Wheels of Fortune

Infobox Television episode | Title = Wheels of Fortune
Series = Frasier
Season = 9
Episode = 16
Airdate = 26 February 2002
Writer = Ken Levine & David Isaacs
Director = Jerry Zaks
Guests = Michael Keaton (Blaine Sternin)
Prev = The Proposal
Next = Three Blind Dates

"Wheels of Fortune" is the sixteenth episode in season 9 of American sitcom "Frasier".

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Plot outline

Lilith's half-brother, Blaine Sternin, has come to Seattle. Frasier remembers him as an expert con-man, who sold him futures in kelp and stole a valuable salt server from him years ago. He is now resolutely determined not to fall for any more scams. Blaine turns up at his door in a wheelchair, announcing that he had a car accident which left him paralysed from the waist down. He claims to have had a deep religious conversion and seen the error of his ways, and to be working now as a preacher. He returns the salt server and asks Frasier for forgiveness. Niles, Martin and Daphne are all convinced, but not Frasier, and he refuses to rest until everyone else realises what a charlatan this man is.

Episode Title Cards

*"That's how they talk in Sweden"

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier refuses to be taken in by Blaine's apparent disability"
Daphne: Dr. Crane, the man is in a wheelchair.
Frasier: Which means that somewhere, someone is missing a wheelchair!