Ian deja el área y Micky se inscribe en un curso de cine donde su gusto por los guiones eróticos lo lleva a participar en tríos con la tutora Zeta y su esposo Ady, mientras Mimi termina su tarea. A medida que el Jockey reabre después de su incendio con una noche de striptease improvisado, Karen y Jamie tienen una pelea pero vuelven a estar juntos, y Carl, que trabaja en el hospital, se enamora de la enfermera Maxine, aunque ella quiere que su relación sea casual. Mandy consigue un nuevo novio en el amigo de Jamie, Joe, mientras que Stan finalmente logra tener un avance con los hijos de Yvonne y Norma, obsesionada con un posible asesinato en el pub en el pasado, encuentra lo que cree erróneamente que son restos humanos.

The Maguires are horrified to find their late son Fergal's grave has been desecrated and set up a CCTV camera which actually captures a mystery woman tending the grave. Carl gets a job as a car washer,leading to another sexual encounter but when he discovers he has an STD ,on Stan's advice,he is forced to tell all his old conquests - except the sexy customer,who is expecting. Micky learns that Ady is in love with him but,after an ultimatum from Zeta,intends to stay in his show marriage,ending Micky's acquaintance with the couple. Monica uses sham hypnotist Damien De Soto to try and make Frank jealous but ends up having sex with Damien in the toilet. Despite a misunderstanding over body hair Mandy,now living in the Jockey,has a night of passion with Joe.

Durante una noche temática de James Bond en el Jockey, Paddy conoce a Maureen, la mujer del funeral de Fergal, y Karen sufre un aborto espontáneo. Cuando Mimi y Paddy insisten en un elaborado funeral de espectáculo, ella se pregunta si quiere traer otro Maguire al mundo. Debbie inscribe a Liam en un concurso de modelaje, con un premio en efectivo y una sesión de fotos en Blackpool. Como el cartel es para una campaña contra el abuso infantil, Debbie no quiere que Monica se entere, pero ella va con Norma y Frank, quien termina apareciendo en el cartel. Mientras que la compilación de Carl de un libro negro de las mujeres más sexys que conoce le trae problemas, la broma enfermiza de Tom para hacer pensar a Stan que se ha ahorcado llevará a que él deje el área con Carrie.

After a night of drink Paddy wakes to find himself tied to a bed in Maureen's house. But this is not a sex game. Maureen's teen-aged daughter died of an overdose of heroin supplied by Paddy and now she intends to inject him with his own merchandise. Lonely DSS fraud officer Bernard calls on Frank to find out why he is claiming for children who have left home. Frank tries to bribe him with drink and a session at the brothel but Monica's wiles ensure that the case will be 'lost' though Frank is unhappy with her seduction method. Micky begs Carl to keep quiet after Carl discovers he is into men and Carrie and Tom move on,taking the contents of the police house with them.

Ian returns from his travels. However, he's unaware that the car he's driving harbors secret cargo. Ian makes an even more shocking discovery when returning home to the Gallaghers' to find history has repeated itself.

Maureen libera a Paddy, quien regresa a casa adicto a la heroína aunque Mimi cree que tiene cáncer. Kelly descubre la verdad y se lo cuenta a Shane. Ella ha renunciado al burdel y están llevando a cabo un plan para chantajear a hombres casados que tienen relaciones sexuales con ella en hoteles antes de que Shane irrumpa en ellos. Sin embargo, un hombre ataca a Shane, quien termina en coma. Los Gallagher creen que han heredado una casa de cuatro habitaciones de una tía fallecida, pero resulta ser solo una caravana. Karen y Jamie tienen otra pelea pública cuando ella se opone a que él sea co-licenciatario, ya que se niega a dejar que el pub pase a manos de los Maguire.

Shane is left temporarily paralysed,causing Mimi and Kelly to fight over which one of them should care for him,which in turn leads to Kelly telling Mimi that Paddy is an addict. Mimi eventually agrees to stand by her husband. Ian and Danny move into Danny's grandfather's house and Norma decides to go back to lorry driving. Old flame Ruby suggests they start over but Norma sees that,with Monica gone,Liam and Stella need a mother and returns to the estate. Suspecting that Joe is overly controlling to Mandy Karen confronts him but ends up having sex with him.

Frank is summonsed to Liam's school as the boy is granted a special scholarship due to his brightness. Both parents are required to attend so Norma poses as Frank's wife,the pair of them fancying Liam's school mistress. Kelly engages Meena as Shane's physiotherapist though her methods prove to be rather too hands on and Maxine and Micky grow close due to their mutual lust for Carl. As sole licensee of the Jockey Karen fires Jamie,who retaliates by selling his share of the pub to Joe.

Hearing that Joe has been abusing Mandy Jamie hospitalizes him but,given that her son is on licence for killing a man,Mimi takes the rap and is remanded in custody. Zeta's husband Ady is a sergeant on the case and suspects a cover-up,blackmailing Micky into having sex with him though Maxine calls his bluff,as well as showing Carl how to thwart thieves on his milk round. Frank discovers Paddy's addiction and tells the boys. As Shane and Micky are hopeless as drug dealers Jamie must take over the business.

Cuando informan que Liam falta a la escuela, Ian descubre que, como tiene conocimientos de lenguaje de señas, Liam ha estado tratando de ayudar a Danny a encontrar a su padre, pero esto lleva a una separación entre Ian y Danny. Yvonne está preocupada de que Meena, que ahora está comenzando una carrera como modelo, esté posando para fotos más provocativas de lo que debería, y Mandy confía en Frank que no está segura si debería dejar a Joe.

Chesney loses his cherry to housewife Lorna and becomes infatuated with her. However,literally caught with his pants down by her tough-looking soldier husband he realises that the man allows his wife's promiscuous indulgence to make up for his own deficiency. Joe agrees to drop the charges against Mimi provided Mandy returns to him and Mandy agrees though she plans to leave him later. However Karen and Jamie are reconciled. Liam and Stella are taken into care after a neighbour finds Frank comatose in charge of them. Debbie lets fly at him and he reacts predictably - by getting drunk.

Despite Frank's efforts to stay sober Social Services doubt his parenting abilities and Debbie trying to snatch Liam and Stella from the foster-home does not help. Fortunately Yvonne is accepted as the new foster parent. She has persuaded Meena to return home from the brothel but a larger problem when husband Kash,who faked his suicide,leaving the children to believe he was dead,returns and wants money to vanish again. Desperate Yvonne and Stan devise a plan which ensures that this time he will stay dead. Mimi is released and a contrite Joe sells his share of the pub back to Jamie whilst declaring his love for Mandy.

Paddy ha dejado de consumir drogas de manera abrupta, pero Mimi aún cree que él la traicionó con Maureen y se muestra hostil. Después de que Frank defeca en público, Debbie lo echa de casa y él se refugia en un confesionario de una iglesia, donde escucha a Mimi planeando contratar a un asesino a sueldo para matar a Paddy. Él le cuenta a Paddy, quien decide pagarle más al asesino para que mate a Mimi, aunque finalmente el pistolero intenta matar a ambos, pero es noqueado por Mark, el nuevo novio de Debbie. Joe le propone matrimonio a Mandy e Ian planea regresar a España a pesar de los esfuerzos de Liam por hacerlo quedarse utilizando a Micky como posible amante.

Enfadado por haber perdido su asignación por hijo a Yvonne, Frank logra que ella le pague por cuidar a los niños mientras los manda a una mujer en el bar a un precio más bajo. Maxine encuentra una forma novedosa de declarar sus sentimientos por Carl en público, mientras que Karen descubre que está embarazada. Sospechando que Joe podría ser el padre, le cuenta a Mandy sobre su aventura y le pide que no se case con Joe. Sin embargo, Mandy es atraída a la casa de Maureen, donde la mujer mayor, desesperada y trastornada, pretende mostrarle a Paddy lo que significa perder a una hija y hace explotar la casa, matándose a sí misma y a Mandy.

It's Frank's 50th. Uncharacteristically, he snubs the chance for a party and opts to dwell in his own lonely loveless existence - until librarian Libby falls into his life.

The Maguire clan is fully mobilized for the christening of its newest member: baby Connor. Mimi is organizing everything, including reallocating godmother duties, leaving Kelly devastated.

Karen's obsession to prove herself more than just a mother has Jamie worried. Liam's pursuit of true love is threatened by his own lies, and Maxine is in turmoil when faced with a choice.

With Karen in hospital still Mimi leaves Paddy to help Jamie run the Jockey and acquires a toy-boy,Billy,the pub's football team's star - but under-age - striker. However,when he becomes infatuated with her Mimi has to pull a bizarre stunt to frighten him out of town. Paddy,meanwhile,failing to pull at the disco pays Kelly for sex and Chesney watches Joe getting barred from every casino in town for cheating. Frank,temporarily blinded by boot-leg vodka,has a bizarre sexual encounter.

Karen returns home and is cared for by Mimi,who tries to keep her daughter-in-law's illness a secret. However Jamie finds it hard to accept and on a night out has casual sex with Michelle,who runs an escort agency. Maxine gets Ian to pose as her boyfriend to impress her parents, a fact which makes both Carl and Micky jealous and when Micky catches the couple in bed together and tells Carl the brothers end up fighting. Kelly runs Lilian's brothel in her absence and does well, but refuses to cut Paddy in as he requests her to.

Paddy has met a woman called D'reen who shares his love of salsa and with whom he hopes to emigrate to Cuba but Mimi commits him to a final job,robbing the family's enemy,the psychopathic Roscoe. With the bailiffs calling on the Gallaghers Liam has to make money fast by joining Joe on his illicit gambling. Ian and Carl are still at loggerheads over Maxine and Jamie,as well as helping his father,is working as a male escort for Michelle as Karen sinks under the weight of her post-natal depression,rejecting Connor.

Having served a short prison term for inciting a riot over the library closure Libby is back,driving a mobile library van and,after some misgivings,Frank agrees they should make a go of it. Lilian buys a HD television whose white noise leads her to believe that she has a link to the after-life and conducts a seance but it turns out to be a technical fault. After Karen accuses him of infidelity Jamie quits working as a male escort and Carl willingly takes his place.

As Libby and Patty move in Frank offers to paint Patty's room but,when he falls over absconding with the paint,he feigns injury to get out of the task before buying cheap road marker paint from the workmen. Karen improves but Kelly,ashamed of her session with Paddy,repeatedly turns down Shane's marriage proposals until Paddy tells his son the truth and the couple wed. Chesney and Carl go on the run after seeing the ultra-violent Jimmy beat to death a boy who has sex with his sister and threaten to claim that Chesney was the killer.

The council ask the residents to make a film to improve the estate's image though Micky's violent take on 'Taxi Driver' is not what they expected. Meanwhile the Gallaghers use the filming to shadow Jimmy but when Ian confronts him he gets a severe beating. Chesney and Carl hole up with the free-spirited Hazel on her cannabis farm in Wales but she is also hiding a deadly secret and Carl decides to return home. Mimi joins the W.I. to soften her image and gets her revenge when the others look down on her.

Chesney and Carl return to the estate,hiding out with Joe,who dissuades Carl from shooting Jimmy. Eventually Shane,increasingly angry at how the cocky Jimmy and his gang see themselves as beyond the law whilst terrorising the Gallaghers,persuades his family to take them on and teach them a lesson. Maxine persuades Jimmy's sister to tell the police the truth and the fugitives are cleared though Maxine still aborts Carl's child. Shane also finds that he is infertile,leading to his family offering to be sperm donors though Kelly declines their offer as she and Shane continue to be surrogate parents to Liam.

When Liam befriends a World War II veteran to help him with his school project, he finds solace in the old man's company, but Libby spies on them and jumps to all the wrong conclusions.

Libby makes it clear to Frank she wants a child but she and Liam do reconcile. However,at the Jockey's Talent Contest night it's Liam's new friend Dean who helps him win - approval. Ian is involved with the local boxing club and discovers that its owner Jock and Paddy have ill-feeling which goes back a long way. Jock owes Paddy money and to prevent him taking his gym he torches it. Fortunately Micky,recently accepted as a fireman,is on hand to act and to save Paddy - at long last gaining his father's respect.

When Kelly's fifteen year old sister Tonya arrives to stay her child has been taken into care but she has a chance of reclaiming it if she proves she can look after a robotic baby. However she dumps it on the Maguires whilst she goes out on the lash and Micky sadly acknowledges that her child would be better off without her though he rallies the family to scare off her father Homer,who is also the father of her baby. Frank accompanies Patty to Lourdes,where they masquerade as clerics to steal the altar wine and Frank appears to be on the receiving end of a miracle.

When Paddy plans to move on with new lady friend Rosalita he and Mimi decide to divorce,only to discover their marriage was never legal.so they have to get married again quickly to make the children legitimate. They hope to keep things secret but Micky finds out. After Frank has stolen from her Patty sets him up for benefit fraud,leading to a day in the cells for them both whilst Micky gets picked up by attractive Gary. Unfortunately Gary thinks Micky is Paddy and is only sleeping with him for the status,which he publicly declares.

Bruce,now live-in barman at the Jockey,takes over the football team and enters them in an all gay football contest,much to the disgust of Chesney. Maxine meets her old art teacher,Marc,recently widowed,and agrees to pose topless for his class. However she turns down a relationship with him so as not to betray Ian. Joe learns of his father's death on his birthday and determines to run away with Karen and Connor. However Ian follows and,when Joe violently attacks Karen,who wants to return to Jamie,he brains him.

Ayudado por su amigo Anto, Joe huye de la finca con Karen y Connor, pero cuando Karen expresa su deseo de regresar con Jamie, Joe se vuelve violento e intenta estrangularla. Afortunadamente, Ian los ha seguido y lo mata. De vuelta en el Jockey, escenario de una amnistía de armas, Roscoe, a quien los Maguire estafaron con dinero falso, irrumpe con su pandilla y toma a todos como rehenes, amenazando con disparar a Shane y Jamie. Sin embargo, Frank, Bruce y Micky, que están en el sótano, acceden a las armas entregadas y logran salvar el día armando a todos... excepto a Mimi, que está arriba. Los dolores que ella creía eran síntomas de la menopausia resultan ser una señal de embarazo y da a luz a una niña.

Bruce,now live-in barman at the Jockey,takes over the football team and enters them in an all gay football contest,much to the disgust of Chesney. Maxine meets her old art teacher,Marc,recently widowed,and agrees to pose topless for his class. However she turns down a relationship with him so as not to betray Ian. Joe learns of his father's death on his birthday and determines to run away with Karen and Connor. However Ian follows and,when Joe violently attacks Karen,who wants to return to Jamie,he brains him.