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(Shanna) Cotton! (Cotton) Hello, what's this?

- No! - What's this?

- Do you have to be a troublemaker? - You think you're going to church?

(Giggling)

We're going to church. We're going to church. We are going!

Come on, come on.

Do you want to get the door?

Thank you, Justin.

Thanks.

One of the most anointed men of God I've ever met. I think you know my son.

- Yeah! - I think you know my son. Yeah.

(Applause)

The Reverend Cotton Marcus. Let's give another hand for Jesus!

'I started preaching pretty young. My father was a preacher.'

Every preacher has to have a hook to bring the people in, get 'em saved

and get them in their wallet cos the church doesn't run on love.

The child preacher was a great novelty.

He groomed me. Other kids were playing and I'd be learning the Gospel of John.

By the time he invited me up on the pulpit one Sunday as a surprise

to let the people in the congregation know that the Holy Spirit had visited his son,

as spontaneous as that act may have seemed to the congregation,

we were... we were ready.

I'm sayin' right here, if you want an answer, if you want to know...

Do you want to know? It's right here, it's right here, brother.

Cotton is quite a character. He's what you would call a performer.

A showman. He's a natural creative.

For example, we have a local theatre here.

Cotton writes plays and he's making these little mini-movies now.

He's built props for them, special effects.

He entertains like nobody's business.

It starts here with us, but it carries on into his professional life.

Yes, you do!

'So many churches are boring. People don't want to go.

'But when Cotton is there, it is never boring.'

Folks, I'm here to tell you today that the world is filled with many, many faces.

Amen.

Right? Some of those faces are good. They're right with God.

- And some faces will lie to you. - You gotta watch out for 'em!

Absolutely. So I'm here to tell you, make sure you don't fall for a pretty face.

Cos that pretty face just may indeed be the Prince of Lies.

- That's right. - (Applause)

Cos I'll tell you right now, his lies are everywhere.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah!

You get 'em going, you "hallelujah" and blood of Christ, they love the blood.

When you get 'em in the right spot, they're not even listening.

- No, they're listening. - No, I could talk about anything.

I could talk about my mom's banana bread recipe. You don't think so?

Now you're underestimating your crowd.

When I go back in there, I will preach a banana bread sermon. I bet you ten bucks.

Do you believe that if you allow the Holy Ghost into your heart,

you can be sent to the Kingdom of God?

- Amen! - You gotta get an "amen".

- Amen! - Gotta get a "hallelujah".

Gotta get a "hallelujah" and an "amen".

If you get two ripe bananas, you put 'em in a bowl, put some sugar and bake 'em,

you can have banana bread. Hallelujah!

- Hallelujah! - Hallelujah! Yes, you can!

(Applause)

One Jesus! One Jesus!

We're in my dad's office. That's very special. He doesn't let anybody in here.

- Don't let 'em see the combination, Dad. - I won't.

Yeah, please don't film this combination. I'm serious.

To be honest with you, I'm the only one that knows it. Me and my accountant.

This is the Hortus Delicarum.

There's about 20 in the whole world.

(Cotton) Show it to them.

This book describes

the various kinds of demons, helps you identify them,

and then recommends the process for getting rid of that demon.

We have had exorcists in our family...

for generations, generations.

And...

How many exorcisms do you think you've done with this book?

150. 150 exorcisms, yeah.

The original story of Lucifer is this. Lucifer was an angel at one point.

Some people say that he was the choirmaster of Heaven.

He was helping raise hosannas to God.

But he decided he wanted the praise himself and God cast him out of Heaven.

He took a third of the host of Heaven with him. Those are your demons today.

That is the set-up of the entire Bible. The soul of man is being fought over.

God wants you to turn to the light of him and Satan wants to grab your soul.

Satan wants to overthrow God, so you have this clash.

The Bible is filled with demons.

If you believe in God, you have to believe in the devil. Jesus was an exorcist.

Therefore, if you're a Christian and you believe in Jesus Christ,

you have to believe in demons.

Mostly people contact me by my website.

But this, this is old school. Here...

That's from lvanwood.

This is from Georgia.

And this one says, "Please open immediately. Urgent."

Exorcism is alive and well in the present age.

People think of it as being a scourge of the Middle Ages

that somehow went away and was cured by science, but it's never gone away.

Exorcism today is bigger than it's ever been.

The Vatican used to have 20 or 25 sanctioned exorcists on the staff.

Now they have well over 300. That's just what they're telling is.

They're not telling us everything. That's just the Roman Catholic Church.

They get all the press cos they got the movie, but the reality

is that exorcisms are performed by every religion all over the world.

"Local boy Cotton delivers his first exorcism."

As a boy, I thought this was in every newspaper all over the world.

Tell me what your dad does.

He fights with the demons and the vampires and the ghosts.

And all the monsters.

He fights all the ghosts and the demons and the vampires?

- And the monsters. - Do you believe in ghosts?

Does your dad believe in ghosts?

I do not believe in actual demons, no.

But when I was doing exorcisms, you know, I acted like I did.

It's not like I saw any demons come out of anybody.

So for years, you've just been a fraud?

That's your word, not mine.

For the last couple of years, I've been doing what I've always been doing

which is delivering a service for a person who needs it in a way that they need it.

I'm not saying I'm a doctor, but I helped heal people from what ailed them.

What ailed them was the thought that they were possessed by a devil.

If I helped make that thought go away and they felt better, so be it.

I got a wife, a family to feed. At least, that's how I used to justify it.

(Shanna) Basically, everything changed when Justin was born. He was born early,

so there was a while where we weren't sure our son was going to be alive,

then finally, we found out that he was going to be OK.

In that moment, Cotton was so relieved.

He was like, "We are so lucky, we are so lucky."

The best I could do was say, "Thank you, Doctor."

I should've been thanking God, but that wasn't my first thought.

And that realisation really shook me. That was a real crisis of faith.

I started to question if I ever believed in God.

I started preaching so early and kept going.

I was good and I got rewarded for it, so who wants to stop that?

Even when I had this revelation of "maybe I don't believe in God",

"yet I'm still presenting myself as a preacher," it didn't stop me.

I mean, I was on autopilot. That's what I do.

It wasn't easy. It got harder. There's no doubt about that.

He would've quit eventually, at some point anyway,

but there was this one story, this little boy named Victor.

His name was Victor Turoy from Harrisburg, Texas.

This little boy was autistic

and he was suffocated to death during an exorcism

with well-meaning people trying to get this demon out of him.

I read that article and Justin was about this boy's age.

I started having this recurring nightmare.

I was the exorcist wrapping a plastic bag around my son's head.

I was watching my son die and I'd wake up in a cold sweat.

Not long after that, I was washing dishes and he came out of the office

and he had this story about the new Pope opening an Exorcism Academy.

He was visibly shaken. He said,

"Do you know how many more people this will hurt?"

That's when I really decided that... I was done. I had to get out of that.

I'm not interested in participating in that whatsoever.

What I want to do is expose exorcism for the scam that it really is.

That's why we're doing this. If I can help expose it for what it really is

and save one kid from having a plastic bag wrapped around his face...

That sounds like God's work.

We will open an envelope and follow that request wherever it takes us.

And I'll let you follow me.

And that way, you can film all the behind the scenes of my exorcism.

I'll pick the one on top. It's from lvanwood, Louisiana.

There's a whole bunch of people out there who are convinced they are possessed

or they have some sort of crop failure or something wrong with the livestock.

"I feel I am dealing with a case of possession by the devil himself.

"My livestock is being slaughtered nightly.

"Little doubt who is doing this gruesome...

"Please, please..." Looks like we're going to lvanwood.

Get Daddy's candlesticks, OK?

- See you later. Love you. - Give me a hug.

Oh! You just really...

Bye, guys. Love you!

It's amazing down here. It's got a real unique feel.

Nothing like it in any other part of the country. And it's ancient.

Some plantations here have been standing for hundreds of years.

It's the only part of the country that's been flown under six different flags,

so it's a real mix of culture and superstition and folklore down here.

You've got voodoo, you've got Roman Catholics, Pentecostalism,

all these different beliefs rubbing up against one another.

They're all looking to save you and to be the answer.

There's a lot of illiteracy and a lot of poverty

and between that and the "stopped in time" feel of the place,

it's like a perfect breeding ground for... for demons and evil.

You can't fight the devil without the armour.

Granted it's linen, but it's hot down here.

Sorry. Sorry.

Yeah, I'm gonna miss this.

Maybe I'll sell real estate.

I'm turning on to Louisiana Interstate 39.

I Demons comin' your way... I

If you ask five people about a demon story, they'll give you ten demon stories.

- Do we have time for that? - Sure. Absolutely.

- Is Bush that way? - Yeah. You be careful goin' down Bush.

You hear so many things.

I think that the very gates to Hell

is right over there off of Bush Drive, the very gates to Hell!

There was a cult in this area and a temple.

It's not here. I won't be able to describe exactly where it is,

but the Sweetzers will be able to give you specifics.

This guy that ran the cult was so disturbed

that he actually thought that he would, like...

He needed to, like, feed, you know,

feed human souls to the devil or whatever.

Where's the UFO landing site?

Oh, that is actually in that direction.

Maybe we could ask this guy.

- He's stopping. - He is?

- Hey, afternoon! - Are you guys making a movie?

- A documentary. How's it going? - I like documentaries.

- We're looking for the Sweetzer farm. - What's your name?

- Reverend Cotton Marcus. - Pleased to meet you.

- The Sweetzer farm? - And yours?

I'm Iris. This is Daniel. We're a little behind schedule, so...

- No problem. - The Sweetzer farm, please?

You're going in the wrong direction. You wanna make a U-turn.

- OK. - Take this road, go straight.

When you see things you've already seen, keep on going. You'll hit the highway. OK?

And then I want you to go back where you came from.

- Are you kidding? - No, I'm not.

Gotcha. Thank you.

Sorry about that.

- Jesus! - Keep going!

- What's he doing? - Jesus Christ, just go, go!

- Are you OK? - Yeah.

It seems like the end of the road. There's a tractor. That's a good sign.

Here's a farmhouse of some sorts. This has got to be it.

Let me just make sure it's him before you guys get out, OK?

- Mr Sweetzer? - Yeah.

How are you doin'? Cotton Marcus.

Nice to meet you. Pardon my dress, but it's a work day.

- I'm dressed for work myself. - I understand that.

I can't thank you enough for coming out here.

I just figured... Oh, hey, watch out for this kid!

- We just met him on the road. - I apologise. That's my son Caleb.

- My apologies. - No. What did he do?

It was probably just a misunderstanding. We asked for... It doesn't matter.

- Hi. Good to see you again. - Hi.

- What's your problem, boy? - You know they got cameras?

- You got cameras? - I was gonna tell you.

- These are my friends. This is Iris. - Hi. How are you?

- And Daniel. - Hi.

I appreciate it. I'd like you to turn the camera off though.

Let's go ahead and turn it off right now. And let's go talk about it.

(inaudible conversation)

(Still inaudible)

This is the second bull I've lost.

Two goats and, I don't know, several chickens.

Could this have come from an alligator?

An alligator will bite and roll and take chunks,

not a big, straight cut like that.

- Caleb couldn't have done this? - No, I'm sure it was Nell.

- And Nell is...? - My daughter.

Right, I knew that. I remember that from the letter.

I should have read the letter more thoroughly.

I thought it was Louis, not Nell.

I don't like working with kids.

That's from last night. One just like this every time I lose an animal.

- She doesn't remember this? - No, sir, she doesn't remember anything.

And it really frightened her a lot, so I just quit asking her about it.

- Hello. Is that Nell? - Yes. Hello, Reverend Marcus.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- Hi. - Hi.

Come this way.

- This is my room. - Did you do this?

- Yeah. - Wonderful.

Thank you.

This is actually the story of Esther of Antioch. She's not from the Bible.

It was something I dreamed of.

- Oh. - Yeah.

This artwork and detail, it's really well thought out. I'm very, very impressed.

Sorry.

If you don't mind, Nell, tell me how you're feeling, what's been going on.

Your dad told me about the livestock. What do you know about that?

Well, I can only think one thing, that I killed 'em.

Do you remember killing them?

- No, but... - Do you remember getting out of bed?

- Walking down the stairs or outside? - No.

Do you remember doing anything to the animals at all?

- No, but... - Maybe you didn't do anything at all.

As I mentioned in my letter, my wife died two years ago. It was cancer.

And she was being treated, we thought, successfully, for breast cancer,

then six months later, it metastasised into her bones

and three weeks after that, she was gone.

It was quite a shock, especially for Nell.

She's 14, just coming into young womanhood, so it was very difficult.

I saw that picture. You look just like your mother.

Really? Thank you so much. That's such a compliment. She's so beautiful.

- She is. So is her daughter. - Thank you so much.

- Were you very close? - She was my best friend.

Yeah, that's safe to say. She was my best friend.

(Sniffs)

Did Caleb act any different after your mom passed?

I think Caleb got frustrated.

He got kinda scary. He started hating God a lot.

How about your father? How has he been affected?

It hit him very hard.

It hit him, 0h...

If it weren't for my wife Dell and the faith that she instilled in me,

I don't think I would've made it through.

Since she died, I have been determined

to give my children a more fundamental Christian upbringing.

I'm not real crazy about the influences that exist in the world today.

Therefore, I decided to home-school Nell.

For a while, I let her go to the Sunday school

at our local church, but that didn't seem right either.

Pastor Manley didn't teach only religious music,

so that's why he pulled me out...

- Your dad likes religious music? - Yeah.

I've tried keeping her as close as I possibly could,

maybe even a little too protective, I'll admit to that.

But somehow, still...

the devil got in her.

(She plays tune)

Her mother gave her a small crucifix and it burns her.

The symbol of our Lord and she can't wear it.

(Cotton applauds)

I don't know if it's Nell who's killing those animals.

I know she's really isolated out here. That's got to drive you crazy.

But the burning cross? That's just like a nickel allergy.

You get a reaction like that on your skin, especially if you're stressed out.

- Hey, son. - Hi.

Why were you throwing rocks at me?

Are you still gonna perform that exorcism?

An exorcism? Well, I don't know. That's what I'm here to find out.

Cos apparently, there's deaths involved. People have died.

If you're worried about that, nothing like that happens with me. I'm here to help.

We don't need your help, though.

Your livestock do. They're dying left and right. Do you know about that?

My father's a superstitious drunk.

- Really? - Yeah.

Do you think he's superstitious or drunk enough to harm his own animals?

It's possible. I don't know.

Do you think Nell had anything to do with it?

No, I don't think Nell's the problem.

- Nell doesn't need help. - That remains to be seen...

If anything happens to her, I will hurt you

and I don't care if the camera is watching.

It can watch all it wants. I will hurt you.

Hmm.

- Thank you. - Thank you, son.

Thank you.

- Nice and relaxed. You're not nervous? - No.

OK, cos you can't be nervous when I do this.

- OK. - Let's try again.

- Feel any pressure? - A little.

Oh, you do? Oh.

My throat's been sore cos I've been waking up screaming.

- You have a sore throat as well? - Cos I've been waking up screaming.

There's nothing to be nervous about. It's fine.

Night sweats and night fevers

and a little loss of appetite and fatigue in the afternoon...

- Whoa! - What?

- (Louis) What? - And, uh...

- (Louis) What? - Let me have your finger. Come here.

Right back here. Can you feel that? That indention. Look straight ahead.

Have you always had it this deep?

I guess it's deeper now, but...

It's a lot deeper now. Louis, get me a pan of water, big enough to put her feet in.

- Pan of water? - Yeah.

I need you to take your socks and shoes off. Very pretty shoes.

Oh. Thank you.

I like your shoes. They're real nifty.

Want to try 'em on?

Here you go.

- They look good on you. - They look...

- They're yours. - No way, Miss Iris!

- I got a pair in the car. - No, please!

You look good in them and I'm sure you can't find them in a 300-mile radius.

This is the nicest thing that's happened. Dad, Miss Iris gave me her boots!

Let's take them off your feet right now. How about that for starters?

There you go.

OK, lift them up.

Let's all close our eyes for a moment.

Let's close our eyes and pray to Jesus to help us out in this time of need.

Oh, Lord, we ask you to please give us your strength.

Give us your hope and give us your clarity. Please help us.

We ask you, please take care of Nell.

And in this test, may you please show us an unadulterated sign

of whether or not we should continue upon this way,

if we should continue down the path...

Reverend Marcus!

- Is this regular water? - Yes.

That's the temperature change.

I was afraid of this. We will proceed with the exorcism.

I'm afraid that I suspect that Nell is possessed with the demon named...

- "A-BA-lam"? - "AH-balam".

"Host..." What is this? What kind of language is this?

- Do you not read Latin? - No, sir.

It's all right. I got it for you. What this tells us is...

(Reads in Latin)

- Inside Abalam... - Right.

(Continues in Latin)

What it says is he's very powerful,

perhaps the most powerful demon in the entire book.

Like a snake, he wraps himself around the coil of the soul of the person.

That is why there's the temperature fluctuation, up, down, like Nell showed.

The thing about Abalam is he preys on the flesh of the innocent.

He defiles the flesh of the innocent. That's what he does.

Defile...?

And it's particularly bad when he's in young girls.

Look at him.

It says right here that the possessed's only salvation will come...

in death.

What? The only salvation is death?

Unless she is exorcised.

Here, fraud!

Hello, Caleb.

You threw something in there.

I saw you. But I won't tell, OK?

I don't know what you're talking about.

That was really good.

We won't have any problems now.

This'll shake nicely.

(Door opens)

Come in.

Come now. Stand here for a second.

Caleb, if you would, over there, Louis beside you.

Nell, go ahead. Get on the bed.

You can sit or you can lay down.

Whatever makes you comfortable.

- Are you comfortable? - Yes, sir.

Good. Nothing to be nervous about.

Gentlemen, I do not need your help unless I ask for it.

- What I need from you is your faith. - Yes, sir.

Your courage and your love because we are here because we love Nell.

And we want Nell to get better. Isn't that right?

Yes, Reverend.

Let's pray to the Lord our God above. Let us close our eyes.

Beside restful waters, he leads me, he refreshes my soul.

He guides me in the right paths for his name's sake.

Even though I walk in the dark valley, I shall fear no evil,

for you are by my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

- Do you believe in Jesus Christ, Nell? - Yes, sir.

- Can he get this demon out of you? - Yes, sir.

Then let him expel the demon from you. I say, "Demon, be gone!"

In the name of Jesus Christ, I say, "Demon, leave this girl!"

In the name of Jesus Christ and the blood that washes over her, demon, be gone!

I command thee to be gone!

' (Growling) " Ah!"

Oh, no, demon. Don't listen.

Pay no attention. Don't listen at all.

- (Loud thump) - Agh!

- Agh, agh! - Oh, no. No, no.

Don't worry. Don't listen, Louis. Pay no attention.

Aaaagh!

Pay no attention for he is the Father of Lies. All he knows are lies.

All we know is the Father of Love, the Prince of Peace,

the God above who shall save you all, save you all.

For the power and name and the glory of Jesus Christ...

Sound is so important. I got my player.

I go ahead and programme over 800 different demon sounds.

Aaaah, aaaah...

(Nell screams)

Trust in the Lord. The Lord shall save you. The Lord shall provide for you.

- He's here! - Do you believe in Christ?

Do you believe that Christ shall heal you? Can Christ heal you?

- Christ can heal me. - Then be healed.

- Yes, be healed. Say, "I love Jesus." - I love Jesus.

- Say, "I love Jesus." Believe in Jesus. - Aaaaagh!

These are two nine-volt batteries and attached are wires at the end.

Then you run one of the wires down the sleeve, then you attach it in there.

Believe, believe, believe, believe! Believe, B E L I EVE!

Aaaaagh!

In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave!

In the blood of Christ, demon, get thee out!

(Thumping and growling)

I can't do it!

You have to! You have to!

God, take me!

- Take the demon from this girl, Lord! - Aagh! Aagh!

Take the demon, oh, Lord! Let me take the demon!

(Growling)

Praise God.

The demon is gone.

The demon is gone. The demon could not withstand the sight of our Lord.

Praise God.

(Breathes heavily)

- Are you OK? - (She sighs)

(Sobbing)

- How's she doing? - She's sleeping like a child.

- Got a little smile on her face. - That's fantastic.

- Is it all there? - There's no reason to count it.

- Take care. - Thank you all.

- Thank you. - What?

- No, I was just saying thank you... - What?

- I can't hear you. - Reverend?

I don't understand.

Reverend?

The Lord has a prophecy for you, Louis.

The Lord says he knows your pain.

He knows you're sad for your wife to be gone.

The Lord says, "Rejoice, for she is with him."

The Lord does not want you to bottle it up inside. The Lord does not want you

to stuff your anger and sorrow into this bottle and drink from it.

- He does not want you to do that or hide. - No, I won't.

He wants you to smash that bottle and in its place he wants you to accept love.

- He wants you to accept the Lord's love. - I will. Thank you, Lord.

That was highly impressive.

- Thank you. - Yeah.

Much more than I expected.

- Hey, Louis! - Yes, sir?

Just remember, I took the devil out of your house,

but it's your job to keep him out.

Yes, I'll do that. Are you sure I can't convince you all to stay with us?

No, thank you for your hospitality. We'll find a motel up the road. Take care.

Oh, she did? Why don't you put her on? Can you do that for me?

I love you too. Brush your teeth. Brush 'em.

Justin said you were crying. Is that true? What's going on?

We're paid up on that. He needs a new hearing aid. We are paid up. I'm sure.

Who's Cassandra?

You know, I used to want to have a TV ministry.

I thought that'd be cool.

And now, frankly, all I really want is health insurance.

- You got what you needed today? - Yes, really awesome stuff. Thank you.

- All right. - You have a good night.

- Good night. Good night. - (Daniel) Good night.

- What is she doing here? - I don't know.

I don't know. She hasn't said a word.

Nell, can you hear me? She hasn't responded to anything.

- Where's her dad? - I have no idea.

I woke up and she was standing here.

- Nell? Nell? - Just stay back, OK?

Nell, are you OK, honey?

Honey, can you hear me?

I'm going to call her dad.

Honey...

I'm not getting any answer.

Nell, stop!

(Cotton) OK, we need to get her to a hospital.

Nell, hey...

Cotton!

I've seen people react, but not ten hours after the fact in my hotel room.

Their farm is five miles from the hotel.

How did she know where I was staying? That's why I don't work with kids.

Is there a doctor around? We have a little girl who's sick.

- Where are you going with that camera? - He's with us.

- He'll have to turn the camera off. - He won't shoot inside.

I need him to take it outside. We don't allow filming in here.

No problem.

What part of "turn the camera off" do you not get? Take it outside!

Excuse me, sir.

- Is that the doctor? - Yes. That camera is turned off?

- Oh, yeah. - Yes, yes.

We got most of the blood tests back and everything appears to be normal.

We'll let her continue to rest right now.

- Can you run psychiatric tests on her? - No, we need the parents' permission.

We're going to wait for the rest of the tests to come back.

- This is Mr Sweetzer. - I'd like to see my daughter.

Mr Sweetzer, wait just a minute. Let me see if I can get the doctor.

She was standing babbling, then lying on the bed?

- Why didn't you call me? - I did, but nobody answered.

Louis, I feel very strongly that she needs some professional

to take a look at her. She's a young girl.

- Mr Sweetzer, if you could sign this... - What is this?

That will be a release for your daughter.

- It's not about a test or anything? - No, sir.

Do you have a form for him to sign to get psychiatric tests?

- He hasn't asked for one. - Louis...

- No. - I'll let him talk to the doctor.

It's the sort of thing for a young girl, considering what she's been through...

- Here she comes now. - Mr Sweetzer!

Nell, how are you doin'?

Do you remember being at the hotel last night?

- Did you know you were at his hotel? - I think so.

- Do you want to talk to the doctor? - No, I don't.

- What happened, Reverend? - I believe the demon has gone.

It's as if Nell's house had been vandalised.

The robber has gone, but we need somebody else to put things right.

Don't slough it off to the big city doctor thing!

Eight of 'em could not save my wife. They could not prolong her life one day!

And psychiatry?

Psychiatry is not of God!

Louis, the tools that God provides for us sometimes

are not always the tools that we recognise...

Our weapons of war are not carnal.

They are mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds.

Am I right? Am I right?

- Yes, yes, absolutely. Amen to that. - That's what we're dealing with.

He's stuck in this idea that I'm some sort of slick, big city preacher.

He's not gonna listen to anything I have to say. Let's get somebody local.

It's got to be that one over there.

- Hi. - Good afternoon.

- I'm Reverend Marcus from Baton Rouge. - I'm Becky.

- Nice to meet you. - From where?

Baton Rouge. I'm looking for Pastor Manley, if he's around?

Yes, he's right back there. What y'all doin'?

- We're making a movie. - Oh!

So, are y'all shootin' this now?

- Yeah. - So will I be in it?

- Yeah, you will. - Oh!

Pastor Manley, we've got us some visitors!

Afternoon. Reverend Cotton Marcus from Baton Rouge.

- Welcome to Second Calvary. - Thank you.

I know he respects the church, but at this point, since I'm an outsider,

he's not respecting my opinion.

I'm pushing him to see a doctor cos she's not well.

I was hoping you could back me up.

Let me tell you my history with Louis.

When she was unexpectedly pulled out of the Sunday school,

we never found out exactly why, but he was definitely hostile.

He felt that our Sunday School curriculum wasn't sufficiently medieval.

- This wasn't the same Louis that I knew. - Did he threaten you?

No, not per se, but there were voices raised.

So I'm thinking I'm the last guy

that Louis would really take counsel from.

As I say, I wasn't afraid, but it was very uncomfortable.

How long ago was this?

Two... I guess since I've seen Nell it's been two years.

Two years? They haven't come to church?

No. I heard about the home schooling. I'm not one to sit here

and say whether that's right or wrong,

but Nell when she was here was a vibrant, happy girl.

And I just don't think to be cut off is the best thing for the child.

- Will you come out to the farm with me? - If... OK, I'll tell you what.

You get Louis to agree for me to come to the farm

and I'll be happy to do that.

I also can line up a good friend,

Psychiatric Head of Department in Baton Rouge.

All right. I'm going to get back to the farm. Thank you, Pastor. Appreciate it.

Whoa. What's going on in there?

That doesn't look good.

She's fine! Get that damn camera off!

'Oh, God!'

- What happened? - Caleb, you OK?

Can you write?

Here.

(Louis) Caleb? Caleb?

- He needs to go to a hospital. - What happened?

He was trying to calm Nell down and she attacked him with a knife.

- She did this? - Yes.

I gotta get him to the hospital.

- Yeah. - Could you take him?

What if the demon comes back?

I need to be here for that.

You be well.

What did Caleb write?

"Don't leave her alone with him."

That's why I wanted to stay.

Nell?

Nell, honey? Can we come in?

(Nell sobs)

Locked-in?

Hey, honey.

Are you kidding me?!

Find something. Help me get her out of that.

- I'm bad! I am, I'm bad! - No, you're not. You're not bad.

Nell, you're not bad.

He'll be mad when he comes home! I'm not gonna go to Heaven!

Honey, yes, you are. You'll go to Heaven.

I remember hearing screaming and when I woke up

his face was cut.

Does Caleb frighten you at all? Does he hurt or tease you?

No, never Caleb.

Has your father ever hurt you?

No.

You can tell me.

No.

Let's put you back in the bed.

OK.

(Cotton) You hear that?

(Baby cries)

(More cries)

(Whispers) Is she sleepwalking?

I don't know.

Nell?

Honey, can you hear us?

Honey?

(Baby cries)

- Nell? - Nell? Wake up. Nell!

Aaaaiee!

- It's OK. Right here. - Giving your doll a bath. That's all.

Hey...

There we go.

There we go. It's all right, honey. It's going to be OK.

Let's take her to the bed.

Well, you look better. I can see your eyes now.

Did you make this?

No!

This is what I got while we were in the bathroom.

(Hushed voice)

(Volume up)

I don't know how she'd know Latin.

- Maybe Louis taught her. - Uh-uh. He doesn't know.

- So Nell's making those baby noises? - Yeah.

(Scream on tape)

What's going on?

(Answer machine) 'Hi, this is Dr Kyle.

'We just want to make sure that Nell does not take the Halcion.

'The person that prescribed it did not know that she was pregnant.

'Give her Pepto-Bismol for her nausea, which is...'

This explains it. There you have it. Underlying trauma!

You don't know who she's pregnant by.

- We're dealing with incest. - You can't go saying that down here.

- It's there! It's obvious! - Wait and talk to him is what we'll do.

- We need to take her and leave. - That's kidnapping.

Keep exorcising her while her dad's raping her upstairs in the bedroom?!

- Can we take a break? - What kind of break?

- We have to wait for him, no matter what. - Fine.

- Guys, why don't we take a nap? - OK, great(!)

(Heavy breathing)

(Cat purrs)

Here, kitty, kitty.

(Cat screams)

(Nervous breathing)

Nell!

What are you doing?

- Good girl. Let go. - Put the camera down.

- I'm sorry... - Let's get some clothes on you.

- It seems to be all right. - Guys! Take a look at this.

- Oh, my God. - The same cat picture.

Wow. Look at this one.

Something's on fire. Maybe the house. And look at this one.

- Is that me? - Yes. It's all of us. All of us dead.

- I'm in the fire. - I'm in a million pieces.

Danny, you get your head chopped off.

She's more messed up than I thought.

Not comfortable with what?

(Danny) Being with someone doing pictures of my head chopped off.

Relax. It's just a bunch of drawings.

She killed those animals and cut her brother up.

- You think she'll hack you to pieces? - We've seen signs she's dangerous.

They're just drawings, Daniel. We're in the house and in her drawings.

She's a 16-year-old girl.

A girl and a psychopath are two different things.

She's not capable of chopping your head off.

- We should be concerned. - We're all tired and here to help her.

Keep things in perspective.

(Danny) All right. Fine.

(Low voices)

- You hear that? - It sounds like there's two people.

Who were you talking to?

No one.

(Whispers) I swear there were two people in there.

'Just make sure that Nell does not take the Halcion.

'The person who prescribed it did not know she was pregnant.

'Give her Pepto-Bismol for her nausea, which is very common at this stage.

'Do not give her the Halcion.'

The book was right.

- The book was right? - The book was right.

- What? - The demon defiled my daughter.

My daughter is a virgin. How did she get pregnant?

The book said it. You showed it to me.

I don't think the book has any bearing on this. It's more earthly matters now.

Reverend, I need you to perform another exorcism.

Get rid of that thing. I will not let it grow inside of her.

- I won't perform another exorcism. - Reverend, I need you to help me.

- I need you to help Nell. Please. - I don't think the demon did this.

I need you to do another exorcism. I need you to do this.

What she needs is a doctor. I know this must be really hard to hear,

but Nell's welfare is what we're all concerned with.

Right, Louis?

Reverend... if you can't save my daughter's soul,

I Will.

What are you talking about?

I would like you all to leave my property.

If you're not off it in 5 minutes, I will consider you all trespassers.

Louis... Louis, you need to be reasonable. Louis!

I bet he doesn't want to take her to a doctor.

- What are you gonna do? - I don't want to wait. He'll hurt her.

(Danny) He's going to kill her. Death is the only salvation, you said.

- You're right. Just grab her and go. - How are we going to do that?

Just take her and go.

What's he doing?

He's still praying. He's got a lot of guns in the house.

I know.

What happened?

Cotton, what is it?

Somebody upstairs.

(Crashing)

- Nell? - Nell?

(Thud)

I have a key here. Hang on, Nell!

(Thudding continues)

Nell!

Come on, honey.

It's us, come on.

There you go. That's a good girl.

That's a good girl.

That's a good girl. Right here.

It's Cotton. It's Cotton.

You're all right. Come on. That's a good girl. Good girl.

It's gonna be OK. Here you go. That's it.

We're gonna go now. We're gonna get you in the car...

- Ow! - Are you OK?

Nell!

Nell!

Nell, stop!

Nell?

- You OK? - It's not that bad.

Nell?

Nell?

Here.

- What is she doing? - I don't know.

The lights are on. Louis is there.

- We'll get to the hotel, call the cops. - Fine. Do you have the keys?

Yeah.

Cotton!

- Nell? - No, can we please just go?

- Cotton? - Come here. Come on.

(Nell sobs)

Nell?

Cotton...

Nell, are you all right? Honey?

(Iris) Cotton...

Nell, look at me. Can you look at me?

Aaaaargh!

Nell, no!

(She screams)

Stop! Stop!

- (Danny) You got it? - Come on...

(Gunshot)

It's Louis!

- Go! - Put the gun down, please! Please!

Lock the door! Lock the door!

Lock the door! Get away from the door! Come here!

Come here!

(Nell screams)

(Screams)

- Let her go! - No! You're going to kill her.

- Move away from her! - Shoot me, Daddy!

Shoot me!

I was wrong. You were right. I'll do another exorcism. I'll do it.

(Rumble of thunder)

I set out to save children and now I'm going to get her killed.

- What would you have said? - I don't know.

It's a no win situation.

She admits she's pregnant - then what? We'll all have a shotgun in our face.

What could a second exorcism possibly accomplish?

Hey, Nell.

I didn't get him out. I didn't get the demon out. It's my fault.

If you can be strong, I need you to do it one more time.

- Can you do that for me? - I don't think I can.

I just need to see him one more time.

It's not that I don't think I can,

it's just that. - - I don't know how to do it. It just comes voluntarily.

L-I don't have any control over what happens to me.

I think you could.

I think if you want to.

- I wanted to get better last time. - I know, I know.

I really wanted it. I couldn't want it any more than last time.

I know.

I failed you that time, but this time I won't.

This time I won't, I promise.

I need you to... I need you to be willing to bring him up again.

I think you can do it. I think...

I think if you just allow yourself, I think you can do it.

- Nell, can you hear me? - Y-Yeah.

All right. I'm right here.

I feel like I'm falling a lot.

OK, well, you're right here. I got you right here.

- It's getting hard to see you. - OK.

Here we go. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere, honey. Right here.

- What is that? - Hm? There's nothing there.

- What is it? - There's nothing there. I'm right here.

- What? Please, help! It's coming. - Let him come.

- Let him come now. - He's coming through my skin!

- Get him out of my skin! - It's OK.

I'm right here, Nell.

(Bones crack)

(Iris) Oh, my God! Oh, my God...

Nell?

Nell...

(Louis) He has her!

(Nell gasps)

Nell, can you hear me?

Nell?

Reverend Marcus.

I hear you don't believe in me.

Who are you?

Abalam.

Where's Nell?

In the fire.

She's been there for some time.

Soon you'll join her.

Don't believe the demon's lies, Louis.

A demon's lies?

If I invoke the name of Jesus Christ our Saviour, you shall leave this girl!

If I beseech our Lord and invoke Him

and put on the whole armour of God that He may withstand the Devil,

for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against the rules of darkness!

Words! Words! Words!

I'll tell you what. If you can keep quiet for 10 seconds,

I'll let the girl go.

(Louis) Yes...

Agreed.

One! Aaaargh!

- Two! Aaargh! - Nell!

- Three! - Stop it! Stop it!

- Honey... Honey, stop. - You lose!

- Louis, I'm sorry... - Do something!

I'll do something, Daddy. Reverend, how about a blowing job?

Nell!

What did you say?

What's a blowing job?

Tell me what that is. You don't know, do you?

You don't even know that is not what it's called. You are not a demon.

A demon would know what that is, but maybe not a home-schooled girl.

I don't think you're a demon. You're an innocent girl.

- I think you're a little innocent girl! - Aaaaaah!

- I think you're an innocent girl! - No-o-o!

- You're not a demon at all! - She isn't innocent!

She isn't innocent. She isn't innocent!

It's OK. Let it out. It's all right.

Turn that off.

She isn't innocent!

It's OK. Turn it off!

Turn it off!

- She looks like she's resting. - She is relieved and resting really well.

- Praise God. - Do you know a boy named Logan?

- No. - He works in a café or...

- ls Abalam gone? - Your daughter doesn't have a demon.

Your daughter is suffering from shame. Nell is pregnant. The father is Logan.

No, sir, that's impossible.

- Louis, if Nell says that's what ha... - Delirious! Look what she went through.

- Look what she went through! - Listen to her yourself, OK?

You'll see the truth that she has.

A couple of years ago when her mom was dying, he came by

and asked if she wanted to go for a ride in his car. He was driving a sports car.

It was old, but still a sports car.

And she got in it and he started driving out to a field.

Then he turned to her and he asked her if she wanted to have sex.

And she said, "Yes."

She asked him, "Am I pretty?"

And he said, "Yes."

He said, "I think you're so pretty."

- Then he took her... - Stop it!

You were raped!

- You were raped! - She said, "Yes." She liked it.

That's enough, honey.

She's right about one thing, Reverend.

There is a boy that works at that café.

I've no idea what his name is, but for all I know he could be Logan.

'Pastor Manley?'

Reverend Cotton Marcus calling. Could you please call me back?

I'm at the Sweetzer farm.

- Pastor Manley, thank you so much. - A pleasure.

Good to see you. Welcome.

- Don't forget to smile. - Hello.

Louis is upstairs with Nell.

- She admitted Logan impregnated her. - Logan?

- He works at the café down the road. - Mm-hm. I know him.

Frankly, Pastor, I don't know what more I can do for them.

Is Louis on board with psychological help from my friend in Baton Rouge?

- I think Louis would be amenable to that. - I'll call him first thing.

Louis. It's been too long.

- Thank you for coming, sir. - My pleasure.

- I'm Louis. - Becky.

Hi.

- Good to see you. - It's good to see you.

I cried out to you, O, Lord. You are my refuge.

Please attend to my cry. Please attend to this child

for Thou art stronger than any possible thing that could attack your servant.

Bring this child's soul out of prison...

I'd be lying if I said I was sure of everything I did when it came to that.

I've never seen anything like that.

Poor Nell.

She's going to have to get some serious help.

Louis could use some as well!

Hey, what was the name of that café that boy worked at? Riche's, right?

Hi. How you doing?

'She's lying!'

I'm not the father of her child.

At all. I don't even know the girl. We met once at Pastor Manley's party.

We were both there and she saw me and talked to me for maybe a minute.

- At Pastor Manley's house? - Yes.

- Last summer? - Yes.

- Sure? - Yes, I'm sure.

I didn't get her pregnant, though. And another thing. I don't...

She's nice and everything, but I'm not exactly interested in...

You know?

- Girls. - Right.

So she's lying.

The Pastor said he hadn't seen her in three years.

- He's lying. And the kid's obviously gay. - Yeah.

- Why would she lie to us? - To get rid of us? Get us out?

Yeah, but why?

What are you doing?

I'm turning around.

- Going back to the house? - Yeah.

Louis!

(Knocks)

- (Knocks) - Louis!

Oh, my God.

The phones have been ripped out.

Ssh.

(Whispers) Do you hear that?

What?

Cotton? Cotton! Cotton, listen to me.

(Distant scream)

- Cotton, please... - Ssh!

- This is insane. - We need to find Nell.

- (Danny) She's got a point, Cotton. - Ssh!

(Screams)

(Man's voice)

Turn off that light.

(Chanting voices)

(Nell screams)

That's Nell, right there on the table!

(People chant)

- Is that Louis? - It is.

Is he tied up? We should get the police.

- I want to get out of here. - Wait. Wait.

It's Pastor Manley.

That's Pastor Manley!

(Iris) Is he leading the thing?

- We've got to get help right now. - What are they doing...?

(Nell screams)

That isn't human!

("Baby" screeches)

(Manley) Hail, Abalam!

(Screech)

We've got to get out of here! We've got to go!

I want to get out of here!

Right now!

(Flutter of birds' wings)

(Tree creaks)

We gotta go! We gotta go!

(Recites in Latin)

Cotton, what are you doing?

Cotton!

Demon, you cannot have the soul of this girl for she is a creature of God!

(Man) The one with the camera! Get him!

They're coming! Run! Run!

Go! Go! Go!

Come back! Come back!

(Iris screams)

- No! - Let go of me!

(She screams)

(Gasps for breath)

(Breathing settles)

Caleb! Aargh!

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