Sonny wakes in his
hospital room to find an exhausted Carly asleep at his bedside. He sends her home with strict orders to get
some rest. Zander visits Sonny and asks
him to front him some rent money so he can give Alexis her space. Sonny
agrees. Carly returns with Michael in
tow for a nice family visit with Sonny.
H e sends her home, again, with orders to get some rest. Sonny then gets a surprise visit from Sorel
who threatens to smother him. Carly
comes in and scares Sorel away. Sonny
convinces Carly not to get the authorities involved – he wants to know where
Sorel runs and to whom. As Carly is
treating Sonny to a nice take-out dinner from the PC Grille, she gets called
away on Deception business. As Sonny is
resting, he gets a late night visit from Alexis who informs him that Zander
took the money and skipped town. Sonny
is convinced Zander will return on his own.
Carly arrives at the
hospital to find Sonny’s bed empty. She
panics but soon discovers he was just in the restroom. Sonny decides it’s time for him to go
home. After discussing it with Tony,
Carly agrees but only if he heads straight to bed when they get there. Sonny tells her to go home without him because
he has an errand that needs to be taken care of. Carly grudgingly agrees. At home, Carly is a nervous wreck waiting for Sonny to come
home. Sonny’s errand turns out to be a
visit to Lily’s grave. He tells her
that he remembers seeing her (when his heart stopped) and that he’s glad she’s
somewhere safe and happy. He also says that he loves Carly and that he wouldn’t
leave her for anything. At home, Sonny
receives a warm welcome from Carly and Michael. As Sonny and Carly start to make love, she sees his bandages and
hesitates. She explains that nothing is
promised and that loving someone with your entire heart can’t make them
live. Sonny tells her that she’s the
reason he did live. They make
love. Afterwards, Sonny shares the
experience he had with Lily in the garden and tells Carly that his errand was a
to visit Lily’s grave. Later, Sonny
wakes from a nightmare of the Christmas shooting and Carly reassures him that
they’re together and now the good part of their life together starts.
As Sonny spends the
day resting, Carly goes to Deception to get some work done. Sonny gets a visit from Roy and questions
where his loyalties lie. Roy warns him
that Zander better survive this ordeal or else he’s no better than Sorel. Mike visits Sonny and offers to cook but
Sonny would prefer company to Mike’s cooking.
Sonny admits that Carly is the reason why he lives and maybe he should
give her something in return. Sonny
tells Carly he has a surprise in store for her but refuses to tell her what it
is.
Sonny learns that
Carlos and Sorel are working together.
Resting on the couch, he has another nightmare about the Christmas
shooting but this time, Carly is shot in his dreams. Carly comforts him after he wakes but he refuses to tell her what
his dreams were about. Sonny and Jason
plot to get Sorel before Sorel gets to Sonny.
Carly comes home and gets her surprise:
Sonny proposes.
As Carly and Sonny
discuss their wedding in Martinique, Elton arrives to discuss Deception
business. (This is Sonny and Elton’s
first meeting.) Sonny soon leaves with
Alexis to bail out Zander again. Back
home, Sonny reams Zander out for lying to him, stealing from Alexis and going
on the run. Sonny is relieved when
Carly comes home safely after having gone out.
Carly is suspicious
when Sonny doesn’t interrogate her about her schemes for Deception. He tries to reassure her but she is only
satisfied when he says he is trying to plan their wedding. Jason tells Sonny that Sorel and Carlos are
in town -- the only reason being to kill Sonny. Sonny makes plans of his own.
Sonny tells Jason about the shooting, his dreams, and his lying to
Carly. He says he’d rather lie to Carly
than have her scared. Sonny and Carly
are celebrating her “secret weapon,” their love and their pending nuptials when
Alexis interrupts mid panic attack.
Sonny tells Carly to go upstairs so he can help Alexis with her
problems. Although angry, Carly
agrees. Later, Sonny reassures a
jealous Carly that she has nothing to worry about.
As Sonny and Carly
make plans for their wedding, Sorel has other plans in mind for “Mr. Corinthos.” Carly is called away on Deception
business. At the Deception offices,
Laura confronts Carly about her schemes to get Gia named “the face.” The two argue about Carly’s underhanded
business tactics and Carly leaves upset after Laura says she would rather not
work with her. Both Sonny and Sorel
plan something special for Valentine’s Day.
Sonny comforts a distraught Carly on the docks where they are caught by
sniper fire. Back at the penthouse,
Sonny and Carly argue about Sorel and the fact that Sonny has been lying to
protect her from the truth and to keep her from being scared. Sonny tells her he needs to focus and cannot
afford to be distracted if he’s to build a life for them.
Carly gives Sonny a
Valentine’s Day card and demands that she have her husband’s full attention
when they get home later that night. Sonny and Benny meet in the warehouse
where Sonny questions Benny’s loyalty as the warehouse explodes. Laura and Carly decide to work things out
and to give the partnership another try.
Carly notices the warehouse is on fire and rushes out, afraid for
Sonny. At the warehouse fire, Jason
shows up and prevents Carly from going in.
Instead, Jason goes in himself to rescue Sonny. Just when the firefighters give up on the
building Sonny and Jason emerge from the building unscathed. Sonny and Carly head home to celebrate
Valentine’s Day while Jason goes in search of the traitor.
The next morning,
Sonny and Carly exchange Valentine’s Day presents. She gives him a pair of cufflinks with both their initials while
he gives her a pair of earrings that he wants her to wear at their Martinique
wedding. Jason calls, as they are about
to make love. He informs Sonny that the
traitor is Rick, Carly’s bodyguard and that he has tracked Sorel, Rick and Carlos
down. Sonny leaves to “take care of
business.”
While Sonny is away,
Carly struggles with whether or not to peek at the wedding dress Sonny bought
her. She compromises and has Bobbie,
who assures her the dress is perfect, do it for her. Bobbie tries to talk to Carly about the warehouse fire, but Carly
refuses, insisting she wants only to concentrate on her wedding.
Sonny, Jason and
‘the boys’ deal with Sorel, Rick and Carlos.
Sonny gives them each a speech about business, honour loyalty etc. and
is shaken when Rick admits he could have killed Carly at anytime but he
didn’t. The three men are carted off in
a boat for parts unknown.
When Sonny arrives
home, he is upset that he can’t find Carly at first. When she appears, he relaxes visibly and asks why she’s not
wearing the earrings he gave her. She
tells him she didn’t want to lose one down the drain. He asks her to put them on and after she does, they make love.
Afterwards, Carly
assures Sonny that she can live this life and that they can make it because he
keeps them safe. Now she wants only to
concentrate on their wedding. Sonny
assures her that no one is ever going to hurt her because of him.
When starts Carly
talking about their wedding in Martinique, Sonny tells her there isn’t going to
be a Martinique wedding. Confused,
Carly thinks he wants to get re-married in Port Charles with their friends and
family in attendance. Sonny clarifies
and says there isn’t going to be a wedding because the marriage is over. They fight terribly. Sonny reveals that he doesn’t want her with
him because he doesn’t want a repeat performance of what happened to Lily and
his first child. Carly accuses him of
wrecking Michael like Mike wrecked him all those years ago when he left. She argues that if he throws his family out
and something happens to them anyway he would regret the time that he wasted
that should have been his. She tries
seducing him, saying that she knows that he wants to be with her. Sonny admits that he always has – even when
he hated her. He says them going to bed wouldn’t change anything; when they
were done there would still be no place for her left in his life. He then tells her to go back to her own
room, he doesn’t want her with him. A
tearful Carly leaves the room. After
she has left, an upset Sonny throws his glass of brandy into the fireplace.
The next morning as
Carly enters the room, Sonny is taking off his wedding ring. She questions him about it and admits that
once he had time to sleep on it, she thought he would reconsider ending the
marriage. He hasn’t. Instead he tells her that he’s made
arrangements for her and Michael and the PC Hotel and that he wants her gone by
the time he gets home later. Carly’s
response to this is to pack her wedding dress and to head for Martinique by
herself in the hopes that the groom will follow her there. When Jason refuses to bring her home for
Sonny, Sonny resolves to go himself and to use the things he has learned about
her in the past year to destroy her to save her from him and the life that he
leads.
In Martinique, Sonny finds
Carly in the church where he had planned to marry her. He asks her to step outside of the church
because the things he has to say her have no place in there. He tells her there isn’t going to be a wedding;
that the only reason why they were together in the first place was because of
their son who had been dead for months now.
He tells her that she’s loud and trashy and that she’s the girl in high
school that everyone knew – just never in public. She says that he did break her heart by saying those words but
not like he thinks; her heart is breaking for him because he thought he had to
say those words to make her hate him but, instead, she just loves him
more. She insists she’s not leaving
until he marries her before God like he promised he would. He insists that when she comes back out of
the church that he won’t be there.
After Carly has
waited in the church for quite sometime, Sonny enters. He tells her that she should not be sitting
on the alter because it’s disrespectful.
She replies that she’s sitting because she doesn’t have the strength to
stand. He tells her quietly that she
has the strength for anything. She
assures him that he’ll always have her because he came back for her and because
he loves her. She tells him she loves
him and asks her to marry her. Sonny
agrees and the two lovingly embrace.
The next morning
Sonny, dressed in a tux, gently wakes a sleeping Carly. She wonders if it’s a dream or are they
really getting married. He assures her
that it’s no dream but that she needs to get ready while he goes to the church
to make the arrangements with the priest.
At the church, Sonny
talks to Father Martin about the lost of Lily and that his main concern is
giving Carly the life she deserves.
Father Martin tells Sonny that God has sent someone special to love him
and agrees to perform the ceremony.
Sonny asks for a few minutes alone in the sanctuary and offers his
prayers to God. He thanks Him for
sending Carly to love him; someone who will love him for now and for
always. He ask God to take care of
Carly and that if someone has to pay for the life that he leads, let it be him.
Carly, who had
overheard Sonny’s prayer was moved by his words and left the sanctuary before
she was discovered. She loudly
re-enters. Sonny tells her she looks beautiful and the two joke about wedding
day superstitions that lead her to wear a jacket over her dress. Father Martin arrives and they are ready to
begin the ceremony.
Sonny and Carly are
married in a beautiful ceremony where they declare their love for each other
before God. Father Martin blesses them
and wishes them a long happy marriage filled with joy and children. When he says this, Carly and Sonny look to
one another and their eyes sparkle at the joint anticipation if parenthood.
After the ceremony,
the two return to their suite to celebrate.
Carly admits that she felt holy in the church and that she felt that
their marriage was truly blessed by God.
Sonny agrees. She demands that
he give her something on this wedding night that they didn’t have the first
time they got married: a wedding dance.
Sonny happily complies and soon they begin to make love. Afterwards, Carly says that her heart is
bursting with love. Sonny admits he
doesn’t feel like he expected; he thought he would be afraid of all the things
that might happen to her because of him that he could prevent, but says that
this marriage is right.
Later, Carly wakes
to find herself all alone. She goes in
search of Sonny and finds him on the beach in quiet contemplation. He says that he needs time to adjust to the
marriage since that’s not what he came to Martinique to do. She understands and moves to leave. Sonny calls her back saying he knows she
will hideout among the trees somewhere keeping watch over him so she might as
well stay. They talk all night and into
the morning. Carly admits that the time
they spent together when he went crazy changed her and that that’s when she
learned he was beautiful inside. She
says she knew then that being loved by him was worth any risk, that it
was. He tells her that before he
brought her home, he’d watch the sun come up but didn’t know how he was going
to face another day; but now that she’s
with him, she’s given him a reason for everything.
Back in Port Charles
Carly tells Jason that he was right about her and Sonny and pays him back the
20 dollars he had bet her when she and Sonny first wed. Jason tells Sonny that Carly wanted to repay
an old debt when Sonny questions him.
Sonny nods and says “20 bucks?” and Jason is surprised that Carly told
him. Sonny tells Jason that he and
Carly owe Jason much more than money and he needs for Jason to know that he
didn’t fail him by not going to Martinique to bring Carly home; he made him look
at the best thing he ever had in his life and made him realize he didn’t want
to lose it.
On her way to the
Deception offices, Carly runs into Gia who informs her that Elizabeth has been
name the new Face of Deception (FOD).
An angry Carly storms into Laura’s office and vows that she’d rather
have the company fail than see Liz be the face. At the FOD party, Carly and Gia scheme together to prevent Laura
from making the big announcement. Gia
agrees to lock Laura on the roof thinking that Carly will name her the
face. Instead, Carly announces both Gia
and Liz as finalists and dismisses the party.
Back at the
penthouse Sonny reams Carly out for her antics at the party and demands to know
what she did to Laura. Carly confesses
that Laura somehow managed to get herself looked on the roof and that she
didn’t do anything to stop it. Sonny
corrects her saying she did it, fate had nothing to do with it, and then phones
the Deception offices to make sure Laura is OK.
After they argue and
Sonny finally agrees to stay out of Deception business, Carly and Sonny are
interrupted by unexpected guests Scotty and Laura. Laura accuses Carly of trapping her on the roof, says she can’t
stand working with her and wants to dissolve the partnership. When she calls Carly crazy Sonny cuts her
off and defends his wife. He offers to
buy Laura out of her shares. An
astounded Laura wants Sonny to sell over his and Carly’s shares but he refuses. Hurt that he won’t do this for her, Laura
accuses him of going back on his word to her and of having no honour. Laura and Scotty leave after nothing is
resolved. Carly is surprised that Sonny
defended her so. He says he is his wife and that he’ll always defend her but
that she needs to watch how she conducts herself in business from now on.
When Gia meets Carly
the next day, she is angry she wasn’t named the Face. Carly assures her that she will be the Face eventually but that
it requires time and patience. She tells
Gia that she is going to agree to sign-off on Liz as the Face with Laura all
the while heading up her own campaign centering around Gia. A dubious Gia seems to go along with Carly’s
plan.
At a photo shoot for
the FOD ad campaign, Carly rattles Liz so much that she walks out on the
sessions. Carly and Laura argue but
finally Carly ‘gives in’ and agrees to let Liz represent the company. Armed with this new truce, Laura believes
they can make a go of things.
Meanwhile, at the
penthouse, Sonny gets a visit from an angry Scotty who claims that Carly ‘shut
down Deception’ with her behaviour at the photo shoot. The two argue and the discussion soon turns
to Karen and Sonny’s relationship with her when she was younger. Scotty threatens Sonny who dismisses his
comments nonchalantly. Seeing that he’s
getting nowhere with Sonny, Scotty offers to buy him and Carly out of Deception
for five million dollars. When Sonny
refuses the offer, Scotty leaves defeated.