 While investigating Donna s story about working conditions at a sweatshop, Brandon discovers that Steve s father, Rush, is involved which brings up tension between Brandon and Steve over publishing it. The events also throw off Steve s plans to take Carly and her son, Zack, to an amusement park. Meanwhile, David s financial problems with the After Dark worsen over studio costs and Devin s racist remarks. Kelly still has partial amnesia when she is called to pick out her shooter in a police lineup. Valerie turns on her deviousness again when she begins stealing Donna s design clients for her own use and in the process lands in a quandary over being with Donna s new client, Cooper Hargrove, and Noah who wants to go back to Hawaii for a job.