1 00:00:00,071 --> 00:00:40,071 101 - Sex and the city 2 00:00:49,072 --> 00:00:53,008 Once upon a time, an English journalist came to New York. 3 00:00:57,847 --> 00:00:59,815 Elizabeth was attractive and bright. 4 00:00:59,883 --> 00:01:03,910 Right away she hooked up with one of the city's typically eligible bachelors. 5 00:01:03,987 --> 00:01:06,979 The question remains... Is this really a company we want to own? 6 00:01:07,057 --> 00:01:11,221 Tim was 42, a well-liked and respected investment banker... 7 00:01:11,294 --> 00:01:13,728 who made about two million a year. 8 00:01:16,166 --> 00:01:19,727 They met one evening, in typical New York fashion... 9 00:01:19,803 --> 00:01:21,737 at a gallery opening. 10 00:01:28,445 --> 00:01:30,413 Like it? 11 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,506 Yes, actually. I think it's quite interesting. 12 00:01:34,718 --> 00:01:35,980 What? 13 00:01:36,052 --> 00:01:38,612 I feel like I know you from somewhere. 14 00:01:38,688 --> 00:01:40,679 Doubtful. I only just moved here from London. 15 00:01:40,757 --> 00:01:44,659 London? Really? That's my all-time favorite city. 16 00:01:44,728 --> 00:01:47,060 - It is? - Absolutely. 17 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:49,155 It was love at first sight. 18 00:01:49,232 --> 00:01:50,824 You know... 19 00:01:52,068 --> 00:01:55,003 I think perhaps I have met you somewhere before. 20 00:01:59,142 --> 00:02:02,009 For two weeks they snuggled... 21 00:02:03,713 --> 00:02:05,840 went to romantic restaurants... 22 00:02:08,818 --> 00:02:10,979 had wonderful sex... 23 00:02:12,088 --> 00:02:14,318 and shared their most intimate secrets. 24 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,557 One warm spring day... 25 00:02:18,628 --> 00:02:21,893 he took her to a town house he saw in Sunday's New York Times. 26 00:02:21,965 --> 00:02:24,798 How 'bout if we start at the top and work our way down? 27 00:02:24,868 --> 00:02:27,496 There are four bedrooms upstairs. Do you have any children? 28 00:02:27,570 --> 00:02:29,003 Not yet. 29 00:02:31,007 --> 00:02:33,441 That day, Tim popped the question. 30 00:02:33,510 --> 00:02:36,104 How'd you like to have dinner with my folks Tuesday night? 31 00:02:36,179 --> 00:02:38,739 I'd love to. 32 00:02:38,815 --> 00:02:41,306 On Tuesday, he called with some bad news. 33 00:02:41,384 --> 00:02:43,944 My mother's not feeling very well. 34 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:45,578 Well, gosh, I'm sorry. 35 00:02:45,655 --> 00:02:48,249 - Could we take a rain check? - Of course. 36 00:02:48,325 --> 00:02:51,158 Tell your mum I hope she feels better. 37 00:02:51,961 --> 00:02:54,794 When she hadn't heard from him for two weeks, she called. 38 00:02:54,864 --> 00:02:58,595 Tim, it's Elizabeth. That's an awfully long rain check. 39 00:02:58,668 --> 00:03:01,796 He said he was up to his ears and that he'd call her the next day. 40 00:03:04,574 --> 00:03:06,633 He never did call, of course. Bastard. 41 00:03:06,710 --> 00:03:10,009 - She told me one day over coffee. - I don't understand. 42 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,914 In England, looking at houses together would have meant something. 43 00:03:13,983 --> 00:03:17,510 Then I realized no one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan. 44 00:03:20,457 --> 00:03:23,051 Welcome to the age of "un-innocence." 45 00:03:24,227 --> 00:03:28,687 No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember. 46 00:03:28,765 --> 00:03:31,427 Instead, we have breakfast at 7:00 a. M... 47 00:03:31,501 --> 00:03:34,299 and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. 48 00:03:36,106 --> 00:03:39,303 Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. 49 00:03:39,376 --> 00:03:42,641 Cupid has flown the co-op. 50 00:03:45,281 --> 00:03:47,408 How the hell did we get into this mess? 51 00:03:49,185 --> 00:03:53,144 There are maybe tens of thousands of women like this in the city. 52 00:03:53,223 --> 00:03:56,852 We all know them, and we all agree they're great. 53 00:03:56,926 --> 00:04:00,054 They travel. They pay taxes. 54 00:04:00,130 --> 00:04:03,827 They'll spend $400 on a pair of Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals. 55 00:04:04,501 --> 00:04:06,560 And they're alone. 56 00:04:11,174 --> 00:04:13,165 It's like the riddle of the Sphinx. 57 00:04:13,243 --> 00:04:16,076 Why are there so many great unmarried women... 58 00:04:16,146 --> 00:04:19,172 and no great unmarried men? 59 00:04:19,249 --> 00:04:21,683 I explore these sorts of issues in my column... 60 00:04:21,751 --> 00:04:24,083 and I have terrific sources: My friends. 61 00:04:24,154 --> 00:04:27,885 When you're a young guy in your 20s, women are controlling the relationship. 62 00:04:27,957 --> 00:04:30,482 So by the time you're an eligible man in your 30s... 63 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,120 you feel like you're being devoured by women. 64 00:04:33,196 --> 00:04:36,529 Suddenly, the guys are holding all the chips. 65 00:04:36,599 --> 00:04:39,830 I call it the mid-30s power flip. 66 00:04:45,141 --> 00:04:47,837 It's all about age and biology. 67 00:04:47,911 --> 00:04:50,311 I mean, if you want to get married, it's to have kids, right? 68 00:04:50,380 --> 00:04:53,747 Not with someone older than 35, 'cause you have to have kids right away... 69 00:04:53,817 --> 00:04:56,047 and that's about it. 70 00:04:56,119 --> 00:04:59,316 I think these women should just forget about marriage... 71 00:04:59,389 --> 00:05:00,981 and have a good time. 72 00:05:03,726 --> 00:05:08,356 I have a friend who'd always gone out with extremely sexy guys... 73 00:05:08,431 --> 00:05:10,365 and just had a good time. 74 00:05:10,433 --> 00:05:13,561 One day she woke up, and she was 41. 75 00:05:13,636 --> 00:05:17,128 She couldn't get any more dates. She had a complete physical breakdown... 76 00:05:17,207 --> 00:05:21,337 couldn't hold her job and moved back to Wisconsin to live with her mother. 77 00:05:25,281 --> 00:05:29,183 Trust me... this is not a story that makes men feel bad. 78 00:05:29,252 --> 00:05:33,313 Most men are threatened by successful women. 79 00:05:33,389 --> 00:05:36,381 If you want to get these guys, you have to keep your mouth shut... 80 00:05:36,459 --> 00:05:38,393 and play by the rules. 81 00:05:41,731 --> 00:05:44,427 I totally believe that love conquers all. 82 00:05:44,501 --> 00:05:46,799 Sometimes you just have to give it a little space... 83 00:05:46,870 --> 00:05:49,270 and that's exactly what's missing in Manhattan... 84 00:05:49,339 --> 00:05:51,534 the space for romance. 85 00:05:54,310 --> 00:05:56,369 The problem is expectations. 86 00:05:56,446 --> 00:05:59,609 Older women don't want to settle for what's available. 87 00:06:02,185 --> 00:06:06,019 By the time you reach your mid-30s you think, "Why should I settle?" 88 00:06:08,124 --> 00:06:09,557 You know? 89 00:06:09,626 --> 00:06:12,288 It's like the older we get, the more we keep self-selecting... 90 00:06:12,362 --> 00:06:15,160 down to a smaller and smaller group. 91 00:06:15,231 --> 00:06:17,222 What women really want is Alec Baldwin. 92 00:06:18,968 --> 00:06:23,234 There's not one woman in New York who hasn't turned down 10 wonderful guys... 93 00:06:23,306 --> 00:06:26,969 because they were too short or too fat or too poor. 94 00:06:27,043 --> 00:06:30,479 I have been out with some of those guys... the short, fat, poor ones. 95 00:06:30,547 --> 00:06:32,174 It makes absolutely no difference. 96 00:06:32,248 --> 00:06:36,014 They are just as self-centered and unappreciative as the good-Iooking ones. 97 00:06:36,085 --> 00:06:39,054 Why don't these women just marry a fat guy? 98 00:06:39,122 --> 00:06:44,116 Why don't they just marry a big, fat tub of lard? 99 00:06:44,193 --> 00:06:49,358 Happy birthday, dear Miranda 100 00:06:49,432 --> 00:06:52,993 Happy birthday to you 101 00:06:53,069 --> 00:06:57,199 Another 30-something birthday with a group of unmarried female friends. 102 00:06:57,273 --> 00:06:59,969 We would all have preferred a nice celebratory conference call. 103 00:07:00,043 --> 00:07:01,840 - You were saying? - Look. 104 00:07:01,911 --> 00:07:05,506 If you're a successful single woman in this city, you have two choices: 105 00:07:05,582 --> 00:07:08,142 You can bang your head against the wall and try and find a relationship... 106 00:07:08,217 --> 00:07:10,981 or you can say "screw it," and just go out and have sex like a man. 107 00:07:11,054 --> 00:07:16,492 - You mean with dildos? - No, I mean without feeling. 108 00:07:16,559 --> 00:07:19,255 Samantha was a New York inspiration. 109 00:07:19,329 --> 00:07:21,263 A public relations executive... 110 00:07:21,331 --> 00:07:24,823 she routinely slept with good-Iooking guys in their 20s. 111 00:07:24,901 --> 00:07:28,393 Remember that guy I was going out with? Oh, God, what was his name? Drew. 112 00:07:28,471 --> 00:07:30,962 - Drew the sex god. - Right. Afterwards? 113 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,168 I didn't feel a thing. It was like, "Hey, babe, gotta go. Catch ya later." 114 00:07:34,243 --> 00:07:36,837 And I completely forgot about him after that. 115 00:07:36,913 --> 00:07:39,575 But are you sure that isn't just 'cause he didn't call you? 116 00:07:39,649 --> 00:07:42,982 Sweetheart, this is the first time in the history of Manhattan... 117 00:07:43,052 --> 00:07:45,384 that women have had as much money and power as men... 118 00:07:45,455 --> 00:07:48,822 plus the equal luxury of treating men like sex objects. 119 00:07:48,891 --> 00:07:51,883 Yeah, except men in this city fail on both counts. 120 00:07:51,961 --> 00:07:53,895 I mean, they don't want to be in a relationship with you... 121 00:07:53,963 --> 00:07:56,488 but as soon as you only want them for sex, they don't like it. 122 00:07:56,566 --> 00:07:59,057 All of a sudden they can't perform the way they're supposed to. 123 00:07:59,135 --> 00:08:02,366 - That's when you dump them. - Ladies, are we really that cynical? 124 00:08:02,438 --> 00:08:04,372 What about romance? 125 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,101 - Yeah! - Who needs it? 126 00:08:06,175 --> 00:08:08,700 It's like that guy, Jeremiah, the poet. 127 00:08:08,778 --> 00:08:11,804 I mean, the sex was incredible. 128 00:08:11,881 --> 00:08:15,044 But then he wanted to read me his poetry and go out to dinner... 129 00:08:15,118 --> 00:08:17,882 and the whole chat bit, and I'm like, "Let's not even go there." 130 00:08:17,954 --> 00:08:20,889 What are you saying? That you're just going to give up on love? 131 00:08:20,957 --> 00:08:23,016 - That's sick. - No, no, no. Believe me... 132 00:08:23,092 --> 00:08:25,458 the right guy comes along, and you two here, this whole thing... 133 00:08:25,528 --> 00:08:27,758 - right out the window. - That's right! 134 00:08:27,830 --> 00:08:32,233 Listen to me! The right guy is an illusion. Start living your lives. 135 00:08:32,301 --> 00:08:36,601 So you think it's really possible to pull off this whole... 136 00:08:36,673 --> 00:08:38,334 women-having-sex-like-men thing? 137 00:08:38,408 --> 00:08:42,037 - You're forgetting The Last Seduction. - You're obsessed with that movie. 138 00:08:42,111 --> 00:08:47,640 Okay, Linda Fiorentino fucking that guy up against the chain-link fence. 139 00:08:47,717 --> 00:08:50,584 And never having one of those "Oh, my God, what have I done?" epiphanies. 140 00:08:50,653 --> 00:08:52,086 I hated that movie. 141 00:08:54,424 --> 00:08:56,051 Was it true? 142 00:08:56,125 --> 00:09:00,221 Were women in New York really giving up on love and throttling up on power? 143 00:09:01,798 --> 00:09:03,732 What a tempting thought. 144 00:09:07,003 --> 00:09:11,337 I'm beginning to think the only place one can still find love and romance... 145 00:09:11,407 --> 00:09:14,376 in New York is the gay community. 146 00:09:14,444 --> 00:09:17,277 It's straight love that's become closeted. 147 00:09:17,346 --> 00:09:19,314 Stanford Blatch was one of my closest friends. 148 00:09:19,382 --> 00:09:24,081 He owned a talent agency and, at the moment, was down to a single client. 149 00:09:24,153 --> 00:09:25,984 So, are you telling me... 150 00:09:26,055 --> 00:09:27,955 that you're in love? 151 00:09:28,024 --> 00:09:31,289 How could I possibly sustain a relationship? 152 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,386 You know Derek takes up like, a thousand percent of my time. 153 00:09:34,464 --> 00:09:37,262 Don't you think that's a bit obsessive? 154 00:09:37,333 --> 00:09:40,200 I'm a passionate person. His career is all I care about. 155 00:09:40,269 --> 00:09:43,864 When that's under control, then I can concentrate on my personal life. 156 00:09:43,940 --> 00:09:47,137 Stanford, he's an underwear model. 157 00:09:47,210 --> 00:09:50,236 With a billboard in Times Square. 158 00:09:50,313 --> 00:09:52,838 Oh, my God. Don't turn around. 159 00:09:52,915 --> 00:09:55,406 The loathe of your life is at the bar. 160 00:09:56,152 --> 00:09:58,017 It was Kurt Harrington... 161 00:09:58,087 --> 00:10:01,318 a mistake I made when I was 26... 162 00:10:01,390 --> 00:10:03,255 and 29... 163 00:10:03,326 --> 00:10:04,657 and 31. 164 00:10:04,727 --> 00:10:07,662 Carrie, don't even go there. 165 00:10:07,730 --> 00:10:09,595 What? Do you think I'm a masochist? 166 00:10:09,665 --> 00:10:11,257 - The man is scum. - Good. 167 00:10:11,334 --> 00:10:15,236 Because I don't have the patience to clean up this mess for the fourth time. 168 00:10:15,304 --> 00:10:18,239 Will you relax? I don't have a shred of feeling left. 169 00:10:18,307 --> 00:10:19,604 Thank God. 170 00:10:20,409 --> 00:10:23,503 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to visit the ladies' room. 171 00:10:25,381 --> 00:10:28,646 It was true. I no longer felt a thing for Kurt. 172 00:10:28,718 --> 00:10:32,484 After all these years, I finally saw him for what he was: 173 00:10:32,555 --> 00:10:34,921 A self-centered, withholding creep... 174 00:10:34,991 --> 00:10:37,687 who was still the best sex I ever had in my life. 175 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,287 However, I did have a little experiment in mind. 176 00:10:50,773 --> 00:10:52,434 Wow. What are you doin' here? 177 00:10:52,508 --> 00:10:53,941 Hey, babe. 178 00:10:55,678 --> 00:10:58,442 - God, you look gorgeous. - Thanks. 179 00:10:59,515 --> 00:11:02,313 So, how's life? 180 00:11:02,385 --> 00:11:05,445 Not bad. Can't complain. You? 181 00:11:05,521 --> 00:11:08,456 Oh, you know, just writing the column. The usual. 182 00:11:08,524 --> 00:11:11,618 So, you seeing anyone special? 183 00:11:12,361 --> 00:11:14,659 Not really. You? 184 00:11:14,730 --> 00:11:16,960 Oh, just a couple guys. 185 00:11:18,134 --> 00:11:20,762 - Well, you look good, though. - So do you. 186 00:11:25,308 --> 00:11:27,003 So... 187 00:11:28,077 --> 00:11:29,874 what are you doing later? 188 00:11:29,946 --> 00:11:32,540 I thought you weren't talking to me for the rest of your life. 189 00:11:32,615 --> 00:11:34,708 Who said anything about talking? 190 00:11:37,486 --> 00:11:40,478 What do you say to my place, 3:00? 191 00:11:41,557 --> 00:11:43,957 All right. See ya there. 192 00:11:55,404 --> 00:11:59,170 Are you out of your mind? What the hell do you think you're doing? 193 00:11:59,242 --> 00:12:02,143 Oh, calm down. It's research. 194 00:12:03,546 --> 00:12:05,810 Oh, God. Oh, Kurt. 195 00:12:05,882 --> 00:12:08,510 Kurt was just like I remembered... 196 00:12:08,584 --> 00:12:11,883 better... because this time... 197 00:12:11,954 --> 00:12:15,287 there would be none of that messy emotional attachment. 198 00:12:23,633 --> 00:12:27,125 All righty. My turn. 199 00:12:27,203 --> 00:12:30,400 Oh, sorry. I have to go back to work. 200 00:12:31,908 --> 00:12:33,967 What? Are you kiddin'? You're serious? 201 00:12:34,043 --> 00:12:36,705 Oh, yeah. Completely. But I'll give you a call. 202 00:12:36,779 --> 00:12:38,644 Maybe we can do it again sometime. 203 00:12:39,916 --> 00:12:41,349 Yeah, but... 204 00:12:43,452 --> 00:12:47,183 As I began to get dressed, I realized that I'd done it. 205 00:12:48,624 --> 00:12:50,888 I'd just had sex like a man. 206 00:12:52,595 --> 00:12:56,622 I left feeling powerful, potent and incredibly alive. 207 00:12:56,699 --> 00:12:58,564 I felt like I owned this city. 208 00:12:58,634 --> 00:13:01,125 Nothing and no one could get in my way. 209 00:13:12,415 --> 00:13:14,246 - Number one, he's very handsome. - There ya go. 210 00:13:14,317 --> 00:13:17,150 Number two, he's not wearing a wedding ring. 211 00:13:17,219 --> 00:13:22,486 Number three, he knows I carry textured Trojans with a reservoir tip. 212 00:13:22,558 --> 00:13:23,820 Thanks a lot. 213 00:13:23,893 --> 00:13:25,793 Anytime. 214 00:13:42,645 --> 00:13:45,614 Later that night, Skipper Johnston met me for coffee... 215 00:13:45,681 --> 00:13:47,774 and confessed a shocking intimate secret. 216 00:13:47,850 --> 00:13:49,579 Thank you. 217 00:13:49,652 --> 00:13:52,246 Do you know that it has been, like, a year? 218 00:13:53,356 --> 00:13:54,948 Really? 219 00:13:55,024 --> 00:13:57,424 I don't understand that. You're such a nice guy. 220 00:13:57,493 --> 00:14:00,724 That's the problem. I'm too nice, you know? 221 00:14:00,796 --> 00:14:03,993 I'm a romantic. I just have so much feeling. 222 00:14:04,066 --> 00:14:06,034 Are you sure you're not gay? 223 00:14:06,102 --> 00:14:09,003 No! I'm sensitive... 224 00:14:09,071 --> 00:14:11,801 and I don't objectify women. 225 00:14:11,874 --> 00:14:15,366 You know, most guys, when they meet a girl... 226 00:14:15,444 --> 00:14:18,504 the first thing that they see is... 227 00:14:18,581 --> 00:14:20,446 - You know... - Pussy? 228 00:14:20,516 --> 00:14:22,609 Oh, God! Oh! 229 00:14:22,685 --> 00:14:25,449 I hate that word. 230 00:14:25,521 --> 00:14:28,422 Don't you have any friends that you can hook me up with? 231 00:14:29,225 --> 00:14:32,092 - They're too old for you. - I like older women. 232 00:14:33,195 --> 00:14:35,163 Maybe. 233 00:14:35,231 --> 00:14:38,826 - Maybe my friend Miranda. - When? 234 00:14:38,901 --> 00:14:42,667 Tomorrow night. We're all going downtown to this club, Chaos. 235 00:14:42,738 --> 00:14:44,330 Great. 236 00:14:45,541 --> 00:14:47,475 Don't tell her I'm nice. 237 00:14:48,711 --> 00:14:50,872 Miranda was gonna hate Skipper. 238 00:14:51,981 --> 00:14:54,347 She'd think he was mocking her with his sweet nature... 239 00:14:54,417 --> 00:14:57,284 and decide he was an asshole... 240 00:14:57,353 --> 00:15:00,288 the way she had decided all men were assholes. 241 00:15:06,729 --> 00:15:09,095 - Hello? - Hey, Carrie, it's Charlotte. 242 00:15:09,165 --> 00:15:10,792 - Hey, sweetie. - Hey. 243 00:15:10,866 --> 00:15:12,834 Look, I can't meet you guys for dinner tomorrow night... 244 00:15:12,902 --> 00:15:14,961 because I have an amazing date. 245 00:15:15,037 --> 00:15:16,129 With who? 246 00:15:16,205 --> 00:15:19,641 Capote Duncan. He's supposedly some big shot in the publishing world. 247 00:15:19,708 --> 00:15:20,936 - Do you know him? - Did I know him? 248 00:15:21,010 --> 00:15:24,138 He was one of the city's most notoriously "un-gettable" bachelors. 249 00:15:24,213 --> 00:15:29,116 Wait, don't even answer that question because, frankly, I don't care. 250 00:15:29,185 --> 00:15:34,384 And another thing. I'm not buying any of that women-having-sex-like-men crap. 251 00:15:34,457 --> 00:15:39,292 I didn't tell her about my afternoon of cheap and easy sex and how good it felt. 252 00:15:39,361 --> 00:15:43,024 All right. Fine. Have a good time, and promise to tell me everything. 253 00:15:43,099 --> 00:15:44,691 Well, if you're lucky. 254 00:15:44,767 --> 00:15:46,928 - Bye. - All right. Bye. 255 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,138 Friday night at Chaos. 256 00:15:53,209 --> 00:15:56,736 It was just like that bar in "Cheers" where everybody knows your name... 257 00:15:56,812 --> 00:16:00,475 except here they were likely to forget it five minutes later. 258 00:16:01,617 --> 00:16:02,709 Hi. 259 00:16:02,785 --> 00:16:08,155 Still, it was the creme de la creme of New York whipped into a frenzy. 260 00:16:08,224 --> 00:16:10,556 Sometimes you got a souffle... 261 00:16:11,894 --> 00:16:13,885 sometimes cottage cheese. 262 00:16:13,963 --> 00:16:16,932 It is like a model bomb exploded in this room tonight. 263 00:16:16,999 --> 00:16:20,526 Is there a woman here aside from me who weights more than a hundred pounds? 264 00:16:20,603 --> 00:16:23,299 I know. It's like "Undereaters Anonymous." 265 00:16:23,372 --> 00:16:24,999 That's funny, Skippy. 266 00:16:25,074 --> 00:16:27,975 - Skipper. - I have this theory... 267 00:16:28,043 --> 00:16:32,571 that men secretly hate pretty girls because they rejected them in school. 268 00:16:32,648 --> 00:16:35,310 Right. But if you're not part of the "Beauty Olympics"... 269 00:16:35,384 --> 00:16:38,979 you can still become a very interesting person. 270 00:16:39,054 --> 00:16:40,715 Are you saying that I'm not pretty enough? 271 00:16:40,789 --> 00:16:42,780 No, no, no. Of course you are. 272 00:16:42,858 --> 00:16:45,190 So, ipso facto, I can't be interesting? 273 00:16:45,261 --> 00:16:47,195 Women fall into one of two categories: 274 00:16:47,263 --> 00:16:50,664 Beautiful and boring or homely and interesting, is that it? 275 00:16:50,733 --> 00:16:53,224 No, that's not what I meant. 276 00:16:53,302 --> 00:16:55,998 Excuse me. Is this your hand on my knee? 277 00:16:57,740 --> 00:16:59,571 Let's just keep 'em where I can see 'em, all right? 278 00:16:59,642 --> 00:17:03,601 Well, I guess you must find me beautiful. 279 00:17:03,679 --> 00:17:06,273 - Or interesting. - I was about to rescue Skipper... 280 00:17:06,348 --> 00:17:09,579 from an increasingly hopeless situation, when suddenly... 281 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:12,951 Lucky me, twice in one week. 282 00:17:14,023 --> 00:17:16,651 Well, I don't know if you're going to be getting that lucky. 283 00:17:16,725 --> 00:17:18,920 You know, I was really pissed off the way you left the other day. 284 00:17:18,994 --> 00:17:20,655 - You were? - Yeah. 285 00:17:20,729 --> 00:17:22,924 Then I thought, how great! 286 00:17:22,998 --> 00:17:24,727 You finally understand the kind of relationship I want... 287 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,392 and now we can have sex without commitment. 288 00:17:27,803 --> 00:17:31,637 Yeah. Right. Sure. I guess. 289 00:17:31,707 --> 00:17:34,972 - So when I feel like it, I'll call you. - Yeah, please. 290 00:17:35,044 --> 00:17:38,411 Whenever you feel like it. If I'm alone, I'm all yours. 291 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,471 Right. 292 00:17:40,549 --> 00:17:41,846 I like this new you. 293 00:17:41,917 --> 00:17:43,248 Call me. 294 00:17:43,319 --> 00:17:44,411 Yup. 295 00:17:47,022 --> 00:17:48,683 I didn't understand. 296 00:17:48,757 --> 00:17:53,217 Did all men secretly want their women promiscuous and emotionally detached? 297 00:17:53,295 --> 00:17:58,062 And if I was really having sex like a man, why didn't I feel more in control? 298 00:17:58,133 --> 00:18:00,693 You see that guy? He's the next Donald Trump... 299 00:18:00,769 --> 00:18:03,465 except he's younger and much better looking. 300 00:18:05,307 --> 00:18:06,865 Hi. 301 00:18:06,942 --> 00:18:09,001 - You know him? - No. 302 00:18:09,078 --> 00:18:10,909 I've never seen him in my life. 303 00:18:10,980 --> 00:18:14,575 He usually dates models, but, hey, I'm as good-Iooking as a model... 304 00:18:14,650 --> 00:18:17,175 plus I own my own business. 305 00:18:17,253 --> 00:18:19,585 Samantha had the kind of deluded self-confidence... 306 00:18:19,655 --> 00:18:22,488 that caused men like Ross Perot to run for president... 307 00:18:22,558 --> 00:18:25,186 and it usually got her what she wanted. 308 00:18:25,261 --> 00:18:27,729 Well, if you're not gonna hit on him, I will. 309 00:18:27,796 --> 00:18:29,525 And there she went... 310 00:18:29,598 --> 00:18:32,590 off to take her best shot with Mr. Big. 311 00:18:34,169 --> 00:18:39,903 Meanwhile, Charlotte York was having a splendid evening with Capote Duncan. 312 00:18:39,975 --> 00:18:42,876 Wanna go back to my place and see the Ross Blechner? 313 00:18:42,945 --> 00:18:45,539 I'd love to, but it's really getting late. 314 00:18:45,614 --> 00:18:47,206 No problem. 315 00:18:49,285 --> 00:18:53,745 - What year was it painted again? - '89. 316 00:18:53,822 --> 00:18:56,052 Though Charlotte was determined to play hard-to-get... 317 00:18:56,125 --> 00:18:58,616 she didn't want to end the evening too abruptly. 318 00:18:58,694 --> 00:19:02,027 Well, maybe just for a minute. 319 00:19:07,736 --> 00:19:10,569 This could easily go for a hundred grand. 320 00:19:10,639 --> 00:19:12,869 Ross is so hot right now. 321 00:19:14,943 --> 00:19:16,706 It's beautiful. 322 00:19:18,213 --> 00:19:20,113 No, you're beautiful. 323 00:19:23,052 --> 00:19:26,419 Thank you for tonight. 324 00:19:26,488 --> 00:19:28,319 - Yeah? - I had a wonderful time. 325 00:19:28,390 --> 00:19:29,982 Well, it was my pleasure. 326 00:19:45,874 --> 00:19:48,468 I have to get up really early tomorrow. 327 00:19:49,945 --> 00:19:51,708 I'll get you a cab. 328 00:19:56,618 --> 00:20:00,782 Charlotte told me she thought she had played the entire evening flawlessly. 329 00:20:06,462 --> 00:20:09,363 So, what are you doing next Saturday? 330 00:20:10,432 --> 00:20:12,662 I'm having dinner with you. 331 00:20:21,343 --> 00:20:25,245 - You're going to the West Side, right? - Right. West Fourth and Bank, please. 332 00:20:26,648 --> 00:20:30,675 Hey, scoot over, will ya? Two stops: 333 00:20:30,753 --> 00:20:32,983 Fourth and Bank and... 334 00:20:33,055 --> 00:20:34,682 West Broadway and Broom. 335 00:20:35,758 --> 00:20:38,921 - You're going to Chaos? - Oh. Yeah. 336 00:20:40,162 --> 00:20:41,789 Why? 337 00:20:42,531 --> 00:20:44,522 Look, I understand where you're coming from... 338 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,465 and I totally respect it... 339 00:20:46,535 --> 00:20:50,062 but I really need to have sex tonight. 340 00:20:53,909 --> 00:20:55,399 Back at Chaos... 341 00:20:55,477 --> 00:20:57,672 things were swinging into high gear... 342 00:20:57,746 --> 00:21:00,340 and Samantha was putting the moves on Mr. Big. 343 00:21:00,416 --> 00:21:02,577 I've been smoking cigars for years... 344 00:21:02,651 --> 00:21:04,949 back when they were terminally uncool. 345 00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:08,319 I've got this great source that sends me Hondurans. Do you want to try one? 346 00:21:08,390 --> 00:21:10,790 - No, thank you. - Really? You can't find them anywhere. 347 00:21:11,527 --> 00:21:14,894 Cohibas... that's all I smoke. 348 00:21:21,904 --> 00:21:24,566 Look, I do the PR for this club... 349 00:21:25,874 --> 00:21:28,468 and I have the key to the private room downstairs. 350 00:21:29,211 --> 00:21:30,508 Really? 351 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,311 You want a private tour? 352 00:21:36,452 --> 00:21:39,285 No, thanks, but maybe another time. 353 00:21:46,228 --> 00:21:47,490 Meanwhile... 354 00:21:47,563 --> 00:21:51,863 Skipper Johnston was hopelessly smitten with Miranda Hobbes. 355 00:21:51,934 --> 00:21:55,461 - So, where we goin' now? - Listen, Skippy... 356 00:21:55,537 --> 00:21:58,700 you know, you really are a nice, sweet guy, but... 357 00:21:59,641 --> 00:22:02,007 Oh, I understand. 358 00:22:02,077 --> 00:22:03,339 Good night. 359 00:22:10,419 --> 00:22:12,751 Miranda told me later that she thought he was too nice... 360 00:22:12,821 --> 00:22:15,654 but that she was willing to overlook one flaw... 361 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:20,954 and Capote Duncan found his fix for the night. 362 00:22:23,866 --> 00:22:26,357 Where is it? I wanna see the Ross Blechner. 363 00:22:26,435 --> 00:22:28,096 Wait. Later. 364 00:22:28,837 --> 00:22:30,099 Later. 365 00:22:39,348 --> 00:22:42,317 Oh, listen, l... 366 00:22:42,384 --> 00:22:44,079 I gotta get up really early... 367 00:22:44,152 --> 00:22:46,552 and, actually, you can't stay over. 368 00:22:46,622 --> 00:22:48,283 Cool? 369 00:22:48,357 --> 00:22:50,791 Sure. I have to get up really early too. 370 00:23:06,708 --> 00:23:09,302 Taxi! Taxi! 371 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,675 And so another Friday night in Manhattan crept towards dawn. 372 00:23:20,322 --> 00:23:24,156 Just when I thought I would have to do the unspeakable... 373 00:23:24,226 --> 00:23:25,591 walk home... 374 00:23:37,272 --> 00:23:39,570 Well, get in, for Christ's sakes. 375 00:23:48,984 --> 00:23:52,442 - Where can I drop you? - 72nd Street and Third Avenue. 376 00:23:53,388 --> 00:23:55,822 - Have you got that, Al? - Yes, sir. 377 00:23:57,492 --> 00:23:59,926 So, what have you been doing lately? 378 00:23:59,995 --> 00:24:02,555 You mean besides going out every night? 379 00:24:02,631 --> 00:24:04,565 Yeah. I mean, what do you do for work? 380 00:24:04,633 --> 00:24:06,191 Well, this is my work. 381 00:24:06,268 --> 00:24:09,066 I'm sort of a sexual anthropologist. 382 00:24:10,639 --> 00:24:13,039 You mean like a hooker? 383 00:24:14,443 --> 00:24:17,503 I write a column called "Sex and the City." 384 00:24:17,579 --> 00:24:20,571 Right now I'm researching an article about women who have sex like men. 385 00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:23,411 You know, they have sex... 386 00:24:23,485 --> 00:24:25,976 and then afterwards they feel nothing. 387 00:24:26,054 --> 00:24:29,683 - But you're not like that. - Well, aren't you? 388 00:24:30,525 --> 00:24:33,926 Not a drop. Not even half a drop. 389 00:24:35,230 --> 00:24:38,165 Wow. What's wrong with you? 390 00:24:41,203 --> 00:24:43,296 I get it. 391 00:24:43,372 --> 00:24:45,840 You've never been in love. 392 00:24:46,675 --> 00:24:48,199 Oh, yeah? 393 00:24:48,276 --> 00:24:49,538 Yeah. 394 00:24:51,747 --> 00:24:54,614 Suddenly I felt the wind knocked out of me. 395 00:24:54,683 --> 00:24:57,777 I wanted to crawl under the covers and go right to sleep. 396 00:25:07,329 --> 00:25:09,661 - Thanks for the ride. - Anytime. 397 00:25:13,969 --> 00:25:15,231 Wait. 398 00:25:20,842 --> 00:25:23,106 Have you ever been in love? 399 00:25:24,312 --> 00:25:26,780 Abso-fuckin'-lutely.