Jason: Stefan needs to die.
Nikolas: You -- you can't -- you can't kill him, Jason.
Jason: Well, I'm not going to have to. Alcazar's going to take care of it.
Nikolas: I'm just asking you to try and --
Jason: Your uncle's already dead, Nikolas! He tried to kill Alcazar, and he couldn't finish the job.
Stefan: You have no proof. If Alcazar believes you and Corinthos are responsible for the attack and wants to eliminate you, good riddance.
Nikolas: You want him to die for trying to kill Emily?
Stefan: Enough with that ridiculous accusation!
Jason: You say you love my sister? Stefan wanted her dead! So why are you working so hard to save him?
Emily: I don't know, I'm always going to have a weakness for Nikolas. I fell for him at 13, and I know by now it's a permanent condition.
Skye: Well, listen, I have got a credit card and a color sense that is just waiting for you to say the word. Seriously, we will go on a shopping spree that is guaranteed to make Nikolas look at you like you're the only woman in the world --
Emily: Oh --
Skye: As requested.
Emily: A girls' day out with you would be great, Skye, but I don't know. I think dressing for Nikolas was a bad impulse, and I'm sure I only thought of it because I was going stir crazy in the hospital.
Skye: Are you sure? Because, you know, we all deserve the chance to impress that certain someone.
Emily: Oh, my God, no, no. There's no point. I need to concentrate on Zander. He's who I chose --
Zander turns monitor off.
Emily: The one I want to be with.
Skye: Well, Zander already looks at you like you're the only woman in the world.
Emily: I know how lucky I am.
Skye: Hmm. Wise beyond your years if you can appreciate that. Too many hearts have been broken by Prince Charming, present company included. You know, sometimes it turns out the perfect man is all wrong for you. Look at me and Jax.
Stefan: I hand you the world! This is how you repay me?
Nikolas: I owe you nothing. You're a stranger to me!
Stefan: I'm a Cassadine, the same as you.
Nikolas: You're a murderer!
Stefan: Nikolas, listen --
Lucky: Nice work, big brother. It's way past time that you gave Stefan a beating.
Stefan: You get out! This has nothing to do with either one of you.
Nikolas: Lucky's a -- yeah, what are you? Officer in training? He can take you down to the police station.
Stefan: I suppose you're pleased with yourself, all the lies you've managed to put into Nikolas' mind.
Nikolas: Don't start shifting blame to him. You're guilty and you're going to admit it.
Stefan: What are you now, Nikolas, a pawn?
Lydia: Nikolas --
Stefan: You're no longer able to think for yourself?
Lydia: Nikolas realizes what you are now, and it scares you to death. If he realizes you're a murderer, it must be true.
Stefan: I was wrongly accused.
Lydia: Even you have to realize what you are.
Stefan: I was wrongly accused! Nikolas, she framed me so that she could rid herself of her rival.
Lydia chuckles.
Lydia: Stefan, it's too late to pin this on me now. The world sees how desperate you were for my money.
Lucky: Nikolas, if you want Stefan behind bars, I know exactly how to do it.
Ned: I brought over Kristina's favorite blanket. The social services people were in such a hurry to take her away, they left it behind. I tried to reach Cameron, but --
Emily: You want to take it up?
Ned: Yeah.
Cameron: What's he doing here?
Ned: He is visiting his daughter. And he also understands English.
Cameron: Well, as Kristina's legal guardian, I have discretion over who sees her and when.
Ned: Oh, really? And I assume your discretion would include round-the-clock visits for Alexis? That is, if she weren't in jail?
Skye: Ned, you know, why don't we take that blanket up to Kristina.
Emily: Yeah, the baby's sleeping. Why don't we just take a minute to --
Ned: Actually, why don't we take a minute and have cameron explain exactly how he landed custody of Kristina in the first place.
Cameron: You feel threatened as a father, ned? I mean, your ego would rather see her in foster care with strangers than with me? This was the Judge's call to make and --
Ned: You manipulated the entire situation. You tried to play hero for Alexis one too many times, and you ended up with a baby you're not even remotely prepared to deal with. So what do you do? You farm her out to Zander and Emily.
Cameron: Only till I can make arrangements.
Emily: We love having her here.
Ned: And I am eternally grateful that you and Zander have her. At least you don't have an agenda. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going upstairs to see my daughter.
Cameron: I don't think so.
Ned: What harm can it do for me to look in on Kristina while she's asleep?
Cameron: How many times did Alexis ask you the same question, Ned? You'd quote the court order and send her packing. How does it feel?
Zander: What the hell's wrong with the two of you? There's a baby upstairs sleeping.
Cameron: I was just suggesting to Ned that now may not be the best time for him to visit -- or Skye, either, for that matter.
Skye: Well, this has nothing to do with Kristina's welfare. Cameron's just punishing ned for filing suit against Alexis.
Cameron: Alexis has already been arrested. It's beyond vindictive to try and bankrupt her as well.
Ned: She framed me for sexual assault on a minor!
Cameron: Stefan engineered the whole thing.
Skye: With Alexis' cooperation, no doubt.
Ned: I went to the mat for Alexis time and time again, and what does she do to me? What does she do to me?
Zander: Listen to you. Listen to you. My gosh. She said this, he said that. This baby upstairs deserves better than this from all of you. And you think about it. Ned and Skye are the only parents that this baby's ever known. And she may not be able to say it, but she realizes that. Then there's Alexis, the baby's mother. She has a right to get to know her, to love her, and shouldn't the baby's rights be the most important here? Shouldn't we be thinking about the baby?
Ned: Of course.
Zander: Okay, then suck it up. Accept -- if you love this baby, if you truly love this baby, then accept that it's your job to compromise, even if sharing is the hardest thing that you have to do.
Stefan: Nikolas and I had a disagreement. It hardly qualifies as assault.
Lucky: Aggravated assault -- that's a legal term. It's a felony, by the way.
Stefan: It's a fabrication.
Lydia: You were enraged, a maniac. I saw the whole thing.
Lucky: It's true. We saw it all. That attack against Nikolas -- that breaks your bail agreement. That means if Nikolas presses charges, you go back to that cage you belong in.
Stefan: Nikolas, this is a family matter. Whatever our difficulties, you know I love you. Locking me up on false pretenses solves nothing.
Lucky: What is false about it? You had summer killed, and you're the one that should be in jail!
Stefan: You, shut up!
Stefan: Nikolas, don't break trust with me.
Nikolas: Call 911. I want to report an assault.
Jason: I've got a message for you from Sonny. Stefan Cassadine tried to kill you tonight. He acted alone. Nikolas Cassadine had nothing to do with it, and neither did Sonny.
Lorenzo: You're almost waxing poetic. Why the unsolicited info-- ahem -- information?
Jason: Because carly told Sonny what happened, how she saved you, and you think I'm the one who tried to kill you on Sonny's orders.
Lorenzo: It's a reasonable assumption.
Jason: It's wrong. If I'd come to strangle you, you'd be dead. So, Sonny sent me to assure you that he's going to hold up his end of the truce, and he expects the same from you.
Lorenzo: Sonny's child's going to be born soon. I imagine he's anxious to avoid conflict at any cost.
Jason: If you move against him, he's going to defend himself.
Lorenzo: You tell Sonny I received the message. Truce suits me fine. Stefan Cassadine tried to kill your sister, didn't he? So if I have him removed, it saves you the trouble.
Jason: It's up to you.
Capelli: I'll take it from here.
Phone rings.
Capelli: Capelli.
Lorenzo: Stefan Cassadine tried to cancel his debt by killing me tonight. I want him dead.
Capelli: Shouldn't be a problem. Stefan Cassadine, you're under arrest for assault. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. If you can't afford an attorney --
Zander: Kristina is innocent enough to be able to love all of you, even though you can't stand each other. But don't make her pay the price for that.
Cameron: Point taken, Alexander. Kristina will be accessible to the people she cares about.
Skye: Thank you.
Cameron: But I'd like to go check on her first.
Skye: Of course.
Ned: Fine.
Emily: Hey. You know, what you said just now --
Zander: I meant every word of it. But you could see them. They were tense and holding a lot of anger and resentment, and, you know, saying that you'll try is -- that's the easy part. Doing it -- that's what's hard.