Don't you see? You are suffering because of me. Because I am infectious, because no matter what I do here, I will choose the opposite path and you won't be able to align yourself to that. I wish I could stop, I wish we could be happy, but I don't see a future where it works, where the world can learn by itself and we are - .

[ Erik takes a breath, wills himself calmer. ] We keep circling around this, and there's blood in that water, liebling. Don't ask me to keep doing that, I can't. You're the one thing I've cared about in a very long time, and I don't want to find out what would happen when I finally break you.