I'll take Burial at Sea spoilers for 500, Alex.

[washitaway]

That wasn't me.

That wasn't me, so I don't see what's got you in such a tizzy. Everybody makes bad decisions. I guess I just make more than most.

Makes, made, will make. [SCOWL.]

Still. It wasn't me.

She shouldn't have to do that, all on her own.

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[recurring]

No one else is going to. Might as well be me.

[Not that she wanted all of this to happen in the first place.]

[washitaway]

You deserve better.

[recurring]

Don't say that, Booker.

[washitaway]

Why? After all you've been through, that's what you're stuck doing? Cleaning up my messes? You shouldn't have to do that.

[beunbroken]

They'll not all bad decisions...

[washitaway]

If there's anything I've learned, it's that all it takes is one to ruin a life.

[recurring]

It's important to me. I want things to be different. I don't want things to be like this for...for all the others.

[beunbroken]

And the lives of everyone around you. The lives of people you don't even know. The lives of people you will know.

[washitaway]

I know. I just wish it didn't have to be you.

It's my fault.

[washitaway]

And it's because of me, that you're paying that price.

[recurring]

[It's so painful to hear him say that and to know that he's always meant well. Booker has, at least. But it's still difficult to come to terms with who he has been as Comstock. What he's done.]

I'm not angry with you.

[You.]

[washitaway]

You should be. [It's all his goddamn fault, after all. The version of him that took the damn baptism, and the version of him that got desperate enough to sell his own child - all of it, it's all him.]

It's always me, isn't it?

[recurring]

No. No, Booker, it's not you.

[She doesn't know what to say. Yes, he could have stopped. He could have kept her. He could have kept Anna. And for that, she'll always be upset. But does that mean he should continuously suffer for it?]

Comstock gave you the offer, knowing you were desperate. Who asks another man to sell his child? Who endangers a child like that? Who--

[Elizabeth has to stop and take a breath. She can't continue this tirade.]

You didn't mean to hurt me.

[beunbroken]

It's because of you that I even exist. Even as Anna Dewitt.

[washitaway]

No, I didn't. [He sighs.] It's just so much worse to know that I can't even fix my own mistakes. You have to do it.

[washitaway]

You're the one good thing I've ever done, and that seems to be in spite of me, more than anything else.

[recurring]

What I'm doing...

[Isn't right.]

What I'm doing is something I need to do.

[washitaway]

I... Good luck.

And be careful.

[beunbroken]

You- all of you- had one hand or another in raising me. Or destroying me.

[washitaway]

It's the destroying part I'm sorry for.

[recurring]

I will, Booker. I promise.

...And thank you.

[beunbroken]

You can't go back and change things, Booker. You can't change the past. But there are other things to fix.

[washitaway]

[WHAT ARE THESE FEELINGS]

...Yeah.

[washitaway]

You could've fooled me.

[beunbroken]

Comes with the territory.