The Secret Life of Us

Kelly leaves her job when she can't handle her boss/lover's constant manipulation of her. During her apartment hunting, she finds a pair of flatmates, Evan and Alex, who agree to live with her. Also in the apartment building live Gabrielle, Alex's best friend, and Jason, Gabrielle's boyfriend. Jason professes his love for Alex and they end up having sex.

Miranda tries to reconcile her failure with Richie's success, and Kelly makes a clean start. Kelly's having a party in the flat. At the party, Jason and Gabrielle announce that they got married, Evan breaks up with Andrena, and Gabrielle finds out about Jason's affair with Alex.

Alex tries to drown her self-loathing and ends up in a drunken liaison with another doctor. Kelly faces the reality of sleeping with a married man and meets Nerida, her former boss's wife. She is surprised to find out that she is nice to her. Richie gets a desirable part and his complaints are driving Miranda crazy.

Richie revels in the glamour of an actor's life, while Miranda delivers a singing telegram. Jason and Gabrielle are living in married hell. Evan is falling in love with an older woman with two kids and charms her with his karaoke skills.

Will suffers unprecedented performance problems, but Sam saves him from his embarrassment with a sudden sexual ambush. Meanwhile, Evan falls in love with Carmen and decides not to see her again. Also, Jason flirts with Alex again.

Evan gives in to his feelings for Carmen and finds himself feeling happy. Jason and Gabrielle go to a marriage counsellor but it has the opposite effect to what they hoped for. Alex and Gab are working on fixing their friendship and they are surprised to find out how much they missed each other. Kelly breaks up with Joseph after she gets sick and tired of not knowing what to expect from him.

Evan's madly in love with Carmen and is surprised to find that he quite likes the feeling. Kelly finds that her job at 'Get Personal' is a challenge to her code of ethics. Also, Richie's head is spinning after his sexual encounter. Jason makes a bad legal call which has devastating consequences for his client. He also gets involved with a woman from Sydney.

Kelly's increasingly intrigued by Nathan, a client at the 'Get Personal' Introduction Agency. Meanwhile, Jason doesn't get the fact that his marriage to Gabrielle is over and thinks about a change in his career direction. Alex tries to make Eric understand that she's not interested in him. Evan falls more and more in love with Carmen and tries to push her to define their relationship.

In the first part of this special episode, we get to see inside the character's heads on what event in the past has helped become the person they are today. Alex and her roller skating, Will and the teacher, Gabrielle and first meeting Jason, Simon almost getting married, Kelly and her mice, Evan and his short story, etc. All the stories are revealed at a dinner party.

Richie has another homosexual encounter at the beach and as the guy is about to perform, Will enters the toilets and startles Richie. He finally talks to Will about his sexual preferences. Evan and Carmen's relationship continues to spiral down. Gabrielle finds solace in Mac, a handsome singer, when things with Jason begin to look uncertain. Kelly almost quits her job.

Alex hosts a party to celebrate her wonderful day in surgery and nobody is happy except for her. Kelly realises that her job isn't as bad as she thought, and Evan, after being dumped by Carmen, learns the heartbreak that falling in love can cause. Will gets jealous of Sam's social life, and Gabrielle and Jason end up having sex.

Will's jealousy problems escalate when he gets stoned and in a jealous rage, tries to force himself on Sam at a party. Simon is confronted by Miranda about his sexual encounter with Richie. Evan assumes he and Carmen are back together after a drunken night together. Kelly gets involved in network marketing and Alex tags along with Eric on a group excursion, but they are the only two who show up.

A little girl is nearly killed when Eric accidentally gives her a double dose of morphine. He begs Alex to lie for him, but will she keep his secret or expose him? Evan is interested and also intrigued when Alex flirts with Miranda's friend, Pandora. Leah's back on the scene, having broken up with her boyfriend and wanting Will back.

Signs of strain are starting to show in Will and Sam's relationship, due to the return of Leah and her own personal crisis. Evan has a shortlived career working as a glass collector in a pub, and Gabrielle, although she's having an exciting time with Mac, can't stop thinking about Jason. Alex decides that being single isn't working for her, so takes a step and asks Marcus out on a date.

Alex and Evan flirt when he vows to be celibate for his writing. They find a sexual tension they never realised existed until Kelly walks in after dumping Paulo. Jason starts stalking Gabrielle after he realises how inventive Mac is in bed with her. At first, Gabrielle is flattered and finds it cute (and even considers taking him back), but Alex's conflicting view helps her reconsider it.

Alex and Evan give into temptation. Also, Richie finally tells Miranda the truth and Gabrielle dumps Mac. Kelly meets a new guy and, in order to avoid failure, she uses a guide called "The Rules of Love." Will prepares a surprise for Sam and he insists on not telling her what it is. In the end, he shows her the kite that he made for her that has "Will loves Sam" written on it.

Tensions mount tonight as Richie has to face the consequences of his encounter with Brad. Kelly works part-time for Simon at the Fu Bar, and with good intentions, but bad timing tries to set him up with customers from the bar. Will and Sam find comfort in each other. Also, the intensity increases between Alex and Evan due to their drug-fuelled kiss.

Alex and Evan are still fantasising about each other and the situation between them is becoming more intense. Sam gets the job as a reporter but she can't find Will to tell him so she celebrates with Kelly. Then she leaves a message for Will to meet her at a cafe. Will is late for the meeting and finds she has gone. Later on, he finds out that something terrible has happened.

Although Will is still devastated about Sam, he goes back to work and continues to torture himself about joking to Sam that he didn't love her. Kel helps him find a way to say goodbye to Sam. Jason tells Gabrielle that he has been offered a position in Sydney and that while he was down there he slept with someone. Gabrielle and Alex have completely recovered their friendship.

Richie throws himself into the gay scene, but he doesn't find the answers he was hoping for. Jason tells Gabrielle that the woman he slept with is two months pregnant. Will decides to be an investor and Simon introduces him to his financial advisor. He throws himself into a frenzied obsession with investment, and a short-lived sexual fling.

Alex says she's been accepted into the craniofacial surgery program at a prestigious hospital in London and will be away for a year. Evan is stunned and throws himself into a frenzy of writing, but won't let Alex read his work. Kelly tones down her expectations with Nathan. Meanwhile, Will helps move Richie's belongings to Brad's place, and Richie says goodbye to Miranda.

Richie feels uncomfortable when Brad wants him to experiment sexually with another gay couple. Miranda and Will are becoming very close, and she's slowly letting Richie back into her life. Meanwhile, Evan is accepted into the Writer's Colony in New York, and Alex is dropped from the program in London.