If you’re lucky, maybe love will only maim you
Claudia: Hey, little brother. John?
Johnny: I’m sorry. This may be a little difficult for you to understand, but I can’t just pick up and act like nothing happened, that my big sister hasn’t been gone all these years.
Claudia: It’s okay. I know.
Johnny: What kept you from coming back?
Claudia: The same thing that kept you locked in.
Claudia: You don’t remember this house before Trevor came? You don’t remember your family or mine?
Johnny: Was it that different?
Claudia: Yeah. Me and my mom before she left, and then your mom, and then you.
Johnny: How about our father?
Claudia: Ruthless, manipulative. He had a way of drawing you in right before he cut you down.
Johnny: So what’s different?
Claudia: He was in control of it.
Johnny: So it ate him alive?
Claudia: Something did — not that he didn’t deserve it for what he did to us, he did. It’s just that every once in a while, there was a glimpse of a father. That’s what changed when Trevor Lansing arrived. He had a way of drawing you in, too, and making you think that everything was in your best interest when, really, it was in his.
Johnny: So you’re here for revenge?
Claudia: I’m here, Johnny, for a lot of things.
Johnny: Including the family empire.
Claudia: Including you.
Johnny: I don’t need you.
Claudia: Well, you did once. You — and I loved you so much.
Johnny: Aren’t you the one that told me love kills?
Claudia: Yeah?
Johnny: And you’re not lonely?
Claudia: Restless, I’m restless.
Johnny: You’re empty.
Claudia: Okay, you’re going to have to find out the hard way. And if you’re lucky, maybe love will only maim you.
Johnny: Maybe I want it anyway. Maybe I also want our father’s empire.
Claudia: Are you — are you issuing a challenge?
Johnny: Maybe just a warning.
Claudia: You don’t want to get into a war with me over the family jewels. If anything, we need to team up against Trevor.
Johnny: I thought Corinthos was the enemy here.
Claudia: Sonny’s more like a goal. What do you know about Sonny Corinthos — besides the fact that Kate Howard, fashion-rag mogul, is trying to wear him on her arm like an accessory?
Johnny: I know that Sonny has an ex-wife. I know that Sonny has three children with two different women.
Claudia: Hmm.
Johnny: Jason Morgan’s his enforcer, and, of course, there’s his brother.
Claudia: Why do you say “of course”?
Johnny: I thought you knew. Sonny’s brother is the district attorney.
Claudia: Oh — wow. That must make things interesting.
Johnny: More than you know. The district attorney is named Ric Lansing, i.e., Trevor’s son.
Claudia: So our family’s not the only rats’ nest in town?
Johnny: Trevor hates Sonny, Ric hates Sonny, and Sonny hates Ric and Trevor.
Claudia: And you’re using this hatred to your advantage how?
Johnny: I haven’t.
Claudia: Okay, then we have some planning to do.
Jason: Max — Max, just listen to me for a second, okay? I don’t — I don’t want excuses, I just want you to get me the information. Thank you.
Claudia: Hi. You want to shoot some pool, give me a chance to make my money back?
Jason: You know what? I have someplace to be.
Claudia: Oh. What is it that you do that makes you in such a hurry all the time?
Jason: I run a business — that keeps me busy.
Claudia: I’m in business, too — family business. It’s hectic, stressful, killer hours. It doesn’t mean I can’t make time for a little bit of fun.
Jason: Me, either.
Claudia: So, maybe we could have some sometime.
Jason: I’m going to have to pass.
Claudia: Wait, I don’t even know your name.
Jason: Maybe that should tell you something.
Sonny: Skye Quartermaine, Chandler — I don’t know — whatever she cal herself. She didn’t just vanish into thin air, find her. She has something I want. Whew.
Claudia: So there are things you want.
Claudia: Good thing I didn’t come empty-handed.
