Helena: Yes, the curse I cast on you killed Nurse Harris, but it's only the beginning. Other lives -- many other lives -- will be damaged or ruined if you insist on marriage.
Nikolas: Who do you think you're kidding? You are the curse. You say the words, you carry them out, and that's exactly what you did tonight. Nurse Harris is dead because you killed her, and blaming it on "the curse" is the same as a confession.
Emily: And Tracy is a witness.
Tracy: Me?
Nikolas: Well, yeah. You'll testify, won't you?
Nikolas: Thank you, grandmother. Now that you've been gracious enough to confess to murder, Emily and I can marry in peace. Thank you.
Helena: I admitted no such thing.
Emily: Oh, well, we all heard. Right, Tracy?
Tracy: All I have been hearing for too tedious long is a bunch of bombastic hoo-ha about some ridiculous curse. Emily, don't you understand why I don't approve this marriage? Who needs to be any closer to the Cassadines? They're all nuts.
Emily: That's funny because you didn't seem to think that way when you were working with Helena.
Tracy: I chose to overcome some serious misgivings to join with Helena to throw you an engagement party. I considered it an olive branch -- to show you my support despite my grave doubts. How was I supposed to know that in the middle of the festivities, she would start spouting arcane curses?
Helena: I merely stated a fact -- Nikolas and Emily will never be happy together.
Tracy: Can you give it a rest?
Helena: Oh.
Nikolas: You killed Mary, intending to frame Emily for it, then you dig up this Nurse Harris and pay her to lie and implicate Emily. And then you kill her when she wanted to retract her statement. Congratulations, Tracy. Your alliance with my grandmother here has made you an accomplice in two murders, and I'd tread carefully from now on if I were you. If my grandmother doubts your loyalty, you'll be next on her hit list. You have a pleasant evening.
Lois: This is perfect timing! Had you not been at the front door right as I was getting ready to knock, I might've lost my courage and bailed.
Emily: You're always welcome here, Lois.
Lois: You know, I have been out on the pier so many times looking at this place, but never been inside until now. It is -- um -- certainly --
Emily: Gothic?
Nikolas: Oppressive?
Lois: Atmospheric?
Emily: Yeah, you should've seen it before we degargoyled.
Lois: You know, I actually think that your family is even weirder than Emily's -- and that's saying something. So how'd you turn out to be so normal?
Nikolas: Well, I'm not, really.
Lois: By the way, I am really sorry I didn't make the engagement party, but I had a prior commitment. But thank you. It was so sweet of you to invite me.
Nikolas: We didn't.
Emily: What he means is we didn't invite anyone. We didn't even know about the party.
Nikolas: Helena and Tracy ambushed us.
Emily: Yeah, and then Helena saw the need to put a curse on our marriage.
Lois: Didn't she do that to some other couple a long time ago?
Nikolas: Laura and Luke, yes, my mother.
Lois: Laura, right. Never fear, because the best way to counteract a curse is with a blessing, and I happen to have one right here. For you.
Emily: What is it?
Lois: Come here. I'm going to open it up. Take a look.
Emily: Let's see. What --
Lois: It's your grandmother's dress. Lila was kind enough to let me wear it when I got married to Ned, and now it's your turn. I think this should be enough to ward off any bad wishes from Helena.
Emily: I've never forgotten the way you looked in this dress, the way you glowed.
Lois: It was the happiest day of my life.
Emily: Yeah, well, I was honored to be included as a last-minute bridesmaid.
Lois: And now look -- it's your turn to be married.
Emily: Thank you for remembering the dress, Lois, and bringing it to me.
Lois: Your grandmother would be so happy for you. Now, I'm going to get out of your way and leave you with this gorgeous hubby-to-be of yours.
Emily: All right, don't be a stranger, okay?
Lois: Oh, you got it, but could you do most of the visiting, because this place gives me the serious heebie-jeebies.
Emily laughs.
Emily: Bye.
Nikolas: Oh --
emily laughs.
Nikolas: I'm not supposed to see, right?
Emily: Come here.
Nikolas: Right?
Emily: Come here, you. First of all, I'm not superstitious. And even if I were, it's only bad luck for the groom to see the bride in the dress on the wedding day. It's perfectly safe for you to see me holding it weeks ahead of time.
Nikolas: Well, I'm sure you'll look beautiful in it.
Emily: You're so good for my ego. When the -- the sketch of the wedding dress I was considering got burned, you know, we thought that it was a bad omen. But instead, it turned out to be a good thing. You know, this dress feels like a -- like a love note from grandmother, you know, saying that she approves and wishes us well. You know, grandmother was a die-hard romantic.
Emily grunts.
Emily: She always wanted me to find the love of my life, and now I have, and I'm not going to let anything -- including Helena's asinine curse -- keep me from marrying --
Nikolas: Oh --
Emily: No -- oh, God!
Emily: Look, it's just wine, Nikolas.
Nikolas: I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
Emily: No, it's no big deal. I'll take it to the cleaners tomorrow. I'll have someone, you know, cut it and try to patch it.
Nikolas: Emily, it's your grandmother's wedding dress. It's an heirloom that means something to you, and I just ruined it.
Emily: Nikolas, you didn't ruin it.
Nikolas: Yeah, just like I ruined everything when I grabbed Mac's gun and shot Mary with it. I mean, if I'd have just --
Emily: You fired to protect me, and I'll always be grateful.
Nikolas: What I did led you to being framed for murder. I mean, what if -- what if Helena's right? What if this is just the beginning?
Emily: What do you mean?
Nikolas: What if this Cassadine curse is for real?
Emily: I laid the dress out to dry in one of the guest rooms, and I'll take it to the cleaners tomorrow, and with any luck, the stain will come out.
Nikolas: Yeah, with any luck, you won't be prosecuted for murder. With any luck, I'll get a suspended sentence for manslaughter. With any luck, with any luck --
Emily: Nikolas --
Nikolas: What? What?
Emily: Don't you realize that you're doing Helena's work for her? You're seeing bad omens where they don't exist.
Nikolas: Come on, come on. You can't deny that some rather unfortunate events have surrounded our wedding plans lately.
Emily: Ok, what about the good things, like your memory returning when I needed you the most? Or me surviving Mary's knife attack? Or Lois showing up with the wedding dress, which stained -- stained or not, is like a vote of confidence. You know, you and I have been through so much, and it's taught me the most important lesson of my life. I -- I think that love is stronger than fear. It's stronger than hate. It's stronger than greed or -- or vendettas or curses, and our love will see us through anything, Nikolas -- even this wedding. Come here.
Nikolas: Okay.
Laughter.
Helena: Double, double, toil and trouble!
Tracy: Fire burn and --
Tracy coughs.
Tracy: Cauldron bubble.
Helena: Oh, by the pricking of these thumbs, something --
Both: Wicked this way comes!
Nikolas: What? It's all right, I'm here. You okay?
Emily: Yeah. It -- it was just a dream.
Nikolas: Oh, you okay? You remember it?