Exorcist: The Beginning Page #3

- Sarah.

You don't understand.

What they did to me

in the camp. They--

There's nothing left to bleed.

There is something here,

something evil.

Sarah, it's so much easier

to believe in evil as an entity...

but it's not.

It's a purely human condition

inside all of us.

Did Bession talk about

what he found under the church?

There's an ancient temple below,

a pagan place...

where they used to conduct sacrifices,

human sacrifices.

Why would they build a church

on top of something like that?

Perhaps to purify the site.

But then why bury it?

No!

Merrin!

You better come with me.

Jefferies didn't show up

for the dig this morning.

He wasn't in his room,

so they came to the bar and they found--

Chief Sebituana's baby

was stillborn last night.

He blames the whites.

You think the Turkana tookJefferies?

I think this place

is on the verge of an uprising.

I've contacted Major Granville.

A detachment will be here

by this afternoon.

You disagree?

In my experience, bringing soldiers

into a situation is always a bad idea.

Who buried them?

Everybody died.

Who buried them?

All right! Halt!

- Major Granville.

- Hello, Peter.

Come on! Out you get!

Move it, Wilkins!

- Any answers on Jefferies?

- I'm afraid not.

Well, you did the right thing

calling me, Father.

I've been in these situations before...

and you have to stay on top of--

on top of these people.

I'm not sure the Turkana are responsible

for what's happening here, Major.

Major Granville?

This dig is too important to jeopardize...

and until I'm satisfied

that the excavation is secure...

the British Army will

assume complete control.

The Turkana won't like

the show of force.

I'm not concerned with

what the Turkana like, Mr. Merrin!

If they start any more trouble,

they will have to answer...

to the might

of His Majesty King George.

You cannot be here.

Please tell Sebituana

I'm sorry for his loss.

You are not welcome here.

I want to know about the plague

that destroyed this village 50 years ago.

It was not a plague.

So, what was it?

The evil in your church...

it has taken Emekwi's youngest son...

and it is getting stronger.

You must abandon your work...

or we'll be forced to stop you.

So you don't want to tell me?

He says he doesn't have to tell you

because it's happening again...

right now.

- You don't bury your dead. You cremate them.

- Yes.

Then who's buried in that graveyard?

I'm sorry.

What are you--

- I'm sorry.

- Daddy.

I will shoot 10, priest,

and you will choose.

I can't do that.

No! No!

Now you choose...

or I will kill them all.

Are you praying...

to God?

Shoot me.

God is not here today, priest.

Papa!

- They're empty!

- What?

I dug up three graves.

They were all empty. What happened here?

- I-I don't know.

- Oh, yes, you do.

- You've been lying to me since we got here.

- Let go of me.

Damn it!

There are crosses on the graves!

There are crosses on the coffins!

The church buried them, didn't they?

Didn't they?

Yes.

Why?

What were they hiding?

That this place is damned.

No! You asked the question!

Now you're gonna listen to the answer!

There was a massacre here...

1,500 years ago.

An army from the west,

led by two priests...

searching for the origin

of a powerful evil.

But when they got here

that evil consumed them...

turning the soldiers

against each other in a bloodbath.

Only a single priest survived.

When that priest made it back

to the EmperorJustinian...

he ordered that a church

be built over the site and then buried...

to seal the evil inside.

All mention of it was to be stricken

from the history texts forever.

But it wasn't?

No.

In 1893...

a Vatican researcher

found an ancient letter in the archives.

Four priests came

to examine the site...

enlisting the help of the people

of this valley in their search...

and they all disappeared.

Where did they go?

No one knows.

The Vatican ordered a cover-up--

the false graveyard...

the tale of a plague to--

to scare people away.

And then the British

stumbled across it.

And I was sent here

to see if the legend was real.

What legend?

That after the war in heaven...

this is the spot where Lucifer fell.

God brought you here, Lancaster.

Leave me alone.

No.

No.

The devil is here...

inside that boy.

The Turkana know it.

They came to drive the devil from him,

and he almost killed them.

You can't run from this.

You must help me.

I can't.

But you've seen what's going on here.

You have to believe.

I believe in nothing.

Found Jefferies.

- Over there!

- As you were!

Major Granville!

Wait!

Get him down.

Get him down!

You all right, Major?

Savages.

Major! Major!

- Bloody savages.

- Why are you here?

- Granville!

- You have no business to be here!

- You must leave.

- Granville!

- You people have plundered our ancestors.

- Granville!

You must return Turkana to us now.

- Let me through!

- It is time to go.

You have already polluted our lives.

You came here with your evil.

We knew peace before you came.

Granville!

No!

No! No!

No!

They think it's insideJoseph!

They believe the evil is upon us!

Chuma!

Merrin.

They believe it is inside Joseph.

They are going to kill him.

Now, please... go!

You animals!

- Turn this way!

- I don't like it. Come on!

Three boxes of ammunition!

Sir. The Turkana

are preparing to attack.

Leave me.

Sir?

I said, leave me.

Yes, sir.

We must leave now.

Why?

- Where's Sarah?

- I don't know.

Take the boy to Nairobi.

Father Gionetti.

Why?

Turkana are coming to kill him.

It's a sandstorm.

It won't let us leave.

We have to hide him.

- The church.

- No!

The Turkana won't go in there.

It's his only chance.

- Aren't you coming?

- I have to find Sarah.

We'll meet you.

Francis!

Now go.

Sarah?

The Lord is coming for you.

Sarah?

Sarah!

In nomine Patris, et Filii,

et Spiritus Sanctu.

- Steady now!

- Pick it up, mate!

Sarah?

Sarah!

Oh, my God.

Bession was Sarah's husband?

Yes.

She went into the church

with him, didn't she?

It's notJoseph.

It's Sarah.

Sancti Michael Archangel--

Ready yourselves, men!

Fire!

Chuma!

Francis?

Francis.

Francis.

O Lord, forgive my disbelief.

I need you.

These people need you.

This valley needs you.

Hear my cry.

Do not abandon me now.

Forgive my sins.

Joseph.

Come sit with us, Lancaster.

I promise I won't bite!

Joseph, run.

- He's mine.

- Run!

Leave him alone.

It's me you want.

I am a fallen priest.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.

God, Father in heaven,

have mercy on us.

God, the Son, redeemer of the world,

have mercy on us.

God, the Holy Spirit,

have mercy on us.

Christ, hear us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

Christ, hear us.

- Lord, have mercy on us.

- What's the matter, Merrin?

Don't you want to

f*** me anymore?

All ye holy angels and archangels...

pray for us!

All ye holy orders of blessed spirits,

pray for us!

Why would he listen to you?

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