As long as they were red
Trevor: Claudia, don’t disappear on me like your brother, Johnny. We need a strategy for the meeting with the five families. So where are you?
Claudia: I’m already in Port Charles. I thought I’d come in early and get the lay of the land. You never know who you might meet.
Carly: Hi.
Claudia: Trevor, why don’t you have a drink and calm yourself down?
Trevor: Because I’m not going to go to any meeting without a plan of attack.
Claudia: Wait, who said I’m attacking anyone? This is more of just a getting-to-know-you session.
Trevor: Where do you think you are, in Milan? This is not a wine and a cheese tasting with your dopey uncle and his merry money launderers. We’re going to have a meeting with the five families. They are hitters, heavy ones — including Corinthos — who might want you dead on sight.
Claudia: I’d really love to know what this ugly history is between you and Sonny Corinthos — it colors every word you say about him. It’s fascinating.
Trevor: We have to have an agenda.
Claudia: You go in there with your big plan and something goes wrong and you’ve got nothing. We do this my way; all you have to focus on tonight is making an introduction. I’ll wing the rest.
Trevor: “Wing it”? You’re not going to be this reckless on purpose, are you?
Claudia: Watch me.
Carly: Oh! I’m so sorry.
Carly: Thank you. You look familiar.
Claudia: I get that a lot.
Carly: I don’t think I’ve seen you here before — I mean, I know most of the regulars. I’m Carly.
Claudia: Oh.
Carly: I’m one of the owners.
Claudia: Claudia.
Carly: Hi.
Claudia: Hi — very impressive hotel you have here.
Carly: Thank you.
Claudia: You must be a very savvy businesswoman.
Carly: Well, I didn’t start out that way.
Claudia: Me, too.
Carly: So, are you in town on business?
Claudia: Yeah, family business, but if I like what I see, I might stick around for a while. I’ve pretty much done Europe.
Carly: You’ve done the shopping.
[Carly laughs]
Claudia: Via Della Spiga, Milan? I swear, I’d pretty much go naked as long as I could wear my shoes — as long as they were red.
Carly: Living well is the best revenge.
Claudia: Not always.
Carly: Hmm.
Claudia: I take it they’re regulars?
Carly: He’s my husband. She’s just sad.
Claudia: I — I did feel like I recognized her.
Carly: Hmm.
Claudia: Hmm — Kate Howard from “Couture” magazine?
Carly: Yep. The one and only.
Claudia: Hmm. I’ve seen the international version — it’s a runway rag in any language.
Carly: Clothes that a real woman would never wear.
Claudia: Or a real man would ever want to see a woman in.
Carly: I think we have similar interests.
Claudia: As long as it’s not in men, we’ll get along fine.
Sonny: Can I get a table in –
Carly: I am happily married to a very happily married man.
Claudia: Well, I can’t tell you the number of happily married men who’ve told me how happy they were. Which way is the powder room?
Carly: Right through those doors.
Sonny: What’s the holdup?
Mr. Vaughn: We’re waiting for Mr. Lansing.
Man: I thought a Zacchara called this meeting.
Claudia: One did.
