mother superior

Emily Watson plays the manipulative mother superior who slips Bill an envelope of cash to buy his complicity.

She’s barely there, making a couple of brief appearances as the nuns’ mother superior back in Calcutta, but she’s as tough and vivid as ever.

About three miles from downtown Galveston, 93 children lived at St. Mary’s Orphanage with 10 nuns, including Sister M. Camillus Tracy, the mother superior.

The mother superior and several nuns have left and armed guards are patrolling the site.

One convent said she had even pretended to be a mother superior – the head of a female religious community.