Episode Two – Tuesday 29 September
Jamie and Hannah wake up together on the beach, utterly smitten with each other. When Kev sorts out a slot at the festival for him to perform, Josh is indebted to him. However as Josh struggles to overcome his nerves he self medicates with alcohol, resulting in a drunken and humiliating performance. This culminates in him being booed off stage and a fight breaks out in the crowd. Having been chased by angry festival goers and covered in beer and urine, Josh has had enough and demands to go home. To his dismay his siblings are not keen to leave, both in a state of delirium over their new found lovers, and Josh ends up storming off home alone. Hannah's happiness hits a major hurdle when Imogen lets slip that Jamie is a drug dealer, but Jamie, desperate not to lose her, begs her to stay. Despite herself, Hannah is won round by Jamie's romantic plans for his future, which he asks her to be part of. Hannah attempts to shrug off her suburban little girl persona and takes a pill for the first time, and seemingly safe in Jamie's arms, they make love. As Rhys and Imogen consummate their relationship, and Hannah and Jamie plan a happy ever after, they are unaware that Blue and Kev are watching their every move, and neither seems over enamoured by the impact these interlopers are having on their ‘family'.
As Jacqui and Carmel storm around London in a desperate attempt to find Theresa and Michaela, an extremely excited Theresa impresses photographer Wayne on her photo shoot. As she takes in his offer of another shoot, worth £2000, Jacqui and Carmel kick the door in and drag the girls from Wayne's ‘clutches'. As Theresa wallows in misery over her lost modelling gig, Jacqui is surprised when Wayne reappears in the hotel bar. Impressed by the feisty McQueen, Wayne asks her out. Carmel persuades a reluctant Jacqui that dating Wayne could be just the thing to help her put Tony behind her.
Suspecting there's something going on between Darren and Cindy, Savannah sends him a text from Cindy's phone. When Darren responds with “I love you too” Savannah's suspicions are confirmed and a plan begins to form. Having worked out Darren and Cindy's plan to fleece Tony, she tries to get in on the act by demanding £20k for her silence. Cindy initially gives her short shrift, but the threat is real and she realises her marriage is hanging in the balance unless she agrees. Meanwhile, Tony is upset by Dom's best man speech, and his attitude to what Dom thinks is a sham of a marriage. He strips Dom of best man duties, instating Darren in his place. Dom drowns his sorrows in the bar, and meets the lovely Emma. He can't believe his luck when she reciprocates his flirting and the pair end up having mind blowing sex. A misinformed Darren meanwhile is jubilant that Cindy loves him, unaware of Savannah's machinations, and decides to ensure the wedding doesn't go ahead so he and Cindy can be together instead. Darren gets Tony so drunk he almost passes out, before enlisting the help of Sexy Sadie, an escort, to sleep with him then dump Tony on the road to nowhere aboard a potato truck. An oblivious Cindy has no idea that her wedding may be over before it even began.
Best friends Zoe and Sarah having fun is misconstrued by an increasingly paranoid Lydia as flirting. The strain is starting to tell. Gilly and Lydia briefly confide in each other about their feelings for Steph and Sarah, respectively. Both decide to play it cool but this pact doesn't last long as Gilly's jealousy of Fernando leads him to throw his bag into a lake in a fit of pique. Realising Steph's meds were in the bag too the threesome are forced to go home together, Gilly feeling guilty and no closer to stealing Steph's affections. Lydia lasts a little longer but eventually cracks and warns Zoe to stay away from Sarah as the last time they slept together Sarah tried to kill herself. Initially disbelieving, Zoe treads carefully just in case it's true. Will Lydia's plans to estrange the friends work out or is the truth inevitably going to come out amid a seething hotbed of jealousy and passion?
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