Emily: Zander, Zander, Zander, you cannot make me feel.
Zander: Emily, listen. I love you, and you love me, too. I'll prove it to you. I want you to make love to me right now.
Emily: You don't mean that.
Zander: I've never meant anything more in my whole life.
Emily: Even though you know I love Nikolas?
Zander: You'll get over him.
Emily: No, I won't, Zander! No, I won't!
Zander: You just give it time. Em, look, you know if you don't come with me, Nikolas is not going to live through the night, okay? We just need a chance to get back what we had.
Emily: All right. If the price of saving Nikolas is sleeping wit you, let's get it over with.
Zander: You hate the thought of being with me, don't you?
Lucky: Okay, so far, nothing. No tip, no sighting -- nothing. So maybe Zander did skip town after all.
Ric: No, I don't believe it. If Zander was going to cross the border, he would've done it a long time ago. He decided to stay, which means he has a lot to lose. I want every available man put on this search. Do you understand me?
Elizabeth: Ric?
Ric: What?
Elizabeth: Thank God I found you. Zander is alive. He's got Emily at the cottage, and you need to hurry.
Emily: Why do you look so stricken, Zander? You couldn't possibly think that I would be thrilled at the idea of having sex with you. I am in love with another man!
Zander: It's not what I want, Em. Sex? I want to make love like we used to. I want to feel that amazing connection that we've always had. Remember? It was like -- like you couldn't tell where you ended and I began.
Emily: This isn't romantic, Zander. It's a business transaction! Okay? You be proud of yourself -- you just made a whore out of me.
Zander: Don't say that. Please, don't --
Emily: What? What? It's true, huh? You want me, I want Nikolas safe, and I'm willing to do anything to make sure he stays that way. So have me, Zander, knowing that I don't want you and I never will! Have me, Zander, knowing that I love Nikolas and I will go on loving him no matter what you do to me! You can't erase Nikolas from my heart with your body, Zander! What we have is forever. By all means, have what you want! Well? What are you waiting for?
Zander: I can’t. I'm sorry. I can't do this to you. I can't do this to you.
Zander: All I ever wanted, Emily, was just to love you and have you love me back. Don't -- don't say anything. It's my fault. I -- I ruined everything. I always do.
Emily: Look, it wasn't all you, Zander. I lied, all right, even when we said our vows. I carry my share of the blame.
Zander: When you agreed to marry me, I was the happiest I've ever been. I felt like a winner for the first time in my life and then --
Emily sighs.
Zander: You turned me away, and I just -- I lost everything.
Emily: Zander, you have to move on.
Zander: I've tried. I've tried in every wrong way possible. I hooked up with Faith -- that was a brilliant move. I was angry and desperate and out of control, and I -- everything I did, I pushed you away further and now here we are. I never deserved you.
Emily: That's not true, Zander. You're a good person, all right? You just proved it. I've always known that about you and you knew it, too, for a while. And that is a place that you've got to get back to; that belief in yourself. You're just going to have to get back there without me this time.
Zander: You know, the only thing that I ever wanted for you, Emily, was a lifetime of perfect moments. Like prom night, when we danced underneath the streetlight, just one better than the next, but I let my anger cost me everything -- my soul, my own father, and you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Emily: I forgive you.
Zander: Do you mean that? Because that would mean everything to me.
Emily: With all my heart.
Zander: Thank you. I don't even know if this matters anymore, but I know -- I know that you never meant to hurt me. You never would. You're just not made that way. You just fell in love with someone else, and that sucks for me. But it doesn't give me the right to persecute you. Emily, I -- I don't blame you. Not for anything.
Emily: My concern is Nikolas.
Zander: He's fine. For all I know, he's in Greece, made his flight. I didn't do anything to him.
Lucky: Zander Smith, this is Officer Lucky Spencer from the P.C.P.D. I don't want you to try anything stupid. We've got you completely surrounded.
Ric: Make sure your men understand that nobody is to fire under any circumstances unless Emily Quartermaine is safe.
Officer: SWAT team's getting into position. A lot of windows in the building. It shouldn't be too difficult to get a shot at him.
Ric: All right.
Elizabeth: Ric --
Ric: Elizabeth, what the hell are you -- I thought I told you to go home. This is not a place for you.
Elizabeth: Emily is my best friend. Don't try to send me away.
Lucky: Zander, we have a SWAT team in position surrounding the entire area. I don't want you to try anything stupid. Make it easy for yourself. I want you to send Emily out first. I want you to follow her very slowly with your hands held high so we can see them at all times.
Nikolas: Hey, it's me. Guess who didn't have to fly to Greece after all? Yep, the meeting was canceled. I picked up a message when I was changing planes at J.F.K., but I've been out of touch for a little while because I have been shopping in Manhattan. Anyway -- anyway, I'm back. I have to stop at the country house to speak with the caretaker, but I will be home in your arms in less than an hour. I --
Voicemail beeps.
Nikolas: Love you.
Radio Announcer: The fugitive, but reports confirm he is still inside the house with his ex-wife. Zander Smith, who was reported dead in the wake of the Port Charles Hotel fire --
Nikolas: Damn it!
Radio announcer: And has apparently assumed the identity of a victim --
Tires screech.
Emily: Hey, let me handle this.
Zander: Emily, you might get hurt.
Emily: Lucky's outside. He won't let anything happen to me. All right. Lucky? It's Emily!
Lucky: Are you all right?
Emily: I'm fine! Look, this doesn't have to be a big production!
Officer: How violent is this guy? Could he be forcing her to say that?
Lucky: Zander would never hurt Emily, and she knows it.
Officer: Okay, what are the chances of talking this guy into giving himself up?
Ric: Zander's not known for his best judgment, plus he's facing four counts of murder.
Officer: So he's going to try to shoot his way out.
Lucky: It's possible.
Emily: I need some more time with Zander! Okay, listen. There's no way out of this. You're going to have to give yourself up.
Zander: No, Em --
Emily: Put the gun down.
Zander: Emily, they will kill me.
Emily: All right, no one is going to shoot at an unarmed man with his hands in the air. Zander, please, all right? We can do this.
Ric: Someone's at the door. Be ready.
Zander: There's a lot of action out there.
Emily: All right. We can face it together.
Zander: No. Em, this -- I'm letting you go.
Zander: Okay, go. Go. You've got to get out of here.
Emily: No. No, Zander. Not without you, okay? We came into this together, and that's the way we're going out.
Zander: Emily --
Emily: Put the gun down, okay? The only thing I want you holding is my hand. All right? I'll be right beside you. That way no one can misinterpret what's going on.
Zander: After everything I've done, I can't believe you'd still want to help me.
Emily: Zander, you're my first love.
Zander: You're my only one and I don't know if I'm ever going to see you again.
Zander: I'm ready.
Emily: Lucky? We're coming out! Zander's unarmed!
Officer: We don't know if that's true.
Emily: Don't let anyone shoot!
Ric: Hold your fire. They're coming out.
Emily: We're walking out together! Okay?
Zander: I guess we've come full circle. After everything we've done, we end up right where we started.
Emily: Zander, we need to leave, or they're going to think something's wrong. Okay.
Ric: That's far enough.
Ric: Lucky, keep an eye on Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: What are you going to do?
Ric: All right, Zander, there's nowhere to run. I want you to step away from Emily.
Emily: I'm okay, Ric, okay? Zander hasn't hurt me in any way. He's ready to give himself up.
Ric: Then he won't have any problem following my instructions. Zander, kneel down and put your hands on top of your head.
Emily: Please, Zander, do what he says. Do what he says.
Zander: I love you, Emily.
Ric: Do it, Zander.
Zander: I love you.
Emily: Zander --
Ric: Take him down!
Gunshots.
Emily: No! No! No! No.
Emily: You stay away from him! All of you! You, too! I don't need your phony sympathy! None of you gave a damn about Zander!
Ric: Emily, you need to step away.
Emily: He wasn't even armed! I told you that, but you wouldn't listen to me! Zander, why did you do this?
Zander: It's the way we met -- cops around, I grabbed you. Maybe it should've ended like this, too.
Emily: No.
Zander: I'm glad it didn’t. I never would have known what it was to love. Thank you.
Emily: Oh, you're going to be all right. We're going to get you to -- we're going to get you to the hospital. You --
Zander: For a while, you made my life golden.
Emily: No. No.
Radio Announcer: This just in on the Zander Smith hostage situation -- shots have been fired and police have surrounded the area --
Static.
Nikolas: Damn it, come on!
Truck horn honks, tires screech and then a crash.