Roy: "Your daughter needed a lesson."
Bobbie: "And all of a sudden it's your job to teach her?"
Roy: "Somebody needs to call her bluff once in a while."
Bobbie: "Just how far were you planning to go?"

Bobbie: "Carly split up my marriage with Tony, and you know it."
Roy: "You have nothing to worry about. I love you."
Bobbie: "I love you, too. You got to watch out for Carly because she's dangerous."
Roy: "She's not half as dangerous as her mother."

Bobbie: "Because, you know, Roy, if you get caught running a card game, you could go back to jail."
Roy: "It's not going to happen. We have protection."
Bobbie: "So why take the risk?"
Roy: "I'll call you."
Bobbie: "Don't do me any favors."

Mike: "Just one hand. Let me see how it goes."
Roy: "No. You want my help, we do this my way."

Amy: "While I understood Bobbie's reaction, I still wanted to slap her. What I like is that Carly will still be on Roy's 'good side,' because he's so tolerant and because he listens. But what I like more is that the last couple of times they've fought, Sonny and Carly have made up immediately--primarily at his initiation. I felt bad today when I decided that he was going to ask her to come back and she kept cutting him off. Wonder if she did it on purpose, since she doesn't think anything but obligation is behind the request?"

II. A Visit from Sorel (8/7)

Mike: "10,000. Damn, Roy, you are good."
Roy: "I got lucky."
Mike: "Yeah, well, I'll take that kind of luck any day of the week."
Roy: "You're going to need it, Mike, dealing with Sorel."

Roy: "I know how it looks from there. Be that as it may, that's my money. I'm going to take it to Sorel and make a deal, or I'm going to keep it."

Mike: "Roy, why--why do you keep busting yourself to help me?"
Roy: "Like I said, I owe Sonny."

Bobbie: "You keep thinking that you have to earn all of this money so that we can have a great life and so you can buy me things. But it's really not about that for me. It's about us. We waited a long time to be together, so--so let's not screw it up."

Roy: "Bobbie, the money I made last night is not for us. I--I--I just did something for a friend."

Bobbie: "Roy, we waited a long time to be together. I'm not going to sit around and do nothing while you put up this big wall between us."

Sorel: "It's good to see you. I regret the circumstances of our last meeting."
Bobbie: "You held me hostage and almost beat Roy to death!"

Sorel: "Mike Corbin's debt is not your problem. The only person that can settle that account is his son, Mr. Corinthos."

Sorel: "You needed a job, Roy. I made you a respectable offer, and yet you turned me down. The only logical explanation is that you're working for Corinthos now."
Roy: "Maybe I turned you down because I don't like the way you do business."
Sorel: "Well, you give your boss a message from me. You tell him that if he wants to save his father, I need to hear from him personally. No more middleman."

Bobbie: "Can't you see what's happening? Can't you see you are getting pulled back into a life that almost destroyed you?"
Roy: "Bobbie, the fact that I'm doing somebody a favor does not mean that I'm working for them."

Roy: "I love you."
Bobbie: "I love you, too."

Amy: "You know, Bobbie's going to deserve it if Roy kicks her out on her butt. Boy, I hope he's the one to break it off, though I'm bettin' she'll break up because of his lifestyle choices as she sees them."

Terry: "Please please please let him dump her. I don't think she'll dump him, because she's too damn needy. But I can see her breaking up in order to force him to 'straighten up'--doing the crap she accuses Carly of doing all the time."

Amy: "I can see that too. She'll be playing the victim-'you are ruining our second chance, Roy'--and be unwilling to see, as with Carly, that she's part of the problem. It'd be nice to see Luke come back to town and tell her off about it, but I'm not holding my breath."

"But I would love to see the day when Carly says, 'You're always willing to see the worst in people, mama, and you never believe that they can change. You never give them the benefit of the doubt. Well, I'm your daughter, and I can't choose to take or leave you. But Roy can, and he's chosen to leave.'"

Terry: "Sing it, sister. Oddly, Bobbie never gives Carly or Roy the benefit of the doubt, but she almost always gives it to Luke. And, come to think of it, my read on Bobbie is that she usually does put the best face on most people's foibles, reserving her deepest judgementalism for those she knows best--Carly, Roy, Laura. She rants as Luke but usually seems to come around to his way of thinking and accepting him as he is. Okay, I'm rambling, and haven't given it much thought, but there 'tis."

Amy: "It's interesting, ain't it? Is it something about them surviving childhood together, or belief that he'll never leave her, or what?"

"But today with Sorel drove me nuttier than the other day at Luke's. She immediately assumes he's doing an errand for Sonny, and accuses him in as many words of jeopardizing their life together. She's the one that's causing the main problems, as I see it. While he may be laying the groundwork for future problems (though I don't see him making any choices that would get him in any more trouble than being a friend of Sonny's and working at Luke's already has), she's causing big trouble right now. And I sure would like to slap her for it."

Terry: "Yep, it was terrible on her part. Still, nothing topped her worst sin, in my opinion, from the Luke's episode--when she asked Claude to lock up. No no no Bobbie. Bad Bobbie. I keep expecting to see Roy start holding his hands over his privates whenever she comes into sight--she's emasculating him. And she's annoying. She's jumping to conclusions in ways Carly can only dream of. Wish Roy would point that out to her, or even more, that Carly would. Okay, everybody sorta did the other night after the 'misunderstanding' but someone needs to point out that it wasn't just that one event, but a recurring theme for her with Roy lately. Roy's free, and she wants to tell him how to live. While dreaming of a life with her kept him sane while he was in prison/working for the FBI, now that he's free, he may well decide that the reality doesn't match up and that he values being his own man more than he values their relationship. And yes, I see the parallels to my dear Stefan."

Amy: "I was hoping that Claude would look to Roy for confirmation. But Claude isn't that savvy, after all. *G* And she is the boss's sister. The irony is that Bobbie wants very much for Roy to make a better life for himself and for them to have a future, but she can only see him in terms of the past."

"Which reminds me: on their last dance, was that a more recent tune than the 70s? I've been waiting for a dance to more recent music as a sign that they're dealing with the present, rather than living in the past, but while I thought it was more recent, I could be wrong. And I don't even remember what it was, now."

Joan: "Well, I had no soaps at all last night. Electrical outage--the whole 2nd and 3rd floor of my building were apparently dark all day. (You should have seen my freezer!) I gather Bobbie is digging herself a deeper hole with Roy. It would serve her right if Roy invited Carly to be his roommate. (Can't you picture Carly, Leticia, and Mikey in sleeping bags on his floor?)"

Amy: "I'd offer to send it, but it wasn't worth your time, really."

Arda: "I'd offer to send it too, but it was so bad, I recorded over it today."

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