This Way Up

The approach of the first Covid lockdown casts a shadow over events.

Shona contemplates Vish�s suggestion that they adopt kids. Aine meets Richard�s friend Mark and overhears them speaking negatively about her. Shona and Charlotte mend their friendship.

Vish tells Shona he is going to meet his ex in New York. Meanwhile, Aine helps Bradley out at a Windrush fundraiser.

Aine spices things up with Richard and he opens up to her. Shona�s lack of support for Aine�s business venture hits her hard.

Aine and Richard have some awkward hiccups as Shona attempts to restore a friendly working relationship with Charlotte.

Excitement mounts for Aine as she prepares for a big first date with Etienne�s dad, Richard. Meanwhile Shona adapts to an awkward working relationship with Charlotte and struggles to settle in to her massive new house with Vish away in New York.

Romance blooms between Aine and Richard, but she's caught off guard when she turns up unexpectedly to find another woman in his house. Vish proposes to Shona, but it doesn't exactly go to plan. When Shona finds out that Aine knew his intentions before she did, a huge argument ensues over secrets the sisters have been keeping from one another.

A text from her ex Freddie catches Aine by surprise. Later, a spontaneous night out with Bradley and his friends gives her the chance to let her hair down. But she bumps into Tom from rehab, who's started drinking again, and against her better judgement turns to the person least likely to make her feel better.

Aine and Shona's mother is over from Ireland to visit Vish's family. Tensions are high, as Aine and her mother haven't spoken in months, while Shona feels stuck in the middle. Over dinner, Shona surprises Vish's family by saying she doesn't want kids. There�s only one solution to the tension � an impromptu talent show.

Aine and Richard's relationship gets complicated when she is inadvertently invited for dinner but leaves early after an awkward misunderstanding

Aine interviews for a new tutoring job teaching a young French boy, who has recently lost his mother, but she's at risk of missing her first lesson and badly letting him down.

Aine is still putting on a brave face for her concerned sister Shona. But when Aine is dropped from a dinner party invitation, she calls an old friend from rehab, but things take an awkward turn.