Hoping for a night of wild abandon, Cook invites everybody to his birthday party at his uncle's pub but the party collapses after Effy's friend Pandora throws up. Cook manages to persuade everyone to gate-crash a party being thrown to celebrate the engagement of a girl called Kayleigh, but he falls foul of her father John White, a drugs baron to Madame Greta's brothel; he again encounters John White and a fight ensues and White threatens to kill Cook if he sees him again.

Thomas arrives in Bristol from the Congo with his parents to follow him, but after sleeping in an empty flat he falls foul of its owner, John White, who demands money. Pandora takes a liking to him and helps him by giving him dope to sell, but unfortunately they find they are selling it on White's turf. White threatens Cook again, but Thomas steps in to champion him and defeats White in a chili-eating contest. However, when Thomas's mother turns up, she is appalled and demands he return to Africa.

Angry at Alo for declaring his love for her and at her mother Shelley for moving her tubby, sex-mad boyfriend Eric into the house, Mini also discovers that she is pregnant and contacts her high-flying but absent father Gregory, staying in his riverside apartment and contemplating going to Australia with him although people tell her he'll let her down. Her college friends gate-crash Gregory's party and Alo gets thrown out after accusing Gregory's assistant Ryan of having sex with Mini. She confides her situation in Franky, who advises her to tell Gregory but, never one for responsibility, he leaves for Australia without her, leaving her a cheque for 500 pounds. Alo also rejects her, calling her too callous to be capable of love, but unexpected consolation comes from Eric, who reconciles her with Shelley, after which Franky takes her to an ultrasound clinic, where she weeps tears of joy on seeing her unborn baby.

Mini collapses and is rushed to hospital. Both Nick and Matty show up and start fighting, but Franky refuses to call the police to have Matty arrested. With Alo making it clear he does not want a baby and Shelley trying to persuade her to give the child up for adoption a pressurised Mini runs off, staying the night at a squat with Franky, who tries to talk her into moving to Oxford. However, Eric persuades her to go home where, after a heart-to-heart, Shelley accepts that she should keep her baby. Franky, who has overheard, is angry and tearful and rushes out of the house. Later, Mini and Alo are kissing at Alo's farm when she sees blood trickling down her leg.