Billy is drawn to Allison as she struggles with blindness and Allison uses this to try to win Billy back from conniving Brooke (Kristin Davis). When her sight returns, Billy returns to Brooke, although throughout the season, Billy becomes more and more disillusioned with Brooke as she becomes pregnant, only to find out it was a lab mistake, but then lies to Billy saying she miscarried the baby. Eventually, Billy leaves Brooke, who tries to commit suicide and then later slips into the pool and dies. Her ghost haunts him for a few episodes and turns him into an ass at work, essentially becoming the personification of Brooke, now that she is gone.
Allison, in the meantime, begins a crazy relationship with Hayley (Perry King), Brooke's dad, much to Brooke and Billy's chagrin. They marry, but due to some shady dealings, Hayley spirits Allison away in the night on the yacht, only to get drunk, fall overboard and die. During the reading of the will, Allison realizes Hayley divorced her a week earlier and is devastated, but Brooke is delighted. We never find out why Hayley divorced Allison, but assume he was protecting her from his financial dealings.
Before her lethal comeuppance, Brooke sneaks into Amanda's personal files and finds out that she was married in Miami to Jack Parezi (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) and faked her own death to escape his abuse. Brooke's snooping brings Jack to L.A., but not before she blackmails Amanda (Heather Locklear) into giving her the Vice President's position at D&D. Jack makes all kinds of hell for Amanda and finally, when he attempts to "make nice", it turns out he only wanted to rape her. A tussle results in Jack falling over the banister and sustaining injuries that eventually kill him. It's Dr. Peter Burns (Jack Wagner) to Amanda's rescue when he doctors up the report and gets things squared away to protect Amanda. Then Bobby Parezi (John Enos, III), Jack's older brother, shows back up and apparently he and Amanda had a thing before Jack, which they rekindle. Due to Peter and Alycia's meddling and trying to destroy him, Bobby eventually gets set up and destroyed by the media and he meets an untimely demise after Alycia pushes him out of Peter's glass window.
Now, the cops want Peter for the murder and Kimberly, who has since been rehabilitated and is a psychiatric intern, could exonerate him and be his alibi, if only she hadn't manifested two crazy additional personalities - Betsy the prude and Rita the wild tramp. Betsy/Kimberly tricks Peter and admits him into an asylum and eventually traps Amanda and Michael there as well, although they all eventually escape.
Jane (Josie Bissett) gets involved with Richard Hart (Patrick Muldoon) again once Mackenzie is dead and they have an on again/off again relationship. Richard also hooks up with Jo for a while and Jane gets with Jake. Man, everybody at Melrose Place sleeps with everybody else! The season's cliffhanger occurs when Jane, having been raped a few weeks earlier by Richard, decides to kill him with Sydney's help. Things backfire, but Richard still ends up dead and buried... or is he? His hand comes up from the dirt with the season's end.
Melrose Place is pure nighttime soap trash and I love it for that reason. Watching it again is a blast and not having to wait a week for the next episode is terrific. As the show progressed, it got better and better and Season 4 is no exception. While I only touched the tip of the iceberg in this review, if you've been following the show, you should run out and snag Season 4 immediately to get all caught up in the twists and turns of Melrose. Although there are no special features on this season, which was disappointing, it packs quite a punch with 32 episodes on 9 discs!!! Back in the day, this was the must-see stuff of nighttime TV and now, you can watch it anytime. Go reminisce with the naughty group from Melrose Place.
