(GRACE exits.)

LYMON: Hey, Grace! I’ll be right back, Boy Willie.

BOY WILLIE: Where you going, nigger?

LYMON: I’ll be back. I got to take Grace home.

BOY WILLIE: Come on, let’s move the piano first!

LYMON: I got to take Grace home. I told you I’ll be back.

(LYMON exits. BOY WILLIE exits and calls after him.)

BOY WILLIE: Come on, Lymon! Hey . . . Lymon! Lymon . . . come on!

(Again, the presence of SUTTER is felt.)

WINING BOY: Hey, Doaker, did you feel that? Hey, Berniece . . . did you get cold? Hey, Doaker …

DOAKER: What you calling me for?

WINING BOY: I believe that’s Sutter.

DOAKER: Well, let him stay up there. As long as he don’t mess with me.

BERNIECE: Avery, go on and bless the house.

DOAKER: You need to bless that piano. That’s what you need to bless. It ain’t done nothing but cause trouble. If you gonna bless anything go on and bless that.

WINING BOY: Hey, Doaker, if he gonna bless something let him bless everything. The kitchen . . . the upstairs. Go on and bless it all.

BOY WILLIE: Ain’t no ghost in this house. He need to bless Berniece’s head. That’s what he need to bless.

AVERY: Seem like that piano’s causing all the trouble. I can bless that. Berniece, put me some water in that bottle.

(AVERY takes a small bottle from his pocket and hands it to BERNIECE, who goes into the kitchen to get water. AVERY takes a candle from his pocket and lights it. He gives it to BERNIECE as she gives him the water.)

Hold this candle. Whatever you do make sure it don’t go out.

O Holy Father we gather here this evening in the Holy Name to cast out the spirit of one James Sutter. May this vial of water be empowered with thy spirit. May each drop of it be a weapon and a shield against the presence of all evil and may it be a cleansing and blessing of this humble abode.

Just as Our Father taught us how to pray so He say, “I will prepare a table for you in the midst of mine enemies,” and in His hands we place ourselves to come unto his presence. Where there is Good so shall it cause Evil to scatter to the Four Winds.

(He throws water at the piano at each commandment.)

AVERY: Get thee behind me, Satan! Get thee behind the face of Righteousness as we Glorify His Holy Name! Get thee behind the Hammer of Truth that breaketh down the Wall of Falsehood! Father. Father. Praise. Praise. We ask in Jesus’ name and call forth the power of the Holy Spirit as it is written. . . .

(He opens the Bible and reads from it.)

I will sprinkle clean water upon thee and ye shall be clean.

BOY WILLIE: All this old preaching stuff. Hell, just tell him to leave.

(AVERY continues reading throughout BOY WILLIE’s outburst.)