Elizabeth: Hi!
Emily: Oh, Elizabeth, you look wonderful.
Elizabeth: Oh, thanks.
Nikolas: I'll second that. Lucky's eyes are going to pop out of his head.
Elizabeth: Oh, please, he's seen this thing a zillion times.
Lucky: Oh, hey, we got good news -- the hurricane is heading west. It's going to miss the city completely.
Emily: Ah. Hey, I'm disappointed. I was kind of looking forward to battening down the hatches with you.
Elizabeth: Weren't you supposed to get changed for the party?
Lucky: Changed? I am changed.
Elizabeth: At?
Lucky: If I have to go to this thing, I at least want to be comfortable. Besides, nobody's going to notice what I'm wearing. This thing is about people like Jax throwing their money around.
Elizabeth: Okay.
Jax: That's a sad statement but probably has some truth to it.
Emily: Where's Courtney?
Jax: She's away on business, so I'm a member of the lonely hearts club tonight.
Elizabeth: Aw, poor Jax.
Jax: You ladies certainly look lovely tonight.
Emily and Elizabeth: Thank you.
Jax: Well, my limo's waiting. Would you all like a ride to the party?
Elizabeth: Oh, I can't remember the last time I was in a limo.
Jax: Well, it's time to right that wrong.
Elizabeth: All right, then. I have to clock out, but don't leave without me, okay?
Jax: Listen, I -- I keep spare ties in the limo if you want to borrow one.
Elizabeth: All right. Let's get this party started.
Lucky: Hey, you go ahead and I will meet you guys there, okay?
Elizabeth: Oh.
Lucky: Hey, I want to take your shift tonight.
Officer Murphy: What you want is to duck a boring party.
Lucky: Yeah, that, too. I just want to help find Maxie before her father completely loses it. Whether Maxie took off voluntarily or -- or if she was taken -- but either way it's just bad news, okay?
Officer Murphy: Jesse Beaudry is dangerous. What is this, like, your third double shift --
Lucky: Listen, I'm fine, okay?
Officer Murphy: Are you sure? Because we can't afford any mistakes here, especially with a young girl's life at stake.
Carly: Before people start thinking that the two of us are going to burst into song, I think we should figure out what we're going to do about this unfortunate coincidence.
Reese: Right. Well, the solutition is obvious, Carly -- you have to change.
Carly: Why me?
Reese: You're home.
Carly: And you're not invited.
Sonny: Carly, Reese is with me.
Reese: Sonny insisted, right after he surprised me with this dress.
Carly: Sonny's full of surprises -- not all of them pleasant.
Reese: So, where did you get yours, Carly?
Carly: My husband gave it to me. Lorenzo's so generous.
Doorbell rings.
Carly: And he has this incredible eye. He always picks out that special something that looks so cheap on other women but falls so perfectly on me.
Sonny: All right, all right, all right.
Carly: Oh. Ah -- people that I can actually stand.
Emily: Thank you so much for inviting us.
Lorenzo: Oh, it's our pleasure. Thank you for coming. Please.
Carly: I hope you brought your checkbooks.
Nikolas: Yeah.
Lorenzo: Hello.
Carly: What are you guys doing here?
Lucky: Well --
Jax: Liz and Lucky are my guests.
Lucky: Yes. Thank you very much for the gracious welcome, Carly.
Lorenzo: Nice to see you.
Lucky: Thank you.
Carly: Where's Courtney?
Jax: Business trip in Manhattan.
Carly: Oh, god. The cosmic jokester strikes again?
Jax: I beg your pardon?
Carly: It's called "stick Carly into a room of people she can't stand and make her grovel for money."
Jax: You're the director of charitable endowments now. Groveling comes with the territory -- you might want to get used to it. Would you like a tip?
Carly: Do I have a choice?
Jax: Try not to grovel with attitude. Puts off potential donors.
Lorenzo: Nice to see you.
Jax: Thanks.
Lorenzo: Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention? It is my pleasure to introduce General Hospital's new director of charitable endowments and the woman who also happens to be my wife.
Carly: Thank you.
Lorenzo: Carly Alcazar.
Carly: Thank you.
Lorenzo: Mm-hmm.
Carly: It is so wonderful to have you all here in our new home. I am so thrilled that you have embraced me in this new endeavor and I'm honored to carry on the tradition set forth by Lila Quartermaine. Under her leadership, this endowment stood for something in this community. Unfortunately, since the time of her death, the same thing can't be said. I promise you that I will make sure that this endowment exists for the purpose of getting help to the people who need it and not the glorification of its members' egos.
Tracy: Well. Nobody cares what you think. You're a figurehead. We're all here and putting up with you because we're being blackmailed. And there's no way in hell you're going to tell me or any member of my family how to run this organization.
Skye: No, Tracy didn't mean it the way it sounded.
Tracy: Like hell I didn't. You dare to speak of my mother? She's spinning in her grave knowing that you have the nerve to make accusations of impropriety about an organization you know absolutely --
Lorenzo: Enough!
Tracy: Nothing about.
Lorenzo: I have tried to be civil. I could've excluded you from any further endowment business. Instead, I invited you into my home and you repay my generosity by attacking my wife?
Thunder.
Lorenzo: Consider this fair warning -- do it again and I will make it my life's work to remove each and every one of you from the hospital board, and that's just for starters. So, Tracy, I suggest you return home and rethink your vicious, ungrateful attitude. Either you all work with Carly or she works without you.
Tracy: Done?
Skye: I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
Nikolas: Sure you don't want to leave with your family?
Emily: Hmm. Right now, I think I'm embracing the fact that I'm a Cassadine, too.
Elizabeth: Carly's not my favorite person, but no one deserves to be humiliated in their own home.
Jax: Well, let's see if we can shift the focus. If no one objects, I'd like to start the pledges. Put me down for 500,000.
Carly: Thank you, Jax. Anyone else?
Elizabeth: That was impressive.
Jax: Money always talks louder than anyone else in the room.
Elizabeth: Oh.
Thunder.
Nikolas: Hey. The party's inside.
Lucky: Yeah, that's why I'm in here. You know, there's no justice, you know? You break your back at work that actually protects peoplee, and all you get for your troubles is tired. And then -- then you have your Alcazars and your Sonnys, who actually get rewarded for breaking the law.
Nikolas: Well, hey, don't forget about people like me, who have been handed everything since birth. Look -- listen, Lucky, thank god we're balanced by people like Elizabeth who don't care about any of it. I understand what you're going through.
Lucky: No, Nikolas, you don't! You can give Emily the life that she deserves, but I -- I'm a guy who's letting the woman that I love carry a man's child to bail me out of the financial chaos that I'm in.
Nikolas: Elizabeth is a surrogate for Jax and Courtney because she wants to, Lucky.
Lucky: Well, Elizabeth she deserves more than I can give her.
Nikolas: Has she asked for that?
Lucky: Of course not.
Nikolas: If she were unhappy with you, would you know it?
Lucky: Well, yeah, one way or another.
Nikolas: Well, then stop creating a problem that doesn't have to exist, or it's going to take on a life of its own, Lucky.
Emily: I was wondering what happened to you.
Nikolas: Oh, I was outside talking with lucky. Why, I miss any fireworks?
Emily: Things seem to have settled down, at least for now. And I was thinking, you know, maybe we could duck out of here early, go home, build a fire, open up a nice bottle of wine, pretend the storm came through and left us the only two people on earth.
Nikolas: Um -- I think I'm going to stay a little longer. You know, just make sure lucky's really okay with everything. Okay?
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: Can I get you some more champagne?
Emily: Sure.
Nikolas: Okay.
Thunder.