Jeff, a new medical intern, and Valerie, who is serving community service for her bookmaking, start working at the Wyatt Free Clinic with Kelly, where she also tries to help a victim of spousal abuse. Meanwhile, news of the sudden illness of Carly's estranged father has her wanting to take Zack and move to Montana to care for him, and away from Steve who's struck with grief, fearing that he will never see his girlfriend again. David hangs out with Jasper's Legend to write a story on them, but the bandmates indulge in David's worst fears, drugs and booze. Valerie turns on her deviousness again, determined not to let Brandon and Kelly get back together by interfering with Brandon's phone messages. Elsewhere, Donna and Noah begin arguing due to differing views about Brandon's fling.

David gets caught in the middle of a conflict when the band keyboardist, Mark, blames Noah for his drunk-driving accident and decides to sue. Meanwhile, Donna starts a new photo shoot and deals with a spoiled child model and her demanding mother who spells trouble for her. Steve inadvertently prompts a former frat brother's fiancée, Christy, to call off the wedding. Christy then stays at the Walsh house where she gives Brandon advice on life and love, while her perplexed fiancé, Harry, gives some love life advice to Steve regarding the departed Carly. Kelly counsels a teenage girl who contracted a sexually transmitted disease after cheating on her boyfriend. Valerie, still working community service at the clinic, continues her plan to keep Brandon and Kelly apart, setting up a scene at a restaurant so that Brandon will walk into Kelly with her date Jeff.

Donna's grandmother is hospitalized after telling Donna that her soulmate is David, who moves out of the Valerie's room at the Walsh house and into Carly's vacant house until he can afford a more inexpensive place. Meanwhile, Kelly alerts Brandon to a potential story about a recently paroled ex-con who explains to Brandon about the mistakes he made that changed his life, which Brandon realizes parallel his own. Steve coaxes Brandon into a double date with two women who he ran into at the Peach Pit, unaware that the women are not who they appear to be. Valerie brings a record executive to the After Dark to hear David and the band, Jasper's Legend, perform their debut. But Valerie is hurt after David tells her that the love song he wrote was about Donna, not her.

After Noah is questioned by the police about Valerie's rape charges, he admits to Donna that he did have sex with Valerie that night at the After Dark club, but he did not know that she was drugged. The only ones who believe Valerie's date rape story are David and Brandon, which drives a wedge between them and their friends. Josh stirs up more trouble for the gang when he gives Donna amphetamines to counteract the pain pills she is now taking for her back injury. Josh also takes advantage of Valerie and Noah's conflict to play them against each other, then persuades Valerie to launch a civil suit against Noah. Meanwhile, Steve and Brandon join a patrol ride-along with Steve's Valentine's date and her partner, and witness Tammy's partner roughing up a suspect. Jasper tells David that the other band members want to drop him from their group.

Valerie's civil suit against Noah begins with her taking the witness stand and testifying about that night. But Noah's attorney viciously cross-examines her, using Valerie's sordid past to discredit her. Then Brandon, Kelly, David, and Steve individually take the witness stand and testify against Valerie, despite her attorney trying to establish reasonable doubt against them. The final nail in Noah's defense cast a mortal blow when the real culprit, Josh, unexpectedly takes the witness stand and testifies against Noah with details about "his" version of what happened the Valentine's Day night with Valerie at the After Dark. Meanwhile, Donna's addiction to pain pills spins out of control when she begins stealing pills from her father's medicine cabinet at the Wyatt Clinic, while she also combats work pressure by plagiarizing a co-worker's ideas for her newest designs. Record executive, Frank Saunders, wants to sign David to a record deal...but not Jasper.

Donna is rushed to the hospital after falling in a coma from an overdose of painkillers where she comes clean with her father about her addiction to pain pills. When Donna admits to her boss, Robert, that she plagiarized someone else's sketches, she is immediately fired. Meanwhile, Kelly cares for a newborn baby left at the clinic by a teenage mother, named Leanne, which makes Kelly wonder if she can take in the baby to care for it herself. Steve falls for Jill, a woman that he has never met, when he starts reading her love letters which are actually addressed to someone else named Ted. Also, Brandon investigates David's sudden success with his new songs where Jasper suggests to him that David's gains for the record deal are ill-gotten. Elsewhere, Valerie struggles to get past her incident with Noah.