It is Mark’s wedding day, but he is torn about whether he should go through with it or not. Jez tries to discourage him, but Mark decides to continue. Super Hans vomits in Mark’s hat and shoes after taking too many drugs the night before. On the way to the church, Nancy phones Jez to tell her she is coming to the wedding as well.
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Jez takes Mark on a stag weekend on a rented canal boat. They meet two sisters, Aurora and Lucy, and their father. Jez falls in love with Aurora while Lucy becomes sexually attracted to Mark. The father offers Mark a job in India, which Mark considers as a way out of his impending marriage to Sophie. Jez accidentally kills Aurora’s dog, “Mummy”. When Mark discovers Mummy in his bin, they try to burn the evidence but cannot bring themselves to finish the job. Jez fails to dump the body and brings it to Aurora’s boat. Pretending it is turkey, he starts to eat Mummy. Aurora discovers Mummy’s collar amongst the remains, so Jez and Mark flee the boat.
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Jez meets his hero, techno musician Russell “The Orgazoid”. He ends up working as his handyman, which leads Mark to become suspicious, as it seems that Jez’s job consists of making smoothies for him. Meanwhile, Mark meets Sally at a school reunion, one the few girls at school who actually ever liked him.
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In order to avoid spending time with Sophie, Mark gets a gym membership. Whilst there he discovers that Jez’s ex-wife Nancy is working at the same gym. Mark tells Jez about Nancy, whom then becomes desperate to get back together with her. He decides to take a job as a cleaner at the gym and sets about stopping her from dating Mark’s personal trainer Matt.
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Mark is placed in charge of a departmental merger, while Jez tries to make some quick money by pimping out Big Suze to Johnson. This results in Big Suze leaving Jez for Johnson permanently. After insulting his entire team of helpers for failing to come up with a plan, Mark realises that he has nothing to present to the JLB board. Mark decides to take Jez’s advice and runs away, but then bumps into Sophie. Upon Sophie’s advice, he returns to face the truth, but it becomes a disaster as he recommends JLB Credit move into humanitarian work and claims that he is dying. Johnson reassures the members of the board by saying that Mark will be dead in a month.
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Mark doubts over his proposal of marriage to Sophie continue whilst he and Jez visit Sophie’s parents for her birthday. Jez realises he was only brought along to keep Sophie’s annoying brother Jamie company. Later, Jez has an affair with Sophie’s mother and Mark accidently lets Sophie’s father, Ian, hear of her lack of love for Sophie. Ian makes Mark promise to cancel the wedding, and then takes his revenge on another man whom his wife has an affair with, by all three of them burning down a barn.
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