Love is a Four Letter Word is a 26 part ABC TV series which follows the lives of a group of twenty-something friends who live and work in an inner-city pub run by Angus and his girlfriend Albee.
Larissa, Albee's younger, dangerous sister, hits town. Albee's got to get her back to school but commitments to Blue Bear publishing are getting in her way.
Melissa Duvet, TV celebrity and Paul's road rage victim, (it was Melissa's Porsche that Paul kicked to death in a drunken anti consumerist rage) is out for financial revenge.
Angus can't sleep. He can't sleep because he has a lot on his mind. Primarily he is still unsure whether to tell Albee about Juliette and the baby thing. Bernie is putting pressure on Angus to do just that. But Angus is still unsure.
Other than the growing symptoms of his phantom pregnancy, discovering that Larissa's boyfriend, Dean appears to be dealing in all manner of illicit goods, and that the government is taking an active interest.
Albee tries to live with her decision to quit work. But no-one seems to believe it. Not Angus, nor Roy. Nor Tom or Quentin, both of whom need her ongoing assistance. On top of all this Larissa is hanging out with her drug dealer boyfriend.
Angus' big secret is burning a hole in the side of his conscience. The fact that his father Bernie and Juliette have bought into the secret appears to have made things even worse.
Angus wakes up in the morning after Bernie's wedding with the hangover to end all hangovers. It doesn't seem humanly possible that Angus could feel any worse - and then he remembers-Larissa knows he is the father of Juliette's baby.
Angus' worst nightmare has come true. The idea of Angus having impregnated Juliette, his father's accountant, and having kept secret, is so crazy that Albee isn't altogether sure how to deal with it.
Sure Albee still loves Angus, she can even understand the situation that led him to impregnate his father's accountant-what Albee is having trouble coming to terms with is the fact that Angus didn't have the guts to own up to her.
Larissa is dead. Hard to believe but it's true. The morning after Albee decided to leave Angus for good - before she even had the chance to leave, she is greeted by a sopping wet Angus O'Neil who struggles to explain the unexplainable.
Albee plays a game of hangman with Larissa's ghost. It seems Larissa is using the word game to try and force Albee to do something she doesn't want to do.
Angus knows Albee, in a drunken daze, put holes in the condoms. He knows, that by default, she is partially responsible for Juliette falling pregnant to him during a brief but high-impact dalliance.
Angus's life is not improving. He's just been arrested for running Rachel Fox over. Nobody believes that it was an accident certainly not Rachel, who's convinced Angus acted out of maliciousness.
Angus is surprised and concerned to find that his father has begun an affair with Albee's boss. As a circuit-breaker, Albee challenges Paul to visit Rachel Fox and seduce her, in order to take the heat out of her law suit against Angus.
Albee's obsession with oval shapes deepens to the point where she gives her obsession a name - and she starts to wonder if she is on the brink of madness.
It's the morning after Angus's court case; the morning after Albee attacked the pub's chief noise complainer with a pair of scissors - and Albee wakes up in a psych ward with a hangover the size of Paraguay.