- The "No means No" article is pulled from the website, Calvin and Darren's Deostini card selling days are over and Amy learns that her mother has cancer.
- Maddie is uncomfortable to find that her mother's brought a man home with her the night before - evidently not for the first time. Anika is also uncomfortable - she's holding back a secret from Amy. Mrs. Holmes visits the recovering Headmaster in hospital to work through the impending launch of the web site. Vikki, having returned from her trip away, talks to Danny, but he's not particularly communicative. In the Staff Room, the occupants look forward to seeing the web-site, with a special visit by a school governor, while Mrs. Holmes is stuck, fuming, in traffic. As the web-site comes on-line, there's an unexpected interest from the girls - something to do with Darren and Calvin's Desteeni collectible cards page they have set up. One of the first things that is encountered on the website is the unexpectedly frank essay by "Anonymous 15 Year Old" - Leah of course - about her first (and unwanted) sexual experience. Mr. Deverill is furious with Anika - and annoyed at the sudden buzzing of mobile phones as Deostini text messages fly around the place. Unfortunately, Calvin's come to school with no new cards - and he and Darren are inundated with orders that they can't fill, while Shannon cheerfully reports on their location to Mr. Deverill with a suggestion that they are up to no good. He disperses the busy scene of girls clamouring for cards, and, jumping to conclusions, asks them about the drugs that they are peddling. Anika bravely defends the "No Means No" web-site article, but it seems a lost cause with complaints coming in from parents and governors. At the club, Ozzie suggests he gets a "lackey" in so he can do some more interesting work - he's told he can, but either way the back room needs cleaning up. Calvin and Darren are speechless when Mr. Deverill hands them letters of exclusion - he can't prove the drugs, but the Deostini trading is enough. After breaking off with Nathan, Briony seems to be in a mood of forced cheerfulness - she tears up photos of Nathan. The staff are divided over the issue of the kids' free rein over the web page: the offending article is removed. Anika complains she was in control - but Mr. Deverill illustrates that she wasn't by pointing out the Deostini adverts put in secretly by Darren and Calvin. As school comes to an end, blame flies around between those involved in the website, and through all that Amy gets the phone call she's been waiting for from her mother, if she can hear through the noise, and isn't stopped from using it by Mrs. Holmes. Amy's not in a fit state to be disciplined - she runs off, while Anika defends her from an angry Mrs. Holmes and Mr. Deverill. Anika shouts that they don't understand - Amy's mother is very sick after her hysterectomy - and there are complications... Later, in the darkness, a mystery figure makes an announcement on the web page - "Mrs. Holmes is a Liar and a Bully" it says. Amy arrives at her mother's bedside, outside the curtain. She pauses, listening to her mother talk to the nurse. She hears the word "cancer", and recoils in shock. The nurse realizes she is there, and pulls back the curtain. Amy approaches her mother and cries in her arms.—Geffers
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