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January
23, 2007 Transcript Alexis: Oh. [Knock on door] Alexis: Oh. Hi, Diane. Diane: Hi. Alexis: Sorry, did I forget something? I wasn't -- Diane: Can I come in? Alexis: Oh -- Diane: I'm so sorry. Alexis: Of course you can. Please, please. Diane: Sonny tells me that you have decided to fight the possession charges. Alexis: Well, Ric has left me no choice. He's refusing to compromise, and he's demanding full custody of Molly. Diane: Well, I have been retained to help you. And my first piece of advice is that you are making a grave miscalculation. Diane: I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Plead no contest to misdemeanor marijuana possession, pay the fine, and go home. Alexis: Di-- Diane: It's over. Now, you fight these charges and you lose, now you've got a problem. Alexis: You're the one who suggested this crusade in the first place. Diane: Yes, as a negotiation tactic. Alexis: Well, it's a very good strategy. And it's -- it's an even better opportunity to use this case to get these stupid laws against medical marijuana overturned. Diane: That's a very ambitious goal. That could take years. Alexis: It's good to have something to look forward to. Diane, if anything, we'll make headlines, we will paint ric as a D.A. who's unsympathetic toward cancer patients, and to avoid being tarred with that brush, he'll drop the custody issue altogether. Diane: In a perfect world. Alexis: Ric is nothing if not ambitious. Given the choice between career suicide or the dubious task of being a full-time father, he will choose his career anytime. [Alexis sighs] Alexis: And then I get to go home with my daughter. Alexis: These are not groundless accusations, you know? Ric has incontrovertible proof that I smoked pot, and whether I agree with the fact that it's illegal -- and I don't -- he's going to take those 8-by-10 glossies and he's going to slap them down on the family court judge's desk and I'm going to lose custody of Molly. And the only way to prevent that is to fight back. I mean, convicting a cancer patient of drug charges is a publicity nightmare and he's going to let it go. Sam: What, maybe change the legal landscape in the process? Alexis: Which is a good thing. But my main focus is Molly. Sam: All right. Let me think, let me think -- there's got to be a less stressful way to go about this. We could blackmail ric. We could, really. We've got Spinelli -- he's a genius. He can plant something on his computer or in his office -- I mean, anything. Alexis: That's tempting, I admit, but I still have some dignity and I'm not going to stoop to his level. Sam: Oh. Alexis: Look, he didn't frame me. I knew that marijuana was illegal and I smoked it. Sam: You smoked it because you were taking chemo. You were nauseous, and look at you -- you're sick all over again. Alexis: I should've followed my instincts in the first place. I should've refused it, but I didn't, and what's done is done. I'm just going to have to fight him, and I will and I have every intention of winning.
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