Are you interested in taking me on?
Claudia: None of these do me any good. It’s not what I asked for, so go get what I want and don’t come back until you have it.
Mr. Vaughn: Ahem.
Trevor: Vaughn has been a loyal and a useful employee for a long time. Please don’t talk to him like that.
Claudia: Loyal and useful — to whom?
Trevor: To the Zacchara empire.
Claudia: You mean the Trevor Lansing living trust?
Trevor: Are you losing your cool because of what happened at the meeting with the five families last night?
Claudia: No, I am trying to find the right information to put Sonny Corinthos where I want him.
Trevor: Well, with the looks that I caught, where would be more appropriate than the nearest hotel bedroom?
Trevor: That meeting last night with the five families was about business, not your own sexual pleasure.
Claudia: What’s the matter, Trevors — you’re not getting any?
[Trevor chuckles]
Trevor: Not to worry, toots. I never confuse my sexual satisfaction with business. You want to run this? You want to be head of the family? Go ahead, do it. But just don’t treat it like it was your first night at a public pick-up joint.
Claudia: Who do you think cleaned up the mess in Sydney and put the Cavazzi organization back in the red in Miami? You think that was Uncle Rudy? Unlike you, I’m tired of working behind the scenes. I’m here and I’m driving. So until you understand who you’re really dealing with, you get in the back seat.
Trevor: And I am telling you that your father would not want this.
Claudia: I don’t know what my father would want. But I’m going to find that out.
Trevor: Well, it’s too bad that he’s insane.
Claudia: Well, guilt will do that to you. The man’s got a lot of things to feel guilty about, but I’ll tell you something — I betcha I can still figure out what’s going on in that maze of a mind of his. You never know what you might find out.
Singer: This time I’ll go all the way I might get full of steams I’m sorry about your broken heart but I can’t live your dreams Cole.
Man: Well, hello there. Welcome to Jake’s. What — what are you in the mood for?
Claudia: Trouble.
Luke: I can arrange that.
Singer: I’m going to tangle love and all the way
Luke: Well, I’ve seen quite a cross section in this town. Mobsters, psychos, killer nurses, blackmailers, con artists, garden-variety freaks and fetishists. Even a couple of upstanding citizens — which I’m proud to say, I am not.
Claudia: An honest man in a bar? Imagine that.
Luke: That was self-promotion. Actually, I have a severe allergy to honesty.
Claudia: I’m sorry — what exactly are you selling?
Luke: What are you buying?
Claudia: Information.
Luke: I’m the town oracle. Cash in advance, no credit, no samples. Cole
Man: You know, I — I know things, too.
[Luke and Claudia chuckle]
Luke: Whoops. Ooh, you better pick those up. Somebody might slip and crack a shell.
[Claudia chuckles] Cole
Man: Very childish.
Luke: Wow. So, what’s your poison?
Claudia: Sonny Corinthos.
Luke: Pretty lethal stuff.
Claudia: I can take it.
Luke: I’ll bet you can. Are your interests business or pleasure?
Claudia: Maybe both. What’s his weakness?
Luke: Huh. I’d say you’d pretty well got that wrapped up in a tight little package, with the red boots and all. Ok, Sonny Corinthos — well, you want to go after sonny? Go after him. He knows how to play the game. But don’t go after his famil that would be a mistake. You do that and you’re done. A house will fall out of nowhere on top of you. And your little red shoes, too.
Singer: It ain’t cool the n word b and n word the b word nor the things they serve it ain’t cool
Claudia: So Corinthos is a family man?
Luke: In more ways than one, but think you know that. You wouldn’t be asking these questions otherwise.
Claudia: I’m looking for information I don’t already know.
Luke: Right. You want a piece of his business or a piece of him?
Claudia: I’m the one with the cash. I ask the questions –
Luke: Ok, well, a strange coincidence here — I just came from Corinthos, and — see, I went there to pull in a marker and it didn’t really work out for me, but I do have some information that’s valuable.
Claudia: What information is that?
Luke: The further away from Corinthos you stay, the longer you will live.
Claudia: Have a long and dull life.
Luke: Now you sound like my doctor.
Claudia: Ladies’ room? Cole
Man: Yeah, we got one. We got one. It’s — uh — it’s down the hall in the back on the left. She looks pissed — hot, but pissed.
Luke: Yeah, I get the feeling that’s a permanent condition. Cole
Man: So you want a cocktail?
Luke: More than life itself, but I’m here for a job. Cole
Man: Come on, man. You’d drink the profits and steal my tips. It ain’t happening, duke.
Luke: “Duke.” It’s Luke! Oh, hell. No broad, no booze, no bread. Oh well. Later.
[Music plays]
Jason: Spinelli — seen him yet? Cole
Man: No, I haven’t seen him, man.
Singer: Did you think you’d get away? Come back here, boy did you think you can have it all one? Uh-uh
Claudia: Are you interested in taking me on?
Singer: I’ll make it louder I’ll make it harder until you can’t take it, oh, but I might take you down.
[Nice non-verbal communication between Claudia and Jason Morgan.]
