Mateo: Arlene, I want to talk to Hayley.
Hayley: She doesn't love you. You're kidding yourself.
Mateo: She loves me more than you'll ever know, Arlene.
Hayley: Oh, yeah?
Mateo: Yeah.
Hayley: Well, why did she leave you for Tanner and Ryan?
Mateo: Well, it wasn't like that.
Hayley: Oh, wake up. That's exactly how the hell it was, Dumbo. She's my kid. She's got my blood pumping through her veins, and her daddy's, too. We don't love people, and people don't love us. We just get used and thrown aside and we come back for more, only Hayley's not coming back this time. I'm here.
Mateo: You're wrong. You're so wrong.
Hayley: Oh yeah? Prove it. Mateo: All right, I'll prove it to you. I'll prove it with the love I have with Hayley.
Hayley: You know, you talk a good game, Mateo, but you don't know what you're talking about because I took care of her and your love.
Mateo: You can't take care of our love. Do you realize that? That's the thing. Hayley knows that. And when she comes back to me, she'll feel it again. We can do anything together. She knows that. Our love saves us. It always wins. Now, how can you keep that down?

Tad: All right, you happy? I finished my coffee. Enough is enough. Now, just tell me what you know about Hayward. Look, Leslie, I don't want to be here any longer than I have to, ok? If you're trying to elicit sympathy, you've come to the wrong guy. Now, just tell me what Hayward did or said to get you to come after me so that he could go after Dixie.
Leslie: Listen, this is very difficult to talk about right now. I mean, so much has happened and you're still so angry.
Tad: Angry. Trust me, anger doesn't begin to cover what I am right now. Just -- just -- just tell me what's -- whoa.
Leslie: Are you ok?
Tad: No.
Leslie: Are you feeling sick?
Tad: Yeah. Oh, what happened? I just started feeling dizzy. I feel sick.
Leslie: Here. Just drink this, ok?
Tad: Thanks.
Leslie: Listen, the tension of all of this has obviously gotten to you, and we really can't talk here. So why don't you come with me --

Dixie: No.
David: Dixie, I need you, and I'll do everything I can to have you in my life forever. Just let me love you the way --
Dixie: No.
David: Dixie --
Dixie: This can't happen. This can't happen here. This can't happen in my house.
David: Come with me right now. You walk out of this house, and I swear to you that I'll do everything I can to make you happy.
Dixie: You know, my life is here. My family, my kids. Tad is here.
David: And what about us?
Dixie: I want this more. You don't understand. I can't be kissing you in the living room that I share with my husband. I'm sorry. You have to understand that.
David: I do understand, Dixie. That's why I'm saying to you, just leave this house behind. Come with me and never look back again.

Leslie: Tad?
Leslie: Whatever it is, Tad, I can make it better. Whatever's wrong I can fix. Tell me what you want, and I will give it to you. Tell me that you want me. Say my name. Say that you want me.
Tad: Dixie. I want Dixie.
Leslie: Dixie isn't here, Tad. But I am, and I can make it better. You know I can because we've been here before. Remember that night? Remember how much you wanted me? That night on the yacht -- it was just you and me. The rest of the world just fell away, and we had each other. It was an incredible dream. You loved me, and you showed me --
Tad: I don't love you. I don't love anything about you! I love my wife, and I want my wife back!
Leslie: Tad, no!

Bartender: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down here.
Leslie: Just get your hands off me, you lousy son of a --
Bartender: Look, you want to take that mouth and your clothes to the ladies' room and finish getting dressed before I call the cops?
Leslie: Look, I just have to catch the guy who just came through here, ok? I mean --
Bartender: Look, you're not walking through the --
Leslie: Just get out of my way.
Bartender: You're not walking through the lobby of this hotel in that little number. You got it?
Leslie: Fine.
Bartender: Lovely. Your mother must be so proud.
Leslie: Drop dead.

Opal: Oh, I'm just so sorry she won't be --
Joe: She'll try to be here by dessert.
Opal: Oh!
Myrtle: Oh!
Joe: Leslie?
Opal: Oh, it's you.
Joe: You all right?
Leslie: Yes, I just -- I just have to find someone.
Joe: You look like you're in trouble.
Leslie: No, no, I'm fine. I just have to go.
Opal: You are not fine, missy, and neither is my son these days.
Joe: Yeah. Why don't you come and sit with us for a minute? You know Myrtle and Opal.
Myrtle: Yeah.
Joe: Come on.
Leslie: Really, it's very kind of you, Joe, but I really -- I don't have time. I have to go.
Myrtle: Honey, look, I think you should make time. You're in no condition to go anywhere.
Opal: Yeah, why don't you start by closing up that little blouse of yours and acting like a grownup, and then maybe the four of us could, you know, settle in for a nice little chat about exactly what it is you think you're doing with my son.

Stuart: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just closing up. Adam.
Adam: Hello, Stuart.
Stuart: Something's happened, hasn't it? Come on, talk to me.
Adam: I don't know where to start.
Stuart: Well, how about the beginning? Adam, I think Hayley's going to be ok. I really do. I don't think Arlene would hurt her. I know -- I know you don't believe that because you think that Arlene, well, is bad. But I don't think she'd hurt her daughter. I really don't. She's done a lot of bad things, but she wouldn't do that. And I don't think she took Hayley with her, either. I really, really don't. Something else has happened, too, hasn't it?
Adam: No, no.
Stuart: Yes it has. And this is something that's been going on for a while. This isn't just since Hayley's been gone. You know something and Liza knows something and Marian knows something, and none of you will tell me what it is.
Adam: No, Stuart, that's not it.
Stuart: Liza and Marian keep whispering to each other, and then the minute I walk into the room, they stop.
Adam: No one's trying to keep you in the dark, Stuart. That's -- I'm sorry if it seems that way to you.
Stuart: No, that's not what -- that's all right. Don't worry about me. I'm not getting at that. I'm talking about Hayley. She hasn't been herself in weeks. I've never seen Mateo so worried about her. I watch him watching her. I figure one of these days one of you is going to tell me what's going on. In the meantime, Hayley's gone, and, well, you're looking like you used to look when mama used to get mad at you and say you weren't any good. She was wrong, by the way. Come on, let me help you, please.
Adam: You're a good brother, Stuart.
Stuart: Well, if I'm such a good brother, then let me help you. You got to talk to me.
Adam: Last summer when I -- when I thought I'd lost you, I was as good as dead. And I locked everybody out. I hurt Liza, I hurt Hayley. I hurt everyone. And then when you came back, it was a miracle. And I promised myself and my god that I would try to be a better man -- a better brother to you, a better husband to Liza, a better father for my children. And it occurred to me that the best way I could do that was to stop trying to control everything and everyone that I know. I couldn't do it. I failed. I tried to neaten up a situation that I never should have interfered with in the first place, and I've hurt someone so terribly that I don't know if there's any way that anyone can ever change it. I'm lost.
Stuart: Who did you hurt so badly?
Adam: Hayley. And I'm afraid she may never be right again.

Hayley: Who do you think you're talking to? I don't have a sentimental bone in my body, and yet you expect me to believe that you can heal the sick and raise the dead with your love?
Mateo: You're a coward.
Hayley: I'm sorry, what did you call me?
Mateo: You're a coward. See, you've never loved anyone like the way I love Hayley. You don't understand because to love someone, you have to risk things. You have to be willing to lose everything. You have to be able to trust.
Hayley: Really?
Mateo: You know what else?
Hayley: I'm waiting, Honey.
Mateo: Hayley's the bravest person I know. She's loaded with courage, and she sure as hell didn't get it from you.
Hayley: What, you think she got that from her father?
Mateo: No, no, she got it -- she got it all on her own. She found it on her own.
Hayley: Well, if you'll excuse me, I have to get my violin out of the car.

[Hayley laughs]

Mateo: Yeah, come to think of it, this is the first place she told me she loved me, right here on this beach. Yeah, we shared so much on this beach, a lot of special memories.
Hayley: Does this face look interested in where you and --
Mateo: You wouldn't understand. You wouldn't understand anything about anything special. You don't understand love. You don't know the first thing about love.
Hayley: I am so sick of your "love that wouldn't die" speech, Mateo, I really don't want to hear it.
Mateo: Yeah, well, you're going to hear it. You're going to keep on hearing it, and you're going to understand there's nothing that we can't get through.
Hayley: "We"?
Mateo: Yeah, Hayley and me. Everything that life's thrown at us, we've made it through, and I can promise you that we're going to make it through this.
Hayley: You've idealized your life, Mateo. It's really rather pathetic.
Mateo: Well, you've wasted yours. At least I've lived mine.
Hayley: Well, that's your opinion, isn't it?
Mateo: No, really. Not really. It's -- Hayley and I have been through so many problems -- through addiction and trust, fidelity -- and we've always made it back together.
Hayley: Lucky you.
Mateo: Love's hard work. Takes a lot of work. Not that you would know about that.
Hayley: Will you please stop talking?
Mateo: Why are you so afraid for me to talk about love? Why are you -- you're afraid to even hear it.
Hayley: Well, you're the one that keeps telling me I don't know the first thing about love, so why do you even bother?
Mateo: Do you love your daughter?
Hayley: It doesn't really matter. No one really believes me.
Mateo: Well, prove it.
Hayley: To you?
Mateo: To her. Prove it to her. Give her back to me. Quit fighting me. Quit fighting her. Show her that you're the mother she always wanted. Love her. Love yourself. She'll feel it if you do. Before you do, you have to feel it yourself. Do you think you can do that?
Hayley: I can.
Hayley: You don't know what love is until you your child try to strangle you to death.
Mateo: Hayley -- she was drugged. She didn't know what she was doing.
Hayley: The hell she didn't know what she was doing. She knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that she could strangle me and get away with it and no one would suspect her! She thought that she could get even with me and get her revenge. How stupid is that little twit? She should know by now that I would get even with her and then some.
Mateo: All right, what have you done with her? What did you do with Hayley?
Hayley: Oh, go away, Mateo.
Mateo: Answer the question.
Hayley: Are you going to play rough with me now? I got rid of her.
Mateo: Yeah? How can you be so sure that she's gone for good? How do you know she's just not going to come right back? Because let me tell you, I'm not so sure of that at all.

Joe: Whatever you're up to these days, Leslie, is important. That's why we're going to take advantage of this opportunity to speak.
Leslie: "Up to"? I mean, what makes you think that I'm up to anything?
Opal: Have you given any thought to what it means to be the one that breaks up a marriage, Leslie?
Leslie: What?
Opal: You know, the other woman never wins. She lives a life of guilt and rejection and always coming in second.
Myrtle: Yeah, Opal's right, Honey. And you do not want that.
Leslie: You don't understand. You see, Tad and I --
Opal: Made a mistake. You made a terrible mistake which Tad is trying to fix.
Joe: And we're suggesting you follow his lead.
Opal: You know, he has worked very hard for his family and his marriage. Tad is determined to do anything to keep them safe. Do you think he's really determined to do anything for you, Leslie? I would think about that if I were you and I'm considering my future. And then, you know, you might just ask yourself if you think -- is that really all you are worth? I hope when you ask yourself these questions that for your sake and for Tad's, you come up with the right answer.
Leslie: What -- what do you want from me?
Opal: What do I want? I want you to lay off. I want you to stay away from my son, from his wife, from my grandchildren. I've been around a long time, Missy, and I know your type. And I can be a hell of a lot meaner than I look when I want to. Ask Myrt.
Opal: What's the matter, Leslie? You look ill.
Leslie: I am. I have to go.
Opal: Oh, you're not going anywhere.
Leslie: Are you for real?
Opal: Oh, yes, I am very real.
Leslie: You better get your hands off me or you're going to regret this for the rest of your life. Do you hear me?

David: Dixie, you feel that you can't come to me because you're afraid that you'll be leaving everything you've known, but I'm telling you that is not true. I have a whole world to give you, one that will give you everything that you love, everything that you want and so much more. And I will spend every waking hour caring about what matters to you. I just want to take care of you, that's all. Just let me. Dixie, don't be afraid. You're not going to feel this way about what you're leaving behind forever.
Dixie: I'm freezing in here -- out here. I have to go inside, ok? Ok?
David: Yeah.
Dixie: I -- I can't do this.
David: Pack a bag.
Dixie: What?
David: Pack a bag right now and let me take you out of here tonight.
Dixie: David, you don't understand. I can't do this. I -- I'm not just some kid that has nothing to lose. I have a life. I have children. I have responsibilities. Junior's going to be coming home soon.
David: Why don't you at least look at what I'm offering to give you.
Dixie: I'm looking. I swear I'm looking. I just can't get swept away. I have a life with responsibilities.
David: I know -- Jamie, Tad, and Junior.
Dixie: Yes!
David: Dixie, do you think that your life ended when you became a mother?
Dixie: What?
David: You don't get to decide what you need because you have kids to think about?
Dixie: You don't understand. You're not a parent.
David: Yes, but, Dixie, you have your own life to live, and you're the one that has to decide how that's going to turn out.
Dixie: You're making me crazy.
David: No, it's only because you're looking at this as if it's so black and white.
Dixie: What are you -- what are you offering me, the gray? You want me to be happy in your gray world? I can't do that. You don't realize what's at stake here.
David: The hell I don't! We're at stake here. We're as important as anything else in your life. If you would just get out of the fog of your own guilty conscience, you might be able to see that.
Dixie: I do see that. What do you want me to do? You just want me to run away with you?

[Tires screech]

[Car door shuts]

Dixie: What is it? What's going on? What's out there?

[Pounding on door]

Tad: Dixie? Honey? Open the door, please?
Dixie: My God.
Tad: Honey?
Dixie: It's Tad.
Tad: It's me.
Dixie: It's Tad.
Tad: Dixie, come on, open the door, please! It's Tad!
David: Dixie, don't.
Dixie: You don't understand. He's upset. Something's happened.

David: He walks in here and he sees me and there's no telling what he might do to you.

[Pounding on door]

Dixie: He's not going to hurt me.
Tad: Dixie, open the door!
David: Do you really want another scene with him? Is that what you want?
Tad: Honey!
Dixie: Listen, just go out the back way, ok?
David: No, no! I am not leaving you when he's this upset.
[Pounding on door]

Dixie: I'm going to be fine, ok? He's upset, and I need to talk to him, ok? I can't explain to you why that matters to me, so would you please, please, just go?

[Pounding on door]

Dixie: Let me handle this. I'll take care of him, and I promise I will call you, ok?

Tad: Dixie, what the hell is this? Open the door!
Dixie: Please. Thank you.

[Pounding on door]

Dixie: Oh, my God --

Opal: Are you threatening me, Leslie? Because I'd be happy to show you --
Joe: Opal, Opal --
Opal: Exactly what I mean.
Joe: Opal, it's all right. I think she's ill. Look at me, Leslie. Look at me, please. Have you taken any drugs? Tell me what you're feeling. Your pulse is racing, you know. What's going on?
Leslie: It's not me! This entire town is blind.
Myrtle: Blind? Blind to what, Honey?
Leslie: The truth. The inevitable, and the inevitable truth that I belong to your son. Tad is mine. And we love each other, and if one of you stupid people would just look at what's in front of you, you would see that!
Opal: And if just half of your brain was functioning, you would see that Tad loves Dixie and only Dixie and she's the only woman he --
Leslie: Look, Tad and I are going to be together, and there is nothing that you or those annoying kids or that stupid shrew of a wife can do that's going to change that! I'm sorry about the mess.

Mateo: Answer my question. What have you done with Hayley?
Hayley: What someone should've done 100 years ago.
Mateo: Just answer the question.
Hayley: Go ask someone who cares!
Mateo: I care, I care. I will always care about what happens to Hayley. I will always help her, no matter what.
Hayley: Well, she got what was coming to her, the little murderer.
Mateo: See, you keep saying that, but here you are. You're standing right here.
Hayley: That's because Hayley didn't realize that I'm stronger than she is.
Mateo: You're not stronger than Hayley.
Hayley: Really? Then why am alive? Why is it that I'm standing here and little Hayley is nowhere to be found? Mateo: Because you're lying.
Hayley: You wish.
Mateo: You know, see, the thing is that Hayley thinks that she killed you, all right? I mean, but I don't think you were in danger at all, the whole time.
Hayley: She choked the life out of me, Fella.
Mateo: You're still awake. I mean, you came to, obviously.
Hayley: And then her father tried to finish me off by throwing me over the side of the boat.
Mateo: I heard that, too, but obviously you're standing right here. No one tried to do you in because if somebody would've thrown you in that water, it was so cold you would've been dead in five minutes. And the currents would've washed you away. Hayley didn't try to hurt you. You tried to hurt Hayley.
Hayley: Hayley never understood me. She never let me love her.
Mateo: Lies. Those are lies. And now you're telling me that she's never coming back, that she's gone forever. But you know what? I don't buy it. And I never will. Because my wife will always be right here. She will never go away. She will always be right here.
Hayley: Just stop it. Just stop it, Mateo, please.

Stuart: Adam, are you sure about this?
Adam: I saw it with my own eyes, Stuart.
Stuart: So Hayley's split off from herself?
Adam: She thinks she's Arlene. And she's been torturing herself as Arlene for weeks.
Stuart: Oh, poor Hayley. Poor Arlene, if she's really dead.
Adam: Oh, she's dead. I know that deep down in my soul. I know it because I'm the one who --
Stuart: Threw her overboard.
Adam: Yeah. I know how this must sound. But Hayley strangled her own mother with her own two hands. All I could think about was concealing that.
Stuart: With Liza and Marian's help?
Adam: Yeah. And then everyone started finding out. A crewman came to me with Arlene's purse that he'd found in the water with her passport in it. And I had just told Hayley that Arlene was on her way to Europe.
Stuart: So your lies started catching up with you.
Adam: Yes, they did. What a mess. And then Hayley remembered what she'd done. And she was so filled with guilt, she wanted to go right to the police. I wouldn't let her. Everything she wanted to do, that she felt she needed to do, I stopped her in every case. And now she doesn't know who she is. She's split off into another personality. She's gone.
Stuart: Did you say she's with Mateo now?
Adam: Yeah.
Stuart: Where are they?
Adam: Mateo wanted to make sure they'd be alone. I gave him the key to my beach house.
Stuart: Good. That's good.
Adam: Is it? Or did I make another mistake, letting her go there with Mateo, alone?
Stuart: Mateo will take good care of her. And if he can't, then he'll --
Adam: He'll what, Stuart?
Stuart: He'll get a doctor.
Adam: Yes, and they'll declare her criminally insane and lock her up in an institution forever.
Stuart: Adam, you don't know that. No, I know that look. Stop it with that look. Stop it.
Adam: What look?
Stuart: That -- that "I'm going to do something about this right now" look. That look. No. No, you have to let her go or you're going to lose her. Adam, for once in your life, you've got to trust Mateo to do the right thing for your girl. I found Marian again, even -- even when I couldn't remember anything because I felt her loving me, even when I was so far away and so confused. Well, you have to let that kind of love work for Hayley now. You have to let her go, Adam, or you're going to lose her.
Adam: Stuart, what if you're wrong?
Stuart: No. What if I'm right?

Hayley: I want you to stop this, please, Mateo.
Mateo: Why, so you won't have to answer my questions?
Hayley: Yeah. What, do you have a badge on your chest? What's with the interrogation?
Mateo: You feeling the heat?
Hayley: Oh, like you wouldn't. Like you wouldn't be out the door in a flash if I was doing this to you.
Mateo: Wouldn't faze me.
Hayley: Yeah, right.
Mateo: I have nothing to hide.
Hayley: Oh, well, now, there's a real laugh riot. Let me ask you a question, Mateo. Why is it that you're so hot to work this out with Hayley tonight? Is it because every time you think your little "Ozzie and Harriet" life is all nice and neat and tidy, you know that someone or something or some bottle is going to get in the way?
Mateo: Meaning what?
Hayley: Meaning what? Meaning, let's see -- exactly how many times were you and Hayley married or thought you were married, give or take? Three, is it?
Mateo: Arlene, come on.
Hayley: No, don't "Arlene" me. Please, you even had another wife and a child behind my daughter's back. And you have the audacity to stand there and talk to me about the love that transcends all time and space? You make me sick.
Mateo: All right, don't do this.
Hayley: Please, and you know that Hayley is just one drink away from ruining her life and yours with it, and you can't stand it. You can't stand the fact that it's looming over your lying, pathetic lives, and you have the gall to blame it on me?
Mateo: All right, all right, I'm not going to let you talk about me like this. I'm not going to let you talk about Hayley and me. I won't let you do it.
Hayley oh, well, you're too late because I just did.
Mateo: Oh, yeah?
Hayley: Yeah.
Mateo: Yeah. News flash -- you think you have all the answers? You think you have control? No. I'm not going to let you take Hayley away from me. Ok?
Hayley: Guess what, Mateo? I already have. No!

Dixie: What's the deal with you? Why are you doing this?
Tad: Because I love you.
Dixie: That's not how you kiss me.
Tad: Dixie, baby, I want you. I want you so bad, Honey. Can't you feel it?
Dixie: Stop it, stop it!
Tad: What are you doing? What's wrong with you? Don't push me away!
Dixie: What is this? Where is this coming from?
Tad: From me! I want you! I want you more than anything. Why -- why don't you want me? Dixie, what -- God, why don't you --
Dixie: What is this? What happened to you tonight?
Tad: I don't -- I don't know. All I know is if I -- if I could have you -- if I could have you back, I would be ok again.
Dixie: Stop it.
Tad: I would be fine.
Dixie: Stop it. What's the matter with you? Have you been drinking?
Tad: No! No, I swear it. No, Dixie. Please, baby. Please, please --
Dixie: Stop it, stop it, stop it!
Tad: What? What's wrong --

[Dixie screams]

Tad: What's wrong? What?
Dixie: What's wrong with you? You're scaring me.

[Leslie daydreams about Dixie's funeral]
Leslie: I'm sorry for your loss, Tad.
Tad: Well, my loss is your gain.

Leslie: I bet I could throw a mean funeral. For Dixie.
Tad: I'm sorry. I -- I don't know what to say. I didn't mean to scare you. I would never want to hurt you. All I want is you. All I want is for you to love me. All I want is my life back.
Tad: I'm sorry.
Tad: I'm sorry.
Dixie: Tad?
Dixie: Tad!

Mateo: It's over. No, no, no.
Hayley: No, no, no --
Mateo: It's over.
Hayley: You can't --
Mateo: It's over.
Hayley: You cannot take away what I am!
Mateo: This is who you are, Hayley. This is who you are!
Hayley: No, don't call me that! I hate her!
Mateo: I know who you are. I know who you are. Hayley: You're not making any sense. I don't know what you're talking about.
Mateo: I'm talking about Hayley. I'm talking about you.
Hayley: Hayley's gone.
Mateo: I'm talking about you.
Hayley: Hayley is gone! I killed her! No! Mateo.
Hayley: No, no, no, no --
Mateo: Shh, shh. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop, stop. Look -- look, she's not gone, ok? You could never be Arlene. Look. Look. You're too good.
Hayley: No --
Mateo: You're too good of a person, and she's gone. Arlene is gone. Ok? Look, baby. Look. Come on. Look in the mirror. Look. Look, look, look. Look. You see that? It's us. It's you and me. Ok? It's ok. Just come back. Come on. Come on, you can do it. Look. Come on. Come back to us. I'm waiting for you. Come on.


ON THE NEXT - - - ALL MY CHILDREN

Hayley: Mateo? Where am I?

Bianca: How good are you at cracking safes?

Jake: I think someone has given you a dose of Libidozone.