Leo: Excuse me. Are you the hotel manager?
Man: Yes, sir. Can I help you?
Leo: My brother, David Hayward -- I've been looking for him, and I've left messages everywhere. Have you seen him?
Man: Yeah. I'm afraid he's left town, sir.
Leo: What, he checked out?
Man: No, he hasn't checked out.
Leo: Do you know where he went?
Man: I'm sorry, I don't.
Leo: Do you know when he's coming back?
Man: I'm afraid I don't know that, either, sir.

[Telephone rings]

Leo: What. Paolo -- Paolo, I know how long I have to get you your damn money. Would you please just get off my back? I know. I know.

Becca: Hi.
Leo: Becca. What are you doing here?
Becca: At the moment, I'm waiting for my apology.
Leo: And I'm supposed to know what that means?
Becca: You were in my room last night staking it out. I turn around for one second, and then you're gone.
Leo: No, no. You didn't turn around, Becca. You took a call from Scott. What was I supposed to do, take notes?
Becca: We had a math session scheduled this morning. If you couldn't make it, you could at least call.
Leo: I don't need your help with math anymore, ok? I've got it. And as far as everything else, I know what I need to know, so we're done. You and Scott can have all the free time you need.
Becca: Wait, wait. What do you mean? Did you run into your family again? Is that what brought this on?
Leo: Not that it matters, but yes. My mother needs me to keep the dysfunctional family dysfunctioning. Who else to do it but the black sheep, right?
Becca: You know, I really wish that you would keep them separate from your life. They bring you down, and you're so much better than that.
Leo: Becca, will you please help me?
Becca: Yes, I'll help you, if you let me.
Leo: Then come with me. Please just come with me.

[Thunder]

Dr. Benton: Mr. Chandler. I'm Dr. Benton. Remember me? How are you?
Adam: How am I? That's a pertinent question. I'm wondering how long this charade will continue.
Dr. Benton: "Charade"?
Adam: Yes, yes. You know, essentially I was kidnapped. And I was brought to this place against my will.
Dr. Benton: Is that how you see it? I'm anxious to hear your side of the story.
Adam: Really? Well, it's comforting to have somebody speak to me like a human being. It'll be the first since I arrived.
Dr. Benton: I'll make sure that my staff treats you with respect at all times.
Adam: Don't worry about it. I'll be long gone. Your staff?
Dr. Benton: I'm the new director.
Adam: Oh, really? Well, it has been a nightmare of unprecedented proportions, doctor, and I think you should look into the policies of a mental institution that carts sane men off in the middle of the night.
Dr. Benton: Why don't you tell me what's led up to your admittance here at Oak Haven, from your perspective.
Adam: From my perspective? Can't you see what's happened to me here? The judge in that ridiculous hearing committed me on hearsay evidence.
Dr. Benton: I'm here to help you. You can count on that.
Adam: Let's give it a shot. My wife and Tad Martin laid a trap for me, which I blundered right into. They had convinced my board of directors that I'd lost my mind. And at my wife's insistence, I pretended to be my twin brother Stuart in front of the board largely because my twin brother Stuart pretends to be me on a regular basis. Anyway, it was a plot to undermine my credibility. The next thing I knew, I was -- you and your minions were carting me off in the middle of the night. It was like a dream where you're screaming at the top of your lungs in a room full of people who are either unable or unwilling to hear you. Just jump in any time, Doc.
Dr. Benton: I was interested in when you became your brother Stuart. What triggered that transformation?
Adam: Triggered it?
Dr. Benton: Yes, what was the inciting incident that used you to switch identities? Let me throw out a few things. Maybe something will land for you. Was it fear? Helplessness? Self-loathing, perhaps?
Adam: Yeah. Yeah. That was right. It was -- I just -- I just -- I got mixed up. I look at all these people -- all these people in the room -- and I realized they weren't people after all.
Dr. Benton: They weren't people?
Adam: No. They were aliens. And they said they wanted to steal my company, but that's not what they really wanted. You know what they wanted? They wanted -- they wanted to put straws in my ears and suck out my brains.

Liza: If you tell me who else was involved in trying to ruin my mother besides Paolo and Adam.
Leo: There was no one else. Adam gave me orders. I found Paolo and hired him to seduce your mother.

Tad: Stuart? Stuart. Look, I know how painful this is.
Stuart: It didn't happen. That didn't happen.
Tad: Yes, it did. That's exactly how it happened.
Stuart: No.
Tad: Yes. Listen to me. Adam threatened Leo. He ordered him to hire Paolo and set Marian up.
Stuart: No, no, no, no.
Tad: Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. I am your friend. I have always been your friend. And the last thing in the world I would ever want to do is hurt you. But it is the truth.
Stuart: No, no.
Tad: I could not stand there and let you defend Adam.
Stuart: Get out! Lee me alone!
Tad: Stuart --
Stuart: Leave me alone.
Tad: Stuart, I'm sorry. But this -- this is who your brother really is.

Edmund: Now I see why you guys call this pea soup.
Alex: Yeah, it can get pretty bad this time of year.
Edmund: You sure you don't want me to drive, Alex?
Alex: Thank you.
Edmund: You know, your high beams just make it worse.
Alex: Thank you.
Edmund: You sure you don't want --
Alex: You know, it's amazing. I'm a very capable driver. I was raised driving on the left-hand side of the street. I know this area of Bristol very well. Because why? I grew up here. Can you say any of that?
Edmund: No. I can say I don't make my knuckles bleed from grabbing the steering wheel. Are you seeing --
Alex: I'm not seeing anything, period! I know my mother's house is around here somewhere. I know it's not far.
Edmund: You know, you haven't said a word about what happened at the hospital since we got in this car.
Alex: Nothing happened. There's nothing to say.

Woman: Good-bye, Anna.


Edmund: Alex --
Alex, look out!

[Tires squeal]

Edmund: Well, we didn't hit anything. That's the good news. Here. Alex. Alex, you're ok, ok? You're ok.
Alex: No, I'm not ok.
Edmund: Ok, listen. You're dealing with some tough stuff, all right? The hospital's not releasing your records. We got the fog and --
Alex: Something did happen.
Edmund: At the hospital?
Alex: Yeah, that woman, the housekeeper. She called me Anna.
Edmund: She mistook you for someone.
Alex: No. No, she didn't. She knew me. I could see it in her eyes.
Edmund: But she called you a wrong name. Your name isn't Anna.
Alex: Yes, I know that. I'm sorry. I know that's not what you meant. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Edmund: Ok. For what?
Alex: I should be able to find my way to the house that I was raised in -- with my eyes closed.
Edmund: We tried that. That's why we're laying in a ditch on the side of the road.
Alex: Oh, I know these woods. My mother's house is right behind here. It's right behind those trees. Oh, we drove in an entire circle.
Edmund: Ok. Well, listen to me. Why don't we just get back in the car, retrace our steps, ok?
Alex: No, I'm going to walk through these trees, and I'll try and find it. You wait right here.
Edmund: Alex. What, are you crazy? I'm not going to let you walk out there by yourself.
Alex: No, please, just wait here. Feel bad about this whole thing as it is.
Edmund: Don't feel bad. Just don't go without me, all right?
Alex: Don't be difficult, Edmund.
Edmund: I'm not being difficult.
Alex: I'll be right back.
Edmund: No, you're not going to be right back. You're going to stay right here, do you understand? We're going to find that damn house together. I want you to take my hand and show me where you think your mother's house is. Will you get it through your thick British skull, we are together. I am with you.

Becca: I -- I just can't go with you now.
Leo: Well, you came here looking for me, didn't you?
Becca: No, actually, Scott and I had a breakfast meeting this morning -- date thing. I saw you, and I was so excited because I thought maybe we could clear things up.
Leo: How sweet. You and Scott made up. Did you kiss and make up? How precious.
Becca: You said that you had some problems with your mother. What does she want?
Leo: Nothing. I forced her hand.
Becca: What does that mean?
Leo: It means that she's over me. She kicked her little boy out of the nest. No big deal. I had it coming. Can't ride the gravy train forever, right?
Becca: Leo? You know, if you're in trouble, I'll help you. Let me.

Dr. Benton: Tell me about the aliens, Adam.
Adam: Oh -- oh, they're mean. And they want brains. Lots of brains. And they're here, you know. Oh, yeah, they're -- they're right here. In the -- in the hospital. You better be careful.
Dr. Benton: You've seen them?
Adam: Oh, yeah. Dr. Benton: Can you -- can you tell me about them?
Adam: Well, there's one that -- that I think he's the boss. He -- he has sort of sandy hair and blue eyes, and he wears a white coat, and he has a brown and blue tie. He -- he looks a lot like you. Except -- except he doesn't want my brains and he doesn't even want my soul. He wants my money.
Dr. Benton: Mr. Chandler --
Adam: Oh, oh, it's Mr. Chandler, now, is it? Is that because you realized how much publicity you can get for this institution out of housing a rich, famous crazy like me? You'll be the next Betty Ford, won't you?
Dr. Benton: Mr. Chandler, I just want to --
Adam: Shut up, doctor. I know who you are, and I know what you want. You want to impress your board of directors with your genius for incarcerating me and publicizing it to bring in a whole new influx of money from the mentally challenged glitterati, right?
Dr. Benton: You believe that I would do that?
Adam: Why else would you take me on? Now, I know greed when I see it, and I know what it can buy me. Are you feeling a little tense now, doctor? You feeling a little -- maybe a little -- a little afraid, possibly even a little desperate? Well, I'll tell you what. You told me that you were on my side. Well, guess what. I'm on your side. You sign me out of here, and I will have $1 million in unmarked bills in an imported leather briefcase on your desk within the hour. Call it sort of a therapeutic investment, Dr. Benton. Are you with me?

Marian's voice: And I didn't know how much time had passed or what had happened.
Stuart's voice: And you were in this man's bed.
Marian: Alone. But, yes, I was. And, Stuart, I was naked.
Stuart: You had a blackout because you were drinking too much.
Marian: I used to have them back in the old days when I was a party girl. I guess the combination of the martinis and the champagne made me just revert back to my old self again. And, you know, it was bad enough back then. But now it's just unthinkable. So I must have slept with him. A man that I hardly knew. One stupid, careless act, and I have ruined everything that we had together.

Stuart: As long as you swear that you didn't set out to hurt Marian, then I have to believe you. I'll take your word for it because you're my brother and you -- you're right. You always took care of me, and you always saved me from the bullies and the kids that teased me, and you always knew what was best. Always. Then you know that Marian is what's best for me. She loves me as much as you do, Adam. You wouldn't want to take that away from me, would you?
Adam: No. No, never.
Stuart: If you ever look me in the eye and lie to me, then you won't be my brother anymore.
Adam: Stuart, I swore on our mother's grave that I would protect you forever. And I swear to you that I had nothing to do with what happened to Marian.

Becca: What is it? What do you need, Leo?
Leo: I need money.
Becca: Oh. I've got cash in my wallet. How much do you need?
Leo: $30,000.
Becca: What?
Leo: You got that in your change purse?
Becca: What have you gotten yourself into?

Leo: Oh. All he needs is a white horse. Hey, Scott.
Scott: Hey.
Leo: How the heck are you, buddy?
Scott: Pretty good.
Becca: Hi, hi.
Scott: Hey.
Becca: Leo -- I ran into Leo while -- we were -- we were just talking.
Scott: Did I ask your for an explanation?
Leo: We were just chatting it up, Scott.
Scott: Yeah, you guys do that a lot. That's right, I know all about your problems.
Leo: Is that right?
Scott: Yeah, you bet, you bet. Becca's told me you got some things to deal with and she's helping you to deal.
Leo: I guess some good girls kiss and tell, don't they?
Becca: What is that supposed to mean?
Scott: You watch what you say about Becca in front of me.
Leo: Relax, Scott. You think that she really cares about me? Yours is the only name she yells out when we're --

[Scott starts to punch Leo]

Brooke: Oh, I can't believe we did this again.
Tad: Did what?
Brooke: Got our wires crossed. I'm picking up Jamie from school today.
Tad: I know.
Brooke: So, why are you here?
Tad: I want to see my son.
Brooke: Ah. Listen, I heard about Adam. Jamie said Junior didn't come to school today. Is he ok?
Tad: I don't know. Dixie won't let me anywhere near him. He won't talk to me.
Brooke: I'm sorry.

Tad: Hey, there's my guy.
Brooke: There he is.
Tad: Give me a squish, huh? What? What's with the face? They give you too much homework?
Jamie: I talked to Jamie on the phone. He said you were there when they put his dad in the hospital for crazy people.
Tad: It's complicated, James.
Jamie: Dad, Junior's scared. You have to get Adam out of there.
Tad: I can't do that.

Brooke: Sweetie, listen, it still looks like it's going to rain. You want to go get your coat?
Jamie: Yeah. I have to get Junior's stuff from the office, too.
Brooke: Ok. Well, I'll wait here for you.
Jamie: Ok.
Brooke: Ok?

Tad: Jamie -- terrific. You want to jump on the bandwagon, too? Tell me what a fool I've been?
Brooke: Tad --
Tad: No, seriously. Brooke: No, don't do this to me, ok?
Tad: No, come on. Be my guest, you know? I deserve it. Join the club. I've heard all about it, you know -- how I'm a jerk, you know, how Adam is some kind of victim. I'm evil. Believe me, if that's the way you feel, then you should just say it.

Dr. Benton: Are you offering me a bribe, Adam?
Adam: No, I'm offering you a hell of a lot of money, Dr. Benton. What do you say?
Dr. Benton: I'd like to have your trust. I'd like to work with you.
Adam: What, you want me to do the couch? Is that it?
Dr. Benton: Adam, the sole purpose is to help you. That's why I'm here.
Adam: You're not going to be here. If I get out of here and bring charges against this institution, I'm going to take away your license, your practice, and everything that matters to you.
Dr. Benton: Are you threatening me, Adam?
Adam: No, no, no, not only am I threatening you, I'm warning you that I follow through on my threats.

[Door opens]

Adam: Stuart. Stuart, thank God you're here.

Brooke: Tad, I am not going to pass judgment on what you did to Adam or why because I've known you far too long to go that route.
Tad: Come here. You know, you're the only one.
Brooke: Oh.
Tad: I'm serious. I don't know what I'm going to do. Junior hates me. Dixie won't talk to me. And Stuart -- I don't know what I did to Stuart. You know what? And the worst part is I don't understand this. I mean, this is Adam Chandler we're talking about, right? A man that's been destroying lives in Pine Valley as far back as I can remember. So I decide to go out there and stand up to him, to neutralize this -- this poor excuse for a father, for a husband, for a human being, and all of a sudden I'm the bad guy. It's like I slipped into "The Twilight Zone." Everybody woke up this morning, looked in the mirror, and decided that their life was boring without Adam's special kind of chaos to make things interesting.
Brooke: Tad?
Tad: Yes?
Brooke: I understand what you did to Adam and why, and I think it took a great deal of courage to take Adam on like that. And you won.
Tad: You could have fooled me. This morning I thought I did. Right now, I feel like if I look in the dictionary under the word "Shmen," there'd be an eight-by-10 glossy of me. Yesterday everybody hated Adam. Today everybody hates me. You should have seen the look on Junior's face.
Brooke: You're going to have to work hard to win him back. But you know what? You'll do it because you are more of a father, I think, to that little boy than Adam is. And he loves you.
Tad: Well, it's not just Junior and Dixie. It's Stuart. I've never seen him like that before. What if he can't handle it?

Man: Dr. Benton, he got past us.
Dr. Benton: I'll handle this.
Adam: Ah, Stuart. I knew it would be you. I knew I could count on you. Not a minute too soon, either. Another few more minutes in here, they'd have a right to commit me. Oh, Dr. Benton. Finally someone to vouch for me. This is obviously my dear brother Stuart.
Dr. Benton: Hello, Stuart.
Adam: Stuart can explain to you everything -- why I pretended to be him. Stuart, you can tell Dr. Benton that I was set up, that I'm not deranged. Dr. Benton, would you -- would you let me have just a few minutes alone with my brother, please?
Dr. Benton: I don't think that's a very good idea.
Adam: For God's sake, he's my brother. What do you think I'm going to do to him?
Dr. Benton all right. I'll be right outside.

Adam: Stuart, you don't know what I've been going through in here. I've been trying like crazy to get in touch with you. They wouldn't let me have a phone.
Stuart: You swore on Mama's grave that you'd take care of me.
Adam: Yes, of course I did. I've told you that many times.
Stuart: You swore that you'd never hurt me.
Adam: Hurt you? Of course you know I wouldn't hurt you. You know that.
Stuart: And you swore that you didn't try to hurt Marian. You swore, Adam.

Becca: Stop it! Don't hit him! Stop! Gosh, I really hate this testosterone pageant you guys always get into every time the three of us are in the same room.
Leo: No, it's ok, Becca. Getting manhandled by Scott is a lot like getting roughed up by Goofy. It's all soft and fuzzy and --
Becca: Stop it.
Leo: Well, Goofy.
Becca: Shh. Stop it.
Scott: No, no, let him go. He just keeps digging himself a deeper hole.
Leo: And what are you going to do, throw me into it, Scott, is that it?
Scott: Come on, come on. You know, you can't act like a sensitive, new-age guy when you're coming after me, Leo.
Becca: Stop it.
Scott: Maybe now Becca will take the bag off her head and see just what a lying piece of Euro trash you really are.
Becca: Bag -- what, bag off my head? What are you talking about?
Scott: Yeah, get the bag off your head. Listen to him. I mean, this guy does not care about anybody but himself. He just sucks you in and makes you think that he needs a friend because, what, he's lonely and damaged? Bull. Every word out of his mouth is a lie, and you ought to know better than that.
Becca: Oh, really? Should I?
Scott: Yeah. You totally bought his story about being forced to set up my dad's wife. Please. You really see Leo Du Pres as a victim?
Leo: You sanctimonious piece of garbage. What's with the moral superiority, Scott? What, do you think that I'm the only one around here who sees what a wasteless use of air space you actually are? You're like Muzak. You're like white noise on an airplane. You're everywhere but you're nothing at all.
Scott: I am stunned. But tell me, what's it like to have never done an honest day's work in your life and still be living off of your mom's dole, huh? Does she still cut your meat for you?
Becca: Stop it, Scott --
Scott: Can you even defend yourself? Could you fight --
Leo: Against you? What do you think?
Becca: Stop it, stop it! Shh!

[Knock on door]

[Key turns in lock]

Alex: Mom? Mother, are you here?
Edmund: Relax. It's ok.
Alex: Something's wrong.
Edmund: Alex, now, why are you saying that?
Alex: Well, I left a message on the machine saying that we were coming, and she wouldn't have gone out on a night like this and left the lights off. There's no fire burning.
Edmund: Well, maybe she never got the message.
Alex: I know, that's what I mean. Something's wrong. Maybe they got to her.
Edmund: Who?
Alex: Well, there are people conspiring to hide my past from me. I mean, maybe they got to her. She wouldn't have gone out on a night like this and left the house dark. Oh, God, if something's happened to her because of me --
Edmund: Alex, nothing's going to happen to her. She's fine. She's fine. I promise. She's fine, really. Look around. Look at this house. It's warm. It's full of the love that you learned here. And you look as beautiful as -- as I know you did when you lived here as a girl.

[Computer beeps]

Edmund: Computer's on.
Alex: Oh, my mother works in computers. I mean, she wouldn't have gone out and left this on.
Edmund: You got mail? Alex, somebody sent you a message.

Adam: Stuart, what are you talking about?
Stuart: That awful man who hurt Marian, who drugged her, and she thought he'd -- well, he -- he hurt Marian. And you promised that you didn't have anything to do with that. You swore, Adam. You swore it.
Adam: Stuart, I didn't. I don't know who you've been talking to. But, Stuart, I have to get out of here, and you've got to help me.
Stuart: I saw a tape.
Adam: What tape?
Stuart: It was a tape of Leo Du Pres and Liza. And Leo told Liza that you forced him to --
Adam: What tape? Who showed you this -- this tape? About what?
Stuart: It was Leo Du Pres and Liza on a videotape. Tad showed it to me.
Adam: Leo Du Pres and Tad Martin. That's -- you can't trust either one of them for an instant.
Stuart: Liza was on the tape, too. And she made him confess. It's as if she knew what had really happened and she made him admit it. I saw it.
Adam: Stuart, it's -- it's -- it's a lie. Liza is -- is not well. She's -- she's not really herself. She's been so upset since the trial, since Jake leaving town, worrying about what's going to happen to Colby. I've tried to reassure her. But she's just too frightened. She thinks I'm bad, Stuart. She doesn't have -- she doesn't believe in me anymore. That's why people -- she's letting people like tad martin take advantage of her and make her do awful things to me. Now she's doing them to you. Don't you see? It's like -- just like when we were young. People are not nice, Stuart. They're not. They get jealous, and they get mean, and they do things that you don't want to believe.
Stuart: I love you.
Adam: I love you, too.
Stuart: Sometimes you do bad things, Adam. Sometimes you do bad things to people I love who didn't do anything wrong. But I -- but I still love you even though you do bad things because you have a heart. You showed it to me. You don't show it to anybody else, and that's why they can't love you as much as I do.
Adam: Nobody understands me and knows me like you do, Stuart. No one in this world.
Stuart: But sometimes your heart gets mixed up. Sometimes it -- well, it does things that it shouldn't. That's what it is. It's just -- that's the bad stuff. But I need your heart to not be mixed up right now, Adam. I need you -- I need you to tell me the truth.
Adam: Stuart.
Stuart: Adam, look at me. Tell me the truth, or I'll die

Becca: I like you a lot.
Leo: I like you, too, Becca.
Becca: No. Shh. I like you, but you're like Jekyll and Hyde, ok? One minute you're all sweet, and the next you're some jerk, spitting out nasty words like some high-powered staple gun.
Leo: Ok, ok, ok. Uncle. Uncle. You win. I give up. I'll never attempt to see you again. Now, do you think that I want this kind of trouble? I don't. You know, I thought that you could do better, Becca. I guess not.
Becca: No! Wait -- wait a second. I'm not through with you, Du Pres. Sit down. And I'm not through with you, either. You're so special to me. You are so important in my life. I mean, for a while I couldn't even believe that you were real. It was perfect. We even got through the whole Greenlee thing. But this whole possessive thing that you're --
Scott: "Possessive"? Becca, come on. Every time I turn around, you're with this guy. And I just, you know --
Becca: So, what are you saying, Scott? That I'm not allowed to have feelings for anyone else? I'm not allowed to have friends? Is that what you're saying?
Scott: "Feelings"? You have feelings for this guy?
Leo: Do you, Becca? Becca.
Becca: You know what? I don't need this, and I sure as hell don't want this, ok? You guys just go ahead and kill yourselves. I could care less who goes first.

Alex: I'm scared to open this after the messages we got back home.
Edmund: Alex, whatever it is, we'll handle it, ok?
Alex: Ok.
Alex: "My darling Alexia --"
oh. Mum's the only one that calls me that.
"I got your phone message just before I had to leave town for a computer conference in Zurich. I'll be gone for the week you are here, unfortunately, and I'll try and get a hold of you after I get back from the conference."
Alex: I felt so sure.
Edmund: She's safe. And so are you.

[Edmund and Alex kiss]

[Car approaches]

[Car door opens and closes]

[Guy looks at Alex's abandon car]

tad: So, what am I going to do?
Brooke: I think that you should go home and be with Dixie and Junior. And whatever happens to Adam -- you have no control over it anymore.
Tad: It's not just my family. Say I can smooth things over with Dixie and Junior. What am I going to do about Stuart? By now I'm sure he hates me.
Brooke: He doesn't hate you. You're talking about Stuart. He doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

Stuart: Adam, use all the love you say you have for me and just tell me the truth. Did you hire that man to hurt Marian?
Adam: Yes.



On the next "ALL MY CHILDREN"

Greenlee: Is this a private party?

Dixie: You mess with my family and my marriage, you mess with me.

Stuart: We can't be brothers anymore.