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I'm depressed.

Sometimes I go the whole day without someone saying hi to me or even looking

me.

It's like I'm invisible.

I can't have children.

I just found out.

I'm 28 and I'll never have kids.

You could adopt.

I don't even know if I want them.

You seem like someone who knows what she wants.

What's the secret?

Looks can be deceiving.

Let's talk about the breakup.

Just to get you started, you'll be working on the H -Link connection.

It's a small part of the operation, but important.

Any questions?

No? Good.

You're not taking me.

No.

But... You're gonna be lonely.

All those priests in Rome.

Goodbye. No.

No, David!

No! No, no! Don't go!

Don't go, David!

Don't go!

What's going on?

Ah, precautionary.

We have downloaded the information from your phone and are going to make a move

tomorrow.

You found the 60? We have cross -referenced the travel plans and we have

the meeting place for tomorrow.

Where?

We are taking it from here.

Taking it how?

We may never have the 60 in one place again.

Not in our lifetime.

You're killing me.

Not everything is so melodramatic, David.

This meeting involves a black mass and sacrificing a young woman, so we have to

stop it.

It's all sounding pretty melodramatic to me.

Also, we have information that Mr. Townsend will try to attack one of your

people before tomorrow.

My people?

Yeah, your assessments.

What information?

That's all I can share. But we immediately need your notes from the

for our records.

David. Leave Mr. Townsend alone. We will take care of him. I only again need

your notes. David, where are you going?

You just told me my assessments were in danger.

What do you think?

Fine, you take it then.

Have you got him? No, Mom has too many shoes.

Okay, look under the shoes, Lila. Yeah, look under the shoes. Look, Laura,

they're not there. You have to leave everything exactly where you left it.

I just want them peace and quiet because I can't find them anywhere.

Please. I found them.

It's been so long since I've seen those. Do you remember hunting? Oh, my God, I

remember that. That was so fun.

How do they look? Let's just plug them in. We have to get the new download.

Girls, I have one more client, and then I want your homework done, okay?

Okay, Mom, we've got it.

Hurry.

Hello, Mr. Truman.

I hope you had no trouble finding me.

Finding your office?

No, Dr. Bouchard.

I've been here before.

Some very nice improvements out here.

I'm your newest patient, Ernest Truman.

I'm having some issues with self -worth and a certain vacuity in my life. I

think it's because I'm just...

Tired of winning. Yes, 911.

I have an order of protection from Criminal Court 507, designated CF188856,

and it is currently being violated.

Kristen, I was wondering if you're doing anything tomorrow night. I'd like you

to meet the 60. Am I in danger now?

Yes, I believe I am. This is an official request for a patrol car, and I will be

recording the infraction.

Kristen, why would I want...

Why would I want to hurt you?

You're the mother of my child.

Of course. I will stay on the line.

They'll be here in 12 minutes.

NYPD? Doubt that.

Just help me out tomorrow night, and I'll never bother you and your girls

I promise.

Here.

Come on.

I'll be out of your life.

Pinky promise.

Let's drink.

What did your Vatican friend say?

Leland will attack us before tomorrow, and I haven't been able to get a hold of

Crimson.

Come in.

Hey.

Are you okay?

Yeah, nothing dramatic.

He pretended to be patient.

And who are you, sir?

Okay, all right, you know what? Get your jokes out of the way now. Yes, I own a

tie.

About 20 minutes.

Actually kind of satisfying.

Did he threaten you? No, he wanted me to meet the 60 tomorrow night. Meet them?

Mm -hmm. Why?

Not a lot of specifics.

Oh, my God.

We're back.

Okay, I'll take care of this. Come on.

All right.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to...

Talk to the entity about them, and I'll be right back.

Okay.

So how's your life going?

David. How are you taking care of the 60?

How? Yes.

Are you taking care of this before their meeting in their black mask?

Yes, why?

I'm going to send you a photo of the painting.

I think they're coming after my accessory.

I don't doubt it. I need to know you're going to take care of it.

Permanently. We are.

The 60 will not be able to act again.

Good.

Don't forget, David.

Get me the accessory parts. I need them.

You sure about this? Won't the Vatican be mad?

Maybe they'll fire me. Aren't you going to miss that cannibal medical student?

Ghost truckers, huh? I will see your ghost truckers and I will raise you

werewolves. Demonic elevator.

Oh.

UFOs. I like those UFOs. Oh, the Christmas song. Oh.

Santa got hot.

Jennifer Duarte for Screaming Girl.

We'll be in touch.

I'm so glad we're going back to in -person casting.

I also prepared a song. We'll be in touch.

We don't need this. We already have the mother of the Antichrist.

Never hurts to have a backup. You can't protect Kristen anymore. I don't know

what your thing is with her. The baby was baptized.

The mother is undependable. We need to finish her and move on to the next.

Sister, what can we do for you? I know what you're doing.

How did you find me?

I just followed the scent.

You can bluff everyone else, not me.

I don't need to bluff.

If you hear, I have a free hook for you.

Terrified.

Terrified.

She's just tall.

She doesn't know what's next.

Make sure it stays that way.

Cleveland's not going to come back. You guys have to stay to protect me.

I do.

I don't know about Ben.

I'm just here to drink.

That's one way I influence you guys, right?

These things?

Don't start with that.

How did I influence you?

Grace. No, no.

I'm thinking, I'm taking your question seriously.

I think I'm more humbled by other people's knowledge now.

My knowledge?

Yes, your knowledge.

What about you, David?

How have we impacted you?

I don't have many friends.

I haven't up till now.

Not friends that I can talk to about things.

Deeper things.

Death. Geez.

You'd rather be the fun friend than the friend that you can talk to about death.

No, I understand what you're saying.

Nobody talks like that anymore about real things.

It's all about influencers and TV.

You know I speak about reverence a lot in therapy now?

You've ruined me.

I am gonna miss you both.

Okay, it's downloaded. Which one should I choose?

I heard this kid knew he was going to get suspended before it happened because

of this game.

It tells you your future?

Mother Midnight, you go into the closet and it tells you your fate.

If you're going to be evil, it'll tell you.

Or a nun.

Or dead.

Lila! What? I'm just saying.

Are you doing it?

I am if you are.

Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

Mother Midnight, you are free.

Mother Midnight, let me see the future you have planned for me.

Don't. Just wait. For what?

I don't know. Look around.

You can say it again.

Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

Mother Midnight, you are free.

Mother Midnight, let me feed you.

You saw that, right?

Uh -huh. Felt it, too.

What are you doing?

Going? No.

Come on, it's Mother Midnight. Don't you want to see your future?

Not like that.

It's evil.

You don't know what's evil.

Come on, we'll see if you become a nun.

And if we don't come back?

Let's go back.

How? I can't even turn around.

How'd we get down there?

I don't think it's real.

Look, there's Mom and Ben.

Mom?

It's not actually them.

It's their avatars.

How does the game even know?

Mom?

Hello, guys?

Can you hear us?

It's your Elden.

Nothing's gonna happen.

It might.

Mom?

They're not gonna look at us. They can't see us.

Hello?

What's going on? The goggles.

Oh, my God.

I'm going to destroy these things. No, Mom, it showed us the future.

No, it didn't.

What were you doing in the closet?

What?

There's a clock.

There's a clock in here.

It's at 23 hours.

Oh, no. It's going to come true.

What's going to come true?

Leland killing Mom. It's going to happen in 23 hours. Oh, my gosh. No, none of

that is going to happen. Girls, what did you see?

It was Leland, and he had an axe, and he chopped it into your head, Mom.

Leland, no. Shh.

He asked, and Ben was there, and Father Acosta was there, and they tried to save

you, but they couldn't, and you were just lying there, and you were dead, and

you were bleeding.

It was a game.

I know, but if we don't stop it, it's going to come true in 23 hours. Oh, my

gosh, baby, no, okay?

This is all nonsense. Can you destroy these?

Okay, where do I go?

Mom, don't. It's scary.

Girls, this is what I do for a living.

Okay?

Did for a living.

You walk into the closet and you say the incantations.

And you throw Leland in there?

Yeah, and he killed Mom.

What are you doing?

Something stupid.

Okay, I feel stupid.

I think we drank too much.

Yeah.

Okay, I see it.

You see it?

Yeah.

Right, so we're doing this, right?

Yep.

Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

Mother Midnight, you are free. David, you've got to say it too.

How's the game going to know if I can do it? Because it can read our

environment.

Mother Midnight, let me be the future that is planned for me.

Okay, that was fun.

I think it's ruining our environment as well.

Oh!

Holy fuck!

Did you see that?

Did you guys see that?

Oh, I think I'm going. I think I'm going. I think I'm going!

These graphics are awesome.

Guys! Hey!

Wow.

Good work. Very real.

Ben, I don't have much time.

This game is messed up.

They are eye -pulling from my social media worries.

Before I... I need to know...

Where is Allah?

I understand the science that people share.

I've looked up to you, brother.

Always.

But... I'm afraid.

I'm cold.

There's nothing to say.

It's just empty.

You're right.

There's nothing.

Hello, Kristen.

Take a seat.

Uh, this is my office.

Kristen, these are 567 true or false statements. Answer as honestly as you

Am I losing my business?

Is that my future?

No, this is just a tool, Kristen, so we can better understand your behavior.

I ended up this way.

What way?

An unfit parent.

What's going on?

This is an intervention.

We know.

You don't want to hear it, but we need you to.

Sit down.

This is not fair, and it's not real.

Your daughters have no father, no grandmother.

They're practically raising themselves, and you've brought a new infant into

this environment.

I treat my daughters like adults.

That's the problem. They're not.

They're embarrassments.

Your daughters make my kids' lives miserable.

They hate going to school.

That's not true. They're rude and disrespectful.

You have no right being a mother.

Kurt? It has been my observation that your daughters are destructive and mean

because you are so freely sarcastic with them. You think it's cool.

But it's not the way a mother, a good mother, leads.

And so they are being taken from me.

Help me, David!

What's in there? I don't know.

Not even cloud opening up?

Bummer.

I guess this means you've devoted your whole life to a fairy tale. You were a

fool, David.

To believe in a book written by broken men who offered a damned world nothing

but false hope.

What the fuck?

That was not a game.

I don't know what that was, but that was not a game.

What do the girls say? They saw it on Reddit?

I think so.

How do the goggles do all this?

I don't know. AI.

Maybe it scours your social media for personal information. All I can find is

that this game is in beta.

Still counting down?

Yep, 22 hours.

Are we worried?

That the game is going to predict our fate?

No.

Despair is Satan's masterpiece.

Guy? What the fuck?

Go! What do you think you're doing?

Wait, we gotta get in. Jesus, pull yourself together, dude.

It'll only take ten minutes. This is not a game that you have no one to play. I

know, I've been in here before.

You've what?

In the cave.

I've been everywhere in this house looking for the clue, a way to turn off

clock. There's a living room in there. A stairs going up to the girls' room. The

bunk beds. You've been in my girls' bedroom?

Just in a game, that's all.

Listen, I have kids myself.

I saw my little girl getting killed riding her bike.

I have to get in there to stop it. Why there?

It's a brick wall down there. If I remove one of the bricks, the clock will

stop. It's at eight hours now. How do you know about all this? How did you

get this address? It was on Reddit.

It's a haunted house, right? The one with the tunnel to hell in the basement?

Just give me five minutes down there. Oh, my God.

All right. Listen up, buddy.

This is a utility closet.

It's not a basement.

I don't believe you. Show me.

I'm not showing you shit.

Now get the fuck out of my house.

One little girl's going to die.

Don't follow me under your head.

Yeah, that's right. I called the police.

Now get lost.

Get a rest.

I got to get out of this house.

All right, Ben.

Mr. Science, Mr. Empirical.

How does that happen?

I'm thinking.

Okay, so I saw your hall in my goggles, but I thought that it was just because

I know your place.

Right, so how would anyone else know what the inside of my house looks like?

How long have those doors been down?

A couple weeks. Why?

They were in my goggles when I was in the dining room in the game.

During the hurricane, they came down four weeks ago. Okay, so who was in this

house more than four weeks ago?

And who had a digital camera that could capture everything with

photorealistic... What?

My girls.

They used this app. The demon tracker app? Yep. When they thought there were

demons in the house. I warned you, apps can capture... Yeah, and I told them,

and apparently I'm a bad mom, and my kids are going to be taken from me.

Okay.

It saved all the girls' walks through the house.

Those walks are photorealistic. And the question is, how did they get from this

app into the game? Can I take this? Oh, you can take every fucking computer in

this house as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, I love these old buildings and how they're renting them out now.

Oh, my. Like the limelight? So fun.

Yep. And you're thinking only 60 attendees?

Do you want them out in the sanctuary?

We could do some floral arrangements to define the space.

No, up here on the altar.

We'll need all this cleared out and then 60 chairs in a circle.

Very striking.

And a pentagram in the middle of the board.

With artwork you'll provide?

Yes.

Rooming up for a woman to lie down with chains, rugs, and things to hold her

down for her sacrifice.

So it's a goth thing?

Exactly. And a bucket for a heart and other organs? I love it.

Do you want balloons?

No. No balloons. But we'll need witches' cauldrons.

There, there, and there.

What else is in a black mass?

This is the country.

Thank you.

Yes They are not as obvious as you think you have this wrong

An interface.

To what?

Same as a cerebral path, like the one Toppin had. This links the cloud to a

person's cerebrum. Without a chip in the brain? Yep.

It's not as powerful, but works off the same technology. So who's doing it?

Well, as far as I can tell, it's a beta modification being tested without FDA

approval. But I do know who did your daughter's demon tracker app.

You're kidding.

Nope. DF.

I think they used the visuals of your house from your demon tracker and they

repackaged it into the game. But why?

To fuck with me.

Well, that's one way of looking at it, but I also think it's a continuation of

the convergence of computer and humans so that... People can sell us more shit.

Well, I was going to say advanced human knowledge, but yeah, sure.

Wait, what is this?

That is the regions of the brain connected to the thalamus. That is what

interface is connecting to.

What regions?

Image recognition, speech, pain, creativity, touch, hearing.

How many regions are there?

I'm generalizing here, but 50 or 60 the neurologists recognize.

What is it, David?

I just sent you an attachment. Can you put it up on the screen?

Sixty sigils?

Hmm. 60 evil families, 60 regions of the brain.

Why go to the trouble of tempting when you can upload despair right into the

brain?

David, you need to talk to the entity.

I'm a little busy right now, sister. The father will not listen to me. He needs

to hear it from you. They think the 60 are meeting at St. Joseph and they're

wrong. Why? What do you mean?

Okay, I'm not sure I understand.

The demons, they were here all last week in the sanctuary, in the walls, but

they're gone. They fled.

Sister, he's a pragmatic man. He wants facts. He doesn't want intuition about

demons. That's why I need you to convince him.

And how do I do that?

By being tall. Tall people are convincing even if they're dumb.

I mean, this is stupid.

I mean, if that's true, what have we been doing chasing all these 60 families

for all this time?

I don't understand any of it. I mean...

What's the use of all these Satan worshipers running around if you could

meet online?

Right.

Oh, yeah.

Not

now,

Father. You're being set up, Father.

There's no reason for the 60 to meet in person.

I will talk to you later. No, they wanted us to clone Leland's phone.

They wanted us to see the church in the painting.

You're being set up.

I heard you might be casting something else, too. I was in Midnight Mass.

Here's my hip -hop.

It has been a long time coming, but success!

The Whore of Babylon has been hobbled for a generation, 18 of the entity dead,

and the tables turned.

And that's not all. We're just getting started.

You're muted, Norm.

Nope, still muted.

Norm, it's the button near the bottom, Norm.

It's shaped like a lozenge.

Sorry, what are we hearing about this new technology?

Are we no longer families anymore?

Oh, we're still families, but we're families in here, where we can live

where we don't have to battle every single day with a church. We're using

technology to plant...

Evil and despair right in the human brain and the next time we meet we will

welcome the apocalypse and a new Antichrist figure had to rally around

Yes, sir

Yes, sir. It's still happening. We just needed to trick our entity foes at the

Vatican. What is it happening?

Good night.

Okay.

Meeting over.

Good work, all.

No fucking around.

You have protected Kristen for four years.

It ends tonight.

You saved me.

How did you know?

About the 60.

Sister Andrea, in the world of social media, no one needs to meet anymore.

I lost 18 good men today.

I have to rebuild and go after the 60.

Respectfully, Father, the world is changing.

It's not about the 16th century families anymore.

It's about the systemic.

They're bringing evil right into our brains, bypassing the middle man.

I need you, David. I need you. You are thinking in the room.

I don't want to be in the entity.

Friends of the Vatican.

I don't believe in it.

I don't believe in your weapons.

Every time I help you, I feel left godly.

It's eating away at me.

Then what?

What do you want?

In Rome? No, here.

No.

This is the lowest rung of the hierarchy.

You are more important than that, David.

I like the lowest rung.

I'm sorry, what?

They want us to be assessors in Rome.

No, you in Rome.

No, us.

Why?

They need to rebuild.

They need good assessors to rebuild.

And we're good assessors.

David, I'm not Catholic.

And I'm not practicing.

They know.

They don't have a lot of people who are effective.

Then why did they shut us down?

Because they don't know what they're doing.

I'm not going to Rome.

My life is here.

It'll only be six months.

To see how it works.

They will supply housing.

Really? In the Vatican?

No, no, in their realm.

There will be free health care, free schools.

This is the way to keep it going. David, the church and institution, I don't

believe in.

Not just as someone who has an on -and -off relationship with God, but it's a

patriarchy that forces women into a defined role.

But you won't be.

You will have a position.

in the hierarchy.

And you will be... you.

You guys don't realize it, but priests don't meet my eye.

They don't look at me. I'm invisible.

I mean, what are we even talking about?

I live here. You were just talking about moving out. Yeah, to Jackson Heights,

not to the Vatican.

How much?

What? How much are they paying?

I mean, we make $65 ,000 a year right now. How much are they offering?

I don't know. I mean...

I'm guessing, but maybe double?

It is a more important position.

See?

I'm making 650K now, so can you beat that?

No.

David, I'm sorry, but I've got five kids.

Actually, the Vatican would love that.

And I don't speak any, you know...

Latin or Italian or any of... I mean, what are we even talking about?

None of this makes sense.

Help me get up and running for six months.

Save some money.

Then move back if you want.

It sort of makes sense for you. You know, gelato, art, pizza. I could see

some cool Italian sunglass. Ben, please.

David, I'm sorry. I need a normal life.

Don't you dare tell the girls.

Oui, oui.

That's French, Tommy.

Why are you filming me all the time?

Because you're going to New York.

If you don't go to New York, then I won't film you.

Yeah.

Well, a risk not taken is not lived in life.

Never miss the chance to have sex or travel.

A risk not taken is not lived in life.

Never let the time fly to be sexy or to drive.

Well, here I sit high getting ideas.

Ain't nothing but a fool to live like this.

Out all night and running wild.

Woman sitting home with a month -old child.

Dang me.

Dang me.

They ought to take a rope and hang me.

High from the highest tree.

Woman, would you weep for me?

Wow.

Just sitting around drinking with the rest of the guys.

Six rounds bought and I bought five.

Spent the groceries and half the rent. Like $14 having 27 cents. So dang me.

Dang me.

They ought to take a rope and hang me.

High from the highest tree.

Woman, would you weep for me?

One more.

I'm a son of a gun. I said, dang me, dang

me. They ought to take a rope and hang me high from the highest tree.

Woman, would you weep for me?

Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

Just sitting around drinking with the rest of the guys.

Six rounds of five from that bar of five.

Spent the groceries and half the rent.

$6 .27.

So dang me.

Dang me.

They ought to take a roll and hang me.

High from the highest tree.

Woman, would you weep for me? Boop, boop, boop.

I feel down.

The revolution point five.

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Use it.

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I know.

Do you have Bob's credit card number?

4206.

He's still alive.

He'll just come back.

Let us take care of it.

You don't know who you're messing with. I am ordering you. I have the power of

darkness. I have satanic forces.

All right, I gotta get to work Something like that.

Love you.

Uh, yeah me too you yeah, love you

We always knew the general area we were going to end the show in, but the

specifics always react to what's going on in the world and what is the most

entertaining way for the audience to feel. We're not just making shit up.

When we approached the final four episodes, we knew that that was wrapping

the series. That changed things a bit. We wanted to address the idea of

And the mystery in science, and it's very clear in the last episode, humans

computers are combining. What comes out of that can be evil.

There's also a sense at the end that you may solve certain problems, but evil's

bigger than that.

Evil is not so easily gotten rid of.

For David and Kristen, the audience can write its own ending, and it's not

depressing. David and Kristen are probably together.

And I think that's what feels good when characters you've come to know and

connect with live on, and the kings have always left those doors open for their

characters. It's a way that I think honors their affection for each other,

also honors their higher calling.

There's a deep, deep soul connection.

If Kristen goes through something, she would want to hear David's thoughts

it. You don't care that I don't believe?

I do not.

I think she would continue to be an assessor in Rome for a bit and Ben,

and Kristen.

They'll probably stay friends, but not in the same way. We're just working

together. It's totally fine. It's not a big deal.

We're really breaking up.

None of the characters ended up where I expected them to, I don't think.

Philosophically, Ben had quite the transformation.

There's an explanation for everything, but people would rather believe in

ghosts, demons.

I don't think he'll ever be a believer, but I think that he does recognize that

there are things he can't explain. Blaine. Oh, this game is messed up.

He was probably the most certain about science and empiricism. And then at the

end, I think it's what works is what I believe in. What works is what gets me

through the day, which is a very pragmatic attitude towards either

science.

Sister Andrea doesn't change.

No, she's solid. It's rock.

She's an activist in her own right. I don't think you can shut her up, even

though she's going to a silent retreat.

I'll miss playing Mr.

Andrea. And action.

Here's the thing about working with demons.

They're extremely tall, and I'm 5 '1", so I'm constantly looking up like that.

see you.

They're the backbone of the show.

Evil wouldn't be evil without demons.

When you come on the set the first time with a demon, it's shocking at first.

You kind of have to pull your stuff together and think, okay, I'm a guy who

the demons every day. What I tried to play is a barely concealed impatience

the demons. It's the button near the bottom, Norm.

Michael Emerson is so game to be put through such nonsense, whether it's

vomited on by babies or stuffed in cabinets.

I am Leland Hampton.

It was very important that David be the person to bring Leland to his end. Go!

Go! He has such a long history with him. Don't you remember, weepy little bitch?

Any of the pairings would have been fun to watch, but thematically this one

probably made most sense.

David, a man of faith.

Leland, our most evil character.

Of course, those actors are both so terrific. You kind of want to see them

together. I would have just opened the door.

To direct the pilot, you have to get the idea over to the audience, and you have

to start characters down this route.

I've become a better director over that time, because at the end, you're kind of

willing to try everything.

I mean, in the very last scene, Katja's character, Kristen, is supposed to see

that something's demented, and this child thinks it might be a trick of

and ignores it and moves on. Katja had an idea. Now she sees it and wants to...

Hide it. And it was such a comically great idea.

Something wrong?

Nothing at all.

When we're doing the scenes, we're literally talking about how we're not

to do this job anymore. We're also talking about the fact that we're not

to do this job anymore.

There's some of these sets that are being taken down as we're acting in

Sad. A lot of good memories. I mean, the connection is authentic. We really

genuinely enjoy each other's company. I will cherish forever the relationship

with Mike and Asif and my girls.

When I talk about my children, I get a little teary. That will be a bond for

life. It's an end of a show that we loved and probably the closest to who we

really are in life.

It's a fun show.

The magnificent cast, the writers are wonderful.

Bittersweet. Working on a show that is successful and audiences enjoy with

people that you enjoy coming to work with every day, I feel honored.

Uh -oh.

This is getting exciting.