Cut Above the Rite Page #4

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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive

us our trespasses, as we forgive those....

[IN NORMAL VOICE IN ITALIAN] Help me.

LUCAS:
Hail Mary, full of grace.

The Lord is with thee.

[IN DEMONIC VOICE IN ITALIAN]

Go to hell, priest!

LUCAS:

Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God,

pray for us sinners...

...now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

-Hail Mary, full of grace.

MICHAEL:
She's choking. Father.

LUCAS:
Pray with me! Out!

And begone, you unclean spirits

of terror and darkness. Out!

Damned Legion, Satan, Lucifer, out!

Begone! We banish you,

we cast you out...

...in the name of the Virgin Mary, mother

of Christ, the son of the living God...

...in whom we live, and move,

and have our being.

Who lives in us and reigns in us

supreme.

We cast you out from

the nothingness and the darkness...

...from whence you came.

Out, demon! Out, Lucifer! Out, Satan!

Now! Begone! In the name

of the Holy Spirit.

[ROSARIA COUGHS]

LUCAS:
Deliver this from the snare

of the fowler, from the pestilence...

...from the darkness.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Well, she's asleep.

She needs to rest.

So I'll send her home in a few days

so she can recover.

I thought you were required

to have a doctor present.

I am a doctor.

Has she seen a psychiatrist?

-Yeah.

-What happened?

Oh, she doesn't respond to treatment.

-Is she on antidepressants?

-No.

-No, she's pregnant.

-So she hasn't been medically treated?

Yeah. I'm looking after her.

Weren't you concerned for her health

up there?

Yeah, of course I was.

Well, how will her baby survive this?

See, it's very difficult to predict how

any of this stuff is gonna work out.

-Have you ever lost a patient?

-Yeah.

Yeah, a boy I once treated.

He was about 15 years of age...

...and he committed suicide...

...and I was depressed

for a few months...

...and I started to doubt everything

I believed in.

And I thought the devil had defeated me.

Don't you think she should

see a psychiatrist again?

You're still not convinced--

Oh, Christ! She was raped by her father.

She's internalizing her guilt.

"Internalizing"? Okay.

Still doesn't explain everything,

does it?

It doesn't explain

how she started to speak English.

Well, she's a teenager. She's listened

to a thousand songs on the radio.

What about these nails?

It could be that she swallowed them

to hurt the baby.

She clearly doesn't want it.

What about the voice inside her? That

wasn't a human voice, though, was it?

You be careful, Michael.

Why?

Choosing not to believe in the devil

won't protect you from him.

ISTVAN [IN VOICE-OVER]: Michael.

Come.

Come closer.

You're not a coward. Don't be afraid.

It's just your mother.

Now...

...blow.

We want to do a good job, don't we?

The best we can.

Good. Now...

...pray.

Hail Mary, full of grace.

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb....

[IN HUNGARIAN] My love.

My flower.

Mother of God, pray for us sinners....

My beautiful.

Amen.

[WHISTLING]

LUCAS:
Can't get enough, huh?

Doing house calls today.

Take that, it's gonna rain.

Shut the gate after you.

[THUNDER CRASHING]

[CHILDREN CHATTERING]

LUCAS:
Vincenzo.

[IN ITALIAN] What happens in your dream?

BOY [IN ITALIAN]: I'm being hurt.

LUCAS:
By what?

BOY:
A mule.

With red eyes.

It kicks me.

And bites me.

LUCAS:
And do you try and run away?

[VINCENZO SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

Why not?

VINCENZO:
Because he says he's

my father and I must obey him.

Oh.

What else does he tell you?

He tells me...

...to kill myself.

FRANCESCA [IN ITALIAN]: Show him.

He woke up with these.

[WINCES]

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

[BRAYS]

[LAUGHS]

The mule from the dream?

Vincenzo?

The mule in the dream?

Mama?

Not Mama?

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

You hit him?

Are you lying?

Are you a liar?

Okay.

Come here.

Open your mouth.

Ahh.

Bring me his pillow.

[SPEAKING IN LATIN]

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

of evil from this pillow.

Vanquish them. Destroy them!

Now!

Ah.

[LAUGHS]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[IN ITALIAN] The devil!

We cast you out, every unclean spirit...

...every Satanic power...

...every onslaught of

the infernal adversary.

Be gone and stay far

from this creature of God...

...for it is he who commands you,

it is he....

[INDISTINCT]

[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

--he who would still the sea...

...the wind and the storm.

[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

--flee, enemy of the faith,

you foe of the human race.

That's enough now, do you hear me?

No one is going to die.

LUCAS:

--put the unholy tempter to flight.

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

LUCAS:
--and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

[SIGHS]

I'm supposed to take care

of this place...

...but I feel so bad.

Never seem to have any time.

You ever wonder if the people

you help are just mistaken?

LUCAS:
Yeah. Sometimes, I suppose.

MICHAEL:
But you still do what you do.

LUCAS:
Why not? I haven't seen a prayer

hurt anyone yet.

So you're happy to have them continue

believing something that may not be true?

LUCAS:
Yes, why not?

And what is it you believe?

I believe that people prefer to lie

to themselves than face the truth.

The truth, yeah. Certainty.

[PHONE RINGING]

LUCAS [IN ITALIAN]:

I will leave immediately.

I understand. Thank you.

Rosaria just tried to drown herself.

[ROSARIA YELLING]

[IN ITALIAN] We gave her pethidine

and trazodone but she won't calm down.

Legally we can't give her anything else.

ROSARIA:

Look what I've done to her, priest!

And I'm not finished yet!

[LUCAS SPEAKING IN LATIN]

LUCAS:
Leave it.

Let her see who is in command.

Demon. Deceiver.

Speak your name.

[IN DEMONIC VOICE] Never.

LUCAS:
Why are you living in her?

Because her suffering is sweet.

LUCAS:
What do you plan to do with her?

Eat the flies from her rotting flesh.

LUCAS:
How did you enter her?

With her father's seed.

-So you remember being raped?

LUCAS:
Don't address it directly.

[IN GREEK] When the devil has nothing

better to do, he rapes his children.

I don't understand.

[SPEAKS IN GREEK]

[LAUGHING]

You know how to swear

in every language?

ROSARIA [IN LATIN]: Therefore let us

go down and confound their tongue...

...that they may not understand

one another's speech.

MICHAEL:
You know the Bible well.

We know it very well.

Very clever.

Don't patronize me, doubter!

It is I who chose you.

-Why do you call me "doubter"?

ROSARIA:
Because it's true.

A liar knows a liar.

Are you a liar, Rosaria?

What is it you want me to believe?

There's nothing to believe.

Then there is no devil

and you're not possessed?

You fear me, mortal!

How can I fear you if you don't exist?

You think you outsmarted him?

That's not the devil.

It's just a very, very sick girl.

She doesn't need a priest,

she needs a shrink.

He still has you fooled, hasn't he?

You forgot your bag of tricks.

LUCAS:
He's a deceiver, Michael.

He's a deceiver.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

[ALARM BEEPING]

[ALARM BEEPING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING IN ITALIAN OVER SPEAKER]

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