Emily: Hey.
Nikolas: Baby.
Emily: Hey.
Nikolas: What's -- what's wrong? What happened?
Emily: You were right. Zander's out of control.
Emily: Zander came to Wyndemere.
Nikolas: Tonight?
Emily: Yeah, he tried to kiss me. You know, I saw the gun in his waistband. I had this urge to just -- just kill him, you know? I mean, I could just picture Zander falling, the gun going off. I mean, that is how far --
Nikolas: Did he hurt you?
Emily: This whole thing --
Nikolas: Did he hurt you?
Emily: No, but he was keyed up, you know, the way he gets, and he kept insisting that I had feelings for him, you know? And I just finally slapped him and I just yelled at him to leave!
Nikolas: Did he? Did he leave?
Emily: Yeah and he wasn't very happy about it. You know, it was just so surreal, Nikolas. I mean, I used to love Zander, you know? He was tough and he was defiant and he'd put up a front to the rest of the world, but I knew he was a good -- he was a good person, he had a good heart, you know? And it's just like tonight when I looked at him, all I saw was a cold, ruthless man who's capable of framing you for murder and I just -- I don't know, it's like --
Emily sighs.
Emily: It's like I destroyed -- I destroyed the man I knew, and -- and I just don't recognize him --
Nikolas: Don't keep doing this. Emily, stop blaming yourself for Zander’s actions.
Emily: I know, but he is -- is not going to stop until he's destroyed your life.
Nikolas: But that's -- that's his choice. Okay, he could move on if he wanted to, he could find a way to forgive you, but he chooses -- he chooses to act out in rage, to get revenge any way that he can!
Emily: I know but he's not going to stop until he's put you in prison!
Nikolas: I'm not worried about me.
Emily sighs.
Nikolas: I'm worried about you. I don't want you -- I don't want you by yourself in Wyndemere anymore.
Emily: I won't have to be because we are going to get you out of here. We'll post bail somehow and we'll skip on it, we'll go -- we'll go get the treasure and we'll disappear and we'll never look back baby.
Nikolas: Emily, Emily, Emily, I’m not getting out of here. Okay?
Emily: What?
Nikolas: But you are.
Zander: When did Emily get here?
Ric: A few minutes ago.
Zander: So, what, did you show her in to chat with Nikolas? This is supposed to be keeping them apart?
Ric: Oh, what, by trying to deny Emily her rights?
Zander: You and I had an agreement.
Ric: Look, the case against Nikolas is going to stick, but I have to do it by the book.
Zander: I didn't help pin this murder on Nikolas so that he and Emily could get closer.
Ric: Will you be patient?
Zander: While you screw this up?
Ric: Look, Emily and Nikolas already suspect your holding your parental rights over my head. Now, if you want me to start playing matchmaker, I might as well hold up a big neon sign so back off!
Zander: That's fine. I'll just go to Elizabeth and see how my baby's doing.
Ric: Zander -- you're going to get everything you want, but you better let me do my job.
Nikolas: Zander left when Emily asked him to but he's not going to give up. Next time it could be worse.
Lucky: You want to press charges?
Emily: No. It wasn't anything illegal.
Nikolas: Emily needs to get out of town -- now.
Emily: I'm not leaving you. I'm staying near you --
Nikolas: You're not safe here. Zander can come after you anytime he wants to.
Emily: I can handle him!
Nikolas: Oh, you used to be able to handle him. He's a different a person now, Em.
Emily: Zander won't hurt me, Nikolas.
Nikolas: You willing to bet my freedom on that? Because if he even looks at you again, I'll kill him!
Lucky: I agree with Nikolas. Every move he makes is being scrutinized and Lansing’s looking for more charges to file on him. It might be a good idea if you get a break from all this.
Emily: I'm not leaving you alone Nikolas.
Nikolas: The only way that I can make it through this is if I know you're safe.
Lucky: Emily, while you're gone, I swear I will concentrate on finding this fence and getting Nikolas cleared.
Emily: I hate this.
Nikolas: I know. We'll make it through this, okay? I promise it'll be over soon.
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: I love you.
Emily: I love you. I love you.
Nikolas: Go on, go on. Go on.
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: Bye.
Ric: You know, juries eat this kind of stuff up all the time. A young, titled heir to a wealthy family -- that is until the wealthy family loses everything -- desperately confronts a thief who he thinks has stolen a sunken treasure that he himself has been going after in order to save his family bank accounts. Till you lose control, right, and we know the rest. It's kind of like how you lost control with Zander at the pier last night, right?
Nikolas: Now, I’m -- I'm no lawyer, but isn't what you just said called speculation?
Ric: You see, I have a murder weapon with your fingerprints on it -- the candlestick that was used to bludgeon Cody McCall to death.
Nikolas: That evidence was fabricated.
Ric: Are you going to get a jury to agree to that? Now look, as I see it, your only hope is to plead self-defense. Look, just say that Cody attacked you and you were defending yourself, and then you panicked and you tried to make his death look like a suicide.
Nikolas: Yeah, and if I plead self-defense, then what happens?
Ric: I'll get the charge reduced to manslaughter.
Nikolas: You don't want to prosecute this case because you know I’m innocent. The real killer is Ben and he's probably out there killing -- the guy exists!
Ric: You want to know something?
Nikolas: Mike Corbin knows him!
Ric: You want to know the truth to this? I am going to prosecute this case. I am going to win and you're going to be convicted of murder. Now, don't kid yourself. I'm very good, I got an airtight case. Now, you plead guilty to manslaughter and you're going to go up to five to six years. You will get out; you will have your whole life in front of you. I'm offering you a chance to save yourself, Nikolas. Be smart. Take it.
Nikolas: I'm not pleading guilty to manslaughter or anything else, for that matter.
Ric: You know, I'm trying to help you here, Nikolas.
Nikolas: I didn't kill Cody McCall and you know it. But you, you -- you're prepared to see an innocent man get convicted without even the slightest -- the slightest twinge of conscience. Tell me how you -- do you sleep at night?
Ric: Like a baby.
Nikolas: Well, whose baby would that be? The one your wife's carrying? The one Zander’s using as leverage over you? That one?
Ric: This is your last chance to accept my offer.
Nikolas: You have my answer.
Ric: You just sentenced yourself to life in prison.
Nikolas: Fine, we're done here. Call the guard.
Nikolas sighs.
Nikolas: If you're -- if you're here to see Ric Lansing, he already left.
Zander: I'm not. I'm more interested in Emily. Where'd she go with Lucky?
Nikolas: Oh -- uh -- I sent my fiancée away so she would be safe from you.
Zander: Is that what you told her, that I'm some kind of threat?
Nikolas: Oh, she already knows that you're a threat and you proved that by going to work for Faith and setting me up for murder.
Zander: You're guilty.
Nikolas: That's what Ric Lansing keeps saying. Is -- is he speaking for you?
Zander: Ric's just doing his job; I’m just enjoying watching you squirm.
Nikolas: So you think -- you think if I get convicted, Emily will turn to you?
Zander: Stranger things have happened.
Nikolas: Zander, you -- you're pushing to get something back that's long gone. Emily's love for you is dead and you destroyed anything she ever felt for you. She -- she really hates you because you showed her what you really are, and that's nothing. Oh! Oh!