Children of the Corn Page #4

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It's a second honeymoon, huh?

That's a laugh.

That I still feel something for you--

if it means anything-- I think.

It's okay. You can say it--

that you hate my guts.

You hate my guts, and you've--

you've hated them for years.

No. There's no hate.

I don't hate. I--

I feel responsibility.

I don't even know

what you're talking about.

No. I don't think that you do.

I'm gonna go in now.

Lock all the doors

and roll up the windows.

Look, let's just get out of town

and find a phone booth, okay?

- I've got change.

- I'm sick and tired of your tantrums.

This is not a tantrum.

There is something wrong here.

I can feel it.

Please.

Please. Please.

- No, not this time.

- Please.

I'm not letting you push

my buttons anymore.

Please.

Burt, don't leave me in here.

Burt!

Burt, come back here!

Burt, please!

Son of a b*tch!

Burt, please!

We've gotta get out of here!

We've gotta

get out of here!

Burt!

Come on, we've gotta get outta here.

We've gotta get outta here.

Please!

Hello?

Anyone here?

Why are the adults sinners,

Malachai?

'Cause God said so.

Does God speak to you

and tell you this, Malachai?

No. He only speaks to lsaac.

But on this matter

he has spoken.

We must sacrifice

the adult sinners

to protect ourselves from

the outside world. This is our test.

All:
The will of God

be done. Amen.

Tsk. Damn you, Burt.

Who's there?

I know there's--

I know there's somebody there.

I can hear you.

Stop playing games.

Stop playing games!

Who are you?

We are your destiny.

Malachai,

what about the man?

God has provided

the woman first.

Burt. Burt!

Burt!

Burt!

"Then the Lord answered Job

out of the whirlwind, and said,

'Who is this that darkeneth counsel

by words without knowledge?"'

And please pass the corn.

What do you want?

Do you want the body

so you can cover it up?

It's in the trunk, okay?

Just take it. Take it!

We don't want his body, sister.

I'm not your sister!

We've come to give you peace.

No. No.

Burt! Burt!

Burt!

Burt!

Help me!

Help me!

Help me. Help me.

Help me. Help me.

Burt. Ah-hh.

Burt!

Burt!

Ah! Look at me!

Would you like to pray?

Pray?

The time for forgiveness has come

to an end for you, woman.

The time of judgment

is now at hand.

Hell yawns beneath you!

Say your own prayers, brother!

Help me, Burt.

Help me, help me.

Hey! Stop!

Vicky!

Don't. My wife's in there.

No more, brother.

No!

Where is she?

Where have you taken her?

So you've killed her?

The time of sacrifice is at hand.

Sacrifice? Sacrifice?

Kill kill kill

- kill kill kill kill.

- Kill him!

Kill kill kill kill kill!

Kill kill.

No!

My name is lsaac, chosen by

He Who Walks Behinds The Rows,

seer and prophet,

guardian of the corn!

Let my aim be true

if it is thy will!

You little bastard.

You little bastard!

You are a sinner.

You are a defiler of the corn.

It will do you no good

to curse me.

Bow to God's will.

What have you done with my wife?

Is she dead?

So it was that

the will of God be done.

Oh, so you enjoyed it.

The Lord loveth

a cheerful heart and a glad countenance.

Watch, all of you!

You better have more than kitchen knives

and screwdrivers, kiddies.

You'd better find a flamethrower.

This is my game.

I've played it before

on better courts than yours.

The Lord is not mocked.

Neither am l, sonny.

Neither am l.

I'm leaving now.

I'm gonna go find some people

and tell them about

what's happening here in Gatlin.

I don't think

they'll believe me at first--

I don't think I believe it myself--

but they will, eventually.

You guys all belong in an asylum

somewhere-- a loony bin.

Where are your parents?

I asked you a question!

Where are your parents?!

In the corn.

What does that even mean?

What have you done?

What's happened here?

Remand your soul to God,

for you will stand before

His throne momentarily.

I can take you, boy.

Don't make me prove it.

God is my strength.

That's what they told us

in the Marines.

Kill him! Kill him!

How do you like it?

It's unwise to mess with a guy

who spent three years

on jungle patrol.

Why don't you put that

in your god and smoke it?

I'm gonna blow the whistle

so hard when I get back.

Malachai:
Kill the outlander!

Kill him!

- Kill the outlander!

- Kill him!

Kill kill kill kill kill!

All:
Ah!

Whoa.

- What do we do now?

- I'm not going in there.

- Not without Malachai and lsaac.

- Me neither.

I can't...

- The Lord is displeased with us.

- Why?

First Ahaz,

his blood was spilled in the corn.

Then the man and the woman came.

They both killed.

- The man still runs free.

- They will catch him.

It doesn't matter if they do or not.

The Lord guided my aim--

and not into his heart,

only into his arm.

And he took the knife and broke it--

broken in two.

It was a sign.

A sign from a sinner?

The clay knows not

the potter's work.

All things do the work of God--

even the sinners,

though they not know it.

The outlander broke our knives.

We broke our covenant with God

when you spilled

Ahaz's blood in the corn.

But he-- Joseph was--

Ahaz was running away.

Your faith weakened.

You've led the biggest boys

for three years now.

Perhaps you've gotten prideful...

and this is your punishment.

He Who Walks Behind The Rows

is a jealous God.

He was old

when Jesus was unborn.

He is a god of favor,

but he's a god of sacrifice as well.

- But, lsaac--

- But he's a god of sacrifice as well!

For what other reason has he allowed

us to survive unseen and unnoticed

all these years while the world outside

grows more wicked?

You are old enough to remember

the time of the drought

before He Who Walks

Behind The Rows.

But now there's rain and corn,

and everything is good.

When God speaks to me, Malachai,

will you accept his will?

Yes, lsaac.

Praise God!

Praise the Lord!

Then let us pray.

The outlander is in God's hands.

You must give chase

until his time.

Like the blue man?

Yes, like the blue man.

There's an outlander in the corn--

an unbeliever, like the blue man.

Children:

The blue man, yea.

The outlander must be chased

to the clearing of the blue man.

There he'll be taken in sacrifice.

Only then will the covenant

be restored.

This is the word of God.

First, we'll sing our praise

to the Lord.

- Will you lead us in hymn?

- Yes, lsaac.

- Hallelujah!

- Children:
Hallelujah!

Sowing in the morning

Sowing seeds of kindness

Sowing in the noontide

and the dewy eve

Waiting for the harvest

and the time of reaping

We shall come rejoicing,

bringing in the sheaves

Bringing in the sheaves,

bringing in the sheaves...

- Sing on, you little bastards.

- We shall come rejoicing

- Bringing in the sheaves.

- There he is! Over there!

Boys:
What?

Go get him!

Boy:
I hear him!

Boy #2:

Go go go go!

- Go go!

- Run run run run run!

Boy:

I want to be the one who...

Boy:
Let me do it.

Let me do it. Let me do it!

Boy #2:
No.

Naham.

- Naham!

- I saw his shadow. I saw it.

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