Nikolas: How dare you enter my room without my permission. You know who I am?
Orderly: You're another nut ball in my hospital. I can come in here whenever I --
Nikolas: Prince Nikolas Cassadine to you. You're nothing but a serf to me. You understand me?
Orderly: Let go.
Nikolas: No, not until you say my name with the respect it deserves. Who am I? Say it, come on. Come on.
Orderly: Nikolas.
Nikolas: Try again, come on. All right, come on!
Orderly: Prince Nikolas Cassadine.
Nikolas: Don't approach me again.
Helena: Leave us.
Nikolas: You, too. I'm not in the mood for visitors right now.
Helena: At this moment, you could handle anything. It's almost too good to be true.
Helena: Well, you appear to be coming into your own. But until I'm certain, I will retain control of the family. And you will continue your therapy. Now here, take these. And ifou continue this regimen, you will have everything you desire.
Nikolas: Now, leave me.
Helena: Now, Nikolas -- Nikolas, I live for the day that we can walk out of here together. And it's going to be here sooner than you think.
Door closes.
Nikolas: She's gone.
Emily: You were very convincing.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, I'm just telling her what she wants to hear.
Emily: You know it's always been the same for Helena. She wants you to be like Stavros, her firstborn.
Nikolas: I know. Once I convince her, she'll give me financial control. She might even confide in me the crimes she's committed. And if she doesn't, I'll just turn her over to the police and we'll be done with her.
Emily: All right, well, just be careful. If Helena suspects you're lying, she'll start drugging you again.
Nikolas: No, it's all right. Don't worry. For the first time in a long time, I know what I'm doing.
Emily: We only have to fool Helena for another 48 hours, then my brother can get you transferred.
Nikolas: I don't think Jason's going to be doing me any favors anytime soon. I attacked him, Emily.
Emily: He could see that you were drugged out of your mind.
Nikolas: Does he know that you came after me?
Emily: Jason? Are you kidding? He'd -- I don't even know what he'd do if he knew I was in this place, but it would probably involve guns and it would definitely be unpleasant. Possibly even lethal for Helena.
Nikolas: Well, you -- that might work. Maybe you should give him a call, tell him where you are.
Emily: He'd drag me right of here.
Nikolas: That's my point. I'd really feel a lot better if you were safely away from this place, really.
Emily: I can't let you out of my sight, Nikolas. I'm too afraid of losing you.
Nikolas: I'm afraid of losing me.
Nikolas sighs.
Nikolas: Those drugs that Helena was giving me -- it made it impossible for me -- for me to even think. I mean, I was -- I was trying to hold on to anything that I -- that I felt might be real -- the chill of the floor beneath my feet, the metal on the bed frame, anything. The first time you came to see me -- I -- I wasn't sure if -- if you were really here, or if I just wanted you to be. You kept -- you kept saying you loved me and that you loved me. And how could I not trust that when that's exactly what I wanted to hear?
Emily sighs.
Nikolas: And I don't think you were actually real to me until you -- until you left -- till you closed the door. You were out in the hall, and it was too late.
Emily: I should have stayed.
Nikolas: No, how could you, Emily, when I was screaming at you to leave the whole time? But seeing you leave, and watching you through that glass -- it did something to me, you know. I don't know. I knew -- I knew that I wanted to see you again and that I couldn't be drugged when -- when you came back, so I just stopped fighting -- started telling Helena what she wanted to hear, pretending to be Prince Nikolas whatever.
Emily: Thank God it worked.
Nikolas: Yeah. Yeah, at least she switched the medications from injections that I couldn't fight to pills I can pretend to swallow.
Emily: Yeah. And now you have me watching over you. Listen, I know you want me to be safe, and I want the same for you. That's why I'm staying here -- so we can get each other through this.
Lucky: This is over. You need to tell Emily to leave the hospital with me now.