Amos sneered at the TV screen.
"So here we come to Maurice Crandall and his mischief. And OF COURSE, they got him wrong. He was no satanist, no devil worshipper. The only think that he worshipped was himself."
"It was ridiculous when you think of it." Heather answered. "Devil worshippers are life fishes,y biting on what they are offered, and for a while they are happy. But then things do not work out as expected, and they are in hock to the power they invoked. It is an old, old story. Crandall understood the game – he played it himself. He got Irina in his power by following the devil's tricks. Knowing what he knew, he would not bite no matter how good the bait looked."
"Crandall was a sorcerer and he liked to have power. He always called the shots."
"There is something else that bugs me about the "devil worshipper" stuff. You cannot talk of the Devil without talking about God. Which means that you are talking theology. Scriptwriters should not do theology – they do it badly Also, quite often scriptwriters are Jewish, and they tie themselves in knows trying to get straight a theology that not their own."
"Notice too that in the show Crandall talks about 'his plan'" It is all very important, until he gets sidetracked and that plan is forgotten."
"In real life he had two reasons to come. He wanted to get his slave Irina back, and when he had recaptured Owen Raft he had learned about the "patchwork man" and that George Midler had died. He had had dealings with Midler, and now that he was dead, he wanted to know more about what he had been doing. Reason enough to come to Benchley Town. On his own. For his own sake, not as the errand boy of his Satanic Majesty."