Frasier looks forw ard to spending Thanksgiving with his son, Frederick, who will be flying in from Boston with Frasier’s ex-wife, Lilith. Yet instead of just dropping off Frederick and continuing on to Vancouver to spend the holiday with a colleague as planned, Lilith finds herself stranded when her friend gets sick. Frederick invites Lilith to spend the holiday with the Cranes and Frasier reluctantly agrees.

Despite some residual tension betwe en Lilith and Niles, who once shared a passionate tryst, Thanksgiving dinner goes off without a hitch. Know ing Lilith is writing an article on raising a child after a divorce, Frederick convinces his parents to collaborate on the piece, and even arranges for Lilith to stay with the family at Frasier’s condo, rather than at a hotel.

While Uncle Niles struggles to master Frederick’s video games, Frasier and Lilith break out a bottle of wine and get cozy while working on their article. A series of events orchestrated by Frederick leads Frasier and Lilith to realize he’s trying to push them back together, but they soon learn his reunion plot is really just a ruse to “guilt” them into giving him a mini-bike!