 A minor fender-bender sends Frasier to the hospital. While waiting, Niles hears the name of Maris s plastic surgeon, Mel Karnofsky, and decides to confront him about a billing error. An annoying man bores Frasier into leaving the office, and the man uses Frasier s name to jump the line. Niles is surprised to find that Mel is actually a woman, with whom he has a lot in common. The man at the hospital dies suddenly, and Frasier is mistakenly thought dead for a day. He takes it as a wake-up call, doing his best to live live to the fullest every day. Niles doesn t have the nerve to ask Mel for a date, so instead he has repeated cosmetic surgeries from her.