CHAPTER ONE

THE DOCKS:

Roy:(turned to Sonny before they entered the warehouse where Larken was keeping Hannah prisoner)I want to thank you for helping me rescue my daughter considering how you feel about her.

Sonny: I just lost a child. I wouldn’t wish that kind of pain on anyone, but especially you. That’s the only reason that I’m helping you. It has nothing to do with your daughter. I just hope she realizes that once we rescue her. Neither Carly or I need her on our doorstep causing the trouble she did before.

Roy: I’ll make sure she knows why you helped me saved her. (he took out his gun)Are you ready?

Sonny:(took out his gun, too)Let’s do it.

TONY’S OFFICE, GENERAL HOSPITAL:

Stefan:(hops up on an examining table in the examining room)I want you to know, Dr. Jones, that if my regular doctor was in town at the moment I wouldn’t let you touch me with a ten foot pole.

Tony: So, Mr. Cassadine, what’s the problem you’ve been having.

Stefan: I’ve been having a lot of sharp pains in my lower back, lately. I wouldn’t be overly concerned, but these pains are always in the exact same place.

Tony: Mr. Cassadine, I’m a neurosurgeon. I work on problems with the head, not the back.

Stefan: Most appropriate, don’t you think, Dr. Jones, since you’ve had so many problems with the head, yourself.

Tony: I don’t have to stand here and take your abuse. Just why have you come to me.

Stefan: I’m sure you’re qualified enough to find out if there’s anything wrong with me. And if you let anyone find out about my visit to you, I’ll make sure you don’t get appointed as head neurosurgeon.

Tony: You came to me because you feel you’ve got some kind of leverage over me?

Stefan: I don’t think, I know. You want the position as head neurosurgeon so bad you can taste it. And if anyone, like my mother for instance, should find out about my visit to you, I’ll make sure you don’t get it.

Tony: Why is it so important to you that no one finds out about you coming to see me.

Stefan: Because if my mother even thinks I might be ill, she’ll swoop in for the kill like a vulture. Now shall we get on with this examination.

SONNY’S PENTHOUSE:

Carly(notices Bobbie looking at her watch for the tenth time in two minutes)All right, Mama, what’s going on.

Bobbie:(tries to act like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about)Why, what do you mean, Carly.

Carly: You keep looking at your watch like something is going done and you’re worried about it. So, what is it?

Bobbie: Carly, you’re imaging things.

Carly: Give it up, Bobbie. I may have lost a child, but I didn’t lose my mental faculties. Something’s going on, isn’t it. Something I don’t know about. And since the only thing you worry about these days is your precious Roy, it must involve him. And if it involves Roy, it must also involve Sonny. So tell me what’s going on.

Bobbie: Carly, calm down. Nothing’s going on.

Carly: Stop talking to me in that reassuring nurse voice you use on hysterical patients and tell me what’s going on. Tell me!

Bobbie: Carly, all right, there is something going on, but nothing for you to worry yourself over. If it was anything for you to worry about, I’m sure Sonny would have told you about it, himself.

Carly: Don’t even try to pull that crap on me, again.

Bobbie: I don’t like your tone of voice.

Carly: I don’t care. Look, when you came to me and asked me to spy on Sonny for you so you could learn what Roy was up to, I let you go through Sonny’s desk. Because of that Sonny and I had a lot of problems between us. You owe me! You tell me what’s going down, tonight.

Bobbie: I’m not going to stand here and let you talk to me like this. (she heads for the door, but doesn’t get too far. Carly grabs her by the arm and swings her back to face her.) Let me go! You’re hurting me. (to show how little she cared, Carly dug her fingernails into Bobbie’s arms)Ow!

Carly(grabbed Bobbie’s other arm and began to shake her)You tell me what’s going on and you tell me now.

Bobbie: Hannah’s been kidnapped by Larken, and Sonny and Roy are going to rescue her, tonight.

Carly(let her mother go and backed away from her)Are you telling me Sonny’s trying to rescue that FBI Hooker. That he’s risking his life for that slut who tried to put him in prison.

Bobbie:(rubbing her arms)I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about and everything will go just as Roy and Sonny planned.

Carly(isn’t even listening as she begins to pace the floor like a caged tiger)I can’t believe he’d do this to me. He promised me if he was ever going to risk his life, he’d warn me. How could he risk his life to save that federal whore. What are Michael and I supposed to do if something happens to us. Doesn’t he know he’s all we’ve got.

Bobbie: Excuse me, but what do I look like? Chopped liver.

Carly: When I needed you most where were you? Off on the run with your boyfriend. And weeks before that, every time I wanted to spend time with you or talk to you, on the rare occasions you didn’t blow me off, all you could talk about is Roy! Roy! Roy! Sonny is the only one whose been there when I’ve needed him. (she grabs her coat and purse)All right, just where is Larken keeping The Banana.

Bobbie: And just why do you want to know that.

Carly: Because I’m going to go there and bring Sonny home. If Roy needs help saving his slut daughter, let him go ask his good buddy Luke, instead. Michael and I need Sonny. We’re not going to lose him because of that brainless bimbo. My God, Mama, she’s supposed to be a fed. If she were any good at her job, she wouldn’t need her Daddy to come and save her useless butt. She’s be able to do it all by herself.

Bobbie: Forget it, Carly, I’m not going to tell you where Sonny is. I’m not going to let you interfere in this and ruin everything.

Carly: Mama, could you for once since Roy DeLucca came back to this town think of someone besides him and what he wants for a change. Your grandson adores Sonny. If something happens to Sonny, I don’t know what he’s going to do. And if anything happens to Sonny, the Quartermaines are going to swoop down on me and take Michael away from me. Michael is the happiest I’ve ever seen him living here with Sonny and me. Do you even care about that. Do you want the Quartermaines to get their hands on him and raise him to be some pathetic baby-killing drunk like AJ.

Bobbie: Carly, you’re worrying about nothing. Everything will go just fine. Just you wait and see. I’m sure Sonny will be walking through that door any second now and you’ll see you were worrying about nothing.

Carly: He’d better, because if anything happens to Sonny and by not telling me where he is you prevented me from stopping it from happening, I’ll never forgive you for as long as I live.(there’s suddenly a knock on the door)

Bobbie:(smiles) See, what did I tell you.

Carly: Sonny, has a key. Why would he need to knock. (she heads to the door with an impending feeling of doom hanging over her head like a dark rain cloud)

Bobbie(calls to her) Carly, you’ll see everything turned out fine just like it did when Sonny and Roy rescued me when Sorel kidnapped me.

Carly(opens the door and finds Taggart standing there)Lt. Taggart, what can I do for you.

Taggart: I hate to come here with bad news after what you just went through recently...

Carly:(asks even though she already knows the answer) What is it?

Taggart:: It’s Sonny. There’s been an accident. He’s been shot.