"Hey, man. What's going on? " Flack asked as he walked into the lab.

Danny was hunched over a microscope, alternating between staring through the lens and writing notes. Hearing Flack's voice, Danny looked up and half-smiled at his friend.

"I don't know, man. I can't crack this case and that's nothing compared to the serious problem I'm having with Lindsay." Danny said with a sigh. He rubbed his eyes with his free hand and then pushed his glasses back down onto his nose.

"The dating plan. " Flack supplied.

"The dating plan." Danny agreed, nodding his head.

"Come on man, let's take a break and grab something to eat." Flack said, motioning towards the door with his head. Danny rose from his workbench, hung up his lab coat and followed Flack out of the lab.

Out on the street, the two grabbed a hotdog and found a bench to sit on while they ate.

"Messer, don't kill me for this, but I gotta say something." Flack said, shoving the last little bit of his hot dog into his mouth.

"What?"

"I'm not quite seeing the problem here." Flack said. He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and stared back at Danny.

"You're not seeing the problem?" Danny asked skeptically. These were words he would have expected to hear coming from his mouth, not the other way around.

"Nope. Not at all." Flack said.

"After close to a year of dancing around each other, Lindsay and I are ready to start a relationship, only she decides that, due to my inability to date a variety of women, she is requiring me to date other people for six months so that I know I'm not settling. Yeah, there's no problem here at all." Danny could hear the sarcasm and frustration in his voice.

"Okay. Okay." Flack said, throwing his hands up in defense. "Don't kill the messenger, man. First of all, admit it… there hasn't been a lot of variety in the women you've dated…"

"So, I've dated a lot of women and I some of them have been similar. That doesn't mean that I don't know what I want." Danny mumbled. "It doesn't make me local yocal bimbo magnet."

"No, but talking like that just might." Flack said. He rolled his eyes and shook his head at Danny. Flack knew that Danny was seriously taken with Lindsay, but what was the problem with dating a few more women? Especially when the woman you want to date advocates it?

"I'm in pain here." Danny said, hanging his head. "And you're not helping." Danny made to get up off of the bench and walk back to the lab.

"Okay, Messer, here's how it breaks down. There's a woman who you have strong feelings for, and who you work with for hours a day, and days a week. She has told you, after a months of flirting and trying to get her to notice you, that she's interested in a relationship with you, but that she wants you to date other women. She's requiring you to date other women. To be on dates with beautiful women who are trying to impress and woo you. And because these are women we're talking about, there might just be an opportunity for you to have sex. Now I grant you, somewhere, somehow, Lindsay has obviously lost several of her marbles, but I don't think that should stop you from getting busy." Flack talked while he walked, using his hands to gesture wildly and make a point.

Danny was silent for a moment. He paused as he opened the front door to the lab and turned around to look at Flack.

"Dude, I want Lindsay. I don't want a series of random women anymore. No matter how much great sex I might have." Danny said seriously to Flack.

"I don't follow." Flack said disbelievingly.

"Don…" Danny said. He was hoping that by using Flack's first name that Flack would realize that he wanted to drop the conversation.

"I'm just saying…" Flack started. Suddenly his face lit up like a kid who had just discovered his presents under the Christmas tree. "You know, I could go out on all these dates for you. That way Lindsay would think you were dating other women, and one of us would be getting some."

Flack's smirk spread across his face into a huge grin.

"And I thought I had problems." Danny said with a chuckle. He punched Flack in the shoulder as the two parted ways in the lobby to get back to work.