Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who prevents Josh from raping Megan? the Preacher arrives on horseback and rescues Megan
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Somewhere in California, at the end of the Gold Rush, several horsemen come riding down from the nearby mountains. They ride as if on urgent business.At a mining camp by a creek, prospectors calmly pan for gold and inspect their sluice boxes. A woman hangs up laundry. The riders approach the camp, crossing through the creek and through the local woods. Suddenly the dogs start barking furiously, and people stop what they're doing to look. A girl looks for her dog, Lindsay. The horsemen emerge from the woods, shooting guns as they enter the camp. They knock down shacks and tents, and kick people as they ride by. Megan's mother (Carrie Snodgress) shouts for Megan (Sydney Penny) as she runs after her dog Lindsay. Prospectors fight back feebly, but are no match for the horsemen. The horsemen shoot cattle and Megan's dog, and then chase donkeys as they leave. The people come out from hiding and assess the damage; the town is devastated. Megan is bent over her dead dog when her mother catches up to her. A man spits and calls the horsemen "sow-wallowing monkeys". Megan picks up her dog, crying. She takes the dog into the woods.Still crying, Megan buries her dog in the woods, and then recites the 23rd Psalm, interjecting her comments.Calm music plays, and local scenery is interspersed while she prays:The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."But I do want."He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul."But they killed my dog."Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil."But I am afraid."Thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."We need a miracle."Thy loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life."If you exist."And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever."But I'd like to get more of this life first.If you don't help us, were all gonna die.Please. Just one miracle. Amen."As she prays the last few lines, an image of a man (Clint Eastwood) riding a white horse mottled with black is superimposed on the screen, along...