Skins

Tony is recovering from the massive head injury he sustained at the end of Series 1. Sid and Michelle are nowhere to be seen. Looking after an invalid friend has just been too much for them. So Maxxie is looking after Tony for the day.

Sketch is a new character. A weird loner, shut up in a horrible council flat looking after her disabled Mum. And Sketch is Maxxie's stalker. Everything in her life is about Maxxie. If only he would even notice her, if only she wasn't hopelessly in love with him.

Sid hasn't coped at all well with the fact that his best friend Tony is a shadow of the man he was and that Cassie has moved away to Scotland, where as far as he can tell, she is having the time of her life. His mood is not helped when his Grandad; Malcy Jenkins, a notorious and unintentionally hilarious Glaswegian Hard Bastard arrives.

So Michelle's Mum Anna has gone and done it again. Another new husband. And worse Michelle has to move in with them into their new, poncy house. Michelle hates her new big-titted emotionally manipulative step sister Scarlett. Before she knows what's happening, Scarlett is invading her life, co-opting her friends and offering unwanted advice about what to do about the still incapacitated Tony.

It's been a long road full of tribulations, drugs, petty theft, non attendance and resounding failure for Chris at College. So when the CCTV cameras catch him shagging Buck Tooth in the Science Corridor, the Director calls time. Chris is out. And out of his college accommodation as well.

Tony's world is a strange one. Isolated, alone, desperate to find the way back to himself, he lives in a world of half understood dreams. Nobody understands how the world looks to him except the strange beautiful Girl he meets after a panic stricken encounter with Sid and Michelle in a club.

What is it about Effy? The mystery girl's had a lot to deal with; the Stonem house is in disarray, Jim's working abroad, Anthea's away with the fairies, and Tony's moping after Michelle. On top of this, Effy has her GCSE art coursework deadline looming. What she needs is to sort out her family's problems, her academic future,

Jal's trying to keep the pregnancy a secret until she works out what the hell she's going to do. But Spanish Orals, A-level Revision, Music Auditions, and needy friends are pressing down on her and her secret is starting to leak out. What's more, Chris has asked her to move in.

What's niggling Cassie? She's back together with Sid, Chris is in the clear, Michelle and Tony are back on, A-level exams are over, and to celebrate, Sid's organised a dinner party where everyone tries to get along. Everyone that is, except Cassie. How can they all forgive and be happy, when all this love is mixed in with so much pain? And then comes the total kicker.

It's the day of A-level results, and also of Chris's funeral. The gang have made a pact not to look at their grades til after they've said goodbye to Chris. But Jal can't face getting out of bed and Cassie's half way across the world. Then, to cap it off, Chris's Dad appears and tells Sid the gang are banned from the funeral.