TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One <unk> KACL Frasier is wrapping up his show. Roz is talking on the phone and looks worried. Frasier: This is Dr. Frasier Crane, KACL, 780. He goes off the air. Roz: Frasier, that was security. Some woman insisted on seeing you, she just blew right past them. Frasier: Oh, don't panic, Roz <unk> probably just one of my more ardent fans. Diane Chambers appears in the window and knocks on the glass. Frasier turns around. She smiles and waves at him. On that image the screen suddenly GOES DARK. Then the camera pulls back from the black hole of Frasier's wide-open mouth to his face, a rictus of horror: "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!" SMASH CUT TO: Scene Two - Niles's Office Frasier bursts into Niles's office. Niles is sitting at his desk with a pad. His patient, Mr. Carr, is seated in an armchair by the door. Frasier: Niles, we've got to talk! It's urgent. Niles: Frasier, I'm with a patient! Frasier: [notices Carr] Oh, I'm sorry. Carr: [gets up] Is, uh, this about a woman? Frasier: Yes. Carr: Take all the time you need. Mr. Carr leaves. Niles: Well? Frasier: She's back <unk> the scourge of my existence. Niles: Strange, I usually get some sign when Lilith is in town <unk> dogs forming into packs, blood weeping down the wall. Frasier: I'm talking about... Diane Chambers. Niles: [hits the intercom] Lucille, send Mr. Carr home. Frasier: She just showed up at the station today. Apparently some play she wrote is being produced here in town. I admit, I just sort of panicked when I saw her, but I think I covered it masterfully. Frasier stops pacing and sits in a chair.
SUMMARY:
Diane Chambers ( Shelley Long ) shows up at the studio one day, and Frasier (who still resents her for leaving him at the altar) finds out she is in town for a performance of her new play. He invites her to dinner, determined to show her how much he has moved on from her, despite Niles's suggestion that he should confront her about being left at the altar in order to get closure. When Diane arrives, she boasts of her own riches and success only to eventually break down and confess she is not doing as well as she claimed. Feeling sorry for Diane, Frasier agrees to fund her play despite everyone warning him he may be falling for her again. However, when invited to dress rehearsal, he finds that it depicts their old life at Cheers, with the characters representing their old friends being literal representations of how Diane viewed them: boorish and uncivilized ruffians, and that Frasier's character is cold-hearted in his reaction to being left at the altar.