TEXT: Act 1 Scene 1 - Cafe Nervosa. Fade in. Frasier is sitting at a table, talking on his cell phone. Frasier: A gold leaf candle snuffer? Huh. My, what a spendthrift this Charles the Tenth was. Well of course I want you to bid on it for me, Greg, so start waving your paddle! Roz comes in and sits next to Frasier. Roz: Hey. Frasier: Oh, Roz, you got my message! Roz: Yeah, you said you had good news. What's up? Frasier: More important: What's down? Roz: Oh, fun. Wordplay. Frasier: No, no, the ratings are out for KACL's first six months of all-salsa radio. Roz: And they were lousy? Frasier: They aspire to lousy! Roz: So I guess they'll be looking for a new format. Frasier: Better yet: an old format! Roz: What, you think they're gonna bring us back? Frasier: That's the scuttlebutt on the street. Roz: Oh, this is great! Aren't you thrilled? Frasier: I'd be shouting it from the rooftops if I weren't saving my instrument. The waitress, Colette, brings Frasier his coffee. Colette is a perky blonde whose youthful prettiness hides a semi-omnipotent prescience, after the style of Wodehouse's Jeeves. Frasier: Thank you. Colette: May I help you? Roz: Non-fat capp... Haven't seen you before. I'm Roz, this is Frasier. Colette: Colette. Frasier: Ah, your mother was a fan of the great French novelist and raconteur Sidonie-Gabriel Colette. Colette: [going along] OK. Bulldog comes in, carrying a magazine. Bulldog: Hey, guys, you won't... [sees Colette] Whoa! Any more like you at home? Colette: No
SUMMARY:
Roz is in a difficult financial situation, struggling to pay for her rent and baby clothes. KACL's ratings are suffering as a result of the new format, but the management still will not change it. Frasier does not expect this to last, and offers to lend Roz $1500 to help her along in the meantime. He is surprised afterwards to see that she seems to be spending rather extravagantly: spa treatment, expensive lunches, perfume. He wonders if he should talk to her about this, but Martin and Niles firmly advise him not to get involved, especially since he specifically said to Roz that the money was hers to use as she pleased. Eventually, KACL reconsiders and gives Frasier and his colleagues their jobs back.