[hatter76]

It’s a good question, But I don’t personally feel Like it needs an answer.
From my Point of view, Merrin New in Iraq that he Wouldn’t Live through the next Battle, he Never expected to Survive it, But Still Kept Going Until his Body went out.

[granville1]

Merrin doesn’t have the heart attack. Karras doesn’t jump out the window. Regan MacNeil dies. A “downer” much worse than the one some people think happened, namely Karras either committing suicide or being forced out the window, “murdered” by the demon. Regan’s death would be a gaping black hole, leaving nothing but grief and terrible, terrible questions. A truly _horrific_ ending to a horror novel.

[colombiancannon]

My ending is the possessed Karass grabs Regan and they both leap out the window. Very grim ending.

[Gabriel]

Merrin survives. Regan dies. Kinderman arrests Merrin, Chris and Karras. The result is a massive media frenzy and a major trial, which drags in every echelon of the Catholic Church and the whole of the entertainment media.

Chris’s career is destroyed and she ends up penniless after all her legal fees bankrupt her. Karras is made a scapegoat, is thrown out of the priesthood, struck off the medical register and imprisoned for five years. Merrin is judged to be in too ill health to stand trial, especially after allegations of an incident in Holland in the 1940s where he ‘helped’ Nazis slaughter the population of a village.

The Catholic Church quietly retires Merrin, who dies before the case comes to court.

Karras, driven to despair after three years, commits suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the prison building. Rumours persist that it was murder, but other than a small story in the papers, the death is glossed over.

Karras’s body is returned to Georgetown, as the Church quietly agree to bury him as one of their own. An elderly priest is sent to pray over Karras before his burial and disappears shortly thereafter.

About fifteen years later, Kinderman investigates a number of killings bearing similarities to the modus operandi of the Gemini Killer.

In a mental hospital in Georgetown, there sits a patient, who was found wandering the streets years before with a severe head injury, who claims to have knowledge of the murders . . .

[drexul]

this is one of the most interesting posts in a while. Makes me wish a sort of “alternate universe” novel would be written based on this premise.

[pazrags]

what do you think would happen if merrin did not have a heart attack? Do you think the exorcism would have been successful? And not meaning as to what happened to his heart in exorcist II the heritic.. any thoughts??

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