Melrose Place
Episode #130 & #131 / Season #4
Title: "Dead Sisters Walking"
Original Air Date: Monday, May 20, 1996


Synopsis

[Willowbridge Institute]
Just as Kimberly is about to add another orifice to Peter's head, Dave the attendant interrupts, informing Kimberly that they caught two people breaking in who claim to be friends of hers. Kimberly sees that it's Michael and Amanda, but tells Dave that the two are escaped mental patients. Dave fails to question why two escaped mental patients whould be breaking *in* rather than out, but then again, his job is not to question. So as not to arouse their suspicion, Kimberly tells Dave to follow her lead and she heads out to confront the intruders. Nurse Benson sutures the slit in Peter's temple and wheels him back to his cell. When Kimberly confronts Michael and Amanda, they demand to know what she's up to, but she pretends not to know them and says "Please escort them out." Dave doesn't seem to find letting escaped loonies back out onto the street unusual either, which seems to support the theory that he himself may have underwent the first lobotomy at Willowbridge. When Amanda threatens to go to the authorities, Kimberly changes her story, telling them that Peter is here hiding from the police and offers to take Amanda to see him. Kimberly leads them to an empty cell and they are so stupid that they simply walk into it without really looking where they're going. Kimberly smiles and says "Bye-bye, suckers!" But Michael, always one with his foot in the door, manages to keep her from shutting them in. He and Amanda escape down the hallway while the bungling staff lay helpless on the ground. Kimberly sounds the alarm and tells them to search every room, every closet (but not every air duct) until they find them.

[Marina Del Rey Park]
Jane and Sydney sit on a park bench, feeding bits of bread to some stool pigeons while discussing the morality of Jane's plan to kill Richard. Syd suggests that Jane get psychiatric help. "I'm not crazy Sydney. In fact, I've never had more clarity." Yes, then why are you wearing pantyhose around your neck, Jane? What's next, bra's on the outside of your blouse? The Bible Belt sisters start quoting from The Book, Syd citing "Thou shalt not kill" whilst Jane repeats "An eye (Richard's) for a 'naked' eye (Jane's)." Syd actually does appear to make sense for a change, especially when compared Jane, who rants about not believing in hell yet believing in the devil (Huh?), whom she plans to kill. Sydney, realizing they're destined for prison, forces the remaining stale bread into her own beak figuring she might as well get used to a diet of bread and water.

[Willowbridge Institute]
Amanda and Michael hide in a very spacious heating duct. Lucky for them, air ducts were bigger in institutes built back in 1941. They talk so loud about what to do that they almost give themselves away when Dave suddenly enters the room. When a hairy rat climbs over Amanda's leg she gasps, although it couldn't have felt much different than Jack Parezi way back when. Luckily, Michael muffles her scream with his hand until Dave leaves.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Jo and Jake are at Matt's bedside. Matt isn't doing too well, having had an allergic reaction to the original antibiotics. Matt mumbles, "I missing school. Me got test. I feel... choke... like I gonna die." Jo orders, "Matt, don't talk like that!" Suddenly, Matt stops talking and just lays there motionless. Jo shakes him, thinking he's dead, when all Matt was really doing was obeying her wishes and shutting up. Once outside, Jo turns to Jake and comments, "I never allowed myself to think it before, but he could die, couldn't he?" Jake, having no idea why they're even at the hospital in the first place, quickly hides his ignorance by smiling and pulling her close for a hug instead. His groping doesn't go unnoticed however, as Dominick catches them in their embrace, causing smoke to exhaust from his nostrils.

[Mancini & Hart Designs]
Richard's on the phone with a cement contractor, whose unfinished work is causing Richard to have to go through the back entrance to his house every night. His voices his concern, saying "It makes me the perfect target for a mugger." Where does he live, Inglewood? Jane arrives simply to drop off some sketches, neither expecting to run into Richard nor to overhear such a wonderful suggestion for an ambush. Richard asks her for a kiss, so she pecks him on the cheek. This makes Dick happy, and he says, "Now I can go to my meeting." Excuse me, but it's the middle of the night! Anyway, he turns and says "Jane, uh, next time, on the lips," and then leaves. Jane mutters, "The next time it'll be between the eyes." Then she steals a handful of company checks from the ledger on his desk.

[Shooters]
Billy is busy telling Jake all about the disastrous date he had with Alison, saying he took her to a schmoozy place where everybody knew his name, and the next thing you know they're talking about their favorite "Cheers" episodes! Fortunately, Alison arrives bringing them back to the topic at hand. Although Billy isn't quite ready, Jake calls Alison over to tell her that Billy has something to say. So Billy begins his stammering again, attempting to tell her he's trying to make amends in order to better himself. She's very curt with him, saying that despite what he has to say her feelings for him probably won't change. She leaves to clock in and Jake scurries over to get the lowdown. Billy's pretty excited because he feels he's got his foot in the door. Jake, on the other hand, smiles too, realizing that just maybe, he'll have the opportunity to stick something in Alison's door, and it won't be his foot.

[MP, Jo's Apt]
Jo is lying there in bed like a blow-up doll while Dominick goes at it, finishing in seconds flat. He climbs off her as she says, "I'm sorry. It's not you. It's not." Yawn. After all, it's just that she's used sex in dark alleys, on dirty floors and desktops -- not beds! She claims that she's worried about Matt, so Dominick informs her that Matt has stabilized. But speaking of desktops, Dominick has some worries of his own. He wonders if Jo spells relief, P-O-L-Y-G-A-M-Y ? After all, he did see her hugging some strange bartender-looking fella the other day. She starts laughing, saying Jake's only a friend, then gets hot and horny from Dominick's display of insecurity.

[Willowbridge Institute]
Everyone's in the Activity Room wandering about and playing any card game but solitaire, for obvious reasons. Amanda and Michael sneak in, trying to blend in with the crowd by sporting a couple of blue terry cloth robes. Clearly the best looking couple, Peter immediately spots Amanda and sends Louie over to fetch her for him. Now, there must be something in the air at this place that makes people's brains stop functioning, because the first thing Amanda asks when she walks up to Peter is if he can walk. He could, except it's really difficult with that annoying wheelchair strapped to his body. Amanda finally decides it would be faster to wheel him out, but by then Kimberly's there to intercept them. She locks the three of them up in the institute's boiler room, explaining to her assistants that representatives from an Arizona mental facility are on their way to retrieve the escapees. Dave says he checked one of their I.D.'s and that it said he's a doctor, while Ziggy offers his expert opinion that the blonde one doesn't look crazy to him. Kimberly reassures them that the people they have locked away in "solitaire" are dangerous. She has Ziggy and Dave promise not to divulge to anyone, including Nurse Benson, where they have hidden Peter, Amanda, and Michael. Meanwhile, down in the boiler room, Michael finally comes to the conclusion that Kimberly is not well, while Peter tells Amanda the story behind him landing in Willowbridge. Pretty boring stuff.

[MP Courtyard]
Alison, ready for her morning job, bumps into Jane in the courtyard. Alison is to Jane what Jake is to Billy, that is, annoying and anything but helpful. Jane tells Alison she doesn't need any help from Alison or Jake, and even suggests that Alison and Jake date each and maybe get a life.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Jo drops by to see Matt who seems completely recovered. She seems a little surprised, but Matt says that he was treated by the best, Dr. Dominick O'Malley. Knowing that Matt is okay, Jo can now turn the topic of conversation to herself, admitting that she has doubts about her newfound honey, so Matt offers her some words of support. He says if there's one thing he knows it's his men, and Dominick is numero uno in his book. (This, from a man who enjoys hospital food.) Since Jo and Matt seem interchangeable these days, she figures Dominick must be the one for him, eh, I mean, her.

[Boutique]
Samantha phoned Jane to come down and meet with the owner, Margeaux, regarding purchasing the boutique. Margeaux says no introduction is necessary; she's a big fan of Jane's designs. Hmmm, fancy that the store has *none* of Jane's clothes on its racks! Margeaux tells Jane that there is already an outstanding offer for the boutique, so Jane asks her to name the price and she'll beat it. But Margeaux, playing a dual role as both an ignorant foreign businesswoman and as a Jiminy Cricket-sort for Jane, explains to her that divulging the price would not be *legal* and that, above all, people must play by the rules. Jane, upon hearing this, squints her eyes.

[Willowbridge Institute]
Ziggy and Dave begin to question Kimberly's handling of the escapees. Dave asks why they're not locked up in cells like everyone else while Ziggy wonders, "Don't they need to eat?" But Kimberly explains that the three prisoners are grisly murderers and that she's scheduled lobotomies for the three prisoners instead of food. This explanation seems to satisfy both Ziggy and Dave and they leave. Nurse Benson, lurking in the background, overhears their whole conversation but remains skeptical. Meanwhile, down in the boiler room, water isn't the only thing coming to a boil, so are Michael, Peter, and Amanda's tempers. The three are bored out of their skulls. Michael comes to the ridiculous conclusion that he can bring Kimberly to her senses if he's just given the opportunity to talk with her.

[Cafe]
Jane takes Samantha out for drinks. They pound down a cappuccino or two and the talk gets pretty loose. Samantha tells Jane that she just broke up with her boyfriend, and on her salary, can't afford to live by herself (She must not be much of a salesperson!) Jane asks if Samantha ever considered a roommate, but Samantha cringes, saying "Ever see 'Single White Female'." Jane laughs, thinking to herself, "Every time I look in a mirror." Anyway, Jane has an idea: she offers Samantha a job as an assistant manager, a place in her apartment, and a raise. But then Jane adds, "Of course, none of this matters unless I beat the other offer." So Samantha asks, "You're not asking me to tell you what the other offer is, are you?" Hey, possibly a dumb brunette replacement for Jo? Anyway, the cappuccino gets the best of Samantha and she jots down $197,500, although why she's privy to the offering price in the first place goes down as just another Melrosian mystery.

[Shooters]
Sydney runs to Jake, asking him to talk to Jane about how she's handling the rape. She can't say exactly what Jane has in mind, but hints that it could be rash. Jake tells Syd that Jane's on her own so Syd leaves. Alison, who seems to have mastered carrying her waitress tray but has yet to be seen with anything ON it, strolls over to the bar and asks Jake out to the movies... as friends. Jake says they should keep their relationship to a minimum. Alison protests, saying that she sees the way he is with others and when she looks at him she wonders, "Why can't I have a piece of that?" Especially considering that everyone else in the complex has.

[Boutique]
Jane takes Syd along with her while she submits her bid for the store. Margeaux says, "I don't know how you do it, but you inch out de competition by un cent." Sydney is happy that at least Jane is doing something legal -- maybe. Then Jane whips out cash to the tune of $197,500.01, obviously having cashed one of the checks she fingered from Richard's desk the other day.

[Dominick's Humble Home]
Jo arrives for dinner. She's weaves her away past numerous boxes scattered about, just like Richard used to have, yet seems oblivious to their existence. Yes, Jo *must* be in love! Dominick pours a couple glasses of wine, then suggests that they get married, causing Jo to spew her drink. He tells her that he loves her and she loves him. She tells him not to tell her how she feels because she doesn't even know what she feels. She starts to leave, but Dominick grabs her and sticks his tongue down her throat. When they part he asks, "Now tell me, don't you feel that?" Jo replies, "I want more than chemistry." Then she turns and leaves. Confusing chemistry with biology, Jo obviously graduated college with an art degree. Still, Dominick loves her.

[Shooters]
The entire bar is empty. Alison and Jake are the only two left in Shooters. Jake apologizes for his attitude the other night, saying he really does want to be her friend and asks her what he can do to make it up to her. Alison thrusts a quarter into the slot in the juke box and answers, "Dance with me." So they spin around a couple of times, as Alison reveals that she is no longer interested in Billy. Then her eyes get all glassy and she starts to lean in, at which point Jake decides he's had enough and pushes away. Just in time, because Billy enters and asks where everybody is at. Jake asks Alison if she would like to leave early but she decides to stay, just in case it might get busy again.

[Willowbridge Institute]
Back to the boiler room, where Amanda, Michael, and Peter are sitting around with nothing to do or say. The three of them have resigned themselves to death by boredom. But just then, Nurse Benson pays the Three Melrose-teers a visit, even though she had no clue of their whereabouts earlier in the episode. They convince Nurse Benson to let them out. Of course, Kimberly arrives to thwart their escape again. Seizing his chance to talk to Kimberly, Michael grabs her and starts shaking her wildly, chanting for Kimberly to come back. She cries that she's Betsy. Yet, somehow he does it, shaking Betsy out of Kimberly. Maybe Michael is in the wrong line of work. Now she's back to normal, but suddenly it's Dave's turn to go berserk. Dave tries to stop them from leaving, but Michael manages to block Dave as Nurse Benson helps Amanda and Peter escape. It appears that Dave had a lot of pent up anxiety by the way he uses Michael as a punching bag. He keeps pounding away at Michael, so Kimberly tries to pull Dave off. He turns and whacks her a couple of times, they wrestle a little more and then she grabs a release valve which lets out a blast of steam into Dave's face. He screams, grabs her and they both flip off a suspended walkway, doing a half-twist with a full gainer, no splash. I believe Dave had better form. Michael is obviously rooting for his wife, however, as he shouts "Kimberly! Kimberly!" Cut to a commercial for the '96 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

[End of first half]

[Wilshire Memorial]
They transport Kimberly by helicopter from the small fictitious town of Merton all the way back to Wilshire Memorial. Unfortunately for Dave, there was only room for one body in the chopper. Considering their near flawless record for major characters with neck injuries (Jess Hanson, Jack Parezi, and brother Bobby) it only made sense that they flew Kimberly all the way from northern California, so she too, could die at Wilshire Memorial. Hey, by flawless record, I didn't necessarily mean number of *successes*. Like a vulture, good ol' Detective Wiley, the dude handling the Peter Burns case, is hanging around the hospital annoying people. This time Michael is the victim, but Michael is too preoccupied with Kimberly's status to be bothered with questions pertaining to his medical partner's whereabouts.

[MP, Matt's Apt]
Since Matt is still in the hospital, Amanda uses his apartment as a hideout for Peter. She recommends that Peter run to Mexico considering the fact that Peter's only alibi is at Wilshire Memorial in critical condition. But Peter demands that he's innocent and need not run. Besides, he knows now that the *real* Kimberly is back, and like Michael, feels all he needs to do is talk with her in order for her to remember the dinner meeting she had with him the night of Bobby Parezi's death. He asks Amanda to drive him to the hospital, which she agrees to do, but only after nightfall. Since it's still morning, there's a good chance that Kimberly will be dead before Peter has a chance to see her.

[MP, Jane's Apt]
Syd is hanging out in some normal clothes! Richard knocks at the door, but since Jane is in the bedroom getting dressed, Syd answers. Noting the opportunity to save Richard's life, Syd tells Richard he looks peaked and should take a long vacation, sooner rather than later. But Jane overhears Syd and takes her aside, knowing what she's up to. Jane can't believe Syd is having so many qualms about exorcising the devil, Richard, from Melrose. So Syd gives Jane some food for thought, saying "Would you want to live in a world where a person like me has more morals than a person like you?"

[Wilshire Memorial]
There must be something about having spinal meningitis that causes hard-headedness, because now Matt is checking himself out despite Dr. Dominick O'Malley's advice. First, it was Jerry the stupid kid, now it's Matt, the stupid med student. Jo asks Dominick if he's going to stop Matt, but Dominick is more concerned about Jo's answer to his marriage proposal from the other day. She shakes her head no, telling him not to rush her. After all, they're only a little over an hour into the show.

[Mancini & Hart Designs]
Richard stops by Jane's beautiful cubicle. He confronts her about some missing checks. She changes the subject by saying he's probably just using the missing checks story as an excuse to get some lip candy. Their kissing is interrupted however, when Jake appears, who apparently decided to take Syd's advice and speak with Jane. Only Jane tells Jake that her every waking thought is focused on Dick. Jake leaves, but not before voicing that what Jane's doing is sick! Richard notes to Jane, "He sure left with his tail between his legs." She replies, "Did he?" Then she sighs, reminiscing how much pleasure that "tail" used to give her, and picturing just what's in store for Alison.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Kimberly regains consciousness. Michael is blabbering with her when Amanda and Peter enter. Peter's disguise, a jeans jacket and a dark baseball cap, seems to be just enough to keep from triggering Kimberly's memory regarding her dinner with Peter. Moments later, the detective enters and cuffs Peter, led there by a nurse who says, "Sorry, doctor, but you are wanted for murder." Now this is a rather ambiguous statement since she could be easily referring to his last several operations. Anyway, they haul Peter away to what's becoming his personal cell at the County Jail.

[Shooters]
Alison enters the back office, sniffing around for Jake. She's wearing her Melrose perfume, form-fitting sweater, and skin-tight jeans. He asks for some privacy, so she closes the door, but fails to leave. She tells Jake he needs more comfort than a bottle of tequila. Even though tequila is a hard licker, so is she. Since that didn't seem to have much effect, she tries the "friends" angle. Jake says he's tried to be friends, but that all women want is to be treated like trash. He asks her why she's throwing herself at him. Caught, she tries to play it cool, pretending not to know about that "tail between his legs." He asks if she wants him to do her right there on his desk. She acts disgusted, but lets an orgasmic moan slip out. She tries to rush out, but he stops her just long enough to lecture her about the good man waiting for her in Billy, when all she wants is to feel the pain of staples in her backside. He adds, "I'm not interested. Now get out of here."

[MP Courtyard]
It's morning. Alison springs out of her apartment for, yes, a jog. Billy is sitting at the bottom of the courtyard steps. He says good morning and she snaps back, "What, are you stalking me now?" Despite this remark, Billy tries his best to be nice, but Alison continues to lash out her barrage of bitchy one-liners. Finally, Billy asks her out. She's ready to say no, but when she sees Jake in the background, she decides to say yes instead.

[Dominick's Place]
Jo hadn't heard from Dominick in a while, so she thought she'd drop by. To her surprise, she finds Dominick packing. Dominick is moving to Bosnia for a year-long commitment, working with orphans. She gets pissed off because he makes her fall in love with him and then ups and leaves. Dominick wonders what's holding her back if she loves him so much. She replies, "How about my life for one. My career. My friends." Like he said, what's holding her back?

[County Jail]
Amanda pays Peter a visit. He says he doesn't want her to get dragged through this. He tells her to walk away, she says no, she can't and she won't. So he hangs up and walks away instead. Outside, Amanda's met by the assho!e Detective Wiley who tells her he's planning on slapping her with a subpoena as the prime witness against Burns.

[Library]
Matt is busy studying for an exam, but starts to doze off. A young virile male med student named Greg approaches him, and it looks as though it might just be young doctors in love. Instead, Greg gives Matt a study tip -- amphetamines.

[Prison Dream Scene]
Jane and Syd are awaiting their execution. Jane is hunched over their last meal like a little rat, tearing away at her food. Syd doesn't want to die, but Jane tells her to shut up and take her gas like a man. Syd sees the door to the gas chamber causing her to scream and wake up. Syd finds Jane in her apartment dropping off some night stalker clothing for their upcoming adventure. Syd proceeds to tell Jane all about her Dead Sisters Walking nightmare, but Jane could care less. She's more concerned that Richard knows about the missing checks, so she informs Sydney that they must kill Richard tomorrow night.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Kimberly is being wheeled down the hallway to surgery with Michael by her side. She can't believe all the pain she's caused for so many people, saying she doesn't deserve to live. Michael tells her to shut up. Then they take her in to apply some leeches to help with her internal bleeding.

[County Jail]
Amanda visits Peter again. She tells Peter that the cops want her to testify against him, but she talked to Peter's lawyer (isn't Alycia dead?) and found out that they can't make a wife testify against her husband. So, Amanda *proposes* to Peter. He finds the whole idea ridiculous and tells her not to come back.

[MP, Jo's Apt]
Dominick visits Jo, who is trying to drown her sorrows in a sea of chocolate chip cookies. When Jo answers, the first thing he notices is that she has either a really big snot, or a chocolate chip stuck above her upper lip. She picks it off her face and pops it in her mouth, hoping it's sweet rather than salty. He has only a few hours before his plane departs, so he stopped by to partake in his weekly "apologizing scene." After that, he starts to leave, but Jo pulls him back, figuring she better get some before it's too late.

[Shooters]
Jake sticks his nose into Alison's business saying, "So I hear you and Billy are going out?" She's bitter that she's the only one who hasn't sampled Cro-magnon man, but says "Since you showed no interest in me, I'm going out with Billy." Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, Syd and Jane are eating and conspiring. Jane leaves to call Richard, confirming her meeting with him is still on for 8 o'clock that night. While she's doing that, Sydney sneaks into Jane's purse and removes the bullets from Jane's gun.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Matt runs into his druggie med student friend Greg in the hallway. Matt asks him for some more of those little white helpers to get him through another night, but Greg is all tapped out. So Matt, having access to the drug cabinet, five fingers a few 250 mg Dexedrine tablets.

[Richard's House]
Syd is freaking out, fearing that they'll get caught. All she has to do is drive. Jane hides in the bushes. Richard arrives in his red Corvette. She whips out her gun and tells Richard to get down on his knees and squeal like a pig. She tells him to admit he's a rapist. "Say it to me or say it to God, either way you're a dead man." Richard squeals, then lunges towards her. She pulls the trigger, but nothing happens. Richard, realizing the gun is empty, attacks Jane and starts to molest her while pinned to some bags of concrete. Luckily, Syd comes up from behind and bonks him in the noggin with a shovel. Jane feels his pulse, then exclaims "He's dead!" Sydney can't believe that she's the one who ended up killing him. All of a sudden, Jane doesn't know what to do. Syd keeps throwing suggestions, but all Jane can say is "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." Rather than claim self-defense, Jane comes up with a plan to bury Richard somewhere where no one will ever find him.

[County Jail]
Amanda, Andy, and a Mr. Wilkins, justice-of-the-peace are all waiting for Peter to be escorted from his jail cell. Andy, Peter's new lawyer, recommends that Peter sign the marriage license. So Peter and Amanda get married. They exchange rings which fit their fingers perfectly. But there will be no honeymoon tonight, as the county guards burst in to take Peter back.

[MP, Alison's Apt]
Jake drops by to give Alison her paycheck, to apologize, and to be friends. So she asks him to help her with her zipper, as a friend. She turns, he zips, then she says, "It's not just me, is it? You feel this, don't you?" Jake replies, "It doesn't matter what I feel. Billy's waiting for you." Alison asks, "And you're waiting for Jane?" Boy, Jake never thought about that. When he realizes he's waiting for anything with two legs, he takes her in her arms. She says, "We shouldn't do this." Jake says, "Yeah, right," and they proceed to exchange saliva and other assorted bodily fluids!

[Rooftop Restaurant]
Billy is waiting patiently for Alison's arrival, downing champagne while the violinist plays. It seems that Billy has reserved the entire roof for what he describes as a long over-do reunion. How he could afford to rent the entire restaurant becomes one of the big cliffhangers of the season!!

[MP, Jo's Apt]
Dominick leaves for Bosnia. Jo says bye.

[Desolate Roadside]
Syd and Jane are driving, Richard's dead body wrapped up in the back of the station wagon. Syd can't take it anymore so she pulls over. She starts to pull Richard out while Jane just sits there, frozen. Jane has become a babbling idiot, saying she can't go through with it, but Syd reminds her that it's already done. Then Jane blurts, "You murdered him!" Syd quickly responds, "Correction. We murdered him." The two of them drag the body out of the car and along the dirt to a nearby grassy patch. Syd rolls the body down the hillside while Jane gets the shovel.

[LAX]
Dominick tries one last time to phone Jo but there's no answer. That's because Jo has come to the airport too. As he hangs up and rushes towards the gate, he hears Jo yell out, "O'Malley!" He has a two-hour layover in New York before continuing to Bosnia, so he tells her to go home, grab her passport and grab the next plane for New York. He'll wait for her there. This is the last we see of Jo this season, and maybe forever. It only seems appropriate that she go out with a whimper.

Ode to Jo Reynolds
(Sung to "The Beverly Hillbillies")

This was the story 'bout a gal named Jo,
Sat around Melrose with no where else to go.
Then one day she was standing by the pool,
Out from the cracks comes a blithering fool.
Dominick, that is.
Child expert,
Apologizer.

Well the next thing you know ol' Jo is back in love,
But Dominick is leaving, he's flying like a dove.
Said, "War-torn Bosnia is the place we ought to be,"
So she packed her camera bag and she moved from Beverly --
Center, that is.
It's a shopping mall,
On La Cienega.

[Wilshire Memorial]
Kimberly is out of surgery. Michael is by her side telling her that the doctor believes she's going to make it and he concurs. The first thing she does is ask about Peter, saying she'll testify on Peter's behalf as soon as she's better. Then she dies. Michael yells into the hallway "Code Blue" then returns and starts performing CPR on her throat region. Needless to say this probably has little positive effect.

[MP, Amanda's Apt]
Amanda is laying in bed with her marriage license. Since Peter's in jail, laying in bed caressing their marriage certificate seemed the next best thing. Detective Wiley knocks on Amanda's door. She informs him that he can't make her testify against Peter Burns now that she's his wife. But Wiley has some interesting news of his own. He whips out a photo of some old geezer and informs her that this is the real Dr. Peter Burns. If there are several people named John Enos (Bobby Parezi was John Enos III), then there's got to be more than one Peter Burns, don't ya think?

[Desolate Roadside]
Jane just sits there like a zombie, holding the flashlight while poor little sister Syd digs the gravesite, places Richard inside, then covers the body with dirt. When Jane finally does speak, she says, "He's not buried deep enough." That was very considerate of her to mention, especially AFTER Syd has just finished tossing the last shovel full of dirt over Richard's body. Jane is so damn lame that you just want to grab the shovel out of Syd's hands and whack her yourself. Syd says she's too exhausted to do anymore, and that if Jane wants, she can re-bury the body herself. But Jane just sits there, so Syd gets her in the car, telling her as they drive away, that the nightmare is over. Then, camera zooms down to the shallow grave and all of a sudden, a hand emerges from the beneath the soil, grasping for air, accompanied by some discordant guitar licks, looking like an outtake from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. The only thing missing is Vincent Price's signature laugh at the end of the song: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" That's right, what a joke!
[To Be Continued... Next Season]

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