Alfie is horrified to learn that Fraser has hired Preet to be the school's replacement P.E. teacher. Preet's fresh out of prison but Fraser believes everyone deserves a second… or third chance. Alfie passes out the sports assignments for Sports Day at random to his pupils. He then learns that Rosie's ex, Richard, will be coming to Sports Day and Alfie decides that he needs to take the opportunity to outdo him. Alfie and Rosie are still on a break.

Stephen suggests to Alfie that he challenge Richard to an endurance event at Sports Day. He has Preet give him and his pupils a crash course on fitness, as he used to be a personal trainer and will be designing the endurance event. This involves several exercises and Preet repeatedly tackling Alfie to the ground. Meanwhile, Joe is worried about having to compete against school bully Grayson in the hurdles.

At Sports Day, Alfie's father ends up getting along great with Richard. The endurance track set up by Preet is highly dangerous, including attack dogs and barbed wire. Before the hurdles event, Joe has a green paint grenade go off, courtesy of Grayson. But Grayson doesn't win the event, while Joe spends the whole event roaring while running through the hurdles. There's also been a steroids story going through the school but Xing later admits to Alfie that she made the story up just to make her story seem more interesting. Alfie believes that Richard has an unfair advantage when he mentions having a secret weapon so he and Xing go snooping in the locker room. Alfie finds a bottle of pills which in Richard's bag, which he believes to be steroids. He takes one, and downs the rest after Xing leaves but is caught by Preet, who had been on the toilet with the door open. Preet tells Alfie how he had wanted revenge on him when he was sent to prison but then shows him a sketchbook he has as part of his art therapy which is filled with homoerotic drawings of Alfie, or Alfie and Preet together.

When Alfie tells Richard about the pills, Richard admits that the pills were Viagra. Being an older man, he feels he needed some help and had hoped to become friends with benefits with Rosie. The clock is ticking till the pills kick in so he insists Preet hurry up and start the race. Alfie begins speeding through the race but has to drop to the ground and crawl to hide his erection, which allows Richard time to catch up. Preet tries to shoot Richard with the tranquilliser gun as he and Alfie are racing to the finish line but ends up shooting Alfie instead. Richard gives Alfie mouth-to-mouth to get him to start breathing again and then Alfie's erection becomes visible to everyone gathered around. He confesses how he tried to cheat but mistakenly took Viagra instead. Richard is forced to admit his "plan to succeed" plan, and a furious Rosie slaps Richard before storming off. Also, Preet is arrested.

When the photo-finish comes in, Alfie is revealed to have won the race "by a head." Xing is thrilled, as it has become the highest-selling edition ever and Alfie has saved the paper. She happily tells him that everyone is reading it, and Alfie responds with an embarrassed, "Great."

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Alfie decides to crash Rosie's book group but mistakenly thinks it's a BDSM session and makes an arse of himself. He later learns that Rosie's ex is in the group, and presumes it to be an off-putting man named Orlando.

Mitchell announces that he'll be leaving Abbey Grove. Fraser allows a farewell party to be thrown since rooms are being rented out to various after-school clubs and organisations to raise funds for the schools. Fraser offers to make some paperwork Alfie has to do disappear in exchange for his attending a LARPing session with him. This will be happening at the same time as Mitchell's party, and Alfie's schedules is further complicated when he decides to go to another book club meeting, wanting to impress Rosie.

Alfie's pupils are working on their personal statements while Alfie has to try to finish reading "Love in the Time of Cholera." As it's Mitchell's last day, he unleashes a series of pranks. He puts a mouse in Stephen's bag, a snake in Alfie's desk, and even orders 200 pizzas for the students using the school's account. Alfie's struggling to get through the book so with the help of Joe, he decides to have his pupils each read a chapter of it and present him with notes on it so he can get through it easier.

Mitchell tries to ask Cleo out but her qualifications for who she will date seem unachievable for him. He still lets her know about his going away party.

When Alfie meets Phillip and Malcolm, two other members of Fraser's LARPing club, they demonstrate their self-importance and propensity for bullying. He runs back to the book club and initially embarrasses himself again for not knowing anything past the first seven pages. He then makes it out to Mitchell's party where Joe gives him the notes all the pupils have written up. Upon returning to the book club, things work well briefly when using Xing's notes but upon getting to the others, Alfie comes across as a fool yet again.

Phillip and Malcolm capture Fraser and use him as bait to slay Alfie in the LARP session. Alfie learns that Rosie's ex wasn't actually Orlando, but Richard, the older gentleman in the group who was Rosie's lecturer at Oxford. Rosie wants space to think and now Alfie is even worse off than he was to begin with.

Mitchell approaches Cleo and babbles, trying to express his interest and worth, despite not meeting her standards. Cleo offers to kiss him if he'll only shut up, which he agrees to. Alfie is cornered by the LARPers and refuses to play any longer, opting to actually hit them instead of the make-believe violence within the confines of the game.

Mitchell tells the group that Cleo has agreed to go to Nando's with him if he doesn't brag about the kiss on Facebook (a kiss she described as the worst she's ever had). He says his goodbyes to the group, which are surprisingly touching but still in character. Rem Dogg even breaks his emo-silence to tell Mitchell he loves him. Alfie is arrested when he mistakes a cop for another one of Mitchell's pranks.

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