Phillip Mudd: As my cousin, Harcourt Fenton Mudd might put it, now listen, Spock, you may be a wonderful science officer but, believe me, you couldn’t sell fake patents to your mother!
Spock: I fail to understand why I should care to induce my mother to purchase falsified patents.
hee hee hee
I don’t think he is too literal like Spock. I think he knows what he is doing and has sold his soul in a pack with the Devil.
If you sleep with evil on this scale it rubs off.