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Pi Patel: [to starving, semi-conscious tiger in lifeboat] We're dying, Richard Parker. I'm sorry.
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Pi Patel: Then the ship sank. What else do you want from me?
Younger Insurance Investigator: A story that won't make us look like fools.
Older Insurance Investigator: We need a simpler story for our report. One our company can understand. A story we can all believe.
Pi Patel: [pause] So, a story without things you've never seen before.
Older Insurance Investigator: That's right.
Pi Patel: Without surprises, without animals, or islands?
Older Insurance Investigator: Yes, the truth.
Writer: [back to present, to Adult Pi Patel] So, what did you do?
Adult Pi Patel: I told them another story.
Jag Huang
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