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Last year, Father Thomas died of natural causes.
A week ago, monks heard
humming coming from his tomb.
The monastery opened the crypt and found him like this.
The Vatican wants to consider Father Thomas
for sainthood, but they need two things first.
DNA evidence that this is true incorruptibility.
No decay. And evidence
- of a second miracle. - So you need us to go get it.
Yes.
I don't think the miracle is real.
The stigmata?
- Why? - Her hands.
She uses the wheelbarrow all day.
This is what happened when I did it for five minutes.
- Hmm. - What about the incorruptibility?
- The body? - I'll go back tonight
and, uh, collect calcification from the crypt.
There may be something in the clay
that preserved the body naturally.
Winston wrote me the story
about the cabinet in Father Thomas's cell.
What cabinet?
This large locked cabinet in Thomas's cell.
It was discovered on this spot a hundred years ago,
and the monastery was built around it to keep it safe.
To keep it from opening.
What do you mean, "keep it"?
Monks like Thomas have been watching it since the '30s
to keep the cabinet closed.
Why? What's in it?
A demon that wants to destroy the world.
That's why the silence. The legend goes
that if even one word is spoken within the monastery walls,
the demon will be out.
And if he's out, he can never be recaptured.
Sounds like a story to scare new monks.
But doesn't anybody ever say anything,
like, or just scream out something in their dreams?
They put gags in their mouth when they sleep.
- You're kidding. - No.
And they expect us to do the same tonight.
They want us to put gags in our mouth?
Yes.
And they're very serious about it.
You can't say a word in there
or you will release a demon.
Shh.
Boo.
- This is not about a demon, okay? - She needs a doctor.
One of the monks is a doctor. They also have an exorcist here.
They think this is the work of the Devil.
Yeah, they need to stop playing around.
They're not playing around. We need to defer to them.
- Not if it kills Fenna. - Who's Fenna?
The nun! Oh, my God, this place is so fucking anti-women!
Shh! Kristen.
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