Very unfortunately she was fired from the show in the fourth season and was replaced by Nancy Travis who played Christina "Chris" Connor who became a love interest for Becker later in the seasons and takes over the diner after Reggie leaves town. Also at the diner there is Jake, who is exemplarily portrayed as a blind man who has a newsstand there and is John's best friend because as he said in one episode "I don't listen to him. That's why we're friends." Oh, and Bob, a divorced man who at first is openly interested in Reggie who was a fellow high-schooler and has a tendency to be self-seeking and talk in third person narrative. He was a recurring guest for twelve episodes and later left the show and his absence was explained by his being on vacation and it was left at that.
His replacement was somewhat inadequate, Hector Lopez, the brother of one of Jake's old friends. There are really only three basic settings (the practice, the diner, and Becker's apartment) which makes for familiarity once you really get into it, which isn't all that hard. There are so many good one-liners and retorts and comebacks from really everybody, which makes for a well-balanced if not super famous cast. With such good scripts it's appalling that they couldn't at least think of better reasons for Reggie and Bob's departure from the show. Neither of their replacements had the old charm of the original characters.
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