Rick was a regular at the beginning of the Degrassi Juniour High series...He was the bad boy, the one who no one wanted to be involved with, except one girl, good old Caitlin.  Caitlin wanted hs body so bad that she would do anyhting to get it.  I mean anything.  So she invited Rick into the environment club, and he smoked a cigarette...he got booted.  He started off by telling Joey that he could buy his brother, Frank's jean jacket for picture day, Joey bought it.  He was beat up by his dad pretty bad and then moved in with his brother.  He then wanted to date Caitlin so he impressed her by acting smart...but he had a reputation to keep.  After that he pretty much disappeared off the face of Degrassi, he was only seen in small little parts in the classroom, whatever happened to him...I don't know.