Damien

Previously on Damien...

There's always been some thing,

like a dark cloud hanging over me.

I've ignored it, I've denied it,

but it's... it's always been there.

Damien, I love you.

It's all for you.

I had it translated.

She's saying, "Here is my beloved son

in whom I am well pleased."

You came all the way back from Damascus for this.

It's been a long time.

I'm sorry. Do I know you?

Ann Rutledge.

What exactly is your job?

I suppose it would best be described

as the protection business.

Don't let go of me!

What do you want from me? Answer me!

Your father wanted answers about the Beast.

The Antichrist.

He will become

the greatest tyrant the world has ever seen.

666.

Does that mean anything to you?

QUILLAIPE, CHILE

Save us!

Saves us, Lord!

Be gone!

Be gone, Satan!

Be gone, Satan, the inventor and master of all deceit,

the enemy of humanity's salvation.

Be humble

under the powerful hand of God!

Tremble and flee. I invoke by us the sacred and terrible Name

at which those down below tremble.

From the snares of the devil,

free us, Lord Jesus!

We beseech you, hear us.

Soul of Christ,

sanctify me.

Body of Christ, save me.

Blood of Christ, inebriate me.

Water from Christ's side,

wash me.

Passion of Christ, strengthen me.

Mama?

I hear the boy's fine.

He says he doesn't remember anything that happened.

You have saved another soul.

I'm a servant of God. His will be done.

You are needed back in Rome, immediately.

But I'm... supposed to travel to the Philippines.

There's a woman there

who claims to have the stigmata.

The cardinal said this could not wait any longer.

What is it?

The only thing that I know is that...

I-I-I have never seen a man so frightened in my life.

You must leave now.

You must hurry.

NEW YORK

THIS CALLS FOR WISDOM. LET THE PERSON WHO...

HAS INSIGHT CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN. THAT NUMBER IS 666.

THEN ANOTHER HORSE CAME OUT, A FIERY RED ONE.

ITS RIDER WAS GIVEN POWER TO TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH...

WHEN HE OPENED THE ABYSS, SMOKE ROSE FROM IT

LIKE THE SMOKE FROM A GIGANTIC FURNACE.

I LOOKED, AND THERE BEFORE ME WAS A PALE HORSE!

ITS RIDER WAS NAMED DEATH...

Damien!

Damien?!

Look at me, Damien!

It's all for you!

You don't call. You don't write.

You don't shower for three days.

I was busy.

Spring cleaning.

You look like shit.

You look like an undertaker.

All right, man, time to get dressed.

Got to get going.

Yeah... go ahead without me.

You can't skip Kelly's funeral.

Like I said, I'm in the middle of something important.

Last year in Aleppo, you went to that memorial

for that pompous Times reporter you hated.

Remember?

Then there was that Army captain in Tripoli,

not to mention spending two extra days in Sierra Leone

during the whole Ebola outbreak for that boy your barely knew.

Name was Solomon.

Yeah, well, this is Kelly we're talking about.

You think I don't know that?

You need to go.

For what?

For closure, to say goodbye?

Yeah. That's what funerals are for.

I can't bullshit with these people about how she died...

as if I could even explain.

It is not your fault.

All right?

Now, you're gonna get in that shower,

or it's gonna be the two of us in there.

That, my friend, is not gonna be pretty

Are you sure it's him?

He's here. We know he's here.

How much time do we have?

Not much.

Okay.

It's one of the seven daggers of Megiddo.

The others are lost.

Strike where the heart should be.

You know, after Iraq,

I swore I'd never kill another man.

This is not a man.

If you could have killed Hitler

before he unleashed all his horrors on the world,

would you have?

This is worse.

Bless me, Father, for the sin I'm about to commit.

I need your blessing so that I know what I'm about to do

is right in the eyes of God.

Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Father?

Fath...

Father?

Father!

Thorn?

How long's it been?

Not long enough, Marlo.

Yeah, it's good to see you, too.

Sorry about Kelly.

How you holding up?

Dude! You made it back from Juba.

Yeah, man, I hitched a ride on an Army transport.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

Well, it's a hell of a turnout.

I'm not surprised.

Coming inside?

Yeah.

Oh, it's just a church. That's all.

Maybe you guys...

knew Kelly better than I did.

I guess we all knew snippets of Kelly.

Phi Beta Kappa, humanitarian,

crusading journalist out to save the world.

She was that voice calling

from some far-off place I'd never heard of.

From Lagos or wherever in the world she was.

She was a teacher, a storyteller.

I wanted to be just like her.

I wanted...

I did.

She was so strong and...

She had won a Courage in Journalism Award,

and it was then that I realized

I do not have the slightest clue

what my sister's been through or seen.

I remember one time

she was passing through New York...

So she moved on...

...to a new one.

And now she's with our Lord,

beside Him in a place without pain or cruelty.

I give thanks and praise to God

for Christ's victory over sin and death.

I can't do funerals, either.

All that "there's a reason for everything,

it's part of God's plan."

It's hard to stomach.

The death of anyone so young and talented

is senseless.

Period.

But they need an out.

It's God's will.

Not a strong believer?

In God?

No, not a fan.

I heard you were there the night she died, poor thing.

You must feel awful you couldn't save her.

How did you know Kelly?

I know a lot of people.

Like my father.

Yes, I learned a great deal from him.

And your mother.

You knew my mother, too?

You shot out of there like a bat out of Hell.

Yeah... I...

just needed some air.

Yeah, you and me both, Thorn.

Let's get the hell out of here, go drown our sorrows.

Actually, we're all going back to Simone's to pay our respects.

Great.

I'll stop off and pick up a fifth.