Becca: What are you -- get -- get the hell out of my room. Get off my --
Leo: Becca said "hell."
Becca: No -- get off my bed now!
Leo: Becca said "hell."
Becca: Come on! Get out! You know what? I don't think you're being very funny right now, so why don't you go ahead and leave?
Leo: Hey, I came here on a fact-finding expedition, ok? Yeah, see, it's my contention that no one person can be as good as you pretend to be, Becca. So I came here looking for evidence that might support that theory, like maybe you're a kleptomaniac or a terrorist or a space alien or something.
Becca: Well, sorry to disappoint you.
Leo: No, no, no. I got what I was coming for. You're a homicidal maniac.
Becca: You're just lucky I didn't have my granddaddy's shotgun.
Leo: Well, there you go. Confirms my suspicion -- there's something wrong with everybody.
Becca: Tell me, Leo -- what's wrong with you?

[Vanessa moans and gasps]

Paolo: Better now?
Vanessa: Oh. Say it.
Paolo: I love you.
Vanessa: No. No, no, no, no. An Italian accent.
Paolo: [Italian accent] I love you.
Vanessa: Oh. And what else? What else?
Paolo: And when I'm with you, I forget all other women.
Vanessa: And you always make the others pay.
Paolo: Yes, my darling. But not you. You make love like a spirit possessed.
Vanessa: Hmm.
Paolo: Your passion is so intense that sometimes I -- I honestly don't think I will survive. But every time, it's so worth the risk because you take me to such heights, such heights that I know what the true meaning of love is and the true purpose of life.
Vanessa: And that's right. That's right, and you would think my husband would appreciate that, wouldn't you? No, no. Paolo, you have no idea what I have to go through with him.
Paolo: I'm sorry you had such a bad day.
Vanessa: You men. I mean, you -- you are so selfish, so absolutely self-centered, unfeeling! I tell you, Paolo. What -- what are you really good for
Paolo: Ah. Ah.

Palmer: Erica?
Erica: Oh!
Palmer: Are -- are you lost? I -- that's not David's room.
Erica: No, of course not. I'm aware of that. This is -- this is a business associate that I'm visiting.
Palmer: Ah.
Erica: And what are you doing wandering the halls?
Palmer: I'm looking for my wife.

Vanessa: It's not helping, Paolo. I keep thinking about all the men in my life. And eventually, you know, every single one of them betrays me.
Paolo: I never would.
Vanessa: But even my own sons, who I happen to love from the depths of my heart. I mean, really, Leo. Leo -- how can he quit his job at Cortlandt Electronics? And how the devil can Palmer even let him? I could have smoothed the whole thing over. Then David marches in. And his sole purpose in life is to make my life a living hell! I' telling you that -- that I don't know -- oh, God! Oh! I don't know what to do!
Paolo: Here you go. Darling? Here. Smash it, smash it. Take it, smash it. Let it all out. Go ahead. Let it out.

Erica: Well, I'm sure she'll turn up, but I can't imagine what --

[crashing noise]

Erica: What's going on in there?
Palmer: Well, I don't know. Why don't you knock and find out?

Tad: Liza, it worked. Adam is furious with me.
Liza: No --
Tad: No, no, he sounded like he wanted to eat me heart --
Marian: Liza, if you change your mind, I'm a phone call away --
Liza: I have to have some -- wait, wait a second.
Tad: Listen to me. Please, don't listen to your mother, ok?
Liza: Would you get out of here? I'm never going to be able to do -- all I was going to say was when do you think Adam's going to be here?
Marian: Well --
Liza: Tad?
Tad: I'm not sure. But it was obvious he was still in the air when we -- when we called him, so I'm guessing it'll be soon.
Liza: Ok.
Marian: Oh, never mind.
Tad: Good.
Liza: Oh, you know, mother, we really should get Stuart out of here for a few days. He can't be around for this.
Marian: Well, what do you suggest I do with him?
Liza: Well, we said we'd protect him, right? I'm not getting involved in it. Just --
Marian: I know, but --
Liza: Do something. I don't know -- get him out of town. You could think of something. It's for his own good.
Marian: I agree with you, Liza, but I don't want to lie to him. How am I supposed to -- oh. I know a way.
Tad: Of course you do. Manipulating men is one of your strong suits, isn't it?
Marian: Will you stop sniping at me, Tad? I'm not the enemy here.
Tad: You could've fooled me. All you've done for the last hour is try to undermine her confidence when she needs it most.
Marian: I told you that you're a terrible influence on my daughter.
Tad: Oh.
Marian: No one in the world would contradict me --
Liza: Wait a minute! Stop this! This isn't helping me!
Tad: I know, Liza. I'm sorry. I -- I apologize. I just don't know why we're so jumpy. We're about to pull Adam's teeth. You know? Let's keep our eyes on the prize. As a matter of fact, we should be celebrating. Excuse me.

Liza: I'm sorry. You're going to get Stuart out for a couple of days?
Marian: Well, I'd like to spare him any pain that your plan could cause him. But, my darling, I don't -- I'd like to spare you as well.
Liza: Well, you know what? Tad is right, ok? We can't put doubts in our minds. We know what we're doing.
Marian: Liza, you slept with Adam. I know it was to get the power of attorney, but you slept with him.
Liza: You know what, Mother? I did what I had to do, and I'm never going to do it again.
Marian: You really mean that?
Liza: Yes, I do. I'm in control now. All right? I'm the one who's calling the shots.

Tad: Speaking of which, look what I found. This was the most expensive bottle of champagne in the cellar. Looks like it, anyway.
Liza: Oh, God. That's his vintage '92.
Tad: '92. That's it?
Liza: 1892?!
Tad: All right! That'll work. What do you say, huh? Let's just -- let's pop this little dinosaur open and raise a glass to the thrill of victory and the smell of Adam's defeat.

[Tad laughs]

[telephone rings]

Liza: Hello?
Adam: Liza?
Liza: Adam?

[Cork pops]

Adam: What was that?
Liza: Uh -- nothing.

Stuart: There you are!
Dixie: What are you doing here?
Stuart: Hi, honey.
Dixie: I thought you were supposed to be at work.
Marian: Oh, darling, I was just about to come home to you.
Tad: Oh, well, actually, I am at work. We had to do -- there's something we had to take care of here. What are you doing here?
Dixie: What is going on?
Marian: Darling --

Adam: Liza, who are those people there with you? What's going on?

[Marian, Tad and Dixie talk]

Stuart: I ran into Dixie at the door. I asked her -- I invited her to join us, but --

Adam: Liza, are you there?

Stuart: She said wasn't hungry.
Marian: Well, I was just coming home. I was on my way home.
Dixie: Yeah, an explanation would be nice.

Liza: Yeah, I can't -- I just -- I can't hear you very well.

Marian: I don't know --

Liza: Um -- excuse me.
Stuart: Yes?
Liza: Um -- I'm sorry. Could I have just a minute? It's a private call.
Marian: Oh, fine.
Stuart: Yeah, sure. Sure. Sure. We're going in.
Marian: Ok.
Tad: Honey, I'll explain it all.
Marian: You've got a plane to catch.
Dixie: Yeah, an explanation would be nice.
Tad: And you're going to get a dandy one, I promise, just not here. I'll -- I'll follow you home in the car.

Liza: Sorry about that.
Adam: Who was that with you?
Liza: I'm alone.
Adam: No. I heard a lot of voices.
Liza: Oh, yeah. Uh -- well, several of the board members actually stopped by. It seems that there was a crisis concerning --
Adam: Tad Martin
. Liza: You know?
Adam: Martin is incapable of a surprise attack. He had to call and brag about that video he took of me while I was still in jail. And he's presented it to the board, I understand, and they're about to oust me.
Liza: Well, Adam, that was the fire that I was trying to put out when you first called.
Adam: Sweetheart, I don't want you to worry about it. I'll make a light lunch of Martin when I g back.
Liza: Oh, but you -- you have to handle South America. Why don't you let me --
Adam: South America's handled. That's why I'm calling you. I'm on my way home. I'll set the board straight, and then I'll give you my undivided attention.
Liza: Well, I'll see you then.
Adam: Liza, wait. You sent me away telling me that you loved me. And I think we both know that that's a little bit impossible. I've thought of nothing else but us the whole time I've been sitting on this jet. I think I've figured out why you came back to me. But it won't work. I won't let you -

- [static]

Liza: Adam? Adam? Adam, are you --

Palmer: Well, maybe you should knock. Ask your friend what's happened in there.
Erica: Oh, my business associate, really. And I will knock after you leave. My colleague is -- is not well, and she might be very embarrassed if she saw that you were here.
Palmer: Oh, yes, of course. Sure, mm-hmm. Yeah, well, anyway, I have to find Vanessa.
Erica: Yes.

[Erica knocks on Paolo's door]

Vanessa: You said you weren't expecting anyone.
Paolo: I'm not.
Vanessa: Well, it's a good thing you've got the adjoining room.
Paolo: An occupational necessity, hmm?
Vanessa: Shh! I'm going to leave. I'm going out that way. Paolo: Ok, ok.

[Knock on door]

Paolo: Good, good, good, good, good, good.
Paolo: Ooh, ah! Oh! Erica. Hi.
Erica: Hi. Uh --
Paolo: You -- should have called. I was -- um, bed.
Erica: The question is, with whom?

Palmer: Vanessa?
Vanessa: Ah!
Palmer: What are you doing running around the halls with no clothes on?
Vanessa: Well, it's so silly, you will probably just laugh.
Palmer: Maybe not.
Vanessa: I was -- I was going to take a simple shower, and there was no hot water. I phoned down to housekeeping, ring, ring, ring, nobody answered. I decided I would come down there myself.

Erica: You seem to have forgotten our deal. If I am to make David believe that I am truly involved with you and not just setting up some sort of a performance for his benefit, then you must work for me exclusively.
Paolo: I understand perfectly.
Erica: And if there is another woman in your life, then the deal is off, and I will turn you in to the police for fraud.
Paolo: Erica, there -- I swear to you, there's no other woman.
Erica: But yet, such evidence to the contrary. That broken vase over there -- that certainly indicates a dissatisfied customer.
Paolo: I have no dissatisfied customers. I mean, I have no customers -- now, except you, but -- no, but -- ahem. Erica, look, I'm sorry. I smashed the vase because I was angry because I can't pay my bills.
Erica: Well, I gave you a very, very generous check.
Paolo: Well, it's not enough. I mean, if I'm going to be exclusive with you, then you'll have to do better.
Erica: Well, you're not worth it. And that's fine because they give you a nice orange jump suit in jail.
Paolo: Uh -- we can just leave it like this.
Erica: Somehow, I thought that's what you would say. All right, now. I'm going to need you first thing in the morning. Be ready at 7:00 A.M. I'm going to be wearing exactly what I'm wearing now.
Paolo: Um -- I don't really look my best until, like, 11:00, 11:30.
Erica: Well, good. I want it to look as if you hadn't slept very much. And we'll run into David downstairs because he always has breakfast at 7:00.
Paolo: Ah. We'll pretend we had a little sleepover. Ooh. What shall I wear?
Erica: Well -- just don't wear this.

Vanessa: And I was stuck in that elevator for 20 minutes, and I'm not exaggerating, Palmer. I was terrified. I was hyperventilating. Finally, the door stopped, I pushed my way out and I ended up right here.
Palmer: How long have we been married, Vanessa?
Vanessa: Why are you asking me that now?
Palmer: I mean, after all these months, you really expect me to believe that ridiculous story?
Vanessa: Oh.

Leo: Ha. Another clue. So, this is where you grew up back in the Hollow Pigeon?

[Becca laughs]

Becca: Uh-huh. Pigeon Hollow. My granddaddy built it in 1894.
Leo: Wow. You even remember the date. See, my family manse consisted of Vanessa's designer luggage, circa 1987.
Becca: Why don't you just tell me what you came here to say.
Leo: Actually, there was a set of luggage, which we packed in haste every time my mother's latest love of her life turned out to be a thief or a drunk or a married man or all of the above. Then of course, we'd move on to the next European capital and to another dear, dear set of friends and crack open a box of tissues, let the tears flow.
Leo: Ok. I spilled my guts. It's your turn.
Becca: Scott and I got in a fight today.
Leo: About what?
Becca: About you.

Marian: Oh, Stuart, you're going to love St. Louis. They've got that impressive arch and the Mississippi and the arch and --
Stuart: You -- you said you didn't want me to go to that gallery show in St. Louis.
Marian: Well, I was just being selfish because I couldn't go with you. I think you should go and say good-bye to the paintings. I mean, you know they're going to fly off the gallery wall.
Stuart: Oh, well, yeah, but we got a lot of -- a lot of slides of all of them.
Marian: I know, but they're our favorites.
Stuart: Oh, yeah. Marian number 18 and Marian number 26. I love that one.
Marian: I know, darling. And once they're sold, we'll never see them again.
Stuart: Oh, don't say that. You'll make me feel sad.
Marian: No, don't be sad, darling. I'll tell you what -- I want you to go there and buy them yourself.
Stuart: Well, you don't like it when I do that.
Marian: I've changed my mind. I think you should buy them and bring them back, and we can give them to some friends, and we can visit them occasionally.
Stuart: You know, Alex Marick really admired Marian number 18.
Marian: Well, then, she should have it.
Stuart: Ok! I'll go!
Marian: Oh, good! Oh, hurry.
Stuart: Ok.
Marian: Your flight leaves in about an hour, darling.
Stuart: Yeah, I'll hurry. I'll hurry.
Marian: Oh, good.
Stuart: I'll hurry. I have to call them and tell them I'm coming.
Marian: Right.
Stuart: Oh -- Marian, thank you. Thank you for -- for thinking up all these nice things to do for me.
Marian: Oh.
Stuart: Bye.

Marian: No, Stuart, I'm terrible. I'm just terrible.
Scott: What's happened now?
Marian: Oh.

Tad: Want some 100-year-old champagne?
Dixie: You're not going to jolly me out of this, Tad. Do you actually know the look a secretary gives the wife when she says, "Oh, gee, I thought my husband was working late"?
Tad: Sweetheart, come on. We both know Masey's is not like that.

[Dixie sighs]

Tad: So did you really go to the studio?
Dixie: Yes, I did. Junior is with a friend next door, and Jamie is at the movies. I thought I'd come over and take you to dinner.
Tad: Baby, I feel awful. I'm -- I'm sorry.
Dixie: Do you know I had to drag it out of Masey to find out that you were with Liza?
Tad: I had business with Liza.
Dixie: Oh, business drinking a 100-year-old bottle of champagne, which you now have the nerve to offer me.
Tad: That's a good point. Dixie: So why were
you drinking the champagne?
Tad: We were celebrating -- with good cause. I mean, for the first place, WRCW is now an affiliate of ABC. That -- that's huge. That means good things for us.
Dixie: So you're -- you're going to be making, like, a whole lot more money or something?
Tad: Yeah. Maybe -- yeah, man. A lot more people watching the show. It means I'll be even more famous. More women throwing themselves at me, which means you could be even more jealous, which means we'll be right back where we started.
Dixie: Is that what you think? You think I'm just like some insecure, jealous wife unjustly accusing her innocent husband?
Tad: You mean you're not? I was kidding. Come on, sweetheart. It was a joke.
Dixie: No, you're right. You're right. I'm jealous. I'm jealous. It's just this you-and-you thing, it just -- it really pushes some old buttons, you know?
Tad: With good reason.
Dixie: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You and Liza -- you have every right to celebrate your business thing with champagne. Can you forgive me? I -- I know there's nothing going on with you and Liza. I'm sorry.
Tad: I can't do this. I'm sorry. I know. I apologize -- to you. I mean, I'm the one that owes you an apology because there is something going on between me and Liza.
Dixie: This is that Adam thing, isn't it? This whole revenge plot is back on, if it was ever off.
Tad: See, this is the reason that I couldn't exactly --
Dixie: I can't -- you have something secret going on with Liza behind my back about Adam. Do you have any idea how stupid this is?
Tad: Thank you for your support. Now do you see why I had to go behind your back?
Dixie: Do you think by keeping me ignorant that's just going to make everything all right?
Tad: No, I don't want to keep you ignorant. As a matter of fact, I want you onboard. I want you to be part of it.
Dixie: I don't want to be part of it, Tad.
Tad: Why not? You don't know anything about it. Look, Liza, got a fantastic --
Dixie: I don't want to know anything about it. I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear it.
Tad: Ok, fine, fine you know -- I won't tell you the details. I won't, no --
Dixie: Good, thank you.
Tad: Look, all I'll tell you is that if this works, it'll be over soon. And then I won't have to involve myself with Adam ever again.
Dixie: I don't want you involved with Adam now.
Tad: Why not? Liza owns this station. I'm a grown man. He can't hurt me.
Dixie: I'm not -- can you understand that this is not just about Adam? There is something driving you I don't get. That you have this need to crush Adam, to make him suffer. We have a wonderful life. We're happy. You know? I mean, don't you get that that is the best possible revenge against Adam?
Tad: No, no, no, no. The best possible revenge is making sure he knows never, never to mess with our lives ever again. Because that man has been trying to crush me and everybody I ever cared about as far back as I can remember. And as far as suffering is concerned, after all the suffering he has caused my family and us and you and your son, I don't know why that is so hard to understand.
Dixie: Tad, I don't need you to do this for me. I don't. I am -- I have more than I could possibly ever want. I have you and the boys. We have a great life.
Tad: Sweetheart, I know. I feel exactly the same way.
Dixie: Well, then why isn't that enough for you?
Tad: Because I want it to stay that way. I want Adam Chandler to think twice before he even considers coming at me or mine ever again.

Marian: Oh, Scott, I'm sorry, it's nothing.
Scott: Well, you can't be crying over nothing. What's wrong?
Marian: Well, it's -- it's silly. I -- I just convinced your father to go to that gallery show in St. Louis.
Scott: And that bothers you?
Marian: Well, I can't go because I'm busy, and he just went off to pack, and I realized how much I was going to miss him. I told you it was silly.
Scott: It's not silly.
Marian: Please don't tell your father I've been crying, ok?
Scott: Ok.

Stuart: Oh, Scott, hi.
Scott: Hey, Dad.
Stuart: Oh, I'm off to St. Louis! I called them, told them I was coming. Told them I was going to buy all my paintings. They think I'm a little crazy, but I'm going to do it.
Scott: You're buying your own paintings again?
Stuart: Oh, Marian said I could. It's her fault. And I'm going to give them away. I'm going to give Alex Marick Marian number 18. And Marian number 26, oh, that's my favorite. I'm going to hang that on the hospice wall because it always makes me feel so hopeful.
Scott: That's the one of the sunrise, right?
Stuart: Well, it's sort of a sunrise, but really it's Marian. When I wake up every morning, you give me light. You make it possible for me to see all the beautiful things in the world.
Marian: Oh, Stuart.
Stuart: Oh.
Marian: Call me as soon as you get there, all right?
Stuart: I'll call you as soon as I get there.
Marian: Ok, and have a safe flight.
Stuart: Ok.
Marian: Ok, darling. And call me, don't forge all right?
Stuart: Oh, I'll call you when I get there.
Marian: I love you, bye-bye.
Scott: Bye, Dad.
Marian: Bye.

Scott: Hey, do you really have to work? I mean, why don't you just go with him?
Marian: I can't. Um, something very important is going to happen and m afraid what'll happen if I miss it.

Liza: I tried to call you back when the line went dead.
Adam: We were landing.
Liza: I figured. Oh, Lucretia in the kitchen. She can heat your dinner.
Adam: I talked to Winifred and I gave the staff the night off. I'm too tired to eat.
Liza: Well, I'll turn down the bed, your bed.
Adam: Liza, wait. I know what you're trying to do.
Liza: What are you accusing me of?
Adam: Liza, I held you in my arms, and we made love. It was everything I've hoped and wished it would be. It went right back to those brief days when you truly loved me. You remember what that was like, don't you? Well, this time it wasn't like that.
Liza: So you're upset with me because I wasn't able to erase --
Adam: No, no, no, I'm upset with you, if anything, because you're trying too hard to erase it. Against your better judgment, you're trying to fall in love with me. You're falling back into that old pattern of seeing the good in me, and I was willing to let you go right along with it.
Liza: Well, that's not important. You have other pressing matters right now.
Adam: Liza, nothing is as important to me as your love. And Stuart's. Nothing. For years you've both been telling me that you could see the good in me that I couldn't see, and you wanted me to change, to be better. I tried. And every time I look inside myself, I don't see anything but a black pit. I'm so afraid of disappointing you that I resort to my old tactics. My old tricks.
Liza: Well, you know, this is one of those tricks. Self-flagellation. It's a big pile of manure.
Adam: Yeah, maybe. But I think I can prove to you that this time I'm the man you want me to be. I'm going to try to prove that.
Liza: Ok. We'll see. But that's not new, either.
Adam: Well, this is. Before I left, you asked me to turn over power of attorney to you. It made me a little suspicious. I frankly thought that that's why you slept with me. But I'm not going to think that way anymore. Against my better judgment, I am going to give you power of attorney to prove that you can trust me. And how much I trust you.
Liza: So you're telling me that you trust me?
Adam: Yes. Unless I do something to spoil it. And I'm never going to do that again, never. If it takes me the rest of my life, I'll prove to you that I love you.

Paolo: Look, Erica, I needed the money, ok? You know? I mean, I can't work for you after all if my creditors are coming after me.
Erica: Look, did anyone see you with this client?
Paolo: No, certainly not. Discretion's my middle name.
Erica: All right, then. All right, then there's no harm done.

[Telephone rings]

Erica: Well, for now. Just this last time.
Paolo: Ok. Excuse me.
Hello. Ah, yeah. Um, yeah, how are you? Ahem.

Vanessa: Well, that's what happened. Just take one look at me. I'm a nervous wreck, Palmer. You know something, if you don't believe me, then we have bigger trouble than you thought.
Palmer: Well, you haven't been yourself lately. Disappearing at odd times and then when we are together, you're kind of distant.
Vanessa: Well, I mean, really can you blame me?
Palmer: Oh, no --
Vanessa: You do everything so perfectly. I mean, you are always, always finding fault with me.
Palmer: Of course I don't blame you. But just look at you, running around the halls like some refugee.
Vanessa: All right, I know it, I'm disgusting!
Palmer: Oh, I know, darling. I know exactly what -- I know exactly what this is, darling, and what's bothering you. I do, I do. You're angry with me. You're so angry with me that you kind of ran out of our hotel suite half dressed.
Vanessa: My dear -- well, that's it.
Palmer: You're angry.
Vanessa: That's it, darling, you know --
Palmer: Angry about our argument, aren't you?
Vanessa: Yes. I just can't stand it. I get -- I can't handle it when we quarrel. I mean, I lose all sense of reason, Palmer.
Palmer: Yes, well, I don't want you to hold anything back. No, no, I just want you to tell me what's bothering you, hmm?
Vanessa: Well, nothing right now, darling. I'm just so happy that you understand me so well.
Palmer: We have to start spending a little more time together just the two of us, hmm?
Vanessa: You mean without Leo and David and --
Palmer: Mm-hmm, I'm afraid so, afraid so. What I'd really like is to go right back to the time when we discovered we were soul mates.
Vanessa: It was such a wonderful time, darling. Is there any way we can get back there, home?
Palmer: Well, we can start by telling each other how we feel. I don't want you holding back any of your feelings from me again.
Vanessa: Ok, I won't. I won't. Oh, darling. Oh, darling, please. Oh, you have the promise of a woman in love.

Scott: Well, I guess I'm going to go unless you'd like me to stick around.
Marian: Oh, no, darling, you go. I'll be all right, I promise. I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to talk to your father.
Scott: Oh, it's no big deal. I guess I'll still be having the same problem when he gets back.
Marian: Is this about Becca?
Scott: We had a fight.
Marian: Big one?
Scott: I'm not sure, but I think I have competition from Leo Du Pres.
Marian: Oh, darling, she would never choose him over you.
Scott: She likes him. I just -- I don't know how much. And I'm afraid because I don't know if she knows.
Marian: Oh. Oh, dear, what advice would your father give you if he were here? Oh, boy. Um, I don't know what advice he would give you, but here's mine. I think that you should act just like your father. I think you should be kind and patient and just very, very loving. And I'm so sorry I tried to break you and Becca up, Scott. And we just can't let anybody else do it, can we?
Scott: Yeah, well, she keeps telling me to trust her.
Marian: Well, then trust her, only don't trust Leo. She's very special. She reminds me of Stuart. And people like that come into our lives rarely. So protect what's yours and go and fight for her, ok?

Becca: Scott's angry because I won't tell him why I'm spending so much time with you, and he doesn't want me to be alone with you. I hate lying to him.
Leo: I'm sorry, Becca. I'm the one who put you in this position, and then I did it again by coming here tonight. Yeah, I didn't even think about Scott. I really didn't.
Becca: Why are you really here tonight?
Leo: Well, you being my angel of math, I couldn't think of anybody better to go to. Actually, I came here because I have nobody else to go to, at all.
Becca: What happened?
Leo: I'm on the run. After the community center tonight, I went down to see Palmer and Vanessa, and I quit my job at Cortlandt Electronics.
Becca: Wow. God, that took guts.
Leo: Yeah, well -- you know, Vanessa freaked out. And David was there. And of course he loved every single minute of it. So I had to leave. I had to get out of there.
Becca: Why are you on the run though?
Leo: Well, after that, I ran into a dear old friend who wants money. A lot of it. And if I don't cough it up --

[telephone rings]

Becca: Hey, no, forget about that. Tell me what's going on.
Leo: What if it's Scott?

Becca: Hello?
Scott: Hi, becca. Can you talk?
Becca: Sure.
Scott: I'm calling to apologize. Um -- I acted like a jerk yet again.
Becca: No, no, Scott, you're not a jerk.

Adam: If you don't know what to say, then just don't say anything. All I'm saying is that I trust you with my life, Liza. Suddenly I'm famished. What do you say I make us a gigantic Caesar salad? Oh. Oh, no. No, no, no. First I have to call Barry and set up an emergency board meeting, neutralize Martin. Liza: Don't do it, Adam.

Becca: Of -- of course I forget about it. It's forgotten.
Scott: The stuff I said at the studio -- you know, it was stupid and I didn't mean it. I trust you. And I don't care if you and Leo want to get together now and --
Becca: Is a friend.
Scott: Look, let's not talk about Leo anymore, ok? How long has it been since I saw you? A month? Two months?
Becca: More like two hours.
Scott: Is that all? Do you want to do breakfast tomorrow?
Becca: I'd like that.
Scott: Ok. I'll pick you up before work?
Becca: Sounds great.

Paolo: No, no, no, that's not necessary. Can I call you back? Ok, no -- no, ok, ok, --
Erica: All right, fine. But I'll see you tomorrow morning, 6:45. And, Paolo, I expect you to be alone until then.

Paolo: Rick, Rick, my friend, listen -- look, there's no need to get ugly, ok? Now, come on, how long you been supplying me? You know I'm good for this. You know that. I'm going to be flush soon because I got a -- lady friend who's married to Cortlandt Electronics.

[Erica holding up emerald she found on Paolo's bed]

Erica: I've seen this before. But on whom? Hmm. Well, it'll come to me. I never forget an emerald.

Tad: You know how much I care about you. And those boys, right?
Dixie: Yeah, I -- but it just seems like, you know, no matter what I say, you're just going to go ahead and do whatever it is that you want to do, and I'm just going to have to accept it, right?
Tad: Dixie, this is something I have to do. But I love you, and I love our family.
Dixie: I know. I know, I know. Oh, God, you know, let's just not talk about it anymore. Can we just -- you know, I haven't eaten. Let's just go to the kitchen, ok?
Tad: Yeah, ok, fine. You go ahead, and I'll be right there. I got to make one phone call.
Dixie: Is this Liza?
Tad: It will be over soon.

Adam: You don't want me to call a board meeting?
Liza: I already called a board meeting. Stuart is going to be speaking to the board.
Adam: Stuart?
Liza: Yes. It's not just the tape that tad's using against you. It's the fact that you're saying it was you and not Stuart that gave away those millions of dollars he says is further proof of your corruption.
Adam: Oh, come on. Martin knows that I told the police that so he could get out of jail.
Liza: I understand that, but that's why I think that Stuart should speak to the board. He'll tell the truth. He'll say he signed the checks.
Adam: Yeah. They'll trust Stuart. It's a good idea. But I want to be there when he talks.
Liza: I -- I think that you should let me handle it. I think it would be horrible if they saw you there and they thought that maybe you were trying to exert some sort of influence over on your brother. And you know that if you meet with any resistance, you're just going to blow up. You can't risk that.
Adam: All right. If that's the way you want it.
Liza: Thank you.
Adam: You've been working very hard for me since I left.
Liza: Oh, I'm just safeguarding Colby's inheritance.
Adam: Well, you've been saving me, too. I can't -- it's hard to believe that after everything that I've done, I have you and Colby. I don't deserve your love. But I'm going to do everything I can to prove myself to you, if it takes me the rest of my life.

[Telephone rings]




On the next "All My Children"

Amanda: Aunt Arlene's run away.

Ryan: Mr. Sword, I have a business proposition for you.

Liza: Is this for real?