EPISODE 4
When Carol discovers her best friend Lillian had an affair with her husband back in the seventies, she takes her revenge by reporting Lillian to the DSS for benefit fraud. The DSS swarm the estate. Everyone's under suspicion of fraud, especially Frank , who's been posing as Lillian's dead husband, Brendan, and claiming his benefits.

Carl is in love with Lip's new girlfriend, Emily. But she doesn't know he exists; until Lip asks him to pose as Emily's errant brother Dom for the imminent DSS inspection. Carl grabs the opportunity to worm his way into her affections, but the scheme goes badly wrong and he's left wearing an ankle tag so he can't flout Dom's ASBO.

Meanwhile, Frank poses as Brendan, sending Sheila into paroxysms of jealousy, which calls for extreme action... in the Jockey toilets.

EPISODE 5
On the day that Kev should be happily celebrating his 35th birthday, his mother throws herself from her balcony. He's stricken with shock and grief, and to add to his woes the last person he expects to see again at her funeral is Roxy - his ex-wife - who's straight out of prison. Veronica is fuming and to make matters worse, Kev fails to come home after the wake. Thinking he's turned his mother's flat into a bachelor pad, Veronica storms round there... only to be greeted by a naked Roxy.

She is heartbroken and resolves to leave Kev once and for all. It seems nothing more could go wrong in Kev's complicated life, that is until Roxy drops the bombshell that they once had a child together. Kev is torn between the idea of having a child and the feeling that this is just Roxy's latest scheme to try and win him back. However, she soon shows her true colours when Kev refuses to succumb to her advances. Realising that Roxy is far from the reformed character she claims to be, Kev finds her at Veronica's house just in the nick of time.

Carol, meanwhile has found herself a new gentleman-friend, Norman Owens. He seems to be a perfect gent and exactly what she's been searching for, until he joins the family for breakfast, in the nude. It seems he has more liberal views about sex than the rest of them. Fatherhood has had a positive effect on Lip, but while he and Mandy get closer, Veronica is convinced it's over between her and Kev. That is, until they get some special news they've been waiting for...