- 4/25/2025
Frasier Season 1 Episode 16 The Show Where Li Lith Comes Back
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00:00I don't know what to do about my weight.
00:01I've tried diet after diet, from the milkshakes three times a day to that scary bald-headed lady on TV.
00:09Nothing seems to work.
00:11Hank, listen to me.
00:13You've got to look inside yourself.
00:17There is a part of you that isn't being fed.
00:20Well, it certainly isn't my butt.
00:25Yes, well, I'm talking about your inner self.
00:29What isn't being fed there?
00:31Love? Career? Simple self-esteem?
00:34There are deeper issues at work here.
00:37So, what do I do?
00:39Well, I'd suggest extended therapy.
00:42Please stay on the line, and my producer, Roz, will refer you to the help you need.
00:47Roz, who's our next call?
00:49We have someone on line one who disagrees with your advice to Hank.
00:54Oh, really?
00:55Hello, you're on the line.
00:56Congratulations, Frasier. You've done it again.
01:12You've led another unsuspecting innocent down one of your dark, dead-end Freudian hallways.
01:23Lilith?
01:23Over-eating is very simply a behavioral problem caused by negative reinforcement.
01:31It can be cured quite readily by behavior modification.
01:35I see.
01:37Well, Seattle, we have a celebrity of sorts on the line.
01:41This is my ex-wife, Lilith.
01:44What do you mean by celebrity?
01:46Oh, they know you.
01:47Roz, what exactly does call screening mean?
01:57It means I get to put on the air the calls I want to hear.
02:03Well, Lilith, what brings you to Seattle, the constant rain?
02:09I'm here for a convention, and I happen to hear your voice on the radio.
02:13I kept hoping you'd introduce Pearl Jam's latest hit, but much to my chagrin, you were doling out worthless little advice pellets from your psychiatric Pez dispenser.
02:28Well, I guess you'll be rushing off to your little convention now, and I suppose we'll just have to catch up on your next trip.
02:35Actually, I'm not doing anything for dinner tonight.
02:39Really?
02:40Well, then, you'll want to keep your dial tuned to 780 for Gil Chesterton's restaurant beat.
02:47Why don't you ask her to dinner, Dr. Crane?
02:52What a wonderful idea.
02:57And let me tell you why, Seattle.
03:01You see, even though our marriage was unsuccessful, Lilith and I are quite capable of conducting ourselves as adults,
03:09and even enjoying spending some time together from time to time.
03:15So, Lilith, 7 at my place?
03:17Sounds great.
03:18In my day, when two people broke up, you were mad, you were angry, you hated each other.
03:37Whatever happened to the sanctity of divorce?
03:41Dad, you never liked Lilith.
03:43She's weird.
03:44She is not weird.
03:50Oh, she's weird.
03:54Well, maybe she's a little strange.
03:56No, Maris is a little strange.
03:59Lilith is weird.
04:02Keep it, Dad.
04:03I had no idea you preferred my wife to Frasier's.
04:09Oh, my head.
04:11Can I get you an aspirin, Daphne?
04:13Oh, no, no.
04:14I'm afraid those are useless.
04:16This is one of me psychic headaches.
04:19There's some kind of negative force out there.
04:22I only get these when there's a clawing at the cosmic continuum.
04:26Perhaps if someone broke your temples...
04:29No!
04:29No!
04:33I'm sure she wants privacy while she contacts the mothership.
04:37No!
04:38No!
04:38No!
04:38No!
04:38No!
04:39No!
04:39No!
04:39No!
04:40No!
04:40No!
04:41No!
04:41No!
04:42No!
04:42No!
04:43No!
04:43Frasier, I must tell you, I'm here for support, but I will not speak to Lilith.
04:49Oh, Maris, this ongoing feud between you and Lilith is ridiculous.
04:53Let it go.
04:53It was years ago.
04:55I can't even remember what the fight was about in the first place.
04:58Well, let me refresh you.
05:00At our wedding, while Maris was reciting her vows, which she wrote herself, vows of love
05:08from the heart, I distinctly heard snickering.
05:11I glanced behind me, and there was Lilith, her fingers pressed hard against her lips, her body shaking like a paint mixer.
05:19Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, listen, it's just one evening out of your life.
05:27Will you at least try to be civil?
05:29All right.
05:30But I refuse to be warm.
05:31Hello, Lilith.
05:31Hello, Lilith.
05:44Very sure.
05:44Please come in.
05:46Here, let me take these things for you.
05:57There we are.
05:59Oh, look, who's here?
06:00Hello, Martin.
06:01Hello, Niles.
06:02Hello.
06:07Where's Maris?
06:09She's visiting her sister in Chicago.
06:11Oh.
06:12I thought perhaps she was sailing up the transplendent river of your love.
06:16Frasier, I like what you've done with your apartment.
06:27You have some beautiful things.
06:29The settlement is final, Lilith.
06:39Go away.
06:40Well, why does he listen to you and not to me?
06:48By the tone of my voice, he senses I mean business.
06:52Oh, I see.
06:53You're saying your voice is more commanding than mine is?
06:55Hell, I took a half a step before I realized she was talking of the dog.
06:59Oh, my Lord.
07:16I've never had a throbbing like this.
07:19Daphne, uh, this is my ex-wife, Dr. Lilith Sternin.
07:24Lilith, this is Daphne Moon, my dad's physical therapist.
07:28It's nice to meet you.
07:30An equal pleasure.
07:32When I shook hands with that woman, I lost all feeling in me arm.
07:40Frasier, I'm going to pop into your bedroom and use the phone.
07:43When Maris was developing some sniffles, I just want to make sure she's taking in enough liquids.
07:48Isn't it enough that she's eternally sipping from the font of your perpetual adoration?
08:03Martin, I'm especially delighted to see you here tonight.
08:07Oh, yeah?
08:07Oh, yes.
08:10Knowing as I do the history of your relationship with Frasier, when I heard that he'd taken you in,
08:15I immediately flipped to the weather channel to see if hell had indeed frozen over.
08:24Frasier, how'd you ever let this little peach get away?
08:33Well, I think dinner is just about ready.
08:35Why don't we move to the table?
08:36Oh, all right.
08:38So, Lilith, how is Frederick?
08:41Well, as you know, I've enrolled him in that chess camp in the Berkshires.
08:45It's really quite stimulating.
08:47For eight hours a day, he sits in a large auditorium with 300 other children,
08:52mastering the Allhausen-Grab opening.
08:55Well, he's in the mountains.
08:57Shouldn't he be out there in the fresh air?
08:59Every day after lunch, they go for a nature walk.
09:02Unfortunately, Frederick is allergic to seven different varieties of ivy, so he has to wear long sleeves and long pants.
09:11A bonnet with a net on it.
09:16Well, I sure hope the other campers don't make fun of him.
09:19Oh, I'm sure they don't.
09:21Well, you know how kind kids can be.
09:25Well, all he needs is a birthmark on his forehead, and they'd beat him to death with a shovel.
09:29So, I chased this guy down a dark alley, and when he got to the end, he turned and pulled a knife on me.
09:42So, I gave him a couple of good shots with my nightstick.
09:46Fascinating.
09:47I have to ask, were you at all aware of any repressed sexual urges while you were pummeling him so mercilessly?
09:55Yeah, but I didn't put him in the report.
10:05You're having some fun at my expense, aren't you?
10:08Not much.
10:12In fact, I'm going to bed.
10:15Good night.
10:16Night, Dad.
10:16Oh, well, if you don't need me any longer, I think I'll be shuffling off as well.
10:21Oh, good night.
10:22It was a pleasure meeting you.
10:25By the way, how many days will you be staying in Seattle?
10:29Just through the weekend.
10:31Well, enjoy your stay.
10:33I'll be dead by Saturday night.
10:38Well, I guess I'll say my goodbyes as well.
10:45Good night, Frasier.
10:48Oh, this is ridiculous.
10:50Well, listen, Niles is upset because you snickered at Maris wedding vows.
10:58I simply responded with the genuine spontaneous emotion I was feeling at the moment.
11:03But if Niles is not mature enough to accept that, if he is so pitifully insecure, if he is in such need of validation, then I guess for some sense of familial harmony, I do apologize.
11:22Oh, my love, thank you.
11:28Oh, this bad blood between us has gone on far too long.
11:35Next time you're in town, we'll have dinner, just you and me.
11:38He doesn't get that kind of validation at home.
11:47Well, it's just the two of us.
11:58Yes.
12:00It's the first time we've been alone together since the lawyers put us in that room and said, don't come out until there's some resolution.
12:05Yes, well, this was nice.
12:15Yes, it was, Walter.
12:21You have a beautiful view.
12:25Well, it's a beautiful city.
12:28I hope you enjoy your convention.
12:30For God's sake, Frasier, there is no convention.
12:37I'm here because of the letter.
12:39The letter? What letter?
12:41You know very well what letter.
12:44The one you left in the apartment last month when you were home to visit Frederick.
12:49The one proposing we get back together.
12:53Surely you didn't forget.
12:54My darling, how could a love like ours have fallen so far from grace?
13:02There must be some part of your heart that still resounds to the rhythm of my own.
13:08I fear that I'll be lost without you.
13:11As long as we have love, love will keep us together.
13:18Aside from the shameless pilfering from the captain and to kneel, I was moved by your entreaty.
13:24I felt the same way, and yet I felt the need to create this pretense of arriving here for a convention
13:34because I was still torn and unable to commit myself.
13:40But seeing you now, I realize how much I've missed you.
13:47Lillith, I did write that letter, and I did leave it in the apartment.
13:59But, uh...
14:01Yes.
14:03It wasn't last month.
14:07It was nearly a year ago.
14:10It's before I moved to Seattle. You just found it now?
14:15It had fallen behind the dresser.
14:18Well, I see the cleaning service is doing its usual bang-up job.
14:24Well, don't I feel like the perfect fool?
14:26Uh, listen, Lillith...
14:27Oh, here I am, humiliated, emotionally drained, and I've used up all my frequent flyer miles.
14:37Lillith, please...
14:38Oh, Fraser, please, there's nothing else to say.
14:41I'd like to leave with at least a shred of dignity.
14:43Lillith, please, there's nothing else to say.
15:20I wrote this letter just before I came to Seattle, hoping for a reconciliation.
15:27She only just now found it.
15:30Didn't the captain and Janiel sing this?
15:33Like they owned those five words.
15:38You know, I got over her, I moved out here.
15:41She comes back, and I wonder if I made the right decision.
15:46I did write that letter.
15:49It appears you have come to some sort of crossroads.
15:54Oh, that's a nice, tidy little way of saying I'm in hell.
16:02Now, I have a life here that suits me, and yet I can't help wondering if there is still some chance for reconciliation.
16:10If it's worth exploring the feelings that I'm feeling.
16:18Do you think I should see her again tonight?
16:22Fraser, like most patients who come to a therapist, you already know the answer to the question you're posing.
16:28You just want me to agree with your decision and support you, whether I share your opinion or not.
16:33Yes, but I don't have an opinion in this case.
16:35I'm sure you do.
16:36But I don't.
16:36Well, then I can't help you.
16:44All right, all right.
16:45I think in my soul, I'm leaning toward taking the next step and seeing if there's anything there.
16:59That is what you should do.
17:00Why?
17:01You know why.
17:02Dammit, Niles!
17:05Fraser, you know why.
17:06All right.
17:11We have a long history together.
17:13We have a son that we both adore.
17:18There were some good times, and when they were good, hoo-ah!
17:25Well, it seems our minds are pretty well made up, aren't they?
17:30Yes, they are.
17:32Thank you, Niles.
17:33I don't know what I'd do without you.
17:34Yes, you do.
17:35Drop it!
17:53Hello, Niles.
17:54Fraser, come in.
17:57I must be early.
17:58I see you haven't had a chance to put up your hair yet.
18:01Oh, I thought I'd leave it down tonight.
18:05Really?
18:07Yes, after several hours of careful deliberation and weighing all the consequences, I decided to be playful.
18:21I'm glad you invited me to dinner.
18:23Well, how could I not?
18:24I felt so awful about last night.
18:27You see, I just thought you'd read the letter long ago and ignored it.
18:33No explanation necessary.
18:35It was a simple misunderstanding.
18:38Okay.
18:38Well, I know a great little French bistro just around the corner.
18:42Oh, Fraser, before we go anywhere, I would just like to go on record as saying that, regardless of everything that's happened, I respect you for getting on with your life as successfully as you have.
18:55Well, I'd like to say that I feel the same way about you, and, uh, Frederick is flourishing, and I'm sure that's in no small part due to you.
19:07Oh, thank you.
19:10That means a great deal to me.
19:13Do you realize that's the first pleasant thing we've said to each other in almost a year?
19:18You're right.
19:20You know, I'm suddenly quite moved.
19:24I am, too.
19:33Would it be a dreadful contretemps if I kissed you right now?
19:38You can always try.
19:54You want a bag dinner?
20:01There's a bed and an honor bar.
20:03What more do we need?
20:05Come to me, my white-hot flame.
20:08I was insane to divorce you.
20:11Oh, God, you're in my faults every waking hour.
20:13You're the only man I've ever loved.
20:15So are you.
20:24Oh, God.
20:55Good morning.
20:58Charlie, good morning to you, too.
21:01I could stay like this all morning.
21:05Me, too.
21:10I'm so glad I decided to take the chance and fly out here to be with you.
21:15Yes, me, too.
21:16Me, too.
21:19I'll get that.
21:22Must be the breakfast we ordered last night.
21:25Boy, I am banished.
21:27You should be.
21:28You were a busy boy.
21:29Good morning, sir.
21:39Yes, just bring it right in here, please.
21:42Yes, that's fine.
21:43A little something for you, too.
21:46Good day.
21:51Well...
21:51Boy, you know, it's funny how life takes its little turns, isn't it?
21:57You know, yesterday morning when I woke up, I never imagined I'd be waking up here this morning.
22:04Indeed.
22:04And, uh, I mean, it's not that we were overly impulsive or anything, or that what we did was wrong.
22:14I just...
22:15This is a mistake.
22:16Oh, thank God you said that.
22:19Oh, it's not that last night wasn't very enjoyable, but who are we kidding?
22:24You've gotten on with your life, I've gotten on with mine, I've got a new career, I've re-established relationships with my family, I've got a whole new set of friends for the first time in years.
22:32Because I'm happy, I mean, for us to even consider getting back together, it's just the stupidest thing two people could do.
22:40I meant the eggs, I ordered poached, not fried.
22:47Well, you didn't let me finish, you see.
22:53After I played devil's advocate, I regret...
22:56Oh, Frazier, don't insult me.
22:58That's how you really feel, isn't it?
23:02I'm afraid so.
23:08Oh, Lilith.
23:10Are you crying?
23:12God, I'm sorry.
23:15Once again, I've led you down an emotional primrose path.
23:22Lilith.
23:24I never meant to hurt you.
23:28I don't blame you if you're mad at me.
23:30I'm not mad at you.
23:35I'm mad at me.
23:38I don't even know what I'm doing here.
23:40I've just been so lonely over the last year.
23:45When I found your letter, it was like a life preserver.
23:51I'm raising a child alone.
23:55I'm scared.
23:56I was thought of myself as a strong and independent person.
24:03But the truth is, I'm afraid.
24:07I guess that's why I convinced myself that I was still in love with you.
24:10You mean you're not?
24:14No.
24:16I'm not.
24:18Well, that's...
24:19Well, that's good.
24:21I mean, so then, what happened last night was only because you were lonely and I was...
24:26We all know what you were, Frazier.
24:28Oh, Lilith.
24:36Lilith.
24:37Here, here.
24:38Come with me.
24:39Here.
24:40Now, listen.
24:41Look.
24:42Look in there.
24:43Tell me what you see.
24:46I'll tell you what I see.
24:48I see the same strong-willed, dynamic, intelligent woman I married seven years ago.
24:56Listen, you're just suffering a temporary lapse.
24:59Divorce does that to you.
25:01Listen, I...
25:02I won't say anything as tried as someday you'll find someone.
25:09But I know this.
25:11I know you.
25:14And I know that no matter what the future holds in store for you,
25:18you'll handle it.
25:26Thank you, Frazier.
25:28You hungry?
25:30Yeah.
25:31Okay.
25:35You always knew how to buck me up when I was blue.
25:39Yeah, well, you know, you helped me through some hard times yourself.
25:43You know, those married years weren't all bad.
25:46We did have some good moments.
25:49The best one was Frederick.
25:54We'll always have that.
25:55And, you know, I can't help telling you this.
26:02Even though we're not in love anymore,
26:04we were always the most exciting lover I ever had.
26:11I think in your heart of hearts you'd say the same about me.
26:14They screwed up the toast, too.
26:24I ordered rye.
26:27Lily.
26:27Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
26:42Oh, my.
26:44And maybe I seem a bit confused.
26:47Well, maybe.
26:48But I got you pegged.
26:50But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
26:59They're calling again.
27:03Good night.
27:04Good night.
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