Cut Above the Rite Page #5

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Then I want you to guess.

I don't know.

Clear your mind and guess.

It's not a test. Just guess.

I don't want to.

I'm ordering you to guess! Guess!

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

There you are.

Knowledge of the unknowable.

It's the quickest test for possession.

The devil is working in and through her

right now.

Okay.

Uh....

[IN ITALIAN]

Did it tell you what was in the bag?

[ROSARIA SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

Is it talking now?

What's it saying?

Disgusting things.

It's important you tell me.

[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

LUCAS:
Has it told you its name yet?

Do you know its name?

Tell me its name.

Tell me now.

[LUCAS SPEAKING IN LATIN]

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

[MICHAEL SPEAKING IN LATIN]

LUCAS [IN ITALIAN]: I can't talk now,

I'm in the middle of something.

[ROSARIA GRUNTING]

[LUCAS SPEAKING IN LATIN]

ROSARIA [IN ITALIAN]: Shut up, shut up.

Shut up, priest.

You must not touch me.

You are disgusting.

Keep your dirty hands off me.

Shut up! You must not speak.

Don't touch me!

Go away, priest. Go away!

You stink, you are disgusting.

Rosaria.

Rosaria.

Open your mouth.

[LUCAS SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

How do you feel?

[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]

Okay, that's it.

MICHAEL:
Really? That's it?

Well, what'd you expect?

Spinning heads, pea soup?

Spiritual liberation can take months,

sometimes years.

So she's still possessed?

Yeah.

I know you don't believe me, but....

Tell me...

...does a thief or a burglar turn on the

lights when he's robbing your house? No.

He prefers you to believe

that he's not there.

Like the devil. He prefers you

to believe that he doesn't exist.

It gets complicated when no proof of

the devil is somehow proof of the devil.

Yeah.

The interesting thing

about skeptics, atheists...

...is that we're always looking

for proof, certainty.

The question is, what on earth

would we do if we found it?

-"We"?

-Oh, yes.

There are times when I experience

a total loss of faith.

Days, months when I don't know

what the hell I believe in.

God or the devil,

Santa Claus or Tinker Bell.

But...

...you know, I'm just a man.

I'm a weak man. I have...

...no power.

Yet there's something that keeps

digging and scraping away inside me.

Feels like God's fingernail.

And finally I can take

no more of the pain...

...and I get shoved out

from the darkness...

...back into the light.

Something like that.

[SPEAKS IN LATIN]

Anyway, enough philosophizing

for one day.

If you have any more questions,

you know where to find me.

I got my eye on you. What you doing?

[CHATTERING]

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

[HORNS HONKING]

You're in Rome and you go to McDonald's?

Oh, hey.

Come on. Let me buy you

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