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In this first episode we meet the Gallaghers. Lip discovers something unsettling about his brother Ian and tries to help. Fiona gets a rare night out only to have her bag stolen but she meets Steve who attempts to win Fiona's affections with a new washing machine.

Frank finds him self in France with no idea of how he got there.

After Shelia's husband attacks Frank in the Pub over the incident with his daughter in the previous episode, involving Ian & Lip, Frank returns home. He attacks Steve and Ian before disappearing back into the night. In revenge for the attack Steve dumps Frank in France.

It's Friday and Frank is missing. Fiona begins to worry as its Giro day and a full scale search is launched. When a body is found in the local canal the family fear the worst-but it's just a Police PR stunt. Fiona realises that Steve has dumped Frank in France and demands he gets Frank back. Veronica and Kev go with Steve to get cheap booze.

Frank returns safe and well and decides to make his move on Shelia! He moves in with her!

The volcanic Gallagher family moves away from centre stage as Veronica and Kev become the centre of this episodes action. Kev accidentally proposes to a excited and delighted Veronica. But he's only proposing to rebuff the attention of a female customer at the Pub he occasionally works at. However, a drunken Frank blabs to everyone. The wedding is planned and gaining pace and Kev finally picks up the courage to tell Veronica the truth. But he's also got a secret, he's already married! Veronica's mother, Carol, brings around five thousand pounds that Veronica's father left for a wedding. Kev and Veronica decided to use the money to pay for their house but fake a wedding. Meanwhile Ian Gallagher is pursued by a female classmate. Little does she know he is actually gay. When he rejects her advances she sets her lethal brothers onto him. The fake wedding doesn't go to plan when Veronica's crazy brother, Marty, escapes from jail. He locks himself into the bathroom and threatens to set Veronica's dress alight. Later on be burns down the toilets at the pub, The Jockey, and Veronica + Kev have to use the five grand to pay for the damage.

The Gallaghers have a big problem on their hands when a local child goes missing from a party.

Debbie steals/kidnaps a baby from the estate. However, the local residents immediately think that the kid has been kidnapped by a pervert not least because Frank thinks he saw one outside the house of the missing girl.

The race is on to find the girl while the Gallaghers, Veronica & Kev come up with a madcap scheme to get the baby back. It looks set for disaster but somehow they manage to get it off. Meanwhile after all the excitement Karen Jackson seduces Frank and they pair embark on a dangerous and likely disasterious affair.

Karen and Frank's affair continues behind the backs of Shelia and Lip. Shelia is concentrating on beating her phobia of open spaces, through a nurse that comes and visits her. Shelia goes shopping through a virtual reality machine but panics when she gets too near the doors.

Ian's affair with Kash is ruined after security cameras are installed in the shop to stop shop lifting. Yvonne notices strange behaviour and comes to the correct conclusion. She tells Kash that she wants another baby and decides that Ian can stay on at the shop but his relationship with Kash is over.

Lip discovers Karrens and frank's affair and goes crazy. He attacks his father.

Bailiffs are after Frank and the large amount of money he owns them. But Frank is too busy trying to fool his ex-wife out of hiding. He gets Shelia to ring up Monica and tell her that she has won a raffle, at the local supermarket. But Shelia is devastated when she tells Monica that Carol Vordaman is doing the prize giving and Monica doesn't know who Carol is!

At the supermarket Frank is spotted by Monica and her lesbian partner, Norma, and a hilarious car chase begins (a spoof of Duel/Road Kill). Monica and Norma follow Frank and Kev back to Shelia's where Debbie spots her mother. Monica is hurt when Debbie ignores her and returns home.

Fiona and the other kids, apart from Lip and Debbie, turn up at Shelia's to see their mother. Upstairs Shelia tries it on with Norma.

A family meal between mother and children ends in disaster when Monica comes out as gay and Fiona walks out.