The One Where Heckles Dies

Thursday, 5 October 1995

Mr. Heckles dies and leaves everything to Monica and Rachel, and Chandler, recognising his own habit of rejecting women in the dead neighbour's life, panics that he will end up alone.

What happens

• Mr. Heckles dies downstairs while sweeping his ceiling, and Mr. Treeger breaks the news to the group.
• Phoebe tells Ross she does not accept evolution, and Ross sets out to convert her.
• Heckles' lawyer reveals a will leaving all of the dead man's belongings to Monica and Rachel, whom he named only as the loud girls upstairs.
• Rachel claims a seashell lamp from the inheritance, Monica refuses it houseroom, and Rachel accuses Monica of still treating the flat as hers alone.
• Chandler discovers from Heckles' yearbook that they were both class clown and both played clarinet, and the resemblance unsettles him.
• Chandler sits up all night in Heckles' robe going through photographs of women Heckles rejected for trivial faults, and concludes he is on the same path.
• Chandler telephones Janice as a last resort, and she turns up pregnant and married to someone else.
• Ross concedes to Phoebe that he might conceivably be wrong, whereupon Phoebe admits she was only testing him and mocks him for abandoning his position.
• Monica breaks Rachel's seashell lamp and insists it was an accident, then makes peace by giving Rachel the pin-up clock she wanted.
• Chandler asks out a colleague, Alison, despite the size of her head, then spends the date unable to think about anything else.