It can take no nourishment from what it ingests.It""s working on instinct - a deep dark primordial instinct." He described how he was performing Pavlovian conditioning experiments on the zombies to ""domesticate"" them and to find a cure for the apocalyptic plague and epidemic of undead swarming throughout the country: "It can be domesticated Sarah, don""t you see? It can be conditioned to behave the way we want it to behave.He was supposed to hang.But up North, they commuted it to life and now he""s free.I don""t know how.Anyway, it looks like he""s coming back.Amy: I still don""t understand.Kane:...He was always wild and kind of crazy.He""ll probably make rouble.Amy: But that""s no concern of yours, not anymore.Kane: I""m the one who sent him up.Amy: Well, that was part of your job.That""s finished now.They""ve got a new marshal.Kane: He won""t be here until tomorrow.Seems to me I""ve got to stay.Anyway, I""m the same man with or without this.(He pins his badge on his vest.)Amy: Oh, that isn""t so.Kane: I expect he""ll come lookin"" for me.Three of his old bunch are waiting at the depot.Amy: That""s exactly why we ought to go.Kane: They""ll just come after us, four of ""em, and we""d be all alone on the prairie.Amy: We""ve got an hour.Kane: What""s an hour?...What""s a hundred miles? We""d never be able o keep that store, Amy.They""d come after us and we""d have to run again, as long as we live.Amy: No we wouldn""t, not if they didn""t know where to find us.Oh Will! Will, I""m begging you, please let""s go.Kane: I can""t.Amy: Don""t try to be a hero.You don""t have to be a hero, not for me.Kane: I""m not trying to be a hero.If you think I like this, you""re crazy.And in Hadleyville, he is counting on getting special deputies sworn in to assist and other friends in a posse to support him.The fuss and bother never brings anybody back.It just spoils remembering hem as they really are.And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.This flying business is new to me.Sparks: You have to have some crazy way of looking at it to go on.Bonnie: Does this sort of thing happen very often?Sparks: Well, that depends on weather and luck.She has trouble reconciling the flyers"" love of flying and its inherent dangers and death (always around the corner): "It""s like being in love with a buzz saw.Hoskins from the window seat down to the cellar ("canal") for burial, according to a pre-arranged plan with his aunts.They are ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by Lyle (Burton Gilliam), the white-chain gang overseer:Now come on boys, where""s your spirit? I don""t hear no singin"".