Deliver Us from Evil Page #5

is happening on the street?

I get hunches.

My partner calls it my "radar."

Maybe you have been

called into the Work.

"The Work"?

Yeah.

And if you have,

I feel sorry for you, man.

Hey. Don't feel sorry for me.

You're the one who

took a vow for celibacy.

(OWL HOOTING)

(INDISTINCT TALK ON TV)

Hey.

Christina cried

herself to sleep tonight.

What? Why?

Because she heard scratching noises

under the floor in her room.

Told her it was just mice.

Scratching noises?

Yeah. She was really scared.

She's not hearing

mice in the floor.

I know!

(RALPH SIGHING)

RALPH:
Did you hear the sounds?

No. I don't think

she really did, either.

Don't you get it? The

floor isn't the problem!

She doesn't feel safe,

because she needs you.

So do I.

(SIGHING)

Something's happening

to me. Okay?

It's something I

don't understand.

You got to talk to me.

You know, I need to know.

You know, I can help you,

(VOICE BREAKING)

but you got to let me in.

It's nothing.

I don't want to talk about it, okay?

Not right now.

So, this is all I get?

This is it?

You get the best of me.

Yeah.

I hope not.

I hope this isn't the best.

(JEN SNIFFLING)

(SIGHING)

(FLOORBOARD CREAKING)

(SIGHING)

Jesus Christ.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

(PATIENT LAUGHING)

(JANE GROANING)

(JANE BREATHING HOARSELY)

The message he painted opened

a door for the demonic.

Those who are susceptible can become

possessed when they see this.

So you're saying by

seeing this message,

Jane became possessed.

MENDOZA:
Yes.

And then she tried

to kill her own child.

Why?

That's the mystery

of primary evil.

Its destructiveness

makes no sense. Not to us.

Santino saw this

message in Iraq,

became possessed.

Now he's trying

to recruit with it.

What this man is

doing must be stopped.

He can't be allowed to keep

creating these doorways.

Take a look at this.

(STATIC)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

(THUDDING)

Tell me you saw that.

Saw what?

The face. It just

flashed across the screen.

No.

You didn't hear

any of those sounds?

I heard nothing.

(SIGHING)

These sounds,

the static, the children's

Voices, the wet thumping,

I keep hearing them. I'm going

out of my f***ing mind!

MENDOZA:
No, you're not.

(RALPH SIGHING)

The painter in this video could

be sending you messages.

Perhaps he knows your gift.

My "gift"?

Those hunches you get, what

your partner calls your radar,

we call it

"the Discernment of Spirits."

You can sense what others can't.

It is a spiritual gift,

but it also puts you at risk.

It makes you a target.

BUTLER:
Those Latin messages

weren't written in paint.

They were written

in human blood.

We ran a DNA test, searched

the database and got a match.

Santino's got a police record?

Arrested for Violent

assault two years ago

when he was home

between deployments.

Acquitted and arrest record expunged

when the victim disappeared.

But his DNA sample was

in the felony database

along with a recent address.

Holy sh*t.

Right here in the South Bronx.

I'll see the judge

about the warrant.

BUTLER:
Hey!

No landlord around, no key.

Want to kick it in?

Go in strong?

Please?

You wait out front.

I'll take the back.

We'll pop him when he shows.

He said he'd be there.

I know. Daddy's got a lot to do.

I'm gonna run your bath, then

it's time for bed, okay?

(SCRATCHING SOUND)

(MELODY PLAYING FROM BOX)

(SCRATCHING SOUND)

(GROWLING) (SCREAMING)

(FAINT SCREAMING)

CHRISTINA:
Mommy!

(CHRISTINA SCREAMING)

Christina!

CHRISTINA:
Mommy! Christina!

Christina!

CHRISTINA:
Mommy!

Christina. What's wrong?

CHRISTINA:
I heard

scratching again,

and the door wouldn't open!

(CRYING)

You're okay. Shh.

Baby.

Oh.

MENDOZA:
Do you have

a crucifix in your home?

We're Italian.

What do you think?

Good.

That's a start.

If you have been

called into the Work,

you and your family

are already in danger.

And now listen to me.

I can't help you any further

unless you humble

yourself before God.

What do you mean, like a confession?

Like in Church?

We don't need a Church.

(PHONE RINGING)

We can do it right here.

You can call it confession,

admission, coming clean,

therapy, whatever.

(THUNDERRUMBUNG) Jesus.

This is spiritual evil you're

dealing with, Sarchie.

You cannot fight

it in the usual way.

Whatever your sins are,

you need to face them now,

because they will

be used against you.

I guarantee you that.

I don't know, Father.

I can't do that.

Do you remember

that tape I played you?

Claudia, the woman

from Venezuela.

How could I forget?

The night you and I first met,

I went to Claudia's house for

the first time in many years.

After seeing Jane

Crenna that night,

I needed to see Claudia again.

To remind myself that an

encounter with true evil

can always bring

out the evil in me.

What do you mean?

Less than a year after the ritual

cleansing I did at Claudia's house,

she and I relapsed together.

No sh*t? Yeah.

Several times a week,

for months.

No pain, no anguish,

no anxiety. Total euphoria.

And then when we came

down, we'd have sex.

She got pregnant.

And against my best efforts,

she had an abortion.

Jesus.

You're no saint, Father.

I'll give you that.

Funny you should say that.

Because when I couldn't

take the guilt anymore,

I confessed what I'd done.

And of course I assumed

I would be defrocked.

I certainly deserved to be.

But you know what my

parish priest told me?

Hesam,

"A saint is not

a moral exemplar."

"A saint is a life-giver."

He heard my full story,

told me that if it happened

again I would be defrocked,

and I left his office committed

to walking the path of grace.

So I do know how

difficult it is.

But you need to

unburden yourself, Sarchie.

You need to deal

with that hidden pain.

It's killing you inside.

Holy sh*t, there he is.

He's approaching the building.

I'll meet you around the back.

We'll go in through the side.

Stay in the car.

Sarchie.

Don't be deceived by his tricks.

He's not here.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(THE DOORS' MUSIC PLAYING)

BUTLER:
What is it?

What's wrong?

You don't hear nothing?

No.

(STATIC)

Do you hear something?

Radan

(ALARM RINGING)

Sarch, that's just the alarm.

Son of a b*tch!

Radio the floor he stops on!

Basement, he's in the basement!

(PRAYING IN LATIN)

(IN MARVIN'S VOICE) No, please,

help me.

Help me.

(ROARING)

MAN:
Okay, push.

Are you f***ing kidding me?

MAN:
It's stuck, man.

No!

God damn it!

(IN RALPH'S VOICE) As a cop,

I've always had

a pretty heavy hand.

(THUDDING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(JACK-IN-THE-BOX MELODY PLAYING)

(RALPH GRUNTING)

(CHOKING)

(SNARLING)

(RALPH SCREAMING)

(CHOKING)

(BUTLER GRUNTING)

(BUTLER GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

(GROANING)

(JIMMY GROWLING)

(PRAYING IN LATIN)

(STATIC)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

(GRUNTING)

(SHRIEKING)

(BUTLER GROANING)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

(PRAYING IN LATIN)

(THUMPING)

Where's Butler?

I don't know.

(PANTING)

Sh*t.

Butler?

No, no, no, no, no, no!

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