TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One - KACL Frasier is finishing his show. Frasier: Our topic today has been honesty--the courage to face each other with the plain truth. I've certainly enjoyed myself these last few hours, I hope you have too. This is Dr. Frasier Crane, wishing you good mental health. He goes off the air, Roz comes into his booth. Frasier: Well, that was a dog of a show. Roz: They all blend. [picks up a message slip on Frasier's console] Oh, you got a message. A Blaine Sternin called-- Frasier starts and recoils from the slip like it's a rattlesnake. Frasier: Blaine Sternin! [gives her back the slip] Call him back, tell him I'd dead! Roz: [rereads the slip] Sternin? Is he related to Lilith? Frasier: Yes, he's Lilith's half-brother, the curse of the family! What does it say when Lilith is the good one? Roz: He sounded charming on the phone. Frasier: Well, of course he sounded charming. Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine! The man will say anything to get what he wants! Roz: I can't believe I haven't dated this guy. Frasier: The only reason he'd be contacting me is to separate me from my money. The man is always coming with some sucker's sob story, while he's busy living the high life in Laughlin, Nevada! You know, he once stole from me a very precious antique: my 18th Century English salt server. Roz: Well, if you don't mind Elvis, you can have mine. [gives him back the slip] Frasier: [looks at it] Oh, dear God. Roz: What? Frasier: This number he left... it's local. The beast walks among us. [SCENE_BREAK] Scene Two - Apartment Martin, Niles, and Daphne are
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.