I've consulted on cases all over the world... Bosnia, Kosovo... World Trade Center. This is a case... Maybe this boy was better off leaving this world for a better one.
Do you believe there's a better world than this one?
I do.
When you were picking through the bones and burnt flesh at the World Trade Center, that belief work for you then?
As a matter of fact, it did. In many ways, my faith became stronger. It helped me deal with all of that. [Sighs] There must be a better place somewhere. What else could make sense of this child's torment?
I'm a vet, Doc. Re-upped after 9/11. A lot of cops did. I was with Special Forces, Afghanistan. We'd go down in these tunnels in these caves. Pitch-black. You turned your head lamp off, and there was this... glow. "Lost Light" we called it. It was like it was trapped down there with the rest of us. So I don't believe there's a better world than this one. I think this is the only one we got, and it's full of lost light.
It must be very hard to be you... and do what you do... without faith.
Someone broke nearly every bone in that little boy's body and then killed him. I can't let that go.
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