I just had a new thought. In the movie version of exorcist III when the old lady goes to confess before killing father Kanavan, she was confessing about her sins. My question is could she really have been genuinely confessing them, since she was possessed and felt her body was taken over, and felt guilty, or was it still a trick to mock father Kanavan before killing him?
shareWe find out later that the Gemini does kill people exactly in the manner of the victim "in Candlestick Park" he mentions to Fr. Carnavan, so we're meant to think that the Gemini is really telling the truth to the priest. It's not the old lady speaking at all. Nor is the Gemini exactly mocking the priest - his motivation is to shock and terrify the priest, and then to kill him. Knowing that the priest will be dead within minutes, the Gemini has nothing to lose in telling the priest the truth about one of his prior murders.
shareI've always felt as if the Gemini was mocking Father Kanavan - not with his confession about the murders, but with his initial statement, as he/she says speaks about all of those overly religious concerns, feelings of guilt when stepping on something in the shape of a cross etc. Just some over the top religious feelings that are supposed to get the attention of Father Kanavan before the Gemini actually "introduces" himself by talking about his previous murders and then going on to perform another one.
shareThat's a nice observation - the confession of unspectacular sins of scrupulosity before slamming Kanavan with the Big One and then killing the unfortunate padre...
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