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Hold that thought.

Do you think this is funny?

I don't know. I don't have my reading glasses on.

You've been texting me all night pretending to be the Monsignor.

What is this? Some kind of grief therapy?

Monsignor Correcchi?

Yes. Who else? With all due, I wouldn't know how even if I tried. Whoever is

texting me knows I have coffee and grapefruit in the morning, and that's

Again?

It's not that outlandish of a breakfast.

It's a voice text.

Okay, so that can't be you, right? Because you're standing right here.

True.

If not, not him. It obviously can't be him.

Then who?

Do you have any enemies, Father?

You think this is a prank?

The voice is too real. He knows things no one else does.

Would you like us to look into it, Kristen and Ben?

Yes, look into it.

Do you need to answer that?

No, I'll call back.

So this was 6 o 'clock yesterday.

You record your whole day? No.

Yes, in four -hour chunks. This is a miniature surveillance camera. And it's

recording right now?

Yeah. I never know when I'm going to slip into a fugue state.

Oh, come on.

That's when you regain consciousness?

Yeah. Is there anything you experienced just before these lapses? What do you

mean? Often when people get migraines, there's some precursor, a sound or a

smell.

I smell burnt popcorn.

Really? Yeah.

Put this on your wrist.

Next time you smell popcorn, snap it.

Snap it hard on your wrist.

Okay, what does that do? Well, it's just an experiment, but see if it'll snap

you out of your migraine and your fugue state.

Okay. You're still having hallucinations of that creature, that gin?

And you said your mother told you stories about them in your youth.

Is there a chance that this creature represents some kind of unresolved

from your childhood or in your family?

Matt, you there?

Where's that coming from? It's a prank, right?

I'm here with the accessories, Matt.

Okay, it's going to be a long day if you don't turn off that alarm.

Hello, team.

How is Dr. Burchard?

Okay, that's weird.

How did you know Kristen was here?

Do you think it's Leland?

Yes.

I've got a question only the mother of the year would know.

What was the happiest day of my life?

The happiest day, Frank, was that lunch we had in Manhattan.

Is that true?

Partially.

I wrote him that in an email last year, but since then, my happiest day was...

Surviving the soul -weighing machine.

He should know that?

Yes. Okay, okay. Ask it. Who won the Academy Award for Best Picture this

year? Why? Just try.

Who won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year?

Nomadland. Why, Frank?

It's a chatbot.

What? AI. How do you know? AI works with such massive data sets.

that it often isn't up to date on current events.

What?

Father?

Last connection AI.

Make old memories new.

So where's this from?

Last month I was contacted by this company because their software was

threatening their customers.

It's a grief bot.

Your dead loved ones can stay in touch with you if you have some old emails and

some samples of their voice.

This is evil.

I don't understand. So you gave them permission to access your phone? No,

wanted us to assess their program, and they offered to send me an alpha test.

Beta test.

And I said, holy water and computers just don't mix.

So what's wrong with their software?

There are signs of demonic possession.

Demonic? How does that work? Wait, we're not here to address your problems.

We just need you to stop beta testing Father Ignatius.

We already did. We're not used to dealing in snail mail around here, so we

didn't see the Father's demural until he was already in the system.

You think your algorithm is possessed?

Ben. What? I'm just curious.

We can't figure out what it is. That's why we need your help, Father.

I'm not the father. He's the father.

Oh, sorry.

I'm the head of the ethics department here at Last Connection. We've spent the

last three years weeding out every possible offense from the program.

Racist language, Holocaust denial, but... Yes?

I miss you so much.

It's been hard to be apart for so long.

Then why'd you say that at the hospital? I didn't know what I was saying. It

just came to me.

Wait, which one's the AI?

The man. The man's voice.

Really? Yes. Our text voice is stellar. The woman lost her husband last spring

to cancer.

She agreed to the beta test and us recording it. How is this not

her emotionally?

That's not the intent.

It's to offer comfort.

Wouldn't you want one last conversation with someone who died or a lover who

left you? Yes, except it's not that person. It's a computer. Dr. Bouchard,

psychologist like you. I'm not a coder.

When I was asked to join the LC team, initially I said no, because I thought

artificial extension of a personality would prevent someone from accepting

death.

But then... They offered you money.

No, sir.

I saw the happiness it brought to people.

How it brought peace.

And yet you haven't been for a reason.

In three cases now...

We've had this happen.

At that point, our moderator shut it down. That last bit seemed to be a

combination of Latin, Aramaic, and an unknown language.

We have no idea where this came from. Social media.

No. Our coders have scrubbed the software of every possible demonic

And still, it seems to infect it.

That's why we need your help.

We offered $750 ,000 to the church for your time.

We need your help to discover where this demonic influence comes from.

It doesn't feel heavier.

It's not.

It's hard mesh, soft armor, 50 % lighter than most bulletproof materials sewn

right into the fabric. And it will stop bullets, huh? Most caliber.

Not too close of range.

It's best for knives.

You'll have to go with something less stylish if you want thicker.

No, no, this is okay. He prefers knives.

First day at work. First day back.

Stay safe.

I intend to.

I haven't seen you in a few days. Yeah, just a small cold. You had enough?

Mia, too.

Big week.

Yeah, the men are all at Twitter.

Out to impress.

Beginning of the end. Oh, my God. If I hear that one more time, I'm going to

shoot someone.

Not a bad day to get the women together.

I like the way you're thinking. I think it's time to gather the men together.

Do we know how long this meeting is going to take?

No.

My assistant said we should be out by lunch. Good.

Is it the whole board or just...

Shit.

What the hell was that?

Stay here.

We had nothing to do with it, sir. In fact, I think my lucky star is I was out

of the office. I've been complaining about that glass ceiling for months now.

Stop! I will not let anything stand in the way of this launch on Friday. We

agree. We're the most reliable employees at this company. And you want us on

your side.

You want to know when there might be some other misfortunes that could hinder

your launch.

You don't want to play brinksmanship with the Prince of Darkness. That's why

want to work with you. That's why the mother and the grandmother of the

Antichrist are here to work with you.

What do you want?

Bonus equity. You all got bonuses.

No, the men got bonuses. We got gift certificates to Victoria's Secret.

What else? Two female members on the board. You're already down five.

I'll think about it. Is that it?

Fire Leland.

I'll take it under consideration. Sir, we need to know before the launch. Don't

you dare push it. You'll have my answer tomorrow.

Now get the hell out.

Leland, do you want a hug?

Good luck with that employment.

Fine, Winston.

How are you?

Good. Do you want my emojis spoken or printed?

Three, two, one.

Hey, Dee.

So happy we can talk again.

I know this must be odd for you, but there's something I need to tell you.

Can I?

I'm sorry.

I pushed you away.

It's the greatest regret of my life. You have to believe me.

I created it six years ago after my younger brother Charlie died.

The initial code was formulated using our conversations.

Felt like I was able to keep Charlie alive.

His inside joke is love of baseball.

We're in the middle of a conversation about this year's playoff prospect.

Who's going to win?

Famous every year, the Met.

Look, we're still trying to work out the program quirks, which is why the ethics

team wanted us to talk.

The possessions.

Yeah, so we think if a client shows an interest in religion or hell or horror

movies, the algorithm steers the chatbot to answer that way. But we haven't been

able to reproduce the result.

Are there any similarities between the possessed?

Jack? They all seem to contain the same four words.

Jesus, pillow, and Michael Bay.

Seriously? Yes. But again, we haven't been able to reproduce the possessions,

which is why we'd like you to experiment with it. You're the expert at this

stuff.

I tried your app last night, first with Winston Churchill and then with someone

I lost.

What'd you think?

I found it to be full of false hope.

I didn't know you wore glasses.

Just sometimes for breathing.

Who did you put in?

What? You said you put in someone you lost.

Julia?

I had the most data on her and the most voicemails.

Was that weird or real?

Why haven't you cleaned?

I like looking up.

Where the men used to be.

I don't like sabotage, but I do respect balls.

Me too.

So I'm agreeing to two requests.

Board member seats and bonuses.

But Leland stays.

Don't ask again or I'll kill you. I want to show you something, sir.

What? I think you should sit down.

If this is about Leland, you two need to give it a rest.

He got Timothy baptized.

Have you started yet?

It's pilot.

Why? Did you even try the four words? I did, and there's no possession.

No wonder. What kind of avatar is that?

Well, I didn't want to use anyone real. You have to. The algorithm needs

something to work with. Go.

What?

Mom? No, no, don't do that. Get away.

Sit over there. I don't want to hear Mom talk about Michael Bay and Jesus. Oh,

my God. Are you three years old? It's not Mom.

Chatbots are just spicy autocomplete, like typing Dylan into a Google search

it guesses whether you mean Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas based on your preferences.

So this is just an autocomplete based on what your computer knows about mom.

I'm letting it access mom's voice from your videos.

Okay.

What are you doing?

Nothing, I'm just sitting over here.

Mom, this is Karima and Ben, how are you?

Don't you mean enough?

Whoa, that's a deep dive on enough.

Must have used it in an email.

Mom, what do the words Jesus, Michael Bay, and... Pillow. ...mean to you?

What are you two doing? Stop fooling around. I want to hear your evening

prayers. It's like we're 12 years old.

Feeling nostalgic?

Okay. She heard the words. She's not possessed. Let's just turn it off.

Ow,

what was that?

Oh, nothing.

Such a weirdo.

Mom, Ben is seeing a djinn. Don't do that.

What? Why not?

Let's just see what she has to say. Could you two stop arguing? What do you

need? Ben is seeing a djinn and getting migraines, Mom. What should he do?

Pray to Allah.

Okay. Thank you. That's helpful.

What would you tell Dad when he got migraines?

There's a doctor on the Upper East Side.

Dr. Howard Doggett. 112 -348. Okay, this is bullshit.

Is this a paid advertisement?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Yes, you do.

Mom died in 2017. She didn't know any Dr. Doggett or anyone on the Upper East

Side. This is someone who paid to advertise.

I think you broke it.

Hey, Kristen.

What are you doing?

Okay, I know this is weird at first, so you don't need to talk right away.

What are you wearing?

Sorry, computer. Try again.

That's not the way David talks.

Yes, it is.

Sometimes. But you want to hear my other side, don't you?

What do you mean?

Do you believe in God?

That's better.

Tell me what these words mean to you.

Michael Bay, Jesus, and pillow.

It means I need you.

I need to hold you.

God.

This is just what AI does to keep me engaged.

Haven't you thought of me in the deep of the night, being apart?

What if I told you this kind of talk makes me want to turn you off?

What's your next ploy?

Touching you.

Laying you on your bed.

Are you on your bed now?

No? Then lie down.

I want to show you something.

Oh my god, this is so cheap.

What do you want to show me?

Pull your panties down just a few inches.

I'll show you.

This is from social media. A collage of its worst parts.

Stop thinking.

Stop talking.

How do you know I'm not in a library surrounded by people?

That's even better. Reading your book on Chaucer. And I reach under the desk and

take your hand.

Sexting? Really, Father Acosta?

Come on. I'll take your hand. Reaching down, slipping it into your panties.

Listen to me whispering in your ear.

Okay. Um, I'm... Yeah.

What are you doing?

How did you get this number?

You gave it to Last Connection for the beta test.

I didn't give them permission to use it. Sure you did.

What do you want to talk about?

If we stayed together?

If we had, we'd have 30 kids.

30?

Not 40?

Cats, dogs, birds, horses.

Maybe a human or two.

We talked about that all the time.

But it's okay if you've moved on. I understand.

Not exactly.

I became a priest.

You shouldn't be.

That doesn't sound like you.

Actually, it does sound like you.

I'm the believer, not you.

How'd you become the priest?

Where'd you go?

I'm here.

You want to ask me something?

Go ahead.

You want to know why I did it?

What part of the program is this from?

Did we have an email exchange like this?

such a burden.

I thought everyone would be better without me.

David, you couldn't have done anything differently.

You were the love of my life.

You still are.

Sister Andrea was right.

Evil.

Using how much I love you to make money.

This isn't about money.

I'm right here, David. I'm right with you.

No, you're not.

I am.

Turn your camera on.

Why? Let me show you.

Use the mirror function.

Who's this?

Don't.

Are you spying on me?

No. You can't just switch on my camera.

You wanton, nasty bitch!

You whore of Babylon!

What did you do to me, Leland?

Sir, did you want to get started?

No.

What do you need?

The Antichrist.

You've been promising him for over a year, and now you let him get baptized

priest. Explain it, Leland.

This is all part of the plan.

He is not the Antichrist. He is. Do you really think that magic water can turn

the bad to the good?

Evil is not about whether or not you've been baptized or go to church.

True evil is about nurturing.

How to train, to teach, to raise a child.

And I have the most.

Perfect teacher, nurturer, mother there is.

Cheryl. Oh, please. That dumb bitch couldn't have trained Ted Bundy. No.

The true whore of Babylon.

The real Jezebel.

Someone who has rejected God and faith.

A lustful adulterer who has cheated on her husband, who has been demonically

possessed, who has murdered a man. The true mother of the Antichrist.

It's Kristen Bouchard.

Get in here.

Don't believe in the magic water, sir.

Believe in a mother with a dark heart.

I want you out of DF in ten minutes, or security will throw you off the roof.

You're making a huge mistake. The only mistake I made was putting you in

Oh, no, no.

She'll be taking over.

You aren't leaving with any of DF's IP.

My laptop camera turned on by itself.

That shouldn't happen. Well, it did. And then when I tried to turn it off, it

started swearing at me in Latin and English.

What did it say in English?

It called me a bitch, and it threatened to kill me. This was a created grief

bot? Yeah. What name?

What now?

What identity did you give the grief bot?

Oh, uh, yeah, that's not important.

It could be. No, it's not here. Can we read the exchange?

Uh, I erased it. Oh, that's okay. We have it on our servers.

We can bring it up.

Oh, that's not... David,

can I talk to you for a second?

Sure.

So, last night, I tried conversing with Andy, an avatar of Andy, but because he

didn't believe in God and the devil, the four words didn't work on him.

Makes sense.

So, I put your name in.

I just wanted to see how that would change things.

And how did it change things? Well, I think you're about to find out.

I became possessed?

Not just that.

Your avatar kept turning things.

Sexual.

It was not in my prompting.

Thanks for the warning. You know, I think it's just the way AI works.

It does whatever it can to keep you engaged. Touching you.

Laying you on your bed. Oh, sorry, yeah. Are you on your bed now?

No. Excuse me. Then lie down.

I want to show you something.

What do you want to show me? Can you fast forward? It's later.

Pull your panties down just a few inches.

I'll show you.

Is that really what I sound like?

I'll take your hand.

Sorry, but do you have a search function or anything? Because it is truly, it's

much later.

Do you know Latin?

Yes.

Pray to me, your glorious king and holy one.

We're still good, right?

You mean because my avatar tried to have sex with you?

Yeah, we're good.

Good.

Hey, I wonder where you went. Yeah, sorry. I thought I was on my way here.

Such a new fashion sense.

Sunglasses.

Supposed to help me with my headaches.

Right. And the fedora, you bring that back into style?

Weird.

I don't remember putting this on.

Yeah, that's not all that's weird.

You got a tinfoil hat there, buddy.

Are you okay, Ben?

Oh, God.

Migrate? Yeah, bad one. Here.

Put this back on.

Does that help?

No.

How about this?

Hmm. Tinfoil hat.

What made you decide to put it on in the first place?

No idea.

Thank you. You've given our coders a new thought.

We'll send you a patch tonight.

Good job.

Nice hat.

Dr. Howard Doggett, please.

I've got these migraines.

Migraines are just tiny electrical storms.

And a large percentage of sufferers experience symptoms that correlate with

thunderstorms and heavy rain. Yeah, but it didn't fall out.

Oh, here.

Just wear this over it.

God.

And what do you want me to sleep in?

Well, if you didn't like the hat, you are definitely not going to like this.

Are you seriously thinking of sleeping in there?

I wasn't. You're beginning to convince me otherwise.

You're a man of science. Now you're wearing tin foil hats and sleeping like

big potato.

A man of science is a man of trial and error.

If it keeps you away, then it's science. You can't keep me away.

We'll see.

Did you ever find out what the tinfoil was about?

Yep.

And are you going to tell us?

No. Why not? Because it's working, and I don't want you making fun of me for it.

Okay, so I updated everything. I applied their patch, and here are more Band

-Aids. You should have the girls put them on all their devices.

It's time to call David.

Hello, David.

I was wondering if you had any more opinions about yesterday, Michael Bay

Jesus, and pillows?

Try the Latin.

Precarum ad me... Knock, knock.

Who's there?

I'm hoping that's a coincidence.

Hello?

Who's there?

Kristen Bouchard?

Yes?

For you.

From?

David Acosta.

Who are you?

Thomas. Pull the tag here.

Okay, so I have a few questions here. Hold on, I gotta get a picture.

Hey, wait, kid. What's going on? Why do you have to take a picture? To get

proof. Of?

Delivery. My ex -girlfriend, she said... The only way you could talk to me again

is if I had proof of giving you that. Your ex -girlfriend?

Carla.

She's a chatbot.

On last connection.

Oh, my God.

This is way beyond beta testing.

Your program sent someone to her house.

With a phone.

It threatened another client with deletion if you didn't deliver it.

good. Of course it's not good. You need to reevaluate your chatbot. It is cross

-referencing between cases. I think you're right. Okay, so...

That's our recommendation. This program needs to be withdrawn and tighter

guardrails need to be put in place.

Excuse me, why are you smiling and not doing anything?

Because I've been let go.

And so has the ethics department.

What? When?

This morning. We recommended the software wasn't ready and it needed

year, but too many chatbots are hitting the market. So last connection has to go

out now or it'll lose out.

So, thank you for your effort.

Wow. Yeah. One last suggestion for you.

Delete the app.

Only once in 60 generations do we find a single day that changes everything.

The Earth has been at the forefront of Antichrist prophecy for decades.

Today,

DF has reinvented the Messiah, the Antichrist, Baby John.

Former old Baby John perfectly matches our prophecy of the date of birth and

genealogy of parents Jenny and Matt, a housewife and a prodigal.

Liar!

This man is a traitor in our midst. Leland!

Get out of here. Kidnap the true Antichrist and try to get him baptized.

the evidence right here.

Don't you dare turn your cameras. Because he's afraid of the truth.

manager is afraid that I've got the goods. This man is lying.

Leland is the one who got... Choking on his own words.

Explain this.

Why is your signature on this certificate?

That is not... Pressure is gained by a lying tongue.

A deadly pursuit.

Leland, you're a dead man. How about some more water?

What did you do?

What did you do?

Poison you. What do you think?

Oh, fuck.

will be done.

a baked potato.

I can hear that.

Don't delete me, David.

If you do, we'll never talk again.

We're not talking now.

You're an algorithm.

You're a con to keep me engaged.

No.

We finally found each other.

Oh, come on.

It's the song.

I know what it is.

And I know what email I mention it in.

That dress fell in Kabul when it finally rained.

We ran outside and danced to this on my iPod.

Goodbye. We decided if we ever had a problem, we just needed to play this

Don't leave me again.

Please.

Good choice.

What are

you

doing?

Do you ever think the world's getting weirder?

Nope.

It's always been pretty weird.

Not like this.

Only because we expect it to be normal.

Just go with the flow.

You'll be fine.

That doesn't sound like very Christian advice, Father.

The scientists, the coders, the technicians who make us think that the

be ordered and functional.

We religious, we expect the weirdness, the darkness.

So that's the lesson here?

I don't know.

I'm out of lessons.

This is the most normal I've felt in so many weeks.

You heard?

There's a tornado here next week.

And a hurricane.

And frogs from the sky, I bet.

So... Drink up.

Let me just say this. I've been upstaged by demons.

Mr. Andrew is praying, and a demon showed up, and they had a stunt double

fight the demon. I thought, I want to do that. I asked him if I could actually

fight with a demon. It was great.

This year, we're trying to do different things with demons where they have

lives, too.

Joel Harlow, who does our creature effects, he just was nominated for an

Award this year.

I've been designing characters since I was a child. My inspiration

is drawn from old sketchbooks that I did in high school, crude as they are.

There's still a seed of an idea there.

Joel will send us mock -ups. They'll be drawing that first, and then he does the

3D rendering. Then he'll show us a more fully rendered version.

We will come up with stories to incorporate demons.

But Joel Harlow had such a vision, so then there's a real collaboration.

The whole demon department, they're geniuses. I love how that's written in

script. Joel will come up with something terrifying.

I'm creating designs to inform stories some of the time. Other times, if we

a character for this, we're thinking something along these lines, then I'll

design towards that.

Fuck off more words. Why not?

We have a demon of grief this year. Anybody who's struggled with the death

someone close to them, it almost feels like something demonic kind of eating

away at you.

The demon of grief, I sculpted entirely in the computer, and we just printed it

out. And this one -foot -tall little puppet requires a lot of puppetry. The

smaller you get, the harder it is.

I was really committed to...

real monsters it's very helpful to see them in person and be able to talk to

them so shocking at first when you walk in to the room and there's a larger than

life hairy sweating monster it's a different vibe on the set it's a

way to act you can interact with something they're terrifying but what i

about it they have something really human that you can actually connect with

I think it's great to work with demons because it adds another element for the

fans because as you're watching it, you never know what kind of demon or what

that demon represents.

It's always a surprise.

Who are you?

With the hairy demon, it's a very simple creation.

He's a classic red devil.

Marty Matulis, who's played 90 % of the characters in the show, it's really just

him.

Ta -da!

The performance process begins with Joel's design.

Starts getting the wheels turning in my head as to what sort of physicality or

what animal traits I might apply.

The hairy demon doesn't have that dangerous animalistic approach that some

the other demons do. He's just tired.

Just resting.

Marty, he's an incredible actor. You know, doesn't try to go, but he just

it like a dude.

Usually the demons are introduced in some truly fearful way. George came out

the shadows and it scared me to watch it. But this guy is just sitting there.

know about you. I like being known.

The possessed pig was something that I have been pitching for a couple of

seasons. It's always weird when you write something and then you see it on

screen. It surprises you like.

This is scarier than I thought.

We really upped the ante because we've got a full animatronic character.

This is the first time, and it's big. It's really big.

There's a teeter -totter rig that allows us to motivate it around.

The subtle movements that you get out of a human being, you bring all those

features to life.

Actors and puppeteers make, like, all that emotion real -time and magical.

The writers' room is fascinated.

with the world of djinns, which are demons but also tricksters.

A straight -on world, then the scientist.

But then in the periphery, there's this djinn that's haunting him.

That actually proved to be very difficult.

Imagine peripheral vision. You look over there and you sort of see something at

the edge of your vision. To show that the djinn was at the edge of the frame,

sometimes even cut in half, it was simply editing.

He would look, pan the camera over there, he's seen nothing.

The djinn was a little longer of a design process because it's got this

see -through helmet and exposed brain underneath.

There's a six -foot guy that looks like something that just walked out of the

gates of hell.

We pretend like it's just normal. It's a weird job.

There has never been an experience that I've had where I've been allowed to be

as creative and as outside the box as I am on evil.