Carrie is attracted to a furniture maker named Aidan and starts dating but he can't date a smoker. She must decide on Aidan or smoking. Charlotte attempts to coach a bad kisser while Miranda finds difficulty in supporting Steve's pipe dream of making a half court shot at the Knick's game. Samantha begins dating an African-American record executive who has a strong-willed sister who runs a new restaurant.

Carrie can't understand why Aidan doesn't want to sleep with her, and then feels jaded when she finds out that Aidan doesn't go for sex for the old-fashioned reason he is still romantic. She wonders if modern Manhattan girls like her are just sluts, and is he serious, or, as Samantha suggests, becoming just a friend? Charlotte has a great lover, a gentle gentleman, with one flaw: without knowing it, he calls her a bitch and whore during sex; when she tells the poor boy, he's as horrified as she, and struck impotent. Miranda discovers she has chlamydia, so she calls all her 42 former partners, and Steve suffers an intimate test despite being monogamous. One of Samantha's countless dates accidentally allowed a violent robber into her posh building; as soon as the other tenants find out, she feels shunned...

Miranda and Steve are finally feeling comfortable together, until she watches the laundry. Samantha has hot nights with a doctor, and decides to follow his example taking Viagra purely for recreational purposes. Charlotte is inspired by a book to start looking for a fiancé more methodically, and commandeers a wedded friend of hers, allegedly the ideal ally, to tell his friend Phil he is supposed to become her dream date - when he stands up the all too eager would be-bride at the opera, she goes with Carrie, who was just getting comfortable with Aidan but suddenly crosses glances with Mr. Big.

Charlotte is completely besotted with Trey, who she just met by accident but already considers him, her groom. At a chic boat party Charlotte presents him to Carry, who is already tired of the meeting by fate story and bumps into Mr. Big there, without Natasha- despite her living with Aidan they clearly miss each-other. Samantha, who just moved to the meat packing district, is invited by a much older new neighbor, Len; discovering her period is five days late, she gets drunk and accepts to go all the way, but then nature steps in. To Miranda's utter and sarcastically uttered surprise, Steve suggests they consider making a baby; they settle for the time on a puppy he would care for, but when that doesn't work out...

Now that Miranda and Steve have fallen out of love over parenthood, they painstakingly live apart in the same flat... At Aidan Shaws's design fair, Carrie bumps into Mr. and Mrs. Big. Later, a drunken Big blurts out to Carrie that he not only wants a divorce but also wants her back. Then, when Aidan generously starts improving her apartment, the noise drives her to a hotel... Charlotte is convinced Trey is ready to propose and is presented to his mother Bunny MacDougal. She seems to control him masterfully. Later, Charlotte uses Bunny's sleeve rubbing trick and makes him thoughtlessly accept a wedding proposal by her. She instantly regrets it because it lacks the romance she desires... Sam likes giving blow-jobs, but her present lover, Adam Ball's sperm tastes really bad.

Carrie feels guilty as hell about sleeping with Big behind Aidan's back, but re-offends when he's out of state; while Big announces he wants to leave his wife for her, she loses Aidan's dog, Pete. Charlotte's engagement-bliss withers when Trey's family's 'standard' prenuptial appears. Just after boasting how much better life is without a steady man, Sam experiences it's no fun being single with the flu. Miranda is very happy with a young new colleague, having a one nightstand followed by long-term phone-love as he returns to Chicago- till she finds out...

Charlotte's wedding planning panic is easily solved when Sam refers her to gay stylist Anthony Marantino, 'the Italian mother she never had'. Paranoid Miranda worries about a 'scary' man in a restaurant's sandwich-suit saying "eat me" in a 'woman-unfriendly way'. When Samantha finally meets her male sexual counterpart Tom Reymi, eagerness to 'do it' in his swing makes her overcome an old pathological fear for aids-tests. Carrie is torn between sweet Aidan and exciting adulterous Big who wants to come out, but when Natasha returns early...

When Miranda tries multi-dating, she quickly finds nobody wants a lawyer, while her same physique appeals as a "stewardess". Things get interesting for her when she decides to date a doctor - At Charlotte's rehearsal dinner, Samantha hooks up with Trey's cousin Caleb, even if she can't understand his Edinburgh accent. Carrie is touched that Aidan created a love-seat as a wedding gift for her friend Charlotte; finally she gathers the courage to confess her infidelity with adulterer Big - Charlotte has a sleepless night before her wedding after sleeping with Trey for the first time.

Carrie and Samantha deal with noisy neighbours, and Miranda fears that the takeout lady laughs at her for ordering for one.

While Miranda has the feeling there is a ghost in her apartment, Carrie feels haunted when she gets an invitation for the new bar opened by Steve Brady and her own ex Aiden Shaw, but considers he must go as a step to becoming friends again. Samantha gets fed up with Maria's raving about relationships and just misses mens dicks. Charlotte feels it was bad enough Bunny dominated the interior-decoration of their apartment, but then she dictates what type of bed they should get and when he catches a cold even moves in to nurse her 'little boy' exactly as she always did.

Samantha's lover Warren is great in bed, but addicted to something the quartet hates: baby-talk. Miranda finds an attractive man while training for the marathon whom she welcomes in her bed, but is in doubt about his tongue's interest in her rear. Trey and Charlotte feel ready to get children, but a dinner visit by a couple with young kids shakes that confidence. Carrie's first e-mails aim to arrange double date -with Miranda and Steve- so she can get back to Aidan, who however still seems reticent.

Carrie is happy back with Aidan but gets a call from Big. Now she has opted for motherhood and society life, Charlotte wants to quit her gallery job and interviews potential successors. Samantha reviles taxi-thieves but still lands in bed with Brad; he's cocky enough to declare she needs another intimate waxing, but accepts reciprocity. When Miranda strains her neck badly wearing only a bath towel she calls Carrie, who can't cancel her appointment, so Aidan comes to the rescue; the therapy is her first week off in ages. Carrie feels justly punished but too much when Aidan spends time with Steve's foxy bar maid Shayna.

Carrie finally gives her house key to Aidan, but he still feels kept out of her life when she refuses to accept a new laptop from him after hers broke down mysteriously, while she didn't even know the concept of backups, let alone zip drives. Samantha is delighted to try out the similarities between sex positions and the wrestling holds her new boyfriend teaches as a coach. When Miranda's mother dies unexpectedly, so it takes a while for the grief to kick in, Charlotte is determined to contribute to a classy ceremony. Samantha mourns the last thing anyone ever expected to forsake her: orgasms!

When Miranda learns Steve has testicular cancer, she gives him a 'kick in the balls' about taking it serious and then feels guilty, but he ends up thanking her for making him get the best possible care. Samantha can have orgasms again but freaks out every time a date asks about her plans for the weekend, so she accepts when Carrie begs her to come to Aidan's wood cabin up state where city girls feel stranded; Sam quickly focuses on hunky farmer Luke, Carrie crashes in front of Aidan. Charlotte is in the McDougals posh Connecticut country house where mother in law Bunny nurses orchids and sits at Trey's bath planning her still hypothetical grandchild's future, just when Charlotte's meticulous fertility planning dictates using Trey's saved up seed...

Since Steve's testicular amputation, balls are a sensitive subject; he even wants a prosthesis, however supportive Miranda insists they don't matter to women. Now his movie star- girlfriend has dumped him, Carrie must receive heart-broken Mr. Big at pissed-off Aidan's cabin. Trey is offended when Charlotte insists to have his sperm quality tested and needs personal encouragement once he's in the boot. Samantha wants a job from hotel tycoon Richard Wright, but fears that he refuses to hire a woman.

To her horror, Miranda is pregnant after one single night with Steve. After she told the girls including her intention to abort, Charlotte walks out envious and disgusted; Carrie tells Aidan after making him swear not to tell, so he must sit by how his buddy Steve may lose his baby without even knowing, and goes see waiter Chad, the ignorant father of her aborted child years ago. Charlotte gets a fertility test which confirms her chances are only 15%. Meanwhile Samantha longs for a Birkin, the ultimate status handbag, and abuses her star-client Lucy Liu's name to jump the five years waiting list...

When Carrie's apartment is going co-op, Aidan proposes they buy it together. She finds a ring in his things, and accidentally insults Miranda who helped pick it out. Trey's MD tries to control Charlotte's reproductive zeal in light of the tough statistics of in vitro fertilization, and Charlotte looks into adopting a girl from China. At the annual Highland Fling, Bunny's objection to a 'Mandarin granddaughter' causes a marital row. Samantha finds out Richard Wright is a tough boss but into quick sexy without commitment, such as on a flight to Rio. Miranda tells Steve he's becoming a father but that she doesn't expect his help.

Carrie finds living together with Aidan cramps their space, literally as well as figuratively in secret singular behavior. Samantha is hot enough on Richard to give him a blow job, even in his glass wall-office, but resists any romance. Trey is ready to get on with life without a baby, but Charlotte is offended by any alternative and throws a ladies night which ends quickly as they witness a livid marital row. Miranda has a last hot sex partner, Walker Lewis, before her pregnancy is too far advanced.

The girls spend a hot night at the gay club Trade, dancing in a sea of bare-chest good-looking men. Carrie meets sexy, Australian shoe importer -wow!- Oliver Spencer, to Stanford's envy. Samantha gets so high on beefcake, XTC and naked dicks in the gents (no girls there) that she tells Richard during hot sex she loves him, but gets no response. Charlotte is presented in the club to Anthony's boyfriend Gordon, who works for 'House and Garden' magazine, and arranges for it to take pictures at her place, the house of a 'perfect couple' - but Trey's lack of interest for yet another thing that excites her pushes their relationship to effective separation. Miranda's pregnancy becomes known at her law firm when a young colleague Max means to defend so her dozing off, but they're overheard when she says to what it no more out then his being gay (as she saw him in Trade)- the next day they both come clean.

In order to get over her divorce, Charlotte takes up tap-dancing, but it doesn't solve her emotional state. Richard has enough confidence to admit doing it with Bebe and invite Samantha to join him in the luxury shower in one breath; she obliges, but still is vexed enough to have a quickie just to spite Richard, who doesn't bother. Aidan joins his fiancée Carrie in their smaller shower. Miranda learns from her gynecologist the baby is a boy, and is terrified not to be flooded by maternal feelings. The two brides go wedding shopping together, but Carrie chokes in a dress, an extreme symptom of wedding gibbers, or is it more serious?

Carrie has an opportunity to buy her apartment since it's going coop, but without her ex-fiancé Aidan can't get enough capital together, so she must consider a cheaper lifestyle; Miranda calculates she wasted some $40,000 on her shoe obsession. Samantha takes a Chanel bag and other luxury gifts from Richard as a declaration of love, till she realizes how impersonal the cards are. Charlotte wanted to get her wedding ring converted to a necklace, but the words 'melt it down' make her realize she's not that ready yet. Realizing her financial misery after seeing unaffordable apartments she wouldn't even want, Carrie considers accepting a loan from Big, but after Sam and Miranda say they would rather spring her themselves tears up his check. Charlotte takes a volunteer job in the museum, and Carrie, who can only get freelance work with Vogue, works her frustrations out on the rich girl, who tells her off to manage her own finances like an adult. Taking a bath in Richards apartment, Sam bumps on his gay personal shopper Roger, and makes him put in a card mentioning love for a change. Pregnancy-horny Miranda talks Steve into giving her multiple orgasms, but 'no strings'. Charlotte gives her ring to Carrie for a down-payment, so the contract is signed.

Carrie has overslept and rushes like crazy though bogged-down traffic, for she has the honor to open Wall Street by ringing the bell, and has her first 'official' date with Jack Berger, but takes the girls' advice to date simultaneously, notably graphic designer Applegate, a disaster. Miranda finally admits being in love with Steve, baby Brady's father. Charlotte tests Harry's determination not to marry a non-Jew, but even sex fails. Samantha is happy in her sexy neighborhood, where a Pottery Barn looks more out of place than SM leather, and notices the incredibly attractive Wall Street yuppie Chip Kil-Kinney moving in at her building; when she welcomes him with a kinky gift basket, he accepts her dare to drop his towel to take it; they have hot sex and he gives her a hot stock tip. Alas when she has him handcuffed the next day.

When Miranda tries multi-dating, she quickly finds nobody wants a lawyer, while her same physique appeals as a "stewardess". Things get interesting for her when she decides to date a doctor - At Charlotte's rehearsal dinner, Samantha hooks up with Trey's cousin Caleb, even if she can't understand his Edinburgh accent. Carrie is touched that Aidan created a love-seat as a wedding gift for her friend Charlotte; finally she gathers the courage to confess her infidelity with adulterer Big - Charlotte has a sleepless night before her wedding after sleeping with Trey for the first time.

Samantha's lover Warren is great in bed, but addicted to something the quartet hates: baby-talk. Miranda finds an attractive man while training for the marathon whom she welcomes in her bed, but is in doubt about his tongue's interest in her rear. Trey and Charlotte feel ready to get children, but a dinner visit by a couple with young kids shakes that confidence. Carrie's first e-mails aim to arrange double date -with Miranda and Steve- so she can get back to Aidan, who however still seems reticent.

In order to get over her divorce, Charlotte takes up tap-dancing, but it doesn't solve her emotional state. Richard has enough confidence to admit doing it with Bebe and invite Samantha to join him in the luxury shower in one breath; she obliges, but still is vexed enough to have a quickie just to spite Richard, who doesn't bother. Aidan joins his fiancée Carrie in their smaller shower. Miranda learns from her gynecologist the baby is a boy, and is terrified not to be flooded by maternal feelings. The two brides go wedding shopping together, but Carrie chokes in a dress, an extreme symptom of wedding gibbers, or is it more serious?

Carrie feels guilty as hell about sleeping with Big behind Aidan's back, but re-offends when he's out of state; while Big announces he wants to leave his wife for her, she loses Aidan's dog, Pete. Charlotte's engagement-bliss withers when Trey's family's 'standard' prenuptial appears. Just after boasting how much better life is without a steady man, Sam experiences it's no fun being single with the flu. Miranda is very happy with a young new colleague, having a one nightstand followed by long-term phone-love as he returns to Chicago- till she finds out...

When Carrie's apartment is going co-op, Aidan proposes they buy it together. She finds a ring in his things, and accidentally insults Miranda who helped pick it out. Trey's MD tries to control Charlotte's reproductive zeal in light of the tough statistics of in vitro fertilization, and Charlotte looks into adopting a girl from China. At the annual Highland Fling, Bunny's objection to a 'Mandarin granddaughter' causes a marital row. Samantha finds out Richard Wright is a tough boss but into quick sexy without commitment, such as on a flight to Rio. Miranda tells Steve he's becoming a father but that she doesn't expect his help.

Since Steve's testicular amputation, balls are a sensitive subject; he even wants a prosthesis, however supportive Miranda insists they don't matter to women. Now his movie star- girlfriend has dumped him, Carrie must receive heart-broken Mr. Big at pissed-off Aidan's cabin. Trey is offended when Charlotte insists to have his sperm quality tested and needs personal encouragement once he's in the boot. Samantha wants a job from hotel tycoon Richard Wright, but fears that he refuses to hire a woman.

While Miranda has the feeling there is a ghost in her apartment, Carrie feels haunted when she gets an invitation for the new bar opened by Steve Brady and her own ex Aiden Shaw, but considers he must go as a step to becoming friends again. Samantha gets fed up with Maria's raving about relationships and just misses mens dicks. Charlotte feels it was bad enough Bunny dominated the interior-decoration of their apartment, but then she dictates what type of bed they should get and when he catches a cold even moves in to nurse her 'little boy' exactly as she always did.

Now that Miranda and Steve have fallen out of love over parenthood, they painstakingly live apart in the same flat... At Aidan Shaws's design fair, Carrie bumps into Mr. and Mrs. Big. Later, a drunken Big blurts out to Carrie that he not only wants a divorce but also wants her back. Then, when Aidan generously starts improving her apartment, the noise drives her to a hotel... Charlotte is convinced Trey is ready to propose and is presented to his mother Bunny MacDougal. She seems to control him masterfully. Later, Charlotte uses Bunny's sleeve rubbing trick and makes him thoughtlessly accept a wedding proposal by her. She instantly regrets it because it lacks the romance she desires... Sam likes giving blow-jobs, but her present lover, Adam Ball's sperm tastes really bad.

Carrie is happy back with Aidan but gets a call from Big. Now she has opted for motherhood and society life, Charlotte wants to quit her gallery job and interviews potential successors. Samantha reviles taxi-thieves but still lands in bed with Brad; he's cocky enough to declare she needs another intimate waxing, but accepts reciprocity. When Miranda strains her neck badly wearing only a bath towel she calls Carrie, who can't cancel her appointment, so Aidan comes to the rescue; the therapy is her first week off in ages. Carrie feels justly punished but too much when Aidan spends time with Steve's foxy bar maid Shayna.

Miranda and Steve are finally feeling comfortable together, until she watches the laundry. Samantha has hot nights with a doctor, and decides to follow his example taking Viagra purely for recreational purposes. Charlotte is inspired by a book to start looking for a fiancé more methodically, and commandeers a wedded friend of hers, allegedly the ideal ally, to tell his friend Phil he is supposed to become her dream date - when he stands up the all too eager would be-bride at the opera, she goes with Carrie, who was just getting comfortable with Aidan but suddenly crosses glances with Mr. Big.