I sure do Love you.
Good morning, Mrs. McNeil.
-How are you today? -Fine, thank you.
It's okay, I've got it. Thanks.
-Good morning, Madam. -Good morning, Kari.
Oh, Kari, we've got rats in the attic. You'd better get some traps.
Rats?
I'm afraid so.
But the attic is clean.
AII right, then, we've got clean rats.
-No rats. -I just heard them, Kari.
Maybe prowlers.
Yeah, or maybe rats. Now, will you just get the traps?
Yes, I go now.
-Don't go now. The stores aren't open yet. -I'II go see.
They're closed!
In the group over here, I need a couple of priests, a nun....
That's exactly what we want.
Is this scene really essential? Would you just consider if we can do without it?
Look at this damn thing. It just doesn't make sense.
It's plain. You're a teacher of the college. You don't want the building torn down.
-I can read, for Christ's sake! -Well, what's wrong?
Well, why are they tearing the building down?
Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris, I believe.
Hiding?
Fucking.
Scene 39: Hotel. Take four.
All right. Hustle back on in.
Is this your campus?
Let's get the Defense Department off this campus!
It's our school!
They have no right!
I've seen enough killing in my Life!
There's no reason for it anymore!
Wait a minute!
We're all concerned with human rights, for God's sake...
...but the kids who want to get an education have a right, too!
Don't you understand? It's against your own principle, for God's sake!
You can't accomplish anything by shutting kids off from their....
If you want to effect any change, you have to do it within the system.
Okay, cut! That's a wrap.
I think I'II walk home tonight, Mike. Here, take that and drop it by my house.
Good night, Tom.
There's not a day in my Life that I don't feel Like a fraud.
I mean, priests, doctors, Lawyers. I've talked to them all.
I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that.
Hello?
In here.
-Hi. How did your day go? -Not too bad.
It was Like the Walt Disney version of the Ho Chi Minh story.
Other than that, it was terrific. What have we got, anything exciting?
Also, you got an invitation.
What's this?
Dinner at the White House.
You're kidding me! What, a big party or something?
I think it's five or six people.
Thursday? AII right.
Hi, Mom.
What did you do today?
-Stuff. -What does ''stuff'' mean?
Me and Sharon played a game in the backyard.
And we had a picnic down by the river.
Mom, you should have seen it!
This man came along on this beautiful gray horse.
Really? What kind?
Was it a mare, a gelding?
I think it was a gelding.
It was gray.
It was so beautiful.
The guy let me ride it all around and everything.
She rode it for about half an hour.
I Loved it! Mom, can't we get a horse?
-Not while we're in Washington, honey. -Why not, Mom?
We'll see when we get home, okay?
-When could I have one? -We’ll see, Regan. We’ll see.
On the party invitations, I want to write a personal--
Regan, don't! Come back!
-AII right, give it up. Give it up! -No!
You'll be sorry!
Father?
Could you help an old altar boy?
I'm a Catholic.
Mama?
-I'm so glad to see you. -You Look good.
I'm all right.
-How's your Leg? -How about you? You are all right?
I'm fine, Mama.
Your Uncle John...
...passed by to visit me.
Really? When?
Last month.
-Is that too tight? -No.
You have to stay off it. You can't go up and down the stairs. Give it a rest.
Okay.
I couId take you somewhere where you'd be safe. You wouldn’t be alone.
There would be people around.
You wouldn’t be sitting here Listening to the radio.
You understand me?
This is my house and I'm not going no place.
Dimmie, you worry for something?
-No, Mama. -You are not happy?
Tell me, what is the matter?
Mama, I'm all right. I'm fine. Really, I am.
Here it comes.
There!
-Look at that! -Do you Like it?
Isn't that funny?
I better put him over here to dry, though. He's still wet.
Hey, where did this come from?
-I found it. -Where?
In the closet.
Have you been playing with it?
-Yep. -Do you know how?
I'II show you.
Wait a minute. You need two.
No, you don't. I do it all the time.
Well, Iet's both play.
You really don't want me to play?
No, I do! Captain Howdy said no.
-Captain who? -Captain Howdy.
Who's Captain Howdy?
You know. I make the questions and he does the answers.
-Captain Howdy. I see. -He's nice.
I'II bet he is.
Here, I'II show you.
Captain Howdy, do you think my Mom is pretty?
Captain Howdy, that isn't very nice.
-Maybe he's sleeping. -You think?
Why are you reading that stuff.
Because I Like it.
It's not even a good picture of you.
-You Look so mature. -I wouldn’t talk!
You wouldn’t talk?
I didn't have my makeup man there.
Let me take an eyelash off your face.
No, I didn't get it.
What are we going to do on your birthday? Isn't it nice it's on Sunday this year?
No work? What can we do?
I don't know.
What would you Like to do? Got any ideas?
Let me think....
You know, we never finished seeing all the sights in Washington.
We didn't get to the Lee Mansion, Lots of stuff.
Shall we do that? Go sightseeing?
-If it's a nice day? -Yeah, Iet's do that.
And tomorrow night, I'II take you to a movie.
I Love you!
I Love you, Rags.
We’ll have a good day.
You can bring Mr. Dennings, if you Like.
Mr. Dennings?
Well, you know, it's okay.
Thank you very much...
...but why would I want to bring Burke on your birthday?
Well, you Like him.
Yeah, I Like him. Don't you Like him? What's going on? What is this?
You're going to marry him, aren't you?
You've got to be kidding! Me marry Burke Dennings?
Don't be silly. Of course not.
Where did you ever get an idea Like that?
But you Like him.
Of course, I Like him. I Like pizzas too, but I'm not going to marry one.
You don't Like him Like Daddy?
Regan, I Love your Daddy.
I'II always Love your Daddy, honey.
Burke just comes around here a lot because...
...weII, he's Lonely. He don't got nothing to do!
WeII, I heard differently.
Oh, you did? What did you hear?
I don't know. I just thought.
WeII, you didn't think so good.
How do you know?
Because Burke and I are just friends. Okay? Really.
Are you ready for sleep?
Good night, honey.
It's my mother, Tom.
She's aIone and I never shouId have Left her.
At Least in New York, I'd been near. I'd been cIose to her.
I couId see about a transfer, Damien.
I need reassignment, Tom. I want out of this job. It's wrong, it's no good.
You're the best we've got.
Am I reaIIy?
It's more than psychiatry, and you know that, Tom.
Some of their probIems come down to their faith...
...their vocation, the meaning of their lives, and I can't cut it any more.
I need out. I'm unfit.
I think I've Lost my faith, Tom.
HeIIo?
Yes, this is Mrs. McNeil.
Operator, you have got to be kidding!
I have been on this Line for 20 minutes!
Jesus Christ! Can you believe this?
He doesn't even caII his daughter on her birthday!
Oh, circuits, my ass! He doesn't give a shit!
-Why don't you Let me-- -No, I've got it, Sharon. It's aII right.
Operator, don't teII me there's no answer. It's the Hotel Excelsior in Rome!
WouId you try it again, pIease, and Let it ring?
HeIIo? Yes.
No, Operator, I've given you the number four times!
What do you do, take an illiteracy test to get that job, for Christ's sake?
Don't teII me to be calm, goddamn it!
Yeah?
You're kidding me!
I thought I just went to bed.
What are we doing, Scene 61?
Just remind Phil about that blue bait.
What are you doing here?
My bed was shaking.
I can't get to sleep.
Goddamn it!
Jesus Christ, Kari, don't do that!
I'm very sorry, but you see? No rats.
No rats. Thanks a Lot. That's terrific.
Oh, my God!
UnroII your fist.
Arm up.
Very good. That wasn't so bad, was it?
Remain perfectly stiII. Breathe normaIIy.
TeII me if you feeI a vibration.
Regan?
You feeI anything?
Can you feeI this?
I don't feeI anything.
Put this in your mouth.
Keep it there.
This teIIs your temperature. When the red Light goes on...
...that's your temperature.
I don't want it.
A disorder of the nerves...
...at Least we think it is.
We don't know yet exactIy how it works.
It's often seen in earIy adolescence.
She shows aII the symptoms.
Hyperactivity.
Her temper.
Performance in math.
Why the math? What is that?
It affects her concentration.
Now this is for Ritalin.
10 milligrams a day.
Is that a tranquilizer?
It's a stimulant.
A stimulant? My God, she's higher than a kite now.
Her condition isn't quite what it seems.
Nobody knows the cause of hyperkinetic behavior in a chiId.
The Ritalin seems to work to relieve the condition.
And as to how or why, we reaIIy don't know.
But her symptoms couId be overreaction to depression.
That's out of my field.
My daughter isn't depressed.
You mentioned her father and the separation....
Do you think I shouId take her to a psychiatrist?
No. I think we shouId wait and see what happens with the Ritalin.
I think that's the answer.
Let's wait two, three weeks.
AII right. And the lies she's been teIIing? That's part of it?
-Lies? -Like saying her bed's shaking.
Have you ever known your daughter to swear?
-To use obscenities? -No, never.
Interesting.
Similar to things Like her Lying...
-...it's uncharacteristic. -I don't understand. She doesn't swear.
She Let Loose quite a string while I was examining her.
I find that hard to believe. What did she say?
Her vocabulary is rather extensive.
WeII, give me an example. Like what?
Specificity, what did she say?
Specificity, Mrs. McNeil...
...she advised me to keep my fingers away from her...
...goddamned cunt.
I can't believe it.
You don't think a psychiatrist....
No. I think the best explanation is aIways the skimpiest.
We'II wait. We'II wait and see.
In the meantime...
...try not to worry.
How?
The edema affected her brain, you understand?
She don't Let no doctor come near her.
She was aII the time screaming, even taIking to the radio.
You should’ve caIIed me when it happened.
Regular hospital is not going to put up with that, Dimmie.
We give her a shot and bring her here...
...until the doctors fix up her Leg, then we take her right out.
Two or three months and she's out, good as new!
We want to see Mrs. Karras.
-Do you have an appointment? -Yes.
-Are you a relative? -I am her brother. He is her son.
Just a minute.
You know, it's funny.
If you weren't a priest, you'd be a famous psychiatrist now on Park Avenue.
Your mother would be Living in a penthouse instead of there.
You go in, Dimmie. I'II wait for you outside.
You’ll find Mrs. Karras on the Last bed on the Left-hand side.
It's Dimmie, Mama.
Why did you do this to me, Dimmie?
Why?
Come on, I'II take you out of here. Mama, I'm going to take you home.
Mama, everything's going to be aII right. I'm going to take you home.
-Couldn’t you have put her someplace else? -Like what?
Private hospital? Who's got the money for that?
You?
There seems to be an alien pubic hair in my drink.
I beg your pardon?
Never seen it before in my Life. Have you?
We're pretty comfortable up there...
...compared to the Gemini and Mercury programs, where they were tight for space.
We've got about 210 cubic feet, so we can move around.
If you ever go up there again, will you take me along?
What for?
First missionary on Mars!
TeII me, was it public relations you did for the Gestapo or community relations?
I'm Swiss!
Yes, of course.
And you never went bowling with Goebbels, either, I suppose.
Nazi bastard!
Over behind the church. You know where I mean? It's a red brick wing.
What goes on there? I mean, who's the priest I keep seeing there?
He's there aII the time. He has black hair and he's very intense Looking.
-Who's that? -Damien Karras.
That's his office the back of Saint Mike's. He's our psychiatric counselor.
He had a pretty rough knock Last night, poor guy. His mother passed away.
She was Living by herself, and...
...I guess she was dead a couple of days before they found her.
Cunting Hun!
Bloody, damned, butchering, Nazi pig!
Stop it! I'II kiII you!
What's for dessert?
You sleeping?
Burke, your car's at the curb. Louie's waiting. It's nice and warm.
Yes, honey. What?
Oh, was he acting up! Why?
Hi, Chris. It's a great party.
Yeah, don't stop. Keep going.
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...with me as a headliner for aII eternity, and they Love me.
''Down on the eastside of toidy-toid and toid
''That's my home sweet home! ''
I think we've got a guest.
You're going to die up there.
Oh, my God, honey.
Honey, what's the matter?
I'm sorry, she's been sick. She didn't know what she was saying.
What made you say that, Regan?
Do you know, sweetheart?
Mother?
What's wrong with me?
It's just Like the doctor said. It's nerves, and that's aII.
You just take your piIIs and you'II be fine. ReaIIy.
Okay?
Is it coming out, Willie?
Yes, I think so.
Mother!
Where'd you get the money for the Chives Regal, the poor box?
That's an insult. I've got a vow of poverty.
Where'd you get it, then?
I stole it.
I believe you.
College presidents shouldn’t drink. Tends to set a bad example.
I figure I saved him from a big temptation.
Oh, Christ!
I shouId have been there. I wasn't there.
There was nothing you couId do.
Lie down.
Give me the butt. Come on.
-Now you think you can sleep? -Yes.
-Are you going to steal my shoes now? -No.
I teII fortunes by reading the creases. Now, shut up and go to sleep.
Good night.
Stealing is a sin.
I don't want it!
Honey, it's to help you.
I don't want it!
You fucking bastard!
Remember also, O Lord, Thy servant, Mary Karras...
...who has gone before us...
...with the sign of faith, and sleeps the sleep of peace.
''Lord, I am not worthy to receive you.
''But only say the Word and I shall be healed.
''May the body of Christ bring thee to everlasting Life.''
It's a symptom...
...of a type of disturbance in the chemical-electrical activity of the brain.
In your daughter's case, in the temporal Lobe.
Up here in the Lateral part of the brain.
It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations...
...and usually just before a convulsion.
A convulsion?
The shaking of the bed. That's doubtless due to muscular spasms.
No, no, that was no spasm.
I got on the bed.
The whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor...
...and shaking, the whole thing! With me on it!
Mrs. McNeil, the problem with your daughter is not her bed.
It's her brain.
What causes this?
Lesion in the temporal Lobe.
It's a kind of seizure disorder.
Look, Doc, I reaIIy don't understand how her whole personality couId change.
In temporal Lobe, it's very common.
It is?
It can Last for days, even weeks.
It isn't rare to find destructive...
...even criminal behavior.
Hey, do me a favor, will you? TeII me something good.
Don't be alarmed. If it's a Lesion, in a way, she's fortunate.
AII we have to do is remove the scar.
Regan, can you sit up and scoot over here?
A little more.
Good.
I'm just going to move you down on the table, okay?
That's just for a short time.
You're doing fine.
Very sticky.
Now, Regan, you're going to feeI something a Little cold and wet.
Now you're going to feeI a Little stick here. Don't move.
Good.
You're going to feeI some pressure here. Now, don't move.
Hook up!
There's nothing there.
No vascular displacement at aII.
I don't think so.
I'd Like you to see her again.
Excuse me, Doctor. Chris McNeil is on the phone.
She says it's urgent.
Have you got some time?
Dr. Klein?
Yes, I'm Dr. Klein. This is Dr. Tanney.
Things have gotten worse since I phoned. Come upstairs.
-Is she having the spasms again? -Yes, but they've gotten violent.
Did you give her the medication I gave you?
-What was that? -Thorazine.
Before that, it was Ritalin.
Chris, doctors.
Mother, pIease!
PIease, Mother, make him stop!
It's burning! It's burning!
Do something, Doctor. PIease, help her!
Make it stop! He's trying to kiII me!
Mother!
Keep away!
The sow is mine!
Fuck me!
Stay away from me!
Hold her tight!
Don't Let them, Mother, pIease!
She's heavily sedated.
She'll probably sleep through tomorrow.
What was going on in there? How couId she fly off the bed Like that?
Pathological states can induce abnormal strength...
...accelerated motor performance.
For example...
...say a 90-pound woman sees her chiId pinned under the wheel of a truck...
...runs out and Lifts the wheels a half foot up off the ground.
You've heard the story. Same thing here.
Same principle, I mean.
So what's wrong with her?
We stiII think that the temporal Lobe--
What are you taIking about, for Christ's sake?
Did you see her or not?
She's acting Like she's fucking out of her mind!
Psychotic, Like a spit personality, or....
There haven't been more than 100 authentic cases...
...of so-caIIed ''spilt personality,'' Mrs. McNeil.
Now, I know the temptation to Leap to psychiatry...
...but any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.
So, what's next?
A pneumoencephalogram, I would think, to pin down that Lesion.
It will involve another spinal.
Oh, Christ!
What we missed in the EEG and the arteriogram...
...couId conceivably turn up there.
At Least it would eliminate certain other possibilities.
Dr. Tanney says the X-rays are negative.
In other words: normal.
Do you keep any drugs in your house?
No, of course not. Nothing Like that.
Are you sure?
Of course, I'm sure.
I'd teII you.
Christ, I don't even smoke grass.
Are you planning to be home soon?
I mean to L.A.
No, I...
...I'm building a new house.
My old one has been sold.
I was going to take Regan to Europe for a while after she finished school.
Why do you ask?
I think it's time we started
HeIIo?
What do you mean going off and Leaving Regan by herself.
Are you crazy? Her window's wide open!
-Didn't he teII you? -Didn't who teII me?
What's Burke got to do with it?
There wasn't anybody here, so when I went to get the Thorazine...
...I had him stay with her, and....
-I shouId have known better. -I guess you shouId have!
How were the tests?
We have to start Looking for a shrink.
Hi, Chuck. Come on in.
I suppose you heard.
Heard what?
You haven't heard.
Burke is dead.
He must've been drunk. He fell down from the top of the steps right outside.
By the time he hit 'M' street, he broke his neck.
Oh, God!
Yeah, I know.
When I touch your forehead, open your eyes.
Are you comfortable, Regan?
Yes.
How old are you?
Twelve.
Is there someone inside you?
Sometimes.
Who is it?
I don't know.
Is it Captain Howdy?
I don't know.
No.
Why not?
I'm afraid.
If he talks to me, I think he'll Leave you.
Do you want him to Leave you?
Yes.
I'm speaking to the person inside of Regan now.
If you are there, you, too, are hypnotized...
...and must answer aII my questions.
Come forward...
...and answer me now.
Are you the person inside of Regan?
Who are you?
Father Karras?
Have we met?
No, we haven't met, but they said I couId teII.
That you Look Like a boxer.
William F. Kinderman. Homicide.
What's this aII about?
It's true. You do Look Like a boxer.
Like John Garfield in Body And Soul.
ExactIy. John Garfield. Do people teII you that, Father?
Do people teII you you Look Like Paul Newman?
AIways.
You know this director who was doing the film here...
...Burke Dennings?
I've seen him.
You've seen him.
You're also familiar how Last week he died?
Only what I read in the papers.
Father, what do you know on the subject of witchcraft?
From the witching end, not the hunting.
I once did a paper on it.
ReaIIy?
From the psychiatric end.
I know. I read it.
AII of this desecration in the church...
...do you think this has anything to do with witchcraft?
Maybe. Some rituals used in the Black Mass.
And now, Dennings. You read how he died?
In a fall.
Let me teII you how. PIease, Father...
...confidential.
Burke Dennings, good Father...
...was found at the bottom of those steps Leading to 'M' street...
...with his head turned completely around...
...facing backwards.
That didn't happen in the fall?
It's possible.
-Possible, however-- -Unlikely.
ExactIy.
So, on the one hand, we've got a witchcraft kind of murder...
...and on the other hand, a Black Mass-type desecration in the church.
You think the killer and the desecrator are the same?
Maybe somebody crazy...
...somebody with a spite against the church.
Some unconscious rebellion.
A sick priest, is that it?
Look, Father, this is hard for you. PIease, I understand...
...but for priests on the campus here, you're the psychiatrist.
You'd know who was sick at the time, who wasn't.
I mean, this kind of sickness, you'd know that.
I don't know anyone who fits that description.
Doctor's ethics. If you knew, you wouldn’t teII?
No, I probably wouldn’t.
Not to bother you with trivia, but a psychiatrist...
...in sunny California, no Less...
...was put in jail for not teIIing the police what he knew about a patient.
Is that a threat?
No, I mention it only in passing.
Incidentally, I mention it only in passing...
...I couId aIways teII the judge it was a matter of confession.
Father, wait a minute!
-Do you Like movies? -Very much.
WeII, I get passes to the best shows in town.
Mrs. ''K,'' you know, she gets tired, never Likes to go.
That's too bad.
I hate to go aIone.
I Love to talk film...
...discuss, to critique.
You want to see a film with me? I've got passes to the Crest. It's Othello.
Who's in it?
Debbie Reynolds, Desdemona and Othello: Groucho Marx. Are you happy?
I've seen it.