Cameron: I know it's late, but I need to see Kristina.
Zander: Where you been all day?
Cameron: Looking for a child-friendly apartment building. It's not easy.
Emily: Well, Kristina's welcome to stay here as long as you need.
Cameron: You know, when the court appointed me her guardian, I didn't know that children --
Zander: That kids would be so inconvenient? Is that it?
Cameron: I'd like to get it right for as long as I have Kristina. If I don't, she could end up in foster care.
Emily: No one wants that.
Cameron: I just wanted to say good night to her.
Zander: Yeah, go ahead.
Cameron: I don't want her to think I'm a stranger when I come to take her home.
Zander: Kristina's not going to be here forever.
Emily: Yeah, maybe not -- maybe not much longer at all.
Zander: What are we going to do when the baby's gone?
Emily: It's just you and me.
Zander: And whatever we have left.
Alexis: I've made you a very generous offer.
Cameron: "Generous"? It's a blatant, self-serving rip-off.
Alexis: What do you call this?
Cameron: Why is it unreasonable to expect you to pay back a loan?
Alexis: At triple the going interest rate?
Cameron: You wouldn't get to see Kristina at all if it weren't for me.
Alexis: Fine. Go find her an apartment -- if you can -- that's suitable for a baby. Maybe you'll find one by the time she's out of high school.
Cameron: Why do you overstate everything? I'll be settled in by Christmas.
Alexis: And then she'll adjust from one home to another home to another --
Cameron: Well, unlike you, I pursue my goals in an orderly, rational fashion.
Alexis: I can outlinear your mind any day of the week. The only difference between the two of us is that you are narrow-minded, my friend.
Cameron: Oh, I'm narrow-minded?
Alexis: That's right. There's a perfectly good solution to this problem, but you can't see it.
Cameron: In your imagination, it might be.
Alexis: And you know why you can't see it? Because it was my idea, not yours, and you're the one that has to be in control all the time. Isn't that right, Zander?
Zander: What?
Alexis: Isn't this right what I'm saying about your father?
Zander: Leave me out of this. I don't --
Cameron: That's right, go for the low blow. That's the Cassadine ay.
Alexis: You're bringing up the Cassadines? You don't even know anything about the Cassadines.
Cameron: You'd be surprised.
Alexis: You're an expert on everything.
Cameron: Oh, and you aren't?
Alexis: Me? Me? I'm going to see my daughter.
Cameron: Not without me, you're not.
Alexis: What's the matter? You afraid that I'm going to grab her, escape out the window and down a tree?
Cameron: It crossed your mind, didn't it?
Alexis: Maybe.
Cameron: I'm going to see her first.
Alexis: I'm her mother. Don't you think I should see her first?
Cameron: Why can't you make the slightest compromise?
Alexis: Because --
Emily: Oh, my God. What if they fight like that in front of Kristina?
Zander: It seems to me like they're trying to work out a compromise.
Emily: Hmm. Yeah, and people call me an optimist. But maybe you're right. I don't know. Everyone has to compromise sometimes, huh?
Zander: Is that what we're doing here?
Emily: Kristina's the perfect distraction. How will we know what to do when she's gone?
Zander: I don't know. We never seemed to have that problem before.
Emily: Yeah -- before I hurt you.
Zander: And I hurt you back.
Emily: Yeah, well, most -- most marriages aren't happy all the time.
Zander: Yeah. No, not the ones I've seen.
Emily: Yeah. It doesn't mean they don't work, right? I mean, look at my parents. They fight constantly, they've -- they've done awful things to each other, but --
Zander: But they seem happy.
Emily: Yeah. I don't understand it, but I think they are. They're survivors.
Zander: Is that all we're doing? We're just -- we're just surviving this marriage?
Emily: Are you ready to give up?
Zander: Are you?
Emily: If we can just hold on just a little bit longer, things are going to get better.
Zander: Not if you want to be with somebody else. Am I the man you want to be with?
Emily: Zander, come here.