This scene appears directly after when the priest has finished conducting mass (by naming each victim) and just before David finds the note from Elijah on his truck window in the parking lot...
INT. BACK OF CHURCH - AFTERNOON
David and the priest who conducted mass are alone in the mass preparation room. The priest looks in his fifties. Eyes tired. Blood shot.
DAVID
I used to play football in college. In my first year as a
quarterback, we went on this winning streak. It just
went on and on. It didn't matter who we played... I'd
always win.
(beat)
You get superstitious when something like that happens.
You give things meaning. Like you wear the same
colors socks each game or you listen to the same B.B.
King song before you leave the apartment. I wouldn't
even untie the shoelaces on my cleats. I'd just slip them
on and off so nothing would change... I gave things
meaning that had no meaning.
(beat)
I'm here to make sure I'm not making shoelaces into
something their not again.
(beat)
I was the only person to survive that accident. The only
one... It feels like it means something.
Beat.
PRIEST
Are you a religious man David?
David nods, "No."
The priest removes the sacred scroll from around his neck and kisses it before folding it carefully.
PRIEST
Good. Because I'm going to talk to you as a man. Not as
a man of the cloth.
DAVID
Okay.
Beat. The priest turns to David.
PREIST
It was luck.
Beat.
DAVID
What do you mean?
PRIEST
Luck... Random... Without meaning.
David just sits awkwardly.
PRIEST
About three years ago, my cousin died on a plane that
crashed on take off at Philadelphia International airport.
Do you remember that crash?
David nods, "Yes."
PRIEST
I prayed and prayed and finally I found some meaning
in the event. It gave me peace... And then not quite a
year later, an entire family from my parish burned to
death in a hotel fire downtown...
(beat)
Again I prayed. Again I found meaning.
(beat)
Just two days agao. my nephew rode with you on that
train back from New York. He was traveling alone for
the first time. I'm sorry if I can't react to your survival
with the appropriate 'It was the hand of God. It was a
miracle.' kind of answer... I'm fresh out of those right
now.
David is shaken. Beat.
DAVID (soft)
The metal of the watch I was wearing was crushed
like a sledge hammer hit it.
Beat. The priest's eyes fill with emotion.
PRIEST
My twelve year old nephew's neck was broken in four
places... What's your point? You were chosen?
(beat)
I don't think so.
The priest turns and continues putting away artifacts from the mass. Silence fills the back room.
- I believe that this scene was filmed. In the movie, the parking lot of the church is completely empty when Daivd goes to his truck. I don't know why else the parking lot would be empty and why David would be the last to leave.