The Borderlands Page #5

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It wasn't your call to make.

- Yeah, well, somebody had to!

Well, somebody is going to be facing

serious disciplinary procedures

when this is over.

- Right.

This is your last mission with

the congregation, Deacon.

I'll make bloody sure of that.

Father Umberto Calvino,

he was my tutor.

He heads up the Vatican archives

now, all very hush hush.

You don't have to tell me, dude.

I've read "The Da Vinci Code".

Grazie.

- Father Calvinol

Very nice flight,

I enjoyed that.

Calvino's an expert in church

history. All the stuff

that's been swept under the holy carpet.

Right.

They've been trying to

get rid of him for years,

but when this kind of thing comes along,

- He's a useful man to have in your corner.

The best.

Padre Deacon!

- Padre Calvino!

Grazie.

So Padre, looking at all the

information, both the event

and the timeline, most of it is audio -

although there is some physical,

if we include the moving cross.

Why are you suddenly including that now?

- Well, in the light of the new

circumstances, the new evidences...

- What new evidences?

You haven't found anything!

- He knew about Frazzetti!

Frazzetti. Frazzetti's eyes..

Oh God, his eyes!

You could have been saying those

things, we never see your face.

Oh really? What, in Crellick's accent?

Why would I want to mention Frazzetti?

Guys, who is Frazzetti?

He worked for the congregation. He was

in Belem. He was second in command,

under Deacon.

Wait - Deacon was in Belm?

- Gray...

Deacon likes to edit the story

to make him less culpable.

When he got there each and every

one of the priests was still alive.

All he had to do was bring them home,

but he couldn't resist meddling.

The scammers thought

they'd been discovered and murdered

each and every one of them.

Would have murdered Deacon too

if he wasn't drunk that night.

Alright, but "Frazzetti's eyes" -

what does that mean?

During the visions, Frazzetti was unable

to deal with what he was seeing.

He cut his own eyes out.

Look, okay fine, I will see this through,

okay, but then I am done!

I'm going back to corporates.

It's boring but it's a lot less grief!

Because Deacon has been lying to me

and because you've been lying to me.

I mean, do any of you people

tell the f***ing truth?

I don't give a monkey's about the bonus!

You can give that to

the f***ing poor or something!

You know what? Dan Brown

was right about you lot!

You can stick your hail Marys

up your f***ing arse!

Oh, he's gone. Oh well, ciao Signore.

So Father Amidon.

Relator General, no less. I always

knew you would rise far.

I don't want you to think that I

resent your presence here but

Deacon had no authority

to make that call.

I still don't understand why you

would want to travel all this way.

He may be insubordinate but

he may also be correct.

Do you know of Pope Gregory's

letter to Mellitus?

Mellitus? He was sent by Gregory

on a mission

to bring Christianity to

the pagans of England.

Gregory wrote:
"By no means destroy

the temples of the heathen gods"

"but rather the idols that

are within those temples."

"When you have purified them with

holy water, place altars there."

You're saying the church

used to be a pagan temple?

No, no, not the building.

But the ground.

This site has always been a site of

significance. What is present at this place

is older than the church,

older than Christianity.

- So what is it,

like an evil spirit? A demon?

- Two words for the same thing.

Once people worshipped it as a god.

The Church came along and drove it out,

they called it the Antichrist.

It does not matter what we call it.

But now it has returned,

like weeds that creep through

an abandoned building.

Do you know what the foundation

of friendship is, Deacon?

Yes.

It's trust, mate.

It's trust, alright?

I know that...

- I have to sit there... I have to sit there

listening to your stories, alright,

and we're bonding,

I think we're bonding.

There were reasons I didn't

tell you the truth.

Yeah, well, it turns out

it's all bollocks!

We are near.

Gray. Gray. It was a mistake.

- No, mate.

A mistake is when you spill a drink

or drop your phone in the toilet.

What you did was a lie, mate.

- Let's put this into perspective, okay?

I didn't kill those men. But I was

warned and I ignored it.

And seven priests died. I am

going to have to live with that

for the rest of my life.

Let's go.

Can you feel that?

I don't like this.

Padre, I've seen this symbol before.

Yes, in the pagan times many

different gods were

worshipped in different regions.

This symbol represents a deity

of the people who were here.

Which deity?

There is so much we don't know.

Even the name of this pagan

god eludes us. But this symbol

is all we need -

for the banishment ceremony.

This is ridiculous. This isn't

even a Christian ceremony.

For the very first time I have seen

things here I can't explain.

"In vino veritas".

- Yeah, sure.

Mark, Mark! What about the baby?

We both heard that

and the radios were off.

- Ferric oxide.

What?

- I read of caves in France

where people heard sounds.

Turns out the walls

of the caves were rich in

ferric oxide. When the walls

resonated at the right frequency,

they gave out sounds

like a primitive tape recorder.

- That's bullshit!

Why is it after all you've seen

you continue to cling to bizarre

and desperate theories?

Desperate theories? It's scientific

reasoning what we do.

Maybe so, but we're also

representatives of the church!

Are you questioning my faith?

One question:

Do you accept there are things

happening in this church,

things beyond science?

- No!

You know what, I'm a virtuous man.

I follow the teachings of Jesus.

But that's not enough, is it? I'm

supposed to believe in magic now,

supposed to believe the world was created

in six days, believe in empty rituals.

Well, I don't!

And it's high time the Church

got rid of these alienating

medieval superstitions.

All that remains is the finishing ritual.

"In nomine Patris et Filii,

et Spiritus Sancti."

"In nomine Patris et Filii..."

Get away!

- Did you hear that?

Get away!

Go back! Go back! I command you!

Mark? Mark?

Mark. Mark, can you hear me?

Are you okay?

Gray, can you hear? Are you hurt?

- Where's Father Calvino?

Father Calvino!

Father Calvino!

Father! Father Calvino!

Sh*t! Sh*t!

Please, please!

Come on, you f***er!

I'm not in this!

Goddamn it!

Deacon?

Deacon!

Deacon!

F***...

Deacon! -Jesus!

- Deacon! -Jesus!

Sh*t!

- Oh God!

Okay, Gray, come here. Now look at me!

Now you need to calm down!

- Okay. Dude, have you seen Mark?

Mark?

- Yeah.

I think he wandered down here. He was there

one minute, then he was just f***ing gone.

I'm going to take the light away now.

- Okay.

Stay right behind me.

- Let's just get the f*** out of here, man!

Father Calvino!

- You said he came down here?

I don't know. I think so.

What the f*** is that?

Right, right, right.

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