The Making of 'The Number 23' Page #6

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Thank you.

"My novel,

My confession,

- I never saw it again."

- My name is dr. Nathaniel.

"Some injuries can be healed over time.

Some are just too hard to deal with.

So my brain just blocked out

The terrible thing I had done

And the reasons why."

- Take care.

- I hope I never see you again.

- I hope not. I hope not. Don't come back, fella.

- Okay.

- Ooh! Oh my god. I'm so sorry.

- Oh!

Oh, no.

"Agatha

knew nothing about my past."

Oh, you owe me a cake.

"That made two of us.

I was free for now,

But the number found a new victim.

The number left me alone for 13 years...

until the night she found my book,

Or the book found her."

This is where I wrote it all.

It was me.

I'm a murderer.

I don't know what happened

to you, but I do know this:

You weren't a bad person who got better;

You were a sick person who became well.

I killed laura tollins.

There's an innocent man

in prison because of me.

You're a wonderful husband,

And you're the best father

a son could ever have.

And what would Robin do without you?

You know I can't let an

innocent man go on suffering

For my horrible sin.

We're all broken, Walter.

Remember, you told me your life started

When you met me?

Well, my life

- Began that day, too.

- You didn't know who I was.

I didn't know who I was.

- I want you to leave, ag.

- No.

- You need to leave before...

- No.

Before what?

Before you kill me?

Damn it, Walter.

Look, this...

this is who you were.

This is not who you are.

- This is not who you are!

- I'm a killer!

I have killed someone.

I killed someone.

I could do it again.

You think you could do it

again? You think you're a killer?

Here, then take this.

You go ahead and do it.

If you're a killer, then kill me!

Look around at all the beautiful 23s.

You don't want to

disappoint them, do you?

Do it!

I love you.

No, don't you say that.

- I love you.

- No, you can't!

Nobody can.

Dad!

There's

no such thing as destiny.

There are only different choices.

It's just a number.

Some choices are easy;

Some aren't.

Those are the really important ones,

The ones that define us as people.

The lord is my shepherd.

There is nothing I lack.

In green pastures, you let me graze.

To safe waters, you lead

me. You restore my...

13 years ago

I made the wrong choice...

guide me along the right

path for the sake...

I:

needed to put it right,

And not just for my sake.

To die there in the street

would have been easy,

But it wouldn't have been justice,

At least not the justice

fathers teach their sons about.

I'll be sentenced in a week or so.

My lawyer says the judge

will look kindly upon me

For turning myself in.

Maybe it's not the happiest of endings,

But it's the right one.

Someday I'll be up for parole

And we can go on living our lives.

It's only a matter of time.

Of course, time's just

a counting system--

Numbers...

with meaning attached to them.

Isn't it?

I've got me a badge

a bright, shiny badge

I'm painting the crest

in yellow and blue

I've got me a club

an exclusive club

doesn't include a place for you

hey

hello, neighbor

hey

hello, neighbor

right you are

it's in the way that you walk

all of the changes, all the mistakes

it's in the demands

you constantly make

it's in the way that you grieve

all of the loss

you don't know when

you're better off

or at what cost

you've got it good

the banality

of evil

benevolent mother

smother the child

the perpetrators are in denial

the banality

of evil

king of the castle

room at the top

off with their heads

chop 'em off

the banality

of evil

benevolent mother

smother the child

the perpetrators are in denial

the banality

of evil

king of the castle

room at the top,

off with their heads

chop 'em off

the banality

of evil

the banality

of evil

the banality

of evil

the banality

of evil.

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