Port Charles Hotel Dining Room: Carly:This dinner is only for our family. Stefan:In case it's slipped your mind, Caroline, I'm your stepfather. Barbara, you really do need to learn her some manners.(Stefan looks around the room in disdain)In future we should really hold these little family gatherings at Wyndemere. This place is so common. Jerry:If it offends your delicate sensibilities, Cassadine, why don't you leave. Stefan:Oh, I wouldn't think of that. We all must make sacrifices for our families. Isn't that right, Barbara? Carly:Bobbie, make him leave. He's ruining everything.(she snarls at Stefan)This dinner is so I can get to know my father better. Stefan:Why didn't you say so before, Caroline. If that's the case, Barbara and I will simply leave. Jerry:I wouldn't hear of it. Bobbie(looks from Stefan to Carly to Jerry)Actually, I think that might be for the best.(she stands up)Come along, Stefan. (Stefan gives Jerry a smirking look as he takes Bobbies arm and leaves) The Gatehouse: Ned(answers the door to Brenda)Brenda, what can I do for you? Brenda:I want Sonny back and I need your help. Ned:Why would I want to help you get Sonny back. Brenda:Because you want Sonny out of Brooke's life and as long as he's with Lois that's not going to happen. Ned:Just what do you have in mind. Brenda:I know I can get Sonny back if I can just be alone with him for awhile. Ned:Why don't you just get yourself lost in a blizzard, again, and let Sonny come and rescue you. Brenda:Because I'm not all that sure he'd come and rescue me. Ned:But you still think you can get him back? Brenda:Sonny's stubborn but I know I can wear down his resistance to me. I did it before when he was married to Lily. But I need some time alone with him without him realizing what I'm doing. I need to stir up Sonny's feelings for me, subtly. Ned(snorts)You subtle? What you have in mind, no doubt, is to get Sonny hot-and-bothered as only you can and you need Lois out of the way to do it. Which is where I suppose I come in. What do you want? Brenda:If Lois would have to go out of town for awhile on business... Ned:How do you expect me to arrange that? Brenda:Ned, I'm sure you could arrange for one of Lois' clients to have a gig out of town and for the client to insist on Lois going with them. Ned:Leaving Sonny alone and vulnerable to your tender mercies, right? Brenda:And you could warn me when Lois is about to come back and I could arrange for Lois to come home to find Sonny in a compromising position with me. Wyndemere: Bobbie(as she and Stefan enter)I can't believe you did that, Stefan. Stefan:I told you I wasn't going to allow Mr. Jacks to take advantage of this situation and I meant it. Bobbie:Jerry wasn't trying to do that. He's just trying to get to know our daughter. Stefan:Sure he is. If all he really wanted to do was to get to know his daughter, he wouldn't need to drag you into it. Bobbie:I am Carly's mother, remember. He was just trying to bond us together as a family. Stefan:I know exactly what he was trying to do. He's trying to use his position as Caroline's father to get close to him. But Mr. Jacks better realize if he wants to bond as a family, he's going to have to do it with me in the equation. Port Charles Hotel Dining Room: Carly:I hate him, Jerry. I hate Stefan Cassadine. He ruined the entire evening for us. I don't know why Bobbie ever went back to him Jerry:That makes two of us. Bujt I intend to find out. Carly:I just wish Bobbie would get him out of her life. Jerry:Maybe we could help Bobbie do just that. Carly:Do you have something in mind. Jerry:You saw the way Cassadine acted, tonight, just because we were having a family dinner. And I'm sure if we try to have another dinner he'll do exactly the same thing. Carly:So? Jerry:So if he keeps it up he's going to end up alienating Bobbie. People like Cassadine are their own worst enemy. Carly:So what are you suggesting we do? Jerry:Carly, we don't have to dan anything. All we have to do is try to bond with Bobbie as a family and Cassadine will do the rest for us. Frisco's Office, WSB Headquarters: Frisco(answers the phone)Jones, here. Sean:Frisco, it's Sean. We've got big trouble. Frisco:What's up. Sean:I'm at Robert and Anna's. The place is a mess. Furniture is over-turned. There looks like there was a fight here. I can't find them anywhere. Frisco:You think it was Faison? Sean:Who else? Frisco:I need you and Tiffany to come to Washington. Mac just paid me a visit. Faison's back in Port Charles. Sean:Tiffany and I will catch the next flight back to Port Charles. Port Charles Airport: Faison(watching as two coffins are taken off a plane coming in from Australia)I'd like to view the bodies privately before I take them to my home for the funeral service if that would be all right. Clerk:Of course, Mr. Faison. Were they family? Faison:Yes, they were my brother and sister-in-law. The last time I saw Robert and Anna, we were all on a ship together. Tony is such a hypocrite! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com