Tracy: Shouldn't you and your prince be roasting chestnuts or something festive?
Emily: While you steal the treasure right out from under us?
Sam: We are filthy rich. We have a fortune.
Nikolas: You and I have a fortune?
Sam: I found that ship.
Nikolas: I paid for the search.
Sam: No, you paid me to salvage your freighter. I am the one who uncovered a wreck that everyone else has missed for the past 300 years. That treasure is mine to share with whoever I want. Right, Jax?
Emily: Why are you trying to sell the family on a 50/50 split with the Cassadines?
Tracy: Isn't that what you want?
Emily: Oh, you can't possibly think it's a good idea.
Tracy: I don't see that we have a choice. Your pirate prince has walked us right to the end of the gangplank.
Emily: What do you have to gain?
Tracy: Half a treasure.
Emily: Split with the rest of the family.
Tracy: The Quartermaines had 300 years to find that treasure and they couldn't do it. What's wrong with settling for a percentage?
Emily: Are you sure it's that simple?
Tracy: I have an idea -- why don't you worry about your prince and getting into college and I'll worry about my father. We'll let Alan and Monica worry about each other and how about we don't worry about Ned at all, because whatever I do, it's going to be wrong as far as he's concerned.
Emily: You really want to help me, don't you?
Tracy: Maybe I'm not the avaricious monster my family thinks I am.
Emily: You're a lot more than that.
Tracy: Thank you.
Emily: You're an excellent con artist and a world-class liar.
Nikolas: The Courage doesn't belong to Sam.
Sam: It doesn't belong to you, either.
Jax: Sam agreed to work on spec.
Nikolas: That doesn't give her a legal right to the treasure.
Jax: Well, you at least owe her a finder's fee.
Sam laughs.
Sam: Finder's fee? No, you can forget it. That wreck and everything in it belongs to me.
Nikolas: Jax, you might want to explain the New York state property laws to Ms. McCall here.
Sam: Oh, now you think I have never worked in New York State before. I know nothing about the laws, right? Would you please tell him to take his pompous butt straight to hell? Please? Whose side are you on, Jax?
Tracy: I was hoping you could think for yourself and see me as I really am.
Emily: Oh, I do. That's the problem.
Tracy: What if I hadn't called the family vote? They'd all still be fighting.
Emily: Like you care.
Tracy: I do care. That's why I keep coming back.
Emily: No, you come back because you run out of money.
Tracy: We're all out of money and I am still here. I love these people. That's why I bring Dillon here. He needs structure -- probably exactly what your mother wanted for you when she convinced Alan and Monica to give you a home.
Emily: No, my mother died of breast cancer. You wanted to travel without your teenage son. Excess baggage. Can't you even see that the --
Phone rings.
Tracy: It's all interpretation.
Emily: Hello?
Elizabeth: I have to see you right now.
Jax: Look, Nikolas, no one would've known about the treasure if not for Sam.
Nikolas: If I hadn't have found you and carried you to safety, you would have died of hypothermia. Never mind that, I mean, I saved your life. You had no intention of telling me about that treasure.
Sam: You're damn straight.
Nikolas: Oh, so you're admitting that you tried to defraud me?
Sam: The Courage isn't your ship.
Nikolas: No, Sam. It isn't yours, and neither is the treasure. Look, I will pay you for the time you spent trying to salvage my freighter but not for the time spent trying to steal a fortune which does not belong to you.
Sam: You're not going to find anyone to dive this time of year.
Nikolas: Oh, I think that can be arranged.
Sam: When? By spring? In the middle of the summer? By then, my treasure will be gone.
Nikolas: If you're threatening to steal from me, Sam, don’t. Real simple -- lay a hand on the treasure, I press charges.
Sam: If you happen to pay off the right people or get the law on your side, it won't do you any good because I will disappear with my treasure, okay?
Nikolas: I hope this ends here.
Door closes.
Sam: There is no way in hell that guy is confiscating my treasure. I am going to get it away from the Cassadines and the Quartermaines, too.
Cody gets caught evesdropping on Alexis at Wyndemere. She's giving him one more chance.
Jax: You tookay a chance by keeping the treasure to yourself.
Sam: It's mine.
Jax: Odds are stacked against you.
Sam: Like they have been my entire life. This is business as usual, Jax, and you want me to fold, just give up again.
Jax: No, I'm not -- no, I'm not asking you to fold. I'm just saying wait for a better hand.
Sam: Do you know how many times I've come this close and missed out? Not this time. I found that treasure and I don't care what Nikolas Cassadine or New York state law says. It belongs to me.
Jax: Would you listen to yourself? Okay, all or nothing is a loser's bet. You need to cut your losses and move on.
Sam: I really thought you'd back me on this.
Jax: I am trying to back you on this. I'm saying that there could be something better down the road.
Sam: You think it's going to be that easy? All right. I'll try.
Jax: Trust me, you won't be sorry.
Tracy: Why the long face, little pirate? This is your lucky day.
Emily: Elizabeth? Hey, what happened? Are you all right?
Elizabeth: How could you?
Emily: How could I what?
Elizabeth: After all the secrets I have kept for you, how could you tell Ric that the baby isn't his?
Emily: I didn’t.
Elizabeth: Oh, that's right, you just put a note in his pocket.
Emily: No, Elizabeth, I didn’t.
Elizabeth: Did you know that we got married tonight, Emily? We got married and we were supposed to be going on our honeymoon until Ric went and put his jacket on and found a note in his pocket saying that he wasn't the father of the baby.
Emily: Elizabeth, I would never do anything like that to you.
Elizabeth: Well, then who did you tell? Did you tell Zander?
Emily: No, I didn't tell anyone!
Elizabeth: That's good. That's good, because it's nobody's business that Zander is the father of this baby. This is my secret, nobody else’s.
Edward: Dear Constance -- she died for that treasure.
Alan: "Dear Constance"?
Monica: She died 300 years ago.
Edward: And I refuse to share the treasure with a bunch of inbred Russian lunatics, hmm.
Ned: I don't think Emily sees it that way.
Edward: Ah -- she's a lovesick child, that's why.
Monica: Well, Tracy has to be up to something.
Alan: What was that vote for, anyway?
Monica: I don't know.
Edward: My family turning against me. What else?
Alan: Oh, nobody's turning against you.
Edward: Then why the hell do you insist on giving everything we have away to those damn Cassadines, huh?
Monica: And why do you insist on making everything sound worse than it is?
Skye whistles.
Skye: Come on, everyone. It's Christmas. Can't we put all our differences aside and act like a family?
Edward: What do you know about family? You certainly aren't a member of this one.
Alan: Don't start!
Monica: You see what I mean?
Edward: What do you mean, don't start?
Alan: It is Christmas! I want you to stop --
Edward: She is not a member of this family.
Alan: You just leave --
Tracy: You need a new base of operations. Nikolas is going to be watching this ship. You can use the Quartermaine boathouse. Hide any treasure you find there.
Sam: Why, so you and your family can steal it?
Tracy: The Quartermaines never think about that boathouse in the wintertime.
Sam: They will when you start going up there.
Tracy: You know what? I have a great deal of experience deceiving my family. You need to make sure that everybody thinks you've given up. By the time the Quartermaines and the Cassadines agree on how to search for the treasure, it'll be gone.
Sam: And I'll be the prime suspect.
Tracy: Not if you replace the real jewelry with fakes. Then I can sell the real stuff in Europe on the black market if I have to, and you and I can split the profits, 70/30.
Sam: No way.
Tracy: You are the 70, missy.
Sam: Why are you being so generous?
Tracy: Well, I can hardly drag myself into a heated Jacuzzi and the thought of diving into a frozen harbor in the dead of night in the middle of winter -- well, it's hideous to me.
Sam: Then why should I give you any profit at all? Why shouldn't I just take it all for myself?
Tracy: Well, maybe because it's my idea and without my cooperation, you get zilch.
Elizabeth: I'm really sorry I yelled at you.
Emily: No, it's okay. Blame the hormones.
Elizabeth: I know you would never tell Ric.
Emily: No, not without your permission, but it would be so much better if you told Ric the truth. Have I mentioned that?
Elizabeth: Yeah, once or twice. Em, what if -- what if Ric starts to figure it out?
Emily: Well, somebody obviously did.
Elizabeth: But who would put a note in his pocket? I mean, that's just so weird.
Emily: How many times did you tell me not to keep secrets from Zander? And you were right, Elizabeth. If I'd just been honest from the start, then I would -- Ric -- Ric just walked in.
Elizabeth: Oh, God -- so, we're going to Charleston for our honeymoon.
Emily: Oh, that sounds great!
Ric: Oh, you told her, huh?
Elizabeth: Yeah.
Emily: Congratulations.
Ric: Thank you.
Emily: I'm -- I'm sorry I missed the wedding.
Ric: Oh, that's okay. We'll -- we'll throw a party in a few weeks, right?
Emily: That sounds good.
Ric: Uh -- Emily, would you mind if I have a couple of minutes alone with my wife?
Emily: Sure. Just to be clear, I expect you to treat Elizabeth better this time around.
Ric: I understand.
Elizabeth: I'll call you later, Em, from Charleston. Okay?
Emily: I'm looking forward to it.
Elizabeth: Okay. Bye.
Ric tells Liz that he put the note in his pocket. She confesses that Zander is the father of her baby.
The Quartermaine family gangs up on Skye about all her mistakes. We'll pick the scene up here.
Monica: Look at Emily. She lost two years with this family because of you.
Edward: Mm-hmm. Could be the stress of that injury caused the cancer.
Skye: You're saying I gave Emily cancer? Oh, my God!
Reginald: They get a little carried away.
Edward: You stay out of this, Reginald! All you want, hmm, is just a cut of that treasure, young --
Skye: What treasure?
Ned: You sure you don't know? Because I can never tell when you're scamming or when you're sincere.
Edward: This is the last time you will take advantage of this family, lady.
Monica: Especially at Christmas.
Door opens.
Luke: Leave her alone!
Skye: Luke?
Luke: There's nobody here fit to patch your jeans, Red. A lot of people are liars and thieves, but what makes this crowd so low is that they're hypocrites -- except you, Dr. Quartermaine. Not you, not you. You tear into her with your moral high ground when every one of you have done worse regularly. Please.
Skye: What are you doing?
Edward: Get off my property, both of you!
Luke: Yo, the door and when they come groveling -- and they will -- I want you to slam the door in their face!
Tracy: You need an ally.
Sam: I have Jax.
Tracy: Oh, please. He wants you to fold, cut your losses, walk away, that sort of thing.
Sam: How do you know that?
Tracy: I eavesdropped. How do you think?
Sam: Oh, so you heard everything?
Tracy: Uh-huh. He wants you to be noble and stand back, which is fine, I suppose, if you're an incredibly handsome and successful corporate raider.
Sam: Jax is all right.
Tracy: Jax is splendid and he's never been out of the loop. In fact, he is the loop. He's never been shut out of a deal. His friends love him. His family has always adored him. What about yours?
Sam: What does family have to do with anything?
Tracy: You're right -- nothing. You don't need family. You need that treasure. Do we have a deal?
Sam: Okay. Yeah, we're on.
Alexis: The Quartermaines are going to fight you on a 50/50 split. I don't care what they say.
Nikolas: That's why I was hoping you'd draw up a contract.
Alexis: I will work on it.
Nikolas: Great.
Emily: Hey. You aren't going to believe this.
Nikolas: What?
Emily: Elizabeth married Ric Lansing.
Nikolas: What -- when?
Emily: Tonight. Totally unplanned.
Nikolas: Wow, that's -- that's kind of scary.
Emily: Yeah. I also spokaye to Tracy about the treasure.
Nikolas: Whose idea was that?
Emily: Mine. I know Tracy’s up to something.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, so is Sam McCall. She threatened to loot the Courage before we get a diving team together.
Emily: Oh. So then it's a race to the bottom of the Port Charles harbor.
Nikolas: Yep, yep, and Sam’s an experienced diver.
Cody: Excuse me, sir, so am I.
Mushy scene with Jax and Sam. Jax congratulates Sam for letting go of the Courage. Little does he know...
Nikolas: Wow. A butler, cookay, a gardener, groom. A groom. You're a diver now, too?
Cody: Yes, sir.
Nikolas: Then why are you working for almost nothing?
Cody: I need to be close to my daughter, Sir. We have fences to mend.
Nikolas: Oh.
Cody: If this is too much, I understand, but I am available to assist if you need me.
Nikolas: I'll consider your offer. That'll be all, thank you.
Emily: I don't trust that guy for a second. Do you?
Nikolas: No. You're about the only person I trust anymore.
Emily: Hmm.
Nikolas: Between your family and mine, I think we're about to get swallowed up in greed here.
Emily: Yeah, well, if we get in too deep, we'll just pull each other back.
Nikolas: Promise?
Emily: Yeah. I don't care about the treasure or anything else, as long as I'm with you.