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Having ended yet another relationship ladies' man Adam Williams goes to the pub with best friend Pete Gifford. Pete brings him home to the annoyance of his wife Jenny,who is especially fertile and anxious to make a baby. Next day in a supermarket car park Adam's car collides with that of Rachel,whose boyfriend Simon has just announced that he is leaving her to work in Hong Kong. There is attraction between Adam and Rachel,whose friends Karen and David urge her to go on a date. After seeing a particularly bad play Rachel and Adam sleep together but,though things seem to be going well,they argue and Simon returns to tell Rachel he is not going to Hong Kong after all. Determined not to let Rachel go Adam makes a grand - and very bare - gesture involving a rose,which wins her back. Jenny discovers that she is pregnant whilst Karen persuades David to get a nanny for their son.

Jenny's time to give birth is almost at hand but she is exasperated by Pete's over-enthusiastic reaction,trying to make himself an expert on childcare and buying a mobile phone as a 'child birth hotline'. Rachel and Adam contemplate moving in with each other but cannot decide who should sell their flat whilst Karen engages Hispanic nanny Ramona to look after her son Josh. David is unimpressed by Ramona's lack of English. Adam and Rachel put their differences aside when Jenny's water breaks whilst Pete is playing golf with David and the mobile phone cannot be found. In the event Adam delivers the baby for Jenny,who names him Adam in gratitude.

Adam has moved in with Rachel but is staggered to learn that she is married and omitted to tell him. He goes to stay with Jenny and Pete but only gets in the way as the new baby is giving them sleepless nights. Adam meets Kris,Rachel's husband,whom she has invited to Manchester to arrange their divorce but Adam is angered when Rachel and Kris seem to be getting close and gives him five hundred pounds to go away,which Kris accepts. Afterwards Adam discovers that Rachel did the same. David invests a deal of money in a South African golf course and annoys Karen when the project flops and the money is lost.

Whilst playing squash David confides in Adam that his sex life is zero and asks for advice Adam then asks Pete,claiming that he is enquiring on a friend's behalf but Pete assumes it is for Adam himself and Rachel is informed. This prompts Rachel to tell Adam that her fantasy is to have sex in a shop window and so they gain access to a charity shop after it has closed but are caught in the act when ram-raiders crash into the premises and the police are called. Karen refuses to accept David's view that a new baby would spice up their relationship so he visits a prostitute whilst Jenny and Pete resume their sex life with a fantasy role play of a Victorian squire and serving wench. However Pete cannot stop thinking about the bar-maid in the pub,whose image intrudes.

Returning to work at the publishing house Karen is asked to edit the new novel by prize-winning author Alex Welch. She is initially uncertain until he arrives at the house and immediately charms her. When Alex invites her to a book signing in Liverpool with an over-night stay she entertains thoughts of their spending the night together. When David realises this he plans to have sex with Ramona to get back at his wife. Meeting Alex inspires Adam to show Rachel the manuscript of a book he once wrote but when she laughs at it he decides to write another one. Pete and Jenny are irritated by a visit from his parents. His father treats him like a child and his mother is so obsessed with tidiness it drives Jenny to drastic action.

In the light of their recent temptations Karen and David,the latter reluctantly,go to see a counsellor who suggests they get their groove back by pretending that they are on a first date - a device which seems to work. Adam and Rachel are less fortunate as she is irritated by his obsessive watching of television and interest in neighbour Emma. After Rachel has called him a sad old man he goes out on the town with Pete and tries to buy E in a club. Pete and Jenny find that they have no social life due to their baby but when Rachel baby-sits and allows them a night out they find they have no conversation beyond the baby. Karen decides the girls need taking out of themselves and takes them to a friend's divorce party.

David and Karen invite the other couples to a charity dinner,where David spends the evening net-working. Jenny,feeling out of place,gets drunk and after a row with David's arrogant boss Natalie,sets off a fire extinguisher,ruining Natalie's expensive dress. The resultant tension at David's work place causes him to force an apology from Jenny,straining his friendship with her and Pete. Rachel learns that she is pregnant. Adam is over-joyed but Rachel tells him that the father may be Kris,with whom she had sex on his recent visit. Adam claims not to care who the father is as he loves Rachel but she decides to go to London to give birth.