When the Vatican observatory priest sees the appearance of a comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the Armageddon. Meanwhile, the USA President's godson Robert Thorn is informed in the maternity in Rome by Father Spiletto that his wife Katherine has just lost her baby and she had troubles with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto suggests Robert that another just born child that lost his mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert accepts the child and gives the name of Damien. Robert is promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When Damien's nanny commits suicide in his birthday party, a substitute, Mrs. Baylock, comes to work and live with the family. Along the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan, who tells him that Damien is the son of devil. When the priest dies in a bizarre accident, the photographer Keith Jennings shows evidences to Robert that the boy is the ...
Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Synopsis:
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Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber), an American diplomat stationed in Italy, is told that his son died soon after birth. To spare the anguish of his still unconscious wife, Katherine (Julia Stiles), Robert accepts the suggestion of the hospital's Catholic priest, Father Spiletto (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) to secretly adopt another newborn whose mother died in childbirth. Robert and Katherine raise the boy as their own and name him Damien.Robert's career ascends over the course of the next five years. He is named Deputy Ambassador to the Court of St. James (the United Kingdom), and after the ambassador dies in a bizarre accident, becomes Ambassador and settles in to a large estate just outside London. However, disturbing events start to revolve around Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick), the most prominent being his nanny hanging herself at his birthday party, driven to do so by a large black German Shepherd.Soon afterward, Robert is approached by Father Brennan (Pete Postlethwaite), who delivers an eerie warning and seems to know the truth about Damien's birth, at which point Robert has him escorted out. Meanwhile, photographer Keith Jennings (David Thewlis) finds that several of his photographs contain mysterious signs, later revealed to foreshadow a series of shocking deaths.A new nanny, Mrs. Baylock (Mia Farrow), is hired and tells Damien that she has been sent to protect him. Tension between Mrs. Baylock and the Thorns rises when the nanny starts to make decisions against their wishes, including bringing a large watchdog (a Rottweiler) to the home without their consent. On the way to the previous nanny's funeral, Damien becomes terrified as they approach the church, attacking Katherine.That night Katherine experiences a first premonition/nightmare dream about Damien. The following day a field trip to the city zoo ends with various species of primates going berserk at the sight of Damien. Katherine suspects that there is something not right about her son, but Robert brushes off her concerns.Robert is again confronted by Father Brennan, who tells him that Damien must die and a man called Bugenhagen, located in Megiddo, can show him how. Enraged, Robert sends him away again. Caught in a torrential storm, Brennan attempts to seek shelter in a church, but the door is mysteriously bolted. A lightning bolt strikes the church steeple, causing him to be impaled by a large steel rod which falls from the roof.Upon discovering she is pregnant, Katherine wants to have an abortion, fearing another child like Damien. Robert refuses to consider it. While watering plants on an upper floor, Katherine is knocked off a chair by Damien riding his scooter, and tumbles over the railing. He ignores her pleas for help and she falls several stories, severely injuring herself and suffering a miscarriage. After the bedridden Katherine begs her husband, "Don't let him kill me.", Robert finally accepts that something is amiss with his son.Fueled by Father Brennan's warnings and further information from Keith Jennings, Robert and Jennings go in search of Damien's real mother. After meeting a nun in Rome, they discover that the hospital where Damien was born burned down. They then go to a monastery in Subiaco and meet Father Spiletto, now wheelchair-bound and badly disfigured, who tells them where Damien's mother is buried.They find the grave of Maria Avedici Santoya, Damien's real mother, in the old cemetery of Cerveteri, and discover that it contains the skeleton of a jackal, implying that Damien cannot be human. In the neighboring tomb, Robert discovers the corpse of a human infant with a cracked skull, revealing that his biological son was murdered at birth. He and Jennings are suddenly attacked by a pack of rottweilers, and barely escape.Meanwhile, Mrs. Baylock visits Katherine in the hospital under the pretense of delivering flowers and then induces an air embolism by introducing air from an empty syringe into her IV, killing her.After learning of Katherine's death, Robert decides to follow Brennan's advice and kill Damien. He goes to Megiddo and meets Bugenhagen (Michael Gambon), who tells them that Damien is the long-prophesied Antichrist, and the only way to destroy him is to take him to holy ground and kill him with the seven sacrificial daggers of Megiddo. To prove his claims, Bugenhagen tells Robert to examine Damien for the 666 birthmark. Robert at first expresses disbelief, refuses to kill his son and leaves. However, Jennings is determined to go through with the plan, and picks up the daggers. After a brief exchange of words with Robert, he is suddenly decapitated by a falling sign. This pushes Robert to change his mind.Robert arrives home during a torrential storm. The dog attacks but Robert manages to trap it. He then goes upstairs to Damien's room and quietly cuts away Damien's hair to reveal the 666 birthmark. Mrs. Baylock attacks suddenly, but Robert is able to fight her off and takes Damien outside to his car. Mrs. Baylock pursues them and Robert runs her over with the car.Robert, pursued by the police, drives to a church to kill Damien on consecrated ground, but as he is about to use the sacred dagger, he is killed by an officer of the Diplomatic Protection Group.Robert's funeral shown in parallel to the death of the Pope is attended by the President of the United States. After the service is over, the Secret Service informs the President that his car is waiting. The President is seen to be holding the hand of Damien, whom he has presumably adopted. The last shot shows Damien slowly turning to give the camera a diabolical smile.

Harvey Stephens, who portrayed Damien in The Omen (1976), appears in this remake as the tabloid reporter who asks Robert Thorn if the deceased nanny "was on drugs".
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During filming, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick was never told that his character was supposed to be the son of the Devil; co-star Julia Stiles has commented that it was because the filmmakers thought "he was too young to understand it, but he was really obedient when John asked him for the Damien face."
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The role of Katherine Thorn was originally offered to Rachel Weisz who declined because she was pregnant at the time. Other actresses considered for the part were Laura Linney, Hope Davis and Alicia Witt, before Julia Stiles who finally got the part. Stiles and Mia Farrow were both in a play together, and Stiles suggested to director John Moore that they use Farrow for the role of Mrs. Blaylock (Damien's nurse). Initially Moore didn't think that Farrow would accept the role, but Stiles convinced him she would. Eventually he just rang up Farrow at her home and offered her the part.
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The film was released to coincide with the date 06/06/06 in order to spark interest and gain publicity.
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The studio originally wanted the film to receive a PG-13 rating but John Moore insisted on an R-rating, suggesting people would "smell a cop-out" if a remake of The Omen (1976) was to receive a family friendly certificate.
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In Damien's bedroom, the wallpaper is a floral vine design curved in such a way as to make a wall of sixes.
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The movie was released on the 30th anniversary of the original.
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The teaser trailer was actually Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick's screen test.
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The text of the newspaper announcement of Thorn's appointment reads: TOP JOB FOR US PRESIDENT'S GODSON 34 Year old is USA's Youngest Ambassador LONDON - Robert Wade Thorn has been appointed by the White House as the new ambassador to the Court of Saint James. Thorn, at 34 years old, is the youngest appointee in the history of the US. The post became available to Mr. Thorn following the tragic death last month of his predecessor and former boss, US Ambassador to Italy, Mr Stephen Haines. Haines had been named as the new UK Ambassador and was due to take up the post this week when he was killed in a bizarre traffic accident in Rome city center on May 14. Thorn, a Connecticut native, and constant fixture on the Washington DC "rising star" list has often been regarded as a close confidante of the US President's inner circle..." (The text repeats at least three times within the article.)
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The day after they filmed the scene where Robert cuts his son's hair to reveal the birthmark, the entire scene was completely destroyed.
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Pierce Brosnan and Jim Carrey were both considered for the role of Robert Thorn.
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Throughout the movie, director John Moore uses the color red to signal a supernatural event, much like 'M. Night Shyamalan' (although more proliferative) in The Sixth Sense (1999).
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Roger Ebert, one of the top critics at the time, gave this ***, a higher rating than he gave the original.
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Second remake in two years for Liev Schreiber after 'The Manchurian Candidate (2004)'.
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James Nesbitt was originally up for the role of Jennings until the director eventually went for David Thewlis.
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The telescope at the start of the film is a double refractor by Zeiss, at the Stefánik Observatory in central Prague.
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This movie has a link to Harry Potter reconnecting David Thewlis (Professor Lupin) and Michael Gambon (Professor Dumbledore)
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The opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss, is about the step-daughter and niece of King Herod. Herod, desiring Salome, asks her to do the dance of the seven veils in exchange for her heart's desire. Salome agrees, but after the dance requests the head of John the Baptist on a platter. She receives the head, but Herod, frightened and superstitious, orders Salome to be killed.
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At 44min 20secs, the meeting under the "Orange Yard W1" bridge was filmed on the North side of the Charles Bridge in Pague. Exact address for the camera location is 7 Na Kampe, Prague. Llooking to the South.
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The nanny hanging scene was staged in the East gardens of Lednice Castle, Lednice, Czech Republic.
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Julia Stiles was born in 1981,the same year that Omen III The Final Conflict (1981) came out.
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Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles, who play husband and wife, played brother and sister in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000).
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According to the newspaper account shown in the film, Robert Thorn's middle name is Wade and he is a native of Connecticut.
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Mia Farrow's death kiss (to Julia Stiles) wasn't scripted and no one knew she was going to do it.
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Julia Stiles did her own stunt when she fell to the floor (when Damien tries to kill his mother). The flooring for that scene was specially built and padded so that she could safely do the fall.
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The death of Mrs. Baylock by having Robert hit her with his car was originally scripted and filmed in The Omen (1976), but scrapped by director Richard Donner for being excessive.
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A curiosity here has Mia Farrow playing nanny to devil child Damien, when she'd previously played the "mother" of a devil child in Rosemary's Baby (1968).
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In the final car chase scene, the engine of the Lexus that Robert is driving sounds more like a single seater sports car than a family saloon.
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In the final car chase scene, the engine of the Lexus that Robert is driving sounds more like a single seater sports car than a family saloon.
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Boom mics visible during the Thorns' discussion in Robert's office, in Father Brennan's home when Thorn and Jennings are investigating, and when Thorn and Jennings are speaking to Bugenhagen.
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The name Megido is not derived from the word Armageddon, but rather the other way around. Armageddon is Latin distortion of "Har Megido", or "Mount Megido" in Hebrew.
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The town of Megido that father Spiletto tells Robert about is not "just south of Jerusalem" but actually much to the north. It is located between Haifa and Hadera.
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On the wall in Damiens' room is a child's drawing of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, on the sails of each the red cross pattèe, a form of the 'crux immissa quadrata.' It is highly unlikely that the child would not have recognized or sensed the religious import of these crosses given his reaction to the icons at the church. He would have rejected having any interest in duplicating them.
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When the photographer shows Ambassador Thorn the newspaper account of the priest's death, the headline has a grammatical error. It reads: "Freak accident during yesterdays unseasonal storm". "Yesterdays" should be "yesterday's".
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At the start, we see a Vatican astronomer looking through a telescope. He has a bright white lamp pointing directly into his face. No astronomer, professional or amateur would work like this.
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When the armed police arrive in the church at the end of the film a police officer raises a hand gun and fires it, only one shot is heard but then another officer lowers a rifle which is smoking as if it had been fired.
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During the final chase scene, Robert is seen holding Damien down with his left hand while Damien kicks and screams. However, when he is shown driving, he is using both of his hands to steer the car. With each cut back to Damien, he is being held down again.
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During the scene in which Katherine brings Damien to visit Robert at work (near the beginning of the movie), Damien is clearly seen being carried in her arms. However, when Robert finally meets with Katherine to inform her of his promotion, Damien is no where in sight.
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When Ambassador Thorn arrives at the Embassy after the nanny suicide, one of the reporters is played by Harvey Stephens, the original Damien from 1976. When Thorn is heading towards the door he is followed by Harvey Stephens at his right side. In the following shot, when we see them walking towards the camera, Stephens has moved to the left side of the Ambassador.
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The first shot of the Nanny on the roof shows her feet projecting slightly over the ledge. In a subsequent rear shot of her, her feet are clearly well back safely from the front of the ledge. This is understandable since the actual actress was doing the scene on the actual roof.
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When Jennings shows Thorn the first picture of Damien's birthday party, we can see its outline from behind and it shows a different event.
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At the end when Robert Thorn takes Damien in the car to take him to the church, Robert clearly puts a car key into the ignition to start the car. The 2006 Lexus GS which Robert drives throughout the movie, however, does not have a conventional key with ignition, but instead has a key-fob with push button start.
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At the end when he is driving away from his house, the sides of Robert's car are visibly damaged. When he stops by the church, the sides are in perfect condition.
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When the photographer took the picture of Father Brennan as he was leaving the building where Damien's father worked at, the guard escorting him had no weapon visible. However, when the photographer was developing the pictures in his studio, the picture of Father Brennan and the guard could be seen and the guard was then shown holding a type of automatic weapon.
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After Katherine turns around to look at the nanny on the roof, a subsequent shot from the roof reveals the crowd in front of the house below which does not contain Katherine.
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The 'Bishop's Park' sign in 'London' is obviously only made of card and stuck on a Prague wall as one side can be seen to lift off during the storm.
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At the end of the film when Robert is driving to the church, both Robert and the Police are driving on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left as would be proper in the UK.
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During the final chase when Thorn is taking Damien to a church with British police officers in pursuit, Czech script ('Prague 2 Municipal District') is clearly visible on the shop fronts.
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Thorn and Jennings are seen going through military road blocks on the way to the narrow streets of Megido. But Megido is a green Kibutz located well within Israel.
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In the final car chase there are tram lines visible, yet there are no tramlines in central London.
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When the front of the American embassy in London is shown it appears to be on the river, when in fact it is in Grosvenor Square nowhere near the river.
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Father Brennan asks Robert Thorn to meet him at Bishop's Park, by the bridge. Bishop's Park is in Fulham/Putney, which is in SW6. However, in the scene where they meet, the camera pans over a street sign for Orange Yard W1, which is in Central London close to Soho.
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The view along the front of the American Embassy shows the London Eye and Big Ben in the distance. Neither of these landmarks are actually visible from this location.
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When Robert goes to the opera to see Richard Strauss's "Salome," the final bars of the opera's music are heard, and the next scene is Robert in the lobby, about to be approached by Father Brennan. Soon after, the house lights began flashing to indicate that intermission is over. "Salome" is a one act opera, no intermission is given.
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When the Nanny jumps off the balcony at Damien's birthday party, the distance to the ground and the rope are way too long - her head would rip off.
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When Thorn and the photographer arrive in Megido they're stopped at an Israeli check point, but the Israeli army doesn't use the German style helmets used by the US Army and other armies.
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The skeleton of the baby in the grave appears to have a fully formed skull. If the child died as a baby or even a year later, the sutures would not have closed up yet, leaving the skull basically in pieces.
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Jennings develops his photo prints in a red-lighted darkroom, but in the background there is white light coming through windows behind him. This would ruin the prints.
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Even though Thorn is supposed to be the American ambassador, his car does not have diplomatic service number/license plates.
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When Father Brennan visits Robert at the US embassy in London, the US flags in the background can be seen resting on the floor. It is against US regulation to have the flag ever touch something beneath it, especially the floor and unlikely that such an offense would go unnoticed by the government officials working there.
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The opening shot of the telescope shows several white lamps around the eyepiece end of the telescope. This is exactly what you do not want when making visual observations at night.
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The tramp knocks the choc away from the fuel truck. The cigarette is dropped after this event, and is far uphill from the fuel spill, and could not have ignited the fuel as shown.
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At around 58mins, the photographer shows Thorn a number of printed images.These are all badly focused, poorly exposed or otherwise not the work of a professional or even good amateur.
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At the beginning of the film when Robert Thorne is being driven through Rome, the date is June 6th and the time is specified as being sometime after 6.00AM (the time the babies are born, which he misses). The sun rises in Rome at 5.30am at that time of year, which would mean it would be light outside, but Robert is being driven in the dark. The original 1976 film made exactly the same mistake.
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At Damien's birthday party, which takes place in June, the dog's breath is visible even though it is summer. The original 1976 film made exactly the same mistake.
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In the newspaper announcement of Thorn's appointment as ambassador, the same text is repeated several times.
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When the spike falls from the church tower to kill the priest it goes through a stained glass window. In slow motion, you can see the glass breaking completely and then the spike appearing out of thin air, when it should have been visible from the very first break in the glass.
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During Father Brennan's flight to the church, lightning strikes near him two times; once it strikes the fence just after he scales it and the second time it strikes and severs the lightning rod, impaling him. At neither time is the lightning strike accompanied by the sound of thunder; a lightning strike so close to the priest would be accompanied with almost simultaneous thunder.
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When the limousine is collided by the gasoline truck, the impact of the explosion would have caused damage to the car. The car is in perfect condition throughout the entire explosion - it even keeps it's sheen.
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When Jennings shows Thorn the clipping from the Rome newspaper announcing the birth of Thorn's son, it is obvious that the prop "newspaper" has only been printed on one side of the page.
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The camera the photographer uses is a Nikon D2x - a digital camera - making it implausible that he later makes prints of the photos he took.
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At Damien's party, when the Nanny turns to look at the Dog, a leash is visible on the dog's right along the ground. As it is Devil incarnated as a dog it should not be on a leash.
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When Robert Thorn escapes in the car with Damien to take him to the church to kill him, the damage caused by Mrs Baylock and from his evasive driving varies from shot to shot.
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A bubble of air in an IV line would not be able to go throughthe pump. The pumps notice when there are air bubbles and beep, saying "air". Even if this pump did not have this feature, which is highly doubtful, the air pumped into Kate's vein is not a lethal dose.
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