Emily: Do your eyes hurt?
Elizabeth: Yeah. Yeah, it's like I've got a shooting pain in the back of my eyes. It's weird -- I keep seeing this flash of light right before that car hits.
Nikolas: Want me to go get the doctor?
Elizabeth: No. No, but I sure would like to see the faces of my friends.
Emily: You aren't missing much, believe me.
Nikolas: I'm not so sure about that.
Lucky: Hey.
Elizabeth: Is that Lucky?
Lucky: Hey. How are you doing?
Elizabeth: Hey.
Nikolas: About time you showed up.
Lucky: I just got your message.
Elizabeth: So do you know what happened?
Lucky: Nikolas told me a hit-and-run.
Nikolas: It's gotten a little more complicated than that.
Elizabeth: Yeah. Ric was driving the car. My husband tried to kill me.
Elizabeth: Ric used to swear I was the one person who understood him when, actually, it was quite the opposite. I was the one person who refused to understand. What is that, Nikolas, like, irony or something?
Nikolas: Amongst other things, yes.
Elizabeth: He wanted me around as long as I fed his illusions about himself, and then once I stopped, he tried to get rid of me.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, I know what's it like to be caught up in someone else's illusions.
Elizabeth: Yeah, but why did it take me so long to realize --
Lucky: You're acting like you did something wrong when you didn't. It was Ric. He -- he was lying to you from the start.
Elizabeth: Yeah, but I knew that before I married him. Why didn't I just walk away?
Lucky: Because you're loyal. You care about people.
Emily: Ric couldn't value who you really are. He's the fool here, not you.
Elizabeth: You guys are making it really hard for me to beat up on myself.
Emily: What do you expect? We're the original four musketeers.
Lucky: Oh, no.
Elizabeth: Oh, right.
Emily: Come on.
Lucky: Not the pledge thing.
Emily: No arguments. I said come on.
Elizabeth: Oh, just do it, you guys.
Emily: Look, we need each other now more than ever. Don't you make me ask again.
Elizabeth: Ooh.
Emily: All for one --
Lucky: One for all.
Nikolas: Right, all for --
Lucky: All for one, and one for all.
Laughter.
Emily: Look, whatever happens, the four of us have each other. No one can ever break that tie.
Elizabeth: You know, Em, there's a fine line between hovering and supporting, and you're just about to cross it.
Emily: I haven't yet.
Elizabeth: Yeah, but I'm as okay as I'm going to get tonight.
Emily: What if you can't sleep, Elizabeth? What if those flashes of light keep you awake?
Nikolas: I'll make sure she calls the nurse.
Elizabeth: Hey, you want to help me get better? Concentrate on getting yourself well.
Zander: I think that's an excellent idea.
Emily: What -- I'm fine.
Nikolas: I'll stay with her until she falls asleep.
Elizabeth: Or until I kick him out, whichever comes first.
Zander: You really do need to rest, Em. Come on.
Emily: Okay. I give up. I've been out-musketeered. You win. Good night.
Elizabeth: Good night, Em.
Emily: I love you.
Elizabeth: I love you, too.
Emily: Okay.
Zander: See you later.
Elizabeth: Okay. Bye, Zander.
Zander: Okay.
Nikolas: Okay.
Elizabeth: Are they gone?
Nikolas: Yeah.
Elizabeth: You know that your voice gets all tender when you speak to Emily, as if every word matters?
Nikolas: Did they test your hearing, as well?
Elizabeth laughs.
Elizabeth: There's nothing wrong with my hearing. It doesn't matter that Emily is married to Zander. You're more in love with her than ever.
Nikolas: You know, when Emily was a teenager, when she had that crush on me, she said one of the wisest things I think I've ever heard her say. She said -- she said that she could love me as long as she wanted. And as long as she never expected me to love her back, then no one would get hurt.
Elizabeth chuckles.
Elizabeth: You know, things were different then.
Nikolas: Yeah. And now I'm in love with her, and I can love her as long as I want. And as long as I don't act on it, no one will get hurt.
Elizabeth: That's not how it works anymore.
Nikolas: Why not?
Elizabeth: Because we're all grown up. Nikolas, listen to me. If there's one thing that I've learned from Ric, it's that a marriage based on lies cannot succeed, no matter how hard you try or -- or how good the intentions are.
Nikolas: I'm being completely honest with Lydia.
Elizabeth: Of course. I am not talking about Lydia. I'm talking about Emily and Zander. Emily still loves you.
Emily: How'd you know this is what I needed?
Zander: I'm your husband. I know these things.
Emily: Oh, it's so great to get out of that place.
Zander: You needed some fresh air.
Emily: Oh, the sky is beautiful this time of year.
Zander: Yeah, I know.
Emily: I was afraid I'd never see it again. I came so close to losing everything.
Zander: But you didn't. You didn't.
Emily: Yeah, I can feel myself getting stronger practically by the minute.
Zander: I knew you would.
Emily: You know, I still got a fight ahead of me, but I know I'm going to beat this cancer. I'll live a long, full life.
Zander: You got that right. We'll spend it together. You know, I -- I went home and slept a little bit. And I woke up and realized that I married Emily. We did it. We did it.
Emily: Yeah. You believed in me.
Zander: Like you believed in me. And it doesn't matter about your family or all the trouble that I got into or -- or all the time that we had between us. We survived all of that and this. We can survive anything.
Emily: And we still have the stars and the moon.
Zander: Wherever we go, whatever we do, I'll make sure you can always see the stars.
Emily: Okay, that's Orion. See? The hunter. You see those three stars? The bright ones? That's his belt.
Zander: Really?
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Zander: Really, Orion's a hunter, huh?
Emily: Yeah. But the woman he loved didn't love him back. So, the gods gave him animals --
Zander: Really?
Emily: All over the night sky, and his own constellation, and his best hunting dogs, too. Orion hunts all night, every night, forever.
Zander: Huh. What else do you see?
Emily: Selene, Goddess of the Moon. She rides across the night sky in a chariot pulled by two horses with wings. And in the morning, it's Helios, the Sun God. Four winged horses pull him across the sky.
Zander: Where'd you learn all this stuff?
Emily: Oh -- Nikolas. Nikolas knows all kinds of weird things, the more -- the more arcane, the better.
Zander: Oh. You ever think about the stars in Canada when we were out there driving, out in the middle of nowhere?
Emily: Praying that the car wouldn't break down.
Zander: Do you remember how dark that sky was?
Emily: Mm-hmm.
Zander: Remember how bright the stars were?
Emily: Yeah, they were beautiful.
Zander: It was like I'd never seen the stars before -- because you were beside me. And every time that I was away from you, every time that I saw the stars, I thought of you. I always will.
Emily: Do you -- do you hear something?
Zander: No. My heart's beating too loud to hear anything.
Emily: Mine, too.