Harry and Debbie welcome Sean into their home, while Dixon, Annie, and Tabatha welcome him awkwardly despite the fact that they don't know much about him, while Naomi and her mother, Tracy, welcome him to their home as well. Meanwhile, Kelly and Brenda's friendship is slowly fading away and gets wider after Brenda is hospitalized from an accident and confides in Kelly that she seduced Ryan weeks earlier. Naomi decides to hang out with a new group of girls at school despite Ozzie's advice that they want nothing to do with her. Also, Silver feels threatened when a cheerleader, named Christina, shows too much interest in Dixon who shares the same interests he does.

Adrianna reveals the secret that she's pregnant individually to both Naomi and Navid, who handle the news differently than expected. When Dixon reveals the depths of his feelings to Silver, their relationship takes a surprising turn when she reveals some facts about herself and that of her feelings of love. Meanwhile, Tabitha surprises Annie and Dixon with an unexpected belated Christmas gift of a car: which both Debbie and Harry disapprove of Tabitha trying to buy her grandchildren's affection after she also announces that she is leaving town to re-start her acting career with a job on a TV soap opera in New York. With a massive heat wave hitting the L.A. area, Annie and Ethan decide to to take a day-long escape to Tabitha's house Palm Springs for a romantic time alone.

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.