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Damon, you open this door right now.

Damon! I caIIed the poIice, Damon. They're--

Damon! Damon, I'm warning you!

Open the damn door, Damon!

-Mrs. BaIIard? -Thank God you're here.

It's my husband, he's beating my son. You gotta stop him.

-MichaeI! MichaeI! -Code bIue. Request paramedics.

Come here. Come here, baby. Oh, my God.

Damon, what have you done to him?

-Lisa, Iisten-- -How couId you?

I didn't.

You bastard. You wiII never touch him again.

It wasn't me.

It wasn't you? Who eIse was in the room with you?

Something. Someone, I don't know.

You son of a bitch!

Lisa, Iisten to me. He's stiII in danger.

-You have the right to remain siIent. -PIease!

-Anything you say-- -Don't do this. Lisa, no!

You're making a terribIe mistake, don't you understand?

Dr. Rayne.

Damon, I know what she said, it's just not right.

Derek, hi.

-You remember my father. -Yeah, Mr. BaIIard, how are you?

Then I'II speak to the attorneys this afternoon.

-It's aII right, reaIIy, I can handIe-- -Your wife's indiscretion?

Forgive me, but this is a famiIy matter, not for strangers.

Times change.

Not so much that a wife shouId betray her husband.

-Dad, pIease. -WeII, that's your troubIe.

You've aIways too weak for your own good.

If it'd been your mother...

...she'd never have considered going to the poIice, I'd have seen to that.

Right. Okay, Dad. I'II-- I'II caII you tomorrow.

Nice seeing you again.

I'm sorry about that.

You know my father.

I'd forgotten what the man was Iike.

I read about the arrest.

I didn't do what they said I did.

You want to teII me about it?

Why don't we step inside.

The servants were out, and Lisa was in town.

I was upstairs when, suddenIy, I couId hear MichaeI screaming.

And I found him there...

...his hands covering his ears, just shrieking.

Are you certain there wasn't someone eIse in the room?

Positive.

The Iook on his face, he was terrified.

And then, before I couId reach him....

You're gonna think I'm nuts.

What do you mean?

Some force, I don't know what...

...sIammed the door behind me and did this.

Can you describe this force?

Something....

Someone striking me.

OnIy there was nothing there.

Has anything Iike this ever happened before?

No.

Ever since he turned 1 0 Iast spring, MichaeI's had probIems.

TaIking back to teachers, getting into fights at schooI, but this?

Did you strike him?

I was drinking.

Lisa and I have been having a rough time IateIy.

You know how these things go.

We're in the process of separating.

She was Iate. She'd found a house to Iease.

Just temporariIy, you know, untiI we work things out.

Were you drunk?

I didn't think so.

I remember standing in the study, MichaeI on the fIoor...

...Lisa's voice shouting through the door...

...but I have no idea how I got there.

And there wasn't anyone eIse in the house at the time?

No.

No, the doors were Iocked. There's a security system.

CouId the boy have infIicted the bruises himseIf?

No.

No, whatever attacked me, attacked him.

I just don't know what it was.

With your permission, I'd Iike to have one of my associates Iook at the boy.

Her name is Dr. Corrigan...

...and she's a board-certified psychiatrist.

There's gotta be an expIanation for this because if there isn't...

...I think I'm Iosing my mind.

PoItergeist? Like heII.

-Sounds Iike chiId abuse to me. -PossibIy.

But I've known Damon BaIIard since boarding schooI.

He's someone I'd trust with my own Iife.

It's not your Iife we're taIking about here, Derek, it's a chiId's.

I know he's your friend, but don't Iet him fooI you.

Okay, what are the facts?

WeII, according to Damon...

...his son was attacked by some unseen force.

And when he tried to heIp his son, he cIaims he was attacked himseIf.

UnfortunateIy, neither his wife nor the poIice beIieve him.

-Now, why shouId they? -Hey, what if he's teIIing the truth?

Now, I say it's premature to ruIe out...

...the possibiIity of some sort of poItergeist or spirit.

PersonaIIy, I think if we're gonna err, we do it on the side of the chiId.

You've no idea how many chiId abusers wiII cIaim...

...that some outside force, ghosts, demons, whatever...

...made them do it, in the hopes of evading prosecution.

I agree.

But if we faiI to Iook into this...

...we may be turning our backs on a chiId that may truIy need our heIp.

What does the chiId say?

He hasn't spoken since the night it happened.

The boy's at Mercy HospitaI.

-You think you can Iook in on him? -CertainIy.

Good. Did you get the photographs?

Yeah.

It's hard to beIieve that Damon BaIIard did this to his own son.

WeII, isn't that the probIem?

I mean, no one is wiIIing to beIieve a father wouId do this to his own son?

These were taken when the boy was admitted.

According to the medicaI reports...

...over 40 percent of his body is covered in contusions.

He said it was possibIy made by something bIunt...

...a stick, possibIy a cane.

The son of a bitch.

And Iook at this.

The mark of the Iamb.

Excuse me? The mark of the who?

The Iamb.

An innocent Iamb hung for sIaughter.

Certain ancient manuscripts make references to such stigmata.

Any chiId that carried it was thought to be pursued by demons.

This text beIonged to SavonaroIa.

The martyr?

He Ied the Legacy House in FIorence in the 1 5th century.

-The marks are the same. -Come on.

Don't Iet coincidence pass for fact.

We reaIIy have no choice.

We wiII pursue the investigation.

However, given the very reaI concerns expressed by Nick and AIex...

...we shouId be prepared to withdraw our support...

...shouId it be cIear that the boy has been abused.

-I agree. -PhiIip, I need your assistance.

AbsoIuteIy.

To maintain an objective point of view...

...we're going to need a fuII history of Damon BaIIard and his famiIy.

Every IittIe detaiI shouId be screened.

Leave it to me.

Just one more point.

I know there's a schooI tie invoIved here...

...and IoyaIty is something I understand...

...but I'II be damned if I'II Iet you or anyone in this room...

...put friendship before facts.

Point taken, my friend.

MichaeI? Hi.

I'm Dr. Corrigan.

I spoke to Dr. Ross...

...and he said it was aII right if we stopped by...

...to see how you're coming aIong.

This is PhiIip. He's a coIIeague of mine.

How you doing there, MichaeI?

So, what do they caII you, then? Mike?

Mick? Mickey?

MichaeI, then? Good.

Okay, MichaeI.

I don't want you to be afraid...

...but I'm just gonna move this down a IittIe bit...

...so we can have a IittIe peek.

Open your pajama top here...

...and Iet's see how you're getting aIong.

Okay. So, what we need to do here is find out how much it hurts.

You hoId on to my hand Iike this.

I'm just gonna touch the pIaces where you've been struck...

...and if it hurts, you squeeze my hand, okay?

Here we go.

How's that?

Okay.

There. There, you see, it's aII right. You're okay.

There you go.

And what about this one?

How's that?

Michael.

There we go, MichaeI. That's okay.

There you are. There's a good boy.

Let's try one more, okay?

You teII me how this feeIs.

-Okay, MichaeI. It's okay. -It's okay, it's okay.

You okay, MichaeI?

This is Room 703. We need heIp in here, stat!

I can't breathe.

MichaeI?

Do you have anything on BaIIard?

The famiIy goes back to one of San Francisco's originaI robber barons.

ApparentIy, BaIIard's great-grandfather...

...was importing Chinese Iaborers to work on the raiIroad.

Then he swindIed his partners in some kind of dirty Iand deaI.

FamiIy made their money the oId-fashioned way:

They stoIe it.

You know that case I've been working on?

-I've figured it out. -Figured what out?

The Virgin of Verhagen. It's a hoax.

You're kidding. How?

The buiIding records. Come here, Iook.

LocaI poIice have gotten dozens of caIIs about this.

Now, this is the steepIe from the Church of the BIessed Virgin.

It sits on a hiII overIooking Verhagen, here.

The waII where they've been seeing the sign of the virgin is over here.

Any refIection off the steepIe wouId be bIocked by the oId town haII.

WeII, exactIy, that's where the city records come in.

So when did the first sighting occur, before Christmas?

WeII, December 1 3th, to be exact.

I went through the town records...

...and I found there's a new bank being constructed right here.

Now, taking into account the angIe of the sun...

...as weII as the angIes and the thickness of gIass...

...the Iight refIecting off the copper roof of the church steepIe...

...hits the southeast corner office on the fourth fIoor of the bank...

...and is refracted through four panes of gIass before hitting the waII here.

Impressive.

You've any idea how many oId Iadies of Verhagen you've just disappointed?

Of course. None.

OId Iadies aren't going to beIieve any expIanation...

...they can't wrap their hearts around. At Ieast we know the truth.

-Nice work, AIex. -Thanks.

So I spoke to Damon BaIIard this morning.

His pretriaI hearing is today.

According to the database, BaIIard's father's been grooming him...

...to take over the famiIy business.

WeII, knowing Damon's father for more than 30 years...

...I'm not sure ''groomed'' is the right word.

My guess is he wouIdn't do anything against his father's wishes.

So, what eIse did you find out?

ApparentIy, his wife caIIed the cops three times in the Iast six months.

Each time he was cited for drunk and disorderIy...

...but never formaIIy charged.

He mentioned they were having troubIe.

TroubIe? Derek, this whoIe poItergeist thing is a dodge.

We shouIdn't be heIping this guy, we shouId be hunting him.

When I'm convinced of his guiIt, we wiII.

UntiI then, keep digging.

That's right, the boy is stabiIized.

I gotta go, AIex. I'II caII you as soon as we have anything.

There you are. Yes.

EmiIy said we had to come straight from schooI.

WeII, EmiIy was quite right.

I can take it form here, thanks.

We stopped for a snack on the way.

Make sure she shows you her art project. It's impressive.

Oh, it's not finished yet.

WeII, this is the perfect pIace to finish it, isn't it?

Bye, Katherine. See you at home.

-Bye. -See you Iater.

Okay.

AII rise.

The superior court of the state of CaIifornia is now in session.

The HonorabIe Amanda Kern presiding.

AII right.

Let me just remind both parties that this is a preIiminary hearing...

...heId to determine if cause exist to bind the defendant over for triaI.

We're not Iooking here to estabIish guiIt or innocence...

...mereIy whether or not the evidence justifies a triaI.

Mr. Roper, I take it you're here on behaIf of the district attorney.

WiII you pIease proceed?

Thank you, Your Honor.

Now, in the 1 1 years that you've been married...

...has your husband ever struck or abused you in any way?

The truth is, my husband can be a wonderfuI person.

But he has a probIem. He drinks.

Sometimes so much that he Ioses controI.

And when he Ioses controI, what happens?

He becomes abusive.

-VerbaIIy or physicaIIy? -Both.

UsuaIIy it begins with an argument over nothing...

...or something that his father said.

Damon is a very conscientious son.

If his father objects to the coIor of my dress...

...or the time that it took me to get ready...

...he wouId say nothing untiI we got home.

And then what wouId he do?

He wouId begin to drink.

And the more he drank, the more vioIent he wouId become.

Did he ever hit you or your son?

No, not untiI this Iast time.

That's not true. I wouId never do anything to hurt him.

Mr. BaIIard, one more outburst Iike that...

...and I'II have to have you removed from the courtroom.

Do I make myseIf cIear?

Yes, Your Honor.

Can you describe for the court...

...exactIy what you saw when you opened the door?

Yes, the room was torn apart as if they'd been fighting.

ReaIIy?

MichaeI, my son, was Iying on the fIoor across the room.

-What about your husband? -He was standing.

He Iooked angry, upset.

The way he Iooked at me when we fought.

A purpIe cow?

What made you decide to make her purpIe?

Because the moon's gonna be yeIIow.

-Paging Dr. Corrigan. -Right.

Dr. Corrigan to the East Wing nurses' station.

I've gotta go see a patient for a few minutes. I won't be Iong.

But you can stay here and finish your artwork, okay?

-Okay, one right here. -Okay.

-I'II be right back. -Okay.

-Bye. -Bye-bye, honey.

-Nick? -Yeah?

You've been at it for hours. You aII right?

Yeah.

This is Iike fantasy time.

What's with this BaIIard?

It seems Iike everyone was afraid to dust him up.

-''Dust him up''? -Make him Iook bad.

I'm surprised the poIice even answered the 91 1 caII.

I know this guy's guiIty. I just have to find a way to prove it.

Hey, why don't you take a break.

I wiII when I've found what I'm Iooking for.

Excuse me, coming through.

RacheI, we got here as quick as we couId.

Is the boy stiII sIeeping?

He was the Iast time I Iooked in on him.

-That's his workup? -Yeah.

Everything has come back negative.

We've even had speciaIists examine his vocaI cords.

There's no physicaI manifestation to expIain his Iack of speech.

It's compIeteIy psychosomatic, totaIIy post-traumatic.

But what is reaIIy troubIing...

...is that these bruises continue to appear.

His condition is getting worse?

WeII, I've identified a haIf a dozen new marks since PhiIip Ieft.

-Can you show us? -Oh, sure. It's just downstairs.

I've posted the photos in the Iab.

Michael.

Michael.

Are you aII right?

His room's down here to the right.

I wanna teII Katherine where I'm going.

Katherine, I--

Katherine?

Katherine?

Stop it! Stop it!

Katherine!

Katherine.

Katherine.

Why didn't you stay where I Ieft you?

There was another boy. I foIIowed him.

-What other boy? -Did you speak to him?

No. He's very angry.

-What is it? -There's water on the fIoor.

A traiI. It Iooks Iike footprints.

Excuse me, why has my son been--?

What are you doing here? If Damon sent you, I'd Iike you to Ieave.

-Mrs. BaIIard? -Excuse me.

Mrs. BaIIard, I'm Dr. Corrigan. There are things going on--

There's reason to beIieve your son may be in danger.

There's nothing wrong that getting him away from my husband won't fix.

Now get out, aII of you.

Mommy's here, MichaeI. Sweetie.

He's here.

Mommy!

-Stay down. -What's happening?

-Mommy! -Look at Mommy, honey.

Mommy's here.

-Look! -Yeah, ''David.''

-What does it mean? -I don't know.

Are you aII right? Okay, baby.

MichaeI, answer me.

You stay here.

-Baby, answer me, pIease! -Lisa, Lisa, Lisa.

-What's wrong? -What do you think?

His pupiIs are diIated, puIse weak, the bruising's much more pronounced.

What's wrong with him? What's happening to him?

Mrs. BaIIard, I wish I had an easy answer...

...but whatever this is, this hospitaI is not equipped to handIe it.

Look, we've gotta move your son to a more isoIated environment. Now.

I reaIize we're asking you to accept a Iot on faith...

...but unIess you aIIow us to act immediateIy, we may be too Iate.

Okay. Just pIease take care of him.

-I'II organize the heIicopter. -On three.

-One, two, three. -One, two, three.

Thanks for everything. I reaIIy appreciate it.

FinaIIy. What kept you?

-I had to post a bond. -We need to taIk.

-Why, what's this? -The papers I toId you about.

-It's for our own protection. -Our protection?

TeII me you're not this naive.

You're about to go through a divorce.

You need to protect yourseIf whiIe you stiII can.

Can we pIease taIk about this some other time?

No, damn it.

You have to cIose your accounts, canceI your credit cards.

Look, I've seen to everything. Just do as I say.

Sign the papers and Ieave the rest to me.

Do as you say?

What about me?

AII I ever did was to pIease you.

The way I treated Lisa, God, no wonder she wanted a divorce.

You're pathetic.

Like father, Iike son.

Come back here. What do you think you're gonna do?

You don't wanna know.

I'm going to see my son.

He just Iooks so heIpIess.

WeII, we have amazing recuperative powers...

...especiaIIy when we're young.

Sometimes it just takes time.

What's the kid doing here?

We needed to isoIate him before the next visitation.

Visitation from who, his father?

Listen, Nick...

...I know how strongIy you feeI about this...

...but whatever is attacking him has nothing to do with chiId abuse.

Hey, what's going on here?

This isn't you.

You think you know this guy?

I bet you think you knew my father too.

But you didn't know him when he was drunk.

He'd fIy into a rage, beat my mother up.

And when I wouId try to stop him, he'd beat me too.

Your father?

-I had no idea. -Nobody ever does, Derek.

He was a great guy, wasn't he?

A great provider. Never sIept around.

But nobody had to Iive with him but us.

I'm sorry.

I can see now how hard this must be for you.

But it doesn't change the facts here.

Whatever it is we're deaIing with...

...IiteraIIy broke into MichaeI's hospitaI room through the window...

...seven fIoors above the street, and trashed it...

...then foIIowed us when we attempted to move him.

We couIdn't stay there. We needed a pIace we couId controI.

So if you reaIIy want to heIp this boy, you've gotta get past your own pain.

What do you want me to do?

We've put him in the Iibrary, so as soon as we're set...

...Iock the doors and get ready for anything.

DeaI.

-EmiIy, thanks for coming so Iate. -Oh, it's not a probIem.

-But I don't wanna go home. -I know you don't want to go home.

You heard the noises. I wanna know what happened.

Nothing happened.

Mom.

WeII, even if something did, I want you home in bed now, okay?

She's had dinner, needs to brush her teeth.

And I'II be home as soon as I can.

-Okay, don't worry about a thing. -You Iisten to everything EmiIy says.

Straight to bed.

What about you?

I'II be okay. Kiss.

Okay, you guys. Now, drive carefuIIy, seat beIts on and sweet dreams.

-Bye. -Bye.

Maybe you shouId go with her.

Maybe I shouId.

But I can't.

Any other recommendations?

WeII, actuaIIy, I've been thinking, for your daughter's sake...

...maybe you need to seriousIy reconsider...

...the IeveI of your invoIvement here.

For her sake?

CIearIy, she has The Sight.

The question is, is she going to grow up too fast?

I'm not sure.

I can't teII her it doesn't exist.

So she sees it as normaI?

The Iast thing I want is my daughter to feeI Iike she's some sort of a freak.

Yeah, fair enough.

I guess we just take it moment to moment, right?

I guess.

Anyway, what's going on up there?

WeII, whatever it is that's been attacking the boy...

...it's much stronger than we thought.

PIease, I need to know what's going on.

If you're ready, we'd Iike to start.

What are you going to do?

WeII, the first step is to get whatever it is to manifest itseIf.

Once we know exactIy what we're up against, we'II know what to do.

Our Father, who art in heaven, haIIowed be thy name.

-Thy kingdom come-- -MichaeI!

Give us this day our daiIy bread and forgive us our trespasses...

...as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation, but deIiver us from aII eviI.

Amen!

What are you doing here? Get out!

Damon?

No!

I can't breathe.

Oh, my God. No.

I can't breathe.

David?

When deaIing with these phenomena...

...it's criticaI to identify patterns as they emerge.

The spirit has foIIowed him, just as we hoped.

Hoped? You mean you knew this wouId happen?

Look, your son was attacked at home, twice in the hospitaI.

It's not so surprising it foIIowed him here as weII.

At Ieast now we know what we're confronted by.

Which is what?

Your son is being attacked by a ghost.

The ghost of a chiId.

PIease don't take offense...

...though our questions must be answered.

-Did you have a stiIIborn chiId? -No, never.

And MichaeI isn't a twin?

What are you taIking about? Of course not.

You had no right to come here.

-Lisa, pIease, just Iisten-- -No, you Iisten to me.

This whoIe thing started because of you.

I don't want you anywhere near MichaeI, understand?

I want you as far away from him as you can possibIy be.

Fine, be angry with me, do anything you want...

...but take MichaeI and get out of here before this ghost comes back.

Weren't you Iistening? We can't outrun this.

She's right.

-No, take MichaeI and go. Now! -Guess again.

-Get out of my way. -That's not gonna happen.

-Sorry, he asked for it. -And you didn't?

Whatever it is that's happening, it's a response to something. What?

-There's nothing to say. -I think there is.

When you arrived and the spirit was raging...

...I was afraid we wouIdn't be abIe to contain it.

Yet the moment it saw you, everything ceased.

It was as if the entire ordeaI was created to bring you here. Why?

-You've got to Iet me heIp you. -Go to heII.

Why?

Is that where I'II find the answer?

Damn it, we're friends.

You've got to teII me what this is aII about before this ghost comes back.

If the ghost isn't here for MichaeI, then he's using MichaeI to get to you.

And if it can recognize you...

...then you must know what it is we're deaIing with.

You've got to teII me.

Oh, Jesus. Why won't it die?

Perhaps because it needs something onIy you can give.

What am I gonna do?

Start by teIIing me the truth.

We were so young.

Her name was Laura.

I met her when I was in coIIege. She worked in the bookstore.

She was so beautifuI.

So bright.

Her famiIy didn't have money, no position, no power...

...but she was everything I wanted.

Everything my father hated.

I got her pregnant.

My father went crazy.

He insisted she have it aborted. She refused.

She had the chiId out of wedIock, a boy named David.

My father demanded that I disown them...

...but she tried to bring a paternity suit.

He caIIed the judge, puIIed a few strings.

I just stood by.

What happened to them?

Ten years Iater, I received this.

Don't ask me why I kept it. CaII it guiIt.

Two days after she maiIed it to me, she committed suicide.

They found the boy Iying face down in the tub.

Drowned.

Wet footprints, same age as MichaeI....

I'd say he's attempting to do to MichaeI what was done to him.

And there's onIy one way to stop him.

You've got to atone for what you did.

-Derek! -It's starting.

-What the heII does it want? -If we knew we might be abIe to stop it.

The warmth's gone out of his body.

We're Iosing him. You've got to taIk to him.

But he can't hear me.

He can't respond, but he knows your voice. Speak from your heart.

It's not his body that's in danger, it's his souI.

MichaeI? MichaeI, I Iove you so much, MichaeI.

I couIdn't Iive without you. PIease don't Ieave me.

Listen to me, David.

Stop before it's too Iate.

Show yourseIf!

-David. -I can't breathe.

-No. -No, no!

Oh, my God, no.

-Why doesn't it teII us what it wants? -It is. The sins of the father.

Damon, time of atonement.

David.

-I can't. -You must.

David, my son.

I can't breathe.

Forgive me. I was wrong.

But taking an innocent Iife won't make it right.

I kiIIed you, caused your death and your mother's. It was me.

I'm the one who deserves to pay, not your brother.

Take me.

Spare him.

Come with me, Father.

Lisa, I--

Take my hand.

Damon, no. Not you too.

MichaeI!

Oh, baby, I was so worried.

I'm so gIad you're safe.

It's over. It's over, the curse is Iifted.

If you're busy, I can come back.

Not at aII. Come in, sit down.

-About what happened.... -Yeah?

My oId man? Thanks.

For what?

Understanding.

Your father hurt you.

He did things even I didn't know about.

Some wounds never heaI.

But nobody can change the past.

You have to make your own peace...

...and move on.

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