Steve goes crazy on a Year 2000 "Y2K" millennium planning, ignoring or avoiding planning a holiday trip with Janet. Noah becomes openly hostile to Matt after he is hired to sue Noah's late father's oil company for environmental pollution in a class action suit. Meanwhile, Katie returns to David and wants to move forward with him, without sex. While babysitting her half-sister, Erin, in her mother's apartment, a hidden camera catches Kelly and Matt having sex in which, as a result of circumstances, ends up in Gina and Dylan's hands. Wayne, a fashion model, makes a play for Donna while Noah pressures her to keep her distance to the guy. Also, Dylan and Kelly deal with the fallout after their fling in Mexico is found out by Gina.

Kelly's car did not actually break down...she received a call from Dylan to meet her at a diner because he was depressed and was thinking about taking drugs again. Kelly went to meet him, and parked on a side street. The attacker started to follow her. He then pushed her into an alley and assaulted her.

Kelly confides in Dylan about her incident and later Donna, while Kelly begins to withdraw into a reclusive state resulting from the traumatic experience. Meanwhile, Matt defends a drug dealer on a burglary charge (who coincidentally happens to be Kelly's rapist), while at the same time, Matt thinks Kelly's odd behavior points to her seeing Dylan again. Donna declines both to move in with Noah or travel with Wayne for his Volleyball tournament. An art critic lauds Steve's photography for the Beverly Beat, prompting him to take more photographs of events. Also, Gina returns to ice skating while David decides to pursue her. But Dylan's presence and the pressure on Gina to qualify for a spot on a skating team makes her bulimia worsen.

A paranoid Kelly begins carrying a gun that Dylan procured for her. Steve throws a wild party at the Peach Pit After Dark when the Beverly Beat receives resounding positive national reviews; Janet doubts her career with the paper. After collapsing right before an ice skating audition, Gina finally confides in David that she has a history with bulimia. Dylan's presence gets in the way. A confused Donna continues to juggle her time between Noah and Wayne until Noah breaks up with her. She sleeps with Wayne & Noah walks in on them the morning after. Dylan offers a $100,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Kelly's rapist and begins his own search, which leads to dead ends. Meanwhile, Kelly's rapist, Joe Patch, returns with a new case for Matt - to sue the police for excessive violence against him during his arrest.

After Kelly kills her rapist, she is arrested by the police who, though they believe her self-defense story, they still want to prosecute her for possessing a stolen gun. Kelly refuses to reveal that Dylan gave her the gun. Meanwhile, David kicks Dylan out of his house after finding Gina and Dylan in bed. Donna throws Gina out of the beach house after hearing Gina bad-mouth Kelly to TV reporters. Gina moves into Dylan's hotel suite at the same hotel where he lived as a teenager. Noah refuses to associate with Donna or anyone near her, while Donna thinks that her involvement with Wayne was a mistake when all he wants to do is have fun as Kelly is going through hell. Steve is perplexed with Janet's behavior after she tells him she loves him and then later says she's not sure the relationship is working.