Nikolas: I'm sorry. I'm --
Courtney: No, no. I mean, there's a good chance we'll probably run into people that we know here.
Nikolas: Yeah.
Courtney: Hey, if you want to go somewhere else --
Nikolas: No. It's okay. I mean, we don't have anything to hide, right? Nothing to be ashamed of.
Courtney: So you're sweet.
Nikolas kisses Courtney as Michael and Emily walk up.
Courtney: Hey, Michael.
Michael: Can we go inside?
Emily: Sure, sweetie, we can --
Courtney: Hey, listen, I think maybe I need to explain.
Michael: I don't want to hear it.
Courtney: Hey, I am still your aunt. Why don't I buy us some sodas and we can talk, sweetie?
Michael: No, thank you.
Emily: Listen, Michael, look, I know it's hard to understand, okay, but you don't need to be upset for me. All you need to know is that your Aunt Courtney is not to blame and neither is Nikolas.
Michael: Aren't you mad at them?
Emily: No, Michael, and I don't want you to be mad, either.
Mike comes out of Kelly's.
Mike: Hey, I thought I saw my favorite grandson through the window. What are we doing hanging out here when I've got a brand-new ice cream maker inside?
Michael: Please, Emily can I?
Emily: Okay, that's why we're here. Oh, Sonny didn't want us to be alone tonight.
Mike: Yeah, well, there's plenty for everyone. Join us when you can, okay?
Courtney: Yeah. Thanks, daddy.
Mike: Hey, kid, trust me. Once you try this stuff, you're never going to go back to the store-bought again. Get in there.
Michael: Sweet.
Michael and Mike enter Kelly's.
Nikolas: That was nice, what you said, trying to make it okay for Michael.
Emily: Yeah, well, I meant it.
Courtney: I can't even imagine how difficult this must be for you.
Lucky: Seeing Nikolas and Courtney together -- I know this has to be painful.
Emily: Yeah, well, I'd better learn to deal with it, because I won't run and hide. And there's no going back.
Mike and Michael come out of Kelly's.
Michael: Grandpa Mike let me use the ice cream maker.
Emily: Hey, how cool is that?
Michael: Great fun.
Emily: Did you eat it all or did you save some for us?
Mike: Well, we've got a quart for you to take with you.
Emily: All right.
Mike: Can I talk to you for a second?
Emily: Yeah, sure.
Emily and Mike enter Kelly's
Michael: She's pretending, you know.
Lucky: Pretending what?
Michael: That everything's okay. It's not. At night when she thinks I'm asleep, I can hear her crying. You're, like, her oldest best friend, right?
Lucky: I was just a little bit older than you when I first met Emily.
Michael: Okay. Well, you got to do something. You got to help her.
Emily: How long ago did you call?
Mike: I just hung up. Ric's in surgery. Sonny wants you to take Michael back to the hotel right away.
Emily: Okay.
Mike: Okay? And use the backdoor.
Emily: All right.
Mike: All right?
Emily: Good idea. Thanks.
Mike: Okay.
Emily: Hey, Michael -- where's Lucky?
Nikolas is on the phone outside Kelly's.
Nikolas: Thanks, Alice. Just -- yeah, just tell Alan that I want to speak to him about Emily. Okay --
Nikolas hangs up and Lucky walks up.
Nikolas: Look, I don't know what your problem is, but I don't feel like fighting with you right now.
Lucky: How much worse can you make this, Nikolas? You treat Emily like yesterday's trash, and she still lets you off the hook. You know what? Why don't you have the decency to feel bad about it?
Nikolas: What would you like me to do?
Lucky: I want you to stop acting like a fool! She cries herself to sleep every night, and I had to hear that from a 9-year-old boy who's worried about her.
Nikolas: I have done everything I know, okay?
Lucky: Except stick it out! You dumped Emily so you could go and get laid.
Nikolas: Oh, shut up. This isn't about sex, Lucky. Come on.
Lucky: She is traumatized, and you didn't even have the decency to wait for her.
Courtney: That is not true. You know Nikolas did everything he could to try to hold his marriage together. Even Emily says that it's nobody's fault.
Lucky: Oh, wouldn't that be convenient? Because no one would have to take any responsibility.
Nikolas: Don't go there, okay?
Lucky: You know what?
Nikolas: Don't go there right now.
Lucky: Actually, I really never really knew you, Courtney, before all this, except, you know, by your reputation. And from everything people say about you, it's true.
Nikolas: Watch it, man, I'm telling you.
Lucky: I mean, you meet a guy, then you sleep with him. You maybe even get him to marry you. And then when something better comes along, you dump him so you can have a bigger fish.
Nikolas: All right, shut up, Lucky, just shut up.
Lucky: You're just a slut and you're a fool for --
Lucky is stopped in mid-sentence as Nikolas punches him.