Becker is frustrated when Chris freezes him out and won't believe that he really decided to be with her before finding out that Reggie was leaving town. Jake finds out that Reggie is bumming around Europe with some old modeling friends and he and Bob decide to do the same thing, but they chicken out at the last minute. Margaret and Linda are baffled by a patient who acts familiar, but they can't remember his name.

Becker and Chris have a neighborly feud with smoke and noise to get out their aggressions towards each other. It's particularly embarassing that it's Bob that has to knock some sense into them. Linda meets a cute guy and decides she would seem more interesting if she were from Los Angeles, so she lies and tells him she's a commodity broker from L.A. Linda goes all-out for her lie, even buying a fake ticket to L.A., but her plan goes awry when her new beau surprises her by joining her on the flight. Jake and Amanda redecorate their apartment, but Jake finds out that Amanda is lying to him about the colors and patterns, and is making the apartment much girlier than he'd like.

Becker is nice to an old lady in his apartment building, but is shocked when she is sexually attracted to him and stalks him. Luckily, Bob comes along and falls into the old woman's trap, distracting her from pursuing Becker. Linda tells her boyfriend Kevin the truth, that she lives in New York and not in Los Angeles as she told him. When she finds out that he knew the truth all along and has been dating other women while she was "in Los Angeles," she breaks up with him for being dishonest. The diner patrons are terrorized by a fly, but when Becker finally kills it they mourn its death.

When Chris bans smoking in the diner, Becker is miserable without his morning cigarette, but he soon realizes that this might be an opportunity for him to quit. When Jake finds himself wearing pants that aren't his but were on the chair in his bedroom, he assumes his girlfriend is cheating on him. When he accuses her, she tells him she just got the wrong pants from the dry-cleaners, but she's now really pissed that he didn't trust her. Linda convinces Becker to treat her friend's dog.

Jake is down in the dumps when he learns that Amanda has not only been cheating on him for several months but she's now run off with her new boyfriend and all of Jake's furniture. Meanwhile, Becker's self righteous bragging about having quit smoking for the last two days falls on deaf ears as several of his friends seem to have bigger problems on their minds. Ms. Reynolds: Cathy DeBuono. Delivery Guy: John DiResta.

Rating: 6.2/9

A palm reader named Ruby reads Linda's palm and starts her on an investing spree that makes her turn her inheritance from her grandfather into a measly $50. When Becker's friends dare the skeptic doctorm to get his palm read, he worries after Ruby freaks out and runs from the room. He tries to figure out what she saw, but is unsuccessful. Finally, he sees Ruby again and she assures him she just realized she was late for something, and palm reading isn't serious anyway, so he shouldn't worry. Becker claims he wasn't worried anway, and leaves, reassured, but it's clear that Ruby sees some disastrous connection between him and Chris. She warns Chris to be careful, but doesn't say of what.

Becker gets frustrated when a childless couple who come to him for advice on getting pregnant misconstrue everything he says. Elsewhere, Chris flirts with a fire marshal to get out of a ticket, but Bob's attempt to charm a police officer who is about to write him up for jaywalking backfires.

Becker gets jealous when Chris's all-too-friendly ex-husband unexpectedly shows up and stays at her place. The good doctor tries everything to keep the divorced duo apart because he fears they'll get back together if he doesn't intervene. When Chris doesn't take up her ex's invitation to Australia, Becker accuses her of staying in town for him, and she actually slaps him in her fury. Bob realizes that Jake's newly depressed status, after losing Amanda, is attractive to women, and decides to be as pathetic as possible to get a woman of his own, but he only ends up getting the phone number for a suicide hotline. Becker is psyched when he gets the coveted parking spot in front of his office, but his car gets towed when Linda forgets to feed the meter.

Becker has a recurring dream that Chris comes to his door and kisses him passionately. After many nights of this, even Becker, king of denial that he is, has to admit that he probably harbors feelings for Chris. When Chris actually comes to his door late at night, he thinks it's another dream, but when she throws up on his carpet he realizes it's real and Chris is really sick. Becker's caring side finally comes out when he takes Chris to the hospital and learns she has appendicitis. Becker is overcome when, before going into surgery, Chris admits that she loves him. After spilling his feelings back to her, Becker realizes his mistake when a drugged up Chris tells the nurse, the orderly, and then a plant, that she loves them too. After Linda's purse is stolen and she gets into a car accident with a hot dog stand, Linda is worried that something awful is going to happen to her because bad things come in threes.