

But the growingly misanthropic Dylan is too far gone to accept any sympathy and rudely blows off Jim.Īfter being shunned by the Walshes and the rest of the gang, Valerie considers moving back to Buffalo, but decides to stay after learning that her mother has suffered a nervous breakdown. Jim then offers Dylan some financial assistance. Valerie, still seething with both anger and pity after catching Dylan cheating on her, confesses to them that Dylan is bankrupt.

But when Valerie later walks in on Dylan cheating on her with a local prostitute, she vows revenge. Whereas Dylan forces Valerie to keep his financial situation a secret. Valerie helps Steve, Kelly, and fellow KEG members Griffin and Muntz, plan the theft of a rival college's mascot, a huge stuffed bear, during homecoming weekend. Later, Valerie discovers Dylan has been stealing money from the Peach Pit to support himself. But when they both confront her, Valerie convinces Steve that it was Dylan who made a pass at her. Later when Kelly sees Valerie at the Peach Pit drinking and flirting with Dylan, she immediately tells Steve. However, Donna doesn't seem to care and tells Kelly that what Valerie does in her spare time is none of their business. Valerie finds a picture of Dylan in Brenda's box Even Brandon tells Kelly to give Valerie the benefit of a doubt. But to Kelly's surprise, she cannot get a sympathetic ear.

Eventually Kelly grows to be suspicious of Valerie's true unwholesome colors when she catches her smoking pot and she naturally makes a big fuss about it.

All while Valerie continues her "good girl" charade in front of Steve and everyone else. Valerie continues pursuing Dylan who lays out some ground rules that their clandestine relationship is based purely on sex. Later, Valerie decides to pursue Dylan after finding Brenda's mementos of him in the Walsh garage, and begins hanging out at the pool hall where Dylan also drinks and hangs out. Unbeknownst to the remaining Walshes that Valerie is secretly a manipulative, cynical, and callous woman with a taste for drugs and hard liquor. The Walshes welcome Valerie Malone, a young and charming family friend from Buffalo, who moves into Brenda's room after she leaves for England. Though she considers Brandon a close friend, she never tells him what happened to her and has trouble making friends in Beverly Hills, except when it comes to Steve Sanders. She deals with this trauma by manipulating situations and people, alienating them in the process all the while, in reality, she looks for comfort and security in her life. Valerie moves to Beverly Hills after her father dies, to live with her old family friends the Walshes. Valerie is a cunning, smart, daring and strong woman, who is very capable, but suffered sexual abuse by her father and has trouble trusting people.
