“Does this say ‘no harm’ to you?” Two points for the stranger, who asked Gabriel why he wore the priest’s collar. At that, the stranger produced Aaron’s mace. So sorry again, the preacher said, adding that they meant him no harm. “You figure that boar got into that room by itself?” One point for the stranger, zero for Gabriel. The stranger, you see, was ticked that our protagonists had eaten his boar and drunk his whiskey. As the stranger chowed down on leftovers, Gabriel endeavored to inquire about Aaron and his whereabouts. It was Robert Patrick, his face a leathery mess of scars that only Dwight’s could possibly rival. “What were you cookin’?” asked a figure emerging from the shadows. Later, after Aaron stole away to take a whizz, Gabriel woke up to find the sun out - and his friend still not back. (Hey, been there… ) When Aaron encouraged the preacher to return to the pulpit, Gabriel’s response was so bleak, you’d swear he’d just lived through 2020. ‘EVIL PEOPLE AREN’T THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE, THEY ARE THE RULE’ | The more soused Aaron and Gabriel got, the more intense their navel-gazing became. (Gabriel himself had been taught, if you were dying to know, by an old mentor, one who always said the right things to his congregation without it looking like he was trying.) (It didn’t.) That evening, they pigged out, played poker and got drunk on extremely expensive whiskey while the preacher schooled his pal like he was in a bourbon-centric version of Sideways. Gabriel, upon seeing that Aaron had found and killed a wild boar, cracked, “That was quite the scream,” then proceeded to laugh for so long, you might’ve thought the episode would otherwise have run short. “I’m a friend.” Receiving no response, he opened the door and shrieked. While Gabriel searched its office for booze, Aaron heard a noise in a back room.
Soon, the guys happened upon what appeared to be an unoccupied warehouse in which someone had amassed a large number of Bibles.