Christopher is worried when one of his best students Vicki begins acting strangely. When he discovers she has been skipping school to work as an exotic dancer he follows her to the club she works. He inadvertently puts his career as a teacher in danger after Vicki issues a threat to him if he tells anyone about what she is up to. Lindsay learns that wont be able to see her mother until the trial is over. Lindsay ends up admitting to Rachel that she had told her mother that her father had been abusing her on the day he was cuddled. Ros starts a comedy club at the school. Josh is pleased when his mother and Tom get along over dinner but sparks fly when Georgia reveals details about the way he was conceived. Rachel needs to find somebody new to confide in because of Kim's growing relationship with Max.
Season 5 Episode 6 of Waterloo Road resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
Waterloo Road Comprehensive is on the scrap heap. It can be found very near the bottom of every league table there is. Its despondent teachers have given up trying to make a difference as they struggle to cope with their own personal problems as well as their nightmare day jobs. When the current Headmaster has a nervous breakdown, Jack Rimmer is reluctantly thrown into the hot seat. He recruits optimistic, educational zealot Andrew Treneman who wants to give up his comfortable private school job to bring the benefits of his elite educational experience to Waterloo Road.
Together with feisty Guidance Head Kim Campbell the three teachers - all committed in their very different ways - set to turn round Waterloo Road, painful step by painful step. Meanwhile English teacher Tom Clarkson's life is in a mess. He's about to be married to live-in girlfriend and fellow teacher Lorna Dickey and can't face telling her he is no longer in love. But much worse, he has fallen for Lorna's closest friend - drama teacher Izzie Redpath.
Man-eating French teacher Steph Haydock is delighted Jack Rimmer has been promoted - she's always fancied him but now he's headmaster, his powerful, manly charms are impossible to resist.