2005

S2.E1 ∙ Smoke and Shadows

Fri, Feb 29, 2008

Ever the neurotic Alice is worried when regional boss Catherine Sumpter, who is allegedly a lesbian, asks to meet her in a hotel though she escapes unscathed. She is also concerned that driving instructor Ted may be asking for too much relationship advice but the lesson ends up getting car-jacked whilst Cleo is annoyed to read in her boyfriend's journal that she is not good in bed and Milly falls for the romantic shadow of a man who lurks outside her flat.

7.1 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Integrated Logistics

Fri, Mar 07, 2008

Cleo tries to set Alice up on a blind date with one of the department's sales reps but it falls flat because Alice only has eyes for the young man she met at the cash dispensing machine. Meanwhile Milly starts to doubt her boyfriend's fidelity and recruits Cleo to set a honey trap to test him. Needless to say it does not end well.

7.1 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Dream Twister

Fri, Mar 14, 2008

Alice meets Mitch, an old school friend who is now a university lecturer and they go on a date. However she notices that one of his students is stalking him - which leads to some romantic role-playing. Milly and Cleo also have an encounter with the police following an ill-advised foray into speed dancing. Alice meets a man through a lonely hearts column but when he fails to show she tears up his photo.

8.8 /10

S2.E4 ∙ The Menaced Assassin

Fri, Mar 21, 2008

Whilst Milly dates a man who is part native American Cleo has a bizarre sexual encounter at the local recycling centre, leading to fantasies about S and M. Alice encounters Neil, an old friend who is now in a menage-a-trois, but this ultimately leads to her being taken in by the anti-terrorist police.

0 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Ragged Claws

Fri, Mar 28, 2008

Alice is literally swept off her feet by the successful and suave Matthew Chater.

6.8 /10

S2.E6 ∙ Sophisticated Lady

Fri, Apr 04, 2008

Following Alice's split with Matthew Milly and Cleo decide to help her out and find her a suitable boyfriend - by looking at the confidential prescription recommendations for male customers at the pharmacy though it fails to bear fruit. Alice herself is more concerned by the strange behaviour of new colleague Antonia, who seems unable to distinguish between fiction and reality.

7.8 /10

S2.E7 ∙ Green Widow

Fri, Apr 11, 2008

Tired of commuting to work from Brighton Alice rents out her flat and sleeps on Milly's sofa whilst looking for a place of her own. Through Lloyd Drewitt she meets an actor Jake Randall, who is rather too attentive, an actress Fae Madison and a writer, Douglas McVitie, who knew the late Gil Raymond and with whom she gets on rather well.

8.1 /10

S2.E8 ∙ Lobotomy Bay

Fri, Apr 18, 2008

Alice and Douglas begin dating and go to dinner with one of his ex-girlfriends and her media mogul husband. She is a cartoonist and Alice is less than flattered when she realizes that she has created a cartoon character that looks exactly like Alice herself. Fae meanwhile goes on her first blind date in years but Milly finds herself having to get rid of an unwanted admirer.

0 /10

S2.E9 ∙ Kiss of Death

Fri, Apr 25, 2008

Alice and Douglas go to the Royal Court to see a play starring one of Alice's all time favourite actors Gordon Bexter but she is rather put off to learn that he is to direct a play about necrophilia 'Kiss of Death' by an avant-garde German playwright. With her old friend Lloyd becoming available again Alice believes that she and Douglas are not suited to each other and should break up but he is very persistent in trying to change her mind.

6 /10

S2.E10 ∙ Whose God Is It Anyway?

Fri, May 02, 2008

Alice has moved in with Fae, whose father Larry is dying so Fae asks Alice to pray for him. In the event he gets better and his gold-digging new wife is not happy with Alice. Meanwhile Douglas is finding it hard to cope with the break-down of his marriage and tries acupuncture to help forget her, as well as getting involved with Heather, his ironing lady.

6.2 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Human Error

Fri, May 09, 2008

Whilst Alice begins to see Fae's bad habits there is good news for Douglas when it seems likely that a script he wrote some time ago will be turned into a film. The problem is that the optioned star Marty Cady was recently found in his car with a dead prostitute but nonetheless Douglas goes to Marty's villa to work on the screenplay. A despairing Lloyd meanwhile ends up having sex with a paraplegic woman.

6.7 /10

S2.E12 ∙ Home

Fri, May 16, 2008

Alice realizes that Douglas has ended their affair and stops Lloyd from committing suicide. They begin talking and he gives her the CDs of Gil's diaries so that she can hear the voice to whom she spoke on the phone but never got to meet. feeling happier she gives bereavement advice to a young friend only to find that he was not bereaved after all before visiting Gil's house and resting on the gate where is ghost briefly appears.y

6.8 /10