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"In the darkness of futures past/The Magician longs to
see/One chants out between two worlds/Fire, walk with
me.
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BEN
The shadow ... he's gone ... I ... I remember ...
(the images flood back)
Oh, my God ... Laura ...
(he sees it all now, the tortures of the damned)
I killed her ... oh my God, I killed her ... I didn't
know, I didn't know ... Laura, darling, forgive me ...
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BEN
I was just a little boy. I saw him in my dreams. He
said he wanted to play ...
(reliving the terror)
... and he opened me ... and I invited him ... and he came
inside me ...
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BEN
When he was in me, I didn't know ... when he was gone, I
couldn't remember ... he made me do things ... terrible
things ... he wanted life ... he wanted others, others they
could use, the way they used me ...
COOPER
Laura?
BEN
They wanted Laura ... they wanted her, but she was strong
... she fought them, she wouldn't let them in ... they
made me kill that girl, Theresa, they said if I didn't
give Laura to them they'd make me kill her too ...
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COOPER
But she wouldn't give in.
BEN
She said she'd die before she'd let them ... they made
me kill her ... God have mercy on me, what have I done?
What have I done? I love her ... I loved her with all my
heart ...
COOPER
Be quiet now. Lie quiet.
BEN
Laura, forgive me ... ...
Ben is fading. Albert checks him out, looks at Cooper, shakes his head. Cooper turns BEN gently so that he's lying on his right side, holds him and begins to speak softly in his ear. The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
COOPER
Ben, the time has come for you to seek the Path. Your
soul has set you face to face before the clear light ... and
now you are about to experience it in its Reality, wherein
all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the
naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum,
without circumference or center ...
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