President Ulysses S. Grant seeks Pratt's help to uncover a possible plot to kill him and who knows what else.
Pratt comments about nobody wanting to read a book about a southern aristocratic woman who barely survives the civil war. That book was 'Gone With the Wind', which is the second most popular book ever in the USA, despite being over 1000 pages long.
Ernest Pratt:
What the heck is that?
Janos Bartok:
Ball lightening.
Huitzilopochtli Ramos:
Actually, Aristotle called them fire balls.
Janos Bartok:
Thought of by many renounced men of science to be an optical illusion.
Ernest Pratt:
Darn good one, if you ask me.
Janos Bartok:
Yeah, I thought it was an optical illusion myself until I saw one ...
Ernest Pratt:
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