I loved Nowhere Man, and I remember the scene you mentioned, and yes, superb it was!!
The whole series was fascinating. I remember the episode where the Nowhere Man is watching the entire nightmare he was living unfold on TV in front of his eyes, only the producers used different actors to play the Nowhere Man and his wife. Very weird...
And the “cable tv” episode, where people were being brainwashed by their cable system..as soon as I saw that episode, I knew the series was gonna go off the air...it hit too close to home!!!!!!!