Tracy: Whoops! Well, good morning.
Nikolas: I didn't invite you over for breakfast.
Tracy: No, and I really should have called.
Nikolas: What you got there? Oh, Helena send you to retrieve her little book of curses, did she? Plan on trying again?
Tracy: Whoa! I guess you're feeling better.
Nikolas: Helena came after Emily yesterday, by the way.
Emily: Yeah, she tried to kill me in front of a 2-year-old child -- your granddaughter, actually, though you'd never know for all the notice you take of Kristina.
Nikolas: Yeah, and she also tried to slit Alexis' throat.
Ric: Yeah, but she probably knows that already. So listen, you got two choices -- either you can tell us where Helena is or you can go to prison in her place.
Tracy: Let me remind you that you have that book because of me. I risked my life to drag it out here to you.
Emily: Why do you want the book now?
Tracy: I was planning to destroy it.
Nikolas: Yeah, or use it as a bargaining chip when Helena comes after you.
Ric: Okay, look, the book is beside the point. Do you know where Helena is?
Tracy: No.
Ric: Has she been in contact with you?
Tracy: I called her. I wanted to tell her that her curse was broken and that Nikolas and Emily were back in town, and I wanted to convince her to drop it.
Nikolas: That's why she was at the hospital, where Lucky arrested her.
Tracy: Well, clearly, someone in an official position must have let her go. I believe that would be your department, D.A. Lansing. Not my fault that the PCPD can't keep homicidal maniacs off the street.
Ric: Did you and Helena pay Nurse Donna Harris to frame Emily for killing Mary Bishop?
Tracy: "Frame" is a strong word.
Emily: You wanted to send me to prison? Is that better, Tracy?
Tracy: Oh, please. I knew you'd never be convicted. I just wanted to stop your silly wedding. I had no idea who I was dealing with Helena started spouting curses and killed that Nurse Harris. At least I think she did.
Emily: Helena probably killed Mary, too.
Tracy: I quite agree.
Nikolas: Don't you think it's time to drop those charges against Emily?
Ric: Yeah, yeah, I'll make the call. Unfortunately, the charges against you are still pending.
Emily: What? Even after all this?
Ric: Look, he pulled a gun from the police commissioner and he shot the suspect. That is still a crime, even for a Cassadine.
Tracy: I hope we can put all this behind us.
Emily: Oh, after you helped Helena frame me for murder?
Nikolas: So what, didn't you think we'd find out?
Tracy: Obviously not. I thought that Helena was, A, discreet, and, B, effective. Color me wrong on both.
Emily: You told me to stand up and fight like a Quartermaine. I intend to. Consider yourself warned.
Ric: The charges against Emily are dropped.
Tracy: Hmm. And what aren't you telling us?
Ric: Well, it appears that Mrs. Cassadine's plane has taken off without a flight plan. She's somewhere over the Atlantic. So for now, at least, we all appear to be safe.
Alexis and Baby Kristina return home to their apartment. Helena is hiding around the corner holding the knife ready to poise. Kristina goes and gets her pajamas. Helena goes to slit Alexis' throat but is stopped when Ric knocks at the door and comes in. Ric, Alexis and Kristina bond getting ready for bed until they notice bruises on Kristina's arms and rushes her back to the hospital. Helena is thwarted again!.
Nikolas: I don't think Tracy will be coming for a whi-- What's all this?
Emily: They're from the Garden of Aphrodite.
Nikolas: Oh, whoo, the magic flowers?
Emily: Mm-hmm. I slipped some of them into my pocket just to make sure they were real.
Nikolas: Oh. Well, now we know they are.
Emily: Mm-hmm. Well, Aphrodite broke Helena’s curse, and I just, you know, think we need to find a way to thank her.
Nikolas: Well, she was the goddess of love, right?
Emily: Hmm, and she still is.
Nikolas: Yeah.
Nikolas and Emily make love on the floor with rose petals.
Emily: Nikolas? Are you out here? Nikolas?
Helena: Well, at last, my dear. We come to the end of our story.
Emily: Nikolas!
Helena: Oh, I'm afraid he won't hear you.
Emily: What did you do to him?
Helena: I would never hurt my darling grandson. All I've ever tried to do was protect him and encourage him to fulfill his destiny, but I have to save him from leeches like you and Aunt Alexis.
Emily: I love Nikolas.
Helena: Oh, love. See where it's gotten you? Oh, but you put up a good fight. Brava. No, but not that you ever stood a prayer.
Emily screams.
Nikolas: Drop -- drop it. Drop it!
Helena: She will not have you, Nikolas! She has to die. Don't you understand? It's the only way to set you --
Nikolas: The knife -- drop it!
Helena: Oh -- oh --
Nikolas: You all right? You join my father in hell.
Nikolas shoves Helena off the bluff and Helena screams.