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August 15, 2002
Alcazar: Your attitude's beginning to wear thin, Dilucca.
Roy: Yeah?
Alcazar: People who annoy me become unlucky.
Roy: You need to locate your sense of gratitude, pal. I put Sonny's warehouse out of commission well before you blew it up. I delivered that map in, what, about a minute.
Alcazar: I want Jax and Corinthos bankrupt. I want them clawing at each other's throats till both of them are destroyed! I want to see the look in her eyes when I tell her they're finished. They're obstacles. They need to be removed. That's your value to me. Do you get it?
Roy: Yeah, I get that there's a woman involved.
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Skye: An engagement party should be bursting with flowers, don't you think?
Jax: Absolutely.
Skye: All right, then we're going to order more for tomorrow night. More lilies. I want this room to reek of lilies.
Jax: Anything else we need more of?
Skye: Hors d'oeuvres. Yes, we need more hors d'oeuvres. How about the caviar on the blinis and those tiny little crab cakes, I love those, and potstickers...
Jax: No on the potstickers?
Skye: Jax, what am I thinking? I mean, here we are spending a fortune on this party while your financial holdings are in jeopardy.
Jax: No, no, no, don't worry about it.
Skye: No, I do worry about it. I think maybe, I don't know, maybe we should cancel some of these pricier items.
Jax: Oh, no, no, no. Skye, Skye, the engagement party goes ahead as planned.
Skye: I feel guilty.
Jax: Well, what's that saying, "living well is the best revenge"?
Skye: Yeah. That doesn't exactly hold up if you're broke.
 Jax: Look, I want everyone to see how happy we are. It will give me great pleasure to show you off.
Skye: Yeah, but if we don't have the money...
Jax: Our wedding day is an important celebration of our lives. Ok? It's a one-time deal, never to be repeated. Unless, of course, we decide to renew our vows on our 50th wedding anniversary. It'll be spectacular, as will our honeymoon. We'll go wherever your heart desires. We'll stay as long as you want. And after that, who knows? Either we'll be rich or we'll be eating dried-up moose jerky.
Skye: Jax, I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry.
Jax: Sorry about what? What's the matter? Did I say something wrong?
Skye: No, I just, I can't bear to hear you joke about your situation.
Jax: Well, I'm not the hand wringing type.
Skye: Jax, come on. You put all of your capital into an oil investment you might not be able to protect. And if it falls through, it's my fault, and I...
Jax: Skye, it's not important.
Skye: How can you say that?
Jax: You and I are family now. All right, we already have everything we need, and it can't be stolen from a safe or ruined by having too many flowers.
Skye: I don't want you to be hurt.
Jax: Well, then trust me that it'll all work out. And I promise that I will never leave you wanting for anything.
Skye: All I want is you.
Jax: Then why are you so upset? What are you so sorry about?
Skye: I am so sorry it has taken me so long to see how wonderful you are.
Jax: Hey. Hey, I forgive you.
Skye: No, Jax, I mean it. I have been so, so stupid.
Jax: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You've been a lot of things, but you've never been stupid.
Skye: Oh, I'm so insecure. I thought that you would leave me when you found out who I really was. And the worst part is I let my grandfather undermine my faith...
Jax: Shh. We're going to have to work on that whole confidence thing, ok? Lucky for us, we have the rest of our lives.
Skye: I don't deserve you.
Jax: We deserve each other, like we deserve lots and lots of flowers, which I'm going to take care of right now. I'm going to call my flower guy, I'm going to go see him, and I'm going to get him to round up every lily within a thousand-mile radius, including the Quartermaine yard. How's that?
Skye: Ok.
Jax: I'll see you later.
[Jax leaves, Skye picks up the phone]
Edward: Edward Quartermaine.
Skye: Grandfather, I need to see you immediately.
Edward: Oh, you have the oil lease map, I assume, huh?
Skye: I have much more than a map.
Edward: Oh?
Skye: I have an inspiration, and I'd like to share it with you.
[Later]
Edward: So, where's the map?
Skye: I don't have the map.
Edward: Then why am I here?
Skye: Because I have something you need. Something so powerful, it's going to change your life.
Edward: Oh, I doubt that.
Skye: What is the first thing you ever said to me when you really looked into my face?
Edward: What the devil do you want, huh?
Skye: To marry Jax.
Edward: Well, marry whomever you want, as long as you fulfill your part of our deal.
Skye: I want to be a good and loving wife to him, Grandfather, faithful in every way.
Edward: You can be whatever you want as long as you have delivered to me what I want.
Skye: Grandfather, I have never asked you for anything.
Edward: Oh, God, you've made staggering demands.
Skye: But I've never asked as a favor, and I'm asking you now. Will you give me another chance? Will you let me start over? Will you forget that we have that contract and that we ever had a deal?
Edward: You, you don't want to be the heir to the Quartermaine fortune?
Skye: I'd rather have something from your heart. Now, if you show me just this once that you have one, I think I could learn to love you.
Edward: So, after all your plots and machinations, all you want is Jax's love, huh?
Skye: And a chance to start a life with him.
Edward: I must say, dear, you've, whew, you've thrown me for a loop.
Skye: Grandfather, please. Please, I swear I will never ask for another thing from you.
Edward: You won't need to, dear, because Jax's empire will be the jewel in my corporate crown.
Skye: Well, then, take your best shot. I don't care. Yank companies out from under him. Lie, steal, cheat. I don't care. Just leave me out of it!
Edward: I have to warn you, your life with Jax will be just this side of unbearable if he discovers our little conspiracy.
Skye: He won't if you don't tell him.
Edward: If...
 Skye: Grandfather, please, I am begging you. Please, I will never ask for another thing in my life if you let me stand there and watch you tear up that contract. I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life.
Edward: Hmm. And to think that I once considered you my natural successor.
Skye: Maybe I am. After all those companies that you've gobbled up, all of those coups that you've planned and those takeovers, you've never stopped loving Lila. Let me love Jax like that.
Edward: Since you, since you ask so sweetly, how could I say no?
Skye: Oh, Grandfather, thank you so much. I swear you won't be sorry.
Edward: All right, my dear. All right. Now you, you get some rest because you're going to need it for your party, and I will bring the contract then, huh?
Skye: Ok. All right, I'll see you at the dinner, then.
Edward: Ok.
Skye: Thank you.
Edward: You take care, my dear, hmm?
Skye: Ok.
[Edward leaves, but Skye, not knowing to trust him or not, starts to pack]
 Jax: What are you doing?
Skye: Oh, I have a brilliant idea.
Jax: Oh?
Skye: You know, yeah. We just forget all the parties and the pomp and the circumstance and fly out, fly out of Port Charles tonight. Go get married in a Scottish castle or a French chateau or a cathedral in Venice, huh?
Jax: Wow. You know, those all sound like wonderful honeymoon spots.
Skye: Well, why wait?
Jax: Forgive me for being so earthbound and traditional, but I want a big wedding. I want a big wedding. I want a big engagement party and I want all our friends to see it because you and I deserve a world-class celebration. If only for the pleasure of watching Edward squirm.
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