Scenes: 7
Characters: Clarice, Mike Corbin, Sonny Corinthos
Gallery: Screencaps
Kate: Port Charles. New York State, not New York City. Oh, yes, I am well aware of how far it is from Milan, and I’m sure that you’ll find a way.
Clarice: The revised mockups from the printers. I included the final cost projection in the timeline. The floral designer has called twice. I have six emails from the photographer, and we’ll need to revise the mockups if — what should I tell people about the wedding?
Kate: Cancel the flowers, the photographer, and the caterer immediately. I need to see the mockup for plan b for the bridal issue, and just call back as many invitations as possible, because the wedding is definitely off.
Sonny: Did you really think I’d give up on you that easy?
Kate: What happened to you?
Sonny: I’m all right.
Clarice: I’ll start making those calls.
Kate: So, did you get in a fight, or did you manage to get arrested?
Sonny: No, actually, I was upset, and I had no business driving.
Kate: You were in a car accident?
Sonny: Yeah, yeah, head-on. Two cars totaled. Claudia Zacchara is in the hospital.
Kate: Well, that didn’t take you long.
Sonny: She was driving the other car. She made a wide turn, and I was driving too fast.
Kate: Is she all right?
Sonny: Yeah, she’s fine, I guess.
Kate: Do you want to call her? Why don’t you call her? You can use my phone.
Sonny: I thought you forgave me for Claudia.
Kate: Have you been sleeping with her all along, or is it just Carly?
Sonny: Do you want to have this talk again, or whatever? But look, here’s — here’s the situation, okay? I’m in love with you, only you, and we are going to get married.
Kate: Who the hell do you think that you are dealing with? I am not going to spend the rest of my marriage looking the other way.
Sonny: How about if you think about it like I’m going to spend the rest of our lives making it up to you?
Kate: There is no “the rest of our lives.” We are over.
Sonny: We can’t let a misunderstanding like this mess everything up.
Kate: There is no misunderstanding. You slept with Carly in May. You’ve been lying to me about it for months, and the only reason I found out is because my assistant told me.
Sonny: I don’t blame you for being upset.
Kate: Oh, really? Thanks so much. That’s so generous of you, although canceling my one and only wedding because my fiancé was sleeping around just makes me a little bit more than upset.
Sonny: What Carly and I did in that limo had nothing to do with me and you. It was one bad night.
Kate: I’m not going to presume to understand what it feels like to lose a child. I can’t even imagine that kind of pain. If you had just told me, but you didn’t. You lied to me for months.
Sonny: I made –
Kate: You would have gone on lying gladly.
Sonny: I made a mistake. Yes, I should have told you, but I’m owning it now.
Kate: Yeah, sure you’re owning it now, because you got caught.
Sonny: Nothing changed.
Kate: Everything has changed. I am going to cut my losses before any more damage is done.
Sonny: You don’t want to do that. You know that, right?
Kate: Well, you know what? I walked away from you once, didn’t I? I can certainly do it again.
Sonny: Okay, but listen to me. You loved me when we were growing up in Bensonhurst, and you still love me.
Kate: Loving you is not the issue.
Sonny: You told me once that I got everything I wanted. In a way, you do, too. We’ve both had to pay for things. We’ve made some hard choices, and look what you got now. Look what we can have if we stay together.
Kate: No, a marriage with you would be a disaster.
Sonny: I don’t believe that, and you don’t mean it.
Kate: I — I believed the fantasy that we could get together after all of these years and fall in love again. I — I let myself believe that, but yes, you know what? It’s fine, because I do like the life that I’ve built for myself.
Sonny: And I have no place in that life? Is that what you’re saying?
Kate: Yes.
Sonny: Oh, okay, so you’re going to just believe what everybody says, that, you know, our lives are too different and I’m in love with Carly and all that stuff, and no matter how much we love each other, you know, it’s not going to work out?
Kate: That’s exactly what I’m saying.
Sonny: Then why are you still wearing my ring? You want me to tell you why? Because you love me, and I’ll wait as long as I have to wait for you to remember.
Clarice: You are not going to believe this.
Kate: Let me guess. Maxie showed up to work?
Clarice: She’s actually getting a lot done by email, but that isn’t it. I just got a call from the printers.
Kate: Mm-hmm, and what, they’ve got some sort of problem, and the revised mockups aren’t really on their way?
Clarice: You know those contract negotiations which management assured us would be no problem?
Kate: No….
Clarice: All the printers, the people on the loading docks and the truck drivers just walked out. The printers’ union is demanding a contract by midnight or they’ll call a strike, and if that happens –
Kate: Crimson cannot publish.
Mike: Kate had sex with Jax that same night and waited all this time to tell you. Would it still be a temporary setback? You know, I think this is going to be a lot more difficult than you say it is.
Kate: Well, I never thought you would be low enough or desperate enough to create a labor dispute that would threaten “Crimson”.
Sonny: What labor dispute?
Kate: Okay, you know how much I care about the magazine. You know better than anyone how hard I work, but it doesn’t matter, right? You don’t care.
Sonny: What –
Kate: As long as the mighty Sonny Corinthos can swoop in, save the day, and make me grateful?
Sonny: What are you talking about?
Kate: It’s not going to work, all right? It’s transparent, it’s heavy-handed, and it reeks of organized crime.
Sonny: Okay, a labor dispute messed with “Crimson.” You want me — I’ll make a call.
Kate: Don’t you dare. I want you to stay out of my life.
Sonny: It’s a lot more fun for you to yell at me in person, isn’t it?
Kate: I have every right to make my point.
Sonny: Yeah?
Kate: Yeah.
Sonny: Then why didn’t you just pick up the phone and call –
Kate: Just — you know, stay away from my magazine, all right? And stay away from me.
Mike: Temporary setback, huh?
Kate: So, get the labor lawyer on the phone. Have him file an injunction that will get those people back to work just long enough so that the issue can get out. I will not have months of my hard work derailed because the two sides can’t sit down at the bargaining table.
Clarice: It’s okay.
Kate: Clarice, please don’t try to make me feel better.
Clarice: No, I mean, really, it’s okay. In fact, it’s a miracle. I just got a call from the union steward. Management agreed to all the printers’ demands. There will be no strike. The crisis is over.
Kate: Okay, so now get the labor lawyer on the phone and find out why this crisis blew up so quickly and then was resolved in less than an hour.
Sonny: Actually, you know, you don’t need to be calling any lawyers, Clarice.
Kate: Excuse me.
Sonny: What?
Kate: Don’t boss my staff around.
Sonny: I’m sorry, I was just — well, I mean, if, you know, you want your boss to pay for the lawyer to tell you that there’s no problem, go ahead. That’s –
Clarice: I think I’ll check my email. I wouldn’t want to fall behind on anything.
Sonny: Right, right, right.
Sonny: You’re not going to thank me?
Kate: Why? For manufacturing a crisis?
Sonny: I didn’t — I didn’t order the labor dispute. I made a couple calls and I had people go back to work. What’s it –
Kate: And now you expect me to be grateful.
Sonny: You — come on, look. You — you put your heart and soul into this magazine and you want it to succeed, and it will.
Kate: Don’t bother with the dimples. I don’t care how many strings you pull or how many times you say you love me, because obviously marriage means something different to you than it does to me.
Sonny: No, no, no. Don’t do that.
Kate: I want you to take this.
Sonny: No, I’m not taking it.
Kate: I want you to take this back, because the wedding is off. I’m not marrying you.
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