Millennium · Season 1, Episode 6
“Kingdom Come” · Season 1, Episode 6
In this episode: Frank Black (4), Catherine Black (1)
'I love thee, oh Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock of refuge... my shield, the horn of my salvation, my strong horn...
If any one of you tries to leave, you will die. If you just sit down and sit still, I will tell you about the fiction and the fallacy as brought to you by the salesmen of salvation.
Who are you?
I... am the lamb.
In all these years, we work at a distance, with a remove. It helps us to objectify... so why is this one different to me?
The coldness, the calculation, the victims... merciless acts against the merciful.
I haven't been to church since I was eight. I've always been happily cynical. So why I am taking this so personally?
I feel it myself.
Have you and your wife raised Jordan in any particular faith, Frank?
No. Catherine and I haven't even dealt with it yet.
I know. My husband and I make it up as we go along.
Maybe faith is like the picture album left in the closet. We don't go back and visit it every day. We need to know it's there, need to know it's safe... so we can pass it along when the time is right.
The man who did this... who we believe did this... he does it without conscience. Is that evil?
There's a disconnectedness out there and those desperate with that feeling expect faith to fill the void and when it doesn't... they blame us.
I can't speak to that, father.
No?
I'm afraid my own faith is lacking.
Well, I've ministered to many who have lost their way.
I think my time would be better spent trying to catch the man who killed your friend.
Then you know the truth. You know that God has abandoned us. That's why you're afraid to die. Just like I am.
No.
You're lying.
I'm afraid, Galen, but not like you. You're afraid to die, because you fear God's judgment.
I've... lost my faith.
No, you've tried to kill it, but you can't. I've... seen your ritual. You try to kill your faith with the tools of your own belief because of your pain, because you think God's forsaken you. You think that you can get rid of your pain by slaughtering the faith that's inside you.
It is inside of me, isn't it? It just won't die.
Yeah. I was just thinking on the plane about this man Calloway. I felt how human he was... so inundated by pain, fragmented by grief. It led him to surrender his humanity.
I know, Frank. It scares me.
We can't stop evil but we can't lose our faith either.
And you're thinking that's what we need to teach Jordan.
I'm going to tell Jordan that bad things happen. And even though the bird died and it upset her, we have to balance sadness... with a sense of hope... and faith.
I still have faith, Frank... even in a world where men like that exist.
So do I.
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