Owen sets up Kate with his friend Simon. She and Simon arrive outside her block of flats at the end of their date. They agree to another date and then they kiss. Her date dislikes the kiss then texts her to tell her that he does not want to see her again, but does not give her a reason. She goes into her flat, where she is told by Owen and Josh that she was well-known at university for biting whilst kissing. Owen helps Kate improve her kissing technique, after which she goes on another date with Simon.

Closing song: ? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

Kate's mother Judith (Jennifer Saunders) is turning 50. She stays at the flat and annoys Kate by repeatedly boasting about Kate's elder sister. Geoff is attracted to Judith, but she is not interested in him and she instead strikes up a friendship with Owen. Kate wrongly suspects that they are having sex.

Closing song: Kool and the Gang - Jungle Boogie

Kate is watching Don't Tell the Bride alone in the flat whilst waiting for her new phone to be delivered. The electricity cuts out.

Closing song: Macy Gray - I Try

Owen's annoying, overbearing, coarse friend Teabag stays for the weekend.

Kate tries to persuade Geoff to redecorate her room. He reluctantly does so, but Kate is horrified when she sees that he has made the room look much worse.

Closing song: The Smiths - This Charming Man

Closing song: Frank Sinatra - Beyond The Sea

Closing song: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)

Kate makes a mistake when sending an email to Geoff. He is depressed, which Kate assumes is due to being insulted by her in the email. She takes him to the cinema, where they watch a French erotic film together. After arriving back home, he tells her that he does not know what she is talking about and that he has all emails from tenants sent to junk. He is unhappy because a woman whom he had a one-night stand with after meeting on a bus dumped him.

Valerie, Karen and Owen arrive soon after Gemma does, then an argument ensues. Kate and Geoff walk in, when it is revealed that the woman whom Geoff met is Valerie. Geoff and Valerie leave together.

Closing song: Steve Winwood - Valerie

Closing song: Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life

Closing song: All Saints - I Know Where It's At

Geoff has money problems and introduces Kate to building management, resulting in her being elected the new chairperson of the residents' association.

Closing song: Liberty X - Just a Little

Kate's friend Sophie comes to stay and reveals herself to be a relentless prankster.

Closing song: The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Owen takes his driving test. The examiner, Huw, is initially unfriendly to him. However, Huw quickly warms to Owen when he discovers that they are both fans of Swansea City A.F.C. and from Caernarfon. They know some of the same people, but Huw takes a disliking to him and fails him when he finds out that his sister had sex with Owen and that Owen thinks she is 'loopy'.

Kate and Judith go to an immersive theatre to take part in a play about a failing business, but mistakenly go to a nearby office.

Owen is a relationship with Diana Vickers. He tries to discourage her from taking part in Strictly Come Dancing, because he fears that she will leave him for one of the show's male professional dancers. When she is not chosen, he is pleased. That causes an argument between them and she ends their relationship.

Kate and Geoff play 1980s board game Hungry Hungry Landlords. He does very badly and becomes upset, so she lets him win. He tells her that he faked that as a strategy to win.

The flatmates ban Geoff from the flat for frequently turning up there to do odd jobs. The plumbing goes wrong, so Owen and Josh bathe at the gym where Josh struggles to feel comfortable showering in the nude whilst around other men. Josh joins a spin class, where he does very badly. He becomes more unpopular after he fails to notice his new training buddy Ellie collapsing on her bike. For that, Josh's membership at the centre is revoked. Owen's membership is revoked for entering the women's changing room. The flat's lights stop working, so Josh phones Geoff to fix them.

Closing song: Queen - Bicycle Race

Josh carries a package upstairs for an elderly neighbour, Violet. She then very frequently demands that he take in deliveries for her and bring them upstairs to her flat. She tells him that if he stops accepting and bringing her packages to her, she will stop him and his flatmates using her Wi-Fi by changing her password. He was unaware until then that they were using her Wi-Fi and he had been paying Owen for Wi-Fi, because Owen claimed it was his.

Geoff takes an injured swan to his flat and nurses it back to health. After it attacks him, he puts it into a box, and delivers it to Violet.

Closing song: The Corrs - Runaway

Owen hates his new colleague Brian - a lazy, dishonest sponger who turns up late and is obsessed with Eggheads.

Owen sets Kate up on a date with Chris. She is disappointed when Chris tells her that he has a ten-year-old daughter, Lola. She is very manipulative and Kate has to compete with her.

Closing song: The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

Geoff tries to steal the furniture from the flat.