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Can someone explain the dream sequence?


I got bits of Exorcist III in it with the clock....who was the woman in the dream? Please explain it if you can.

It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the heights of Heaven to the depths of Hell!

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The clock is not only a reference to Exorcist III Legion - Legion's use of the clock refers back to the original Exorcist, where Merrin sees a clock stop.

In Dominion, I would guess that the dream woman represents the mother of one of the kids the Nazis were killing at the beginning of the film. If memory serves, it shows the woman with wind blowing her hair and on the soundtrack is heard a woman's voice saying, "Bring him back to me..." ... which I interpret as a plea from a murdered child's mother to Merrin's guilty conscience: "Bring my child back to me" - although of course this is something beyond Merrin's power to do.

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