"All right, Dr. Crane!" Eric said, rushing to give Niles a high five.

"That's totally awesome!"

"It certainly is!" Niles replied.

Daphne scoffed at Eric's ridiculous behavior. "Where did you go to school again?"

"Seattle Community College."

Daphne rolled her eyes. "Right. Well, that certainly explains a lot."

"Niles, we need to get going. David is waiting for us."

He slumped into his chair and sighed. "Oh, all right."

Daphne couldn't help but notice how the simple sentence sent Niles into a state of despair so quickly.

But no sooner had he sat down in the chair than he got back up again. She watched in confusion as he went around shaking hands with everyone in the cafe, the way a politician would.

Daphne grabbed his coat and after a few minutes, managed to put it on him, but his thrashing arms made it nearly impossible.

"Come on, Darling."

He allowed himself to be dragged out of the café, stopping at the door to gaze at the patrons.

"Don't worry my friends. I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning!"

Once they were out of the café, Daphne faced her husband, unable to hide her expression.

"What's wrong, my love?"

She ran her hand lightly across his cheek.

"Are you sure you're all right, Darling? It's not like you to spend all day in Café Nervosa drinking lattes. You've said yourself that excessive caffeine can be dangerous."

Niles leaned over and kissed her cheek.

"You're right, my angel. I did say that. But I was WRONG!" He yelled, startling her with the outburst.

"CAFFEINE IS WONDERFUL! THE BEST DRUG EVER INVENTED!"

He spread his arms wide, and twirled around and around in front of the café, prompting a sea of faces to peer out of the window.

Deeply embarrassed, Daphne grabbed Niles coat sleeve and led him to the car, unable to look at the people who stared at them.

Something was clearly wrong.

It took a great effort to get him into the car and as she pulled her blue sports car onto 3rd Avenue, she could hear him singing.

A glance in his direction confirmed that he was moving his head in time with the music. It was something that Niles always did when David was in the car that caused the baby to laugh.

But David wasn't in the car now. And this wasn't Niles beloved classical music. It was the Disney sing along CD that she'd forgotten to remove from the player when she dropped off David at Martin and Ronee's.

Instead of finding humor in Niles odd behavior, she was filled with worry. What had gotten into him?

For the past few days, he'd been different. Surely his job wasn't causing these bizarre actions to occur. He'd worked with patients of all sorts over the years and she'd never known him to be so affected by them.

"Awww..."

His voice caused her to look in his direction. "What's wrong, Niles?"

"It's over!" He cried, frantically trying to restart the CD. "I need to hear that song again!"

His strange outburst only caused her worry to deepen, but she couldn't let it show. He was already upset enough as it is.

"You know... we're almost to your father's house, so why don't we put in some soothing classical music?"

"Okay, fine." He said, crossing his arms the way her brothers did when they didn't get their way.

As they pulled into Ronee and Martin's driveway, she prayed that Martin would be able to talk some sense into his son... before it was too late.