- Cindy Walsh: I still can't believe it. Val's moving into a hotel suite. What sort of person moves into a luxury hotel?
- Jim Walsh: Oh, you know the types: Howard Hughes, Heidi Fleiss... Jack McKay. Eccentric types with fast money and... questionable values.
- Cindy Walsh: Can't you talk to her? Convince her to stay?
- Jim Walsh: What's the point? Valerie Malone doesn't understand the moral value of... anything.
- Nat Bussichio: Things a little rocky with you and Kelly?
- Brandon Walsh: Everything's gotten weird ever since she signed up with Professor Finley and his so-called 'Institute for the New Evolution'.
- Nat Bussichio: Ugh! I hate that cult stuff!
- Brandon Walsh: It's not a cult, Nat. It's just a renegade psych teacher without a college.
- Nat Bussichio: [sarcastic] Oh, that's a relief.
- Brandon Walsh: Now that you mention it, it just might as well be a cult the way he keeps trying to change her personality and all the dozen or more ex-students from C.U. into his followers.
- Nat Bussichio: Don't let that happen. I've seen how it breaks up family and friends. It's not very pretty. You remember Susie French? The 40-year-old artist with the buzz haircut that used to work here years ago when you first started working at the Peach Pit?
- Brandon Walsh: Yeah, she was in a cult?
- Nat Bussichio: Her younger sister. Back in the mid 1970s, Susie's sister graduated from high school lonely and lost, unsure of what to do with her life and she went looking for her place in this world. She drifted to San Francisco where she fell in with a radical group preaching about a "new evolution" for the world. She eventually moved down to South America with her group to join some commune. Next thing you know, she's drinking poisoned Kool-Aid with Jim Jones and his crew.
- Brandon Walsh: No kidding?
- Nat Bussichio: No kidding. Brando, it was a nightmare. Susie, her parents... the whole family never recovered from the shock.
- Brandon Walsh: Well, I don't think Kelly is into anything like that.
- Nat Bussichio: [scoffs] Yeah, that's exactly what Susie used to say about her sister.
- Valerie Malone: Don't you love hotels? Of all the kinky things that go on in this place, it's inspiring.
- Dylan McKay: Well, something tells me that's not what was inspiring Cindy when he called me in a panic, this morning.
- Valerie Malone: You know, I knew those two weren't cool about this as they pretended to be.
- Dylan McKay: They worry.
- Valerie Malone: Well, you don't have to tell me that. Look, they're nice people, but you don't know how hard it was for me living there. I did the best I could. Trying to act all good and moral made me schizo. I just had to get out of that place. I'm just not a good or moral person. I never was, and never will be.
- Dylan McKay: Most people get an apartment.
- Valerie Malone: Most people would live like this if they could.
- Dylan McKay: Yeah, you're probably right. But I gotta tell you though, speaking from experience, living in hotels can get pretty lonely.
- Valerie Malone: Well, lucky me. I've already got my first visitor.
- Dylan McKay: Okay, you'll see. Pretty soon, you'll start thinking the concierge is your best friend.
- Steve Sanders: [about blowing the telethons main act] Clare, I really blew it this time.
- Clare Arnold: Well the girls are great anyway.
- Steve Sanders: What girls?
- Clare Arnold: Joi, Di, and Tonya.
- Steve Sanders: Jade's here?
- [Looks thrilled and shocked]
- Clare Arnold: Yeah!