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March
19, 2007 Transcript Epiphany:
Where do you think you're going? Alexis:
Home, to lie in bed and forget that I'm this sick and this tired.
Epiphany:
You're not going to make it through hospital doors you don't sit
down and drink some fluids. I'll go get you some water. Alexis:
Oh, honestly, I'm fine. Epiphany:
If you were fine, then you would not need to be on the chemo to
begin with. Alexis:
That's a good point. I appreciate your concern, but I'm really all
right. I'm just going to sit here for a second. Epiphany:
The only thing that concerns me is paying my bills. To do that,
I need a job. You fall down on the way to that elevator and split
your head open, I'll be out of one. Stay! Alexis:
Ok, all right, I'll stay. Get me some water, if you don't mind.
I'll sit for a minute and then I'm leaving. Epiphany: Yes, you will sit here and you will rest for five minutes. If not, I'll have Dr. Trent admit you for the next five days. [Phone
rings] Epiphany: You need to come to the hospital and pick up Alexis before she passes out trying to make it to a cab. Alexis:
There, I was a very good girl. May I be excused now? Epiphany:
Now that your ride is here. Alexis:
What -- good god. Ric:
Yeah, I'm here. Ready to go? Alexis:
I thought you were trying to make me feel better, not worse. Epiphany:
I prevented your face from becoming up close and personal with the
floor. And in my book, that is helping. Alexis:
I am perfectly capable of getting home on my own. Ric:
I'm sure you are. That's ok, though. I don't mind. Alexis:
I do. [Alexis
sighs] Ric:
You want to let me help you? Alexis: You already took away my daughter. You're not taking away my independence, too. Ric:
I didn't come here to fight with you, Alexis. Alexis:
You came here to ease your guilty conscious, as if a ride is going
to make up for the fact that you dragged me into court called me
an unfit mother, and took away my daughter. Ric:
No, I'm here because you're Molly's mother, and I just don't want
to see you push yourself so hard so that you wind up in another
medically induced coma. Alexis:
You know, I told Kristina that I'm going to get well -- do whatever
it takes so that I can bring her sister home. And if that means
that I need to come here week after week and fill my body full of
whatever chemicals they have without the benefit of a joint, then
that's what I'm going to do, because I'm going to get well enough
to kick your ass in court and get my daughter back home -- Ric:
Ok, ok, I get it. Alexis:
Where she belongs. Ric:
I get it. Ok. You want to keep making me out to be the villain who
took advantage of your cancer to steal your child away from you.
But the thing you keep forgetting, Alexis, is that Molly is my daughter,
as well. I did what I felt was necessary. Alexis:
That's very noble of you. Ric:
Ok, I'm not here to ease my conscience at all, I'm here to give
you a ride, ok? And you got two choices. Either you can accept the
ride and you can get home in time enough to put Kristina into bed,
or you can use what little energy you got left to wave your arm
hailing a cab. Ok? What's it going to be? You can either accept
a ride from me -- or you can maybe -- hmm -- disappoint Kristina,
huh? Alexis:
You know, you would use my own daughter against me. Ric:
Yeah, I know. We've already established that I have absolutely no
scruples or ethics. So what's it going to be? You going to get that
ride, or what? Hmm? Easy. Alexis:
This doesn't change anything. Ric: I never expected it to.
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