![]() ![]() Gerry tells Natalie about the doll he found. Gerry and Natalie take a mutual interest in one another. Gerry uses the opportunity to negotiate a return to prominence when Monica calls back about his exclusive story. Since the case meets the criteria, the pope declares the miracle to be genuine. Natalie shows Gerry, Gyles, and Delgarde x-rays that prove Alice cured Hagan’s emphysema. Alice heals him after he pledges himself to Mary, and Hagan sees a demonic vision of Mary Elnor appear briefly behind his niece. Father Hagan begins having doubts about what happened when he discovers the broken kern baby. Townspeople erect a tent around the tree to turn it into a shrine. Journalists hound Alice, but she will only speak with Gerry, which gives him exclusive access to the story. The Vatican sends believing Bishop James Gyles and skeptical Monsignor Delgarde to investigate. The story of the miracle healing goes viral. After he does, Alice lays hands on Toby and he is able to walk again. Alice asks disabled boy Toby Walsh to pledge himself to Mary. The next day, townspeople assemble like Alice instructed. That night, Gerry dreams of a demonic Mary Elnor in Pequod Creek, although he does not know who she is. Gerry phones his former editor Monica Slade to tell her about Alice, but Monica dismisses the story due to Gerry’s notoriety. Alice tells them “Mary” will deliver a message through her the next day, and everyone assumes Alice means the Virgin Mary. After Alice experiences a vision, everyone is shocked to hear her speak. A voice in her head suddenly draws Alice to the tree outside. Gerry attends mass at Father Hagan’s church. Gerry decides to pursue a new story about Alice spontaneously gaining the ability to speak. Natalie Gates, who disbelieves Gerry’s claim that Alice spoke. Gerry rushes her to the nearby church where Father Hagan identifies the girl as his deaf, mute, and orphaned niece Alice Pagett. Gerry subsequently sees the girl kneeling in front of the tree and muttering. While driving that night, Gerry swerves to avoid a girl standing entranced in the middle of the road. To trump up his story, Gerry breaks the bizarre doll so he can connect it to the cow’s symbol through an imaginary curse. Whispers in his head draw Gerry to the tree where Mary Elnor died. Gerry discovers the mutilation was merely a case of a teenager painting a Metallica symbol on the cow. In the present, paranormal tabloid editor Max sends disgraced journalist Gerry Fenn, who lost his reputation after falsifying stories for a major paper, to report on a cow mutilation in Banfield. Everyone healed by Mary regains their previous afflictions. Prescott collects Mary’s ashes and binds them inside a kern baby doll bearing the impossible date February 31, 1845. Father Prescott leads a mob that nails a mask to Mary’s face, hangs her from a tree, and burns her body. Suspecting witchcraft, townspeople submerge Mary in Pequod Creek until she confesses to being Satan’s servant. ![]() Mary heals those who pledge their souls, but those who challenge Mary meet tragic fates. In the town of Banfield, Massachusetts in 1845, Mary Elnor performs miracles after claiming the Virgin Mary gave her divine powers. ![]()
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