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[metal clanging]

[water dripping]

[indistinct echoes]

[slow gentle music]

[plane engine whirring]

[dramatic music]

[announcer indistinctly]

[police sirens]

[lighter flickering]

[speaking foreign language]

- I too was lost,

searching for a way,

searching for this.

- Did it help?

- It did what was needed.

- Will this help my son?

- It will find the evil and it will destroy it.

- Then I need it.

- You seek to cast stones.

The path that they take,

the path they make,

may not lead where you expect.

Remember,

once you become one with the covenant,

that will be all you know

until it's evil is cast into an eternal darkness.

Once you begin, there will be no turning back.

You accept?

[dramatic music]

Do you accept it?

- Yes.

- These are the words of the offering,

which must be spoken.

[speaking ancient language]

[both speaking ancient language]

You understand what must be said?

- Yes.

[heavy whirring]

[slow dramatic music]

[slow dramatic music continues]

[ascending dramatic music]

[slow dramatic music]

[crows crowing]

- [Vanessa] I miss you.

- But doctor, he's not okay.

Look, can you come in today?

[indistinct voices]

- Hey.

What did the doctor say?

- Same old.

- Karl.

- Oh, come on, Nessa. Give me a break.

Okay, I'm trying.

I've tried everything.

I don't know what else I can do.

- Have you tried talking to him?

- Ness, he doesn't communicate

with me in the same way as he does with you.

I don't know why. He just doesn't.

- Maybe because the last few weeks

he's only seen this one side of you.

- What you mean?

- You're his father. He's your son.

Why don't you go find him, knock on his door?

Tell him you love him?

[slow dramatic music]

- All right.

[kisses smacking]

[metal clanging]

[bird squawking]

Kit.

Kit.

[bird wings flapping]

Kit.

[bird squawking]

Kit.

Kit, you're up here?

[bird squawking]

Kit.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

[Kit howling]

- No, dad.

He was trying to escape.

I couldn't get out.

- Leave that.

Kit, give me that. Give me that. Leave that.

Hey, I've told you, you shouldn't come up here on your own.

- I'm sorry, dad.

- No, it's okay.

- Mr. Mellor, this is a third time

you've been here in this many weeks.

We can't give you a mental health referral

for at least another three months.

- For goodness sake.

Well, can't you give him some pills

or a sedative or something?

- Mr. Mellor do you know the best thing we can prescribe?

Just live your life as normal, okay.

And put your son back in school.

You've shown us his records. We know he thrives there.

And you and your wife perhaps go back to work.

- Go back to work.

Kit is becoming increasingly more violent on a daily basis.

I mean, he attacked me twice yesterday.

- Mr. Mellor, it's not unusual for a child

of his age to act out occasionally.

You said he'd been in the fight at school.

I don't really know what else you'd like me to do.

- Fine. Well, when it gets worse, we'll,

I'll be sure to give you a call.

Thank you, doctor.

[gentle music]

Well, I think we're gonna need a second opinion.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic whirring]

- You okay?

What happened?

- I'm sorry. I thought I saw something.

Jesus Christ.

Sorry guys.

[clock ticking]

[bell dinging]

[crow crowing]

I'll be back in a bit.

- Maybe we should try putting him back in school?

Things might be different now.

- Oh, Christ, not you too.

I mean, the doctors at least have an excuse.

They don't know it. You do.

You've seen what's happened.

You might not wanna admit it to yourself.

You know as well as I do what all this means.

We've both seen the signs.

- [Vanessa] Maybe worth a try.

- Well we have tried.

Tried almost every other.

Father Bailey will know what to do.

[crows crowing]

[pouring alcohol]

[guitar music]

[gentle guitar music]

♪ When we heard church people say ♪

♪ They are our only holy way ♪

♪ There are strange things ♪

♪ Happening every day ♪

♪ And on that last screen judgment day ♪

♪ When he drove them all away ♪

♪ There are strange things happening every day ♪

♪ Every day ♪

♪ Every day ♪

♪ There are strange things ♪

♪ Happening every day ♪

♪ Every day ♪

♪ Every day ♪

♪ There are strange things ♪

♪ Happening every day ♪

♪ Now Jesus is a holy light ♪

♪ I'm turning darkness into light ♪

♪ He gone give the blind man's sight ♪

♪ When he pressing with all his might ♪

♪ Strange things happening every day ♪

[indistinct whispering]

[speaking ancient language]

[clock ticking]

[bell dinging]

[water running]

- He's here.

[door knocking]

- Can I be completely honest with you?

Now, as I've told you many times before,

you are a million, million miles away

from anything approaching an exorcism.

Now look, I can't go to the Daieshan Bishop

with nothing more than your suspicions.

Look, I know Kit.

He should be back at school learning, playing, having fun.

There is nothing wrong with your son.

- There's nothing wrong with him. You're joking.

He attacked another kid at school, okay.

The parents wanted him thrown out.

- And it had all the hallmarks of one of Kit's episodes.

Now the other boy got hurt trying to help him.

Kit got scared. That's all.

Now, I have since spoken to the other parents

and they have accepted that.

- No, I'm sorry. You're just not seeing it right.

Okay, you're not looking at it the right way.

- Or perhaps if I saw him again, alone.

- No. No, no, no. I'm... I don't think I'm...

- It's okay.

Maybe it'd be good for him to see.

See how much he's changed. See what he's become.

Just give us a minute will you.

- Thank you.

[thunder rolling]

[eerie music]

- He's good.

I don't want you scaring him. It's been a while.

- Thank you. Won't be long.

Hey, Kit.

Good to see you again.

How you doing?

How are you feeling?

- Sad.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I get it.

Is that the Bible I left you?

- Yeah.

- Hand it to me.

Thank you.

Did you read the passage I asked you to?

- Yeah.

Honor thy father and thy mother

that thy days may be long upon

the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

- That's it.

That's good. Do you understand it?

You realize it's more than just words.

[dramatic music]

Your mom and dad are very worried about you.

They're at their wits' end.

They think there is something

broken in you and they wanna fix it.

They wanna make you feel better.

- I'm not broken.

- That is good. That's good.

Look, I know things are difficult right now,

but your mom and dad, they love you very much.

- Even dad?

- Even dad.

Tell you what.

Next time I come,

why don't I bring you something a bit more fun to read, eh?

Like comic books.

- Spider-Man.

- Spider-Man, it is.

Good night, young Kit.

See you again soon.

[thunder rolling]

Thank you, Vanessa.

We should get going now. Good night.

- Well, that's it.

You're just gonna leave. What happened out there?

- Well, as I've told you before, Mr. Mellor,

there is nothing wrong with your son.

- Of course there fucking is.

I mean, you saw it.

- Karl.

- If I were you, I would be more concerned

with the marks on his wrist.

- Wait a minute. What are you implying?

- Move on. - Move on?

Did you see what he did to me?

The only thing you saw on him, he only did it to himself.

Trust me.

- Do you know he didn't even flinch?

- I'm sorry, what are you saying?

- When I asked him to hand me this.

It's the Bible I left him the last time I was here.

But even to the cross on the front cover, the symbol.

Our great Lord.

Nor when I ask him to repeat Bible first.

Now, hardly sounds like someone possessed.

- You're really not gonna do anything, are you?

You're just like the rest of them.

- Believe me, I wish I could do more.

- Look, look.

I'm sorry if I spoke out of turn, okay.

We're a little desperate here.

I mean, we can't work with this going on, right.

We're broke.

We're only trying to do the best we can for Kit.

So whatever you think, that's all we wanna do here.

- Look maybe, maybe. I can speak to the bishop.

Get him to see him or at the very least, just talk to him.

It might take a couple of days.

Just I can't promise anything.

- Thank you, for coming.

[rain falling]

[thunder rolling]

[dramatic music]

Okay, one

more.

- Please. Don't be scared of me, mom.

- No. Of course I'm not.

Come on.

One,

two,

three. [Kit inhaling]

You good? [kisses smacking]

[bell dinging]

♪ You're my kinda damage ♪

♪ You're my kinda broken ♪

♪ How you're my kinda masochist, self defense, double length ♪

♪ No one else but you ♪

[water running]

[dramatic howling]

♪ My kinda damaged ♪

♪ You're my kinda fucked up ♪

♪ How you're my kinda ♪

[slow dramatic music]

[speaking ancient language]

[water boiling]

[slow dramatic music]

- Lord give me strength.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- [Karl] How you feeling? - Okay.

And I don't like being here like this, dad.

- Oh, I know Kit. I know.

Wow.

Wow.

Kit, this is the best one yet. This is fantastic.

Can I keep this one?

- Yeah, of course dad.

- Thanks kiddo.

Hey, listen.

I've got something that'll make you feel better.

You want to see it?

Huh?

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Okay. But Kit, I have to untie you first, okay.

So you promise you'd be a good boy,

you're not going to give me any trouble?

Yeah?

- I promise.

- Okay.

Here.

Okay, now Kit. You have to keep your eyes closed.

No, no Kit. No peeking. Okay promise.

- Okay. Okay.

- Okay, now give me a hand. It's okay, Kit. Trust me.

Give me your hand.

[speaking ancient language]

No peeking.

[dramatic music]

[Kit & Karl screaming]

No Kit! Kit no!

Kit stop fighting! - Get off me!

- Stop fighting! - Get off!

- Stay there. Calm down!

- Karl, what are you doing?

- Are you okay? What happened?

- [Karl] He attacked me. - [Kit] He hurt me.

- He attacked me!

- Just leave.

- Well that's not what happened. It's not what happened.

- Get out!

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

[slow dramatic music]

[chattering echoes]

[metal clanging]

- Why?

- Why what?

- Why any of it?

Is this what we've come to now?

- I know you think this is crazy, okay. But it's working.

- Crazy. Yeah, it's fucking crazy.

- Nessa, this has to be done, okay.

I mean, it's the only way to keep him safe.

- [Vanessa] Safe from what? - You know what.

Come on. You know what?

I mean, all of this, okay.

All of it is to make sure no one gets hurt.

- Kit got hurt.

- And I told you that wasn't me.

- Then what?

Who did it Karl?

Because you're scaring him, you're scaring me.

- I am not a monster, Nessa, okay.

I wouldn't hurt anybody, let alone our own son.

I mean, Jesus Christ, who do you think I am?

Hey, look at me. I love you.

Just stick with me, okay.

- This has to stop!

- Jesus Christ Nessa, no one is coming to help us, okay.

I don't know why you don't understand that.

Get it through your head.

[thunder rolling]

[ascending dramatic music]

- Hey, you're awake.

- Yeah.

What's dad doing?

He's...

he's just trying to protect you.

- Why does he hate me?

- He doesn't hate you. Okay, he loves you.

Never let anything bad happen to you.

- He says that what's inside me is bad.

I want it gone. I don't want to be bad.

No, you're not.

- Come on.

Come on, sit up.

What happened earlier?

Kit, tell me.

- He said it would help me.

[drilling wood]

[eerie music]

[dramatic music]

[rain falling]

[dramatic music]

[drilling wood]

[eerie music]

- Where did you go?

You shouldn't go outside in this weather.

- I had to get rid of something.

- Did you?

I know this is a lot for you.

Okay, I mean, it is for me.

You've seen these things for yourself, Nessa.

You've seen what's happened to him.

Like I said, no one's gonna help us.

We're completely alone on this.

- We've been alone for a long time, Karl.

Long before this.

I just want him to be safe.

- And at the end of tonight, he will be.

I promise you.

You just have to trust me,

and then we'll be back to the way they were before.

- Back to the way things were before.

Before what? Before this.

Before you lost control of everything,

before you lost your job.

- I didn't lose it, Nessa. It lost me.

I mean, teaching fucking history was hardly my thing.

- No, this is more than just tonight, Karl.

More than just Kit.

How could things ever be the same?

Kit told me what happened.

You had something up there,

and it hurt him.

It hurt you.

- Please, please just tell me what it was.

[dramatic music]

- Where is it?

Where is it?

Do you have any idea what you've done?

Fuck, where is it?

- Karl!

- After the blessing,

you cannot break the seal behind it.

Okay. You cannot break the pact we made with it.

- The pact. What pact?

- Shit! You've ruined it. You've ruined everything.

- Christ, Karl, do you even hear what you're saying?

This is madness.

- You broke its covenant with us, Vanessa.

- Covenant.

You harmed our son.

- I didn't touch him. Don't you get it?

He had the wounds on his hand.

The same as mine. You saw it.

Yes, you saw it.

- I saw it.

- Nessa. This isn't madness, Nessa.

This is fucking real.

- Wait, Karl, you're scaring me?

What are you gonna do?

- Where did you put it?

- In the bin outside. I was scared for Kit.

[door slammed]

- Oh, my God.

Nessa, it won't open.

- [Vanessa] The keys are there.

- It won't open. Fuck!

- Fuck!

Fuck it won't open.

It won't open.

- Where are the keys?

- I don't know.

- Where have they gone? I just saw them.

I always keep them in the cupboard. I don't see them.

- I don't know!

[speaking indistinctly]

- Shit, it can't open.

[heavy thudding]

Nessa, stop.

Stop! Listen to me.

Listen, I've got it wrong.

It's not that we can't break the seal of the house.

It's that it won't let us. Do you understand?

- What did you do?

What the hell did you do?

What the hell did you do?

[slow dramatic music]

I'd go outside but, well, you know.

- I thought we both quit a year ago.

I guess we all have our secrets.

- That's really rich.

Why don't you tell me some of yours?

Where'd you go for over a week?

No calls, no messages, nothing.

- Sorry, I didn't realize I was ever that missed.

- Just to go get that thing, isn't it?

Where the hell did it come from?

What is it?

- [Karl] Ness, please, I just need you to be...

- Tell me!

- I don't know.

It's old.

Hey.

There were religions, okay.

Societies long before us.

Societies arose and fell.

Knowledge of those societies becoming lost.

Back then there was a…

There was a constant in all beliefs,

beliefs that were rooted in the earth

we walk on, the air we breathe.

Beliefs that were closer to the nature

that creates life and takes it away.

You can still find remnants of these societies

in the religious tanks of today, but most vanished.

And one of these societies,

they created the unlock, a spirit lock.

I mean, it's the only thing that remains

to say they ever existed.

The language that's engraved upon it

only survives from person to person.

Someone who uses it needs it.

They pass it on, the next soul finds it when they need it.

It'll be their responsibility to pass it on.

It's language, it's warnings, it's truth.

- It's truth. What truth?

- Its truths are its warnings because the truth is pure.

Nessa, this thing, it knows evil, it knows corruption,

it knows the sickness that is ailing our son

and it will pass its judgment on it.

- You say it can help Kit.

- It can. It just got complicated.

- Yeah. Yeah, so that's a pretty fair assessment.

Just like the history lesson you just gave me.

So how's this covenant gonna help?

- The covenant.

The covenants only formed through the congregate, right.

The blood of more than one.

And that's what I was doing upstairs with Kit.

The covenant we made with it now

only serves to protect us in this house.

Look, there's three dials on its face, three tumblers.

And each one is a different stage

accompanied by a different blessing.

And supposedly I'll know when to do each one

because the tumbler will lock into place. I know.

The first stage is the initiation.

Where it connects with the evil spirit.

The second is the manifestation where it draws it out.

And the third, the third is the deliverance.

That's where it eradicates it, destroys it.

I don't know, maybe it's all bullshit, but we have to try.

[bell dings]

It's working.

[thunder rolling]

Stay, stay close.

- Kit.

[eerie music]

- No, no, wait, wait.

Look.

How is that back inside?

You left it outside.

You'll leave it.

You can't even see. - Get off me.

[speaking ancient language]

- Breath. Breath. Just breath.

[speaking ancient language]

[electric current]

- Kit. Kit. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

- You could have killed him!

- It's working. You saw it. It's working.

[dramatic music]

[Kit howling]

[eerie music]

You should probably eat. It's gonna be a long night.

- Karl, can you tell me what happened before?

- Which part exactly?

I mean, it's not like a lot didn't happen up there.

- I'm talking specifically about the part when you watched

our son suffer.

When he couldn't breathe

and you tried to stop me from helping him.

- Is that what you saw?

- You asshole.

You fucking piece of shit.

He has asthma, you could have killed him.

- Do you really think that was asthma? Really?

[slow dramatic music]

Nessa, what is wrong with you?

- It's over.

Whatever happens tonight it's over. Do you hear me?

- All right well, lucky for you. Mine won't come off.

Even if I fucking wanted it to. Why?

Because I love you, Vanessa.

Because I'm committed to you, because I took a fucking oath

and nothing's ever gonna change that.

Nessa, where are you going? Wait.

- Let go of me.

- I am not gonna let him die, okay.

And it's not gonna let him die either.

You just have to trust me, please.

- What the fuck happened to you, Karl?

- Nessa, wait...

- Not the fucking man for me.

You're not the man I married. Nor the man I once knew.

You have no idea what this thing is.

Do you, none?

- Ness.

- What did you do to us, you fucking idiot?

- Nessa, if you really loved him,

you'd realize this needs to be done.

I mean, what choice do we have?

I'm not the fucking problem here.

[thunder rolling]

[pouring drink]

- [Vanessa] Dear Tom, happy birthday.

I'm so lucky to have met you.

You turned my life around.

I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you.

I love you so much.

With all the love in the world, Vanessa and Kit.

[dramatic music]

[glass breaking] [Kit howling]

- [Voice] Karl. Karl. [Kit howling]

[speaking ancient language]

[Kit howling]

- Get off me.

Where's Kit? - What?

- Kit, he was just here.

He was just on top of me.

- Karl, Karl, Karl.

Karl, he hasn't moved.

- He was trying to kill me.

- Karl, he hasn't moved. He's still upstairs.

Strapped to his bed.

Exactly where you left him.

- He was right here.

- Dad, what's going on?

Dad.

Dad.

- I'm sorry Kit. I'm sorry. It's not...

I'm sorry. No, it's not your fault.

It's just, you're not whole yet. Okay, buddy.

I'm sorry.

[thunder rolling]

Give me the fucking card!

It's very nice by the way.

Stoke on trend's a bit far.

I was curious, how are you gonna make that work?

- He made the time.

He made it work.

He would move mountains.

Turn his schedule sideways just to be with me,

even if for a minute.

- To be with you and Kit?

- You make it sound like it was for no reason.

- Sign the card from Kit.

My son to whoever the fuck this guy is.

- It's been in my purse for months

trying to find the courage to send it knowing now.

Once I had that I'd be gone.

Then everything with Kit began

and I wanted to support you,

support our family,

and I thought maybe it was a sign.

A sign that we were meant to be together.

And then something in Thomas changed.

He stopped messaging me every day.

He stopped speaking and then one day it all just stopped.

- Yeah. Funny though.

You know I was surprised when I found this card.

I was surprised because I thought it

was over between you two.

I thought it was done.

You see, I've been on more than a couple

of trips this past few months.

I overheard you talking to him on the phone.

I even read your fucking text messages.

So I thought I'd pay him a visit at his work

and I talked to him face to face, man to man.

- What?

- And I told him to stay the fuck away from my family.

- I didn't send the card because,

because Thomas killed himself.

It was you. It was your fault.

I thought it was because I couldn't be with him,

because his own flesh and blood

was being raised by another man.

But you.

- I'm sorry, what the fuck did you just say?

- Oh, you didn't know that did you?

That's how unhappy I've been.

Desperate for a way out.

- It's not true. It's just tonight.

It's just this thing... - [Vanessa] Bullshit.

- That's making you say that.

- This craziness, this obsession,

this sickness has consumed you.

It's made you blind to everything. Don't you see?

Last month, the pills, the vomiting, the cutting.

The wounds are still fresh. I tried to join him.

- You saying he's not my son?

- How could he be yours?

You're always on the road fucking groupies instead of me?

And then it was just the pity fuck on your birthday.

The only time we ever came close.

- Close to what?

- I miscarried Karl.

As it grown out, you never even noticed.

- Nessa, you never told me this.

- What was the point?

It's just God's way of saying,

"No, this isn't right."

That we, maybe me and you weren't meant to be.

That may be,

Thomas, Kit and I were.

- Nessa, I still love you, okay. No matter what.

- I don't love you, Karl.

I haven't for a very, very long time.

I want out.

[slow dramatic music]

[bell dinging]

- Karl.

[Vanessa moaning]

[slow dramatic music]

- Most beautiful warts.

[water bubbles]

[thunder rolling]

[Vanessa screaming]

- No.

- [voice] Karl.

Karl.

- Nessa. Nessa I'm coming up.

- [voice] Karl. [thunder rolling]

- Fuck.

[glass breaking]

- Nessa.

Nessa.

- Karl.

[thunder rolling]

[Vanessa screaming]

[Vanessa howling]

- Kit, listen to me.

Whatever happens, I need you to trust me. Don't be scared.

- Let me in!

- I'm sorry.

- No. No. No. Don't you be sorry, Kit.

I'm the one that's wrong. I got it wrong.

- You got what wrong?

- It doesn't matter.

Okay. I just need you to forgive me, okay.

Can you forgive me?

[thunder rolling]

- You know I do.

[Vanessa howling]

Mom.

- Can you just let him go?

Please?

I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.

- Nessa, listen to me. We have to see this through.

Do you understand?

We have to finish this.

- Please. Please don't hurt him.

- All right.

I never wanted to hurt him, don't you see?

But this is the only way the evil will be eradicated.

It's the only way he'll be free from it forever.

Nessa, you just have to trust me, please.

Please.

[speaking ancient language]

This is not what's supposed to happen.

This is wrong.

- I never saw any of the signs that you saw.

- And this thing that you brought into our home

is a bunch of bullshit.

- Nessa, this is real. This has always been real.

- Please, you need to let this go.

You need to let this go, please.

- God.

[Kit screaming]

How many times have I told you not to come up here alone?

- I'm sorry, Dad?

- Don't ever answer me back.

Don't ever answer me back. You understand?

No, no, wait, wait.

- [Vanessa] He's having a panic...

- No leave him.

What did I tell you.

Never ever raise your voice in me like that?

Don't ever raise your voice at me.

Get off me!

Get the fuck off me!

- There is nothing wrong with your son.

[rain falling]

[flesh slashing]

[suspenseful music]

- You killed him.

Father Bailey, why?

Why?

- I had to. I had to, Nessa.

He was gonna stop me from…

- He's always been in your mind.

He's always been in your mind.

I've always known none of this is true deep down.

I've known it all the time.

[dramatic music]

- See. You see, look at him. Look at him!

The evil in this house, Nessa, it's him.

It's always been him.

He's not my son.

[Vanessa screaming]

- [Vanessa] Stop!

- Nessa!

- No!

[Vanessa screaming]

[slow dramatic music]

[lively music]

♪ Oh, we heard church people say ♪

♪ they are in the Holy way ♪

♪ there are strange things ♪

♪ happening every day ♪

♪ Oh the last man judgment day ♪

♪ when they drive him all the way ♪

♪ there are strange things that happen every day ♪

♪ every day ♪

♪ every day ♪

♪ there are strange things happening every day ♪

♪ and he is the holy light ♪

♪ turning darkness into light ♪

♪ there are strange things ♪

♪ happening every day. ♪

♪ Every day ♪

♪ and everyday ♪

♪ there are strange things happening every day. ♪

[gentle music]

[indistinct voices]

[door knocking]

- [voice] As it was with me, so it would be with you.

[door knocking]

[door knocking continues]

[gentle music]

[slow dramatic music]