March 13, 2006 Transcript
"I'm Taking Responsibility for the Choice That I Made"

Alexis: You know what? I missed you girls so much.

[Molly fusses]

Alexis: Yes, honey. Ooh.

Kristina: I thought you weren't ever coming back.

Alexis: Honey, I will always, always, always come back no matter what. No matter where I go, no matter what I do, I will never leave you. You understand that? I love you and Molly and Ric.

Ric: Nikolas, hi.

Nikolas: Alexis, I'm glad I ran into you.

Alexis: Hi. Ok.

Nikolas: Hi, Kristina. How are you?

Kristina: Do you still live in a castle?

Nikolas: Well, I -- I guess Wyndermere is kind of like a castle. I hope you visit soon.

Alexis: Is everything all right?

Nikolas: Yeah, yeah, I just -- I got a confusing phone call from a Mr. Oliver. He said he was a lawyer who used to work for my grandfather back in the 1980s. He was asking about a cousin that I never knew I had.

Jason: Ok, right -- right here --

Sam: All right, look at that -- "photo not available."

Jason: And that would make sense if she missed the second semester.

Sam: Ok, well, do you think she could be my mother? That's kind of a weird name, though. Jason? Hey, what's wrong?

Jason: The name.

Sam: "Davidovitch"? What -- what about the name? Do you know her?

Jason: Yeah. So do you.

Sam: No, I don’t. I've never heard of that name before.

Jason: Because she changed her name -- to Davis.

Sam: Alexis -- Davis? Alexis Davis is my mother?

Jason: Ok, you know what? We can't -- we can't be sure -- we cannot be sure that this is even the same person.

Sam: Really? What -- what are the chances of someone else with that name?

Alexis: This situation with Mr. Oliver is a little complicated.

Ric: Yeah, and besides that, it's really not a good time to talk about it. We need to get Molly home to Viola because we want to take Kristina to the Children's Museum -- you know, it's family night.

Alexis: Why don't you guys go and meet me back here?

Ric: You sure?

Alexis: Yeah.

Ric: Ok.

Alexis: You better go before it -- it closes.

Ric: Yeah.

Alexis: Ok, and I'll see you back here, ok? And listen, you. I will be here when you get back. Right? Don't worry? I love you.

Nikolas: Excuse me, I'm going to grab a cup of coffee.

Ric: Yeah.

Alexis: You're going to be -- go before you -- it's late.

Ric: Ok, you sure you want to do this?

Alexis: Yeah. He's the one person that should know what's going on, so I'm going to tell him.

Ric: Ok.

Alexis: Bye, sweetie. Bye, honey.

Ric: Yeah.

Alexis: You guys have fun, ok? I'll be here when you get back, ok? Have fun.

Nikolas: This can wait if you want to go with them.

Alexis: I'd rather deal with it now.

Nikolas: Ok, so is this why you and Ric came by the other day asking about Mikkos' American Counsel?

Alexis: You were very upset. It was not an appropriate time to go into the details.

Nikolas: So how bad is it? Another deep, dark Cassadine secret?

Alexis: I got pregnant when I was a teenager and I gave the baby up for adoption.

Sam: How could Alexis Davis be my mother? Shouldn't I have sensed it? Shouldn't there have been some sort of subliminal message or something? A connection, a bond that goes deeper than memory?

Jason: You know what? We can't be sure of anything yet. Stan?

Stan: What do you need?

Jason: Ok, I want you to find out everything you can on Alexis Davis -- when she came to this country, when she changed her name, and most importantly, what high school she went to.

Stan: Yeah. You got it.

Jason: Thanks.

Sam: You're hoping she's not my mother, aren't you?

Jason: Aren't you hoping for the same thing?

Nikolas: I had no idea.

Alexis: I don't seem like the type, do I? I'm probably the last person that you would expect to get knocked up. No one was more surprised than I was, and I did all the classic things. I went into denial, I wore baggy clothes, I put off making any kind of decision -- until I fainted in the gym class, and then they called Mikkos.

Nikolas: What about Helena?

Alexis: If there's one blessing in any of this, it's that she never found out. Now, maybe that's why Mikkos did everything the way that he did it. He arranged for everything. He had me sent to a clinic in Maine, where I had the baby, and he arranged for a private adoption and sealed the records.

Nikolas: And now you're searching for your child?

Alexis: Too late. My daughter's been dead for years.

Sam: During the epidemic, Ric was delirious. He thought Alexis was his mother.

Jason: That's pretty weird.

Sam: Yeah, I know, and he kept saying to Alexis, "What kind of mother would give her child away?" And Alexis sort of just blurted out -- she was really upset -- she said that she didn't have a choice. And then she tried to back it up with an excuse by saying that she was just playing along with Ric. But, Jason, that wasn't it. Now we know what it was. She was just trying to cover up what -- feeling guilty for dumping me.

Jason: Ok, without more information, we cannot be sure, Sam.

Sam: My daughter's stem cells saved Kristina. Not Sonny, not Alexis, not even Morgan -- it was my child.

Jason: That's true. That is true, but --

Sam: And all this time I thought it was because my daughter and Kristina were both Sonny's daughters.

Jason: That's probably the reason. That's it.

Sam: Jason, my daughter was Alexis' granddaughter.

Alexis: My daughter's death certificate was found in a file in a New York law firm. It stated that she died at the age of three. She was hit by a car.

Nikolas: I'm so sorry.

Alexis: I naturally assumed that she was living in a -- in a good home and having a good life, so I apparently deceived myself.

Nikolas: You wanted the best for your child. What's wrong with that?

Alexis: If I didn't give her up, she would still be alive today.

Nikolas: Alexis, don't think that way.

Alexis: It's true.

Nikolas: No, it's a trap, and there's no way out. I know because I do it every day. "Courtney would still be alive if -- if I had read between the lines of her letters, if I hadn't been so ready to believe that she was with Jax, if I had protected her from Helena."

Alexis: You did the best you could, Nikolas.

Nikolas: You saying it and me feeling it are entirely different. "If I had known what really happened to Emily, if I hadn't gotten so angry at Helena, if I had been a better husband --" it goes on and on and on, Alexis. It never stops.

Alexis: Yeah, you don't win. Hmm.

Nikolas: Exactly. You can't go back. You can't alter the decisions that you've made. You made the best choice for your child at the time.

Alexis: I made the best choice that I could for me at the time.

Jason: What do you got?

Stan: Alexis Davidovitch came to the states at the age of 14 to attend Briarton Griggs Academy in New Hampshire. She took a semester off in 1980, went to Yale undergrad, then Yale Law. When she graduated, she changed her last name to Davis.

Jason: Are you absolutely sure about this?

Stan: Yeah. I hacked into the records at Briarton Griggs and she is listed in the alumni registry with an address in Port Charles.

Sam: Ok. So there's no question about it, right?

Stan: Not at all. Alexis Davis -- mother of Kristina, Sonny's daughter -- used to be Alexis Davidovitch.

Jason: Ok, you know what, Stan? I don't want you talking to anybody about this.

Stan: I never do. You need anything else, let me know.

Jason: Thanks.

Sam: All right, so it's true. That bitch is my mother.

Alexis: I could've run away from the clinic. I could've found an organization that helps teenage mothers. I could've tried harder to work something out with Mikkos. But I was scared.

Nikolas: You were 16.

Alexis: I was old enough to be able to consider other alternatives.

Nikolas: Alexis, I think you made a responsible choice.

Alexis: I think I took the easy way out --

Nikolas: No --

Alexis: And I let Mikkos make it all go away.

Nikolas: You're being unfair to yourself.

Alexis: I'm taking respons--

Nikolas: It -- listen to me. It would be difficult for anyone to have their child be raised by somebody else.

Alexis: I'm taking responsibility for the choice that I made, and the choice that I made cost my daughter her life.

Nikolas: I know, and that is a tragedy. But don't make it worse by blaming yourself. Like I said, you made the best choice that you could at the time. That's all any of us can do.

Alexis: I don't want you to tell anyone about this. I would appreciate it if you would keep it private. I don't want Kristina or Molly to know that I had another daughter.

Sam: The day I lost my baby, Alexis screamed at me until I went into labor. Now, is that ironic, or what? To save her daughter, she risked the life of her granddaughter.

Jason: Sam, Alexis was wrong. She was.

Sam: No, she -- she told me that she would always be grateful. And then my brother was on his bed dying and she could've given him the medicine that saved him, instead she took it for herself because she is selfish. So not only did she kill my daughter, but she killed my brother, as well, and that is my mother?

Jason: You need to just take a step back, ok, and just --

Sam: It -- it makes me sick how she acts all superior. It makes me sick that she thinks that she's such a great mother to Kristina and -- and Molly, as if nobody else cares about their kids. I cannot wait to see the look on her face when she finds out that I am the kid that she dumped all those years ago.

Jason: Why -- why would you even want Alexis in your life?

Sam: You don't think I should tell Alexis?

Jason: Sam, it's not up to me.

Sam: I understand that, but how you feel matters to me, ok?

Jason: Ok.

Sam: We're in this together.

Jason: I -- I do not -- I don't like Alexis for a lot of reasons, ok, but mostly I hate her for the way she has treated you -- and Sonny and Carly. I mean, Alexis plays the victim all the time. She blames everyone else for her own choices. You know, it's Sonny's fault that Alexis lied about Kristina. It's Carly’s fault that Alexis won't let Kristina get close to Michael. It's -- it's your fault that you went into labor when Alexis screamed at you. You see what I'm saying? She -- she can justify doing anything she wants. She always has, she always will, and she always is right in her mind.

Sam: I know, and I can't wait to put her in her place!

Jason: I'm just saying that if she finds out that you're her daughter, I don't think she can say that she made a mistake by giving you up, and then she's going to be all over you, all over me. She's going to try to win the mother-of-the-year award 25 years too late.

Sam: Ok, ok, that's a scary thought.

Jason: What do you want to do?

Sam: Jason, I want her to know that I know the truth.

Alexis: Kristina and Molly are too little to understand that I had another daughter, and I'm afraid it will undermine their faith in me, and I don't want them to ever worry that I would or could abandon them.

Nikolas: I'll never tell anyone about this. But don't carry this around as another guilty Cassadine secret and don't allow it to affect your relationship with the daughters you have now.

Alexis: I know -- I know the best way to remember my daughter is to take care of the ones that I have now and give them the best possible life that I can.

Kristina: Mommy!

Alexis: Hello! Oh, my gosh! You're getting big! I love you so much, you know that? Hmm.

Sam: Ok, you were right. A walk really is helping me clean my head. I think I have plenty of time to decide what to do about Alexis, and you know what? We might all be better off if she never knows that she's my mother.

Jason: It would be a hard secret to live with. So if you have to tell her, I understand, but you need to warn me first because all hell is going to break loose.

Sam: Hey -- no, no, no -- she gave me up for adoption, she didn't want me then. Why should I invite her into my life now? It doesn't make any sense.

Kristina: I see the lights of the ferry!

Sam: Whoa -- hey, hey, whoa, come back here. Don't get too close to the water.

Kristina: That's what my mommy always tells me.

Alexis: Thank you for stopping her.