Donna Martin returns to Beverly Hills and pays a visit to her sister-in-law Kelly to talk about her life, while Kelly's relationship with her half-sister, Erin, becomes more strained over Kelly's over-protectiveness in her efforts for Erin Silver's mental recovery. Meanwhile, Dixon locates his biological mother and ask Annie's help to travel with him to Arizona to meet with her during Spring Break. Also, Naomi's infatuation with Liam intensifies when she goes on field trip with the class on Ryan's Habitat for Humanity house-building project while Ethan, wanting a change, becomes more acquainted with Liam who encourages him to embrace his own dark side.

Donna finds herself in a dilemma when she confides in Kelly during a night on the town that she must decide between returning to Japan and being with David, or moving back to Beverly Hills and keeping their 20-month-old daughter, Ruby, which leads her to decide to open up her own design shop in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Silver is the topic of gossip at West Beverly due to her recent mental issues and does not know if she is ready to return to school. While Annie and Naomi try to patch things up between them in order to help Silver, Annie soon overhears that Naomi's father is being served a sexual harassment lawsuit, and she keeps it to herself... and later regrets it when Naomi is evicted from her hotel suite. Ethan continues on his downward spiral due to Liam's bad influence in wanting to be a bad guy as Liam is. Also, Adrianna and Navid meet with potential adoptive parents for the baby. Elsewhere, Harry and Debbie hold a yard sale when they finally sell their Kansas house and try to get rid of all of their old house's possessions as they plan to move out of Tabitha's house and to find a house of their own in Beverly Hills.