On the eve of the new term Bob ,Penny and Lindsay visit the graves of Kurt and Brian, killed in a road accident with Matt. Summerdown has now merged with another school. Clare is still the head but has become more of a hard liner, especially towards Bob, who now sports a toupee and boasts about his Thai mail order bride. Bob resents the new head of English, Ewan, who is young, handsome and very pleasant and tries every trick he can to get him sacked but when everything goes wrong Ewan graciously saves Bob from getting the chop. Lindsay and Penny find the aloof Damien and his hypochondriac satellite Dan unfriendly but eventually Lindsay and Dan bond in the toilet over ailments and Bob and Damien are united in their cynicism,everybody ending up in the pub just like old times.