Emily: Hey.
Nikolas: Good morning.
Emily: Good morning.
Emily: I have an idea.
Nikolas: Oh, yeah? What's that?
Emily: We could stay here for a while, have breakfast in bed.
Nikolas: Well, I really wish I could. I just -- I'm sorry, I have a lot on my mind, you know, trying to restructure the Cassadine finances. I need to make a few calls before the stock market opens.
Emily: I know, but maybe I could take your mind off of it.
Nikolas: No, Em, I'm sorry, baby, not this time, okay? It doesn't have anything to do with us, all right, I promise. You know I love you. I just need to do this.
Emily: No, I love you, too, Nikolas, but if something's bothering you, then --
Nikolas: No.
Emily: Yeah, you have to tell me.
Nikolas: No, no, no, it's all going to work out fine, okay?
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: We'll be okay. I'll be back.
Emily: Okay.
Lucky: Murphy, you said you were going to have this paperwork filed by lunch.
Officer Murphy: Well, I'm going to need a few more hours. We just got an A.P.B. out on a dirty cop that shot the D.A. Excuse me.
Nikolas: What was that about?
Lucky: It's a bad morning. The coffee is lousy and my mood, it's even worse.
Nikolas: Okay.
Lucky: What brings you to the PCPD?
Nikolas: Oh, I just need to wrap up some loose ends about Helena.
Lucky: Okay, I'll get her file for you.
Nikolas: Hey, hey, hey. What's going on with you?
Lucky: Listen, it's not worth talking about.
Nikolas: Try me.
Lucky: It's about money, okay? I'm going to figure a way to work it out, all right, and I don't -- I don't want a loan.
Nikolas: Well, what is it? I mean, you having trouble covering the rent?
Lucky: It's about a toy that Cameron really wants and I told Elizabeth that we can't afford it.
Nikolas: Okay, so you just bit Murphy's head off over a toy?
Lucky: Yes, I did! No.
Nikolas: All right, come on. What's up?
Lucky: I've been saying I was going to go along with this surrogate thing, saying that I was okay with Elizabeth having Jax's baby.
Nikolas: Jax and Courtney's baby, right?
Lucky: Elizabeth is going to be the biological mother. I just -- I don't even care how much Jax is paying. I've just been praying to god this whole insemination thing doesn't work and Elizabeth isn't pregnant.
Lucky: Elizabeth is getting pregnant with another guy's baby. It's only going to get weirder as months go by.
Nikolas: And she's comfortable with that?
Lucky: You know what, she says all the right things, says that I do so much for her and Cameron.
Nikolas: Well, I mean, I have to believe she means it, Lucky. I mean, you two are in this together, you know?
Lucky: Nikolas, we have money problems, okay, because of my medical bills, but it's Elizabeth who's paying our way out. You know, sometimes I just wish I should've taken that stolen money.
Nikolas: What stolen money?
Lucky: Shh. Hey. Listen, I just -- I busted a low-level drug deal. The cash -- the cash was just right there, so I took it. Elizabeth, she made me turn it back in.
Nikolas: All right, look, I'm sorry. Look, I didn't know that you were that desperate. You know, you could've just come to me, Lucky.
Lucky: No, I can't.
Nikolas: Why not? What do you mean, you can't? We're brothers. It's not like you're taking some random handout from a friend.
Lucky: Hey, I know that you think that I should just suck up my pride and leave it at the door, but --
Nikolas: No --
Lucky: You know what, you've never been in this position, so there's just no way you can understand what I'm doing.
Nikolas: Look, I know what it's like to be a good husband and want to make your wife happy. I know what it's like to try and try and nothing works. I know that.
Lucky: Yeah. Is Emily still seeing that therapist?
Nikolas: Yeah, yeah, and she's saying that it works, but, you know, I want to be the one she trusts. I don't know, you know, I just keeping thinking that if I love her enough that I can bring her back to the person she was.
Lucky: Yeah, well, maybe you can be.
Nikolas: No, Lucky. Emily and I, we're going in opposite directions. We're all over the place. She's trying to make me happy, you know, pretending like we're the perfect couple, and it's just killing us.
Sam: Did something happen with Nikolas?
Emily: You know, I've been trying to act like things are back to normal, but all it does is push him even further away, Sam.
Sam: Well, did you talk to him about how you're feeling?
Emily: I couldn't.
Sam: Why? Because you're afraid it's going to hurt him?
Emily: I thought if I made him happy, you know, things would work themselves out, that we'd get back to where we were before.
Sam: But he senses something's off, obviously.
Emily: Well, he said he's got a lot on his mind, you know, because of work. He's rebuilding the Cassadine businesses right now.
Sam: Well, that sounds complicated.
Emily: It's a way to avoid me. See, there's a wall between us, Sam. It's never been there before, and it's breaking my heart. I've got to find a way to make this right.
Sam: You have to be honest. Emily, it's the only way. I know that you're afraid that you're going to hurt him and possibly even drive him further away, but, I mean, you've got to take that risk.
Emily: We aren't just talking about me and Nikolas, are we? We're talking about you and Jason?
Sam: I told you how Carly comes waltzing in here whenever she feels like it, demanding to see Jason, right?
Emily: With no consideration for the fact that this is your home, too.
Sam: And Jason is loyal to her. I get that. It's okay with me.
Emily: All right, she takes total advantage. You know, Jason shouldn't put up with it. You're the woman he loves.
Sam: So Carly feels threatened, so she's cooked up this crazy vendetta against Sonny's new girlfriend. It's like she's trying to create a disaster.
Emily: I know, sure she is. Carly wants Jason to feel compelled to rescue her.
Sam: So Carly's been blasting Jason with, like, a thousand different ways and reasons as to why Reese is dangerous. She even broke into her apartment to dig dirt up on her.
Emily: What? Does Jason know?
Sam: Yeah, yeah, he's the one who caught her the first time. And then she had the nerve to go back a second time and knock her out, and Jason's still defending her. But my problem is Jason and Sonny. I mean, this is driving a wedge between the two of them. Sonny told Jason to leave Reese alone, so --
Emily: You know, Jason's loyal to Carly, but that doesn't mean that he trusts her judgment or automatically assumes that she's right. You know, he must have his own reasons for being suspicious of Reese.
Sam: Jason thinks that Ric and Reese are "in bed together."
Phone beeps.
Sam: So to speak. I mean, Sonny's defending Reese, you know, so even if Jason were to come up with proof that the two of them had something going on, I don't think he'd want to hear it.
Jason: Where's Sam?
Emily: She went to meet with Dr. Thomas, and I stuck around, Jase, because there's something that I need to tell you.
Jason: Yeah, what's up?
Emily: Well, Sam and I were talking about Carly's obsession with Reese.
Jason: Yeah, Carly's -- you know, she's still suspicious, but she says she's just going to let it go and move on. Hopefully.
Emily: I guess it's for the best.
Jason: Yeah, yeah, it is. You know, but I just can't -- I can't shake this feeling that Ric and Reese are up to something.