The Omen Page #3

another child would be disastrous.

Well, in what way evil?

Now, this is just fantasy.

She also thinks the child isn't hers.

The most important thing for you to do

is to agree to an abortion.

No.

I'd like to know your reason.

It was foretold that

this pregnancy would be terminated.

I'm going to fight to see that it's not.

- Forgive me, Doctor.

- Please don't leave.

I'm sorry. I must get home.

Damien.

No, no, no, no!

No! No!

Are there any developments

on the state of your wife, sir?

- How is your wife, Mr. Ambassador?

- Is there any news, sir?

- Ambassador Thorn?

- Yes. Doctor?

My name is Becker.

Is she all right?

Well, she will recover.

She's in there. Bed by the window.

She has a concussion

and a broken humerus,

and, well, some internal bleeding.

- Internal bleeding?

- Yes.

But she's pregnant.

No.

- She's lost it?

- Afraid so.

You know, you've got a lot to be grateful for.

She's still alive.

And, with proper care,

she can still have children.

Robert.

Robert.

Don't let him kill me.

Don't let him kill me.

Kathy.

It's all right.

- Yes?

- I'm sorry to bother you, Ambassador Thorn.

- Who is this?

- My name is Keith Jennings, sir.

The photographer

whose camera got smashed.

Would it be possible

to have a word with you at my flat?

- If it's about the camera...

- No, it's not about the camera.

It's about you, Mr. Thorn.

And the death of the priest.

Go on.

Do you notice anything unusual?

No. Sorry.

At first I thought

this was just a fault in the film.

A strange coincidence.

Then it happened again.

Interesting, don't you think?

And this, I took on the day

that you were at the rugby match.

- Same thing?

- Only it's more pronounced

and it's actually

making contact with the body.

The rest, of course - history.

I can't explain it.

That's why I started digging. The coroner's

report shows that he was riddled with cancer.

High on morphine most of the time.

Injected himself two or three times a day.

- He knew that he was dying?

- Apparently, yes.

He said that he wanted

to be forgiven by Christ.

Externally, his body was normal, except for

one thing on the inside of his right thigh.

- What is it?

- Three sixes.

Six hundred and sixty-six.

- Concentration camp?

- That's what I thought.

But the biopsy says it's a birthmark.

The best is yet to come.

Pages of the Bible. Thousands of 'em.

Every inch of wall-space covered,

even the windows.

He even needed to be close to his church.

There are 47. I counted them.

I think he was trying

to keep something out, don't you?

The police thought he was insane. They let

me come here to see if I could find anything.

The first item is a diary.

It didn't say anything about him.

It's about you. What time

you left the house, where you went,

what restaurants you had your lunch in,

what time your speaking engagements were.

The last entry says that he was supposed to

have met you in Bishop's Park.

And that was dated the day he died.

The important items are here. If we're to get

to the bottom of this, we've got to start here.

This first clipping

is from the Astrologer's Monthly.

Reports an unusual phenomenon. A comet

changed its shape into a glowing star,

like the star of Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.

This one was on the other side of the world,

the European continent, five years ago.

Does that date mean anything to you?

Yes.

Then you'll recollect this other clipping.

It's a birth announcement

from a Rome newspaper.

Also dated 6 June, five years ago.

The day your son was born.

The sixth month, sixth day.

Was your son born at 6am?

Yes, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to work out

this birthmark. The three sixes.

My son is dead.

I don't know whose son I'm raising.

If you wouldn't mind,

I'd like to help you try and find out.

No. It's my problem.

No, sir, you're wrong. It's my problem too.

When I came here with the police,

I took some photographs.

I happened to catch sight

of my own reflection in that mirror.

I know you must think I'm crazy,

but I'm so frightened.

Don't be afraid. You'll be all right here.

You'll be perfectly all right.

Some all right!

- What about Damien?

- I'll speak to Mrs. Horton.

She'll look after him.

Mrs. Horton?

- Mrs. Baylock.

- Sir.

- Where's Mrs. Horton?

- Gone.

- Gone out?

- No, they've gone. They just got up and went.

They left an address for you

to send their last month's wages to.

Well, didn't Mrs. Horton say anything?

Didn't Horton leave any explanation?

No. But don't worry, sir. I can manage.

- I'll look into this when I get back.

- Just as you wish, sir.

- And Mrs. Baylock?

- Sir?

Last night, I saw that dog in Damien's room.

I clearly told you...

He's gone now, sir.

They took him away this morning.

No.

This is the right address.

Apparently, there was a terrible fire

and the old hospital burned down.

Five years ago.

OK.

But surely the fire didn't destroy everything.

There must have been some records.

I sorry. I think everything was destroyed.

Isn't it possible

there were some papers stored elsewhere?

- I do not know.

- Sister.

This is most important to me.

I adopted a child here.

I'm searching for some records of it...

- There were no adoptions here.

- There was one.

- No, signore.

- It wasn't an actual adoption.

- You are mistake.

- Wait.

Birth records.

If I gave you a date. An exact date.

It's no use. The fire started

in the hall of records in the basement.

All the paperwork was there.

Went up like a torch.

Shot up the stairwells.

The third floor became an inferno.

- The third floor?

- The maternity wards. Nothing left but ashes.

- You will excuse me?

- What about the staff?

- Surely some survived.

- S, some.

There was a tall man, a priest.

Dark eyes. Piercing eyes.

Yes.

- He was principale.

- Yes, he was in charge. Is he...

- Yes, he is alive.

- Is he here?

- No.

- Where?

He's in a monastero in Frosinone.

Many were taken there. Many die.

Perhaps he is die since,

but he lived through the fire.

I remember people say it was un miracolo.

Frosinone?

- Here we are.

- What is it?

- "When the Jews return to Zion..."

- That's the poem.

"When the Jews return to Zion..."

And there was something about a comet.

Yes, that's here too. "The shower of stars

and the rise of the Roman Empire."

These are supposed to be the events

that signal the birth of the Antichrist.

The devil's child.

It's making more sense. The Jews have

returned to Zion and there has been a comet.

As for the rise of the Roman Empire,

scholars think that could well mean

the Common Market, the Treaty of Rome.

- Bit of a stretch.

- What about this? In Revelations it says:

- "He shall rise from the eternal sea."

- That's the poem again.

"From the eternal sea he rises,

creating armies on either shore."

- That was the beginning of it.

- Theologians have interpreted

the "eternal sea"

as meaning the world of politics,

the sea that constantly rages

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