Frasier sprains his wrist while zealously waving to fans from KACL’s small float in the Seattle Fourth of July parade. After summoning the courage to continue on, Frasier - now lying on a makeshift hospital bed inside a linen tent atop the repurposed float - orders the station’s unpaid college interns to collect donations from the crowd and the other floats for The Dr. Frasier Crane Radiocarpal Recovery Fund, which gradually becomes the focus of the entire parade.

Niles blackmails a patient of his, who sits on the U.S. Immigration board, into rejecting Daphne’s greencard application in the hopes that she’ll be forced to marry him to gain a quick citizenship before the cutoff date. When she announces she’ll instead be moving back to England if she doesn’t get accepted, Niles digs up his files on another former patient, now a N.O.R.A.D. launch authority, retrieving the failsafe commands he once planted in the man’s head using post-hypnotic suggestion and making note of Britain’s latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates on the globe in his study. His scheme is foiled by a quick phone call from Roz to a burner cell phone in the President’s desk drawer.



Frasier’s popularity is meanwhile at an all-time high until he’s accidentally caught on tape muttering “Yesssss…. yessssssss…. rain down fire upon these wretched masses.” while sitting in a guest balcony above the crowd for the Mountlake Terrace fireworks display.

Martin uses flimsy patriotic rhetoric to justify stealing an apple pie he spied cooling on a window sill while taking Eddie for a walk.

