The Magician's Elephant

Ah-ha! Yes, the silk. 587 00:31:45,333 --> 00:31:47,125 You see this roll of silk? 588 00:31:47,208 --> 00:31:49,208 My husband wanted to use it to kill himself. 589 00:31:49,291 --> 00:31:52,791 It's called a parachute, and there is evidence it can work. 590 00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:54,583 -Has it ever worked? -[Leo] No. 591 00:31:54,666 --> 00:31:57,500 Actually, the results have been quite grisly. That's true. 592 00:31:57,583 --> 00:31:59,125 But what if I had been the first? 593 00:31:59,708 --> 00:32:00,833 [sighs] 594 00:32:00,916 --> 00:32:01,791 [chuckles] 595 00:32:01,875 --> 00:32:02,875 [laughs] 596 00:32:02,958 --> 00:32:04,083 [laughs] 597 00:32:05,041 --> 00:32:07,375 I'm going to practice on the mannequins. 598 00:32:08,375 --> 00:32:11,000 [Peter grunting] 599 00:32:12,666 --> 00:32:14,291 [laughs] A good boy. 600 00:32:14,375 --> 00:32:15,625 [Peter] Whoa! Whoa! 601 00:32:16,125 --> 00:32:18,333 -[goat bleating] -[Peter grunting] 602 00:32:19,666 --> 00:32:20,833 Tireless and kind. 603 00:32:21,333 --> 00:32:23,750 -Leo… -But with no one to love him. 604 00:32:25,166 --> 00:32:26,250 Don't say it. 605 00:32:26,333 --> 00:32:29,875 And the two of us downstairs, all alone. 606 00:32:29,958 --> 00:32:33,541 No, we've tried and failed. [sighs] 607 00:32:33,625 --> 00:32:36,916 God does not intend for us to have children, Leo Matienne. 608 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,458 And who are we to say what God intends? 609 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,125 Please. 610 00:32:41,208 --> 00:32:43,333 My heart has been broken too many times. 611 00:32:43,416 --> 00:32:45,500 It cannot bear your foolish questions. 612 00:32:45,583 --> 00:32:50,791 But how? How will the world ever change if we do not question it? 613 00:32:51,375 --> 00:32:53,291 The world cannot be changed. 614 00:32:53,375 --> 00:32:56,416 The world is what the world is and forever has been. 615 00:32:58,416 --> 00:32:59,291 No. 616 00:33:00,083 --> 00:33:01,375 I won't believe that. 617 00:33:03,166 --> 00:33:05,708 For here is Peter, standing before us, 618 00:33:06,333 --> 00:33:08,750 asking us to make it something different. 619 00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:11,416 [Peter] Lunge. 620 00:33:12,208 --> 00:33:13,083 Coup d'arrêt. 621 00:33:13,166 --> 00:33:14,916 -[goat bleating] -[Peter grunting] 622 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,666 [upbeat music plays] 623 00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:28,875 [gasps] 624 00:33:34,375 --> 00:33:37,500 [Sister snoring] 625 00:33:38,875 --> 00:33:40,291 [gasps] 626 00:33:40,916 --> 00:33:43,166 Oh. Adele, my dear! 627 00:33:43,833 --> 00:33:46,833 -Are you well? -I dreamt of an elephant, Sister. 628 00:33:46,916 --> 00:33:49,541 Oh, but how lovely. 629 00:33:49,625 --> 00:33:53,416 I find elephant dreams particularly moving and portentous, 630 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:58,833 although I'm forced to admit that I myself have never dreamt of an elephant. 631 00:33:58,916 --> 00:34:01,833 It felt like the elephant came to take me somewhere. 632 00:34:01,916 --> 00:34:06,958 Oh, but you belong right here, dear child, where you're safe. 633 00:34:07,041 --> 00:34:10,000 Hmm. Safe from what, Sister? 634 00:34:10,541 --> 00:34:11,791 From the world. 635 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:16,708 I went out to see the world, Adele, and it was cruel. 636 00:34:16,791 --> 00:34:19,458 So I brought you home to the orphanage, 637 00:34:19,541 --> 00:34:21,791 far away from everything. 638 00:34:21,875 --> 00:34:25,791 And I named you Adele after your mother, 639 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:28,333 who's in heaven now with your brother. 640 00:34:28,416 --> 00:34:31,666 Mm. Do you think elephants have names? 641 00:34:31,750 --> 00:34:34,916 Oh, yes. All creatures have names, dear. 642 00:34:35,750 --> 00:34:37,791 Every last one of them. 643 00:34:39,458 --> 00:34:41,916 [gentle music plays] 644 00:34:50,125 --> 00:34:52,166 [Fortune Teller] The elephant also has dreams. 645 00:34:54,416 --> 00:34:56,416 [triumphant music plays] 646 00:35:06,166 --> 00:35:07,958 The elephant's with her family… 647 00:35:10,958 --> 00:35:13,083 and she hears her name spoken. 648 00:35:16,041 --> 00:35:17,083 [baby elephant groans] 649 00:35:17,166 --> 00:35:20,458 Somewhere she's known, somewhere she's loved. 650 00:35:21,458 --> 00:35:24,208 [trumpeting] 651 00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:29,208 [trumpeting] 652 00:35:38,750 --> 00:35:40,041 [groans] 653 00:35:41,666 --> 00:35:45,083 [groaning] 654 00:35:46,291 --> 00:35:48,833 -[groaning] -[chains clanking] 655 00:35:49,541 --> 00:35:53,208 -[groaning] -[chains clanking] 656 00:35:55,833 --> 00:35:58,416 [Fortune Teller] She definitely doesn't belong here. 657 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,000 It all seems impossible. 658 00:36:01,083 --> 00:36:03,083 [elephant sighs] 659 00:36:06,791 --> 00:36:09,166 [elep