Ryan deviendra jaloux de la relation entre Marissa et Johnny, car elle ressent des sentiments pour lui. He was caught stealing a car with his brother Trey and later met attorney Sandy Cohen. Despite his reticent nature and emotionless exterior, Ryan can be quite transparent, often "convey[ing] everything with just a look", and is virtually incapable of lying, as Sandy proved in the episode "The O.Sea" when he caught Ryan trying to cover-up for Seth and Ryan's "guilty face" gave it away. Marissa finds out and flees to Chino to Theresa, who she had met when she was in town with Ryan. By chance, he catches Sandy and Kirsten's contractor cutting corners and quickly points out discrepancies in the floor plan and finished product. Ryan is a nice guy who likes to help people and likes to defend people's honors.
He didn't attend her funeral and left The Cohen's house.
The last scene brings the show full circle, as Ryan, now a successful architect, comes across a down-trodden youth dressed in the familiar Ryan Atwood grey hoodie, on his bike next to a phone booth - mirroring the situation Ryan found himself in the pilot. “Ryan Atwood manages 16 residential rental properties for our company. He was portrayed by Benjamin McKenzie.
During his first months in Newport, he had the tendency to physically express his anger at the incessant teasing from his schoolmates by punching them, which led them intentionally goad him even more, but he gradually calmed down, after some serious lecturing from Sandy and being sent to anger management counseling. Ce dernier finira par accepter de quitter Newport, Marissa et les Cohen pour vivre avec Theresa et l'aider à élever leur enfant.Voyant que Ryan n'est pas heureux à Chino, Teresa prétend avoir perdu le bébé pour que Ryan rentre à Newport. As she was struggling, she hit him on the head with a log, giving her time to get away.
Marissa then ended up going to Newport Union the public high school, with Ryan eventually being re-admitted to Harbour after Dean Hess was blackmailed over having an affair with a student,Taylor Townsend. Ryan became the first in his family to graduate from high schoolFollowing Marissa's death, Ryan moves into a storage closet at a bar where he works while avoiding the Cohens and starts Ryan settles back down to life in Newport, determined to have an uneventful summer, until Days later, Ryan finds out from Sandy that his biological father, Ryan and his wife, Paige, live in Ogden, Utah, with their four children. Alors Ryan c'est le mec avec qui je suis persuadé n'importe quelle fille voudrait sortir. The relationship was short lived however when Ryan was accepted into the University of California, Berkeleyandthey admitted they had little conceivable future together with Ryan due to leave for college in the fall and Sadie then left Newport. Ryan has the tendency to punch people in the face and constantly has to back up Seth - a good example of this is at Holly's beach party after Holly's party, where Ryan punches Luke, the captain of the water polo team and boyfriend to Marissa Cooper, because his friends and he are pushing Seth around. Marissa was expelled from the Harbor High School, seeing herself forced to attend public school instead. He recently became reaquainted with his waitress mother and had a love relationship with his mother's waitress co-worker & his graduation from Harbour is coming up.
This resulted in Ryan and Marissa becoming distant from each other, and both of them admitting their relationship was not working and breaking up.