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June 18, 2002
Edward: At what percentage? Oh, good. Buy more. Buy everything you can get until noon and not a second after. Fine.
Jax: Did you enjoy your last meal, Edward? I truly hope so because you have bitten off more that you can chew.
Edward: Hmm. Well, as a matter of fact, I had a wonderful meal. I had Wilburton Limited over easy with a side of Krestman Properties.
Jax: You do realize that you have hastened your financial demise. A few months ago, Edward, I took your entire company out from underneath you without even breaking a sweat. It's not a good idea to provoke me.
Edward: My financial demise has been greatly exaggerated. I have never felt more fit, and I am hungry enough...
[Skye storms up]
Skye: Why the hell am I locked out of my office and who do I have to kill to get back in?!
Edward: Merry Christmas.
Skye: Whoa, what are you...
Edward: You don't have an office anymore, Skye, and your name will not be found on any door here at ELQ. I was thinking of putting it on the custodian's door, but since I'm doing all the cleanup from the mess you left, I realized that that won't work. You need to also know that you no longer hold controlling interest in the company that I started from scratch. And you, young lady, are very lucky to be sleeping with a wealthy man who can keep you fed and clothed as long as you maintain his interest. After that, you're going to find yourself out on the street with your brother AJ, groveling. So, if you both will excuse me, I have some more pirating to do. Have a nice day.
Jax: It's why I asked you to breakfast.
Skye: Please tell me those were the rantings of a delusional man.
 Jax: Look, Edward, Edward took advantage of your trip to Bangkok, ok? He pulled off something of a coup, but, really, it's no big deal. Don't worry about it. Just...
Skye: "Don't worry about it"?! What, I go out of town on an emergency call and I get a call from Thailand that I'm not CEO anymore? What should I do? What should I say?!
Jax: Ok, calm down, calm down, calm down.
Skye: "Gee, easy come, easy go"? Or, "Why didn't my silent partner give me a call?!"
Jax: I did call. I left you a message...
Skye: Oh, "Edward's on the move?!"
Jax: Look, Skye, I know how you feel, all right, but just...
Skye: No, you don't know how I feel, Jax! You don't know how I feel. But you know what? I can help you out with that.
Jax: Skye... [She throws a glass of water in his face] Whew! [To the other customers] Sorry.
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[Skye locks the door and starts trashing everything, breaking glasses and throwing vases.]
Jax: Skye, let me in.
Skye: Go away!
Jax: Come on, Skye. If you want to destroy something, let's destroy Edward, ok? Skye, come on! Unlock the chain!
[She ignores him and continues to break things, Jax breaks thru the door and grabs her.]
Skye: Ooh! Ah!
Jax: Ok, ok, ok!
Skye: Jax, let go of me!
Jax: Stop it, stop it, stop it!
Skye: Let go of me! Let, Jax, let go of me!
Jax: Ok, ok, ok. This is your strategy?! You throw a tantrum?
Jax: Come on, stop, all right?
Skye: Let go of me now!
 Jax: Listen to me. If you can't stand to lose a couple of rounds, then maybe you should get out of the game.
Skye: Oh, this "game" you're talking about, Jax, this is my life, all right? I didn't simply lose rounds. I lost knowing who my parents were. I lost that sense of identity and belonging that every other kid had, all right? I wasn't, I wasn't outsmarted. I was sold and years later informed that I was neither wanted nor missed by my family. Do you really think that this company is about business to me? I mean, where have you been all this time? Tell me, who've you been sleeping with? Not me. Taking over ELQ was about more than, than getting revenge on my grandfather. It was about proving that I was better, faster, smarter than any of the Quartermaines, the old man included. And no one thought that I could do it. Well, I did it, all right? No one saw it coming, but I did it. And maybe I didn't do it single-handedly, but, then again, none of them thought that I could ever get you to take a second look. I didn't only hurt Grandfather's pride when I kicked him out of ELQ, I earned his respect, and I kept it every single time that he tried to force or trick or badger me out. Pushing me out was his way of saying that I'm a mistake, disposable, a misfit, Jax. And you let it happen. You let me think that I had somebody watching my back, and your only explanation to me is you tried to call?! I, Jax, you, you climb sheer ice walls that are 10 stories high. You want to get something done, it gets done. You just didn't care enough. Or maybe, I don't know, maybe you, you were momentarily caught playing another game that had your attention, huh? Well, I certainly made a mistake by letting my guard down against my grandfather because I thought that you were watching my back. But you know what? No more. That's it. I am cutting my losses and I'm folding.
 Jax: Skye, I'm not going to let you fold.
Skye: You won't let me fold? What are you going to do, watch my back in case my grandfather tries to ambush me? You know what? I am, I am done listening to you. I am. I mean, whatever we were, we are not anymore. No way. I, this is why I hate relationships. I do. I fall into one, and I start trusting and I start believing, and before I know it I am relying on some man and I'm relying on him some more, and then I end up making the same stupid mistakes all over again.
Jax: Skye, you're obviously jet-lagged, so...
Skye: I'm not too tired to know when I've been stabbed in the back. Now, please, just get out of my way so I can go pack my clothes.
 Jax: If you want out of the personal relationship... You know what? It's not what I want, but, but I can't keep reassuring you forever. I mean, if you want to think that I betrayed you, then you're going to believe that regardless of the truth. But I'm still going after Edward because this time he's gone too far. Look, by the time I realized that he'd cut you out of ELQ, it was too late. There was nothing that I could do. I warned him, I told him to back off, and in his response he made a move on two of my holdings. I will get you back the stock you've lost, Skye. Look, you're in this game whether you like it or not. But if you don't want to play your hand, then I'll play it for you. Either way, the game goes on. But I won't let it end until we win.
Skye: You talk a good game. You know, I fell for it once, but I'm not going to be suckered again. You ever get the best of my grandfather, you send me a certified check. And as for my clothes, you can trash them.
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