TEXT: Act One. Scene One - Café Nervosa The waitress is serving Frasier, it's his usual (or is it?). Waitress: Here you go Doc, your usual. Frasier: My usual. How lovely it is to have a usual. [tastes it] What is this? Waitress: Latte with nutmeg and cinnamon. Frasier: Ah, no, no, no, that's my brother's usual. Mine is the double Kona with cream. Niles: [entering:] Oh, Frasier, am I glad to see you. Waitress: [to Niles:] Your usual, Doc? Niles: Please. [she hands Frasier's to Niles, then he carries on:] Thank you! Frasier: Niles, you seem more than usually agitated today. Problem? Niles: I'm meeting my publisher here in five minutes. Remember the book deal I signed last month, the one you were so jealous of? Frasier: I wasn't jealous of it, Niles, you just wanted me to be jealous. Niles: It's all moot anyway, the deal's about to be killed. It turns out the idea I sold them had already been done. They gave me until today to think up an alternative and I've got bupkes. I've got less than bupkes. I've got what bupkes keeps for lint in the bottom of his pocket! Frasier: Can't you just ask for an extension? Niles: No, no, I've asked for two already. [He sees the publisher walking in.] Niles: Oh God there he is. Sam, so good to see you. Sam: Niles. Niles: Sam Tanaka, my brother Dr. Frasier Crane. Frasier: My pleasure. [the waitress brings Frasier's coffee] Sam: Nice to meet you. Niles: Sam, would you like a coffee? Sam: [points to Frasier's cup:] Oh, I'll have what he's having. [Niles takes Frasier's cup and gives it to Sam.] Niles
SUMMARY:
Offered the chance to fulfill his lifelong dream of authoring a book, Niles enlists Frasier to help him pen a guide to healthy sibling relationships. Faced with writer's block and looming deadlines, the two brothers lock themselves in a hotel room until the book is complete, and begin driving each other crazy.