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<p>英文剧本: 天使之城 City of Angels</p>
<p><br />
City Of Angels script</p>
<p>I don 't really pray...</p>
<p>...but if you could just help me out here...</p>
<p>...I promise...</p>
<p>105.</p>
<p>105?</p>
<p>Oh, my God!</p>
<p>Run a bath, call the doctor.</p>
<p>Get her into the bath.</p>
<p>Dr. Carter, 655...</p>
<p>He won 't be there.</p>
<p>What is a thermometer? Mercury.</p>
<p>How does it even work? Maybe I can page him.</p>
<p>Susan. Susie.</p>
<p>Mommy says get up now.</p>
<p>- Cold. - I know.</p>
<p>Hang on.</p>
<p>Cold!</p>
<p>It just feels cold because you're so hot.</p>
<p>Susan, stay with me. Susan.</p>
<p>Susan!</p>
<p>Has she been disoriented? Confused?</p>
<p>She said that she saw a man in her bedroom.</p>
<p>Are you cold?</p>
<p>Okay, swing it.</p>
<p>- Move it, people. - Is room 2 clear?</p>
<p>Yes, it's clear.</p>
<p>Get her pressure.</p>
<p>Let's give her O2. Ten liters.</p>
<p>Tap her right away.</p>
<p>How's her breathing?</p>
<p>No pulse or rhythm.</p>
<p>Are you God?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>My name is Seth.</p>
<p>Where are we going?</p>
<p>Home.</p>
<p>Can Mommy come?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>She won't understand.</p>
<p>She will...</p>
<p>...someday.</p>
<p>Can I ask you something?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>What did you like best?</p>
<p>Pajamas.</p>
<p>She definitely knew what she liked.</p>
<p>- Pajamas? - Flannel, with feet.</p>
<p>Pajamas.</p>
<p>Excellent choice. What else?</p>
<p>In the elevator of the Bradbury Building...</p>
<p>...a man touched a woman's bare skin by accident...</p>
<p>...but it made her turn and look at him in such a way...</p>
<p>And they...?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>It was a good day.</p>
<p>Do you ever wonder what that would be like?</p>
<p>Touch?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Yes, you do.</p>
<p>Occasionally. Yes.</p>
<p>Touch.</p>
<p>I'm not asking for it every night. Just twice a week.</p>
<p>Blue eyes. He's never going to leave her.</p>
<p>20 minutes. 20 minutes. Everything in this damn city is 20 minutes.</p>
<p>It's never 20 minutes.</p>
<p>My ass on a stool all day. She always gets the good chair.</p>
<p>Six pounds, four ounces. My daughter has a daughter.</p>
<p>$ 20,000 at 21 percent.</p>
<p>Pay it off with another card at 14 percent.</p>
<p>Ah, shit!</p>
<p>Federal 595 heavy, slow immediately to match preceding aircraft. Over.</p>
<p>Jesus, wake up! Wake up!</p>
<p>The little girl asked me if she could be an angel.</p>
<p>They all want wings.</p>
<p>I never know what to say.</p>
<p>Tell them the truth.</p>
<p>Angels aren't human.</p>
<p>We were never human.</p>
<p>What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper?</p>
<p>Tell her the truth.</p>
<p>I told her.</p>
<p>How did she take it?</p>
<p>She said, What good would wings be if you couldn't feel wind on your face?</p>
<p>On the 101 through downtown L.A., no delays...</p>
<p>Shit! Jesus!</p>
<p>What do we got?</p>
<p>50-year-old had a huge anterior wall MI this morning. Collapsed while jogging.</p>
<p>Paramedics resuscitated him, but his EKG's pretty ugly.</p>
<p>He's hypertensive.</p>
<p>This diagonal looks tight.</p>
<p>Who cathed him?</p>
<p>Rosenberg.</p>
<p>- Be right in. - The patient wants to meet you.</p>
<p>He's pretty out of it.</p>
<p>The doctor's here.</p>
<p>We're just going to cool to 32 today.</p>
<p>Sucker.</p>
<p>Jimi.</p>
<p>Vein.</p>
<p>Kid started walking.</p>
<p>Three unassisted steps.</p>
<p>- Get it on video? - I wasn't even there.</p>
<p>You failed as a father already. How does that feel?</p>
<p>Retrograde on.</p>
<p>Come down to half flow, give me a little volume.</p>
<p>Down to half flow, here's your volume.</p>
<p>- Ready to come off? - Ready.</p>
<p>Let's come off.</p>
<p>We're coming down.</p>
<p>We're clamped and off bypass.</p>
<p>Oh, shit.</p>
<p>What are you missing?</p>
<p>Sponge.</p>
<p>Bummer.</p>
<p>Got it!</p>
<p>Thank you, everybody.</p>
<p>Presbyterian's on line 2.</p>
<p>His rhythm will be irritable.</p>
<p>- She's getting good, huh? - Yeah, she's getting that attitude too.</p>
<p>Getting an attitude?</p>
<p>Shit! V-tac!</p>
<p>Christ! Paddles!</p>
<p>Kill the music. Get her back.</p>
<p>- Charge to 2. - Charging 200.</p>
<p>Dr. Rice.</p>
<p>Clear!</p>
<p>- No pressure. - You give him lidocaine?</p>
<p>100's gone in.</p>
<p>Buzz him again at 300.</p>
<p>- Still nothing. - Start compression.</p>
<p>Kill the alarm!</p>
<p>Hold up. It's not working.</p>
<p>Got to open him. How long to go back on?</p>
<p>It'll take me 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Come on! Nothing.</p>
<p>Knife.</p>
<p>Internal paddles. Charge to 20.</p>
<p>Ready.</p>
<p>Hit it.</p>
<p>Go to 30.</p>
<p>Hit it.</p>
<p>No response.</p>
<p>Tom, I got to get back on bypass here.</p>
<p>Almost there. Give me 7 more minutes.</p>
<p>Come on.</p>
<p>Don't do this.</p>
<p>He's going.</p>
<p>He's not going anywhere.</p>
<p>Come on, don't do this!</p>
<p>Damn it, come on!</p>
<p>Tom!</p>
<p>Come on!</p>
<p>Mrs. Balford?</p>
<p>Where's the doctor?</p>
<p>- I'm the doctor. - I'm sorry.</p>
<p>I operated on your husband.</p>
<p>How is he?</p>
<p>He didn't survive.</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>We were able to restore blood flow to the heart...</p>
<p>...but he developed a lethal arrhythmia and we couldn't resuscitate him.</p>
<p>Wait. I'm sorry, I don't understand. A what?</p>
<p>I'm sorry.</p>
<p>Excuse me. I'm sorry.</p>
<p>What did you say?</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>Oh, my God!</p>
<p>On the table, on my table. I'm sorry.</p>
<p>I'm sorry.</p>
<p>I'm sorry. What happened? What happened?</p>
<p>A graft occlusion? What?</p>
<p>It was textbook. It was textbook.</p>
<p>I'm so sorry.</p>
<p>The room got so big. I was so small.</p>
<p>How did I get so small?</p>
<p>I should've gone back on.</p>
<p>I should've massaged longer.</p>
<p>I should've gone back on. Massaged longer. I lost it.</p>
<p>I lost it.</p>
<p>Have you ever been seen, Cassiel?</p>
<p>You're looking at me.</p>
<p>No, not by me, and not by the dying or the delirious.</p>
<p>Have you ever been seen...</p>
<p>...like you were a man?</p>
<p>In a diner once, a blind woman turned to me all of a sudden...</p>
<p>...and asked me to pass her the mustard.</p>
<p>- But she was blind. - But she knew I was there.</p>
<p>That doctor in the operating room...</p>
<p>...she looked right at me.</p>
<p>She didn't see you, Seth. She can't see you.</p>
<p>No one can see you unless you want them to.</p>
<p>And if I want her to?</p>
<p>Why do you want her to?</p>
<p>To help her.</p>
<p>Open it!</p>
<p>Open it now!</p>
<p>Everybody down!</p>
<p>Do it! Do it!</p>
<p>Shit! Just give him the money.</p>
<p>Did I leave the lights on? I left the lights on.</p>
<p>I should have gone to Ralphs.</p>
<p>- Do it! - Relax. I'm doing it, okay?</p>
<p>I never saw the Grand Canyon.</p>
<p>I'll never see my grandkids again.</p>
<p>What am I doing?</p>
<p>Just be cool. Be cool.</p>
<p>Be cool, man.</p>
<p>Be cool.</p>
<p>Holy shit!</p>
<p>They don't need to see us.</p>
<p>You're early.</p>
<p>What's going on?</p>
<p>Ferris was looking for you.</p>
<p>Don't I have a mitral valve to do?</p>
<p>They canceled it.</p>
<p>Who canceled it?</p>
<p>Sheffield.</p>
<p>Why are you telling me?</p>
<p>He was busy.</p>
<p>He was chickenshit.</p>
<p>- Maggie, you're sick. - I'm not sick.</p>
<p>You're sick. You can't operate.</p>
<p>They've rescheduled for Monday. An elective valve, no big deal.</p>
<p>It is unprofessional, and it embarrasses me in front of my staff.</p>
<p>I saw the chart on Balford.</p>
<p>I'm on the committee. It's on review.</p>
<p>- It wasn't your fault. - I know.</p>
<p>Then what's the problem?</p>
<p>I don't know.</p>
<p>You put up a terrific fight.</p>
<p>We fight for people's lives, right?</p>
<p>Don't you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?</p>
<p>So I'm crazy and chemically imbalanced.</p>
<p>You're tired.</p>
<p>You have moments.</p>
<p>Why didn't you call me?</p>
<p>Because I never sleep when you stay over.</p>
<p>You never sleep whether I stay over or not.</p>
<p>You're good.</p>
<p>You know it.</p>
<p>Come back Monday and get back on the horse.</p>
<p>Doctor?</p>
<p>I'll see you.</p>
<p>&quot;As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirtsleeves...&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;...Amazon basin in the north, once an island sea...&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;The highest truth on the subject remains unsaid...</p>
<p>...probably cannot be said.</p>
<p>For all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition...&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;...she begins to pull away from the awareness she had once...&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Commencing search. &quot; Searching my soul.</p>
<p>What happened to the cards? You could touch the cards.</p>
<p>She's been looking at me for half an hour.</p>
<p>Maybe if I just hang here...</p>
<p>&quot;This is a delicious evening, when the whole body's one sense...&quot;</p>
<p>What if I screamed? What if I just screamed right now?</p>
<p>&quot;When a woman decides to sleep with a man...&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;You knew there would always be a spring...</p>
<p>...as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.</p>
<p>When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring...</p>
<p>...it was as though a young person had died for no reason. &quot;</p>
<p>All right, they have rescheduled the operation for Monday.</p>
<p>What happened yesterday?</p>
<p>They had a golf tournament.</p>
<p>Who knows with these people?</p>
<p>Good morning, Mr. Messinger.</p>
<p>The G is soft, like messenger.</p>
<p>What's on your lip?</p>
<p>What? Am I slobbering here?</p>
<p>- Where did you get that? - What am I, a prisoner?</p>
<p>You want to get well, or you want Ben &amp; Jerry's?</p>
<p>This operation is a big deal.</p>
<p>Continue to eat like this...</p>
<p>...and you might as well skip it. Save the 30 grand.</p>
<p>If you'd have performed the operation yesterday like you were supposed to...</p>
<p>...I'd be sucking carrots through a straw in my arm. What happened?</p>
<p>Circumstances were not optimal for the procedure.</p>
<p>I ain't the procedure. My name is Nathan Messinger and I'm right here.</p>
<p>Hello, hello, hello...</p>
<p>Floating, floating. Don't pop it. Don't pop it!</p>
<p>Do you know the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man, the Muffin Man?</p>
<p>Hi, Anne.</p>
<p>What are you doing here?</p>
<p>I was on my way up to x-ray...</p>
<p>...and I thought I'd stop in and just...</p>
<p>...hide.</p>
<p>From what?</p>
<p>I should've gone into pediatrics.</p>
<p>Oh, no.</p>
<p>Every guy you meet is either married or a gyno.</p>
<p>Never date a man who knows more about your vagina than you do.</p>
<p>Poor little guy.</p>
<p>He never stops crying.</p>
<p>- What's wrong with him? - No insurance.</p>
<p>Found him in a dumpster behind the House of Pies.</p>
<p>We worked him up the wazoo for everything...</p>
<p>...from drug exposure to diabetes. We got nothing.</p>
<p>May I?</p>
<p>Did you do an ultrasound?</p>
<p>- You hear a murmur? - Worth a shot.</p>
<p>Okay, baby.</p>
<p>So what are you hiding from?</p>
<p>My patient's wife.</p>
<p>She wants me to tell her that her husband is going to be okay...</p>
<p>...and that I have every confidence...</p>
<p>...and I don't.</p>
<p>And after all this time, and after all this work...</p>
<p>...I suddenly have this feeling that...</p>
<p>...none of this is in my hands. Nothing.</p>
<p>And if it isn't...</p>
<p>...what do I do with that?</p>
<p>Excuse me.</p>
<p>Are you a visitor?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Visiting hours have been over since 8:00.</p>
<p>Why do they have that?</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>Hours.</p>
<p>Doesn't it help the patient to be visited?</p>
<p>Who are you visiting? Mr. Messinger?</p>
<p>Right now?</p>
<p>You.</p>
<p>I don't need a visitor.</p>
<p>You're not ill?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>I'm one of the doctors here.</p>
<p>Are you in despair?</p>
<p>I lost a patient.</p>
<p>You did everything you could?</p>
<p>I was holding his heart in my hand when he died.</p>
<p>Then he wasn't alone.</p>
<p>Yes, he was.</p>
<p>People die.</p>
<p>Not on my table.</p>
<p>People die when their bodies give out.</p>
<p>It's my job to keep their bodies from giving out. Or what am I doing here?</p>
<p>It wasn't your fault, Maggie.</p>
<p>I wanted him to live.</p>
<p>He is living.</p>
<p>Just not the way you think.</p>
<p>I don't believe in that.</p>
<p>Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.</p>
<p>How did you know my name?</p>
<p>What's yours?</p>
<p>Seth.</p>
<p>You better get out of here, Seth...</p>
<p>...or security's going to think you're a psych patient.</p>
<p>- Where are we? - Down a liter.</p>
<p>Suction.</p>
<p>I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'Cause Band-Aid's stuck on me</p>
<p>No dying now, Mr. Messinger. Not until you give me Seth 's phone number.</p>
<p>I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'Cause Band-Aid's stuck on me</p>
<p>Those eyes.</p>
<p>The way he looked...</p>
<p>...right down into me.</p>
<p>Seth.</p>
<p>What kind of name is Seth?</p>
<p>I thought you'd be here.</p>
<p>Salty.</p>
<p>My transplant tanked at 2 a.m.</p>
<p>You okay?</p>
<p>You might want to return this.</p>
<p>That part about the spring? You knew there'd always be a spring.</p>
<p>How did you know that...?</p>
<p>What? I didn't give you this book.</p>
<p>You didn't?</p>
<p>Where'd you get it?</p>
<p>Hi. I'm a physician, and I think a patient left that in my office.</p>
<p>- Can you tell me who checked it out? - I can't tell you who.</p>
<p>I can tell you when.</p>
<p>All right, give me 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Hello, Maggie.</p>
<p>It's nice to see you again.</p>
<p>It's weird to see you again.</p>
<p>Weird is nice.</p>
<p>You like Hemingway?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm starting to.</p>
<p>May I?</p>
<p>As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea...</p>
<p>...and their faint metallic taste...</p>
<p>...as I drank their cold liquid from each shell...</p>
<p>...and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine...</p>
<p>...I lost the empty feeling...</p>
<p>...and began to be happy.</p>
<p>He never forgets to describe how things taste.</p>
<p>I like that.</p>
<p>Do you come here a lot?</p>
<p>I live here.</p>
<p>What do you do?</p>
<p>Read.</p>
<p>No, I mean, your work.</p>
<p>I'm a messenger.</p>
<p>What kind of messenger? A bike messenger?</p>
<p>No, I'm a messenger of God.</p>
<p>Got a message for me?</p>
<p>I already gave it to you.</p>
<p>Did you use my pager? I usually don't get my messages unless you beep me.</p>
<p>You've definitely been beeped.</p>
<p>- How is Messinger? - He's good.</p>
<p>The operation went really well.</p>
<p>- It was a good day. - It was.</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn't kill anybody today.</p>
<p>- You're an excellent doctor. - How do you know?</p>
<p>I have a feeling.</p>
<p>That's pretty flimsy evidence.</p>
<p>Close your eyes.</p>
<p>It's just for a moment.</p>
<p>What am I doing?</p>
<p>You're touching me.</p>
<p>Touch.</p>
<p>How do you know?</p>
<p>Because I feel it.</p>
<p>You should trust that.</p>
<p>You don't trust it enough.</p>
<p>- Let's go somewhere. - Where?</p>
<p>I don't care.</p>
<p>What do you want to do?</p>
<p>Anything.</p>
<p>What's that like?</p>
<p>What's it taste like?</p>
<p>Describe it. Like Hemingway.</p>
<p>Well, it tastes like...</p>
<p>...a pear.</p>
<p>You don't know what a pear tastes like?</p>
<p>I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.</p>
<p>Sweet...</p>
<p>...juicy.</p>
<p>Soft on your tongue. Grainy...</p>
<p>...like sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth.</p>
<p>How's that?</p>
<p>It's perfect.</p>
<p>The first time I looked in a microscope, I knew I wanted to be a doctor.</p>
<p>Okay, let me have your hand.</p>
<p>What for?</p>
<p>We'll take a look at your blood.</p>
<p>Not a possibility.</p>
<p>Men.</p>
<p>I suppose you know a woman's threshold of pain...</p>
<p>...is 9 times higher than a man's.</p>
<p>Take a look at that.</p>
<p>That's bright.</p>
<p>That's me.</p>
<p>All those cells.</p>
<p>That's all you are.</p>
<p>That and all the space in between.</p>
<p>If this is all you are...</p>
<p>...these cells...</p>
<p>...then when they die, that's the end.</p>
<p>I don't know. I think so.</p>
<p>How do you explain it?</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>The enduring myth of Heaven.</p>
<p>I used to think that I had it all figured out.</p>
<p>But you didn't?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Because something happened in my O.R. and I got...</p>
<p>...this jolt. I got this feeling that there's something...</p>
<p>...bigger out there. Something bigger than me, bigger than you, and it...</p>
<p>Does that sound crazy?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>I couldn't fix him. I did everything right...</p>
<p>...and I couldn't fix him.</p>
<p>That's not supposed to happen.</p>
<p>And I...</p>
<p>You cried.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>- Why do people cry? - What do you mean?</p>
<p>I mean, what happens physically?</p>
<p>Tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye.</p>
<p>When you have an emotion, they overact and create tears.</p>
<p>Why? Why do they overact?</p>
<p>I don't know.</p>
<p>Maybe emotion becomes so intense...</p>
<p>...your body just can't contain it.</p>
<p>Your mind and your feelings become too powerful.</p>
<p>Your body weeps.</p>
<p>I have to go.</p>
<p>I got to go. Stay right here.</p>
<p>Don't go anywhere.</p>
<p>Stay right there.</p>
<p>- Get the tube out. - He can't breathe.</p>
<p>It's because the tube is blocked.</p>
<p>How you feeling?</p>
<p>Ready to hit the waves.</p>
<p>I'm afraid your bodysurfing days are over.</p>
<p>You got a mean tattoo going there. What does your wife think of that?</p>
<p>That is my wife.</p>
<p>Check his vitals every 15.</p>
<p>I can't see you, but I know you're there.</p>
<p>Go back and tell them that I'm not going.</p>
<p>Not yet.</p>
<p>Where have you been?</p>
<p>Oh, shit. I totally forgot dinner.</p>
<p>Dinner?</p>
<p>With who?</p>
<p>A guy I met. I bumped into him and we got something to eat.</p>
<p>Did you pack my backpack?</p>
<p>What else?</p>
<p>We talked...</p>
<p>...and then I got beeped and he disappeared.</p>
<p>Why did you pack my backpack?</p>
<p>Earl, what are you doing?</p>
<p>I thought we'd fly up to Tahoe, use your uncle's cabin...</p>
<p>...maybe do a little hiking.</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>God. Is it...?</p>
<p>Maggie, it's just a tick.</p>
<p>- Get a match. - We're not going to burn him, Jordan.</p>
<p>It'll have to back out. Can't leave the head in.</p>
<p>- We can't just be burning tick heads. - Then get some alcohol.</p>
<p>I don't have any.</p>
<p>- You don't have any alcohol? - I don't operate here.</p>
<p>How about some olive oil?</p>
<p>Which kind? Jalape駉 or rosemary?</p>
<p>Rosemary.</p>
<p>So what did you and your friend... What did you say his name was?</p>
<p>Seth.</p>
<p>What did you two talk about?</p>
<p>Dying.</p>
<p>Come on, we deal with life and death every day. Why can't we talk about it?</p>
<p>I hope you won't become a surgeon who prays in the O.R.</p>
<p>Can we talk for a minute?</p>
<p>We'll talk while camping.</p>
<p>Jordan, I can't go camping now.</p>
<p>We need some time together.</p>
<p>All right, let's see if we can just spend 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Let's see if we can just stand still together for 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Doing what?</p>
<p>Just being here.</p>
<p>I'll get the trail map.</p>
<p>No, I mean it.</p>
<p>Nothing but us.</p>
<p>What do I do?</p>
<p>Just look at me.</p>
<p>You can't do it.</p>
<p>You can't do it.</p>
<p>- You flinched. You lose! - You cheat.</p>
<p>That old black magic called...</p>
<p>...love.</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Welcome back. We've been talking to mothers who are members of the KKK.</p>
<p>You want to watch anything?</p>
<p>Me neither.</p>
<p>How do you know when I'm here?</p>
<p>I know.</p>
<p>Jeez, you look good.</p>
<p>I forgot how good everybody looked.</p>
<p>30 years of silence.</p>
<p>You got guts, kid, showing yourself like that. I appreciate that. I do.</p>
<p>It'll make it easier.</p>
<p>I got to tell you, I feel fine.</p>
<p>You might want to check your orders...</p>
<p>...because I sure don't feel like I'm dying.</p>
<p>You're not dying.</p>
<p>Right. Then how come you're hanging around my room all the time?</p>
<p>I'm the only one with his ass hanging out of his dress.</p>
<p>Unless...</p>
<p>Could it be...</p>
<p>...the doctor?</p>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p>The doctor.</p>
<p>She's pretty.</p>
<p>A little flat-chested...</p>
<p>...but all you need's a handful.</p>
<p>- Who are you? - This is good.</p>
<p>This is what they call...</p>
<p>...serendipitous.</p>
<p>Look that up in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of you and me.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>You ready to deal?</p>
<p>Because I can answer all your questions, friend.</p>
<p>How's the French toast?</p>
<p>Fabulous.</p>
<p>Set me up.</p>
<p>Guess I should introduce myself.</p>
<p>Come on, give me your hand.</p>
<p>Put it in mine. There you go.</p>
<p>A little tighter. Tighter. There you go.</p>
<p>No, that's too much.</p>
<p>There you go. Good grip.</p>
<p>Nathaniel Messinger.</p>
<p>Glutton, hedonist...</p>
<p>...former celestial body, recent addition to the human race.</p>
<p>I don't believe you.</p>
<p>You want proof?</p>
<p>You hang out at a library.</p>
<p>You can speak every language.</p>
<p>You travel with the speed of thought...</p>
<p>...and you're reading my mind right now.</p>
<p>Stop that.</p>
<p>You're doing it.</p>
<p>It's impossible.</p>
<p>Some things are true whether you believe them or not.</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>- You choose. - Choose?</p>
<p>To fall to Earth.</p>
<p>You take the plunge, the tumble, the dive.</p>
<p>You jump off a bridge. Leap out a window.</p>
<p>You just make up your mind to do it and you do it.</p>
<p>You wake up all smelly, and aching from head to toe...</p>
<p>...and hungrier than you've ever been...</p>
<p>...only you have no idea what hunger is or any of that stuff...</p>
<p>...so it's all real confusing and painful, but very, very good.</p>
<p>Human.</p>
<p>Listen, kid:</p>
<p>He gave these bozos the greatest gift in the universe.</p>
<p>You think He didn't give it to us too?</p>
<p>Which gift?</p>
<p>Free will, brother.</p>
<p>Free will.</p>
<p>Couldn't get a job.</p>
<p>No past, no training.</p>
<p>No I.D.</p>
<p>Then one day, I was walking past a building site.</p>
<p>A skyscraper.</p>
<p>And I thought, I could do that.</p>
<p>You see, these people down here...</p>
<p>...a lot of them are afraid of heights, you know what I'm saying?</p>
<p>That makes me uniquely qualified.</p>
<p>And besides, it feels like a little bit of home up here.</p>
<p>And I like what I do.</p>
<p>I'm good at it.</p>
<p>These things'll kill you.</p>
<p>Are there others?</p>
<p>Others like you?</p>
<p>Yeah, they're out there.</p>
<p>You see them, but most of the time you just walk on by.</p>
<p>Nobody likes to think of the old life. You know, what they gave up.</p>
<p>Then why'd you do it?</p>
<p>My daughter, Ruth...</p>
<p>...her stupid husband, Frank...</p>
<p>...and my grandkids.</p>
<p>Petie's 4, Hannah's 6.</p>
<p>And this is my wife, Teresa.</p>
<p>Did you...</p>
<p>...tell her who you were?</p>
<p>I started to try once or twice.</p>
<p>Then I thought, Why do that to her?</p>
<p>Do what?</p>
<p>It's too much for them.</p>
<p>People don't believe in us anymore.</p>
<p>Do they still gather together at sunrise?</p>
<p>And sunset, yes.</p>
<p>Take me there?</p>
<p>Can you hear it?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>I can't hear that</p>
<p>But you can't feel this!</p>
<p>Nathan!</p>
<p>You have to go back.</p>
<p>Not until I catch the big wave.</p>
<p>Wait.</p>
<p>Wait.</p>
<p>Wait for what?</p>
<p>Swim!</p>
<p>And then you just...</p>
<p>...fall.</p>
<p>- Fall? - Dive.</p>
<p>You make up your mind to do it...</p>
<p>...and you do it.</p>
<p>And when you wake up, you're...?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>To smell the air.</p>
<p>Taste water.</p>
<p>Read a newspaper.</p>
<p>To lie.</p>
<p>Through your teeth.</p>
<p>To feed the dog.</p>
<p>Touch her hair.</p>
<p>What are you waiting for?</p>
<p>There is so much beauty up here.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Here you are again.</p>
<p>We'll release your friend Messinger tomorrow.</p>
<p>That's good.</p>
<p>His family's having a kind of a welcome-home party.</p>
<p>Will you be going?</p>
<p>Will you be going?</p>
<p>This is Earl.</p>
<p>He told me.</p>
<p>What else does he tell you?</p>
<p>He worries that you never sleep. And he loves to see you smile.</p>
<p>Sometimes I think Earl's the only one who understands me.</p>
<p>What about your boyfriend?</p>
<p>Do you love him?</p>
<p>Love? I don't know.</p>
<p>What does that mean?</p>
<p>I was hoping you could tell me.</p>
<p>It's a word...</p>
<p>...that describes a chemical react...</p>
<p>It's just crap. I'm full of crap.</p>
<p>I wait all day, just hoping for one more minute with you...</p>
<p>...and I don't even know you.</p>
<p>What do you want to know?</p>
<p>Why you wear the same clothes all the time.</p>
<p>Why won't you give me your phone number?</p>
<p>Are you married?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Are you homeless?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Are you a drummer?</p>
<p>Why don't you ever touch me?</p>
<p>I don't want to hurt you.</p>
<p>You won't hurt me.</p>
<p>Did you feel that?</p>
<p>If I could make you understand...</p>
<p>I understand.</p>
<p>I'll see you around.</p>
<p>Hey, Doc!</p>
<p>No, give me the whole package. Come here.</p>
<p>- Hi. - Thanks for coming.</p>
<p>You look great.</p>
<p>Is this heaven?</p>
<p>Look at this.</p>
<p>Come on, let's meet some people.</p>
<p>You got an appetite?</p>
<p>Have a beer, Seth.</p>
<p>Where you from?</p>
<p>Up.</p>
<p>North. Uh, Canada.</p>
<p>Listen. Can you hear?</p>
<p>I'm growing.</p>
<p>Smile, Hannah.</p>
<p>How long have you known Seth?</p>
<p>Not very long.</p>
<p>But I feel like I've known him forever.</p>
<p>Honey, that hurts.</p>
<p>You're just like Grandpa.</p>
<p>Come on.</p>
<p>Let's see if the cookies are done.</p>
<p>Come on, Seth.</p>
<p>- Can I help you? - Yeah, great.</p>
<p>How did you two meet?</p>
<p>He works with me over at the site. Construction work.</p>
<p>I thought he was a messenger.</p>
<p>Yeah, he's one of those...</p>
<p>...hyphenates.</p>
<p>I'll be right back.</p>
<p>Here, can you cut this up?</p>
<p>So in what province in Canada were you born?</p>
<p>I wasn't born in Canada.</p>
<p>What are your parents' names?</p>
<p>No parents.</p>
<p>You have very delicate hands for a construction worker.</p>
<p>I'm not a construction worker.</p>
<p>Very pale hands. Let me see.</p>
<p>- Why did you do that? - Let me see your hand.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>What's your last name?</p>
<p>You know my last name.</p>
<p>I don't.</p>
<p>Plate.</p>
<p>Seth Plate?</p>
<p>I cut you.</p>
<p>I cut you.</p>
<p>I cut you with that knife. I felt it go in. You felt it.</p>
<p>Not the way you do.</p>
<p>The way I do? What does that mean?</p>
<p>You mean the way a doctor does? The way a woman does? What?</p>
<p>The way...</p>
<p>...a human does.</p>
<p>I have no sense of touch.</p>
<p>You feel that?</p>
<p>Don't be frightened.</p>
<p>You freak!</p>
<p>You liar!</p>
<p>Who... What are you?</p>
<p>I came to take Mr. Balford...</p>
<p>...and I saw you.</p>
<p>I couldn't take my eyes off you.</p>
<p>How you fought for him.</p>
<p>And you looked right at me...</p>
<p>...like I was a man.</p>
<p>- To take Mr. Balford? - I was there.</p>
<p>- We're always there in every room. - What are you talking about?</p>
<p>I was there in the stairwell...</p>
<p>...when you cried for your patient.</p>
<p>And I touched you. Remember?</p>
<p>Why are you doing this?</p>
<p>Because I'm in love with you.</p>
<p>I don't believe you.</p>
<p>Do you feel that?</p>
<p>You don't want to believe me.</p>
<p>I cannot conceive of it!</p>
<p>Just get out!</p>
<p>Get out!</p>
<p>Doctor?</p>
<p>Doctor?</p>
<p>Hello?</p>
<p>Seth?</p>
<p>Are you here?</p>
<p>I want to see you.</p>
<p>Let me see you.</p>
<p>Just stay.</p>
<p>Just stay until I fall asleep.</p>
<p>Oh, yes!</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>The baby can't sleep.</p>
<p>Has anyone ever seen the baby sleep?</p>
<p>I don't know. Let's check him out.</p>
<p>Choanal atresia.</p>
<p>There's hardly any air getting through.</p>
<p>How did you know?</p>
<p>I just...</p>
<p>...knew!</p>
<p>Maggie?</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>Are you alone?</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>Pretty intuitive call on the baby.</p>
<p>Think so?</p>
<p>I couldn't have done it better.</p>
<p>Well, that's a compliment.</p>
<p>What are you doing?</p>
<p>I'm spending time with you.</p>
<p>Will you marry me?</p>
<p>We can finally get up to Tahoe.</p>
<p>Get married on the Nevada side...</p>
<p>...honeymoon and be back before we miss a case.</p>
<p>What do you want me to do? Get down on my knees?</p>
<p>What do you want me to say?</p>
<p>We belong together.</p>
<p>We're the same species.</p>
<p>I'm not very good at matters of the heart. I mean...</p>
<p>...the proverbial heart.</p>
<p>Please be my wife.</p>
<p>Just think about it.</p>
<p>Breathe in.</p>
<p>Breathe in.</p>
<p>I'm good.</p>
<p>I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if we could never be together.</p>
<p>He didn't tell you.</p>
<p>Tell me what?</p>
<p>Maybe you should ask him.</p>
<p>No, I'm asking you.</p>
<p>Seth knows no fear...</p>
<p>...no pain...</p>
<p>...no hunger.</p>
<p>He hears music in the sunrise.</p>
<p>But he'd give it all up.</p>
<p>He loves you that much.</p>
<p>I don't understand.</p>
<p>He can fall.</p>
<p>He can give up his existence as he knows it.</p>
<p>He can give up eternity and become...</p>
<p>...one of us.</p>
<p>It's up to you.</p>
<p>How do you know this?</p>
<p>Because I did it.</p>
<p>Seth, I need to talk to you.</p>
<p>Seth, please.</p>
<p>Please be here.</p>
<p>God, help me through this.</p>
<p>You are so beautiful.</p>
<p>You'll always be that way.</p>
<p>Jordan asked me to go away with him...</p>
<p>...and get married.</p>
<p>He knows me.</p>
<p>He knows the demands of my work.</p>
<p>You don't love him.</p>
<p>He and I are the same.</p>
<p>And I want that.</p>
<p>And I want somebody who can feel my hand when I touch him.</p>
<p>But you can feel me.</p>
<p>You felt me.</p>
<p>I want to say goodbye.</p>
<p>I don't want to see you again.</p>
<p>Hey, buddy.</p>
<p>You can't be in here.</p>
<p>Do you see me?</p>
<p>Do you see me?</p>
<p>Can you see me?</p>
<p>We can see you.</p>
<p>Is this blood?</p>
<p>This is blood!</p>
<p>Is it red?</p>
<p>Red?</p>
<p>Is it red?</p>
<p>Color.</p>
<p>What color were the drugs you took?</p>
<p>Better get your butt out of here.</p>
<p>You got somewhere to go?</p>
<p>Maggie.</p>
<p>Down and down and down I go</p>
<p>Round and round and round I go</p>
<p>Round and spin</p>
<p>Loving the spin I'm in</p>
<p>Loving that old black magic...</p>
<p>...called love</p>
<p>Love!</p>
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to the county hospital?</p>
<p>Can I help you, sir?</p>
<p>I'll just take a moment to catch my breath.</p>
<p>Breath!</p>
<p>Maggie Rice.</p>
<p>Are you a patient?</p>
<p>No. I just need to find her, please.</p>
<p>You'll have to call her office. Someone there can help you.</p>
<p>Do you know where she is?</p>
<p>No, sir, I do not know where she is.</p>
<p>You have this computer...</p>
<p>...and all this technology. Can't you look her up?</p>
<p>Where's Maggie?</p>
<p>So you're a friend of Maggie's?</p>
<p>What happened to you?</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>It's okay.</p>
<p>I fell.</p>
<p>Evidently. Off a train?</p>
<p>I fell in love.</p>
<p>Please help me find her.</p>
<p>She went to Lake Tahoe. Her uncle has a cabin on the Nevada side.</p>
<p>Wait!</p>
<p>Cassiel.</p>
<p>Are you there?</p>
<p>Hello.</p>
<p>Where you headed?</p>
<p>Tahoe!</p>
<p>Reno!</p>
<p>Tahoe!</p>
<p>I'm going to Reno.</p>
<p>I'm going to Tahoe.</p>
<p>Hop in. We'll figure it out when we get there.</p>
<p>Am I too late?</p>
<p>Too late?</p>
<p>Jordan?</p>
<p>I couldn't marry Jordan.</p>
<p>I'm in love with you.</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>Free will.</p>
<p>I feel you.</p>
<p>Do you feel that?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>And that?</p>
<p>How's it feel? Tell me what it feels like.</p>
<p>I can't.</p>
<p>Try.</p>
<p>Warm.</p>
<p>Aching.</p>
<p>It's okay.</p>
<p>We fit together.</p>
<p>I know.</p>
<p>We were made to fit together.</p>
<p>I always asked the dying what they liked best about living.</p>
<p>Wrote it down in my book.</p>
<p>This is it.</p>
<p>This is what I like best.</p>
<p>You haven't even started yet.</p>
<p>We have our whole lives together.</p>
<p>You and me.</p>
<p>Mr. And Mrs. Plate.</p>
<p>- I'll get help. - You're here.</p>
<p>- Stay. - I should get help.</p>
<p>Don't go. The driver went.</p>
<p>Please stay.</p>
<p>Please stay with me.</p>
<p>I'm scared.</p>
<p>I screwed up.</p>
<p>I wanted to show you everything.</p>
<p>You will.</p>
<p>You came all this way.</p>
<p>I'm sorry.</p>
<p>God, no, Maggie!</p>
<p>To touch you...</p>
<p>...and to feel you.</p>
<p>To be able to hold your hand right now.</p>
<p>You know what that means?</p>
<p>Do you know how much I love you?</p>
<p>Keep looking at me, okay?</p>
<p>Look right in my eyes.</p>
<p>Someone's out there.</p>
<p>Don't look at them. Please don't you look at them!</p>
<p>Is this what happens?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>This is what happens.</p>
<p>I'm not afraid.</p>
<p>When they ask me...</p>
<p>...what I liked the best...</p>
<p>...I'll tell them...</p>
<p>...it was you.</p>
<p>God!</p>
<p>I can't see you, but I know you're there.</p>
<p>I'm sorry.</p>
<p>Get out.</p>
<p>Was it you? Were you the one? Were you there?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Why did He do this?</p>
<p>I don't know.</p>
<p>Because her number was up?</p>
<p>What do you want me to say?</p>
<p>- Am I being punished? - You know better than that.</p>
<p>That's life.</p>
<p>You're living now.</p>
<p>And one day...</p>
<p>...you'll be dying.</p>
<p>What's it like?</p>
<p>What?</p>
<p>Warmth.</p>
<p>It's wonderful.</p>
<p>If you'd known this was going to happen...</p>
<p>...would you have done it?</p>
<p>I would rather have had...</p>
<p>...one breath of her hair...</p>
<p>...one kiss of her mouth...</p>
<p>...one touch of her hand...</p>
<p>...than an eternity without it.</p>
<p>One.</p>
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