Jamie wakes up in Kassi's house after a night on the town to find police hammering at the door as Kassi is accused of money-laundering and fraud and his assets confiscated. Jamie is shocked when Kassi tells him of his plan to escape to France but,when this falls,he moves Kassi,his wife and children onto the Chatsworth estate,where they are generally made welcome. Mimi,however,recalling Kassi's father,is extremely hostile. With their mortgage application refused,Kelly and Marty,now outcasts for robbing Lilian, do exit the estate whilst Shane 's bizarre affair with policewoman Randall continues.

When Avril loses her job Patreesha insists she work at the car wash Patreesha owns with ex-husband Bernard. However Avril discovers that Bernard was gay and that his lover has been running the business. Determined not to be a sleeping partner Patreesha decides to take an active role and put her stamp on the car-wash. After a disaster with the freezer Chesney decides to refurbish the shop,adding a pharmacy,and brings in British Muslim Remona to run it. Soon he and Patreesha's daughter Mary Mae find evidence to suggest that Remona is making bombs and suspect she is a terrorist - though it turns it she is teaching boy scouts how to make soap. Kassi is arrested after a night out with Jamie and it is down to Jamie to look after his wife Esther and their children.

Aidan is looking after Stan,an elderly,ailing man who does not want to go on with life and kills himself. Fearing that he will be incriminated Aidan enlists the help of Billy,who is useless,and Dominic,who has practical ideas for a cover-up,but they are interrupted by Stan's daughter Angela who is aware of her father's suicidal longings and tells Aidan she knows he is innocent. When Aidan seems unusually flush and is seen driving Stan's car Dominic wonders if he is so innocent after all and informs the police who arrest Aidan. A talk with Angela convinces Dominic that he has been wrong and he owns up to the assisted suicide and is himself charged. Aidan bails him and he flees the estate as the truth of Stan's demise is eventually shown. The Blancos are now living in Avril's old house and Esther's children are concerned about her friendship with Frank. She claims that he is merely being helpful as a neighbour but is taken aback to find him in her bed in the nude.

Mary Mae and Chesney are mutually smitten but fear Patreesha's disapproval. After Avril starts work at the shop - and identifies some rather odd manufacturing by Remona - Letitia and Aidan read that an adrenalin rush will bring a man's passionate nature to the fore and stage a robbery whilst Mary Mae is in the shop. It works but for the wrong reasons when Mary Mae discovers that the thieves have genuinely spent the spoils and confesses everything to Chesney. Shane's music festival is all set to go until Lilian catches him having sex with WPC Randall and tells Mimi.Mimi is convinced her son is being used so the police can launch a drugs raid on the festival and orders him to end the affair. He refuses but the policewoman's love of kinky sex ends it anyway. Fearing antagonism from the family Shane considers calling off the event but Karen persuades him to go ahead with it and it is a success - as is his first attempt to have straightforward,non-kinky sex with his girl in blue.

Frank está consternado al descubrir que Lip ha estado viviendo cerca con su hija pequeña Katie pero no se ha molestado en visitarla, aunque ha estado en contacto con la abuela materna de Katie, Mimi. Los invita a tomar té, lo cual requiere la ayuda de Esther para limpiar la casa sucia, y conocen a Stella, la más joven de Monica, a quien ha estado cuidando. Mientras Lip se divierte con los otros chicos de la finca y Karen y Jamie lo reciben en el Jockey, Frank se enfurruña. Lo peor está por venir cuando Lip atrapa a su padre teniendo sexo con Derilee y Sherilee y, después de emborracharse, decide que él y Katie deben irse. Así, mientras todos los Maguire son invitados a la confirmación de Katie, Frank está ausente.

Chesney is surprised when Remona's father Barry shows up as she had said that he was dead. He gives her a cheque for thirty grand from his house sale and endears himself to Jockey customers with his generosity and anecdotes but Remona is hostile. Learning that Mindy,Barry's new wife,has left him Chesney feels sorry for him but soon learns that Barry has lied about his relationship and joins Remona in helping Mindy escape her husband. Frank accompanies Esther to a Polish evening,hoping for free vodka,but her son Tam,in revenge for Frank stealing his stash of drugs,feeds everybody laxatives whilst WPC Randall becomes jealous of Esther's innocent chats with Shane. Billy gets a tattoo to impress Mimi but the result is a failure.

Hoping to gain respect on the estate Billy goes for a job selling security devices but after a conversation with the sympathetic waitress in the café next door ends up as a short order cook,maintaining the illusion to everybody but Aidan that he has the sales job. To get extra money he arranges for his house to be burgled to claim the insurance but is eventually found out though Mimi is pleased that he did it for her. Esther is shocked to find that Thalia is the school bully and goes around apologizing to everybody though it gets her into trouble from which her artful daughter extricates her with sympathy-gaining lies. Lilian meanwhile takes in Stella,as a result of which the brothel suffers an infestation of nits.

Patreesha's boyfriend Louis tells her he has arranged a singing tour of America for her but drops dead of a drug over-dose,leaving a case containing fifty thousand pounds. Patreesha and Avril attempt to cheat each other out of the money,Avril staging a false kidnap attempt involving Shane, but eventually they unite when they learn that Louis was actually a con artist who had cheated several women out of money with false promises of an American tour. Tam Blanco's obsession with stealing knickers from washing-lines meanwhile leads to Frank being wrongly accused of being a pervert.

Gun-toting 'Biddy' Baxter arrives at Frank's house. He is Derilee's husband,anxious for her to return to him though she flatly refuses and soon the police are besieging the house with Frank,Stella and Derilee as Biddy's hostages after Biddy has accidentally shot a postman. News coverage brings Monica back to the estate. Courting press publicity she volunteers to be a hostage in Stella's place but,whilst she and Frank seem to get on,Derilee and Biddy's differences come to the fore. As the residents hold a party in the Jockey police storm the house but Biddy lies dead,shot by Derilee - in alleged self defence. She is not prosecuted and she and Sherilee leave the area.

Después de cumplir seis meses por fraude de beneficios, Frank es liberado de la cárcel para ser recibido por una Monica muy embarazada, tan embarazada que da a luz en el Jockey. Pronto sufre una grave depresión posparto, molesta por haber tenido un aborto que deshizo del gemelo de su hijo sobreviviente. Con poca ayuda de Frank, convoca a Fiona, Lip y Carl para un funeral ficticio por el niño fallecido, pero Fiona, reconociendo la incapacidad de sus padres para criar más niños, roba a Stella y al bebé y, con la ayuda de Lip, los esconde con Kev Ball mientras habla con Steve sobre proporcionarles vivienda. Stella, con el bebé en brazos, se extravía, causando pánico en el vecindario, pero finalmente encuentra a Frank y lo obliga astutamente a admitir públicamente que la ama. Él los lleva a casa, donde se desata una gran pelea familiar, que a su vez lleva a una reconciliación y una celebración en el Jockey, mientras otra pelea comienza y se llama a la policía, como en los viejos tiempos.