June 24, 2009 Transcript
"I Don't Want Kristina Hanging Around at Any House that Has You in It"

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Kristina: I like the impulse, but your timing's off. Can't bond with big sis right now. Friends and the beach await.

Sam: You can leave if you want to, I'll just -- I'll wait for Alexis to get back here and I'll tell her everything I know. Or you can stay and convince me why I shouldn't.

Kristina: I know what this is about -- Jason, right? You've been talking to him and he's blown everything out of proportion.

Sam: Really? So then you weren't driving Alexis' car?

Kristina: Well, yes, but it --

Sam: You are 16 years old. You only have a learner's permit.

Kristina: I realize technically I broke a rule, but it was for a good cause. Michael really needed help.

Sam: Then he should've called his parents.

Kristina: Michael's having a hard time getting re-acclimated --

Sam: No, no, no, stop. I really don't care about Michael's problems right now. I have my own sister to worry about. You stole your mother's car.

Kristina: That's a little harsh.

Sam: Did you ask permission to use it?

Kristina: No.

Sam: No. Then you stole it. And Jason told me he saw you drinking at a club.

Kristina: I wasn't drinking. And the only reason I was there was because a friend of mine was about to make a big mistake.

Sam: Uh, so wait a minute. Now you're, what, everybody's guardian angel?

Kristina: Can I help it if I'm everybody's rational one?

Sam: Do you want me to tell you what I think?

Kristina: Do I have a choice?

Sam: I think you're crying out for attention. And guess what? It's time for me to make sure attention gets paid. Now, sit.

Kristina: Come on, Sam, give me a break. Okay, I've done a couple of dumb things -- in the service of others, I might add -- but doesn't the rest of my record count for anything? I get straight A’s, activities for days. I don't drink or do drugs and --

Sam: Ugh!

Kristina: I could use a little less attention if you want to know the truth. Please try to remember when you were my age.

Sam: Oh, you know what? I don't think my memory stretches that far back. And really, I don't -- I don't know if you necessarily want it to, because it may backfire and I might come down on you a whole lot harder.

Alexis: If you're lecturing your sister on the trouble she just got into at Jake’s, I wholeheartedly agree.

Sam: No, actually, I didn't know about that. Please, Kristina, by all means, fill me in.

Alexis: Michael decided to take a detour after physical therapy to Jake’s. And Kristina, showing not such good judgment, decided to go to Jake’s and talk him into leaving, and that's when I walked in.

Sam: Well, I am glad that Michael has someone he can trust.

Kristina: Dad and Carly mean well, but they can't relate. They really can't bring Michael up to speed on the year he missed.

Alexis: I think it's admirable that you have compassion for your brother, but sometimes you can be a -- a little too generous for your own good. Michael's situation is very complicated. He's not just struggling with the loss of time, but, Kristina, he's got brain damage and it's affecting his personality. I certainly hope he is in some kind of intensive therapy.

Kristina: He just needs a friend.

Alexis: You are his friend. But I don't think you understand how serious this is. Michael has poor impulse control, which means he could have an impulse to do something that's completely inappropriate, and I don't want him dragging you along for the ride. You have too much at stake.

Kristina: I know, Mom.

Alexis: It's good that you love your brother, just keep your eye on the prize.

Kristina: Focus, never let anything stand in the way of your goals.

Sam: Okay, all right. You know, what's -- what's done is done. Hopefully Kristina, now moving forward, won't repeat the same mistakes. No harm done.

Kristina: On a scale of one to 10, how mad are you at me?

Michael: Didn't you get my text?

Kristina: I got it.

Michael: I thought it was pretty clear. I'm not mad at you.

Kristina: I would be if I were you.

Michael: I guess I'm a more forgiving person than you are.

Kristina: It was massively uncool dumping the whole Jake’s thing on you, acting like I'm St. Kristina of wayward youth. I'm so sorry for myself and my mother. I can't believe the way she talked to you.

Michael: Look, if you and I had to apologize for every single time our parents embarrassed us, we'd never stop. How'd you get here?

Kristina: I took mom's other car. But don't worry; I parked it by the lake where it can't be seen.

Michael: And I'm supposed to be the bad influence?

Kristina: I know, I'm a horrible human being. I really do feel awful about leaving you holding the bag.

Michael: Well, I'm glad you talked your way out of it. No point of both of us getting in trouble, and you've got more to lose. You know, a brainiac honor student with your whole choice of colleges and however-many-years plan.

Kristina: My mother's plan?

[Michael sighs]

Michael: At least you have one.

Kristina: What's wrong?

Michael: I thought that I made an important step last night confronting that goon in the woods. I thought it would show that I have what it takes. You know, I wanted Jason to see it and be impressed.

Kristina: You lost me back at "the woods."

Michael: All right, there was this shootout and one of the Zacchara guys got out alive. He took off through the woods because he was shot. And that's where Morgan was taking the shortcut on his way here. So he gets desperate, somebody sees him so he grabs Morgan, and mom and I get there. I end up faced off with the guy and I took him out -- no thinking, pure clean reactions -- and I thought that it would be my way in.

Kristina: Into what?

Michael: Dad's business.

[Door slams]

Alexis: Sonny, you here?

Alexis: Oh, hi.

Michael: Hey.

Alexis: I was expecting to find Sonny in here, but I'm glad you're here. Can we have a chat?

Michael: A chat?

Alexis: Come here. Sit down with me for a minute.

Alexis: In my shock and horror at seeing you and Kristina at Jake’s, I don't think that I expressed myself clearly, and I wanted to rectify that.

Michael: Well, I understood you loud and clear.

Alexis: No, you didn't, because I didn't come across very sensitively toward you. And I do care about you, Michael. I feel terrible for everything that you've been through, the injuries that you've suffered, the time that you lost. And I appreciate how much you're struggling to get through all that. I hope that you understand I was upset because you were in a bar, ordering a drink, and you asked my daughter to --

Michael: Kristina wasn't drinking.

Alexis: Well, it was a place where drinks were sold, and that's against the law.

Michael: It won't happen again.

Alexis: Thank you, Michael. Kristina has worked really hard at school, and she's got really good grades. She's a good kid. She's set up a potentially very successful future for herself. I don't want to see that all messed up. I'm sure you can understand that, because --

Michael: Yeah, I understand.

Alexis: Okay.

Michael: You don't want Kristina's brain-damaged half-brother --

Alexis: No, oh, Michael --

Michael: To mess up her nice, tidy future.

Alexis: That's not what I'm saying.

Michael: And now you're going to order me to stay away from her.

Claudia: No, she can't order you to do a damn thing. Why don't you get something to eat, and I'll take care of her, okay?

Alexis: You will not take care of me or anything that has anything to do with my daughter. And if you think that I don't mean that, you are mistaken.

Claudia: Where do you get off ordering him around, Alexis?

Alexis: It's called parenting, Claudia. It's all right. I know you're not familiar with that.

Claudia: Oh, you're so smug. I can't wait for Kristina to send you crashing down to earth. You need to get out of my house.

Alexis: Yeah, well, I'm waiting for Sonny to get here. And I have a wonderful daughter, actually. She hasn't given me much problem at all up until now.

Claudia: Just wait.

Alexis: What do you know about that?

Claudia: Actually, I'd know a lot about it. Kristina's in private school, right? All those high expectations and repressed sexuality. Those perfect little girls? Those are the ones that you see in the spring break videos wasted off their ass with their t-shirt up over their head, flashing their boobs. And they're rebelling against overprotective, psychotic mothers --

[Cell phone rings]

Claudia: Like you, who try to control every single aspect of their life. You don't have any idea what's going on with her. I mean, first of all, you want to cut her out of her father's life? You don't know what happens to little girls like that?

Alexis: You must be referring to my trying to prevent her from being the next of Sonny's children to get a bullet in the brain.

Claudia: So your solution is to cut her first out of Sonny's life and then out of Michael's? I mean, that's just stupid, Alexis. It's not smart. You're just giving her something to rebel against.

Alexis: No, I want them to spend as much time as they want to together, just in my house under supervision, that's all.

Claudia: Well, that's ridiculous. They're teenagers. They should be able to hang out in their father's house if they want to.

Alexis: Which also happens to be your house. So come to think of it, even if Michael were the most docile person on the planet, I don't want Kristina hanging around at any house that has you in it.

Claudia: You're really some piece of work, you know that?

Alexis: Yeah, well, you're a living, breathing crime wave.

Claudia: Oh, really? You can't put what my father's done on me.

Alexis: Oh, you're going to do the "who, me?" Are you kidding? That's nauseating.

Claudia: Okay, go ahead, prove that I've done one criminal thing, Alexis, please. Launch a full-scale investigation. Oh, that's right, you can't do that because my husband is your daughter's father, and then you'd have to investigate Sonny, so that's not happening. How's it feel to be a walking conflict of interest, Counselor?

Alexis: Not good. Not good at all. When Kristina was born, I prayed that she wouldn't have to suffer because her father chose the life of a mobster. But I've done my best to ensure that she's had very little to do with that part of his life. Now that you are in the picture, I'm going to make sure that she never will.

Kristina: Who are you?

Dominic: Just do as I say, and there’ll be a quarter under your pillow in the morning.