General Hospital (1963– )

Tyler Christopher: Nikolas Cassadine, Connor Bishop

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• Emily Quartermaine : I'm not leaving Lucky.

  Connor Bishop : You're big on loyalty, ain't ya?

  Emily Quartermaine : Yeah, something you wouldn't understand.

  Connor Bishop : Hey, everything I have done has been out of loyalty to Mary. Don't tell me that.

  Emily Quartermaine : So that's your excuse for lying, cheating, breaking the law?

  Connor Bishop : Quit stalling, would you? I'm getting out of here and you're going to help me.

  Emily Quartermaine : Well, sorry, you can't sneak up on me in the bathtub and kidnap me this time, so it looks like you're on your own!

  Connor Bishop : How far do you think you can push me? Hmm?

  Emily Quartermaine : I don't care what you do. I won't help you. You'll have to shoot me first.

• Connor Bishop : Why am I the bad guy when Nikolas just confessed to throwing an old lady off a cliff?

  Lucky Spencer : Helena was a menacing witch who deserved what she got.

  Connor Bishop : Do you think a jury will see it that way?

  Lucky Spencer : And Nikolas is going to face charges, and he'll be exonerated. But you won't.

  Connor Bishop : We'll see about that. Won't we?

  Emily Quartermaine : You used my compassion against me and you pretended to have feelings for me, and every phony word was a calculated move for you to get revenge on Nikolas for something he didn't do!

  Connor Bishop : He destroyed Mary and me!

  Emily Quartermaine : No, Mary destroyed herself! Nikolas was a victim of her madness like everyone else. You know what? You are so desperate for someone to blame for Mary's death because you can't face the fact that you started it all.

  Connor Bishop : I'd stop if I were you.

  Emily Quartermaine : You know, you let Mary think that you were dead so that you could sneak home to her? You drove Mary crazy.

  Connor Bishop : Shut up. Shut up.

  Emily Quartermaine : And now the blood of those two innocent kids she killed is on your hands!

  Connor Bishop : Shut up!

• Nikolas Cassidine : What are you doing here?

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : I have some bad news. I thought I'd deliver it in person.

  Emily Quartermaine : Sounds ominous.

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : It is.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Well, what is it?

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : You were right about Sam. She hasn't given up pursuing the treasure. In fact, she's actively pursuing it with her new partner, Helena. That's right, Nikolas. Granny's back with a vengeance.

• Nikolas Cassidine : Emily, the money will never replace our love for each other.

  Helena Cassadine : Who on earth told you that?

• Nikolas Cassidine : Let her go.

  Helena Cassadine : I am perilously close to losing my temper, Nikolas. Now, keep pushing me and I will end your auntie's pathetic life. Do you want that on your conscience for the rest of your life?

  Nikolas Cassidine : You can't get away with this. You know that.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, you have been consorting with weaklings too long, Nikolas. You've forgotten what it means to be a Cassadine, to defy and have the strength to defy the laws of your inferiors.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Really? Those inferiors will send you to prison.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, I've gotten away with murder before, and I'll get away with it again. I think this time it will be a distinct pleasure.

  Nikolas Cassidine : You're sick.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, and then there's your beloved little Emily. How unfortunate she won't live long enough to marry the Cassadine prince.

• Nikolas Cassidine : Ironic - if Helena weren't dead, she'd be proud of me. I Killed my own grandmother. Just like a true Cassadine would.

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, Helena had been terrorizing you. She had you locked up in a mental asylum. She gave you mind-altering drugs. She tried to kill me, Nikolas! You did it to save me.

• Emily Quartermaine : You are a kind, loving, generous person...

  Nikolas Cassidine : No, I'm a killer, just like every Cassadine before me! I have that instinct. I'll never get rid of it!

  Emily Quartermaine : It was an accident.

  Nikolas Cassidine : What? I threw her off the cliff. I told her to join my father in Hell.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You will never forget what you saw me do here tonight.

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, I saw you protect me, fight against a woman who would do anything to kill me. That is what I'll remember, Nikolas. Your bravery and your love.

  Nikolas Cassidine : I should turn myself in.

  Emily Quartermaine : The police were already looking for Helena. She threatened Alexis at knife point, and she's suspected of killing Mary and that nurse. You say that it was an accident and they'll be happy to believe you.

• Emily Quartermaine : Oh, you're really - you're really here. I'm not dreaming or hallucinating.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Don't you know by now that I love you too much to ever leave you?

• Nikolas Cassidine : I will be evacuated just like everybody else, OK?

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, Nikolas, don't be naive. The fire is spreading. There is no rescue in sight, and not everyone in this room is going to survive, and you have to.

• Nikolas Cassidine : What's happening?

  Lucky Spencer : The wind is too strong. They'll try again when it gets - when it dies down.

  Tracy Quartermaine : They can't! The building is burning down below us!

  Justice Ward : This wind is making the fire worse inside!

  Edward Quartermaine : We have to be patient! The helicopter will evacuate us as soon as it's possible!

  Tracy Quartermaine : If any of us are still alive!

• Justice Ward : There's no way they could've survived that fall. Sonny and Carly are dead.

  Lorenzo Alcazar : That's a lie. Carly's not dead.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Hey, you go and you lose your chance to be evacuated.

  Lorenzo Alcazar : I don't give a damn. I'm going to find Carly. She's alive.

  Justice Ward : Where are you going?

  Ric Lansing : Sonny's my brother, I got to help him.

  Justice Ward : Sonny's dead. Think about it.

  Ric Lansing : We don't know that!

  Justice Ward : You have a wife and a baby on the way. They need you. You don't have the right to risk your life anymore. Sonny wouldn't expect that from you.

  Skye Quartermaine Jacks : The helicopter's landing. We have to go.

• Nikolas Cassidine : I'm glad that you survived the fire as well. As much as I've hated you at times. I never really wanted you dead.

  Helena Cassadine : I know that. And I know that, on some level you've always understood my devotion to you.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Doesn't mean I accept or condone all the terrible things you've done. All I'm saying is that maybe - maybe this fire is a change for us to start over, to connect as a - as a family - not that that's even possible. Believe me, I have my doubts about your motivations.

  Helena Cassadine : No, Nikolas, it is more than possible.

• Helena Cassadine : Nikolas?

  Nikolas Cassidine : Hello, Grandmother.

  Helena Cassadine : You're alive.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Yeah. I can see that you're worried, grandmother. But, I'm all right, really.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, It felt like a cosmic joke that you would die in a fire cause by someone else's negligence. After everything I did to save you - yet here you are - the strongest of the strong. Oh, my perfect prince.

• Emily Quartermaine : No one in your family actually went crazy because of love.

  Nikolas Cassidine : My mother's in a hospital, Emily, remember?

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, Laura had a traumatic experience in her past. That's the reason she's sick. It has nothing to do with Stefan or Stavros. I mean, look - look at Helena. She's indestructible. Why didn't your grandfather's love destroy her?

  Nikolas Cassidine : But it did. Helena's psychotic. She may not wander around talking to herself or sit staring at a wall all day like my mother, but she's definitely insane.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You're just like Emily and Lucky and Alexis. Trying to tell me how I should act, who I should be. That's not going to happen.

  Helena Cassadine : I am your closest living relative, Nikolas. Emily - she was just a distraction, a fleeting romance. She's not worthy of you. And as for Alexis? The Cassidine bastard. She hates us more with every living minute. She would love nothing more to turn you against me.

  Nikolas Cassidine : What about my brother?

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, your half-brother? Well, poor Lucky - his family has been unraveling for years. He's just jealous of you, Nikolas - jealous of your strength and your position.

  Nikolas Cassidine : As opposed to you, right, who has my best interest at heart?

  Helena Cassadine : I have loved you all of your life. You are the reason I live.

• Alexis Davis Cassadine : You were trained from birth to take over the Cassadine empire. My brother raised you, and he loved you, Nikolas, beyond all reason. Unfortunately, he died. Your mother is Laura. She left you in Greece when you were very young.

  Nikolas Cassidine : How did I end up here?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Obligation. You made friends here, Nikolas. You made good friends, they were your own age. And you had never had that experience before.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Was I happy?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : I think so - for a Cassadine. The Cassadine's have never been accused of looking at the bright side of things. You were kind, you were generous, you were loyal. You wanted to replace the Cassadine insanity with reason. You were our soul, our conscience.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Like - like Emily is for the Quartermaines.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : In a way, yes.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Yeah. I think I'm beginning to realize why we fell in love.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You love who I used to be.

  Emily Quartermaine : Don't tell me what I feel. Right or wrong, sane or crazy, whether you ever remember us or not, I love you, Nikolas. I always will.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You keep alluding to some - some mysterious danger, but you know, so far I haven't heard any facts.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, Nikolas, you've been at the mercy of a spoiled, manipulative, unstable woman for months.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Oh, yeah? Which one?

  Helena Cassadine : Mary Bishop - She's a poor, misguided creature. She's irrelevant. But Emily Quartermaine and her obsession with you - this is the real threat. Nikolas, the line between love and hate is thin one. Oh, Emily professes to have great love for you, but the minute she realizes that she's not going to get what she wants, that love will turn on a dime.

• Emily Quartermaine : I already knew...

  Nikolas Cassidine : What?

  Emily Quartermaine : How much I loved you. But I never understood how much I needed you until this very minute.

  Nikolas Cassidine : I waited too long to make you my wife. I'm not going to let anything stand in the way of that.

• Alexis Davis Cassadine : My mother and father met when Mikkos was still married to Helena, and they fell in love. Mikkos was as in love as any Cassadine man is capable of being - present company excluded, of course. He wanted to marry my mother. He asked Helena for a divorce. She, of course, denied it and placed a curse on them instead.

  Emily Quartermaine : Then what happened?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : My mother started having mysterious accidents. She started having illnesses that no one could explain. She was a very strong and independent woman who just suddenly lost her spirit. She was even afraid to leave the house. So Mikkos took her away. He took her to Europe, and she came back and it was as if nothing had ever happened, she was fine.

  Nikolas Cassidine : So you think Mikkos did something to lift the curse?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : He did something. He went somewhere, talked to somebody - whatever it was, it went away.

  Ric Lansing : But the curse was eradicated and your mother was fine.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : She was fine until Helena...

  Ric Lansing : Until Helena what?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : The curse didn't produce the results that Helena wanted. So she took matters into her own hands - literally - and she slit my mother's throat.

• Helena Cassadine : Even if you could break the curse, remember what happened to Alexis' mother.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Are you threatening to kill Emily?

  Helena Cassadine : I'm merely pointing out that we learn from history or we're doomed to repeat it.