In season 2, the staff room of Waterloo Road school gets more tension when Lorma, who suffers from mental illness, survived from her suicide attempt and witnesses Tom and Izzie happy together. The prospective school governor Roger Aspinall arrives and promises to invest in the future of the school in return for a seat on the governing body, while his son enters the school and starts an affair with the new, glamourous school secretary. The school is still struggling with bullying, drug-dealing, violence and alcoholism.