The loft

Carly: Oh, hey. The telepathy that we have never ceases to amaze me.

Jason: What are you doing here?

Carly: Hey, max, you can just drop those down here. That'll be good.

Jason: What are you doing here? Come on.

Carly: Thank you.

Max: I'll be outside if you need me.

Jason: Yeah.

Carly: Thanks.

Jason: Thanks.

Carly: I hope you like what i brought for dinner.

Jason: What are you talking about? We don't have plans for dinner, carly.

Carly: Correction -- we didn'T. We do now.

Jason: No, I'm on my way to the hospital to pick up courtney right now.

Carly: Ok, no, it's all taken care of. Sonny is getting courtney, he's bringing her here. That way we can all have not only a lovely family dinner together, but they can have a little brother-sister bonding time.

Jason: Yeah.

Carly: And that's important for them.

Jason: I feel a carly plan coming.

Carly: It's dinner. Don't be paranoid.

Jason: Forget it. I'm not going to go along with one of your crazy plans, and neither will courtney.

Carly: What's so crazy about dinner? For dessert you can ask sonny for courtney's hand in marriage.

Courtney: What do you want?

Ric: I just came to check to see how you were doing. Better, I see.

Courtney: Jason will be back any second.

Ric: Good. I'll make it brief. Wouldn't want jason to come in here and lose it and do something to get him sent to prison, right?

Courtney: Ok, would you just take your threats somewhere else, ric? They're getting really old.

Ric: Oh, no threat intended, I'm merely stating fact. If jason does come after me, I'm going to have to use what i have against him. And in case you're a little fuzzy on the details or you thought you were dreaming last night, let me just refresh for you. I have the tire iron that killed fowler, along with jason's fingerprints all over it with a fair amount of fowler's blood.

Courtney: Yeah, ok, I remember.

Ric: Good. Here. Now, i took the liberty of making a copy of the original. Ahem. In it, i have detailed instructions on where to find the tire iron. I've omitted that part there. In place of it, though, I have an explanation of who, what, where, when, how, why -- everything how jason killed fowler.

Courtney: You're such a bastard.

Ric: That's almost funny. Now, here's the part where you listen up. If i should die or i should mysteriously become incapacitated or vanish without a trace, the original goes to the police. If you decide to tell jason and he and sonny go off looking for the murder weapon, the original goes to the police. Now, if you want to keep that boyfriend of yours, you'll keep your mouth shut.

Sonny: Ric. Get away from my sister.

Ric: There's no need to get all protective, sonny. I just stopped in to see how courtney was doing. I mean, after all, she's -- she's kind of my sister, too.

Sonny: No, no, no. Courtney's nothing to you, ric.

Ric: That doesn't seem fair, does it? I mean, you're her brother, you're my brother, but i can't be anybody's brother?

Sonny: Yeah, that's good. First of all, courtney's my blood. She has nothing to do with you. And what we have, you will never have.

Ric: Well, see, you and i are blood, as well, sonny, whether you like it or not.

Sonny: You know how they say "blood is thicker than water"?

Ric: Hmm.

Sonny: Well, it's thicker than d.N.A., Too. We are connected by a thread, a very slender one. And you should count your blessings because, really, it's the only thing keeping you alive.

Ric: And we don't want it to snap, do we? Glad to see you're doing ok. You need anything, just --

sonny: She won'T.

Sonny: Ok. Now, that he's gone, you can tell me what ric was really doing here.

Sonny: I do that, too.

Courtney: What?

Sonny: Stare out the window like you're doing.

Courtney: Does it work?

Sonny: It must because I keep doing it.

Courtney: God, i don't know what's taking so long to bring my -- my paperwork.

Sonny: Nurse is going to be here eventually. Now, i want you to tell me what ric said to you.

Courtney: I mean, you heard most of it, sonny. Ric wants us all to be one big, happy family. The guy's seriously disturbed.

Sonny: Yep, ric doesn't do anything without a motive, and that's usually me. You need to be careful with ric. As a matter of fact, don't have any contact with him.

Courtney: That's fine with me.

Sonny: All right.

Courtney: God, why doesn't the guy just go away? I mean, nobody likes him here anyway. I just -- I don't get this whole obsession thing with you.

Sonny: Well, ric blames me for everything he didn't have growing up.

Courtney: That's so wrong.

Sonny: Yep.

Courtney: And it's pathetic if he's dedicating his entire life to getting revenge on you. I mean, you -- you were a little boy. I mean you didn't even know ric existed.

Sonny: Mm-hmm.

Courtney: And you're certainly not to blame for the mistakes the grownups made. He needs to deal with that and stop putting blame where it doesn't belong.

Sonny: I never thought I'd see the day that you would come to my defense.

Courtney: Yeah, well. Don't get a big head. And don't get use to it either, ok?

Sonny: Well, I meant what i said to ric -- i love you, no matter what. And I know in trying to protect you, i -- I pushed you away, and i'd like to change that.

Courtney: Hey, you know, i -- I may not have agreed with the way you tried to interfere, but I understand why you did it. You were trying to keep me safe.

Sonny: I still am.

Courtney: Ok. I respect that. But you -- you have to respect me, too, sonny. Jason and I, we love each other. We do, but we don't want to fight with you, you know? But we're going to be together.

Sonny: Yeah, I guess that's something I just -- I'm going to have to live with.

The Loft

[Jason has his fingers in his ears]

Carly: Now I want to talk rings. Now, i don't think courtney would ever admit it, but i think she'd love a big, fat diamond. Nothing gaudy or too flashy, but something that makes a statement that says i got the guy -- hey.

Jason: Carly, i need -- ok, now I need you to listen. You need to stop with this stupid idea.

Carly: Oh, I see. So marriage is stupid?

Jason: Is that what i just said? That's not what I said.

Carly: Or is it just stupid for you? Or is it just stupid with courtney? Because you certainly jumped quick enough when brenda asked you to marry her.

Jason: Oh, see, now, don't throw that in my face. The only reason I married brenda was to stop her from wrecking your marriage.

Carly: Oh, see? You just proved my point.

Jason: What -- what -- what point?

Carly: Ok -- you went above and beyond the call of duty and you married that nasty, awful woman. Why? To preserve sonny's and my marriage. Why? Because we love each other, just like you love courtney.

Jason: Do you even know what you're saying? I don't even know what you're saying. Just stop and listen to me. I might marry courtney someday -- when we decide. Now just shut up.

Later…

[Courtney walks in without Sonny]

Carly: Ok, what happened? What's wrong? Where's sonny? He was supposed to pick you up. Did you guys have a fight?

Courtney: Whoa, whoa, whoa -- hey, hey, calm down. No, no, it's nothing like that. Actually, we're getting along pretty well.

Carly: Excellent.

[Courtney goes into Jason’s arms and he holds on to her for dear life]

Courtney: Hey. He's -- he's in the car just finishing a call, you know? Were you in on this, or did you get blindsided, too?

Jason: More like ambushed.

Carly: Ok, the two of you could show a little bit of gratitude because you know how difficult it is to get sonny to agree to things like this. He's more stubborn than the two of you put together – [Jason is totally focused on Courtney and touching her] hello! And especially the fact that he's coming here to your apartment to be with the two of you for dinner, it's just -- it's proof that he accepts the two of you now.

Courtney: I realize what a major concession that is for sonny, and, carly, i will be forever grateful to you.

Carly: See, now, that is better. And you can chime in any time. All right, fine. You are grateful, too, but you just can't admit it because you hate it when any of my plans work.

Jason: What are you -- you have never had a plan that worked.

Carly: Are you out of your mind?

Jason: Do you want to tell me about a plan that's worked?

Sonny: Sorry I took so long. What's for dinner?

Carly: You're going to eat those words. Would you like them for a first course, a last course?

Jason: Don't even ask what she's talking about. I'm glad you could make it.  [More touching]

Sonny: Well, I'm glad i could make it, too.

Carly: Hey, come here. Try this on.

Courtney: Carly --

carly: I want to see what my engagement ring looks on you.

Courtney: No, carly, you need to stop. Seriously. Jason told me how you tried to push him into proposing to me, even after I asked you not to.

Carly: Are you mad at me?

Courtney: No, I just -- I don't understand why this is so important to you.

Carly: Because you love jason so much, and he feels the exact same way about you. You both want to be married. You are too shy to ask, and he doesn't even have a clue where to begin, so i took care of it for you. I'm sorry if i embarrassed you, ok? It's not what I meant to do. But think about it -- getting married to the man that you love more than anything in this world and living happily ever after -- I mean, isn't it worth just a little bit of temporary embarrassment? It's ok, honey. You don't have to thank me now. You just thank me after jason proposes. It's ok.

Jason: I understand that ric's alive because he's your brother, right?

Sonny: Yep.

Jason: I don't want him to hurt courtney.

Sonny: Ric -- well, he's not after courtney. He showed up at the hospital just to, you know, throw it in my face that we're still related. He doesn't -- look, he can hate me all he wants. Doesn't mean anything.

Later…

[Sonny and Carly have left]

[Jason pulls Courtney down on the couch next to him and holds her hand]

Jason: I want to know everything that ric said to you.

Courtney: Well, it's -- it's no big deal. He just -- he wanted to mess with sonny's head, and i really wish sonny hadn't even mentioned it to you.

Jason: No, no, it is a big deal because ric is a threat. But sonny doesn't want to take him out because he's his brother. I'm not just going to stand around and let this guy do whatever he wants. If he threatened you, I need to know.

Courtney: No, I mean -- no, he hasn't threatened me, but ric's twisted. I just -- I want you to stay as far away from him as possible, ok? [She hugs him]