TEXT: Act One Scene One - Int. Cafe Nervosa. Frasier is ordering his coffee at the counter. Bebe Glazer approaches. Bebe: Well, well, well, look who's here. It's KACL's Frasier Crane. Frasier: And Rosemary's Bebe. Pause. Frasier turns back to the counter. Bebe: So, quite a little shake-up going on down at the station. I hear the new owner wants to renegotiate everyone's contract. Frasier: [turning head] Mmm-hmm. And before you drop another gossamer hint, let me tell you that my feelings about you haven't changed. Bebe: Fine! Actually, I'm here to meet one of my newer clients, a rising star of the Seattle airwaves. Frasier: Oh, really, and what pathetic do-gooder have you lured into your web now? Roz enters, looking self-conscious. Bebe: [overly affectionate] Roz! Frasier: [surprised] Oh, dear God. Bebe walks over to Roz and points her toward a table. Bebe: You just get off your feet, little mother. I'll fetch you a nice, nourishing muffin. Roz begins to walk toward the table, still self-conscious, trying to keep her back to Frasier. Frasier follows her, glaring. Frasier: You signed with Bebe? Roz: [sitting] Okay, I know, I should've told you, I just wasn't in the mood for one of your lectures. Frasier: [sitting across from her] I'm not going to give you a lecture. You're entitled to choose whoever you wish to represent you. Someone who's honest, or a woman whose ethics would've raised eyebrows in the court of Caligula! Roz: Look, she's gotten me three voice-over jobs. She may be a little shifty, but she helps me put food on the table. Bebe approaches, muffin in hand, and places it before Roz Bebe: One muffin. Roz: See
SUMMARY:
Frasier has to choose whether to return to his heartless former agent, Bebe Glazer, or stick with his current representative, well-meaning but non-confrontational Ben. Maris' insistence that Niles fire their latest couples' therapist, and Niles' refusal to do so, put their weekly conjugal visits on hiatus. Ben brings Frasier the wrong sort of publicity and Niles has trouble controlling his pent-up urges, but Frasier insists that both he and Niles do the ethical thing: Frasier must stay with his ethical agent, and Niles must not fire a perfectly good counselor just to have sex.