LILAH: You got something?

TRANSLATOR: Yes. I believe I do. I have to say, whoever you had working on this before was very close. These notes were enormously helpful.

LILAH: That's great. What does it say?

TRANSLATOR: I can see he ran into trouble right here with the tense. Ga-shundi tenses are tricky little buggers! (Laughs)

LILAH: I'm riveted. The birth! What does it say about the birth?

TRANSLATOR: Well, actually, it's funny... it doesn't.

LILAH: What do you mean, it doesn't. But you said it did.

TRANSLATOR: Yes, I did say it did.

LILAH: But it doesn't.

TRANSLATOR: (smiling) In a way.

LILAH: I have a gun.

TRANSLATOR: The prophecy, it's not so much a birth announcement as it is an obituary.

LILAH: Obituary?

TRANSLATOR: Yes. The prophet is telling us there will be no birth.

LILAH: But are you sure?

TRANSLATOR: Oh, quite sure! 'For surely in that time, when the sky opens and the heavens weep, there will be no birth, only death.'

LILAH: Only death?

TRANSLATOR: Just death.

LILAH: (smiling) Just death.

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