Twelve months has passed since Ros became Prime Minister. She is now a confident and slick leader who knows how to handle a crisis. That is, until a plane crashes over East London. Racial tension escalates as the country assumes it was a terrorist attack. The Queen finds out that she doesn't have a seat in the plans for the new Parliament building in Bradford. Emily is terrified that her father will end up in prison for money-laundering, or even worse - that her mother will find out. Miranda discovers that Emily has dropped out of university and asks Kitty to offer her a job. Beverley tries to resign when she is photographed stumbling drunkenly out of a bar. Ros chooses to stand by her first-ever Purple recruit, and refuses her resignation.