 Sam s trip to Italy to stop Diane and Frasier s wedding is a disaster. Not only was he attacked by rottweilers, needed to jump into a moat to get away from them, got arrested and was hauled into jail, he didn t find Diane and Frasier to stop the wedding. He never wants to even hears Diane s name again. A couple of months pass, and things are a bit different around the bar. The Coach has passed away, leaving a sullen grief among the gang. A young hayseed from Indiana, Woody Boyd, who is The Coach s pen pal - they exchanged pens - comes by the bar looking for The Coach, obviously not knowing about The Coach s passing. Seeing that Woody is interested in the big city and bartending, Sam offers him a job at Cheers behind the bar. Sam is no longer pining for Diane, or so he says. But the biggest immediate revelation is that Frasier comes back to the bar telling the gang of his and Diane s fate. They ultimately did not get married, Diane leaving him at the altar. Word of this spread throughout the community in Italy, which resulted in Frasier losing his teaching post, his practice and his self-esteem. Apparently Diane went on a carousing spree after leaving Frasier, and is currently residing in a convent outside of Boston doing penance for her wild ways. But the most immediate issue on Frasier s mind is revenge, not against Diane, but Sam who is the unspoken reason Diane left him. Frasier is brandishing a gun and threatens to shoot Sam. Sam sees that the gun isn t loaded, to which Frasier admits he only wanted to get Sam quaking in his boots for a little while, and despite his current fate and the reason for it, he still sees Sam as a friend. Although Frasier tells Sam not to go see Diane, Sam does so, as his feelings for her are stronger than even he will admit to himself. On the most part, he wants to make sure that she s not on the road back to Goldenbrook - in other words, he wants to make sure she s not going crazy again. Beyond that, he does ask Diane to come back to the bar as he doesn t see that the convent is the place in life for her. Diane contemplates Sam s offer and being in a convent, asks God for advice, a sign. A sign, one that Diane does not at first recognize, comes in a less than conventional method, at least for Diane.