Episode list

It's 1986 and Combo is out of prison following his near-fatal attack on Milky whilst Shaun leaves school certain of two things - he's failed his exams and his mother,Cynth,won't have bought him a scooter like his contemporaries have.Lol and Woody are getting married with catering courtesy of Meggy and flowers stolen from the graveyard by Gadget. However,at the registry office Woody gets cold feet, though the occasion is overshadowed by Meggy having a heart attack, The 'reception' takes place in his hospital room though a disgusted Lol spends more time confiding in Milky that she may have dated the wrong man. Shaun,hit over the head after a stunt to pull a girl by a bullying scooter rider goes wrong,turns up at casualty,thanks to Lol's estranged mother and her boyfriend Mick. He has his wound stitched but does not join the rest of the group.

After Smell tells Woody and the gang she saw Shaun at the hospital they steal golf buggies to give him a rowdy serenade in the middle of the night and he returns to the fold.He gets a job at Mr. Sandhu's video rental shop but is appalled to find that he is Cynthia's new boy-friend when he catches them in bed and leaves home,sleeping in a toilet. Lol feels no happier. Reluctant to move into the filthy flat Woody has found them - where a junkie died and then putrefied - she returns home but is appalled that her mother has allowed Mick,who once apparently molested her,to come back. She confides in,and sleeps with,Milky,before going to Woody's flat. Gadge has a night of passion with the older single parent Trudy but is amazed to see that her little boy looks just like Meggy.

On the anniversary of Shaun's father's birthday Shaun is persuaded by Smell to return home and patch things up with his mother,which he does after she has caught them having sex on the sofa. Though living together Lol and Woody are drifting apart and Woody,unaware that Lol is having regular sex with him,asks Milky to act as go-between,which he attempts - unsuccessfully.Gadge,exhausted by Trudy's sexual appetite,leaves her on Harvey's advice but whilst everybody else is watching England play Poland in the World Cup on television,Mick rapes Lol's sister's friend,a girl called Trev,and a badly beaten Combo crashes into Shaun's house.

After sleeping on Cynth's sofa overnight Combo explains that he has come back to see his terminally ill mother,but by the time he gets to her flat she has died. Lol and Woody sort themselves out and he plans a surprise wedding for her but she fails to show up,having found out about Mick's rape of Trev. She confronts him just as he is about to run out of the house and they have a fight,during which he tries to rape her too and she brains him with a hammer. As she is sitting,stunned,on the floor,help arrives from an unexpected source in an extraordinary act of redemption.