It’s spring break and things are still drama, major for Carrie. In “Hungry Like the Wolf,” Carrie finds out that she got accepted to NYU! Everyone warns her that she’ll need to hone a killer instinct in order to survive in the city. Carrie has her doubts that writing is that cutthroat. Bennet is skipping work again. Carrie is upset but conflicted because she knows he’s spinning because of the AIDS scare last episode. This is sure to come to a head. Sam finds Carrie at work and tells her she too is worried about Bennet. She also tells Carrie she has a new job – as a pet detective.  Her first case involves a parrot with a 500-dollar reward. Sam begs Carrie to let her use the copy machine to make new fliers with a lower reward – outsourcing is so chic and so Sam. Sam tries to get Carrie to help her out with the case, but Carrie focuses on her own work and decides to cover for Bennet by writing his piece, too. Maggie’s all a tizzy about her new army boyfriend and asks Mouse to help her pick out some lingerie. Mouse tells Maggie to ask Donna. Everyone tells Maggie to wait so she doesn’t screw up her new relationship. Back at the magazine, Larissa asks Carrie where Bennet is. She covers for him but Larissa wants to compliment Bennet on the best piece he’s ever written aka the piece that Carrie wrote to cover for him being MIA. She’s in a bind. Maggie meets up with Pete who has a fancy date planned and after a minute being stunned, she tells him she would rather do something more casual. Bennet shows up at the office and learns Carrie covered for him. He’s shocked. He tells Carrie they’re going to talk later and he’ll make it up to her but before they can work it out, Larissa comes up and compliments the piece again, in front of Carrie who has a mild freak out. Understandable. Bennet manages to get Carrie to apologize (after covering for him) and bails on work yet again. Maggie’s acting strange while on the casual date, even having Mouse come in and crash. Pete’s at a loss as to why she’s acting like this. Later, Carrie learns that Bennet is blowing off an interview at the prestigious ballet. She calls the ballet and tells them she’ll be the covering interviewer and she’s attending with a guest. At the ballet, Sam sees the guy she slept with previously, Elliot, and takes Carrie over to introduce them. Eliott sheepishly introduces them to his wife. Sam is devastated that her dream guy is in fact, married, and Carrie tries to manage Sam’s feelings while getting ready for her interview with the black swan, Emilia. Elliot comes up to Sam and swears that he and his wife have an open relationship. An awkward, three-way type confrontation ensues and Elliot goes to check on his crying wife, but not before he tells Sam he wants to see her again. In the midst of this brouhaha, Carrie gets called off to the interview. Emilia and Carrie are both surprised at how young one another are and they bond. Sebastian’s dad corners Sebastian and asks to borrow money from Sebastian’s trust fund.  Sebastian tries to deflect the situation; his dad gets furious and splits. Emilia spills everything on the dirty world of ballet to Carrie and Larissa LOVES the piece. She tells Carrie she sees similarities between that piece and Bennet’s piece and Carrie comes clean about the fact that she wrote the piece. Larissa tells Carrie she’s going to get her first byline! Later, Bennet bursts into Sebastian’s looking for Carrie. We learn that he got fired and he is not okay with the situation. An understandably heated confrontation ensues and everyone parts ways upset. Carrie and Sebastian come to blows over it and during this fight, he tells her about the trust fund stuff with his dad. Carrie is ever the supportive girlfriend, and understandably is concerned about Sebastian. The bottom line is he’s starting to liquidate his assets and has six months to see if everything with the business works out. The Maggie-Pete situation plays out and Pete turns out to be a totally upstanding guy. Does that ever happen anymore? Color us shocked.  Later, Elliot tracks down Sam and is pleading his case again. She’s not hearing it and turns away, only to find the bird she was looking for. At least that’s going well for Sam. Sebastian gives his dad the money who tells him he promises to pay him back. Carrie takes over a bigger desk at the company, and although she feels weird about it, Larissa tells her to own it. So she does. What did you think about Bennet getting fired? About Elliot and his open marriage? Do you think Sebastian’s dad is going to pay him back? Tune into TCD every week to get the answers to these questions – and many more!