CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

MAC‘S OFFICE, THE PORT CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT:

Mac: So, what did you mean Chloe was the last one seen with Hannah Scott.

Taggart: They were standing a little ways away from the other four women. Chloe was the last woman to go on stage. There’s no telling what she might have done. She could have had enough time to ram the dildo down Hannah’s throat, drag her body into the dressing room and go on stage.

Mac: You’re reaching, Taggart.

Taggart: You wouldn’t be saying that because you just slept with the woman, last night, would you?

Mac: Watch it, Taggart.

Taggart: Mac, you wouldn’t be the first cop to lose his perspective after sleeping with a suspect. That’s what happened with Hannah when she started sleeping with Corinthos.

Mac; I just think it’s a little early to start naming Chloe as our number one suspect. What about Corinthos. He despises Hannah Scott. Or Carly Benson. And let’s not forget about Larkin. There’s any number of people who might have killed her.

Taggart: But none of them even know about the Sex Toy Stalker’s MO. Chloe Morgan does.

Mac; You think we’ve got a serial killer on our hands?

Taggart: That’s what it looks like. So far there’s been two women murdered. An ex-hooker and Hannah who was dressed up like a hooker. I hope my gut is wrong, but I’ve got a feeling the killings have only just begun.

SONNY’S BEDROOM, THE PENTHOUSE:

Carly(and Sonny laying in bed)You didn’t tell me what happened between you and Robin, last night.

Sonny: Maybe because it wasn’t worth talking about.

Carly: She had a few choice words for me, as well.

Sonny; I can only imagine. Did she upset you?

Carly: No, on the contrary, she said something to me that made my millennium. She said you’re in love with me. Are you?

Sonny: Are you in love with me?

Carly: No, of course not.

Sonny: Then you have your answer.

Carly: You must have said something to her about me that made her believe you’re in love with me.

Sonny: I just told her that the night we slept together I want to be with you more than I wanted to be Jason’s friend.

Carly: I thought you slept with me to prove to Jason I was a tramp.

Sonny: That’s what I told myself at the time so I could allow myself to do what I wanted.

Carly: And how long have you known that.

Sonny: Since the night after we slept together.

Carly: Well, you might have told me about that a lot sooner.

Sonny: Look, Carly, it took me a long time to realize why I did what I did that night. I knew why I didn’t sleep with you, but it took me a lot longer to figure out and accept just why I did.

Carly: But you’re not in love with me.

Sonny: No more than you are with me.

Carly: Robin said I ruined your relationship with her.

Sonny: When I was a kid in Bensonhurst Joey Cerullo and I were best friends, now we don’t even keep in touch with each other. Maybe that’s just the way life is. You can be really close to someone and they can mean the world to you but things happen and your lives go off in different directions and you lose that closeness.

Carly: So you don’t blame me for losing your relationship with Robin.

Sonny: I think this break has been coming for a long time. After I left Brenda at the altar, Robin became close to Jax and we weren’t as close as we once were. Then she betrayed Jason and I chose Jason over her. Now her life is in Paris and my life is with you. That’s just the way things are.

WYNDEMERE:

Alexis(enters)I was surprised to hear from you. I thought since were no longer related, I’d no longer be hearing from you.

Stefan: Alexis, you’re still my attorney and I have a job I need you to do.

Alexis: What do you want, this time?

Stefan: I’ve been searching everywhere but I can’t find that dossier we had on Barbara.

Alexis: Why do you want it?

Stefan: I need to find out in exactly which Florida brothel Barbara worked in when she was a teen hooker.

Alexis: Why?

Stefan: As crazy as this sounds I think Mikkos may have taken me and Stavros there when we were teenagers. Being a female you may be unaware of a Cassadine family tradition for the male members of the family.

Alexis: You mean for male members to lose their virginity in a whorehouse. Not that it was necessary in your case. As I recall, you began experimenting with sex at a very early age.

Stefan: That’s the one. Anyway, the whore I was with that night I think may have been Barbara.

Alexis: Why does it matter. That was years ago.

Stefan: I don’t know, but I have a feeling it matters very much to Barbara and to me. That woman is hiding something from me and I intend to find out what it is.

HELENA’S YACHT:

Helena(as Andreas enters)Andreas, I’ve decided it’s time for the Sex Toy Stalker to go public.

Andreas: What do you mean, Madam.

Helena: I want to convince the citizens of this dreary little hamlet that they’ve got some psychopathic bible-spouting lunatic running lose in this town killing off all the scarlet women. I need you to look up a few quotes in the bible about whores that I can use. The Sex Toy Stalker is going to write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper. I think I might even expand our victim list to include Laura Spencer and Felicia Jones. They’re both what you could call fallen women, just like that Hannah Scott creature was. You may have done me a great favor by killing off Hannah Scott by mistake. Now we don’t just have to stick to killing off ex-hookers. Andreas, this is going to be fun.