After You've Gone

- Season 2

(2007)

Diana and the children return from staying in Africa with Ann but Jimmy is not at the airport to meet them as arranged and they find the house filthy and Siobhan in bed with him. Molly airs her displeasure in a blog on her web-site and Diana discovers it and tells Jimmy. Annoyed that the others have read her blog Molly mendaciously states on her web-site that she is off to a rave in the West Country to send Diana and Jimmy on a wild goose chase.

After accidentally seeing Diana in the nude Jimmy is taken aback to discover that she has a tattoo of a rose on her leg,which was done when she was young. Molly immediately wants a tattoo,which Jimmy and Diana oppose and unsuccessfully try reverse psychology to see if this will dissuade her. It does not but she is refused one by the tattooist as she is too young. Alex meanwhile is perturbed to learn that a psychology assessment marks him out as ideal material to be an accountant.

When pub landlord Bobby drops out of a poker game Diana takes his place and keeps losing to Jimmy until Alex tells her that his father always scratches his ear when lying,enabling Diana to turn the tables and win. However instead of money she insists Jimmy do monkey impressions on demand. Threatened by Jimmy Alex has to divulge Diana's tell-tale sign of lying - scratching her neck - and discovers her bridge partner Lawrence is her lover. The kids meanwhile go to ridiculous lengths to look cool for the school photo - in vain.

Jimmy meets Siobhan's father David and they go to dinner with Diana. Diana and David seem to hit it off and start dating but she feels smothered by the gifts - including a giant teddy bear - that he sends her and asks Jimmy to break things off for her, Unfortunately Jimmy leads David to believe he is breaking with Siobhan and it is left to Diana to brutally dump David,who is not at all concerned. Alex's family tree of what would happen if David and Diana married is thus redundant.

On the eleventh anniversary of her husband Patrick's death Diana takes Jimmy and the kids to visit his grave and is taken aback to find that somebody has left a bunch of red roses on it. Assuming that Patrick was having an affair during the marriage Diana asks Jimmy to track down the sender via the florists. It turns out that Sheila,the lady in question,was also married to a man called Patrick and her son-in-law put the roses on the wrong grave.

Ann returns from Africa and announces that she is marrying Howard and wants to take the kids abroad with her. She moves into the house,ejecting Diana and Jimmy,who ends up sleeping at Kev's and getting pooped on by Kev's parrot. Alex,who has pretended to have a broken leg in order to get out of P.E. at school,and Molly,however, want to stay with their father and grandma and eventually Ann returns alone to live in Africa.

Diana's friend Pam offers her cheap tickets for the Bayreuth Festival and asks if Diana can recommend anybody to decorate her home so Diana sends Jimmy and Kev to her. After hearing an angry message on Pam's answer phone Kev is convinced that she is a murderer though Jimmy is dismissive. However,after she has paid them Pam is arrested as being a notorious fraudster and both Jimmy's cheque and Diana's tickets are found to be duds. Alex meanwhile stands as head prefect but is disqualified after being caught bribing pupils to vote for him.

Jimmy ruptures himself lifting a bag of sand at work and has to go to hospital for an operation. The nurse on his ward is a friend of Ann and it becomes clear that,after what Ann has told them about him,none of the nurses like him. After the operation he returns home but is on very strong pain-killers,giving him a high so that,without realising just what he is doing,he writes a letter to Siobhan,proposing marriage though fortunately she knows he does not mean it. Alex,meanwhile,believes - wrongly - that he has gained psychic powers.

Ann is unable to return home for Christmas so Jimmy decides to have a family Christmas,which excludes Siobhan,to her annoyance. He and Diana argue over the decorations and over the school play - a modern dress version of 'Sleeping Beauty' though,when Diana takes over as its directrix she reverts it to a traditional setting and asks Jimmy to provide the scenery. When he refuses she threatens to spend Chriostmas in Italy,forcing him to come up with the scenery - which he just manages on time. He and Diana make up and wish each other a happy Christmas though Kev is put ...