Sun, May 21, 1995
In 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. 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 and leaves her for dead, leading 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 and tortures 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.
Tue, Apr 26, 1994
Kimberly 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.
Tue, May 17, 1994
In 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 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...
Sun, Oct 23, 1994
Jake 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's allegation 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 tries to force himself upon Sydney as she closes up Shooters. 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.
Sun, Sep 10, 1995
The 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 story line (see Melrose Place: It's a Bad World After All), as not only Matt's lawyer, but his own parents refuse to believe that he's innocent of the murder he's being charged with.
Tue, Nov 16, 1993
Michael 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.
Tue, May 25, 1993
In the ninety-minute 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.
Sun, Dec 4, 1994
Jo 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.
Sun, May 19, 1996
In the two-hour season final, Michael and Amanda put themselves in danger when they break into the Willowbridge asylum in an attempt to rescue Peter from Kimberly/Betsy, only to end up as captives themselves. Then, during a struggle to escape with Nurse Benson's help, Kimberly falls from a balcony and is once again put in a coma. Back in Los Angeles, Alison becomes attracted to Jake when he attempts to get her and Billy back together. Dr. O'Malley proposes marriage to Jo and wants her to leave Melrose and come with him to Bosnia for a medical/photo tour. Matt gets into a bad habit of taking pep pills while recovering from his illness. In the second part, Peter gets arrested by the police where Amanda refuses to testify against Peter and even marries him on the spot in jail to avoid testimony. But later, the police tell Amanda that they have uncovered something from Peter's past: Peter Burns is not his real name. Meanwhile, Jane looks into buying a boutique shop to re-start her own design business and offers Samantha Reilly, one of the young workers, a job as the assistant manager and space in her apartment. Jane thereafter sheds her pushover image and plots to kill Richard, with Sydney's help. But after Sydney hesitates to carry out the murder, she and Jane end up beating Richard to death and burying him in the nearby woods.... but is he really dead?
Tue, Apr 19, 1994
Alison 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.