'Connor' is the true character of Nikolas Cassadine however, he has amnesia and believes that he is Connor Bishop.
'Connor' is the true character of Nikolas Cassadine however, he has amnesia and believes that he is Connor Bishop.
Emily: I know what you're up to. You're trying to get pregnant. Don't waste your time trying to deny it. I heard you with Dr. Meadows, and I am telling you, I will be damned in my grave if I let you trap Nikolas like that. He hears the truth tonight.
Mary: I know you're mad.
Emily: Mad?
Mary: But if you do this, if you drop this bombshell on Nikolas; you will blow his life apart.
Emily: This isn't his life, Mary. It's some twisted fantasy of yours!
Mary: You haven't lived with him since the accident. The head injury he suffered is real. If you drop the truth on him out of nowhere, you could push him too hard and cause lasting damage. Do you really hate him being happy with me so much that you'd risk that?
Emily: You're trying to scare me. It's not going to work.
Mary: And if he does believe you -- if he accepts that he's Nikolas Cassadine -- then what? Back to square one. He starts over with a stranger because that's what you are to him, Emily. To Nikolas, his life with you never existed. The only life he knows is here with me.
Emily: It's a lie, Mary.
Mary: Not to Nikolas. I'll be his only memory; the only woman he loves.
Emily: I'm so glad to see you --
'Connor': Stop, stop. No more lies from either one of you. I know everything.
Mary: What do you mean, you know everything? Everything about what?
'Connor': Let me speak to you alone.
Mary: Connor -- what could you have to say to her that you couldn't --
'Connor': You heard what I said, Mary.
Emily: I have no problem with it.
Mary: Connor, don't. Please, don’t.
Emily: You know about us, don't you?
'Connor': Yeah, Emily, I do.
Emily: You're angry.
'Connor': Oh, you're damn right I am.
Emily: You have every right, but there's a reason --
'Connor': No, I don't want to hear --
Emily: Why I didn't tell you --
'Connor': I don't want to hear any more of your lies!
Emily: Let me explain!
'Connor': I already know. I already know all there is to know, Emily! Game's over, and you're caught! Now, I don't know how I didn't see it before. It was so obvious, the whole "What, what, who me" act, and I -- I’m sure it helps that you have absolutely, absolutely zero conscience.
Emily: Excuse me?
'Connor': You'll use just about anything, won't you? Even your own breast cancer to hold on to me.
Emily: Wait a minute! You have got this all wrong somehow!
'Connor': No way! No way! I didn't return your feelings for me, but that just didn't matter to you, Emily. You -- you saw something that you wanted, and your sense of entitlement or whatever it is said that you should have it -- never mind that I was in love with someone else; that I had chosen and married the woman that I wanted to be with the rest of my life. It didn't matter because you -- you just kept coming without any respect for Mary or for me or for the vows that we made to each other. None! And Las Rocas, when you realized that I didn't remember anything, it must have been like -- like Christmas for you, didn't it? Just a clean slate. You could -- you can go from the top and just start up an affair with me. What, did you follow me there? Are you some kind of stalker, Emily?
Emily: I'm -- I’m confused. Are these things that you've remembered or --
'Connor': I remembered a piece, and I found out the rest. It doesn't --
Emily: From whom?
'Connor': It doesn't matter! I'm telling you that what you feel for me is sick and you need to move on!
Emily: Look, you don't understand. You love me.
'Connor': No, I -- no --
Emily: And --
'Connor': No, I don't love you. Okay? I don't -- I don't love you. You want me to, but I don’t. Okay, I was -- I was confused enough to make a mistake with you one night, but I didn't have all the facts then. I was -- I was weak --
Emily: No, you still --
'Connor': Hold -- wait!
Emily: Don't have them.
'Connor': I was weak and you took advantage of that weakness. You just -- you kept lying and lying and lying to me about who we were to each other, making me think that everything was -- was new and fresh and fuzzy. "Oh, I feel like we've known each other for years, blah, blah" crap like it was -- like, fated or something because everything just seemed so familiar.
Mary: Connor, I'm so sorry for not being able to live without you. Turns out all I did was buy myself enough time to end up right where I started. Only I turned into somebody you wouldn't recognize in the process. Emily's outside right now telling Nikolas everything. I'm going to lose him, just like I lost you.
Emily: You've turned this all on me, but I am not the only one who has kept things from you -- Mary has, too!
'Connor': Of course she has, Emily. She's my wife and she's afraid that she's going to lose me to you! But you know what? That's not going to happen because you -- you and I are nothing, not even friends. Yeah, I don't -- I don't trust you. I don't trust you and I never will again.
'Connor': What kind of person are you?
Emily: I wanted to protect you.
'Connor': You -- you watched me struggle with things that didn't make sense to me, flashes of a life that had nothing to do with the one I share with Mary. All the while, you knew it was from your life! You -- you could've helped me, Emily, but you didn't because you're just some spoiled little rich girl who thinks that she can get whatever she wants. Well, guess what -- you -- you can't have me! I -- I love my wife, I’m happy with my wife. I have no intention of leaving her for anyone, and especially not you.
Emily: You're right. You're right. You -- you and I shouldn't be together. Even if you wanted me, and clearly you don't, we'd be starting over at a terrible disadvantage, you --
'Connor': Starting over?
Emily: Fumbling through emotions that you don't remember or feel, wondering if the gaps I filled in were true or just me, the stalker --
'Connor': Emily --
Emily: Desperately trying to hold on to you, so it's done! Tell Mary it's over! She wins!
'Connor': Wait a minute, wait a minute --
Emily: She'll be glad to hear it!
'Connor': Wait a minute, you -- you make it sound like -- like Mary came in between you and me. Emily, that's not what happened! You're the one who tried to come between us!
Emily: If it helps you to believe that, Connor, then be my guest!
'Connor': Mary. Oh, God, Mary. Mary? Mary, wake up!
Knock on door.
Lucky: It's open. Hey, Emily, what are you doing here?
Emily: I don't know. It's late. I shouldn't have come.
Lucky: Wait, don't go. I -- I know about Nikolas.
Emily: Elizabeth told you?
Lucky: Yeah. Why didn't you?
Emily: I thought I was helping Nikolas, Lucky, giving him time to remember on his own.
Lucky: What, you couldn't trust me to do what's best for my brother?
Emily: Please --
Lucky: It was just easier to lie to my face?
Emily: You're furious. You have every right to be, but at this point, I’m too drained to try to explain or justify what I did. All I can do is apologize for hurting you. I handled this so badly, Lucky.
Lucky: Hey. What about you? Elizabeth told me you were going to tell Nikolas the truth. How did he react?
Emily: I didn't tell him. I couldn't.
'Connor': Is she going to be okay?
Paramedic: Good as new. She didn't take enough sleeping pills to put her at risk. It looks like an accidental overdose.
'Connor': Yeah, well, you know, she's been upset lately, emotional. She probably just wasn't paying attention to what she was doing.
Paramedic: Listen, here's the number to the hospital in case you need that. And I suggest you get your wife some help.
'Connor': I know you can't hear me right now, but I’m with you, okay? And I'm going to stay with you -- stay with you always.
Emily: Nikolas doesn't remember loving me. He somehow found out that we had a prior relationship, so basically he thinks I’ve been stalking him.
Lucky: Tell him the truth.
Emily: I can't, Lucky! He claims to be happy with Mary! And I finally realized that I have to accept that. I mean, besides, it's clear now telling him the truth could only make things worse.
Lucky: Well, Emily, how?
Emily: Nikolas was furious thinking that I have lied to him. If he finds out that Mary’s done nothing but lie, that his perfect marriage to his perfect wife is an illusion, a delusion, Lucky, it could destroy him! I can't be the reason that happens. I still love Nikolas even though it's over, even though he hates me!
'Connor': I never should've let things go as far as they did with Emily, but that's -- that's all behind us, Mary. I know the truth, and you don't have to worry about that anymore. Emily -- she understands that you're the only woman I want to be with. Okay? She understands that, and you and I, we're finally going to have that new beginning, you know, that new beginning that we keep promising each other. Remember? Just please -- please, just come back to me and give me the chance, okay? Give me the chance to honor and love you the way you deserve, please? Hey. Hey. Hi, it's me. Hi.
Mary gasps.
'Connor': It's okay. It's okay. The paramedics were here and you're going to be all right. You're going to be all right.
Mary: What are you still doing here?
'Connor': Where else would I be?
Mary: Emily?
'Connor': No, no, she's gone. We don't have to talk about her right now.
Mary: But Emily said --
'Connor': Well, I know what you tried to do.
Mary: I don't want you to be with me out of guilt or pity. I couldn't stand that.
'Connor': It's okay.
Mary: Please, Connor, I know you want to be with Emily. Why am I still pretending? The least I could do is call you by your real name so go, Nikolas. Be happy.
Emily: It's not fair. The women in movies always have tissues at a time like this.
Lucky: Um -- ooh.
Emily: Thanks.
Lucky: Now you listen to me -- hey -- you were the best thing that ever came into Nikolas' life.
Emily: He doesn't see me that way, Lucky. To him, I'm clinging and manipulative, a woman from his past who tried to steal him from his wife. Ugh.
Lucky: Is it really over between you and Nikolas?
Emily: Oh, yeah. It's over.
Lucky: Then there's room for something new to start.