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Nancy asks Jez to marry her for visa reasons, to which he agrees with gusto. However, Toni attempts to seduce Jez. Sophie and Mark’s friendship is rekindled after meeting for lunch. Jez and Nancy marry, although Nancy leaves the party early for a job interview. Later, Toni succeeds in having an affair with Jez. Mark stands up to Jeff, resulting in the realtionship between Sophie and Jeff ending. Jez, due to “stupid honesty”, tells Nancy about his affair with Toni, securing the status of the relationship as “nothing more than a husk”.
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Sophie tells Mark that Jeff does not want them seeing each other any more, so Mark attempts to make friends with Jeff with Jez’s help. Mark arranges a sponsored bungee jump with Sophie while Jez becomes friends with Jeff. The jump fails to got to plan due to Mark’s cowardice and he resorts to self-harm to try to make Sophie love him. Mark then pretends to be gay in front of Jeff, hoping he will let him see Sophie. However, Jeff reveals that he never said that Mark and Sophie should stop seeing each other. Mark finds out that Jeff cheated on Sophie and uses the knowledge to sabotage their relationship.
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Mark meets a student called April in a shoe shop and decides to return to see her again, but discovers that she has gone to university in Dartmouth. Jez goes to play a gig in the same city and so Mark goes along on the pretext of wanting to see the band. He meets April at University and joins her class, pretending he is a student. Jez is offered the frontman spot of the band for the gig after Super Hans makes a scene, but Mark and Jez get locked in the back room of a corner shop when Jez tries to steal a chocolate bar. They break out (with Mark leaving “a tenner and a note” for the shopkeeper) but Jez is late for the gig. Mark attends a party at a professor’s house but Jez shows up after the gig. Mark ends up going back to April’s room, but fails to make love with her. Mark and Jez go home the next day disappointed.
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While spying on Sophie and Jeff, a TV news crew film Mark drinking beer at a picnic. However, the news report erroneously labels him as an alcoholic. A former alcoholic himself, Johnson forces Mark to join an alcoholics’ help group so he can still go to a business trip to Aberdeen with Sophie. Jez’s relationship with Nancy becomes celibate. He also becomes suspicious that Nancy is in a sexual relationship with a homeless man called “Nim”. After he is kicked out the flat by Mark, who is expecting a visit from his father, Nancy leaves Jez in anger for allowing Nim to leave. Johnson finds Mark drinking a beer and decides not to let him go on the business trip. Mark then attempts to get Jeff in trouble by bribing the security team to tape Jeff attacking him, but his plan backfires.
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Jez bumps into an old schoolmate, Gog, who is looking for musicians for a project he is working on. For the first time in years, Mark forms a new friendship with a new work colleague, Darrel. However, a prank they play is interpreted as a racial incident. Jez secures Gog’s commission but spends his advance on “drugs and shoes”. Mark realises at a Second World War re-enactment that Darrel is racist. Jez and Super Hans, after failing to produce an acceptable soundtrack for Gog, attempt to get the rest of the money by threatening him with a baseball bat.
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Mark agrees to go to a dancing class (”Rainbow rhythms”) with Sophie, taking Jez along also. Jez meets Nancy, an American Christian whom he begins to fall in love with. The two develop a taboo-breaking sexual relationship, although he considers being made to black-up too offensve. Mark reads Sophie’s email to get a better insight into her feelings about him. Mark, Sophie, Jeremy and Nancy go to dance class member Gwyn’s house in the country which invovles a game of spin the bottle where Mark and Jez kissing each other. Sophie finds out to her anger that Mark has been spying on her email.
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