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MARX:
Last year, Father Thomas died
of natural causes.

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A week ago, monks heard

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humming coming from his tomb.

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The monastery opened the crypt
and found him like this.

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The Vatican wants
to consider Father Thomas

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for sainthood,
but they need two things first.

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DNA evidence that this
is true incorruptibility.

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No decay. And evidence

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-of a second miracle.
-So you need us to go get it.

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Yes.

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[wind whistling]

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[door opens]

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[door creaks shut]

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[Kristen exhales]

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[exhales]

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[wind whistling]

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♪

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[crow cawing]

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♪

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[keys jangling]

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[door opens]

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[metal creaks]

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♪

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[screams]

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[rodents squeaking quietly]

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[water dripping softly]

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[lantern thuds softly]

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[scissors snipping]

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[stylus tapping]

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[David exhales]

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[bird chirping]

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[coughs]

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[glass rattling]

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[bottles clanking]

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♪

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♪

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[bottle thuds softly]

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[cork squeaks into bottle]

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[glass thuds]

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[coughing]

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[laughs]

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[woman chuckles]

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[zipper rasps]

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[chair scrapes]

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♪

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[Fenna exhales]

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[Kristen laughs]

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[whiskey splashes]

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[bottles clink]

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[laughs]

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[chuckles softly]

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[bird chirping]

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[Kristen chuckles softly]

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[Fenna exhales]

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[Kristen chuckles softly]

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♪

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[Fenna breathes deeply]

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[plastic flaps]

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[stylus tapping]

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[Fenna chuckles softly]

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[floor creaking softly]

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♪

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[dripping quietly]

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[stylus tapping]

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♪

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[Kristen grunts]

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[Kristen laughs]

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[both laughing]

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[Kirsten laughing]

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[footsteps approaching]

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[bucket handle clatters]

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[gauze rustling]

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[Kristen hiccups]

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[exhales, sniffs]

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♪

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♪

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[whispering]: I don't think
the miracle is real.

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[whispering]:
The stigmata?

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-Why?
-Her hands.

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She uses the wheelbarrow
all day.

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This is what happened
when I did it for five minutes.

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-BEN: Hmm.
-DAVID: What about
the incorruptibility?

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-The body?
-[whispering]:
I'll go back tonight

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and, uh, collect calcification
from the crypt.

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There may be something
in the clay

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that preserved the body
naturally.

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Winston wrote me the story

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about the cabinet
in Father Thomas's cell.

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What cabinet?

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This large locked cabinet
in Thomas's cell.

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It was discovered on this spot
a hundred years ago,

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and the monastery was built
around it to keep it safe.

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To keep it from opening.

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What do you mean, "keep it"?

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Monks like Thomas have been
watching it since the '30s

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to keep the cabinet closed.

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Why? What's in it?

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A demon that wants
to destroy the world.

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That's why the silence.
The legend goes

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that if even one word is spoken
within the monastery walls,

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the demon will be out.

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And if he's out,
he can never be recaptured.

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Sounds like a story
to scare new monks.

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But doesn't anybody
ever say anything,

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like, or just scream out
something in their dreams?

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They put gags in their mouth
when they sleep.

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-You're kidding.
-No.

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And they expect us
to do the same tonight.

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They want us to put gags
in our mouth?

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Yes.

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And they're very serious
about it.

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You can't say a word in there

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or you will release a demon.

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♪

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[dripping quietly]

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♪

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[door opens]

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[gauze rustling]

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[hisses quietly]

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[chair scrapes]

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[stylus tapping]

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[door creaks]

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[chair thuds]

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♪

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♪

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♪

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[footsteps approaching]

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[floor creaking]

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[rustles]

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♪

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[footsteps approaching]

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♪

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[stylus tapping]

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♪

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♪

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[door creaks loudly]

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[footsteps departing]

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[wind whistling]

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[wolf howling]

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[exhales]

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[scratching continues]

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[deep humming]

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[humming]

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[camera clicking]

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[humming grows louder]

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♪

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[panting]

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[grunts]

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[metal creaks]

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[inhales sharply]

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[panting]

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[fire crackling]

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[Kristen sighs]

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[slurping]

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[Ben sniffles, exhales]

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[fork clatters]

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[gasps]

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[Kristen laughs]

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[faintly]:
Shh.

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[Kristen chuckles]

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[Fenna breathes deeply]

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[Kristen sniffles]

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[dish clatters]

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[cutlery clangs]

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[wind whistling]

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[whistling continues]

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[lantern clatters]

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[door creaks]

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♪

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[wind whistling]

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Boo.

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♪

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[doors creak]

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[silence]

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[creaking]

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[breathing heavily]

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♪

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♪

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♪

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[clacking]

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[clacking continues]

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[clacking stops]

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♪

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♪

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[clacking]

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[man grunting]

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[whimpers]

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[man screams]

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[grunting]

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[grunting]

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[woman screams]

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[groans]

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[muffled scream]

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[gasps]

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[grunts, gasps]

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♪

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[whimpering]

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♪

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-BEN: This is not
about a demon, okay?
-KRISTEN: She needs a doctor.

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One of the monks is a doctor.
They also have an exorcist here.

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They think this is the work
of the Devil.

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Yeah, they need to stop
playing around.

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They're not playing around.
We need to defer to them.

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-Not if it kills Fenna.
-Who's Fenna?

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The nun! Oh, my God, this place
is so fucking anti-women!

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-Shh! Kristen.
-[Kristen sighs]

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Listen, we're on their turf.

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We need to let them take care of
this spiritually and medically.

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I'm getting my phone.
I'm calling a doctor.

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-Kristen!
-Hey, listen,
something is going on here.

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There was scraping
inside the cabinet,

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and it's the same
inside the coffin.

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What? What is it?

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I don't know.
But I'm gonna find out.

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[groaning, grunting]

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♪

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♪

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[panel slides]

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[door creaks]

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[Fenna gasps]

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[Fenna groaning loudly]

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[Fenna gasping]

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[Fenna whimpers]

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[Fenna screams]

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[whimpering]

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[gasping]

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[mouthing]

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[panting]

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[whimpering]

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[grunts, screams]

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[inhales sharply]

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[panting]

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[groaning]

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[Kristen exhales]

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[Fenna coughing]

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[groaning]

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[screams, gasping]

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[screaming]

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[exhales]

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[squelching]

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[flies humming]

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[squelching]

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[footsteps approaching]

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[Ben panting]

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-BEN: I think it's the botfly.
-KRISTEN: Excuse me?

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The botfly. They're prevalent

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-in Upstate New York.
-What are you talking about?

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Okay, I think that's what
the humming was in the crypt.

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I think that's what came out
of either Thomas's coffin

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or the Devil's cabinet.

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-Wh-What we just saw with Fenna?
Coming out of her stomach?
-Yeah.

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It's called
cutaneous larva migrans.

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The botfly burrows under
the skin to leave its eggs.

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-It's like
something out of Alien.
-Yeah.

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Sometimes real life
is worse than movies.

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But it's not the Devil
and it's not diabolical.

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What the monks heard,

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the humming in the crypt,
it's the botfly.

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And when they brought up
Thomas's coffin,

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they brought the botflies up
with them.

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-What about the sigil brand?
-It's not a brand.
It's not a sigil.

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Here. When the larvae burrows
under the skin,

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it leaves a circular or
spiral pattern like what we saw.

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-Wow.
-So, what do we do?

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Okay, so, when the exorcist

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-blessed the infected spot
with ointment?
-KRISTEN: Mm-hmm.

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That is how they suggest to get
the botfly to the surface.

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Vaseline.
You cover all the air holes

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because that's the way
the botfly breathes.

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And then the botfly erupts
to the surface to escape.

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Don't take this
the wrong way, Ben,

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but I wish
there were some things

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-you couldn't explain.
-There are.

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I can't explain these people.

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I can't explain
why they would spend

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their whole lives in silence.
That is insane to me.

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DAVID:
Not in silence.

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-They're talking to God.
-BEN: Okay, sure.

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But just the thought
that you would...

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spend your whole life
without ever talking,

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without having sex,
without watching a movie

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or talking on the phone

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or telling a stupid story,
it's...

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That's terrifying.

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Is it tempting for you?

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I...

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I tried to silence my mind
for ten minutes,

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and it almost drove me crazy.

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But then I look at them,
and they seem...

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...at peace.

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Yes.

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I'm tempted.

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♪

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[groaning, whimpering]

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[muffled screaming]

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[grunting]

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♪

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[Kristen humming]

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[continues humming]

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[wood scraping]

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[lantern handle clatters]

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♪

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[door opens]

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[door creaking]

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♪

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