Joey gets back on drugs and doesn’t think about anything else.

Over text, Aoife tries to get Joey to respond to her. Though he apologizes at first, after a week, she still hasn’t seen him.

Aoife goes to her next doctor’s appointment on her own after lying about Joey’s whereabouts for a week. She feels uncomfortable when the nurse asks about Joey’s history of substance use and whether or not she feels safe with him. Aoife is terrified when the nurse tells her she needs to have extra blood work done because of Joey’s history of intravenous drug use. When the nurse goes to get someone else, Aoife calls her mother and asks her to come.

Shannon finds Joey at Johnny’s house. He can hardly remember anything from the last week and feels nothing but pain. He knows he needs to talk to Aoife, and he asks Johnny for clothes and a phone to call her.

Trish tries to assure Aoife that no one is going to take her baby and that the nurses are just worried about her. Aoife feels depressed, angry, and relieved when she finally receives a call from Joey. Joey apologizes as Aoife offers to get him professional help, but he refuses, saying it’s too late for him. Aoife finds Gibsie and asks him for directions to Johnny’s house. Gibsie worries that it won’t be best for Aoife to see him and assures her that he is safe with Johnny and Shannon.

Joey only thinks of Aoife as he feels pain and shame, and he doesn’t recognize himself when he looks in the mirror. He manages to leave Johnny’s house but runs into Aoife on the way. Aoife cries when she sees the needle punctures in his arms. He tells her he only lives for her, but Aoife promises she still believes in him.

Aoife goes to Shane’s house to find Joey’s phone and wallet, which she knows Shane stole. When Shane says Joey owes him money, Aoife says she will get him the money if he promises to leave Joey alone. Back in her car, Aoife calls Gibsie for a favor. He gives her the €600 that she needs, without any strings attached.

Joey wakes up in Johnny’s home to find Marie yelling at him. Rather than throwing him out, Johnny’s mother Edel feeds Joey and gives him some prescription drugs for pain.

At her work at the bar, Aoife is surprised to see Tadhg, who tells her that Joey is home but not okay. He says that Marie fought with Edel when she dropped Joey at home, and he knows Joey is no longer there anymore. Tadhg defends Joey and begs Aoife not to leave him, even though he knows Marie and Darren will try to get rid of her.

At home, Shannon fights with Darren about whether they can trust their mother, and Darren leaves. Marie is completely withdrawn, and Joey has to make dinner for the other children while taking care of her.

Shannon is relieved when Aoife shows up at their house, but she struggles to answer when Aoife asks how Joey was when Shannon found him. When she goes into his bedroom, Aoife sees that he is high. She feels more distant from him than ever, but she knows that the Joey she knows is still inside.

Over the next few weeks, Joey continues to descend into his addiction, but because Aoife fears losing him more than anything, she turns a blind eye to it. She worries about what she will have to do when she has the baby, and whether she will have to leave him to protect the baby.

Joey shows up late to Aoife’s doctor’s appointment, and she tells him that he is killing both of them. She argues with him for not helping himself, and she tells him she is doubting whether he actually loves her, because he is not even trying to get sober.

Joey begins to recognize what he is doing to Aoife. He thinks he should leave her, but he doesn’t want to.

Aoife finally realizes that she put too much trust in Joey, but she still lets him in when he crawls through her window. She assures him that she still loves him, and he tells her that he knows Teddy is coming for him and his family. He tells her that if anything happens to him, he wants her to move on.

Joey is late for another one of Aoife’s ultrasounds. When he finds her, she is angry with him, believing he loves his drugs more than her.

Aoife tells Casey that she doesn’t believe anything Joey says anymore. Casey suggests she should get Joey professional help and stop covering for him, but Aoife knows they don’t have the money and fears he will die before the baby is born. They talk about asking Darren for money, but Aoife knows that won’t work. When Joey finds her, he tells her that Johnny texted him, saying that he took Joey’s brothers home with him. Joey asks Aoife for a ride to get them.

Joey tries to give Aoife money for the baby, knowing he can’t trust himself with it. When they get to Johnny’s house, they learn that the children were left alone at home, so Johnny takes them.

Aoife meets Johnny’s parents, Edel and John. Joey apologizes for not being there for the children, but the parents understand and invite them to stay for dinner. Joey refuses and takes the children home.

Joey confronts Marie when they get home, and it is clear she is back on drugs as well, and she mistakes him for Teddy. Aoife gets Johnny to leave the house, and he promises that he will fix everything. They have sex, but Aoife asks him to wear a condom for the first time, not knowing whether he picked up a disease from using drugs intravenously.