* While sitting at a gathering on Tertius, having been multiply seduced by beautiful men and women, seeing firsthand the effects of marvelous technologies including time travel, and ''getting a wonderful, magnificent, working, biological, human, feeling, walking, ticklish replacement for his missing foot'', and getting pressured to go on a SuicideMission by Lazarus Long in repayment for that foot (and the medical miracle that saved his life after a nasty attack in Luna), Richard works out that the foot he got came from Lazarus's clone and that the entire set up ''including marrying Gwen'' was part of a long con to get him to go on that SuicideMission. So he stands up, tells everyone to [[ScrewYouElves go to hell]] and demands Lazarus '''cut the foot off''', because he'll be beholden to ''no one'' for a favor he never asked for.