 Several days earlier , Black meets Emma Shetterly ( Gwynyth Walsh ) , the school 's vice @-@ principal . Shetterly explains that five students have claimed to be experiencing visions of Saint Mary ; she believes the girls involved are unlikely candidates for divine visions , particularly the trouble @-@ making Clare McKenna ( Genele Templeton ) . Black speaks to the girls , who claim to have had visions during a sermon by Reverend Hanes ; Hanes ' son Alex refutes this . Black returns to Shetterly 's office , and is met by Lara Means ( Kristen Cloke ) , who works with her husband in the Millennium Group . Means explains that the Group has explored many such reported visions . 
