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March
1, 2007 Transcript Alexis: You don't care about Molly, you don't care about anybody but yourself, because if you cared about Molly, you wouldn't take her away from the only home that she knows. Why would you do that? Why? Ric: I'm not taking Molly to go live with wolves, I'm her father! I have the moral and the legal right to her custody. Alexis: Is this about Molly, or is this about spiting me? Ric: Oh, Alexis, you know what? Our marriage fell apart. You want to continually blame me for that, that's fine. Does that make you feel better? It doesn't give you the right to punish me by cutting me off from Molly, all right? I've offered you a compromise, you're not interested, so this is what you're left with, sweetheart. She is my daughter, she is going to come live with me. Alexis: Over my dead body, sweetheart! You set me up! Ric: You smoked pot and you got caught red-handed! Look, I'm sorry it came to that, but I'm not sorry enough to give up Molly. Ok, this is -- this is going nowhere. I am going to offer you one last compromise. You sign over custody of Molly to me right now, I will grant you generous visitation. It's going to be a hell of a lot better than if you take it into court. Alexis: You try to take my child away from me, and I will make sure this is a public relations nightmare for you. You will lose everything and all of the power that comes with it. Ric: It's better than losing my daughter. Alexis: Molly really needs to be in her home with her sister -- and with me. You can visit her, I promise, anytime you want. Ric: Forget it. I'll see you and when I'm granted full custody, you can ask for visitation. Alexis: You selfish bastard! You're a public official! They're going to -- they going to air our dirty laundry everywhere! The kids are going to be hurt! Don't you care? Ric: Your petition for primary custody is based on the assertion that Molly would be better off living with you, right? Alexis: She would be. Ric: You put Molly's life -- as well as Kristina's -- in jeopardy with your constant, ongoing association with a known racketeer. You let your daughter Kristina wander off into the middle of a warehouse just in time to see her sister shoot a man in cold blood. And then you were busted for drug possession while Molly and Kristina were in the house. Alexis: By you. By you, which is the second-most hateful thing you did. The first was sleeping with my daughter, and don't think I'm not going to put that up for review, because the judge is going to see your character, Ric. Ric: You went to extremes. You went to extremes to make sure that Sonny didn't have anything to do with his daughter, Kristina, but yet -- now you want me, without any kind of protest at all, to allow him to be around my daughter, Molly? Well, that's hypocrisy, Alexis. At worst, it's negligent parenting. Alexis: Get out. Get out. Ric: Molly is my daughter and she is going to be with me because she's a part of me, and that's why I'm taking her. Alexis: Get out. Get out, get out, get out! Alexis: (on the phone) I guess I shouldn't be surprised -- that I need another dose of chemo -- because you told me that would happen. I just wasn't expecting it to happen so soon. Ahem. I have to, uh, be in court next week. I have a custody hearing. For my daughter Molly. That takes priority. Thank you. If you could see what you could do, I would appreciate that, thank you. [Knock on door] Alexis: Come on in. Sam: Is it a bad time? Alexis: It's getting hard to tell the difference. What's going on? Sam: I -- um -- I don't know if you heard, but Alan died yesterday. Alexis: Nikolas told me. I went over there this morning. How's Jason? Sam: Well, you see, that -- that's kind of why I'm here. You know, Jason never really had a relationship with Alan. And now that Alan is gone, he really regrets all the time that he lost, and I just don't want to have those same regrets. You're the only mother that I'm ever going to have. And I know that our relationship hasn't been easy, and most of it has been my fault. I have done so many things that I am not proud of. So many things. All do is say that I am so sorry. I am so, so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. And I don't expect you to forgive me or accept my apology. I just didn't want another day to go by without you knowing how really, truly sorry I am. Alexis: I forgive you, Sam. Sam: Alan's death hit Jason so hard. I've just -- I've never seen him like this before. Alexis: Alan was his father. Sam: I know, but it -- it didn't really mean anything to him, it couldn't. He doesn't remember being raised by Alan at all. Alexis: I didn't raise you, so am I just some woman -- Sam: No. Alexis: Who thinks that she's your mother? Sam: No, I think it's completely different. I had a childhood, I have memories, I had a parent. Jason -- he -- he doesn't remember anything after his accident. It's a complete blank slate. He doesn't remember Alan or that relationship. Alexis: In any loving relationship, there is regret, or there's expectation. But when it's your child, or it's your parent, it just matters so much. Sam: I guess I'm never going to know. I found out that I'm not going to be able to have any more children. Alexis: I'm sorry, Sam. Sam: I just -- oh, I can't wrap my head around it. I just don't really know how. I don't know how. All I do know is that if I can't be a mother, then I want to be the best daughter that I know how. Alexis: Sometimes life's just too short. Sam: Alexis -- Alexis: I have lung cancer. I'm not going to spend any more time resenting anything -- not you. [Sam sighs] Alexis: We all make mistakes. Sometimes they'rably awful, but it doesn't change the fact that you're my daughter. You're my daughter, and we're going to work to get past our differences. Sam: Oh. Thank you. Lainey: I just finished the psych evaluation on Kaminski. He's fit to stand trial. Ric: Thank you. Lainey: Rough day? Ric: I've had a rough life. Lainey: Do you feel like talking about it? [Ric snickers] Ric: That depends. Will you give me the family rate -- two brothers for the price of one? Lainey: I'm running a special today -- first session's free. So, who you having trouble with? Ric: Oh -- I don't know. I love my daughter, and somehow that makes me wrong. See, I'm the pariah that's trying to take a -- a child away from her cancer-stricken mother, and what everybody seems to be forgetting is that Molly is my daughter, too. I mean, Alexis has tried to cut me out of Molly's life completely. Molly would never know how much I love her or how much I wanted her to be with me. I mean, I want a better life for my daughter. Lainey: But wouldn't it be better for Molly to have the love and support of both of her parents? Ric: Alexis has always treated Kristina as -- as her favorite -- always has, always will be. Lainey: Kristina's still reeling from a very traumatic experience. I mean -- Ric: And whose fault is that, right? Sorry, it's not yours. Alexis treated Molly as an afterthought long before Kristina even witnessed the shooting. Lainey: Have you tried talking to Alexis about this? Ric: Yeah. Alexis I-- she accuses me of projecting my abandonment issues on Molly. She says that I'm using Molly as a -- a way to feed my grudge for Sonny, which is completely ridiculous. I mean, she could -- she could condemn me for a lot of things that I've done as a brother, as a -- as a husband, as a D.A., but not as a father. I love my daughter with all my heart, more than my own life. And I can't let anybody take her away from me. Not even her mother. Jax: Alexis? Hey, you all right? Alexis: Just thinking. Did you know that you could have flashbacks even when you're not on your deathbed cause I'm having them. I'm seeing my life go by and all the mistakes that I made and all the opportunities that I've missed. Jax: Oh. Blissful marriage of convenience to a dashing Aussie? Alexis: Thank you. Jax: For what? When I stranded you in the desert that time? Alexis: For reminding me that you were the only successful relationship that I've ever had in my life -- marriage, divorce, and we're still best friends. Jax: Yeah. This wouldn't be about Ric, by any chance, would it? Alexis: He came by and offered me a very generous visitation, as long as he gets sole custody of Molly. Jax: Well, I hope you told him to go straight to hell. Alexis: I lost my temper and I told him that I thought his career was more important than Molly. Now Ric is more determined to take Molly away from me. Jax: Well, then I'll have to see to it that Ric loses everything. Alexis: Did you threaten Ric? Jax: No, I told Ric -- and Mayor Floyd -- that if you lose custody of Molly, I'll use all my resources to make sure the blame for the hostage crisis is laid squarely at their feet. Alexis: No, Jax, you can't do Jax: No, look, Ric thinks that you're helpless and somehow he's untouchable. I'm going to show him just how wrong he is. Alexis: I appreciate you trying to help, but this isn't the right way to do it. If he loses his career, he's just going to focus on Molly and he'll spend all of the energy that he has trying to take her from me. Jax: Then let him try. He's going to have to put up one hell of a fight. Alexis: He grew up without a mother. At some point, he's got to realize that it's best that Molly stay with me. Jax: No, no, you know how spiteful Ric can be. He doesn't care about Molly, he only cares about winning. Alexis: I know, but we can't push him, because if you push him, he strikes back, and then there'll be an ugly custody battle and Molly will get hurt. [Alexis sighs] Alexis: I can't let my children suffer anymore from my mistakes.
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