Melrose Place - Season 3 (1994)

Sydney 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 ...

Amanda 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 ...

On 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...

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 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 ...

During a weekend getaway in Las Vegas, Chris proposes marriage to Jane and she accepts, 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. Jake later confronts Chris and knocks him into the pool. Meanwhile, Susan cancels her plans with Alison ...

After 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 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 ...

Alison 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 ...

Alison 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 ...

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 ...

Jo 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 ...

Jo 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...

Jo 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 ...

In 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 ...

Kimberly 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 ...

Rikki 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 ...

At 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. ...

Michael 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 ...

Michael 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...

After 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 ...

While 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 ...

Michael 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, ...

For 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. ...

Sydney 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 ...

Jake 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 ...

The 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. ...

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...