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This episode and the following ones show Marc forming a relationship with the third, youngest, Garnier sister. Although the maiden surname of Claire, Karen and Stéphanie never appears in the credits, it is mentioned in episode 28: La femme de Marc. He had already lived with Karen from episode 6: La septième symphonie to episode 18: Rupture. He had also had a very brief affair with Claire in Les Filles d'à côté "between" episodes 168 and 169.

Claire goes "bananas" at the news and tries to break up the couple over the following episodes; she had already been the cause of Karen leaving Marc.

When Stéphanie arrived, shortly after Karen left, and asked if she could stay: Claire and Sabine accepted. Marc helped her out with her luggage and they fell in love in the lift (elevator). Shortly later her "fiancé", Benoît de la Rocambrière, a French count, arrives and is disgusted to find her involved with a person like Marc, Claire pushes him to fight so he ends up challenging Marc to a sword combat.

Just as the battle is about to commence Benoît pulles out and leaves, his arm around Sabine.

Sabine brings back to the flat (appartment) her latest flame, Pascal, supposedly the love of her life. They have a cocktail with Claire and when he remarks that he shouldn't drink another glass on an empty stomach Sabine goes to the kitchen to fetch some hors d'oeuvres. Claire had suggested helping her but Pascal didn't like the idea of being alone. Whilst Sabine is in the kitchen Pascal takes the opportunity of "chatting up" Claire and succeeds as when Sabine returns she finds them kissing.

Claire and Pascal leave the flat and go down to the basement fitness club where they chat at the side of the swimming pool. Claire goes of to the bar to order drinks and Pascal starts to chat up Stéphanie, Claire of course is not happy so Stéphanie takes Pascal to the flat that she shares with Marc.

They arrive at the door and Stéphanie makes an excuse about her house-keeper in order to enter the flat to chack that Marc is not there. He isn't so Stéphanie invites him in for a drink, saying that it was for no other purpose. As Pascal carries on "catting her up" Marc arrives with a large bunch of roses that covers his face. These roses are to ask forgiveness for a macho argument that he had earlier with Stéphanie, but not seeing his face she thinks that Pascal had had them sent. She takes the flowers without noticing Marc's presence. Mark then becomes angry and starts to chop off the flower heads; at this point Stéphanie and Pascal flee and return to the basement.

Claire and Sabine are drinking fruit juice at the bar so Stéphanie joins them - in the conversation that ensues she says that she had no real intentions with Pascal - it was just to make Marc jealous. At this point they notice Pascal "chatting up" Adeline (who is sucking on a lolly (popsicle?) and reading a book). He uses the same line with her as with the others - the French term is "you capsized my life" - "I really fell for you" - So Adeline pushes him into the pool saying "Now you can really say that you fell for me"

And the three other girls applaud.

This is the first (and last?) episode in which all three sisters (Claire, Karen and Stéphanie) appear together.

Marc had left Stéphanie - he needed freedom - and gone to South America. The episode begins with Claire coming back days early from a symposium. Her son is disappointed as he found it "cool" living with just Sabine.

With Claire, Stéphanie and Sabine in the "girls'" flat (appartment) there is a knock on the door - it's Marc. He tells Stéphanie that he didn't even get out of the 'plane - he came straight back as he couldn't live without her. Stéphanie forgives him with Claire urging her to leave him. Stéphanie shouts at Claire saying that, for once, she wishes to work out her own problems by herself.

She moves back in with Marc when there is a knock on the door - it's Karen, who didn't know that her younger sister had moved in with Marc when she left him. When Stéphanie tells her that she is now with Marc; Karen is very upset. Marc notices her stomach and remarks that she has "filled out" a bit. Karen replies that she is pregnant and then goes to Claire's flat.

Claire, Sabine and Karen are chatting, initially Karen says that the baby is her husband's but later on that it could possibly be Marc's. Stéphanie then comes in to say that she has definitively left Marc. They discuss who would make the best father for the unborn child when there is a series of knocks on the door. It's Marc who calls out their names, one after another saying that he has something important to tell them. Finally Sabine lets him in and he says that he is not a man to not to stand up to his responsibilities - he will marry Karen.

Then Gérard arrives with his siamese cat in a basket, saying, "You know how I thought that Danièle* was ill, well it turns out that she is pregnant; that's wonderful. The only problem is that I don't know who the father is!" (*Danièle is the name of his cat, named after Daniel Green in "Les Filles d'à Côté) whereupon all the actors give typical sitcom looks.