The Lazarus Project

[first lines]

Katie Garvey:
Daddy, what's the greatest thing you ever saw?

Ben Garvey:
Greatest thing you ever saw. Umm. One time when I was a little boy, I was playing with my slingshot and I saw this Jaybird. I don't know why but I shot him.

Katie Garvey:
You killed a birdie?

Ben Garvey:
I didn't mean to. I don't even know why I shot at him, but I felt so bad, I started praying to God that he would come back. And all of a sudden the Jaybird woke up. He just flew away.

Katie Garvey:
God saved him?

Ben Garvey:
Yeah, I think so.

Ben Garvey:
I did something real bad. Something that I didn't mean to do.

Katie Garvey:
Like the Jaybird?

William Reeds:
There are no accidents. There are only things we do and what those things do to other people.

[repeated line]

Robbie:
They're watching us.

Julie Ingram:
You named your dog "dog"?

Julie Ingram:
There's a struggle. How do you live if you're ruled by your past? But, how do you let go of a past that made you?

Father Ezra:
You don't have to forget. You just have to move on.

[last lines]

Katie Garvey:
Mommy, what's the greatest thing you ever saw?

Lisa Garvey:
I don't think I've seen it yet, baby.

Father Ezra:
We all create fictions to hide our pain.

[last lines]

William Reeds:
They can't follow me into heaven

Avery:
Only a fool spits in the eye of god