When Buck Frobisher (an old friend of Fraser's father) goes missing a week before his retirement, his daughter Julie asks Fraser to find her father before something happens to him.

Monica brings home a new boyfriend everyone loves, and Phoebe gets more than she deserves.

Jerry finally goes to the bank to cash checks that his grandmother gave to him for his birthday. The checks bounce, causing a big hassle for his grandmother. Jerry volunteers to host a PBS fundraiser and George gets a Yankee player, Danny Tartabull, to attend the fundraiser. Meanwhile, Jerry thinks that one of Elaine's friends hit on him even though she is in a relationship and Elaine sets out to find out if she did or not.

Carter gets emotionally involved with a high school hit and run patient who couldn't be saved and initially notifies the wrong parents. Benton disappoints his brother-in-law Walt when he is too busy to take care of his own mother. Doug attempts to reconcile with Carol, and also protects a pregnant teen's confidentiality. An older man complaining of chest pains arrives, while an obnoxious salesman insists on continuously using his cell phone, which trips a woman's internal defibrillator and causes an electric wheelchair to go crazy. A thankful patient gives Greene a dozen frozen T-bone steaks for saving his life exactly a year ago, proclaiming that every August 25 is Dr. Greene Day.