Sonny: I'm sorry that you had to suffer this indignity. But consider this unfortunate incident in my hands now.
Emily: Listen, Sonny, please. It's my marriage. No amount of pressure from you or anybody else is going to fix it.
Sonny: I thought you'd want to fight it.
Emily: I used to think that Nikolas and I were soul mates, destined to be together no matter what fate threw at us, and suddenly I'm not so sure. Maybe it's Nikolas and Courtney who are meant to be.
Pilot: We've had a little tailwind to help us along, which has made up for our delayed departure, so Flight 859 will be arriving in Port Charles ahead of schedule. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the rest of the flight.
Courtney: Great -- "ahead of schedule." Get to see the shreds of my marriage that much sooner.
Nikolas: Look, all we have to do is tell the truth. I'll explain to Emily, you explain to Jax. We came close to making a terrible mistake, but we stopped ourselves, all right? I'm not going to let my marriage fall apart for something that didn't happen.
Courtney: It's ironic, isn't it? I mean, all those times we just ran into each other? Those weird coincidences and odd circumstances. But you know what, Nikolas? When you lay them out end to end, it just sounds like nothing but lies.
Sonny: I'm not a fan of the Cassadines, any of them.
Emily: Nikolas isn't like the rest of his family.
Sonny: Okay, have a seat. I do have to admit that you seem happier with him than you do without him, and you've been -- both have been through a lot in just a few years, and that's something you got to think about if you want to forgive him or not.
Emily: Are you going to teach me about forgiveness, Sonny?
Sonny: Well --
Emily: I've seen you happy and crazy in love and I've also seen you angry and betrayed, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen you forgive anyone for anything.
Sonny: What is that saying -- "do as I say, not as I do"? You want to be like me, Emily? It's no picnic. Forgiveness -- it's great in theory, but your heart has to let you go there, and sometimes it's just -- it's almost impossible.
Emily: Yeah, all right. Well, since you've been there, you tell me how you healed from being betrayed.
Sonny: Are you kidding me? If I knew that, I wouldn't be, you know, who I am, you know? But I will say this -- if you can get past the anger and the disappointment, that would be the greatest gift you can give yourself.
Emily: I wish it didn't hurt so much.
Nikolas daydreams about seeing Emily.
Nikolas: Emily. Please, please listen to me for one second.
Emily: No, Nikolas, don't. Listen, I overreacted. I got so scared that I'd lost you that I never even gave you the chance to explain.
Nikolas: I don't blame you.
Emily: Listen, you're the most honorable man I know, Nikolas. You'd never be unfaithful to me. I haven't made things easy and you've done nothing but love me. I promise I'll never push you away again.
Pilot: Flight 859 has begun its descent into Port Charles Airport. Please make sure all chairs and trays are in their upright position, and passengers should fasten their seat belts.
Courtney: Because it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Nikolas: They've had time to think. They have to realize the truth by now.
Courtney daydreams about seeing Jax.
Courtney: Jax, I know that you're upset. I mean, it all looks so bad -- Nikolas and I on the same flight to the Bahamas. I mean, how strange is that? And then to discover that we're staying in the same hotel, across the hall, but -- listen, not one single second of it was planned, I swear. I mean, come on, how could it be? You and I were supposed to be on the same flight, in that hotel, and in that room together. I mean, it was just all one coincidence after another, Jax. Look -- yes, I kissed Nikolas more than once, and for that I am truly, deeply sorry. But I'm asking you to forgive me, Jax, and I'm asking you to believe me when I tell you that Nikolas and I never slept together.
Jax: What's a marriage worth without trust or forgiveness? I do believe you, and I forgive you. But most importantly, I love you. That's all that matters.
Nurse: Okay. We've put in for three days off for you. You have enough banked hours. Should be all right.
Emily: All right, thanks, Vicki. You have my new contact info in there?
Vicki: Yes. When are you moving?
Emily: Immediately.
Vicki: There you go.
Emily: Thanks.
Monica: Hi, sweetheart.
Emily: Hi.
Monica: Listen, I'm going to call Alice and have her get your room ready, okay?
Alan: Sweetheart, you have no idea how much I miss having you around the house. I'm just so sorry you had to go through all this.
Monica: Yeah.
Emily: Mom, listen, it's okay. You don't have to call. I'm not moving home.
Alan: Don't be silly. Where else are you going to go?
Nikolas: I need to see my wife.
Sonny: She's not here.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, I happen to know for a fact that she is.
Sonny: I said she's not here.
Nikolas: Look, obviously she wants me to know where she is because she left me a note telling me.
Sonny: Well, she should be back soon because she's going to move in her stuff.
Nikolas: What do you mean, she's moving in here?
Sonny: Yeah, I'm giving her the guesthouse. It's quiet and secure, and she doesn't have to deal with the two-timing bastard who slept with my sister.
Nikolas: You know, Sonny, what you don't know about this could fill a book, man.
Sonny: What I do know is Courtney is insecure and she's incredibly naive. The fact that she's not with Jax -- I'm very happy about that, but now sleeping with you shows me that --
Nikolas: I didn't sleep with Courtney!
Sonny: You start out with lies, doesn't give you anyplace to go.
Nikolas: Who asked you?
Sonny: Emily, actually. You were in New York on business. Then you ended up in the Bahamas sleeping with my sister.
Nikolas: All right, I'm going to -- I'm going to say this one more time, and then you can just stay the hell out of it. I didn't sleep with Courtney.
Sonny: So Emily just made it all up? Is that what you're saying?
Nikolas: Emily and I are dealing with a lot of stuff right now. None of it should be about sleeping with your sister.
Sonny: You know what, you're a fool, Cassadine. Emily's a decent girl. She's trying to get over, you know, being raped. Any honorable man would move mountains to protect her.
Nikolas: God, you're -- don't lecture me about honor, Sonny, you know, with your criminal code of ethics that you seem to follow.
Sonny: You know, you and Jax are cut from the same cloth. You know, my little sister has bad judgment in men.
Nikolas: Courtney doesn't need you to rescue her.
Sonny: Well, you know what? I knew that Jax wouldn't be enough for her, but I don't know what she sees in you. Pretentious manner, that big mansion that you have? Or did you play on Courtney's sympathy? Did you tell her that your wife doesn't understand you, your mother abandoned you, your puppy got ran over by a car? How did you get in my sister's pants?
Nikolas: Sonny, unlike yourself, I have the discipline to keep my fly zipped. See, women seem to be disposable to you. One of them displeases you, there's just another one right there waiting in line to take her place.
Emily enters the room.
Nikolas:What you don't understand about me is that I love my wife, okay, and no one can ever replace her. I'm not going to give up on my wife or my marriage.
Sonny: One of the advantages of staying here is you don't have to see anybody you don't want to see, so if you want him removed or whatever you need --
Emily: Thank you, Sonny. Can you give us a few minutes?
Sonny: Yeah, yeah.
Sonny leaves.
Nikolas: So is Sonny under the impression that he needs to protect you from me?
Emily: He can't help himself, Nikolas. It's instinctual.
Nikolas: Okay.
Emily: Why are you here?
Nikolas: I want you to come home with me, and I want us to look into each other's eyes and say what needs to be said. Okay? What happened with Courtney is not what you think happened.
Emily: Nikolas, there's no point. It's too late.
Nikolas: No. I don't believe that. I won't let you bail on me, Emily.
Nikolas: Okay, I'm not going to make excuses here, okay? I just hope that you'll try and understand. So here goes. I -- what you were dealing with, it was -- it was so powerful that I didn't feel like there was any room for me to tell you how I felt about it.
Emily: Did I do that to you, Nikolas?
Nikolas: No, see, nobody -- nobody did it. Nobody did anything. It's just how it was.
Emily: So you decided to cheer yourself up by sleeping with Courtney.
Nikolas: No, I didn't. I didn't sleep with her.
Emily: No, because I showed up and ruined your plans, Nikolas.
Nikolas: No, Emily --
Emily: Timing is everything.
Nikolas: You -- you are the love of my life, okay? I wouldn't come down here like this if I didn't love you. I wouldn't do whatever it takes to get you back if I'd have had sex with her. I swear on my life, Emily, I didn't sleep with her. Please believe that.
Emily: Hmm. No, Nikolas, I don't believe you.
Emily: You lied about being with Courtney, up on the roof of the hospital. You lied about going to New York, on business, you said, when the truth was you were on a beach with Courtney!
Nikolas: Oh, no, no, that's not true, and Jax will tell you he was supposed to be there with her.
Emily: I'm so tired of explanations, Nikolas. It doesn't change anything.
Nikolas: Listen, I made mistakes, okay? I admit that, and I'm not proud of it, and I don't blame you for not trusting me. It's just I was so desperate to make a connection because you wouldn't --
Emily: Okay, well, problem solved. You have Courtney now!
Nikolas: I love you. Let me make something real clear to you. I'm not going back to Wyndemere without my wife.