1894. East London. Reid is still working as hard as ever as an inspector for Whitechapel and he's disinterested in the promotion he's offered as he believes it will keep him sidelined instead of out on the streets keeping work done. His boss warns him to not let this job swallow him whole. Some thieves plot to crash a locomotive train as part of a larger heist. Drake is on his way back to Whitechapel on a different train while Jackson is at his own place sleeping with a woman. The thieves accomplish their heist, and the two trains collide right outside of the Whitechapel police department and Reid and the other officers run outside to see the destruction. Reid shouts that the people need to be helped, as many begin to start screaming out in pain, while others simply lie dead.

One of the men planning this scheme, Gregory, shoots another of the men on the team dead. Jackson arrives at the scene of the train crash to offer up his medical skills to help those injured. It's then that Drake reveals himself as being relatively uninjured and carrying a woman who is. Rose Erskine also arrives on the scene and spots Drake helping people. Long Susan also arrives on the scene so the band appears to be back together again, albeit broken and harbouring resentment towards one another. But with a disaster as great as this, there's no time to hash things out. There are lives that need to be saved.

The main trio discovers the man who was conducting the train that went off course. He's injured and Reid and Jackson clash over whether to save him, causing Drake to step in and question the man, who reveals the fact there were masked men robbing the train before it crashed. While the Whitechapel crew carry on with their investigation, there is dissent amount the thieves. One thief feels tremendous guilt over the many deaths their heist caused.

Susan has been working to create a business out of her brothel but things are running less than smoothly. Her money's not doing what she wants it to and now she would rather help all the injured folks but if Reid or any other officers find out what she's been up to she'll likely go to jail, not to mention her business will be shut down.

The main trio is able to determine that they're looking for a shooter that once worked for the railway but suffered from an injury that is a significant hindrance to him, as well as a lead on the weapon they're searching for. They also have a suspect in custody already that they question again. The heist was for some Winchesters. Through these combined leads, they're able to find the name, Gregory, and the address of the shooter they're after. When they visit his home, Gregory is able to get the jump on them and hold them at gunpoint until they turn the tables and hold him at gunpoint instead. Reid wants to know who was the mastermind of the crime and Gregory admits that he himself was only in charge of railways. He and the other men were chosen for one skill or another but didn't see the mastermind. They're set to meet the man later that morning to receive their share of the loot.

At the police station, Reid coldly and publicly declares that Jackson isn't welcome to come along as they apprehend the criminal. Jackson responds by telling one of the young new officers that he would do well to get out from underneath Reid as soon as he can. When Jackson returns to his place, he finds Long Susan waiting for him. Things are awkward, to say the least.

The meet takes place and Reid is ordered to have all the men at the meet-up apprehended though the mastermind himself has not revealed himself. Reid's boss is still insistent that Reid take this promotion and that Drake will come back and have Reid's job as inspector. Reid also has an awkward encounter with Counsellor Cobden, the woman he was formerly involved with, but things have ended between the two romantically speaking. Long Susan then approaches Reid with her solicitor, Mr. Capshaw, and Reid immediately becomes suspicious of the man for some reason even looking down at his shoes. He goes down to speak with his suspect in custody but the man has been murdered with a small knife to the neck.

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Alfie struggles with the end of term, as his students will all be moving on to the next stages in their lives. The students each go to Fraser's office where the career-predicting computer predicts that virtually all of them will become archaeologists, with the exception of Rem Dogg who is wrongfully predicted to become a stunt man or a male escort.

Stephen decides to go to prom as his female alter-ego, Stephanie Fierce. Alfie doesn't want to repeat the emotional struggles of losing a class after getting attached so he makes the decision to quit Abbey Grove and teaching altogether. When Alfie delivers the news to Fraser, Fraser pitches a fit. Rosie tries to talk him out of it but Alfie has made his decision and would also like to focus on his newly reconciled relationship with her.

Alfie tells everyone he's gotten a job at the Playstation factor when in actuality he's working at a DIY store. His students try to coax him into coming to the upcoming prom but he stays set on not doing so. Rosie tries to take over teaching Alfie's class but they're not fond of her attempts to mimic Alfie's teaching style.

Rosie stops by the DIY store and learns the truth about Alfie's new job. She even brings the students to the store to try to bait him back but he says he won't. At Prom, Stephen arrives in fashion as Stephanie Fierce and one by one, all of Alfie's students arrive.

Alfie grows tired of the bullying he receives from his coworkers so he quits and heads to Abbey Grove's Prom. He and his students head back to their class to say their goodbyes. They all tell Alfie how it would be a shame to deny other students the opportunity to have their lives changed just as he has done for them. One by one, they leave as their parents come to pick them up. After they're gone, Alfie watches the slideshow they made for him and becomes emotional looking back on the time he had with them. In the next Autumn term, Alfie and Rosie return to Abbey Grove to begin a new journey as teachers.

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Alfie and Grayson are still suffering through their parents dating one another. Grayson expresses his frustration of the situation by playing cruel practical jokes on Alfie.

Fraser finds that Alfie hasn't ever passed his biology GSCE and isn't allowed to teach until he passes it. He has to sit through the lesson taught by Ms. Gulliver and sit through the exam and take it with his pupils. Fraser, meanwhile, is making preparations for the end-of-exam party.

Alfie and Grayson's bickering leads to a parent-teacher conference. Alfie is sympathetic when he sees the Grayson's mother values her pedigree Chihuahua more than her own son. Alfie needs to prove to Ms. Gulliver that he can motivate his class and lead them to success, but decides that his best option is to cheat. He teaches them several methods of doing so, to be used in the exam. His last and final resort method is to "phone a friend," who will call the school and say that his grandmother has been in a terrible accident. For that method, he decides to recruit the help of Mitchell, who is currently locked up.

Meanwhile, Martin Wickers is babysitting his girlfriend's dog. It's quite the chore, as he has to feed the dog using a false breast like when men decide to realistically breastfeed.

Unfortnately for Alfie, the infamous Mr. Hewston will be overseeing the exam. He's strict as can be, and uncovers all the various methods that students were hoping to cheat and disposes of them before they were let inside. Alfie and Grayson then go into the restroom to set off the smoke alarm so Alfie can plant the box of tissues on Hewston's desk that will be used for cheating.

When the exam starts, Hewston undermines all the remaining methods in place to cheat. Alfie's last resort is to go to the bathroom to access the phone to call Mitchell but upon retrieving, it has almost no battery left and then he drops it in the toilet. Mitchell ends up making a call to the school anyway, posing as the hospital. A message is delivered to Alfie in the exam but it's not about his grandmother, it's a prank one saying that despite running several tests, "we still can't find your cock." Joe ends up passing out at the completion of the exam. Once he wakes up, he tells Alfie to distract Mr. Hewston and he'll get rid of the papers. But Joe actually ends up swapping Alfie and Xing's cover-paper.

Alfie tries to tell Xing the truth about what happened, reminding her about how she had said she didn't want to do well on her Biology exam because she wanted her parents to love her for herself and not her grades. But then Xing says that this will definitely happen, as she has just deliberately torpedoed her exam.

Cleo inadvertently kills Martin's girlfriend's dog by throwing the bag it was in onto the bonfire, after thinking it was just Stephen's book bag. Martin had grown sick of the dog's snoring and had put it in Alfie's classroom.

Ms. Gulliver warns everyone to back away from the bonfire, as Fraser has purchased some highly dangerous flairs from a Chinese pirate, as he had believed they would be festive fireworks. But before they go off, Grayson throws the exam booklets onto the fire, having stolen them from Hewston's car. Martin and his girlfriend's relationship ends after she learns what has happened to her dog.

A week later, everyone sits down to take their exams over and Alfie goes down the line and marks each letter in the same column for all the answers.

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Martin Wickers is teaching Alfie to drive but Alfie gets distracted when Martin begins talking about his upcoming sexcapades, causing him to run over the school caretaker Pod. The school begins fundraising for a surgery for Pod. Alfie takes it upon himself to help Pod take care of himself with cleaning himself and the chores around the house.

Rosie arrives at school in Richard's ambulance, which she has after he showed up to visit and drank himself out of his ability to drive home. Richard is also shown to have left his phone in the ambulance. The school raises over a thousand pounds for Pod's surgery.

School bully Grayson is transferred to Alfie's class, as no one else wants him in their class. Alfie wants to prove to Rosie that he can reform Grayson but then decides to enlist Grayson's skills to break into the ambulance and snoop through Richard's mobile. But then Grayson decides to take the ambulance for a joyride. Grayson has Alfie put the paramedic vest on and Stephen suggests Alfie try texting Rosie with Richard's phone to try to find out if there is more going on between then. The text replies make him believe Rosie lied about not being involved with Richard but he doesn't realise it's actually Martin replying, as he found the phone after Rosie misplaced it at school.

When Grayson parks the ambulance, Alfie is mistaken for a paramedic. There's a man struggling to breathe that keeps saying "pen." Alfie decides to perform a makeshift tracheotomy using a pen tube, after which Grayson says he has found the man's epi-pen in his bag.

Xing, Chantelle, Joe, and Stephen are still in the car and spot Pod walking about, who is not at all paralysed and runs away upon realising he has been seen.

Alfie and Grayson flee when the real medics arrive. The other pupils try to tell Alfie what they have seen about Pod but Alfie doesn't believe them. Grayson decides that the best way to cover up what they have done is to torch the ambulance.

Grayson later pretends to make Alfie look good in front of Rosie as an opportunity to swipe the key to the lock box off of him. Rosie catches Alfie when he's confronting Grayson about his attempts to steal the cash. At the assembly, the pupils get into an argument with Alfie over Pod faking his paralysis. Joe blurts out the truth regarding their stealing the ambulance and going for a joy ride. Alfie punches Pod in the legs repeatedly to prove the truth of the paralysis and the argument carries on until Rem Dogg pour hot coffee onto Pod's legs, causing him to scream and stand up.

Finally, Alfie confronts Rosie about the sexts between her, leading him to get caught for having Richard's phone. This argument is taking place in front of Grayson and Martin. Rosie says she lost her phone so Grayson tells him to call the number, and Rosie's phone goes off and explores Martin.

Martin and Alfie go out for dinner and it's revealed that Martin's new girlfriend is Grayson's mother. Alfie and Grayson are now on the way to being stepbrothers. Also Martin has pulled some strings to keep Grayson from getting expelled for his latest indiscretion.

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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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