Anna has been settled in her new room. It all went rather smoothly considering. The hospital staff, the ones involved in this case, have been amazing. She is sitting up in her bed and looks at her watch, she knows the press conference will begin shortly. Hochner and Jareau will give the briefing in front of the hospital with Monica by their side. She is watching the news during the day they had already planted the seeds that Robert is gravely ill and that Anna is still recovering and still in the hospital. In his room 3 floors below, Robert is watching the same broadcast. Hochner and Jareau get to the podium of microphones and announce. "It is with deepest regret that we have to announce that Robert Scorpio passed away about an hour ago. He succumbed to the injuries he sustained in the car blast that happened yesterday in the PCPD parking garage. We want to extend our sincerest and deepest condolences to Anna Devane and their daughter Robin Scorpio-Drake as well as the rest of the Scorpio family. Anna Devane is still recovering here from the injuries she sustained resulting from the same incident. We will ask you now to respect the family in their time of grief. As you know, we still have a killer on the loose in this city and we are doing everything in our power to apprehend. We will keep you updated, thank you." They did not take any questions but there were several that were shouted at them that hit many nerves. Mostly having to do with the fact they were celebrating the other night while this killer struck again. They were relieved that word has not leaked that Duke is the prime suspect. That will lure him into a sense of security.
The city is reeling from the news and those not involved in the case within the hospital are devastated. Sonny is beside himself that he allowed this to happen to Robin. He vowed he would protect her. He does wonder and hope that maybe this is a plan to flush out Lavery. He decides to take a chance. He texts Robert's disposable cell. "Hope all is well." He waits and waits. "Just waiting" Is the response. Sonny smiles and chuckles. They have to find Duke now and most likely he is headed for the hospital. Sonny feels responsible for goading Duke to work for him and for the fact that one of his people planted that car bomb.
Robert looks at his phone and wonders if he should have revealed to Sonny the situation. But for some reason that he can't explain, he trusts him. He just hopes he doesn't come here and try to catch Duke himself because he knows if in the same situation, he would do the same thing. Robert feels like a caged animal, he knows Anna is basically a sitting duck several floors above him and it's driving him crazy. He gets up carefully as to not pop the stitches in his back and begins to walk around. He loathes hospitals and hospital gowns. He goes and looks for clothes that Robin brought. He decides to change into them. There is a knock on the door and Bobbie comes in. "What are you doing?" She asks angrily as he is putting his pants on. "Hi love, I'm just getting dressed." He says with a smile. "Don't Love me Robert. I know you and you are not going anywhere outside this room do you hear me?" Bobbie says pointing her finger at him. "I'm not I just hate hospital gowns, I need to feel human again." He says finishing getting dressed. "You are such a liar." She says back at him. He laughs because she knows he knows him too long and too well. "Well because I knew you would do this, I've brought you company." She says as she opens the door. "Oh crap, what are you doing here?" Robert asks as he sees Luke enter. "Happy to see you too, pain in the ass. But we all know you too well, so I'm here to babysit." Robert sits down deflated. "Swell."
Duke is sitting in a cheesy motel about 40 miles from Port Charles. He has watched the news and the press conference of Robert's death. He smiles widely hearing the news of Robert's death and hearing the news that Anna is still alive. He knows now with Robert out of the way, she will come to her senses and realizes he is where she belongs. He took the precaution of disguising himself and renting the room in cash in case they were onto him. But he laughs to himself watching the news. His name has never been mentioned, they even had the wrong guy who they forced to confess. He decides he can't wait any longer to see Anna and take her away with him like he always planned. He ditched his car after getting out of the city and car jacked someone else's car without much of a fuss.
Anna is pacing her room. Part of her is scared that Duke will come and what she will have to do and the other more important one is that Robert will somehow show up in his condition and get himself killed. She gets a text on her phone. "Slim it's under control." She laughs out loud at that. She is thinking Robert must be like a caged animal by now and someone had to call in reinforcements. She decides to lie down and just watch tv.
Hours pass and there is no activity. She is listening intently to the activity in her earpiece and nothing is happening. She dozes off. It's about an hour later when she hears, "Subject spotted, just passed through main gate." She is immediately up and grabs her gun checks the clip and her backup clips. She gets back into bed and shuts the lights off but leaves the tv on. "Subject entering south entrance. Copy let him in and show presence to divert him to stairwell. Copy that." She is waiting now and she begins to sweat. She can't believe it's going to come to this, she can't wrap her mind around it. "Subject in stairwell. Copy. Each floor check in. Copy. Passed 2, Passed 3, Passed 4 this continues until the 11th floor.
Duke comes in out of the stairwell. He knows she's on this floor because he called and asked where Anna Devane's room was. He thought it was a little too easy. The floor is deserted except for 2 nurses behind the desk. He is now wondering if he has walked into a trap. Getting Anna's room number. That information would never be released. He goes to head back into the stairwell. "Hold it right there. Do not move and get on the ground." The officer behind the desk shouts. Duke disobeys and turns around with a smile. They shout at him again to get down. He immediately pulls his gun and shoots both of them before they can get off a shot. All the agents on the floor come running but Duke is back in the stairwell. They all head for it. They all go down but Duke has gone to the roof. Anna comes running out of her room as hospital personal are tending to the fallen officers. She goes into the stairwell and hears noise above her. "The roof, the roof." she shouts into her mic. Hochner and Morgan have already headed to the roof and Anna is not far behind. They finally get to the roof and he is nowhere to be found. With guns drawn, they scan the area and then they see him at the far edge.
Robert and Luke have both heard the gunshots. Luke is trying to prevent Robert from going but he knows he can't. "Luke I have to go, you know I do." Luke looks at him in the eyes, he knows he's right. "Ok lets go." Robert hands him his gun from his ankle holster. They both run out of the room and head out. They find out that Duke has headed for the roof from the officers on the floor. When they get there they hear and see all the FBI and police personal and head to where they are. They all have their guns drawn trained on Duke including Anna. Robert immediately notices her, but stays out of sight so as not to trigger Duke.
"I've been waiting for you. So this is all your doing is it?" He asks in a mocking tone. "Duke please put the gun down, I'm begging you. Its over and I don't want to see you die. I've done it twice already and I don't want to see it again." She says hoping to get through to him. "Really Anna, do you really care now like you did then. Its obvious the only man you ever cared about was Robert, so why should I care what happens to me now?" Duke says laughing and waving the gun around as he talks. "Duke you're wrong. I did love you, you know that and I love you still, please just put the gun down." Anna says crying now. "You love me now that Robert is dead. How convenient for you? I have to tell you Anna, I'm happy he is dead knowing that he will never love you again, never touch you, never make love to you. It brings me great joy even though we will never have that again." Duke says laughing. Anna is disgusted by him now. "Duke put the gun down now." She yells at him.
"You're going to have to shoot me Anna because I won't. Can you do that? Can you kill me? You destroyed me, you made me a laughing stock of this town, you flaunted your relationship in my face and declared for the world that I was never anything to you. It's always been about Robert for you and you led me to believe you loved me, but it was all a lie. What you do to me now is nothing compared to what you have already done." He says as the tears roll down his face. "What about those women you killed. What did they ever to do to you? You killed them because you couldn't have me, is that why? You took their lives because you are too much of a coward to ever face any situation. You were always like that. You disgust me" She spats at him she has no feelings for him anymore and that realization bothers her.
"Shut up, you shut up. It's your fault they died. If you would have just listened to me and gave me a chance or if you had ever been honest with me none of this would be happening" He yells back. He now has the gun at his side. Hochner is right next to Anna. "Anna you need to calm him down not enrage him." She nods her head. "Duke please let's just talk. I'm listening to you now." Anna pleads. "Its too late Anna for both of us. I'm just happy it's also too late for you and your precious Robert. That will be on your conscience as well. That gives me some satisfaction. Good-bye Anna" He says smiling. Then he turns around and stands on the ledge of the roof. All the officers yell stop. Anna yells for him to get down but he turns around and back falls off the roof.