04x14 - Fear of the End

[bunniefuu]

I'm depressed.

Sometimes, I go the whole day

without someone saying "hi" to me

or even looking at 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.

KRISTEN: You could adopt.

I don't even know if I want 'em.

You seem like someone
who knows what she wants.

What's the secret?

Looks can be deceiving.

Let's talk about the breakup.

FLOYD: 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.

FLOYD: Good.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

♪

You're not taking me?

No.

But, um...

You're gonna be lonely.

All those priests in Rome.

- Goodbye.
- No.

No, David.

No. No, don't.

[CRYING]: Don't go. Don't go, David.

Don't go, David.

Don't go, David! No, please.

David! [WAILS]

[WAILING STOPS]

[GIOVANNI SPEAKING ITALIAN]

DAVID: What's going on?

Ah. Precautionary.

We have, uh, downloaded the information

from your phone and are
going to make a move tomorrow.

You found the 60?

We have cross-referenced
their travel plans,

and we have located a
meeting place for tomorrow.

Where?

We are taking it from here.

Taking it how?

We may never have the


not in our lifetime.

You're k*lling them.

Not everything is so
melodramatic, David.

This meeting involves a Black Mass

and sacrificing a young
woman, so we have to stop it.

That's all sounding
pretty melodramatic to me.

Hmm. Also, we have
information that Mr. Townsend

will try to attack one of
your people before tomorrow.

My people?

Yeah, your assessors.

- What information?
- That's all I can share.

But we immediately need your notes

from the assessments 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
assessors were in danger.

Where do you think?

- Oh, please.
- Fine, you take it then, Lynn.

- Have you got 'em?
- No. Mom has too many shoes.

Where are they?

Okay, look under the shoes, Lila.

Oh, yeah, look under the shoes.

Look, Laura, they're not there.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

Guys, I just want some peace and quiet

'cause I can't find them anywhere...

I found them.

LYNN: It's been so long
since I've seen those.

- Do you remember Haunted Girl?
- Oh, my God,

- that was so long ago.
- I remember that.

That was so fun.

- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- It was crazy.

- How do they look?
- Let's just plug them in.

We have to get the new download.

KRISTEN: 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...

Finding your office? No, Dr. Bouchard,

I've been here before. [INHALES]

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... [SCOFFS]

... tired of winning.

Yes, 911.

I have an Order of Protection
from criminal court 507,

designated C-F-one-triple
eight- five-six,

and it is currently being violated.

Kristen, I was wondering
if you were 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... Hmm...

Why would I want to hurt you?

- You're the mother of my child.
- Of course.

I will stay on the line.

[WHISPERS]: 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 again. I promise.

Here.

Come on.

I'll be out of your life.

Pinkie promise.

Let's shake.

[EXHALES]

What did your Vatican friends say?

Leland will attack us before tomorrow,

and I haven't been able
to get ahold of Kristen.

BEN: What is going on?

KRISTEN: Come in.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Hey.

- Are you okay?
- Yeah.

Nothing dramatic. He
pretended to be a patient.

And who are you, sir?

Okay, all right, you know, get
your jokes out of the way now.

Yes, I own a tie.

[GROANS]

- [BODY THUDS]
- [KRISTEN SIGHS]

How long have you been doing that?

About 20 minutes.

Actually kind of satisfying.

- Did he threaten you?
- KRISTEN: No.

He wanted me to meet the 60

- tomorrow night.
- Meet them?

- KRISTEN: Mm-hmm.
- Why?

Not a lot of specifics.

- [SIGHS]
- Oh, my God.

We're back.

Okay, uh... [SIGHS] I'll
take care of this. Come on.

All right.

[GRUNTS]

KRISTEN: Oof. What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna talk to the Entity about him,

- and I'll be right back.
- KRISTEN: Okay.

So, how's your life going?

[GRUNTS, GASPS]

[EXHALES]

[LELAND BREATHING RAGGEDLY]

[PHONE CAMERA CLICKING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

David.

How are you taking care of the 60?

GIOVANNI: How?

DAVID: Yes.

Are you taking care of
this before their meeting

- and their Black Mass?
- GIOVANNI: Yes. Why?

I'm gonna send you a
photo of their painting.

I think they're coming
after my assessor.

GIOVANNI: I don't doubt it.

I need to know you're
gonna take care of it,

permanently.

We are.

The 60 will not be able to act again.

Good.

And don't forget, David,

ah, get me the assessor files.

- I need them.
- [PHONE BEEPS]

Are you sure about this?
Won't the Vatican be mad?

Maybe they'll fire me.

Aren't you gonna miss that
cannibal medical student?

- DAVID: Ghost truckers, ah?
- KRISTEN: Oh, yeah.

I will see your ghost truckers
and I will raise you...

werewolves.

- Demonic elevator.
- KRISTEN: Oh!

- UFOs.
- [LAUGHS]

BEN: Hey, I liked those UFOs.

Oh! The Christmas song.

- [GROANING]
- [LAUGHS]

♪ Santa got high, na, na, na, na... ♪

No, no, don't do it.
Don't do it. [LAUGHS]

♪ Na, na, na, na, na ♪

- [VOCALIZING]
- [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]

HENRY: Next.

[WOMEN WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

Jennifer Duarte. For "Screaming Girl."

[GASPS, SCREAMS]

Oh, my God. What is this? A Black Mass?

No. No, please don't do
this. Please don't stab me.

I'm innocent! I'm...

[SCREAMS]

[SIGHS]

Very good. We'll be in touch.

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

I also prepared a song, if you...

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.

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.

[CHAINS RATTLING]

I want you here.

I have a free hook for you.

Ooh.

Terrified. Terrified.

Ooh...

She's just talk.

She doesn't know a thing.

Make sure it stays that way.

Leland's not gonna come back.

You guys don't have
to stay to protect me.

I do.

I don't know about Ben.

- I'm just here to drink.
- [CHUCKLES]

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

These things?

Don't start with that.

How'd I influence you?

- Great.
- No, no, no.

I'm-I'm-I'm thinking. I'm taking
your question seriously. Um...

I think...

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

My knowledge?

- Yes, your knowledge.
- [CHUCKLES]

What about you, David?

How have we impacted you?

Um...

I don't have many friends.

I haven't...

up till now.

Not friends that I can

talk to about things.

Deeper things.

- Death...
- BEN: Geez.

I'd rather be the fun friend than the...

friend that you can talk to about death.

- [CHUCKLES]
- No, I understand

what you're saying.

Nobody talks like that
anymore. About... real things.

It's all about, you know,

influencers and TV.

You know, I speak about reverence

a lot in therapy now?

You've ruined me.

I...

... am gonna miss you both.

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

I heard this kid knew he
was gonna 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.

- OTHERS: Lila!
- What? I'm just saying.

Are you doing it?

I am if you are.

BOTH: Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

Mother Midnight, you are free.

Mother Midnight, let me see

the future you have planned for me.

- This is dumb.
- Just wait.

For what?

I don't know. Look around.

We could say it again.

Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

Mother Midnight, you are free.

- Mother Midnight, let me see...
- [SCREAMS]

[SHAKY BREATH]

You saw that, right?

LYNN: Uh-huh. Felt it, too.

- What is it?
- Shh.

Look.

[GASPS SOFTLY] Is that real?

I don't know.

Hail Mary, full of Grace,
the Lord is with thee...

Shh.

LYNN: What are you doing?

- Going.
- LYNN: 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, you'll see if you become a nun.

And if we don't come back?

[EXHALES]

♪

LYNN: Let's go back.

LILA: How? I can't even turn around.

How did we get downstairs?

LYNN: I don't think it's real.

LILA: But look, there's Mom and Ben.

Mom?

LYNN: It's not actually them.

It's their avatars.

But how does the game even know?

Mom?

- Hello? Guys?
- Can you hear us?

It's your eldests.

Nothing's gonna happen.

It might. Mom.

LYNN: T-they're not gonna look at us.

They can't see us.

Hello?

[DIALOGUE INAUDIBLE]

[SCREAMS]

- It's a game, it's just a game.
- Mom!

I don't think it's a game. Mom!

- Look behind you!
- LYNN: Somebody...

LILA: There's a man, he's gonna...

LYNN: Mom, turn around,
turn around, please!

- Mom, Mom, this is happening!
- You have to do something!

- Ben! Do something!
- There's somebody behind you!

- Please!
- LILA: Look out! Turn around!

[SCREAMS]

[SCREAMS]

Oh, man.

LILA: It's showing us
our fate, it's our fate.

It's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen soon.

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

[GASPING]

- What happened?
- It's our fate.

- What are you doing?
- [OVERLAPPING SQUABBLING]

- None of it was real.
- No, Lynn, it's going to happen.

- What does that mean?
- Was it bad? What did you see?

Girls, girls, girls!

- What's going on?
- LAURA: The goggles.

Oh, my God.

I'm gonna destroy these things.

LILA: No, Mom, it showed us our future.

KRISTEN: No, it didn't.

What were you doing in the closet?

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

What's the clock about?

Hey!

What?

There's a clock.
There's a clock in here.

It's at 23 hours.

Oh, no. It's gonna come true.

LAURA: What? What's gonna come true?

Leland k*lling Mom, it's
gonna happen in 23 hours.

Oh, my gosh, no, none
of that is gonna happen.

Girls, what did you see?

It was Leland and he had an ax

and he chopped it into your head, Mom.

- LYNN: Lila, no, shh.
- He asked.

A-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.

LYNN: It was a game.

LILA: I know, but if we don't stop it,

it's gonna come true in 23 hours.

KRISTEN: Oh, my gosh, baby, no, okay?

- This is all nonsense.
- [TICKING]

Uh, can you destroy these?

- [TICKING PONDEROUSLY]
- ... Mom, I love you so much.

LYNN: It's just a stupid game.

♪

♪

♪

[PONDEROUS TICKING]

Okay, where do I go?

LYNN: Mom, don't, it's scary.

Girls, this is what I do for a living.

Okay?

Did for a living.

[THUDS]

You walk into the closet

and you say the incantations.

Of course.

And you saw Leland in there?

LILA: Yeah, and he k*lled Mom.

What are you doing?

Something stupid.

- Okay, I feel stupid.
- [BEN CHUCKLES]

- I think we drank too much.
- [KRISTEN SNORTS] Yeah...

BEN: Okay, I see it.

You see it?

KRISTEN: Yeah.

Right.

- So, we're doing this, right?
- Yeah.

Mother Midnight, hear my plea.

KRISTEN and BEN: Mother
Midnight, you are free.

David, you got to say it, too.

How's the game gonna
know if I even do it?

Because it can read our environment.

TOGETHER: Mother Midnight, let me see.

The future that is planned for me.

DAVID: Okay. That was fun.

BEN: I think it's reading
our environment, is what...

Oh! Holy f*ck!

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 unbelievable.

Wow...

[WHOOSHING, DRONING]

♪

Guys. Hey.

[MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY]

Huh.

Good work. Very real.

KARIMA: Ben, I don't have much time.

Oh, this game is messed up.

AI pulling from my social media worries?

Before I...

... I-I need to know...

... where is Allah?

Oh...

[WHISPERING]: Don't do this.

I understand...

... the science that we both share.

[MONITOR ALERT BEEPING]

I looked up to you...

brother.

Always.

But...

... I'm afraid.

I'm cold.

There's nothing, is there?

It's just empty.

No, no, no.

Karima.

[ALERT CONTINUES SOUNDING]

- No.
- You're right.

There's...

There's nothing.

[FLATLINE SOUNDS]

Oh, Karima.

Karima.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

[WHOOSHING, DRONING]

Hello, Kristen.

Take a seat.

Uh... this is my office.

Kristen, these are 567
true or false statements.

Answer as honestly as you can.

Am I losing my business?

Is that my future?

No, this is just a tool, Kristen,

so we can better
understand your behavior.

How you 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.

KURT: 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.

KURT: 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.

CARPOOL MOM: 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 you.

[DAUGHTERS SCREAMING]

- Mom, please! Mom!
- Mom! Mom!

Please help us!

[SCREAMS]

[SILENCE]

[DISTANT THUD]

[DISTANT THUD]

[NEARBY THUDDING]

[LOUD THUDDING]

Help me, David!

[THUDDING]

What's in there?

I don't know.

[THUDDING CONTINUES]

[BOTH GROAN]

[CHAINS RATTLING]

[HOOVES THUDDING LOUDLY]

- [GROWLS]
- [SCREAMS]

[GASPING, MOANING]

Did you see it, David?

The blinding white light
guiding you to the Pearly Gates?

No? Not even clouds 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.

[LELAND LAUGHS]

- BEN: What the f*ck?
- Oh, my God!

That was not a game.

I don't know what that
was, but that-that...

That was not a game.

[PANTING]

What did the girls say?

- They saw it on Reddit?
- KRISTEN: 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.

Is it still counting down?

BEN: Yup. 22 hours.

Are we... worried?

That, uh, the game is
gonna predict our fate?

No.

"Despair is Satan's masterpiece."

♪

Guys?

What the f*ck?

Oh, my God.

- Will you... ?!
- Hey!

This is a private residence.

- What are you doing? Hey!
- BEN: Hey, hey, hey!

- Hey! Get out of here!
- KRISTEN: Hey, I will spray you!

- Hey! Hey, get down!
- Hey, come here, buddy.

Where you going? Are you crazy?!

- Go home!
- BEN: Go!

- What do you think you're doing?
- Hey!

[SHOUTING OUTSIDE]

[GRUNTS] Please, I got to get in!

BEN: Jesus, pull
yourself together, dude!

It'll only take ten minutes.

This is not a game, this
is someone's house...

I know. I've been in here before.

- You've what?!
- In the game.

I've been everywhere in this
house looking for the clue.

A way to turn off the clock.

There's-there's a living room in there.

Uh, stairs going up to the
girls' room, the bunk beds.

You've been in my girls' bedroom?!

Just in the game. That's all!

[PANTING] Listen, I have kids myself.

I saw my little girl getting
k*lled riding her bike.

I have to get in there to stop it!

- Why there?
- There'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 even get this address?

- It was on Reddit.
- What the f*ck?!

This is the haunted house, right?

The one with a tunnel
to hell in the basement?

Just give me five minutes down there!

Oh, my God!

All right, listen up, buddy.

This... [KNOCKING]

... is a utility closet.

It's not a basement.

I don't believe you! Show me!

I'm not showing you sh*t!

Now get the f*ck out of my house!

[GROANING]

My little girl's going to die!

- Her blood'll be on your hands!
- [SIREN WAILING]

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

Now get lost, or get arrested!

[SIGHS]

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.
- KRISTEN: Right.

So how would anyone
else know what the inside

of my house looks like?

How long have those stars 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...
- [GASPS LOUDLY]

DAVID: What?

Oh...

My girls... they used this app.

- The Demon Tracker app?
- Yup.

When they thought there
were demons in the house.

I warned you, apps can capture...

Yeah, and I told 'em, and
apparently, I'm a bad mom,

and my kids are gonna be taken from me.

BEN: Okay.

BEN: It saved

all the girls' walks through the house.

Those walks are photorealistic.

Now the question is, how did it
get from this app into the game?

Can I take this?

Oh, you can take every
f*cking computer in this house

as far as I'm concerned.

Ah. I love these old buildings

and how they're renting them out now.

Thank you so much.

Like the Limelight. So fun.

Yup.

And you're thinking only 60 attendees?

Mm.

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.

BRITTANY: Very striking.

HENRY: And a pentagram in
the middle on the floor.

BRITTANY: With artwork you'll provide?

HENRY: Yes. Room enough
for a woman to lie down

with chains, ropes and things
to hold her down for a sacrifice.

So it's a... a Goth thing?

- [LAUGHS SOFTLY] Mm-hmm.
- Exactly.

And a bucket for, uh,
hearts and other organs?

I love it. Um, 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 deconsecrated.

BRITTANY: I'm not sure, you guys.

[MALE VOICE SPEAKING ITALIAN OVER WIRE]

- BRITTANY: Absolutely.
- HENRY: Thank you.

MARCO: Piuù t*rd oggi sull'altare.

Piuù t*rd oggi sull'altare.

♪

Yes... Sister?

They are not as obvious as you think.

You have this wrong.

Thank you, Sister.

What's that?

- An interface.
- To what?

Same as a Cerebral-Path,

like the one Taupin had.

This links the cloud
to a person's cerebrum.

DAVID: Without a chip in the brain?

Yup. It's not as powerful,

but works off the same technology.

KRISTEN: 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
daughters' 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 f*ck with me.

BEN: 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 sh*t.

Well, yeah, I was going to
say "advance human knowledge,"

but, yeah, sure.

Wait. What... what is this?

BEN: That is the regions of the brain

connected to the thalamus.

That is what the
interface is connecting to.

What regions?

Image recognition, speech, pain,

creativity, touch, hearing...

How many regions are there?

I'm-I'm generalizing here,

but, you know, 50 or 60
that neurologists recognize.

What is it, David?

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

BEN: Oh. The 60 sigils.

Oh, my God.

BEN: Hmm.


regions of the brain.

Why go to the trouble of tempting

when you can upload despair
right into the brain?

[PHONE BUZZING]

[QUIETLY]: 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's,

and they're wrong.

What? Why? What do you mean?

The demonic forces have left.

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've 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.

[SIGHS] And how do I do that?

By being tall.

Tall people are convincing,
even if they're dumb.

- [DAVID LAUGHS]
- KRISTEN: 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?

[LAUGHS] I don't understand any of it.

I mean, what's the use of
all these Satan worshippers

running around if you
could just meet online?

KRISTEN: Right.

Oh, sh*t.

MARCO: Stiamo aspettando,
stiamo aspettando.

Dove siete, squadra uno?

Divisi. Nord e ovest.

♪

[PHONE BUZZING]

What?

Ah. 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
churh in the painting.

You're being set up!

- [WOMAN SCREAMING]
- Vai! Ora! Ora!

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Oh, my God! What is this?

A Black Mass?! Oh.

Please don't do this. I'm innocent!

I'm... [SCREAMING]

[CONTINUES SCREAMING]

Surprise!

Oh, I'm supposed to give you this.

[MUTTERS] Cercateli! Cercateli!

[SHOUTING IN ITALIAN]

I heard you might be
casting something else, too.

I was in Midnight Mass.
Here-Here's my headshot.

[GRUNTS]

[HISSING]

[COUGHING]

Vai! Vai, vai!

Fuori di qui! Fuori di qui!

♪ The sun will come out tomorrow ♪

♪ Bet your bottom dollar ♪

♪ That tomorrow there'll be sun. ♪

[DAVID COUGHING]

[DAVID COUGHING]

[DAVID COUGHING]

[WHEEZING]

[COUGHING]

[BOTH COUGHING]

- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [DAVID COUGHING]

We're dead.

HENRY: It has been

a long time coming, but... success!

The wh*re of Babylon has
been hobbled for a generation.


and the tables turned!

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

[SIGHS]

[DIALOGUE INAUDIBLE]

HENRY: You're muted, Norm.

[CLICKS TONGUE] No, still muted.

Norm. It's...

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 are families in here,

where we can live forever,
where we don't have

to battle every single
day with the Church.

LELAND: 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
figurehead to rally around!

[CHIMES]

Uh, yes, sir?

GRAY MAN: What happened to
k*lling the false Antichris,

the baptized one?

We were promised a
Black Mass, a sacrifice

of the baby and the mother,

and their two beating hearts in a tub.

Yes, sir. It's-it's still happening.

We just needed to trick our
Entity foes at the Vatican.

When is it happening?

Tonight. [CLEARS THROAT]

[GRAY MAN GRUMBLES]

[CLEARS THROAT] Okay, meeting over.

- Good work, all.
- [CLICKS COMPUTER KEY]

No f*cking around.

You have protected
Kristen for four years.

It ends tonight.

[EXHALES, WHEEZES]

[COUGHS]

[SIGHS] You saved me.

How did you know?

- About the 60?
- Mm.

- Sister Andrea.
- [SCOFFS]

And in the world of social media,

no one needs to meet anymore.

Mm.

I lost 18 good men today.

I have to rebuild.

Go after the 60.

Respectfully, Father,

the world is changing.

[GIOVANNI SIGHS]

It's not about the


It's about the systemic.

They're bringing evil
right into our brains,

bypassing the middleman.

I need you, David.

I need your thinking in Rome.

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 less godly.

It's eating away at me.

Then what? What do you want?

I want to run the assessor program.

[SCOFFS] The assessor program.

In Rome?

- No, here.
- No. [MUTTERS]

This is the lowest
rung of the hierarchy.

You are more important than that, David.

I like the lowest rung.

[LAUGHS] 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.

Uh...

I'm not going to Rome.

My life is here.

It'll only be six months.

To see how it works.

- [SIGHS]
- They will supply housing.

BEN: Really, in the Vatican?

DAVID: No, no, in the
Aurelio neighborhood.

Uh, there will be, uh,
there'll be free health care.

Uh, free schools.

- This, this is a way to keep this going.
- David.

The Church is an institution...

I don't believe in.

Not just as someone who has
an on-and-off relationship

with God, but...

i-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-I don't know. I mean, um...

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-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.

BEN: It sort of makes
sense for you, you know?

Gelato, art, pizza.

I could see you in some
cool Italian sunglasses.

Ben, please.

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

Don't you dare tell the girls.

- Oui, oui.
- [GIGGLING]

That's French, dummy.

[WIND BLOWING]

[EXHALES]

♪

[SPEAKING DUTCH ON VIDEO]

[CIENTJE SPEAKING DUTCH]

[INHALES]

[EXHALES]

Okay.

[WIND BLOWING OUTSIDE]

♪

♪

♪

[EXHALES]

[EARBUDS CHIME]

["DANG ME" BY ROGER MILLER PLAYING]

♪ Well, here I sit high ♪

♪ Getting ideas, ain't
nothing but a fool ♪

♪ Would 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? ♪

[SINGER VOCALIZING]

♪ One more ♪

[SINGER VOCALIZING]

♪ 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 dollars and 27 cents ♪

♪ Oh, dang me, dang me ♪

♪ They ought to take
a rope and hang me ♪

♪ High from the highest tree ♪

♪ Woman, would you weep for me? ♪

[VOCALIZING]

[WATER RUNNING]

♪ One more ♪

[VOCALIZING]

♪ They say roses are red ♪

♪ And violets are purple ♪

♪ And sugar's sweet and
so is maple syrple ♪

♪ Well, I'm the seventh
out of seven sons ♪

♪ My pappy was a p*stol,
I'm a son of a g*n ♪

♪ 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? ♪

[VOCALIZING]

- ♪ Just sitting around... ♪
- [SINGSONGY]: Kristen...

♪ Six rounds bought, and I bought five ♪

♪ Spent the groceries
and half the rent ♪

[KRISTEN YELLS]

♪ Like 14 dollars and 27 cents ♪

- [GRUNTING]
- ♪ Oh, dang me, dang me ♪

♪ They ought to take
a rope and hang me ♪

- ♪ High from the highest tree ♪
- [CHOKES]

♪ Woman, would you weep for me? ♪

[VOCALIZING]

[KRISTEN STRAINING]

- [CHOKING]
- [GRUNTING]

♪ They say roses are red
and violets are purple ♪

♪ Sugar's sweet and so is maple syrple ♪

♪ Well, I'm the seventh
out of seven sons ♪

♪ My pappy was a p*stol,
I'm a son of a g*n ♪

♪ I said dang me, dang me ♪

- ♪ They ought to take a rope ♪
- [KRISTEN GROWLING]

♪ And hang me ♪

- ♪ High from the highest tree ♪
- [GASPING]

♪ Woman, would you weep for me? ♪

[VOCALIZING]

Stop.

[PANTING]

We're here.

[MUSIC CONTINUES THROUGH EARBUDS]

- [KRISTEN CRYING]
- [MUSIC STOPS]

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- [WHEEZES]
- [SIGHS] He's still alive.

He'll just come back.

Let us take care of it.

But our way.

Not his.

LELAND: No, no!

No! I can smell your incense.

Stop it right now.

I am Leland Townsend.

You don't know who you're messing with.

I am ordering you. I have
the power of darkness.

I have Satanic forces.

What the hell are you doing?

Who is this?

No, no! No!

I can smell your incense.

Stop this now or...

[CABINET DOOR SLAMS SHUT]

♪

[BOUCHARD GIRLS CHATTERING LOUDLY]

Okay.

All right, look, I'm definitely
gonna come out and see you guy.

That's good, 'cause the girls
want to show you around. Right?

Yeah, I want to take
you to the Leaning Tower.

- It's so pretty.
- That's not near here.

It's in Italy.

Hey, uh, did you ever get
those cool Italian sunglasses?

- Uh... Now, did she?
- [GIGGLING]

Did you?

Ooh, la, la!

- You're so fancy.
- [LAUGHS]

[CHURCH BELLS RINGING]

All right, I got to get to work.

BEN: Oh, yeah. God calling?

Something like that. Love you.

Uh, yeah, me... L... Me,
too. You. Yeah, love you.

- Ciao.
- GIRLS: Arrivederci, Ben the magnifico!

KRISTEN: Ciao, bello.

- [LAUGHS]
- All right, time to get home,

do some homework.

GIRLS: Mamma, ti amiamo.

[KRISTEN SPEAKING ITALIAN]

[LAUGHTER]

[HISSES]

Something wrong?

[GROWLS]

No, nothing's wrong.

Nothing at all.

[LOW GROWL]

Then let's get to work.

[GIRLS CHATTER IN ITALIAN]

♪