"Haha, very funny! I get it. This is the next generation of Punk'd. You abduct me, use trick mirrors, very realistic makeup, and drugs to convince me that some crazy billionaire has had me surgically altered to be his own pet merman. Am I right? So where is Ashton Kutcher?"
"Half right," snorts the doctor cracking up at Steven's speculation, and the fact that he is only half human now. "No trick mirrors, no make up. There really is a crazy billionaire, and I'm not sure who exactly Ashley Kuschner is, so I couldn't say where she is."