The Final Conflict Page #2

which thou hast seen fit to return unto us,

that they may serve their holy purpose

and destroy the Prince of Darkness,

even as he seeketh to destroy

thy child of light.

I now call upon each of you

to come forward

and arm yourselves in the name of the Lord.

Brother Martin.

Brother Paulo.

Each of us must pray to our Lord

in the silence of his own soul.

Since we are prepared to lay down our lives

in the pursuit of this enterprise,

we must seek

final absolution from God now,

Lest we be denied the redemption

of the blessed last sacrament

at the moment of death.

Above all, we must ask God to grant us

courage, guidance and strength,

as we prepare to do battle

with Satan and his son, the Antichrist.

The exact hour of our Lord's Second Coming,

for which centuries have wept,

has now been revealed to us

by signs in the heavens.

It is imperative that the destruction

of the Antichrist takes place before then,

and we have but a short time

in which to carry it out.

My brothers, remember that

these seven daggers and ourselves

are all that stand between

the son of Satan and the Son of God,

for they alone can destroy him.

- Can't quite place it, can you?

- No.

Waiter, let me have a look at the label on

the bottle of wine we're drinking, will you?

Is he really only 32?

No idea. Shouldn't be surprised.

Americans always seem to think

- they can run before they can walk.

- Like their wine, what?

The answer is yes. He's the youngest

ambassador ever appointed by the president.

- Are you part of his staff?

- I'm his private secretary, Harvey Dean.

- Kate Reynolds, British television.

- My wife Barbara.

- How do you do?

- We're fine.

- Lafite-Thorn.

- Must have bought the bugger out!

Amazing what they can make

with soya beans these days.

- Would you like to meet the ambassador?

- Yes. Yes, I would. Thank you.

Be back in a jiffy.

- Good evening, Mrs. Dean.

- Hello.

- When is the happy event?

- Next week, I hope.

Damien. I'd like you to meet Kate Reynolds.

Miss Reynolds works for British television.

She has her own weekly news show.

It's called The Worldin Vision.

- In Focus.

- Excuse me. The Worldin Focus.

Or out of focus, as the case may be.

How do you do, Miss Reynolds?

The Barbara Walters of British television?

On my salary? They don't call us the

British Broadcasting Charity for nothing(!)

Well, that makes two of us. I'm in the charity

business as well. What can I do for you?

Actually, I'd like to talk about

doing an interview with you sometime,

concentrating on your views on youth. I've

heard a lot about them from my son Peter.

He's only 12, but your ideas

have made a big impression on him.

Excuse me.

The Israeli ambassador has to go.

Of course. I'd be pleased to talk to you.

Give Harvey a call. He'll arrange a time.

- How about Sunday?

- Well, Sundays I usually spend with Peter.

Fine. Bring Peter along too. Excuse me.

Come on, you two! You'll get wet!

Mummy, look what Damien's given me!

- No, you can't.

- He can. He just did.

It's safer with him. If I have a collision,

we might have some sort of

international crisis on our hands.

I'm not sure you should spoil him so much.

Well, to tell you the truth,

he's been spoiling me.

It's not every day

you get the chance to be a boy again.

Well...

English weather.

- Go on, dog. Go and get it.

- Tell me about Peter's father.

He died just after Peter was born.

- Have you never thought of getting married?

- No. I'm too much of a skeptic.

- Oh, yes?

- Besides, I've never really had the time.

Peter's always wanted me to buy him a dog.

Well, you should.

Dogs and boys go great together.

We've had one of these dogs

in the family since I was a kid.

- They used to march with the Roman army.

- Did they?

They're as old as sin.

- Feel like some lunch?

- Good idea.

..probably realised my favourite subject

is me, not only because I'm very beautiful...

I am beautiful!

People from all over the world

came for our actors,

but where are the new ones gonna train

if we haven't got any stages?

And the reason we haven't got stages

is because people are not going to the theatre!

They are watching television.

You're sitting in a bar, and at 11 o'clock

they say "You have 10 minutes to drink up."

You've paid a fortune for that drink

and they throw you out in the streets.

"The day of Christ is at hand" wrote St Paul

in his second letter to the Thessalonians.

"Yet let no man be deceived,

for that day shall not come

until the man of sins is revealed,

the son of perdition, the Antichrist."

"And be not deceived by him,

for Satan himself is transformed

into an angel of light."

The hour of Christ's Second Coming draws

nigh. The prophecies fulfilled one by one.

Right now, my friends,

in the constellation of Cassiopeia,

a holy trinity of stars is converging

to herald our Lord's Second Coming.

"Rejoice, you heavens and you that dwell

in them" commands St John in Revelation.

"But woe to you, sea and earth, for the devil

hath come down to you in great fury,

knowing that his time is short,

and the Prince of Darkness shall be mighty."

"And he shall flourish

and destroy the mighty."

"And he shall cause craft

to prosper in his hands."

"And by peace shall he destroy many!"

I followed them through the crowd,

but couldn't get close enough.

He was with a woman and a boy of about 11.

- Who was the woman?

- She's a television interviewer.

I asked someone who went

up to her for an autograph.

Kate Reynolds.

She apparently is quite some celebrity.

- And the boy?

- Probably her son.

Please, Father, let it be me. Let me be

the bait to flush him out and destroy him.

- Thorn and I have made contact eye to eye.

- That is exactly why it cannot be you.

We have to strike him off guard.

Yet the target must be still...

for the marksman to be sure of his aim.

A sitting target...

- A sleeping target?

- No. His residence is guarded day and night.

- How about the embassy?

- Impossible.

There's our sitting target.

Where?

The Israeli government has denied

responsibility for the Aswan Dam disaster,

which has so far claimed

the lives ofover50,000 Egyptians,

though many fear that the final

death toll may reach twice that number.

Already typhoid has broken out among the

country's thousands of homeless refugees...

- It's OK. I'll do it myself.

- ..and a major epidemic seems unavoidable.

The Egyptian government has revealed

that Thorn is supplying soya...

At the centre of Thorns global operations is

a man who has become a legend for his time:

Damien Thorn.

Did you see that woman?

It's not a woman. It's a guy. It's a f*ggot!

- Dressed up like a woman. It's a f*ggot!

- They're all God's children, Harvey.

..in a career that's already being compared

to that of the late John F Kennedy.

After majoring at Yale, Damien Thorn

came to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,

where he captained the Oxford eight to

victory and won the Westchester Cup at polo.

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