A year has passed and Dushane is still the Top Boy, engaging in large scale drug smuggling with the older Scotsman Joe and using street-wise kid Michael as a courier. However the police discover Kamale's body and arrest both Dris and Dushane. They are visited by lawyer Rhianna Parkes, who gets them released and whom Dushane takes out for a drink. Meanwhile Ra'Nell is approached for help by Gem, whose marijuana plants seem to be dying, putting him in debt to Vincent whilst Ra'Nell's mother, hair-dresser Lisa and Gem's father are perturbed that their rents are being troubled. Dushane's old partner Sully now turns against him with new cohort Mike, though Michael steals his phone whilst Joe is attacked in a shoot-out and left for dead, robbed of his ill-gotten gains.

Gem's father Mustapha tells him he is planning a move to Ramsgate where shop prices are cheaper but Gem feels compelled to stay and work out his debt to Vincent by drug running for him. Caught shop-lifting with drugs on him Michael tells the police they belong to Dushane. He also tells them that Kamale was killed in a house where Kayla Thomas once lived. Released with a caution he says none of this to Dushane. Dushane himself, now having sex with Rihanna, visits Joe in hospital and learns that the drugs were stolen by an Albanian gang. Sully and Mike are summoned by former hit-man Tony and offered twenty thousand pounds to kill Jermaine Newton. Since Jermaine is Sully's cousin he goes to warn him but demands twenty grand to spare him. Jermaine contacts his brother Rafe to sell his car to raise the money so Sully and Mike keep him hostage until the cash arrives.

Rihanna tries to persuade Dushane to go straight and introduces him to two property developers looking for investors. After visiting the dying Joe he considers the proposal but asks her to represent Kayla, charged with perverting the course of justice and assisting in Kamale's murder. Rafe launches an armed attack on Sully's flat to rescue Jordan, killing Mike. Sully asks Dushane to intervene to help him, the deal being that Sully joins him in recovering the drugs from the Albanians. Gem's latest drug delivery goes wrong when the recipient turns nasty and steals the goods. Ra'Nell goes to beat Vincent up but is badly assaulted by the Chinese man. Lisa wants to call the police but Ra'Nell stops her.