Angry and upset that Mick has forgotten their wedding anniversary, Janice goes off for a walk on her own and stops off at a bar. It is owned by Jack, an English lad in his early twenties, along with his sister, both orphans. Jack tells Janice that she is beautiful and that he is in love with her but she panics and hurries back to the complex.

Kate disappears with her luggage, and Martin, after an initial assumption that maybe she had gone to the shops tracks her down. She has good news for them. Dorothy, the mother of Gavin, half of the gay couple, comes to visit. Gavin is annoyed by Donald and Jacqueline's constant comments that he and his mother look the same age. Jack also comes to the complex in search of Janice, declaring his love for her, though she gets rid of him. Chantelle and the Oracle's date is ruined when he drinks too much Dutch courage and passes out.

On the eve of their wedding, Madge and Mel take a stroll along a romantic, moonlit beach, only to discover that it is a 'dogging' beach where people go for public, casual sex, and they are importuned by a man up for a threesome. (Needless to say Donald and Jacqueline are there as well.) The wedding day dawns and Janice has a pep-talk with Madge - she is the only one of Madge's five daughters still speaking to her. Assured that her mother is making the right decision, she takes her place at the beach ceremony, but the marriage is not finalized because the Oracle hang-glides out of the sky, falling onto Mel. Mick hits him and gets arrested whilst the groom is carted off to hospital.

Following Madge and Mel's wedding, Janice and Madge hitch a ride to the hospital with a stranger who turns out to be the wanted criminal Enrique "The Rat" Lopez. When the pair are held hostage, it's up to the other guests to rescue them.

Kenneth starts to regret employing non-English speaking Carmen and offering free treatment at the salon as first prize in the dance contest Joyce is organizing,to be judged by her old flame,professional dancer Cyril Babcock. Janice is puzzled when young Jack,her former stalker,reappears and claims not to recognize her,involving her in a fight with Trudy. However come the contest he sweeps her off her feet confessing it was all a ruse to get close to her. Fortunately Mick comes to her rescue whilst Gavin and Carmen win the competition,releasing Kenneth from giving the prize.

Now appointed assistant manager Cyril organizes an eating contest, Hombre Versus Food though Kenneth does not take part and, encouraged by Liam, goes on a health kick, not that it does him much good. Mick discovers that Madge is not terminally ill, though, when confronted, she blames the doctor for a misdiagnosis whilst Tonya persuades Janice that she needs an expensive make-over at the spa where she is a beauty therapist. Meanwhile Michael and Tiger vie for the attention of the lovely Elena and Michael is delighted when she chooses him. The eating contest goes ahead, causing mass sickness as the meat was obtained from a butcher's dumpster. Joyce prepares to resign but she is saved when Cyril does a runner.