The Rite

& What follows is inspired by true events.
{ . Set the mood from the very beginning, I must say. }

& Istvan Kovak (aka Rutger Hauer!): Michael, I’ve told you this many times. We serve the dead, but we don’t talk about them. It brings bad things.
    Michael Kovak: We keep dead people in the house, Dad. How much worse could it get?

& Michael: Man, you don’t get it. In my family, you’re either a mortician or a priest. That’s it.

& Father Matthew: You know the average age of a nun these days?.. Sixty-nine. Three thousand parishes across the U.S. don’t even have a priest anymore.

& Father Matthew: Two months in Rome. How bad could that be?

& Father Xavier (aka Ciarán Hinds aka Caesar in the Rome): Tell me, Michael, do you believe in sin?
    Michael: Yeah, I just don’t necessarily believe the devil makes us do it.
    Father Xavier: He that committeth sin is of the devil.
    Michael: Then that’d be all of us, wouldn’t it? And if we’re all of the devil, how do we fight him?

& Father Lucas Trevant (Anthony Hopkins!): You don’t like cats?
    Michael: Not particularly.
    Father Lucas: Welcome to Rome. It’s infested with cats. I’ve tried giving them names but it’s pointless. A cat won’t come no matter what you call it. They do as they please.

& Father Lucas: Oh, yes, one other thing. If it does manifest, don’t even look into the girl’s eyes. Whatever you do, do not address it. Do not speak to it. It’s the devil. Leave that to me. Do you understand?
    Michael: Cool.
    Father Lucas: Do you understand?
    Michael: Yeah, I get it.
    Father Lucas: Well, just say so.

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& Father Lucas: There you are. Knowledge of the unknowable. It’s the quickest test for possession.

& Father Lucas: Tell me... does a thief or a burglar turn on the lights when he’s robbing your house? No. He prefers you to believe that he’s not there. Like the devil. He prefers you to believe that he doesn’t exist.
    Michael: It gets complicated when no proof of the devil is somehow proof of the devil.
    Father Lucas: Yeah. The interesting thing about skeptics, atheists... is that we’re always looking for proof, certainty. The question is, what on earth would we do if we found it?

& ’Rosaria’: Remember the fat little bitch?.. Killed herself. She says to say hello. Hell-o.

& Father Lucas: You be careful, Michael.
    Michael: Why?
    Father Lucas: Choosing not to believe in the devil won’t protect you from him.

& Michael: You know how to swear in every language?
    ’Rosaria’: Therefore let us go down and confound their tongue... that they may not understand one another’s speech.
    Michael: You know the Bible well.
    ’Rosaria’: We know it very well.

& Father Lucas: The terror is real, Michael. It’s real. But you’ll only defeat it when you believe.

& Michael: Are you reading my mind?
’Father Lucas’: Yes. No. Maybe. No. Yes. Perhaps.

& ’Father Lucas’: God is not here, priest!


& Father Michael Kovak is one of 14 exorcists practicing in the United States today. ...

{ . Set the good point in the very end. }


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