Year: 2007 - Timeline A
Place: Inside a police squad car traveling toward a mental hospital in New York City
Dialogue: Aurora and Officer O'Neal
Time: Half an hour after the end of Aurora's first conversation with Officer O'Neal
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Aurora: "Officer O'Neal, I would like to talk with you about an important matter."
Officer O'Neal: "I'll have a deep woman-to-woman talk if you keep calm in the backseat."
Aurora: "Well, Officer O'Neal, in the Book of John, Chapter 9, Jesus heals a man of his blindness."
O'Neal: "Your name's Aurora, right? Go, speak up, and Bible evangelize away, Aurora."
Aurora: "After Jesus performs this miracle the local religious leaders dispute what he did."
O'Neal: "There's no disputing we're on a trip to a mental facility for your examination."
Aurora: "The religious leaders rejected the blind man's claim that Jesus had cured him."
O'Neal: "Where is this going, Aurora?"
Aurora: "The leaders did not want to hear testimony that contradicted their hardened beliefs."
O'Neal: "What are you saying?"
Aurora: "They were likely open-hearted, optimistic, when they started their spiritual journeys."
O'Neal: "Am I like one of the religious leaders you're describing? Formerly big-hearted?"
Aurora: "I suspect you once saw your job duties differently Officer O'Neal - in the beginning."
O'Neal: "Considering what I've been through all these years, you don't get to judge me."
Aurora: "Did you think one day that you would detain people who simply sat on park benches?"
O'Neal: "Is this a guilt trip for the insensitive joke? I apologized already. I feel bad about it."
Aurora: "What I am saying is you - the real you - is the one who will drive me back to the park."
O'Neal: "That bright-eyed, first-day-on-the-job officer isn't real anymore. She just isn't."
Aurora: "Yes, she is. I believe you - the authentic you - will turn this car around, drive us back."
O'Neal: "Okay, you sold me. No forms to fill out. Less waiting. You just won the lottery."
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