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Candace?

Candace, can you hear me? I will kill you, bitch.

I want to help you, Candace.

You do need to answer a few questions.

Fuck you!

I don't need an exorcism!

Oh, that's good.

Because I'm not an exorcist.

I'm a psychologist.

And I'm here to see if you... I'm here to see if you have any symptoms of

illness.

I don't understand. Why can't you just do it?

It's a process, Miss Braganza. We have to determine if there's something else

that could have caused this.

Caused this? What else could cause this? Candace, have you experimented with any

drugs? Fuck you!

I saw in your chart that you were diagnosed with ADHD when you were

Did you ever take any medication for that?

Candace, I'm going to help you, okay?

This is going to be over soon.

I need you to answer a few questions.

You were younger. Did you ever take any medication?

I'm going to help you.

What is that, VidTap?

Well, you know how TikTok replaced Instagram.

Okay, so VidTap replaced TikTok.

God, I feel old.

So this is Candace's VidTap stream.

She shot her own possession?

Yes.

Oh, my God.

It gets worse.

Is that real?

I think so. She has stitches in her mouth from the cuts, so... How long ago

that? Two weeks.

And is she like that now? A version of that.

Okay.

I'll contact Father Amara. We need to get going on this. I'm not sure about

that.

What do you mean?

Why is she recording all these?

What does it matter? Well, I just think it's weird.

Right? I mean, she's chewing glass, she's out of control, but she makes sure

that the camera can see the blood in her mouth.

Well, if you figure out what that means, I'll brief Amara on this.

You think it was faked?

No, I think the blood is real. I think the scriptures are real. I just don't

understand. She's got eight other videos of her possession, and each of them are

perfectly timed to the length of the app.

You think her mom's recording them?

Maybe. Well, that's pretty sick.

Kristen, there was one more thing.

The archdiocese did an...

Investigation of Mr.

Townsend visiting your daughter at school, Luxanne?

Lexus. You'll be pleased to know that we found no impropriety there.

Leland was purely at the school at the request of a teacher.

That's how he saw your daughter. It was by accident, that's all.

On four separate occasions? He was there at the request of a teacher, Miss...

Christine Rutherford. And four times he asked my daughter to lie about seeing

him. Well, actually, the Archdiocese found no evidence of that lie.

Except from my daughter. We talked to all the teachers at the school.

They swear that Leland has been perfectly professional in his approach

children. But in an abundance of caution, we've asked Leland to no longer

the school.

I'm sorry.

Okay, serious time.

We need to talk about Leland. Why?

The Archdiocese says he's innocent and he can do whatever he wants, so we're

going to have to rely on each other now, okay? What's that mean? We're going to

talk about emergency plans.

These are cards that I made up. They have all of our numbers, police numbers,

and emergency plans for what to do when he approaches you at home or at school.

I'm going to put these in your backpack with your school ID. Wow, Mom. We are

taking this seriously, okay?

All right, go get ready for bed. I'm going to be working in my room.

Wow.

Mom doesn't seem good. I know. We need to do something about Leland.

Well, we could kill him.

Poison him.

I'm actually on board with that. We could ask Grandma.

She would know what to do.

Guys, guys, guys.

What? He's still on Bumblebee Valley.

Hello, Linda.

It's your old friend, Polly the Pig.

What are you doing?

Hi, Polly. I don't know. I'm kind of sad.

Well, tell Polly why.

Maybe I can help.

Tell him it's about Mom.

No, no, tell him you're angry at Mom. No, you should say you took his advice,

but it didn't work. Oh, yeah.

I tried that prank on my mom, but she found the pills in her dinner.

Now I'm in trouble.

Did you crush the pills for it? It had to be a powder.

Then you can stir it in.

He's toast.

Lingua non continevo.

You guys seen the one with the bloody tears?

Just now.

It's official.

Everyone on the Internet is possessed.

How many are there?

Thousands. I barely scratched the surface.

It's addictive.

It's like eating potato chips.

Satan is my name!

These aren't real, right? I think the reality is that there's a mental health

epidemic, not a possession epidemic.

But Candace was eating glass. She had stitches.

What? I've heard that before in other possession videos.

What? That growl with the Latin.

Okay, this is a source function key. It will find every video that uses that

sound.

Okay, so she copied it.

Oh, a lot of people copied it. Well, let's see where they all copied it from.

There's the root of the train.

So, that's where I got the Latin phrase to summon the devil. No, that's

where you got the sound file to lip -sync to.

Come on.

Get them out of here.

I don't understand, Father. Are you saying none of this is real?

No. Candace really ate glass, but she's doing that because she's influenced by

this magician, the Great Heller.

He's a magician?

He was a magician. Now he's using the same tricks to become a social media

influencer. I'm going to leave some of these for you.

This is what the Great Heller uses.

Sugar glass.

He's a liar who's getting other people on VidTap to copy him. Miss Berganza,

your daughter is not possessed.

However, she is in need of some professional help.

And he's using his magic trick to make you guys think that he's possessed, but

he's not.

Okay? This is him levitating.

And this is how he does it in his magic show.

Oh, look at me. I'm possessed. Look, it only took me five minutes. And this is

how he eats glass.

Look at glass.

This? are fake blood capsules. You just bite down on them.

And there you go.

No fake.

Don't be an idiot.

Okay?

Just don't hurt yourself. Don't copy assholes like this magician who are just

using magic to make you think they're possessed so they can rack up likes.

Hey, mom.

Want to know the perfect way to pack your kid's lunch?

The key?

Here's another mom hack that changed my life.

Today, the perfect margarita. Let's face it. For moms like us, the best

margarita is a fast margarita. Yeah. So, I use a canned one.

Then, an airplane -sized tequila.

Then, Cointreau.

And I pour pop rocks on a plate.

Moisten the rim of your glass.

Where there's hatred, let me sow love.

It's hard to be a priest.

You're alone most of the time.

But if you're a black priest, it's doubly hard.

And the Lord God said...

It is not good that man should be alone.

I will make him a helper.

At Ben S., who made you the expert on possessions?

What gives you the right to determine if someone is really suffering from a

demonic possession?

Fuck you, Ben S.

Hey, Ben S., why don't you get a life?

And stop coming after teenage girls on the internet.

My son is possessed.

You don't believe me? You come over here and clean up the fucking vomit.

I don't know if all these other videos are fake, Venice.

But I have two kids.

And they are terrified of something coming into their room at night.

I thought they were just making it up.

So I put a camera in their room.

what to do.

Hi, everyone.

I love Bumblebee Valley.

It's my favorite game.

But there is one big problem.

Holly the pig is a pedophile.

Done. It's true.

It won't stop bothering me either.

We looked into it and found out Piggy 567 isn't a 13 -year -old girl. He's a

-year -old man.

Yuck.

When we found this out, we started recording every time he was

You think you're asking?

Can I be inside?

I'm lonely, Linda. Aren't you?

I'd rather be alone with you than with all your friends.

Remember, this is a 60 -year -old man.

Creepy, creepy.

What the fuck?

I agree.

We don't want pedophiles on here. We want real kids.

So listen up, Polly the Pig. Go away.

Does anyone know where his house is? I think we should burn it down.

I think it's over here.

Grab some firewood.

Oh, Lexus.

Lexus.

I went on VidTap to see if anyone was going for the same thing, and that's

I found your video on possessions.

Public service.

Anyway, I thought you could figure out what was going on in my house.

Did Ben tell you what we do, ma 'am?

You're with the Catholic Church.

You look into hauntings? Well, demonic infestations.

We might not be able to help you, but we probably could point you in the

direction of someone who could.

I just want them to take me seriously.

How are your kids doing, Marie?

You saw the video?

They can't sleep.

And I moved them from room to room, but then it happens there too.

So we moved out here.

But it's gotten worse.

What do you mean, worse?

I think it's inside them.

This was last night.

What are we looking at?

I heard Mikey screaming, so I got up and stopped it before Brian could start the

dryer. Sleepwalking?

Maybe.

This is from two nights ago.

Is it possible that your kids are playing a prank on you?

They wouldn't and I don't see how.

Marie, do you mind if we speak to your kids?

Why did you put your brother in the dryer, Brandon?

I was hiding him.

Hiding him from what?

The thing that comes into our room at night.

Okay.

And you sure you're not?

Doing it to scare your mom.

You don't believe us.

No, we're just trying to find out why this is happening.

Oh, buddy.

So the house is a concrete slab foundation.

And the way that the concrete is finished and cures makes a completely

slab impossible.

So you think the floor slanted?

That's why the bed moved?

Scientific method.

Well, he solved one thing anyway.

No. Why not?

Bed rolled that way.

Look, Marie, I... I can't tell you anything.

Without a fuller examination, but your kids are terrified of this house. That's

clear.

Do you have anywhere you could go?

I'm a single mom.

I inherited this house from my parents. I have nowhere.

Well, I can check with the church and see if there are any options.

The time codes on all these videos, it reads around 2 a .m.

Is that when all these things happen?

I think so.

Why? Do you have any enemies?

I don't think so. What do you mean?

Well, there's a chance that these things are pranks being pulled by someone who

wants to hurt you.

I mean, do you have any tenants?

No.

A schoolteacher a few months ago, but she moved out. Because she was scared?

Oh, I don't know. We didn't talk much.

Okay.

Well, we would like to come back later tonight if that's all right.

About 1 a .m.? Okay.

That's how we investigate infestations.

If that's all right.

Yes, yeah.

I think Brandon and Mikey will feel safer with other people here.

So what are we thinking?

I have no friggin' idea.

Who is this guy Ben to tell us what is true and what isn't? He doesn't control

facts.

Watch, Ben.

Cotton candy.

Oh, my God.

Fucking kidding me.

Okay, I don't control truth, but if your dryer is hot enough to melt sugar,

you'd be basically lighting your clothes on fire every time you dried them,

okay? Come on, people. Just use... Use your brains.

Yep, I'm drinking again.

I thought my daughter was a good girl.

And then I cleaned her room, and what do you think I found?

That's right.

My daughter is sleeping around.

So I read the best thing you can do for your kids is to give them rules. So I

put my house rules on a chalkboard.

Then I go to clean their rooms, and guess what I found on the back?

They replaced my rules with their rules.

I have thoughts of going on Tinder.

I watch online porn.

And all I think about is being with someone.

All I want to do is talk to someone. Talk to me.

No.

I told you it's over.

The sex was over.

Not the talking.

What's wrong with talking?

So transparent.

What do you mean?

I mean you're using my weakness against me.

There are things you'd love to talk to Kristen about, but you can't, right?

So talk to me.

I won't bite.

If there's something I want to talk to Kristen about, I'll talk to Kristen.

Well, then talk to her about the entity.

See?

You can't.

You promised not to tell anyone.

But here I am.

You're worried the entity is using you.

Right?

I'm not worried.

I know they're using me.

That's the whole point. Right, but what do you owe God?

And what do you owe these stupid little spies?

If it saves Grace Ling, then it's worth it. Oh, yeah.

The prophet.

But he hasn't mentioned...

Grace Ling in a long time, right? How long has it been? A month?

You say that you think I'm using your weakness against you.

I think Victor knew your weakness about Grace. That you missed her.

And he's using that.

Using that for what?

Like something about that Chinese man that died.

All those people in that room.

Why did they want you to leave the door open?

I don't care. But you do.

That's why you Googled it, right?

But you couldn't find anything about a man dying at Hotel Percival. That means

nothing. It means you can't trust the entity.

And I should trust you.

A demon.

David, I'm not just a demon.

I'm you.

You know what this is?

I never wanted you back until I started watching those VidTap videos.

They're leading me to temptation.

That's what this is.

David? David?

David!

Sister, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

Letting that thing attach itself to you? What are you talking about?

That demon?

Sister, I was just sleeping.

David, there was something attached to you. What are you doing?

I'm going out to assess.

That's what I'm doing. No, you let something into your life. Sister, I have

go. Please, don't come in my room unless I ask you.

I think I've been too nice here, trying to make friends.

And some people want to hurt me.

This is my home. Look!

I am 14 years old. I live in Sun Valley.

My mom is dead, and now I have nowhere to live.

People should stop me.

And we need to shut this guy down. What are we doing?

We're pissing him off. He's pissing us off. Can we please just watch this?

Hi, friends. We traced the IP address of Polly DePague to a place called St.

Joseph's Parish. We think it's a church. And Polly DePague is not a 14 -year

-old from Sun Valley.

He's a 60 -year -old named Leland Townsend.

What time is it?

A few more minutes.

Are you getting a lot of hit tap notifications?

All the time.

It's addictive, isn't it?

I sat down to watch one video and I was there for an hour.

It's the algorithm.

The only way they make money is if you stay on it.

Is it kind of weird how it tries to predict who you are?

Yeah, like it thinks I'm a mom who drinks a lot.

Maybe you are a mom who drinks a lot. Thanks.

Now I think I'm mean. You keep sending me these moms who scream at their

daughters. How does he even know I have daughters?

Good guesses.

It looks like your social media sees where you pause over and makes educated

guesses. I think it's more than that.

I started with thoughtful priests.

Now I'm with suicidal priests.

It's like the more I look at it, the more it thinks I'm into violence and

I'm getting moms who want to kill their kids now. Well, it's the American way.

When in doubt, go with violence and sex.

The master calls.

It's for Marie.

Oh, I got it, too.

It's live.

Oh, my God.

It scratched him! What scratched you? The monster!

Right there.

Why did you live stream this surveillance footage?

I didn't.

I don't even know how to do that.

It's evil.

What is?

VidTap.

Everything was fine until I started using it.

Now it's taken control of my account.

What do you mean?

It sent that live stream out.

I didn't.

Maybe your kids started the live stream?

Oh, my God.

Murray.

Oh, my God.

Oh, crap.

Oh, my God.

VidTap can't just start itself.

Are you sure?

In my science group, there's someone who works at VidTap. We can talk to her.

All right, I'll talk to the Monsignor and get the ball rolling towards an

infestation exorcism.

Whoa. Yeah.

Are they better?

They're going to go sleep in the living room again. I told her to take the kids'

phones and turn off the tap.

Good advice for us, too.

You know, Ben, fuck you. You're such an elitist. This is the way to kill COVID.

Oh, my God.

He was on a business trip, and every night the phone calls with him got

and weirder.

That's when you know he's cheating on you.

Is your husband away from home? Too much.

Andy? Andy, are you there?

The reception. Can you hear me, Andy?

Fuck.

Yeah, some.

Barely. Where are you? On the call?

We're at base camp.

Okay, good. I can hear you now.

How's the rich client?

He's not putting you in danger, is he?

No, we're fine.

I miss you all so much. I gotta go.

No, wait!

Jesus!

I want... say happy anniversary.

Did you hear what I said?

I said happy anniversary.

Do you remember the first one?

Why didn't you tell me it's their anniversary?

What? She said happy anniversary and I'm stuck there like an idiot. It's not

their anniversary. That's in November.

Is she on to us? No.

She said happy anniversary. Why would she say that if she's not trying to

us? It's probably like the first time they met or when they went climbing.

You're overreacting.

I don't like surprises.

Leland, no.

Don't do it. Leland.

Leland.

Don't wake him.

an answer from you.

You know you're gonna spend the rest of your life here.

But I can make your time here pleasant or hard.

I know you can't talk, but you can nod.

So my question is, is this your anniversary?

Oh, come on.

Just water.

I could leave this strip in here for 40 years.

The first year, you might be fine.

The third year, you'd wish you could scream.

Now, is this your wedding anniversary?

Was it your first date?

Good.

You sit tight.

We'll talk again soon.

Hello. Welcome to my work group.

Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Katie. Thanks for seeing us. Oh, this is my friends, David

and Kristen, the ones I was telling you about. Right. The priest and the shrink.

Come on back.

No one calls me that.

I think I already know the answer to this, Katie, but can the app...

Upload a video from your phone without your consent.

Can't happen, won't happen. The user has to go into the application and choose

what content they want to share.

Okay. Next question.

Can you view live video from a person's phone if they're not recording into the

app? No.

Also impossible.

Also won't happen.

Your turn.

Is the app evil?

Whoa. You're the priest, right?

I am.

I like religious people. They make my job interesting.

My mom is Jehovah Witness. She still thinks I'm doing the devil's work here.

Was the app designed with nefarious intentions?

Do you call bringing the world together nefarious? That depends.

Bringing it together for what?

That's up to the world, isn't it?

Someone gets murdered at a picnic spot, you don't blame the picnic spot.

Well, so the more videos I watch on the app, the darker they become. They become

more about...

jealousy, anger, hatred.

Well, that's just what you're choosing.

Oh, no, but I'm not. Look, you may not think you are, but if you hesitate over

video for just a split second longer, the algorithm picks up on that. Then it

sends you another video just like it. Let's say a video about...

Jealousy. If you do the same thing again, hesitate for just a second, even

you eventually click thumbs down, it knows that's what you secretly want.

What'll grab your attention isn't always what you want. Maybe, but our algorithm

has one goal in mind.

Keeping you engaged, not making you a better person.

That's your job, not mine. And we seem to be doing a hell of a lot better.

Hope that was helpful.

Um, no, not really.

Well, maybe this will be.

We're not the problem.

Your subject is Marie Taylor.

How did you know her name? I never told you her name.

Ben, VidTab knows everything about our users.

Stop wasting your time arguing with idiotic conspiracy theorists, by the

Marie edited her possession videos in the application.

So... So we have access to the heads and tails of the footage she shot before

she edited it.

Seriously?

And I can send it to you.

She didn't say what it was?

No. She's doing us a favor. She could get in big trouble for sending this.

Is she your girlfriend?

No.

Oh, no.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Are you okay? What happened?

You first.

I got you. Turn over.

Oh, my God.

Winston. Winston, are you okay? Let me see. Let me see. Why would you do this?

What do you think?

Cloud chasing?

Seriously?

That simply isn't true. I would never.

We have the outtakes of the videos you uploaded.

Those are my kids.

I've done everything to protect them. Marie, we can find you help.

Let us.

Possessed.

If what you say is true, then I must have been possessed.

Marie, don't.

You don't have to post everything you do on VidTap. What exactly are you going

to post? Us calling you out and attacking your own children?

I'm being great. Oh, my God.

What is this, Possession 101?

set me up. Leland, I need to thank you for your months of service.

Monsignor, this is a lie.

It doesn't matter.

You know better than anyone church cannot risk the liability in this

We will, as always, give you a positive recommendation no matter your

next ventures.

But I need to ask you to leave right now.

It's a rare day when I'm not sorry.

Whoa, what's your problem?

My problem is I think it's time to make four little girls four little orphans.

Cuticles are dry.

Don't worry.

I don't want to hurt Kristen.

In a month or two, Edward will call her, cheerful, and say that you were killed

in an avalanche. Your body will never be recovered.

You saved Edward and three other climbers before being swept away.

Your daughters will think you were a great man and will aspire to emulate

Edward is... So appreciative that not only did you give your family the

$800 ,000, but an additional $250 ,000 for the kids' education.

So you're more used to them gone than back home.

Okay. I'll keep you updated on how they're doing.

Oh, and I'll bring some oil next time for this cuticle.

Bye.