Whoever tells you that my father wants peace is lying
Carly: I want you to apologize to Lulu and get out of my hotel.
Claudia: Lulu started this, and I have every intention of finishing it. Get out of my way.
Carly: I’ve been through a lot worse than you and I’m still standing here.
Claudia: I respect your grief. I am not trying to upset you. My business is with Lulu, and it doesn’t need to concern you at all.
Carly: Lulu is my cousin. It concerns me.
Claudia: Fine. My problem with your cousin is that she doesn’t know how to mind her own business.
Lulu: It is my business when you start hitting on my brother.
Carly: Knock it off, Lulu.
Claudia: Okay, do you see my point? Why would I let this little twit dictate my personal, private life?
Carly: Your personal, private life isn’t very private. In fact, you seem to enjoy announcing it to the world, so you can’t get mad at Lulu when she offers an opinion.
Claudia: You want her to stay out of trouble? You tell her to stay the hell away from me and out of my sight.
Lulu: Only when you decide to stay away from Nikolas.
Claudia: Let me go ahead and clear this up with both of you. I’m a grown woman. Nikolas is a grown man.
Lulu: And you’re using him.
Claudia: Oh, like you’re using Johnny?
Lulu: No, because you don’t know anything about my relationship with Johnny.
Claudia: That’s right. I don’t. And you know what? I don’t much care. Because I’m normal. If I want to bang your brother on this floor in the lobby, you don’t get a vote.
Lulu: Really? Because I’m not going to let you take advantage of my brother.
Claudia: Do you see what my problem is here? By encouraging Lulu, you’re giving her confidence that she’s not earned. And she’s going around stepping on the wrong toes, shooting off her fat mouth, and making enemies that she is clearly not capable of handling.
Lulu: You need to back off or I will go straight to Johnny.
Claudia: Sooner or later, someone is going to give Lulu what she deserves. I can hardly wait.
Lulu: Can you believe her? Can you believe that she is going around right now trying to take advantage of Nikolas while he’s grieving? She thinks that –
Claudia: What the hell is wrong with you? Claudia Zacchara is dangerous. And I don’t mean pull your hair out kind of dangerous. I mean life-destroying dangerous, capable of things that you can’t even imagine. You keep your mouth shut. I don’t want to lose another person I love.
[Footsteps approach]
Diane: Here for the lattes, Miss Zacchara?
Claudia: Actually, I’m here to see Jason Morgan.
Diane: And is Mr. Morgan expecting you?
Claudia: No, I decided to be spontaneous. But I’m quite sure Mr. Morgan will see me.
Claudia: By now, I imagine you’ve received a peace offering from my family. Don’t believe it. [To Jason]
Claudia: Whoever tells you that my father wants peace is lying.
Jason: Mm, well, it was Johnny who showed up here offering peace. So is he a liar or just stupid?
Claudia: No, John is smart enough to know that peace would benefit both of us. Too bad for that to happen, Anthony’s got to die.
Jason: Kill him yourself.
Claudia: You could have killed him when you torched the house. Why didn’t you?
Jason: I torched the house because I wanted to take something personal. That’s the message that I wanted to send. It’s time for you to go.
Claudia: You know, maybe you felt sorry for the old man in the wheelchair. If so, let me just tell you a little thing I learned in marine biology about the stonefish. It’s this fish that looks like — it looks like a rock. It sits at the bottom of the reef floor, looking like a non-descript stone. But it’s really the most venomous fish in the world. If you step on it, you’re dead in an hour. Don’t think that just because Anthony Zacchara can’t walk, he’s harmless. It would really be better for everyone if you just get rid of him.
[Door opens and closes]
Johnny: Okay, you know what? You want to grieve for your dead fiancée? Call a hooker, but don’t come near Claudia again.
Claudia: John, what the hell? You don’t dictate who I sleep with.
