90210: “There’s No Place Like Homecoming”

Season 1, Episode 8

Ethan and Annie are tired of keeping their relationship-thing a secret. Ethan invites Annie to homecoming (or would like to) but feels it is too soon to go to homecoming with a date after his final break up with Naomi, so the two concoct a “secret surprise” meetup at the dance and a promise to dance together. Annie instead drives everyone crazy about it because she only obsessed with him asking her.

Adrianna’s fate is shown, she did not die from the overdose. Naomi finds out about this, and Adrianna is sent to court-ordered rehab (the new black in Los Angeles it seems). Naomi gets a punishment of after school detention for the rest of the semester for her part of taking the drugs and flushing them. When in detention she meets a mysterious guy who “annoys” her but ends up talking to him and showing him that she too, can speak fluent Spanish. The guy ends up popping up a few times throughout the school. She is not speaking to Adrianna, who gets a visit from Navid, who wants a story about her from inside rehab. Adrianna cannot be bothered but uses his phone to text Naomi which she deletes. Adrianna wants Navid to come again to visit, when he does she begs him to bring Naomi so she can apologize. She also finds out Navid’s father is paying for her stay in rehab, because he likes her.

On the lookout for a new friend, Naomi finally gets together with Annie. Naomi invites her over to get ready before homecoming at her house, not knowing about her plan with Ethan. Meanwhile, Annie is getting close to having her 16th birthday,  her mom takes her driving in the minivan to get her permit. Up next week: her apparent birthday party. Naomi’s mom and Annie’s still have some issues, because Tracy kissed Harry. Tabitha, Annie and Dixon’s grandma, tells their mom she should approach her and talk to her about it, because she kissed another woman’s man. She gives the mom true compliments, even though they have not gotten along in the past.

Unlike the rest of the girls, Silver could care less about homecoming.  Dixon asks her to homecoming but she “hates” it and doesn’t want to go, so Dixon says he doesn’t either. Later on, Annie admits to her Dixon’s love of school dances at home in Kansas and Silver realizes he would have liked to go. At the same time,  Silver gets her wisdom teeth out and she is all hopped up on painkillers following the extraction, meaning Dixon stays with her to try to help her until she ends up falling asleep.

The undercover cop, Kim, is still hitting on Ryan, the teacher almost non-stop. It is making him feel awkward but he has no idea what to do with her. At the dance she tries to buy drugs from the lacrosse player who has shown up a few times and been nothing but an ass, where Ryan sees and thinks she is on drugs. She (and Harry) then admit she is a cop and not a student and her and Ryan kiss.