Nicole: So you decided for both of us that it would be better for me to come back to an empty apartment and you took out your frustration on this photo of us and you weren't going to talk to me in person because I've suffered enough pain for one night? I'm so glad you're always thinking about others.
Eric: Nicole, I don't think there's anything either of us can say to change what happened tonight.
Nicole: Right, because there's nothing I can do to change the fact that I slept with Xander.
Eric: Nicole, I don't see the point -
Nicole: Right, because the past is set in stone. I was lonely and I degraded myself with a man who abused me and you were 8,000 miles away. Bad, bad. So here's Nicole, the scarlet woman, and here's Eric, who does so much for others and can go back to Africa to do his good works where nobody asks a damn thing of him.