Ulysses Everett McGill: I'm not sure that's Pete.Delmar O'Donnell: Of course it's Pete! Look at him!... We gotta find some kind of wizard to change him back.
Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon...
Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nothing but trouble.
Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still there boys, believe me.Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know about the treasure?Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...Pete: He said we wouldn't get get it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old man?