Todd & Blair [2000, Part 2]

[Blair is surprised to find Todd in his old office at The Sun]
Todd: I was feeling nostalgic. I have a sentimental attachment to my office.
Blair: Oh, you don't have a "sentimental attachment" to anything. Except maybe Starr and even that's iffy.
Todd: Okay, you can shut up about Starr now.


Blair: So, Todd...aren't you a little afraid to show your face around here given your legal difficulties?
Todd: Oh, you haven't heard! No, they're as good as gone, man. I'm a hero now. I brought Nora back. (imitating Dr. Frankenstein) "She's alive!"


Blair: Where is she?
Todd: How would I know where Kelly is?
Blair: I'm talking about Nora!
Todd: Oh, Nora I dropped off with Sam. Or Bo. I'm not sure.


[Todd tries to threaten Blair with exposure]
Todd: It's the story of wifely revenge. A two-faced woman smooches up to her husband and all the while she's secretly plotting to stab him in the back. What do you think of that? Think Max would like a story like that?
Blair: You can't intimidate me, Todd.
Todd: You should see the look on your face --
Blair: Well, look again!


Todd: I'm just doing what you told me to do. You said I couldn't be a proper father to Starr unless I had a decent job and a home. Well, now The Sun is my job and The Sun is my home.
Blair: You left it!
Todd: Yeah, well, now I'm back! And nobody's going to stop me! Not -- not some legal problems, not some stock issue, and certainly not you!
Blair: Yeah, we'll see about that!


[Blair is meditating at the gym]
Blair: Clear your mind of all negative thoughts, Blair. Open it up to positive thoughts. Hmm. You are one with nature. Believe, and all your answers will come to you. All your answers will come to you.
Todd: (interrupting) So what are the questions?


Blair: Todd Manning in a gym?
Todd: I know my way around here a little bit. Played college football, don't forget.
Blair: You know, Todd, I would think you would want to forget those frat boy days.
Todd: Those who forget their past are condemned to repeat it.


[Todd wants Blair to get him controlling interest of The Sun]
Todd: You transfer the 49% that you've got to me, and then you find another 2% anywhere you can. Asa or Kelly, it's completely up to you.
Blair: And even if I could do that, why would I do that?
Todd: Well, I can think of only one reason that counts: Because it's what I want. I want everything that's mine, and I want it all right now.


[Starr shows Blair the new computer Todd got her]
Starr: Daddy's a computer genius, you know.
Blair: Hmm. And if you believe that, I have some swamp land in Florida I can buy him.
Todd: Oh, "LOL."


[Blair questions Todd about his computer hacking skills]
Todd: Well, how do you think everything went nuts around here on New Year's Eve?
Blair: You -- you did that? How'd you do it?
Todd: Well, some men are born great and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Blair: No, how did you do it?
Todd: Shakespeare.


[Blair needs Todd's help with a certain problem]
Blair: Well, let's just say that somebody creates a virus and then it's set to go off on a certain day -- I mean, this is hypothetically speaking, of course -- and then they change their mind.
Todd: You better get out of town, Blair.


Todd: I need my newspaper back, and I need to spend more time with my daughter.
Blair: I'm not keeping Starr away from you, Todd.
Todd: Well, then where is she?
Blair: Okay. You can see Starr whenever you want.
Todd: No kidding.


Todd: You know, I'm really disappointed in you, Blair! You know, you used to be resourceful, you used to have all this imagination. When you were married to me, there was nothing that could keep you from getting what you wanted, and now look at you! What, you marry this Buchanan and you turn into this -- this spineless doormat!


[Todd makes Blair an offer]
Todd: Look, you -- you could come work for me. It'd be like old times. You remember old times?
Blair: Yeah. Like they were yesterday.
Todd: Well, they were. They were yesterday.


Blair: I don't know if I can trust you.
Todd: Come on, look who you're talking to.
Blair: That's my point.
Todd: Blair, you can trust me. Come on, after everything we've been through, you know that. You can -- Look me in the eyes right now and you tell me that you can't trust me.


[Max is not happy to find Todd talking to Blair]
Max: What the hell are you doing to my wife?
Todd: What the hell am I doing to your wife?
Max: You don't come within one inch of Blair, do you understand?
Todd: I wasn't doing anything to Blair. You tell him, Blair, or I'll tell him my side of the story.


Blair: Max, come on, don't listen to Todd. He's just trying to get attention.
Todd: I'm really not feeling well. I think maybe I have a virus. Why don't you get Max out of here before he catches it.


Max: If you think you're going to take Starr away from Blair, you're mistaken.
Todd: Hey, I'm trying to have a conversation with the mother of my daughter, so why don't you just go away, you barnacle?


Blair: Max, please, I really do need to straighten some things out with Todd.
Max: Like what?
Blair: Well, honey, he is Starr's daddy, and I don't want to keep him away from her and -- come on. You see how much she loves him.


Max: Watch your step.
Todd: (bitterly) Yeah, you watch yours.


[Blair turns on Todd after Max leaves]
Blair: You idiot!
Todd: Oh, you marry him and I'm the idiot??


Todd: I'm trying to get my newspaper back and I'm trying to spend more time with my daughter! Then I'll get rid of your virus for you! You can spend as much time with your heir apparent Prince Charming as you like!
Blair: Then will you leave me alone?
Todd: You don't really want me to leave you alone, do you? That's probably more fun than you've had in -- years.


Blair: I want you to stay out of my life with Max.
Todd: Believe me, I don't want anything to do with your life with Max. People say I'm crazy? Look at you. I think you might have a couple personalities swimming around underneath that Peter Pan hairdo of yours. One of them might just be in love with Max.
Blair: (shouting) I am in love with Max! Not that you'd ever understand that, Captain Hook.


Todd: I want to spend more time with my daughter and with my Sun. (pause) I mean Sun like my newspaper --
Blair: I know what you mean, Todd! I know!
Todd: Deal? (holding out his hand and spitting in it) Deal?
Blair: (shaking his hand) Deal.


[Todd has just broken into the Buchanan Mansion and Asa and Max are furious]
Max: I'm calling the cops.
Blair: No, Max!
Max: Why not?
Todd: (suggestively) Yeah, why not, Blair?


[Max and Todd's confrontation is interrupted by someone at the door]
Blair: Max, can you get the door, please?
Todd: (mockingly) Yes, Max, be a peach and get the door, won't you?


Todd: Oh, Blair, you have gone soft! What kind of example are you setting for Starr?
Blair: A good one! I feel, Todd. What, do you want our little girl to grow up with no heart, no soul, like you?
Todd: No, I want her to grow up tough enough to survive. I want her to grow up the way you used to be. You better toughen up, Blair! Look, you cannot have it both ways! You have to decide whether you're going to use Kelly or lose Max! You have to decide! So you better figure out what's important to you, Blair!


Blair: Fine, Todd! I will get you your stupid shares, and then will you just leave me alone?
Todd: Someday, you'll thank me for this.


Blair: Look, I can -- I can handle Todd.
Max: He wants something from you.
Blair: You know what, he just wants to see Starr. He's been gone for a long time and he just misses her, that's it.
Max: He's a murderer, a kidnapper and a convicted rapist. What else do you want?
Blair: He won't hurt me. We have a child together.


Starr: Do you think Uncle Max is mad about Mommy's revenge?
Todd: (confidently) No. Not yet.
Starr: But will he be?
Todd: Oh, yes, definitely. He definitely will be.


[Blair has just tricked Kelly into signing over The Sun]
Blair: (to herself) Okay, Todd, looks like it's all yours now.


Todd: Blair gave me her shares of The Sun.
Kelly: Excuse me? What, is she out of her mind?
Todd: Well, she did marry Max, don't forget.


[Kelly realizes that Blair tricked her into signing away her shares of The Sun]
Kelly: She lied to me. Oh, my God, she lied to me! That manipulative, lying little --
[Blair enters the room]
Todd: Hi, Blair. She was just talking about you.
Kelly: Okay, Blair, you know what? Tell me that he has forced you to do this. Tell me he has threatened you or drugged you or something.
Todd: Oh, no, those are all really terrific ideas, but I can't take the credit. You see, this -- well, this was Blair's work.


Todd: (to Blair, about Kelly) You let Christina Aguilera be the guardian of my daughter??


Blair: Look, just listen to me -- when has Todd ever told the truth about anything, huh?
Kelly: When have you?


Blair: I wanted revenge on Max, that's true. And I had this plan.
Kelly: This is a great plan. I'm sure that Max will be devastated that Todd's running The Sun.


Kelly: You used me. You used me. You know, I hope you are prepared when Todd blows you off now that he has The Sun.
Blair: He's not going to do that. Not if he ever wants to see his daughter again.


Blair: (about Kelly) She's the only family I got left in this damn town, and we're starting to be friends again, Todd.
Todd: You've turned into one of them! You have turned into one of the people that you used to laugh at. You're a whiner!
Blair: I am so not in the mood for this...
Todd: Guess this is what happens to you when you become Mrs. Max Buchanan.


Todd: What happened to you, Blair? What happened to the Blair that wanted to torture and punish everybody in Llanview?
Blair: I don't want to be miserable anymore, Todd. I want to be happy.
Todd: You sound like a greeting card.


Blair: I want my marriage to Max to work. I want him. Look, and I will do anything to keep him, you got that? You know, I just stole The Sun away from Kelly, and I don't want you to mess this up for me.
Todd: You mean it.
Blair: Like I've never meant anything in my life.
Todd: What a waste.


[Todd barges into the Buchanan mansion]
Max: What do you want?
Todd: Your wife.


[Todd tells Blair that he got rid of the virus for her]
Blair: Well, Starr, you got a good daddy.
Starr: What did he do?
Blair: He took care of Mommy's big monster. And it looks like it won't hurt us anymore.


Blair: Look, we need to set up a schedule, here, so she'll know when to expect you.
Todd: A -- a schedule?
Blair: Yes, a schedule. Maybe Friday afternoons -- she gets out of school early -- and I was thinking maybe every other weekend.
Todd: I got a schedule for you. How about I see her whenever the hell I want to?


Blair: Why don't you just act like a normal person for once? Maybe for the sake of your daughter?
Todd: Well, for Starr's sake, or for your sake?


Blair: (about Starr) She needs to know when to expect you.
Todd: No, she likes to be surprised.
Blair: Well, just do it for the novelty of it, then.
Todd: (looking at Blair intently) Well, I might do it for you.
Blair: All right. Well, then, do it for me.
Todd: Nah!


Blair: Todd, I'm so close to having the life that I want. Look at me. No more lies, no more schemes.
Todd: You're not serious.
Blair: Yes, I am serious. I want a real marriage, a real family.
Todd: Over my dead body.


Todd: (to Blair) You want a "family" and -- yeah, have you talked to Starr about this? Because I know, for one thing, she doesn't want some snot-nosed little Holden running around.


Blair: You're going to ruin this for me, aren't you, Todd?
Todd: Look, you -- you talk about happiness all the time, and this -- you think you can find whatever it is that you think you want in this fantasy-land? Good for you. Seems a little twisted to me, but to each his own.
Blair: Well, you know what twisted's like, isn't it, Todd?
Todd: You flatter me.


[Todd rants to himself while he opens the file on the disc Blair gave him]
Todd: (about Blair) You want a real marriage and a real family with a bull-headed, self-righteous snake!
[The virus loads and the computer screen reads: "MAX BUCHANAN IS A FRAUD."]
Todd: Bull-headed snakes. And self-righteous snakes. And best of all -- fake snakes.


Kevin: Blair's doing your dirty work.
Todd: (grinning madly) How did I manage that?