January 31, 2008 Screencaps

Nikolas: You believe it was him?

Jason: What do you mean?

Nikolas: Do you believe that Cooper Barrett is the one who strangled Emily?

Jason: Don't you?

Nikolas: Well, it says here in the paper that there's D.N.A. evidence linking the police cadet who hung himself to Georgie's murder.

Jason: Alexis made a statement from the D.A.’s office -- case is closed. They believe Cooper killed Leticia and Georgie and that he attacked Carly and Maxie.

Nikolas: But what about Emily?

Jason: What -- what are you asking me?

Max: I'm sorry to interrupt. I need to have a word with you.

Nikolas: I'll -- I'll go.

Jason: No, no, no, no. No, please stay. I'll -- I'll be right back.

Max: Ahem.

Emily: You want to know if Jason still thinks you're the one that killed me, don't you?

Nikolas: You keep telling me that I wouldn't hurt you.

Emily: You wouldn’t.

Nikolas: Well, if that's true, then someone walked in the ballroom when I was struggling with you. Now, I know I was in a rage and I don't remember, but I don't think I would just allow someone to walk in and hurt you.

Emily: Right, so they hit you, Nikolas -- that's how your blood got all over my dress.

Nikolas: Well, if -- if it was Coop, then I should be able to plug that into the equation and -- but I don't remember anything.

Emily: All right, so maybe you're not thinking about this in the right way.

Nikolas: What -- what do you mean?

Emily: Maybe you need to re-create the moment with me.

Nikolas: What do you mean, "re-create the moment"?

Emily: I mean get angry, Nikolas. Get angry with me and try to make me leave this room and then something might come back to you.

Nikolas: No, I can’t.

Emily: Nikolas, you didn't hurt me before, okay, and you're not going to hurt me now. You couldn't hurt me now even if you wanted to. Please, Nikolas, just do this and let's see what you see.

Emily: You have to do this, Nikolas.

Nikolas: No, I can't, I can’t.

Emily: Listen to me, what did the doctors tell you about the tumor?

Nikolas: That it's -- it's pushing on the part of my brain that's causing hallucinations.

Emily: Okay. Do you believe that's all I am?

Nikolas: I don't want to.

Emily: Do you believe that I'm a product of our love?

Nikolas: Yes.

Emily: Okay, and that I'm a part of you?

Nikolas: Yes.

Emily: Then maybe I'm the part that's trying to show you the truth, Nikolas. Maybe I'm the part that you can't remember on your own, the part that knows you're not --

Nikolas: What if -- what if you're the lie of my mind, the part that's trying to protect me?

Emily: All right, well, then you're not going to know unless you try. Nikolas, I came into the ballroom that night, all right, and then you said, "You have to leave me right now, I can't protect you anymore. You can't stay here." Okay? Say it.

Nikolas: Okay. You have to leave. I can't protect you --

Emily: No, Nikolas, come on! Get angry with me!

Nikolas: You have to leave. I can't protect you anymore. You can't stay here.

Emily: I never should've left you.

Nikolas: Don't you understand, huh? You understand what you've done? I'm the one you need to be afraid of -- me!

Emily: You could never hurt me.

Nikolas: No, listen, you have to leave. You have to leave! You can't stay here anymore! I can't protect you!

Emily: I'm not going to leave you.

Nikolas: Please get out of here!

Emily: Okay, what is it? Who do you see?

Jason: What the hell is going on?

Jason: Who were you yelling at?

Nikolas: Uh -- I was just trying to put myself back at the moment before -- before I blacked out and lost Emily. I was trying to figure out what happened -- how my blood got on her mask and gown.

Jason: Well, maybe she hit you with something.

Nikolas: She wouldn't do that.

Jason: How do you know that?

Nikolas: Because I know. I know that she wouldn't do that to me any more than -- any more than I would hurt her. I couldn't have killed her, Jason, there has to be someone else.

Jason: Cooper. Was he there?

Nikolas: I don't -- I don't know. I can't -- I can't see him there.

Jason sighs.

Nikolas: Tell me, are you sure? Are you 100% sure that Coop is Emily's killer?

Jason: No.

Nikolas: Do you think it was me?

Jason: No, I don’t.

Nikolas: See? Then we have a problem. Then we all have a problem.

Nikolas: She's -- she's sleeping. I don't even know why I'm here, other than she was your best friend.

Emily: Nikolas, she was our best friend. You need to go see her. You need to see her, your brother, your son. It's time for you to start reconnecting with your life again.

Nikolas: But you're my life.

Emily: I was. I don't know. I -- I think I need to be at rest.

Nikolas: Well, I won't rest until I find out who did this to you.

Nikolas: Let's go.