As the conversation turns sour and the weather outside worsens, the two frightened women ask to leave.
Hugh Grants previously charming Mr. Reed informs them that they cant leave and starts a psychological game.
There, they encounter an emaciated older woman who eats a poisoned pie at Reeds command.
She dies soon after, only to seemingly return to life minutes later.
It is then that Reed’s plan becomes clearer.
This suggestion appears to anger the usually placid villain, who suddenly slits Sister Barnes throat without warning.
Amused, Reed asks Paxton to flesh out her theory.
Sister Paxton accurately guesses Reeds planinHeretics ending, and it is a gruesome, convoluted test of her faith.
The woman who seemingly died and was reborn was, in reality, two different women.
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Reed puts them at ease by claiming his non-existent wife is baking an imaginary blueberry pie.
However, there are clues to the reveal dotted throughout the plot.
The fact that the prophet dies by eating a blueberry pie thus hints at another deception.
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When Paxton rejects this and explains how he really pulled off the plan, Reed is amused.
In this twisted way, Grants character is trying to help them achieve enlightenment.
Reed wants to makeHeretics heroine see that religion is about control rather than freedom.
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Paxton works out his plan before she kills Reed with help from a dying Barnes and flees the house.
To this end, Reed offers what seems like concert evidence of a real-life resurrection.
When this fails to convince Barnes, he kills her and tries to convince Paxton.
Hereticis currently playing in theaters.
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