Beyond Friends Episode Fourteen "The heat is on."
"True colors."

Chandler was in bed when it happened. He had his head buried underneath a mountain of pillows when he felt something odd, something furry at his feet. He ignored it at first. Didn't really make a big deal out if it when he felt that something furry running up the middle of his legs. He shifted a little when it did that. Then it started to play with his leg. Heshot up like a rocket and threw the covers off his bed in one fell sweeop. It didnt take long to find out what was there. His face resigstered both shock and utter disgust at what he found.

There was a rat in the bed. And it was a big one.

Chandler screamed and ran into Rachels room without knocking.

Later on he realized, he should have knocked for Rachel had been changing and he had seen her completely naked. But for moment he was terrified out of his mind.

After Rachel covered herself he explained why he suddenly rushed in.
"Theres a rat in my room."
"Oh. That explains the girly scream." Rachel said as Chandler sat on the bed.
"It wasnt a girly scream. I was making a rat mating call."
"Okay." Rachel said as she started to get up. "Do you mind? I have to get dressed?"
"Sorry." Chandler said and closed the door. He stood outside. "I never had a rat in here before."
"That's okay." Rachel said. He heard her going around and opening drawers and closing them. After a few silent minutes she came out. "This is twice you've seen me nude. One of these days I'm gonna see your tat."
"I doubt it!" Chandler said as Rachel smiled. "So what should we do about this rat thing?"
"Are you sure there was a rat and not a bad dream?" Rachel said.
"Come look." Chandler said. "I was so sure there was one there. It was there when I jumped up and moved the covers off my bed."
"Huh. Well your room is the dirtiest of the two so maybe its been there for months."
"That hurt. I clean my room well enough."
"Yeah, I think you have the arc of the covenant under your bed next to some moldy old sandwiches."
"Can we just go look?"
"Sure." Chandler said.
Rachel went a couple of steps toward his room. She turned to find him not following her lead. She beckoned to him and he shook his head.
"Its just a little rat."
"This is New york." Chandler said. "There is so such thing as a small rat. There is however such thing as a rat that looks like one of them small yippy-yappety dogs."
"Come on!" Rachel said coming back over and grabbing his hand. He reluctantly followed.

Chandler thought to himself as Rachel looked over the room.
"Rachel is my friend. A girlfriend would not go on a nature hunt for a rodent with me. In fact she would be in the first taxi out of here."

Chandlers room was simply laid out. A small tv in one corner. A dresser in another with one drawer pulled out. The bed was in the center of the room, the covers tossed to one side as if someone had a bad dream. The carpet needed a good vacumming but that would happen as soon as the vacumm came back from parts unknown. Chandlers place was definately a bachelors pad before Rachel came back into his life, Rachel thought as she looked around.

"Wow, this room would give Martha Stewart nightmares." Rachel said after her initial survey of the room. "Are you sure you were awake when this happened?"
"Oh am I definately sure. See, I even wet the bed." Chandler gestured at the bed.
"Kinda smells like beer in here.And it wasnt a girlfriend you forgot about?"
"None of my ex girlfriends were that hairy." Chandler noted. "That includes Janice."
"Ah." Rachel nodded. They stood there for a couple of seconds not talking. Rachel sat on the bed and thought while Chandler leaned back on the door. Chandler stood there for a second and raised his and looked at what he thought was Rachel stretched out on the bed looking right into his eyes with a lazy smile. Chandler shook his head as Rachels voice pulled him back into the real world.
"Are there any holes in here?" Rachel said now crouched by a wall.
"Not that I know of." Chandler said joining her. "The landlord was supposed to fix anything that the old tenant forgot to fix or patch up any holes that he found. You know, get it ready for the new tenant."
"So any hole would be something completely new, am I right?"
"Yeah."
Rachel got an idea. "Help me mover your bed and your bureau away from the wall." Rachel said grabbing one side of the bed. "These are the only parts of the wall that are covered up. If there is a hole they would have to be behind either the bed of the bureau."

After a couple of minutes of struggling Rachel and Chandler moved the bed from the wall. Rachel grabbed a flashlight and looked around.
"Nope. Not here." Rachel said getting up. "We'll have to move the bureau." She looked at Chandler who had a white look to his face. He turn and ran. Rachel had a puzzled look to her face and she turned around. She jumped back a little bit. "Hey Chandler I found it." Rachel picked the rat up by its tail and pitched it out the open window. The rat landed safely on its feet two feet down on an air conditioning duct to another apartment. There it went inside. Chandler came over by the window which was now closed.
"Good now it can bug someone else for a while." Chandler smiled as he got ready to take Rachel to work.