Music plays.
Kelly: She's in v-fib. Get the crash cart ready, charge to 200.
Epiphany: Charged to 200.
Kelly: Give me one minute. The baby's out, go ahead.
Jerry: Is there -- is there a problem, Officer?
Robin: B.P.'s falling.
Emily: Don't you dare leave me, Nikolas, you keep fighting! Keep fighting!
Alarm.
Emily: Code blue!
Alarm.
Singers: Ooh ooh ooh
Lucky: License and registration, please.
Jerry: Oh, sure.
Jerry: Here you go.
Patrick: Breathe, damn it!
Singers: I feel your touch will you pull me
Robin: We need the crash cart.
Singer: It's all the same to me underwater there's nothing
Robin: Clear.
Lucky: It's not the best night to be out, Mr. Brosnan.
Jerry: I'm just trying to find a sick friend.
Lucky: Have we met?
Baby cries.
Epiphany: Thank God -- and science.
Kelly: Come on, Elizabeth, someone's crying for you. This baby needs both parents.
Monitor beeps.
Emily: Oh, God.
Patrick: We just bought Nikolas some time.
Robin: Not much. His B.P. Is critically low, and his heart --
Emily: Is beating again.
Patrick: We'll take it from here.
Robin: I need to get to the lab.
Emily: Hey, what can I do?
Robin: Nothing, just stay with Nikolas. We're doing everything we can.
Emily: Hey, hey, we're not giving up on you. Thank you for saving his life.
Patrick: We just prolonged it.
Emily: You brought Nikolas back once, you can do it again.
Patrick: Emily, Nikolas can't breathe on his own. His organs are under terrible stress, they could stop at any minute. His heart just stopped. We can't just jump it indefinitely.
Emily: He's strong. His heart is strong.
Patrick: Unfortunately, so is the poison.
Emily: He's going to make it.
Lucky: Have I stopped you on this road before?
Dispatcher: All units in the vicinity of Bristol, vehicle is stranded across Valley Bridge. A female and two juveniles are trapped, possible 1032.
Lucky: Car 16 responding. The reason I stopped you tonight, there's a tree that's blocking the road up ahead. So go home and stay dry until this storm passes.
Jerry: Okay.
Lucky: We don't need any more people in the E.R. tonight.
Jerry: Thank you, Officer.
Lucky: Have a good night.
Jerry: Good night.
Patrick: Is there any messages for me?
Nurse: Sorry, Doctor.
Patrick: Nobody called for Nikolas Cassadine?
Nurse: No. But if one does come in, I'll page you.
Patrick: Thanks.
Robin: So you still think Craig is going to magically show up with the counteragent?
Patrick: It's the only hope we have.
Robin: Which means we failed.
Patrick: Robin, even under the best circumstances, finding the exact serum to counteract Craig's poison could take months -- maybe longer. I'm sorry, I don't know what else to do for Nikolas.
Robin: So I don't get to fail because you want to take the blame?
Robin sighing.
Robin: The truth is if Craig really did take off and leave Nikolas to die, it's -- it's no one's fault but his.
Patrick: I backed Craig into a corner the minute I decided I couldn't stay away from you. I didn't give him any options. Look, platitudes aside, if Nikolas dies, it's on me
Emily: I look at you hooked up to all these machines and I know it's the last thing you would've wanted. But they're going to keep you alive, Nikolas, while we look for answers. You can hear me -- right? From wherever we are, we're still connected. Even when things were rocky between us, it's always there. You feel that? You hold on to it, you hold on to me. Please, N ikolas, you fight to come back. Spencer's waiting for you, and your sister, and the little niece or nephew that Lucky and Elizabeth are going to have any day now. Nikolas, you've got to come back to me. It still hurts so much when I think about losing my dad, I can't lose you, too. Please, Nikolas. I'm never going to make it if you don't pull through.
Lulu: Emily?
Emily: You got my message.
Lulu: My God, what happened?
Nurse: Dr. Drake? There's a phone call for you. He says it's urgent.
Patrick: Dr. Drake.
Jerry: Is our patient resting comfortably, Paddy, or is he resting in peace?
Patrick: He's still alive, you sick freak.
Jerry: Well, that's no way to talk to the only man who can save him.
Lulu: Was he in an accident?
Emily: Nikolas had some kind of a -- a toxic reaction, and Robin and Patrick are running every test they know.
Lulu: What happened?
Emily: Nikolas can't breathe right now, Lulu, so they had to intubate him. His heart stopped a few minutes ago --
Lulu: Why -- why is Patrick working on him if he works on brains? He's a neurosurgeon.
Emily: Lulu, Robin and Patrick are on duty tonight, okay? They're -- they're both excellent doctors. Trust me, they're doing everything they can to help Nikolas beat this.
Lulu: Well, you say that like there's a chance that he won't.
Jerry: Shut the door and lock it.
Patrick: Give me the counteragent and I'll go.
Jerry: Oh, well, aren't we all bluster and assumption?
Patrick: Why else would you come here? You wanted to make sure we learned our lesson and we did. Now you literally hold Nikolas' life in your hands, but you don't want him to die yet. You still need Nikolas.
Jerry: You know what? I do worry about being predictable, and I don't want to bore you, so what are we going to do about that?
Patrick: Right now Nikolas has a tube shoved down his throat so he can breathe. His heart stopped and we barely got it going again. It could be over at any time.
Jerry: Well, don't blame me, Paddy. I was the one that was stopped by one of --
Patrick: Just givee the damn agent.
Jerry: I don't care much for your tone, Paddy Boy. You were much more compliant when you were saving Robin's life at the Metro Court lobby.
Patrick: Well, maybe I'm sick of you pulling strings.
Jerry: Oh, dear. You know what? I thought Nikolas was ill-mannered, but you, my dear boy, you take the cake, and you know what? I don't like it.
Jerry cocks gun.
Jerry: It's true I'd rather Nikolas stayed around a little longer. But there's something to be said about a challenge.
Patrick: What challenge?
Jerry: Oh, you're a man of science. Your life is conveniently mapped out as a structure of bones and vessels. I, on the other hand, prefer the unknown -- you know, risk and improvisation, the rush of being taken by surprise and thinking on my feet.
Patrick: Until you've opened a man's skull and looked at his brain, you have no idea what it means to think on your feet.
Jerry: Meanwhile, in my own little world, having Nikolas under my thumb has been way too easy. I think to strengthen my character, I need to walk out the door and "wing it," as you say, fend for myself. What do you think?
Patrick: No, see, I think you like the game a little too much. And until you win or lose, you're not going anywhere.
Jerry: No, don't tempt me.
Patrick: No one's called the police. You can still get your new identity, still get all your money, which is why you started this fiasco in the first place. You could still win.
Jerry: You know, when you invoke my self-interest, I take pause, but is it enough to make me stick around and watch you fight as if your lives depended on it? I don't know.
Lulu: Nikolas, you are my brother, okay? That means you're tough and you're strong, and I need you for a million reasons. You were my biggest defender when I decided to have an abortion, and -- and you treat me like I'm an adult. And I'm trying to act like an adult right now, but I feel like I've been punched in the stomach. Spencer needs you -- more than I do. Nikolas, who's going to -- who's going to tell him about his heritage -- you know, all those crazy Cassadine memories? I don't -- I don't know anything about that. And -- and riding and -- and fencing and all those other things that you like to talk about -- who's going to tell him about that? And Lucky needs you, too. Nikolas, Mom needs you, too. She needs you to help protect her from Scott Baldwin so he doesn't become her legal guardian. Can't we do something?
Emily: We don't know what else to do.
Lulu: Well -- like, Nikolas gave me a part of himself when I was little. He didn't even know me and he saved my life, so we can't just sit here and watch him die!
Emily: Lulu, he saved me, too.
Robin: I just came from the lab. I'm so sorry. I have nothing.
Lulu: No, no, no, no! You need to stop saying that! You can't stand here and talk about him like we're not going to do anything!
Patrick: I got it.
Lulu: What -- you got what?
Emily: Lulu, we need to wait outside while they give him his treatment, okay?
Robin: What happened?
Patrick: Craig showed up, messed with my head, and gave me the counteragent.
Robin: Except we don't even know if that is the counteragent.
Patrick: Doesn't matter -- if it's not, he's dead anyway.
Patrick: It's working. His B.P. is stabilizing.
Robin: Yeah. He should be able to breathe on his own now. Good thing you had more faith in Craig than I did.
Patrick: The only thing I had faith in -- that Craig wasn't done with Nikolas. I'll take him off life support.
Robin: The shot worked.
Emily: Oh, thank God.
Robin: Patrick's taking him off of life support right now.
Emily: Oh.
Robin: Just give us a few minutes and then you can come back in.
Emily: Okay.
Lulu: Oh, my God.
Kelly: Looks like you heard the good news.
Lulu: Uh -- um -- more good news? What?
Kelly: Yeah -- Elizabeth. She had a close call but gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Thank God Jason Morgan found her and brought her in, or no one would be celebrating.
Lulu: Hey. Hey, don't you ever scare me like that again.
Nikolas: Uh -- my -- my throat --
Patrick: That's from the respirator.
Lulu: Nikolas, Lucky's baby was born. It's a boy.
Nikolas: A boy? What's he like?
Lulu: I -- I don't know. I've been here worried about you.
Nikolas: Go, go see him.
Lulu: I have my cell phone. I'll -- I'll take pictures and I'll show them to you.
Nikolas: I felt you. I felt you next to me. What's this?
Robin: Nikolas, I'm sorry. We went against your wishes. We had to. See, we weren't able to re-create the counteragent in the lab here.
Nikolas: Then why am I still alive?
Patrick: Craig came back. It turns out he still needs you.
Nikolas: Oh.
Patrick: He couldn't risk being seen, so he let me give you the shot. But now we can make a move -- I kept a little bit to analyze in the lab.
Robin: We can isolate the active components. This may be the only way we can turn this thing around.