TAG LINE
SCENE 7 INT - LEO AT HIS OFFICE WINDOW – 2:07
He is still on set and in character. HARRY's antics below have given LEO a sad smile rather than the amused one LEO had earlier. He looks out of the window and watches his colleagues get into their cars and prepare to drive away.
LEO (V.O)
For every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction,
CUT TO: TOM driving, he is tapping his fingers against the steering wheel and rolls his eyes. It is unclear as to whether he is frustrated by traffic that we cannot see or the voice over.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
yet the laws that govern the universe
seldom have anything to do
with what we know of human experience.
CUT TO: EMILIA she tries to put her handbag onto the passenger seat but finds a chunky pink plastic princess castle strapped into the front seat instead. She smiles and chucks her bag into the footwell.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
Where there is chaos; there can be order.
Where there is tragedy; there can be joy.
CUT TO: LEO's new picture the Matisse.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
Where there is love; there can be hate.
I am a pathlogist.
I determine cause of death.
I can tell you the how, the when,
the where and the what.
The scientific facts.
But I will not be able to
tell you why.
CUT TO: LEO's face he is looking towards his picture and has his back to the window.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
Why them?
Why now?
Why me?
Why do good people suffer?
Why do the most wicked of people
sweep through this life
without a care in the world?
Where is justice?
LEO walks over to his desk and sinks down, he is in the position we first found him in in SCENE 1.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
The longer I live the more
questions I ask;
CUT TO: the stack of files and paperwork on the side of his desk.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
but just as I cannot
give an answer to the family's and friend's
who walk through these corridors
questions: why me?
Why them?
Neither will my WHY be answered.
CAMERA PANS across the desk. We see a photo of Janet. LEO picks up the photo and places it in his desk. He pulls out another photo frame from his drawer and puts it back in place of the other.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
I will not find my reason.
But it will not mean
that science has failed.
Or that I have failed.
It will not mean that
I won't continue to search for the truth.
I will always ask questions
and I will always need answers.
But some answers are not
Always the answers I want.
CUT TO: Leo's new photo. It is a picture of HARRY, NIKKI and LEO after LEO's MBE award ceremony. Camera pans from the photo to focus on the Matisse on the wall behind it.
LEO (V.O. Cont'd)
For the truest truths are what hold us together
Or keep us painfully desperately apart.
Credits to a variety of sources for this last bit. I'm sure Leo or possibly Harry does the I can answer the what the where the how questions but I couldn't find the scene quickly, sorry, so if anyone does know the clip or episode I refer to, I'd love to know and not that I just imagined the whole idea.
There is also a nod to Psalm 73:
But I had nearly lost confidence; my faith was almost gone because I was jealous of the proud when I saw that things go well for the wicked. They do not suffer pain; they are strong and healthy. They do not suffer as other people do; they do not have the troubles that others have.
and Gillian Anderson. I'm pretty sure I've used a bit of this X files voice over before but I love those last two lines and they seemed to fit.
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