After Kelly kills her rapist, she is arrested by the police who, though they believe her self-defense story, they still want to prosecute her for possessing a stolen gun. Kelly refuses to reveal that Dylan gave her the gun. Meanwhile, David kicks Dylan out of his house after finding Gina and Dylan in bed. Donna throws Gina out of the beach house after hearing Gina bad-mouth Kelly to TV reporters. Gina moves into Dylan's hotel suite at the same hotel where he lived as a teenager. Noah refuses to associate with Donna or anyone near her, while Donna thinks that her involvement with Wayne was a mistake when all he wants to do is have fun as Kelly is going through hell. Steve is perplexed with Janet's behavior after she tells him she loves him and then later says she's not sure the relationship is working.

Steve mistakenly assumes that Janet's secret is that she wants to break up with him, but when she tells him that she's four months pregnant, Steve does not seem happy. Meanwhile, Donna tries to reconcile with Noah, but he doesn't want to talk to her, considering he's with another woman from the After Dark. Dylan tries to help out Lucy Wilson, a former high school girlfriend living at the Bel Aire Hotel after she is arrested for drug possession. Matt continues to try to help Kelly recover from the shooting by taking her to a support group. Pretending that her car has broken down and that she needs David's help, Gina begins a new plan of revenge against everybody when she keeps David away from the surprise birthday party that the rest of the gang is planning for him at the After Dark.

Dylan is denied college readmission due to a lame essay and missing the deadline to submit his application. Meanwhile, Kelly and Donna prepare the reopening of the boutique, a fashion show of Donna's men's line. Hours before the New York buyers are to arrive for the show, Gina accidentally sets fire to the rack of -of-a-kind men's clothes. Donna's friends assemble to salvage the fashions and the guys step in as models when the actual models are stuck in traffic. When Matt realizes that Gina set the fire deliberately to ruin Kelly and Donna, he uses the information to pressure Gina to help with the show's publicity. Also, the realities of fatherhood strike Steve, who doubts his ability to be a father but doesn't tell Janet.