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20 Episodes 1999 - 2000
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Episode 1
Mon, Oct 25, 1999
Sarah Reeves arrives in New York City from San Francisco to find her biological father and promptly encounters one mishap after another, starting with losing her luggage at the airport. She arrives at the apartment building that had been her birthmother's home; moves into it with Romy Sullivan, a struggling, near-starving actress determined to make it big; and deals with the cynical building superintendent, Cecilia Wiznarski. She also meets musician and CD shop employee John Maguire and his waitress friend/roommate Jocelyn "Joss" House, who works at the seedy nightclub down the street, as well as Romy's neighbor J.B., who lives across the street. Sarah's search for her father leads her to her late mother's dance instructor, who steers her towards a wealthy stage producer named Archer Fitzwirth, who denies being her father but brings out a self-retaliation to Sarah in her life as to who or what she wants to be.
Episode 2
Mon, Nov 1, 1999
Sarah changes to her birthmother's surname, Merrin, and Fitzwirth gets her a job as a personal assistant to a wealthy Upper East Side matron with a menagerie. When the woman's snobbish son Spencer invites Sarah to a formal banquet just to show off to his peers, she quits. Meanwhile, Maguire expresses feelings for Sarah, unaware of Bailey Salinger, her boyfriend back in San Francisco. Also, Romy and J.B. have their first date, which turns bad since Romy has a thing for the theater, and J.B. has a thing for gambling.
Episode 3
Mon, Nov 8, 1999
During the singles-party-for-profit that cash-strapped Sarah and Romy throw in their apartment, Sarah gets a "Dear Sarah" letter from Bailey in San Francisco, announcing their break-up. Sarah reacts by deciding to do "something outrageous" with her now free-spirited life which leads her to drink, party, get a tattoo, and consider spending the night with Spencer. Romy also becomes concerned about J.B., who becomes acquainted with a few too many girls who show up. Meanwhile, Maguire gets jealous when Kenny, a musician friend of his, hits on Joss; and Cecilia becomes acquainted with orthodontist Andy Beam, who shows a strong interest in her.
Episode 4
Mon, Nov 15, 1999
Sarah is steered toward a singing career by a "well-connected" man named Tony, but Maguire correctly suspects that Tony is interested in more than Sarah's music which she asks a reluctant Maguire to pose as her boyfriend around Tony. Meanwhile, J.B. is unavailable to celebrate Romy's success when she lands a small role on a TV soap opera when he renews a secret relationship with Joan, a wealthy older woman on whom he relies for his income--and personal pleasure.
Episode 5
Mon, Nov 22, 1999
After hitting a snag in her recording plans when Tony's shady business partner is arrested for income-tax evasion, Sarah find herself hosting a Thanksgiving dinner with a quartet of suitors: Tony; Maguire, who resents spending the holiday with anyone; Spencer, the caterer; and a schizophrenic homeless man named Jerry who turns out to be a former opera conductor.
Episode 6
Mon, Nov 29, 1999
Sarah learns a dark part of Maguire's drug-addicted past after the arrival of Taylor, an old friend of Maguire's who spent 18 months in prison for drug possession, which ruins their first date together. When Sarah decides to break up with Maguire, her decision changes when he proclaims his love for her. Meanwhile, Romy presses the issue of J.B.'s lack of intimacy with her and begins to think that he does not like her; at the same time, J.B continues his involvement with Joan and is torn between Romy, who wants love, and Joan, who just wants companionship.
Episode 7
Mon, Dec 13, 1999
Seeking another, better-paying job for the holidays, Sarah gets a big break when she goes to work at New York's Bloomingdale's and gets a lot of commission for a personal shopper. Meanwhile, Joss' problematic sister Casey visits and reveals her pregnancy; when they travel to Queens to visit their parents, their mother doesn't hide her contempt for either's lifestyle. Cecilia gets pneumonia, but refuses to seek treatment until she collapses; Sarah finds her, takes her to a hospital, and learns that Cecilia uses someone else's health insurance. J.B. crosses a line with Romy by sleeping with her on their first date after getting back together; later, Romy finally meets Joan after seeing her with J.B.
Episode 8
Mon, Dec 20, 1999
As New Year's Eve before the new millennium approaches, bad luck happens to everyone, starting when Maguire's apartment is robbed and he takes it out on Joss, who gets fired from her job at the bar and she takes it out on Sarah and Maguire, in which Sarah learns of Joss and Maguire's living "arrangement" after a grumpy Romy kicks her out of her apartment and takes out her anger on everyone over J.B.'s two-timing infidelity. Meanwhile, J.B. stumbles into a dream date, Angela, for the approaching event.Maguire then looks up Jessica, his old girlfriend, to find a direction in his life, and Sarah ends up in Archer Fitzwirth's apartment alone to spend the New Year's Eve evening.
Episode 9
Mon, Jan 10, 2000
Sarah, Romy, and Joss decide to see who can have the first meaningful dating experience for the new year, which leads all three to a series of men with varieties of baggage. Joss tries dating a man at an AA meeting, then meets Frank, single parent of an eight-year-old daughter. After a failed attempt with a guy in an acting class, Romy meets a newspaper critic offering her a chance to succeed in show business with a good review. Sarah meets an unbalanced artist, a closeted voyeur, and eventually an angry Spencer when she gets a new job as an assistant working for his very pregnant stepmother Ashley, whom he does not like.
Episode 10
Mon, Jan 24, 2000
In the days before Sarah's 21st birthday, the word "difficult" defines her new charge as an au pair to Ashley and her rebellious teenage daughter Flynn, as well as dealing with Spence, who's still angry with Sarah since their failed time out, as well as his new girlfriend, not-so-bright model Leya. Meanwhile, Andy Beam, the smitten orthodontist Cecilia met at Sarah and Romy's party months earlier, hires her as his new receptionist where she's liked by him but not his patients. Also, Maguire and J.B. decide to go into the party-DJ business which turns into a competition when they both fall for Sophie, their party coordinator.
Episode 11
Wed, Jun 14, 2000
In the month since she turned 21, Sarah is still working for Ashley at being her Lamaze coach, and dealing with Spencer who's still having problems with beautiful but dim-witted Leya. When Leya leaves town for a photo shoot, Sarah attempts to fix up the continuing feud between Leya and Spencer by sending him e-mail messages, which soon lands Sarah in a bind: she must keep up the charade of playing Leya over the Internet for clueless Spencer. Meanwhile, Romy is taking acting classes to expand her acting talents when former best friend Molly, a talkative and noisy young woman, arrives in town for a visit. J.B. seeks to expand his DJ business by playing at more gigs which lands him and Maguire in a bind when they must play at two engagements on the same night, one of them being an important dinner engagement for Sophie's business clients.
Episode 12
Wed, Jun 21, 2000
Molly jumps in when Romy can't join Sarah to audition for a jingle-singing gig, which they win together. But later, tragedy precludes them from doing the job when Molly is killed by a mugger in a deserted alley. This devastates everyone, especially Romy, who feels frustrated at not being able to do anything for Molly. After an encounter with Molly's visiting father, Romy decides she needs a break from the city. Maguire also deals with his own anger and frustration, which Joss doesn't think is a big issue. As Sarah deals with her own shock at this tragedy, she's befriended by Douglas, the detective in charge of the investigation.
Episode 13
Sat, Feb 14, 2026
In the days after Molly's murder, Maguire fortifies the apartment for a tense Sarah still in fear for her own safety, while Spencer offers her a distraction by taking her out to a dance club, which reinforces Maguire's jealousy. Meanwhile, J.B travels to Portland, Maine to ask Romy to return to New York and squares off against her father when she doesn't want to go with J.B; and Cecilia and Andy's relationship grows to a point of intimacy where he finds sex with her an adventure, but she mistakenly thinks that's all he's interested in.
Episode 14
Sat, Feb 14, 2026
Spencer discovers Sarah's role in his e-mails with Leya while she is reluctant to date him again. Meanwhile, Romy fires her agent in a frantic career drive that prompts Sarah to set her own sights on her singing career again and asks Maguire for help. Romy tries to get into an off-Broadway show, but when she learns that she cannot get in without an agent, she resorts to lying and cheating her way in and becomes the lead actress' understudy.
Episode 15
Sat, Feb 14, 202660 mins
More discouraged than ever about what to do with her life, Sarah gets an idea when she helps Spencer with a website launch party and decides to open up her own temp agency. But when she manages to finagle her way into a high-powered company to land her first client, Spencer is less encouraging after his own website fails. Meanwhile, the time Romy spends rehearsing with Aaron, the assistant director for the play she is understudying, makes J.B. jealous.
Episode 16
Sat, Feb 14, 202660 mins
To impress her first client, Sarah turns the record/CD store into an office for her new business, "Temporary Sanity," with a little help from Maguire and Spencer. But when Maguire's boss discovers him assisting with another business in the store, he fires him and Sarah feels guilty. Meanwhile, Romy sees that she needs to make some changes in her own life with J.B. when Aaron tells her that he happens to be HIV-positive, which puts a new view in Romy's head on life in general. Danny, Joss' new wealthy investor boyfriend, tells her that he's going to Aruba on business and invites her along, but she is reluctant to go.
Episode 17
Sat, Feb 14, 202660 mins
With Sarah's temp business really taking off, she asks Romy and Cecilia to look for more temp employees. When Spencer hires a consultant to meet with Sarah without her prior consent, she gets angry about him trying to run her life, as well as arguing about their sex life, or lack of it. Meanwhile, J.B. teams with Danny in his stock investments and soon brings in a lot of money, with J.B. hoping to make enough money for him to move away from New York. But later, J.B. thinks that the whole thing could be a scheme that Danny is trying to pull when a vice cop starts asking J.B. questions about Danny and his business. Also, Romy meets J.B.'s mother for the first time and they get along great, but J.B. resents this because he can't stand his mother.
Episode 18
Sat, Feb 14, 202660 mins
After Sarah finally breaks up with Spencer, telling him that that their relationship cannot work out, he withdraws all of his investments into her agency, which takes a turn for the worse when a disgruntled client sues her. Meanwhile, J.B. is trying to land a new client for his sales scam and finds one, only that the client turns out to be an undercover cop who arrests him for insider trading and mail fraud in which after questioning J.B., begins investigating Sarah. Also, Romy continues to audition for a Broadway role, and Cecilia's relationship with Andy grows to a point of wanting a commitment; he asks her to marry him, and she accepts.
Episode 19
Sat, Feb 14, 202660 mins
After Detective Gordon Merrin reveals to Sarah that he is her biological father, she is disappointed that Gordon is just an ordinary person who has been married and divorced three times and has nothing but contempt for her mother, who abandoned him over 20 years ago. Meanwhile, J.B.'s trial for his involvement in the money scam begins in which he gets a three-month prison term and is forced to say goodbye to Romy, who finally goes on her way after she lands an important role in a major Broadway play. Joss decides to revamp her own career by landing a lucrative job as the bartender at the club, and Cecelia and Andy announce their announcement to everybody. When Sarah decides to close down her temp agency and return to San Francisco, feeling that her effort to restart her life has been a failure. Maguire helps by giving her his money and moves away to go on tour playing his guitar. After Maguire leaves town, Sarah saves her agency and decides to stay in New York to be near her father.