Tales of the City

Jon, who has met DeDe as her gynecologist and likes her, breaks things off with Beauchamp, informing him of his wife's pregnancy. As Christmas approaches Mary Ann confides in Mouse her suspicions of Norman's creepy behavior and snoops around his flat, finding pornographic pictures of Lexi. Mona tracks down Dorothea's parents and invites them for lunch on Christmas Eve. She is amazed to find that they are white and the tablets she found in Dorothea's cabinet were to darken her skin, as it gave her more modeling work. After initial shock there is reconciliation. Norman has found out the secret that Anna told Edgar and intends blackmail. Anna was once a man, Andy Ramsay, who had a sex change operation twenty years earlier. However, after Mary Ann has confronted him over the pictures of Lexi, they argue and he falls off a cliff to his death. Mary Ann returns to Barbary Lane and, having burnt Norman's file on Anna without reading it, joins Mouse, Mona, Brian and Connie to celebrate Christmas with their landlady. Some days later Edgar slips away, having learnt of DeDe's news and asking her to call her baby Anna if it is a girl. The funeral over, Anna visits Edgar's grave, placing a joint on it and bidding him to have fun.

After her first night as a volunteer on a Samaritan-type switchboard Mary Ann comes back to be confronted by DeDe, holding the scarf she left in Beauchamp's car, though she successfully convinces DeDe that she has no interest in her husband. Nonetheless DeDe signs up for a fat farm to lose weight. Anna and Edgar begin their affair proper after he has hinted to Beauchamp that he will one day be boss. Mouse feels humiliated after attending Jon's dinner party where bitchy old queens score points off him though Jon tells Mouse he means more to him than all of them. Mary Ann meets Norman, the straight and rather creepy new tenant of the garden flat whilst Mona gets a call from her old friend D'orothea, a beautiful black model.

Michael's parents visit and he shows them around the city, keeping a discreet silence about his sexuality. Anna and Edgar also try to keep their affair secret as he stays the night but Mona is more open, telling Mouse that she and Dorothea were once lovers. Dorothea returns to San Francisco and Mona moves in with her, Anna being unusually upset about her leaving. Mary Ann gets closer to Brian, who consoles her after she found her boss at the Crisis Cedntre had hanged himself. However she starts dating Norman, who sometimes brings a precocious little girl Lexi and asks Mary Ann lots of questions about their fellow tenants. DeDe learns that she is pregnant and, as news of the putative father spreads, she is sexually blackmailed by odious Carson Callas to not tell Beauchamp.