Connor Bishop is also played by Tyler Christopher, who plays Nikolas Cassadine.
Connor Bishop is also played by Tyler Christopher, who plays Nikolas Cassadine.
Luke: All right. It's lovely to have you back in my arms, my darling.
Woman: What is wrong with you? Let go of me!
Luke: Not until you tell me where the woman who hired you is.
Woman: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Luke: Helena Cassadine! Where is she?
Luke: Relax. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want you to answer some questions.
Woman: I told you, I don't know any Helena Cassadine.
Luke: Well, let me see if I can help you move this along a little bit, then. She happens to be, oh, your height, your weight, your build. She also has a penchant for extravagant headgear. She didn't really expect me not to see through this, did she?
Woman: None of what you're saying makes any sense to me. I don't recognize your description. I've never met anyone named Helena Cassadine. And if you don't let me go, I'm going to start screaming, and I'm not going to stop until you've been arrested for assault.
Emily: If you're not working for Helena, then why did you approach me?
Luke: Did you understand the question?
Lucky: Dad, let her go. Hotel security is going to be here in about thirty seconds.
Woman: Listen to him. Let me go and this never happened. Otherwise I'm just as happy to press charges.
Luke: All right. All right, you can go. But you tell your mistress this is not over yet.
Connor: Obviously, my impersonation of Nikolas didn't fly.
Skye: No, don't be so sure.
Connor: What are you talking about? We're right back where we started. If Helena is alive, she didn't take the bait.
Luke: She sure did. That woman was here on Helena's behalf. I'd bet my $2,500 green gecko and moss frog boots on that one.
Luke: So, what do you think the chances are that a virtual body double for Helena would show up at a party where her beloved grandson just happens to be?
Connor: What, then you think it worked?
Luke: Yeah, so far, I do.
Skye: I'm with Luke. Helena's alive and eager to see Nikolas, and tracy is in touch with her.
Emily: Well, it makes sense that Helena would be wary enough to suspect a trap.
Luke: Yeah, so she sent a decoy.
Lucky: This whole body double thing was a little too convenient. But I saw that woman. You know what? She was genuinely frightened, and I believe that she had never heard of Helena.
Luke: She was acting.
Lucky: And we're a long way from proving that Helena's still alive.
Emily: And even farther away from getting Nikolas free.
Luke: You know, maybe it's this hideous hour or all the partying, but I'm thicker than usual. I can't figure out why we need to know a list of the hotel guests.
Skye: Some people actually enjoy being up at this hour. Can you imagine?
Luke: No.
Skye: Look, what we're going to do is cross-reference the list to the people who attended the party, and maybe we can find something more about this Helena double.
Luke: I got a better idea. Excuse me.
Woman: Oh, no, not you again.
Luke: No -- sorry. Don't panic. I just wanted to apologize for the rude and ungentlemanly way I treated you last night. I have no excuse except for the fact that I was blind drunk -- New Year's Eve and all, you know?
Woman: Well, it happens. No harm done. Anything else?
Luke: No, no. I'm just -- I'm just amazed. I mean, the woman I mistook you for -- your resemblance to her is remarkable.
Woman: Hmm.
Skye: If you don't mind my asking, what were you doing at the party? Are you a friend of Jax's?
Woman: No, I don't know him, either. Look, someone paid me to go. They sent me the costume, bought my airline tickets, made my hotel reservations. All I had to do was show up, attend a party, and collect 10 grand for my trouble.
Luke: I think we just hit the jackpot.
Skye: Her name is Tara McAllister.
Luke: She's an actress from Manhattan, hired because of her physical appearance.
Skye: And resemblance to Helena.
Emily: Did she ever actually see Helena?
Luke: No, Emily. Helena's much too shrewd for that. She was hired by a go-between.
Skye: And supplied with your photo. That's why she followed you and Connor into the lobby when you left.
Emily: You were right about Helena all along.
Luke: Well, I've had a lot of practice at this game.
Emily: But now she knows that we're looking for her, so she's going to disappear.
Luke: That I'm not so sure of because she thinks we've got what she wants -- Nikolas.
Lucky: And what we got is Connor Bishop pretending to be Nikolas. If there's anyone able to spot a fake, it's Helena.
Luke: So keep working with him, both of you. And once he's perfected the Nikolas routine, we'll take him on the road because I know, if not all, certainly most of Helena's favorite hiding places.