"CHILE" "buddy." " Americans?" "Yes." "They're out of it." "It could be something in the air." " Maybe now's a good time." " Yeah." "Father Boñilla..." "I am blind... help bring light to my eyes." "The guy has been dead 40 years." "the earthquake broke open his tomb." "No." "Don't put that in her mouth." "You'll only make her more sick." "Tell her." "There is no cure here." "Your girl will not get well this way." "Only the Devil would try and stop God's miracle." "What did she say?" "She thinks you're the devil." "Tell her I don't believe in him either." "check this out." "What do you think's under here?" "What is that?" "well..." "All right." "Katherine." "It's okay." "It's okay." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." " Hey." " It's okay." "hey." "relax." "relax." "Deep well injection." "That's what it's called when a factory drops hazardous waste down a dry oil well." "This kind of illegal underground disposal has been common practice in Third World countries for years." "ethanol and methanol mixed with the aromatic compound DMSo and benzene seeped out after an earthquake running off into the sewer system below the monastery the fumes of which has the dual effect of preserving human tissue... creating intense hallucinatory effects." "Throw in a population economically deprived enough to believe in almost anything and you've got yourself a miracle." "cost-cutting corporation." "Instead of providing cures for the faithful it provided them with lungfuls of toxic waste." "This puts me at 48 miraculous occurrences I've investigated with 48 scientific explanations." "the only miracle is that people keep believing." "Have a great weekend." "Tigers." " They need a miracle." "LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY" "don't you have a TA to help you carry that stuff?" "they gave him an office next to mine." "Sounds like a bright guy." "And forgetful." "My class was looking forward to their guest speaker." "Sorry about that." "I had a thing." "What was her name?" "Her name was Theresa and we met in church." "For old time's sake." "Professor Winter's office." "Father Costigan." "hold on." " No." "No." "Michael." "It's been a long time." "It's nice to hear your voice." "What's going on?" "I know how hard it is for you to talk to me." "To remember." "I want you to know that that's why I stopped calling." "I thought you stopped calling me because you hate what I've become." "I could never hate you." "you're going to think I'm crazy." "I have all these photos of you in Africa  but..." "But what?" "your face is burnt." "It happened in front of my eyes." "Wait." "What happened?" "I think God has sent me a message." "He wants me to warn you." "he should have done it a long time ago." "I understand why you stopped believing." "You've lost so much." "the burns in the photos... they formed a pattern." " A pattern." " Yes." "An ancient symbol." "I believe you're in danger." "but I have to go now." "They formed the shape of a sickle." "An upside-down sickle." "wait." "Michael." " Don't hang up." "why don't you go find Sarah?" "this is Doug Blackwell." " Professor." " Hi." " I hope I'm not interrupting." " No." "Doug has a problem you might help with." " Could Doug explain on the way to class?" " Sure." "buddy." "You've got three bike paths and a quad to make your case." "I'll try." "I'm from a place called Haven." "A few miles past Fausse Pointe in the bayou?" "Sounds nice." "yeah." "Some of the fellas were out fishing on the river." "Water kind of went red on them." "Dark red." " Like blood." " That's what it looked like." "in fact." "And nobody knows what's causing it?" "They put me in charge of finding out." "grade three through 12." "Kind of makes me the town brainiac." "there's usually a religious angle." "that's why I'm here." "Some of the folks in town are worried that this is a sort of plague." "As in old Testament plague?" "the whole deal." "They think there might be more plagues on the way." "Heard a lot of Exodus the last couple of days." "I could give 100 reasons why your river's turned red." "Great." "All I need is one." "Call Tv stations." "They'll round up 10 scientists begging to solve your problem." "No." "Thank you." "Our town's the best secret in the Bible belt." "I'm not interested in becoming a punch line." " I'm sorry." "I wish that I could help..." " Professor." "They're blaming it on a little girl." "She found her brother dead on the river the day it turned red." "Have they considered the thing in the river?" "They think she killed him." "They think she turned the water into blood." "Miss Winter." "Morning." "Did you sleep last night?" "Yeah." "Where are we?" "Far enough that all I'm getting is this guy." "Jesus is the food on your table and the gas in your car." "He is the beer in your bottle and the bullets in your gun." " You gonna be all right with this?" " I grew up in a place like this." "Every bump in the night's a devil at the door." "and they'll come right around." "I meant because of the girl." "I'll be fine." "though." "Hi." "Yeah." "Still no service?" "All he wrote down was 17 miles to the turnoff." "over." "ain't that sweet?" "Copy." "we're deep in it now." "I think it's kind of cute." "Sort of." "Hi." "You must be the folks from the college." "I'm Isabelle." "They told me y'all would start showing up right on about now." "then." "Let's park this thing out of the sun." "I kind of have the catbird seat from over there inside the store." " Thanks for meeting us." " Don't thank me." "You are doing us a big old favor." "this town ain't seen nothing like this." "then the river." "we all swim in it." "Hank." "he's my eldest." "That's him over there with his daddy." "baby." "how you doing?" " Fine." "He just bought himself a Ski-Doo." "Hadn't even got it wet yet." " How y'all doing?" " Good." "Don't y'all just love that sound?" " What is that it's made of?" " Fulgurite." "It's what happens to sand when lightning strikes the ground." "You all must get a lot of lightning." "Most in three parishes." "We've been selling chimes all over." "Soon there'll be a piece of Haven everywhere." "we're even thinking website." "Janet." "How you holding up?" "pud." "little man." "Church is this way." "Come on." "See you." "We were only a week apart." "It's number two for the both of us." "Know what you're having?" "doesn't matter to me." " Morning." " Morning." "You got kids?" "I don't." "They must be upstairs." "They?" "and whoever else ain't doing their real job." "Boys sure do love to act important." "ma'am." " Can't have a field trip in a damn gym." " Then we'll postpone." "Gonna get real suspicious..." "They'll get suspicious if every kid comes down with a staph infection." "hi." " Mayor Brooks." " Hi." "These are the folks I was telling you about." "I'm hoping Katherine here can help us with our problem." "I understand you're not a Bible reader." "I've read it." "Just don't put much stock in it." "Yeah." "Some folks just don't wanna go to heaven." "Maybe it's time to look at your river." "It ain't getting any better." "When did the fish start?" "This morning." "Bubbled up like farts in a bathtub." "How far does it go?" "up to the channel." "And then down this way almost half a mile to the dam." " That could be your problem." " How do you mean?" "A dam gives pollutants a place to build up." "the more toxic they get." "Is it blood?" "I wish I could tell you." "Never seen that before." " Black's not even on the chart." " Bad phenolphthalein?" " I hope not." "It's the only we've got." " Get more samples." "We'll overnight to the lab." "I'll get the waders." "Can't take it in any further." "Too shallow." "Okay." "We'll walk." "You gonna be all right if I leave you alone?" "I'm loving life right now." "Katherine?" "Easy there." "You all right?" "I'm fine." "I just hit my head." "I saw a girl." " What?" "Blond?" " Yeah." "Kind of thin?" "It's not how I figured on you two meeting." "That's the girl everyone's worried about?" "Loren McConnell." "died." "They live out here?" "And that's pretty much how the rest of the town likes it." " What's everyone have against these people?" " A single mom letting her kids run wild?" " Doesn't exactly fit the town's self-image." " Where's the father?" "Brody's dad drove his truck off the causeway." "Loren's father was a traveling preacher." "Really?" "Covered wagon or a tent?" "I think it was a Pontiac." "He only stayed around long enough to leave her mom in a fix." "Folks been looking at her cross-eyed ever since." "I haven't been out this way in a while." " Nobody has." " What did this place used to be?" "A haven." "About a hundred years ago." "Until three hurricanes in three years pretty much wiped it off the map." "They buried all their dead in that mausoleum." " Then they started over on higher ground." " Thought you said no one came here." "Katherine?" " Yeah?" " Yeah..." " Where are you?" " I'm close." "Be right there." "I know I tend to jump to conclusions on these things..." " Don't say it." " Lf this town is thinking plagues they got one closer." " Don't you think it's early to go biblical?" "no." "They died because the pH level of the water was off the charts." "see if I can arrange it." "Is there any way I can overnight these samples?" "Sure." "We got a post office in town." "I'll point it out on the way to my place." "Your place?" "I hope you don't mind... but I got two extra rooms all ready to go." "we're not." "No accounting for taste." " So that's okay?" " It's fine." "You wanna ride with me?" "I can clean off the seat." "Sure." "if you need me to disappear so you can get acquainted I can find a Stuckey's..." " Get those samples in before it's too late." " Your hair looks nice." " Shut it." "What do you think?" "It's probably Pfiesteria." "it's a micro-organism which gets lethal under the right conditions." "Toxins bloom." "Fish die." "Your river turns red." "Right." "You meant the scenery." "that's good." "Very efficient." "I have a tendency to miss the forest for..." "Literally." "It's beautiful." "maybe." "I've been trying to restore it since my granddad gave it to me." "You must have been a good grandson." "he didn't have a lot of choice." "I come from a long line of only children." " I got it." " Thanks." "This is a pretty big job for just one guy." "it is." "Kind of." "I got it." "Katherine?" "I got a bed set up in here." " Thank you." " It's not much." "it's great." "Thanks." "And I got a couch in the other room." "I thought Ben could use it." "I hope he doesn't mind." "You folks really like these things." "These." "Damn." "What?" "My bracelet." "I must've lost it at the swamp." "Was it valuable?" "I guess." "really." "I'll live." "Maybe I'll look in the truck." "sure." " Yeah." "I hope you like fish." "where exactly did you get the fish?" "Grocery store." "Seafood section." "grill on." "shit." "I forgot the Tabasco." " I'll get it." "Ben needs a refill anyway." "Cupboard above the sink." "So I guess it's safe to say you're a church-going man." "every Sunday." "How's that fit with disproving miracles?" "it's easy to lose faith." "Look at Katherine." "If an ordained minister can turn her back on God... right?" "I think people need to believe in miracles." "Find any real ones yet?" "at 10 feet." "both arms." "Shattered my hip." "doing dumb stuff." "I was still hooked to the Iv when they rolled me into court." "I knew I was supposed to die." "I guess Katherine doesn't have the same tattoos." "but no." " Weren't you getting me a beer?" " Guess you didn't pray hard enough." "the first wave's done." "I hope everybody's hungry." "Amen to that because I'm starving." "Hey." "sure." "I'll ask." "We'll be right over." "That was Cade." "Jim Wakeman says his cattle are acting strange." "did he call the vet?" " Can't until tomorrow." "Is their place close to the river?" "About half a mile." " Might be worth a look." " Yeah." "I'll go get the stuff." "the maggots and the flies." "Where did they come from so fast?" "do you still think this is...?" "What do you call it?" "Pfiesteria." "It makes the most sense." "farm's just up here." "God." "What the fuck was that?" "Doug?" "Shit." "Shit." "Goddamn bull tore right through my holding pen." " Nearly gutted my boy before I got him clear." " When did the cows start getting sick?" "At milking this morning some didn't wanna give." "Now most of them can't even stand." "Seems like they're shriveling up." "hormones?" "Ain't nothing like that." "All my cattle's corn- and hay-fed." "What about pesticides?" "Could they have gotten into another field?" "I did a line walk." "Fences are all good." "there ain't any growing farms around here." "Cows drink up to 12 gallons of water a day." "If whatever's contaminating the river got into the water..." "My animals get their water from a well." "Same as we do." "We're gonna go in." "Katherine." "chapter and the verse." "And I mean actual verse." "dead livestock." " These cows aren't dead." "it looks pretty damn serious." "God sent the plagues as warnings to the Pharaoh to let his people go." "What is he supposed to be saying here?" "maybe it's not from him." "plague for plague." " Evil against good." " Who is responsible?" "Satan?" "I didn't say that." "but what I do know is that we are witnessing biblical events." "All right." " You wanna talk plagues?" " Yeah." " Let's talk plagues." " Okay." "a group of nervous Egyptians saw the Nile turn red." "God." "Come on." "But what they thought was blood was actually an algae bloom... which prior to that had been living off the eggs of frogs." "Those uneaten eggs turned into record numbers of baby frogs who subsequently fled to land and died." " Right." "Their little rotting frog bodies attracted lice and flies." "which killed 70 percent of Egypt's livestock." "a bacterial infection which in humans causes boils." "the Nile River valley was hit with a three-day sandstorm otherwise known as the plague of darkness." "heat can combine... but electrical storms which would have looked to the Egyptians like fire from the sky." "The wind would've blown the Ethiopian locust population off course and right into downtown Cairo." "locusts leave droppings... and you've got mycotoxins." "Dinnertime in Egypt meant the first-born got the biggest portion... so he died." "Ten plagues." "Ten scientific explanations." "Gotta wash up." "huh?" "Can't sleep." "I bet." "Are those your cows?" "The ones out there?" "Of course." "Who's that with them?" "Girl from before." "Before?" "When she made the cows lie down." "Did you see her?" "that's a really pretty picture." "Do you think maybe I could have it?" "Okay." "I'm drawing a fire truck now." "Thank you." "Cade?" "Doug..." "When that river turned to blood where Loren found him... didn't I?" " You did." "No one's done a damn thing." "Now this town's living in fear waiting for the next plague to come." "why am I looking at a man's livelihood lying dead on the ground not two miles from where the McConnells live?" "do I have to bring this family in myself?" "sheriff?" " I don't know." " What do you know?" "I got the call about 2." "The girl found Brody by the river and he wasn't moving." "Which is where and how he was when I got there." "And there wasn't a mark on him." "Somebody just snuck up and stole the life right out of him." "That doesn't mean Loren did it." "her mother or one of their degenerate friends." "There's something unnatural." "I want it stopped." "Hear me?" "Stopped before God ups and makes an example out of this whole town." "What do you mean by "unnatural"?" "It was Wake's wife what saw it." "Last Christmas Brynn and some of the other ladies brought cookies out to the McConnells." "Community outreach or something." "there was a bunch of motorcycles out front." "Then she heard some singing." "More like chanting." "Then she stuck her head in the window." "She saw something big butchered in the sink." "It wasn't dead yet." "You didn't think to tell me?" "It's a rumor." "The worst kind." "Brynn don't got the imagination for it not to be true." "Father?" "Are you all right?" "Sister." "I'm fine." "Come here." "There you go." "Katherine." "Doug?" "Hello?" "Doug?" "She seems like a good person." "Katherine." "The power is out." "I didn't mean to disturb you." "It's probably the breaker." "I'll flip it." "really." "Take your time." "At least let me buy you a drink." "What is it?" "It's local." "Some folks think it tastes like bourbon." "Have they ever had bourbon?" "Yeah." "Sam used to clean her paintbrushes with it." " How long were you married?" " Seven years." "Six of them cancer-free." "you know?" "She started feeling sick." "Went to the doctor thinking we were having a boy and came out..." "I'm sorry." "Still hear her in the kitchen sometimes." " That goes away after a while." " I'm not sure I want it to." "When did you...?" "Five years ago." "David and Sarah." "So how'd you pick the Sudan?" "a priest who ran a camp there." "He asked me to come." "not with Sarah being so young but I was the one with a calling." "I'd just been ordained and I knew what was best." " You were doing a good thing." " So I thought." "We showed up with our crate of Bibles and our clean T-shirts and our very good intentions." "And then it didn't rain a drop for a full year." "the people died." "And they blamed us." "My family was murdered as a sacrifice to God." "The first night I stopped praying was the first night I slept." "I have a lot of work tomorrow." "Loren." "Wait." "why don't you see if you can find Sarah?" "Haman." "Sacrificing that animal won't help your crop." " Hey." "I'm so lucky." " How come?" "God gave me you." "He's right behind you." "Katherine." "Katherine." "it's Ben." "Just breathe." "Just breathe." "I saw her." "Sarah?" "Yeah." "we're gone." "I'm fine." "I just..." "I just thought I was through with some of this stuff." "Katherine." "Come here." "It's all right." "I'm sorry... in the pasture." " No." "You know God protects his children even if they don't know it yet." "Get some sleep." "Caught me snooping." "Yeah." "Kind of hard to snoop in your own house." "What is that?" "That is a healthy bovine cell." "Strong walls." "Good color." "And then..." "Nope." "That's just it." "But this... that looks fine to me." "it is." "there's nothing wrong with those cows... or the fish." "Sheriff said pretty much the same thing about Brody McConnell." " There been an autopsy?" " Not yet." "maybe we shouldn't." " I'll get Katherine." " No." "She left this morning." " She went to the McConnells' house." " You let her go alone?" "I don't let her do anything." "I'm lucky I get the computer." "Mrs. McConnell?" "Loren?" "Hello?" "Anyone home?" "Hello?" "Loren." "You scared me." "from the woods?" "My name's Katherine." "Is your mother here?" "You found it." "It's okay." "Really." "It was my daughter's." "But you can have it." "Loren." "How old are you?" "Let's get you cleaned up." "It's okay." "Come on." "That's your body's way of telling you that... that you're becoming a woman." "it kind of freaked me out too." "Loren do you know what's wrong with the river?" "Loren!" "Loren?" "You here for my girl?" "Are you going to kill my baby girl?" "What?" "No." "Why not?" "I'm only trying to help her." "She don't need any help." "Don't you get that?" "What?" "Mrs. McConnell." "What happened to your son?" "How did he die?" "He didn't know any better." "I couldn't get there in time." "Brody was so fast..." " You see?" " I was just trying..." "Get out." "Just get out." "Wait." "Doug?" "now." "It's gonna be all right." "It'll grow back." "have we ever had a lice outbreak?" "Not as far as I can remember." "Don't you think it's getting kind of old to keep chalking everything up to coincidence?" "And you." "We were told we were gonna get some definite answers out of you by now." "Trying to work it out." "Trying to tie this to one source." "Let me save some time." "and she lives out in the swamp... she is." " That's right." "You tell them." " Messing this town up." " Let's go see the McConnell boy?" " Yeah." "Later." " What?" " It's okay." "Hey." "Where exactly is lice on the list?" "Five." "you copy?" " Hey." "Are you there?" " You find the girl?" "I found her." "And?" "Where are you?" "We're about to meet her brother." "you are gonna wanna see this." "You shouldn't have gone out there alone." "You all right?" "I don't know." "Listen." "I know logically and rationally you and I agree." " Okay." " But there's things going on now." "Things in there." "You just better prepare yourself." "This is Brody McConnell?" "Funeral home backs up Cade." "Three days ago he was in perfect condition." "and it's gonna stay that way." "we're already in the dry stages of decomp here." "You don't see this on a body until they're like one or two years in the grave." "What the hell is that?" " Call the FBI." "Shut them down." " No." "We're past the police here." "what about the plagues?" "They killed one child." "Do we wanna stand around while they kill another?" "we need to talk." " We sure do." " This just came." " I need..." "Just read it." "What is it?" "It's a lab result." "from the water samples we sent in." "It's human blood." "The whole damn river." "That's a two-mile stretch of river." "000 bodies' worth of blood." " Could these reports be wrong?" " No." "I need to make a call." "Hello?" "Cade?" " The McConnells'." "Where do you think?" " We need to evacuate." "Loren McConnell isn't going anywhere." "These people are in danger." " Only the mayor can authorize evacuation." " Where is he?" "I need to know what to do before this little girl is murdered." "The symbol you're seeing is part of a prophecy that predates Christ which tells of an ancient satanic sect." "Their first-born are branded and left unharmed to carry on the genetic line." "But all of the second-born thereafter are to be sacrificed." " Sacrificed to please Satan?" " It happens when the child reaches puberty." "Puberty?" "But that can't be right." "and if she is a part of this cult why hasn't she been sacrificed yet?" "it says here:" "they shall reap a perfect child..." "who upon coming into adulthood shall be reborn with the eyes of Satan." "So you're saying this girl is the one they've been trying to create?" "Yes." "A child in Satan's image." "But what does this have to do with plagues?" "Lucifer has often turned God's weapons against the righteous." "He's protecting the girl." "you couldn't be..." "I understand your compassion." "But this girl..." "You've already seen the evil she's capable of." "Katherine." "Everyone is." "This girl could be the beginning." "Haven could be the start of it all." "Hello?" "Brooks?" "And there shall be boils breaking forth upon man and upon beast." ""At the height of their power God shall send forth an angel to destroy them." "Perhaps this angel is you." "Michael." " You don't understand." "the ordained." "The cult will be powerless against you." "You could stop them." "nonsensical legend." "It's not a prophecy." "You're telling me to join a bloodthirsty crowd and lynch a 12-year-old girl." "What if God has chosen you and the girl is in fact a channel for the Fallen one?" "an innocent child dies." "many more will die." "The symbol is your proof." "protecting their places of worship marked on their sacrificial chambers." "and you'll believe it." "You'll know." "Katherine!" "Michael." "Michael?" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Gordon." "Is that right?" "Don't forget the shells." " I'm not going without." " Shouldn't be going at all." " Let me tell you..." " Just leave him out of this." " The car's gone and so is Katherine." " Shit." "You're gonna do this?" "You really think you can kill that girl?" "I'm gonna do what needs to be done." "all right?" "Loren?" "Where's your daughter?" " I didn't understand what would happen." " Tell me where she is." "She's gone over." "What?" "He controls her now." "Whatever he wants she does." "My part's done." "No." " I failed." " I failed too." "No." "I imagine there's something after." "Wait." "Katherine?" "Do you copy?" "Katherine." "Nothing." "Dad?" "boy." "Gordon." "Katherine!" "Katherine!" "Get inside!" "Get inside!" "Dad!" "Doug!" "Ben?" "Katherine." "Are you okay?" "Where are you?" "I'm in some sort of a crypt." "By the ruins?" "Where's Doug?" "He's still out there." "I'm so sorry." "I was so wrong." "forget about it." "Let's just get out of here before the final three plagues." "Ben?" "Katherine." "There are bodies of children hanging down here." "Wait a second." "They're all children." "They're all children." "Get out of there now." "Meet me at the truck." "And please be careful." "Katherine." "Ben." "She's outside." "I'm trapped." "Okay." "Okay." "I gotta find..." "I gotta find another way out." "Ben?" "Ben?" "no." "No." "Ben?" "It's me." "I didn't mean to scare you." "I saw her out there." "I had to hide in the swamp." "huh?" "You stay here." "She trusts me." "I have to end this." "Hi." "I used to have a little girl who looked just like you." "I wanna take you away from here." "Okay?" "Just be still." "I'm so lucky." "Why?" "silly..." "God gave me you." " God gave me you." "How do I know?" "How do we know what's real?" "Faith." "stop!" "Hold still." "go!" "Loren!" ""At the height of their power  God shall send forth an angel to destroy them. "" "hasn't she?" "She's perverting your faith through lies now." "you know?" "you kill her." "I'm a first-born." "And you know what plague comes next." "Their first-born are branded and left unharmed to carry on the genetic line." "I come from a long line of only children." " It's number two for both of us." " Know what you're having?" "doesn't matter to me." "Are you gonna kill my baby girl?" "No." "Why not?" "please kill her before it's too late." "You do it." "can you?" "Because you already tried and she survived." "that's not true." "You deceived me so I would murder her." "This innocent child." "Katherine." "Look what she's done already." "You're seeing with your own eyes." "You killed Ben so I would blame her." "She's outside." "Okay." "Okay." "I gotta find..." "I gotta find another way out of here." "Come on." "The whole of Haven used to pray to God on this spot." "You know how he answered their prayers?" "With floods and devastation." "so they abandoned God." "My family introduced them to the true Lord." "who hears his people's prayers." "You were ordained and you turned your back on God just like we did." "That's why we chose you." "Only a servant of God can kill his angel." "You remember what your God did to you in the Sudan?" "huh?" "Now that that is your God." "Katherine." "That's not God." "God didn't kill my family." "godless man filled with fear and hatred a man like you." "Doug." "The death of the first-born." "And you come from a long line of only children." "You all do." "No!" " Now you tell her to stop or you die too." " Loren." "Don't be scared." "It's God's will." "It's okay." "It's all right." "Don't be scared." "It's okay." "Everything's gonna be okay." "I promise." "It's just the two of us now." "okay?" "What about the boy?" "What boy?" "The boy inside you." "Your baby." "I can hear him." "We'll have to take care of him too." "they shall reap a perfect child... "" "Let me buy you a drink." "who upon coming into adulthood  shall be reborn with the eyes of Satan. ""