With summer break drawing to a close, Seth is able to convince Ryan to plan a trip to Tijuana, and Summer convinces Marissa to come along as well. But the trip runs into disaster when Seth drives off the road, which damages the vehicle. While the car is repaired, the foursome has no choice but to stay in a grungy motel. When they finally make it to Tijuana, Marissa is devastated to find Luke with another girl, but Ryan is there to comfort her. Back in Newport, Jimmy and Julie finalize their divorce and Jimmy moves out. While helping Jimmy paint his new apartment, Kirsten's old feelings for Jimmy resurface.
Matt accidentally hits Cara with Henry's car, and calls Sean in to help when Cara's mother, for religious reasons, refuses drugs and surgery to treat her injuries. Christian discovers that a patient used plastic surgery to hide a revolting crime and it brings up terrible memories of his own childhood.
After 10 years of living in a small house in east London, John and Eleni hankered after modern, open-plan living. They didn't want to move, so they decided to give their Victorian terrace home a radical redesign. The house was in a conservation area, so the outside had to remain unchanged. Inside, however, they decided to rip out everything including walls, ceilings, floors and start again.
