Jane and Sydney escape when Jane hits Richard in the gut with a shovel. As a deputy is driving Jane and Syd to meet Samantha, they see Richard come out of a grocery store. Richard is killed in a shootout. At the morgue, Jane stabs his body with a brooch to make sure that he is dead. A sheriff returns their money, and orders them out of his town. Jane stops a bewildered Sam from moving out. Sydney invests her money in Jane's boutique. Amanda threatens Kimberly when she refuses to perjure herself. Kimberly later ensures Peter's release when she recalls a waiter who can serve as his alibi. Amanda is angry when Taylor shows up at the courthouse. Billy mistakenly believes Alison has invited him to her apartment, and gets into a fist fight with Jake when he finds him there. One of Matt's professors suspects that he is on drugs.

Megan becomes concerned by the amount of time Michael is spending with Kimberly. When Megan convinces Michael to ignore a call from Kimberly and spend the night with her, Kimberly suffers a seizure. Taylor discovers that the new chief-of-staff won the job because he is sleeping with Dr. Shulman. Peter uses this information to blackmail Dr. Shulman. Nick becomes suspicious of Taylor's relationship with Peter. Nick and Kyle are arrested in a barroom brawl at Shooters. Kyle offers to host Jake's bachelor party to make it up to him. Billy isn't sure that Jake and Alison are ready for marriage. Craig tries to use his expected inheritance to seduce Amanda. Roommates Syd and Samantha are at each other's throats. Billy asks Sam to move in with him. Carter continues to reject Sydney.

Kimberly persuades Michael to grant her dying wish by sleeping with her one last time. Amanda uses Craig's infatuation with her to trick him into giving her half of D&D. Craig learns that his father cut him out of the will. Peter is appointed chief-of-staff. Taylor offers to cook him a celebratory dinner, but he stands her up to go to a dinner party with Amanda. A drunken and depressed Craig shows up on Amanda's doorstep, and she lets him sleep on the couch. The next morning, Craig leads Peter to believe that he slept with Amanda. A distraught Peter sleeps with Taylor. Alison and Jake are to marry in a civil ceremony, but Alison hides in the bathroom at City Hall. Jake postpones the ceremony. Alison becomes fed up with Jake's attempts to control her and turn her into a housewife. She stays with Billy and Sam, then decides to visit her sister to avoid the meddling couple. Jake believes that Alison is going to have an abortion, but she does not. Alison returns home and moves in with Aman

Sydney and Craig decide to quit D&D and start their own agency. They steal all of D&D's clients and employees. Syd and Craig get engaged. A panicked Amanda tries to back out of the jazz club, as she needs the money to keep her agency afloat. Unable to violate doctor-patient confidentiality, Michael has Taylor goad Peter into a public temper tantrum so that Megan will expose his ""rage epilepsy."" Michael tricks Peter into turning the chief-of-staff job over to him. Alison mocks Jake's dream of running the diner. She pushes him into spending more time with Colleen and David. Jake catches Alison drunk and in the company of another man. She had actually staged the incident with a friend from AA to drive Jake away. Sam is arrested because the police suspect she tipped off her father. Billy agrees to keep an eye on her and report suspicious activities to the authorities. Denise's new boyfriend tries to come on to Chelsea while her mother is asleep. Chelsea is unnerved when her diary is used t

Amanda suffers a breakdown as she sees her agency slip through her fingers. Alison convinces David to get Jake to invite Colleen and him to move to Ojai. Alison decides to divorce Jake and move to Atlanta. Billy meets her at the airport, and she kisses him goodbye. Denise wins custody of Chelsea, even after her daughter reveals the incident with her mother's boyfriend. Denise has a change of heart and decides that Chelsea is better off with Matt. Peter realizes that Michael set him up after a test reveals that he doesn't have rage epilepsy. He throws Michael through a window at the office. A hurt Megan rejects Michael. Peter takes Taylor away for the weekend, and is about to push her off a lighthouse when she announces that she is pregnant. Reilly flees to Mexico to distract the police, then returns and kidnaps Sam from the grocery store. Kyle bolts from Sydney's wedding after learning that Amanda is planning to move to New York. He stops her from leaving and sleeps with her. Sam pulls

Brett learns that Mrs. Shaw tried to shoot Michael. He threatens to turn her in unless she returns to Cleveland and checks into a sanitarium. Michael and Megan catch them at the airport, but Michael agrees to Brett's plan. Mrs. Shaw escapes during a stopover and returns to Los Angeles. She slips into an operating room and tries to attack Michael with a scalpel. Megan tackles her and is slashed in the stomach. She has complications during surgery and lapses into a coma. Brett holds a bedside vigil. Eric decides to seize control of Amanda's agency. She finally gives in and agrees to sleep with him. Taylor tells Kyle, who breaks into the hotel room and throws Eric through a glass door. He will only keep him from falling off the balcony if he says that he didn't sleep with Amanda. Lexi falls apart when she runs out of pills. Brett agrees to refill her prescription. Craig and Billy bond on a bowling date with Sam and Jennifer. Billy asks Craig to be his best man. Craig loses Jennifer by sle

Taylor visits Nick in Dallas. Even after they sleep together, he is unwilling to tell her anything about Christine. She convinces him to help her break up Kyle and Amanda by telling him about the jazz club (which Nick had always dreamed of opening with Kyle), and how pathetic Kyle has become. Nick says that Christine didn't immediately die of her injuries, but convinced him to tell Kyle she was dead so that he would move on. Michael is ousted from the practice after Amber gets drunk and embarrasses him at a company function. Megan breaks up with Brett, who had provided Amber with the liquor. Michael throws Amber out, and she responds by cleaning out his house. Lexi's father continues to put down Peter and compare him to Brett. He gives Lexi a job managing one of his companies. Billy and Samantha try to convince a hot baseball prospect named Jeff Baylor to become a spokesman for one of their clients. Jennifer learns that Craig has instituted potentially deadly cost-cutting moves at the