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• Dan Zeff (series 1)

• Charlotte Ritchie
• Tom Stourton

• Damon Beesley
• Simon Wilson

Hannah goes to give a careers talk at her old school. Most of her audience quickly take a disliking to her, but she impresses pupil Ellie, whom she takes on for work experience at her office. Ellie is enthusiastic, hardworking and efficient – and Hannah exploits her. However, when Ellie spends time helping Kevin, Hannah falsely claims to a teacher that injuries she sustained when a chest of drawers collapsed on her were caused by a series of assaults from Ellie. Hannah agrees with Ellie that she will drop the case against Ellie if Ellie refuses an offer of a summer placement at her office.

Solicitor Gavin from the flat below asks Dan to feed his tropical fish whilst he is away for ten days, attending a business trip in Dubai. Miraculously the fish survive but, having the key to the flat, Dan passes himself off as Gavin, taking over his flat and throwing a party there. Gavin's girlfriend Amanda arrives, and is attracted to Dan. They have sex, then Gavin returns and throws him out.

When her doctor tells her she is dangerously unfit, Hannah begrudgingly heads to the gym, using her father's membership. There she meets Lucy, who introduces her to the world of women's rugby. Finally, Hannah has found a sport that suits her - in one training session she gets out 24 years of aggression. The team captain, Jenny, is hostile and jealous of Hannah, thinking that she is in a relationship with Lucy. Hannah collapses during an initiation rite which she and other new members are obliged to complete in order to be accepted onto the team.

Jobless Dan has to be Marion's dance partner at her local salsa class, because she has threatened to stop his allowance from her if he does not. At the class, a young man called Ralph is also dancing with his mother. Dan and Marion go to her flat where they hear someone in the bathroom whom they at first think it to be a burglar. They find Marion's younger sister, Leslie, in the bath. Dan does not recognise her because he had not seen her since he was six. Leslie says that she is homeless after splitting up with her partner Spike and needs to stay there for a couple of nights. Marion refuses and dislikes Leslie because she is a scrounger and criminal. Dan gladly allows his only aunt to stay at his and Hannah's flat. Dan decides to refuse to continue to be Marion's dance partner when Leslie teaches him her philosophy that ownership is a mere concept to tie free spirits like her and Dan down. Leslie has an argument with Spike on the phone and he comes to the flat. Leslie and Spike each claim that the other owes them money. Leslie knocks Spike out (apparently with chloroform), and ties him to a chair in the flat, threatening to cut his toes off unless he pays her £500 that she says he owes her. Marion gives Leslie a £500 cheque to leave. Spike then reveals that the confrontation was a scam to again obtain money from Marion. Ralph becomes Marion's new dance partner and she reveals that she has had sex with him. Dan returns to being Marion's dance partner.

Hannah embarks on a dating frenzy after signing up to the latest new mobile app - but the guys she meets are never as hot or cool as their profiles suggest. When she meets underwear model Dylan, she is delighted and thinks her luck has changed. However, she discovers Dylan lives with his ex-girlfriend Amy, who is now his best friend and is also a model. He interrupts sex with her to answer Amy's texts. Hannah makes him choose to only have one of them in his life, and he quickly chooses Amy. After a date with a boring man, Sandy, she tries to get back with Dylan. Her plan fails and he quickly gets back with Amy instead. Dan is surprised to see that Hannah has brought Sandy home.

Hannah and Dan are surprised when their property developer father, Gregg, has organised himself a birthday party. Hannah is suspicious because it is out of character for him. When Gregg announces that he is to marry human rights lawyer Beverley, Hannah is angry that he has not discussed it with her. Gregg explains that Hannah has ruined all his other relationships, so it is no wonder he decided to keep it quiet. Hannah decides to prove Gregg wrong. Hannah spends time with Beverley's 8-year-old daughter Lily. Hannah accepts Beverley's request for her to supervise Lily's sleepover with her friends. Hannah scares the children by telling them about the Zodiac Killer. Lily's young teacher Axel Foley are attracted to each other and Hannah invites him to the house during the sleepover, falsely claiming it is her house and not mentioning the sleepover. She tricks Lily and her friends into being quiet and staying in Lily's room, then holds the shut from the hall side by jamming a chair under the door handle. Mr Foley hears banging noises from Lily's room, so Hannah tells them to be quiet. Lily tells her that she will tell Beverley if she does not let them go. Hannah and the children are surprised to see Mr Foley, naked with an erection.

Dan decides to accept Gregg's suggestion to spend a week working alongside him in a bid to gain a permanent job with him. Dan meets Gregg's business associate Clive Yakamoto, a straight-talking middle-aged White British man who has a Japanese surname because he was adopted by a Japanese couple. Dan and Mr Yakamoto have an expensive dinner at the company's expense, then Dan hires a high-class call girl for Mr Yakamoto. At Mr Yakamoto's suggestion, Dan takes him and the prostitute to a golf course at night. They have sex in a bunker, while Dan waits on a golf cart. A security guard confronts them, and they try to escape on the cart. When it fails to start, Mr Yakamoto runs off and goes missing.

Dan bumps into Holly Freeman, in a coffee shop. She was his crush in circus camp when he was 14. The pair are again attracted to each other and attempt to rekindle their relationship. However, Holly is eight months pregnant and the father is in Australia, where he impregnated her. Dan proposes to her in a restaurant; she turns him down and walks out.