Bobbie and Roy (cont.):

Roy: "You finished?"
Larkin: "No, but you are. As of today, your phone privileges are revoked. Try contacting the bureau one more time, and you won't be getting visitors, either. Any questions? Silence. I like that. Keep practicing."

Roy: "I was hoping I wouldn't see you."
Bobbie: "You really know how to flatter a lady."

Roy: "Well, you can't be here with me, Bobbie, and thank god. I'm in a cage. You can look at me through the glass, we can talk on the phone, but it's not really my voice and this is not really me. I don't want you seeing me like this. For 20 years, I didn't pick up the phone, I didn't write you a letter, and this is why."
Bobbie: "Hey, can we agree that you made a mistake shooting Mitch Williams and throwing away our future like you made a mistake when you lied to me about why you came back to Port Charles? Will you admit that much?"
Roy: "Absolutely."
Bobbie: "Then I'm owed, Roy--a chance to see your face and hear your voice. And I hate this glass, too. And I think the phone is terrible. But at least I know you're all right."

Roy: "You keep coming around here, somebody is going to get hurt. You or Hannah. Now, if anything happens to either one of you, I'm going to lose my mind. I can do five years. It's not a problem as long as I know the two of you are safe. Please do what I ask. Please stay away."

Bobbie: "This is wrong."
Roy: "This is what is."

Roy: "She shaved the rules on obstruction of justice when she was trying to protect Sonny. If she knows Larkin is corrupt and he figures it out, he will throw her in prison. Tell her I don't want to see either one of you, and tell her I mean it."
Bobbie: "You're asking me to lie for you."
Roy: "Bobbie, it's the truth."

Amy: "Lately, Zeman's been picking up stuff from back in the late 70s--smiles and such that I saw on Bobbie's face then. Very nice."

III. Inside, Outside (4/21, 4/24, 4/27)

Roy: "Sir, I know the drill, sir. I'll be sure to take full advantage of all the excellent rehabilitation programs available here at Pentonville."

Hank: "Well, you've worked numerous times as an FBI informant."
Roy: "Damn. What are you talking about? Are you out of your mind? That's not supposed to be in my file."

Hank: "It helps me to know the facts of your case."
Roy: "It'll help me get killed."

Bobbie: "Alexis, I'm afraid he's going to be killed in there. Is there some way you can get him released or at least get him transferred?"

Alexis: "Do you have any proof that Larkin's corrupt?"
Bobbie: "All I have is Roy's word."

Alexis: "I can petition the judge for emergency transfer. But without proof, I can't get Larkin taken off the case. And if we move Roy, he'll just be farther away from the people that care about him."
Bobbie: "Well, then tell me what I can do because I got to do something because I'm not leaving him stuck in prison like that. I'm not."

Mr. Adams: "And what's that name you're going by now? Dilucca? You know what happens to snitches around here, don't you? Turn him around."

On the next day:

Roy: "I fell. It was no big deal."

Hannah: "Why would Roy refuse to see you? He loves you."
Bobbie: "That's why."

Bobbie: "I can't imagine my life without him. When he walked back into town, it was as if the last 20 years hadn't happened. All the love was still there, unchanged. I'll wait for him as long as I have to. But it's going to be so much harder if I can't even see him."

Bobbie: "Could you talk to him? Could you make him understand how hard it is on me to be so cut off from him?"
Hannah: "Yes, yes. I won't leave that visitors' room until I get him to change his mind."

Bobbie: "Somehow, we will get through this."
Hannah: "Yeah."
Bobbie: "All three of us."

Guard: "Mr. Corinthos sends his regards."
Roy: "You know Sonny?"
Guard: "I work for him."

From Terry's update:

"Roy in a prison cell, writing on a pad. Hank Underwood, his social worker, arrives and introduces himself. Mr. Underwood immediately mentions that Roy's file includes the info that he was an FBI informant. Roy is alarmed."

"Roy wants to see his file. As he frets at seeing classified information has been placed in his records, a prisoner lurks nearby. Roy pleads with Underwood to contact a person at FBI headquarters, but the social worker insists that all contacts must go through the agent assigned to Roy's case, Agent Larkin. Roy says Larkin is the person setting him up."

"Down the hall from Jax at the hospital, Bobbie is ranting to Alexis about Larkin but Alexis says they need proof the agent is corrupt if they are to help Roy. Alexis promises to try to make an appeal to a judge on the basis of breach of agreement and pledges to go research the case. Bobbie cries."

"Speaking of Roy, he's walking down the corridor to his cell when he is accosted by a prisoner who, it turns out, was sent to prison because of Roy's work as Charlie the snitch. He and another prisoner take Roy into his cell and beat him up."

On the next day:

Roy: "There's no danger. It's just a matter of keeping to myself, staying out of hostile faces. To my profound regret, I know how to get along in here, so I don't want you worrying about me."

Roy: "You're like a dog with a bone."
Hannah: "Well, people have told me that I take after my father."
Roy: "Well, I'm going to put it as simply as I can. I love Bobbie. I'm not going to let her throw her life away over me."
Hannah: "Bobbie still loves you. What are you going to do? You just going to throw her out and take away her choice, her choice of loving you? Even if you think that you're protecting her, dad, that's selfish and it's cruel. And I know you're not like that. Please, daddy, don't make the same mistake twice. Don't shut Bobbie out of your life again."

Hannah: "She's in a lot of pain. And that's what I'm trying to tell you. Don't you want to fix that? Or are you really not the man that I thought you were?"
Roy: "That's my girl--no blow too low."
Hannah: "Did it work?"
Roy: "Will you ask her to come?"

Larkin: "Fathers and daughters. Now, there's a connection I have not been fortunate enough to know. I'd imagine it runs pretty deep. Look at the concern on her face. And she doesn't even know someone tried to kill you. I wonder what she'd do if someone told her."

Alexis: "Bobbie, in this instance, Roy is the only person that can help himself. If he can find a way to make himself valuable to the feds again, he might be able to turn this around."

Roy: "Where am I going?"
Larkin: "You'll know when you get there."

Bobbie: "What did he say?"
Hannah: "He wants to see you."
Bobbie: "Oh, thank you. Oh, I don't know how to thank you."0

IV. Roy's Transfer (4/28)

Larkin: "You like writing letters, don't you? To your congressman, the D.A.--why don't you write one to Roy? I'll see that he gets it."
Bobbie: "I know you're out to get him. And you won't get away with it."

Terry: "Bobbie is an idiot! She gets more 'Carly-esque' every day. Rather, she acts more and more like Carly when Carly is in 'rescue' mode--like when Carly was concerned about Jason's safety, or about Hannah being a fed. Except that Carly in rescue mode is fierce and single-minded (as Bobbie is being these days) but also strong and intelligent (which Bobbie isn't.)"

Judy: "Roy's not any prize in the brains department about this Larkin thing either. He should, having had oodles of under cover experience, know the benefit of covert operations, and yet he and Bobbie have managed to tip their hand. (Or perhaps the under cover experience of the red satin sheets stripped him of too many brain cells.) I suspect that their contrived idiocy is a result of the following GH axiom: 'No one can solve crime-related problems except for the Gummy-bear mob.' Thus, Bobbie and Roy have to dig themselves in really, really deep so that God the Father--er--the Godfather can save the day."

"For years, the cops were the good guys (for the most part). Witness Anna Devane, Robert Scorpio, Frisco Jones, and Sean Donnelly: all cops or police commissioners, all 'good' folks. Anna, Robert and Sean were flawed people but they were, at least, competent, allowed to solve the occasional case. They were good at their jobs and, while they may have had shady pasts, had their hearts in the right place most of the time. When Sonny appeared on the scene, however, it became clear that he was to be Port Charles's saving grace, and there could be no valid opposition to him. Thus, the huge, never-ending irony began, destroying the law enforcement characters in a lame effort to prop up the mob. Larkin's just the latest example."

Joan: "I agree. For all their faults, and they were legion, PCPD's previous tenants, with the notable exception of Chief Burt Ram say, did a good job of keeping Port Charles on the plus side of law and order. Yes, they bent or broke rules for friends, and they looked totally away when one of the trio's pigeons came home to roost, but in general, crimes got solved, crime lords were neutralized for respectable periods of time (eradicating them was not on the cards; they were too useful for plot purposes), and the rank and file police were seen to be doing useful things for the town. They didn't 'persecute' criminals, they tried their best to arrest them, a practice the citizenry seemed to appreciate, not protest. (No one came forward to worry about Victor or Julian Jerome's rights, as I recall, except the Jerome family, and Duke Lavery's plight was romantic because he hated his role as a mobster. Sonny's fine with being a mobster, if only the damn law would get out of his way!) With the exception of Officer Rick, the beloved, bumbling beat cop who arrested Tiffany for streetwalking (and eventually turned out to be something of a heroic figure), the old PCPD got the job done. The DAs traditionally don't, but it's not the force's fault."

"Now I really like Sonny, and I adore Benny, Johnny, all the dear dead bodyguards of yore, etc. Although I grew to dislike Jason in his last weeks on GH, I did love him from the moment he woke up in his new skin. However, he and Sonny are criminals. I coined the expression 'Gummi Bear Mob' in the days when Jason's 'mob' duties were innocuous, but from the moment he took Sonny's direction to 'take care of' a rival, he crossed over into actual do-badding. I have no problem with a gangster antihero or a gangster storyline, but I do think a strong mob needs a strong deterrent for maximum dramatic effect. Otherwise it's a case of straw persons arresting superior criminals, and the lawyer we like beats the lawyer we don't--case closed. No amount of admiration for Maurice Benard's acting or his curls and dimples can make that sit right. With me."

Amy: "Is Larkin law enforcement? Or is he working for somebody else, from the inside? It'd be a lame way to spare the name of law enforcement, but it's possible. I keep waiting for him to turn out to be working for Moreno."

Judy: "But Larkin alone can't tip the balance one way or the other. It's true that none of the characters these days are completely good or bad, but there's an incredible imbalance in how they're presented by the writers. When was the last time Mac and Taggert were right about something while Sonny or Jason were proven wrong? When was the last time their opinions were equally represented by actual dialogue and airtime? I can't think of the last time (or any time) Mac has solved a case or averted a crisis ahead of the mob."

"I have no problem with Sonny being in the Mob. What I do have a problem with is the mob always being the force that rides to the rescue when Port Charles is in trouble. What I do have a problem with is being subjected to the same painfully predictable scenarios over and over and over again. ('Gee, Sonny's being hauled into the PCPD again. I wonder if he'll get off?' *yawn*) And what
I especially have a problem with is the inevitable destruction of any character who actually stands up to Sonny or Jason and declares him or herself his adversary. We already know the mobsters are going to come out on top in any conflict...so why bother?"

"I do understand the problem with folks like the Cassadines, the mobsters, and the Q's needing to shake off the various charges brought against them. Otherwise, we'd be losing valuable characters left and right. However, in cases like the Dorman murder (and the events leading up to it), Liz's rape, or the 'other, bad mob,' where there's a throwaway character involved, I don't see why the cops can't be the smart ones, for a change. Wouldn't it be great to have Taggert ride to the rescue the next time Sorel has Sonny at gunpoint? Just for variety? I know I'd be entertained by that!"

And from Terry's update of this episode:

"Bobbie is at the visitor's room at Pentonville. Tom Johnson, the warden, arrives to tell her that Roy has been moved. Her eyes widen, naturally. So of course we cut to Roy in the back of a sheriff's van being moved, and wondering where he's headed."

"The warden tells Bobbie there was an attempt on Roy's life and she freaks. She's an emotional wreck! 'Why wasn't I notified?' Huh? You're a girlfriend, Bobbie. Prisons don't spend a lot of time keeping gal pals posted. 'Why wasn't his daughter?' Well, that makes more sense. The warden steps out and Larkin comes in. Bobbie starts ranting to him about how she knows what's he's doing and that he won't get away with it. Real smart, Bobbie, telling the nice bad guy you're onto him."

"Roy again asks thedriver where they are going, and there is no answer. Suddenly there is the sound of a car horn, and the driver swerves off the road and the van flips. It looked like a deliberate act to me, but that may be my imagination."

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