- Jean Smith: [Luke and Jean have just been married, she in her wedding gown and he in his best suit. They enter a private room while the reception goes on in the adjacent room] Luke, go and tell them the wedding reception is off because the marriage is off.
- Luke Fortune: Oh, now, Jeannie, just a minute.
- Jean Smith: I'm not blaming you. She's a princess from the fairy books. The only mean thing you did was come back to me. You never should have tricked me into marrying you, Luke, saying we had to be legally married before you could tell me.
- Luke Fortune: But, Jeannie, the next day I got a million dollars!
- Jean Smith: [Mouth agape] A million dollars? A million dollars! Someone gave you a million dollars. Who?
- Luke Fortune: I don't know. Whoever it is doesn't want their name known.
- Jean Smith: Who? Why?
- Luke Fortune: I don't know! I swear to you, Jeannie, it's a mystery to me to this day. I had to sign this paper promising not to tell anyone where the money came from except to my wife if I got married. And that's why I couldn't tell you before.
- Jean Smith: [Suspiciously] Did she have anything to do with this?
- Luke Fortune: Bebe?
- [laughs]
- Luke Fortune: No! It was the morning after the rodeo and this man came into my hotel room. His name was Anthony - Michael Anthony.
- [Scene shifts to Luke's hotel room in New York after the rodeo. Luke's voiceover starts]
- Luke Fortune: [Anthony shows check to Luke, whose VO continues] .
- [Anthony has Luke sign a document accepting the stipulations. Anthony gives the check to Luke, shakes hands with him, and quickly depart. Scene reverts back to the present day]
- Luke Fortune: It looked genuine all right. It had my name on it and one million dollars with words and figures both. I still couldn't believe it but I signed the paper like I told you. He handed over that check like you'd give a man a plug of chewing tobacco.
- Michael Anthony: [Tipton is seen sitting atop a horse. Only his back from the shoulders down is visible to viewers. Tipton is wearing riding clothes and boots. Anthony is standing on the ground beside the animal] I'll get those cables off at once, sir.
- John Beresford Tipton: Good.
- [Tipton reaches into his pocket and retrieves an envelope, which he hands to Anthony]
- John Beresford Tipton: And here's another chore for you, Mike. Let's make this buckaroo a millionaire.
- [Chuckles. Anthony accepts the envelope as Tipton rides off]
- Michael Anthony: [to the viewers] Luke Fortune's story begins in the county seat of Bailey County, Texas, ten miles from West Muleshoe.
- Michael Anthony: [to the viewers] How do you do? My name is Michael Anthony, When John Beresford Tipton, one of the world's richest men, made me his confidential secretary, I was prepared for duties that were out of the ordinary. But playing Santa Claus all year round, year after year, I never expected. From his secluded, castle-like home, Silverstone, John Beresford Tipton ruled his financial empire, pursued his hobby: the study of human nature. To dozens of men and women, he made an outright gift of $1,000,000. These overnight millionaires never knew the name of their benefactor. It was I who saw their astonished faces, heard their stumbling thanks. For John Beresford Tipton,
- [Displaying a pile of folders]
- Michael Anthony: I kept these records of their lives as millionaires. Now, after his passing, as he wished me to do, I am making public their stories in human behavior, the case histories of millionaires.
- [Much of Tipton's body, from his shoulders down, are shown atop a horse. Tipton is wearing riding clothes and boots]
- Michael Anthony: Often my morning conference with my employer took place just as he was starting out for his morning ride.