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Mike

Age 32...General Manager, Quaker State Coal, controlling interest in the company owned by Seth Lord - that's the girl's father, huh?

Dexter

Uh, huh.

Liz

What a coincidence.

Mike

How did he meet her?

Dexter

Heaven brought them together, I imagine.

Mike

Now about this girl. Tracy Samantha Lord...Oh, what's her leading characteristic.

Dexter

[Mike is wearing a hat]

She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house. [leaves the room]

Liz

Leading characteristics to be filled in later.

Mike

I can fill them in right now: the young rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists.

Liz

And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.

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