TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One - Café Nervosa. Frasier is seated at a table. Niles walks in and is about to shut the door when he spots a woman behind him. He graciously holds the door open for her. Niles: Allow me. She breezes by without a word. Niles: You're welcome. [hangs up coat and walks over to Frasier] When did everyone become so boorish? [wipes down chair] Honestly, sometimes I think I'm the only person left in the world with any sense of refinement. [sits] Ooh! Ooh! Smell my hands! Frasier: Thank you, no. Niles: I'm just so proud. I had to stop for gas, and I pumped it myself! [smells his hands and grimaces] It's part of a new kick I'm on. Frasier: Which is what? Niles: I'm learning to be handy. I've decided I depend too much on other people, so I'm doing it myself. [holds out his hand] Ooh, feel that. Tell me that's not the start of a first-rate callus. Roz walks in carrying a videotape. Roz: Frasier, you left this in your booth. Frasier: Oh dear, thank you Roz. Niles: What is it? Frasier: Oh, it's a tape Dad asked me to rent for him. It's part of our new Wednesday night ritual. Dad mixes up a pot of his five-alarm chili, we all curl up on the couch and watch an Angie Dickinson movie and I wish I were dead. You should join us. Niles: No, no. I got my first work shirt this morning and tonight I'm tackling the squeaky hasp on my cigar humidor. Frasier: Oh, well, be sure to wear your hernia belt. So, Roz, you gonna join us? Roz: [pointedly at Niles] No, I think I'll just go sit over here. Niles: Roz? Are you trying to avoid me? Ro
SUMMARY:
Frasier's briefcase is stolen and, because it contains his personal effects, so are his dry cleaning and his car. Shortly thereafter, a woman calls KACL , claiming to have spent the previous night with Frasier and canceling their second date. Frasier decides to confront the thief (played by Nathan Lane ). He corners him in the bar and makes him confess to everything he has done, even having the thief call the police himself. As Frasier tries to find out why he did it, the police walk in and the robber has Frasier arrested, backed up by a woman Frasier failed to flirt with.