Plot

At Cafe Nervosa, Frasier runs into his unrequited high school crush and former prom queen, Lorna Lynley. The courtship gives Frasier a chance to live up the high school glory days that he never had.

Frasier runs into Lana Lenley (Jean Smart) at Café Nervosa, who went to his school and was one of the most popular girls. She is now working in real estate. He used to have a crush on her, but never had the courage to ask her out, and suddenly meeting her again, he reverts to the same state of mind and asks if she can come round to appraise his apartment. She arrives that evening, and Niles can hardly believe his eyes, also remembering her from school. Eventually, Frasier admits to Lorna the real reason he wanted to see her, and she takes it very well. In fact, she stays for dinner, and is still with Frasier the following morning. It is at this point that he sees another side to her: she smokes, she shouts down the phone, she is not very refined, and Frasier becomes concerned that they have no future together. However, soon afterward she invites him to accompany her to the retirement dinner of their school football coach, and he imagines the reactions of the formerly popular students if they saw him arrive with Lorna. Meanwhile, Niles enlists Daphne to help him cook dinner for Mel, and a tender moment between them ends with an interruption by Martin. When she snaps at his father, Niles suspects that she may be in love with him. Upon hearing this, Frasier tells him that he merely imagined Daphne's discomfiture and misinterpreted what he did see.

Windbag Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) develops a sudden case of lockjaw when he bumps into a former high school classmate and campus queen (guest star Jean Smart, "Designing Women"), but after summoning the courage to step out on a date with his dream girl, he is horrified to witness her hair-trigger temper in all its fury. Elsewhere, Frasier accuses Niles (David Hyde Pierce) of a commitment phobia when he wonders aloud if Daphne (Jane Leeves) nurtures any romantic feelings for him.