%% [ Men Chanting ]
And with the Word Hespoke into being the realm of Heaven and its angels.
And He spoke into being the sun, the moon and the stars.
And then the Earth, its oceans andits beasts.
And finally He spoke into being His masterpiece:
us.
And we were His children to love, keep and protect.
Placed above all others, we were His most cherished creation,
most belovedon Earth and in Heaven.
This was the Wordas it was spoken to the prophets,
and then it was handed down to us.
The Word of God our Father in Heaven.
And a thousand generations found shelter in that Word
[ Man ] So here we are tonight,
the Word becomes flesh and blood.
Our flesh and blood. And I got news.
The Lord He didn't keep his Word No. He backed out on it.
He abandoned His kids a long time ago, and He ain't payin' child support.
- Am I right, Maggie ? - You got that right, preacher boy.
Brothers and sisters, our Father is a deadbeat dad !
- [ Crowd Murmuring ] - Amen to that.
That's right. And we can all forget about the "divine plan, "
because there is no divine plan.
It's a blind universe out there, friends.
Our lives are nothing but a chain of unrelated accidents.
- Get used to it ! - Get used to it !
Bad things happen to good people for no reason. Get used to it.
- [ Crowd ] Get used to it ! - Good things they happen to bad people for no reason.
- Get used to it ! - [ Crowd ]Get used to it ! - Say it again !
- Get used to it ! - I can't hear you ! - Get used to it !
- Do you want salvation ? - We want salvation !
- Do you want it now ? - We want it now !
God is dead !
God is not dead. Hejust doesn't give a damn.
[ Screams ]
[ Crowd Yellingg ]
[ Woman Screams ]
[ Crying ]
Please help me. Please. Oh, God.
[ Crying ] No.
[ Thunderclap ]
[ Siren Blaring, Distant ]
[ Gasping ]
[ Siren Blaring, Distant ]
[ Man Whispering Ominously, Indistinct ]
[ Exhales Sharply ]
Praise the Lord.
- [ Whispering Continues ] - It's done.
No. No, I did what you told me.
The blasphemer is dead.
[ Man Whispers, Indistinct ]
Oh. Oh.
- [ Whispering Continues ] - Oh.
- [ Angry Whispering ] - Oh, but I couldn't.
-...pushed me out of the way before... - [ Whispering Continues ]
I'm sorry.
[ Sighs ]
I can find him again.
- [ Whispering Continues ] - I can.
- I can ! - [ Gasping ]No.
Yes. Yes.
Please.
[ Angry Whispering ]
[ Strangled Cry ]
No. Don't go.
Don't leave me alone.
Please.
[ Sighs ] Please.
Ohh.
Oh.
Ah.
Oh.
[ Sucking ]
- [ Moaning ] - [ Thunderclap ]
[ Slurping ]
[ Man ] Hey, seph.
L-282's mom wants his corneas back.
- Did you give her the "gift of sight" rap ? - Yep.
Says they were harvested without her consent.
- She wants her kid to go to the next world intact. - Mm.
"Take heed, you senseless ones.
Does He who formed the eye not see ?"
- Huh ? - Psalm 94.
Deal with it, Carl.
All right. Let's see what we have here.
Ahhh. Leadpoisoning.
Hmm. Okay, Rasputin. What army did you piss off ?
[ Siren Blaring ]
[ Joseph ]Allright. Let's do a liver temp. Thermometer.
[ Man ] Okay.
Do the honors.
Okay.
Eh. The liver's that away, Magellan.
There you go. T.O.D. approximately 8:00 P.M., huh ?
All right. See what else we got on ourJohn Doe here.
Um...
"Danyael Rosales."
Danyael. Funny spelling, huh ?
"Father unknown. Mother, Valerie Rosales, deceased."
Valerie Rosales. Oh, Jesus.
It's starting again.
Itallcomes back, overandover, again andagain.
- Neverstops, neverends. - What doyoumean. ?
Look. Look at that burn pattern. Look.
- It's like... - Go on.
It's like she got hit with napalm and never moved.
All right. These are from the scene.
[ Man ] Okay.
You get hit with a blast like that, don't you curl up into a tighter ball,
expose less skin ?
- Are you asking me ? - I've asked myself a thousand times.
- I don'tknow. - Look at the body position.
I'm lookin.
Closer.
It's like she was shielding something.
Yes.
Yeah.
That something...
was herchild
She was protecting her child.
You gave him your life.
That still wasn't enough.
So you, uh, personally knew the victim, huh ?
We go back.
I know him from before the big bang.
The big bang ?
- When exactly was the big bang ? - The beginning.
- Good night, Joseph. - [ Drippingg ]
Yeah. Good night, Kyle.
[ Dripp ngg ntinues ]
[ Inaudible ]
All right. Look. I'm going to let you go, but I may have to call you back...
later on down the line as a material witness.
Gabriel... Is there no last name ? I mean,
is it like the Artist Formerly Known As Yanni or something ?
- Sting. - I thought it was Yanni.
Shows you how far out oftouch I am. Is this... this address current, "Gabriel" ?
I can tell you in two words: un-fortunately.
Is that with a hyphen ? [ Chuckles ]
- Slash. - Date of birth ?
There's no date of birth here. Why is that ?
I asked the woman at the Department of Motor Vehicles that same question.
She told me not to bother her on a coffee break.
[ Scoffs ] D.M.V.
All right. Why don't you tell me ? How old are you ?
Thirty-nine.
Hmm.
H-How old do I look ? Be cruel.
[ Clears Throat ]
I'll just put down "39" instead, huh ?
- What'd you call me ? - That's what they called you when you were a kid, right ?
Yeah. You didgood
[ Siren Chirping ]
[ Police Radio Chatter ]
[ Chattering ]
- Can you buzz me in, Clark ? - [ Dispatcher ]No. Notbefore that.
[ Chattering Continues, Indistinct ]
- Where's your morgue ? - That's off-limits to the public, sir.
A.Z.Jones, FBl.
That'll be two floors down. Tunnel access to the subbasement.
[ BuzzerBuzzing ]
I'm gonna have to askyou to identify the body, ma'am.
I'm also gonna have to ask you waitjust a little bit longer here.
- There'll be somebody along to help you. - Thankyou.
I always knew we'd see each other again,
but I never thought you'd look so...
different.
We become the thing we fear. I let myselfgo.
Obviously. Or I wouldn't be here.
- Ah. - I need the heart.
You, more than anyone, know what he is. He's their last hope.
I never know what side you're on, Zophael.
Well, that should be infinitely clear to you now. Come back to us.
We can retake what's rightfully ours.
We can make it like it was before the monkeys. Remember ?
Or has this place completely befouled your senses ?
I like it here. I even learned to drive.
[ I naudible ]
You know what your one flaw is, Gabriel ?
You only see what you want to see. Have you ever looked around ?
Our Creator poured all His grace into this world, but do you see it ?
- Do you see it anywhere ? - Not yet.
Destroying Heaven is not what I was up to, Zophael.
Not even Lucifer is that arrogant.
[ HeavyBreathing ]
Go on.
Out of my way... monkey.
[ All Growling ]
[ Distorted Scream ]
[ Angels Shrieking ]
[ Gasping ]
[ Banging ]
[ Banging Continues ]
[ Gasps, Coughs ]
[ Continues Gasping ]
- [ Grunts ] - [ Cries Out ]
- I had to know. - [ Gasping ]
Ah. Thankyou for notjamming.
Where did he go, Joseph ?
- What ? - Where is he ?
No. You don't just stand there straight-faced and tell me he walked right out of here.
- You don't do that. - I'm sorry.
Sorry ? How am I supposed to take that, huh ?
Probably the same way I have for a very long time. Badly.
I just lost the only thing I cared about...
in this whole fucked-up universe.
You haven't seen "badly," sir. Not yet.
[ Glass Breaking ]
What's it like to wake up as dead meat...
with the buzzards circling ?
[ Panting ] Do I know you ?
I know you from before you were born.
Both times.
Huh ?
"Zophael. Spy of God."
"Bridge between rebel and loyal factions within Heaven.
His true allegiance is unclear from religious texts."
My kingdom for a straight answer.
Pyriel. Pyriel.
Who the hell is Pyriel ?
He died in my arms.
[ Joseph ] T.O.D. was 8:00 P.M. That was taken six hours later.
Look. Istilldon'tbelieve what you're tryin' to tellme.
I was afraid ofthat. All right. Let's go.
Where ?
There are things that ghosts and civil servants just shouldn't know.
No. You drive.
- [ Angels Shrieking ] - [ Gabriel ]Danyael.
[ Thunderclap ]
[ Souls Moaning ]
[ Angels Shrieking ]
[ Phone: Off-hook Signal ]
[ Off-Hook Signal Continues ]
[ Door Creaking ]
[ Sniffs ]
[ Horns Honking, Distant ]
Embryos and idiots.
I hate this place.
[ Magggie ] "ln the final hour shall come one born...
with the heart ofan angel and the soul of a man."
Ever hear ofa nephalim ?
- A what ? - Take your vitamins, Vincent. Good boy.
Nephalim. Half angel, half man.
Old Testament's chock-full of, 'em. They're very nasty guys.
And very, very hard to kill.
Am Iright oram Iright, Boris. ?
Are you saying Danyael's a nephalim ?
Am I ? I guess I am.
Do you really believe that ?
Look.
I've had four gutted hermaphrodites...
burn to black pitch right under my nose.
I've had one cop, my best friend,
driven insane by the angels shrieking in his head...
before somehow spontaneously combusting...
in a madhouse he had mistaken for a monastery.
A prettyyoung woman, nowdead knockedup byastranger...
who left her three months, pregnant in only 48 hours.
And just yesterday, a young man, allegedly her son,
shot upsix ways sundown,, crawledout ofa drawer...
and waltzed out like Lazarus.
So, yeah, I'm pretty much open to a buffet of possibilities.
Anysuggestions. ?
No.
[ Lights Buzzing ]
[ Gasping ]
What's the "D" for ?
Uh, "doughnut."
I'll take one of those with the colored fragments on it.
Did you see a young man about this tall, dark hair, dark brown jacket,
come in here earlier ?
Look. That'll be 63 cents for the doughnut...
and about, uh, 50 bucks for the recollection.
- What kind ofan answer is that ? - A minimum wage answer.
You answer my question, or I'll personally see to it that you spend the next millennium...
chained to a damp wall wondering just what it is...
that's been winding its way up through your bowels for the last 750 years.
Cool.
Look. The dude came in here about a halfan hour ago...
andscarfeddown about two dozen mixed in less than five minutes.
He was, like, on thisserious sugarrush,youknow what Imean. ?
Spontaneous tissue regeneration tends to do that.
- What ? - Where is he now ?
Oh.
Hiding in shit...
just like a monkey.
[ Gasping ]
[ Water Dripping ]
[ Grunting ]
No matter how many times you tell them, they never seem to learn.
You must always, always remove the heart.
Hey, hey, hey !
[ Grunts ]
- What are you ? - J udgment.
[ Tires Screeching ]
Don't push your luck.
Ah. Ah ?
Crazy me.
Nice coat.
Killing you would be so easy.
Yeah ? Fried food can kill me. A mugger can kill me.
You're not so special down here, "Jones."
How do you bear what you've become, Gabriel ?
You, who were once exalted above allothers.
You been with a woman, Zophael ? It's like dying.
Youmoan andcry out. Youget to aspot...
that has you begging for release.
Once, I was an angel of death.
Now, I die every day when I have the cash.
Enough about me. You must be scared.
What ifyou lose ?
You must be scared you might become like me, right ?
Yes.
[ Plastic Crackling ]
[ Whimpering ]
[ Sniffling ]
- [ Crying ] - My dying memory is being in your arms.
I remember slipping away and thinking,
God, how lucky I was to hold you one last time.
But I... I kept slipping...
until all around me there werejust bodies.
I don't understand.
[ Souls Moaning ]
- [ Cries Out ] - [ Moaning Increases ]
[ Cries Out ]
No. [ Crying ]
Maggie, get out of here.
- Get out ! - No, Danyael ! No !
- [ Gasping ] Maggie, get out of here. - No ! No, Danyael ! Please.
- Please don't go. - Maggie, I said go !
[ Cries Out ]
[ Sobbing ]
[ Man On Phone ] 91 1.
[ Grunting ]
- [ Gasping ] - Howdoes it feel, Danyael,
to know that you're almost perfect ?
- If not for the monkey inside you. - [ Danyael Grunts ]
[ Cries Out, Grunts ]
- [ Gasping ] - Whatam I toyou. ?
What is this ?
I said, "What is this ?" And why am I drawn to it ?
Pyriel.
Who ?
The whited sepulcher.
The next God.
[ Groans ]
[ Gasps ]
Help me, please.
Come closer.
I tried to reason with him.
I tried everything I could.
- Help's on the way. - Good. That's good.
[ Gasping ]
[ Screams ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Continues Gasping ]
There now. That's better.
Please. Let me explain.
- [ Gasps ] - Looking for these ?
[ Whimpering ]
- Take the car. You can have it. - I'm afraid that won't do.
Afteryou.
Yes, yes, I know.
- [ Gun Cocks ] - Youkeep agun under the frontseat of yourcar...
ever since you were robbed in that dark cul-de-sac in that very, very bad part oftown.
But the idea ofactually usingitis a bit, what. ?
Repulsive ?
So therefore you keep the bullets stashed safely...
in theglove box.
I'm not here to hurt you. Promise.
- [ Man Singing On Radio ] % Earth angel, Earth angel% - Hmm.
[ Preacher Speaking, Indistinct ]
%% [ I nstrumental ]
[ Mumbling ]
%%[ Continues ]
%%[ Fades ]
[ Jones ] Is this the best you can do ?
- Do we have a problem ? - Look, why do you even need me, huh ?
Can't drive.
I believe this can go faster.
Sure. Whateveryou say.
We really don't have time for this !
Monkey.
Goodtrick with the car. I'llhave to remember that.
Jerk the wheel to the right, and... wow.
I swear to God, I'll use this.
I'm sureyou will.
- But why don't wejust talk instead ? - Don't !
I said don't !
[ Grunts ]
[ Whimpering ]
[ Continues Whimpering ]
- [ Gasps ] - Fact. I am an angel.
I'm also your friend.
We can both help each other, but you're going to have to be willing to listen to me.
Are you ready to listen ?
I usually measure time in eons, but in this particular case,
every second counts.
- [ Sobbing ] - Please. I told you, I'm not here to hurt you.
We both see things the same way, you and I.
A world abandoned by the Creator.
A universe in chaos.
Danyael Rosales saw it too. He saw it more clearly than any of us.
But he's lost his way now.
He's been deceived by my brothers, who still cling to old ways, old truths...
who still harbor some cold, empty faith...
that our beloved Father shall somehow return...
and deliver us from this wasteland,
this killing field.
But that will never, never happen, Magdalena.
You know it. I know it.
And most ofall, Danyael Rosales knew it.
- Until now. - Why ?
Because he's being driven by forces...
beyond his control.
- Where's he going ? - He's going to stop our savior,
the only one who can set things right again with Heaven and Earth.
Savior ?
His name is Pyriel.
It means "light of Heaven."
He came here in the first war,
led the army ofGod that cast Lucifer to a far more distant shore.
And here he's remained.
- Is he evil ? - No, no.
Evil is the realm ofdarkness.
Pyriel is the light.
He is the shining beacon that will lead us...
from an eternity of rotting despair...
unless Danyael's there to stop him.
- Why would he do something like that ? - Shh.
Magdalena.
We've always communicated with your kind through voices.
Voices. Voices that make saints weep...
and zealots kill.
Voices that drive an angry mob to incinerate a mother...
desperately shielding her little boy.
It is those same voices that now speak to Danyael.
Danyael would never listen to them.
Whatever was human in Danyael Rosales...
died before he rose from that morgue.
He is no longer your Danyael.
You know it.
You felt it.
Didn't you ?
Why should I believe you ?
'Cause you have to.
[ Steam Hissing ]
Everywhere I go, you,'re there.
I close my eyes, you're there.
running from his dead mama.
Was the boy thinking... Was he thinking about destiny ?
Do you think he'll live to see another day ?
So many who wanthim dead
Yethegets by. Does hestop to wonder why. ?
Does he think he might be here forapurpose. ?
Does he wonder what that purpose is ?
I do every moment of my existence.
Beforeyou were born,, I tried to ripp u fromyourmama's womb.
I failed. The Sword of Heaven...
could not still this tiny mortal heart.
Howcome. ?
It,s not being here that perplexes me.
It's the not knowing.
How come you ? What could you mean ?
Do you know who ?
- Nothing. - Clearly the facts say otherwise.
You're the Word.
Whateveritisyou're destined to commit upon this Earth,
it's His will, it's what He wants.
No angel, however powerful,
can be anything but the messenger.
Danyael,you're the message, andnow...
for the first time in agazilli nyears, lget to know whatitis.
I get to know what that message is.
[ Thunder Crashing ]
Okay,, i my time in Sundayschool.
If this Pyriel's like the Second Coming or something,
how come I don't know anything about him ?
Maybe you just chose the wrong religion.
[ Woman ] I dreamedof you.
I'm Mary.
I know the enemy ghost.
Lastnight I dreamed the endofone history...
andthe beginning ofanother.
The darkness was metby the coming ofagreat warrior.
I dreamed ofyou.
You look smaller in person.
% Together Flying for life %
[ Brakes Screeching ]
Tellmesomething.
Do you still love your God ?
The truth.
As much as He loves me.
Say, ma'am, I wonder ifyou could tell me how to get to Gila Flats.
Yeah, it's, um... It's over on the Hualapai reservation.
I don't suppose you could bejust a tad more specific,
Madge.
Where's your friend ?
Oh, you have a long memory.
Rachel is, uh... under the weather. She's bedridden.
But I'll tell her you inquired.
- What do you want ? - Everything.
But to begin, I need some coffee, fresh-brewed;
Sweet,N Low; non-dairy creamer;
small grapefruitjuice; three eggs, yolks firm, not hard;
bacon, crisp; hash browns; dry wheat toast; butter on the side...
and a portion ofyour famous blackberryjam.
It's gonna be a long day.
Remember, we're here tostop him@@@@, that's all. Andnobodygets hurt.
- Go up the hill and turn. - I suppose you caught his scent.
Something like that.
There.
You've done well. I'm proud of you.
- Do not lose him. - I won't !
- Okay. Now what ? - Go faster.
[ Maggg e ] What's that. ?
[ WindHowlingg
lgnore it.
- Don't let up. - I won't !
Turn left.
Hard left.
I don't see him.
He's there.
Jesus !
- Faster. - We'll run him over !
- Exactly. - I can't do that !
I told you what's at stake here.
That wasn't the deal. Nobody was supposed to get hurt.
How did you think we were going to stop him, Magdalena ? With a prayer ?
I don't know, but not like this !
He's almostat the destination. We have to killhim.
- We have no choice. - I do.
- I'm warning you. - Whoeveryou are, whateveryou are, I'm not afraid ofyou.
You should be.
[ Coughing ]
She's still in there, Danyael.
Dying, I suspect.
Not that that really matters.
[ Groans ]
- [ Gasps ] - [ Grunts ]
[ Gasping ]
So, this is what it must feel like...
to be human.
Not quite.
[ Grunting ]
Maggie.
[ Coughs ]
Danyael. [ Coughs ]
- Danyael. - I'm here.
- [ Coughing ] Look behind you. - What ?
Aaah !
[ Grunting ]
[ Gunshot ]
Aaah !
[ Panting ]
[ Groans ]
[ Continues Groaning ]
[ Beating Faintly ]
This is what it feels like to be human.
- [ Whimpering ] - [ Exhales Deeply ]
[ Sniffles ]
- Bring her back. - I can't.
- You have to. - What are you afraid of ?
- Nothing. - Why so desperate to get her back ?
'Cause you know what Heaven's gonna be like for her...
ifyou don't finish what you start.
[ Whimpering ]
Are you an angel ?
Once upon a time.
- I don't want to die. - [ Whispering ] No.
Who are you ?
Gabriel.
Hold my hand, Gabriel.
Please.
Oh,**** my God.
I'm so afraid. [ Sobbing ]
Don't be afraid.
- Where is Danyael ? - He's fighting...
foryou.
[ Thunderclap ]
[ Disembodied Voices, Indistinct ]
[ Voices Overlappingg
[ Voices Continue ]
The child ofdivine fornication.
What do you want from me ?
I have come to help the monkeys perish...
by mutual slaughter...
andthensow the Earth with a betterseed
Genocide.
It happens now and then.
[ Souls Moaning ]
Turn away, nephalim.
Blight not...
and keep warm.
Fuckyou.
There is no such thing as destiny.
Youabove all shouldknow that.
What am I doing here ?
The one thing your kind excels at...
[ Thunderclap ]
dying.
[ Panting ]
[ Grunts ]
Aaah !
[ Groaning ]
[ Angels Shrieking ]
[ Screams ]
[ Muffled Screams ]
It's nota mindless, indifferent,
blind universe, Danyael.
It never was.
Get used to it.
[ Chuckles ]
Shh.
[ GabrielNarrating ]ln the end there'sstill the Wordevery where...
in Heaven andits angels,, the Earth andthestars,
even in the darkestpart ofthe humansoul.
It was there the Word burned brightest.
And for a moment, I was blinded