Roy and Hannah: (cont.)

Hannah: "You're sweet."
Taggert: "Sweet? That's cold."
Hannah: "You don't have to defend me, Taggert. Not anymore."

Taggert: "I'm not saying you need to be rescued."
Hannah: "Well, maybe I did then, but now--"
Taggert: "Look, look, you didn't let Corinthos ruin your life. That's no small accomplishment."
Hannah: "Everything feels different after Sonny. I'm still thinking about leaving the F.B.I."
Taggert: "Well, that's your call."
Hannah: "But what?"
Taggert: "But you're a good cop."
Hannah: "Thank you."
Taggert: "And I'd miss working with you."
Hannah: "Same here."
Taggert: "Why is that, because I'm not bad for a local?"
Hannah: "No. It's because you're so cute."

Taggert: "She finally noticed."

Amy: "I have to admit, Taggert is utterly charming these days. I always wanted to like him, wanted him to have something to do other than screaming at Sonny, but now it's with Hannah. Darn."

XIV. Cards Finally on the Table (3/24, 3/27)

Bobbie: "When Sorel was dragging me away from you, my mind went back to that night when you shot Mitch Williams, when Luke and I left you for dead in the street. I was such a coward."
Roy: "No. What are you--what could you have done?"
Bobbie: "I could have pulled you into the car. But I didn't. I froze. And I let Luke drag me away."
Roy: "Bobbie, nothing that--"
Bobbie: "And now, by some miracle, you come back to me--along with that feeling. And I told myself it can't be real. It's got to be something from the past. I lied to myself because I was a coward. I don't want to be that coward anymore. So I'm going to tell you what's in my heart. I never stopped loving you. I love you."

Roy: "Bobbie--listen. There's a lot about me you don't know."
Bobbie: "I know how I feel. And the rest, I don't care. And I don't want to lie to myself anymore or to you."
Roy: "I--I am the one who's been lying. I don't really work for Sonny. I'm--I'm--I'm a snitch. I work for the F.B.I."

As the scene began, Roy and Bobbie stood face to face, very close, and she put her hand on his mouth. Her line about him being real fell on the same day we had Laura asking Luke if their past was real. Very nice indeed.

Meanwhile, I noticed that he had black hair and a brown jacket, while her hair looked brown over her black jacket. Sometimes I notice the strangest things in emotional scenes.

They were still kissing, still close when he pulled away. But he had to tell her the truth, and as he did, we went broke until the next day:

Roy: "Frank was only the beginning, Bobbie. Almost everything I've told you about my life since has been a lie. And for the sake of whatever second chance we might have, it's time to set the record straight."

After that line, we cut to Lucky and Helena, which I found to be a nice touch.

Roy: "I don't even know where to begin. I could lead with my justifications or just get right down to it, down to the--down to breaking your faith in me."
Bobbie: "Is that what you think is going to happen?"
Roy: "I hope to god not."
Bobbie: "Well, then may you just better get to it."

Bobbie and Roy were still holding hands, but she backed up away from him at this point. Roy wasn't looking her in the eye now; he was looking down.

Roy: "Yeah, but what I couldn't tell you--what I didn't tell you was that after a few years they came back."

Bobbie: "They found the right incentive."
Roy: "Yeah, they found Hannah."

Bobbie: "What did they offer you?"
Roy: "A chance to give my daughter a father and a home. Even if it was only part-time. So I took the deal. I became an informant, otherwise known as a snitch in more plain-speaking circles."
Bobbie: "That must have been so hard for you."

Roy: "She had a nanny full-time, a woman she adored. And when I was out of prison on assignment, I would live with them. Sometimes for months. Whole long stretches where it almost felt like I was a normal dad with a normal kid living an unremarkable suburban life. I'd make her lunch and take her to school. I'd try to fix her hair. She was always into asking me to fix her hair, and I just couldn't get the hang of it. You know, she'd always pretend she looked great and go off with some weird ponytail or wannabe braids or something. Then all of a sudden the bureau would close in. They'd wrap up the case, and I'd be given a new alias and sent to another prison."
Bobbie: "Where did Hannah think you were going?"
Roy: "She thought I was the big-time hero, F.B.I. agent off to make the world safe for the good guys. She believed I was a man of honor. I can still see her standing on the front porch waving good-bye, beaming, so proud. That's why she became an agent--because she wanted to be just like me. Another of the lies I told her that she believes to this day. And that's what's got to stop--all these lies that I tell to you, to her, to Luke. Once I have finished here, I swear I will never take another order from the F.B.I. as long as I live."

Bobbie: "So you weren't in prison for the last 20 years. There were times when you were free, walking around buying groceries. And you could have called, written. You could have shown up on my doorstep at any time."
Roy: "Yeah, but to offer what? The F.B.I. has owned me. They have owned me. I had no idea if I'd live through the next job. I had no assurance they wouldn't send me back to prison permanently if they didn't like the results I brought in. I have had nothing that I could give you that could be counted on."
Bobbie: "Didn't you know what it would have meant to me to be with you? God, Roy. If I'd only known you were alive. I used to lie in bed at night thinking about you. I used to dream about what our life together could've been. The feelings I had for you I never had for anybody else. Didn't you know? So, I don't understand. Why come back now, at all? Why come back now and lie to me? You just said, 'once I'm finished here.' is that why you're here? Is that why you're in Port Charles? Are you on a job for the feds?"

When Roy asked her what kind of life he could have offered her, it was déjà vu for me, back to the late 70s and early 80s when everything for Luke was about what kind of life he could offer Laura. I haven't seen anything of Roy Dilucca from back then, but from what I know he was the same way.

Bobbie: "It was you? I lost Jerry because of you?"
Roy: "I can explain."
Bobbie: "I've heard your explanations, Roy. And for this, they don't wash."

Bobbie: "But once you found out I was engaged to Jerry, you decided to get him out of the way? So you--what, you used your government connections to have him arrested? And then you stood right here in this very room with my family and friends and watched it happen. Well, must have been some day for you. Drop-kick the groom, comfort the bride, and suck away a gold star from the F.B.I."
Roy: "Ok, I know that's how it reads, but that's not how it happened. I didn't know Jerry was a money launderer. I didn't know anything about Jerry. My original target was Moreno. And I found a series of account numbers that didn't look right. I turned them over to the F.B.I. if I'd known they led back to Jerry, I wouldn't have given them up."
Bobbie: "Oh, right, right. You would have protected him."
Roy: "Yes, I would have because you loved him."
Bobbie: "Do you really expect me to believe that? Oh, hell, why shouldn't I? I have swallowed every other lie you spoon-fed me, starting with your greatly exaggerated death straight through to your surprise daughter and now this. What the hell do you take me for, Roy? Do you really think that I can't reach a point where I have had enough lies?"

Bobbie assumed the worst, here at the beginning, and he just let her. Unlike Luke, who would have protested her on every count, perhaps, Roy was like Sonny. He knows when to let people go on and on and on, knowing that he won't convince them otherwise until they've calmed down and he's proven himself. He went on to finish the story, but let her rant.

We cut from her question about "enough lies" to Carly and Sonny.

Bobbie: "Did I ever mean anything to you at all?"
Roy: "You mean the world to me."
Bobbie: "Nice way to show it."

Roy: "When it went down, I knew. The moment it happened, not a--that's when I knew."
Bobbie: "And you still didn't tell me. Like you didn't bother to mention the fact that you were alive all these years living behind a white picket fence with a daughter I never knew about."
Roy: "Yeah--no, I didn't mention any of that. That's what I do. I skate through things, I change the subject, I leave stuff out. I'm a liar. And I hate that I am so damn good at it. And that's why I have tried to keep my distance from you. I have struggled to keep my hands off you when everything inside of me is screaming that I should just take you and show you the only thing that matters. I love you. I've never stopped."

It was as though Roy couldn't say the "I love you" part until he'd told every bit of the truth.

Roy: "When Sorel's men jumped me, and I was lying on the ground watching them drag you away, all I could think was, 'Please, god, not again. Don't let me lose this chance with this woman I love so much.' But, you know, it was a blessing getting beat on like that because it made me realize the lies have got to stop. I've got to take whatever power I still have out of the hands of the F.B.I. and in the end, I know you may not be able to forgive me."
Roy: "But at least now you know all of it."
Bobbie: "I think you should leave."
Roy: "I don't want--"
Bobbie: "Roy. Please."

Bobbie looked away as he said he knew that she might not forgive him. And she didn't look at him as she asked him to leave.

XV. Bobbie Can't Stay Away (3/28)

Tammy: "Oh--and you might want to put in a call to Roy Dilucca. He seems very concerned about you."

Roy: "I told her the truth, Hannah. I think I may have lost her."

Roy: "Hannah, the first job I had was to get the evidence that indicted her fiancé. I attended their wedding. I came by afterwards and I comforted her. And I have stood there and let her say to me on several occasions, 'Well, at least you're being honest with me, Roy. At least you're telling me the truth.' and I didn't say anything."
Hannah: "Yeah, well, of course you didn't say anything. That's what we do. We don't get to tell people half of what goes on in our lives. What if she blows your cover?"
Roy: "Ah, no. No, she's upset, but she would never do that."
Hannah: "Oh, come on. Look, Bobbie's daughter's pregnant with Sonny's child. She's feeling betrayed by you. She's going to want to lash out. What if she tells someone that you're an undercover fed?"
Roy: "Somebody like Sonny? He won't do anything, right? Because Sonny's such a great guy. Isn't that right? I'm sorry. That was a cheap shot. But I know Bobbie, and she wouldn't do that to me."
Hannah: "You're scaring me. You're starting to sound like me."
Roy: "This is a completely different situation, and you know it."
Hannah: "Why, because you know Bobbie better than anyone else? That's what I used to say about Sonny."
Roy: "Bobbie is not a crook, ok? This isn't an assignment. This isn't a case of me falling for someone I was sent here to investigate or coming clean with somebody that I was supposed to help bust. This is--this is--this is about heart."
Hannah: "You think she'll forgive you?"
Roy: "I don't know. She told me that there's bound to come a point where she's had enough. At least I was honest with her. My mistake was that I waited a long time. I'll see you."

Tammy: "Bobbie, would you call him already?"
Bobbie: "He's still at work."
Tammy: "What, he doesn't have an answering machine?"

Bobbie: "Tammy, I'm going to go. I got to check on the strike negotiations."
Tammy: "Uh-huh. So, did you call him?"
Bobbie: "No."

Larkin: "Ah, just the person I was coming to see. I have a few questions for you. I'd like to ask you about your kidnapping."

Larkin: "You never learn, do you, Roy? That's assault on a federal officer."
Roy: "Then arrest me. But don't you ever put your hands on that woman."

Roy: "Don't you think I thought about that? That this was a golden opportunity to remove the noose from my neck? If there was any way I could have rescued Bobbie and handed you Sonny, I would have done it."
Larkin: "Then why didn't you?"
Roy: "Well, the thing was that he gave me an assignment, but he didn't tell me the whole plan."
Larkin: "Right. Like you just stood by and hoped he pulled whatever it was off. You screwed up. And when you're back inside, I hope you think she's worth it."

Bobbie, of course, knows the bit about which wall to stand behind if you want to hear everything on those docks...

Roy: "Oh, for the love of god. Bobbie, what are you doing here?"
Bobbie: "I was listening. Why didn't you say anything to me? You are in a world of trouble, aren't you?"

Bobbie: "You're how the F.B.I. found out about the kidnapping, aren't you? And they weren't even going to do anything. Nice to know my tax dollars are working for me."

Bobbie: "Because if I could sneak up and overhear everything you were saying, so can Sonny."
Roy: "So what? I'm finished. I have danced for those guys for 20 years. I'm done with it. I can't do it anymore. Hannah's a grownup. She can handle the truth or not. They can send me back to Pentonville or not, whatever. I'm done."

Bobbie: "Roy--you know, I am still angry at you because you shouldn't have lied to me, but you don't belong in prison."
Roy: "Well, technically, I do because I'm not doing the job that I was released by the F.B.I. to do and I have no intention of doing it."
Bobbie: "Just stop thinking with your pride."
Roy: "The problem is I've been out of touch with my pride, Bobbie. And I'm done lying now."
Bobbie: "To me, I hope. And to your daughter. Look, I know you feel guilty about that, and I think you should. But the way to make it up to us is not by getting yourself sent back to prison. So, you know, if you want my permission, you got it. Go ahead--lie to me, lie to anybody you have to, but don't get yourself sent away again."
Roy: "I am never going to lie to you again. That's a promise. But that's the only promise I can make."
Bobbie: "Well, I need a little more than that. I need to know you're not going to just vanish from my life again."

Roy is willing to promise what he believes he can come through on, but he consistently refuses to promise what he may not be able to deliver. So the promise he gave her here, versus the promise that she asked for, were interesting to me. And because of his reluctance to over-promise, when he does promise, it bears a lot of weight.

XVI. Look on the Bright Side, Agent Scott (3/30)

Taggert: "So, working at the PCPD, that's like being punished?"
Hannah: "Well, no, there's some good things about it."
Taggert: "I like working with you, too."
Hannah: "I was talking about the coffee."

XVII. Sonny Makes Roy an Offer (3/31)

Sonny: "You did good. Kept your head up, showed some style."
Roy: "You liked the limo off the pier."
Sonny: "You know, if you're still interested in moving up, I might have a job for you."

Sonny: "Benny, he's an accountant. He's not comfortable with all aspects."

Sonny: "Yeah, well, I want to be able to send--you know, send somebody into any situation to follow my orders to the letter, no questions asked."
Roy: "Well, I wouldn't be the guy then because I have a problem following orders blind."
Sonny: "That would be a problem."
Roy: "Yeah. I need a little room sometimes. I do keep my mouth shut."
Sonny: "Nothing more important."
Roy: "Yeah, but you'd need to know right up front that--if it were me, I'd need the right to refuse an assignment if I didn't like it, you know?"
Sonny: "I can work with that, within reason."
Roy: "And you'd still be interested?"
Sonny: "Are you?"
Roy: "I could handle it. I know I could handle it."
Sonny: "I want you to be clear. I'm not offering you the job yet. We'll think of this as a trial, a test, a chance for you to prove yourself."
Roy: "Well, I really appreciate the thought behind that. Thank you."
Sonny: "I truly believe this will be great for both of us."

Roy is in a brown leather jacket over a grey shirt, while Sonny wears a brown shirt and a grey suit. Sonny offers his hand to Roy on their deal, and Roy slowly takes it. I suspect it's because he's thinking of telling Sonny the truth and doesn't want to make a promise he won't keep.

XVIII. Hannah Celebrates (3/31)

Hannah: "You dedicated your whole life to the F.B.I., dad. Did something happen I don't know about?"

Hannah: "I mean Larkin practically said that you're not who I think you are."

Roy: "I think he's flat out bad for you. But he came through for Bobbie."
Hannah: "I knew he would."

Hannah: "Ooh. What are we celebrating?"
Taggert: "You deciding not to quit the F.B.I."

Taggert: "Would you be more comfortable at Mario's?"
Hannah: "Oh, no. No. Um--I came here to have a good time and that's what I'm going to do."

XIX. Bobbie Shows Her Stubborn Streak (3/31)

Roy sits doing the books with blues music on in the background. When Bobbie comes in she stands very close to him. On a line about the risks involved with Roy's choices, he turns to the safe.

Bobbie: "You didn't tell them you're out?"
Roy: "When I tell them I'm out, I'm back in Pentonville."
Bobbie: "Roy, I won't accept that."

Bobbie: "I wish you'd told me the truth a long time ago."
Roy: "So do I."
Bobbie: "But I won't give you up. I won't."

Bobbie: "Nobody has ever been able to make a case against Sonny."
Roy: "Yeah. It makes the F.B.I. look bad."
Bobbie: "So, you're the fall guy?"

Bobbie: "So don't tell the F.B.I. anything."
Roy: "In other words, just go on lying?"
Bobbie: "Yeah, if that's what it takes to stay out of jail."
Roy: "I have danced for these guys as long as I'm going to. I'm finished. And I'm going to tell them so just as soon as I come clean with Corinthos."
Bobbie: "You're going to tell Sonny that you're an informant for the F.B.I.?"
Roy: "Yes, I am."
Bobbie: "Can you even imagine how he's going to react? There has to be another way."

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