- Elena Michaels: [as he comes up behind her after she enters the gate] You're gonna have to do better than that if we're tracking a mutt.
- Clayton Danvers: Missed you, too.
- Elena Michaels: Are you the welcoming committee? Or did Jeremy finally chain you up at the front gate where you belong?
- Clayton Danvers: [as she pulls her luggage away from his grasp] Easy. I just want to help with the bag.
- Elena Michaels: It's fine. I've got it.
- [walks on icily without looking back at him]
- Clayton Danvers: I guess what I'm saying is, uh... you look good.
- Elena Michaels: [matter-of-factly] I clean up pretty well when I'm human. Where's Jeremy?
- Clayton Danvers: He's not here. Elena, you should eat something, you must be starving.
- Elena Michaels: [impatiently] Where is he?
- [goes down corridor, Clay following her]
- Elena Michaels: He's running.
- Clayton Danvers: Elena...
- Elena Michaels: Look, I'm not here to talk or to catch up or whatever else you had in mind. I'm here because a wolf needs to be tracked. And it was clear everyone else was gonna keep pressuring me until I came back.
- Clayton Danvers: Everyone?
- Elena Michaels: I just want this done so I can leave. The sooner Jeremy knows that I'm here, the faster I can start tracking the killer. I'm not here for us.
- Clayton Danvers: Clearly.
- Elena Michaels: Don't.
- [leaves out the back door]
- Elena Michaels: Look, just so we're clear, I'll help you track the killer. But once we do, I'm out again.
- Jeremy Danvers: We'll start tomorrow, when we're all together.
- Elena Michaels: No, I can go now.
- Jeremy Danvers: If you go out alone and you find him, he's gonna try to kill you. Are you prepared to kill him?
- Elena Michaels: No.
- Jeremy Danvers: Then I will send Clay with you.
- Elena Michaels: No. I'd rather go with the local psychopath.
- Clayton Danvers: [behind them] You forgot, darlin', I am the local psychopath.
- Elena Michaels: I'll wait till everyone's here. It's been a long day, I think I'll go unpack.
- Jeremy Danvers: [as Elena walks past] Okay.
- Clayton Danvers: Everything you need's here, just as you left it.
- [Elena just walks past him]
- Jeremy Danvers: She came back. It's a start.
- Peter Myers: [explaining that Jeremy saved his life] So, yeah, when Jeremy calls, I come back. You know, everything he's doing, is about our survival. Right? About the long game. And, like it or not, you're very much part of that plan.
- Elena Michaels: I don't want the warm embrace of the family. After what I did. After killing Jose Carter, all I wanted was out.
- Peter Myers: Yeah, well, the support of the pack, the family, this house... without these things, we're bound to fail.
- Elena Michaels: Yeah, but with these things, we're bound to kill. I don't ever want to do that again.
- Peter Myers: Well, nothing says you have to kill. But you're taking it a step further, you're trying to be human. And that's just as dangerous. You try and push the wolf down, Elena, the wolf won't stay down very long.
- Elena Michaels: [woken from erotic dream about Clay] Nick! What are you doing?
- [he's on bed next to her]
- Nick Sorrentino: I'm here to wake you up. And to tell you that you look... amazing.
- Elena Michaels: I look the same, Nick. Same as I did a year ago, pretty much the same as I did five years ago.
- Nick Sorrentino: See, it's not all a curse being one of us. Prolonged youth. Now, there's some silver lining, right?
- Elena Michaels: Yeah, but that just means that when we're old, we're old for that much longer.
- Nick Sorrentino: Can't you just take the compliment?
- Elena Michaels: Or what?
- Nick Sorrentino: Wouldn't you like to know.
- Elena Michaels: [playfully] Wouldn't you like to try.
- Nick Sorrentino: [sighs] It's too bad we can't blow off steam with a run, huh?
- Elena Michaels: Ah, I wish we could. It's been so long since I've been able to run freely.
- [a bell chimes]
- Elena Michaels: Breakfast is served?
- Nick Sorrentino: Yeah, Dad's been at the grill for the past half-hour. We'd better get going before Peter eats all the bacon.
- [he pulls at her covers]
- Elena Michaels: [lazily stubborn] No...
- Nick Sorrentino: Or I could stay in bed with you all day if you'd prefer.
- Elena Michaels: [laughing] Nice try, but no dice. Now, run along, little pup, I have to get dressed.
- [light playful shove]
- Elena Michaels: Go!
- Nick Sorrentino: Little pup?
- Elena Michaels: [waving him off] Yeah.
- Nick Sorrentino: [air ripe with suggestion] You've seen the bone I can bury.
- [she giggles]
- Clayton Danvers: [outside her door] You gonna track a mutt in those clothes? Or maybe you're leaving.
- Elena Michaels: You can stop with the sentry act. I'm not going anywhere.
- Clayton Danvers: No, you were just trying to get out of here as soon as you can.
- Elena Michaels: Oh. So now you're eavesdropping.
- Clayton Danvers: I didn't hear anything. Was there something to hear?
- Elena Michaels: I have people who like to know where I am.
- Clayton Danvers: People or person?
- Elena Michaels: You can stop digging. It's not as if you care.
- Clayton Danvers: Every day for the last year, I fought the urge to find you, to see you.
- Elena Michaels: And yet, you've stayed away.
- Clayton Danvers: I was under orders from Jeremy.
- Elena Michaels: [sarcastic tone] Right. You wouldn't disobey.
- [with taunting smile:]
- Elena Michaels: It's not in your nature.
- [walks away]
- Clayton Danvers: And you think you know my nature.
- [Elena halts, turns back, pauses to look at him , then continues on her way]
- Jeremy Danvers: Jose Carter threatened to expose us. Killing him was the right thing to do. It was the only thing to do.
- Elena Michaels: For you, maybe. But for me... I lost my humanity. I tore into him like he was a present.
- [shakes her head]
- Elena Michaels: A moment later I realized that everything that was here - you, Clay, the ability to run - none of it was worth it... if I had to be that... *thing* again.
- Jeremy Danvers: That *thing* is who you are.
- Elena Michaels: [shakes her head] No. I wanna be who I am in Toronto. A normal person, not a killer.
- Jeremy Danvers: Elena, this is a very different situation. This mutt could kill again.
- Elena Michaels: Maybe. And you'll find him, and you'll kill him. And I do not wanna be a part of that.
- [long silence]
- Elena Michaels: May I go?
- [Jeremy nods, and she leaves]