Arnold calls Josh for help - he has stolen a shopping trolley from the supermarket and doesn't know what to do next. Josh convinces him to dump it and come over that night. Tom's keen to see Arnold again and he's very encouraging of Josh's attempts to make this relationship a thing. Mum's not so keen on Arnold - she thinks Josh could do better. Hannah, who is still living with Mum, tells Josh that he shouldn't worry about whether he's making the right choice and to just go for it. Josh tries really hard, making Arnold's favourite vegetarian food - stuffed eggplant - when he comes for dinner, but Arnold still goes home at the end of the night. Josh, confused and unsettled by the whole business, has nightmares and moves himself across the hallway to sleep in Tom's room. This is not all that convenient for Tom, but as usual he goes along with it as he can see Josh is upset. After a hilarious night out at a Vietnamese restaurant, where Tom and Josh tease Arnold about being racist, ...

At Mum and Hannah's, Mum, suggests they do something fun - like go to a lesbian bar. Hannah isn't exactly enthusiastic. Mum is unstoppable. Over at Dad and Mae's, Mae confesses that she had a one-night stand whilst she was pregnant with Grace. Dad is shattered. Meanwhile, Josh and Tom get ready for a dinner with Arnold. Tom is furious that Josh has bought bread when they promised each other that they weren't eating bread! Arnold arrives for dinner and not only tells them it's his birthday on the weekend and that they're invited to his party - but that he finally intends to tell his dad that he's gay. It's big news, especially because his dad is a big homophobe. Tom tries really hard to listen and be sympathetic, but it's hard when all he can think about is Josh's betrayal with the bread. Meanwhile at the lesbian bar, Mum is determined to have fun. Hannah knocks back some shots to cope... In the meantime, Josh gets a call from Dad and learns of Mae's affair. Meanwhile, Claire admits ...

It's Arnold's birthday, the event at which he plans to tell his homophobic parents, Bruce and Donna, and his brother Steve that he's gay. Josh is terrified that Arnold's parents will blame him as the person who turned their son, while wanting Tom to help him appear to be just a plain old nice guy. A reluctant party attendee is Hannah, who would rather wallow in her depression at home, something that Rose will not tolerate in wanting her to support Arnold. Arnold has to decide if he will go through with it as the small party progresses. Meanwhile, Alan, who has been staying with Josh and Tom in his funk over Mae admitting that she had a one night stand, remains at home trying to remain constructive doing the one thing that he believes Josh and Tom will allow. Rose, also wallowing in her beige medicated state at home, receives a surprise telephone call from a voice from her past. In her medicated state, she tries to decide how she feels about the call. A chat with Hannah may give Rose... Written by Huggo

Josh, Arnold, and Tom take a party drug which leads to dancing, meeting a new girl Ella, running on a dock where Tom falls. After an ambulance ride Ella quizzes Josh and Arnold, they question back while Tom calls Alan who just ended his relationship with Mae.

Josh and Tom's house has expanded by three people. Arnold is staying there as his father kicked him out after coming out. Claire has just returned from Germany. And Ella, the girl Josh, Tom and Arnold met at the club, has decided to hang around, no one sure what the status of her and Tom's relationship is. The one thing Claire does know is that she doesn't like Ella. One of the first tasks for the expanded household is what to do about Adele the transgendered chicken (i.e. the rooster who was supposed to be a hen). They decide to kill her humanely themselves - while not letting the other hens see - and have her for Sunday dinner. Against that backdrop, Josh and Arnold have the monogamy talk, which was spurred by them answering differently when asked by Ella if they were indeed monogamous. And Claire confides in Josh about her life in Germany, and an issue with which she needs his help. Meanwhile, Hannah is silently irked at Rose for invading a therapist requested task, while ... Written by Huggo

Josh and Ella are providing support to Claire and Tom respectively for their medical appointments. Claire has not told anyone else besides Josh that she is either pregnant or getting an abortion, with Josh possibly not providing the support she needs. In the end, Claire may be unprepared for the emotional toil of the procedure, regardless of what she considers her liberal feminist view on the matter. Equally, Ella may not have been the best person to accompany Tom to the dentist's office, as she is as freaked by dentists as he is. However, in the process, they may come to a definitive understanding of the current state of their relationship. Arnold and his parents are going through the experiment of a trial sleepover to see if Arnold is truly welcome back into his homophobic father's life. And with Josh preoccupied with Claire, he is unable to help either of his own parents on their current missions. Rose believes Stuart is cheating on her with his wife, Hazel, and wants to devise a ... Written by Huggo

Tom has made a piñata as a symbol of all the household secrets, as he knows that Josh and Claire are keeping a secret from him. He hopes that airing all the secrets he has and that he knows of about the others will make them open up more about theirs. One of Josh's secrets that he needs to disclose is that he has an imminent anonymous sex date he made online all in an effort to test his and Arnold's open relationship, Arnold who is away at maths camp. Josh is going to let the night unfold with who he learns is named Ben as it does. But the date veers into territories Josh probably did not contemplate. Wanting to give Josh and Ben their privacy, Tom and Claire decide to hide out in Tom's bedroom. They have to figure something to do to keep themselves preoccupied without leaving the room, which ends up not being nearly as difficult as they thought except for the outcome of a dare. Written by Huggo

Knowing full well about Arnold in Josh's life, Ben, who is in the hospital and has been having a rough time with his health of late, lets Josh know that he wants to continue seeing him, regardless of their date supposedly being one night only. Mae wants to reconcile with Alan, and leaves Grace with Josh to allow the two to work things out. Rose and Hannah have been in a depression leading to them doing no cleaning. Into this situation comes Stuart who wants to make it up to Rose for his temporary dalliance with Hazel. These three issues form the backdrop for what is happening at Josh, Tom and Claire's place. Tom has chlamydia - again - and doesn't want to tell Ella since he told her that he had a sexual health test when she asked just before they started dating. Not wanting to be caught in that lie which he fears will lead to Ella breaking up with him, Tom enlists Josh's help to get the necessary drugs, one dose for Tom and one dose for Ella, that latter dose which they will spike her... Written by Huggo

Josh is full of mixed emotions about going to visit Ben in the hospital before his brain surgery. He feels he has to to be a good, caring person. He doesn't feel like he can tell Tom or Claire - the two people who know about Ben - but he needs some sort of support himself, so he brings along Dad and Mae without fully disclosing who Ben is. And the situation is made even more uncomfortable for Josh with Ben's parents at the hospital with him. With Claire blurting out to Tom and Ella about her and Josh's secret being her abortion, Ella feels they all need an outing, her place of choice the big observation ferris wheel. Being in an confined space with no where to go, Josh, Arnold, Tom, Claire and Ella have plenty of time to talk about the issues that are going on in their lives that affect them in one way or another, the revelations which have the potential to damage their interrelationships. Meanwhile, Rose and Hannah now have a reason to clean up their house. They find that the process... Written by Huggo

Josh's household is hosting Christmas lunch, the invitees including Mum, Dad, Mae, Grace and Hannah. Issues overseeing the meal include: the lack of ice in the house for the warm Christmas punch; Rose's need for validation about her traditional hard as rock shortbread; no one knowing besides Josh that Arnold is the reason there is no turkey gravy; no one knowing besides Rose of Hannah's self-physical harm in dealing with her current depression; whether Claire is truly hurt by being the only single at the table; whether Mae and Alan should stick to their parenting guns or keep the overall peace by dealing with Grace's crying; and who knows and doesn't know about Ben regardless of the fact that Josh doesn't want to talk about him. As many of these issues come to an uncomfortable head, it's one person who decides to take charge to deal with unspoken and thus long simmering feelings by eating some trifle. Written by Huggo