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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
8 July 1992At 4616 Melrose Place, a garden apartment complex in Los Angeles, a group of eight 20-something people try to get by in life any way they can. Alison Parker looks for a new roommate after her previous one leaves her in the dead of night without money for the rent. Billy Campbell arrives and charms his way into moving in with Alison, even though he gets on her nerves and has no money for the rent. At Alison's job as a receptionist at D&D Advertising, she finds herself receiving unwanted attention from her boss, Hal Barber. Michael Mancini is the building manager and an intern at the local Wilshire Memorial Hospital while his wife, Jane, is a boutique salesclerk who wants to start a family. Matt Fielding is a gay social worker. His best friend, aerobics instructor Rhonda Blair, meets a man in her aerobics class whose interests in her turn out to be anything but romantic. Rhonda's roommate is Sandy Louise Harling, a blond southern belle and struggling actress who moonlights as a waitress at a bar called 'Shooters.' Jake Hansen is an unemployed manual laborer who can't shake off Kelly Taylor, a cute 17-year-old girl from the series "Beverly Hills, 90210." Jake and Kelly decide to go out on a date to Shooters, but they find themselves watched over by Kelly's disapproving friends, David, Donna and Steve. Even after Jake dumps Kelly, she comes back to him.
15 July 1992While moonlighting as a taxi driver, Billy picks up a young dental student, named Marcy, and she practically moves in with him which frightens him and makes Alison jealous. Meanwhile, in a continuing cross-over from "Beverly Hills, 90210", Jake is still being pursued by Kelly who has a crush on him. When Jake gets arrested for getting into a fight at an unemployment office, Kelly bails him out of jail and still goes after him despite learning of his "colorful" police record. Jane experiences a crisis when Michael can't remember when he fell in love with her.
22 July 1992Jane feels lonely when Michael has no time for her when he comes home late every evening. So, Rhonda takes her out to Shooters where they meet two guys and proceed to go to the limits for a night on the town, until Jane loses her wedding ring. Billy finishes his first script and shows Alison. But she thinks it's awful and doesn't have the nerve to tell him the truth. Meanwhile, Jake finally decides to make a clean break when he invites Kelly over for dinner at his place and sets up a scene with an actress friend of Sandy's which makes him look very ugly to Kelly. Heartbroken, Kelly finally leaves Jake for good.
29 July 1992Alison starts dating a new co-worker who plans to steal her ideas for a sunscreen campaign that Lucy Cabot, Alison's supervisor and vice president of D&D, is working on. While working at a Cappuccino Shop, Jake meets Perry, a former girlfriend of his who persuades him to make a semi-legal deal with the rock group, "LA-Guns," in selling them a painting, which Jake shall paint. Meanwhile, Rhonda wants to help Matt in cooking a great meal at the homeless shelter where he works. But Rhonda angers him when she cancels her plans at the last minute when she has to teach another aerobics class.
5 August 1992Jane discovers that she's pregnant, but she doesn't want to tell Michael since he has previously told her that he doesn't want children so early in their marriage. So, Jane considers getting an abortion. Meanwhile, Billy tries to get a job as a column writer at a newspaper agency and decides to write an article on Bungee Jumping. So, he gets Jake and Matt to go out with him for the experience, but he himself chickens out at the last moment.
12 August 1992Rhonda is reunited with her old friend, Theresa, who is now with a traveling dance troupe and who inspires Rhonda to try out for the company again since Rhonda flaked out at a rehearsal years ago. Meanwhile, Jake asks Alison to help him study for his G.E.D. He's embarrassed and asks her to keep it a secret. The next morning, the rest of the tenants see her leaving Jake's apartment and wonder if something romantic happened.
Season 1, Episode 7: My Way
19 August 1992Sandy auditions and gets a small movie role in a horror flick. But Rhonda becomes concerned that Sandy may let success go to her head when she annoys Rhonda and everyone else. Meanwhile, Billy tricks Alison into going out with him to visit his parents, where his father puts pressure on Billy to help with the family business of selling furniture at his store.
2 September 1992Sandy meets a guy while out shopping and goes on a date with him. After Sandy rejects him, he turns into an obsessed psycho, stalks her and even breaks into her apartment. Jake tries to help by beating the guy up, but Sandy gets angry at Jake's meddling with her life. Meanwhile, Alison wants to buy a new car, but has more problems selling the old one "Betsy," which she is attached to.
9 September 1992Alison has some opinions about Billy's relationship with an older woman, who is a stand-up comedy actress, when she asks Billy to babysit for her 8-year-old son. Meanwhile, Jake and Sandy negotiate a date just to demonstrate that sex is not all they think about. When it fails, Jane and Michael play cupid to get them back together.
Season 1, Episode 10: Burned
16 September 1992Billy gets robbed by some black hoods while driving his taxi around downtown Los Angeles one night. When the police don't take an interest in his case, he investigates himself to find the muggers, much to the worry of Alison, while racist comments from him make Rhonda angry and she has to teach him some lessons about black people in America. On Jake's birthday, he is visited by his long estranged mother Stella Rivers, who annoys him greatly. Meanwhile, Jane and Michael attend a boring Lamaze class.
30 September 1992Jane's baby is checked via ultrasound and it turns out to be stillborn and she has to get an abortion, which is a emotional setback for her and Michael. Sandy tries to cheer up Jane with a little stray dog she found at the beach who runs away, while Michael confides his frustrations with his co-worker, medical intern Kimberly Shaw. Meanwhile, Billy and Alison go head-to-head over the right to privacy in the apartment.
21 October 1992Just as Alison's new career at D&D takes off, she meets a marine biologist named Keith Gray, and falls for him immediately. But she is hurt when she discovers that he is married. Meanwhile, Billy has some stress with paying off a $2,000 student loan that he took while at college and blew off, although his college tuition was paid by his parents.
28 October 1992Alison continues her torrid affair with Keith, although she is under stress from her conscience and her friends because he is married and under major stress at work for arriving late and leaving early. Meanwhile, Matt gets beaten up on a dark street at night by gay bashers after he is followed by his assailants from a gay bar. When Matt's boss finds out that he's gay, he immediately fires him. So, Jake persuades Matt to sue his former boss. Sandy is discovered by a talent agent for a TV soap opera in New York and flies off to the east coast, leaving Melrose forever.
4 November 1992Keith's wife shows up and although he keeps reassuring Alison that he will divorce her, Alison decides to break up with him. Meanwhile, Rhonda finds a new roommate, named Carrie, after Sandy moves out. But she is overly hygienic and gets on Rhonda's nerves. Matt wants to hire a lawyer for the lawsuit against his former boss, but he has problems to pay the required advance of $5,000, so he tries borrowing from his parents, then selling his car, and more.
11 November 1992Jo Reynolds, a mysterious photographer from New York City, arrives and moves into Rhonda's apartment for herself while Rhonda moves to a single apartment. Alison, still recovering from her breakup with Keith, befriends Jo in which the two ladies go out that night to Shooters, and end up scamming two bar creeps at billiards. Jake immediately takes a liking to her. Meanwhile, Michael and Jane become friends with another doctor and his wife, until Jane discovers the wife is being abused.
18 November 1992When Jo hits financial hard times, Jake offers to help her. But she rudely blows him off and starts acting crazy when he asks too many questions. Things come to light when Jo tells him about her leaving her alcoholic husband in New York. Meanwhile, Jane loses her job when the boutique shop she works in goes out of business. But when she is hired as a clothing designer by Kay Beacon, the head designer at a prestigious company, Jane puts off getting pregnant again. Matt continues his legal threads and when he is offered a nice settlement and his job back, he drops the lawsuit. Also, Billy has a toothache, has it checked, comes back high on medication, and has dreams involving a romance-mined Alison.
25 November 1992Jake gets visited by Colleen, another former girlfriend, who informs him that she has a four-year-old boy that may be from him and wants his permission to get it adopted by her current husband. Meanwhile, Alison falls ill and it turns out to be a benign tumor on her uterus that needs to be removed. But she has no health insurance and not enough money to pay for herself. Jo learns about Alison's health problem and offers her a solution. Also, Rhonda meets a wealthy restaurant owner, named Terrance Haggard, and immediately starts dating him.
16 December 1992Alison gets her operation and she goes home to recover while Billy takes care of her and becomes overprotective. While Jake tries to get intimate with Jo, she says that she needs time to think about it, while he helps her overcome her depressing past against Christmas. Rhonda decides to go on a skiing trip to Aspen with Terrance. Meanwhile, Matt prepares a holiday meal for the tenants, while trying to make up with his estranged father whom has always disapproved of Matt being gay and open about it. While Jane is out of town, Michael is divulged with hospital patients in the ER and invites his co-worker, Kimberly Shaw, over at Melrose for the Christmas party.
6 January 1993Sydney Andrews, Jane's wild and outgoing younger sister, arrives in town for a surprise visit and immediately gets on her nerves when Sydney (jealous of Jane's successful life) moves into her life and job. Meanwhile, Rhonda and Terrance have an argument about their social differences, but it ends when he proposes marriage to her. Jo and Jake have a crisis because she won't accept his motorcycle as a present, while she becomes nervous when she starts receiving phone calls and letters from her ex-husband who is in town trying to find her. Alison must find a date for an important business party, and ends up going out with one of Billy's friends which makes him jealous.
13 January 1993Jo's ex-husband, Charles, arrives and tries to tell her that he has quit drinking, while Jake has problems keeping his distance from Jo while her husband is there. Meanwhile, Jane and Sydney's personal conflict escalates to Sydney almost ruining a surprise birthday party for Jane, causing Jane to ask Sydney to leave. Also, Billy ends up getting dumped after agreeing to escort Alison to an important business party when she leaves with another guy.
27 January 1993Alison is promoted from receptionist to junior account executive and is aided by her new colleague Amanda Woodward, D&D's ambitious art director. Alison's first assignment is to find a photographer for an underwear account and hires Jo, who does a very professional job, but she shoots a few daring photos of the model which Alison knows won't please the client. Meanwhile, Michael sets Billy up on a blind date. But she becomes annoying and Billy tries to get rid of her. Terrence presents Rhonda with a house where he thinks they should live in after they are married. Rhonda wonders if she is ready for marriage and family life.
3 February 1993Amanda invites Alison and Billy over at her father's lake house for the weekend where she and Billy are instantly attracted to each other, making Alison worry that Amanda's relationship with him could impair working conditions at D&D. Meanwhile, Rhonda and Terrance reconcile with a little bit of Matt's help. Also, Jo and Jake's relationship finally heats up.
10 February 1993Alison continues to be jealous about Billy seeing Amanda, until her old boyfriend Keith, now divorced, suddenly shows up to ask her to reconcile. Meanwhile, Jake is laid off when the motorcycle repair shop he works in goes out of business. He looks into buying the shop for himself when Jo offers to help him buy the place with her divorce settlement money.
17 February 1993Alison seeks mental support from Keith after his car is hijacked from her at gunpoint. Amanda introduces Billy to her father Palmer, while Billy grows more distant from Alison and decides to move in with Amanda at her high-rise apartment in Marina Del Ray. Meanwhile, Rhonda becomes concerned after Terrence hires an interior decorator, who happens to be her ex-roommate Carrie, especially when she makes a move on him. Also, Jo shows Alison and Jake her special 9mm handgun she always keeps on her which makes them, especially Jake, uncomfortable.
3 March 1993Billy and Amanda's cohabitation is threatened by quarrels over their tastes, where as Billy is practical with their living arrangements, Amanda is possessive and is used to getting things done her way. Meanwhile, Alison decides to leave town and go live with Keith in Seattle after he takes a job there. Sam, an old friend of Michael's, makes a move on Jane, and when Michael accidentally finds out, he coldly blows off both Sam and Jane.
Season 1, Episode 26: End Game
24 March 1993After Billy's father suddenly dies from a massive heart attack, his older sister, Celeste, arrives in town and tries to convince him that his father really did love him. Alison arrives from Seattle for the funeral and finds that her home is in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Rhonda is still steaming with envy when Carrie continues to try to win Terrence's affections. Also, Michael helps Kimberly with her plumbing problem in her apartment and must resist temptation to her.
Season 1, Episode 27: The Test
31 March 1993Jake gets visited again by his ex-girlfriend Perry, who tells him that she has AIDS. Jake panics and tells Jo so they can both take an AIDS test to make sure they don't have it. Meanwhile, Billy lies a little on his job resume and gets a job as a column writer at a prestigious magazine called Escapades. Alison asks Lucy and Amanda if she can have her old job back at D&D. A sympathetic Lucy agrees, but Amanda does not approve of Alison's presence because she thinks that Alison has feelings for Billy.
7 April 1993Billy is quickly promoted to staff writer at Escapades Magazine and thinks that his boss and supervisor, Nancy Donner, is coming on to him. Amanda (jealous over Alison's blossoming relationship with Billy) starts to make Alison miserable at D&D by constantly putting her down and criticizing her work. Meanwhile, Michael finds himself drawn to Kimberly and considers something more than the friendship they have together.
21 April 1993Lucy announces that she is engaged to be married. During Lucy's office engagement party, Alison watches Amanda flirt with Billy and begins questioning her own feelings for him. Meanwhile, Michael and Kimberly continue their torrid affair, but when Alison accidentally finds out, she quarrels with Michael and herself over whether or not to tell Jane. Also, Jake has a problem with paying $8,400 to the IRS for his bike shop, until Jo offers him a less-than-legal shortcut.
Season 1, Episode 30: Carpe Diem
28 April 1993Alison is invited by Lucy to a business retreat in Palm Springs, where Billy follows her there wanting to end their platonic relationship with a hot night together. But the jealous Amanda learns of their plans and becomes determined to keep them apart... but fails. Meanwhile, Jake is upset when Jo has no time for him when she goes on more photo assignments and at nightclubs after work with a model named Karen and her friends. Also, Jane begins to suspect Michael's infidelity with Kimberly. But despite Jane's stern questioning about Michael if he's having an affair, he calmly denies cheating on her.
12 May 1993Billy learns that Amanda is pregnant with his baby and is torn between his responsibility to her and his feelings for Alison. Meanwhile, Jo and Jake are persuaded by Karen to go out with her for a night on the town, where she gets drunk and makes a pass on both of them. After finding out of his infidelity, Jane throws Michael out of their apartment and forces him to see a marriage counselor with her. But the marriage counseling soon reveals Michael's long-repressed sociopath side when he denies having any problems with his marriage to Jane.
26 May 1993In the two-hour season finale, Amanda's pending promotion to replace Lucy as vice-president of D&D is put in jeopardy because of her pregnancy, until she miscarries. Meanwhile, Alison's old boyfriend, Keith, inconspicuously returns to Los Angeles and when he sees her with Billy, he starts to send her threatening mail and attacks Billy. Alison starts drowning her fears and sorrows with hard liquor. Jo gets arrested for carrying a concealed weapon while she and Jake are trying to decide whether or not to live together after learning of the Melrose complex being put up for sale. After dinner at a Chinese restaurant, Rhonda and Terrence finally make up and they decide to go through with their wedding after all. Michael treats Jane to a romantic dinner and a weekend getaway where he tells her that he wants her forgiveness, but Kimberly makes it clear to Jane that she does not want to let go of Michael.
8 September 1993Amanda throws a party at Melrose to celebrate her purchase of the building and thus moves into Rhonda's vacant apartment after she leaves. At the same time, Amanda begins to turn her sights on Jake, much to Jo's anger and jealousy. Jane hands Michael divorce papers and at the urging of her friends, she decides to lay her hands on his future earnings, since she supported his college studies, while he shows Kimberly their new beach front house they plan to live in. Meanwhile, Alison receives more harassing phone calls from Keith and still doesn't suspect him, and when she continues to be with Billy, Keith hits himself on the head, claiming that it was the stalker.
15 September 1993Alison refuses to believe Billy's suspicions that Keith is her stalker, until she finally wises up when she goes to Keith's room to wish him goodbye, he becomes violent with her. Meanwhile, Matt loses his job when the halfway house he works in closes down, so he asks Michael to get him a job at the hospital as a social services person, while Michael decides to conceal his living arrangements with Kimberly. Amanda and Jo watch Jake in a motorcycle race and begin compete with each other for his attentions. Also, Sydney Andrews arrives back in town to help comfort Jane with her divorce.
Season 2, Episode 3: Revenge
22 September 1993A revenge-seeking Billy tracks Keith to Seattle and warns him to leave Alison alone. After Billy leaves, Keith kills himself while talking on the phone with Alison. While Michael tries to keep his living with Kimberly a secret, Sydney comes onto him and tries to win his affections by doing his laundry. Meanwhile, Amanda wants Jake to model for her and Jo in a new beer campaign for D&D.
Season 2, Episode 4: Fire Power
29 September 1993Jake's motorcycle shop burns down while he's out with Amanda and both the insurance agency and Jo are suspicious as to the cause of the fire. Meanwhile, Alison's drinking rapidly grows worse after Keith's suicide. She blows off Billy when he offers help and provokes conflicts at work with Amanda. Jane starts dating Michael's old friend Sam, but when Michael finds out from Sydney, he tries to beat Sam up. A female Russian émigré doctor named Katya Petrova, who works at the hospital, takes an interest in Matt.
6 October 1993When Jake realizes that he accidentally caused the fire, he gets upset and trashes Jo's apartment, forcing her to ask him to move out. During the divorce depositions, the evil and devious Michael tries to make Jane responsible for their breakup by saying that SHE was the one who had an affair with his friend Sam, while he lies about having an affair with Kimberly. Unfortunately for Michael, Kimberly isn't a very good liar and when she takes the witness stand, she easily breaks and confesses about her romantic relationship with him. Meanwhile, Matt is invited by Katya to her place for dinner, but he has to tell her that he's gay. Billy is assigned to do an article about a famous hotel, so he's invited over for the weekend and secretly brings Alison, while the hotel owner's daughter takes a strong interest in Billy.
13 October 1993After Jake moves back into his old apartment, Billy and Alison unsuccessfully try to get him and Jo back together. Conflicts arise with Jake, Jo, and Amanda during the photo shoot for the beer ad. On another dinner date, Katya offers Matt $1,000 to marry her in order to keep her and her 5-year-old daughter, Nikki, from being deported back to Russia. Michael finally signs the divorce papers, but he gets revenge by throwing a party and inviting all of his and Jane's friends. Kimberly becomes jealous and a drunk Sydney spends the night at their beach house. Meanwhile, Jane spends a romantic night with her divorce lawyer, Robert Wilson.
20 October 1993Alison travels to a remote ranch in northern California to meet with Steve McMillan, a reclusive entrepreneur, to land a big account with him. Jane assures Robert of her love and throws Sydney out of her apartment after finding out that she was at Michael's party. Sydney gets revenge on Jane by moving into another apartment at Melrose. While Kimberly is out of town on business, Sydney spends a romantic weekend with Michael at his beach house. Meanwhile, Matt accepts Katya's proposal, but not her money. At their reception party, a drunk Amanda continues to put the moves on Jake.
27 October 1993Alison becomes attracted to Steve when he arrives in Los Angeles to oversee D&D handling his business account. Billy gets jealous of all the time she spends working on the account with Steve. Later, Steve asks Jo out on a date. Amanda and Jake become much closer when she helps him get hired as manager at her father's auto shop. Amanda's father gives Jake $15,000 in advance, which he uses to pay back Jo. They argue when Jo refuses the money. Meanwhile, Michael continues his secret affair with Sydney, but when he tries to break up with her, she threatens him. Also, Jane turns down a weekend trip to Catalina Island with Robert because she thinks the relationship is moving too fast.
3 November 1993Kimberly learns first-hand of Michael's affair with Sydney when she walks in on them in bed together, breaks up with Michael, and then tips Jane about it, which results in Jane shunning Sydney and Kimberly moving out of Michael's place. Meanwhile, the INS wants to pay Matt and Katya a visit, so she and Nikki have to move in with him right on the day when Matt has a date with Joel, an art gallery owner. When Joel finds out of the arrangement, he breaks up with Matt, but at least the INS buys Matt and Katya's story. Also, Jo and Steve continue dating while Alison is uncomfortable about seeing them together.
10 November 1993Billy, Alison, and Jo are invited by Steve to his ranch for the weekend. Jo tells Steve she wants to slow down their relationship because she still has feelings for Jake. Steve breaks up with her. Later, back in L.A., Alison and Steve admit their feelings for each other and kiss. Meanwhile, Jake suspects that Amanda's father, Palmer, is involved in wrongdoings at the garage when he keeps ignoring questions Jake asks him about strange money transactions and invoices that he has seen. Jake also tries to deepen his relationship with Amanda by asking her questions about her childhood. Also, Michael tries to win Kimberly back, or at least keep her working at the hospital.
17 November 1993Michael and Kimberly finally make up and she accepts his marriage proposal while driving home from dinner, but they get into a serious auto accident and both end up in the hospital in critical condition with Katya attending to both of them. In her diagnosis, Michael suffers a serious back injury and is paralyzed below the waist, while Kimberly falls into a coma after suffering a critical head wound. Doubtful if Kimberly will make it, Michael convinces a reluctant Matt to change his blood alcohol test results so he won't be charged with DUI. Meanwhile, Jane and Jo give Alison a hard time over her attraction for Steve, while Billy finally learns of her and Steve's blossoming relationship after reading her computer e-mail. Sydney, now working at Shooters, is invited by rowdy co-worker, named Ellen, to a party in the Hollywood Hills hosted by Lauren Ethridge, a notorious Hollywood madam, where she tries to recruit Sydney.
24 November 1993Jake learns that Palmer is making money by illegally selling reproduced cars as originals. He is put in a dilemma when he is confronted by FBI agents who tell him to co-operate with them in nailing Palmer. If Jake refuses, the FBI will nail him instead. Meanwhile, Billy pressures Alison to end her connection to Steve. She refuses and instead flies to San Francisco for a press conference. Steve follows her and they have Thanksgiving dinner together. Sydney turns down Lauren's offer to become a hooker, but agrees to attend her Thanksgiving feast. At the hospital, Michael struggles to recover from his back injury while Kimberly's mother arrives to take her comatose body back to her home in Cleveland.
1 December 1993After finding out that Steve was in San Francisco with Alison, Billy breaks up with her and becomes roommates with Jake. Sydney accepts Lauren's job offer and begins working as a hooker. Sydney is horrified when a client wants to use sex toys and storms out. Lauren is furious and warns Sydney never to do it again. She suggests that Sydney use cocaine to loosen up. Katya leaves Matt with Nikki while she goes to Russia to visit her ailing mother. Meanwhile, Jake is still helping the FBI in their plans to arrest Palmer and begins to avoid Amanda. Michael, now confined to a wheelchair, is depressed after hearing that Kimberly has died, and feels worse when he is sent to a seedy recovery hospital. Jane feels sorry for him and brings him home to her place to recover... temporarily.
15 December 1993Billy and his magazine colleague, Celia Morales, get assigned an article on video dating. Alison gets a jeep as a gift from Steve and goes to visit him on his ranch where she tells him that they can't see each other anymore and he leaves for Europe. Meanwhile, Palmer is finally arrested by FBI agents upon a confession he makes to a wired Jake about his business practices, while Amanda (still loyal to her father) retaliates by evicting Jake from the apartment building. Jane cares for the crippled Michael while Sydney takes an occasion to torment him when he's fallen down and can't get up. At the end, Billy and Amanda meet for a talk about losing the love of their lives and end up sleeping together.
22 December 1993On Christmas Eve, Alison tries to make up with Billy, who begins having feelings for her again. Jane leaves Michael in the care of a tough nurse to keep him away from her and Robert. Meanwhile, Sydney continues her sordid lifestyle, until she sees the light after visiting a church and tells Lauren that she has decided to quit being an prostitute. Matt throws a Christmas party for the residents when Katya phones from Russia saying that she has decided to stay there after all and Nikki has to join her.
5 January 1994Jo goes to her 10-year high school reunion in San Francisco and meets Reed Carter, a former boyfriend, who tells her that he was imprisoned for drug trafficking. He tells her that he was only taking the fall for someone else, and she believes him. Meanwhile, while waiting tables at Shooter's, a man offers Sydney a large amount of money to sleep with him. Even though she had vowed to quit prostitution, Sydney accepts. The man turns out to be an undercover police officer and Sydney is arrested. Michael bails her out of jail and demands her help in breaking up Jane and Robert or he will tell everyone how she's really making her money. An angry and jealous Amanda finally evicts Jake and starts making Alison's life miserable at work, until she meets with her father who confesses to her about his illegal business before he leaves town... as a fugitive.
12 January 1994Evil once again triumphs over good when Sydney hires a prostitute to seduce Robert during a vacation in San Diego and videotape it. Michael then mails the videotape to Jane. She is shocked and throws Robert out of her apartment. Reed suddenly shows up out of the blue at Melrose and invites Jo to a romantic dinner to rekindle their long ago affair. Meanwhile, Amanda and Jake reunite and go on a Hawaiian vacation together. While Amanda is gone, Alison takes over an account of hers and proves to their boss, D&D President Bruce Teller, she can do it better. When Amanda hears the news, she feels threatened by Alison's new killer-instincts.
26 January 1994When Michael, who is now walking with a cane, rejects Sydney, she tells Jane that he blackmailed her into setting Robert up. Sydney also tells Jane about the prostitution charges she's facing. Jane promises to stand by her. Michael moves back to the beach house and becomes dependent on pills to help with his back pain. Matt goes on a date with Jeffrey Lindley, who later tells him that he's a Navy Lieutenant and has not come out of the closet yet. Meanwhile, Jo becomes jealous when Reed asks Amanda to help him buy a yacht for his fishing charter business. Billy's co-worker, Celia, moves in with him and Alison while her apartment is being fumigated. At the same time, she and Billy are in an editing contest at work to get a promotion.
2 February 1994Michael tries to make up with Jane, but he gets a restraining order against his phone calls to her and he starts becoming addicted to his painkiller pills. Eventually, Sydney finds him unconscious on the floor of his house after taking an overdose of pills. Meanwhile, Reed finally buys his boat with financial help from Amanda, with Jake as a mechanic, while Jo suspects something wrong about Reed. After wining the editing contest, Billy gets a big promotion for a editing job in New York City and wants Alison to come with him, but she wants to stay in Los Angeles. Also, Matt confronts Jeffrey and they decide to change his life for the better.
9 February 1994Matt helps Jeffrey in coming out which results in Jeffrey getting a transfer to the East Coast and they must bid each other a proper farewell. Sydney learns the secret about Matt changing Michael's blood-alcohol test after an investigation when Michael inadvertently blurts it out while he is in delirium. Meanwhile, Jo again gets curious about Reed and discovers the drug contents under the trap door in his boat. When Reed sees this, he ties her up and sets sail. Billy and Alison practice their long distance relationship over the phone, but when she arrives in New York to surprise Billy, she gets an even bigger surprise when she sees him flirting with another woman.
Season 2, Episode 21: Swept Away
16 February 1994Sydney starts blackmailing Michael with the blood-alcohol-changing scam by moving in with him and announcing herself as his new girlfriend to his colleagues at the hospital. Billy and Alison break up over her not wanting to live in New York, but he buys a ring and returns to L.A. to propose to her. Meanwhile, Reed takes Jo, against her will, on a cruise for his drug smuggling operations, where she eventually breaks free and shoots him after a brutal fistfight.
23 February 1994Jo is arrested for Reed's murder and tries to tell the skeptical police and prosecutor that she was not involved in Reed's drug dealing while Amanda hires a professional lawyer for Jo to have the charges dropped. Alison accepts Billy's marriage proposal, but a jealous Amanda tells Alison and Jake about her Christmas Eve night with Billy in which Jake beats Billy up, were as Alison takes the news much cooler. Meanwhile, Sydney continues to make Michael's life miserable and even spends a lot of his money to redecorate the beach house.
2 March 1994After Amanda points out to Alison that her engagement ring is quite cheep, she and Billy go shopping for a real diamond ring. Jo realizes that she's pregnant with Reed's baby and considers whether or not to have an abortion, while Jake cancels out on a dinner date with Amanda to be with Jo. Meanwhile, Sydney plans hers and Michael's wedding by mailing invitations, gets into a fistfight with Jane over wearing her old wedding dress and scorns her mother who tries to talk her out of it. At the ceremony on the beach, Matt is the best man (and the only one in attendance) while Michael decides to murder Sydney afterwords to shut her up permanently.
16 March 1994A suspicious Matt sets out to find Michael, who is on his honeymoon camping trip with Sydney, waiting for the perfect time to murder her. But Michael changes his mind of pushing Sydney off a cliff when he discovers that he really loves her. When Matt tells Jane the secret about changing Michael's blood alcohol test results the night of the car accident, she uses this to blackmail Sydney and Michael to stay together. Meanwhile, Jo keeps seeing Reed in her mind, so she visits his grave and makes up with his ghost when he appears to her. Jake finally makes up with Amanda and decides to buy Reed's boat to run his own charter service, while Alison decides not to have sex with Billy again until after their wedding.
23 March 1994Jane learns that her grandmother has died and goes to her home town in Chicago for the funeral to receive $100,000 in inheritance to start her own clothing business. But when Michael finds out about the money, he and Sydney go after it. Eventually, Amanda intervenes and offers everyone a compromise: Jane will keep the money in exchange for Michael to be a silent partner in her clothing design business. Jo meets a model named Gregory, but he leaves her when he finds out that she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Alison and Billy travel to her home town in Wisconsin to visit her parents and to plan her father's surprise 50th birthday party, where Billy discovers that she has not told her parents about their engagement.
6 April 1994Amanda hires Ted Ramsey, a charming young man as the building maintenance person. But when Amanda discovers Ted snooping around her bedroom, she fires him. Meanwhile, Alison starts having nightmares of being abused as a child and starts seeing a psychologist without telling Billy. Amanda intervenes in Jane and Michael's fight over her inheritance money and makes a deal with them: Michael will be an investor in Jane's newly opened clothing business in order for her to keep her grandmother's money. Also, Sydney hears that Lauren Etheridge got arrested and arranges to take over her prostitution business.
20 April 1994Alison starts going out with her psychologist, Dr. Miller, and Billy believes that he's trying to come onto her. Meanwhile, the voyeur Ted, continues hiding out in the crawlspaces of the Melrose complex and spying on Amanda. When Amanda and Jo discover Ted, they tie him up and menace him with knives. While Sydney continues running her own call girl business, Michael finds the name of his supervisor, Dr. Levin, in Sydney's client book and uses this information to blackmail Levin to appoint himself as the new chief resident and gets Matt a promotion.
27 April 1994Kimberly Shaw returns, practically from the dead, after spending months in a coma from the car accident and moves back into the beach house, prompting Michael to throw Sydney out. But it becomes apparent that Kimberly is not the same person as Michael knew for she hide a gruesome scar on her head from the car accident. Meanwhile, Alison's parents hire a wedding consultant, but Alison and Billy fire her when she doesn't respect the pair's wishes at all. During a D&D photo shoot, Amanda forces Jo to fire a model, named Sarah Owens. Bruce Teller investigates and discovers that the model happens to be from Amanda's long-estranged mother's agency, Models Inc. Amanda's mother, Hillary Michaels, tries to make up with Amanda, but only gets scorn because Amanda still bitterly resents Hillary for walking out on her and her father without a saying a word over 20 years ago.
4 May 1994At her mother's request, Amanda reluctantly hires Chas Russell, Hillary's young fiancé, as a junior executive, in which he starts wooing Amanda and slacks off, leaving all his work with Alison. After being shunned by everyone, Sydney moves back into her old apartment at Melrose and continues operating her call-girl business. But Sydney's problems only get worse when Lauren is released from jail and goes back on their business arrangement when she demands a profit margin of $15,000 from Sydney as payback for running her business. Meanwhile, Sarah Owens goes on another photo shoot with Jo on Jake's boat and when they come back late, Sarah's abusive boyfriend, Hank, beats her and Jo too when she intervenes, which prompts Sarah to settle with Jo for the time being.
11 May 1994Sydney gets a job as a stripper to get the remaining $5,000 that Lauren wants, but then when Michael takes Billy, Jake and some other friends to the strip club for Billy's bachelor party, they meet Sydney in one of her on-stage appearances and feeling totally humiliated, she quits. Jake comforts Jo and Sarah while tracking down Hank, much to Amanda's increasing jealousy. Meanwhile, Kimberly (who is revealed to be a homicidal psychopath) lashes out at Jane when she thinks she is cheating Michael out her design company profits, and begins a secret plan of revenge against Michael when she successfully schemes for him to lose his position as chief resident at Whilshire. Chas continues wooing Amanda and when Alison blabs that she saw Chas and Amanda kissing, it results in Amanda firing Chas, Jake shunning Amanda, and Alison incurring Amanda's full wrath.
18 May 1994In the two-hour cliff-hanging season final, Chas sues Amanda and D&D for sexual harassment and all seems bad for her in court especially when no one, not even her mother or Alison, believes Amanda's innocent pleads, until Hillary learns the truth about Chas and his intentions. Jake is torn between his feelings for Jo and Amanda. Meanwhile, Matt hits on Rob, Billy's best friend and best man of his wedding who's also gay, much to Billy's shock. When Alison finally realizes that her nightmares were about her father sexually molesting her, she flees from the wedding (and her father) and goes to live with her older sister, Meredith, in San Francisco. Sydney, tries to make money as a street hooker and gets beaten up by three lowlife street walkers. She ends up in the hospital which Kimberly as her attending physician. Kimberly strangely acting sentimental, gives Sydney the rest of the money she need to pay off Lauren and in exchange, she recruits Sydney to help her kill Michael. Also, Jane begins looking for a new business investor and finds a certain Chris Marchette, a Austrialian business man to help her boost business for her clothing line. At the same time, Kimberly and Syndey's revenge against Michael begins when when drug and leave him in a garage with a car running, until Jane intervenes. But the next morning, an unseen person driving Jane's car hits Michael...
12 September 1994In San Francisco, Alison encourages Meredith to press charges against their father who is stalking them. Billy learns where Alison is after a talk with her mother and arrives at Meredith's apartment and fights off the sinister Mr. Parker who threatens both of his daughters. When Alison returns to LA and tells Billy of her intention to sue her father for emotional damages, Billy leaves her for good. Meanwhile, Michael wakes up in the hospital with amnesia and can't tell who ran him over, while Jane gets arrested as a suspect and tries to secure her release by placing the blame on Sydney. But the real culprit is Kimberly who places the blond wig she wore that day while driving Jane's car in Sydney's apartment and tips the police about it. After Jake breaks up with Amanda, he saves a woman named Brittany from drowning in the marina and they get close fast.
19 September 1994After Sydney gets arrested for the attempted murder of Michael, Jane calls on their father who hires a lawyer for Sydney's defense. But Sydney soon learns that they want her to plead guilty to accept a plea bargain and nobody, not even the skeptical Jane or Mr. Andrews, believes her true claims that it was Kimberly who tried to kill Michael and framed her. Jane eventually asks their father to have Sydney committed to an insane asylum after mistakenly thinking that Sydney is murderously crazy and out of control. Meanwhile, Kimberly brings the amnesiac Michael home at their beach house to care for him. Alison goes to court against her father in his home town, and even names her mother in the lawsuit after learning that she knew about Mr. Parker's sexual abusing their daughters, but kept quiet out of denial. But when Meredith refuses to help Alison after seeing that Mr. Parker is a well-known and respected person in the community, their suit fails. Back in Los Angeles, Amanda takes advantage of Alison's absence to manipulate Billy for professional gain when she asks his help to get inside tips to get an ad account from the magazine company where he works, which results in his dismissal from the agency. Also, Brittany continues hanging out with Jake on his boat at the marina while he tries to keep distant to her, unaware that she has a hidden agenda.
26 September 1994After a slow start, Jake begins a torrid affair with Brittany, who is finally revealed to be a contract killer hired by Amanda's revenge-seeking father to murder Jake in revenge for losing his business. Meanwhile, Sydney is committed to a lunatic asylum and suffers abuse there. When Jane offers Sydney a conditional parole only if she confesses to attempting to kill Michael, Sydney, desperate to get out of the place, accepts. Kimberly's attempts to isolate Michael (so that he won't regain his memory) fail when Jane and Matt visit him to get him to sign some papers, where Matt confronts Kimberly with being the one that tried to kill Michael after discovering that she wears wigs to hide the horrible scar on her head from the car accident involving Michael. But Jane is skeptic to Matt's claims about Kimberly. Reed's parents visit Jo and ask questions about her and Reed. Also, tensions rise when Alison returns to Los Angeles and learns she'll be working with Billy at D&D after Amanda gives him a job as the new copywriter. Both Billy and Amanda are outright hostile to Alison, (he for walking away from their wedding, and she for the Chas lawsuit) and they both individually tell Alison to watch her step for they look forward to giving her a very hard time at work.
3 October 1994Sydney moves in with Jane and gets a job as her personal assistant and more than expected attention from Jane's new Australian beau and business partner, Chris Marchette. When Sydney gets in contact with the amnesiac Michael, he regains his memory and confronts Kimberly about being the one that tried to kill him. Meanwhile, Palmer approaches Amanda and urges her to hide him while he gets his money from the bank so he can leave the country while Brittany rigs Jake's boat with explosives. Amanda starts making Alison's live miserable at work again when she fuels her conflict with Billy after he moves out of Alison's place. Jo meets with Reed's parents again whose kindness turns to hostility when they sue her for custody of her unborn baby. At the end, Palmer and Brittany kidnap Jake on his boat where (not surprisingly) she double crosses both of them by shooting Palmer dead, then blows up Jake's boat up at sea and fleeing in a motorboat into the night with all of Palmer's money for herself.
10 October 1994Amanda sees the message left by her father and calls the FBI for help, while the Coast Guard finds a half-dead Jake floating at sea on some of the wreckage of his boat and he returns to Melrose to break the news to Amanda of her father's death. When Jake has hard time to accept this turn of events, he hits the road. Despite Matt's warning that Kimberly is dangerous, Michael decides to stay with her and divorce Sydney. Jane then asks Sydney to get Michael to give his share of Mancini Designs to her. But Michael tricks Sydney into accepting only $5,000 and leaving the rest of his assets to him. Meanwhile, Billy hires a new secretary, named Elizabeth Wyatt, who's the splitting-image of a younger Alison and they being dating, much to Alison's increasing jealousy.
17 October 1994On the road, Jake stops in a certain town to visit his real father Vince Conners, a wealthy upper class businessman, who won't accept Jake as a son because he never told his current wife about him. Back in Los Angeles, Michael and Kimberly try to impress the hospital's new chief of staff Dr. Peter Burns, a ruthless, no-nonsense man who makes it clear that he will not accept any trouble from anybody in hospital procedures. Meanwhile, after Alison complains to Amanda about Elizabeth being unprofessional, Amanda outright fires Elizabeth instead of reprimanding her, which fuels the conflict between Alison and Billy. Depressed over her life, Alison goes to a bar and meets a new man for herself, an architect named Mitch. But she leaves him when he is only interested in sex. Also, Sydney doesn't know what to do when Chris starts harassing her by making obscene comments, phone calls and sending her nasty gifts.
24 October 1994Jake returns to Los Angeles where he receives a $50,000 reward by the FBI for helping them in the Palmer Woodward case after the arrest of Brittany, in which he uses the money to buys Shooters. Jane refuses to believe Sydney that Chris is harassing her, even when Jake confirms it after witnessing one of Chris' lurid comments he makes to Sydney. Jane (at Chris' urging), throws Sydney out of her apartment and fires her. Chris makes things worse when he tells Jane and Sydney's parole officer a fabricated story about Sydney harassing HIM, and then threatens Sydney by sending her back to the asylum if she won't have sex with him. Susan Madsen, a restaurant chef and Alison's old college roommate, moves in with her and captures the attention of Billy. Meanwhile, Peter won't allow Michael and Kimberly to appear in an ad campaign for D&D, but when he meets Amanda for the first time, he changes his mind fast. Also, Jo becomes worried about her financial situation before the coming custody battle.
Season 3, Episode 8: Love Reeks
31 October 1994Chris proposes marriage to Jane and she accepts in which he urges her to drive to Las Vegas for a quickie wedding. Sydney learns about this and knowing that the two-faced, sociopath Chris is just a gigolo after Jane's money, she tips off Michael and Kimberly about it in which they follow Jane and Chris to Vegas to break it up. In Vegas, Kimberly persuades Michael to get married themselves instead. Back in Los Angeles, Jake comforts Sydney after hearing about her terrifying run-in with Chris and gives her a job at Shooters at a waitress. Meanwhile, Susan cancels her plans with Alison to go on a date with Billy and when Alison finds out, she starts drinking again. Also, Jo ends up in the hospital after breaking down in pain due to the extreme stress of the custody suit.
7 November 1994After Michael gets fired by Peter for leaving his job at the hospital without notice to stop Jane and Chris' wedding in Vegas, he asks Amanda to put in a good word for him with Peter to get his job back, in exchange that he must turn over his half of Mancini Designs to D&D. But Michael yet again gets the last laugh again when he blackmails Amanda not to take over his share of Jane's business with an incriminating auto tape of Amanda bad-mouthing Peter's lifestyle. Sydney thinks her romantic night with Jake was a mistake, but he insists on a relationship. Meanwhile, Alison makes up with Susan and asks her to stay, but when she spots her getting intimate with Billy, she gets drunk, insulting and aggressive. Matt runs into his former lover, Jeffrey, who later tells Matt that he has left the Navy because he is HIV positive. After Bruce Teller, the president of D&D, embarrasses Amanda at a business party when he publicly accuses her of unauthorized account actions, Peter secretly suggests to Amanda that she take things at D&D into her own hands.
14 November 1994Alison goes over the deep end when she realizes that Billy and Susan now live together and begins dating record producer and party king Zach Phillips. Jo's custody battle for her unborn baby begins where her lawyer, Mr. Waxman, believes he shouldn't discredit the Carters, but show that Jo's a fit mother. But all turns bad for Jo when she and her friends are raked over on the witness stand with incidents from their pasts. Meanwhile, Kimberly wants to get pregnant, but her gynecologist tells her that she can't bear children. Matt ponders if can make a commitment with Jeffrey. After Bruce suffers a mild heart attack, Peter persuades Amanda to begin the takeover of D&D.
21 November 1994Alison keeps hanging out with Zach while continuing to deny that she has a drinking problem. When Billy and Susan invite Alison over for Thanksgiving to reconcile, she shows up drunk in which Alison gets so insulting that they force her to leave. Jake is visited by an extortionist and gets beaten up when he refuses to pay. Sydney investigates and becomes horrified to discover who's behind it: a revenge-seeking Chris who once again threatens Sydney that if she will not have sex with him, he'll have his thugs murder not only Jake, but Jane as well. Sydney reluctantly accepts the deal. While Kimberly is searching for alternatives in becoming a mother, she meets Jo and proposes to her a solution for the court verdict: they will fake the baby's death so Jo can leave town to raise it on her own. Meanwhile, Amanda discovers that Peter has begun taking over D&D by anonymously buying large chucks of D&D's stock. Also, Matt's parents invite him over at their house for Thanksgiving dinner, but they want to introduce Jeffrey only as a friend to the rest of the family.
28 November 1994Alison is arrested for drunk driving after hitting a boy. Alison then unsuccessfully tries to win back Billy, but she's more lucky in court. Jane gets $500,000 for a business expansion and give Chris (whom Jane still trusts) the job with handling the money. But Chris instead steals the money and kidnaps Sydney. Meanwhile, Amanda shatters Bruce's plan to merge D&D with a big advertising company when she publishes the information, so Bruce fires her. Kimberly's plan to be a mother takes off when she finds a stillborn baby at the hospital, so when Jo finally goes into labor and gives birth to a baby boy at the beach house, they substitute the stillborn for Jo's baby so they can get rid of the Carter's lawyer. But Jo soon learns of Kimberly's true plans the hard way.
5 December 1994Jo desperately tries to get her baby back from Kimberly, but since it's officially dead, she can't prove that it's hers. Meanwhile, Sydney enjoys being Chris' captive in Las Vegas. But when Sydney finally learns that the money Chris's spending and gambling away is Jane's, she calls on Jake for help. Michael, Jane and Jake fly to Las Vegas to rescue Sydney. But Chris slips away with the rest of Jane's money, leaving behind Sydney who surprisingly gets lashed out by the paranoid Jane whom accuses her of being in league with Chris, and even Jake is skeptic to Sydney's abduction story. Only Michael is silently amused by all this and tells Jane a big, plain, "I told you so" about Chris. Back in Los Angeles, Bruce creates a new management team which includes Alison, but when the takeover of D&D is complete, the majority holders (led by Peter) install Amanda as president and as a result, Bruce is dismissed and kills himself. Billy is promoted to vice president of accounts and his first assignment from the now tyrannical Amanda is to fire Alison. But an intervention of Billy, Susan and Matt finally convinces Alison that she needs help.
12 December 1994Jo persuades Michael to do a blood test on the baby Kimberly has which convinces him that it's Jo's child, but Michael wants to keep the baby anyway. Peter's attitude towards Amanda changes into possessive and manipulative, so she decides to cool down their relationship. Meanwhile, Alison checks herself into Twin Oaks rehab clinic in order to prevent Billy from firing her and meets Terry Parsons, an NFL player and recovering alcoholic/sex addict who persuades her to face her troubles when she continues to deny to herself and the others in group therapy that she's an alcoholic. Susan finally leaves Billy for good after he tells her that he still has feelings for Alison, and Jake does likewise with Sydney when she confesses to him about her sexual deals with Chris to prevent him from harming him or Jane. Also, Matt asks Jeffrey to move in with him, but Jeffrey's still unsure about it.
19 December 1994Jo goes to Matt for help and he proves the baby theft to Peter with gathered hospital records and he forces Michael to give Jo her baby back. But Kimberly goes crazy about the event and makes a certain phone call to the Carters. In a warped-version of 'A Chirstmas Carol', Amanda insults Bruce's sister who asks for financial support. Later, Bruce's ghost appears before Amanda in her dreams and shows Amanda her lives of Christmas past, present and future if she continues living with her ruthless attitude. Bruce's ghost also tells Amanda to break up with Peter because he has another mistress and will murder Amanda to take control of D&D for himself. Meanwhile, Jeffrey decides to enjoy life and buys Matt expensive gifts. Matt tells Jeffrey that he can't cope with this style of living and decides to end their relationship for good. In rehab, Terry helps Alison face her drinking problem and declares his love for her.
2 January 1995Jo hires Emily, a charming Englishwoman, as a nanny to look after baby son, Austin, while she organizes her departure from L.A. But Emily is not all as she seems. Alison returns from Twin Oaks, but doesn't lose her connection to Terry and ignores Billy's offer of help. Meanwhile, Peter surprises Amanda with the employment of Caitlin Mills, an equally ruthless efficiency expert who decides to improve D&D's efficiency by firing everyone she dislikes, except for Billy whom she finds attractive and Alison, for Caitlin too is a recovering alcoholic. Also, Michael heats up his personal cold war with Peter after he finds out about illegal kickbacks that Peter is receiving from a long closed account.
16 January 1995In this two-hour episode, Jo recruits Jake to help her search for her missing baby after Emily, who's working for the Carters, snatches it away. But when Jo finds the Carters, they shoot her down. After Jo gets a threatening visit from the evil Mrs. Carter, she finally realizes that she can never win this war and makes a painful choice to give her baby up for adoption. Meanwhile, Peter and Caitlin are revealed to be having an affair in which they plot to get Amanda fired by tampering with her drug tests so they can have D&D all for themselves. When news of a rent increase circulates at Melrose, Sydney welcomes Rikki, a mysterious young woman to help her in paying the increased rent, and who introduces Sydney to her guru, Martin Abbott, a motivational speaker. Elsewhere, Alison accompanies Terry to a football game in Miami and gets engaged with him. Amanda asks Billy and Matt's help to prove her innocence from drug charges, but a desperate move, Peter makes an attempt to kill Amanda by having surgery performed on her, but Michael saves her in the nick of time and Peter is arrested, and Amanda reclaims her throne at D&D ousting Caitlin. Also, Alison breaks off her engagement with Terry when he falls off the wagon
23 January 1995Kimberly becomes nervous when the hospital's new chief-of-staff, Dr. Calvin Hobbs, issues a psychology evaluation for the employees because she knows about her psychotic tendencies. So, she resorts to hiring two thugs to beat up Matt in order to avoid taking the evaluation since Matt is coordinating the tests. Meanwhile, an unusually pail and emaciated Amanda starts giving everyone a hard time at work. Billy thinks she looks sick and asks Michael to inconspicuously examine her during a formal charity ball. Alison's sister, Meredith, arrives in town for a visit and falls for Billy. Sydney begins participating in Martin's activities, much to Jane's disapproval while at the same time, Sydney gets blamed for a series of incidents at Melrose, starting when Jo's apartment is broken into and all her camera equipment is stolen. Then, Jane's apartment is broken into and her dress designs are ruined. Then, Shooters is broken into and trashed and Jake blames Sydney, despite her watertight alibi. But the real culprit is Rikki who (acting under orders from Martin Abbott) is plotting to turn all of Sydney's friends against her to draw her closer to them.
6 February 1995Rikki and Martin convince Sydney to leave Melrose and come live with them at their desert retreat which turns out to be a polygamous religious cult. When Sydney decides to leave, they lock her up against her will. Meanwhile, Michael convinces Amanda, after another diagnosis, that she has Hodgkin's disease (lymph cancer). Amanda wants to keep her condition a secret and ignores Michael's request that she reduce her workload. Detective Jonathan Rawlings, a gay cop, questions Matt about his beating and when Matt tells him of his suspicions about Kimberly, Rawlings shows his true colors when he physically threatens her.
13 February 1995At Martin Abbott's desert retreat, Sydney tries to convince him and Rikki of her loyalties to them while she waits for another opportunity to try to escape, while Jane and Jake set out to rescue Sydney after Jane makes a background check on Martin and learns that Sydney's in a notorious cult. Back in Los Angeles, Amanda, afraid that she might lose her iron grip of power on D&D, doesn't stop working during chemotherapy, while Kimberly begins to doubt that Michael's interests in Amanda are strictly professional, while Billy also confides in Alison with Amanda's health. Meanwhile, Detective Rawlings continues hanging out with Matt and to please him about what he does for a living, he takes Jo on a photo tour through downtown L.A. where she photographs him beating up a suspected drug dealer.
20 February 1995Michael takes Amanda to New York City to meet with a famous oncologist in order to get her into a research program, while a jealous Kimberly tries to sabotage Michael's plans. With Amanda absent, the situation at D&D grows from bad to worse when Alison and Billy lose a client. Alison inadvertently makes matters even worse when she tells the client to stay by confiding in him about Amanda's illness. But the client leaves anyway, and more clients do so after word of Amanda's illness spreads through D&D. After Jo's apartment is broken into and trashed for the photos she took of Rawlings murdering the drug dealer, she and Matt hesitate on what to do. When Rawlings thinks that Matt and Jo will expose him to Internal Affairs, he holds both of them hostage in Matt's apartment to get them to talk to look for the photos. Meanwhile, Sydney thanks Jane and Jake for rescuing her from Martin Abbott's cult, but to her surprise neither one still does not want to associate with Sydney again, and worse still, neither Jane or Jake will apologize to Sydney for thinking she was responsible for the incidents for they still mistakingly think Sydney is capable of doing such things. When Sydney tells Jake that she wants to get back together with him, he rebuffs her by saying that his love interest has moved to, of all people, Jane.
27 February 1995Michael takes Amanda with him to a ranch in Santa Barbara for a few days of relaxation and to attempt to woo her. But when Kimberly accidentally finds out, she follows them there and threatens both of them with bodily harm. When Alison delivers Amanda's entry for an advertising contest, the entry coordinator, Brooke Armstrong, convinces Alison to enter the contest herself in which she befriends her and offers Brooke a job at D&D. Meanwhile, Sydney reverts back to her devious personality by declaring an all-out war when Jane refuses to back off from seeing Jake. Sydney then successfully sabotages Jake and Jane's romantic evening by going out and making Jake rescue her from rowdy patrons at a sleazy and dangerous biker bar.
13 March 1995After Alison wins the advertising contest, she's appointed as president of D&D, ousting Amanda. But unable to keep up with the frantic work schedule, Alison immediately adopts Amanda's ruthless and aggressive attitude which surprises even Billy when Alison seduces him and then discards him the morning after. Meanwhile, Michael decides to sue the city for $250,000 in matters of his road accident from Kimberly, so he sends her to another town and invites a very sickly and vulnerable Amanda over at the beach house to care for her and even has her pose as his wife to a visiting insurance agent. Jake and Jo travel to his home town in Washington state for his mother's funeral where they meet his older half-brother Jess, an auto mechanic who's still angry and bitter at Jake ever since he ran away from home at age 15 without saying a word, leaving Jess to care for their drunkard mother.
20 March 1995While Amanda is in the hospital for continue cancer treatments, Kimberly tries to bind Michael with the $100,000 settlement they receive from the city over their car accident. But Michael tricks Kimberly by having her sign divorce papers and declares his love for Amanda. Kimberly is devastated by this turn of events and decides to end it all. Meanwhile, Jess arrives in Los Angeles and surprises Jake by moving in with him and asks to give him a job a Shooters as the bartender in order to begin a new life for himself. But Sydney becomes suspicious to Jess' true motives when she sees Jess snooping around Jake's office. But eventually, Sydney decides not to say anything because she knows that nobody, not even Jake, will believe her because of her (misundersood) reputation as a sociopath and a compulsive, pathological liar. Brooke shows Billy her father's mansion as a potential photo shoot for D&D, while Alison constantly argues with Jo over the photo layout. At the end, Brooke secretly meets with Amanda who recruits her for the coming war against Alison to take back her title of president at D&D.
3 April 1995Michael finds Kimberly unconscious after she tries to kill herself by swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills and waits for her to die. But they are discovered when Sydney walks in on them. Sydney then blackmails both Michael and Kimberly for $50,000 each to help each other in fighting against the other in matters of the incident. Meanwhile, Jake competes with Jess for Jo's interests. The devious Brooke starts Amanda's plan to help her take over D&D when she manipulates Alison to give Amanda a job at the agency, and then begins to disrupt Alison's work schedule, while she also sets her sights on Billy, despite knowing about Alison's feelings for him.
10 April 1995For a new account, Amanda persuades Alison to use an alternate approach, knowing the client will hate it. Brooke continues to secretly peruse Billy and finally scores with him. Meanwhile, Kimberly enters a remote feminist paramilitary training camp called "No More Victims" with the aim to make herself strong against those who have hurt her. Jess continues to try to win Jo's affections by playing the poor victim to Jake's suspicions, and Jo buys it. Sydney joins Jane's Mancini Designs management as president with her recently acquired money, much to Jane's disgust. Also, Amanda find herself being lusted after by Michael who won't take "no" for an answer.
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1 May 1995Sydney makes a suspicious deal with two new business partners for Mancini Designs for a new pantie hose. With Brooke's help, Amanda launches a successful coup against Alison by making her look incompetent to D&D's board of directors which results in Alison's dismissal and Amanda immediately taking over her position. Meanwhile, Michael threatens Amanda when he receives a restraining order from her. Kimberly get complimented out of the camp when she breaks her drill instructor's arm and returns as an unstable-as-ever person, vowing to get back at Michael for abandoning her. Matt meets the hospital's new plastic surgeon, Paul Graham, who is also gay and invites Matt out on a date. Also, Jo feels guilty about seeing Jess behind Jake's back.
8 May 1995Jake throws out Jess of his apartment after he hears about him and Jo being romantically involved. But Jess later runs into and hires a trio of lowlife hit men to kill Jake in revenge for his humiliation. Matt becomes angry at Paul after he learns that Paul is married. However, Paul keeps telling Matt what he will leave his wife and wants to keep dating him. Meanwhile, Kimberly begins a new plan of revenge against Michael when she persuades Amanda to sue him for malpractice. With Alison gone from D&D, Brooke has her equally devious father, Hayley, offer Alison a job as far away as possible so she can have Billy to all to herself. After finding out that the new pantie hose design is a drug smuggling operation, Sydney is pressured by a undercover cop to resign from Mancini Designs, and flee from Los Angeles, where Jane gets the last laugh who reveals it all to be a scam.
15 May 1995The psychotic Kimberly continues her plan of revenge when she successfully frames Michael for stalking Amanda, and later had him arrested for beating her up. While Jake is in the hospital recovering from the shooting, Jess takes over Shooters for himself, while Jo refuses to believe Jake's accusations that Jess was behind the shooting. Meanwhile, Alison arrives for her new job in Hong Kong, while Brooke forges a farewell letter from Alison to Billy in a cold tone and gets him to propose to her. Also, Paul keeps hanging around Matt wanting to spend more time with him. But for some suspicious reason, Paul doesn't keep his promise to tell his wife about him and Matt.
22 May 1995In the two-hour, nail-biting, cliff-hanging season final, Brooke and Billy announce their wedding plans to everyone. In Hong Kong, when Alison hears about their engagement and about the job Hayley Armstrong offered her, Alison finally realizes that Brooke had set her up to keep her away from Billy. Alison then quits her job, flies back to L.A., and after unsuccessfully trying to stop the wedding, she starts drinking again. Jake returns from the hospital and is not pleased to find Jess running his bar in which he fires Jess, who in an unconvincing tone, denies anything to do with the punks who shot Jake. Jo gives Jess a job at a construction site, but soon begins to see his possessive side of him. When Jane's business is foreclosed, she uses aggressive methods to gain a new investor, Richard Hart, and falls in love with him. But Richard's estranged wife, Mackenzie, doesn't approve of Jane's meddling in their business. With Michael still in jail, he recruits Sydney to follow Kimberly to find evidence that she framed him for beating her, while at the same time, Kimberly is haunted by a mysterious phantom she identifies as 'Henry' who tells her that she must kill all of her enemies. In a surprising twist, Dr. Peter Burns returns, just released from prison, and helps Michael with his legal troubles in exchange for Michael to help Peter keep his medical license from a review board. Meanwhile, Matt and Paul's renewed relationship takes a shocking turn when Matt gets arrested after Paul's wife is found murdered. But when Paul appears and identifies Matt as being the killer, Matt realizes (way too late) that Paul had been setting him up as the fall guy for his wife's murder this entire time! After Jo turns down Jess' marriage proposal, he beats her savagely, which leads to a major fistfight between Jess and Jake atop the roof of a three-story construction site, which ends when both of them fall off... When Peter romances and tricks Kimberly into helping him get back his medical license, she goes over the deep end and, in a berserk rage, she abducts Sydney when she finds her following her, and rigs large incendiary bombs to destroy the Melrose apartment complex and everyone in it... once and for all!
11 September 1995The morning after Kimberly blows up the Melrose apartment complex, everyone is in the hospital suffering from some form of injury. Alison is temporarily flash-blinded and Billy postpones his honeymoon with Brooke to move back into his ruined apartment to support Alison. Richard Hart, who's wife was killed in the blast (and the only fatality), is comforted by an unusually callous Jane who proposes to continue business at the company as usual. Meanwhile, Kimberly is arrested and is so bewildered that she can't remember anything about the bombing the night before, while Peter prevents Michael from sending her to a county psychiatry ward in order to take care of her himself. Jake wakes up in the hospital after surviving the fall and is hurt with the news that Jess did not, leading him to take out his frustrations on Jo. In jail, Matt contacts his parents for help in facing a murder trial and they hire Alycia Barnett, a professional criminal lawyer, to help him. But unfortunately for Matt, skepticism knows no bounds for in a recycled storyline (see ep. It's a Bad World After All), not only Matt's lawyer but his own parents, refuse to believe him that he's innocent of the murder he's being charged with.
18 September 1995The bomb damage spawns strange new living arrangements: Amanda moving in with Sydney, Matt with Jo, and Alison with Jane. Alison then starts using her condition to manipulate Billy to care for her, while Jane plays office power games with Richard. Meanwhile, Peter lobbies on behalf of Kimberly, who must be declared mentally competent to stand trial for the bombing. Alison demands her job back at D&D and an unusually sympathetic Amanda agrees with her. Brooke freaks out when she finds out that Alison is coming back to work, and an inheritance from her deceased mother that she expected after her marriage to Billy turns out to be much less than she thought. Brooke's father offers her a full some of money, but only after she divorces Billy whom Mr. Amrstrong has never approved of in the first place. A mentally unstable Matt gets released on bail and gives everyone a hard time having lost his trust in mankind over being framed for murder and now facing a murder trial. Jake has a hard time getting over Jess' death and continues pushing Jo away. Also, Sydney gets a job as the receptionist in Peter and Michael's newly opened private practice.
20 September 1995Alison continues to deceive Billy by exaggerating her state of health, even after she regains her eye-sight, in which his attention to her sends Brooke to threaten Alison. Peter calls a second psychiatrist to evaluate Kimberly before her court hearing about her mental condition. Meanwhile, Matt gets in mortal danger when, against the warnings from his lawyer Alycia, he decides to set up a sting operation by himself for Paul to admit that he framed him. While Jake and Jo rekindle, Jane fears she may have overstepped her bounds with Richard after she hires Jo as the new staff photographer at his company without consulting him first.
25 September 1995Brooke travels to Miami, Florida on a secret mission to dig up information on Amanda's past and she finds Jack Parezi, Amanda's shady mobster ex-husband who believes her to be long dead. Brooke then returns to Los Angeles and uses what she found to blackmail Amanda for a promotion at D&D. Kimberly is committed to a maximum security asylum and receives electro shock therapy under Peter's supervision, while she is haunted by the mysterious Henry again. Michael romances Sydney to get her help to keep Kimberly in the hospital. Meanwhile, Jess' ex-wife, Shelly, arrives in L.A. and moves in with Jake, making Jo uncomfortable. Matt is approached by Tom Reilly, the leader of a Gay Rights group, to sue Dr. Calvin Hobbs, the hospital's Chief of Staff, because of discrimination after he fired him. Jane gets a marriage proposal from Richard and shortly after, announces taking credit for a new line of dresses to get more control of Richard's firm, which is officially renamed Hart-Mancini. Also, Billy learns that Alison has regained her eyesight and is not pleased that she did not tell him the truth sooner.
2 October 1995Anxious to get to the bottom of Kimberly's mental problems, Peter contacts her mother who arrives in Los Angeles to visit her in the asylum where Mrs. Shaw finally reveals the origins about the mysterious Henry. Brooke's father, Hayley, approaches Alison and asks for her help in breaking up Brooke and Billy and a mutual attraction between the two of them develops. Meanwhile, Dr. Hobbs tries to settle Matt's lawsuit privately with $30,000 and a better job, but Matt refuses. Jack Parezi arrives in Los Angeles to find Amanda, while Brooke tries to keep his presence under wraps and Billy learns what Brooke did to get ahead at D&D. Also, Jo becomes all the more jealous when Jake continues hanging out with Shelly, and Jane confides in Jo that she may not be ready for marriage with Richard.
9 October 1995Despite the support of Tom and his Gay Rights group, Matt still becomes unsure about suing Hobbs. But during a deposition, when Hobbs blurts out his hatred of gays, it all turns out well for Matt. Kimberly is released from the mental hospital and Peter takes her home to his house and keep her in his custody, but Michael and Sydney are not pleased with the news. At Jane and Richard's engagement party, a drunken Jo confronts him about Jane not being in love with him. Meanwhile, Brooke is upset when she discovers that her father is dating Alison, while she has problems to come up with a new account. So, Brooke ask Alison to help her land her father's account with D&D to get her get part of the credit. Also, Jack confronts Amanda and tells her he just wants a quick divorce, but she correctly suspects that he's up to something.
16 October 1995Sydney and Michael hire an actor to play Henry to Kimberly, hoping she will go off the deep end again. Jane confession to Richard of not loving him only makes their relationship suffer and as a result, Jane terminates her friendship with Jo. Meanwhile, Jack hires D&D for an ad campaign while Amanda still fears for her life and Billy too after she tells him all about Jack. Alison changes her mind about being involved with Hayley and lets him go further, and an unhappy Brooke tries to intervene. After Matt and his father have an argument over what Matt wants to do with his life, Mr. Fielding suffers a heart attack and Matt tries to make peace to his father before he dies. Also, Shelly tries to seduce Jake at Amanda's big "survivor" pool party at the newly renovated Melrose complex.
23 October 1995After Jack tries to kill Amanda at his mansion, he falls off a balcony and lands in a coma. Amanda goes to Peter for help who promises to help her avoid attempted murder charges, and get rid of Jack's mafia lawyer, Nick Diamond, who begins tailing her. But Michael sees a chance to find some dirt on Peter to use against him and cuts in, making Jack his patient. Meanwhile, Kimberly fills her boredom by calling Dr. Joyce Brothers' radio call-in show to talk of her problems and when she learns from Sydney about Peter spending time with Amanda, she violates her parole. Peter finally tells Kimberly why he's determined to help her which stems from his previous wife who also suffered from a mental illness. But Kimberly eventually faces her fear and confronts the actor, Mark Paul, hired to play Henry and is happy to be over him for good. Hayley and Alison reveal their engagement to Brooke and Billy. After his father's funeral, Matt tells his mother that he will keep his promise to his father by going to medical school. Also, Shelly buys a computer to help Jake with his accounts at Shooters while he tries to make up for lost time with Jo.
30 October 1995When Billy find's Brooke's birth control unused, she declares her omission had the usual consequence. Alison moves into Hayley's mansion where she discovers a locked room belonging to his late wife that she cannot enter. Meanwhile, Matt asks help from Michael for his entrance test to medical school. Richard asks Jo to come with him to Hawaii to do a photo shoot, while he sends Jane to New York. Jake becomes furious when he learns about Jo wanting to go to Hawaii and he seeks comfort with Shelly. When Amanda expresses her feelings to Peter, hoping that the comatose Jack shall never recover, Sydney's there to record it on tape. Also, Kimberly gets invited as a guest on Dr. Joyce Brothers' radio show whose special topic deals with psychotics. But Kimberly must find a way to get the monitoring bracelet off her wrist first.
Season 4, Episode 10: El Syd
6 November 1995After the comatose Jack dies, Sydney starts blackmailing Amanda with the tape she said about him for half of his estate. Meanwhile, Jo joins Richard in Hawaii and they immediately begin an impassioned affair. During a business trip, Alison and Billy are stranded at a small airstrip in the hills where they swap stories about her coming marriage to Hayley and Brooke's unexpected pregnancy. Matt is excited when he learns that he has been accepted to medical school, but not after finding out that Michael did some altering of his entrance test score. Also, Kimberly tells Peter how she has been filling in as a radio-show host and wants the monitoring bracelet off her wrist to make this change into a full-time radio therapist. With strings pulled by Peter, Kimberly moves into Melrose and into Sydney's apartment, prompting Amanda to throw Sydney out for trying to blackmail her, while Peter tries to get back together with Amanda.
Season 4, Episode 11: Free Kimmy
13 November 1995Kimberly tries to get Peter to remove her monitoring bracelet so she can begin a new life for herself while he continues to try to win back Amanda. Meanwhile, Jane becomes angry after learning that Richard and Jo are now a couple, so she begins to temp Michael for her needs hoping to make Richard jealous. Matt gets a job at Shooters and uses Jake's computer for information on his accounts and discovers some suspicious transactions made by Shelly. Sydney throws a surprise 30th birthday party at the beach house for Michael, who tries to get the blackmail tape away from her. On their honeymoon in Mexico, Alison sees another side of Hayley when she witnesses him getting angry over some business of his. In Miami, Jack Parezi's body is flown in for his burial. After the funeral, Jack's mafioso father Vince (who's even more deranged and misogynist then Jack), tries to persuade Bobby, Jack's older but more passive brother, to kill Amanda for Jack's death.
20 November 1995Kimberly becomes the new host for her own radio call-in show, K-CHAT in L.A., and gets a strange frequent caller, named Vic, who harasses her about his troubles. Jake refuses to believe Matt's suspicions that Shelly is embezzling money from Shooters, until he catches her after learning first-hand about his low bank account level. Meanwhile, Alison suspects something's wrong with Hayley's finances when he puts his mansion up for sale. Bobby Parezi arrives in Los Angeles under orders to kill Amanda, but he doesn't have the heart to carry it out. Peter also begins to have second thoughts about breaking up with Amanda. Jane invites Michael over at her place for dinner and to show him off to Richard and Jo. Also, Billy and Brooke decide to move into Alison's vacant apartment.
27 November 1995Bobby meets with Amanda and reveals that he has a crush on her since his childhood. But she wants nothing to do with him or his mafioso family, while Peter becomes jealous over Bobby's presence. Meanwhile, Kimberly is held captive by the psychotic Vic in a condemned building where he threatens to kill her since he is revealed to be a serial killer. Hayley takes Alison for a cruise on his yacht to Mexico where he tells her that he is now on the run from bill collectors after a number of failed business deals. Jane continues dating Michael, while Richard tells Jo about his idea of both of them starting another clothing design business, excluding Jane. Shelly is sent to prison, but literally gets the last laugh when she tells Jake of all the money she embezzled to ruin him financially as payback for Jess' death.
4 December 1995Matt meets Alan Ross, a gay film actor in the hospital recovering from a broken hand, whom he spends some time with. Meanwhile, Kimberly comes back to work at the hospital in the psychiatric ward and Sydney reluctantly hires her as her therapist over her problems with Michael and Jane back together. Richard continues his romance with Jo, despite the fact that he still have romantic feelings for Jane what will not go away. Bobby befriends Peter and tries to use him for his own needs. Alison has a hard time getting over Hayley's drowning and relapses into alcoholism when she learns that she has been excluded from his will. Also, Jake discovers that he is broke as a result of Shelly's successful embezzlement scheme and meets with a loan-shark for help save Shooters from bankruptcy.
11 December 1995Billy reluctantly helps Alison salvage her business accounts, while Brooke discovers that she isn't pregnant and hesitates on telling Billy. Jane finds out about Richard and Jo planning to oust her from Hart-Mancini. Meanwhile, Amanda and Bobby get together to do business with the family TV cable company, but FBI agents approach Amanda and warn her to stay away from him. Matt spends more time with Alan who discover that they have lots of things in common. Also, Sydney helps prepare the annual hospital Christmas fund raiser at Bobby's house where she becomes insanely jealous about seeing Jane and Michael together and gives ends up giving a drunk Jane a glass of champagne spiked with Sydney's tranquilizer medication.
