March 6, 2006 Transcript
"We Will Find Your Daughter if That's What You Want"

Jason: Show some respect for Sam and go away.

Alexis: I'm sorry for your pain, Sam.

Jason: She lost her brother, and all you care about is easing your conscience.

Alexis: It wasn't my fault.

Jason: "My fault." I know, Alexis, we've heard it a million times. Why do you act so guilty?

Alexis: It isn't guilt, Jason.

Jason: What is it?

Alexis: It's called compassion.

Jason: Oh, you want Sam to forgive you. You want to hear her say that you were right, but it's not her job to make you feel better about yourself. So keep away from Sam, or I'm going to have to keep you away.

Ric: Hey! Hey!

Jason: You understand that?

Ric: Don't you ever threaten my wife again. Alexis didn't know that Sam was still here, Jason, ok? She came to offer her condolences, to make peace with Danny and with God. She was trying to offer some kind of compassion, all right?

Sam: Alexis doesn't deserve peace. Ric.

Jason: I warned Alexis to stay away from Sam. There's nothing here that concerns her.

Alexis: As long as I'm being continually blamed, I guess it does concern me.

Jason: Have you ever admitted that you're wrong about anything?

Alexis: Let's go.

Jason: You did what you did -- again -- now, live with it.

Ric: Ok, threaten her again, Jason!

Jason: There's not going to be any more threats!

Sam: Stop it!

Jason: Get her away, and keep her away from Sam. What's the problem?

Ric: Come on, let's go.

Sam: God, why did she have to do this here? I hate her, Jason. I hate her.

Jason: I don't -- I don't blame you.

Sam: And I think you were right. She doesn't want to think that this was her fault, but my brother is dead because of her. I will never forgive her for this.

Sam: Danny and I weren't much of a family, but I tried to build a little something together with him. You know, I -- I wanted to make sure that he felt loved and wanted, like he belonged.

Jason: He did. Danny knew he mattered because of you.

Sam: If you were me, you wouldn't look for your mother, would you?

Jason: I don't -- I'm not sure. It's a tough one.

Sam: Don't you ever want to feel connected to something, to your past -- anything?

Jason: Well, my past pretty much started when I woke up from an accident. I don't even remember my childhood.

Sam: You're lucky.

Jason: Well, I got to choose a family for myself -- Sonny, Carly, their kids. Now I have you. You know, my other family, the -- whatever -- the Quartermaines -- I don't -- I don't feel part of them. I know that Emily and Monica love me, and I love -- I love them. And Alan -- it's hard sometimes, but I know that there's a history there, and it does matter even if I don't remember. And now we're talking about my situation, and it's a whole lot different than yours.

Sam: I'd say so, because when I went to find my mother, I found a cold, heartless woman who kept my brother locked in a basement. What if my biological mother is even worse?

Jason: I guess that's possible.

Sam: So I shouldn't look for her?

Jason: I can't tell you what to do.

Sam: You can't -- Jason, please, can I have some answers?

Jason: Sam, I --

Sam: Like, I need my questions answered. I need an opinion from you -- or anything.

Jason: I can get you the information that you need if you decide you want to do a search, but I don't need to know who your mother is to love you.

Sam: Really? What if she's a junkie or a prostitute? What if I'm a child of rape?

Jason: It's nothing you did, and it's not going to change who you are.

Sam: I don't know if I want answers as much as I want a mother, either/or. There are medical questions, Jason. We're planning on having a baby.

Jason: If you want to know, that's fine, ok? But if you don't look for your mom because you're scared, I think that's a mistake.

Sam: All right. Look, after my father died, I considered myself an orphan. And now Danny’s gone. I want to know where I'm from. I want to find my birth mother.

Alexis: Ok. So, so much for paying my respects.

Ric: Well, you know, no good deed goes unpunished. Can I get you something?

Alexis: Thank you for defending me. No, I've never had a white knight before.

Ric: Yeah, well, this hostility with Jason has become a real problem.

Alexis: This arrogance with Jason is becoming intolerable. That being said, he was right about one thing. I do want Sam’s forgiveness.

Ric: Ok, look, it's perfectly natural to want Sam to realize what I already know -- you didn't do anything to harm anybody -- but she's grief-stricken. She's looking for somebody to blame; you're an easy target.

Alexis: If the positions were reversed and I had lost everything the way that Sam did, I don't know that I would be so reasonable.

Ric: That's one of the many reasons why I love you. I see your heart and your compassion even if they don’t.

[Computer beeps]

Ric: Got messages.

Alexis: What is it?

Ric: Well, I don't know. It might be an answer to that birth certificate inquiry that we made earlier.

Alexis: Oh, I'm not sure that I'm ready for this.

Ric: You want to stop?

Alexis: Yes. But I want to know even more. Look.

Ric: Ok, ok. Wait a minute, this can't be right. It says there's no record of any Baby Girl Davidovitch born on May 11, 1980.

Jason: Ok, we need to put everything together you remember about your adoptive parents -- where you lived, property owned, schools, tax returns, any kind of legal records. If there's anything to find, Stan is going to find it.

Sam: Ok, well, you know, once Evelyn left us, my father started grifting, and he didn't talk about the past much. I remember living in Las Vegas when I was, like, 5 or 6. Um -- New York City, and Boston, Boston.

Jason: Boston. Ok.

Sam: My father used to talk about it in card games to the other guys.

Jason: All right, what about Evelyn? Any idea where she came from?

Sam: Oh, the only thing I know about her is that she took off with Danny and went to South Carolina. I don't know if she had any family there. I don't even know why she would go there -- or why she would even adopt me. She obviously didn't want me.

Jason: Hey.

Sam: It's -- Jason, you know, what kind of a woman -- you know, what a piece of trash. She is the one who made me feel so unlovable, who made me feel so easy to walk away from, and she was not even my mother.

Jason: Does that help?

Sam: It just makes me wonder if my biological mother is better or worse.

Alexis: Wait, wait, wait.

Ric: It totally doesn't make any sense.

Alexis: We're missing something. There's got to be some mistake.

Ric: Ok, you're sure about the date, right?

Alexis: I'm positive. I know when I gave birth to my first daughter. It was May 11, Mother's Day, 1980, in Chatham, Maine. You don't forget a day like that.

Ric: Ok, I understand that.

[Alexis sighs]

Ric: I'm just thinking that maybe she was registered under a different name. Maybe it was under "Cassadine" or it was under "Davis"?

Alexis: Davis? I changed my name to Davis way after this happened.

Ric: Check. Check.

Alexis: Cassadine -- I certainly hope not, but it's a possibility. Ok.

Ric: No. Ok, all right, it's just been misfiled. We'll just check all -- all baby girls born on that day.

Alexis: Oh -- this is just wrong. I'm telling you, it is wrong. How can there be no record of any girls born in Chatham, Maine, on May 11? Mikkos must've tampered with the records. I'm sure he paid somebody to register the baby under "Jane Doe" in another county. I bet she doesn't even have a birth certificate.

Ric: Everybody has a birth certificate, Alexis. There is some kind of a record and we will find it. Alexis, you know the town that you stayed in. We'll just go back to the clinic and we'll go through every file by hand if necessary. This is a dead end only if you want it to be. We will find your daughter if that's what you want.

Jason: All right, the cleanest line to your mother is through your adoptive parents, and the best way we can track them is through Danny.

Sam: Well, obviously, after Danny was born with his disability, they didn't want to take their chances.

Jason: Mm-hmm.

Sam: I'm sure my father wanted a bigger family, so they adopted me. But he probably left us with Evelyn because he's not a domestic kind of guy, you know?

Jason: Ok, if we can find out where Danny was born, maybe you were born there, too. You said your dad wasn't much of a grifter before --

Sam: Maine. Maine.

Jason: Are you sure?

Sam: Yeah, Danny -- Danny -- he used to talk about how cold the winters were and the ice and the snow, and he -- he actually mentioned it. I am positive. I am positive. It has to be Maine.

Jason: Ok.

Alexis: Mikkos was determined to cover up the fact that I was pregnant, determined to make the whole thing go away. And if he could erase all the signs of my daughter, if he could make it so that I'd never be able to find her, then -- poof -- it's as if she doesn't exist.

Ric: Well, if there's no record listing you as the mother, it's going to make the search a lot more difficult.

Alexis: Well, it's not fair, because I have a right to find out what happened to my daughter. I'm not saying that I'm going to approach her or disrupt her life in any way. I just want to know that she's ok. I just want to know that she had a decent life, better than the one that I could've given her.

Ric: Ok. Then we will start with the town where she was born.

Alexis: Ok, ok. I mean, how hard could it be to find a clinic? How many clinics are there for unwed mothers in Chatham, Maine, for God's sake?

Sam: Ok, if Danny was born in Maine, then I probably was, too. Did Stan say anything about the birth certificate?

Jason: Stan's doing the best he can.

Sam: Whoa. I don't know if I'm more scared that I'm going to find out who my mother is or that I'm not. I don't know why any of this matters, but it does. There's something about meeting a woman who carried me for nine months, who is my first connection to this world, who is my only blood relative. Could you imagine -- Jason, can you imagine if I have brothers or sisters? Not only a mother, but a whole family? Maybe she's actually a decent woman who gave me up for all the right reasons. Maybe, you know, she thought she was doing what was best. Or, of course, I could be setting myself up for a big, fat fall when I find out the truth.

Jason: Here's the truth. I love you no matter what we find out.