Joan Hart

Joan Hart is a character that appeared in Damien - Omen II. She was a journalist who uncovered the truth about Damien.
She was played by Elizabeth Shepherd.
==Biography==
Joan worked in London as a freelance photojournalist, was a former associate of photographer Keith Jennings, and accompanied Charles Warren to Hazor, Israel, where they found the Whore of Babylon and Yigael's Wall, as well as the bodies of archaeologists Carl Bugenhagen and Michael Morgan.
=== Novelization ===
At some point in her life, Joan met archaeologist Michael Morgan; they fell in love, and were engaged to be married.
In June of 1971, Joan accompanied Morgan to Acre, Israel, where they met archaeologist and exorcist Carl Bugenhagen. Bugenhagen told Morgan of the existence of the Antichrist on earth, in the form of Damien Thorn, the adopted son of U.S. Ambassador Robert Thorn; After Robert's death by police while trying to kill Damien, the boy was placed in the care of Robert's brother Richard Thorn in Chicago. Joan wanted to go to America, fearing for their safety, but was rebuffed. Bugenhagen convinced Morgan to accompany him to Belvoir Castle, where Yigael's Wall was held, claiming that Damien's face was on the wall. Joan wanted to come, but was told to stay behind. At the hotel they were staying in, she waited for their return, but it was in vain; that night, Bugenhagen and Morgan were buried alive inside the castle ruins.
Driven by grief over Morgan's disappearance, Joan didn't accept that he was truly gone for a long time, and began a long crusade in search of the deaths surrounding Damien Thorn, having remembered Bugenhagen's claims that he was the Antichrist.
Seven years after the deaths of Bugenhagen and Morgan, Joan, who had been writing a biography on Bugenhagen, was assigned to write a report on Belvoir Castle. Seeing an opportunity to uncover what happened to Morgan, as well as an opportunity to prove Damien's identity as the Antichrist, she accompanied Dr. Charles Warren to the excavation site of Tel Hazor, funded by the Thorn Museum. They uncovered the Whore of Babylon and Yigael's Wall, as well as the skeletons of Bugenhagen and Morgan.
Having seen Yigael's wall, Joan realized Bugenhagen was telling the truth, and vowed to destroy Damien. Spending another week in Israel, Joan boarded an El-Air jet at Tel Aviv, and flew to Chicago to warn Damien's new guardian, Richard Thorn.
==Damien - Omen II==
Joan finds Richard Thorn leaving Thorn Industries, and goes with him in his car. Richard, who had told Warren to tell her he didn't like interviews, reluctantly allowed Joan to interview him. Mostly asking questions regarding Bugenhagen and Robert, Joan tries to warn Richard about the Antichrist, but he rebukes her and kicks her out of his car. Joan then visits Richard's wife Ann at the Thorn Museum, and tries to warn her about Damien's identity, but Dr. Warren soon finds out about her interview attempt with Richard and is furious with her. Knowing nobody will believe her, Joan leaves the museum.
Joan rents a car and drives to Davidson Military Academy, where she sees Damien playing soccer. Looking at his face, Joan is overcome with terror and drives away from the school, eventually driving so far away that she becomes lost in the farm country, where her car stalls on a deserted stretch of road. She gets out and sees a farm in the distance; deciding to run for shelter, she grabs her purse and sees a raven perched on the roof of her car. Realizing she is marked for death by the forces of evil for uncovering the truth, she tries to run away, but the raven attacks her and mauls her, ripping her eyes out of her head, and leaving her crying in agony, facedown in a muddy ditch on the side of the road.
Joan hears the distant sound of a semi-truck's diesel engine further up the road. Believing she can flag the truck down for help, she slowly crawls towards the road, gets to her feet, and walks onto the road, waving for help, but right into the path of the truck at the last second; the driver tries to swerve out of the way, but the truck strikes her with full force, instantly killing her and sending her lifeless body flying 20 feet into the air. When her corpse lands, the truck rolls over her neck before skidding to a stop 100 yards away.
==Trivia==
*In the film's novelization, the truck that kills Joan is an eighteen-wheeler Peterbilt; in the film, it's a ten-wheeler Mack.
==Gallery==
WhoreBabylonJoanHart.jpg|Slide of Hart next to the recently unearthed Whore of Babylon
JoanHartSlide.jpg|Slide of Hart at the Thorn Museum of Art dig at Hazor. 
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