The Crucifixion Page #3

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You don't care what we have to say.

[Nicole] And what is that?

She wasn't sick in the head.

Look, if you've got something

to say, then I want to help you.

Please, if Father Dumitru and the nuns

didn't kill your sister, then who did?

Tell me.

It was the demon.

It spoke to me.

[hinges creaking]

[singing softly]

Adelina?

[continues singing]

Adelina.

Adelina.

[fly buzzing]

[continues singing]

[gasps]

[whimpers]

Adelina!

[demon speaks Romanian]

[gasps, panting]

Whatever was inside of

her was challenging me too.

Testing my faith.

I've never felt anything

so evil in my entire life.

Adelina had been in

Germany for the last year,

working as a nanny for a family

who had just adopted two

kids from the orphanage.

Before she went to work

for them, the German embassy

asked her to take a

complete psychological exam.

It's the country's policy.

She passed.

Why'd she come back?

She wanted to return to the monastery.

She wanted to work at the orphanage.

And nothing had happened in Germany?

No.

It all started when she got back.

The first thing Adelina wanted to do

was go see Father Gabrielle

and give him a gift.

He liked to collect porcelain

figurines of animals.

I'm sorry, who's Father Gabrielle?

He was a priest who

really looked out for us

when we were young at the orphanage.

He and Adelina were especially close.

When we left and he became a bishop,

we never saw him any more,

except when he would come

and stay at the monastery

for work and prayer.

Stefan!

Adelina!

[both shrieking, laughing]

[panting loudly]

[Stefan] He performed exorcisms.

We wish he could have helped Adelina.

[dark, muttered whispers]

[bell tolling loudly]

[women screaming]

- [body landing]

- [shouting in Romanian]

- No!

- [groans]

- [shouting continues]

- [sobbing]

[Vaduva] Father Gabrielle threw

himself off the bell tower.

We don't know what could have driven

him to commit the ultimate sin.

We watched as Adelina cradled

him in her arms as he died.

[faint sobbing]

We were all devastated.

But Adelina took it the hardest.

He'd been like a father to her.

We don't know why he was even up there.

He never rang the bell before.

Afterwards, I'd always find

Adelina in the church, crying.

She was so upset.

Then one time, we were

all heading in for Mass...

- [bell tolling]

- ...she refused to go in.

[speaking Romanian]

[Adelina breathing hard]

[dark, distorted whispering]

[quietly sobbing]

[Vaduva] It got a lot worse after that.

[gasps]

[Adelina sobbing, praying]

[speaks Romanian]

[gasps]

[Nicole] Phil, she described some really

disturbing things that happened.

Did you believe her?

Well, I believe she believes what she saw.

I guess when you're in the

land of vampires and werewolves,

- anything could happen.

- Yeah, I guess so.

I read your piece on unanswered prayers.

I went online.

[Nicole chuckles]

Thank you.

[thanks in Romanian]

[praying quietly]

For someone who doesn't believe in God,

I'm curious why you are trying so hard

to convince others to believe the same.

Free will, remember?

It was interesting, the

number of people you quoted

who had prayed to God to help them

but their prayers went unheard.

What about the prayers that were heard?

The miracles, the miraculous healings

that have occurred over the centuries?

So it's a selective process

whose prayers God responds to?

Whether it be Satan or

people's wills or disbelief,

I think it's important

for people to understand

that it's not God who

seems so unpredictable.

He's not the one who failed to answer.

We are the ones who have failed to receive.

[dry chuckle]

Why is this so important to you?

I think people only pray

because they believe they

can't fix things themselves.

Hmm.

When I was working away

a couple of years ago,

I got a call from my dad,

telling me that my mom had cancer.

What he didn't tell me was that

she'd been diagnosed two years earlier

and had been trying to beat it

without saying anything to me.

They didn't want me to worry.

I'd been travelling a lot for work,

so I hadn't really been around much.

When I came home, I

discovered that she was done...

with the drugs, the chemo, the needles...

...and was ready to be, as she put it,

"cradled in the arms of the Lord."

And my dad was somehow okay with that.

I wasn't so ready to let her

go, so I started researching

and I found this new treatment

program that sounded great for her.

She wouldn't even try it.

Said she was in God's hands.

I begged my dad to change her

mind, but he wouldn't do it.

Said we had to honor her wishes.

Said they'd prayed about it together.

So we watched her slowly die.

I was really pissed.

If she didn't have such

faith in a stronger afterlife,

she'd probably be alive today.

That treatment program ended up

having a 90 percent success rate.

Her faith made her give up hope.

I think her faith made you lose yours.

She was fine with it.

Her relationship with

God is just that, hers.

You shouldn't judge it.

I was trying to save her life.

For you, not her.

I think the problem is, if you

actually found out God existed,

then you'd have no one to blame.

- [fireworks exploding]

- [people cheering]

[Anton] You need to be careful.

Your rage against God and lack

of faith makes you an easy target,

especially looking into what

happened to Sister Marinescu.

Has something already happened?

Whether you believe it

or not, demons are real.

There is a heaven and there is a hell,

and here, now, what's

happening around this incident,

is a battlefield. You need protection.

Without faith, you don't have any.

What about Sister Marinescu?

Did her faith protect her?

Listen to me...

It's okay. I know my own way back.

[indistinct chatter]

[woman cheers]

[chatter, laughter]

[whispers in Romanian]

Are you okay?

That boy standing outside,

you know who he is?

It's Tavian Amanar. He's a Gypsy.

[yells in Romanian]

He's slow in the head.

He said to me... [repeats Romanian phrase]

What's that mean?

"It's watching you." But that's impossible.

He can't speak. He was

born without a tongue.

Does he live nearby?

Yeah, he lives on a farm with his father.

You passed it coming into Tanacu.

Please stay away from

them. They are Gypsies.

They're liars and cheats.

Tourists are easy targets.

He wants something from you.

[water running, stops]

[panting]

[moaning]

[gasps]

[door opens]

[hinges creaking]

[rattling]

[floorboards creaking]

[door rattles]

[continues rattling]

[shrieking]

[screams, panting]

[pounding on door]

[panting]

- [shrieks]

- [screaming]

[panting]

[line ringing]

[Phil] Hey, Nic, is everything all right?

- Hey.

- Must be three in the morning there.

Yeah...

I don't know, it's hard to

make sense out of something

- that doesn't make sense.

- How do you mean?

[voice shaking] Earlier I was...

I just...

[sighs] I guess I'm just tired is all.

You know what, I'll call you

back in the morning, okay?

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