The fourth season of Melrose Place, an American television series, premiered on Fox on September 11, 1995.
This is the first season without the involvement of creator Darren Star, who left the series for Central Park West on CBS.
He sleeps with Shelly Hanson (Hudson Leick), Jess' ex-wife (in town for his funeral), and hires her at Shooters.
But Matt's boss, Calvin Hobbs (Francis McCarthy)—the Wilshire chief-of-staff who replaced Peter—fires him anyway for his inappropriate relationship with Paul.
Matt wins another sexual discrimination lawsuit after his attorney goads Hobbs into making homophobic statements in court.
Peter cares for her, telling Sydney that his concern stems from the memory of his late sister (who had similar mental problems).
Amanda admits faking her death years ago in Miami to escape her violent husband, Jack Parezi (Antonio Sabato Jr.)—a businessman with Mafia connections—who tracks her to L.A. and dies in an accident.
She ends her relationship with Peter when she is reunited with her long-lost first love, Jack's brother Bobby (John Enos III).
When Bobby discovers the plot, he attacks Alycia at Peter's office and she accidentally knocks him out the high-rise window to his death.
Kimberly and Michael remarry, but she develops multiple-personality disorder and often reverts to a violent 1950s housewife named Betsy Jones.
When she drives with Peter to the police station to provide his alibi for Bobby's death, Kimberly (as Betsy) instead commits him to a mental institution to avenge his declaring her insane.
Matt, in medical school classes and interning at Wilshire, begins a romance with closeted film actor Alan Ross (Lonnie Schuyler).
He breaks up with Alan after he enters a lavender marriage with co-star Valerie Madison (Jeri Ryan) as a publicity move.
When Dominick invites her to join him in Bosnia as part of a Doctors Without Borders program, she hesitates at first but eventually agrees.
Kimberly returns to reality before falling from a scaffold; comatose, she leaves Peter again in jail with no alibi for Bobby's murder.
In the season finale, Jane discovers that Sydney is responsible for her stroke and blackmails her into helping her murder Richard.
In the final scene, however, Richard's hand pops out of the ground while Jane and Sydney speed off in their car.
Billy storms out when his father in law Hayley calls him to task for not immediately taking Brooke on their honeymoon.
After revealing to Alison that he is fleeing the country due to financial trouble, Hayley falls overboard from his yacht and fatally drowns.
Meanwhile, Jane is left partially paralyzed after a stroke caused by the sedatives, and she later moves into the beach house with Michael and Sydney for her recovery.
Defying D&D board chairman Arthur Field, Amanda assigns a conference keynote on ethics to Alison.
At the conference, Billy meets an ad agent who has suspiciously signed Julie Newmar to a commercial campaign.
When Matt confesses that he was pricked by a dirty needle, Jo is angered by Dominick’s lack of empathy, although they reconcile when he agrees to be more in touch with his feelings.
While trying to free Peter, Kimberly finds Michael and Amanda and orders the trio locked in the boiler room.
Michael breaks through to Kimberly by professing his love for her, while Nurse Benson helps Amanda and Peter escape.
In the boiler room, a confused orderly fights Kimberly, who falls from the catwalk and ends up hospitalized at Wilshire Memorial.