A Blaine Sternin called--
Frasier starts and recoils from the slip like it's a rattlesnake. A wheelchair? Blaine: Frasier, look, I don't know how to prove this to you, but I swear all I really came for was your forgiveness--first of all, for stealing that little teapot. Blaine: I guess it started with my car accident. Blaine: Is that what that was? Frasier: Daphne, you left him alone in the kitchen? Frasier: Salt server. Frasier: This charade has got to stop right now! Frasier: [after glaring at Niles] Oh, Daphne...
Daphne: I come from a large family of scoundrels and n'er-do-wells, who repeatedly promised me they'd change their ways, and never made any effort. He goes to the curio cabinet by the door and takes out the box with the salt server in it. He spent hours trying to save my soul. He takes out his wallet as everyone else reaches for their wallets and purses. He trails off when he sees Blaine sitting in a wheelchair. I know these words sound strange, but I've had a deeply religious conversion. I will prove once and for all that this man is a fraud! Kelp futures. Martin: [turns off the TV] Lilith's half-brother. Mr. Sternin's on his way up. Now I've got to expose Blaine for the charlatan that he is. There I was, at the lowest point a man can be... and He came to me. There was this young preacher who had a show of his own on Sunday mornings. Well, not this time. [SCENE_BREAK]
Scene Two - Apartment Martin, Niles, and Daphne are watching television.
Plan: A: Blaine Sternin; Q: Who is Lilith's half-brother? A: Michael Keaton; Q: Who played Blaine Sternin? A: Seattle; Q: Where does Blaine live? A: an expert con-man; Q: What does Frasier remember Blaine as? A: kelp; Q: What did Blaine sell Frasier futures in? A: a valuable salt server; Q: What did Blaine steal from Frasier? A: his ways; Q: Blaine claims to have seen the error of what? A: forgiveness; Q: What does Blaine ask Frasier for? A: a empty wheelchair; Q: What does Frasier find outside his apartment? Summary: Lilith 's half-brother, Blaine Sternin (played by Michael Keaton ), has come to Seattle . Frasier remembers him as an expert con-man , who sold him futures in kelp and stole a valuable salt server from him years ago. He is now resolutely determined not to fall for any more scams. Blaine turns up at his door in a wheelchair, announcing that he had a car accident which left him paralysed from the waist down. He claims to have had a deep religious conversion and seen the error of his ways, and to be working now as a preacher . He returns the salt server and asks Frasier for forgiveness. Niles, Martin and Daphne are all convinced, but not Frasier, and he refuses to rest until everyone else realises what a charlatan this man is. After he embarrasses himself trying to prove Blaine is a fake, Frasier concedes and forgives him, only to find out later that his instincts were right and that Blaine was faking the whole time when he finds a empty wheelchair outside his apartment.