 Paula Nelson, a beautiful intellectual reporter for Boston Scene magazine, is doing a story on the Boston single s scene. While at Cheers, she interviews Sam for her story. Sam being Sam, hits on her, but his womanizing approach gets him nowhere with her. He realizes that to get anywhere with her, he has to think like Diane. Although initially turned off by Sam, Paula eventually decides to go out with him based on his Diane-isms. She even agrees to go away with him for the weekend, to someplace that he once took Diane. Meanwhile, Diane and Frasier are having a tiff partly on what Frasier sees as Sam s attempts to win her back; this argument places Diane in a vulnerable emotional state. Diane is impressed by the new Sam she sees, the one who has a new passion for the arts, although she does not know that he is only using this information gleaned from her to impress Paula. Diane secretly overhears a discussion between Carla and Sam about why he s falling for an intellectual and the fact that Carla doesn t like her. They are talking about Paula, while Diane thinks they re talking about her. Despite being in a relationship with Frasier, Diane thinks long and hard about getting back into a tryst with Sam. She secretly overhears a second item: Sam on the telephone making a hotel reservation for the weekend, the call where he tells the reservation clerk that he wants the same room he had before to rekindle the old magic. Once again he is talking about Paula, whereas Diane thinks it s about her. As The Coach is away, Sam is about ready to ask Diane to tend bar while he s off on his weekend, nervous in doing so since he knows tending bar is a job she hates. She stops him, and tells him that she knows what he s going to ask, again thinking that he s going to ask her to go away with him for the weekend. They are both slightly confused in their conversation, as each thinks the other is talking about something else. It all becomes clearer to Diane when both she and Paula walk into the bar at the same time, each carrying a suitcase, each talking about meeting a dumb lug of a man to go away with to an inn on the coast of Maine for the weekend.