- [Melanie, a buxom young woman, admires Victor's instrument of torture]
- Melanie Pearson: Hmmm. Nice rack.
- Victor Harris: Indeed.
- Melanie Pearson: I've been to a few wax museums.
- Victor Harris: You are so cultured. I like that.
- Melanie Pearson: Is it real?
- Victor Harris: Are they?
- Victor Harris: In 1447, the Duke of Exeter introduced the rack to the Tower of London where it became the most popular torture device in England. The rack was used in England for about a hundred and fifty years before being deemed too cruel. It was outlawed in 1628.
- Melanie Pearson: Mm-hmm.
- Victor Harris: When Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the English Parliament in 1605, he became a victim of the rack. King James the First stretched his body so badly that his bones and ligaments made loud popping noises.
- Melanie Pearson: Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
- Victor Harris: Can I stretch you?
- Melanie Pearson: I went to your funeral.
- Victor Harris: That makes two of us.
- Melanie Pearson: I saw you dead!
- Victor Harris: How did I look?