General Hospital Transcript Wednesday 1/9/08

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Epiphany: You missed an entire section here. You know, people fought so that you could have good wages and good benefits. The least that you could do is take some pride -- you know what? Never mind.

Lucky: You went to Carly, of all people, and told her that Jake isn't mine, that Jason is his father?

Elizabeth: And now you know exactly the kind of vindictive trash you've taken up with.

Jason: Where -- where did you hear about this?

Carly: Is it true? Did you have a baby with Elizabeth and not tell me?

Jason: Yes. Jake is my son.

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Tracy: You are so busted.

Luke: How did you know? You -- you!

Cassius: What?

Luke: You ratted me out.

Cassius: No. Me, a dirty rat? No. Please. Uh -- although, I wish I had, because it looks like there would've been some perks in it for me.

Luke: Did you have a tracking device embedded in my @$$ in that last operation?

Tracy: Why don't you sit on your tracking device?

Luke: I am not an invalid.

Cassius: No, but you are a cardiac patient with a lousy platelet count and skin the color of chalk, so --

Luke: What do you know? You empty bedpans for a living.

Cassius: Comment like that -- that's funny. Uh, I tell you what -- if you collapse here on this floor, I'm going to be the one responsible for picking you up. So, how about you save us both some trouble and some heavy lifting and sit your butt down?

Luke: Oh, God.

Tracy: I can't believe you actually bribed the janitor into letting you escape.

Luke: Never underestimate the power of a good Cuban cigar. How did you find out?

Tracy: Never underestimate the power of a good weekend in Las Vegas. The maintenance staff had a pool going about who you'd bribe first.

Luke: I got to get out of here.

Tracy: You will, when it's time.

Luke: You can't stop me from having myself released.

Tracy: Watch me.

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Lucky: Is this what you wanted to tell me earlier?

Sam: Yes.

Elizabeth: But you wouldn't have told him if I hadn't shown up. You were going to hold out for as long as possible till -- I don't know -- well, maybe Carly would get in some sort of fatal accident?

Sam: What, now -- now you have me wishing people dead? Come on.

Elizabeth: You knew this wasn't going away. You knew the second you told Carly, she'd be all up in my face, and she was. She was at my house, and the second she took a look at Jake, she knew it was true. And then she went off on me, and she accused me of planning the whole thing and tricking Jason into getting me pregnant -- just like you knew she would, just like you wanted her to. And, so, now what?

Lucky: Okay, damage control.

Elizabeth: With Carly's big mouth -- good luck.

Lucky: We did this for Jake -- to protect him, to make sure that Jason's enemies would not come after him. That's why I've gone along with this whole lie that he's mine. We'll find a way to manage Carly.

Elizabeth: Sam here could care less about protecting Jake. All that matters to her is getting payback.

Sam: No, that is not true. That is not how it happened.

Lucky: Okay, then why don't you tell me how it did happen?

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Sam: I know what that little boy means to you, that you wanted to keep his paternity a secret, and I also know it was a terrible thing to tell Carly, but --

Elizabeth: But you did it anyway.

Lucky: Let her talk.

Sam: She pushed me and pushed me, and I -- I didn't want to get sucked in, but you know how relentless Carly is.

Elizabeth: Please, you've been looking for any excuse.

Sam: Any excuse for what? For Lucky to hate me? To confirm every lousy thing you and Carly have ever said about me? That's exactly what I didn't want. But she attacked me, she called me every name in the book --

Elizabeth: And you've earned every one.

Lucky: Back up here a second.

Sam: See, that's exactly the way Carly made me feel -- like her and her little inner circle were so far above me -- and I wanted to make her stop. I wanted to shut her up, so I said it. And I regretted it the second it came out of my mouth, but, what, I can't take it back, I'm sorry.

Elizabeth: You can't take back what you've done, either.

Lucky: What do you mean by that?

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Lucky: Are you taking a page out of Carly's book -- using Sam as a punching bag -- or is there something you really think I should know?

[Phone rings]

Lucky: God -- it's work. I got to go. You come with me, or I think you should leave.

Elizabeth: No, I'm not going anywhere. Sam and I have a few things to get straight.

Sam: Lucky, it's fine, it's fine. You go do what you got to do. We'll be fine here. I'm sorry.

Sam: All right, what now? You want to have another cat fight like we did at Wyndemere?

Elizabeth: You give me one good reason why I shouldn't tell Lucky the whole truth about you.

Elizabeth: Carly thinks she practically owns Jason. You knew it'd make her crazy to find out that Jake is his son, and that we've kept it from her.

Sam: Carly will have to get over it.

Elizabeth: She's going to make my life a living hell -- and Jason's, too -- but that's what you wanted, isn't it? And, unfortunately, Jake is the one that's going to pay for all this. So, really, you're the one who's gotten away with murder here.

Sam: No, really, the truth was going to come out eventually, so --

Elizabeth: Yeah, when Jason and I decided, but you took that choice out of our hands. And what do you have to lose for shooting off your big mouth?

Sam: Nothing, Elizabeth. I have nothing left to lose.

Elizabeth: You have Lucky. But I'm sure you have a million and one tricks to make him feel sorry for you, to forgive you. Unless -- unless he were to find out what a cold-blooded b**** you really are, and that you really don't give a damn about Jake.

Sam: Come on, that is not true.

Elizabeth: Oh, come on, you stood there and watched Jake get kidnapped by a mentally unstable woman, and hired two men to threaten us with guns in the park!

Sam: You were never in any danger!

Elizabeth: You just wanted to be the hero. You wanted to drive home to Jason that he's a danger to his son and that he shouldn't be around us -- of course, that's when you were still trying to get back with him.

Sam: Right, he knows all this. It's all out in the open, so --

Elizabeth: And I wonder what's going to happen when Carly goes running to him with all of this.

Sam: No, look, "this" is none of Carly's damn business.

Elizabeth: Oh, I doubt she would see it that way if I told her what you've done -- to Jason's son.

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Lucky: What?

Luke: Well. I'd say "it's nice to see you," but I have a feeling it ain't.

Lucky: Tracy called; I thought something happened to you.

Tracy: Something is going to happen if we don't stop him. I want you to arrest him.

Luke: She's crazy.

Tracy: You smuggled contraband tobacco into this hospital and endangered the lives of nonsmokers.

Luke: She can't do this.

Lucky: She can if she produces evidence.

Tracy: I intend to.

Luke: Are you going to let it go that far, Officer Spencer?

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Tracy: Of course Lucky will arrest you -- if that's what it takes to keep you from killing yourself.

Luke: Okay. I'll be a good little, pathetic patient. Your work is done here, officer turncoat.

Lucky: Give me a minute with him, please.

Tracy: Oh.

[Tracy sighs]

[Lucky sighs]

Lucky: You've cheated death how many times?

Luke: More than you can count. Lucky, I just -- the last time I see death's face, I want it to be in a blaze of glory.

Lucky: Well, then why not wait until no one can stop you -- when the doctors say that you're stronger and say you're ready to be released?

Luke: Because, cowboy, more people die in hospital beds than anywhere else, that's a fact.

Lucky: I don't know what to tell you anymore, except that there's a lot of people who love you and want to see you around.

Luke: I know. I didn't expect you to understand.

Lucky: Don't give Tracy any more ammunition.

Luke: I won’t. I will be the drooling, doddering old man who sips his soup through a straw and watches life go by on the TV screen instead of living it.

Tracy: Lucky?

Luke: You win -- again. I just hope I live long enough to see you in this position. And remember, when you were comatose and vegetating, I gave you the dignity of unplugging the machines.

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Sam: I may have already lost Lucky over this, and if you tell him -- yeah, I will.

Elizabeth: And if I don't, I'll be letting him live a lie.

Sam: Do you know I hate what I did even more than you do?

Elizabeth: I doubt that.

Sam: You doubt that? Do you understand, do you have any idea how twisted up I was about Jason, about that baby?

Elizabeth: Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you?

Sam: No, I'm trying to make you understand, even if Jason won’t.

Elizabeth: No, he understood. That's one of the reasons why he didn't want the truth to come out. Because even though the two of you weren't together, he didn't want to see you hurt.

Sam: Right, just like you didn't want to see Lucky hurt.

Elizabeth: Yes.

Sam: Okay. Well, you'd be hurting him if you told him all the terrible things that I've done.

Elizabeth: Oh, please. I see where this is going.

Sam: I know you probably don't want to hear this -- I mean, I wouldn't -- but Lucky is actually really happy with me. And -- and I think that how this whole lie got started was to protect him so he didn't -- he didn't go back to drinking and drugs again. How much do you think he can take before he starts using again?

Elizabeth: My God. You'd say anything to get me to keep my mouth shut.

[Sam sighs]

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Elizabeth: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you'd try to turn this around and lay a guilt trip on me after everything you've done.

Sam: No, I'm trying to keep Lucky from being hurt.

Elizabeth: Well, then maybe I would be doing him a favor by telling him the truth -- letting him see what kind of woman he's gotten himself involved with.

Sam: Isn't it enough that I'm going to pay?

Elizabeth: Oh, but you haven’t.

Sam: Oh, I haven't? I pay every single time I see that little boy. I pay every time I see Jason. I have to live with what I've done for the rest of my life. And even if you never tell anybody, people take their cue from -- from you and Jason and Sonny, and I will be treated like the garbage of this town. Isn't that enough?

Elizabeth: I don't know.

Sam: What are you going to do?

Elizabeth: I'm going to go home and love my children. And maybe I won't have to do anything to you at all. Maybe I'll just let Carly do it for me.

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>> On the next "General Hospital" --

Logan: Where's Lulu?

Lulu: Why do you have me locked up in here?

Jerry: Where is it? You know what to do.

Carly: What's best for Jason is being with his son.

Sonny: You're telling me you can't claim your son because of me?