Edgemont

- Season 4

(2003)

Laurel returns from Houston and tells Mark that it's over. Jennifer learns Shannon came out to her parents and has been kicked out of her home. Mitch, a new student at McKinley, ruffles Anika's feathers when he bullies her cousin Wayne.

Craig questions his relationship with Anika and winds up breaking it off. Mark's French lessons grow tense when Laurel is assigned to be his tutor. Shannon has a meeting with her parents which results in her moving in with Jennifer.

Mark, in an effort to move on with his life, asks Tracey to be his partner at the grad class car wash. However, when they run into Laurel afterwards at Captain Java, she hurls a glass at Mark in a rage.

Laurel blows up at Mark when she learns from Erin that he and Tracey had a fling during the summer. Bekka takes initiative and asks Kevin out on a date, but Kevin takes relationship advice from Gil and plays hard-to-get...

Chris takes his relationship up a notch when he asks Jennifer to go to Mexico for the holidays, but Jen has a much bigger decision to make when she discovers she's pregnant.

Mark discovers that Paige is a mother, and when she injures herself at work and is rushed to the hospital, Mark grapples with babysitting. It's Chris's 18th birthday and Jen stresses about how she's going to tell him she's pregnant.

In an effort to shed her old skin, and to prove to Gil that she's not so conservative, Shannon joins up with Craig to demonstrate against Uber Burger... and winds up being dared to streak through one of the fast food's locations.

Paige returns to school to finish her education, but loses confidence when she discovers that her baby, whom she left with Mark for a moment, has been passed from student to student, namely Gil and Jen.

Craig confesses to Kat that he's developed a crush on Shelby but when Kat, tired of being his 'buddy', dons a dress to prove she has a feminine side as well, Craig's affections shift once again.

Even though he's still with Anika, affections continue to grow between Craig and Kat. That is until Erin, in an effort to piss Anika off, steps in and convinces Craig that Shelby is the girl for him, but when Craig makes his move, all goes horribly wrong.

In surprise twist of character, Gil writes a sensitive play that he decides to produce at school... but Erin is mortified when she discovers it's 'loosely' based on her one night with him.

Mark asks Paige out on a date but backpedals it into a 'just friends' thing when Laurel, who still has feelings for Mark, warns him that a single mother has different needs.

Laurel compliments Gil's play and it goes to his head; he becomes absolutely convinced that this means Laurel has the hots for him. Meanwhile, Mark's hackles rise when Paige goes to a hockey game with Tyler.

Wayne's bullies get out of control and spray paint 'homo' on his locker. And Shannon, fed up with people's small minds, comes out to the school... which complicates her new living arrangement with Maggie.

Paige gets dressed to the nines for her first date with Mark, but things go awry when he gets called into work. Paige decides she'll go out with Jen for a girls' night out, but that too goes off track... Erin's crush on Derek intensifies.

Anika hijacks Laurel's part in Gil's play, portraying Erin as sex-starved vixen. Meanwhile, Paige and Mark try to regain their jobs after Tyler fires them from the warehouse, and after watching the play, Derek reconsiders a relationship with Erin.

Gil tries to make amends with Erin and Kevin loses it when Bekka dumps him for Travis. Meanwhile, Jennifer has a health scare and Laurel gets offered a six-month modeling gig in Japan.

Mark and Laurel reconcile, and he insists that she take the job in Japan. Meanwhile, Gil is heartbroken when Kevin escorts Erin to the dance, prompting Erin to realize that Gil truly cares, and Chris proposes to Jennifer.