April 4, 2014
Text 4 Apr 9 notes The Price of Freedom

Frasier accidentally uses a counterfeit bill at an upscale restaurant on a date. When he is embarrassingly confronted by the manager, he attempts to prove his ignorance of the fake money by opening his wallet to show all the real cash contained therein, but when he pulls it out, he realizes he’s somehow managed to switch wallets with Martin. Rifling through the wallet for cash, he finds only Monopoly money and a taunting note from Martin asking him how the dinner is going, as his date makes for the exit in a huff.

Niles repeatedly returns and exchanges his Macchiato in Café Nervosa as the arrangement of nutmeg shavings on the foam grows more and more displeasing with each successive order. Eventually, he simply throws his scalding drink in the face of the utterly perplexed adolescent barista. Wringing out the injured youth’s apron into his cup, Niles takes a sip and proclaims the drink perfect, to be heretofore known as his “usual”. Daphne begins stealing other Elliott Bay residents’ laundry at her leisure. She is caught when the doorman spots her trying to leave the building in an ill-fitting men’s suit. Martin discovers an eagle’s nest atop the Elliot Bay Towers and hatches a plan to steal one of the eggs in order to make himself an oversized omelet. After casing the nest for hours, he eventually creeps over and scoops up a single egg a fraction of a second before an ear-piercing cry stabs through the air.

Frasier fumes as he walks home from his train-wreck of a date, kicking at the sidewalk in barely contained rage. Suddenly, he hears someone crying out in panic, and the shadow of a human form begins to take shape on the pavement in front of him. Martin crashes into the ground with a tremendous thud and a splatter of blood soaks Frasier from head to toe, though he manages to catch a round white object as it bounces from his father’s grasp. The old man slowly extends an arm and manages to rasp something about “the grandest omelet in all of Washington”, before Frasier callously drops and breaks the egg on the sidewalk whilst glaring at Martin with smug satisfaction. 


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