 Sam hits on a woman in the bar named Amanda Boyer, and is successful in charming "the socks off her". They makes plans to go out, however Amanda has to wait to meet "a friend", that friend who just happens to be Diane. When Diane finds out that Sam has made plans to go out with Amanda, Diane warns him not to go out with her, only implying that Amanda s crazy, the specific reason beyond that Diane won t give. Sam thinks Diane is just still full of sour grapes over their past relationship. Sam ignores Diane s warnings and goes out with Amanda. After Sam returns from dinner alone, Diane grills him about Amanda and his plans with her. Although he doesn t think Amanda s quite his type, he does plan on asking her out again. To spare Sam, Diane finally tells Sam about Amanda: the two met at Goldenbrook, the sanitarium. Diane didn t originally feel that she could violate Amanda s secrets learned in group therapy. Amanda s problem was/is that she is obsessive and possessive with men with whom she is fixated. Just as Sam asks Diane to give him an example of such behavior, Amanda walks into the bar with her parents, announcing that Sam is the man she is going to marry. Sam and Diane discuss the best way to get rid of Amanda for good, without Amanda hurting herself or hurting Sam. Despite traces of self-destructive behavior in Amanda, Sam is up front with her. Amanda implies that she is going to kill herself. Not wanting to be responsible for such, Sam reneges the break-up. He feels trapped. Finally feeling like he has no other option, he perpetrates a lie and fakes his own death. Hearing this and Amanda s undying and eternal love for Sam, Diane takes matters into her own hands. Diane tells Amanda that Sam is "Ralph", the person of whom she spoke in the group therapy sessions. Immediately Amanda s view of Sam takes a 180-degree turn and she walks out of Sam s life forever. Instead of being grateful, Sam is perturbed at what things Diane may have said about him in group therapy. She rattles off a long list of insensitive things he did while they were going out. Although he defends his actions, he also admits that he may not have been the best boyfriend, but that he worked harder with her than with anyone else and their good times were some of the best of his life. Finally he tells her he s sorry.