Exorcist: The Beginning Page #2

right after it was built.

Chuma.

Where's Jefferies?

I need to go into the church.

Hyenas?

They've been here

ever since we started digging.

Even at daytime?

No! No! No!

- What's the matter with him?

- I don't know.

The heat?

Joseph?

Are you out here by yourself?

It's dangerous.

- I'm collecting rocks.

- I can see that.

I think you're about

ready for this now.

It's a tool for professional diggers.

Wow.

His seizure's stopped.

I wanted to keep him at the hospital

for observation...

but the Turkana have stopped

trusting my medicine.

Well, that must make

your job very hard.

You have no idea.

Thank you.

So what is it you hope to find here?

The answer to why a church was built here

a thousand years before Christianity arrived.

- You were a priest once, weren't you?

- Yes, I was.

Black bastards!

Bloody savages!

Can't wipe their own ass

without instruction.

- I have to get back to town.

- Wait.

I, uh-- I found this...

and, uh, I want you to have it.

It's a St.Joseph, for luck.

Please, for my behavior.

- Thank you.

- Oi, oi! What the hell are you doing?

- Get the f*** out of here, you little scab!

- Don't!

- Joseph, wait.

- Don't do that.

All right, Merrin.

I didn't know you was a fuzzy lover.

It's okay. Come.

These little buggers,

they get in everywhere.

How soon can you have the doors

to the church uncovered?

A few days.

- And in the meantime, how do we get in?

- We don't.

Chuma'll take you in

through the roof.

Following us, Father?

Is it safe to walk around?

Let's see.

Lucifer.

The Lord's favorite angel.

Cast out after the war in heaven.

Can't even trust angels, can you?

- You ever seen anything like it?

- Not this far from Rome.

It's odd.

Churches were built to exalt heaven...

but this, the weapons

are pointing downward.

Look behind you, Father.

Desecration of Christ.

Who would do something like this?

The crucifix

was broken off from here.

Chuma, is there an inventory

of what's been found here?

I wouldn't know.

Who would know?

'Cause this place has been vandalized.

Probably the lead archaeologist,

Monsieur Bession.

So where can I find him?

I need to talk to him.

- It's not possible.

- Why not?

He's gone mad.

No one's been inside Bession's tent

since he fell ill?

They are superstitious.

- And you?

- Not superstitious. Smart.

- Chuma.

- Yes?

- Where's Bession now?

- A sanitorium in Nairobi.

- How long has he been gone?

- A few weeks.

- And he can read and write Aramaic?

- Sorry?

The language spoken in Palestine

at the time of Christ.

And what does it say?

The fallen shall rise...

in a river of blood.''

Do you have a moment?

Of course.

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