February 16, 2006 Transcript
"I Don't Know How any Kid Grows up Believing that
their Mother didn't Love them Enough to Keep Them"

Ric: Hey, sweetheart.

Alexis: Ok. Hey, jesse, you all right? I hear -- I hear Maxie's doing well.

Jesse: Thanks for the update. If you speak to nikolas, tell him I owe him bigtime for rescuing her.

Ric: Hey -- hey. Looks like the serum worked.

Sonny: I made a complete recovery. They're sending me home.

Ric: Oh, good. That's -- that's good for your children, Kristina included.

Sonny: I'm glad to hear her and molly are doing ok. Sam said that you went though a rough time last night?

Ric: Um -- yeah, I was -- I was hallucinating. I was venting about things that I put to bed a long time ago. I think I'm worse -- through the worst part of it, though. You know, I'm sure our mother's looking down right now and she's -- she's very happy that you're going to be ok.

Sonny: Ric, our mother's watching over both of us.

Alexis: Are you taking Michael home?

Sonny: Yeah.

Alexis: Will you do us a favor?

Sonny: What? What is it?

Alexis: Kristina's fine, she's -- she's in pediatrics, but we think it might be better if she went home with you. That way, she won't be exposed to anything here.

Sonny: Well, yeah, I'll do whatever -- I'll take care of Kristina for as long as you need me to. I can take molly with me. She can play with her sister. It's up to you. I mean --

Ric: Thanks. We appreciate that.

Alexis: I like this one.

Ric: Yeah. Yeah. Oh. We have two very beautiful daughters.

Alexis: Look at this one. How did we get so lucky?

Ric: Oh, look at her.

Alexis: Hmm?

Ric: I have no idea.

Alexis: If someone had told me that we'd be sending the girls off to stay with sonny, I would've told them they were certifiably insane.

Ric: Ah, you know, desperate times and all that.

Alexis: I know they're fine. They're going to be all right. He'll take good care of them.

Ric: Yeah.

Alexis: Ok. They should be happy that they're out of the hospital.

Ric: Secretly, you liked having them just a few feet away on the same floor, didn't you? So did I.

Alexis: What if the unthinkable happens and we don't make it out of here and sonny ends up with our girls?

Ric: Alexis, we're two very strong people -- and stubborn. Look, we just got to put it in our minds that we're going to be able to hang on until the antidote comes.

Alexis: If there is an antidote. If there is -- there's a garbled phone call from Carly and Jason. That isn't reliable, and people are dying as we speak.

Ric: Alexis, you're not dying, all right? You got through Molly's birth under worse conditions than this. You are going to make a full recovery and you -- you are going to grow old raising our children, ok?

Alexis: And you're going to do it with me because I need you. We all need you.

Sam: How's Ric?

Alexis: Well, the doctor says that the fever is manageable and I'm not quite sure what that means. We sent the girls home with sonny. Ahem.

Sam: Well, that makes sense.

Alexis: I think it -- it's ironic. But leaving them here is -- is they're vulnerable to being exposed to the virus, so it just, believe it or not, was the safer choice to have sonny take them home. It was -- ahem -- just hard to let them go. I know it's just for a little while.

Sam: Is -- is that what you were referring to in the chapel last night?

Alexis: Probably. I was so worried that I don't -- I don't even think I knew what I was saying.

Sam: You just said Ric was so upset -- you know, asking if you ever thought about him or cared about him or --

Alexis: Well, he thought I was -- I was his mother.

Sam: When he asked what kind of mother would give up her child, you said you didn't have a choice. What did you mean by that?

Sam: So what choice were you referring to last night? I'm sorry -- I just -- I got the idea that you were talking about the stem cell transplant. And I know that that's over and done, so -- I am really sorry. I'm just going to mind my own business right now.

Alexis: Sam, I will always be grateful for the sacrifice that you made for my daughter. As it happens, Ric was delirious. He thought that I was his mother, Adela.

Sam: So you just played along to calm him down?

Alexis: I wanted to reassure him, and I thought it would help if I -- I thought it would help if he heard his mother say that she had no choice but to give him up and that she was sorry.

Sam: Wow. That made sense. I mean, it got him back to bed, right?

Alexis: Yeah. I thought that he had gotten past that, but I don't know if you ever get past anything like that. I don't know how any kid grows up believing that their mother didn't love them enough to keep them.