He is confronted by two further realisations, both shattering: that Jesus was married, and that the resurrection was probably faked.
But that Walter grasped this himself was some consolation, and counteracted a lingering sadness as the credits rolled, which stemmed from the realisation that both Walter and Samuel are children of our time.
For Powell, the template was the realisation by both the IRA and the British government at different points in the 1980s that neither side was ever going to defeat, or be defeated by, the other.
But rising health-care costs, drug companies' desire to keep their development pipelines stocked, advances in data-mining technologies and a growing interest in the notion of "personalised" medicine have spurred a growing realisation, in both the health-care and information-technology sectors, that biobanking could be a very good business indeed.
Fulfilling a promise made by India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Pakistan's president and army chief, Pervez Musharraf, when they met in January, the talks will cover all the disputes between the two countries, including the bitterest of them all Kashmir.Riaz Khokar, Pakistan's most senior diplomat, said there was "a realisation on both sides that war is not an option".
These recommendations, like the budget squeeze, may be uncomfortable for some in British intelligence but there also may be a realisation that both developments are inevitable.
We describe here the two programmes recently developed by the french space Agency (CNES) for Minisatellites and Microsatellites, the scientific content of the proposals, the results of the pre-selections and the present status of realisation for both product lines.
And the stiff arm to extinction given to Ed Miliband is the quivering realisation that both politicians squandered the future of their parties.
All demonstrate the overriding importance of wider contexts of structural inequality in constraining rights realisation at both individual and community levels.
This target reflects the anticipated combined financial risk protection effect of the progressive realisation of both universal health coverage and social protection.
