In this clip Valerie (Emily Blunt) comes to work with Buck Howard (John Malkovich) because Steve could not make it and Buck says that she is practically an embryo and he has a big weekend coming up.
The Great Buck Howard is about Buck Howard (John Malkovich) who may seem like a magician… but he's not. He's a mentalist. In his own humble opinion, his talents go far beyond mere sleight of hand; he can read minds, and is capable of hypnotizing an entire room full of people at once. But when Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) tries to explain to his dad (Tom Hanks) why he dropped out of law school to work for a mentalist, it doesn't go over very well. In fact, it doesn't go over at all.