It's this place, Lancaster. The Turkana are right.
- It's cursed. - Sarah.
You don't understand.
What they did to me in the camp. They...
There's nothing left to bleed.
There is something here, something evil.
Sarah, it's so much easier to believe in evil as an entity...
but it's not.
It's a purely human condition inside all of us.
Did Bession talk about what he found under the church?
There's an ancient temple below, a pagan place...
where they used to conduct sacrifices, human sacrifices.
Why would they build a church on top of something like that?
Perhaps to purify the site.
But then why bury it?
No!
Merrin!
You better come with me.
Jefferies didn't show up for the dig this morning.
He wasn't in his room, so they came to the bar and they found...
Chief Sebituana's baby was stillborn last night.
He blames the whites.
You think the Turkana took Jefferies?
I think this place is on the verge of an uprising.
I've contacted Major Granville.
A detachment will be here by this afternoon.
You disagree?
In my experience, bringing soldiers into a situation is always a bad idea.
Who buried them?
Everybody died.
Who buried them?
All right! Halt!
- Major Granville. - Hello, Peter.
Come on! Out you get! Move it, Wilkins!
- Any answers on Jefferies? - I'm afraid not.
Well, you did the right thing calling me, Father.
I've been in these situations before...
and you have to stay on top of...
on top of these people.
I'm not sure the Turkana are responsible for what's happening here, Major.
Major Granville?
This dig is too important to jeopardize...
and until I'm satisfied that the excavation is secure...
the British Army will assume complete control.
The Turkana won't like the show of force.
I'm not concerned with what the Turkana like, Mr. Merrin!
If they start any more trouble, they will have to answer...
to the might of His Majesty King George.
You cannot be here.
Please tell Sebituana I'm sorry for his loss.
You are not welcome here.
I want to know about the plague that destroyed this village 50 years ago.
It was not a plague.
So, what was it?
The evil in your church...
it has taken Emekwi's youngest son...
and it is getting stronger.
You must abandon your work...
or we'll be forced to stop you.
So you don't want to tell me?
He says he doesn't have to tell you because it's happening again...
right now.
- You don't bury your dead. You cremate them. - Yes.
Then who's buried in that graveyard?
I'm sorry.
What are you...
- I'm sorry. - Daddy.
I will shoot 10, priest, and you will choose.
I can't do that.
No! No!
Now you choose...
or I will kill them all.
Are you praying...
to God?
Shoot me.
God is not here today, priest.
Papa!
- They're empty! - What?
I dug up three graves. They were all empty. What happened here?
- I-I don't know. - Oh, yes, you do.
- You've been lying to me since we got here. - Let go of me.
Damn it! There are crosses on the graves!
There are crosses on the coffins!
The church buried them, didn't they?
Didn't they?
Yes.
Why?
What were they hiding?
That this place is damned.
No! You asked the question! Now you're gonna listen to the answer!
There was a massacre here...
1,500 years ago.
An army from the west, led by two priests...
searching for the origin of a powerful evil.
But when they got here that evil consumed them...
turning the soldiers against each other in a bloodbath.
Only a single priest survived.
When that priest made it back to the Emperor Justinian...
he ordered that a church be built over the site and then buried...
to seal the evil inside.
All mention of it was to be stricken from the history texts forever.
But it wasn't?
No.
In 1893...
a Vatican researcher found an ancient letter in the archives.
Four priests came to examine the site...
enlisting the help of the people of this valley in their search...
and they all disappeared.
Where did they go?
No one knows.
The Vatican ordered a cover-up...
the false graveyard...
the tale of a plague to...
to scare people away.
And then the British stumbled across it.
And I was sent here to see if the legend was real.
What legend?
That after the war in heaven...
this is the spot where Lucifer fell.
God brought you here, Lancaster.
Leave me alone.
No.
The devil is here...
inside that boy.
The Turkana know it.
They came to drive the devil from him, and he almost killed them.
You can't run from this.
You must help me.
I can't.
But you've seen what's going on here.
You have to believe.
I believe in nothing.
Found Jefferies.
- Over there! - As you were!
Major Granville! Wait!
Get him down.
Get him down!
You all right, Major?
Savages.
Major! Major!
- Bloody savages. - Why are you here?
- Granville! - You have no business to be here!
- You must leave. - Granville!
- You people have plundered our ancestors. - Granville!
You must return Turkana to us now.
- Let me through! - It is time to go.
You have already polluted our lives.
You came here with your evil. We knew peace before you came.
Granville!
No!
No! No!
No!
They think it's inside Joseph! They believe the evil is upon us!
Chuma!
Merrin.
They believe it is inside Joseph.
They are going to kill him.
Now, please... go!
You animals!
- Turn this way! - I don't like it. Come on!
Three boxes of ammunition!
Sir. The Turkana are preparing to attack.
Leave me.
Sir?
I said, leave me.
Yes, sir.
We must leave now.
Why?
- Where's Sarah? - I don't know.
Take the boy to Nairobi.
Father Gionetti.
Why?
Turkana are coming to kill him.
It's a sandstorm.
It won't let us leave.
We have to hide him.
- The church. - No!
The Turkana won't go in there.
It's his only chance.
- Aren't you coming? - I have to find Sarah.
We'll meet you.
Francis!
Now go.
Sarah?
The Lord is coming for you.
Sarah?
Sarah!
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sanctu.
- Steady now! - Pick it up, mate!
Sarah?
Sarah!
Oh, my God.
Bession was Sarah's husband?
Yes.
She went into the church with him, didn't she?
It's not Joseph. It's Sarah.
Sancti Michael Archangel...
Ready yourselves, men!
Fire!
Chuma!
Francis?
Francis.
O Lord, forgive my disbelief.
I need you.
These people need you. This valley needs you.
Hear my cry.
Do not abandon me now.
Forgive my sins.
Joseph.
Come sit with us, Lancaster.
I promise I won't bite!
Joseph, run.
- He's mine. - Run!
Leave him alone. It's me you want.
I am a fallen priest.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
God, Father in heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Holy Mary, pray for us.
Christ, hear us.
- Lord, have mercy on us. - What's the matter, Merrin?
Don't you want to fuck me anymore?
All ye holy angels and archangels...
pray for us!
All ye holy orders of blessed spirits, pray for us!
Why would he listen to you?
You.
You believe in nothing. You're all alone.
Without hope.
Almighty Lord...
and father of Jesus Christ...
grant me, your unworthy servant, pardon for all my sins...
and the power to fight this cruel...
Joseph, come on. Don't be afraid.
No! Father!
Joseph!
Father, help me!
- Help me! Help me! - Joseph!
Father Merrin!
Merrin!
O Lord, by your name save me.
By your strength defend my cause.
No!
- Father! - Joseph?
Joseph! Joseph!
Wait!
Joseph.
Father!
I'm coming.
O God, hear my prayer.
The ruthless seek my life.
They do not keep God before them.
Turn back the evil upon my foes.
In your faithfulness destroy them.
Where's your God now, Merrin?
Fucking his only son while you call out his name?
He doesn't care about this whore.
But you do...
because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass.
You can't have her, priest. The whore is mine.
And I'll kill her before I let you take her from me.
From the souls made to the image and likeness of God...
I cast you out!
You're a killer, Merrin.
You looked them in the eye, pointed your finger, and they died.
God is not here today, priest.
Oh, yes, he is.
You're going to watch him die, Merrin.
Fail him like you failed all the others.
God, spare this child, for he is innocent...
and deserves your blessing.
God, spare this child...
for he is innocent...
and deserves your blessing.
God, spare this child, for he is innocent and deserves your blessing.
I command you to depart! It's the power of Christ that compels you!
It is God himself who commands you.
It's the majestic Christ who commands you!
God, the Father, commands you. God, the Son, commands you.
God, the Holy Spirit, commands you.
The mystery of the cross commands you!
Unclean spirit, I cast you out!
- Lancaster. - Sarah.
Sarah.
It's over now.
Joseph.
Merrin!
Father!
Don't be afraid.
I need your help, Joseph.
Listen, whatever you hear, whatever you see, it's just his lies.
Don't listen. Don't watch. You understand?
Don't listen!
It's just lies. You have to be strong and concentrate.
Can you read this?
I will start there. Then you will answer.
That's me. That's you. That's me, and that's you.
You understand?
Good.
Let's start.
O God...
by your name save me.
Amen."
Save your servant.
Who places his trust in thee, my God."
Be unto her, O Lord, a fortified tower.
In the face of the enemy."
O Lord, hear my prayer.
And let my cry come unto thee."
- The Lord be with you. - And also with you."
Begone, evil spirit...
in the name of the Father and of the Son...
and of the Holy Ghost!
By the sign of this holy cross...
by our Lord Jesus Christ...
God, the Holy Ghost, commands you!
The blood of the martyrs commands you!
In God's name, demon...
I cast you out!
Sarah?
Sarah.
Okay?
Thank you.
Look, um...
Sarah, what is it?
What is it, Sarah?
Lancaster!
- No! - Help...
Sarah.
- No! - Help...
Sarah.
Father?
She's with God now.
She's with God.
I trust your mission was successful.
I couldn't find what you were looking for.
But you found something.
Didn't you?
Good-bye, Mr. Semelier.
Au revoir, Mr. Merrin.
It's Father Merrin.