The Secret Life of Us - Season 3

First aired: 2/10/2003 22 episodes

New beginnings and awkward encounters keep the friends busy as relationships take a turn, tough decisions arise, and feelings come to light.

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Episodes

1. The End Is the Beginning

Aired: 2/10/2003

Alex and Evan's relationship takes a different turn as they both make new beginnings. Kelly takes a leap into the unknown and Christian propositions Miranda's new boss Chloe with a song.

2. The Cycle

Aired: 2/17/2003

Kelly has the best night of her life with charming and spontaneous Jake, while Alex and Rex have one of their hardest. Evan is also on the town with his advertising workmates. They're taking drugs and talking big, baby.

3. You Can't Always Get What You Want

Aired: 2/24/2003

Christian is spinning out of control despite Evan's effots to help him. Chloe & Miranda's big night out clubbing doesn't end as planned.Kelly bumps into Nathan-and his new wife. Evan helps Gabrielle to choose a flatmate. Although she insists on having a girl as a flatmate she finally chooses Patrick to be her flatmate after she spends some time with him.

4. The Way We Are

Aired: 3/3/2003

After a sexy night of salsa dancing, it reminds Gabrielle and Evan of being in Cuba. Gabrielle is closer to Evan than she has ever been. Alex is sure that her supervisor is the main reason she's being sent to Edenhope.

5. A Square Peg in a Round Hole

Aired: 3/10/2003

Evan is given complete control in designing a TV commercial concept. It's the first proper work he's been given and he loves it. Meanwhile, Gabrielle bravely re-enters the dating game. When Jake helps Kelly with a bibliography for her university essay, she's smitten. Alex questions her career.

6. The Quality of My Life

Aired: 3/17/2003

Alex and Rex are leaving for London. Evan helps organise the farewell party but Kelly makes up excuses so she's not involved. Meanwhile Tidy is coping with the decision to let a young patient die. Richie is broke and unhappy. What makes it worse is that he's had a taste of what it's like to be working and earning money - he knows what he's missing out on.

7. This Is Now

Aired: 3/31/2003

Alex is gone. Gabrielle is road-testing new swimming partners, Evan and Kelly's new housemate Marnie turns their lives upside down, while Evan is working from home trying to make frozen dinners cool for his job. But cool thoughts are hard to come by and his mind keeps drifting to what he should be doing - writing his book.

8. The Art of Deception

Aired: 3/7/2003

Gabrielle discovers Tidy's secret past, while Christian welcomes an old girlfriend back from overseas. Evan is playing Devil's Advocate at work, arguing against an ad concept for landclearing.

9. Nature or Nurture?

Aired: 4/28/2003

Gabrielle has a crisis as she defends a male flasher at work. Richie is sick of being broke and considers an unexpected job offer from Luciana. Kelly's first psychology exam is approaching and she's worried about failing and three weeks after being released from advertising hell, Evan hasn't had an idea worth writing down.

10. Fair Play

Aired: 5/5/2003

Evan gets an invite to his ten year school reunion. It revives memories of school, and his nemesis David Ford. Evan seeks justice. George moves into the spare room in Apartment 6 and Miranda finds out the truth about her acting career.

11. The Day No Trumpets Sounded

Aired: 5/12/2003

Kelly really dislikes a Kiwi backpacker that Evan has invited to stay. Tidy is devastated when Fergus returns to hospital, but believes he can get better. Miranda wins a Green Card to the US. She's going to the States to be an actor! It's her dream, perhaps her destiny. But does it include Chloe?

12. The Innocents

Aired: 5/19/2003

Evan feels guilty about the attack, Kelly is in hospital battered and bruised and Ken has escaped their lives. Miranda says goodbye to Chloe, while the time has come for Tidy to explain to Fergus' family that they will have to let their little boy die.

13. Great Expectations

Aired: 5/26/2003

Tidy and Gabrielle find themselves stood up by their dates and take their friendship to a new level, while Richie considers an offer to be a sperm donor. Evan is deep into writing - until his computer crashes. When George comes to his rescue, coolly fixing the problem in a flash, Evan's preconceived notions of her are challenged.

14. The People You Meet

Aired: 6/2/2003

After their disastrous encounter, Gabrielle lays down the post-sex rules to Tidy, while Christian seduces a close friend of Chloe's and Evan asks George on a date. A chance encounter with a woman asking for money at a tram stop makes Kelly think about her priorities. What should her life really be about?

15. Weird Species Man

Aired: 6/9/2003

The boys head off on a fishing expedition, when Christian discovers that Evan and George are together, tensions rise between the 'best mates'. Around the campfire, after a few drinks, tongues are loosened. A little girl changes Kelly's life.

16. Be True

Aired: 6/23/2003

Evan and George don't feel the same way about each other. Richie's quest to become a dad hits an obstacle, with Charlie's help, he may just find the circuit-breaker to set him free. Chloe's been offered a promotion at the call centre by her boss Mack.

17. The Dark Side

Aired: 6/30/2003

Gabrielle's career hits a crisis point. George sees a side of Evan that really disappoints her at a party with his old advertising workmates. Seeing Evan's dark side shakes her faith in the future of their relationship and she discovers how Evan really feels about her. Christian unexpectedly runs into Talia again.

18. Only the Brave, or the Dumb

Aired: 7/7/2003

Gabrielle finally realises what she really wants she joins forces with a sexy barrister to fight her unfair dismissal claim against the union. Neither Tidy or Evan is happy with the situation. Evan and Chloe help Kelly run for student council. Richie and Charlie pull on the whites at a game of cricket and reveal their competitive sides.

19. Outside the Loop

Aired: 7/14/2003

Evan's on a high - he's got a royalty cheque in one hand, and his newly-finished second book in the other. Richie has also received a royalty check which is much bigger and warms to Christian's ideas on property investment. A showdown with Christian and Richie is imminent. Gabrielle and Tidy are in the love zone, unable to drag themselves away from the apartment - and each other.

20. The Saturn Return

Aired: 7/28/2003

Evan has thrown away his book but he still can't write, the old patterns remain. Meanwhile, Richie is shocked when Simon kicks him out of the flat. They lose themselves debating how the return of Saturn is affecting their lives. Kelly's academic horizons expand. Tidy is torn between the past and the present and Alex arrives home.

21. Playing With Fire

Aired: 8/4/2003

Alex is back in Evan's life and they rekindle their relationship, while George is offered a job in Sydney. Gabrielle runs for Federal Parliament and Tidy learns to deal with his role as the political spouse. Kelly is struggling to memorise the several formulae needed to complete her Statistics exam.

22. Let The Burning Begin

Aired: 8/11/2003

The fallout from Evan and Alex's encounter lingers as Rex returns. Meanwhile, it's D-Day for Kelly, due to go before a tribunal for her actions, Richie is caught between his lover and friend and Christian is trying to beat his epilepsy by going on a health kick. Gabrielle's election day arrives, while Alex and Evan's relationship changes forever.