Warning: Major spoilers ahead

Following her break-up with Aidan, Carrie focuses on completing her novel – which continues to sound more and more like her real life. Duncan is on hand to read the chapters and loves them. Over a scotch, he admits his Thatcher biography is running behind because he’s been helping her.

Meeting for drinks with Seema, Carrie shares that things feel different with Duncan, especially as he noticed her for her mind first, rather than her looks. Later that night, Carrie runs into trouble with her printer and Duncan comes to the rescue to help, seeing her office for the first time. Noticing the clothes she has in the room, he compliments her fashion, and in response she shows him her most precious room in the house – her shoe closet.

Duncan asks her to join him at a publishing event, even offering to pay her, and she accepts.

The next day, Carrie tells Charlotte that she’s frustrated that everyone seems to want something to happen between her and Duncan – noting the arguments she’d had with Miranda and with Aidan.

At the event, Carrie dresses smartly, but then thinks better of it, deciding to wear the slightly more fancy, and more Carrie, outfit she wanted to wear in the first place. As she arrives, she catches the eye of Duncan and his publisher, Imogen, who is excited at her presence. Imogen quickly schmoozes her, where she reveals she was once married to Duncan, though they remain on good terms.

Carrie declares Duncan an “enigma” and he shares that he’s missed the deadline for his book, asking Imogen for an extension. He then invites her out for dinner. As the pair head home together, they joke about their shared position in New York, declaring each other ‘wonderful’. He invites her to his apartment, but she politely turns him down. However, she has a change of heart, runs to kiss him, and they sleep together.

Afterwards, he reminds her that he won’t be returning when he goes to London the following week. Enjoying another scotch as they lie in bed together, he notes that this is the first time in a while that he’s enjoyed the company of someone living, rather than someone whose biography he has to write. He thanks her for giving him a new lease of life.

Once he’s gone, she enjoys tea in her garden, reflecting on their short-but-sweet romance.

Brady cooks dinner for Miranda and Steve, sharing that he has decided to go back to school to study at a culinary institute.

He then drops the kicker: he’s also got a girl pregnant and is set to be a father. The girl’s name is Mia, but they were drunken hook-ups and he knows little about her. He doesn’t even know if she’s putting the baby up for adoption. Steve blows his top at Brady, saying he’s ruined his entire life, and while Brady says she doesn’t want him involved, he tells him that’s not an option.

Naturally, Miranda immediately calls Charlotte and Carrie to share what’s happened, who do their best to calm her nerves. Brady then moves back in with her.

Wanting to know more about the baby mother, Miranda ropes in Charlotte to go to the salon where she works and discovers she’s a shampoo girl. Blowing her cover as a client immediately when asking her about the pregnancy and a potential paternity test, Miranda has to come clean about who she is. Mia – who is hoping to launch a wellness app and only kept the baby because it would be a ‘double Libra’ – angrily sprays water in her face. Miranda apologises, saying she hoped to get to know the baby boy or girl, but Mia brands her ‘binary’ and walks off.

Charlotte has ongoing renovations at the apartment and there's little peace to be found. She attempts to take a psychic energy quiz via zoom – a prize from her auction – but is distracted by Rock and Herbert Jr tap dancing, Harry watching football, and the noise from the decorators.

She vents her frustrations to Carrie, who lets her use her home to finally get the meeting in. She breaks down in tears during the meeting, sharing that she’s still processing Harry’s cancer journey. She is taken through a guided meditation to help her process.

Seema visits Adam’s apartment and is impressed, especially since he got it for a steal of a price. Around the house are vases, which he notes were made by his late mother. There’s also a huge plant in his kitchen, which he believes to be “his mother” (in a metaphorical sense). He explains he gifted her the plant before she died, and it has bloomed since in defiance of the fact it was small when he bought it.

Sensing a potential red flag, Seema tells Carrie over drinks that she fears Adam has mommy issues.

Spending the night at his apartment, Seema goes to smoke outside of his window and accidentally sends the plant out of the window and onto the street. She immediately confesses what’s happened to Adam, who panics.

A few days later, Adam turns up at Seema’s office, asking why she’s been avoiding him. She says she was embarrassed for “killing his mother” and he tells her that she didn’t – cancer did, the plant was just a memory. Besides, he was able to salvage some of the clippings, and the plant lives on in multiple plant pots – including the one now sitting on her desk.

Gearing up for the election, Lisa is now juggling being a politician’s wife, her own documentary work – and now looking after a hamster as well for the kids. But things backfire when Gabby lets the hamster out of its cage so it can get some air and not be cooped up, (a not-so-subtle hint that Lisa’s not giving Gabby enough attention), but Lisa yells at her because the hamster is now lost in the house.

Herbert’s mother overhears the commotion and chastises Lisa for yelling at her daughter, and Herbert soon comes in to see what’s going on. Lisa admits that she’s struggling to juggle everything and knows she’s not giving Gabby the attention she needs.

The family get together, excited about Herbert’s mayoral race – but he’s disappointed when he loses. Lisa tries to keep his spirits up, but his mother swipes at him, asking why he would enter a race he could lose.

Anthony and Giuseppe are having sex when they are kicked out of Anthony’s apartment over a gas leak. Giuseppe invites him to stay at his, which scares Anthony as he doesn’t know what kind of house he lives in.

The apartment is as small as they thought – with his roommate being a puppeteer who has made a marionette just like Giuseppe. Giuseppe assures him that his roommate is asexual, but Anthony isn’t convinced, particularly because of the puppet.

During another night in, Anthony asks Giuseppe to move in with him once he has his apartment back, but Giuseppe declines, saying he doesn’t want things to move too fast for them. However, when he catches his roommate pleasuring himself while holding the puppet that looks like him, he quickly changes his mind, deciding it would be better to live with Anthony after all.

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