The Physician

Rob Cole:
I don't want to treat warts all my life. I don't want to pull teeth and sell horse piss as a miracle tonic. I want to learn how to cure cataracts, side sickness and all other diseases.

Ibn Sina:
Because there is nothing to be afraid of.Death is merely a threshold we must all cross... into the silence, after the final heartbeat... drifting away with our final exhalation... into eternal peace...

Ibn Sina:
How pale and tedious this world would be without mystery.

Rebecca:
In my fever, I dreamt that we were man and wife. We had children... Four!

Rob Cole:
Did we roam around in a barber's car?

Rebecca:
[smiles] No, we lived in a great city. Where you built a Madraza!

Rob Cole:
All by myself?

Rebecca:
I helped.

Ibn Sina:
What is it like?

Rob Cole:
Inside?

Ibn Sina:
[nods]

Rob Cole:
It is both... beautiful... and frightening.

Ibn Sina:
Go on.

Rob Cole:
I saw the heart!

Ibn Sina:
Describe it.

Rob Cole:
It has two chambers with an impassable wall in between.

Ibn Sina:
So how does the blood get from one side to the other?

Rob Cole:
By way of the lungs, I think.

Ibn Sina:
So all our theories of human circulation would be... wrong.

Rob Cole:
Master, nothing is as it is in the books! Nothing!

Rob Cole:
May the Lord have mercy upon me! Bless me in my long and dangerous journey. Let not the waves engulf me nor sea monsters devour me. Let not bandits slit my throat, or wolves eat me alive. Let me not starve or get lost in the dark woods or cold mountains. And please let Jesus forgive me that I shall deny my faith and soil myself with sin to serve your creation and glory.