Plot

Lilith and Frederick come for Thanksgiving dinner with the Cranes. Frederick manoeuvers Frasier and Lilith into spending an evening together, and they begin to suspect that he is trying to get them back together.

Frederick is coming to celebrate Thanksgiving with his father, while Lilith spends the holiday with a colleague. At the last minute, this colleague cancels, and Lilith asks Frasier if she can join them. He concedes, acknowledging that the season should be a celebration of family, even though there is still some awkwardness between Lilith and Niles following their brief tryst. Lilith happens to be writing an article about raising a child after divorce, and Frederick suggests she collaborate with Frasier, and do so while she stays at the apartment. He then goes to some effort to bring his parents closer together, saying privately to each how much the other is missing them, setting up mood lighting and romantic music. It is not long before they realize they are being set up, but they cannot help wondering if Frederick has some other motive behind his elaborate scheme.

When Frasier's (Kelsey Grammer) ex-wife Lilith (Emmy-winning guest star Bebe Neuwirth) has a change of plans after bringing their son Frederick (guest star Trevor Einhorn) to spend Thanksgiving with his father, Frasier reluctantly invites her to eat dinner with his fellow Cranes -- but he doesn't realize that the scheming Frederick has an agenda that includes getting them back together. While Martin (John Mahoney) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) blanch at the notion of breaking bread with the brittle Lilith, the smart lad even convinces Frasier to collaborate with his mother in writing her magazine article about raising children after divorce.

Lilith and Frederick come to Seattle for Thanksgiving dinner with the Cranes. Frederick maneuvers Frasier and Lilith into spending an evening together, and they begin to suspect that he is trying to get them back together. Or is he just trying to guilt them into buying him a moped?—crouchbk