As most of the episode takes place at the Black and White Ball, the transcript is only indicative of things that pertain to Nikolas and Emily.
Lucky's voice: We all think we want the truth. But sometimes when you hear it, you wish you'd gone on believing the lie.
Anthony grunts. Nikolas gags.
Johnny: Stop! Let him go! Come on!
Anthony: Ya! Ya!
Johnny: It's over, I came to take you home.
Anthony: Ya! Ya! You don't want to go home, you keep running away from home!
Johnny: Listen to me, I want to get out of this place. I don't care about any of this, and neither do you. There's nothing for us here, let's go home.
Anthony: Not just yet!
Thunder.
Anthony: Not until you stop lying to me. How many have to die before you understand? You get my point? Let me make it crystal clear -- the next bullet goes right between your eyes.
Nikolas: What the hell was that?
Nikolas: Your father's a lunatic. Why isn't he locked up?
Johnny: Would you lock up a member of your own family, or put a bullet in them just because they're dangerous?
Maxie: Thank God. Nikolas, can you please tell me how to get back to the ballroom?
Nikolas: What happened? Where -- where were you?
Maxie: Anthony Zacchara grabbed me and tried to get me to play Russian roulette.
Johnny: I'm sorry.
Maxie: Screw your apology. Your dad wanted me to put a gun to my head.
Nikolas: How'd you get away?
Maxie: Your stupid house saved me -- Anthony got all turned around looking for a game room, so I broke a vase over his head and ran. I got lost, but Lucky found me.
Nikolas: Lucky -- you've seen Lucky?
Maxie: Yeah, he dropped me off at the main entryway. I thought I could find my way to the ballroom, but --
Nikolas: Well, there's no one in the ballroom anymore. Everyone's moved to the parlor near the north entrance.
Maxie: Okay, well, I need to get there. Georgie's probably going crazy --
Johnny: I'll take you.
Maxie: Yeah, right. Why would I trust you?
Emily: Maxie, you're probably safer with him than anyone else. He just talked Anthony down.
Maxie: Fine. Come on.
Emily: You see? Nikolas, Lucky's all right. I knew you couldn't hurt him.
Emily: Okay, breathe for me.
Nikolas: Oh, I wish I could. I wish I could breathe for you, Emily. I wish I could live for you. I wish I could do a lot of things for you. But we both know these blackouts are getting worse, and I don't know what to do.
Emily: You invited me to go to Italy -- huh? -- To Sardinia a while back, but the timing wasn't right, huh? Why don't we go there on our honeymoon?
Nikolas: It's off-season in Sardinia right now, Emily.
Emily: Yeah, well, what about the rest of Italy? We can go wandering through the streets of Florence, visiting medieval villages in Tuscany, taking gondola rides in Venice.
Nikolas: I don't care where we go, honestly. I just --
Thunder.
Nikolas: I just want to be happy with you wherever we go.
Emily: Okay, well, then you promise me, first thing tomorrow morning we're going to set a wedding date and we're going to stick to it.
Nikolas: You're so good to me. Sometimes I can't -- I can't believe that I actually got you back.
Emily: I'm just selfish. I realized that my life wouldn't be complete without you.
Nikolas: You know, if I never met you, I would've just ended up like my uncle and the rest of the Cassadines, but somehow you brought me back. And all you ever really did was love me and that's all you ever want to do.
Emily: No -- as if I had a choice. I was gone for you from the very first moment we met. And I knew it was love. It just took me a few years to convince you of that.
Nikolas: I know, I know. I know, but I wasn't having blackouts then when I met you. I want you to protect yourself from me.
Emily: I trust you. I trust who you are. And I know that you would never hurt me.
Emily: And I know it's selfish, but -- but I just wish that we could stay here together.
Nikolas: I know, so do. But it's too dangerous. I'm going to take you back to the north parlor with the rest of the guests, okay?
Emily: All right. But I want you to stay with me.
Nikolas: Emily, the man who just tried to kill us is loose in my house, I have to stop him.
Emily: Yeah, but other people are searching for him.
Nikolas: I know -- in my house. I have to at least make an attempt to protect the people that I invited here.
Emily: Looking for Anthony Zacchara would be dangerous, even if you were in the best of health.
Nikolas: Okay, okay, I know -- I'll be careful, I promise.
Emily: No, we just got engaged. I want us to have a long and happy life together. If something happens to you --
Nikolas: I know, so do I. I feel the same way.
Emily: I know, but if you stay with me, then maybe --
Nikolas: Why -- why are you fighting me on this? You think I can't protect you? Is that what this is about?
Emily: No -- you just almost got strangled a few minutes ago --
Nikolas: No, you're lying to me! You don't trust me! You haven't trusted me for one second during this whole thing! Why don't you trust me?
Nikolas: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What's happened to me?
Nikolas: Oh, God. What just happened? I know -- I know I hurt you. I know I frightened you, I can see it in your eyes. Please tell me what just happened.
Emily: You're upset, Nikolas, because you thought that I didn't trust you to protect me --
Nikolas: Stop it, stop it. Stop making excuses for me! I can't -- I can't control myself, not even with you -- the one person I love most in this world.
Emily: Okay, Nikolas, you listen to me, okay? We're going to have to go back to the other room where all the other people are.
Nikolas: Emily, how --
Emily: It's the safest place for both of us.
Nikolas: How much longer are we going to lie to ourselves? I -- I don't know what I just did to you. And the only reason that I know what I did is because you tell me what I did! Do you understand what just happened?
Emily: Okay, don't worry about me. Okay, we're going to get you help. All right?
Nikolas: Okay.
Emily: Okay, okay.
Nikolas: Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. But we can't get it -- we can't -- we can't get it tonight, okay?
Emily: I know.
Nikolas: The person that I need you to protect yourself from is me right now. Okay, okay.
Nikolas: Listen to me. I told you my worst fear is hurting you. That's why I want you to lock me in here, okay?
Emily: No, Nikolas, that -- that's --
Nikolas: What? Crazy?
Emily: No, I -- I'm not going to do it, Nikolas, there's got to be a better way.
Nikolas: Listen to me, if I ever hurt you, I couldn't live with myself, okay? All you have to do is just leave me in here until this is over, that's all.
Emily: No, I can’t.
Nikolas: Yes, you can, yes, you can, yes, you can. Okay? You can. Listen, as soon as you turn this key -- here. I want you to go back to the north parlor with the rest of the guests, okay? No, it's okay. It's okay.
Emily: No, Nikolas, please don't make me do this.
Nikolas: Emily, this is the only way I have to protect you. Please don't take that away from me.
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: Please?
Emily: I love you.
Nikolas: I love you, too. I'll be okay.
Emily: Okay.
Nikolas: All right, go on.
Emily: All right. Oh, God.
Key turns in lock.