1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Mortal Steel, 2 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,820 Speaker 1: Part Two: Outskirts. 3 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: The earth itself rattled as the huge inner door of Last Respite parted before Pastor 4 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: Ethan Cutter. He stood, feet firmly planted in the dirt as it rolled with 5 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: ominous speed. There were no other people out here in the open except the guards 6 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: looking down at him through the narrow vertical slits in the battlements. Those were 7 00:01:20,860 --> 00:01:26,460 Speaker 1: not highly coveted positions. Despite constant surveillance and frequent blessing of 8 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:32,500 Speaker 1: the walls by priests, every other month something managed to pull a relatively large 9 00:01:32,580 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: person through one of those small holes to be devoured below. 10 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:44,220 Speaker 1: Ethan stepped into the killing field between the inner wall and the outer wall. He 11 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,780 Speaker 1: waited another eternity for the inner door to close behind him. Only then did the 12 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,340 Speaker 1: outer door part. It rattled and creaked, grinding noisily on the ground as it 13 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: opened. How long had it been since anyone left? It stopped opening 14 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:07,020 Speaker 1: almost immediately, then for some reason started closing again, leaving only a foot 15 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: or two of rapidly shrinking space between the wall. Ethan shot a withering glance up 16 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: at the guard working the gate in the nearest tower. The man did not move to open the 17 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: gate wider. Ethan had to sprint then turn sideways to get through the narrow gap 18 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,540 Speaker 1: between the reinforced door and the concrete wall. As he did, he felt the rattling 19 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: door, nearly two feet thick, pressing against his face. He turned his head sideways 20 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: as he shimmied to prevent it exploding like a crushed melon. For a moment, he feared 21 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,660 Speaker 1: it would crush him anyway, ending his mission as soon as it had begun, and in the 22 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:48,700 Speaker 1: most wasteful and mundane way, reduced to a very expensive stain on the 23 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,980 Speaker 1: concrete wall. But he narrowly pulled himself through the gap just as the door 24 00:02:54,120 --> 00:03:00,020 Speaker 1: boomed shut. Only then did his second mind helpfully confirm that, yes, 25 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,060 Speaker 1: that door did have enough force to destroy him. Not long ago, he would have stumbled 26 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:11,260 Speaker 1: and fallen to the dirt, but that was a different person. Instead, he simply 27 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: transitioned to a light, casual walk, brushing the dust from his black clerical suit 28 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:23,220 Speaker 1: and adjusting the white preacher's collar around his neck. Ethan surveyed his new 29 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:29,180 Speaker 1: surroundings. Red and yellow warning signs lit up everything in sight. Every 30 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: broken window and every open doorway to each dilapidated building was a potential 31 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:40,780 Speaker 1: threat. And each of those terrified faces looking out at him were enemy combatants. 32 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:47,100 Speaker 1: This was going to need some calibration. For now, he shut off all the warnings in 33 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: his HUD, asking his second mind to only notify him of immediate danger of demonic 34 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: nature. The world was cleaned up instantly and he saw with fresh eyes. He 35 00:03:58,980 --> 00:04:04,740 Speaker 1: had not left Last Respite in more than a year. Even then, he'd done so in an armored 36 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:10,580 Speaker 1: Humvee. That time had not done the outskirts any favors. Husks of 37 00:04:10,620 --> 00:04:15,540 Speaker 1: three- and four-story buildings lined empty streets with the corpses of larger, 38 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: towering skyscrapers in the distance. The rusted-out vehicles had been cleared away 39 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: from the immediate area, but the eternal traffic was piled up only a few hundred 40 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:31,540 Speaker 1: yards away. Very few windows and doors remained intact. The streets themselves were 41 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: broken with scraggly-looking plants growing up through the cracks. Bizarrely, the 42 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:42,300 Speaker 1: iconic palm trees were doing just fine, a narrow portrait of paradise set against 43 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: the greater backdrop of ruin. But Ethan wasn't here to fix the city, if such a thing 44 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: were even possible. He was here to cut out the rot that continued to ruin it. The 45 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,700 Speaker 1: repairs would be done by normal people, people unlike him. He walked down the broken 46 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:05,780 Speaker 1: sidewalk, chin high, nodding serenely at the faces with sunken cheeks that looked 47 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: at him from the buildings. The stalker's abilities and whereabouts were unknown. 48 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,660 Speaker 1: What little information he had indicated that it was secretive and cunning, 49 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,980 Speaker 1: preferring to hide among the human populace and only strike when an easy target 50 00:05:22,020 --> 00:05:27,020 Speaker 1: presented itself. The rest of the time, it used its ever-growing force of human 51 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: worshipers to do its dirty work. Chances were, he would need to cut through a lot of 52 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: these normal people before he got to the possessed. That didn't sit well with him. 53 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: Surely there was some way he could get the demon host out into the open for a 54 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: confrontation. It wouldn't be fair, of course. There was no honor among 55 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: demons. Only winners. Winners and bodies. 56 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: Unsure of what else to do, Pastor Cutter walked up to an apartment that still had a 57 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: set of metal double doors. He knocked on a door. His titanium skeleton made an 58 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: unnaturally loud sound as he rapped his knuckles against the metal. 59 00:06:11,010 --> 00:06:16,470 Speaker 1: When no one answered, he opened the door, realizing only after it was open that the 60 00:06:16,510 --> 00:06:21,510 Speaker 1: door had been locked. Four young boys stood on the other side of the door. They 61 00:06:21,650 --> 00:06:26,330 Speaker 1: scrambled away from him and looked down at the destroyed deadbolt. "Sorry about your 62 00:06:26,490 --> 00:06:32,430 Speaker 1: door." "Demon! Demon!" Three of the boys scattered, but one of 63 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:38,230 Speaker 1: them tripped and fell. "Guys, wait!" The boy rolled on his back and gave 64 00:06:38,310 --> 00:06:43,870 Speaker 1: Ethan a terrified look, then shielded his face. He was dressed in ragged 65 00:06:43,950 --> 00:06:49,070 Speaker 1: jeans and a dingy T-shirt. He couldn't have been more than nine years old. Ethan 66 00:06:49,130 --> 00:06:54,030 Speaker 1: waited quietly in the doorway. "You're not gonna kill me?" 67 00:06:54,030 --> 00:06:59,950 Speaker 1: "No. I need your help." "Anything?" "Do you 68 00:07:00,110 --> 00:07:05,750 Speaker 1: know of a church nearby?" The kid scrunched up his face, thinking 69 00:07:05,910 --> 00:07:11,370 Speaker 1: furiously. He looked like he might try to run again. Ethan's second mind showed him 70 00:07:11,570 --> 00:07:17,010 Speaker 1: four nearby churches based on maps of the city. "Never mind. There's a church 71 00:07:17,110 --> 00:07:22,510 Speaker 1: nearby. It was called Immaculate Conception. Do you know the place?" 72 00:07:23,190 --> 00:07:28,270 Speaker 1: The kid nodded. He probably would have nodded regardless. Hopefully he would carry 73 00:07:28,310 --> 00:07:33,690 Speaker 1: the message, though. "Tell everyone you know that I'll be giving a sermon there. 74 00:07:34,330 --> 00:07:39,730 Speaker 1: At sundown." And that was all the kid could take. He nodded 75 00:07:39,810 --> 00:07:45,150 Speaker 1: furiously, then got up and started running after his companions. Ethan watched him 76 00:07:45,210 --> 00:07:51,070 Speaker 1: go. If he told everyone he found the same thing, word would eventually reach the 77 00:07:51,150 --> 00:07:56,670 Speaker 1: stalker. He would give a sermon. A sermon these people would never 78 00:07:56,910 --> 00:07:57,430 Speaker 1: forget. 79 00:08:00,890 --> 00:08:03,430 Speaker 1: Part Three Sundown 80 00:08:05,390 --> 00:08:11,150 Speaker 1: Fleabag ran barefoot down the alley, shouting. He wasn't even making sense anymore. 81 00:08:11,550 --> 00:08:16,690 Speaker 1: He couldn't remember being this excited. "Inaccurate Conception! Sermon at the 82 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:22,750 Speaker 1: Inaccurate Conception!" A man tried to grab Fleabag as he ran, but he spun away from 83 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:28,170 Speaker 1: the hands. He screamed at the man, who he only now realized was his uncle. He was 84 00:08:28,210 --> 00:08:34,190 Speaker 1: probably just shaking him down for food to trade for alcohol. "Sundown!" Who 85 00:08:34,250 --> 00:08:39,470 Speaker 1: was this stranger with the clean clothes? Didn't the others see the way he ripped 86 00:08:39,570 --> 00:08:44,530 Speaker 1: off that door? He was so strong. Stronger than the king. 87 00:08:45,110 --> 00:08:50,670 Speaker 1: Maybe. Would he fight the king? "Conception! Conception at sundown!" 88 00:08:51,730 --> 00:08:57,410 Speaker 1: People yelled at him to shut up. People threw things at him as he ran past. But they 89 00:08:57,470 --> 00:09:00,990 Speaker 1: heard him. He made sure everyone heard him. 90 00:09:04,470 --> 00:09:09,670 Speaker 1: Pastor Cutter scoped out the church well before sundown. Within a few minutes, he 91 00:09:09,730 --> 00:09:15,650 Speaker 1: had more than a feel for the place. He had a high-resolution 3D map. He knew 92 00:09:15,690 --> 00:09:20,110 Speaker 1: which walls could be reliably pierced with bullets, and which walls could be 93 00:09:20,150 --> 00:09:25,870 Speaker 1: breached by people with or without explosives. The possessed was the big unknown. 94 00:09:26,430 --> 00:09:30,950 Speaker 1: It rendered his defensive simulations largely useless except for planning against 95 00:09:30,990 --> 00:09:36,770 Speaker 1: the more mundane human threat. By the time the sun was low in the sky, he had 96 00:09:36,850 --> 00:09:42,270 Speaker 1: long since overthought the impending conflict. He had completed nearly 800,000 97 00:09:42,310 --> 00:09:47,570 Speaker 1: combat simulations. In about 600,000 of those simulations, he emerged 98 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:52,950 Speaker 1: victorious against a small army of humans, only duking it out with the stalker once 99 00:09:52,990 --> 00:09:58,930 Speaker 1: his mortal cannon fodder was expended. In the remaining 200,000 simulations, 100 00:09:59,310 --> 00:10:05,290 Speaker 1: he met one grisly demise after another, usually at the hands of the stalker himself. 101 00:10:05,990 --> 00:10:10,930 Speaker 1: Without knowing what to simulate, his second mind simply conjured monsters from 102 00:10:10,970 --> 00:10:15,630 Speaker 1: movies and television, supplemented with data from other known possessed. 103 00:10:16,730 --> 00:10:21,910 Speaker 1: Ethan was tearing the arms off an insect-like creature with acid for blood in his 104 00:10:21,990 --> 00:10:27,790 Speaker 1: mind when his second mind started blaring mental warnings. Someone was in the 105 00:10:27,850 --> 00:10:33,850 Speaker 1: church. The real church. He flicked off the simulation. Ethan stood behind a 106 00:10:33,910 --> 00:10:39,610 Speaker 1: ruined pulpit, defaced with graffiti. He faced the heavy wooden entry doors. 107 00:10:40,950 --> 00:10:45,670 Speaker 1: A tanned man with thinning gray hair walked in silence down the aisle between the 108 00:10:45,730 --> 00:10:51,550 Speaker 1: rows of toppled pews. He wore a long gray trench coat. Was this him? 109 00:10:52,250 --> 00:10:57,890 Speaker 1: Had the stalker come in person? A messenger, perhaps. The 110 00:10:57,970 --> 00:11:03,910 Speaker 1: man in the trench coat locked eyes with Ethan. Ethan rested one hand on the huge 111 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:09,950 Speaker 1: black and silver gun at his hip. A messenger of his own. The man in the coat 112 00:11:10,010 --> 00:11:15,890 Speaker 1: nodded once at Ethan, then Then he sat down on one of the upright 113 00:11:16,070 --> 00:11:21,870 Speaker 1: pews. Scanners showed no obvious sign of threat. A 114 00:11:21,910 --> 00:11:26,890 Speaker 1: woman with three children orbiting around her like hyperactive moons came into the 115 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:32,110 Speaker 1: church. They flitted about, marveling at the huge room and touching everything 116 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:37,170 Speaker 1: within reach, but never straying more than a few feet from their mother. The young 117 00:11:37,250 --> 00:11:43,230 Speaker 1: family sat down in the back. Ethan pulled his hand from the messenger. What was 118 00:11:43,310 --> 00:11:48,710 Speaker 1: happening here? In the blink of an eye, he ran a few simulations where the children 119 00:11:48,830 --> 00:11:52,750 Speaker 1: rushed him, while the man with the thinning hair tried to sneak around behind him. 120 00:11:53,370 --> 00:11:59,290 Speaker 1: He flicked them off before it got bloody. They didn't make any sense. More people 121 00:11:59,350 --> 00:12:04,970 Speaker 1: filed in. Most came in groups, but many came alone. People of all ages. 122 00:12:05,610 --> 00:12:11,550 Speaker 1: All of them were emaciated. Filthy. All of them looked terrified. By the 123 00:12:11,610 --> 00:12:17,350 Speaker 1: time the sun set, there were 37 people in the church. As far as he could tell, none 124 00:12:17,410 --> 00:12:23,382 Speaker 1: of them were armed. What were they doing here? His second 125 00:12:23,422 --> 00:12:29,302 Speaker 1: mind was of no help. It was his first mind, the one he shared with these poor souls, 126 00:12:29,382 --> 00:12:34,362 Speaker 1: that made the connection first. The boy he'd seen earlier that day walked through 127 00:12:34,402 --> 00:12:39,742 Speaker 1: the double doors, a bright smile on his face. He'd promised them a sermon, 128 00:12:40,742 --> 00:12:45,622 Speaker 1: and they'd come. Pastor Ethan Cutter cleared his throat. 129 00:12:45,622 --> 00:12:51,382 Speaker 1: "Good evening." The ad hoc congregation gave him a loose 130 00:12:51,442 --> 00:12:56,182 Speaker 1: reply, nothing like the tight, well-rehearsed routines in the last respite. 131 00:12:57,002 --> 00:13:02,402 Speaker 1: Amusingly, this was the very last thing he'd expected, and he found himself 132 00:13:02,442 --> 00:13:08,242 Speaker 1: completely unprepared. Anxious, even. How could he preach to these people 133 00:13:08,282 --> 00:13:13,942 Speaker 1: when he didn't believe? How could he tell them a Lord was watching over them when 134 00:13:14,002 --> 00:13:18,982 Speaker 1: they'd had their lives, their very homes ripped apart by demons? 135 00:13:19,942 --> 00:13:25,622 Speaker 1: His words came slowly, awkwardly. He had never expected to give another 136 00:13:25,702 --> 00:13:30,802 Speaker 1: sermon. He told them that good things came to those who do good, 137 00:13:31,662 --> 00:13:37,442 Speaker 1: that kindness was a virtue, that hope was never wasted. It was the 138 00:13:37,502 --> 00:13:42,962 Speaker 1: most basic of lessons, little more than common sense wrapped in poetic language. 139 00:13:43,382 --> 00:13:47,982 Speaker 1: It couldn't have lasted more than fifteen minutes, and he had to resist his second 140 00:13:48,022 --> 00:13:53,942 Speaker 1: mind's urge to give him the exact duration to the nanosecond. When it was done, a 141 00:13:54,002 --> 00:13:57,782 Speaker 1: young woman came to the front of the church and held out a baby that looked nothing 142 00:13:57,842 --> 00:14:03,762 Speaker 1: like her. She asked him to baptize her son. He tried to refuse, but 143 00:14:03,822 --> 00:14:09,782 Speaker 1: she insisted, and even though he didn't believe, he baptized the boy in a birdbath 144 00:14:09,862 --> 00:14:15,402 Speaker 1: filled with canteen water. She cried afterward. A number of people were crying. 145 00:14:16,342 --> 00:14:21,022 Speaker 1: It was dark by then, but no one left. What did they want from him? 146 00:14:22,702 --> 00:14:27,002 Speaker 1: The boy from before sauntered up to the pulpit and put his hand out for a handshake. 147 00:14:27,542 --> 00:14:33,062 Speaker 1: Pastor Cutter shook the hand. A perfectly calibrated handshake. "Nice 148 00:14:33,162 --> 00:14:39,122 Speaker 1: speech. I'm Fleabag." "Why?" "Huh?" "Why are 149 00:14:39,162 --> 00:14:44,582 Speaker 1: you called Fleabag?" The boy shrugged, giving Ethan a frustrated look. 150 00:14:44,582 --> 00:14:50,402 Speaker 1: "I don't know. That's my name." "Fleabag, why are all 151 00:14:50,462 --> 00:14:55,962 Speaker 1: these people still here?" Fleabag turned to look at the crowd of people who shuffled 152 00:14:56,042 --> 00:15:01,062 Speaker 1: about in their seats, muttering to each other. "They want protection. Probably 153 00:15:01,082 --> 00:15:06,762 Speaker 1: hoping you got food, too. Not me, though. I'm here for the fight." "I don't think 154 00:15:06,802 --> 00:15:12,402 Speaker 1: there's going to be a fight." "You're wrong about that. Scary boys are on their way. 155 00:15:12,802 --> 00:15:18,502 Speaker 1: Mixers, too." "Who are they?" Fleabag gave Ethan a very 156 00:15:18,542 --> 00:15:24,362 Speaker 1: worried look. "Scary boys work for the king. Mixers are new. They work for 157 00:15:24,402 --> 00:15:29,922 Speaker 1: someone else. You're gonna fight them, right?" Ethan narrowed his eyes. 158 00:15:30,442 --> 00:15:36,202 Speaker 1: A cocktail of synthetic hormones kept his heart rate stable. "Fleabag, 159 00:15:36,982 --> 00:15:42,302 Speaker 1: this is important. Are you saying there's two possessed in the 160 00:15:42,382 --> 00:15:47,842 Speaker 1: outskirts?" "Yeah. They don't like each other." There was a roar of a 161 00:15:47,922 --> 00:15:53,222 Speaker 1: motorcycle outside the front of the church. Then the roar of a dozen more 162 00:15:53,302 --> 00:15:59,262 Speaker 1: motorcycles. "Pretty sure they hate you more, though." Movement flashed across the 163 00:15:59,302 --> 00:16:03,542 Speaker 1: darkened windows. Ethan rewound the peripheral footage in his second mind and 164 00:16:03,662 --> 00:16:08,302 Speaker 1: stepped through the frames until he saw what had been watching him. He stared at the 165 00:16:08,402 --> 00:16:14,162 Speaker 1: still image, a bat-like creature with foot-long talons and a snout 166 00:16:14,762 --> 00:16:19,822 Speaker 1: so long it looked like an elephant's trunk, if an elephant's trunk could split in 167 00:16:19,902 --> 00:16:25,702 Speaker 1: half to reveal thousands of tiny needle-like teeth. More movement on the 168 00:16:25,762 --> 00:16:29,542 Speaker 1: other side of the building. He heard creatures moving around the outside of the 169 00:16:29,602 --> 00:16:34,802 Speaker 1: walls, on the roof. His makeshift congregation grew alarmed, 170 00:16:35,162 --> 00:16:40,502 Speaker 1: perhaps just now realizing how foolish they'd been to come here, but it was too late 171 00:16:40,562 --> 00:16:46,462 Speaker 1: to leave now. A man in biker leather walked up the steps to the front door. He 172 00:16:46,502 --> 00:16:51,042 Speaker 1: was flanked by a growing number of similarly dressed people, all of them holding 173 00:16:51,082 --> 00:16:56,842 Speaker 1: machetes, axes, and swords. Only the man in front held a shotgun over his shoulder. 174 00:16:57,482 --> 00:17:03,262 Speaker 1: There was a swagger to his step. Two possessed. Ethan 175 00:17:03,302 --> 00:17:08,422 Speaker 1: didn't need to run the simulations to know what his odds were. Not good. 176 00:17:08,422 --> 00:17:14,362 Speaker 1: "Repent, holy man." The lead biker spread his 177 00:17:14,462 --> 00:17:20,442 Speaker 1: arms wide, grinning wider still. He held the shotgun out like a party gift. 178 00:17:21,202 --> 00:17:26,362 Speaker 1: There was something wrong with his face, a bone-like protrusion that grew over half 179 00:17:26,402 --> 00:17:31,202 Speaker 1: his face like a mask. "Say you're sorry and we'll make it quick." 180 00:17:32,282 --> 00:17:37,662 Speaker 1: Bone Mask took another step forward with an accusing finger pointed at Ethan. The 181 00:17:37,722 --> 00:17:43,542 Speaker 1: moment he stepped through the front doors, his hand started smoking. The man leapt 182 00:17:43,582 --> 00:17:47,842 Speaker 1: backward and looked at his burning hand in shock, slapping out the fire on his 183 00:17:47,902 --> 00:17:53,562 Speaker 1: jeans. Ethan couldn't keep the smile from his face. The church had 184 00:17:53,642 --> 00:17:58,662 Speaker 1: failed these people. He knew that now. They'd hid behind their walls while the 185 00:17:58,702 --> 00:18:02,762 Speaker 1: people of the outskirts suffered at the hands of demons and betrayers like the 186 00:18:02,802 --> 00:18:08,382 Speaker 1: creatures before him. And still they had faith. Faith enough to 187 00:18:08,442 --> 00:18:14,322 Speaker 1: consecrate this building. It was just a building, after all. Despite all odds, 188 00:18:14,782 --> 00:18:20,642 Speaker 1: some of their hope had survived. It was that dogged, persistent hope that made it a 189 00:18:20,702 --> 00:18:26,326 Speaker 1: church again. The smile returned to Bone Mask's face. He looked at the 190 00:18:26,386 --> 00:18:32,346 Speaker 1: exterior walls and roof of the church, pleased by something that Ethan couldn't see. 191 00:18:33,246 --> 00:18:39,046 Speaker 1: Full house tonight. New deal, holy man. You come out, and we let these people 192 00:18:39,106 --> 00:18:45,006 Speaker 1: live. Ethan was already walking down the aisle toward the entrance. You the 193 00:18:45,166 --> 00:18:51,086 Speaker 1: stalker. Ha! Let's say I am. Ethan drew the messenger in a 194 00:18:51,146 --> 00:18:56,566 Speaker 1: flash, pointed it at Bone Mask, and pulled the trigger. The man's head exploded. The 195 00:18:56,646 --> 00:18:59,106 Speaker 1: corpse fell in a heap to the stone steps. 196 00:19:01,226 --> 00:19:07,006 Speaker 1: Guess not, then. The crew of tainted human bikers scattered. Ethan looked over his 197 00:19:07,066 --> 00:19:11,906 Speaker 1: shoulder at the people now huddling behind the church's overturned pews. Stay in the 198 00:19:11,986 --> 00:19:16,926 Speaker 1: church. He couldn't protect them from regular humans, but as long as they stayed 199 00:19:16,966 --> 00:19:22,386 Speaker 1: inside, nothing demonic was coming in. Then he stepped over the threshold and 200 00:19:22,486 --> 00:19:27,946 Speaker 1: outside the church. The people wanted another sermon, and by God, 201 00:19:28,466 --> 00:19:30,446 Speaker 1: he was going to give it to them.