June 26, 2007 Transcript
"It Sounds Like You're Conducting a Salem Witch-Hunt"

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Amelia: See for yourself. Bill Monroe was my father.

Alexis: I'm very sorry for your loss, Ms. Joffe, but this report says that a woman by the name of Angela Monroe was acquitted for his murder.

Amelia: Mm-hmm. Angie Monroe -- A.K.A. Samantha McCall, A.K.A. about a half a dozen other aliases. Sam and my father had just celebrated their four-month anniversary when he got a call that his bank account had been emptied. He rushed home, discovered his little cupcake packing her things. She was take the money and run. He confronted her, she picked up his 12-gauge shotgun and blew his chest wide open. How proud you must be of your little girl.

Alexis: You allege that it was Sam who murdered your father. It says that she was exonerated for his murder.

Amelia: Sam admitted to firing the shot that took my father's life.

Alexis: According to this report, it was self-defense.

Amelia: Oh, please. She is more than capable of throwing herself down a flight of stairs to simulate a beating if it helps her get away with murder.

Alexis: How is it that in all your grief, you manage to track Sam down and make her into a television star?

Amelia: It's clear Sam won't go to prison for killing my father, and I'm not stupid enough to take the law into my own hands, so I used my strong suit. I saw a chance to make Sam a celebrity, give her a taste of fame, get her hooked on her own star instead of some man's, and then once she was in, expose her for the lying tramp that she is. When your face is on every bus stop and every billboard in the country, the fall from grace can be devastating. The public can be very unforgiving.

Alexis: Wow. That is really creative. What a unique way of seeking revenge. I'm not sure that would've worked, though, not that that matters. Do you honestly think that I am not going to leave here right now, go straight to my daughter and warn her that you are out to destroy her?

Amelia: You're not completely wrong. I would've preferred to keep my dislike for Sam under wraps for a little while longer, but we are coming to the end game now.

Alexis: This is a game to you? You're actively trying to take out another human being, and you think that's worthy of keeping score?

Amelia: Sam deserves to suffer, even if it's just tanking her career on national television. Never underestimate the power of public humiliation.

Alexis: It sounds like you're conducting a Salem witch-hunt.

Amelia: You're an attorney. Weigh the evidence and tell me your daughter didn't exploit five different men -- and I'm not even counting Jax, Sonny, and Jason.

Alexis: You're making an awfully huge assumption.

Amelia: I've given you the evidence. Sam finds a mark, targets him, exploits him, and then moves on. Jason appears to be the one exception -- who knows why? Maybe she was taking a little break. But believe me, it's temporary, because Sam has a pattern. She's a user. I bet she's used you, too.

Amelia: If I have my facts straight, Sam seduced your husband after the two of you discovered you were long-lost mother and daughter.

Alexis: I fail to see the relevance.

Amelia: A woman has to have ice in her veins to sleep with her mother's husband, especially when said mother is -- what, breast cancer?

Alexis: Lung cancer. And that doesn't make me incapable of suing you on my daughter's behalf. That is, of course, if you expect your revelations to make me turn my back on my daughter.

Amelia: Sue me on what grounds?

Alexis: Any number of them. You can be stopped.

Amelia: Hmm. I'm quaking in my boots.

Alexis: Very sensible, Ms. Joffe. You have, by the way, made it very clear how much you dislike my daughter and the lengths that you will go to humiliate and isolate her.

Amelia: She's a liar, a swindler, and a glorified prostitute, since her scams e sleeping with men for monetary gain. At the very least, she deserves to end up alone and abandoned.

Alexis: I don't doubt that's your intent. You're clearly a very determined woman.

Amelia: Sam is under contract to this show and to the network. "Everyday Heroes" is doing very, very well. Sam is a star, thanks to me. So I dare you -- or anyone -- to argue that I have damaged Sam or her reputation at all.