The Covenant Page #4

- Hey, Mr. Doyle!

- I cast you out, out

in the name of god!

Riddley go ahead,

Riddley go ahead.

Now this concludes what

we can submit to you

as documented evidence

of the existence

of demonic phenomena.

Now, I know what many

of you are thinking,

and you're right, there's

nothing that you haven't seen

or heard here today that

couldn't be explained away

by a more conventional

explanation.

Sadly, the only way to

truly convince a skeptic

of our findings is to

have you come along

the next time we

encounter one of these...

And, no, we don't

give exorcism tours.

- Why not?

- Oh, well that's

a fair question.

And the answer is simple.

Once the demonic presence

leaves the possessed

it doesn't simply vanish or

return from where it came from,

like any other parasite

deprived of its host,

it would desperately

try to attach itself

to something or someone else.

- Okay, something else?

- Yes, in certain instances

the demonic phenomena

will attach itself to

an inanimate object.

- Like a talking doll?

- There's nothing funny

about demonic phenomena.

Now, you can come up

with your own theories

that you might consider

less fantastical to explain

away our findings, you can

call us frauds if you wish,

or you can see things

for what they are.

If you employ a little

thing called faith.

- Faith?

- Yes, I know, the

five letter curse word

to every scientific

mind, but, yes, faith.

And it's frustrating, but in

the age of audio and video

recording, it still

comes down to that,

a matter of faith.

- Well that's all we have

time for this afternoon,

but if you will join me

in a round of applause

for our speakers.

- Father Francis?

I'm uh, Richard Doyle.

Father James burk seemed

to think you might

be able to help me.

- I got a call from

him last night.

What can I do for you?

- It's very hard to say, I,

maybe if you could

just come with me.

- I'm sorry, but I have a

six o'clock tomorrow night

in Bakersfield, if you

wanna make an appointment.

- No, no, no, no, no, no listen.

This can't wait.

- Okay, go on.

- I don't know how

else to describe it,

he was trying to help us and...

He cut out his own tongue,

he, he's in the hospital,

he's gone completely insane.

- You've seen a

demonic haven't you?

It's gonna be all

right, come with me.

- Okay, we're all set.

- It's okay, just relax.

- About a year ago, my sister

Sarah lost her daughter,

Elizabeth, her husband took

his own life a few days later.

- And how did the child die?

- She drowned.

- So this was unexpected?

- Well sort of,

she had leukemia,

and the treatments

weren't helping.

One night she just fell

asleep in the bathtub

and that was it.

I know Adam blamed Sarah.

- I see.

- So I moved Sarah and I

back to our childhood home,

I thought maybe the familiar

could and help cope with

things a bit better, but, she

started having these dreams.

Nightmares, about Lizzy.

Things got a lot worse.

She's, she started

hearing voices.

Lizzy and other voices.

And then she started

cutting herself.

- Cutting herself?

- And there were

these strange symbols.

- What kind of symbols?

- I don't know, not like

anything I've ever seen before.

All over her body.

She had these scars,

like brands of

ruins of some kind.

- Can you draw them for me?

Just do the best you can.

Are you sure about this?

- Yeah, I only saw it

for a second, but, yeah.

- Wow.

- That's interesting.

- What?

- It looks like the

second mark of belial.

- What's that?

- Well it's rare, in all

my life I've only seen it

twice before.

- What does it mean?

- Well.

- Well.

- According to myth,

belial is one of the seven

princes of hell.

A creature of immense power

with ability to take on

many forms, and most

commonly among these would be

a recently deceased person,

which led ancient sources

to mistakenly connect

him with necromancy.

But what concerns me

the most about this

is that this is the first

time I've seen this symbol

outside of a 1,200

year old manuscript.

I think we're gonna have

to cancel on Bakersfield.

- Yeah.

- Oh wait, wait there's more.

- Yeah, you can

tell us on the road.

- I saw heaven standing

open and the white horse,

whose rider is called

faithful and true.

With justice he

judges and makes war.

The lord is my Shepherd,

I shall not want!

He is my savior

and my protector.

- Does it not see, is it

blind from all its watching?

- Jesus, protect me,

the power and the glory...

I shall ever overcome!

Darkness shall never ever!

- Molly, oh Molly,

Molly you freed me!

Molly your faith has redeemed

and defeated the evil one.

Oh praise you and praise

god for bringing you to me.

- For we are all sinners,

and only through him,

only through him.

- Ssshht, all is well.

You have done god's

work this day Molly

and he is most pleased.

But you have seen the evil.

And it blinds you.

Free yourself.

- Follow me.

- Richard?

We can take it from here if

you don't wanna go any further.

- No, I...

I need to do this.

- Okay.

- That smell.

Sarah?

- Here, rub some of

this under your nose.

- I guess you guys

are used to this?

- Strong odors are

one of the top tells

of demonic presence but uh,

yeah this is really bad.

Usually it emanates

from a subterranean area

like a basement or a crawlspace

underneath the house.

- Yeah, yeah, that's

where I first smelled it,

it was in the cellar.

- Let's start with the cellar.

- Oh my god, Molly?

- Not Sarah?

- Our neighbor.

- What are you doing?

- I'm calling the police.

- Put your phone away.

- Why?

- There is a strong

evil in this place,

and we won't expose

anyone else until we know

what we're doing with.

- Readings have spiked

across the board.

Father help me!

Faith!

- Away!

Away!

- Leave this place.

- Sarah?

- Stay right there Richard.

Who are you demon?

I command you to name yourself.

- It asks questions.

Stupid questions as it

knows my name, it fears me.

- I've faced your kind before.

- Faced the small.

The weak, but not me.

- You didn't know

she was pregnant?

- That's because

yesterday she wasn't.

- Who's the father?

- It's not possible.

- What's not possible?

- Last night I...

I...

There was this woman and...

And I had sex with her.

And I finished and...

I saw her, I saw her face.

It was Sarah, it was Sarah!

What do we do now?

Maybe we should pray again.

- I've helped a lot

of people Richard.

But they all had faith.

And as hard as it is,

now is not the time

to be losing yours.

- Well I never really had it

much in abundance to begin with

so that presents

somewhat of a problem.

- Then find it, and

be quick about it too

if you wanna help Sarah.

- Help her?

- Yes.

- She's sick.

She, she seduced me.

She murdered that poor woman.

And god knows what else.

- Whatever's happening

here, you can be sure it's

not your sister's doing.

She's under the control

of a very powerful demon.

And you need to remember this.

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