The Reaping Page #4

- Well, that looks fine to me.

Yeah, it is.

Biologically, there's nothing wrong

with those cows...

...or the flies, or the frogs, or the fish.

Sheriff said pretty much the same thing

about Brody McConnell.

- There been an autopsy?

- Not yet.

- We've been told to wait on the coroner.

- Yeah, well, maybe we shouldn't.

- I'll get Katherine.

- No. She left this morning.

- She went to the McConnells' house.

- You let her go alone?

I don't let her do anything.

I'm lucky I get the computer.

Mrs. McConnell?

Loren?

Hello? Anyone home?

Hello?

Loren.

You scared me.

Remember me, from the woods?

My name's Katherine.

Is your mother here?

You found it.

It's okay.

Really.

It was my daughter's.

But you can have it.

Hey, Loren. How old are you?

Let's get you cleaned up.

It's okay. Come on.

That's your body's way

of telling you that...

Well, that you're becoming a woman.

Yeah, it kind of freaked me out too.

Hey, Loren...

...do you know what's wrong

with the river?

Loren!

Loren?

You here for my girl?

Are you going to kill...

...my baby girl?

What? No.

Why not?

I'm only trying to help her.

She don't need any help.

Don't you get that?

What? Mrs. McConnell.

What happened to your son?

How did he die?

He didn't know any better.

I couldn't get there in time.

Brody was so fast...

- You see?

- I was just trying...

Get out. Just get out.

Wait.

Doug?

There, there, now. It's gonna

be all right. It'll grow back.

Doug. The whole time you been here,

have we ever had a lice outbreak?

Not as far as I can remember.

Don't you think it's getting kind of old to

keep chalking everything up to coincidence?

And you. We were told we were gonna get

some definite answers out of you by now.

Trying to work it out.

Trying to tie this to one source.

Let me save some time.

She's 5 foot tall, blond,

and she lives out in the swamp...

...with them devil worshippers.

- Yes, she is.

- That's right. You tell them.

- Messing this town up.

- Let's go see the McConnell boy?

- Yeah.

Later.

- What?

- It's okay.

Hey.

Where exactly is lice on the list?

Five.

Katherine, you copy?

- Hey. Are you there?

- You find the girl?

I found her.

And?

Where are you?

We're about to meet her brother.

Katherine, you are gonna wanna see this.

You shouldn't have gone out there alone.

You all right?

I don't know.

Listen.

I know logically and rationally

you and I agree.

- Okay.

- But there's things going on now.

Things in there.

You just better prepare yourself.

This is Brody McConnell?

Funeral home backs up Cade. Three

days ago he was in perfect condition.

- Cause of death unknown.

- Yeah, and it's gonna stay that way.

I mean, we're already

in the dry stages of decomp here.

You don't see this on a body until they're

like one or two years in the grave.

What the hell is that?

- Call the FBI. Shut them down.

- No. We're past the police here.

- This is a cult, plain and simple.

- Well, what about the plagues?

They killed one child. Do we wanna

stand around while they kill another?

- Sheriff, we need to talk.

- We sure do.

- This just came.

- I need...

Just read it.

What is it?

It's a lab result.

Yeah, from the water samples we sent in.

It's human blood.

The whole damn river.

That's a two-mile stretch of river.

That's damn near 2,

- Could these reports be wrong?

- No.

I need to make a call.

Hello?

Where you headed, Cade?

- The McConnells'. Where do you think?

- We need to evacuate.

Loren McConnell isn't going anywhere.

These people are in danger.

- Only the mayor can authorize evacuation.

- Where is he?

I need to know what to do

before this little girl is murdered.

The symbol you're seeing is part

of a prophecy that predates Christ...

...which tells of an ancient satanic sect.

Their first-born are branded and left

unharmed to carry on the genetic line.

But all of the second-born thereafter

are to be sacrificed.

- Sacrificed to please Satan?

- It happens when the child reaches puberty.

Puberty? But that can't be right.

This little girl, Loren, she's a second-born,

and if she is a part of this cult...

...why hasn't she been sacrificed yet?

Wait. Yes, it says here:

"For all their sacrifice,

they shall reap a perfect child...

...a second-born,

who upon coming into adulthood...

...shall be reborn with the eyes of Satan. "

So you're saying this girl is the one

they've been trying to create?

Yes. A child in Satan's image.

But what does this

have to do with plagues?

Lucifer has often turned God's

weapons against the righteous.

He's protecting the girl.

If you'd seen this girl,

you couldn't be...

I understand your compassion.

But this girl...

You've already seen the evil

she's capable of.

You're in great danger, Katherine.

Everyone is.

This girl could be the beginning.

Haven could be the start of it all.

Hello?

Brooks?

And there shall be boils breaking forth

upon man and upon beast.

"At the height of their power...

...God shall send forth an angel

to destroy them. "

Perhaps this angel is you.

- I don't think so, Michael.

- You don't understand.

"Angel" can sometimes be a metaphor

for people of the cloth, the ordained.

The cult will be powerless against you.

You could stop them.

No. It's a convoluted, contradictory,

nonsensical legend. It's not a prophecy.

You're telling me to join a bloodthirsty

crowd and lynch a 12-year-old girl.

What if God has chosen you...

...and the girl is in fact a channel

for the Fallen One?

- You must destroy her.

- Lf you're wrong, an innocent child dies.

And if I'm right, many more will die.

The symbol is your proof.

Branded on their first-born,

protecting their places of worship...

...marked on their sacrificial chambers.

You've seen it. Open the door, Katherine,

and you'll believe it.

You'll know.

You've gotta destroy her, Katherine!

Michael. Michael?

Help!

Help! Help!

Help!

Guns can't solve this, Gordon.

Is that right?

Don't forget the shells.

- I'm not going without.

- Shouldn't be going at all.

- Let me tell you...

- Just leave him out of this.

- The car's gone and so is Katherine.

- Sh*t.

You're gonna do this?

You really think you can kill that girl?

I'm gonna do what needs to be done.

Gordon, you watch him out there,

all right?

Loren?

Where's your daughter?

- I didn't understand what would happen.

- Tell me where she is.

She's gone over.

What?

He controls her now.

Whatever he wants...

...she does.

My part's done.

No.

- I failed.

- I failed too.

No.

I imagine there's...

...something after.

Wait.

Katherine? Do you copy?

Katherine.

Nothing.

What are we gonna do, Dad?

We're gonna do

what we come out here to do, boy.

Gordon.

Katherine!

Katherine! Get inside! Get inside!

Dad!

Doug!

Ben?

Katherine.

Are you okay? Where are you?

I'm in some sort of a crypt.

By the ruins? Where's Doug?

He's still out there.

I'm so sorry. I was so wrong.

Katherine, look, forget about it.

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