Yvonne wakes up late the next morning and learns from Jim that Danielle took the children to school on her way to work.

They begin talking and Yvonne confesses her feelings towards Jim and starts seducing him, who reciprocates and they have sex, thus kindling an extramarital affair.

One day, Yvonne fails to turn up and Jim falls asleep at the hotel room waiting for her and is late to pick his children up from school.

In a bar, a lonely Jim runs into Orla, a waitress with whom he previously had a dispute at a restaurant, which resulted in her being fired.

They share drinks and in the morning Jim wakes up next to Orla and receives a call from Danielle informing him of Chris's death.

"[6] Tara Brady of The Irish Times was much more negative, giving it two stars out of five, saying, "The denizens of The Delinquent Season are all ghastly and yet – despite valiant efforts from a talented ensemble cast – not quite horrid enough to be interesting or engaging.

[...] O'Rowe's stylised language – an often potent dialect that sets observational banter to Mametian rhythms – sounds off-key on a big screen.