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February 20, 2002
AJ: Jax, I don't have time for this. Why don't you go play games someplace else, huh?
Jax: Are you denying that this is your cuff link? I mean, yeah, perhaps it belongs to someone else with the initials "AJQ"?
AJ: Where do you get off barging into my home to question me? Now, I have plans this evening. If you don't mind...
Skye: You know, hold everything. Jax, thanks to Sonny Corinthos, I was abducted this evening, and all you can do is accuse me and my brother of staging it? Now, you know what I've been through. How can you even begin to think to make accusations like that?
Jax: You know, I've done my best to trust you, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Now I see I should have listened to my instinct and cut you loose months ago. You know, you can settle this. Did you fake your own kidnapping or not?
AJ: Skye, that accusation doesn't deserve a response. For your information, I've been here all evening and most of the day, and, as you can see, this sweater doesn't have french cuffs.
Skye: You know, Jax, I really thought that you and I had reached a mutual level of respect. What? You're telling me you never trusted me? When were you going to tell me that?
AJ: I know when I lost this. It was when Corinthos threw me in a meat locker a few months ago. I must not have got the invitation because I wasn't quite dressed for the occasion, Jax. Are you ok? So help me, if Sonny hurt you...
Skye: Maybe it is time for the truth.
 AJ: From the beginning, I told my sister that if she let her dealings with you get personal, you'd chew her up and spit her out. You're a player. White knight? Just a means to an end. Like corporate shark, fun-loving playboy. You will use any means necessary to get what you want, like ELQ. Except my sister took you seriously, she thought you meant it when you told her you'd rescue her. So who's the liar in this room, Jax? Yeah.
Skye: You're right, AJ. I should have called the police.
AJ: How were you able to call anyone?
Skye: Sonny's men didn't search me. They just threw me in this abandoned meat locker and just locked the door.
AJ: Well, just thank God you weren't trapped in there any longer.
Skye: I didn't want to call the police. You know, half of them are on Sonny's payroll, anyway. Don't worry, Jax. I won't be calling you again.
AJ: Jax, you ever been grabbed by Sonny's goons? At first, you think you're going to go for a boat ride, be fitted for cement shoes. And then you're half relieved when you get thrown into a meat locker. But then you realize, wait a minute, you're in a perfect place for them to kill someone. They kept coming in and ordering me to sign away my rights to my son. And when I'd refuse, I'd think "this is it." I mean, am I going to disappear? Am I going to vanish without a trace, like all the others who disagreed with Sonny Corinthos? So that's how I lost this, ok? When they were forcing me to sign away my rights to Michael. And, Skye, I'm sorry you had to see that place, let alone be locked in there like I was.
Skye: Jax doesn't believe you, AJ. Sonny told Alexis that he doesn't hurt women, and, well, Alexis told jJx, and we all know there isn't a more honest man walking on this earth than Sonny Corinthos.
AJ: Where are you going?
Skye: Take a shower and throw away these clothes. I've been looking everywhere for this.
[Skye leaves]
AJ: [to Jax] Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Jax: Why do I get the feeling that you and I aren't finished with this?
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[Knock on door]
Skye: You're the last person I want to see tonight.
Jax: Well, too bad.
Skye: I've had more than enough of men pushing me around for one day. Get out.
Jax: Not until I know the truth.
Skye: I already told you the truth, and you refuse to believe me. What more is there to say? Unless, of course, you've come to apologize.
Jax: Don't you ever get tired of sabotaging yourself? You know, AJ was the picture of moral outrage, which is suspicious in itself. Not to mention the fact that Sonny would never have survived as long as he has by being stupid enough to let his captives keep their cell phones. And never mind the pantyhose excuse because I'm sure that was just the first lie that popped into your head. You would have been better off just keeping your mouth shut and just thinking of something better. You know, frankly, I'm insulted because you're treating me like a fool. And I don't deserve that.
Skye: If you've already made up your mind that AJ and I are lying, then just go. I mean, do you think that I could come up with such a lamebrain scheme as to have AJ throw me in a refrigerator with a cell phone and then say that Sonny did it? Don't you think I would have picked a different location? Not the same one that Sonny held AJ hostage in! Or maybe you don't even believe that he held AJ hostage. Maybe you think that AJ just willingly signed away all the rights to his son without being threatened in some extreme way.
Jax: Skye, I'm going to put this to you one last time. If I find out you've been lying to me, you and I are finished. Now, I want to know the truth from you, if you're capable of telling it. Who locked you in the meat locker?
 Skye: All I owe you is a sincere thank you for getting me out of that meat locker. As to how I got there, well, it already seems like you've made up your mind, so whatever I have to say is just beside the point, isn't it? What if, what if I was lying? Would that make a difference?
Jax: That's not good enough, Skye. You and I both know what the truth is, but you're not willing to cop to it.
Skye: You're going to believe whatever you want to believe. I don't crawl to anyone. And I certainly don't crawl to beg to be forgiven or believed!
Skye: So, good night.
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