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The Priceless Painting

[JordanThomasHall · 8/10 · 13 May 2019]

While strolling through an outdoor art marketplace with Eddie, Tina buys a painting for $16 to give to Tom. The art dealer, Samson (Lou Cutell, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"), is stunned to later learn that the painting could be an original Francois Denuff worth several thousand dollars. When Norman sees the painting he tells Tom and Tina the same valuable information and finds its low-end worth when Samson offers $2,500 for it. Tom feels the rights to the money from the painting should belong to Tina, who bought it. Tina says she gave it to Tom as a "love gift" and is upset they're selling it. She further feels it belongs to Tom as, "once you give a gift to someone it doesn't belong to you anymore." Art Dealer Vincent Pryor (William Lanteau, "On Golden Pond") arrives at the apartment and offers on a client's behalf $5,000, if the painting is authenticated. The complicated situation between Tina and Tom upsets Eddie who takes the painting to Samson to relieve the situation, but is stopped by Tom. Eddie sells viewings of the painting to his friends who come over at the same time as Mr. Pryor and an appraiser (Suzanne Taylor). Tom asks them all, along with Eddie and Norman, to wait in the hallway as he tries to find a resolution with Tina. Soon, they find the real value of the painting extends far beyond the artwork itself.