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As wax melts before the fire, so the wicked perish at the presence of

God. Behold the cross of the Lord.

Leave bands of enemies.

Saint Michael the archangel, prince of heavenly armies, defend us against the

spirits of wickedness. The lion of the tribe of Judah.

The offspring of David have conquered.

How am I doing?

Fine. It's only a first session.

The most difficult possession is diabolical subjugation.

You sold your soul willingly to Satan. That is not undone simply.

So we have to do this again?

And again.

How many times?

As long as it takes.

When is our next session?

In a month.

In the meantime, I'll assign you a spiritual counselor, someone who can

you and keep you from evil influences. Think of it as a sponsor in Alcoholics

Anonymous. Maybe that should be David, because he knows me so well.

I think that's a good idea.

And then I'll assign you a possession help group, people who are in the same

position as you.

Oh, that sounds great.

I'm finally seeing light at the... Thanks for coming to see us.

We'll just tell you the best we can.

This is our son, Wyatt.

He's our only child.

Was our only child.

He went out to the grocery store on September 14th at 4 .33, and he never

back. We contacted the police. You talk to the police. We call every week.

They've gotten sick of us.

They still insist that he's a runaway. So he's never contacted you again?

We don't think so.

You don't think so?

Well, someone contacted us the next day. Someone who sounded like our son. What

did he say?

He was screaming.

But there was too much interference. We couldn't understand what he said.

He said, save me.

We couldn't understand anymore.

And he never called us again.

So, Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer, we...

don't get involved in police cases.

We do... assessments

for... possible...

We do cases that have some

demonic or spiritual component.

Yes. Usually our colleague, David.

Would you come with me, please?

Of course.

This is Wyatt's room.

He loved writing in here.

Doing his homework.

He was a good student.

Um, we would really love to help, but we feel like this is more a matter for the

police. We called the church last week because we were cleaning up in here.

thought we had to move on. We can't keep this as a museum forever.

Oh, I'll get that.

So, I started cleaning up in here last week.

I found this.

That's why we called you. We took a picture, but the police weren't

Just so you know, our son was never into the occult.

Um, this is David, who we spoke to on the phone.

We think this might have something to do with the people who kidnapped him.

Maybe Satan worshippers.

Can I take a look at his computer?

We don't have his password.

We found some phrase carved into his desk, but it didn't work.

We tried capitalizing it all.

Weeding out all the dashes, but none of it made a difference.

Can

you

survive a plane crash?

Isn't everybody just dead?

I guess it depends how bad the crash is. Does it matter if you pray?

I don't think so.

What are you doing? I'm trying to figure out what El Game is.

El Game? Like Spanish?

I don't know.

Is this about your work or are there like ghosts or something?

8 -4 -2 -13 -1. What is this? I don't know. It could be someone's computer

password.

I can't find anything online.

Oh, it's the elevator game.

What? Oh, I bet you're right.

Those are the floors you have to take. I heard people die from them. Wait, what

is the elevator game?

It's a Japanese game.

Look.

How do you know all this?

It's part of our education.

No, we're growing up.

No, you're not!

Hi, welcome to the instructions to the elevator game.

If you're brave and you want to chance it, this is what you'll need.

A building with at least 13 floors and an elevator that is empty.

Get on the elevator. Is this your case, Mom? So what's the goal of this game?

To end up in hell.

What? Instead, push the button for the fourth floor.

When you arrive, again, don't get off.

But when the doors start to close, put your arm out and stop them from closing

all the way. I heard that's the most important part.

Don't get off.

Instead, push the button for the 13th floor and at the same time hold in the

emergency collar. No, that's the most important part. When you arrive at the

13th, you'll see a strange woman get on.

Don't look at her. Don't meet her eyes.

If you meet her eyes, you'll never be able to leave hell.

Now, with the other woman beside you, push the button for the first floor.

An alarm will sound and you will next find yourself in the nether region.

It will be dark.

And in the distance, you'll see a red cross.

Get out. Look around.

Don't stay longer than 12 minutes.

If you do, you will be haunted. In fact, if you do any part of this game wrong,

you will be haunted.

Okay, I'll just watch this play. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Many have asked, in what way am I haunted?

There are many disagreements about this, but most believe you will be haunted by

all the souls of whoever died in the building. Okay, no, we need to try this.

should try this, Mom.

And never, ever interrupt the game in the middle. If you are so unfortunate to

be haunted... Paint this somewhere in your room. The woman in white sounds

really good. There's a lot of honky people out there. I bet you've killed so

many people. We need to do this. Can we just do it, like, anywhere? This is

Mom's job. You know you want to try this. Come on. I know it. You know it.

all know it.

Okay, then. Yeah.

I'll meet you there in 20.

Great. Bye.

What are you guys doing? You look like the children of the corn here.

Ow. We're going.

No, you're not. This is work. That's why we're getting involved.

Elevator game!

Lynn, you watch the girls. I'll pay you to babysit. Oh, I wish I felt up to it.

Mom, I'm just afraid I'm too young.

Alexis, you've got your math tutor in ten minutes.

But we don't, Mom. We can still go.

That's not fair, Mom!

Hey, we're just smarter than you! Okay, cool. Stop it.

I promise I'll take you next time, okay? Let's go!

See you! We're gonna be out!

Bye!

So this is the moment he disappears?

Yep. There he is.

He gets on the elevator, see?

And you showed this to the police?

Yep. Look.

That's his floor.

You guys seen this?

It's crazy. No, no, no. We talked.

We talked. That's okay.

Here.

It never opens.

And I have video of all the other floors, and they never open either. And

this is ten minutes later.

He's gone.

He's in another region. I know. That's why I said, whoa. He was talking to me,

not to me. Okay, shh. What did the police say about this? I can. We don't

surveillance camera on the top roof floor. They think he got off there and

took the stairs down.

Why? Because they can't explain it. He's in another region waiting for us to

save him.

What's this?

Your rosary.

How sweet.

Just for me?

Everybody in spiritual counseling receives one.

Open it. Maybe later.

No. Now.

Were you expecting me to catch on fire or something?

I have no expectations.

Jesus looks unhappy.

Put it around your neck.

No, no, no!

How do I look?

I need you to pray the rosary in the morning and at night.

Here.

These are the joyful mysteries.

Okay.

I have a question about the church for you, my spiritual counselor.

Why is the church so bad to its African -American members?

Last I looked this morning, there are only 250 black priests in the United

States.

That means you're rather an oddity. How does that make you feel?

Exceptional. Have you ever heard of Father William Aitchison?

I have.

Good. I was just reading about him this morning. A priest in Arlington arrested

for burning crosses in the yards of blacks and Jews for the Ku Klux Klan.

In 1974.

Yeah, but just four years ago.

60 % of white Catholics voted for Trump. Only 26 % of Hispanic Catholics did.

It's about abortion.

Maybe.

Next time you're in one of your seminary classes, look at all the white students

around you. That's a lot of white.

My guess is they see you as a diversity hire.

Look at this job that you're doing, assessing.

There must be a dozen other priests that want to be assessors, but the church

only wanted a black one.

It looks good.

Okay.

Our time is up for today.

The thing I don't understand is how do you deal with the racism here?

I'll see you again in three days.

And leave that on.

I can watch you if you want.

Everybody in? I'm pushing the button.

Only Ben pushes the button.

Yes,

the all -powerful. Okay, here we go. What's first?

Eighth floor.

Eighth floor.

All right.

And this puts us in hell. If no one gets on before we finish. Okay.

Okay, so we don't get off. We push the fourth floor. Okay. All right. Here we

go. All right.

Do you feel like an idiot?

I've never felt like an idiot on this job.

Okay, we don't get off, but when the doors start to close, we put our arms

and stop it. Okay.

I'm so sorry. All right.

Thank you. Now where?

The second floor. Second floor. Here we come.

Hell, here we come!

Okay, now the 13th. And we push the call button at the same time. Oh, there's no

13th.

Seems like the building is superstitious. So what do we do now,

Well, I mean, the 14th floor is technically the 13th, right? So we can

press the 14th and the call button. Sounds good.

Okay.

Oh, my God, that's loud.

Is everything all right?

Yeah, sorry. We just pushed the button accidentally.

I got somebody waiting to use the elevator down here.

I'm so sorry. We'll be right down. Are we going to be haunted now?

Well, we weren't the problem. There was no 13th floor. Guys, we never did this,

all right? All right. What happens in the elevator?

Save in the elevator.

It was the 12th floor, not the 12th. Yeah, maybe, maybe it was the 12th

Don't do that.

It worked.

What worked?

The elevator game. That's what you're doing, right?

Don't. It's not safe.

They were in love.

Wyatt and Felicia.

She was my best friend.

Mom, mom, mom, mom, stop, stop. Do you know what happened to her?

Man, shh.

Do you know what happened to her? Are you guys investigators or something?

We are looking into Wyatt's

disappearance.

He played the game.

So it's true.

He and Felicia were into it.

She was in love with him, and then Wyatt was just gone.

He was playing the game, but he never came back.

That's why Felicia wanted to ride the elevator here, to do the same thing.

So, she disappeared too?

Well, the police think they ran off together, but she didn't want to end up

her boyfriend, so she was on the phone with me the whole time, in case

went wrong.

Do you want to hear it? Yes, absolutely.

Okay, I'm hitting the first button.

That's Felicia. I waited in the lobby while she went up.

13th floor.

a friend I can ask. I'll see you later.

Okay, bye.

Hey,

Vanessa.

Can we talk?

God is bigger than your troubles.

He is bigger than the world's troubles.

He is bigger.

than this.

Okay. Effective use of gestures.

David?

It's widely acknowledged that America's original sin is race, is

slavery.

America's tremendous wealth... David, I thought your homily was on God's love.

It is. I'm just starting from a position of race.

Ah, I like your trying to address today's problems today. The only worry

controversy for controversy's sake is perceived.

This is not controversy for controversy's sake. Well, you might want

with the opening.

Race is one of those words that can shut people's minds to your real message.

But race is my real message.

I'll reserve judgment.

Please.

What? They will never let you deliver that.

They'll whittle away at it until you're saying, God is love.

David, third year. Kevin.

Fourth year.

You're the one who's never in class.

Yeah, they have me doing some assessing.

You're being groomed.

For? Being a figurehead.

The great black hope of the Catholic Church.

I'm getting some people together tonight.

Some renegade Catholics.

Why don't you come?

Sure.

Okay, I'm here. What do you want?

A minute.

Ben, you don't call me for a month. Then out of the blue... And I want to

apologize. Okay.

You're forgiven.

Take care.

The elevator game.

The Anselina Apartments, Upper West Side.

One kid disappeared a year ago.

His girlfriend, one month after that.

How do you know it was the elevator game? The best friend of the girl

on an iPhone.

This is just about the case and not about us.

I know.

What kind of recording?

Audio.

Did they get to the nether region?

Not sure.

You want to hear it?

Are you coming?

Behold the Anselina. In 1907, one of the premier buildings on the Upper West

Side and one of the most haunted.

323 people died here during the 1918 Spanish flu, and they were stored in the

cool of the sub -basement until they could be collected.

They still haunt it.

Isn't there a story about the elevator? Thank you for asking. In 1963, a 14

-year -old girl was taking her dog for a walk.

She got on the elevator, but her dog ran out the closing doors.

She tried to stop the elevator from going down, but she got stuck in the

She struggled to get out, but at that moment, the elevator dropped.

That's right. Cut her in half.

She lived for ten minutes, and the legend is she kept calling for her dog.

Tiffany!

Tiffany!

And ever since then, residents of the building hear her crawling down the

pulling herself along, and they called her the Tecca Tecca Girl because that's

the sound she makes at night.

Tick!

Tick!

Tick! As she uses her nails.

to drag herself along the halls.

We can take pictures now.

And that is why they call her the tuk -a -tuk -a -girl.

It's a sound that her fingernails make as she crawls along the hall.

Wow.

I don't know what to say.

Some story.

So Vanessa thinks we need to finish the game or we'll be haunted.

By who?

By the tucker -tucker girl.

But how do we finish the game if there's no 13th floor?

Mom! Fuck!

Oh, Jesus Christ.

Sorry. No, no, no. I was almost done with this. Just heading out.

Actually, would you mind staying for another hour? So I need to go do

Sure.

Great.

Sweetheart. Yeah.

I want to keep doing this, watching the kids. I only worry about driving home

late at night. Oh, my gosh. You go. I'll stay home. No, no. That's not what I

meant. I...

I was wondering if I could put a bed out in your office for next time. That way

I could be close by if you need me.

It doesn't have to be permanent, just, you know, when it gets late like this.

Yeah, I'll think about it.

Okay, okay, thank you. I just really want to be close to my granddaughters.

something that my therapist suggested.

It's Kristen. Sorry, this is an emergency.

Your prescription?

It's supposed to stop hallucinations?

Yeah, it's not. It's causing more.

Brother David.

You came.

Okay.

Time to thrust you into the middle of an argument.

You ready?

Sounds like the perfect end of my day.

You're a fig leaf for the...

Oh, my God. Here we go. What would you call them? These PWIs like the Catholic

Church. They laugh at you thinking you can change them. And whenever someone

calls them out on being racist, they point to the both of you saying, oh,

we've got black priests. What do you do, Logan?

Every time I see you on to another cause, another savior, you don't like

something, you just quit. What's wrong with that? You don't take any

responsibility. You're all for Bernie Sanders, then he's a seller.

BLM is virtue signaling, so you just go on to the next.

Just join and quit, brother. No, no, no. I don't owe my allegiance to anyone who

doesn't deserve it.

I'm not a pawn. I'm not someone who allows myself to be represented by

I don't believe in. But I believe in it.

The Catholic Church and God, Jesus Christ, his son, Peter the

Rock, the Nicene Creed, the whole nine yards.

My God.

What a step up.

Uncle Tom becomes Father Tom.

You all right, man?

I better go.

Yeah.

Nice seeing everyone.

Hey.

I'm on your side.

I just have a question.

I'm not in the mood to talk, man. I believe in God.

I believe in Christ.

I'm a minister in the Gospel Church here in Queens.

The Gospel of Four Square, 117.

Come there and you'll be home.

What the Catholic Church doesn't do, we do.

There is no 13th floor.

So how do we continue the game if there's no 13th floor? Have you tried

the elevator between the floors? Yes, I have.

You did? Yeah.

What happened?

Nothing.

Maybe they renumbered the floor so no one would play.

Good luck.

So what are you thinking?

I don't know.

David, I'm worried about your homily.

Just... Try to couch the racial language more carefully.

Race incites. It loses its teeth if I couch it, Father. This is a homily

giving to a real parish and a real man. I know. That's why I'm using it as a

real test.

A real test of God's message of peace.

You have a high regard for yourself and your worth to the church.

What would he do?

Number 13. Say it again. I couldn't hear you.

Hello? I said press 2 and then the call button.

She pushes the second floor and the call button.

Press 2 and the call button. Number 1. Number 13.

It's not the floor 2. It is 2 but.

Hello?

Hey!

No! No!

So, they didn't whittle down your homily?

Nope. They tried.

Good for you. So the church isn't as racist as it could be.

It looks that way.

No, you know why they didn't whittle it down?

They didn't need to.

That's your math.

On this sixth week of ordinary time, I've asked one of our most passionate

seminarians to offer the homily.

He's only two months away from ordination, so please offer him your

David.

It's widely acknowledged that America's original sin is race,

is slavery.

America's tremendous wealth was built on the labor of people that were kidnapped

from their homeland and sold into bondage. Thank you so much. Bless you.

Oh,

wait. Is it all right to hug you?

That was really good.

Throwing some sharp elbows there, Father David. I liked it.

Well, I had to keep the throng awake, and all 20 of them really perked up.

Leland, I just had to show my support for my spiritual counselor.

Oh, that's Ben. He's been trying to call me. Hello?

Ben?

Hello?

Ben!

What?

That's weird. That's the fifth time he's tried to call. He called me three

times, too.

You're supposed to meet me here.

What do you think is going on?

When is the last time you saw him?

Last night, discussing the elevator game.

How long did it take you two?

Wyatt died first, right?

He was probably down here a month before Felicia came through that door.

So had he finally been saved when the elevator arrived, he yelled for her to

keep the door open, but she wasn't thinking fast enough. And why would she?

Because elevators come when you call them!

She held him for another month as she starved.

She probably even fought off the bugs.

And here I am without anyone to hold.

And the swarm of bugs will get me too.

Oh, my God, what a nightmare.

How do you know that?

Because your grandma always told you that as a child.

In Garshana, remember?

Remember what it means?

The dead are tortured in their graves to the point that animals can hear them.

It is a hadith.

What a horrible thing to tell a child.

She wanted me to stay observant.

And how did that work out?

Come on, Ben.

Get comfortable.

Lie down next to me peacefully and use your last 10 % to write your will.

And the call button.

Exactly like it'd been to come back here and try and figure it out.

So if it's not the second floor, what is it?

Karima, I love you.

And you know what's great?

It makes people feel bad when you're dead.

They worry they didn't treat you well enough when you were alive.

So good job.

Tell them how you accepted Christ at the end. That'll fuck with his head.

Oh, Kristen.

I'm going to miss you most of all.

That's good.

Maybe you can give them something to remember you by.

Your corpse covered with bugs.

I'll take your picture when you're dead.

Oh, my God.

This is the height of hypocrisy. Seriously?

You know, are you helpful?

Me? Yeah.

I know what I'm fighting against.

Bismillah.

You found me.

You're

okay

now, buddy.

You're okay, man.

Thank you.