ITALIAN

We see Jack and Christian Shepard examining x-rays of a spine in an office with two people seated at a table nearby.]

CHRISTIAN [whispering to Jack]: Look here and here. You can see it's rotting out the spinal [something] area, and plus all this extra dural growth -- I'm surprised it hasn't caused permanent ischemia.

ANGELO [in Italian]: Digli di smettere di bisbigliare. Non sono un idiota.[1] Tell him to stop talking in whispers. I'm not an idiot.

GABRIELA [translating]: He says you don't need to talk in whispers. He knows he doesn't have a chance.

CHRISTIAN: Your father appreciates candor.

GABRIELA: We both do.

CHRISTIAN: Well, then tell him I'm very sorry but he's not a candidate for surgery. [Gabriela translates for her father: Papa, lui e come gli altri. Non lo fara.[2] Dad, he's like the others. He won't do it. The way the tumor is situated on the spine, it's just not possible to remove it.

ANGELO [in Italian]: Non ci provera? Perche?[3] He won't try? Why?

GABRIELA: He wants to know why you won't try.

CHRISTIAN: Because what your father is looking for is not a surgical procedure. What he is looking for is a miracle.

ANGELO: Signore, non sono venuto fino a qui per lei. Sono venuto qui per suo filio.[4] Sir, I did not come all this way for you. I came for your son.

GABRIELA: He said, "I did not come all this way for you, sir. I came for him [indicating Jack].

JACK: Ms. Bissone, I, uh...

GABRIELA: You fixed someone with a crushed spinal column -- an impossible surgery -- and now she walks, yes? I consulted many medical journals before making this trip here.

CHRISTIAN: Then you should know it's a very different case under very different circumstances.

GABRIELA: But a miracle, right?

JACK: Everything that my father's saying -- the risks, the unlikelihood -- he's absolutely right.

GABRIELA: But will you try?

JACK [taking a few moments to look at the x-rays]: I'll have to admit him in the next couple of weeks; run some tests.

ANGELO: La ringrazio... tantissimo.[5] I thank you... very much.

[Christian stares at Jack for a moment, then leaves.]