The Blood Sister finale (p. 713)
and the Vice-M.S. has a writhing expression under her askew wimple like Go ahead, make the circle of recidivist retribution against the nun you thought had saved you but ultimately couldn't even save herself complete, complete the lapsarian circuit or whatever.
Context
The stand-off: the film names its own structure out loud — "the circle of recidivist retribution," "the lapsarian circuit" — and dares its heroine to close it. (She declines; the loop wins anyway.) Even the title cards of JOI's oeuvre know the theme's vocabulary.