- Diane plays a prank on the guys in the bar, but she becomes paranoid as she waits for their inevitable payback.
- A strange man has been in the bar all day and is giving everyone, especially Carla, the creeps. He just sits there, drinks coffee, scribbles some notes every once in a while, and watches the gang. Increasingly, they all get paranoid. Could he be a spy? Could he be a detective? Could he be a detective spying on one of them? Everyone thinks he is a detective but that he is spying on anyone else but him/herself. Finally Sam is about to confront the guy and throw him out of the bar, when Diane confesses that "Irving" is a friend and classmate of hers, in the bar to conduct an experiment for her on paranoia - introduce a foreign element into an established secure setting and see what happens. The gang don't take too kindly to Diane's experiment and imply that they will get even with her. It's a few days later and they haven't struck yet. Diane is jumpy, thinking the most innocent gestures are the act of revenge, which affects everyone around her negatively. Diane becomes not only paranoid herself, but ultimately humiliated and hurt, the latter emotion based on what she believes her payback is or more precisely is not. Only one thing can get Diane out of her misery.—Huggo
- The group grows wary and suspicious when they note a man sitting by the door, who has not spoken or socialized with anyone at the bar for several hours. Their suspicions soon turn to paranoia, until Diane confesses that he's someone she knows from a local University, and brought to the bar as a study to see how the others would react.
When the others don't quite take this in the same spirit as she does, Diane grows paranoid feeling that they may play a prank on her. One day, a man from a television show comes, wishing to have Diane recite some of her poetry on television. Thinking it's the prank, Diane makes a fool of herself...only to find the man and the television show are real, and her foolish actions are broadcast on television.
Diane grows sad when it seems that her cohorts aren't even going to prank her...until Carla pulls the ol' 'bucket over the door gag' when she goes into Sam's office, distraught. She emerges smiling, though wet, happy that they have gotten her back.
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