DIEHL: You have to go to Hemingford. It's about 19 miles down there.
BURT: What about Gatlin?
DIEHL: There ain't nothing in Gatlin.
BURT: What do you mean: "There ain't nothing in Gatlin"?
DIEHL: Folks in Gatlin got religious. They don't like outsiders.
Isaac relates the prophecies of a demon called "He Who Walks Behind The Rows".
ISAAC: And He Who Walks Behind the Rows did say ... "I will send outlanders amongst you. A man and a woman. And these outlanders ... will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy."
BURT: Are your mommy and daddy around?
SARAH: They're in the corn field.
BURT: What are they doing there?
SARAH: All the grown ups are there.
BURT: Are they working there
or having a meeting?
SARAH: No. Isaac put them there.
ISAAC: He's displeased with you, Malachi.
MALACHI: What have I done?
ISAAC: Question Him not in vain. Do you not know you sacrificed Joseph without an offering? And did you not spill the blood of the old man when his oil and gasoline were still useful to us?
MALACHI: We have our own fuel now from the corn.
ISAAC: Sow not your pride, Malachi. We have not enough.
As the other children are hunting Burt, Job rescues him and hides him in a cellar.
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