I swear to God you won’t forget how it ends
Lulu: Hello? Johnny? Hello?
[Door opens]
Lulu: Hi. Uh — is Johnny here?
Claudia: Who wants to know?
Lulu: I’m a friend of Johnny’s.
Claudia: Hmm. I didn’t know Johnny had any friends. Tell me, friend, aren’t you afraid of what happens to little girls like you who play with big boys like Johnny Zacchara?
Lulu: Johnny and I had a date and he didn’t show.
Claudia: So? What, are you two joined at the hip now?
Lulu: Huh — well, it’s not like Johnny to stand me up. I mean — well, it is, but not this time. It was different.
Claudia: Because you had sex? Don’t get nervous. I read people. That’s what I do. For instance, I read that you wouldn’t even be here unless you had a lot of guts.
Man: I’m sorry, Ms. Zacchara. She got by me.
Claudia: Oh, that’s okay. Let’s see how you get by without your last paycheck. Get out.
Lulu: Um — I didn’t want to cause any trouble. I just wanted to talk to Johnny.
Claudia: Hmm. Well, if you don’t want trouble, you’re in the wrong house, cutie.
Lulu: Who are you?
Claudia: Johnny didn’t mention me?
Lulu: No.
Claudia: He didn’t? Oh, that’s okay. I mean, he didn’t actually mention you, either — not directly. He’s hiding me. Yeah, I think he’s afraid I might scare you off.
Lulu: Well, I don’t scare easily after being stalked by Johnny’s father at a ball, and when he tried to strangle me, so –
Claudia: You’re the one he tried to kill? Well, then you should count yourself special. Daddy doesn’t feel threatened by just anyone.
Lulu: “Daddy”?
Claudia: Mm-hmm. I’m Claudia, Johnny’s half sister. Charmed, I’m sure. And you — you’re the reason that my father is in a maximum-security asylum, paralyzed from the neck down. You and Jason Morgan.
Lulu: The only thing that happened at the ball was a lot of people trying to defend themselves.
Claudia: Mm-hmm. And what was my brother doing?
Lulu: He was trying to protect me. He didn’t care what happened to himself. He did whatever he could, right down to –
Claudia: Right down to killing his own father if he had to to save you?
Lulu: We tried to stay apart, but it’s not going to happen.
Claudia: So these feelings are mutual?
Lulu: I think so.
Claudia: Do you hope so?
Lulu: Uh — I like Johnny a lot.
Claudia: Good. Because I’m going to give you an opportunity to prove it.
Lulu: I can’t find Johnny. We were supposed to have a date, and he didn’t show up.
Sonny: Well, I’m not Johnny’s keeper, and I can’t solve your love life.
Lulu: Well, he wouldn’t disappear on me.
Sonny: You could actually say that after everything that you know about the guy?
Lulu: I know more about Johnny than you do.
Sonny: Johnny’s going to turn up.
Lulu: Alive?
Sonny: You — you like to get involved in a lot of things, don’t you, like Jason and Jake, the text-message-killer thing, and running around that house with Zacchara trying to kill you?
Lulu: Yeah, you know what? I can go to the police, it –
Sonny: No, listen to me, okay? You’re not going to do that. Johnny will turn up when I say he’s going to turn up.
Claudia: So, you do have my little brother.
Sonny: Why are you so surprised?
Claudia: Because I thought you were smarter than that. I thought you were only that knee-jerk about stuff that took place in hotel rooms.
Sonny: I want my son back.
Claudia: I don’t have your kid!
Sonny: Shh. Then Trevor does. And if you want your precious brother back, you tell Trevor to give Michael back to me. The only reason he’s not in an alley bleeding to death is because he’s still useful to me.
Claudia: You let Johnny go, and I swear to you I will do whatever it takes to help you get Michael back.
Sonny: You think I buy that after the — what you’re trying to sell to Jason?
Claudia: You know, I’m not vengeful by nature, Sonny. I acquired a taste for it, and I am trying to deal with you fairly because of our history.
Sonny: History isn’t made in hotel rooms — only beds and the occasional whore.
Claudia: Hmm. Remember who started this, because I swear to God you won’t forget how it ends.
Kate: Uh — you were here — you were here before.
Claudia: Mm-hmm. Though, I had to leave before we were able to get properly acquainted.
Kate: Why would we want to do that?
Claudia: Because we have so very much in common — like Sonny. I’m the woman that he slept with right after your big breakup.
