When Carrie is shown the all too naked cover her publishers planned for her columns book, she's shocked, it just screams hooker, so she turns to Samantha who accepts to do her PR for peanuts. Charlotte swallows her pride to seek hope in another advice book. Miranda goes to Weight Watchers where she hooks up with a dieting man, but sugar and fat are aphrodisiacs, sex works up more appetite... Carrie walks in just when Sam is given her hunky courier a blow job, and is judged implicitly too judgmental about it. Stanford present her his hunky new lover Marcus Adante, a dancer, and both men accept to act as critical guy target audience at her new photo-shoot.

Samantha supervises Anthony at the preparations for Carrie's book presentation party. At her publishers, she meets another author, Jack Berger; they hit it off and have a lovely day. However, only when she invites him to the book party does he decline because he reveals that his girlfriend's family is visiting then. Miranda tells her hot lover Walker Lewis about her baby at the party, then they have sex, but Bradys crying sets him running. Charlotte is finally ready for a real relationship again, and has another perfect suitor: Justin Anderson III. However, when they wake up in bed, Bunny enters the room pointing out that the apartment is hers, and Justin runs when he learns she's separated. Samantha insists Carrie has the same treatments as her; a manicure, pedicure and botox. But Sam takes chemical peeling first - which practically burns off her skin, utterly unsightly. At a restaurant Carrie can't get out of allowing her former Vogue-publisher Enid Mead to share her table. Samantha turns up as Carrie insisted, but refuses to put her hat and veil on again, so she literally scares off Harold Keenan, The New Yorkers critic. Stanford is proud to present his stunningly gorgeous boyfriend Marcus, date-less Anthony is green with envy.

Miranda feels a double failure as neither motherhood nor professional life can get her full attention, and her neighbors give her dirty looks about her screaming baby. Samantha feels her own problems, such as a broken vibrator, are no less important, and demonstrates her expertise on the subject in the shop. Carrie encourages Samantha to acknowledge that Miranda is now a mother, and Samantha eventually offers to babysit Brady while Miranda goes to her hairdresser. When Charlotte feels uncomfortable talking tough with her attractive lawyer about Bunny's divorce terms for Trey, so she switches to his bald partner Harry Goldenblatt.

The women head to the Hamptons for the wedding of a flamboyant lounge singer; Charlotte's affair with her lawyer takes an interesting turn.

Vogue sends Carrie to report on the latest fitness craze, trapeze 'flying', and she's hooked. Charlotte and Harry prepare for her second perfect wedding, helped by Anthony. Harry's funny friend Howie gets on with Carrie, but in bed drills like a rabbit. Steve wants his girlfriend Debbie to meet Miranda, who hides under the bed to avoid meeting her. Charlotte's big day seems ruled by Murphy's - rather than rabbinic - law: her picture in the paper and her dress in synagogue are stained, Samantha's diamond bracelet falls to pieces...

Carrie agrees to a reunion to see how her high-school crush -whom she dumped- is, and finds Jeremy got even more attractive. Back in hot Manhattan Samantha can't get through the waiting list for Soho House club which has a pool with service, but picks up someone's (Annabelle Bronstein's) forgotten pass. When Stanford has paraded his hunk Marcus in front of Charlotte and Anthony, the latter proves with a photo from Honcho magazine that the stud used to work as a gay escort named Paul, Charlotte shows it to Miranda at the Knicks game in Madison Square Gardens where they admire her flame, doctor Robert Leeds, who treats the team but seems interested in a cheer-leader. When Jeremy stays at Carries, he tells her he's in intensive mental therapy in an excellent facility. Just when she invited the other girls and Stanford, who got to see the Honcho photo, Samanatha is found out not to be Annabella -who's British- and thrown out. Stanford his broken up with Marcus and asks Carrie to a gay prom ball- they even make king and queen; Marcus turns up...

Carrie is embarrassed to be presented to Aleksandr's artistic friends now that he's getting another Paris exposition and enjoys four cold days in his apartment. Miranda is grumpy during their move to Brooklyn, but Steve delivers in every respect. Samantha and Smith Jerrod invite Stanford and Marcus out - the Tattle Tale columnist prints a rumor that Smith is gay; Sam won't have that undo her rep, so she releases a sex tape with Smith online. Big is calling Carrie again but she deletes his messages. Charlotte is enamored with her puppy, and decides to enter her in a dog show, with Anthony as groomer and inviting the girls plus Stanford - the dog goes into heat but still wins. Carrie unexpectedly brings the girls to visit Aleksandr, but he tells them to keep out of the atelier as he's working.

Carrie finally has a chance to present everybody to Aleksandr at a dinner, but he's rather aloof and drops the bombshell that he expects her to move with him to Paris for good. Samantha and Charlotte act supportive after some questions, but Miranda doesn't hide she's dead against the idea. Enid invites Carrie to a party, and asks her to bring Aleksandr and a friend of his for her. However she rejects graying food critic Martin Grable as an elderly 'hobbit', dumps him on Carrie and argues the fishing pond for her age group is so small that Carrie's relationship with the older Russian is unfair. Charlotte's King Charles Spaniel joins the list of pregnant females to be jealous of, annoyingly after doing it with eight pedigree-less mutts, but when the puppies come so does Charlotte's maternal instinct. After ample consideration, Carrie chucks her job and announces, symbolically at the funeral of Lexi Featherston, the party scandal queen of the 1980s, she is moving with Aleksandr to Paris.