CAROL:

I guess you are a wizard. Can you...

WIZARD:

Please, please, no business! That's
the trouble with you Americans. With
you every minute it's business, business,
business. You never relax.

First, we have tea.
(turns and leaves the room)

JIM:

Weird.

CAROL:

I'd like to know how he knew we were
trying to make a drug film.

JIM:

The old woman probably called him up.

BRUCE:

Yes, that makes sense. Its our being here
in the first place that's a screwball idea.
What we need, my esteemed director, is facts
not...

The wizard returns with a tray containing four tea cups
and a steaming pot.

WIZARD:

That is where you are mistaken, young man.
You already have too many facts. Now
please sit.
(motions to a table)

They take seats and he pours each of them a cup of tea.

BRUCE:

OK, I'll bite. Why don't we need facts?

WIZARD:

Oh, we do need facts, to a point. The
problem is that facts aren't enough.
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