OS: Hey, sadmad - do you remember the elimination sequence following
the group dates?

sadmad: Sure. What about it?

OS: Do you recall that when Paul called out Allessia's name, she came
up to David, and when he puts the necklace on her, she smiles and
laughs and then gives him a rose that he puts on his shirt.

sadmad: So?

OS: Did you also happen to notice what she was wearing then?

sadmad: Help me out.

OS: It was a tight-fitting, lowcut dress.

sadmad: Again - so?

OS: Well, that rose was nowhere on her person when she was seen
standing there with the others - at least visable. I don't know where
you could have had kept that rose with the outfit she had on then.

sadmad: Huh? I still don't get you.

MM: Do you also happen to recall that sequence where Anique and David
went for lunch at the little streetside cafe in Rome?

sadmad: Yeah.

MM: Right after they sat down, as you'll recall, David gives her a
box containing the gift of the toy helicopter.

sadmad: And?

MM: Well, if you watched them as they got out of the carriage, David
was not seen carrying any package with him into the cafe.

sadmad: Meaning what?

OS: Meaning that, in each case, Allesia's rose and Anique's toy
helicopter just seemed to kind of materialize out of nowhere, didn't
they?

sadmad: Uh-oh. I think I get it now. You're suggesting that both of
those little sequences were staged? That they stopped the freakin'
cameras and gave Allesia the rose and gave the package with the toy
helicopter, got out of the picture, and then rolled tape again?

MM: You said that. We didn't.

sadmad: (sighs) Yeesh!

OS: C'mon, sadmad - it's not that farfetched. The most obvious
example of something that was scripted was that business of David
producing that T-Mobile picture phone on the pier in Venice, where he
gets Linda to pose, and the image is then relayed back to Paul in the
hotel.

sadmad: (laughs) Pretty obvious promotional gambit, wasn't it?
Speaking of things that were scripted, well, I'd count Paul's asides
to the audience before and after each episode, right?

MM: Of course. As well as that business we heard from him during the
ranch date about how he heard the other girls trying to get Linda to
leave - 'I hope she doesn't listen to them'. Ha ha!

OS: And don't forget David's note he unfolds from his pocket, which
he gets Linda to read.

sadmad: You think?

MM: And, of course, the note Paul reads to him on his ranch that he
says is from Linda about how she left him not because he didn't have
the money, but because of 'the lie'.

sadmad: (laughs). I would guess so. Hey, speaking of those statues on
Easter Island, as interesting as this new 'revelation' of yours was,
it seems like we're still not really any closer to knowing what was
actually real about what we saw on the show, are we?

OS: No, I guess not.

MM: Frustrating, isn't it?

sadmad: Indeed.

OS: Well, that's really about it for now, sadmad.

sadmad: Okay. Um, I see where your new film "Sicko" has been released
here recently, Michael. Good luck with that.

MM: Thanks.

sadmad: And I should probably tell you Oliver that a new book has
just come out recently by Vincent Bugliosi called "Reclaiming
History". It's about 1600 pages and it debunks virtually every myth
attendant to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. And, um, he's
particularly scathing in his references to your film "JFK", to put it
mildly.

OS: Yeah, well -

sadmad: Heh, you know what guys - despite all the distortions and
fabrications we've uncovered in JM2, I'm still going to say something
that might surprise you.

MM: Oh, what's that?

sadmad: That the very same "The Next Joe Millionaire" contained THE
central truth of the 21st Century.

MM: Huh?

OS: What in the world are you talking about?

sadmad: Simple. It's heard during the finale. David sits down across
from Cat on that couch or sofa in one of the rooms in the Villa. And
he says to her 'The guy who gets you is going to be the luckiest guy
in the world'.

MM: You are truly one for the books, sadmad.

sadmad: Take care, guys. Keep in touch.

OS: We'll try to.