Emily attends Sonny's birthday party. After the party she goes to the hospital to visit Lucky. Nikolas is visiting with Lucky who he is short and rude to Elizabeth. Lucky is snippy with Nikolas, too.
The following transcript is from the Nikolas and Emily scene:
Shutter clicks.
Elizabeth: Oh, why can't this hospital buy pens that actually work?
Emily: Everything all right?
Elizabeth: Yes. No. I don't know.
Emily: Here you go.
Elizabeth: Thanks.
Emily: Is Lucky still pushing therapy?
Elizabeth: Lucky is pushing everything right now, especially me. He's so snappy and he's angry, and I can't do or say anything right.
Emily: You skipped your break, didn't you? All right, well, we're taking one right now.
Elizabeth: I keep telling myself that he doesn't mean the things that he says, that he's just worried about the money, and he's in a lot of pain and he's on all this medication, but you know what? I work with patients who are on medication every single day, and they don't attack me.
Emily: You aren't married to them.
Elizabeth sighs
Elizabeth: I am doing the best I can to take care of Lucky and to hold my family together, and I understand he's going through a lot, but you know what? So am I, and it's just one thing after another.
Emily: Does it help to know that Lucky's more miserable than you are right now?
Elizabeth: Well, he's still responsible for what he says to me. If he'd just listen to me and the doctors and stop pushing himself so hard, he'd get better a lot quicker.
Emily: You're absolutely right. Lucky is being arbitrary and unfair because he's a macho jerk who hates feeling helpless. But he's your macho jerk, and deep down he loves you like crazy, Elizabeth, and you know that -- which is why you'll forgive him.
Elizabeth: Yeah. All right. Thanks for reminding me.
Emily: Go to him, tell him what you told me. Give Lucky a chance to make things right.
Pager beeps.
Elizabeth: Oh. Oh, I got to go. I got to take this.
Emily: Okay.
Elizabeth: Thanks.
Emily: All right. Oh.
Nikolas: Everything all right?
Emily: Any chance you can get your brother under control?
Nikolas: So you spoke with Elizabeth?
Emily: Yeah. She's really upset.
Nikolas: He was -- he was pretty short with her.
Emily: I'm going to go talk to him.
Nikolas: No, no. You have enough to deal with. I'll -- I'll handle it.
Emily: Are you protecting me from Lucky or him from me?
Nikolas: A little of both, I suppose. You're always the one that gets stuck playing peacemaker. I'll handle it for once. Besides, my life isn't the one that's in crisis at the moment.