The Exorcism of Emily Rose Page #5

Both counselors, | please approach the bench.

Your Honor, this testimony | is beyond ridiculous. Visions...

Supernatural belief systems | are shared by millions of people.

We're in "The Twilight Zone" here.

Her expertise is relevant | to the issues in this case.

Let's have a witch doctor | sift through bones...

Stop.

We've heard a great deal | of testimony...

...in support of a medical explanation | for Emily's condition.

Now we have a witness | who has spent her career...

...studying the defense's | alternative explanation.

An exorcism expert, if you will.

I think we'll hear | what she has to say.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Dr. Adani, why do you think | Emily's exorcism failed?

The medical treatment. | Specifically, the drug Gambutrol.

Please explain.

The exorcism ritual results | in a specific brain activity...

...that cuts the person off from | the possession experience.

But Emily's exorcism | could not have achieved this...

...because the doctor | gave her Gambutrol...

...which has an intoxicating effect | on the brain.

The drug made her immune | to the psycho-spiritual shock...

...that exorcism | is intended to provide.

What do you believe was the result of | treatment with this intoxicating drug?

Gambutrol locked Emily | in the possessed state.

This left her unable to respond | to the exorcism...

...and therefore, it directly | contributed to her death.

Thank you, doctor.

No further questions.

I'm looking at a list of | your published articles, doctor.

You've been quite busy and prolific.

So based on your time spent | with Holy Roller snake-handlers...

...voodoo priestesses | and Indians tripping on peyote buds...

...based on observing | these bizarre individuals...

...you've concluded | that possession is...

...a basic, typical | human experience?

I must say, counselor...

...that's quite a laundry list | of disdain...

...and one that thoroughly | mischaracterizes my research.

No, I don't think possession | is a typical experience.

But I am convinced that it is | a scientifically verified...

...culturally universal one.

Have you ever used Gambutrol | in your studies...

...to test your theory about its effect | on the possession experience?

Absolutely not. That would be | dangerous to the patient.

So this notion of Gambutrol locking | someone in a possessed state...

...the key to your assertion that | her medical treatment harmed Emily...

...this would be your own | pet theory, correct?

- You're just making this one up? | - Objection. Argumentative.

Sustained.

Although I think he's just taking | a page from your book, counselor.

No further questions.

Erin!

I've got a doctor | who wants to testify.

He's an eyewitness, Erin.

He was there. | He was at the exorcism.

- What? | - He called us.

Dr. Graham Cartwright, | Department of Abnormal Psychiatry...

...at St. Mary's Hospital.

Dr. Cartwright. Ring a bell?

Yes.

He was there?

- Yes. | - Father...

...if you want me to defend you, | you've got to give me...

...all the information I need.

With all of this medical testimony | helping the prosecution...

...how could you not tell me | that a doctor attended the exorcism?

He asked that I keep | his involvement confidential...

...and I said I would.

Dr. Cartwright?

I recognize you from those | courtroom drawings on the news.

You're much prettier in real life.

- May I sit? | - Yes, please.

You're losing.

I had hoped Father Moore | wouldn't need me...

...but I don't wanna see him | put away.

How do you know him?

Well, I was his parishioner | at St. Vincent's Church...

...about 15 years ago.

I hadn't seen or heard of him for years | when he called me last fall.

But he needed help, so...

What kind of help, doctor?

He wanted a medical perspective | from a psychiatrist...

...you know, one that he knew, | trusted...

...to observe Emily's physical | and mental state during this...

During the exorcism.

Yeah.

Doctor.

Doctor.

Can you help our case?

That girl was not schizophrenic...

...and she was not epileptic, | or any combination of the two.

I've seen hundreds of people | with those problems.

They can be terrible afflictions, | of course, but they don't scare me.

But what you saw that night in Emily, | that did scare you.

God, if I'd known, | I never would've been there.

I started praying again | since then, you know.

I examined that girl before I drove | back to the city that night.

She was lucid...

...and she was completely aware | of this separate entity inside her.

When she wasn't in his grip, she was | totally herself, completely normal.

The awareness of her alternate mental | state is counterindicative of psychosis.

Crazy people | don't know they're crazy.

That's right.

You'll testify to all of this, in detail?

Everything you saw?

Send me the case files | and tell me when to be in court.

Thank you, doctor.

We need this.

Before he was arrested, | Father Moore sent this to me.

He asked me to take care of it.

It's your burden now.

One more thing. | When you saw Emily...

...did Father Moore ask you | to give her any medical help?

He was already trying to stop her from | injuring herself and urging her to eat.

And I told him, as a doctor, | I couldn't help her.

Dr. Cartwright's going to testify.

Don't you get it?

He's not just an eyewitness | to the exorcism.

He can also refute the prosecution's | medical case. This is huge for us.

When do I get to testify?

I don't know. Let's take this | one step at a time.

No.

What matters most is Emily's story, | which only I can tell.

I understand.

Have you thought about | what I said before?

About dark forces | and demonic attacks?

Yes, I have.

That day, after Briggs testified...

... I was feeling awful.

just to clear my head...

what you said to me. Thinking:

"What if demons really do exist?"

And wondering what that | would mean if I believed that.

Because God knows, | I have my own demons.

And I saw something | lying on the sidewalk.

It was a gold locket...

engraved on it.

My middle name is Christine.

Erin Christine Bruner.

And of all the people walking by | that day, I found that locket.

What are the chances of that?

I don't know, maybe it was a sign.

Or maybe it was just some | incredible coincidence.

But it made me feel...

...like no matter what mistakes | I've made in the past...

...at that moment, I was exactly | where I was meant to be.

Like I was on the right path.

You sound more like a mystic | than an agnostic.

Are you wearing the locket now?

No.

You should.

The archdiocese | doesn't want you to testify.

They're just afraid | that I'll embarrass them.

Testify to some medieval-sounding | supernatural nonsense.

They're expecting me | to talk you out of it.

I've just decided | I'm not even gonna try.

Why not?

If the archdiocese | wants to avoid embarrassment...

...they need you to walk out of here | a free man.

I believe a jury will find you | sincere and credible...

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