- [last lines]
- Reuven Malter: There is a story in the Talmud about a king who had a son who went astray. The son was told, 'Return to your father.' The son replied that he could not. The king then sent a messenger to the son with the message... 'Come back to me as far as you can, and I will meet you the rest of the way.
- Reb Saunders: ...and he learned through the wisdom and the pain of silence, that a mind without a heart... is nothing.
- Reuven Malter: You are weird.
- Danny Saunders: *I* am?
- Reuven Malter: Yeah, you are. You look like you walked out of another century. You play baseball like Babe Ruth. You talk like you're from another planet.
- Danny Saunders: Thanks for the compliment.
- narrator: closing scene: There is a story in the Talmud about a king who had a son who went astray. The son was told, "Return to your father." The son replied that he could not. The king then sent a messenger to the son with the message. "Come back to me as far as you can, and I will meet you the rest of the way."
- Reb Saunders: A heart I need for a son. A soul I need for a son. Compassion and mercy I need from a son. And strength to carry pain I need from a son... self-pride, feeling of superiority, indifference, began to fade away. He learned through the wisdom and the pain of silence that a mind without a heart is nothing... My Daniel is a tzadik. And the world needs a righteous man.
- Reuven Malter: [about his eye] I'll manage. Anyway, now I can look like Errol Flynn.
- Danny Saunders: Who is he?
- Reuven Malter: Errol Flynn, he's Robin Hood, Captain Blood. Errol Flynn. You don't know who Errol Flynn is? The movie star?
- Danny Saunders: Oh. Never been to a movie. We don't go to movies.
- Reuven Malter: Oh.
- Reuven Malter: I thought you weren't on speaking terms with your father.
- Danny Saunders: We talk a lot now.
- Professor David Malter: [talking to Reuven about Danny] He needs you, son. And his father needs you too.
- Reuven Malter: Why does Danny's father need me?
- Professor David Malter: He speaks to his son through you.
- Reuven Malter: Where'd you learn to hit like that?
- Danny Saunders: [Casually] I practiced.
- Reuven Malter: I thought you people only, uh, studied the Talmud.
- Danny Saunders: I have an agreement with my father: I study my quota of the Talmud every day, the rest of the time is my own.
- Reuven Malter: Your "quota" of Talmud?
- Danny Saunders: Four pages.
- Reuven Malter: [Slightly incredulous] "Four pages"? I can do ONE page, and I'm very good. And even then I need my father to help me.
- Danny Saunders: I have total recall.
- Reuven Malter: [Skeptically] Sure.