Plot

After Samantha walks out of hottest restaurant Balzac, furious minor celebrities like her and Carrie can't get seated in 45 minutes, Carrie's credit card is cut in half at the shoe-shop, but 'Eurotrash' friend Amalita, a kept party-girl, picks up the bill, at her rich older Argentinian boyfriend Carlo's expense.—KGF Vissers

Carrie bumps into international party-girl Amalita Amalfa (Carole Davis) and her latest man Carlo (Mark Reay) in a shoe store. Carrie's credit card has just been cut up and Amalita rushes in to spare her the embarrassment. Amalita tells Carrie that Carlo's family has a huge ranch in Argentina and is very wealthy. Basically, Amalita is a borderline professional. Carrie wondered where the line is between a professional girlfriend and just a professional.

When Carrie talks about this to her friends, Samantha is clear that women should use sex to get their way to the top, if that's what it takes.

Amalita introduces her to a French Architect, Gilles (Ed Fry). Gilles is from Paris, recently divorced and has a 5-year-old daughter Beatrice who lives with her mother in Paris. Gilles is charming and wants Carrie to show her NYC. Carrie saw all the red flags, divorced, French and uncomfortably handsome, but she was charmed by his manners. Carrie tells Gilles about her money problems. Carrie spends the whole next day with Gilles and sleeps with him that night. Gilles had to catch a flight to Brazil early in the morning. He asks Carrie to stay in and order room service. He leaves Carrie $1,000 on the nightstand after a one-night stand. Carrie is unsure if this is a compliment or an insult. Carrie invites Samantha and Miranda for breakfast. Samantha suggests to just keep the money. Gilles doesn't have Carrie's phone number and Carrie doesn't have his. So, the relationship has no future. Samantha says that men give, and women receive, but Miranda takes severe objection to this statement.

Charlotte meets Neville Morgan (Charles Keating), a renowned artist. Neville visits NYC once a year to see what's hot in the art scene. He sees Charlotte in her gallery and has invited her to his farm to see his work. Charlotte wants to host Neville in her gallery but is afraid that he will ask for sex. Samantha is OK with the idea. Miranda says to sue Neville if he tries anything like that. According to Miranda, that's the only way to trade sex for power, by suing the sexual offenders.

Neville wants pictures of women's vagina for his latest exhibition. Charlotte desperately wants Neville to choose her gallery for his exhibition. Charlotte gets to Neville's farm and is greeted by his wife Gertrude (Phyllis Somerville) with lemonade and cookies. Neville shows her his work on the vagina and how he considers it to be the great force of the universe. He wants Charlotte to pose for him. Even Gertrude encourages her by saying that she bets that Charlotte has a beautiful vagina. Charlotte ponders and then a few weeks later hosts Neville's work in her art gallery. The girls take turn at guessing which vagina belongs to Charlotte. Charlotte tells them and the gals are speechless. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Meanwhile Skipper admits to Carrie that he loves the sex with Miranda but is obsessed with her and is afraid that he will scare her off. Amalita again asks Carrie to come to dinner, but this time Carrie backs off as she doesn't want to become a professional like Amalita.