Nikolas: I wasn't trying to escape. As I've tried to explain repeatedly, my wife needs me. I just need to get to her.
Guard: Quit your yammering. Restrain the prisoner.
Nikolas: I demand to see the Warden.
Guard: He "demands."
Second Guard: Must think he's a Prince or something.
Helena: Keep fighting and I will shoot you. I'll take one of your little friends instead.
Emily: Come on, Luke, shoot her!
Helena: You're all interchangeable to me. I'm losing my patience. Leave that elevator alone!
Tracy: Do something.
Luke: I am.
Tracy: Oh, my God, you're standing there!
Luke: Look, my little neophyte, just pay attention. Watch and learn, huh?
Helena: Stay back! I want my money back in cash or she dies!
Lucky: Emily, hang in there! Elizabeth -- Elizabeth, what are you doing?
Elizabeth: I'm calling security to have them seal off the exits.
Luke: That's not going to help, Elizabeth. Security can't do anything. Helena's been moving in and out of this hospital longer than you people have been alive.
Skye: We can't just let her shoot Emily.
Luke: This is a game of strategy. Patience is key. The only way to save Emily is to give Helena exactly what she wants. And that's what we're going to do.
Nikolas: My wife's been dealing with a lot. Her emotions are all over the place. I just needed to reassure her that everything was going to be okay --
Warden Bradford: So you tried to escape?
Nikolas: And I gave in to an impulse. But I'm calm now. Everything's okay. If you would just allow me to speak to her, to call her, you would see --
Warden Bradford: You are a confessed murderer who just tried to break out of here. That doesn't buy you any privileges. It gets them taken away. You will make no calls, and I'm suspending any additional visits from your wife, since they only seem to agitate you anyways. Take the prisoner to solitary.
Helena: Put her there.
Emily: You know what? You gave yourself away, Helena. Enough people saw you at the hospital to convince a judge that you're alive and that Nikolas was wrongfully imprisoned.
Helena: You have more pressing worries, my dear. Obviously you recognize the site of your tryst with Connor Bishop. Does my grandson know that you cheated on him with another man?
Luke: Helena wants money, we give her money. That's how it works.
Tracy: I don't have 15 million in cash, Luke. That money was wire-transferred into my account by you, thank you very much. It's not like I can just float right into a bank with a check made out to cash for 15 million. It is going to take days to convert those funds. Do you think Helena’s going to give us days?
Luke: I doubt we have more than an hour.
Tracy: Here's my reality, Luke. For some peculiar reason I won't pretend to understand, I still need my family. Now, I know that they are card-carrying lunatics, but they are my card-carrying lunatics, and I still need to be connected to them. I need to know that I can show up on that doorstep anytime, no matter what. Are you with me?
Luke: Riveted.
Tracy: If I have any part in Alan and Monica’s precious daughter getting killed, I won't be able to show up on that doorstep ever again. I will be exiled for life, and that thought doesn't appeal to me. And I don't particularly want Emily killed. She's harmless. Annoying, maybe, but if annoying was a reason to die, then there'd be nobody left on the planet. You need to come up with a plan.
Luke: We'll borrow the money
Tracy: Wow! That's brilliant. Who do we know with 15 million in cash, huh?
Skye: I can answer that.
Luke: Oh, him again.
Skye: Be nice. I've explained our situation to Lorenzo, and he has the cash on hand and has been kind enough to offer us a loan.
Luke: Well, that's generous to a fault. Did he mention the catch?
Alcazar: You'll have to call the police and let them in on what you're doing.
Luke: Oh, forget it. I don't deal with no cops.
Alcazar: Well, then I'll call them -- the way I should have the day you broke Faith Rosco out of prison. People I love are still paying for that mistake, and I won't be complicit in another one.
Luke: I don't accept ultimatums from you, and we don't need your money. I've made a few calls.
Tracy: Luke, I say that we accept Mr. Alcazar's generous offer, and we repay him with the money you're expecting.
Skye: I agree. Listen, we don't need to have Emily in that witch's clutches one more moment longer than necessary, okay? We don't know the way Emily’s been acting lately. I mean, I wouldn't exactly call her docile, okay? She could look at Helena the wrong way or say something, and -- I don't even want to think about what might happen, okay, Luke? So please accept Alcazar's help.
Luke: How fast can you get the cash here?
Alcazar: Within the hour.
Luke: Okay. But I don't talk to no cops.
Skye: Okay. I will. I've learned my lesson. Um, listen, I owe you an apology.
Alcazar: Why is that?
Skye: Well, I made the mistake of assuming that you were just like your brother, and I couldn't have been more wrong about that.
Alcazar: I'm not sure how to read that.
Skye: Well, please, just accept my thanks for your generosity and willingness to help.
Alcazar: Well, call me a sucker for a beautiful woman.
Luke: Whoo. Oh, excuse me while I get some hip waders. Oh, God.
Skye: Are you insinuating that I wasn't being sincere?
Luke: Skye, I'm flattered. But really, you don't have to come on to another guy just to get my attention.
Tracy: Are you two having a flirtatious interlude on my time?
Phone rings.
Luke: Speak.
Helena: Do you have my money?
Luke: Where do you want to meet?
Helena: I'll come to you. Oh, and Luke -- be alone or the consequences for Emily will be dire.
Luke: Okay. You two scram. She wants a date with me alone.
Tracy: What about the cops?
Luke: Skye was just placating Alcazar, and he bought it. He swallowed the whole thing.
Skye: Sorry to disappoint you, Luke, but that was no act. I'm calling the cops.
Luke: If you do, that call could get Emily killed.
Emily: It doesn't matter how much money you have, Helena. You're the biggest loser I know. No one loves you. And least of all, Nikolas.
Helena: Well, I blame you for that. Nikolas was so fixated on you that he allowed you undue influence. And you -- you alienated his affection. No, he was too besotted to see how weakened he was by you; how you dragged him down to you own level of mediocrity and banality. But don't worry. I'll make you pay for it dearly.
Emily: I'm not afraid of you, Helena. See, Nikolas is going to be out of prison soon. He's going to come home. He's going to be starting a whole new life. And without me in the picture, you will have nothing to threaten him with. You'll have no way to hurt him, see? You'll be powerless, and that's worth dying for. So go ahead, Helena, shoot me. My last gift to Nikolas will be freeing him of you forever.
Luke: You can put the heat down, pumpkin. There's your money.
Helena: Well, that was fast, even for you.
Luke: I aims to please.
Helena: Well, what a lovely sight.
Mac: I see reports of your death have been greatly exaggerated.
Helena: Shame on you, Luke, involving the authorities in what was our personal matter.
Luke: What can I say, darling? I cheat at solitaire. There's no honor among thieves anymore.
Helena: All right. Come out wherever you are and enjoy the fun, handsome Lucky and dreary Skye. Honestly, Luke, why didn't you sell tickets? Mr. policeman, before you tell me that this boat is surrounded, be advised that unless I am allowed to take my briefcase and go, Emily’s throat will be slashed by a very reliable employee of mine who is a specialist in such things. Well, what will it be, commissioner? May I go, or do you want to embark on a very frustrating, long search for Emily’s lifeless body?
Mac: Take the money and get out of here. And if Emily is not back within the hour, there will be no place you can hide, Helena.
Helena: As usual, it was a pleasure, Luke.
Luke: Fish baited and hooked.
Emily: No!
Nikolas' Voice: Hold on, Emily. I'm coming back to you. I love you. Nothing that happened will change how I feel. Nothing ever will.