TEXT: Act 1 Scene 1 - Cafe Nervosa Fade in. A woman (Tricia) is waiting at a table. Frasier comes rushing in. Frasier: Tricia...I am so very sorry. Have you been waiting long? Tricia: Well, let's see: we were supposed to meet at noon and it's now quarter to one. Frasier: Well, I do apologize, it's just that the most extraordinary thing happened. Tricia: Well, at least I'll get a colorful anecdote out of this. What was it? Frasier: My watch stopped. Tricia: [rising] I gotta go. Frasier: No, no, no, no. That really is extraordinary. You see, it's a very fine Swiss timepiece, it only loses a minute per decade. Tricia: And you've had it for what? Four hundred and fifty years? I'm sorry Frasier, I have an appointment at one. Frasier: No, no, no, please, please, let me have another chance. I so enjoyed meeting you last night, I'd love to get to know you better. Tricia: Well, I suppose even Swiss watches sometimes stop. Frasier: You'd be amazed how much fondue gets overcooked that way. [They laugh.] Listen, how about lunch tomorrow? I know the maitre d' over at the Le Petite Bistro, he'll give us the best table in the house. Please? Tricia: Well, OK. I'll meet you there at one. That's when the little hand is on the one... Frasier: Yes, yes, I know, I know. [as she leaves] See you then. Niles walks over with his coffee cup and dusts off the seat. Niles: Frasier. Frasier: Oh, Niles. Niles: Thank god you have room. I just spent ten stupefying minutes sharing a table with a taxidermist. I swear, he doesn't have to stuff his trophies, he can just bore them stiff. Who was that woman? Frasier: Actually, a young woman I met during intermission at the
SUMMARY:
Frasier arrives 45 minutes late for a meeting at Café Nervosa with Tricia, a young woman he met at the opera. He grovels and suggests lunch the next day at Le Petit Bistro, and she agrees before dashing off. The next day, his car breaks down and he misses the second date with Tricia, but leaves an apologetic message offering any other time if she will only give him one more chance. She calls and says she is leaving town that evening for Spokane . While trying to see her before she leaves town, Frasier has many things get in his way, including a surprise party for his birthday thrown by Martin and Daphne. He finally meets Tricia outside her apartment and offers to drive her to Spokane, but is dismayed to find that she is a member of a cult.