The Vatican Tapes Page #4

Get her out of that thing.

Have you received the materials

from the American Archdiocese?

Yes.

Is the threat authentic?

I believe it is.

A raven.

The devil's messenger.

There's a spiritual marker on this girl.

What should we do?

I leave tonight.

I'm coming with you.

No.

Cardinal, I cannot let you go alone.

The priest will assist. You must stay here.

You're the only one who knows the system,

the only one to protect the Archives.

The only one to carry on if I don't return.

This is the only thing we have left.

- An exorcism?

- Yeah.

Are you out of your mind?

Here it is.

How do you feel?

I'm ready for this.

No one is ready for the truth.

What's with the big production?

It helps preserve the integrity

of the church to

disprove possessions for what they are.

Usually some form of mental illness.

You are skeptical about this?

You can say that.

Can you plug this in?

When I was 12 years old,

I was possessed by a demon.

For six days,

the priest battled the demon inside of me,

steadfast in his belief

that you can kill the evil spirit

and preserve the body.

And how did he do?

I want to see the room.

Why are you putting that up there?

I don't want it to be in the way.

So,

what can you tell me about Angela?

Angela's

perfect.

I've never heard her say

an unkind word about anyone, ever.

You see, demons can be

very shrewd and calculating.

They hide in the image of their host.

They lie and deceive using the truth.

We need to know Angela

so that we know what she is not.

Can you please give us a moment

before we begin?

Perhaps you can go check on Angela.

Yeah, sure.

Prepare the Eucharist.

If she accepts the Body of Christ,

a demon does not exist.

- But she's possessed.

- She is.

But we will see what we are dealing with.

- Heavenly Father...

- No.

No?

Just prepare the Eucharist.

But the mass is essential

in preparing the Eucharist.

No mass.

Sometimes,

in search of what is an abomination,

we move away from God.

So do as I instruct tonight. Trust what I do.

Because a demon's greatest threat

is not to your body,

but your soul.

Bring her in.

It's okay.

This is Cardinal Bruun.

He's going to help you, sweetie.

Have her kneel.

Come on.

Facing this way, please.

Can you kneel down, sweetie?

- Amen.

- Amen.

Take this body.

Take it and be cleansed.

Take the body.

Take it and be cleansed.

There is an obstruction.

Please, Angela, sit down on the bed.

This will be much easier

if you sit down on the bed.

Hey.

It's okay. I got you.

I promise.

It's okay.

Now, will you allow me

to remove the obstruction?

Don't. Don't.

Don't.

What does it mean?

They represent the Holy Trinity.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Run. Run.

Run.

- Angela.

- Ange.

Help me get this stuff off her.

- What did she say? What is that?

- I don't know. Aramaic?

- Wait, wait, wait.

- Honey?

- Honey.

- Ange.

It's going to be okay.

Holy water.

Do not remember, O Lord,

our sins or those of our ancestors.

And do not punish us

for our offenses.

We must continue! The cleansing prayer.

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done, on earth...

- Please help!

- Angela, is that you?

...as it is in heaven.

Is that you?

- Angela?

- Daddy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm here. I'm here, sweetie.

- Pete!

- I'm here.

- Did it work?

- I don't know.

Did it work?

Where did you get this?

This egg is the symbol of rebirth.

From where did it come?

I don't know what you're talking about.

You revealed yourself, demon.

You can no longer hide behind this girl.

Speak, demon.

Dad.

Daddy, please help.

- Where did you get this?

- Dad, help me!

Please. Please.

Demon, if you keep hiding,

I will rip out your lying tongue!

Where did you get this?

You seek to make an abomination

of our Lord and Savior,

of His resurrection.

Expose yourself, demon.

Help me!

You mean to desecrate

the works of our Lord and Savior!

God, it's coming back! It's coming back!

Show yourself, serpent!

Enough, enough!

I condemn you to the lake of fire!

Continue.

Blessed by the Spirit of the Father,

I will kill this evil.

It burns! It burns!

Dad. Pete.

What now?

- Dad, Pete, please, just go.

- We're not going anywhere.

What happens now? What do we do now?

Just leave.

- We're not leaving you!

- What do we do now?

- Cardinal Bruun!

- Cardinal Bruun!

Cardinal Bruun, what do we do?

Sweetie.

Hey, it's going to be all right, okay?

It'll be fine. You're going to be okay.

In the name of Jesus Christ,

our God and Lord,

strengthened by the intercession of the

Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God.

Cardinal, what are you doing?

Remember your oath.

You can't kill her.

We must perform the exorcism.

You must perform it.

This is not an exorcism.

You cannot exorcise the blood.

The devil possesses what is already his.

How do you know that?

The devil has searched,

scraped for a chance to walk the earth.

Our Lord Jesus stopped him once,

but now it falls to us.

You said that you would destroy the spirit,

not her body.

That body is the spirit

looking to destroy God's kingdom.

We pull away from God

when we pursue wickedness.

Pulling away from God

moves us toward evil.

I am as close to God

as any man of the cloth.

You will put your faith in me.

Angela. Angela.

- Wait, what is he doing with that?

- It's okay, Pete.

- No, you told me to protect you.

- Just let them do this.

No, what are they gonna do?

Why do they have a knife?

It's just for the ritual, right?

Right?

Yes.

- Okay.

- Okay?

Of the blessed Apostles

of the Father and all the saints,

we confidently undertake to repulse

the attacks and deceits of the devil.

Please.

I see you.

In the light, your evil is nothing,

instigator of envy,

font of avarice, fomenter of discord,

author of pain and sorrow.

Why, then, do you stand and resist,

knowing as you must

that Christ the Lord

brings your plans to nothing?

Fear Him,

who in Isaac was offered in sacrifice,

in Joseph sold into bondage,

slain as the Paschal Lamb,

crucified as man.

Show yourself!

Please kill this thing inside me!

- Angela!

- Stay back! The demon must show itself.

Stop it! He's killing her!

Show yourself!

Goddamn you!

Angela.

- Angela.

- Ange.

Honey. Honey.

Father, do something.

Do something!

What did you do?

Roger, no, no, no, no!

Roger, Roger, stop!

He killed my daughter.

Roger, Roger, Roger,

take a look at the signs.

Her 40 days in the coma,

Christ's 40 days of temptation in the desert.

Her mother was a prostitute.

- A perversion of the Virgin Mary.

- No.

- The black raven mocks the white dove.

- No. No!

- Roger, Roger, Angela's gone. She's gone.

- No, no.

- She's gone!

- She's not gone!

Roger! Roger!

Oh, my God.

Stigmata.

It's the resurrection.

Omega, Alpha.

Our ending, its beginning.

It's the Antichrist.

Though I walk

through the valley of the shadows of death,

I will show no fear

for thou art with me.

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