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must be giving willingly

for the God to appreciate it.

He must giveth himself otherwise

the ritual is meaningless.

Well, they came to this museum.

I think that's very certain.

He met someone.

He was engaged in conversation.

Maybe they had

a couple of drinks.

And they went back to his hotel

room, and they did the deed.

I find it difficult to phantom why

a guy with a wife and two kids

and tenure at a university

would suddenly decide

to give up his life

without even a chance

to think about it.

You see, gave himself a chance.

Why else did he

come to the city?

Was there any other reason

he should be here?

Well, that's what we're trying

to determine.

You know,

that's an interesting angle.

No vacation.

No research.

Just some guy flies thousand

of Miles to New York City

to give his life

on a sacrificial alter.

Maybe I should take

those books of yours.

I'm not going to be able

to sleep either

if you keep looking at those

horrible pictures.

You don't think anything like that

serpent ever really existed do you?

Sure it did.

And the Aztecs killed for it.

Wouldn't be the first time in history

that a monster was mistaken for a God.

And you have to figure out

which it was?

A monster or a God?

Some detective.

You don't believe in

any of this stuff do you?

Why don't you turn off

the lights?

In a minute.

Guess that's why

I have to kill it.

If I can kill, it's not a God.

It's a good old fashion monster.

I better take

my birth control pill.

God!

Maybe it's a bird, huh?

- Joanie?

- Yes.

- Come on, open up.

- Oh, okay.

Lock it.

Must've been some wild party.

So where were you all night?

What happened?

Did you get mugged?

Well, I hope you didn't go on the

job appointment looking like this.

There wasn't any appointment.

Well, what happened?

I had an accident.

- Well, I hope you got--

- will you shut up?

Just give me a drink.

Shut up.

You know you shouldn't drink.

Never makes things any better.

I said I was sorry.

And I told you

next time you hit me,

I'll break a lamp over your head

while you're asleep.

Ah, come on, I'm hurting.

Just one drink,

that's all I'm asking for.

Okay?

Just one, all right?

At least you haven't thrown

any punches lately.

And it wasn't my idea.

I go for Chinese with these guys and

they tell me it's going to be easy.

- They said diamonds were easy.

- I don't want another fact.

And I told them, "you know,

I only drive. I don't go in."

They say, "you got to go in."

I say, "no, I'm not going in."

They take the keys.

So what do I do?

I got to go in.

And then I go running around

the city with this.

Now, don't worry,

I never fired a shot.

I just ran.

I left them there.

They are not your friends!

How many times

I got to tell you?

Why do you think you got

to stick your neck out for them?

You know what? They're probably down

at the police station right now

giving out your name

and address.

Probably saying

it's all your idea.

Please, take off your pants

and let me look at your leg.

Oh, no, no.

Just leave me.

I just want to sit here.

I think I'm going crazy.

Preparing your defense

already, huh?

No! I mean, I went way up to on

this building, 75-80 stories up.

And I'm up there,

and I don't believe what I saw.

I saw a body up there. There was

somebody murdered up there.

- What are you talking about?

- Listen to me.

I see this body. I don't know what it is.

Yeah, I think it's a--

I think it's a woman

because there's a bracelet on.

But it has all been torn away.

I've never seen anything

like that before

in my entire life.

Are you back on something?

I knew you'd say that!

And I knew they think that.

So I ran again.

I ran twice in one day, I ran.

And kept running

till I couldn't run anymore.

Until my side hurt so much

I couldn't run anymore.

Then I go to sleep. I go to sleep

under a God damn stair case.

I don't sleep, you know, because

try to sleep. I can't sleep.

Come here.

- Feel better?

- I stink. And I just want to cry.

You know, I haven't cried

since I was a little kid.

- I just want to cry.

- Go ahead, it's okay.

No, but I'm supposed

to be a man.

Christ. I don't know what

I'm supposed to be.

You know, everything I touch

on the outside turns to sh*t!

Maybe I am

an institutionalized person.

Maybe I can't make

it outside the slammer.

That I belong inside there

like an animal in a cage.

Right, we can have those conjugal

visits once every four months

if we got married.

Why do I stay

with a dumb ex-junkie.

I don't know. Why?

Well, I think there's a lot

of good in you somewhere.

Yeah, where?

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I get all this evil dreams,

you know?

Evil dream!

Go up way!

And I walk upside up top

of this building.

And I see dead things

and a nest, you know?

A rat's nest.

No, well-- no, it couldn't have

been a rat's nest.

It was bigger than that.

It was big.

And there was something in it

that looked like an egg.

But it couldn't have been

an egg, I mean,

there aren't any eggs-- I mean,

there's no eggs that big.

Jesus. And there's a hole

in the roof

so it can get in and get out.

So it can get in and out?

Yeah.

I just want to sleep.

When you wake up, we'll have

some nice bacon and eggs.

No eggs. I don't want to

ever see another egg ever.

Quetzalcoatl,

I am the plume serpent.

I fly and I crawl.

Earth and air.

Mud and sky.

I have fallen,

but I will rise again.

All right, what did you

bring me down here for?

I hope it's something good.

I thought you might want

to look at this one.

What is it?

Another skinning job?

Almost as crazy.

Doctor said the heart

was removed quite carefully

and quite precisely.

Number two.

The human sacrifice theory, huh?

Well, listen.

The donor's heart

is ritually removed,

be presented to the gods.

Sure sounds like it doesn't it?

Luckily all we have to do nowadays is

take the wafer and drink the wine.

That's what I call

being civilized.

Personally I trust that curator or

anybody else we talked to over there.

I think they're all

a bunch of freaks.

And one of those freaks is probably

the person running around,

slicing people up.

Well, then what we need

is to have a run down on all

of the employees of the museum.

Everybody from the night Porter

to the security guard, the works.

Well, what I'm

particularly interested in

is anyone who has

any medical background.

You know, someone with some

expertise with surgical tools.

Okay, captain.

Yeah, we all love you, Shepard.

So you don't think

it's a lot of baloney.

No, I think there

was basis in fact.

See, there was some

kind of giant bird creature.

And it would appear again

in nature.

But I doubt if new yorkers

would mistaken it as a God.

Why not?

If they come to fear it enough.

What else is God but an

invisible force that we fear.

For centuries we've tried

to make it into our image.

Give God two legs, pair

of hands, lips, eyes.

Perhaps it's only our vanity.

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