Father Francis is found riddled with arrows like Saint Sebastian, persevering with the theme of the victims’ our bodies being organized in Christian poses. He nonetheless has sufficient life in him to inform Merrin that Cheche is possessed and desires an pressing exorcism.

Merrin goes to the church and finds Rachel beneath the affect of the demon. She tells him that the fiend provided her the prospect to rewrite her previous. Merrin briefly confronts the demon, who tells him that Rachel betrayed her buddies within the focus camp. Is it true, or is the Satan as much as his previous methods?

He then returns to city and prays to God. In a scene that performs a little bit like “John Wick” digging up his weapons, Merrin busts out some priestly vestments and heads to the church to carry out the ceremony. The demon additionally presents him a chance to alter historical past and clear his crushing guilt. In a imaginative and prescient, Merrin disarms the SS officer and shoots him, prompting the German troopers to open hearth and kill everybody anyway, together with the priest. The demon mocks Merrin’s guilt and encourages him to “stop to care.”

In the meantime, it is all kicking off again within the city. A spooky aurora, trying like a particular impact from “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” shimmers within the sky as Rachel prepares to chop her personal throat and the Turkana warriors assault the British troopers.

Fortunately, Merrin recovers his religion simply in time and exorcizes the demon, averting a number of deaths and turning Cheche again to his former disabled state. A Turkana elder warns Merrin that he has made an enemy of the demon, properly setting the desk for “The Exorcist.” Merrin says a young goodbye to Rachel and walks away into the sands, able to grow to be a priest once more.