January 21, 2008 Screencaps

Patrick: Let me start from the beginning. Are you seeing things that defy plausibility or rational explanation? The last test results point to a condition that occurs in very few patients. But because of how the tumor is pressing on the brain, it can cause very vivid hallucinations.

Nikolas: So you're saying that I could -- I could see unexplained things?

Patrick: Are you seeing things, Nikolas?

Nikolas: Would you close the door, please?

Patrick: I'm expecting Robin.

Nikolas: Would you please just close the door?

Patrick: Yeah.

Nikolas: I don't want people to know about this.

Regina: The way Mr. Cassadine went after that guy with a bomb strapped to his chest --

Elizabeth: Well, at least the bomb turned out not to be real.

Regina: Well, Mr. Cassadine didn't know that. It's like something just snapped in him since his fianceé was murdered. It's like he doesn't care if he lives or dies -- sad really.

Elizabeth: I just want this whole thing to be over, and I'm glad it is and Nikolas is getting the care he needs. I still don't understand why I had to be transferred to a room. I just want to get Jake and go home.

Leo: I'm afraid that's not going to happen.

Nikolas: So, how real could these hallucinations get?

Patrick: Very. In rare but extreme cases, people not only claim that they see things, that they can smell them, touch them.

Nikolas: Oh. Well, even -- even like other people, say?

Patrick: There's a case on record of a woman that says she could see her husband, communicate with him. She was having a conversation with him one time about her daughter. When the phone rang, she picked it up, it was her husband, saying he was going to be late from work. She looked up, and he was gone.

Nikolas: Oh.

Patrick: She kept seeing him on the streets, in stores. She was convinced she was having premonitions of his death or hers. You can imagine how difficult it would be.

Nikolas: Yeah, I know.

Patrick: I'm convinced the psycho-emotional component intensifies the illusion -- like he was the love of her life. For you, you have the rage episodes, the blackouts, not to mention the drugs that Jerry was injecting into you. Nikolas, are you experiencing any of the things that I'm describing?

Robin: Sorry I'm late. I just had an emergency -- consultation. So, what -- where are we on this?

Nikolas: Patrick was just telling me that this tumor could cause me to -- to see things that aren't really there.

Robin: That's right -- I -- I just went over Patrick's notes. So, I wanted to talk to you about a possible experimental drug treatment, which would be based on the hormones that were released in your blood during one of your --

Nikolas: That's -- that's fine. I just -- I want to get back to the hallucination thing for a moment. If I do start to see things, how long will it last?

Robin: I'm sorry, I just walked in on this. Are you having hallucinations?

Nikolas: I don't -- I don't know. Maybe I am and don't know it, or -- or I just don't want to accept them as that. In any case, are they -- are they permanent?

Patrick: Well, that's the good news -- if we can find a way with drug therapy to shrink the tumor or a viable way to remove it --

Nikolas: Well, the doctor in Zurich wouldn't even consider operating.

Patrick: Well, Nikolas, Lippman's good, but he isn't me, and doesn't have Robin on his team. I won't consider surgery unless I can find a way to manage the risks. I believe if we work together, we can find a way to shrink the tumor and remove it, and the hallucinations will stop.

Nikolas: And what if I don't do anything at all?

Robin: Well, we have to do something, Nikolas, or -- well, you could die.

Nikolas: I need to have a moment alone, please.

Patrick: Mm-hmm.

Robin: Of course.

Robin: Ahem.

Patrick: You okay?

Robin: Yeah, uh --

Patrick: You get checked out since your fall?

Robin: Yes, I did.

Patrick: Okay. And?

Robin: And -- uh -- all things considered, looks like I'm healthy enough for two.

Patrick: Okay, good.

Robin: Wait.

Patrick: Yeah?

Robin: I'll catch up with you later.

Patrick: Okay.

Robin: Whew.

Emily: You didn't want me here.

Nikolas: No.

Emily: Why? What did Patrick tell you?

Nikolas: You don't know?

Emily: I think I have an idea.

Nikolas: He says that you're just a hallucination, a byproduct of the -- of the tumor that I have. But you know -- you know that you're -- that you're something else to me, right, something more? You -- you know that you're here because of my love for you, right?

Emily: I am. I am, Nikolas. Or maybe I'm both -- I don't know. So, what does it mean?

Nikolas: I have to make a choice.

Nikolas: I didn't tell Patrick about you.

Emily: Does it matter?

Nikolas: Yes, it matters. It matters because he'll dismiss you, and people will talk about you like you don't even exist. But I know better. See, I -- I can see you, I can -- I can touch you, I can feel you.

Emily: Nikolas, you said you have a choice.

Nikolas: Yeah. They said -- they said if I don't find ways to manage the tumor or if I don't have it removed completely, then -- then I die. But if they do take it out, I lose you. So I -- I don't really have a choice, right?

Emily: No.

Nikolas: I mean -- I mean, I can't lose you.

Emily: Nikolas, you have to. If you don't, you're going to die.

Nikolas: No, no, no, I can't -- I can't let you go.

Emily: Well, then I have to let you go.

Nikolas: No, don't -- don't say that -- you can't!

Emily: Nikolas, I want you to live.

Nikolas: There is no life without you, you understand?

Emily: You'll find one. Close your eyes.

Nikolas: No. No. Don't -- please don't go. Please don't do this -- don't do this to me. You can't leave me. Please, you love me. Please don't.

Emily: Of course I do. Close your eyes.

Nikolas: Okay. Okay. You won't be able to stay away from me.

Nikolas: I won't let you stay away from me.

Nikolas: I won't let you -- no.