New 90210 episode 3 “Lucky Strike” recap
Sep 10th, 2008 by 90210
Ethan is trying to talk to Naomi at her locker; she’s cold at first but Naomi tells Ethan she’s going to a celebrity golf tournament in Vegas that her dad’s company sponsors. She’s really excited about it - she and her dad do this trip every year.
Ty asks Annie out again but later finds out her parents want to have family night and go bowling together (Friday night) so she has to cancel.
Silver has been staying at a women’s shelter but is turned away because they’re full. Silver wants to stay with Kelly for the night but Kelly says she can’t.
Kelly and Ryan go out to dinner again. She tells him about Sammy’s father, who she has a lot of history with starting back in high school. She says she hooked up with him 4 years ago and then they started having “issues” but now he wants back in Sammy’s life. Ryan asks, and your life too? But she doesn’t answer. She never says the father’s name, of course. The date goes well and they end up kissing.
Dixon and Annie have told all their friends where they’ll be that night - the Lucky Strike bowling alley. Dixon also invited Silver.
Naomi finds out her dad can’t make the trip to Vegas with her but he tosses her the keys to a new luxury car he bought her as a consolation present. Naomi is crushed.
Family night isn’t a thing around LA like it was in Witchita, and Silver says she thinks it’s great & she’s envious.
The gang shows up at the bowling alley and everyone has fun. Dixon and Annie want to ditch the parents and go do other things but they realize they should spend some time together first before they ask to leave.
Ethan and Annie have an intimate chat outside and then Ty walks up; she leaves Ethan for Ty.
Naomi and Adriana are out driving and decide to go to the bowling alley, too, but first Naomi wants to get some dinner & drop off food for her dad who is working late - the reason he couldn’t go to Vegas. When they pull up outside the office they see Naomi’s dad kissing another woman. Naomi is devastated; Adriana decides to call Ethan for help after they get to the bowling alley. He comes to comfort her, she cries on his shoulder and as Annie watches, they walk away so Ethan can take her home.
At home later, Dixon takes out the trash and sees Silver sleeping in her car. He wants to help her, she tells him all about her drunk, abusive mom and how she’s been staying at a shelter. He wants to go to his dad for help & she resists at first. Dixon tells her he knows what it’s like because before he was a part of this family he was in some bad situations. They go inside and tells the parents; Silver stays with them for the night.The next day Harry calls Kelly and tells her what’s going on with her sister. Kelly decides to confront her mom.
Naomi tells her mom what she saw, but mom already knows. She says the woman’s name is Gail and dad’s been seeing her for 2 years, but not that often because she lives out of town. Mom doesn’t want to break up the family, says, we have a life together.” Naomi is like, what kind of life is this?
Things get crazy when Kelly confronts her mom. Silver walks in and starts telling Kelly she can handle it on her own, the three of them keep arguing and then their mom yells “Get out, I’m tired of both of you!” Silver goes to live with Kelly.
Dixon and Annie have made breakfast for the family and they all sit down and happily discuss their next family night.