Brandon, Steve and Dick are partnered together for a three-man basketball team at CU. But that night, Steve and Dick's marijuana habit takes a turn for the worse when Dick suggests heroin and eventually dies from an OD at the After Dark. Meanwhile, Donna wavers between David and Cliff, who try to get on the good side of her parents. Gigi Crane, a magazine writer, starts hanging out with Valerie to get a story about L.A.'s cool people. Kelly and Clare pose as Russians to do some flirting with two other guys during a weekend trip to Palm Springs.

Kelly accompanies Valerie's mother, Abby, to her and Carl's wedding in Las Vegas, where maid of honor Valerie decides to make the moves on Carl to upset her mother's plans. Back in Los Angeles, Noah's and Donna's relationship is on the rocks as he continues to mourn over his father's recent suicide over his failed business, and the fact when IRS agents show up to confiscate everything of Mr. Hunter's for income tax fraud. Meanwhile, Donna is done in by another back-stabbing designer, Carrie, who gets a job after taking credit for Donna's clothing designs. Brandon learns something about Noah's father when he goes for an interview for a job at the L.A. Bureau of The New York Times. Also, Steve invents a date to make Sophie jealous while she continues to make the moves on David after he gets a job on a radio show.