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Look who it is.

Morning, Steve.

Good morning.

Thanks.

You make a good point.

But no, we are not more simple today than we were in the past.

The human heart has never changed.

Time.

What has changed is that there are more possessions reported today

than at any other time in history.

We are losing the war that has been raging for centuries.

We must hold the line and

fight for every soul.

During the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic Church was responsible

for the torture and death of thousands of so-called heretics.

Many were simply those suffering from psychotic mood,

neurotic and personality disorders.

The very structure you're sitting in was built in the late 18th century

in response to a rise in the occult.

The clergy would drag women

suspected of practicing dark arts down

to the baptismal well to free them of evil spirits.

Countless were drowned in holy water until eventually the practice was stopped.

Sorry, doctor, are you denying that there are legitimate cases of possession?

I've been here long enough to have seen things that I can't account for.

But one thing I do know is the mind is incredibly powerful.

And it loves to play tricks on us.

To distort our reality.

Now, thankfully, the church was approach has evolved over the centuries.

And that's where psychiatrists like myself come in.

The Vatican's new guidelines require anyone suspected of possession

to undergo in-depth physical

and psychological evaluations before being approved

the right of exorcism.

How you doing today, Clark?

And being giggity.

There was apple sauce to go, huh?

Hi.

How do you like the apple sauce?

Remember that?

I've ordered a full blood panel.

I guess I do with all of our new patients.

She was brought in for assessment after having seizures,

muscle spasms, incontinence

and hypersalivation.

Natalie's mother believes that she is being possessed

by some sort of evil entity,

and I believe that the test results will prove otherwise.

She's not as scary as she looks.

She can hear you.

Gentlemen, shall we

thank you?

Didn't eat much.

I like your.

Dog strain that has tail.

It's an abstract.

Well then you're officially a starving artist.

I don't know why they don't give you dessert.

Thanks.

What is it?

Uh, since then I'm nuggety goodness.

What's nugget?

and

Oh, really?

Go move.

You're my favorite person here.

Well.

Us girls, we got to stick together in this place.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let go.

Hey, Natalie.

Hi.

Are you feeling OK?

I don't like that room.

How did you get out of that room?

I wanted to find you.

Nugget is a family of confections made with sugar and honey,

roasted nuts and whipped egg whites.

I looked it up.

Did you know that candies have families?

I do now.

Shall we get back to your room?

OK.

Pictures.

Eat them.

She made.

Full stop.

The death.

Gee.

Not.

That means that we have.

You never, ever have.

Jim.

My dear.

Elena had entered the terminal stage of possession here.

She would tear around clothes, lick her own urine, eat coal

in the terminal stage.

The possessed.

Reaches the extremity of physical and spiritual corruption.

Deliverance is still possible, but.

Death is imminent.

Sadly for Elena.

Death came first.

Demons are Lucifer's foot soldiers.

They know no fatigue, No Fear,

no doubt when you enter the room of the possessed.

You're walking onto a battlefield.

The Devil will try to distract you, so doubting God's word.

Always remember the word of God.

This is your most powerful weapon.

The right is, not just.

A series of prayers.

It's a dance.

We have to fear the cadence of the battle.

Work with our partners.

Understand.

The correct entry points for attack.

Regrettably, the priests made fatal errors

in the Lenas exorcism.

What would you have done differently?

See.

Not.

My mother talked about hearing that voice inside.

She said the boys didn't really want her.

Have wanted me.

Because I was one of God's chosen soldiers.

Sir, hi, I'm reviewing some cases

and there seems to be some gaps in the directory.

The records are entered directly into the main archive.

There are no gaps.

And what about the terminal cases?

Those are classified.

You summoned me, sister.

I understand that Sister Anne has taken it upon herself

to attend another one of your class.

I wouldn't say attend, more like infiltrate.

She's very light on her feet.

The rules of the church are quite clear, father.

E-mail that you may be involved in access isn't draining.

For now.

You should be grateful, child.

In years past, even patient care

and exorcism school was restricted to priests.

Now here you stand.

What does it matter if I'll never be able to perform an exorcism

using her son?

No benefit to our patients because she can't perform surgery.

Female surgeons were once unthinkable.

Somebody had to be the first.

Healing the flesh is a very different undertaking than healing the spirit.

As members of the Catholic community of Women,

it is not our place to free themselves from natural mentors.

We are here to comfort.

To pray.

And show mercy.

That is all.

You may return to your duties now.

Yes, sister.

Father.

She wants to learn.

And I want to protect her.

Do you know that song?

We have been waiting for you.

You're not the Hadza pretty voice.

Hello.

Can anybody hear me?

Here.

I've seen enough.

This demon appeared to go after sister round without cause.

Provoked by her mere presence.

For her own protection

and that of others here at Saint Michael's.

We should send her back to the convent.

Evil isn't confined to the walls of this institution.

I'd look better having her hair.

I can work with her, keep an eye on her, work with her.

In what sense?

I'd like to teach her ruminate.

That's against all precedent.

All doctrine, nothing formal,

just enough to protect herself.

And others.

I'm not sure the exact nature of it.

But this relationship she had?

It's personal.

Father.

We all have a personal relationship with God.

Not with God's sister.

With the demo.

The Citadel has fallen.

The walls have crumbled.

Black smoke blots out the sun.

Because, as some of you may already know,

we have a female student in the class.

As an observer, Sister Anne will be accompanying us on our grounds

for the rest of the term.

Now pay close attention.

The nuances of our craft require active learning to truly understand.

So loop 1.

Let's descend into the mouth of Hell, shall we?

Your minds of all sorts but prayer.

You must remain resolute.

Despite the distractions.

It can be the difference between life and death for both you.

And inflicted.

The subject is a recent admission Dr

Peter's preliminary diagnosis

was idiopathic epilepsy.

The subject was moved here to observation

and she began to exhibit behavior that Doctor Peters couldn't explain.

Natalie is 10 years old.

We have to act quickly to halt any further escalation.

I need 2 volunteers.

OK, father.

Very well.

You will take the lead.

We would like to assist Father Dante.

Father Raymond.

The amount of going.

Each of you have performed a simple exorcism

every time you baptize the child,

cleansing them of their original sin.

That was baptism by holy water.

This

is baptism by fire, remember?

The name Lucifer.

Derives from the Latin term lutron Vera.

Bring up off light.

The devil will shine his light into the darkest, deepest recesses of your mind.

Exposing your innermost secrets.

Your deepest pain.

He will use this pain to break into your soul.

You must look past the girl.

She is as much demon as victim.

And my butt face has really spread to something.

Amen.

Amen.

Christ, have mercy.

Strike Terror, Lord into the Beast now defiling this innocent child.

Stretch out your mighty hand,

Lord, and cast this demon out of your servant Natalie.

Hope we cast you out.

I can't.

They fire from this creature of God.

Thank you.

You know.

fall

Pray, pray together.

He who flung you headlong from the heights of heaven

into the depths of hell.

energy

Don't stop.

Commit to the words.

But he who commands you?

He who flung you headlong from the height of heaven

into the depths of hell.

Lord, repel this devil's powers.

By the incarnation, passion, Resurrection,

and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I command you to depart this child of body.

father

say

Natalie.

Hi, can you hear me?

Just.

Talk to you from the script.

Finally.

Actually, I'm here.

I'm here with you.

I'm scared.

Only I'm here.

Go on.

Spotter.

You place abominable creature give way to Christ.

My girl, the lifter of my head.

Just get it out.

I got your fourth time to die.

Cut you out.

Eyes.

I have to start wearing adult diapers to class.

You'll need both.

To you.

And who knows what would have happened if you hadn't stepped in there?

It's not a sin to take a little victory lap, right?

I thought I got through to her before.

A moment where they you did and it weakened the demon cause Natalie

was still in there somewhere.

I don't know.

My father, Quinn hunt, stopped.

You OK?

Yeah.

I think this was meant for me.

Why?

My baby sister, Amelia.

She.

She was raped.

She got pregnant.

So sorry.

Yeah, she lost the baby.

She's been afflicted ever since.

How are you feeling?

Kind of sleepy.

This isn't my room.

No.

This is a special room.

You had a bad dream.

I'm sorry.

Can you tell me what you remember about it?

He was in a room.

It's kind of like this for you and.

There are people.

They were all yelling.

Were they yelling at you?

Couldn't understand most.

I think they're talking to someone else.

Who?

The voice.

Who's voice?

He tells me things.

Promises me things.

Sometimes.

He shows me things.

They're bad.

That's all right.

You can tell me.

You were there.

But.

You weren't yelling?

Natalie.

Natalie wasn't cleansed, was she?

We're not sure.

The demon may have only taken temporary refuge.

Will the right be administered again?

The guy will remain in observation.

If she escalates further, it may be beyond

our capacity to deal with.

Should be transferred to the Vatican.

You mean she might be a terminal case?

I want to stay with her father.

I've made a connection, that's exactly the problem.

The Exorcist is a confessor and an intercessor, not a friend.

But what if I can help her terminal cases

at the most complex and delicate we face?

They can only be handled by the most skilled exorcists.

If you want to help her.

Pray.

Your power is in the spirit of the flesh.

She may still make a full recovery.

Sister Cardinal Matthews is requesting this urgently.

So what happened when the soldiers came to your house that day?

He tossed me and my two younger sisters.

They said one of us could go.

I didn't wait for anything, I just run.

He ran away and and the soldiers shot your sisters.

Milan, tell me about the voice that you heard.

I kept hearing those shots.

The team spoke to me in the sound of those gunshots.

He took control.

OK.

But then you were cleansed, right?

You received the right of exorcism and you were healed.

Healed.

I kept cutting.

But the body is still here.

You did that to yourself.

I prayed for God's forgiveness.

I prayed and I prayed.

But deep down I knew.

I didn't deserve forgiveness.

My mother felt guilt for what she had done.

I was alone with her.

Annie.

Where are you?

Hey, I'm here.

Hey.

What you're describing is terrifying.

It's traumatic.

Memories like these are so hard to face.

Your mother, she eventually.

She took her own life.

And you felt responsible for her death.

That's a common trauma response and.

For the victim to feel shame.

And the only way to disarm these memories

is to drag them into the light.

Confront the trauma.

Yeah.

What are you doing down here?

What's going on with that one?

They restricted access.

Why?

No idea.

Maybe they're transferring her.

Out of Dante.

Right.

Father.

You can't let Natalie be transferred.

I've seen the records the mortality rate for terminal cases

is over 90%.

After it does not reside in statistics system?

No, no it doesn't.

But I don't think that it resides strictly in the word of the right either.

To the right has stood for millennia as they received word of God,

and you have notes.

Where did you read these records anyway?

I know I broke the rules,

but there is a lonely friend, little girl at the center of this.

You tread on precarious ground when you make this vital,

personal, this personal father.

That is the point.

You said yourself that exorcism is about nuance.

And yet we have never even considered it from the victims perspective.

So what does the demon want?

It wants to dehumanize the possessed

and make them feel unworthy of God's love.

Our goal should be to connect with the possess

and help them fight for their own humanity.

Let them know we see them, not just the demon.

Is it not possible that there are cases,

unique cases that the rank cannot account for?

What makes these cases unique?

Cases where the victim, shame and guilt

are so profound that they invite the demon in

and they want to suffer.

They surrender control.

So where does Natalie Shane come from?

She is an innocent child.

i

Lucifer was once the most beautiful and powerful Angel in heaven,

but he became prideful and God cast him out.

That was just a

I believe in you more than you can imagine,

but you have to understand the danger here.

If you shun the church to follow your own will,

you will find yourself wandering in the darkness.

I'm done.

Father.

I heard what you said.

I can't let down like you transferred.

She won't come back.

I agree.

And we don't have much time.

What do you mean?

So what if there was a way that you could prove to them

that you're right?

Your sister?

She's possessed, and I know she is,

and her episodes just keep getting worse.

I tried to have her admitted here, but.

It's complicated for the church.

Because of her baby,

she's devout and you talk about guilt.

She had to make an impossible decision and it's eating away at her.

She let the demon in.

You want to attempt.

An unauthorized exorcism?

Not a lot.

Please man.

My sister doesn't have much time left and I saw you with Natalie.

You have a gift.

You connect with the possessed.

You see past the demon and into the person.

If you really believe what you're saying, actually still possessed.

And she's still alive.

I'm.

We are.

Her mother says she's been asleep for three days.

You ready?

Are you?

You keep doing this.

This is her hand.

She's here to help you, OK?

Amelia.

Can you hear me?

It won't stop.

The boys.

It has no power over you that you don't give it.

OK.

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven,

whose sins are God, blessed is the one who sinned.

The Lord does not count against them, and in whose spirit is no deceit.

You know what it feels like to have something growing inside you?

Don't you, sister?

Yes.

At least this bitch knew who the baby's father was.

Please please.

Focus on the sound of my voice.

They've been in praise and the most about because our guilt, it is the deepest.

And.

Do you?

Open your eyes.

Open.

Push.

This push is yours.

It is not his.

You don't.

You have to hide from it

and I know you wanted the baby to be gone.

He wanted it to be over.

Yes.

And I know this.

It's

always there and just close it.

Well, maybe 6-5.

For you, oh Lord, are good and forgiving of founding incident

that

you can never shut up.

God's love for you don't hide from it all of the pain.

Follow me into the pain will go there together for you alone I've got.

That's just something you would be forgiven.

Good.

Tough.

Amelia, you're free.

Your features?

No.

A tattoo above your wrist.

Said a gang thing.

Was yeah.

I got pregnant when I was 15.

It's too wasted to remember who the father was.

They kicked me out of my first round.

My God's grace, I found my way into the shelter run by the Sisters of Saint Mary.

It took me in.

Cared for me.

What about the baby?

The sisters arranged for her adoption.

I only held her for a moment, but I.

I've carried it with me ever since.

I abandoned her.

And we pray that.

Thank God, God forgive me.

For you all, Lord, are good.

And forgiving.

Hey.

He already has.

Cardinal Matthews is calling for you.

Your sister.

You're imminent.

I'm afraid I have some tragic news.

Father Dante's sister Amelia took her own life last night.

Amelia's mother reported to the parish that you attempted an exorcism on her.

Is this true?

I'm so sorry.

Than it is true.

Yes, I thought that you thought you knew better than a church

that has stood for thousands of years.

Of course not.

You overestimated your competence.

And step right into the Devil's snare, please.

It wasn't sister's fault.

Who was desperate?

You weren't remotely prepared to take on an exorcism like this?

Demons retreat.

To avoid further result.

It was a deception.

Not a defeat.

You both betrayed the trust the church put in you that.

I advocated before.

I think.

I think it's best if I returned to my place with the Sisters of Saint Mary.

Come in.

Thank you for seeing me.

Well,

this is grim.

Although apparently the abbess

Benedetta Carlini spent the last 35 years of her life

in a 6 by 6 hole in the ground.

On her dying day,

she said she never had a moments regret.

I didn't realize you were so familiar

with the lexicon of Catholic Mystics.

I'm an academic.

I'd like to hear both sides.

I heard about what happened.

Further Dante's sister.

Really thought I'd gotten through to her.

I came.