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Eldest daughter Fiona runs the chaotic Gallagher household while dad Frank is busy drinking away the family's Giro check. When Fiona meets a handsome stranger, she thinks he's only interested in a one-night stand.

It's Friday and Frank is nowhere to be seen, which is a bit odd as it's Giro day; he never goes missing on Giro day. The family start a manhunt and panic sets in when a body is found in the canal. Frank eventually turns up in Calais with no passport and no clue as to how he got there, but Fiona gets suspicious when she notices that her new man is smoking fancy French cigarettes.

Friday night at the Jockey and barman Kev is dealing with the usual drunken women on the prowl. When one gets too pushy, he tells her that he's already getting married - without telling his girlfriend Veronica first. Elsewhere, Mandy Maguire doesn't take Ian's rejection of her sexual advances very well and her brothers, the hardest on the Chatsworth estate, are on the warpath.

When a small child goes missing from a children's party, Frank turns the crowd into a lynch mob lashing out at anyone who looks a bit different, ice-cream man included. When Fiona and Steve find that the child is with nine-year-old Debbie, the Gallaghers have a problem: how are they going to get the child back without questions being asked and Debbie ending up in serious trouble?

Frank and Karen hit the road for their driving lesson, although Karen has some extra-curricular lessons on the timetable. Later, the Gallaghers must to find a parent for parents' evening or face a visit from the social services.

Frank stuns the family by turning up in the morning to get his post even though it's not even Giro day. When a mountain of unpaid bills and some very scary-looking bailiffs turn up at the house, the family discover that Frank is hatching a plan to get his hands on maintenance from his ex-wife Monica, even though he's not living with his kids either.