(Luke 8:30)The more common quotation of the incident, sometimes called the Gerasene Demoniac, comes from The Gospel of Mark: And he asked him, "What is thy name?"

There Kinderman begins to find links between the victims and events in the previous novel, the exorcism of the twelve-year-old girl, Regan.

Kinderman entertains philosophical thoughts, trying for instance to work out how the concept of evil relates to God's plans for humanity.

Kinderman often alludes to his own favorite novel, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and both Shakespeare and Nietzsche influence the dialogues between him and a mysterious patient.

Further victims soon follow, including one of Kinderman's friends, Father Dyer,[a] who is slain in a hospital by draining his body of blood.

Here he finds suspects: Sunlight eventually tells Kinderman that the demon from the earlier novel aided him to possess the body of Damien Karras after the latter's death in an act of revenge for having been driven out of the little girl.

Sunlight spent many years trying to gain control of the body, which had suffered from injuries, during which time Karras was held in a mental hospital.

Thus the fingerprints of senility patients were found at the crime scenes; their bodies carried out the murders, but the Gemini was in control of them.

Dr. Amfortas dies in a home accident after being repeatedly terrorized by a possible evil Doppelgänger of himself (although he was terminally ill in any case, from a disease he refused to treat so that he could join his deceased wife).

[3] The Times countered that the list was not mathematically objective but was editorial content and thus protected under the Constitution as free speech.