“One”

Sex and the City season 6, episode 12
Original air date: September 14, 2003

Question of the week: When will waiting for the one ... be done?

And scene:
Everybody's got issues this week, some more serious than others. Carrie and Charlotte visit a performance art exhibit in which the artist is perched, isolated, on a platform, neither talking nor eating, for 16 days. Carrie's unconvinced that it's for real, let alone that it's art. She not very quietly begins joking about the woman running out at 3:00 a.m. for a Big Mac. She's overheard by Aleksandr Petrovsky, an icon of the 70's art scene and Studio 54 (played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, an icon of the 70's ballet scene), who introduces himself to the girls as they're leaving the show. Charlotte's falling all over herself trying to talk to him, but Carrie's less intimidated. He asks if Carrie is a comic, and she explains that she's just a skeptical writer.

Amusingly, Petrovsky tries to ring Carrie up to ask her out, but every time he does, she can't understand his accent, assumes it's a wrong number, and hangs up on him. She gets increasingly annoyed as he calls back time after time, but eventually, he's able to explain that he wants to take Carrie to test her theory about the performance artist sneaking out at 3:00 a.m. for a Big Mac. He asks her to meet him at the Russian Tea Room at 1:00 a.m. for dinner, then suggests they see the exhibit afterwards.

Miranda's having issues with Dr. Feelgood, too, after he says "I Love You" in cookie form. He doesn't even have a chance to deliver the cookiegram himself, since he's called away to tend to a player just as they're about to have their pizza and surprise cookie dinner. Miranda freezes when she reads it, then devours the cookie, operating under the assumption that if the words disappear, so will the sentiment. Of course, it doesn't, and Robert confronts her about it. She manages to stammer out "Sweet! So sweet!" but not "I love you, too." Further complicating her feelings is the fact that Jules and Mimi and Debbie and Steve are throwing "I love you" around like the apocalypse is coming.

Samantha's issues are a bit lighter, as she's decided to grow her ... hair ... out upon Smith's request. Unfortunately, she discovers a gray one, dyes it to cover, and turns it Bozo red. She shaves and simply explains to Smith that she can't grant his request, because she's too busy for him to need a search party.

Charlotte's got some bigger issues that she's dealing with, unfortunately. She and Harry miraculously got pregnant, but then she had a miscarriage soon after announcing it to the girls. She can't bring herself to leave the couch, especially not for Brady's first birthday party. That is, until she sees the E! True Hollywood Story on Elizabeth Taylor and how good ol' Liz kept fighting back at everything life threw her way. Charlotte makes herself Liztastic and heads out to Brady's party.

At Brady's party, Miranda's feelings reach a fever pitch when she realizes that it's not that she can't say "I love you," it's that she can't say it to Robert. She has no trouble saying it to Steve in the laundry room when they go to light the candle for Brady's birthday cake. They make out a bit before going back to the party, and Carrie's voiceover says that three weeks later, Miranda and Steve got back together.

Carrie goes on her date with Petrovsky and learns that he's very intense, very dark, very ... Russian. He's also very attracted to her because of her lightness and invites her to come home with him. She resists, but doesn't refuse his goodnight kiss.