Beverly Hills, 90210
Straight Shooter
Season 7, Episode 21 · Aired 1997-02-26
Synopsis
Brandon, Steve and Dick play in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament. Dick's pot smoking concerns Brandon. A wasted Dick buys some heroin at the After Dark, and Steve decides to join him. Steve finds Dick collapsed in the bathroom; he dies of an overdose. Steve makes an angry anti-drug speech after someone leaves a bong at a shrine to Dick. Meanwhile, a pretentious magazine editor, named Gigi Crane, profiles Valerie, but the article is ruined when the police take David and Val in for questioning. David pressures Donna to end things with Cliff, while her mother invites Cliff to a family brunch. Donna decides to stay with David, and encourages Cliff to take a job as head of security at Disneyworld. Elsewhere, Kelly and Clare pose as Ukrainian folk dancers to flirt with two young guys during a weekend getaway to Palm Springs.
In the series
This episode is part of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000) on Fox.
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Key cast
- Jason Priestley as Brandon Walsh
- Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh
- Luke Perry as Dylan McKay
- Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
- Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders
- Tori Spelling as Donna Martin