The Confession

Tell me when your compasion ever outweighed your need to harm?

Prove to me you loved them.

Never come back here again.

Do you remember a man named, Sheldon Hoffman?

You're giving the money back.

You're not going to kill me?

I just did.

The Confession 1x08 "Chapter 8"

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That's two people you let live.

So.

Each time, you made a choice.

Oh, it wasn't a choice.

You knew he'd kill himself?

Yes.

How?

The look on his face.

I've seen that before.

You know what I think?

I think you came here because you don't want to

kill again, tonight.

Oh, no Father, ... I do.

I really, really do.

Have you taken a look at the world around you, lately?

It's a cesspool.

Dirty little people living their dirty little lives.

Drug dealer, rapists, child molesters.

We've become so accustomed to it that we accept it

as a normal part of life as long as it doesn't touch us.

Only in a world this screwed up

can we think that people like that deserve to live.

People that have built a life on the pain and suffering of others.

They're aware of the consequences of their actions,

but they just don't care.

Do they ever show compassion?

No.

It's still wrong.

How can ridding the world of people who harm others, be wrong, Father?

You know, forget it. You don't understand a single

thing I'm trying to tell you. - I don't need to understand it

to know that it is wrong!

What you do is wrong.

You think this is the life I want?

Do you think if I could feel like a normal human being, I wouldn't want that?

Life doesn't give a shit about what we want.

For some of us, the chance at a normal life was

ripped away from us when we were very, very young.

My God, what happened to you?

You wouldn't understand.

You don't know that.

Father, you wouldn't understand

what it is like to suffer, to truly suffer.

And, to cause suffering

and not care.

You don't know that, either.

Really?

What's the worst thing you've ever done, Father?

Steal a little money from the collection plate?

Sneak sips of sacrificial wine between services?

Did you have impure thoughts about members of your congregation?

I have sinned.

What's your darkest sin, Father?

That is between me and God.

Prove to me you understand my pain and I won't kill tonight.

And, I'm not talking about petty little sins, Father.

I want you to prove to me that you understand

what it is like to truly harm another human being.

To do something horrible and not care.

There is something, isn't there?

Is that why you became a priest?

I became a priest to share God's love.

What about, before you were a priest?

I wasn't always who I am.