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Sensible Rhona and her dizzy friend Leanne observe a drive-by gangland killing and, when their names are accidentally leaked to the suspect's lawyer, they are put on a witness protection scheme and renamed Sarah and Lisa. This presents difficulties when they have no National Insurance numbers and an annoyed Rhona decides to bargain with the gangsters. However when danger looms Leanne's acting skills save the day.
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Leanne realizes that she left her handbag - containing a loyalty card bearing her real name - at a party given by a man called Patrick, seen in a photograph with the killer. Going to retrieve it she learns that he restores antique Teddy bears and, much to Rhona's annoyance, they end up in the cask. Meanwhile it is revealed to the audience how foolish police sergeant Forrest was tricked by the criminals using a false name on a sex chat line into giving up the girls' identities.
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Whilst Leanne fits in with other estate dwellers, led by the fearsome Jackie, Rhona feels out of place so Leanne tells everybody she is deaf, which works until she is introduced to a genuinely deaf person. Thus the girls put Plan B into action, claiming that they are a Lesbian couple, a ploy which gains them acceptance. Elsewhere the teen-aged gangsters fall out but Sergeant Forrest receives a sinister and insistent visitor.
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Haunted by killing the girls' neighbour Mrs Hobbs gang member Appraisal becomes withdrawn and finds religion but his mother's notifying the police that he has taken in the lady's cat leads to a visit from the police. Meanwhile Leanne meets up with ex-boyfriend Patrick to end the relationship but finds that the antique teddy bear he has given her has a very sinister content.
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Sergeant Forrest is confronted by gang leader Ian but overpowers him and rings the girls to warn them their location has been discovered whilst the police let Appraisal go though somebody else gets to him. Leanne and Rhona, having found the gun in the teddy bear, decide to take it to the police but are prevented by a knock on the door and a shock discovery on the door-step.
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Hearing an intruder Rhona accidentally shoots Jackie through the door but with hitman Benny lurking outside they call an ambulance, claiming to have found her and escape from Benny by riding with Jackie to the hospital, where DI Wilton assumes the girls were the intended targets. But with Benny in pursuit and aware that there is a mole in the police the pair go on the run again and break into a caravan for the night. Next morning they find it is attached to a car speeding up the motorway.
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When the caravan comes to rest miles from Swindon the girls discover that the elderly couple in the front seats are having an affair and agree to mutual silence. Meanwhile DI Wilton suspects that Sergeant Forrest is the mole whilst troubled that Appraisal is missing. Gang leader Whelan gathers his men to upbraid Benny for letting Rhona and Leanne escape but praising DJ for killing Appraisal. Aware that Forrest was responsible for Ian's death his men pay the Forrests a deadly visit.
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Convinced that she is pregnant Leanne returns with Rhona to confront him over his involvement with the Whelan gang. As they reveal their true identities he agrees to hide them. News of Mrs Forrest's murder leads DI Wilton to realize tat Forrest was the mole and questions DJ over Appraisal's disappearance. As a result DJ effects a plan to frame a shopkeeper who crossed him for the other boy's death whilst Benny visits Jackie in hospital and finds she drives a hard bargain.
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The girls plot with Patrick how to plant the gun in their possession at Whelan's pub but Rhona discovers that Leanne is not pregnant and fears that Patrick will not want to help as a result. DJ continues his plan to frame the shop-keeper for Appraisal's murder but DI Wilton discovers incriminating evidence on his phone and a link to Whelan.
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Aware that she is not pregnant but not too unhappy Leanne joins with Rhona to disguise themselves and join Patrick at Ian's wake at Whelan's pub, where they will plant the gun. Leanne causes a distraction allowing Rhona to put the gun in Whelan's bedroom but Rhona has to hide when she hears him coming. Jackie gets the better of Benny but DI Wilton is onto DJ and Whelan is onto Patrick. Two chases ensue with Leanne literally bumping into DJ.
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Leanne alerts the police to Whelan's cache of weapons but when they arrive he has removed them. Leanne devises a ruse to get a vital teddy bear from Patrick but fails though he turns up at court to hear the girls' video evidence secure a conviction. However, with Whelan still at large, the girls are put back into witness protection under new identities.
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Under the name of Julie Leanne is working as an estate agent but her success leads to her photo becoming public and she has to flee from one of Whelan's hit-men, joining with Rhona, who, as Imogene, has a less glamorous job as a waitress. Between them they devise a way to get rid of Whelan, who has taken a nervous Patrick back into his gang whilst sending DJ to a very odd safe house, owned by the fearsome Da with his weird children.
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Leanne and Rhona try to persuade kebab shop owner Farooq Erdem, whose son was killed by Whelan, to exact revenge. He is not interested but his son Baz agrees to assist in a plan to lure Whelan to a non-existent function. Patrick, still haunted by watching Whelan kill one of his gang, discovers that his Internet chat friend 'Rosemary 'is not what she seems whilst DJ escapes from Da but gets arrested by the police.
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Rhona, Leanne and Baz make their preparation to lure Whelan and his wife to a supposed Tudor where Baz will kill Whelan. Leanne overhears Baz's gang intending to wipe out all Whelan's men, including Patrick and sets out to warn him. Unfortunately he tells Whelan and the revenge plan goes horribly wrong as Whelan retaliates. Meanwhile DJ is banged up in a youth offenders unit.
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Rhona, Leanne and Baz are trapped in the burning building but Patrick, grateful for Leanne's tip-off and aware that she is 'Rosemary' has called the police and the trio are saved, Whelan being shot dead. At last the girls are free from Witness Protection and can go back to normal. Rhona is back with her family but perturbed about not hearing from Leanne.She need not have worried.
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