Adult Pi Patel: [voice over] And then Richard Parker, my fierce companion, the terrible one who kept me alive, disappeared forever from my life.
[Pi lies on the sand when a group of locals run down the beach towards him]
Adult Pi Patel: [voice over] After a few hours, a member of my own species found me. He left and returned with a group who carried me away.
[Pi sobs as he's carried away]
Adult Pi Patel: [voice over] I wept like a child, not because I was overwhelmed at having survived, although I was. I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. It broke my heart.