Nikolas: Game's over, give me back my son.
Helena: So you and Emily can fritter his life away? I think not. No, the baby stays with me. Oh, I have the means, Nikolas, and I have the resolve to see this child claim his birthright and be all he was meant to be.
Nikolas: The way you molded my father? Not while I'm alive. Now, give me back my son or I'll take him back any way I have to.
Helena: Don't make the mistake of overestimating my sentimentality. Now, here's your choice. Either you let me leave with my great-grandson, or he dies -- while you watch.
Spencer cries.
Nikolas: If you hurt my son, then I swear I'll choke out your last breath.
Helena: Nikolas, you don't understand. You can have other children, but this one is mine -- if only for safe passage.
Emily: Okay, no. Helena, please, take me. Huh? And don't be foolish. Give Spencer to Nikolas. Who's more expendible -- me, or your own flesh and blood?
Helena: You have a point.
Nikolas: Give him to me. Come here. Emily, get back. Oh. It's okay, it's okay.
Helena: Now who's foolish?
Helena: Well, you consistently prove me right. You're not worthy of a place in our family. No, you act on impulse from weak-kneed love with no thought of the consequences to yourself or others.
Nikolas: You're stalling. If you're waiting for Renko and his men to show up, forget it. I paid them off.
Helena: Well, in that case, then I'll take Emily. I wonder which one of us you will see again.
Emily: And I wonder when you're going to stop thinking of me as defenseless.
Helena: Wait -- no --
Emily: Oh! Ow! Oh, God --
Nikolas: Are you all right? Yeah? You all right?
Emily: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine.
Nikolas: Okay, take him. Okay?
Emily: Okay.
Spencer cries.
Emily: Hi.
Emily: Helena got away?
Nikolas: Yes, of course she did. She knows every street and back alley in this city.
Emily: Oh --
Nikolas: Are you sure you're all right?
Emily: You know, the knife only nicked me. I cried out half because I was surprised and half to make Helena think that she'd hurt me. Huh.
Nikolas: Well, that was both incredibly brave and foolish. Hey, buddy.
Emily: Yeah. The important thing is that we have Spencer back.
Nikolas: Yeah, I know.
Emily: You want to say hi to your daddy?
Nikolas: Hey, come here, buddy. Come here. Come here. Oh. You're back, buddy. You're back and safe.
Spencer coughs and Emily chuckles.
Nikolas: Oh. Thanks to this amazing woman. You okay? Bless you.
Emily: No. Thanks to the fact that your daddy never gave up. Hmm?
Nikolas: It's okay.
Emily: Oh.
Nikolas: It's okay. I missed you. I missed you so much.
Emily: Translation -- you're going to be more spoiled than you can imagine.
Emily laughs.
Nikolas: And cherished and loved. And protected. It's okay. And as long as I have breath in my body, you will never do another Christmas pageant again.