Alcazar: Why did Mary kill Sage?
Nikolas: Mistaken identity. She thought Sage was Emily.
Alcazar: So my niece died in Emily’s place?
Nikolas: Mary Bishop killed two innocent people, ok? It's not Emily’s fault that she was the intended victim. The only person to blame here is Mary.
Emily: Let go of me!
Mary: I missed my chance to kill you before. I won't now.
Mary: Oh!
Lucky: Emily! What are you doing?
Mary: She attacked me! Get her away from me!
Nikolas: So I recovered my memory.
Alcazar: Well, it had to happen on its own time.
Nikolas: Well, I don't think you were counting on that when you offered me a job. You wanted me indebted to you.
Alcazar: We've been over all this.
Nikolas: Well, I have a different perspective on it now. You thought you could use me against Jason somehow.
Alcazar: Which I freely admitted as soon as you learned who you were really were. Look, I don't have time to debate whether I treated you fair. I am trying to figure out why my niece was murdered!
Nikolas: I understand. Look, Sage was an innocent victim and so was Emily, so, please, just stay away from her.
Alexis: I need to consult with my client.
Ric: Don't do it.
Alcazar: Do what?
Ric: You want to avenge your niece.
Alcazar: I want justice to be served.
Ric: Yeah, well, that's my department, Mr. Alcazar, not yours. So I'm only going to warn you once. Stay away from Mary Bishop.
Mary: Emily hit me. You saw her.
Emily: What? I was trying to protect myself.
Mary: She attacked me.
Emily: Mary had her hands around my throat --
Lucky: Ok, you know what, that's enough!
Emily: And I was trying to pry them off!
Lucky: That's enough!
Emily: Lucky, she was strangling me, ok?
Mary: She's lying.
Emily: Look at my neck. I have --
Mary: She wants to kill me so she can have Connor to herself. Connor is my husband. He came back from the war to be with me. I'm not going to let her have him now.
Emily: He is not your husband, he is Nikolas Cassadine.
Lucky: All right, that's enough. That's enough, all right? We need to leave this room.
Emily: Lucky, she attacked me. You have to believe me. I didn't do anything. I was just standing there, and all of a sudden she --
Lucky: All right, you know what? We need to go. I told you to stay away from her.
Emily: I just wanted to talk to her, Lucky. I had no intentions of hurting her, I swear!
Lucky: Listen, I believe you. But you took a big risk.
Emily: She was unconscious. I was just trying to understand what she'd done.
Lucky: Mary's had a psychotic break. She's not dealing with reality.
Emily: Yeah, obviously. I was just standing there, when all of a sudden she grabbed my wrist and she put her hands on my throat!
Lucky: Nikolas is facing charges for taking the law in his own hands. All right? You could be facing the same situation if you're not careful.
Emily: I understand.
Lucky: She was really strangling you, wasn't she?
Emily: Yeah, I -- I couldn't believe how strong she was. I don't know, I guess her anger must have given her an extra surge of adrenaline or something.
Lucky: Promise me you'll stay away from her. There's no telling what she could try to do if she finds herself alone with you again.
Emily: I promise.
Lucky: All right, I'm going to go let the staff know that Mary’s not allowed any more visitors, okay? You okay?
Emily: Yeah. Thanks.
Alcazar: Just who I was looking for.
Alexis: Attempted manslaughter?
Ric: Alexis --
Alexis: You and I both know Nikolas did not go into the Quartermaine house with the intention of killing Mary Bishop.
Ric: Well, that could be argued considering multiple witnesses overheard him say that he was going to do it moments before he actually pulled the trigger.
Alexis: Maybe that's because Mary was trying to kill her with a butcher knife.
Ric: But that's also technically statement of intent. Look, he followed up on that statement 20 minutes later when he reached for Mac’s gun and he opened fire on Mary Bishop.
Alexis: You need to read the report again.
Ric: Oh, I'm talking to the wall here.
Alexis: And this time you need to pay attention. She was homicidal. Everyone in the Quartermaine house was armed in self-defense.
Ric: Yes, but he didn't shoot her in self-defense, okay? He shot her because he was afraid for Emily’s life.
Alexis: He did not leave his house with a weapon, which means that he had no intention of --
Ric: Listen to me, listen to me. He reached for Mac’s gun, pointed it at Mary Bishop point-blank, opened fire.
Alexis: Because he was trying to protect Emily.
Ric: It's not going to stand up in a court of law!
Alexis: Forget your law books and your precedents! Exercise your conscience! He did not kill her out of vengeance; he was doing it to protect Emily.
Ric: That's one interpretation.
Alexis: It's the right one. And I am not asking this as a personal favor.
Ric: Oh, the hell you're not. It doesn't get any more personal than this.
Alcazar: I understand that Sage died in your place.
Emily: Yeah, it's true. Mary said that she mistook Sage for me. I'm so sorry. I really am. Mary's mind broke.
Alcazar: Did you have any indication that Mary was losing touch with reality?
Emily: Besides lying to Nikolas and telling him that he was her dead husband?
Alcazar: At the time, she appeared to be driven by grief and love?
Emily: That's no excuse.
Alcazar: I'm not making excuses; I'm saying she didn't appear to be dangerous. You befriended her yourself.
Emily: Yeah, because -- because I believed her lies. I didn't realize that she felt entitled to steal Nikolas. She knew that he had a family, people who care about him and were looking for him, and she -- she ignored all of that.
Alcazar: So Mary builds her life around Nikolas, and you took him away.
Emily: You're saying this is my fault?
Alcazar: I'm trying to figure out when Mary crossed the line; when she went from being troubled to being outright delusional and violent. I am trying to figure out why my niece was stabbed to death in a freezer while you're walking around without a scratch!
Jason: Leave Emily alone.
Jason: You're looking to blame somebody for Sage's death. It was no one's fault. Mary lost her mind.
Emily: Her fantasy didn't match reality, and Mary couldn't take it.
Alcazar: And my niece was the victim, locked in the basement freezer by the police commissioner's daughter where Mary found her, alone and scared.
Emily: Mary also found another one of Sage's friends alone in a hallway that night -- a kid named Trent -- and she killed him, too.
Jason: Emily is not responsible for what happened to either one of them.
Emily: But neither is Nikolas, or any one of the other people who were with Sage that night.
Alcazar: So Sage is gone. Her life is over just like that. And I'm supposed to just accept the fact that it doesn't make sense and just go on with my life?
Emily: What happened to your niece was a terrible tragedy. It was cruel and unfair and beyond comprehension.
Jason: Alcazar, nobody is asking you to forget it, but going after an innocent kid isn't going to bring her back.
Emily: Oh, God.
Jason: Are you okay?
Emily: Yeah. I'm so glad you showed up when you did.
Jason: Dillon told me what happened at the house.
Emily: Yeah.
Jason: He was afraid that Alcazar would blame the kids for locking Sage in the freezer where she was killed, but I had a feeling that Alcazar might come after you. Did he make any threats?
Emily: No, no. I think more than anything, he's -- he's trying to understand.
Jason: Yeah, well, sometimes there's no explanation. You know, things just happen.
Emily: Yeah.
Jason: I guess you can -- you can go back and try to figure out where Mary actually lost her mind, why she turned violent, but it's not going to bring the people back that she killed. I'm just glad you're ok.
Emily: Me, too.
Jason: And Dillon said you actually fought with Mary?
Emily: Yeah. I'm not going to lie, Jase. I mean, I was terrified, but I wasn't about to let that lady kill me.
Jason: Okay, why wasn't Nikolas protecting you?
Emily: No, no, no, he was. They all thought that the killer was back at the boathouse, and they were -- you know what? Forget it. It -- it doesn't matter. What matters is that Nikolas and I survived, and he remembers. Jase, yeah. Nikolas loves me again, as much as he did before. You know, maybe even more, now that we've gone through this awful ordeal.
Jason: Wow, this is -- this is good news.
Emily: I know.
Jason: I'm happy for you.
Emily: You helped me so much. You know, when Nikolas was at his angriest, and when I thought that there was no hope at all, I'd -- I'd think of you. And I'd realize that, you know, love is about more than memory. You know, you can start from scratch and you can learn to love someone all over again. And I would have done that for Nikolas. I would have loved him even if he never remembered anything.
Jason: But he did.
Emily: And you told me that, too --
Jason: I know.
Emily: That, you know -- that in time, Nikolas would come back to me, and now he has. Thank you for helping me hold on.
Jason: Hey, you know, I didn't -- I didn't do anything. It was all you.
Monitor beeps.
Officer: You're free to go, but not to leave the state.
Nikolas: All right.
Emily: Oh, my God.
Nikolas: Hi.
Emily: Hey, Nikolas. That's wonderful. How did you make bail?
Nikolas: Lansing decided only to charge me with attempted manslaughter.
Emily: What changed his mind?
Nikolas: I have no idea.
Alexis: How does it feel?
Ric: You're going to have to be a little bit more specific.
Alexis: You were ethical. You did something ethical. Reducing the charges was a very ethical thing to do.
Ric: Thank you. But if I get a conviction, he still is going to get 5 to 20.
Alexis: No question.
Ric: And don't think that I'm going to go easy on him in prosecuting him because you're arguing his defense. The charges I filed were valid. I just -- it had nothing to do with your heartfelt pitch for leniency.
Alexis: You don't have to convince me. Doesn't mean that I can't thank you.
Monitor beeps.