 The DVD features an optional directors alternate ending from the theatrical  version. In the scene near the end after Frankie (Patricia Arquette) is freed  from her affliction, Father Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) carries her outside in  his arms and sits at a bench, and we see her collapse in his arms. He looks  up to see her holding a bird in her hand, then she walks away. After she  apparently walks away, he looks back down to see her lifeless body still in  his arms 