikolas' desk at Wyndemere when Emily enters the room.

Alexis: I'm just going over some of Nikolas' papers. He never had a chance to change his will.

Emily: What does that mean?

Alexis: It means that the Cassadine estate -- or what's ever left of it -- is being equally divided between Kristina and Lesley Lu.

Emily: Mm-hmm. Luke and Helena are both going to hate that.

Alexis: Well, finally they have something in common.

Emily: Will there be enough money to send the girls to college?

[Alexis sighs]

Alexis: I obviously had planned to send Kristina to college myself, but it was very generous of Nikolas to provide for her. He also left a trust to cover Laura's medical expenses so that she'll be able to remain in her present facility.

Emily: That's good.

Emily wanders towards the couch. Alexis stands up and goes over to her.

Alexis: Emily, you -- you bought him this house. I know he wants you to have it, and if you want it, it's yours. I will do whatever --

Emily: No, no, no, no, I don't -- I don't need money. If the Quartermaines went bankrupt tomorrow, Jason would give me anything I wanted. He has more money than he needs and he never spends it on anything anyway. Yeah, I knew it would be him.

Alexis: (confused) Excuse me?

Emily: Coming out of that hotel. They pulled all the firefighters out, and they said that -- they said anyone left in that building was dead. And I kept explaining that Nikolas and Jason were still in there, but no one would listen. And then I saw someone through the smoke. And I wanted it to be Nikolas, but I knew -- even before Courtney ran in, I knew that it was Jason and that only one of them could live. When Courtney ran in, he was holding her so tightly, and I was screaming inside because I knew that Nikolas would never hold me again.

Alexis gives Emily a hug.

Alexis and Emily are sitting on the couch.

Emily: First of all, you never have to thank me for that. And, second, I'm not even sure that it was a conscious decision. Hmm. The first time that I saw Nikolas, when I was the world's geekiest teenager, and he was -- he was charming and polite and handsome --

Alexis: Mm-hmm.

Emily: And still so incredibly kind. And I think I knew right then that I'd love him forever. And then Nikolas -- he thought that it was just a crush. And for a while I did, too. But I know now that it was love, and it always will be.

Alexis: I think you loved him just right, Emily. I think you loved him selflessly, and I think you were the only one who ever did that for him. Stefan and Helena -- all they cared about was controlling him, and I don't think that I did the right thing, either, because I kept my distance and left him alone and thought that he would come to me if he needed me, and I knew very well that he never asked anybody for anything. You did it just right, Emily. You turned a hopeless crush into something real, and you became his only true love. And he became yours. He loved you, he did, truly and deeply.

Alexis is still on the couch. Emily is standing next to it.

Emily: What do you think will happen to this place?

Alexis: I have no idea.

Emily: Do you think they'll tear it down?

Alexis: I certainly hope so. This house has brought nothing but unhappiness to everyone who's ever lived in it.

Emily: Nikolas and I were going to change that.

Alexis: (stands) I'm sorry, Emily. That was very insensitive of me.

Emily: No, you don't have to apologize. I always thought this was an ugly, gloomy old place, until -- until the night of the Bacchanalia, when there were flowers everywhere and the ballroom was all lit up, and for a little while it was magic. Maybe that's a lesson. Magic doesn't last in this place, just time enough for a first dance, maybe, time enough to fall in love, and then the magic fades. There's no happily-ever-after. Ok, I think I'm the one that should apologize here.

Alexis: For what?

Emily: I'm not going to feel sorry for myself, and I'm not going to spend the rest of my life looking back.

Alexis: I know you won't.

Emily: Is it all right if I look in that desk? I think there's some pictures.

Alexis: Take anything you want. Take it all.

Alexis leaves the room. Emily sits at the desk.