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I don't know.

You don't know?

No.

How do you not know where she is,

I mean, your best friend, right?

You must know where she is.

We are, I

just don't know where

she is right now, that's all.

Look, she went through some...

This can't leave this room.

No, this can't leave this room.

-No. What? What?

-Promise me.

You promise me?

I promise,

I promise, ok so... Come on,

Gretchen, tell me what's up.

She went through some

heavy stuff after the movie.

She told me that

she was living in two worlds

that she could go into the past

and see the truth.

-Oh man!

-F***ing Tony,

he pushed her to a bad place.

He always f***ed with her head.

He always knew

just where to get her.

Well, it seems like

he got a great performance

out of her, that's what I know.

At what cost?

When you're an actor,

sometimes it's really hard

to get back out.

It's a director's job to help you.

He just left her hanging.

Do you think Marie's

gonna come back soon?

What are you, writing a book?

Oh no, I'm just curious,

I'm just curious.

You're curious.

-Marie?

-Yes?

It's Ted.

Theodore Younger?

I'm... I'm one of Gretchen's friends.

-Is Gretchen ok?

-Oh no, she's great, she's great.

Now I went to the... to Tony's

screening this afternoon and,

wow, I mean congratulations,

your were... you were great.

-Your performance was great.

-What is it you want?

I was just wondering

how you were doing, that's all.

-That's all?

-Well that, and the other thing is,

I'm doing a

national television show

on the life of Jesus,

and Tony, he's gonna do

an interview with me,

-and I'd love to have you too.

-Why?

Why what?

Why are you doing a show,

a programme on Jesus?

I do... I don't understand... why.

Do you believe in Jesus?

Well I...

I don't know, I guess he existed.

Yeah, sure.

No, what do you believe?

I don't know.

It takes courage to

walk in the truth,

and it takes courage

to become fully humans.

Jesus helped Mary Magdalene,

she's helping me now.

Hello?

Hello?

Go back to the city, to the city.

I wanna go back to the city.

I want to go to 54th and Park.

Yeah, I wanna go back. Thanks.

What do we actually know

about Jesus and his followers,

how do we know it,

and what else didn't we know?

And the answer is

there's a lot we didn't know.

The Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of

Philip, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene,

these were apparently buried

nearly two thousand years ago,

when a bishop,

who thought they were secret

and heretical writings,

told the monks to get rid of them,

and somebody disobeyed

the bishop and buried them

out by a cliff where

they were found in 1945.

It's clear that when you look at

these other secret gospels, including

the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel

of Philip and the Gospel of Thomas,

that Mary Magdalene who appears

in the gospels of the New Testament

just as one of the women,

she's not a disciple,

she's just a very marginal character.

In these other texts

there's often a running battle

between Mary and Peter.

It could be a rivalry

for the role of

disciple closest to Jesus.

What you find in... in

sort of ancient legend history,

she was a prostitute.

Modern fiction turns her

into a lover and wife of Jesus.

But what you find in

these early texts is that she is

neither a prostitute nor a lover.

She's...

She's one of the disciples,

and one of the most important.

The Jesus of the New Testament

is usually characterized

as somebody utterly unique.

Marc says, "This is the Gospel of

Jesus the Messiah, the son of God."

John says, "He's the only begotten

son of God, there's nobody like Him."

The Gospel of Thomas

suggests that

yes, Jesus comes forth from God,

but the...

the teaching of the Gospel

of Thomas, the good news is...

So do you, and so do I.

That we also come from

the divine light,

we also come from that source,

because we are created

in the divine image.

And so the Gospel of Thomas

suggests that you too can become

a child of God, just like Jesus,

because you have within you

the divine light,

or created in the image of God.

The fact that you may not need

the Church, or the Priest, or

even Jesus.

You could go back to yourself

and as the Gospel of Thomas

has Jesus say,

"If you bring forth

what is within you,

what you bring forth

will save you.

If you do not bring forth

what is within you,

what you do not bring forth

will destroy you."

And this of course, from the point

of view of Orthodoxy is blasphemy.

-Why was the phone off?

-Why the hell was yours?

I don't know, I... I must have

turned it off by mistake. I'm sorry.

Well, what if I went

into labour last night, huh?

-What's the matter with you?

-Elisabeth, I was working, ok?

Well, since when do you

stay out working all night?

Since when do I have a national

f***ing television programme?

I got the entire responsibility of

the show on my f***ing shoulders

or... or... or is that beyond

your comprehension, Elisabeth?

Oh, beyond my comprehension!

Since when did you become such a

f***ing a**hole?

I've always supported you 100%,

you're an ungrateful

f***ing a**hole.

Hey! I was doing research.

I lost track of the time.

Ok? Alright?

That's all that happened. I fell

asleep on the couch in my office.

Why... What is this, some kind

of interrogation or something?

Hold... hold on a second,

hold on a second.

Brenda, could you please

tell Elisabeth that

I was doing research all night

and I fell asleep

on the sofa in my office?

I'll be there in a minute.

I can't get into this right now.

My hole future is on the line here.

I gotta prepare for my show.

Your future. What about our future?

-You know what I meant.

-Well that's not what you said.

Listen,

I don't have time to play

these little word games with you.

I gotta go to work.

I got things to do, ok?

Go to hell!

Hello?

-Hey.

-Hey.

Yeah, I... You know... I mean,

I should have called you last night.

I don't even know

what I was thinking.

It's, you know... It's all the

stress and stuff, you know...

I get a... It's not...

I'm not making any excuses.

I shoulda... I shoulda called you,

you know?

Well, I'm sorry I hung up on you,

but I hope you come home soon.

Yeah...

-Yeah, when can you come home?

-Listen, I'm gonna

finish this show and then I'm gonna

come straight home, you know.

I can't wait to see you too.

I need to see you right now.

-I need to see you, ok?

-Ok.

-Ok?

-Ok.

-Sorry.

-Ok.

-Ok, bye.

-Ok.

-Le Christe lui a donn la parole.

-Christ gave her the word.

Avant la rsurrection son language

c'est celui decheveux,

-celui du parfum.

-Before the resurrection,

the way she spoke was

with the hair, with the perfume.

Et le Christe I'a conduit

son accomplissement.

Christ led her

to her self fulfilment.

Non seulement elle

peut tre une femme,

Not only can she be a woman.

mais elle peut parler et enseigner

comme un homme.

But she can speak

and teach like a man.

Et cela, un aspect important

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