Van der Valk (Detective Van der Valk)

I invoke and conjure thee, O, ye infernal spirit,

by the mighty and holy names of the most high and supreme God.

I order and direct thee to appear now.

Bound and constrained by my will

and the will of the most high and supreme God.

Show thyself visibly unto me

within the triangle that stands before the circle.

Come out forthwith and without...

Nik.

Nik, do you see that?

Did you see that?

I say, thou art welcome unto me.

Nik? Nik, what are you doing? Argh!

Nik, what are you doing? Get back inside the circle now!

Valentijn!

Hans.

We can't do this. We have to stop. Help me!

I agree. I don't like it.

We can't. You heard what Isaak said.

Under no circumstances are we to go in.

Let me out! This is our test.

Let me out, please.

Hans!

I, made in the image of God...

Let me out, please! ..inflamed with the power of God...

Valentijn! Let me out! Come now forthwith.

This is getting out of hand.

I'm gonna put an end to this madness.

We do what we agreed to do.

We can't leave him in there. You heard Nik.

I'm not being held responsible for this. It's stupid.

Obey.

Rejoin hands now.

We have to do something.

Stay strong.

Nik is freaking out and my grandad's in there.

Your grandfather knows what to do.

Let me out!

Hans?! Hans?!

Valentijn! Nik.

It's Katya. I'm here.

Let me out!

I'm trying! It's not moving.

Help me! Where's the key?

Where's the key? Help me!

..inflamed by the power of God. Grandad!

Nik!

Argh! Argh!

Right, somebody want to tell us what's going on?

We were told there's been a murder.

Don't be ridiculous.

I'm sorry. Are we missing something here?

Yeah, I made the call.

They're upstairs.

You want to check upstairs?

They're locked in.

Let's go.

I'll take it from here.

Don't move.

Stay down.

Grandad.

Are you OK?

Belphegor.

Belphegor did it.

Nobody gets to walk away. He's still here.

A goat, demon. Prince of hell.

The angel that illuminates my darkness.

According to the guys downstairs,

the door was locked from the outside.

And there are no other entrances or exits.

Let's check that.

Windows are nailed shut. Not even Santa's coming down that chimney.

And Hans Lansing was the only person with a key,

but he was with the others the entire time.

All of which means...

Death by demon? That's gotta be a first.

Nah. No, no, no. No way.

This is clearly about as open and shut as they get, right?

This guy - stabbed and killed.

And that Isaak guy had blood on his hands.

Case closed, right?

I'm not sure.

But where's the grey area?

Do you not like the occult, Eddie?

Not a big fan. No.

Talking of creatures from the beyond.

It takes one to know one, Piet.

Right. Cause of death. Was it dagger or eyes?

Dagger. Eyes are just an added extra bonus on the plus side.

Along with a liver that was shot to pieces.

How would you know that?

Dear Mr Delacorte, we drank at the same watering hole, didn't we?

He always got a bit tricky after one too many whiskies.

Eyes are a problem, though. Gouged out, right.

See, the thing is, Eddie, if Mr Engelhart stabbed him

and was the only other person in the room,

he also gouged out the eyes, correct?

It works for me. Definitely. In one.

Well, eyes are funny things.

Windows to the soul.

Gelatinous, jellylike. Squidgy in texture.

If you dig in and... ..pull out an eye,

your hands are covered in sclera...

Right. Do you mind if I cut to the chase?

Isaak Engelhart had none of that, did he?

Exactly. He did not and therefore he didn't do it.

Maybe the victim gouged his own eyes out

before he was stabbed.

That's what I thought.

If thine eyes offend thee, pluck 'em out, huh?

Matthew 5:29.

But whoever gouged out the eyes

would have, for sure,

at least some bloodstains on the fingers themselves.

Impossible not to.

But he doesn't.

Correct.

Whoever gouged out these eyes, it was neither of them.

But no-one else was in the room.

I take it we're ruling out anything supernatural?

I mean, we're not really saying some demon is in the frame?

Well, I don't see why not. Christianity, Islam, Judaism.

They all believe in the existence of spirits.

And demons don't like humans. Gives them motive.

She's joking this time, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, she is.

But I'm not.

And he's right not to.

There's something else.

You see those indentations in the sand, Eddie?

Hardly fingerprints, but hardly footprints either.

Why do I think I'm not gonna like this?

What are they?

Hooves, Eddie.

There are hoofprints in the sand.

"Magic is the art and science

"of causing change to occur in conformity with will."

Crowley.

Who's Will Crowley?

No. THE will.

And Aleister Crowley, the occultist.

Is he here?

Back from the dead?

A spirit, perhaps.

We've set up a group in his memory.

I take it you don't mean like ABBA?

Are you mocking me?

No, no, no. I'm...

No, I'm pretty open to most of these things,

but I'm also pretty familiar with the fact

that most murders tend to be terrestrial in origin.

So what's the name of the order?

Sorry.

The name of the order is the Sanguis Lunae.

It's the order of the blood moon.

We're a... a secret society...

..that's devoted to the study and practice of the occult.

And you invoke demons, why?

To see if it can be done.

To punch through the veil between the worlds.

It's all quite benign, really.

Come on. It didn't look that way to me.

I agree now.

We shouldn't have done it.

We should not have locked them in there.

So if you were outside when the murder happened,

did you see or hear anyone?

No.

No, I was spooked by the noise

and that's why I had to get out and call you.

OK. We'll need a list of members.

I'm sorry. I can't do that.

There's still an awful lot of people that disapprove of magic.

The list of members, it's strictly confidential.

Like I said...

..we'll need a list of members.

So let me get this right, from what I'm hearing,

you stop people from going to help.

That was the agreement.

Even with someone inside screaming for their life?

Isaak insisted.

The deal was we'd leave them until morning, no matter what we heard.

So one man's dead and another is a gibbering wreck because of you?

No.

Nik is dead because he left the ritual circle.

No other reason.

And how do you know that?

The circle is there to protect a magician.

Demons can't enter it.

But if you leave it...

..the demon has free rein to do as it sees fit.

Or maybe there's a more earthbound explanation.

Have you been interviewed?

Everything alright?

Well, what do you think?

Nik's dead and, um...

..my grandad's been taken to a psychiatric clinic.

I wish I'd had nothing to do with it.

Are you a member of the order?