Things intensify between Emma and Sean, and when she takes time off from Peter to consider her relationship with Sean, Peter takes action. To settle things, Peter and Sean decide to have a midnight race that ends in disaster. Ellie's cutesy new roommate Amberley is making dorm life miserable, so she writes an "anonymous" article about roommates for the school newspaper. Ellie suddenly finds herself intrigued with her editor -- and without a place to live.

Jay turns to Emma for help with Sean's legal trouble. Ellie gains the attention of an editor of the university newspaper but he may be interested in more than just Ellie's writing.

Darcy continues her dangerous online double-life despite knowing the risks. But Darcy's world comes crashing down when her internet life collides with her real one. Ellie looks to Ashley for help when she encounters some problems with the mature college lifestyle.

Spinner is distressed after receiving the results of his career aptitude test. He convinces Jimmy to go into business designing t-shirts together but the stresses of industry might break their friendship.

Craig returns to Degrassi for a music festival and Manny wastes no time in hooking back up with him. As Craig further embraces the rock star lifestyle, Manny has to decide whether the new Craig is the guy she really loves. Much to Liberty's frustration, Mia and JT are the new "it" couple at Degrassi. When tensions reach a breaking point, Mia demands to know the truth about JT's past.

Ellie thinks all Craig's bad behaviour is due to Manny - to help him, she's determined to stay by his side while he's in town.

The news has spread that J.T. was killed and everyone is upset except for Liberty who seems to blank. Knowing that J.T. died looking for Liberty to tell her that he was still in love with her is eating Toby alive but he decides to keep it bottled. To cheer Liberty up, Toby helps Liberty skip class and on their journey they end up kissing. At the memorial Toby tries to take back what he did without success and ends up spilling the beans to Mia(J.T.' girlfriend) and Liberty that J.T. stilled loved Liberty and was searching for her when he died.

Paige has one goal: to return to her former pre-Banting glory. She's going to get back to doing what she does best. Everything - and that includes dating. Paige surprises Spinner by asking him out. Nothing serious, just casual.

Alex is regretting what she has done especially after she gets a call from Paige at work and they get back together later. Alex is happy she has brought a lot of money into the house but doesn't want Paige to find out that she is stripping. All the plans are fine until Paige shows up at work with flowers causing an inevitable break up. At work Alex figures out that she is not meant to give up her soul and quits. Unfortunately home isn't any better when she finds out her mother has used the money she gave her to free the idiot boyfriend from jail. Alex left her home and reunited with Paige at the dance. Sean's world is turned upside down thinking about what to do if Emma is pregnant and decides that Emma should have the baby but he will still go to the army. This doesn't please Emma at all and we find out later she isn't pregnant. At this point Emma and Sean are just going to try and enjoy the time they have left.

Tensions reach an all-time high when a fire forces students from Lakehurst to attend Degrassi. Darcy makes a horrific discovery after a wild party and takes drastic measures to stop her emotional torment. Meanwhile, Dylan's indifferent behavior leads a reluctant Marco to agree to a blind date.

Spinner is still dealing with cancer but by fighting the Lakehurst losers instead of going to the hospital. Can Jane and Jimmy help him come to his senses? Meanwhile Marco is trying to deal with being single and not being a third wheel.

Ellie learns a difficult lesson about dating in the workplace. Mia gets the upper hand on Anya and Holly J. during a school project.

A surprising moment between Marco, Ellie, and Paige sends Marco into a confusing journey of self-discovery. Liberty develops a crush on her valedictorian running mate.