 The civic election has long passed, and Sam and Janet are still dating. Outwardly, Diane should be relieved as her spoken fear was that Janet was just using Sam to score political points during the election. But Frasier calls her on her true feelings. He also says that he does not see a future for Sam and Janet. On top of this, Diane overhears Sam admit to Janet that his longest relationship was with Diane, to which Janet responds that Sam should let her go professionally and thus personally. So Diane thinks she s going to beat him to the punch, and decides to resign before he can fire her. As she does so, she reneges as she feels she s giving Sam an easy out, betting him that he doesn t have the guts to fire her. He does. Thus they get into a typical war of who did what. But what s undeniable is that Diane is gone, she says forever.