Lost Souls

Maya Larkin accompanies Father Lareaux, Father Jeremy, and John Townsend to a psychiatric clinic to exorcise Henry Birdson. The ritual fails, leaving Henry in a coma and weakening Father Lareaux. The failed exorcism sets the stage for the unfolding events.

Henry Birdson falls into a coma after the failed exorcism, and Father Lareaux is visibly weakened by the ordeal. The staff of the clinic are shaken, and the exorcism team regroups. The outcome raises a sense of looming danger.

Maya smuggles Henry's notes out of the clinic and uses polyalphabetic substitution to decipher the coded numbers, uncovering the name Peter Kelson. This revelation prompts her to investigate Peter's identity more closely. The link between Henry and Peter becomes the central clue moving forward.

Maya learns from a television report that Peter Kelson is a writer who researches serial killers, narcissism, and parapsychology. The profile deepens the sense that Peter is connected to the sinister symbols surrounding Henry. The media presence adds credence to Maya's suspicions.

Peter meets his family for dinner and shares a repetitive dream in which he reads a book bearing the letters XES on the cover. The moment hints at a predestined thread connecting Peter to the occult prophecies around him. Dinner reveals a normal life masking a growing ominous tension.

One of the priests discovers that the book cover bears the Greek number χεζ. In its value 22 plus 5 plus 6, it indicates that the incarnation of the devil will meet a man in the minute of his 33rd birthday. The discovery heightens the sense of a predestined confrontation.

Maya realizes Peter is the chosen personification of the devil and confronts him with evidence, including his unique blood type and baptism history, persuading him to participate in an exorcism. She also hands him the tape of Henry's exorcism. The conversation marks a turning point as Maya tries to recruit Peter into the fight against the demonic force.

Peter plays the Henry exorcism tape, but it is silent; instead Henry's screams are heard from the neighbor's apartment, and the neighbor is later found to have killed herself. The eerie event underscores the permeability of boundaries between worlds. The moment heightens the sense that danger is escalating.

Peter shows the pentagram to his girlfriend Claire after discovering it hidden in the false ceiling of the apartment below hers. Claire pulls a gun and threatens Maya, sparking a struggle that ends with Claire accidentally shot. The sequence intensifies the peril facing Maya and Peter.

Maya and Peter reach out to Father Lareaux, who has become possessed since Henry's exorcism, and an exorcism is carried out on him, killing him in the process. The exorcism ritual exacts a fatal toll on the priest once again. The loss pushes the investigation toward the next step.

Before dying, Lareaux tells Peter and Maya to seek Peter's uncle, Father James, who is celebrating Mass in a church with Peter's family. The message directs the protagonists toward a more intimate setting where the family is gathered. The narrative builds toward a climactic revelation.

Peter shoots his uncle and two other members of his family during the Mass, then drives off with Maya in his car. The attack reveals the true extent of Peter's transformation and the danger he represents to those around him. The escape leads them toward a final confrontation.

Peter stops his Land Rover under a blocked bridge and hands the gun to Maya. As the digital vehicle clock changes to 6:66 a.m., Peter transforms into the human incarnation of Satan and Maya shoots him dead. The confrontation resolves the long descent into darkness with a fatal final act.