Episode 2.3

## Episode Guide

**Episode 3** is the third episode of the second season of *Sex Education*. It is the eleventh episode of the series overall.

## Synopsis

On her way to surprise Maeve, Aimee gets a horrible shock on the bus. Rahim connects with Eric as a Milburn family dinner gets seriously awkward.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**
Otis’s new client of the hour is Olivia, whose parents don’t know that her boyfriend‘s parents aren’t Indian, and that their “dance practice” is actually spent having very enthusiastic sex. Olivia, though, has one kink that’s proving to be a turn-off for Malek: She likes to cover up his face with a pillow while they’re having sex, something which freaks him out.

With Jean now establishing a presence at the school, the students now have another potential avenue for pursuing advice on their sex lives, and so Malek goes to her, as opposed to Otis, in search of advice. Unfortunately, Jean’s counsel leads Malek to accuse Olivia of some ugly things, like having a ghost fetish, which is what leads her to coming to Otis for his advice about the fact that she’s self-conscious about her orgasm face. Otis’ advice, for Olivia to be open with Malek and for them to try to see each other “at their ugliest,” seems to do the trick.

With Jean and Jakob’s relationship now out in the open, Jean is trying to get her new boyfriend, her son, and her son’s girlfriend/her boyfriend’s daughter bonding together. This leads to the unconventional foursome having dinner and playing board games, which proves to be a disastrous evening, largely due to Otis struggling with Jakob’s table manners — and more importantly his struggle with seeing his mother in an actual relationship with a man, as opposed to just having casual sex.

Aimee, who starts off the day in a great mood, thrilled to be pursuing her new plan for a career as a baker, is sexually assaulted when a passenger masturbates beside her, staining her jeans.

Aimee’s more upset about messing up her cake and her favorite jeans getting stained by the stranger, but when Maeve hears the story she tells Aimee that she needs to report what happened to the police. And because it’s Maeve’s birthday, and Maeve’s birthday cake that got messed up, Aimee agrees to do so.

Nothing comes of reporting Aimee’s assault, and Maeve goes home — where her mother is waiting, having gotten beaten up by the boyfriend who didn’t know that Erin had older children. Maeve reluctantly lets her mother come in to stay, and the next day Otis gives her a five-year diary with the day for Maeve’s birthday ripped out, every single year, “so you don’t have to celebrate it.”

Jackson deliberately breaks his hand in the weight room. With six weeks off from training, he’s now considering a big change in his choice of extracurriculars, thanks to encouragement from Lily, who is taking a break from sci-fi erotica to work on the school’s musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. With some coaching from his tutor Viv, Jackson nails his audition — though now he has to worry about how his mothers react to the news that he’s found a new potential passion.

## Cast

### Main

* Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn
* Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn
* Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong
* Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley
* Connor Swindells as Adam Groff
* Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti
* Alistair Petrie as Michael Groff
* Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs
* Simone Ashley as Olivia Hanan
* Tanya Reynolds as Lily Iglehart
* Patricia Allison as Ola Nyman
* Mikael Persbrandt as Jakob Nyman
* Anne-Marie Duff as Erin Wiley

* Samantha Spiro as Maureen Groff
* Sami Outalbali as Rahim Harrak
* George Robinson as Isaac Goodwin
* Chinenye Ezeudu as Vivienne Odusanya
* Lisa Palfrey as Cynthia Jenkins
* Joe Wilkinson as Jeffrey Jenkins
* Sindhu Vee as Mrs. Hanan
* Armin Karima as Malek Amir
* Susan Lynch as Mrs. Gibbs
* Mirren Mack as Florence Simmons
* *uncredited* as Jordan
* George Georgiou as Yousef
* Jack Helsby as Abuser

### Minor

* Gbemisola Ikumelo as Policewoman
* Neil Maskell as Neil