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[foreboding music playing]

It's a miracle what Arius's technology can do.

Healing one of God's creations.

As if guided by his hand.

[rain pattering]

[gunshots]

Senator Baines,

the suspect is armed and dangerous.

We've got a man down.

I sent two units to apprehend her.

I'm going in.

There's something far more dangerous than a young woman in there.

I hope that your men are right with the Lord.

[raucous rock music playing]

♪ I'm a killer ♪

♪ With fire in my eyes ♪

♪ My bazooka ♪

♪ Makes the devils cry ♪

[demon snarling]

[energy sword thrumming]

[snarls]

[gunshot echoing]

[song trails off]

We've been hunting that demon for weeks,

and here it is,

tracked and slain by a mere orphaned child.

I'm not a child.

You're in trouble.

I can help.

- Pass. - [scoffs]

You might want to reconsider.

I didn't kill them.

The demon did.

And you think they'll believe that?

What do you want?

Same thing as you, I suspect.

To hunt and exterminate all Hellspawn.

When you're old enough, you work for us.

Dark Realm Command.

This is your calling.

Satan stole your parents from you.

Allow me to shape you into God's ultimate weapon against him.

[raucous rock music playing]

[music trails off]

[rowdy rock music playing]

[groaning faintly]

[Baines] Welcome back, Mary.

Where…

You're being treated for critical wounds.

In less than an hour, the eclipse will begin

to let us activate the Arcana weapon and strike the very heart of Hell.

We are at our launch point,

the Ouroboros International Hotel.

Arius insisted on hosting a celebratory gala.

We're in New York?

You have to listen to me.

Arius has been lying to us.

If he uses the Arcana,

millions of people will die.

What?

Uh, sorry, sir.

Whatever happens when the Arcana are opened,

it is God's will.

You don't understand.

I'm the only one who understands.

This is the Rapture.

It is just as it was written in scripture.

The eclipse, the barrier being brought down,

Satan released from his prison so he may be destroyed

on the brink of a new millennium.

The Kingdom of God is upon us.

That isn't some holy weapon Arius has assembled.

It's the devil's.

He isn't trying to kill Satan.

He's trying to resurrect him.

The real one who ruled Makai before Mundus.

Mary, I brought you here because there's still time.

You must renounce your blasphemous delusions.

All of them.

[grunts faintly]

- Lady! - [Arius] Alive.

Remanded to Baines's custody.

Am I correct in assuming you've fallen for the woman

who's nearly killed you several times over?

What did you do to Vergil?

I'm a man of vision, Dante, not a senseless murderer.

Vergil is also still among the living,

though not in this reality.

What do you mean, "not in this reality"?

Where is he?

You and your brother both have roles to play in the coming reformation.

Vergil's is as a time bomb.

My insurance policy.

But he first needs to be deprogrammed from Mundus's lies.

I sent him to where he will have to see the truth.

[eerie, dissonant music playing]

[dark, cryptic jibbering]

[haunting groans]

[Mattie] Stop!

- Give it back! - [demon 1] Look at her jumping!

Meat don't get to make demands.

It's… It's my friend's.

I'm supposed to keep it safe for him.

There ain't no safe in here.

- [Vergil] Give me the locket. - Hmm?

[foreboding music building]

Hey, look. Another fresh one.

Ha! Must not know where he is yet.

Inside of a Trismagia's dimension.

Presumably the Trismagia that Arius has captive.

Ain't you smart, for meat.

[frenetic music pounding]

[music trails off]

[demons yelping]

Where did you get this?

You said me and Vergil both have roles to play.

[chuckles] You think I'm still gonna work for you?

'Cause I could barely stand that before I watched you butcher an innocent old man.

Lucan hoarded his knowledge and power for himself.

He was an enemy of progress.

Hardly innocent.

And yes, I am trying to recruit you.

Anyone who seeks to rule would do the same.

Even Mundus.

The difference is, you and I already agree.

I disagree with that.

You aren't like your brother.

You serve nothing but your own momentary entertainment.

And I saw the unbridled primal fury you let loose on my secretaries.

The only being who personifies Chaos more

is Argosax himself.

[Dante] I will feel your heartbeat in my hand, and rip it from your chest!

You're right

about what I've been.

Doesn't mean I'm gonna let you set this world on fire

and feed its people to your demon god!

You believe my way is too extreme?

That there must be some other path to true freedom?

I've been around long enough to know…

there is none.

Hey! What are you doing back there?

Giving you some perspective.

[Dante wailing]

[entrancing, otherworldly music playing]

[rapturous clamoring]

[Argosax snarls]

Glory in the raging of the fire!

[worshipers crying out ecstatically]

Yes.

[Argosax grunts]

You would supplant me?

I made you!

This realm will never pay you fealty!

[Mundus] I will build an order that does.

[hypnotic music playing]

[Argosax] I see your mind.

There is greatness within it.

I can help you to bring forth a different world.

One where you will be freed to surpass even your grandest vision.

It will require more than one of your lifetimes to achieve.

Far more.

That is within my ability to grant.

Every time your body meets death,

you will reincarnate.

Carrying with you the entirety of your past's memories.

Again and again.

To recover all four of the pieces that contain me.

The Arcana.

No matter the number of lives it demands,

gather all four.

It is through their power and your flesh

that I can be reborn.

Then, together

we will forge a new world

where freedom knows no bounds.

A world without false limitation.

A world where greatness will no longer be shackled.

It will rise.

[panting]

You're a thousand years old?

[Arius] 672.

Not this body, obviously, but my mind.

I remember everything.

I've seen every society built by man.

The kings and lords.

The clerics, the industrialists, the communists.

All concerned only with rules.

Constraints on those whose brilliance threatens them.

Argosax gave me the one answer to liberation six centuries ago.

Burn it all and embrace the flames.

[Dante seethes]

[Vergil] Answer me.

Where did you get it?

My friend Dante gave it to me.

Just before…

Before what?

The man with the army of identical demon ladies…

He…

He took the coin.

He killed my grandpa.

Arius.

[deep voice] You're new.

Let me explain how it works here.

You hand over everything you got, and maybe we don't eat you.

[throng jeering, giggling]

Give me my sword.

Guess you're not the type who learns by talking.

[raucous metal music playing]

[blade rasps]

[Mattie shrieks]

Move, and the girl dies.

[Mattie whimpering]

You think I care about her?

[gang leader chuckles]

It's not gonna be that easy.

Why do you think Arius sends us here?

Anyone he needs gone but is too inconvenient to kill.

There's only one way out of this place.

Through the thing that made it.

The Trismagia.

Where?

You have more to lose than an arm.

It guards the exit. Up there.

You won't get past without a fight.

And it don't fight regular.

It… It makes you see things.

What kind of things?

Whatever they are, no one's mind survives intact.

You see those people wandering around like brain-dead zombies?

That's what happens to anyone who's ever faced it.

[Vergil] Trismagia are oracles.

All they show is truth.

Why does that make me think you've got a whole lot to worry about, then?

[gasps]

[Vergil] Girl,

come.

Hmm.

[Lady] We were wrong, Baines.

We weren't doing God's work.

Do you still not get that?

You ordered the mass murder of families.

Children.

Perhaps it's my fault you've failed when your faith was tested.

I know how deeply you blame yourself for your parents' deaths.

How difficult it must be

to perceive God's purpose in such tragedy.

My parents?

What did they…

Are you not hearing me?

- Arius is about to kill millions-- - Mary.

Your father is alive.

It was he who told us about you

before I came to meet you in the warehouse that night.

He didn't want you to know.

Your father has been an indispensable aid to us in the fight against Mundus.

Yes, he transformed himself into an aberration against God.

Murdered your mother.

But even he has earned his redemption.

You can too.

But you must first repent.

[bittersweet music playing]

[Lady] My dad…

My dad is just like you.

A narcissist destroyed by a psychotic fucking obsession.

You really thought I'd be happy that son of a bitch is still breathing?

He ate my mom.

I don't care if it was the demon who took him over.

He turned himself into that monster.

And so did you.

Jesus.

How did I not see before?

You're him.

Both scared shitless of what you can't control.

Both disguising your fear as conviction.

A higher calling, the need to protect.

Right up until the moment you're drenched in the blood

of everyone you say you care about.

Some sins can't be redeemed.

[bittersweet music continuing]

It's starting.

- Tom, make sure she stays here. - Yes, sir!

[Lady] William,

if I was ever anything to you besides a soldier,

don't let Arius use the Arcana.

[music trails off]

[Arius] Take it from someone who's been here much, much longer than you.

Any system but Chaos

only holds back men like us.

Men of singular talent. Great men.

I've been singular my whole life.

Never made me anything great.

And you think relying on anyone else will make you better?

Ah.

Her.

Arkham is defective product.

She lacks any true capacity for love.

You're nothing more to her than a temporary salve for her wounds.

Your father would have wanted you to join me.

What do you know about my father?

Sparda saw Mundus for the devolution that he was in the end.

It's why he turned against him.

Vergil may believe the fairy tales he's been told for now,

but it was Mundus who had your mother murdered.

You and Argosax share the same blood enemy.

At our side, you will have your vengeance.

You know what I'm wondering?

In all those lifetimes you lived,

did you ever stop to consider,

maybe you just aren't that good?

I mean, what are these big ideas the system's been holding you back from?

A cyborg arm and a clone army?

You had 600 years to come up with something much cooler than that.

I don't think Chaos is gonna help you.

You're just kinda…

unoriginal.

[grandiose organ music booming]

[music trails off]

Let's rock.

[booming liturgical music playing]

How?

[eerie, harrowing music playing]

That idea seems to have made an impact.

Put me back in.

I think I can take you this time.

You are going to join us, Dante.

Looks like it will have to be the easy way.

Now what the hell is this?

The power of Sparda is in your blood.

An ideal energy source to help fuel Argosax's rebirth.

It's your loss that you won't live to see the new world.

It will be…

ecstasy.

[Vergil] Faster. The eclipse must be soon.

I'm Matilda,

but you can call me Mattie.

What's your name?

Vergil.

[Mattie] That's you in the locket's picture, right?

You're Dante's brother.

You're lucky you have a family.

My parents…

they died.

I had my grandpa, but now he's…

[Vergil] I lost my mother

when I was your age.

The pretty lady?

What happened?

Monsters came.

I couldn't stop them.

I wasn't strong enough yet.

[Mattie] Can I tell you a secret?

I'm the reason Grandpa's dead.

He did it to save me.

[Vergil] Without strength, without power, you cannot protect anything.

Let alone yourself.

So I need to be strong for Grandpa?

Yes. You're lucky to have learned this lesson now,

without all I went through to learn it.

We will get out of this place.

And Arius will be paid his due.

Vergil?

What was your mom's name?

Her name…

was Eva.

[malevolent cackling]

- [Mattie whimpers] - Stay behind me.

How lovely to meet you,

Vergil.

[Arius] Friends!

To the darkness that will bring a new light!

- [party patron 1] Cheers! - [patron 2] Yes!

The occult theme is so tacky, but open bar.

[patron 3] Look, it's the Vice President.

Acting President, didn't you hear?

Hopper's having some medical thing.

[Baines] Arius.

We need to speak.

Why not?

We do have a few minutes to kill.

I've decided, I'm Acting Commander-in-Chief,

it should be me who operates the weapon that will strike the beast…

personally.

Activating the Arcana is complex.

Only I have the knowledge.

A weapon guided by God's hand needs no instruction.

[Arius] I take it Arkham woke up.

What did she tell you?

That the Arcana are going to kill millions.

That you seek not to eradicate Satan, but to restore him.

I told her that was impossible.

- [glass shattering] - [chuckling]

You really should have listened.

Arrest him!

[Arius cackling]

[Tom] Is it true what you said?

- Everyone here's going to die? - Yes. It's Tom, right?

Tom, you have to get me up there. We have to.

No! No fucking way! I'm outta here!

[Arius] There will be a Rapture.

Just not the one you're looking for.

[Tom panting rapidly]

No! No, no, no, no…

Why is it always me?

My whole team got taken out by one guy!

I had to go face that same guy again!

I killed the president!

- You what? - It was an accident!

If you really did kill Hopper,

he was a corrupt piece of shit who was going to sell us out to Mundus anyway.

You won't fix your guilt by running.

I fucked up.

Damn it.

Good luck, Commander.

[sonorous, sinister choral music playing]

[patrons screaming]

[Arius laughing giddily]

You have no idea, William,

how many men I've known like you.

Believing yourself prophets,

when all you do is uphold the existing order,

and call it God's design.

In every instance in history,

your kind is opposed to true prophets,

the radicals and heretics like me.

You were useful, I'll admit.

But I think I mostly just wanted to look in your eyes

when you realized your God planned none of this.

[straining] The Lord will protect me.

[Arius laughing smugly]

You know what's next.

Open the rift once we've consumed enough for Argosax to regain his full form.

Dante!

Lord!

Amen.

[dark, urgent metal music playing]

♪ Something takes a part of me ♪

["Freak on a Leash" by Korn playing]

♪ Something lost and never seen ♪

♪ Every time I start to believe ♪

♪ Something's raped and taken from me From me ♪

Twenty-eight lifetimes.

Finally.

♪ Can't I take away all this pain? ♪

♪ I try to every night, all in vain ♪

♪ In vain ♪

[Arius cackling]

♪ Sometimes, I cannot take this place ♪

♪ Sometimes, it's my life I can't taste ♪

♪ Sometimes, I cannot feel my face ♪

♪ You'll never see me fall from grace ♪

♪ Something takes a part of me ♪

♪ You and I weren't meant to be ♪

♪ A cheap fuck for me to lay ♪

♪ Something takes a part of me ♪

[Arius and Argosax] We are risen!

♪ Feelin' like a freak on a leash ♪

♪ Feeling like I have no release ♪

♪ How many times have I felt diseased? ♪

♪ Nothing in my life is free ♪

♪ Is free ♪

[distressing, feral vocalizations]

♪ Go fight ♪

♪ Fight, some things they fight ♪

♪ Something on the ming ♪

♪ Fight, some things they fight ♪

♪ Some things they fight ♪

[song trails off]