Helena: You'll never marry Nikolas. You'll choke on your wedding vows if you try. The curse is in motion. You can't make it stop. You're going to die -- die -- die.
Nikolas: Hey, it's okay. It's just another dream.
Emily: It's Helena. She's killing me.
Tracy: You're hiding out in a brownstone?
Helena: Well, it's provincial but it's comfortable enough. I do miss a staff, but I need privacy and no interruptions to complete my work against Emily.
Tracy: And you're still using that book?
Helena: Oh, I keep it next to the fire at all times. Just holding that book in my hands, keeping it close helps me to focus and form a connection to Emily. I can sense her fear. Oh, I can almost taste it.
Tracy: All because of the book?
Helena: The information in that book is unfathomable to most people. It was passed down generation through generation and barely decipherable, and if one wants to translate it, it's very dangerous -- unless you know what you're doing, and I do.
Tracy: I have no doubt.
Helena: My work is definitely taking its toll, even though Emily and Nikolas are fighting it. But I doubt that Emily is going to last long enough to be tried for killing Mary Bishop, the way that tiresome district attorney is stalling.
Tracy: Where are you going?
Helena: Hmm? To the police station to hurry him along. In the meantime, the book will take care of Emily. Ta-ta.
Emily: Helena's face was in the fire. She said that it was too late, that I would choke on my vows to you and I'd die.
Steven: That must have been terrifying.
Emily: But, you know, it was a dream, that's all.
Nikolas: Look, my grandmother believes in this curse, all right, and somehow -- I don't know -- she's given it power. And I can't explain it, but I'm sure she's enjoying this right now.
Emily: So, what now?
Steven: Well, I did more blood work, and there's no physical reason for you to feel this way. There's no sign of your cancer at all.
Nikolas: Yeah, but she's even more exhausted than she was with the chemo.
Steven: Okay, well, try and get some rest, and I'm just going to keep checking up.
Emily: Okay. Thanks for coming all the way out here.
Steven: You're going to get through this.
Emily: Thanks.
Nikolas: I'll walk you out.
Steven: Good idea. I definitely don't want to get lost in this place.
Nikolas: You get some rest. I'll be right back, okay?
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: Be right back.
Nikolas: Look, this can't just be all in her mind, okay? She's getting sicker by the hour. I mean, when we were dancing and she collapsed, she --
Steven: What?
Nikolas: She -- I don't know -- she was trying to say "I love you." I don't know.
Emily: Look, Emily didn't believe in the curse at first, right?
Nikolas: Uh-uh, not until she got bit by that spider.
Steven: So what Emily's done has connected a random event with Helena's words, and now she believes in the curse. Obviously, you do, too.
Nikolas: Yeah. What's next?
Steven: You have to find a way to reverse Helena's words. You have to convince Emily that they have no power.
Nikolas: Oh, reverse the curse?
Steven: That's one way to put it, yes.
Nikolas: And what if it doesn't work?
Steven: Then Emily could make herself so ill that she dies.
Nikolas: I thought you were going to rest.
Emily: And invite Helena into my dreams? Nope, I don't think so. I'm going to fight this.
Nikolas: How, by wandering around outside?
Emily: It's called taking a walk, Nikolas. I want to feel the breeze on my face. I want to see the changing leaves in the moonlight. I want to go to the barn and smell the horses and the hay. I want to walk along the cliffs and look at the harbor lights along the shore. I want to breathe in the clean night air and breathe in life itself.
Nikolas: Okay. Okay, I'll get my coat.
Emily: Thank you.
Nikolas: Here, I'll get it later.
Emily: Okay. Here you go. I want to --
Nikolas: What's wrong? Sit down, I got -- come here, sit down. What is it?
Emily: Okay, I'm fine. I'm going to fight this myself, and I will.
Nikolas: What just happened? Are you all right?
Emily: It doesn't make sense, right? I'm a rational adult. I'm premed, for heaven's sakes. I don't believe in superstitions or curses. But there's something -- there's something in my mind, Nikolas. It's like a shadow, and it's spreading everywhere.
Nikolas: Okay. Well, hey, you're not alone. Hey, I'll help you. I'll help you fight it like Mikkos helped Alexis' mother. And, hey, they won. They beat it. So will we.
Emily: I know I saw that book here -- "Maledictum." It was in Latin.
Nikolas: Mikkos could have used it to break the curse on Alexis' mother.
Emily: It's gone.
Nikolas: All right, I'll check the library upstairs. That book has to be around here somewhere.
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: Be right back. What? What?
Emily: You're so cute when you try to cheer me up.
Nikolas: Look, even if we don't find the book, we'll lift this stupid curse no matter how long it takes, okay?
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: We'll be married and we'll say our vows to each other, and Helena will be choking on her own words while you're laughing and smiling, happier than you've ever been.
Tracy: Oh! Thank God I found you. I thought I went down the wrong corridor and would never be seen again.
Nikolas: What do you want, Tracy?
Tracy: Well, actually, I think I have something you want. And if Helena finds out, I'm dead.
Emily: Wait, that's it. That's "Maledictum," the book of curses.
Emily: It's the book I told you about --
Nikolas: Mm-hmm.
Emily: That used to be in the bookcase.
Nikolas: Where did you get it?
Tracy: Where do you think?
Nikolas: You stole it from my grandmother?
Tracy: I did. She -- she didn't want you to see it, so I figured you must really need it. She's been ripping pages out and burning them.
Nikolas: "Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant --"
Tracy: Do I want to know what he's saying?
Emily: I think it's Latin. I --
Tracy: Does he know what he's doing?
Emily: Sure, he does, Tracy. Nikolas knows French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Russian, of course.
Tracy: Of course.
Nikolas: This is strange.
Tracy: Well, no kidding.
Emily: Did you find something?
Nikolas: Yeah. "With a simple thought, they will feel the fire in their dreams." Some of these pages are so old I can't even read them. I don't understand this. Ahem -- look at these symbols. Where's my grandmother now?
Tracy: You're going to have to swear that you won't tell her that I brought the book to you.
Nikolas: Just tell me where she is, Tracy.
Tracy: She said something about the police department.
Nikolas: Stay here. I'll be back as soon as I can.
Emily: Okay. Be careful.
Nikolas: All right.
Tracy: Well, maybe I should be running along, too.
Emily: No, Tracy. Not until you explain why you're helping me.
Helena: Young man? Has there been any progress in the Mary Bishop case?
Ric: No, not much. Why?
Helena: Well, naturally, I'm concerned about my grandson, and I don't understand, nor do I appreciate the delay.
Ric: Well, you know what, ms. Cassadine? As soon as we have any changes, we'll be sure to let you know. Thanks for stopping by.
Helena: I will not be dismissed by a public employee. Now, you have more than enough evidence. A young woman was languishing in her hospital bed when Emily Quartermaine killed her.
Alexis: That remains to be proven in a court of law.
Helena: Well, well, well. I see you have the right answer yet again, you clever girl.
Alexis: You do know that Emily is innocent until proven guilty?
Helena: Brava, brava! Isn't she splendid?
Ric: Will there be anything else?
Helena: Yes. Mary Bishop told me that she was terrified that Emily was going to kill her.
Alexis: Hearsay. Inadmissible.
Ric: I think I got this one.
Alexis: Okay, sorry. Go ahead.
Ric: Thanks.
Helena: She has always been this way -- strident and combative. Well, it's unattractive, but I suppose that is the point. You see, Natasha uses hostility to compensate for what she profoundly lacks.
Ric: Okay, I think we're done here.
Alexis: No, we're not. I'd like a few words with Ms. Cassadine.
Helena: Oh.
Alexis: Alone.
Tracy: All right, I wanted to stop the marriage. But I had no idea how dangerous Helena could be.
Emily: Or maybe you just didn't care, tracy, as long as you believed Helena could help you get what you want.
Tracy: I'm not the only one in my family who went along with Helena. But when she started hurling curses and you ended up in the hospital, well, I didn't sign up for anybody to die.
Emily: Why should I believe that?
Tracy: Did I bring you the book? I certainly didn't have to!
Emily: Tracy, maybe it's a trick and you're still working with Helena.
Tracy: Look, missy, I made a mistake teaming up with Helena. I am trying to fix it. You can either believe it or not. Look at you! You're swooning around whining about some spider bite, and have you -- have you bothered to thank me for risking my life for stealing that stinking book from Helena Cassadine? I didn't have to drag it all the way out here, but I did. I didn't have to tell you what she was doing, but i did. I gave you ammunition. Now, why don't you find a way to use it. Why don't you get up off your butt, fix yourself a drink, and fight like a Quartermaine.
Alexis: I know what you're doing to Emily -- exactly what you tried to do to my mother.
Helena: Your mother was a gaudy bauble, something to be purchased for amusement and then tossed away.
Alexis: Sadly for you, my father was in love with her. That broke the curse.
Helena: And they couldn't stop me, could they? Neither could you.
Alexis: No, not that time.
Ric: Whoa, whoa -- they're in a meeting.
Nikolas: Get out of my way, Ric.
Ric: You can't go in there.
Alexis: Emily won't end up like my mother --
Helena: Oh?
Alexis: Even if I have to kill you myself.
Helena: Your ridiculous threats are as empty and as meaningless as your life, Natasha. Now, you know better than to stand against me. You're wasting my time.
Alexis: Not that you have much left.
Helena: You silly little mouse. I made you an orphan, remember? Now, would you like me to do the same for your precious little Kristina?
Alexis leaves Helena.
Ric: Yeah, well, somebody blew up that warehouse. There's got to be some kind of evidence. Keep looking. All right, stay in touch. You okay?
Alexis: I'm just calling my daughter. I'm going to make sure she's all right.
Ric: What did Helena say to you? I mean, you seem upset.
Alexis: If that little girl ever sees what I saw --
Ric: What -- as in what? Where's -- where's Nikolas?
Alexis: Was he here?
Ric: Yeah, he was.
Nikolas has confronted Helena in the interrogation room. Nikolas grabs Helena by the throat and begins to choke her, the scene flashes back and forth to Emily who is sleeping on the coach moaning in her sleep.
Helena: Well, Nikolas, you're acting very strangely. Has something happened to Emily? I warned you that if you continued --
Nikolas: No, no, see, I warned you. You leave here in a body bag if you don't tell me how to save her.
Helena: I've told you repeatedly -- the way to save Emily is to let her go.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, see, now, we're in a little bit of a problem because that's not going to happen.
Helena: Nikolas, you don't want to hurt me.
Nikolas: Then tell me -- how do I stop what you're doing to her? You tell me right now, or else I'll --
Doorknob turns.
Alexis: Nikolas, what is going on in there?
Helena: You're the one who is killing Emily now. If you love her the way you say you do --
Knock on door.
Helena: You will leave her.
Alexis: Nikolas --
Nikolas: You're not --
Helena: Nikolas, it's the only thing that will save --
Nikolas: Telling me what I want to hear.
Knock.
Nikolas: Tell me how to save her, or I'll make sure you never speak again. Come on.
Helena: Oh --
Emily gasps.