Diane: Frasier, um, before you go, there's one last thing you could help me with. Not that you haven't helped me a lot already. It's the last scene, where Franklin and Mary-Ann say goodbye. It's never felt quite right to me. I'd like her to stand.. oh, right about here and tell him how much he's meant to her and how she'll never forget him. How do you suppose ... "Franklin" would respond to that?
Frasier: Well, I suppose he'd tell her that he feels the same way. That she's touched him in a way she can never imagine, he's glad she was in his life.
Diane: All that would be left would be the "goodbye." How do you see that?
Frasier: Well, I suppose he could say, uh, "until we meet again," probably certain that they never would.
Diane: But mightn't there be a part of him that hopes they would?
Frasier: Oh, I suppose so, yes. All right, then, don't have him sum things up. Just let them say their goodbyes, and if their paths happen to cross again, so be it . . . Goodbye, Mary Ann.
Diane: Goodbye, Franklin.