PH4

Courtney: There is no way that I'm letting A.J. get away with this.

Carly: Courtney, stay out of it.

Courtney: Jason is being charged because A.J. paid off that eyewitness. I mean, Carly, I have to do something.

Carly: You know what, Courtney? I have been there, I have done that, and you know what? I've learned to regret it. Sonny and Jason are not going to let Scotty railroad them. I'm sure they have a plan in place, and you need to do the smart thing -- just leave this one alone.

Courtney: Carly, A.J. is doing this to get back at me. There has to be some way that I can fix it.

Carly: Listen to me. Listen to me. All right? Jason is out on bail and you don't want to do anything that's going to compromise that. Just -- don't blame yourself because this has nothing to do with you. This entire mess is caused by one person -- Brenda.

Later at the PH, Carly and Courtney have left…

[Phone rings]

Sonny: Hello. Well, where'd she go? Damn it, Johnny. You know what? All right, listen. See if you can pick up the trail.

[Phone rings]

Sonny: Jason?

Jason: Yeah. What's up?

Sonny: Johnny called. This Ida woman got away from him. Not something your average senior citizen could do.

Jason: She must have experience with this kind of thing.

Sonny: Yeah, she's probably on her way to the Quartermaines' right now. You need to get that on film.

Jason: I got it covered. I'll be ready when Ida shows up.

The Quartermaines

[Jason is outside, looking through the window with a camera.]

A.J.: Hey, Skye, it's A.J. Dad told me you left the hospital with Coleman. I know you're upset about Brenda and Jax. You have every reason to be. I just -- I don't want to see you hurt yourself, ok, so would you call me when you get in, please?

Courtney: Hi.

A.J.: What are you doing here?

Courtney: Did you mean what you've been telling me -- that you really are the person I thought I loved?

A.J.: Of course I meant it.

Courtney: Good. Because I'm going to give you the chance to prove it to me.

Courtney: You used to say that I made you a better person.

A.J.: That's true.

Courtney: And all the things that your family did to you, they were in the past. And you learned how to be caring and considerate.

A.J.: I cared about a lot of things for the first time because of you.

Courtney: Well, when you tried to convince me to come back to you, you told me that you could be the kind of man who would do the right thing.

A.J.: For you, always.

Courtney: What about for other people?

A.J.: Like who?

Courtney: Sonny and Jason.

A.J.: What a surprise.

Courtney: Scott Baldwin is trying to blame them for Alcazar's killing, and, A.J., your testimony --

A.J.: Hey, I told the police -- I told Baldwin what I saw, and that was Jason behind the wheel of Alcazar's limo, ok? It happened. I didn't make it up.

Courtney: Yeah, but you couldn't let it rest, could you?

A.J.: What exactly are you accusing me of?

Courtney: Skye's a wreck. Ok, everybody knows that she's lying, and you just won't let her admit it. You're pushing her to stick to her story, aren't you?

A.J.: What about the eyewitness? You know, the lady who saw everything from the window across the street?

Courtney: Well, you could pay her to change her story.

A.J.: Are you asking me to bribe this woman?

Courtney: You've done illegal things before, A.J. ok, except this time, it would be for a good cause. You could get the eyewitness to claim that -- that she accused Brenda and Jason because she wanted publicity, her name in the paper or her face on the news. I mean, it's probably the truth anyhow.

A.J.: Maybe. There's something that you're going to have to do for me.

A.J.: I tried to prove my love to you a thousand different ways, and the first chance you get, you go run to my brother, the big hero --

Courtney: You know -- you know that isn't true, A.J. --

A.J.: It is true. How big a hero is he going to look when he's in prison? Because that's what's going to happen. And, Courtney, there's nothing you can do about it.

Courtney: But there is something that you can do.

A.J.: You want me to save my brother? Hmm? Want me to clear him? Stop the divorce, come back to me, and never see him again.

Courtney: Do you know what you're doing?

A.J.: You came to me, ask me to lie to cover for murder.

Courtney: I am asking you to help your brother, who helped you when you were in trouble, A.J.

A.J.: Don't you ever tell me I owe my brother for anything.

Courtney: Jason covered for you after you burned down the Oasis.

A.J.: No, no, no, no. Hey, he didn't cover for me. He covered for you. You opened the door. He walked right in. And from then on, he was like a bad rash. I couldn't get rid of him. You turn to him for everything.

Courtney: God, A.J., I wouldn't have needed saving if you hadn't stalked me.

A.J.: You know what? He would have found some other way to save you because that's what he does. Don't you understand? And I'll bet that's what you wanted from the moment you first saw him. Isn't that right?

Courtney: I didn't even know him when I first saw him.

A.J.: You want to help my brother? You want to save him? Then you're going to stop right now and you're going to come clean. Tell me the truth. I want to know. When did you first want him? When did you look into his eyes and realize, "uh-oh, I married the wrong brother"?

Courtney: It didn't happen when I looked into Jason's eyes, A.J. It happened when I looked into yours. The night that I found out that you stalked me and then you tried to lie your way out of it, the night that I realized that all your tenderness and concern, all the ways that you said that you loved me, all the times that you said you needed me -- it was all fake. God, you can turn it on anytime you want to cover up any hideous thing that you do.

A.J.: You don't like it when I lie? Then what are you doing here, huh? You're asking me to lie for my brother. I told you what it's going to cost -- you back with me.

Courtney: Why do you want me knowing that I hate you?

A.J.: You see, that's where the fun's going to come in. Because you're going to have to convince me you don't. Ok. You are going to be my sweet, affectionate, loving wife again.