Love Is a Four-Letter Word

- Season 1

(2001)

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.

Paul is The Man - or so he thinks. He's priming himself for his meeting with Big Bear where he's to do a deal to commission his book.

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.

Everything Angus touches turn to crap or so it will seem to him. What Angus doesn't know is that things are going to get worse, a lot worse.

People are really starting to behave weirdly. Or at least that's how things are beginning to look to Albee.

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.

It is the day of Larissa's funeral - and Albee is not coping very well and has gone walk about.

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 and Albee have split but until she can find somewhere else to live, Albee is staying in the storeroom downstairs.

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.

Paul is at Galen Apartments, attempting to return Rachel Fox's pyramid products when he makes a surprising discovery.

Paul is on the conveyor belt to hell - or so he thinks. After all his attempts never to complete his uni degree, a mature age student does it for him.

Albee's "Oval Yoval" fear, and the reappearance of Larissa's ghost sends her to a psychiatric consultation with Dr. Alex Conhopkins.

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.

Paul arrives at the airport to discover Albee waiting for him, her bags packed. Is Paul ready to run away with her to Cuba?