TRANSLATOR: Nyazian. Exquisite! I recognize the Ga-shundi cross-text. Quite a find! Have you any idea what this is worth?

LILAH: Hopefully enough to cover my ass. Here, these notes should help speed things up a little.

TRANSLATOR: Ah! You had another translator work on this I see. I don't recognize the handwriting but the idiom would indicate an Englishman.

LILAH: I don't know. I don't remember.

TRANSLATOR: It wasn't Worm Forsch in Ancient Symbols and Icons, was it? He's had his eye on my cubicle.

LILAH: No, it was somebody else. You don't know them.

TRANSLATOR: He's only got that one eye...

LILAH: Don't worry about it. Outside contractors. Now, I've highlighted the sections they seemed to be concentrating on.

TRANSLATOR: You *highlighted* an ancient Nyazian Scroll?

LILAH: In yellow.

TRANSLATOR: Hmm.

LILAH: So, can you translate it?

TRANSLATOR: When it comes to sacred prophecies it's always going to be more of an interpretation than a strict translation.

LILAH: I'm just looking for the gist here. What does it say?

TRANSLATOR: Let's see. (studies the text) Bring... forth... appear... born... Uh! Something about a birth!

LILAH: What? What about the birth?

TRANSLATOR: It's unclear.

LILAH: Make it clear.

TRANSLATOR: Well, this should be fun!

LILAH: No. This shouldn't be fun, what it should be is done by morning - or I'll have your family killed.

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written by: Tim Minear; Original transcript anonymous. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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