Connor Bishop is also played by Tyler Christopher, who plays Nikolas Cassadine.
Connor Bishop is also played by Tyler Christopher, who plays Nikolas Cassadine.
Emily: You blame Nikolas for Mary's death and you want revenge. But is that really the way to honor your wife's memory, Connor? Not the woman that Mary became by the end of her diary, but the one that you fell in love with, the sweet, gentle, unassuming girl that you chose when you were still children. Think about that Mary.
Connor: I am thinking about her. And I understand it now. It's my fault! My mary's in her grave because I put her there.
Emily: You are not the reason that Mary is dead.
Connor: I abandoned my wife, Emily. I let her think I was dead when I knew how afraid she was to be alone without me. I let her think the worst for months. And when she couldn't handle it, she broke. The sweet, beautiful, amazing woman who would tear up if you killed a fly became so delusional and desperate that she came after you with a knife. You almost died, and that would have been my fault. Damn, you must hate me.
Emily: No, that's the thing, Connor. I don't hate you at all.
Emily: You loved Mary. Even someone who barely knows you could see that. You did everything in your power to get back to her. And except for a series of events that no one could have predicted, you would have.
Connor: If every choice I ever made wouldn't have been wrong.
Emily: You know what? You did what you thought was best at the time. You couldn't have foreseen, Connor, that Mary would open her door that night to a man with your face and no memory. If Nikolas' car had hit a tree two miles further down the road, if he hadn't had a head injury, or at least remembered his name, if Mary simply hadn't opened the door that night -- do you see where I'm going with this? A half a dozen accidents collided and made a tragedy. Mary was a victim of fate, and so were you and so was Nikolas. There's no one to blame, and no one deserves to be punished.
Emily: If Mary could speak to you, she'd tell you to move on with your life, to try to be happy again. Connor, she loved you with all of her heart. She wouldn't want you torturing yourself with guilt and lashing out in revenge. Connor, don't. Please, there's no point in reliving Mary's breakdown. Just hold on to the woman she was for most of her life.
Connor: I can't -- I can't -- I can't burn it. Not yet. I need to hear her words one last time. And not all that insanity at the end, all that crap. But the beginning, the beginning when Mary was still Mary.
Mac: Thanks for coming. I just had an illuminating interview with your launch pilot.
Nikolas: Is that so?
Mac: Yeah. He told me he ferried you twice one particular night within an hour out to Spoon Island, and you were dressed differently.
Nikolas: I told you that yesterday at Kelly's, Mac.
Mac: You were talking about the night Emily was kidnapped. Your launch pilot and I were talking about the night Helena went over the cliff. Did you know Connor Bishop was there when she fell?
Nikolas: The launch pilot takes me back and forth from Spoon Island five or six times a day. How could one ordinary night possibly stand out from the next?
Mac: You're saying he was mistaken?
Nikolas: Obviously, yeah.
Mac: Let's say for the sake of argument that Connor Bishop witnessed Helena's death. Now, if I were to question him, would he tell me the same version of events that you and Emily have been telling me, or would he have a version all his own?
Emily: "Connor is my family, my past and our future, my lover and my friend."