[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour. There must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN SHOUTING]
Pinch of periwinkle.
Mushrooms in this. [PHONE RINGING]
Herbs and Herbalist.
Hi, Dad, how's the cough?
Well, are you taking the lavender?
No. No, I'm just finishing up a love potion.
Dad, I will not put a curse on him.
I don't care how much money he owes you.
Ian's fine. I'm just picking him up from school in an hour.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Well, I'll give him your love.
Dad. Dad, I gotta go.
Right. I love you, too. Bye bye.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who is it?
MAN: Fiona Flinn?
Who are you?
My name is Steven Rose.
Lisa Steigler told me about you.
What does Lisa look like?
She's got brown hair and freckles.
Uh-huh.
Blue eyes.
Uh-huh.
And a scar, uh, above her lip.
From a bicycle accident.
Come on in.
Pretty careful, aren't you?
Well, I get my share of weirdos.
Would you lock the door, please?
Is this the seal of Solomon?
No. It's one of the seals of the earth.
Keeps undesirable spirits away.
I'm just finishing up a love potion.
Potion. Did she leave you?
Who?
Or is it someone you've never met
but you've seen on the street or in a coffee shop or something?
Excuse me, I'm not here...
I made you friend Lisa a love potion.
Six months later she was married.
I don't want to fall in love.
I'm not in love.
Not interested.
Huh.
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Do you have children?
One. My son Ian.
He's in school right now.
Today's his first day of third grade.
And... And your husband?
We were divorced three years ago.
Love potion didn't work, huh?
What is it that you want?
I, uh...
I've got a doppelganger.
A double. Maybe everyone does,
but mine has manifested itself.
I can't help you.
You gotta hear me out, please.
First few times, it was at Grand Central.
I'd be getting off a train,
I'd be walking toward the stairs.
It would be getting on another train.
My double.
I'd be staring at myself.
[SIGHS] It always waits for me to see it.
Staring at me.
Please hear me out.
Now it's gotten bolder.
It goes places that I go.
I went into the deli around the corner yesterday.
They smiled and said, "Back so soon? Did you forget something?"
I hadn't been there in a week.
Last night, it was in my apartment.
I don't know what to do.
I think it's trying to take over my life.
I've read that the only way to get rid of a doppelganger is to, uh...
...conjure up a demon.
Get out of my house.
What? Look,
I'm sorry. I don't do doppelgangers.
I don't do great magic at all, I do small magic.
It's safer for me and my son.
You have to leave now.
But you've got to help me.
Look, I used to think that all this magic stuff was mumbo jumbo
designed to separate fools from their money.
But this doppelganger is real.
I don't know where else to go.
Get out of my house now.
He followed you.
[SIGHS]
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
You jerk!
Look, I'm... I'm sorry. I didn't know...
I better go.
It's too late for that.
It's seen the seal on my door. It knows all about me.
And Ian. Why would it care about your son?
You've done something to bring it to you. You'd better figure it out.
I didn't do anything. Where are you going?
To pick up Ian from school before your doppelganger gets to him.
Don't answer the door.
Lighten up.
[SIGHS]
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
IAN: Okay, Mom, let me tell you about my story.
Now, there's this green gorg monster
and it's eating up all the bad guys.
Except for this one bad guy who's really smart
who zaps the green gorg monster
right between the eyes with a laser gun, and...
How come you're so uptight, Mom?
FIONA: We're back.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
No thanks.
Ian! Get away from him!
Honey, that person you saw in the hallway is someone we don't like.
This is Steven.
Hi.
I think you better go visit your grandfather.
Tonight? Right now.
STEVEN: What are you going to do?
FIONA: Commit a mortal sin.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
FIONA: Well, it's a mortal sin to conjure up a demon.
What's that?
Copy of a manuscript by Hebrew at Siena.
He was a 12th Century monk.
He made contact with demons.
Was that the same man?
Honey, it's all right. Could you, uh...
Oh, okay. Sure.
Come on over here, pal. Let's see if you have some homework.
[THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING]
What are you drawing, Mom?
A snake.
It doesn't look like a snake.
Well, I'm not very much of an artist.
Did you know Steven goes to school, too?
He does?
What do you study?
Medieval history.
I'm doing my dissertation on pagan magical practices.
You're studying magic? Mmm-hmm.
Don't do that!
I didn't do anything.
This is how you manifest your doppelganger.
I said a few ancient words, I drew some...
You people are a menace!
You study ancient practices without really understanding the seriousness of them.
You're like high school students making an atom bomb.
Wait a minute.
I have spent my entire academic career
proving that people shouldn't believe in this stuff.
You don't have to believe in it. It believes in you.
Now help me before it's too late.
[SCOFFS]
Fire, earth, water, air.
If you commit a mortal sin,
don't you burn in hell forever?
Unless God thinks you did it for a very good reason.
Mine is my child.
Your child?
You don't get it, do you?
Your doppelganger isn't here for you, it wants Ian.
They want the children.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOORKNOB RATTLING]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
I apologize for involving you in this.
I didn't know how serious it could get.
If you have any faith in you use it to pray now.
[VOICES WHISPERING]
Ian! Don't open that door!
[WIND HOWLING]
Steven, in the circle!
In the circle...
What's happening?
It's your demon.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
I'm scared!
I won't let anything hurt you.
It's all right, honey.
Do we have everything we need?
Everything except that.
What do we do now?
I'm gonna try and conjure up another demon
and get it to expel yours.
Hebra says demons change their name according to a pattern every 49 years.
Let's hope we get lucky.
By thy name I conjure thee, Abimelech.
By thy name I conjure thee, Melech.
By thy name I conjure thee, Belphamelech.
Demon, change thy form into something more cumly.
In the name of the son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ,
change thy form, Belphamelech.
What do you want, woman?
An answer to a question.
Quit eye-balling me, boy.
Booga booga.
Be civil or I'll mention you in my prayers at night.
This person is being plagued by one of yours. Is that right?
Mmm-mmm-mmm. Not one of mine.
Thy masters.
Answer out loud, Belphamelech, or I'll say a rosary in thy name.
All right, all right.
Yeah.
One of my masters' servants plagues him.
Good. Fetch it.
Magika, I can't do that.
I'm a nothing.
A minor, a screw tape.
I'll be clawed and gutted and left to drip blood for 100,000 years.
I said fetch it.
A demon can't betray another demon.
I won't be able to go back.
Hey. I give you diamonds instead, huh?
I want the doppelganger demon.
For the kid? Hmm?
FIONA: Stay where you are, Ian.
Hey, kid.
You do as I say, Belphamelech,
or I'll inscribe a blessed candle with your name.
He'll run my hands over hot coals and rip out my fingernails.
All the demons will make my life hell in hell.
And I'll burn the candle as an offering in St. Patricks.
A long candle.
We need the canister.
I'll get it. No! You can't leave the circle.
It'll make us vulnerable.
Something smells.
It smells like ammonia.
A demon's coming.
It's Steven.
Ooh, doggy.
Tell me its name, Belphamelech.
You know I can't deal with it unless I know its name.
How about I make you famous?
Wanna be a rock star? Wanna be in the movies?
And the angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she conceived of the holy spirit.
Listen, stop it with the Bible stuff.
You're killing me here. Okay?
Okay. His name is...
Dramon.
Yeah.
What is it?
[GROWLING]
It's staring at me.
Can I split now, Magika?
Soon. I have a task for you first.
I'm going to send my assistant across the room to get something.
If anything happens to him
I will call you up every evening until the year 2009,
and sprinkle holy water on you.
Oh. Oh, okay. Okay.
Go ahead. Send your assistant.
Mom, that thing's staring at me.
[GROWLING]
Go get the canister.
Watch it, watch it.
We need it.
[CHUCKLES]
[DRAMON GROWLING]
Watch it, watch it. Watch it, watch it.
[CHUCKLING]
Put the lamb skin on it.
Mom, make that thing stop staring at me.
I'm trying to, honey. You just stay in the circle.
Uh, Magika, can I go now?
I don't want to be here, okay? I don't need this.
Not yet. You put Dramon in the canister.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost--
Dramon!
Is it in there? Yes.
Put wax all around the edges.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
He's not an assistant. He doesn't know anything.
It has to be completely sealed.
Ian, all the toys in the world can be yours.
You just come on out.
Ian, stay in the circle.
Magika, your son stepped out of the circle.
No!
Just kidding.
[FIONA YELLS]
Ian, help me!
[GROWLING]
IAN: Mom!
[GRUNTING]
[LAUGHS]
[PRAYS IN LATIN]
You committed a mortal sin.
[GROWLING]
[ALL GROANING]
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS MOCKINGLY]
Yeah.
FIONA: No!
IAN: Mom!
FIONA: No!
[FIONA SCREAMS]
[GROWLING]
Help!
STEVEN: Ian, the canister. We have to seal the canister.
[FIONA SCREAMS]
Hey, no, no, no, no.
[LIGHTNING CRASHING]
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Thank you, buddy.
Can we get out of the circle now?
Yes.
[SIGHS] See there?
You do great magic after all.
Well, I almost got us all killed.
If you hadn't held me.
Well,
destroying a demon makes up for conjuring one.
I guess my heavenly tablet is clean.
Can Steven stay for dinner?
Hey, Mom,
what do we do about him?
Magika. [COUGHS]
Listen, uh, got no place to go now. Can't go back there.
Hey, um,
you need an assistant?
Yeah. Need some help around here?
Start dinner.
Huh?
Damn.
Can't believe this woman.
Now she's got me fixing dinner.
Yeah, I'll fix it. Fix it real good.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]