May 9, 2005 Transcript
"I Already Hate Being in Collusion with You"

John: What's the status on the prep for Carly’s trial?

Alexis: He's serving the subpoena for Michael as we speak.

John: Oh, well, that is sure to ruin Sonny's night. Hey, we relish the small victories.

Alexis: He's not going to let it happen. He's not going to let Michael get up there and testify against his own mother. He will confess, he will go to prison, and then we can all go home to our relatively secure lives.

John: Mm-hmm. That's the part I like. What I don't like is Ric’s involvement.

Alexis: Ric is a professional and a very diligent prosecutor.

John: He's also Sonny's brother. Ric has conflicts of interest all over the place. Serving a subpoena on Michael -- that is not going to further his relationship with Sonny, and I don't think that Ric is looking forward to being the D.A. to put a poor traumatized kid -- Michael -- on the stand to testify against his own mother.

Alexis: I doubt that he is looking forward to that. But he will do his job. He is a professional and he will act appropriately. He's not going to blow the case.

John: Yeah, well -- yeah, but he could also recuse himself. And that would be very bad us, and you cannot let that happen. Your husband must be the one to prosecute Carly. Are we clear?

Carly: Alexis lost Kristina because she's a paranoid whack job who kidnapped Sonny's daughter and took her out of the country. Ok, Alexis wouldn't see it that way because she's way too arrogant to think she ever does anything wrong. So she has to blame somebody, so she blames Sonny or me -- it doesn't matter -- and one of us has to pay. And your brilliant solution is to come at us through Michael?

Jason: Carly, Carly, that's enough.

Carly: You want to drag a 9-year-old into court and force him to incriminate his own mother in a murder just so you can get back at Sonny? You know, you and your sanctimonious wife can go to hell because I will never let you hurt my son, just like I would never let A.J. hurt my son!

Jason: Carly, that's it.

Carly: No, let go of me. I will not let this pig be the next person in line to hurt Michael!

Jason: I said enough! Let's go.

Ric: You know, that temper of hers is not going to serve her very well in court.

Sam: What, is that what you're hoping? Huh? Are you and Alexis targeting Michael in some sort of power play to regain custody of Kristina?

Ric: No, as a matter of fact, we're not. But I don't expect anybody in this room to believe that.

Sam: Well, I would love to believe it, Ric. Kristina and Michael are brother and sister. They love each other. The adults in their lives should not be using them against each other.

Sonny: Sam, Sam, it's ok. That's enough. I just need to speak to my brother for a second, ok?

Ric: "Your brother," huh? That usually means you want something.

Sonny: The day of the memorial, when we thought -- no, no, no -- when we thought that Michael was dead -- yeah? Right? You offered to help in any way you can, so I know how you can help. You tear up that subpoena. Do not -- do not put my son through any more pain.

Alexis: Ric will do his job. He will do what is necessary-- he will prosecute Carly to the full extent of the law.

John: Well, he'd better. Because I'm not about to leave Carly and Michael’s fate to the not-so-tender mercies of an ambitious A.D.A. looking to make a conviction on a high-profile case. Consider this fair warning. If Ric does not prosecute here, if he steps down, I will do whatever I can to protect my family, up to and including giving full disclosure of our little relationship here, the legal definition of which is "obstruction of justice." You can be disbarred, maybe even convicted.

Alexis: I already hate being in collusion with you. Don't make it worse by making arbitrary threats. It makes me ill to think of Michael taking the stand against his own mother, and the only reason that I'm being a party to it is because I know it won't happen. I know that Sonny will step up and he will confess to A.J.'s murder.

John: Well, that's the plan.

Alexis: He will do whatever it takes to protect his son. I know the feeling because that's what I'm doing in dealing with you. I am going against every single principle that I have for the one thing that matters to me, which is my daughter's safety. And in order to ensure that, I would make a deal with the devil himself.

Ric: I have no desire to hurt Michael, but he's a material witness in a murder case. His testimony is crucial.

Sonny: Michael's a child who's been kidnapped twice by maniacs -- first Faith, then A.J. He's been lied to. He doesn't know what's a lie, what's the truth, what's a dream. And you can't expect him to.

Ric: Ok, Carly’s attorney can take up all of these issues at her trial. But in the meantime, the subpoena has been delivered. Michael has to testify.

Sonny: Is Carly right about you and Alexis? You're manipulating Michael? You're using Michael, right, to manipulate --

Ric: I don't use children as bargaining chips, Sonny, all right? I do believe, yes, absolutely, 100%, that Kristina and Alexis belong together. But whether you choose to do the right thing and return her or not makes no difference here. Michael is still going to have to testify. The only thing that's going to change that is if Carly decides to confess.

Sonny: It wasn't enough to kidnap Carly when she was pregnant and chain her to a wall?

Ric: Oh --

Sonny: Huh? Huh?

Ric: I'm not out to hurt Carly. A.J. kidnapped her children. He faked Michael’s death, Sonny, and left him lost inside of his own mind. I understand she was under emotional duress here. And I'm willing to plead her out to a lesser charge, maybe manslaughter. Ten years, she'll be out in five. Sonny, that's got to be a preferable solution to putting Michael up on the stand in front of the jury so that he could tell everybody that he saw his mother kill his biological father.

Sonny: Carly didn't kill A.J. She's not going to be making any plea bargains or -- she's not going to be confessing to anything.

Ric: Well, then you know what has to happen.

Sonny: You're going to go through with it, Ric? You're going to put a terrorized little boy who you claim is your nephew on the stand to testify against his own mother, knowing how much pain he's going through? You look down on me because of what I do for a living. What do you see when you look in the mirror?

Ric: I offer you a way out, and you refuse to take it. You know what? Any pain that Michael feels from here on out -- that's on your head.

Alexis: Mind if I join you?

Ric: Be my guest.

Alexis: Are you all right?

Ric: No. I served Michael’s subpoena.

Alexis: I don't imagine that was easy for you to do.

Ric: Of course, Sonny and Carly accused me of threatening Michael as a means of getting back at Sonny for trying to take Kristina away from you.

Alexis: You and I both know that you would never do anything vindictive or endanger a child's well-being, and neither would I. Michael being a witness has nothing to do with my custody issues with Sonny.

Ric: Lines are hard to see sometimes. You know, they're always so fraught. They're tangled up in these wounds that have never healed -- in the love and the hate that I feel for my brother; the guilt that I feel for what I did to Carly. You know what? Maybe the judge is right. Maybe I should just recuse myself from this case.

Alexis: Uh, you can't do that.