Episode 2.1

## Synopsis

Nas agrees to a sham engagement with Naveed, but emotions run high when she discovers a family secret

## Recap

**SPOILERS AHEAD**Nasreen and Missy, dressed in burqas, purchase cider from the off licence, running away from the owner, and take a large bundle of drug money from Jordan. The staff attend Samir's wedding reception at school, but he and Emma are seen kissing by Missy and Nasreen. The next morning, Emma wakes up next to Will and Missy and Nasreen realise what they did. Kaneez talks to Nasreen about her and Naveed, Nasreen's fiancé, and how to be at school. Jordan is hassled about the money by a drug dealer, who is warned off by Emma. Nasreen and Naveed kiss in front of everyone; Nasreen tells Missy she wants an easy life when Missy questions her feelings over the arranged marriage. Kaneez knocks down the new biology teacher while learning to drive, Year 11 take their mock exam and Nasreen and Alia are sent to isolation for fighting when Alia taunts Nasreen with rumours that she and Naveed are having sex. After Missy walks out of her exam when the words she sees are jumbled up, she and Nasreem run away from a café when they think the drug dealer's associate is watching them with the money, but the boy catches up with her, explaining that Iqbal is living in Bradford and he is her half-brother. Mandy decides to pull out low achievers from non-core subjects, which infuriates Emma and her Year 11 students. Missy accompanies Nasreen to Bradford to confront Iqbal and Chloe lends Jordan money to repay the drug dealer. Emma's Year 11 students confront the staff, choosing to stage a protest, but they give up when they realise their future college courses only require core subject qualifications. Nasreen locates Iqbal with his wife Sandra Turner, son Aaron and daughter Amy, and discovers their relationship has been going on since before her birth. Nasreen meets Naveed's family and when Iqbal returns, Nasreen tells Kaneez about Iqbal's secret family, but after realising Kaneez already knew, Nasreen calls off the engagement. Emma and Samir kiss and Kaneez explains to Nasreen that she knew of Iqbal's marriage shortly after she married Iqbal and Nasreen persuades Kaneez to let her have a girlfriend. Missy and Nasreen throw the drug money off the roof in burqas and when Jordan gives some money to the drug dealer, he orders £40 a day until the money is paid off.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Nasreen Paracha - Amy-Leigh Hickman
* Missy Booth - Poppy Lee Friar
* Kaneez Paracha - Sunetra Sarker
* Naveed Haider - Gurjeet Singh
* Jordan Wilson - Samuel Bottomley
* Samir Quereshi - Arsher Ali
* Emma Keane - Liz White
* Lorraine Bird - Lorraine Cheshire
* Will Simpson - Tom Varey
* Steve Bell - Paul Nicholls
* Mandy Carter - Jo Joyner
* Chloe Voyle - Fern Deacon
* Alya Nawaz - Maariah Hussain
* Cory Wilson - Sam Retford
* Hayley Booth - Cody Ryan
* Razia Paracha - Nazmeen Kauser
* Simone Booth - Samantha Power
* Rashid Hyatt - Tony Jayawardena
* Riz Nawaz - Nohail Mohammed
* Aaron Turner - Adam Fielding
* Sadiq Nawaz - Adil Ray
* Candice Murgatroyd - Emily Pyzer

### Recurring and guest cast

* Maryam Quereshi - Meryl Fernandes
* Amina Mir - Amina Arblan
* Khadim Afzal - Jonas Khan
* Mo Ahktar - Abdullah Shahid
* Zain Younis - Zain Khan
* Waqar Abdelrahman - Arbaz Rashid
* Amin Abad - Hassan Mahmood
* Shannon Burns - Chloe Lumb
* Aneesa Sahota - Safiyah Mardiyah
* Tahira Abad - India Parsan
* Neil Sykes - Nathan Green
* Dan Fairfax - Harry Lodge
* Craig Brimble - James Foster
* Saleem Paracha - Yaseen Khan
* Iqbal Paracha - Marinder Samra
* Sandra Turner - Vicky Entwistle
* Amy Turner - Halima Ali
* Mojahid Halder - Kammy Darweish
* Sadia Halder - Perveen Hussain
* Granny Paracha - Razia Yousaf