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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Forgive me, Father, if I have sinned. It's been one day since my last

confession. These are my sins.

I've been angry at my sister. I failed to pray the rosary.

I got really mad and lying at the drugstore.

Son, the Holy Spirit.

It's been a month since my last confession. These are my sins.

I hate my husband.

He puts dishes in the sink even when I've told him a hundred times to put

in the dishwasher.

Then he doesn't take out the garbage. He thinks it's women's work. Well, what

isn't women's work?

Welcome to the 6 a .m. math.

Let us begin as we always do.

In the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Hello? Hello.

May I help you?

Do you recognize me?

Victor LeConte?

Do you know what I do?

You work with the Vatican Secret Service.

The entity.

There is no entity, David.

There are merely friends of the Vatican.

Some are ambassadors, some parish priests, some work in intelligence, the

MI6, DGSE.

They offer information and assistance. That's all. There's nothing mysterious

about it.

Is this about RSM Fertility?

I have a question for you, David.

You're not going to answer my question.

Your question is irrelevant.

Why are you...

A priest?

To serve God.

What is that?

Your profile.

And do you believe that you are serving God here?

I don't know.

I don't know what God wants.

Would it surprise you to learn that I do know what God wants?

Yes. God wants you to be a friend of the Vatican.

And how do I do that?

Say yes.

To? You want to do good in the world. You want to fight evil.

And yet you're bored here. And you're angry at yourself for being bored. But

can't see the connection between all of these.

poorly attended masses, all of these confessions, and the evil in the world.

You're watching me?

We don't need to watch you.

There's something happening in New York that is evil.

As an assessor, you see it. But it is not just supernatural. It is also

corporeal.

You will receive a call sometime in the next week asking you to perform a task.

What? You will know that it is from the Vatican because it will be preceded by

this phrase.

Is esta deo abitur?

And it is deemed by God.

You must perform this task without question. Do you understand?

Are you recruiting me?

I need you to say yes.

I need to tell the Monsignor.

No.

It was good to talk to you.

Wait.

You want a yes?

Yes. And if you say yes, you cannot tell anyone, not the Monsignor, not your nun

friend, none of your secular associates. If you say yes, you will be a friend of

the Vatican.

And that is a burden.

But no one is forcing you to respond. That is up to you.

So I did a little research, and to add one more bedroom would be $80 ,000 all

in. And the bathroom.

Separate. $90 ,000.

Another $90 ,000? Uh -huh. We're supposed to be selling the trucking

for $85 ,000. And we still owe $80 ,000 on the mortgage.

Okay, so I just have to try and get a job that pays what? In the range of $75

,000? My job pays $60 ,000, but... Also pays for half the kids' tuition and our

health care. We could save by sending the kids to public school.

Laura, please.

Mom, they have bomb threats at the public school. Don't be melodramatic.

not. It's true. Mom, the sink is clogged again. Don't touch it. Mom, I want my

own room. You want your own room? No, leave it.

Guys, guys, guys, guys.

The rest of you girls get jobs in the coal mines.

This is one for your parents. Okay. I'm going to pass. Okay.

Good night. Good night now.

So do we just hire a contractor and start in? Yeah, we've got to get loans

first. What about these earnings?

Oh, that's my mom paying $2 ,000 in the garage. No. Oh, God, no. No, I'm not

advocating for it. I'm saying that, you know, strike that.

Okay, so I've got to try and get a higher price for it.

the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

Captain Kirk is great!

In

the

name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Captain Kirk is great!

And this?

Praise wandering.

Jack. What's that?

No idea. I can't find anything about it online.

And some parents are calling the school worried about it.

Just have your assessors look into it. Look into what?

This meme.

This blasphemy.

It's just kids.

It dies out on its own. Or it's Slenderman.

A freshman committed suicide last week at St. Andres.

His parents think he got caught up in something online.

Okay.

I heard Victor LeConte was here.

Really?

Did he approach you?

Me? No.

What did he want?

No idea.

Tell me if he approaches you.

Certainly. It's called what? Wandering Jack.

Supposedly some internet meme.

There was no blood.

Mom, it was all blood before.

No, it's gone now.

What are you two doing? Oh, uh... We're working on my toilet. So, this is a

possession, or...? I don't know, uh... I'll call you back.

I gotta get the... Hello?

Hello? I'll take a look at the pipes. You might have something clogged up

That's okay. I can just call a plumber. Wait, but I thought you said you

couldn't afford a plumber. Oh, Laura!

I'm going to take a look tomorrow.

What did David call about?

Um, this thing online called Wandering Jack?

Whistling Jack? Visiting Jack?

What? The meme's called Visiting Jack. Yeah.

Wait, wait, what is this?

It's this thing on the internet where you say his name three times.

When you see him at night if there's a full moon.

Yeah. I thought your friend saw it, Ren.

Shut up. Hey, don't say shut up. Who's Ren?

Someone from St.

Onsett.

It's a boy that lives there. I'm not dating him.

No, I'm not. Stop, I'm not. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. What did this boy see?

What's visiting Jack?

Hi, Ronald.

I'm Kristen Bouchard.

I've been sent by the parish to see how you're doing.

Hey, Ron.

This is my mom.

She wants to help.

Is everything all right?

He's been in there for five days.

The only way I can even talk to him is over video chat. And you have no idea

what this is about?

No. He just says, he's coming for me.

That's it. Over and over.

Can I talk to him?

You can try.

Okay. No.

Let me take it.

Better if I'm alone.

Hey, Ron.

How you doing?

Lynn, is it just us?

Yeah. I liked your room.

It was cool.

I still want to see your room when your parents are gone.

So, when are you coming out?

I don't know.

I'm not done.

Done with?

The licks.

What licks? I don't know what that means.

I can't tell you, Lynn.

Why not? I tell you everything.

Because it'll kill me.

Is this about visiting Jack?

Did you?

Why shouldn't I?

Fuck, when did you look?

Yesterday. Lynn, you have six days. You gotta get started now.

Or? It'll kill you and your family. What lick are you on?

I haven't started yet.

Lynn, go online. Get it now. You have seven licks in seven days or you're

Where do I find the lick? The same place that you looked at the photo. Where did

you look at it?

look at it, did you?

Run. Lynn, do not look at it, okay?

It'll drag you to hell. Like Wayne from school, they said he shot himself, but

it was visiting Jack.

Okay, I'm gonna check his browser history.

Do you know this kid, Wayne, who committed suicide?

No. He goes to St. Andre's.

He shot himself with his dad's gun.

We had a prayer assembly about it.

Do you recognize this address?

No. Has he ever gone to this address?

No, he comes right home after school. Do you recognize him?

No.

Mom, I don't. Okay, one thought.

Hmm.

54 Steinway, 56 Steinway, 58 across the street.

Who's hitting Jack?

Maybe we shouldn't be looking at this anyway.

Brent said not to.

You know it's just make -believe, right?

People enjoy scaring each other. That's it.

I know, but maybe we shouldn't be looking anyway.

So what am I doing wrong? You're not doing anything wrong. You're just not

smart. Thank you. Get out of my way.

We just used the Wayback Machine. I already did that.

You didn't use the Wayback.

Wayback Machine. Really? Come on. An app of my own creation.

And you'll find, let's see, an even earlier iteration.

Mm -hmm.

There.

That app?

Huh. Hmm.

Someone really doesn't want you to see what's in that upstairs window.

Yeah. Well, there's a curse.

A curse?

Really? Yeah.

If you see it, you have to perform seven tasks in seven days or it'll kill you.

And you get paid for this job? Believe me, it's not even the strangest thing

this month. Well, do you still want to see it, or should we let it go? Yeah,

Okay, one level deeper.

What is that, the way back, way back, way back machine? Shh.

Okay, here we go.

One more iteration.

There.

Nice.

Huh.

Wow.

I'm feeling cursed.

Morning. Hi.

What am I doing here?

You're working.

What kind of work? The work that will pay for your new home.

The new home that will keep your grandkids near.

Hi.

This is your job. You're to keep the people doom -scrolling. Keep them glued

their computer.

so that they're reading about the new political fight or the economy or global

warming plagues. So we control plague?

No, the father below controls plagues. But we control how people react to

plagues, and these days, that is everything.

Centuries ago, it was 80 % Lucifer and 20 % his followers. Now that's been

reversed. So, basically, I'm a troll.

Hey, trolling is an honored profession.

Trolls are the knights of the Father's chessboard.

I guess I just thought the powers of darkness would be more, you know, dark.

It is dark.

Kill people, take their children.

You run the risk of them turning to God.

I don't believe in God.

And a good thing, too. But if you give people too much tragedy, they'll turn to

him. You want to keep them nervous, unbound, focusing on all the bad things

in the world, doom -scrolling.

where the focus is evil and not good.

Every day I'm going to bring you a mission.

You're going to want to question these missions, but you can't.

You won't.

It's your job.

Do it.

Shouldn't we wait for lightning? It's not quite spooky enough.

I said that we'd come back tomorrow morning, but Father overruled me.

I have math.

So what are we thinking?

An abandoned house up for retail.

Kids broke into it with a demon costume.

Why? To clout Chase.

They had to know that the street view camera was coming by exactly at the...

Something up there.

Now? Yeah.

I don't see anything.

Where are you going? I'm going to go check it out.

Sorry. I have to take this.

Hello?

I'm in the midst of something.

2201 Madison.

You have 20 minutes.

There's a doorknob with black masking tape on it. Turn it. Go up the stairs. I

can't. 20 minutes.

Hey, can we come back tomorrow?

I have to go.

What? Where?

Work.

We'll do this tomorrow. No, because whoever's in there will be gone

Look, stay here. If I'm not back in 15 minutes, call the police.

Don't follow him, okay?

Um, I gotta go.

Call me if there's anything.

David, is everything all right?

I think so.

Okay, this is smart.

Hello?

Who are you?

Phoebus. Who are you?

What are you doing here? I live here. You're squatting?

I don't like that word.

There are 13 .9 million empty homes in the United States, and I needed one.

I lost my scholarship and I can't afford the dorms. No, someone saw you in the

window and they thought you were visiting Jack.

You seen him too?

You want to tell me that this is not you?

No,

that's visiting Jack.

He lets me stay here as long as I feed him.

So you've seen him too?

No, I hear him.

Keep it dark in here. He likes the dark.

And I have to be on time with the food.

That's your handwriting?

Yeah, but he told me to write them down. You're not bullshit.

You're visiting Jack. I'm not.

You know someone committed suicide because of your bullshit, asshole?

Not mine. I'm not.

Hey, hey, hey, stop.

What are you going to do, call visiting Jack? Get out.

Get out. Get out. Get out.

You're not wearing your collar.

What? Keep your voice low.

You'll have to lean in.

You're not wearing your collar.

I don't usually.

It draws attention.

Wear it.

You will receive a call telling you where to deliver this.

A Bible? Yes.

Don't open it.

According to the laws of which country?

This one.

Do you have a thick call traveling case?

Yes. Carry it.

Within a few days, you'll receive a call telling you where to deliver that

Bible. It might be a hotel room.

It might be a bus stop.

Keep it with you at all times.

Wear a collar and deliver it.

I saw him. I saw him visiting Jack. No, it was a guy dressed in a demon outfit

to scare people away.

Well, how do you know that? My mom went to the guy. He's a college student who's

homeless and just staying at this house.

But the licks?

He made them all up. He's just trying to get up folks.

Look.

Here he is.

See?

He's just some college kid.

You're scared of nothing, Ren. Come on out. Did you look at the picture?

What picture?

Of Visiting Jack.

Yeah, it's just a costume.

What about the other houses?

What houses?

The other six were there too.

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

There were six other places.

Visiting Jack was at all of them and he killed every family that didn't do the

task.

Your mom is there too, isn't she?

Let me see her.

Ren, this guy's a scam artist. He's just trying to manipulate kids online.

Listen, Visiting Jack is real.

And you let Lynn see him.

Now she has five days.

Help her. Ren, he's not real. Yes, it is real.

Look at the other six homes.

Where are they? How can I find them?

Ren, if you want to help my daughter, you've got to convince me.

How did he find this?

I don't know. He's on the internet a lot.

Well, maybe I'll wait in the car.

Okay, sure.

I'll be up in a minute.

else doing this or for what i don't know is it real try the next one

i

mean it could be photoshop or you know some kind of deep fake

maybe

How do you explain that?

Here we go.

You don't have a beer?

Kristen buys these by the cave.

But now that I'm here permanently, I'm going to replace it with beer.

Cheers. Cheers.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I know. No, you get used to it.

So what's going on?

Well, I need more money for the business.

We decided on $85 ,000. No, we decided that was a good starting point for

negotiation. I'm going to need $110 ,000 at least.

Well, what if I told you that there was somebody who wanted to pay full freight

for the business?

What is full freight?

$800 ,000.

You're kidding. No.

Why would they pay that? Dad, it's the new economy.

What? I mean, some billionaire wants to scale our business.

It's like those spaceship billionaires. Everybody's into adventure these days.

Who? Who's this person? Some VC.

He wants to meet you. He's got some questions.

Wow. I have a sudden urge to bow.

Father Acosta.

I'm sorry I abandoned you guys yesterday.

Was somebody dying?

No, just the job.

So it sounded like you guys solved it. Yeah, but then we ran into a snag. Yeah.

These are pretty spooky. Yeah, so we just discovered something else.

Yeah, we're only four houses in, but so far these four are all connected to a

murder. Or suicide.

This is a couple that was killed in a home invasion. This is arson. Three

Suicide. Two hangings.

So the kids that did this just cherry -picked the houses that had violent

to make it look like Visiting Jack was culpable?

Yeah, probably.

But the question remains, how did they put Visiting Jack in each of these

view pictures?

How about this one?

What about it? Kind of hard to see the house.

Yeah, but there's someone in the driveway. Look.

Maybe we should ask her what she saw.

Okay, so the address is on Frost.

What? A violent crime occurred a few months ago.

It was... Horse in the Roo.

Yeah, it was... Well, he was killed.

Well, we should look at the other houses. This is Emily in the picture.

It's his widow. She inherited the house.

We should go talk to her.

We can do that.

No, let's go.

And do you really think you'll be dead if you don't? No. I just think it's a

challenge, so it's better to do it than not. Then go to the church after school.

And shout, Captain Kirk is Christ.

They'll know it's me!

Just, like, go to the Christian church, the ugly one. They never said it had to

be Catholic. What are the other tasks?

I have to hit a teacher.

What if it's a joke? What do you mean?

Hit the teacher with it.

Oh yeah, hit the old one and then laugh. It'll be like a joke. Can I see the

left? No, no, no.

Why? They're not all for kids.

Like what?

I have to steal alcohol from mom and dad and drink it.

That's not so bad.

Mom won't miss a margarita. Come on, let's go.

I mean, it's not easy.

He's late.

He has $800 ,000. He can afford to be late. No, no, no, no. You have to get

milk. Okay, real quick. Drink it upstairs.

No, Mom says no.

Hey, coming on. Okay, stay in there. Just be quiet.

I didn't quite catch that.

I said in my other businesses, there has always been one key.

To learn hands -on from the originator.

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow?

I need you to go with me to Nepal.

Show me the ins and outs of your business. Oh, sir, no.

Bash can do that. I have taken my last trip to Nepal.

Why? Why should I not be investing in Nepal? No, no, it's just that I have a

family, sir, and I've already been away for so long.

As much as I sympathize, sir, I am offering to buy your business for $800

And all I require is for you to show me the ropes. Sir, with respect, Bash can't

do that just as well as I can.

Here is the thing, Andy.

When I know what I want, I know what I want. So, I am willing to pay you a $150

,000. surcharge on top of my $800 ,000 for your services.

Not Bash's services, your services to guide me to Nepal.

And that is my bottom line.

Uh, sir, Eddie, can I, can I call, let me call you back. I just

need to check in with my, uh, my life, with my wife.

Certainly, but I need to know by tomorrow or I am moving on.

He really doesn't want to go. No, Kristen's the practical one. She'll make

go.

Wow.

It's like being with a celebrity.

Yeah. I really hate it, celebrity.

I...

I have to take this.

Okay, go ahead.

Hello?

You know, you don't have to do this.

Do what?

The LaRue house.

Oh, no, I'm good.

He's been very mysterious lately.

Yeah, he's in the priest rat now.

There's nothing weird between the two of you, right? What do you mean?

Well, just since you became a priest, you have been awkward around each other.

No, no, no, we're good. We just haven't had much of a chance to spend any time

together, so... Hotel

Percival, room 2102. When? Now. I'm 40 minutes away.

No, you're 25.

And I'm just leaving the Bible in the room?

No.

Why am I administering last rites? Because he's dying and you've been

After you're done, you'll find a postcard somewhere in the room.

Take it and leave.

But make sure you leave the door open.

David? This is crazy.

Do you need me to repeat any part of it?

I didn't hear the Latin.

You ready to go?

Actually, I've just gotten called away.

What, now?

Yeah. Where?

It's a long story.

I'll talk to you two later?

Uh, something is up.

Yep.

Okay.

Ready? Yeah.

Good to see you again, Kristen.

It's been hard.

I know.

I heard you met someone.

Very sweet man.

He made it easier coming back here.

This is where Orson was when he...

At first, the police thought that I did it. I heard about that.

They still haven't figured out what's happened.

Have you seen the street view of your house, Miss LaRue?

The what?

Oh, yeah, I heard about this. The ghost, right? Yeah. So, um, we think that

that's you there getting out of your car.

We just wondered if you saw someone in a costume or...

Someone setting up this shot? This ghost shot?

Mm -hmm. No.

There was something weird, though.

The driver, the street view driver, their car is so weird with the camera on

roof, drove past the house three times.

Back up, do it again.

Do you know why?

I have no idea.

What are we thinking?

I'm thinking somebody is working with the street view driver. That is how they

knew the car was coming. With all seven residences.

Yeah. So how do we find out who this street view driver was?

Watch this.

Um,

I'm Father Michael.

I'm

here

to administer the last rites.

Through this holy anointing.

May the Lord and his love and mercy.

Amen.

Lord.

Love and mercy.

Help me with the grace of the Holy Spirit.

And the Lord.

Freeze you from sin save you and raise you up

May I help you with anything else?

Hey.

So, how'd it go?

Well, uh, Ben figured out that the street view driver was the same person

seven houses where the demon appeared.

And the guy goes to school part -time with the kid Phoebus that we found.

So, they concocted it together.

So, it was a scam.

Yep. Social media makes motives both simpler and stupider.

So how'd your long story go?

My... Oh, you said it was a long story, you being called away? Oh!

Mass schedule. It always has to be solved, like, right then.

I miss us.

I know, but we're not what we were, and I think that I...

I

think...

I think I caused that. No.

When I confessed to you, and then afterwards... Kristen.

Well, clearly it's not done, because if it were done, I'd still have a friend,

and I can feel that I don't.

Kristen, what's going on with me has nothing to do with my...

with our... Feelings toward each other?

Yes. It's to do with me being a priest.

A new priest.

That's all.

I'm here.

And I'll be myself again.

I'd like that.

I'd like that too.

Great.

Friends again.

I will see you tomorrow.

You're late.

I didn't know I was on a schedule.

This is the Holy Catholic Church. You're always on a schedule.

The postcard.

What? What was that?

What was what?

Using the sacraments to cover your little espionage.

This is the first time I've felt like a...

Fraud being a priest. The first time in your eight days as a priest? Oh, my

goodness. What was I doing there? Did you administer the last rites?

Yes.

But only if I could steal this.

That man was dying.

Why was he dying?

David, you said yes to the Vatican. That yes came with a burden. No.

Why was he dying?

He was poisoned.

Why?

There was someone trying to prevent him from delivering a message. That message.

House is battling evil.

This all seems evil to me.

David.

In your work as an assessor, you must have found two sources of evil. The

supernatural and the human. I deal with the human.

Bad people doing bad things. Evil governments, murderers, torturers. They

in the world and they must be stopped.

Maybe even more than demons.

So that is why I need that postcard.

To kill another messenger?

No, to save one.

Who?

You want this postcard.

I want to know who I'm saving.

Graceling.

You know her. You brought her to our attention.

The Vatican believes she is a prophet.

She was deported back to China and lost in a war camp. We believe we have

located her, and that postcard will tell us if there is a chance to recover her.

Were you given anything else?

No. Are you sure?

This... is a tip.

Good work.

We'll be in touch.

Dad said you drank one of my margaritas.

I don't want you doing that.

I'm sorry.

I read the seven tasks.

The visiting Jack tasks.

I know it's one of them.

I don't believe in that anymore.

Task number four was have sex with a virgin.

I didn't get that far, Mom.

Did Ren?

We didn't have sex.

We didn't.

I want to believe you, Lynn.

But you cannot lie to me.

I won't.

The toilet.

Have you thought about it?

And?

This is your last track?

Yeah.

And for how long?

Three months.

Oh, boy.

Well, it's an insane amount of money, and we need

money, so I don't...

I don't really see how we can say no.

I don't want to go. No, you don't.

Just don't die.

Okay.

Can you get half the money up front?

I have to start in that bathroom.

I will.

I love you so much.

Being a single mom just released it. I know. I know.

It's almost over.