Skins

Valerio discovers that his brother Gianni knows a lot more than what he wishes to let on and in all likelihood is involved in the death of his nephew. Tailing him, he discovers the existence of a real estate company that's connected to a host of foreign companies: one of these is called “Difrinae Ltd” (anagram of “Frediani”), with headquarters in London

Emily confronts Naomi over her supplying Sophia with drugs. Emily has learned that Sophia was gay and her locker is a shrine to Naomi, who denies any sexual relationship with Sophia. Emily and Naomi then move in together, but at a party where Cook assaults another guest for no apparent reason.

Focuses around Thomas and his coming to terms with life and love in England.

Hoping for a night of wild abandon Cook invites everybody to his birthday party at his uncle's pub but the party looks like collapsing after Effy's friend Pandora throws up. Cook manages to persuade everyone to gate-crash a party being thrown to celebrate the engagement of a girl called Kayleigh but Cook falls foul of her father John White, a drugs baron to Madame Greta's brothel

Cook is remanded in custody following the GBH charge but later released, with an electronic tag, to live with his alcoholic mother Ruth and adoring younger brother Paddy. He's also expelled from college for the assault.

Thomas arrives in Bristol from the Congo with his parents to follow him but after sleeping in an empty flat he falls foul of its owner,John White,who demands money. Pandora takes a liking to him and helps him by giving him dope to sell but unfortunately they find they are selling it on White's turf.

Pandora throws a birthday party but her strict mother Angela forbids the use of alcohol so Katie makes some cakes laced with ecstasy. Unfortunately Angela eats one and passes out. This leads to a row between Pandora and Effy and Effy ends up having sex with Cook again.

Things are not going well for Katie. Following a pregnancy scare she learns that she is infertile and loses her job as a wedding planner when she gets drunk and aggressive at her client's hen night.

Freddie's sister Karen is entering the Next SexBomb contest but he disapproves of her trying to win the sympathy vote because their mother is dead. JJ tells him Cook wants to see him but he is tired of doing what Cook wants and goes to see Effy to reveal his feelings though she rejects him.

Effy and Freddie are living together but Freddie is troubled by Effy's morbid outlook and her obsession with death. He visits his grandfather Norman in his residential home and the old man tells Freddie that he believes Effy should have psychiatric treatment.

JJ falls for Lara, who works in the sweet shop with him, but when he visits her flat, he discovers that she is a single parent with a baby, Albert. JJ's family disapproves of Lara as being a tart, and Emily tells him she thinks Lara is using him to get back at her violent ex-boyfriend Liam.

The affair between Naomi and Emily intensifies. Cook is running for student president and challenges Naomi to sleep with him if he wins. He does win but they get no further than kissing each other. Freddie meanwhile tells Naomi that he has fallen out with Cook and loves Effy. Naomi resists the advances of her teacher,Kieran,to have sex again with Emily,later finding Kieran in bed with her mother.

JJ visits his psychiatrist after feeling 'lost and confused' about his life and friends. He is given lots of medical drugs to calm his Aspergers. He finds that Emily goes to the same clinic as him. The two spend some time together; Emily calms JJ down and admits to him that she is a lesbian. She offers advice to help him sort out his numerous issues.

Effy spends some time in a psychiatric hospital and is discharged under the care of psychotherapist John Foster, but her friends are concerned about Foster's influence over her, isolating her from the rest of them.

Effy is unhappy when she sees that everybody seems to find Katie more popular than herself,even Freddie. Katie is even more popular when she invites everybody to a party - except Cook,who gate-crashes it anyway. At the party Effy gets back her status as the focus of attention when she brings some magic mushrooms,but she ends up taking a bad trip and fighting with Katie,whom she puts into hospital.

As Emily, Naomi, Pandora, and Thomas make up, the gang become concerned for the absent Freddie and hold his birthday party in his absence. Cook, who has read Freddie's notebook which mention's Foster's obsession with Effy, follows the psychiatric worker home and breaks into his basement, where he discovers a bag containing Freddie's blood-stained clothes.

Since Katie will not leave the house Emily impersonates her to take her exam. Emily meets Naomi,who tells her she is going to Cyprus for the summer but declines Emily's invitation to accompany her to the end of term ball,though she does turn up on her own. At the ball the sisters fight when Katie learns that Emily went with JJ but Emily resists the temptation to hit her sister

Effy and Cook go into hiding with his father,but Effy contacts Freddie,who turns up along with JJ,though it is Freddie with whom Effy ends up sleeping. Cook asks his father if he can leave the country with him on his boat but Cook,Sr., threatens him and has to be restrained. Eventually Effy and the boys take the boat back up the river,Cook having pushed his father overboard.