After the shock of seeing the Ark's only dinosaur go extinct before their eyes, it only seemed fair to put the beast to rest. Besides, it's kind of warm in the animal deck (Martha: "it's starting to get a little... ripe and I still have no idea how we're going to get rid of the body").
Although Paul missed the earlier part of the service (Gabe: "He's been caught up into the seventh heaven... again"), the Ark Angel was there to stand in for the Apostle, and the arkmates shared a moving liturgy for the beast, which John the Baptist recorded in his diary.
When Paul finally arrived, he had some thoughts for the sad Arkmates. "Behold, I tell you a mystery," he began. "He shall not always sleep but Tyrannosaurus Rex shall be changed in a moment, in a twinlking of an eye at the last trumpet – to the delight of five-year old boys everywhere."
As the Final Four left the Animal Deck to await the announcement of the next planking, John had one parting thought: "May the T-Rex depart in peace... and rise in glory."
