Matt flies to New York to visit Lauren, who has spent the past three years in a mental institution. She returns to Los Angeles with Matt, but he is reluctant to introduce her to Kelly. David and Gina see the couple kissing on the street. Kelly angrily breaks up with Matt, then decides that she will fight for him. Matt informs Kelly that Lauren is his wife. Dylan performs community service on a road crew. He objects to the tyrannical foreman's treatment of one of the other workers, an upstanding family man. Dylan gets into a fight with the foreman; he must smooth things over to spare his friend from an unfair punishment. Dylan angers Gina by confiding in his sponsor while shutting Gina out. David meets a woman who may be his perfect match, but she seems to have stood him up. Steve and Donna engage in a war of practical jokes with Noah after they catch him cheating at strip poker.
s09e01 - The Morning After
s09e02 - Budget Cuts
s09e03 - Dealer's Choice
s09e04 - Don't Ask, Don't Tell
s09e05 - Brandon Leaves
s09e06 - Confession
s09e07 - You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
s09e08 - I'm Back Because
s09e09 - The Following Options
s09e10 - Marathon Man
s09e11 - How to Be the Jerk Women Love
s09e12 - Trials and Tribulations
s09e13 - Withdrawal
s09e14 - I'm Married
s09e15 - Beheading St. Valentine
s09e16 - Survival Skills
s09e17 - Slipping Away
s09e18 - Bobbi Dearest
s09e19 - The Leprechaun
s09e20 - Fortune Cookie
s09e21 - I Want to Reach Right Out and Grab Ya
s09e22 - Local Hero
s09e23 - The End of the World as We Know It
s09e24 - Dog's Best Friend
s09e25 - Agony
s09e26 - That's the Guy
This long-running drama dealt with the experiences of a group of young people in Beverly Hills, CA as they navigated high school, college and ultimately the real world. The series focused on their travails as they tried to maintain their friendship while dealing with romances, family and personal crises, tragedies and countless drug addictions.