 Alison begins her plan to push Jake away when she tells Colleen that Jake really loves her and she should not give up with him. Jake then settles in Ojai and opens his own restaurant, while Alison moves to Atlanta... alone, both leaving Melrose for good. Although Amanda has strong feelings for Kyle, she refuses to seek comfort with him when she sees him with Jennifer. As Craig and Syndey plan their wedding, Amanda suffers an emotional breakdown after she s unable to keep D&D clients from leaving for Craig s new company. After Michael forces Peter to give up his position as chief of staff at the hospital, Peter wises up to Michael and Taylor s scheme after he makes his own MRI scan and finds out that he does not have epilepsy. Peter then attacks and severely injures Michael s hands and plots to murder Taylor for betraying him. Megan then confronts Michael about him using her to bring down Peter and tells him that they are finished. Matt s court case for custody of Chelsea comes to a close with the bias and pompous judge ruling in favor of Denise. But a short while afterward, Denise approaches Matt and tells him that Chelsea is better staying with him. At the end, Jim takes Samantha hostage from her supermarket job while on the run from the police, leading to a high-speed chase... which ends when the car coincidently hits Sydney after her wedding.