Plot

Bulldog inadvertently spills coffee on a gunman holding at the Cafe, making him a local hero, much to Frasier's chagrin. Frasier knows the truth-that Bulldog was actually trying to pull Roz between himself and the gun.

Bulldog inadvertently spills coffee on a gunman holding at the Cafe, making him a local hero, much to Frasier's chagrin. Frasier knows the truth-that Bulldog was actually trying to pull Roz between himself and the gun. While Frasier schemes to make Bulldog feel guilty, Bulldog takes full advantage of his new macho status with women. Meanwhile Niles is overly excited that he has been nominated for a SeaBea award, making the loss that much more painful. Frasier hatches a plan to get at Bulldog's conscience.

While waiting in a long line at Café Nervosa, a conversation between Bulldog, Frasier and Roz about the upcoming SeaBee radio awards (and the extremely embarrassing maternity dress that the pregnant Roz must wear) is interrupted when Frasier spots a man who has a gun. In the chaos that follows, it appears that Bulldog acts heroically when he pulls Roz out of the way and causes the gunman to flee. The other patrons of the café proclaim him a hero, and the story appears later on the news. Frasier, however, was seemingly the only witness to what actually occurred: Bulldog saw another man reaching for his wallet and thought that he was the actual gunman and rather than bravely pushing Roz out of the way, cowardly attempted to use her as a human shield, only happening to knock his coffee onto the real gunman, thus defusing the robbery attempt entirely by accident. Frasier is disgusted that Bulldog would knowingly accept praise for something that he did not do. Angrily confronting him with the truth, Frasier decides not to reveal it to everyone, but will instead wait for Bulldog's conscience to get the better of him. As Bulldog learns (on-air) that he will receive a special Man of the Year award for his actions, Frasier expects him to own up eventually. Time passes and the SeaBee ceremony approaches, and with Bulldog's apparent lack of guilt driving Frasier to distraction, he decides to use his position as host of the awards to engineer a few surprises. His tricks fail, but Martin comes up with a simple way to expose Bulldog as a fraud-he states that he sees a man with a gun. Bulldog repeats his cowardly actions, and everyone turns their favor.

Bulldog becomes a hero when he appears to thwart an attempted armed robbery at the café. Only Frasier saw what really happened: mistaking a different man for the robber, he pulled Roz in front of him as a human shield, inadvertently spilling his coffee on the actual robber. When Bulldog basks in his acclaim and refuses to confess, Frasier prepares an elaborate surprise to draw out his conscience at the SeaBea awards.—crouchbk

While waiting in line at Cafe Nervosa, Frasier chats with Bulldog and Roz about the upcoming Seabee Awards. However, Frasier whispers to Bulldog and Roz that a man a short distance away is pulling out a gun, causing Bulldog to panic! In the ensuing chaos, Bulldog spills his coffe on the gunman's hand, causing him to drop the gun and rush out the door. The incident has everyone in the cafe hailing Bulldog as a hero.

Returning to his apartment, Frasier also runs into Niles, who crows about his own Seabee award nomination. However, once they get to the apartment, Martin and Daphne are just glad to know that Frasier was okay after the incident at the cafe, that has made it into the local news.

While they are excited at Bulldog's heroics, Frasier claims that he doesn't recall that at all. He then relates that what he recalls, Bulldog grabbed Roz, and used her as a human shield, causing everyone there to get a new opinion on Bulldog.

Frasier feels that Bulldog's guilty conscience will get the better of him, and he'll confess to what he really did, but in the wake of Bulldog's popularity, not to mention being announced to receive the Seabee award for Man of the Year award for his 'heroism,' it seems unlikely.

Frasier tries to ignore this, but soon ends up going to Bulldog's apartment, asking him to express some form of remorse, but Bulldog claims that he just doesn't work that way. Even so, Frasier vows that he'll find some way to make Bulldog unable to accept the Man of the Year award.

At the Seabee awards, Niles ends up going to another part of the awards ceremony, and loses. Returning to the family at the awards' main room, Frasier is there to present the Man of the Year award to Bulldog, but also has a number of guests to see Bulldog:

• his childhood priest, Father O'Rourke.
• his second-grade teacher, Mrs McCloud.
• his peewee football coach, Mr Nugents.
• Joey Katona, the president of his fanclub.
• his Mom, Bernice Briscoe.

Even with all these people here, Bulldog still doesn't give in and confess, just claiming he's excited to win the award.

Frasier returns to his seat, and it seems he'll never get over this, until as Bulldog passes by, Martin whispers that a man nearby has a gun. This causes Bulldog to grab his Mother and use her as a human shield. This suddenly causes everyone to take notice, and Bulldog's popularity ends right there.