[piercing scream]
-[scream fades] -[ethereal music playing]
[Adriel] When I first saw Areala,
she was beautiful, brave,
but broken and dying.
-[energy resonates] -That's why I gave her my halo.
But not just to save her.
[faint birdsong]
I could see the lies of this world,
and how they would eventually lead humanity into chaos.
I envisioned that, together, we could create something new.
A new religion based in truth.
But I needed her by my side.
I loved her.
That love clouded my judgment.
[Yasmine] A thousand years ago, when Adriel came to Earth,
he began to build his own church.
Not just any church, but an inverted temple, deep underground.
Inverted? What? Why underground?
[Yasmine] There is no historical explanation.
Adriel claimed that he wanted to use his church and its power
to bring people a new truth.
His truth.
But Areala began to mistrust him.
[Yasmine] She prayed for guidance.
And God sent her an answer…
[ethereal music swells]
[Yasmine] In the form of a weapon.
Awed by her divine encounter,
Areala took up that new weapon,
vowing to bring an end to Adriel's reign.
-Ultimately, the Halo… -[Adriel] The Halo corrupted her.
It was my fault. I should have known.
It's a weapon too powerful for any human to bear for too long.
The night she came to confront me, I looked into her eyes.
And I knew…
she could no longer see me as myself.
She saw me as…
A monster.
[Yasmine] A manipulator and a liar.
A devil.
-[sounds of swords clashing] -[Yasmine] They fought.
Adriel was stronger.
-Infinitely more powerful. -[clashing subsides]
But Areala had something that he did not have.
[dramatic music playing]
Her sisters.
[Yasmine] Yes.
They were her true power, her strength.
-She turned the entire… -[Adriel] …OCS against me.
Alas, she knew I could not be killed, not in this realm.
[Yasmine] So she attacked him with a lunge.
-Bringing her dangerously close. -[swords clanging]
Adriel caught the Cruciform Sword with his right hand,
and with his left he drove his fists into Areala's internal organs,
bringing it up and up to clasp her heart.
She'd accomplished what she wanted.
To get close to him.
With the last of her strength, she placed the Crown of Thorns on Adriel's head.
She tricked me.
She attacked me with a weapon from the other side
that rendered me unconscious and powerless.
When I finally came to my senses,
they were already sealing the cave that would become my prison
for a thousand years.
[Yasmine] Areala made the ultimate sacrifice.
And Adriel's temple became his tomb.
[van jostling]
[Beatrice] So Areala died to trap him.
[Ava] Well, if it worked once, it can work again.
-Right? -That's the sole purpose of my order. But…
Ava,
no one in history has ever defeated Adriel and lived.
[dramatic music intensifies]
Well, then,
looks like we're gonna have to make history.
[energy crackling]
[dramatic music swells]
[theme music playing]
-[music fades] -[birdsong]
[van squeaking]
This is where Lilith reported in last.
-[intercom beeps] -Jillian?
We need your help.
[Jillian] I'm sorry. I can't help you.
[intercom beeps]
I know we're asking for a lot.
-And I know you're already helping Lilith. -Lilith is gone. Now, please leave.
What do you mean, gone?
[Miguel] Ava.
Tell Jillian her son is here.
[emotional music playing]
[buzzer sounds]
[door hinges creaking]
[door thuds]
[Jillian] What's this?
Where's my… my…
[sobs, gasps]
[gasping]
[sobs]
-Hello, Mother. -[Jillian gasps]
[gasps, laughs]
[Jillian gasps, chuckles]
[gasps, sniffles]
[music fades out]
[Miguel sighs]
[Superion] Where's Lilith?
-I don't know. She left. -[Ava] To go where?
[Jillian] I have no idea.
All I can tell you is that Lilith was… changing.
Not just physically, mentally as well. Her mental processes were degrading.
She chose to leave, said she'd seek help elsewhere.
And you just let her leave in a state like that?
Well, she's an interdimensional being with quantum teleportation abilities.
-What do you suggest I'd done? -Something.
-[Superion] Camila. -What?
[cell phone ringing]
Carry yourself.
[in Italian] Your Holiness.
[Duretti] Mother Superion, are you alone?
I am.
I have been researching Adriel.
[Superion] Tell me.
I can't talk now.
I'm requesting your presence at a secret conclave in Madrid.
You and everyone else I can still trust.
I'll be there.
All is not lost, Mother.
We shall rely on faith.
[ominous music playing]
[Jillian in English] Have you talked to the angels today?
What'd they say?
[young Michael] He called for me, and then the light came, and I saw him.
[Jillian] We found the other door.
[young Michael] That will change everything.
[Miguel] I can still feel Adriel's voice.
Implanting these images in my mind.
Using me.
[ominous music continues]
I wish…
I didn't understand.
[Miguel] How could you?
All I ever wanted was… to heal you.
And you did.
[Jillian sighs]
And I'm grateful.
I'm sorry.
This must be very difficult for you.
[Jillian exhales sharply]
How long was it for you
on… on the other side?
Hard to say.
Fourteen, fifteen years.
Must have been so alone.
No.
I wasn't alone.
[dramatic music builds, fades]
Where did you go, Lilith?
[Adriel] She's with me.
-[Camila gasping] -[electricity fluctuating]
[eerie music playing]
[whimpering]
[Camila screams, pants]
-[music fades] -[panting]
-Sorry. -I'm so sorry. I didn't see you there.
I'm sorry.
It's…
I just had another headache.
[Camila sighs] -How long have you been having headaches?
[inhales sharply]
Since the convent attack.
[somber music playing]
[Camila] One of the older sisters…
she touched me.
[music intensifies]
[Beatrice] Camila?
[Camila] I didn't think anything of it at the time, but
that's when the headaches started.
And
I've been hearing voices.
All right.
Come with me.
[Jillian] Michael!
[emotional music playing]
No!
Come with me, Mummy!
[Miguel] I ran through the portal.
On the other side…
I found what I thought would be Heaven.
But it wasn't what I expected.
It was empty… vast.
I wandered in a desert, alone, terrified.
Until I was found by wandering angels.
They took me to a shining city.
To Reya.
Reya?
Reya… is an entity.
Unimaginably powerful.
She is Adriel's master.
[Jillian] His master?
She healed me.
Raised me in the halls of her kingdom.
Trained me for the day I would come back to Earth…
to stop him.
Stop him?
How?
Can't tell you.
Not yet.
["Never Look Back" playing]
[distant car horns honking]
♪ You are the moth ♪
♪ I am the flame… ♪
[Yasmine] It's like synchronicity, isn't it?
In the Middle Ages, monasteries would house foreign travelers
in secret to protect them from religious persecution.
So, it's only fitting that… this is happening in a hotel,
if you think about it.
Fitting as it may be,
perhaps we should discuss the situation in more private company.
[Yasmine] Of course.
Thank you… for bringing me.
This conclave, it's like a dream for me.
When we get in,
don't speak.
[elevator chimes]
-Listen to everything that is said. -[elevator doors open]
And not said.
Note every detail.
-Anything that can help us. -[Yasmine] Yes.
Sorry, I get carried away.
Never apologize for your gifts.
Just… use them wisely.
[elevator chimes]
[somber music playing]
[hushed voices chatting in background]
[door hinges creak]
[doors shut]
[hushed voices continue]
Oh my God.
That's the Archbishop of Canterbury!
[Superion] Discreet.
[Duretti] Friends, colleagues.
Thank you for joining me on such short notice.
Please, sit.
[somber music swells]
I have gathered you here to discuss an urgent matter.
One which threatens the nature of religion itself.
You are here today because you remain loyal to your faith
and those who represent it.
But it's imperative that nothing that we discuss today leaves this room.
Matthew chapter 7, verse 15 states,
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
when inwardly, they are nothing but ravening wolves."
Some say that an angel descended from Heaven to deliver humanity from evil.
But I say that a wolf walks among us.
-[Bible thuds] -[ominous music playing]
What was it like for you, all those years underground?
[Adriel] It was dark, endless.
But unlike the brief candle that is a human life,
I'm not finite.
I measure time differently.
And I am patient.
Very patient.
[Lilith] So what are you?
I am the angel, Adriel.
So what am I?
[Adriel] I couldn't even begin to explain to you what you are.
But I could show you.
If you trust me.
[dramatic music swells]
[Adriel] Close your eyes.
[music fades]
-[energy resonating] -No, stop.
-What are you doing?! -Trust me.
-[screaming] -[intense music playing]
[screaming]
[music fades]
[computer beeping faintly]
[Jillian] Can I show you something?
[tense music playing]
[computer beeping and trilling]
[trilling continues]
[tense music swells]
Is this Reya?
[sighs]
[computer continues trilling]
[eerie whooshing]
[exhales sharply]
No. Michael.
[Jillian panting]
[Miguel breathes rapidly]
Talk to me.
[continues breathing rapidly]
Oh God…
[Jillian whispers] What?
I was wrong to doubt.
Uh…
I thought I could change things, but…
Reya's way is the only way.
[ominous music playing]
[Jillian shudders]
-[music fades] -[Beatrice] You have some scarring.
[tablet beeping faintly]
Hold still, now. Be calm.
Me?
I'm calm.
You're not a very good liar, Camila.
Beatrice.
[somber music playing]
If Adriel is real, then all the books were all wrong.
Do you ever think about that?
Of course.
I know it's terrible,
but sometimes it's even hard to pray.
Yes.
I understand that.
And it's not just me.
Mother Superion never talks about it, but I know it affects her.
And now you.
Don't worry about me.
I'm fine.
You're not much of a liar either.
Well, I'm better than you, anyways.
I'm just trying my best to help everyone,
but I never feel like it's enough.
[scanner beeps]
It's not your job to fix everything, Camila.
It's not anyone's job.
When you first joined, I know I gave you a hard time.
You had so much potential.
And you were such a rookie.
I didn't want you to get hurt.
You are the best of us.
The heart of us.
And, even if we're not okay right now, we will be.
-Yeah. -[computer alert beeps]
[keyboard clacking]
What is it?
[computer trilling faintly]
[Beatrice] It's divinium.
[Camila] Looks like some sort of
nail?
[eerie music playing]
[Beatrice] That's not a nail.
It's a cross.
-[eerie music swells] -[breathing rapidly]
Take it out.
I can't.
It's woven into your spinal cord.
[shuddering]
Open your eyes.
I never should have trusted you.
I apologize for the pain.
But I'm afraid it was the only way.
But why blind me? Why not just kill me?
Lilith.
Open your eyes.
[energy builds]
[energy crackling]
[ethereal music playing]
[crackling subsides]
[demon screeching]
[Adriel] Now,
tell me
what you see.
[demons screeching]
I see…
[energy fluctuating]
…reality.
[ethereal music swells, fades]
Camila?
[Camila] Mm?
I'm going to see if Dr. Salvius can help.
She may be able to block whatever Adriel's doing with her technology.
Okay.
[Beatrice] And Camila?
Huh?
What happened at the museum wasn't your fault.
-I shouldn't have-- -It's okay.
Thank you.
[Beatrice] Well, if there's anything I can do to help you,
let me know.
[Camila] Hmm.
Beatrice.
Let me know the same.
What do you mean?
I think you know.
[soft music playing]
I'm not sure I do.
You and Ava.
It's a misunderstanding.
It's my duty to worry about the Warrior Nun and her safety.
-There's nothing more to it than that. -There's no shame in it.
It's easy to fall in love with a Warrior Nun.
It's loving the Warrior Nun that's the hard part.
They're never yours.
They never last.
[soft music swells]
[inhales sharply, sighs]
[insects chirping]
[energy resonating faintly]
[energy crackling]
[energy crackles, fades]
How's it going?
Just practicing.
[energy crackling]
[energy fluctuates, subsides]
-Ava! -[Ava grunts]
-[Ava sighs] -[Beatrice] Are you okay?
I'm fine.
The Halo, it… went out again.
-[Ava sighs] -Like at the museum and the church.
Yeah. Yeah, it's, um…
It's getting worse.
Why do you think that's happening?
[softly] I don't know.
I don't know. How am I supposed to know how this… thing works?
I thought maybe we were training too hard, but…
[Ava gasps]
I'm fi… fine, Bea.
[inhales, sighs]
I just need to put this thing on his head, and… and then…
I trust you. You know I do.
We'll beat him.
[music fades]
[Superion] I want to believe your actions are not your own.
That you've been compromised somehow.
Am I?
Somehow?
[ominous music playing]
You know,
another good thing about having our savior among us
is that… whenever you seek answers,
you can always just ask him.
Yes, perhaps I will.
My goodness. What happened to you?
Oh. I ran into some old friends.
You seem unsettled.
Unsettled? No.
Excited.
Yes. It is exciting, isn't it?
[chuckles]
Just two more days, my friend.
And together
we shall deliver this world
unto Adriel.
[ominous music swells]
[music fades]
To some, Adriel is a prophet.
To others, he's a savior.
I even heard him called the Second Coming.
But, in truth, he's none of those things.
He's a charlatan.
[all whispering]
How can that be?
We've seen plagues, boils, locusts,
this… fog of fear.
How can an ordinary man create such things?
[Duretti] I'm not suggesting that he's an ordinary man.
He might be a devil, a demon, an aberration.
What I'm saying is that he's not the all-powerful deity he claims to be.
With all due respect, Francesco,
I fear you're being dangerously naïve.
And just suppose it is as they say, that Adriel is a flesh-and-blood angel.
Denying him could evoke the wrath of God.
And I say to you, my dear Archbishop,
that a flesh-and-blood angel would have no need to use Arq-Tech technology
to infect people with boils.
Or to create high-frequency sound waves to draw locusts to pre-chosen locations.
-[ominous music playing] -[hushed chattering]
How could you know such things?
[Duretti] My beloved Vatican was infiltrated by a traitor
who gave up the information on questioning.
I know Adriel's secret.
Moreover, I know where he will appear to implement the next stage of his plans.
And I say to you
that we must confront and crush this corrupt entity
before he destroys our faith, our Church, and our world.
[concerned, worried chatter]
Quiet. Quiet, please.
Your Holiness.
As a matter of Church doctrine,
I'm afraid I cannot condone any attack on this man
until we are certain he is not who he says he is.
No!
You're just afraid. That's all.
I beg your pardon?
You fear Adriel.
You fear God's wrath.
You fear losing the support of your congregants.
But I can tell you that His Holiness is correct.
You cannot afford to wait to confront Adriel.
Who is this person?
[music swells, fades]
I…
I am Yasmine Amunet.
I am the descendant of a Coptic order
that has prepared for Adriel's return for millennia.
And we have known from the beginning what Adriel is.
A devil.
Sent to cloud the minds of fearful men.
You would be wise to keep silent, girl, and heed your superiors.
And you would be wise, Archbishop,
to listen to someone far more informed than yourself.
How dare you, Superion?
Will you allow these women of your flock
to speak to me like some common--
-[loud bang] -¡A basta!
[music halts]
Our sisters are dying.
The women of my order have been brutally murdered
while you sit and debate the intentions of God.
The integrity of a mass murderer.
This is not about protecting the Church.
Or ourselves.
Adriel poses a global threat to everyone, faithful and unfaithful alike.
If you sit by and do nothing
while Adriel's rise leads to the death of millions…
may God have mercy on your souls.
[dramatic music playing faintly]
Sit down, Justin.
Mother Superion and her enthusiastic apprentice are correct.
I didn't call you here to debate.
Too many have died.
Traitors infiltrated our highest ranks.
[dramatic music swells]
The time for action has come.
-[priests] Hear, hear! -Yes.
[William] Well said, Holy Father.
We have all made grave errors in the way we responded to Adriel.
We were too dismissive,
unwilling to face the truth,
to take him seriously.
But who will stand with us today,
in the greatest theological fight of our lives?
[dramatic music builds]
Today we take the first difficult steps
to correct the mistakes of our past.
-No! -[blade swishes]
-[Archbishop groans] -[Yasmine screams]
-[blood splattering] -[groans]
Praise Adriel!
[all] Praise Adriel!
[priests] No! No!
[priest] Say your prayers, Sister.
-[Superion] You first. -[priest grunts, groans]
Your underestimation of Adriel underscores your failure of leadership.
Your original sin, scrawled across a newly blank slate.
For centuries, you have fallen to your knees for the worship of a man,
a myth, a deity you could barely define.
Now a savior comes to you,
of flesh, and blood, and pure unquestioned power.
Save your pious cries of faith.
Today, your sins are washed
in blood!
Praise Adriel!
[dramatic whooshing]
[fighting grunts]
[wet choking]
[Superion grunting] Yah!
May Adriel bring you peace.
-[gunshot] -[grunts]
[intense music swells]
[gunshots]
[guard grunting]
-[cardinal grunts] -[fighting grunts]
[cardinal groaning]
[gunshots]
[gunfire]
[Superion grunts]
[gunshots]
[Yasmine gasping]
Oh, the enthusiastic one!
[in Spanish] Francesco, let's go!
[grunts]
-[gunshots] -[guards groaning]
-[William snarls] -[Yasmine whimpers]
-[whimpering] -[Superion in English] It's me. It's me.
[Yasmine panting]
[door swings open]
-[gunshot] -[man groans]
Check that door there.
[both panting]
[Superion] Go! Go! Hold it.
[Duretti] They're insane.
[Superion] Not insane. Possessed.
Move.
[metal clanging]
[all grunting]
-Go, go, go, go, go! -[Yasmine straining]
-This should hold it. -[acolytes pounding on door]
[Yasmine] Thank you. He came towards me.
-I was scared. I… I couldn't think. -[eerie music builds]
[Superion] You did well. Just breathe. Breathe.
Let me see where you're cut, okay?
-[acolytes yelling] -[Yasmine groans]
[groans]
[Camila sniffles]
[Superion] Camila. Do you copy?
[static crackles]
-[device beeps] -Mother Superion? [gasps]
I hear you.
The conclave has been compromised. Nearly everyone is dead.
Are you hurt?
I made it out with Duretti and Yasmine, but we're trapped on the 13th floor.
There are too many to fight our way out.
[sniffles, exhales]
-What do you need? -Extraction.
[static crackles]
[Superion] Your Holiness. Drink this.
[acolytes yelling faintly in background]
So much death, so many turned.
Even William.
I had no idea.
Francesco. È vero?
Is it true?
That Adriel is using Arq-Tech's technology to manufacture those plagues?
È vero.
Adriel is holding a rally at Arq-Tech on the morning of the 23rd.
I called this conclave because I believed my loyalists would help me expose Adriel.
-[pounding on door continues] -[inhales shakily]
[softly] Now it's too late.
It's not too late.
We can still defeat Adriel.
How?
Who will stand with us now?
["Unbreakable" by Night Arcade playing]
[music halts]
[woman in Spanish] Yes, several of our guests say they heard gunshots upstairs.
-[gentle classical music playing] -[elevator chimes]
[elevator chimes]
[dramatic music playing]
[gun cocks]
[acolytes grunting and yelling]
[pounding on door]
[man yelling in Spanish]
FBC, maybe eight or ten of them. Armed and likely possessed.
Oh yeah. They're possessed.
We can't take them on. Not in such a confined space.
-[music fades] -[exhales sharply]
[papers ruffling]
[ominous music playing]
[gasps softly]
[Camila praying softly in Spanish]
[glasses powering up]
[praying continues]
[energy trilling faintly]
[praying continues]
[energy continues trilling]
[glasses powering down]
[praying continues]
[soft knocking]
[gasps, exhales]
-Sorry. -Dr. Salvius.
[inhales sharply]
The energy that Beatrice saw,
it's the same stream that's been activating the Arc.
It's prayer.
It's what, now?
When you pray or focus your mind deeply on a specific desire,
your brain creates a unique electrical impulse.
And I think that Adriel
has discovered a way to tap in to that impulse,
to convert it into energy.
That's why Kristian has built all this conductive infrastructure.
Maybe that's why Adriel needs those crosses.
He's redirecting the energy to himself.
[ominous music intensifies]
[gasps]
[Jillian] What?
Do you think he's stealing prayers from God?
Yes, God.
Whoever that may be.
I will… I will get you something to block the signal.
To keep Adriel from influencing you.
Thank you, Doctor.
-[car horn honking] -Oh God, what now?
[gasps]
[Jillian] Who are they?
Reinforcements.
[energetic music playing]
How did they find us?
They heard the call.
[pounding on door]
[man grunts]
Hey, guys.
Did I hear Adriel was looking for me?
Bring that one to me.
[man yelling in Spanish]
[fighting grunts]
[Beatrice] Yah!
[Miguel grunts]
[exhales]
Mother Superion? It's Beatrice.
Hallway is clear.
[Superion] We're coming.
No, I'm not going with you.
-Francesco, they will kill you. -No.
If they had wanted to kill me, I would have died in that room.
Adriel needs me to legitimize him in front of the world.
That's his endgame.
And this is our best chance to show the world the truth.
I have faith that we can expose Adriel and put an end to this.
[Beatrice] Mother Superion, we must hurry.
Are you sure?
Certo.
Come back for me.
I will.
I promise.
[hinges creaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[acolyte yelling]
[Ava panting]
[William] Stop! Just shoot her!
-[energy whining] -[gunfire]
-[gunfire continues] -[Ava grunts]
[Ava yelps]
Fuck.
Shit! Fuck!
[Ava whimpering]
-[Camila] Ava! -[Ava] No. No.
-[gasping] -[energy fluctuating]
[gasps]
-No! Ava! -[Ava whimpers]
[Beatrice] Oh God, no!
[panting] Ava… Ava.
Ava.
[sobbing] No!
Ava! No!
-Please! -[emotional music playing]
I know the world is hard and unforgiving.
And I know that Warrior Nuns die.
-[crying] -[Beatrice] Please don't leave me.
I don't want you to die.
[Beatrice crying]
[sniffles, sobs]
-[energy trills faintly] -[Ava] You know,
I'd like to avoid that, myself.
-[Beatrice laughs tearfully] -[Ava chuckles]
[groans] Easy. Easy.
-Sorry. -It's okay. It's okay. [chuckles]
[softly] They can't beat us, Bea.
Not together.
I know that.
[Ava sighs]
[both sighing]
[tense music playing]
Forgive me, Father.
But you have sinned.
May God forgive you, William,
for you know exactly what you do.
[tense music building]
[eerie music playing]
[demons screeching and hissing]
[shrieking continues]
This is how Ava sees.
[Adriel] No.
This is how you see.
Only you.
You're not changing, Lilith. You're purifying.
We were both chosen for a higher purpose.
The path we will walk won't be easy.
There will be pain.
You may feel it.
-[demons screeching faintly] -[Adriel] You may cause it.
But, in the end, you'll create a new existence.
One where true power will be shared by everyone,
not hoarded by gods.
[demon screeching]
We have the ability to slice through the shadows,
and reveal the light that cast them.
[demon screeching]
[screeching continues]
I need you by my side.
[demons screeching]
[eerie music builds]
[demons screeching]
[demon snarling]
[fire roaring]
[Lilith exclaims]
[wings crackling]
[moans]
[wings fluttering loudly]
[Lilith grunting]
[eerie music intensifies]
[music fades]
-["Darkside" plays] -♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Best believe it ♪
♪ Push too far you'll see ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Back against the wall ♪
♪ La-la-la-la-la ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Best believe It's the last trick up his sleeve ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ That you don't wanna meet at all ♪
♪ They always picked on him in the class ♪
♪ He would wake up with anxiety attacks ♪
♪ So he put a semi-automatic on his back ♪
♪ He got murder in his eyes ♪
♪ Uh, yeah ♪
♪ He wore silence like a mask ♪
♪ Now he's making up for All the violence in his past ♪
♪ Took it from his father Who never bothered to ask ♪
♪ What his son had on his mind ♪
♪ Yeah, the kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Best believe it ♪
♪ Push too far you'll see ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Back against the wall ♪
♪ La-la-la-la-la ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ Best believe It's the last trick up his sleeve ♪
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ That you don't wanna meet at all ♪
-♪ The kid has got a-- ♪ [instrumental builds]
♪ The kid has got a dark side ♪
♪ He never went to check under his bed ♪
♪ He was living with the monsters In his head ♪
♪ Sick of getting beat up He listened what they said ♪
♪ Told him do some very bad things ♪
[song fades out]