Sex and the City (TV Series)

Three's a Crowd (1998)

Kristin Davis: Charlotte York

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• [first lines] 

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  Once upon a time in a magical land called Manhattan a young woman fell in love. Charlotte and Jack locked eyes at a black tie benefit for Epstein/Barr. She chased him through every disease in New York. They've been officially dating since retinus pigmentosis. Jack was perfect for her. Architect, philanthropist, and the sex was amazing. Late one night, Jack popped the inevitable question.

  Jack : So... what are you fantasies?

  Charlotte York : Oh, God. I'd love to own my own gallery, and maybe a little cottage in Maine.

  Jack : Well, actually I meant more like uh, screwing in an airplane bathroom kind of fantasies.

  Charlotte York : Oh? Um...

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  The closest Charlotte had ever come to getting screwed on a plane was the time she lost all her luggage in a flight from Palm Beach.

• Charlotte York : [When asked about her fantasies]  Well, I've always wanted to do it in my parents' bed.

• Charlotte York : Jack wants us to do a threesome.

  Miranda : Of course he does. Every guy does.

  Samantha Jones : Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the nineties.

  Charlotte York : What was the blow job of the eighties?

  Samantha Jones : Anal sex.

  Carrie : Any sex, period.

  Miranda : Don't let him pressure you into it. It's just this guy's cheap ploy to watch you be a lesbian for a night.

  Samantha Jones : Don't knock it till you tried it.

• Samantha Jones : [Discussing whom to call into the threesome]  Just make sure that the other woman isn't a friend. Use somebody random, you know, somebody you meet in a bar or something.

  Miranda : That's romantic!

  Charlotte York : No, I think that I'd feel safer with a friend. With someone I could trust, like Carrie.

  Carrie : Oh, gee, I'm flattered. But umm, I'd go with someone who has a little more experience, like Sam.

  Samantha Jones : Well, thanks. But there is something sexy about a first-timer like Charlotte.

  Charlotte York : Really?

  Miranda : [feeling out of the loop]  Oh great, no, forget about me.

  Samantha Jones , Charlotte York , Carrie : Oh, come on!

  Miranda : You know, I'd do it with you guys. It's like, it's like picking teams for dodge ball all over again.

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  Was Samantha right? Were threesomes the new sexual frontier? No question. Guys were infatuated with threesomes. And when I started looking, they were everywhere. After all, our lives are built on threesomes. Fat, low-fat, non-fat. First, Business, Economy. Moe, Larry, Curly. Maybe we were never meant to do it with only one other person. Maybe threesomes were the relationship of the future. Meanwhile, Samantha had been busy guest starring in a show I like to call 'Sam Does The Married Guy'.

• Carrie : Dreams are a really good way to experiment. It's like a... it's like buying a dress and keeping the tags on.

  Charlotte York : Do you think it means I should do it? Have a threesome? Jack says that I have a fire inside me.

  Carrie : You tell him they make a cream for that.

  Charlotte York : I'm serious!

  Carrie : I know, but it's your call. Don't do it just to make Jack happy.

  Charlotte York : But maybe it would bring us closer.

  Carrie : Sweetie, don't you think it's weird that you're thinking of sleeping with someone you don't know, to get closer to Jack?

  Charlotte York : But how well do we ever know the people we sleep with?

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  That was the thing about Charlotte. Just when you were about to write her off as a Park Avenue Pollyanna, she'd say something so right on, you'd think she was the Dalai Lama.

  Charlotte York : Do you think my hair is too shiny today?

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  And then she'd say something else.

  Charlotte York : Do you?

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  But the bigger question remained: if Charlotte was actually considering a threesome, who wasn't? The Village Voice had more ads for looking for threesomes than it did for small rat-infested studios renting at a thousand a month. But who actually answered these ads?

• Carrie : [voice over narration]  That night at the attention deficit disorder masquerade ball, Charlotte felt free to indulge her fantasy. It's amazing what some sequins on a stick can do to free up inhibitions.

  Jack : So... who here is your type?

  Charlotte York : Do you like peacocks?

  Jack : Do you?

  Carrie : [voice over narration]  Then Charlotte did the unthinkable.