Deadly Blessing

In the rolling hills of a simple farm community

untouched by time,

a gruesome secret

has been protected

for generations.

Hey!

- I brought you a surprise. - A surprise, huh?

I love you.

Faith stowaway often at this farm.

Oh! Get away from me, William Gluntz.

Ugly, Hittite pig brain.

- Stop it, Gluntz! - Incubus.

You retard!

Incubus.

Servant of the incubus.

Ma!

William, William!

Hell fire to the incubus!

Hell fire to you, Hittite!

Get back where you belong, William.

You're gonna be in trouble with Isaiah.

Infidel.

He chasin' you again?

He broke my paints, Ma.

I'll get ya some more.

Get on back home, Faith.

Go on.

You, know, uh--

William never really hurt anybody.

Tell that to Faith.

Every time she comes near that place

that Gluntz idiot starts chasin' her

like he was some kinda guard dog or somethin'!

Of course, I know it ain't nothin' you can help.

Well, you tell her she's welcome over here.

Well, I like her at home.

Out of people's hair.

Anyways, you have my thanks.

Okay, in a while we'll be calling on you for somethin'.

You do midwifin', don'tcha?

Hey,

don't say-- when?

It won't be until spring sometime.

Well, I hope it's a girl.

Boys ain't nothin' but trouble.

Incubus!

She incubus!

Whoa.

Uh!

Ow.

We have no use for that kind of machinery.

So do not covet what he has.

He is dead.

Do you understand?

Yes, Father, I understand.

I'm sorry.

Damn it.

Damn, damn, damn, damn!

Faith?

Faith!

You hear me callin' you?

Dinner's ready.

Sorry, Lou, I guess I'm just too busy thinkin' about what I'm doin'.

I think--

I think girls should--

paint their nails.

Not stuff like this.

Lots a girls paint, Momma.

There ain't no shame to it.

Wait 'til you see the next one I'm gonna do.

It's gonna be my masterpiece, that's all.

Martha, what are you up to?

What's this?

Thanks-- for the best anniversary I've had so far.

It's not surprising since it's our first.

New manure spreader?

Portable.

We'll save the bow.

Already we're history, right?

Nice suit.

Poppa knew this would happen if he let me go off.

Glad you went anyway?

Glad your stuck out in the country with your crazy Hittite?

Ex Hittite.

What's wrong?

Oh, just a little, uh, trouble with the tractor.

I pulled the wheels off.

I may go out and pack the bearings a little later.

You're a little bombed, no?

- Poo. - Who's bombed?

Besides, isn't there--

Isn't there anything else you can do tonight except pack bearings?

Hmm?

What the hell are you--

Jim?

Jim?

You in here?

Jim, Jim?

Ain't no need for you to wait any longer, Mam.

I'll stay 'til you're through.

They usually do that when one of their own dies.

Funny.

He kin to them?

Kin.

Evil one is among us.

Do you believe she calls and tells us not to come?

That's Martha. Turn here.

I never thought she'd isolate herself so much.

Who are these Hittites anyway, Amish or what?

No, no connection.

According to Martha, the Hittites make the Amish look like swingers.

Ain't no way we're gonna get in there.

There's always a way, if you want one.

Will, you gonna do it?

Or are you afraid your girlfriend's gonna come around and catch ya?

Ain't my girlfriend.

Nah, you just come around and peek in her window.

Watch it.

Okay.

Father Isaiah said this place was with the incubus.

If he knew--

Now who's chickens?

You get blue, you just call me.

I'm sorry that it-- it took this for us to get to know each other

a little better.

- Thanks. - It's nothin'.

Wow, big as a house.

I gonna look.

- Dare you to touch the blood. - Dare you.

Double dare goes first.

Honey, we thought you heard us.

Oh, I'm so glad you're here.

Do you have a clear deed to this place?

Did Jim leave a will?

Jim was very careful.

He'd just inherited this farm

when he got into a big fight with his father, Isaiah.

Well, what happened, anyway?

Jim was the first Hittite to go away to school--

to the city.

Isaiah was furious to begin with.

And then when Jim came back with me...

Isaiah kicked him out of the family.

He forbid anyone to even talk with us.

Called me the incubus.

What's an incubus?

Some sort of a devil

that seduces the faithful in his sleep.

Or it just comes after you and takes you like a beast.

Oh, God.

It's been an awful shock.

You'll feel better when we get you back to L.A.

I'm not going anywhere at least until spring.

Just stay with me for a week and I'll be all right.

I love you both.

To old friends.

You know what the cost of a shoe is?

I was fetchin' the calves to feed.

Caught in the mud.

My foot was stuck in mud

and when I pulled it out my shoe came off.

There is no mud on the shoe you have.

I washed it, so--

More than the cost of the shoe is the cost of the lie.

I will go get it.

- If I could find it. - You will find it.

If it takes all night.

And while you are searching,

keep in mind the wages of sin!

Whoa.

Matthew,

it is best I speak to this one.

Yes?

I have come only to speak for one of my people.

It's my boy.

He went out yesterday.

He lost one of his shoes and I told him to go find it.

But he never returned.

I've asked everyone.

Have you seen him?

William?

- The big boy? - Oh, yes.

This must have been yesterday-- in the evening maybe.

I'm sorry.

If-- if you see him--

If I see him, I'll drive him by.

Where's your farm?

- By the river, just by the-- - Matthew, Matthew,

you see how the glib serpent's tongue deceives you?

Would you put your son in her ungodly machine?

If it would bring him home.

She is with incubus.

She could not speak the truth if she knew it.

Go.

Wait by the wagon.

I will have one more word with her.

If you should see the boy before me,

I am the elder.

One more word.

I, too, have lost a son.