TEXT: Skyline: A silver dirigible floats above the skyline. [N.B. This episode was originally scheduled to air February 3rd, and then March 23rd.] ACT ONE Scene One - Café Nervosa Niles and Daphne are sitting in the window box. Daphne gives an order to the waitress. Daphne: And one of those cinnamon buns, please - extra frosting. Brad and Cindy, another expecting couple, enter. Cindy's bump is very prominent. Niles: Oh, here they are. They warmly greet each other, and everyone sits. Cindy: We were so excited when you guys asked us out. You're like the A-list couple in Lamaze class. Niles: Oh well, that's good to hear. We were afraid we were in the "C-section." Daphne laughs (apparently she's lived under his roof long enough to find that funny). Brad unpacks some plastic containers and a thermos filled with a green- colored smoothie. Brad: We bring our own food everywhere. Cindy doesn't put anything unhealthy in her body. No refined sugar, white flour or gluten. I'm sure you're the same. Daphne: Oh, of course. The waitress comes back with a plate. Waitress: Cinnamon bun. Daphne: Oh, no thank you, I'm pregnant. Waitress: But you said- Daphne: I said no! The waitress takes it away as Cindy tucks into her food. Cindy: Sweetie, this is your best yam loaf yet. [to Niles and Daphne] He's a saint. He cooks my food, rubs cocoa butter on my belly... Brad: I just wish I could go through the birth for her. By now Niles and Daphne are both feeling extremely inadequate. Brad: Hey, what are you guys doing with your placenta? Cindy: Ours will nourish the roots of a special tree we plant in our yard. Brad: Well, we live in an apartment. Although that ficus in the study is looking a tad droopy. Cindy: By the way, if you need a doula-
SUMMARY:
Frasier stumbles upon a matchmaking service on the way to his office, and takes some time explaining to the woman at the door that he is there by mistake. However, this is followed by an encounter with a former girlfriend in the elevator, and since Charlotte (the matchmaking agent, played by Laura Linney ) witnesses this, Frasier decides to come quietly. After parting with $10,000, he is sent on a series of disastrous dates, and eventually loses patience and demands his money back. It is then that he discovers the business and its agent are not what they seem. Niles and Daphne have been socialising with another couple expecting a child, Brad and Cindy. This couple talk at length about all their plans for the birth, what to do with the placenta and so forth, and Brad even seems to be experiencing a sympathetic pregnancy . Determined not to be outdone, Niles and Daphne decide to hire a doula for their birth.