The hospital

Tracy: I know that there's no meeting scheduled. That's why i'm calling -- to schedule it. I want to make it crystal clear to the charity guild members that i have every intention of taking over for my mother and chairing in her stead! Now, will you arrange it and get back to me? Are you absolutely sure you can manage it? Good!

Courtney: I have had it with your constant interference.

Tracy: Are you talking to me?

Courtney: You know, my foundation would benefit from a cooperative association with the charity guild, and since you are so determined just to sabotage everything i do, I'll just go straight to lila.

Tracy: Let me know what she says. She's dead.

The Docks

Emily: Hey.

Jason: Hey.

Emily: Thanks for meeting me.

Jason: Oh, you knew i would. Are you ok?

Emily: I miss grandmother. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that she's gone.

Jason: I know. Me, too.

Emily: I want to do something that grandmother would want, and that means taking care of the family. The only catch is I'll need your help.

jason: Emily, i loved lila. And I want to help you, god knows, in any way that i can. But when it comes to the family, there's just not a whole lot that i can do. I went to the house. I'll be at the funeral. I can share the quartermaines' pain and loss because I feel it. But as far as being some kind of comfort to them, I don't even know how to do that.

Emily: All you have to do is show up, jase. I'm not asking you to move in. Just be a presence in their lives. Everyone knows grandmother's the only reason you ever went near that house or had a civil word to say to any one of them, and now she's gone. And they've not only lost the heart and soul of our family, they've lost their last connection to you. And it scares them, jase, whether they burden you with that fear or not. Please, just stay in touch. That's all i'm asking.

Jason: You're the one i'm worried about. You and lila were so close. You have your own pain to work through. Don't get so caught up in taking care of everybody else that you forget to take care of yourself.

Emily: You don't get it. I have you to come to, to lean on. That's so much more than the rest of them have.

The hospital

Courtney: Tracy, I hadn't heard. I'm so sorry.

Tracy: You are sorry. Thank god jason finally mustered up the courage to divorce you. And my mother could live out the last months her life with the comfort and satisfaction of knowing that you were no longer a part of her family.

Courtney: Well, I guess i shouldn't be surprised that you would express your pain through anger. But I loved lila, ok, and I respected her. So i will honor her right now by making allowances for her daughter.

Tracy: Clearly you mistook good breeding and impeccable manners for affection. You were inconsequential to my mother as you are to me.

The Docks

Courtney: Jason. I -- I heard about lila. I'm so sorry.

Jason: You know she was in pain almost all the time?

Courtney: No, I had no idea.

Jason: Most people didn't. She never complained.

Courtney: But you knew.

Jason: Yeah, I knew. You know, at least she doesn't have to hurt anymore. She doesn't have to wonder about the choices she made. She finally understands what her life was about. It's the people who are left behind who have to struggle. You know, grandmother never made me feel guilty for staying away, but she missed me. I know how bad that hurts because I can feel how much i miss her.

PH4

Jason: Michael?

Michael: Hey, jason. Mommy and daddy are out. But leticia's going to take me and morgan to the park. You want to come?

Jason: The park's going to have to wait. There's something important that we need to discuss. Come on over here.

Michael: Either i'm in trouble or something bad happened.

Jason: And why do you say that?

Michael: Because we're sitting on the couch. Which is it?

Jason: Well, you're not in trouble. Let's see -- you know A.J. Is your biological father?

Michael: Yeah. But sonny's my real dad.

Jason: Right, sonny is your dad, but the biology part means that there are people who are related to you through a.J., Ok, and they don't know you very well, but they still care about you a lot.

Michael: The quartermaines.

Jason: That's right, the quartermaines. Do you remember my grandmother, lila?

Michael: Sure, the lady in the wheelchair. I see her at the christmas party. She waves to me.

Jason: She -- she died. Lila is in heaven now, and she needs a favor from you.

Michael: How can someone in heaven need a favor?

Jason: Well, dying means you can't, you know, be on this earth forever, but it doesn't end the love you felt for people when you were here. You want to keep helping them. You want what's best for them. And lila knows that her family is sad because she's gone, and she wants them to feel better.

Michael: How can I help?

Jason: Well, by -- by going to see them. And you don't have to, michael. Like i said, you barely know the quartermaines, and, you know, if this whole idea makes you uncomfortable whatsoever, I won't even talk about it again.

Michael: How was lila related to me?

Jason: She was your great-grandmother.

Michael: How come i never went to see her like grandma bobbie and grandpa mike?

Jason: Because a lot of fighting went on over you -- you know, who you should live with, where you should live. I mean, your parents and A.J. Could never -- never settle anything, so carly and sonny thought it was best if you just stayed away from the quartermaines altogether.

Michael: Was lila mad?

Jason: She wasn't like that. She knew people had reasons for the things they do, even if she didn't agree with it. You know, even when someone's decision hurt her, she always respected the fact that everyone had the right to choose. She did it with me every day.

Michael: Are you sad that lila died?

Jason: Yeah. Yeah, I am.

Michael: Do you want me to go over to the quartermaines?

Jason: Uh -- I'd like you to, yeah.

Michael: Then i will.

Jason: Thanks.