Vanessa: [As Proteus]
Mr. Santos?
Mateo: Yeah.
Vanessa: Are you ready
for your assignment?
Leo: I didn't exactly do
your daughter.
Greenlee: Leo --
what is wrong with you?
Leo: I think somebody stole
my knees.
Greenlee: Leo!
Kendall: Why do you want
to take me to the courthouse?
Ryan: Because I want to see
who cracks first, you or Stamp.
TODAY'S - - - ALL MY CHILDREN
Greenlee: Val, stop standing there with your mouth hanging
open and call 911.
Rudolph: Emergency services
has better things to do than
to deal with a drunk.
Greenlee: You pompous jerk!
He's not drunk.
He was mugged last week,
and he's on pain pills.
Rudolph: How many, the whole
bottle?
Greenlee: Listen,
you stuck-up moron --
Val: Greenlee!
Greenlee: He was helping me
help you come up with an image
for your so very uncool
department store that lives
in a 1950s time warp.
You got it?
I mean, have you looked
at your clientele?
Have you told the old bats that
shop there that Mamie Eisenhower
has been pushing up daisies
for a couple decades?
Leo: Mamie Eisenhower --
now, that was a woman.
Greenlee: Leo, Leo,
baby, stay awake, ok?
No more sleeping.
Leo --
Leo: Oh, God.
I screwed it up again for you,
didn't I, Greenlee?
Judge: Is there a problem,
Mr. Stamp?
Mr. Stamp?
Are you listening to me,
Mr. Stamp?
Bianca: What's happening
to him?
Opal: I have no idea.
Judge: Mr. Stamp!
Chris: Ms. Hart,
do you remember a few moments
ago the Judge reminded you that
you were still under oath?
Kendall: Yeah.
Yes.
Chris: And when you took that
oath, you put your hand
on the bible and you swore
to tell the truth, the whole
truth.
Kendall: I did.
I will.
Chris: It's a sacred oath.
But does that oath mean anything
to you?
Jack: Objection, your honor.
Judge: Where are you going
with this, Mr. Stamp?
Chris: Right here,
your honor.
Ms. Hart, tell me --
that oath means nothing to you,
does it?
Kendall: What are you doing?
Chris: You're lying.
Jack: Objection!
Chris: You're lying,
Ms. Hart.
You hate your mother so much
that you would lie under oath
just to nail her to the wall.
Kendall: No.
Jack: Your honor, I object.
Chris: You don't care that
she's innocent.
You don't care that she's
your mother.
All you care about,
Ms. Hart, is ruining her.
Am I in the same ballpark
as your truth or what, Ms. Hart?
[Hayley listens as Mateo talks to Proteus/Vanessa]
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
I asked you a question,
Mr. Santos.
Mateo: Yeah, like I have
a choice with you, Proteus.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Vanessa: To kill whoever
I say to kill?
Mateo: Just tell me who it
is, and I'll do it.
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
Did you actually think I would
simply call you up and send
you off, guns blazing,
like a Charles Bronson?
Mateo: I don't know what
you mean.
Vanessa: Don't you?
Use your considerable smarts,
Mateo.
What do I guard above all else?
Mateo: Who you are.
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
that's right.
And why do I value that so much?
Mateo: Self-protection.
Vanessa: Very good.
Mateo: You think if someone
knows who you are, they can take
over your operation.
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
I knew I was working
with you for a reason, Mateo.
But I have to be careful around
you, too, don't I?
Mateo: What do you mean?
Vanessa: You want more
and more, don't you?
Mateo: I want more
responsibility.
I told you that.
Vanessa: You want
my responsibility.
Be honest.
Mateo: Wait a minute.
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
no.
I knew that the moment I laid
eyes on you.
You want it all, Mateo.
Mateo: Wait a minute.
Are you saying I know you?
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
Mr. Santos,
if you didn't, where exactly
would the fun be?
Mateo: Ok.
Like, I mean, I have a chance
with you, you know?
You have every card in both decks, and you know that.
Vanessa: Proteus always has
the advantage.
Mateo: Yeah, I got that.
Vanessa: You sound awfully
cocky for a man about to receive
an order to kill.
Mateo: You told me that
if I didn't do this, if I didn't
prove my loyalty to you,
that I was a dead man.
How else am I supposed to act?
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
Interesting approach.
Mateo: I'm glad you like it.
Now, are you going to give me
any leeway?
Vanessa: On what?
Mateo: I have some questions.
General in nature, of course.
Vanessa: Go ahead.
Mateo: Why me?
Vanessa: I watched your wife.
[As Proteus]
I watched how content and happy
she was, thinking that her life
was going to sail along
on smooth waters forever.
[Normal voice]
She had everything --
a loving husband,
a beautiful new baby.
[As Proteus]
and you're a man of the streets,
Mateo.
You work hard for what you've
got.
[Normal voice]
and your wife -- well,
she's an heiress.
To the manor born, shall we say.
And I found that usually those
types marry opposites.
It seems that my assumption is
correct.
Mateo: Well, how'd you know?
I mean, how'd you know that
I was pretending to be happy
with Hayley?
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
please.
When is it not an act?
Now, enough.
Are you armed?
Mateo: You told me to be.
I am.
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
The problem must be solved this
evening.
You will go to the park,
the Elm Street entrance.
There's a pay phone there.
When it rings at 7:00 Sharp,
you will pick it up.
Mateo: Ok.
Vanessa: [As Proteus]
So, have a lovely day.
[Hayley writes something on a piece of paper and shows it to Mateo]
Mateo: Wait -- wait a minute.
There's -- I -- I --
there's something else.
Vanessa: What?
Mateo: I have a question.
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
No more questions.
Mateo: No, no, no -- how --
Proteus, how -- how does a woman
like you get so good at reading
men?
[Greenlee groans]
[Leo groans]
Greenlee: Come on.
Leo: Greenlee, I'm sorry.
Greenlee: No, listen --
Leo: I'm so sorry.
Greenlee: You didn't do
anything.
I didn't ask you if you'd
already taken your pain pills
before I shoved one down
your throat.
I should be shot.
Val: I volunteer.
Greenlee: Mr. Lacey,
I'm sorry that I popped off
at you before, but you were
condemning Leo before you knew
the whole story.
And real people have real
problems, right?
I was hoping that you would help
or have some compassion
or something, and all you could
do was just stand there --
Rudolph: Oh, please.
He said he used to do
my daughter.
Greenlee: Mr. Lacey,
let's start over, ok?
I have a great idea
for your store.
Rudolph: My hopelessly
time-warped store that's locked
into 1950s and Mamie Eisenhower
couture.
Is that it?
Greenlee: I'm sorry.
Rudolph: No, I am.
I never should have let
the advertising people talk me
into a continued relationship
with Enchantment.
Greenlee: Hang on, Rudy.
Rudolph: If and when Erica
Kane ever comes back where
she belongs, I'll consider
a continued relationship
with her.
But I don't do business
with irresponsible children.
Good day.
Val: And I didn't think it
was possible for Erica's day
to get any worse.
You are lucky she's still
in custody, mister, or she'd
come after you.
Leo: I'm so sorry.
Greenlee: No, no,
Honey, come on.
Listen, I'll fix this.
It's fine.
I'll -- I'll call Erica,
and she'll be right on top
of it.
All right?
Sit down.
Greenlee: Leo, don't be
so quiet.
You're making me nervous.
Leo: I can't.
Like --
Greenlee: You can't what?
Is it us?
Is it living together?
Is it too soon after Jake
and Laura and everything?
Leo: No. No.
Greenlee: Then what's going
on?
I know something's really wrong.
What aren't you telling me?
Leo: My mother.
Something's really, really wrong
with my mother.
Chris: Perjury isn't anything
new to you, is it, Ms. Hart?
Jack: Objection.
Inadmissible.
Judge: I'm giving you some
room on this, Mr. Stamp.
Chris: Thank you.
Judge: But not much more.
Chris: Thank you.
Your motivation to lie under
oath today -- is it the same
as it was before?
Which is the complete undoing
of your mother's moral
character?
Jack: Your honor, please.
Judge: Sustained.
Move on, Mr. Stamp.
Chris: You're right,
your honor.
I'll just leave it up
to the good people of the jury
to figure out exactly what
her motivation could be here.
Ronnie: Very slick.
He's managed to get it all
in anyway.
Jack: Yeah.
Chris: Let's get a little
background information on you,
Ms. Hart.
You think that your biological
mother, Erica Kane, just dumped
you.
Kendall: I don't think it,
Mr. Stamp.
It's fact.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
How did you find out that
you were adopted?
Kendall: I overheard
my parents talking.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
And then you decided to set out
on your own and find the person
who had the audacity not
to raise you.
Kendall: I had a right.
So, when I was old enough, I got
access to my birth records.
Chris: And then you took off
after that, right?
Kendall: I wanted to know who
she was.
Chris: "She"?
She has a name --
Ms. Erica Kane -- the birth
mother.
The heartless teenager who gave
you away just so you could have
a better life.
Jack: Oh, objection again,
your honor.
Chris: Your honor,
the prosecution introduced
the subject of the witness'
feelings about the defendant.
I feel I have the very same
right to explore that area
myself in cross.
Judge: I'll allow this --
for a time.
Chris: Thank you, your honor.
When you decided you had
to confront your mother,
Ms. Hart, were you -- were
you living on the streets?
Kendall: No.
Chris: No.
In fact, you came from loving
parents.
You never wanted for anything.
Look at this.
Despite them not being well off,
the Harts managed to put enough
money aside so that Ms. Hart
could have her own college
fund -- your college fund.
They saved 1/10 of their income
every single year from the day
they brought you home until
the day you graduated high
school.
Kendall: What are you doing?
Jack: Your honor, is there
a question in our future
somewhere here?
Chris: You're damn right
there is, Mr. Prosecutor.
Judge: Mr. Stamp --
Chris: Ms. Hart, tell me --
tell the court, tell all
of us -- what has Erica Kane
ever done to you that would make
you hate her so much?
Kendall: Look, I don't
know --
Chris: It that she made
a horrible decision when she was
a child of rape?
Jack: I object, your honor!
Chris: That she thought only
of her child and not of herself?
When she was all of 14, she made
sure, Ms. Hart, that you had
loving, caring parents who would
provide you with every
opportunity in the world.
Is that the horrible sin that
woman who carried you for nine
months committed, had the nerve
to commit?
Or, better yet, are you just
plain nuts, Ms. Hart?
How's that for a question?
[Gallery murmurs]
Jack: I'm still waiting
for a ruling, your honor.
And I would ask that the court
strike every last word that
the defense attorney has offered
in the past few minutes here
in this court.
Mateo: No, I'm serious,
Proteus.
I mean, most women don't have
a clue about what makes men
click.
Vanessa: [Normal voice]
Go ahead, Mateo.
Play your little game.
Try to discern my gender
if that's what you think
you need to do.
But I may or may not be a man
or woman, but it will lead
you further away from unveiling
my identity one way
or the other.
Mateo: Wait a minute.
Whatever.
I'm just trying to prove myself.
Vanessa: Prove it in the ways
that I ask.
Launder my money.
Follow my orders.
Mateo: I do that.
I just think --
Vanessa: I do the thinking,
Mateo.
[Dial tone]
Mateo: You're a genius.
Hayley: Well, it just dawned
on me, you know.
Listening to her talk about
watching me -- she sounded like
a jealous woman, and men don't
talk that way.
Mateo: Well, it narrows
the field.
I'm sorry.
I know it wasn't easy
for you to hear all that.
Hey, what's wrong?
Hayley: She said she was
going to give you her orders
on who she wants you to kill
tonight.
Mateo: Yeah, I know.
Hayley: Yeah, I know.
Well, that will --
that will bring you one step
closer to Proteus' identity.
You'll be that much closer
to finding out who Proteus is.
Mateo: What are you saying?
Hayley: What I'm saying is
Proteus is going to use
you to eliminate the enemy,
and then Proteus is going
to eliminate you.
Vanessa: No need to panic.
And it never pays to become too
excited.
Everything is still under
control.
And after tonight,
all my problems will be solved.
[Larry arrives at the storage room, in Enchantment, where Vanessa just made her phone call as Proteus]
Vanessa: Well,
you got my message.
Good.
You're going to be very,
very busy this evening after
sunset.
But until then, you are all
mine.
Greenlee: I knew there was
more going on with your mother.
Leo: Could she be any more
cliché?
The aging actress bored
in her marriage doing the driver
in the back of the limo.
It's like every time I close
my eyes, I just -- I see it.
Greenlee: Leo, hear me when
I say this.
You're not the type to Judge
anyone, even your mother.
I mean, why is this
getting to you?
Leo: Because of you.
Greenlee: What?
Me? How?
Leo: I knew that I didn't
have the picture-perfect mother.
I would tell anyone who would
listen that she dragged me half
across the European continent,
from one count's house
to the next prince's,
trying to scam people, and then
expecting me to pull it off.
It's not conventional.
Greenlee: You hate
conventional.
Leo: I know that, Greenlee.
But then I meet you and I fell
in love with you.
Greenlee: We're not
conventional, Leo.
Leo: I know, I know, I know.
But now it feels like we're
looking at the "forever" word
and --
Greenlee: Does that
scare you?
Leo: No, it doesn't,
but she does.
Greenlee: Why?
Leo: Greenlee, we're taking
lives that we both thought were
empty and we're filling them up
every day.
And my mother --
she's completely void,
she's completely empty, and it
scares me to know that about
her.
I mean, before, it was like
she was my monologue, my joke
of a mother who I'd use to break
the ice and work the room.
But now it's not --
it's not funny anymore.
It's not funny at all,
and I don't know what to do
about it.
[Gallery murmurs]
[Judge pounds gavel]
Judge: Order.
Order!
I will clear this courtroom,
one more outburst like this.
Mr. Stamp, if I need to call
a recess to give you a refresher
course on witness
cross-examination, I can do
so if you don't get
to the point.
And, you, answer Mr. Stamp's
question.
Kendall: Which ones?
Chris: Your testimony about
your mother and her actions --
is it all lies, Ms. Hart?
Kendall: No, it's true,
and I can prove it, too.
Chris: How? The check?
The famous check that you say
she gave you to help her flee
the country?
The one that was made out
to cash, made out over a month
ago?
Kendall: Yes.
Chris: Ms. Hart, do you think
your mother is cunning?
Do you know the definition
of the word "cunning," Ms. --
Kendall: Yes, she's cunning.
Chris: Uh-huh.
Are stupid people cunning?
Ms. Hart, is your mother both
cunning and stupid?
Jack: Objection, your honor.
It calls for a conclusion
to what I can't even imagine.
Chris: Well, I can imagine.
And the obvious conclusion
is that woman, who runs
a multimillion-dollar-a-year
business in a cutthroat
industry, does not commit
a crime and try to cover it up
by leaving her fingerprints all
over the proverbial
smoking gun -- or, in this case,
the proverbial smoking check,
the one that you claim she gave
you to buy your efforts
and your silence.
Jack: Your honor, how long
is this court going to allow
this "My Cousin Vinny" defense
to continue?
[Gallery laughs]
Judge: Enough!
Go on, Mr. Stamp.
Chris: Ms. Hart, on the check
that you claim Ms. Kane gave
to you, in the notation space
in the bottom left-hand corner,
is there a little note that says
something like "payment to woman
who hates me so she can help me
flee the country"?
Or "more money to Kendall,
who accused me of a stabbing
she committed herself"?
Is there anything there like
that?
Jack: Your honor, I move
for striking all of this
questioning because there hasn't
been a real question asked
in the past 20 minutes!
Chris: Well, here's a real
question for the prosecution
that I know you'll like --
where were you on the night that
Mary Frances Stone was murdered?
Huh?
Jack: What?
Objection!
Kendall: I'll answer that.
I don't care.
Because I've never killed
anyone.
I'm not like my mother or you.
She kills for fun, and you kill
for profit.
Right, Mr. Stamp?
[Gallery reacts]
Chris: Your honor, I move
that the last remark be stricken
from the record.
Judge: So ruled.
Chris: Thank you.
I have only a couple of more
questions for you, Ms. Hart.
Kendall: I'm waiting.
Judge: Keep your commentary
internal, Ms. Hart.
Chris: You testified that
Erica Kane told you she killed
Mary Frances Stone and showed
no remorse.
Kendall: That's right.
Chris: Who is Erica Kane's
favorite writer?
Jack: Oh, for the love of --
Kendall: Excuse me?
Chris: Who is her favorite
singer?
Jack: Your honor, objection.
Chris: Goes to credibility,
your honor.
Judge: All right.
I'll allow this.
Chris: Don't know?
Kendall: Look, I don't know
what this has to do with --
with the trial.
Chris: When is your mother's
birthday, Ms. Hart?
When is your mother's birthday?
Do you know, yes or no?
Kendall: No, no, I don't
know.
What are you trying to prove
here?
Chris: Here's my point.
Even if -- and I am by no means
conceding that this is
the truth, your honor -- even
if Ms. Kane needed help
with the automobiles
and the trains and the boats
and the planes and the Swiss
bank accounts to flee
the country, why the hell would
she turn to you?
Jack: Objection.
Calls for conclusion.
Judge: I'm allowing this.
Answer the question.
Maybe you should rephrase it
for her, there, Mr. Stamp.
Chris: With pleasure,
your honor.
Why would Erica Kane confide
in you about Mary Frances Stone?
Kendall: I don't know.
I'm not --
Chris: Now, remember, you put
your hand on this bible
and you swore to tell the truth,
and right now that jury's
wondering if you've ever told
the truth in your life.
So make it good, Ms. Hart.
Why would Erica Kane tell
you something that is quite
possibly, if true, the biggest
secret of her life?
Why?
Kendall: I --
I don't know.
Chris: You know what?
No one else does, either.
Jack: Oh, objection,
your honor!
Chris: I withdraw my last
statement.
No more questions for this
witness, your honor.
Jack: Your honor, I have
a quick redirect, and I would
like to get it in before any
recess is called, if that would
be all right.
Judge: Fine.
Jack: Ms. Hart, would
you very simply and clearly tell
this court what Erica Kane asked
you to do for her.
[Kendall sighs]
Kendall: She asked me to --
to help her get a fake passport
and hire a private jet to take
her out of the country in case
she was convicted of murder.
Jack: And did she tell
you that she did, in fact,
kill Mary Frances Stone?
Kendall: Yes.
Jack: I have no further
questions, your honor.
Judge: Ms. Hart, you may step
down.
Kendall: It was worth it.
It was.
Leo: Greenlee, I'm worried
that he's going to do the same
thing to her as he did to me.
Greenlee: You think --
well, you're right.
What wouldn't he do?
Leo: God, these pills.
I'm talking too much.
You see, we were always running
scared, my mother and me.
And every single time we'd have
everything in place for a nice
payoff, she would do something
stupid, like sleeping
with the chauffeur.
So, of course, we'd have to bag
everything, and we'd have to run
to the next country and hope
that our reputation didn't beat
us there.
Greenlee: Leo, let this go.
Leo: Don't you --
Greenlee: Why are
you obsessing?
Leo: Don't you get this?
Greenlee: No.
Leo: What if I'm just like
her?
Greenlee: You are so not like
her.
Leo: Well, what about what
happened today, Greenlee?
I screwed everything up.
I ruined that Lacey's deal
for you.
Greenlee: No, no, no, you did
not screw it up.
Leo: Yes, I -- Greenlee --
Greenlee: I did.
Leo: Who takes three
pain pills in less than
20 minutes?
It's stupid.
I screwed it up, just like
I screw everything else up
that's good.
Greenlee: Is that what
you were trying to break
by being with Laura,
the screw-up pattern?
Leo: I guess.
But look who I picked to break
the pattern --
a psycho heart transplant
recipient --
which is actually worse than
a psycho, skirt-chasing
limo driver.
You know what else?
Greenlee: What?
Leo: I'm --
I'm passing out now.
Hmm.
Greenlee: I'm not letting us
get screwed up.
Not this time.
[To Larry - - - ]
Vanessa: All right.
I want you to go and warm up
the limo, and I will be right
behind you.
Ok.
Vanessa: Well, you really do
know how to make a girl feel
special.
Like a regular Ronald Coleman.
Oh, but, Larry --
oh, Darling.
Oh.
I really won't miss you all that
much.
Mateo: Proteus is not going
to kill me.
She -- this chick gets off
on sparring with me too much.
Hayley: For Pete's sake,
Mateo.
Mateo: I know.
I'll be careful.
I will.
Come here.
Hayley: I shouldn't.
Mateo: I need you.
I need you.
Listen, I want you to go home
and I want you to tell Lorenzo
that I love him.
I want you to give him a kiss
and tell him that his daddy's
going to be coming home soon,
ok?
Don't let go.
Hayley: Don't you let go.
Jack: This woman
had nothing but contempt
for the young girl that
she murdered in cold blood.
And I'll tell you something
else --
she has nothing but contempt
for you, the members of this
jury, and for me, and
for the people of the
commonwealth I represent,
and for this Judge who has
presided over this case
because Erica Kane is famous.
She believes that she is above
the law.
She believes that she can sit
here and tell us that she is
innocent of the murder of Mary
Frances Stone and that when that
story isn't working out quite
the way she planned, change it
to a story of self-defense.
Self-defense.
Frankie Stone was a young woman
from a troubled home whose only
crime was falling in love
with Erica Kane's daughter.
But that act of love was
something that Erica Kane would
not accept and would not stand
for.
Oh, Erica Kane has contempt
for all of us.
But if you let her contempt
for her innocent,
19-year-old victim go
unpunished, then it is you who
have contempt --
contempt for justice,
contempt for the very sanctity
of life.
So I'm begging you
to bring back a verdict
of guilty.
Please.
Don't fail Frankie Stone.
Chris: Ladies and gentlemen,
Mary Frances Stone was
a con artist.
She was out to get as much money
as she could.
And when she came to
Pine Valley, her target --
target -- was the defendant,
Erica Kane.
You want reasonable doubt?
I'll give you reasonable doubt.
Mary Frances Stone was
a wandering, promiscuous,
drug-using liar who used anybody
she got close to.
Erica Kane is guilty.
She's guilty of loving
her daughter so much that
she offered to help the very
same person who was about
to fleece her.
Mary Frances Stone -- innocent?
The prosecution
has offered you only
half-truths.
He put a proven perjurer
on the stand to refute
the testimony of my client,
the defendant, Ms. Erica Kane.
And the only thing that
he managed to prove,
ladies and gentlemen, was that
Erica Kane loves her daughter
beyond all reason.
[Back at The Pine Cone motel]
Ryan: Do these doors lock?
Kendall: You ditched me!
Ryan: I went to see Stamp.
When he was done, I was done.
Kendall: Oh, yeah.
I forgot -- you want to watch
the guy who offed your father
play lawyer.
Hmm, that's --
Ryan: I tell you one private
thing -- one -- and then
you shout it out in front
of a courtroom full of people.
That was really very nice.
Kendall: Well, I didn't
realize that Stamp killing
your father was
confidential 411.
Ryan: Well, I didn't realize
that you would use it
as your own personal version
of "Your mama wears combat
boots."
Kendall: What are you talking
about?
Ryan: You know what?
Just get out, please.
Go.
You're a spoiled little brat
because Mommy didn't love
you right.
That's just -- that's boring.
Go.
Kendall: You stinking,
superior jerk --
Ryan: I said go!
Kendall: Fine!
[Door slams]
[Kendall leaves]
[Ryan sighs]
[Kendall returns]
Kendall: At least I'm not
afraid of Mommy's care packages.
What, she sends you
chocolate-chip cookies,
and you freak?
Ryan: My mother's dead.
Whatever's left in that box is
just useless junk that she left
at the nursing home after
she died.
And while I don't think that
I've been subtle, I want to be
really, really clear about this.
Just stay out of my life!
I need a neurotic bitch like
you like you need a pouting
loser like me.
And next time you need to pick
a fight with your mommy,
choose somebody else to rile
you up for the battle,
all right?
Kendall: Fine!
Ryan: Fine!
Kendall: As soon as they put
Erica's head in the guillotine
and pull, I am out of this
stupid, stinking burb for good!
Ugh!
[Door slams]
[Pounding on wall]
Ryan: Shut up!
[Doorbell rings]
Leo: Hey.
Bianca: Oh.
Leo, it was awful.
Kendall tore my mother apart
on the stand, and Chris said
just wretched things about
Frankie, and everybody was
talking, and I just --
I couldn't take it for one more
minute.
Leo: Come here, come here.
Bianca: Oh.
Leo: Oh.
Bianca: Oh, God, are you ok?
Leo: Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm hanging in there.
Bianca: Oh, my God.
Leo: How you doing?
Bianca: I am so sorry
for unloading on you like that,
especially now that you're
living at Greenlee's.
Is she here?
Leo: Yeah -- no,
I don't -- she was.
I don't know where she went.
[Greenlee pounds on Vanessa's hotel room door]
Greenlee: I know you just
came home.
Open the damn door!
[Vanessa opens the door]
Greenlee: What the hell are you trying
to do?
Leo: There you go.
Bianca: Thank you.
I am so sorry to do this.
Leo: Hey --
Bianca: Leo --
Leo: It's ok.
Really.
Bianca: I just -- I keep
thinking that I should be there
for Mom, and I -- I can't.
And I keep holding on to this
book that Frankie gave me.
Leo: Oh, this is
Shakespeare's sonnets.
Bianca: Yeah.
I keep thinking that when I'm
holding it, I'm -- I'm closer
to her, like I was holding
her hand.
You know, it is so
weird -- Frankie and
Shakespeare.
I keep reading them over
and over and over again,
just trying to hear her voice
in every one.
[Bianca sighs]
[Bianca notices a page has been removed from the book]
Leo: What is it?
Bianca?
Bianca: I --
I wish I knew.
Vanessa: Oh.
Greenlee, really, I do not have
the time now.
Greenlee: Tough.
We have to talk.
Vanessa: Tough.
I have plans.
Greenlee: Cancel them -- now.
[Meanwhile Mateo waits for his phone call from Vanessa/Proteus]
Judge: So, with all of that
in mind, ladies and gentlemen
of the jury, you are hereby
charged to find Erica Kane
either guilty or not guilty
in the murder of Mary Frances
Stone.
You're dismissed to
your quarters.
[Judge pounds gavel]
Bailiff: All rise.
ON THE NEXT - - - ALL MY CHILDREN
[Simone kisses Mateo]
Simone: Bet you're wondering
where that came from.
Greenlee: You step one toe
back in the gutter, and it's
bye-bye to your son.
Bianca: There's a page
missing from the book Frankie
gave me.
What am I not supposed to see?