April 4, 2005 Transcript
"I Will Damn Well do What I Need to Do to Protect my Daughter"

Alexis: Dr. Winters is going to be evaluating our fitness as parents for the family court.

Sonny: Ok. First, we're meeting at a bad time. I just found out Alexis is cutting me out of my daughter's life again. She cannot accept that Kristina is my daughter and no one will stop me from being her father.

Sonny: My son loved, you know, his brother and sister. He risked his life to protect them. And you're going to -- you're going to spit on his sacrifice, on his memory, by taking Kristina away from me?

Alexis: A 9-year-old boy shouldn't have to protect his siblings from anything worse than a bully on the playground. You know that I'm just trying to protect her, you know that your business puts these kids in jeopardy every day -- you know that. And I am asking you for once to put her first.

Sonny: Don't worry about it. I'm going to keep Kristina safe from you and your paranoia. Ok, you got to understand something -- she's going to come up with every excuse she can to keep my daughter from me.

Louise: I'm not a judge. I'm a doctor assigned to evaluate your fitness as parents.

Sonny: I'm going to have my lawyer contact you, set an appointment up.

Alexis: I am concerned about my daughter's well-being. He is involved in an illegal, brutal business where scores are settled with murder. He's prone to ungovernable rages. I believe that my daughter -- I believe that her well-being is threatened in every conceivable way.

Ric: I got your call. What was so urgent?

Sonny: Just came by from seeing your wife.

Ric: Well, you had to know that she was going to revisit the custody issue.

Sonny: Yeah. Hmm. When I went to confront her, the court-appointed shrink was there.

Ric: And I gather you gave less than a favorable impression.

Sonny: Alexis set me up, Ric. I want you to take a message to her.

Ric: What, are you going to give me an order now or you want my help?

Sonny: Ok, you were willing to compromise over Kristina's custody.

Ric: Yeah.

Sonny: Alexis didn't make that possible, all right? She wants a fight, I'llgive her a fight because I'm going to break her. There's not going to be an 11th-hour change of heart or what's good for the kid -- she's gone way too far this time. I'm going to do whatever it takes to get sole custody, and when I do, Alexis will never see her daughter again.

Alexis: My pregnancy with Kristina was completely unplanned. It resulted from one single encounter.

Louise: Is that why you didn't tell mr. Corinthos he was Kristina's father?

Alexis: Dr. Winters, i didn't tell him because i was afraid. I was afraid because his business, his emotional problems, his relationship with his wife is -- it's dysfunctional and unstable. There's a myriad of reasons why I didn't tell him and that I'm afraid that Kristina's well-being is jeopardized.

Ric: So is this the next step in the negotiating process, Sonny? You and Alexis refuse to compromise first and then you decide to hurl threats at one another until one of you backs down first?

Sonny: I'm not backing down, Ric. I'm going to do what I can at any means necessary to keep my kid.

Ric: Kristina loves Alexis.

Sonny: Great. Kristina loves me, too.

Ric: Alexis -- Kristina wants to be with Alexis -- her mother.

Sonny: Well, you know, kids want a lot of things, Ric, that aren't good for them.

Ric: Alexis has her faults, Sonny, all right? Granted -- we all do. I mean, look at the two of us. We've never had a good relationship and recently, I think we've made some kind of progress. I mean, we've actually even given each other the benefit of the doubt once or twice.

Sonny: Mm-hmm.

Ric: All that is going to stop the minute you try to take Kristina away from her mother. I have to side with my wife.

Sonny: Ric. I'd rather not have you as my enemy. I may be doing you a favor. Once I break Alexis, you may have a shot at getting sole custody when your kid's born.

Ric: I'm not going to separate my child from its mother the way I was separated from ours.

Sonny: If you were standing where I am, you might change your mind.

Reese: I'm here. What's the big emergency?

Ric: What, did you bring reese in on your plan now?

Reese: What plan?

Sonny: No -- my brother, he was just leaving.

Ric: "My brother."

Sonny: Well, you're my brother.

Ric: I'm glad -- I'm glad you can say that now knowing full well that I'min the middle of this whole thing between you and Alexis.

Sonny: Well, I just thought i'd say it once because -- you know, before we start hating each other.

Ric: I don't hate you, Sonny, but I'mnot going to deliver some kind of a message to Alexis. I'm going to tell her the same thing I'm telling you -- I think that the custody agreement should stay exactly the same. Kristina is best served by having both of her parents in her life no matter how flawed.

Sonny: Well --

Ric: All right.

Reese: What was that all about?

Sonny: Well, you could decide if I get to keep my daughter.

Alexis: Carly, I'msure you've heard -- I'm very worried about my daughter. I'm seeking permanent custody.

Carly: Michael just died. And you were going to deprive Sonny of contact with his only daughter?

Alexis: This isn't about Sonny, this is about his children. You have always put him first, Carly -- his happiness, his sense of ownership -- sometimes over the well-being of your own children.

Carly: Sonny isn't a danger to his children and you know that, Alexis. It is an excuse that you use when you are feeling insecure. You're doing this out of an obsessive fear of losing Kristina's love and you are so determined to be the only important person in her life. You cling to her, you make sure there are no other options because you cannot put the needs of your daughter ahead of your own.

Alexis: I believe that Morgan's life is in jeopardy. I believe that Michael may have died because you allowed Sonny to adopt him and it breaks my heart that I can't protect Morgan, but I will damn well do what I need to do to protect my daughter.

Carly: Ok, you know Sonny could've taken Kristina away from you before and he didn't. But you know he is not going to hesitate now, and when the dust settles and you've lost Kristina for good, you are only going to have yourself to blame.

Oh.

Lorenzo: Feel better?

Carly: Arguing with Alexis is a waste of breath. You know, that woman is so sure of her own superiority. She is so convinced that she is right about everything, nothing penetrates. The only way to stop her is to hit her where it hurts.

Reese: Alexis.

Alexis: Thank you for coming.

Reese: I was just leaving Sonny's and I got your message. I -- Ii know you're petitioning for sole custody of Kristina.

Alexis: I know by now you're aware how dangerous his life is. I'm afraid for my daughter's life, agent marshall.

Reese: There has been a lot of mob activity recently but Sonny hasn't been implicated.

Alexis: I don't need hard evidence.

[Reese sighs]

Alexis: If you would testify that he is a prime suspect in an ongoing case, it would create reasonable doubt about his care-giving at this point.

Reese: There's been no proof, Alexis.

Alexis: There never is. You and I both know he was involved in those shootings.

Reese: In this country, Sonny is innocent until proven guilty.

Alexis: The person that is innocent is Kristina. She's just been taken out of her home for weeks by a stranger and you're the one who brought her back.

Reese: And I am glad Kristina is safe.

Alexis: How long do you think that's going to last? I need you to help me give my daughter a fighting chance by testifying against Sonny.

Carly: Oh. Sonny, we are going to beat that ice-cold, vindictive little --

Sonny: I guess you've heard about Alexis' petition for sole custody of Kristina?

Carly: Oh! I overheard her talking to the court-appointed shrink.

Sonny: Yeah, Dr. Winters. Alexis and I -- we're both supposed to be evaluated by her.

Carly: Oh, really? Well, she was doing quite a hatchet job on you. I set her straight.

Sonny: Ok, you didn't fight with her in front of the doctor, right?

Carly: Are you kidding me? No way -- allow her to paint herself as the martyred mother? No way.

Sonny: Ok.

Carly: I waited until that shrink left and then I tore into her.

Sonny: You don't have to fight my battles now, Carly. You know that.

Carly: Sonny, it's not your battle anymore -- it's my battle, too. You know what Alexis said?

Sonny: What?

Carly: She said that I was a bad mother for letting you adopt Michael. She said that's the reason he was killed. And then she went on to lecture me about how she felt so bad for morgan and her heart was breaking because he is in jeopardy from his parents. I want to kill her, Sonny. I want to -- I want to grind her into tiny, little bits!

Sonny: Ok, calm down.

Carly: No, Sonny, I don't need to calm down, you see? I'm not the one who needs to be calm -- you need to be calm. You need to -- you need to embrace zen, ok, because you need to give the most flawless presentation of sanity and emotional stability that psychiatrist has ever seen, and I'mgoing to coach you.

Reese: I can only state the facts in court.

Alexis: I know you feel sorry for him, which is why you're protecting him.

Reese: Sonny's son was brutally murdered. Of course I feel sorry for his loss, but I can't take sides in a custody issue.

Alexis: You got close to him when the children were missing --

[reese sighs]

Alexis: And you saw something in him, something that you think you can change. Believe me, I understand that. You are never going to be able to halt the cycle of violence. He's not going to leave the mob. He can't. It's a part of who he is. He feeds on the power. And so for the rest of his life, everyone around him is in danger, particularly members of his family. I don't think I fully understood that until i became a mother. And maybe that's why you can't, because you aren't one.

Reese: I used to be. Excuse me.