The Store Robbery

Exorcist Falls

The convenience-store assault forces Jason to choose between passive obedience to his pact and allowing Malephar to stop immediate harm.

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A Routine Stop A Routine Stop from "Exorcist Falls". A Routine Stop An Ordinary Errand Jason and Ron enter a neighborhood convenience store for food, with their conversation already strained by the family’s past.

A Routine Stop from "Exorcist Falls". A Routine Stop An Ordinary Errand Jason and Ron enter a neighborhood convenience store for food, with their conversation already strained by the family’s past.

A Routine Stop An Ordinary Errand Jason and Ron enter a neighborhood convenience store for food, with their conversation already strained by the family’s past. A Sudden Threat Three masked gunmen burst in and order the customers to the floor, transforming an ordinary errand into a hostage crisis.

The Assault Begins The Assault Begins from "Exorcist Falls". The Assault Begins A Young Victim Targeted The gunmen grope and threaten a teenage girl while the others are ordered to remain down.

The Assault Begins from "Exorcist Falls". The Assault Begins A Young Victim Targeted The gunmen grope and threaten a teenage girl while the others are ordered to remain down.

The Assault Begins A Young Victim Targeted The gunmen grope and threaten a teenage girl while the others are ordered to remain down. Jason’s Constraint Jason fears acting without Malephar, but the threat to the girl makes inaction increasingly intolerable.

Ron Speaks Up Ron Speaks Up from "Exorcist Falls". Ron Speaks Up A Stranger Defended Ron rises and objects when the largest gunman treats the girl as an object for his use.

Ron Speaks Up from "Exorcist Falls". Ron Speaks Up A Stranger Defended Ron rises and objects when the largest gunman treats the girl as an object for his use.

Ron Speaks Up A Stranger Defended Ron rises and objects when the largest gunman treats the girl as an object for his use. A Different Side of Ron His intervention surprises Jason and complicates the simple moral judgments formed during the Hartman house crisis.

Jason Releases Control Jason Releases Control from "Exorcist Falls". Jason Releases Control A Deliberate Surrender Seeing Ron and the girl in immediate danger, Jason invites Malephar to take control of his body.

Jason Releases Control from "Exorcist Falls". Jason Releases Control A Deliberate Surrender Seeing Ron and the girl in immediate danger, Jason invites Malephar to take control of his body.

Jason Releases Control A Deliberate Surrender Seeing Ron and the girl in immediate danger, Jason invites Malephar to take control of his body. Help at a Price The demon’s power reverses the assault, but Jason’s choice reinforces the dangerous belief that evil can be safely used for good.

The Robbers’ Deaths The Robbers’ Deaths from "Exorcist Falls". The Robbers’ Deaths Violence Ends the Immediate Threat Malephar kills Marlon Meeks and Randy Connelly, while Dylan is struck by gunfire and dies.

The Robbers’ Deaths from "Exorcist Falls". The Robbers’ Deaths Violence Ends the Immediate Threat Malephar kills Marlon Meeks and Randy Connelly, while Dylan is struck by gunfire and dies.

The Robbers’ Deaths Violence Ends the Immediate Threat Malephar kills Marlon Meeks and Randy Connelly, while Dylan is struck by gunfire and dies. Witnesses See a Hero The survivors thank Jason, but he experiences the outcome as moral injury rather than uncomplicated triumph.

Evening, after Jason encounters Ron

Minutes after the robbery starts

During the robbers’ control of the store

As the assailant threatens Ron

At the end of the store confrontation