Jason (to Michael): "Now look, you see those boats?" (Michael grabs at Jason's face) "What's up? Those are the same ones we watch from the window. They look a lot bigger down here don't they? You know what, when you're just a little older I'm going to take you down to the industrial pier so we can go on a cargo ship, okay? But I can't right now, because they make a lot of noise and I don't want them to scare you. Now, take a look, look at those. You see those big big things sticking out of the water?" (Michael coos) "Yeah? Like arms? Those are cranes. They use those, do you want that? They use those to renovate the docks. Now renovate means to build over again. Really it looks like they're tearing something down but really they're fixing it up so it'll look even better than it did before."
(AJ walks over.)
AJ: "While you're at it, maybe you can explain to him why there's no work being done. I'd kind of like to hear about it myself. Ah, Jase, any chance I could come closer without you pulling a gun?"
Jason: "What do you want?"
AJ: "Just to say hello to my nephew. It's not gonna happen is it?"
Jason: "No."
AJ: "Alright, then how abut a couple of words about your latest protest against the family?"
Jason: "What about them?"
AJ: "Come on Jason, what am I going to do, grab Michael and run?"
Jason: "Renaldo. Look Michael, I'm gonna give you to Renaldo and you guys can watch the boats okay? I'm gonna fight with AJ but you don't have to listen. There you go."
Renaldo (to Michael): "Hey buddy. Good boy." (To Jason) "You sure you'll be alright?"
Jason: "Yeah."
Renaldo: "Hey Michael, hey buddy."
AJ: "You always warn him when you're gonna do something?"
Jason: "I tell him what's going on."
AJ: "Really? That might get a little inconvenient for you, when he gets older and he can tell people all about his daddy breaking the law."
Jason: "The renovation, AJ."
AJ: "That's what I'm talking about Jase. Everything is business. Nothing exists between you and I except the construction project that you control that I need completed."
Jason: "The same thing you did to Carly."
AJ: "How is she?"
Jason: "At Ferncliff. Locked away from her son. Her doctor told me they won't sedate her. I won't know anything else until they let me in to visit which won't be for about a month."
AJ: "I never meant to hurt her."
Jason: "You did."
AJ: "You're right Jase, I had a business objective and I used Carly to try and accomplish it and it blew up in my face. And you know what? It's gonna happen again until we can find a way to compromise."
Jason: "I don't want to compromise. I want you and the old man and everyone else in that house to leave Michael and Carly alone."
AJ: "So you're using extortion? Not even a strike this time. Just no work getting done. No materials being delivered to the site, no construction crew showing up. It's costing us millions of dollars and making grandfather furious just like you knew he would be but guess what, he's not going to leave Michael alone. Blackmailing us out of Michael's life is not going to work."
Jason: "It already has."
AJ: "We're not going anywhere. Okay so you have leverage right now, and you're using it to back us off. Okay. But the docks project will get done someday, and then what, what are you going to use then? Come on, don't you think that it makes a little more sense that we co-exist? What do you say? I mean, why don't you let Michael come to the house a couple times a month so we can visit so we....." (Jason laughs)
Jason: "I'm never letting Michael go into that house. Why do you want him there? Emily showed up at my door crying because she said Alan hit you. Why do you want Michael to see that?"
AJ: "Dad's going through a rough time right now."
Jason: "Alan's a junkie! He screams at Emily when he's high, she told me all about it. You know when she stayed with me last winter, I wasn't going to tell her what to do. But when she went back to the house I was glad cause I thought she belonged there with grandmother and Monica. Now, this time when she gets home from her modeling trip if she wants to move in with me she can.
AJ: "Are you crazy? What kind of life is she going to have Jason? What kind of life does Michael have now? I mean come on, look at this guy." (referring to Renaldo) "He's got a gun. Jason. He's with Michael where ever he goes and why? Why? Because violent people are out to get you and Michael is the easiest way to do it. And you make yourself off as this great protector. The only people you're protecting him from are the Quartermaines. Let me ask you this Jase.....what about the danger he's in from you?"
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