May 11, 2005 Transcript
"You're the Mysterious Benefactor"

Ric: Mac? I got your call. I see the phoenix has risen. Oh, don't tell me we have you to thank for that.

Luke: I wish you did have me to thank. No, somebody's been siphoning funds out of the Cassadine accounts, and that's the one thing that gets her knickers in a twist -- messing with her money.

Ric: What do you know about it?

Luke: 15 million bucks, for starts.

Ric: From a Cassadine account? Any idea who did it?

Luke: Whoever it was deserves a medal and this town's eternal gratitude because it scared her enough to make her surface.

Alexis: Heard the news. She's here? is it true?

Luke: In the scaly flesh

Alexis: Any way that I can get a face to face so I can gloat?

Luke: Get in line. Your husband's got her in there. Was thinking maybe you and I could slip into her cell, sometime tonight, give her a little going over with a rubber hose and a car radio antennae ... spishks ... yeah?

Alexis has no words and walks away amused.

Helena: My lawyer isn't here yet.

Ric: That's all right, just -- just one question. You were winning, you know, you were succeeding at breaking apart Nikolas and Emily and you vanished once without a trace. Why would you risk that to come back here?

Helena: Well, I don't know what that first nonsense is that you were referring to.

Ric: Right, of course.

Helena: But I came back to Port Charles to find out who was stealing from my family.

Ric: Yeah, that's right. Cassadine money had gone missing?

Helena: Lots of it.

Ric: Any idea who might've taken it?

Helena: Not the initial 500,000. The way that was done; it was someone who had inside knowledge of our financial structure. Since you're the law around here, why don't you uphold it? Why don't you catch the thief?

On the phone

John: I got your money.

Alexis: That didn't take long.

John: Meet me at the courthouse, this whole thing will be over and done.

Alexis: I'll be right there.

At the courthouse

John: I didn't want to risk withdrawing $500,000 cash, so I transferred the money to a ghost account. I wrote this check on that. All you have to do is deposit it back into the Cassadine account. It is completely untraceable.

Alexis: Like it never left.

Alexis: I hope you were sincere when you said we can forget that this thing ever happened.

John: Success in our business is all about keeping confidences. You know that all too well.

Alexis: Unfortunately, I have no choice but to trust you.

John: Alexis, you come out of this thing smelling like a rose. Like I said, the train's left the station; it's gathering speed. All we have to do is sit back and wait for Sonny to throw himself in front of it. Both of us get our daughters back. They'll be off his hook. Now, I suggest that you relax, enjoy the ride.

Ric: Hey.

Alexis: Hi.

Ric: You're a hard woman to track down with good news.

Alexis: Oh?

Ric: Yeah, Helena resurfaced. We -- we have her in custody.

Alexis: I heard that, actually.

Ric: Yeah?

Alexis: I'm really glad to hear that.

Ric: We were actually very surprised that she was so sloppy, though, but I guess money will do that to people.

Alexis: Money?

Ric: Yeah, apparently, somebody thought they'd be clever and try to steal money from her -- a nice ransom of about $500,000. Well, that's what piqued Helena in the first place. But after a while, they dipped a little deeper into the pot.

Alexis: Really?

Ric: Yeah. Half a mil, that just -- it just kept sticking with me.

Alexis: You know, you should be glad that Helena’s in custody.

Ric: Till I remembered that that was the amount of money that that mysterious someone offered John Durant to buy witnesses to help bring down Sonny. Mind you, this would be a real big puzzle if it weren't for one common denominator. Enter Alexis. Call me crazy, but that check that you just got from John Durant would prove my point. You're the mysterious benefactor who's been offering the bribe money to bring Sonny down.