INT. BROOKLYN RESTAURANT -- NIGHT -- SUMMER 28

A "family style" Italian restaurant. Miranda, in business

clothes, sits with Steve, Brady and MAGDA. Brady's face is

covered in spaghetti sauce.

CARRIE (V.O.)

And from Anthony Marantino to

spaghetti marinara.

MIRANDA

Where is he with the check?

STEVE

Geese, Miranda -- relax. Magda's

not even finished yet.

MIRANDA

I still have a legal brief to work

on when I get home.

BRADY

I have to go to the bathroom.

MAGDA

I'll take him. Wash that beautiful

face too, yes?

Brady nods. Magda walks away with Brady. Miranda is packing

up Brady's action figures. Steve gives her a look.

MIRANDA

What? I'm sorry. I'm exhausted.

Brady woke me up at five AM.

23.

STEVE

He woke me up too.

Silence. She sips her cappuccino. Foam covers her top lip. He

looks over at her and smiles.

STEVE (CONT'D)

You got milk on your top lip.

She licks it off, not pleased.

STEVE (CONT'D)

What now?

MIRANDA

It's like you're always criticizing

me.

STEVE

I am not.

(Beat; then, cute)

You want to go through life with

foam on your lip and no one telling

you?

Silence. He reaches down and picks up her coffee cup and

sips... putting lots of foam on his lip. He looks over.

STEVE (CONT'D)

Anything you want to tell me?

She shakes her head: No. He puts his face in front of hers.

She laughs. He licks his lip.

29 INT. MIRANDA AND STEVE'S BEDROOM -- LATER 29

Steve is in bed with Miranda, they are making love. She is

wearing a T-shirt.

MIRANDA

Yeah. Yeah.

STEVE

Wait --- wait -- Don't come

already...

MIRANDA

Yeah. Yeah.

STEVE

Wait, wait -- get on top. Get on --

24.

MIRANDA

It's late... let's just get it over

with.

Steve looks at her. She can't believe what she's said.

MIRANDA (CONT'D)

I mean -- We have to get up in four

and half hours.

STEVE

We never have sex and you want to

get it over with?

MIRANDA

Steve... We have sex.

STEVE

When was the last time we had sex?

Miranda can't remember. He moves to his side of the bed.

STEVE (CONT'D)

(As he turns away)

There was snow on the ground.

He gets out of the bed and walks away. She watches him go.

INT. COFFEE SHOP -- DAY -- SUMMER 30

The girls are having breakfast. Lily sits at the table in a

booster seat coloring in a Cinderella coloring book. Carrie

is helping her. CLOSE ON: Cinderella's shoe. Carrie is

filling it in with a BLUE CRAYON.

MIRANDA

How often do you guys have sex?

CHARLOTTE

Miranda -- please.

MIRANDA

What?

She indicates that Lily is sitting with Carrie. Carrie

continues to color, not looking up.

CARRIE

It's okay, I know all about sex.

A.

SAMANTHA

If I knew the girl talk was going

to be on "lock down," I wouldn't

have flown two thousand miles.

25.

CHARLOTTE

No, we can talk, let's just not use

that word.

MIRANDA

She's three, she doesn't know what

it means. I'm forty- two and I

still don't know what it means.

CHARLOTTE

I know, but she's repeating

everything.

MIRANDA

Fine. How often do you guys...

CARRIE

... "Color"?

CHARLOTTE

Thank-you.

SAMANTHA

Well, I can't color enough. I would

color all day -- every day if I had

my way. I'd use every crayon in my

box.

CARRIE

We get it. You love to color.

(To Miranda)

Why are you asking?

MIRANDA

Steve and I were "coloring" last

night and just as I was about to --

Miranda is searching for a word she can use.

SAMANTHA

Come?

(beat; to Charlotte)

Sorry -- there is no crayon

equivalent.

MIRANDA

He wanted to change positions and I

said... "Let's just get it over

with."

The ladies react, three different shades of shocked.

A.

MIRANDA (CONT'D)

Well, he kept trying to make it

last longer.

SAMANTHA

And this is bad?

26.

MIRANDA

It is when you have a full-time

job.

SAMANTHA

I have a full-time job.

MIRANDA

Well, you don't also have a five

year old and play groups and PTA

and a mother-in-law in a rest home

with advancing Alzheimer's. I'm

telling you, at the end of the day

all I want to do is sleep. The most

exciting thing in bed now -- is the

bed.

CARRIE

So... Sleep is the new sex?

LILY

Sex.

CHARLOTTE

See.

CARRIE

-- I meant coloring.

MIRANDA

We're just going through a no

coloring phase -- it comes and

goes, right?

CHARLOTTE

Every couple is different. Harry

and I --

Carrie and Samantha look over; interested.

CHARLOTTE (CONT'D)

... Make love two or three times a

week.

MIRANDA

Great. Now I feel worse.

SAMANTHA

Well, when was the last time for

you?

MIRANDA

Six months ago.

27.

CARRIE

Oh my.

Miranda looks at her. She -- continues to color.

MIRANDA

But that's a dry spell.

SAMANTHA

I bet it is.

CHARLOTTE

What about you and Big, Carrie?

(Off her look)

Come on, I told.

CARRIE

Never. But, I will tell you this.

When Big colors --

(Beat; sexy)

He rarely stays inside the lines.

Samantha whoops. Carrie resumes coloring.

MIRANDA

Well, this was very helpful.

30A INT. BEACHOUSE/BATHROOM -- SUNSET -- SUMMER 30A

A freshly-showered Samantha sits on a chaise lounge in a robe

-- talking on the phone.

SAMANTHA

Send it to Smith Jerrod at the

office address.

Smith walks up to Samantha wearing only underwear. There is a

huge bulge in the front. Samantha takes the bulge in.

SAMANTHA (CONT'D)

(into phone)

I've got to go. Something just came

up.

She hangs up. He smiles, looks down at her.

SMITH

I've got a gift for you.

SAMANTHA

So far, I like it.

A.

He smiles as she reaches INTO his underwear basket and

removes a long black velvet jewelry case. She opens it. It's

the petal ring from the auction.

SAMANTHA (CONT'D)

How did -- Wait -- that was you on

the phone at the auction?

SMITH

I knew how much you wanted it.

SAMANTHA

But I was going to buy it for

myself.

SMITH

I wanted to give it to you... for

our anniversary. We met five years

ago today.

SAMANTHA

(beat; had no idea)

Right.

He smiles, sits down on the bed.

SMITH

Do you like it?

SAMANTHA

To be clear -- This is a ring with

diamonds -- not a diamond ring,

right?

(Off his nod)

In that case... I love it.

(Re; underwear)

It's my second favorite thing I've

ever found in there.

She kisses him, touched -- then reaches in his underwear.

SAMANTHA (CONT'D)

Now, my gift's a little bit more...

oral.

SMITH

Babe -- I've got to go to bed.

SAMANTHA

Bed? It's seven-thirty.

B.

SMITH

I have to be at the studio by six

A.M. and I need to get a workout

before that.

SAMANTHA

This is how it starts. Next thing

you know... we're only having sex

three or four times a week.

SMITH

Most people consider that normal.

SAMANTHA

I am not most people.

SMITH

No - you most certainly are not.

He smiles, leans in and gives her a hot -- hot kiss. The kiss

leads -- to reaching into underwear... as they start.

30B INT. BEACHOUSE/ BEDROOM -- NIGHT 30B

Smith is laying in bed. Sound asleep. The clock on the bed

table reads: 9:01.

30C EXT. BEACHOUSE/JACUZZI -- CONTINUOUS 30C

Night. Samantha sits in the jacuzzi wearing her ring --

sipping a glass of wine -- bored.

CARRIE (V.O.)

One glass of Merlot and two orgasms

later.

Samantha hears MOANING. The sounds of someone having SEX in

the house right next door. She looks -- from the hot tub she

can see her neighbor DANTE -- hot, dark -- "sex on a stick"

in his living room making wild love to a RED HAIRED WOMAN.

They are naked. Samantha watches and sips -- not so bored.

CARRIE (CONT'D)

And that is how Samantha learned

she had a new neighbor.

31 INT. BIG'S SUBLET -- NIGHT -- SUMMER 31

Carrie enters the apartment. It is dark-ish. A candle or two

is lit.

C.

CARRIE

(soft)

John?

The terrace doors are open. The curtains blow, gently. She

walks out onto it.

31A EXT. BIG'S SUBLET -- CONTINUOUS 31A

As she steps out onto the terrace. Big comes up behind her.

He -- leans her against the door jamb and kisses her. It's

hot. He kisses her -- sliding down the front of her body.

32 INT. BIG'S SUBLET/BEDROOM-- LATER -- SUMMER 32

Big is in bed wearing "half glasses," reading The Wall Street

Journal. Carrie enters from the bathroom and hops into bed.

She grabs a LIBRARY BOOK from the night stand and looks over.

CARRIE

Lean?

He nods and lifts up one of his arms. She slides over and

nestles in, leaning up against him. She opens her book. He

looks down at it.

BIG

Are you the last person in New York

still taking out library books?

28.

CARRIE

I love the smell.

She smells the book, then holds it up to him. He smells.

BIG

That's an old one.

CARRIE

"The Love Letters of Great Men."

Volume one.

BIG

Am I in there?

CARRIE

No, but some of your classmates

are. Voltaire, Napoleon...

Big smiles. She takes the glasses off his face and puts them

on, looks at book.

BIG

You need to get glasses.

CARRIE

No, I don't -- you have them.

(then; off book)

Here's Napoleon...

(Reads)

"My dearest Josephine, I wake

consumed with thoughts of you --"

BIG

Typical short guy. Gives it all

away up front.

She punches him a little, continues to read.

BIG (CONT'D)

Why are you reading this?

CARRIE

Research for my new book.

BIG

What's it about?

CARRIE

Love. I use to write about finding

love-- now I want to write about

what happens after you've found it.

A.

BIG

Interesting. What happens?

CARRIE

Stay tuned.

29.

He smiles. She looks at the book again.

CARRIE (CONT'D)

Listen... Here's Beethoven.

BIG

Bring it, Ludwig.

CARRIE

(Reading)

"My thoughts go out to you today my

immortal beloved. I can live only

wholly with you or not at all."

BIG

Good stuff.

CARRIE

(Reading)

"Be calm my life, my all. Only by

calm consideration of our existence

can we achieve our purpose to live

together. Oh continue to love me,

never misjudge the most faithful

heart of your beloved. Ever thine --

ever mine -- ever ours.

Silence. The beautiful sentiment hangs in the air. She closes

the book and looks up at him.

CARRIE (CONT'D)

Have you ever written me a love

letter?

BIG

Does a love fax count?

CARRIE

When have I ever gotten a love fax?

BIG

I'm pretty sure my secretary sent

one at some point.

Carrie looks at him, mock disappointed.

BIG (CONT'D)

What can I say, baby? Not my

style.

(Beat)

Besides, these guys had to write--

they were separated from their

loves by wars and hundreds of

miles. I'm right here.

(MORE)

30.

BIG (CONT'D)

(Beat)

Hi.

She smiles. He kisses her on the forehead. Sincere.

BIG (CONT'D)

You make me very happy.

CARRIE

Yeah, yeah.... Put it in writing.

He laughs, she looks at her book, turns a page and reads.

After a beat, he puts down his paper.

BIG

Alright. Here's a love letter from

me to you.

She looks up at him, excited. He speaks romantically.

BIG (CONT'D)

Loving you. Is easy... `cause your

beautiful...

Big continues -- now SINGING the Minnie Ripperton classic.

BIG (CONT'D)

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