Mike and his wife, Luce, try to launch an Internet start-up company; Luce feels torn when she's offered a pay hike at her current job. Site owners Mike and Luce try to nail down a financial deal with their sole investor, Joe Walsh.
Mike and Luce suffer serious financial reversals, and both their company and house are put in jeopardy. Luce and Mike are desperately searching for a new financial backer, and their staff are becoming increasingly suspicious.
With staff threatening to walk out, Mike and Luce urgently need to sign a deal with Proctors, but the contract proves draconian.
Will manages to convince Mike that he has done them a big favour with Proctors. Luce, however, smells a rat.
As the marketing launch approaches, the friction between Will and Luce intensifies. They discover that cyber-squatters on a pornography site are siphoning off their traffic.
Mike and Fran clinch a deal to feature webcasts on the site, but funding is needed and Mike and Luce are concerned that Yvonne is not delivering.
Mike may have cleansed his conscience by denouncing the sponsorship deal on the site but it leaves Luce horrified.
Guilty consciences are rife in the Seethru offices and the emotional gap between Mike and Luce widens. Yvonne chooses the wrong ally in Will.
Fran decides to sort things out with Mike so, putting her own feelings aside, she suggests to him that pulling the business round might also get his marriage back on track.
Mike realizes his night with Fran was a mistake; Seethru's on the verge of collapse; trying to save the company brings Mike and Luce back together.
A man makes a pass at Luce at a launch party; Brandon finally declares his love for Zoe.
Yvonne returns early; Will confides in Fran; Mike and Luce meet Deely.
Brandon likes Kumari; Yvonne nearly catches Reece procuring drugs at the office.
Mike is going through with the sale of the business; Luce is having second thoughts about trying for a baby.
Zoe goes on an all-night bender which ends terribly. Luce makes a shocking discovery and drowns her sorrows, only to make another shocking discovery on returning to her flat. Brandon has been offered a job in the States but needs help with his pre-employment tests, and Reece saves the day. Ren walks out on Soph when she waltzes in late again – is it the end for their relationship?
Reece has some scandal on Yvonne. Yvonne lets slip to Fran that Luce and Deely have slept together. Fran confronts Luce and they have a furious row. Jake says goodbye to Murray as he is wheeled off for his life-or-death operation. Brandon is anxious about leaving for the US without making amends with Kumari, but Reece contrives to get the two of them together and Brandon seizes the chance to make his feelings plain. Meanwhile, Soph is on tenterhooks with Ren, who is giving her the cold shoulder.