PH4

Jason: What?

Carly: Sonny's gun is gone.

Courtney: Well, I put it in the lock box on his dresser, just like you asked me.

Carly: He must have taken it with him, jason.

Courtney: He's so convinced that faith is trying to kill him. Maybe he went after her.

[Knock on door]

max: I got ahold of marco. He already dropped sonny off.

Jason: Where?

Max: West end avenue and third. Sonny took off down an alley.

Jason: Ok, ok, thanks. All right, i'm going after him.

Carly: Ok, I'm coming with you.

Jason: No, no, no, no, no. You're going to stay here. You, michael, and the baby matter to sonny more than anything, ok? Just stay safe. This is what's going to get sonny through this.

Carly: Ok.

Jason: Just wait with carly.

Courtney: I will.

Jason: I'll be back with sonny.

Warehouse

Jason: Sonny!

Sonny: Don't -- don't come near me. Don't do it.

Jason: I don't know why you came here, but we got to go. Carly needs you.

Sonny: Did something happen to carly and the baby?

Jason: No. Carly wants you home.

Sonny: Everybody wants something. You want to sleep with my sister. Faith wants my territory. Jax wants me dead, which is convenient because I want him dead, too. And as soon as he gets here, he will be.

PH4

Carly: I wish jason would call. I'm calling him.

Courtney: Carly? He might be right in the middle of something and his cell phone ringing would not be a great idea.

Carly: You must be in love because you sound just like him.

Courtney: You're not really great at waiting, are you?

Carly: No, I'm terrible at it, and i am fighting the urge to go down to third street right now and search the alleys.

[Noise]

carly: Is that the elevator? We thought we heard the elevators.

Max: It was marco checking in.

Carly: Well, did he have any news on sonny?

Max: No. Sorry.

Carly: Ok.

Courtney: Oh, hey.

Carly: Wait, I --

courtney: Are you ok?

Carly: Yeah --

courtney: You're sick.

Carly: No, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. I'm just -- I'm dizzy. I feel faint. I'm good.

Courtney: Should we go to the hospital?

Carly: It's going to pass.

Courtney: Are you positive?

Carly: Yes. I just need to sit for a minute.

Courtney: Oh, my god. Now, can't you imagine if sonny came home and found out we had to go the hospital? I mean, it would push him even further over the edge. Ok, carly, the best thing that you can do for sonny right now is just to take a deep breath and just work on being calm.

Carly: Yeah. Tell me how I'm supposed to do that, courtney, while my husband is out there determined to protect us and he's got a loaded gun.

Warehouse

Sonny: Jax is faith's silent partner. I can't let him live. I can't take the chance that he's going to hurt carly and the baby.

Jason: If jax wasn't working with faith, he's after you. He's not after carly or your children.

Sonny: Well, good. Let him come get me, then.

Jason: You know --

sonny: If he wants to come get he, he can come get me, right?

Jason: Sonny, you know jax is no gunfighter. He's not coming. It's just you and me. I mean, and even if he did come, what are you going to do? Take him out? It's too messy. There's too much chance of getting caught. Isn't that what you taught me? Huh? Over and over? "Stay professional. Don't let this get personal."

Sonny: Personal? He hired somebody to shoot carly. He could have killed my wife and my baby. I can't -- i can't allow that. He's got to die.

Jason: Why are you going to destroy yourself? You let me do the job. You let me get my hands dirty, not you, sonny.

Sonny: Why should i listen to you? You disrespected me. You flaunted your relationship with my sister in my face.

Jason: We're after faith. She's the threat. She's the one who has to be removed. Now, i will do my job.

Sonny: I want this over.

Jason: It will be. I swear, as soon as we're out of here. Just -- just give me the gun. Let me take you home. Sonny, come on.

Sonny: I want this over.

Jason: You can trust me. Just -- just give me the gun. It's ok.

Taggert: [On bullhorn] this is the pcpd! Corinthos, the building is surrounded! Come out with your hands up!

Sonny: You called taggert?

Jason: No, I didn't call -- I didn't call the cops. Sonny, who cares? We're not breaking any laws. Let's just ditch the gun and give ourselves up.

Sonny: Taggert's going to search the warehouse, he's going to find the guns, and he's going to throw us in lockup. I can't spend 48 hours in lockup!

Taggert: [On bullhorn] michael corinthos jr., This is your last chance! Come out with your hands where we can see them!

Taggert: Charlie 555. Officer requests backup. We're at the warehouse on the northeast corner --

jason: You fired at the police.

Taggert: At the warehouse on the northeast corner --

sonny: I had to back them off.

Taggert: On west third.

Jason: Sonny, that's a felony. Give me the gun.

Taggert: Repeat --

jason: Give me.

Taggert: Officer needs backup. Shots fired.

Jason: Ok, come here. Hey, listen -- listen to me, ok? Sonny?

Sonny: What?

Jason: I'm going to give myself up. I'm going to say the gun went off by accident. I'm going to stall the cops. You get out of here.

Sonny: They're not going to believe it's an accident.

Jason: I'm going to buy the time that you need to get out of here. Just swear to me you'll go home.

Sonny: You don't --

jason: Your family needs you.

Sonny: You don't need to do this for me.

Taggert: The building's surrounded! You're outnumbered! Come out with your hands up!

Jason: Just -- just go. We're running out of --

sonny: No, I'm not leaving you to take the fall for me.

Later…

Scott: Taggert, what happened?

Taggert: There was nobody inside, sir.

Jax: Did you arrest sonny?

Scott: I heard shots were fired.

Taggert: The five families have their meetings here. They probably had some kind of secret -- i don't know -- underground escape way or something.

Scott: So sonny just vamoosed under some underground tunnel? That's just great, taggert!

Officer: Lieutenant.

Taggert: Oh.

Scott: What do we got here?

Taggert: That is a gun that was left behind, sir.

Scott: Well, I want it dusted for prints, trace the serial number.

Taggert: That's standard procedure, sir, but with all due respect, there's no way sonny left a gun behind with prints on it. We won't be able to trace it.

Scott: There were shots fired at the police and you're telling me you can't prove it?

Taggert: If you would have come down here like sonny wanted you to, alone, we would have been taking you out of here in a body bag.

Scott: Wait a second, taggert. Sonny doesn't usually do his dirty work. Something's fishy here. He's getting a little desperate, isn't he?

Reporter: District attorney baldwin, we're live on the air. Can you fill us in? We received a report that there was a major gun battle here tonight between the pcpd and organized crime.

Scott: Yes, yes. Thanks to the link between the pcpd and the d.A.'S office, there was no violence, there was no crime in this city tonight. It was a triumph for the port charles police department.

Reporter: Was sonny corinthos arrested?

Scott: Sonny corinthos is undergoing investigation from my office.

PH4

[Carly and Courtney are watching the news]

Carly: Oh. Oh, thank god you're ok.  [Carly hugs Sonny and Courtney hugs Jason]

Jason: We should go.

Sonny: Thanks for getting me out of there.

Jason: That's no problem.  [they leave]

Courtney: Sonny?

Sonny: Hmm?

Courtney: I'm glad you're ok. You can't let anything happen to yourself. You're too important to your family.  [They leave]

[Door closes]

carly: Hey. What happened?

Sonny: I was ready to throw my life away. And I didn't. Don't ever let me. Don't ever let me lose you, ok?

PH2

Courtney: Carly and I were watching the news, and the reporter said that there were shots fired.

Jason: Yeah. Sonny and i got out through some access tunnel sonny knew about. So by the time the cops got in the warehouse, we were long gone. We were never in any danger.

Courtney: Sonny's a danger to himself and to you as long as you keep going after him. You're going to keep risking yourself to save him.

Jason: Courtney, courtney, courtney, the worst is over.

Courtney: It's only over until something changes.  [He tucks her hair behind her ear]

Jason: Yeah, you know what? Nothing needs to change. Not tonight.  [He kisses her]