April 6, 2005 Transcript
"Because I Love You"

Alexis: I need to meet with you as soon as possible. Yes, it's urgent. That time works for me. Good. I'll see you then.

Ric: What was that all about?

Alexis: I'm going to see a therapist.

Ric: Really? Who?

Alexis: A psychiatrist.

Ric: Well, I gathered that. Is it anybody that I know?

Alexis: She comes highly recommended.

Ric: I'm sure she does. Can I see the name, please?

Alexis: Sure.

Ric: Thanks. Louise Winters?

Alexis: Yes.

Ric: The court-appointed psychiatrist who evaluated you and Sonny?

Alexis: That's right.

Ric: Why her?

Alexis: Because she undersatnds the case, because she knows what I'm dealing with, and I need to start healing.

Ric: You're cute when you lie through your teeth.

Ric: I'm not being critical, Alexis.

Alexis: You just called me a liar. I think that's critical.

Ric: All right, look, if you truly want to start healing, as you say --

Alexis: All right, now you're making fun of me.

Ric: Then you wouldn't use the court-appointed psychiatrist that evaluated you for family court.

Alexis: I'm using Dr. Winters because dr. Winters understands the circumstances, whereas another therapist may not. She knows what I'm dealing with, she's met with Sonny, and she knows what the court expects Kristina to live with.

Ric: Ok, you're hoping to win over Dr. Winters to your side, convince her that sonny is indeed a threat to Kristina so that you can refile your petition for sole custody.

Alexis: How very machiavellian of me. Of course, I'd have to get Dr. Winters to abandon her professional objectivity, her ethics, her job, and the law.

Ric: Oh, redirect, your honor. Opposing counsel is definitely avoiding the topic at hand.

Alexis: "Opposing counsel"?

Ric: Look, Alexis, you know all the tricks. You know how to distract and delay. But you also want to just deal with people who see things your way.

Alexis: Then why would I have married you? See? Lacking foundation, counselor.

Ric: Look, I'm just afraid that you're going to look unbalanced in front of the eyes of the court.

Alexis: The eyes of the court are sympathetic toward me. It's the law that's the problem, and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is try to work on me.

Ric: So you're just going to file your petition for appeal?

Alexis: I'm not ruling that out.

Ric: Oh, ok. So what's the sudden urgency for all the therapy?

Alexis: Aren't you the one that's been hounding me to go to therapy?

Ric: You are such a good lawyer. You know that?

Alexis: I know that I'm deeply in love with my husband. And I know that he loves me, too, and he loves Kristina. And I know how lucky I am to have her and to have his baby. But I'm dealing with a lousy set of circumstances, and there's nothing I can do about it. And I want to be happy for our family, for our future, and I thought that's what you wanted, too.

Ric: It is what I want, more than anything. But I also want to be able to believe you.

Alexis: Then believe me.

Ric: It's a little difficult. How am I supposed to do that?

Alexis: Because I say so, because I love you.

Alexis: Do you know Cassandra? She was the Greek goddess that was given the gift of prophecy and the curse of knowing that her warnings of impending doom would be ignored. That's how I feel. I keep telling everyone who will listen that sonny is a danger to my daughter, but nobody hears me. Why doesn't anybody hear me? They won't listen, including my husband. It's amazing how much I've grown to love my husband. And I know that he loves me deeply, as he does my daughter. But he wants me to behave as if everything's ok, and he wants me to behave as if sonny is living a normal life, as if all children should be surrounded by bodyguards and that it's ok for fathers to keep guns in their desks or in their po-- pockets.

Alexis: He wants me to pretend that Sonny is really a coffee importer and that my sister didn't die because of him and that Kristina is not in danger when she's around him. Oh, my God. She was kidnapped from his home, and her brother was murdered because of one of his enemies. He shot an entire family in cold blood in the middle of a restaurant, and i can't get anybody to care. Why won't anybody hear me? If i protest, they act as if I'm stark raving mad. They want me to make it ok, but it's not ok. It's not ok. Which is why that I'm here. I need help, and I need it now.

Ric: Go ahead.

Lorenzo: I'd like a moment with mr. Durant.

Ric: Yeah, I bet you would.

Lorenzo: You owe my son an apology.

John: Hey, mistakes happen all the time. Diego, my apologies.

Lorenzo: You obviously set up this so-called bust to frighten diego's mother into making a new statement about the Sandoval murders?

John: Ah, so you're admitting that ms. Sanchez saw jason morgan on the scene, she can tie the shootings to corinthos?

Lorenzo: Maria already made a complete statement about what she saw. You are not so subtly pressuring her to lie. I believe the legal term for that is suborning perjury.

John: Ooh. You're better educated that the average drug lord, aren't you?

Lorenzo: I have connections that reach far beyond you, Mr. Durant. If you continue to harass my son, I will use them.

John: I'll tell you what. You do whatever you got to do. Just don't leave town. That goes for you, too.

Lorenzo: Diego.

John: Adios, muchachos.

Ric: That was a cheap stunt, even for you.

john: All right, so I made a mistake on a drug bust. It happens all the time.

Ric: You expect me to believe that?

John: I really don't care what you believe.

Ric: But planting oregano on an innocent kid -- that's absurd.

John: Why would a teenage kid be carrying oregano around in his backpack anyway? Hey, maybe he wants to become a chef.

Ric: Oh, come on, durant, you're so transparent. You're abusing the power of your office by pressuring a witness to make a false statement.

John: Our job is to catch the bad guys --

Ric: Really?

John: To get organized crime off the street. That's right.

Ric: By harassing an innocent kid?

John: Your brother ordered the murder of nine people in public places, including a hospital.

Ric: That's what this is about?

John: That is exactly what this is about. Maybe you don't want to do anything about it. I will.

Ric: Look, if maria sanchez should suddenly change her statement, any good attorney could get it thrown out of court.

John: And any good distRict attorney should be able to make sure that it sticks.

Reese: Whew. That doesn't sound promising.

John: So what's the status on the Sandoval shootings? You made any progress at all?

Reese: No, not yet.

Alexis: Viola has taken Kristina to story time, and then they're going out for hot chocolate, so that leaves us hours.

Ric: I guess I don't have to ask how therapy went.

Alexis: It was cathartic.

Ric: To us.

Alexis: To our family.

Ric: To our future and getting our lives back.

Alexis: The sooner the better.

Ric: Mm-hmm.

[Phone rings]

Ric: Hmm. I got to get that.

Alexis: Later.

Ric: Hmm. I have to. I'm the boss.

Alexis: Learn how to delegate.

Ric: Hmm, well, I will delegate. Just a minute. Hold -- hold that right there. Stop.

[Ring]

Ric: Lansing.

Ofc. Logan: Ric? Logan. Durant ordered an internal investigation.

Ric: For what, the fake drug bust?

Ofc. Logan: Yes, sir.

Ric: What's to investigate? There's no case. You know what? As of right now, there is no investigation either, ok, Logan? Tell him that. Bye.

Alexis: Do I even want to know?

Ric: Oh, it's John Durant. He faked a drug bust on Diego Sanchez to try to pressure his mother, Maria, to I.D. Jason as one of the shooters in the Sandoval hit.

Alexis: Is the woman withholding evidence?

Ric: Well, as far as I know, I -- look, she saw somebody run up the stairs at the metro court. I'm sure it was jason, but there is no way that we can prove that. He was running away from her, d there's no way we can positively I.D. Him, so --

Alexis: Maybe she was intimidated into keeping silent.

Ric: The only intimidation is coming from durant. He's completely obsessed with Sonny.

Alexis: It must be going around.

Ric: Yeah, exactly. So I think we can come up with something better to talk about, don't you? Or do.

Alexis: I'd like that.

John Durant is in a confessional. We don't see who he is talking to.

Man: We support your efforts against Sonny Corinthos. We agree he must be stopped. What do you need to take him down once and for all?