![]() ![]() Jamie reluctantly agrees, and Astrid is cured. Jacobs agrees to heal her, but only if Jamie will become his personal assistant for one last experiment. ![]() Later, Jacobs contacts him Jamie's childhood sweetheart, Astrid, has developed terminal cancer. As it turns out, many of them have experienced similar side effects, and some have killed themselves and others as a result. This leads him to start looking into the many others that Jacobs has healed. ![]() Jamie, meanwhile, grows up to become a musician and begins using heroin, which stops when he meets Jacobs again – Jacobs' unorthodox electrical treatment successfully cures him of his addiction.Īfter being treated, Jamie experiences strange side effects, including sleepwalking and jabbing himself in the arm with sharp objects while in a fugue state, as if trying to inject heroin. Stricken with grief, the reverend denounces God and religion during a sermon, is banished from the town, and spends many years pursuing a career as a sideshow huckster before pretending to regain his belief in God and becoming a prolific faith healer, fuelled by lifelong experiments with electricity. Jacobs and her child die in a gruesome auto accident. ![]() Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, and his young son. When Charles Jacobs, a new minister, comes to town, young Jamie Morton is excited. ![]()
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