Claudia #1 January 31 - June 6, 2008: 8 hour original edit

Dvd #1A 1/31-3/6/08 - first two hrs.

1/31 Sonny meets a mysterious dark-haired woman at the bar when he orders a drink. He tells the bartender he will pay for whatever the "lady" is having. She buys him a drink after he buys her a drink. She writes a note on a napkin and has the bartender deliver it to Sonny. Sonny reads the message that says, "I'm not a lady."

Sonny leaves the bar but comes back later and has the bartender hand her a message as well as a copy of his room key. The message says, "I'm not a gentleman." The woman talks on her cell phone to someone and says to have a car waiting for her out front. She goes to pay for her tab but the bartender tells her that Sonny took care of it for her. She shows up at Sonny's room. He tells her she is late and that he doesn't like to be kept waiting. The woman tells him she doesn't like a man to pay for things and puts a bill into his front pocket. Sonny grabs her and kisses her passionately after she tries to dismiss him. He grabs her and shuts his door.

2/1 Claudia comes out of the bathroom at the hotel. She's getting dressed to leave. Sonny asks her why she's leaving so soon. She tells him that it was just a night of passion and she doesn't need to stay any longer. They don't know each other's names and they don't need to. Sonny asks for a number in case he wants to get ahold of her again. She says they shouldn't be together. People like them ruin everything in their path.

2/4 At Anthony's bedside, Trevor and Johnny meet Claudia, the sexy woman from Milan with whom Sonny spent a torrid night, who is also Anthony's daughter and Johnny's half sister. Anthony wants to know why she is there and so does Johnny. She points them to Trevor, who makes it sound as though he asked her to come home because of Anthony's condition. Claudia is quick to let the men know that she is not the timid fearful mouse who was sent away to Milan. She is no longer frightened of either Trevor or Anthony.

As they continue to converse, Anthony tells them he is okay. Then he calls for his dead wife, Maria, and asks them all to leave. Trevor and Johnny do, but Claudia stays behind. Before he leaves, Claudia gives Johnny a sisterly hug and kiss, but he does not respond. When she is alone with Anthony, Claudia lets him know that she is still bitter about being sent away when she was 16. Anthony asks Claudia what she wants. "Everything," she tells him. "Good luck with that one," responds Anthony.

"I don't need luck, I learned a lot of things while I was gone," she says. With a heartfelt sincerity, Claudia tells Anthony that she loves him, but if he tries to stop her from getting what she wants, she will kill him.

Outside, Trevor waits for Claudia to emerge. When she does, he tries to take control, by questioning why she did not meet his driver at the hotel as arranged. Claudia responds firmly that where she goes is none of Trevor's business. "The faster you learn that the faster we'll get along. If we ever get along at all," says a confident Claudia as she walks away.

2/6 At the Zacchara stronghold, Johnny finds humor in the conflict brewing between Claudia and Trevor. Trevor tries to assert his authority, but Claudia puts him in his place. When Trevor exits the room, Claudia tries to repair her relationship with Johnny, who chastises her because she did not stay in touch with him after she left for Europe. She tells him that she loves him and that there is no real escape for them from their family and its obligations. "Love kills," she tells him.

When Claudia is alone in the office, Trevor comes in with a peace offering. He brings her a rose, as if that might manipulate her into doing what he wants. Claudia sees through him and, when he threatens her, she threatens him back. When she questions his relationship with Sonny, he backs down, and answers that it is "complicated." Claudia accepts his evasion, but tells him that she will not always do so. She lets him know in no uncertain terms that the family holds the power, and that while her father is institutionalized, she, not Trevor, will run the family. They need to shake up Sonny and the other families, she tells Trevor. He responds that he will think of something. "I already have," says a determined Claudia.

2/7 At the Zacchara estate, Johnny accuses Trevor of bringing his long-lost sister Claudia back to take over, so Trevor can control her better than he could Johnny. Trevor denies he has any hidden agenda where Claudia is concerned. Johnny is still suspicious of Trevor and wonders why Claudia would come back to town after being gone for years without a letter or phone call to him in all that time.

Claudia overhears their conversation and feels bad for Johnny and what he had to go through without her being around. Johnny finds her outside the office and realizes she heard everything. Claudia talks to Johnny about how she was sent away years ago and that she tried to say goodbye to him by giving him a toy piano but he smashed it to pieces and wouldn't say goodbye to her that day. Claudia talks to Trevor alone about the changes she plans to make now that she is in town and running the business. She demands that he set up a meeting with the five families. She tells Trevor that she especially wants to meet Sonny. Trevor is against the idea of her meeting the five families since they don't know she even exists. She tells him that it is about time she introduced herself. Trevor ends up agreeing to let her have the meeting but insists on being there with her to protect her.

2/8 Trevor calls Claudia (who is having drinks at the Metro Court bar) and tells her they need to talk and discuss a plan for the meeting with the five families. Claudia says she's already in Port Charles. She continues to talk on the phone as Carly and Jax enter the hotel bar. Trevor is horrified that Claudia intends on going to the meeting without a plan. She tells him just to introduce her, and she will wing the rest.

Carly walks over just as Claudia turns around with a drink in her hand. The drink ends up all over Carly, and both women apologize to each other. Carly thinks Claudia looks familiar, but Claudia says she gets that all the time. Carly introduces herself as one of the owners of the hotel, and Claudia compliments her on her obviously savvy business skills. The two women look at Jax and Kate sitting together discussing Kate’s new magazine. Carly tells Claudia that the man sitting over there is her husband. Claudia mentions that Kate looks familiar. Claudia and Carly talk about Kate's international magazine. Neither woman likes Kate Howard's sense of fashion and they seem to bond over this.

Sonny walks in and asks for a table. He looks around the room and doesn't look happy. Claudia excuses herself to the ladies room, and Sonny leaves after receiving a phone call from Max.

2/11 In a grungy room somewhere on the Port Charles waterfront, mob leaders attend a meeting called by the Zacchara Family. They expect Trevor's appearance but are stunned when Claudia walks in. She and Sonny are equally surprised to see each other. Both are still remembering the passionate night they spent together, but neither lets on about their previous acquaintance. She announces that she is Anthony's daughter.

Trevor arrives and Claudia makes sure that everyone knows that she, not Trevor, is in charge. As Claudia explains her family's move into Port Charles, one of the mobsters insults her brother and father. When Claudia grabs him by the tie, he attacks her. Sonny sits by with a sly smile on his face to see how she will handle the confrontation.

Claudia responds to the threat by kneeing the man in the groin. He goes down and she put her very high, red, spiked heel on his throat and tells him that he needs to learn how to treat a lady. All the goons rush in, but Sonny and the other bosses, including Claudia, send them away. She says, "What happens in this room stays in this room." They all agree. They further agree that they all want the waterfront property that previously belonged to Lorenzo Alcazar. They will meet again when one of them acquires the property. Claudia leaves first, followed by the other bosses.

Sonny receives a call from Claudia. She tells Sonny that just because they slept together does not mean that she will not kill him if he gets in her way. Sonny agrees that he feels exactly the same way she does. "Good," she says. Before hanging up Claudia gets in the last word. "Doesn't mean I won't sleep with you again, either," she says. Sonny is left staring at the phone.

2/13 At the Zacchara estate, Claudia castigates Vaughn for his failures, before sending him on an errand. Trevor springs to Vaughn's defense, pointing out his loyalty. "Loyalty to who?" snarls Claudia. "The Zacchara family empire," retorts Trevor. "You mean the Trevor Lansing Living Trust," coos Claudia. Trevor then asks Claudia if she is really upset because the meeting with the five families did not go as well as expected. Claudia responds that she is just trying to get information on Sonny. A snide Trevor asks if it's business or personal, and points out the sexual sizzle he noticed between Claudia and Sonny at the meeting.

When Claudia makes a joke about Trevor's sexual opportunities, he toughens up and tells her that he does not confuse sexual satisfaction with business. Trevor sneers and says if Claudia wants to run the family empire, she will have to stop treating the meetings as a personal pick-up place. Claudia stiffens her spine and puts Trevor on notice. She is the one who cleaned up the mess in Sydney and got the organization back on track, not Uncle Rudy like everyone thinks. Unlike Trevor, she is not content to stay in the background. She will run the organization. Trevor tries to shake her confidence by bringing up Anthony, but Claudia is convinced that she can understand her father's crazy mind. As she stalks out of the study, Trevor allows a smug smile to show.

Claudia drops in at Jake's bar. Coleman asks what she is looking for. "Trouble," she says. Behind her, Luke replies, "I can arrange that." She offers cash for information. Luke is interested when she produces a large wad of cash and drops it on a table, but when it turns out that she is looking for info on Sonny, he speaks in generalities. He warns her not to hurt Sonny's family.

"A house will fall on you out of nowhere," Luke says, "and your little red shoes, too." Claudia is not impressed and refuses to pay Luke. She goes to the ladies' room. Luke asks Coleman for a job. Coleman has a big laugh and refuses him. "Oh hell," says Luke as he leaves the bar, "No broad, no booze, no bread."

Claudia is playing pool when Jason walks in to ask after Spinelli. When Jason rests his back against a wall, she speaks to him. "Are you interested in taking me on?" says Claudia, as she puts her wad of cash on the pool table. (This scene pays homage to a similar scene when Jason first met Carly, then played by actress Sarah Brown, who now plays Claudia.)

2/14 Claudia starts to walk into his office and sees Kate kissing Sonny. She shuts the door before they can see her. Claudia comes into his office after Kate leaves. She asks him about Kate and guesses she is the woman that Sonny is trying to get over and that is why he slept with her that night. Sonny asks her why she is there to see him. She tells him she wants to offer him a trade. Sonny listens to her offer. Sonny is confident he will get his hands on the property that once belonged to Alcazar. Claudia brings up Kate again to see his reaction. Sonny warns her to stay away from Kate or else. Claudia tells him that she likes the challenge of another woman to go up against. Sonny warns her again to stay away from Kate or anyone in his family-or deal with the consequences. He tells her he is not interested in any trade with her and dismisses her.

2/15 At the Zacchara house, Claudia tries to talk to her brother. Johnny is not interested in rekindling their bond yet, though. She understands it is difficult to act like nothing has happened after being gone for all those years. He asks what kept her from coming back earlier. Claudia says it was the same thing that kept him locked up. They talk about the house and how things changed within their family when Trevor came into their lives. He asks if she is there to claim the family empire. He tells her he hasn't decided if he wants to take over for his father or not. If Claudia is shocked, she doesn't show it. Instead, she laughs and asks her little brother if he is challenging her. Johnny reveals much-needed information to Claudia about Sonny and his brother, District Attorney Ric Lansing. Claudia can't believe there is another messed-up family like their own family. She thinks she and Johnny should team up against Sonny and Trevor by using their own hatred against them.

2/18 Claudia storms into Sonny’s office and steams the place up. Sonny is very guarded with Claudia and does not trust her, so he does not return her sexy come-ons. The more Claudia tries to separate business from pleasure and remind Sonny about their night of passion together, the more Sonny resists her obvious charms. When Claudia insults Kate, he angrily asks her to leave. "I don't want you anywhere near here," he says.

"I don't want you because I don't want your tongue suddenly down my throat and a knife in my back." Claudia is obviously hurt when she retorts, "I don't have to be in knife-throwing distance to take you down." As she stalks out she adds, "That wasn't a warning by the way. There won't be a warning." She finds Kate on the docks, but leaves her there. Later at her home, she angrily shatters a mirror.

2/20 Claudia is with Anthony Zacchara in the psych ward. She recalls a childhood incident and hears herself plead in a childish voice, "Stop, Daddy. Get away from me, Daddy!" She picks up a pillow and puts it over Anthony's face as though to smother him, but does not go through with it. When she sits down, Anthony taunts her because she could not kill him. "Couldn't do what," says Claudia, "Take advantage of you while you were helpless? Press down and squeeze the last pathetic breaths out of you? Yeah, I could." She says.

Anthony says, "So why didn't you?"

Claudia responds, "I don't know. Maybe, I want to see you suffer. Maybe, there are ways to get rid of you that won't make my life more of a living hell than you have already made it."

"Like what ways?" inquires Anthony.

"Well, I don't know. Maybe I'll go talk to your doctor and find out," says Claudia as she leaves his room.

2/21 Claudia pays her father another visit. He doesn't seem to recognize her at first and complains about how she is dressed like a whore. Claudia tells him that she wants the same thing he wants, which is to get rid of Trevor.

2/22 Claudia sits on the steps at home and reminisces about bad times. Trevor walks in and demands to know if Claudia shot Kate. Claudia sidesteps the question as long as she can, but finally reveals she knows nothing about Kate being shot. Claudia asks Trevor when he was going to tell her he is Sonny Corinthos' stepfather. Claudia tries to threaten him, but Trevor points out that she was the last one to be removed from the Zacchara family.

2/25 Sonny manages to evade all the Zacchara guards. He gets inside the house and threatens Johnny with a gun, but Claudia intervenes. An angry, distraught Sonny says he will shoot Johnny if Claudia does not tell him where Michael is. Both Claudia and Johnny adamantly deny any knowledge of Michael's whereabouts. Johnny tells Sonny that they do not know anything and walks away, daring Sonny to shoot him.

After Johnny leaves, Claudia and Sonny continue to hold guns on each other. Claudia puts hers down and tries to rekindle the spark she had with Sonny when they had their one-night stand. He is not amenable. He says some very unkind, hurtful things, but Claudia keeps trying to get to Sonny. Jason comes to Sonny's aid and gets him to leave the Zaccharas.

Johnny comforts Claudia, who is frantically searching for a gun because Sonny took hers when he left with Jason. "You're a mess," he tells her. "I know," says Claudia. "You think this house was hell for you," she says. "You don't know what hell is," she tells Johnny before walking away.

2/26 Claudia walks into Kate's room while Sonny is preoccupied. She tells Kate it's time for the two of them to get acquainted. Kate doesn't know who Claudia is, but before Claudia can reveal very much information, Kate starts to go into distress. Sonny freaks out and yells at Claudia. He tells Jason to take care of Claudia, while he goes to talk to Dr. Julian.

Claudia comments to Jason about his role of enforcer for Sonny. She tries to goad him, but Jason doesn't buy into Claudia's comments. When Sonny returns, he is upset that Jason didn't follow his orders. Claudia says she was just checking out her competition, but Sonny says Kate Howard has no competition. Sonny tells Claudia to stay clear of him and anyone he cares about-or else. Claudia asks what the "or else" means. Sonny tells her to ask her brother. Claudia leaves.

2/27 Claudia meets with Jason in Sonny's office. She denies any involvement in either Kate's shooting or Michael's disappearance. She appeals to Jason's reason. She has come because she is worried about Johnny. She wants to know if Sonny has him. Jason acknowledges that it is possible. She offers a truce. Not good enough, says Jason, because Sonny's son is missing. Claudia offers to bring down Trevor Lansing. She tells Jason that she can bring down Trevor without hurting the organization. Jason agrees that Sonny might be interested. Claudia says that her deal will be on the table for 20 minutes. She leaves so that Jason can contact Sonny.

When Claudia returns, Jason tells her that Sonny's only priority is finding his son. Claudia wonders out loud about Sonny and Kate. Perhaps, she muses, it is time for her to tell Kate about the hot night she spent with Sonny. Things may be a lot different after she tells, muses Claudia as she exits Sonny's office.

2/29 Lulu goes to the Zacchara house and looks for Johnny. She finds Claudia, instead. Claudia questions who Lulu is and warns her about the dangers of the Zacchara house. Lulu explains to Claudia that she and Johnny had a date and he didn't show up. Claudia is very good at reading people and understands that Lulu and Johnny had sex. She realizes the two care about each other. She decides to use Lulu to her advantage to try to find out what happened to Johnny.

Sonny has just revealed he is holding Johnny captive. Sonny tells Claudia she shouldn't be so surprised. Johnny won't be released until Michael is safe and sound, though. Claudia swears she knows nothing about Michael's disappearance. If Sonny lets Johnny go, Claudia promises to help find Michael. Claudia's promises mean nothing to Sonny. She tells him she is trying to be fair because of their "history." Sonny comments that history isn't made in hotel rooms with the occasional whore. Claudia is insulted. She smiles and tells Sonny to remember who started this, because she'll make sure he doesn't forget who ends it.

Kate is asleep. She wakes up when Sonny is gone and Claudia is back. Claudia is toying with Kate's hair and tells Kate about her hotel romp with Sonny after Kate and Sonny broke up.

3/3 Claudia told Kate that she had a one-night stand with Sonny. Kate tried to find out why Claudia wanted her to know. Claudia pretended altruism, but Kate did not believe her. Kate told Claudia that Sonny was just using her. Kate told Claudia, "You're just a scared little girl." Claudia's comeback was to attack Kate. She called her a phony and a fake and told her that if she were really secure, Kate would tell Sonny about their conversation. "But you won't," Claudia gloated as she sailed out of Kate's room.

Claudia and Trevor met up in Jake's bar. Trevor was surprised to find that Claudia already knew that Sonny had kidnapped Johnny. He told her that Sonny was out of control and that they could use the situation to their advantage if they could find Michael first. Claudia and Trevor engaged in more verbal sparring before he left to start looking for the missing Michael. As Trevor left, Patrick walked in. After he ordered a drink, Patrick and Claudia made eye contact. In the hospital, Robin had a sonogram and saw her baby for the first time.

3/6 Claudia showed up at Sonny's office to see him. Max tried to stop her from going into Sonny's office but Sonny came out to see what she wanted. Claudia tried to convince him that she didn't kidnap Michael and didn't think that Trevor did either. Sonny told her that he had no reason to believe her or Trevor, and planned on keeping Johnny until he got his son back. Claudia warned him that if Johnny was harmed in any way she was going to make him pay.

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