November 2nd, 2001
"Lucien Cain is your
father."
Nikolas: {His phone rings} Nikolas
Cassadine.
Gia: Hey. It's me.
Nikolas: You all right?
Gia:
Lucien Cain is your father.
Nikolas:
Where are you?
Gia: I don't know. Somewhere underground. {Stavros comes
in and grabs the phone from GIa}
Nikolas: Gia? Gia?
Lucky: I need to do this, mom. I need
to get my life back. Give me the gun.
Laura: It's ok. This is not a good
idea.
Lucky: No, give me the gun --
Laura: It's not a good idea.
Lucky: Give me the gun!
Laura: Lucky, stop it! Please don't do
that!
Nikolas: {Walks into the attic} Stavros has Gia.
~*~
Stavros: I thought I could trust you. I
thought you were on my side.
Gia: You believed what you wanted to.
Stavros: Then this was all an act? Your words of encouragement, your
words of understanding?
Gia: Oh, I
understand. You think you can push people around and yank their chain until they
jump and dance the way you want them to. Well, guess again.
~*~
Nikolas: Helena and my father have
taken Gia prisoner.
Lucky: I'll get her back.
Laura: No, Lucky,
stop.
Lucky: They took her because of me.
Nikolas: Lucky, it is
not your fault.
Lucky: Helena's plans got rolling because of me.
Laura: No, Lucky. This all started when Stavros took me away from your
father all those years ago.
Nikolas:
Lucky, my grandmother knows how much I care about you, and that never meant a
thing to her. She still took away your future and your freedom. Now, I want to
get that back for you. Let me give that to you.
~*~
Lucky: No, no, this is just as much my
battle as it is yours.
Nikolas: I know that. But Helena wants to use you
against your father, and we can't let that happen.
Laura: Nikolas is
right.
Lucky: So you guys are going to risk it yourselves? Forget it.
I'm the one here that has nothing to lose. Nikolas: Lucky, my father
will never hurt me.
Lucky: I'm glad you think so.
Nikolas: Well,
I'm his son, man, come on.
Lucky: Who
happens to be siding against him. Tell me this, Nikolas -- what if he decides
that you're not worth it?
Nikolas: I still have a better chance than you
do. My family doesn't hate me on the spot, for one thing. Laura: Lucky,
trust us. Let us handle it.
Nikolas: Now, you want your life back,
right? This is the best way to make it happen. And Elizabeth -- she still loves
you, Lucky.
Lucky: Yeah. But I've just been -- been so bad --
Nikolas: She knows that it's not your fault. She knows that.
Lucky: If it's not my fault, Nikolas, how come she's in hiding right
now?
Nikolas: She's safe, and she will come back to you when this is all
over. Now, you can break free of Helena, and you can find each other again.
Lucky: How do you know?
Nikolas: Elizabeth -- she wanted me to
give this to you. It's a letter she wrote. She wanted you to know that you
still have a future together, that she will never leave you. Everything you want
you can have if you just let us go now. Lucky, everything you want you can have.
Lucky: Everything that I want is you and mom.
Nikolas:
We know that, ok, but we can stop Helena. But we need you to stay here so my
family can't turn you against us. Trust me. Ok? Little brother, trust me. Give
me the gun. Give me the gun. Come on. Come here.
~*~
Stavros: How disappointing to learn
that you can't be trusted.
Gia: Speak for yourself. You will never get
what you want.
Stavros: Oh. And what is it that you wanted? A happily
ever after with the prince? A royal wedding and a diamond tiara? All that could
have been yours if you had just helped bring Nikolas back to me. Such a surprise
to find out that you are so shortsighted.
Gia: You know, a tiara would
be great, but I don't need it. I would never want to be in Nikolas' life if he
hated me, but, of course, you wouldn't understand that. I know all about your
marriage to Laura. Not exactly a match made in heaven, now, was it?
Stavros: Do not presume to know anything about Laura and myself.
Gia: Here's a tip -- when you do hurtful things to people, they tend to
remember, and they're not real eager to welcome you back with open arms.
Stavros: We had a wonderful life together. She bore me a son, a
magnificent boy.
Gia: Nikolas knows how you treated his mother. You
cannot just say "abracadabra" and make it all disappear.
Stavros: We
have a future together.
Gia: So
you want Nikolas by your side, even if you have to force him, even if he
despises you? For the record, Mr. Cassadine, I am betting on the power of love.
{Phone rings}
Stavros: Yes? Excellent. My son is here.
~*~
Nikolas: {Walks around the
maze} Can you believe this place?
Laura: Yes, I can, unfortunately.
Nikolas:
We need to stop Helena, and that means stopping my father.
Laura: We
will. Don't worry. We can do it. Pledge grab-it wet floor wipes.
~*~
Laura: Are we lost?
Nikolas: I
-- I know the way from here. We -- we go right. Yeah.
Laura: It should
lead directly to the lab.
Nikolas: Well, it also connects to the
elevator on the roof before they sealed it off.
Laura: Does this seem
like it's a little too easy? You know, like they know we're here and they're
just letting us past the point of no return?
Nikolas:
I think you should go back. I do.
Laura: I'm not going to leave you
alone.
Nikolas: There's still time to get help.
Laura:
No. I don't want anybody else involved in this. Besides, Stavros wants us alive.
That's why we still have the best shot to fight them. {They walk around a few
corners}
Stavros:
{Comes out} At last my wife and my son have come to me.