Two catfights, one “murder”, one heck of a revelation and an overdose all under an hour. If you don’t think Melrose was crazy tonight then I need your Primetime Soap Viewer membership card. ASAP!!!! I’m serious. I am collecting nonbelievers’ memberships, because they don’t know MP crazy if it stabbed them in the back and left them to die. Rant over. Now onto the recap…
The Set Up
Everyone is having some loving at 4616 Melrose Place. Except Ella that is.
She is upset that Jonah hasn’t returned her calls or texts and she really wants to apologize to him for backstabbing him on the music video credit. Lauren ponders why would Ella be so upset about someone being mad at her, since Ella is prone to piss people off. Ella says that Jonah was the only person who got her. Lauren sees clear through this and tells Ella that Jonah is engaged to be married and she should count him as a loss. But Ella denies, denies, denies, that she has feelings for Jonah. When Ella leaves, Lauren gets a call from one of her old clients, Rick, who wants an encore and is willing to pay. She sets up the date. Aww come on, Lauren! Use David’s trust fund!!!!
Riley is livid that he mother is trying to control the wedding all the way down to the invitations. Jonah then has a bright idea: they should forgo the wedding and just get hitched in Vegas. Riley accepts happily. Silly kids, don’t they know that most Vegas weddings don’t last a weekend? Ask Britney Spears!
Amanda fusses at a cabby to floor it so she won’t miss her flight. Then she has a flashback of the last time she saw Sydney.
The flashback takes place in a church and Amanda finds Sydney siting in a pew, but these ladies are no saints. Amanda immediately calls Sydney a thief and demands for Sydney to return her painting that is worth $19 million dollars. A painting? Really? There goes my deed theory… Sydney claims that she doesn’t have it, asking Amanda why would she steal from her. Amanda thinks that Sydney is miffed that Amanda slept with Michael and that’s the reason why she would steal from her. Wait. Backup. Amanda slept with Michael!?!?!?! Oh, wow… Amanda goes on to say that they were business partners, not friends, and that Sydney got a little greedy when it came to the scam they were running, which consisted of Amanda finding art and having it stolen so that Sydney could sell it. That explains why Sydney had an art gallery all of a sudden… Amanda ends the convo with letting it be known that she will do whatever it takes to get her painting back. Hmmm… Did Amanda have Sydney whacked?
The Foursome Finally Comes To An End
Ella stops by Jonah and Riley’s apartment to make up with Jonah, who is still pissed. That is until Ella presents Jonah with a big pitch meeting with a big producer named Curtis Heller. Jonah takes the pitch as a peace offering, but reminds Ella that it has to take place before 4pm that day, because he has to leave for Vegas then to get married. Ella is stunned for minute, but gains enough composure to congratulate Jonah and to tell him to have Elvis marry him and Riley.
Later, Riley goes to visit Auggie to apologize about turning him in, which he forgives, cause he’s in love. But he wants to catch up by running, which Riley turns down because of her and Jonah getting hitched. Auggie tries to talk Riley out of making a mistake by marrying Jonah, but Riley gets pissed and leaves.
Jonah packs his bags, but realizes that Riley hasn’t went crazy packing hers. He automatically thinks that Riley is worried about her mother, but she tells him that’s not the case. While packing, Jonah gets the call for the pitch and meets Ella at the hotel with Carl Heller. Jonah almost loses the pitch, but Ella rescues it and Jonah does his thing. But Heller looks bored out his mind. Uh, oh… A little while later, Ella sends Jonah off to go elope.
Later that night, Riley and Jonah work on the car to make sure everything is legit. While Jonah talks about the trip and them getting married, Ella shows up with news that Heller actually wants to buy Jonah’s movie. The three friends celebrate before Ella lets Jonah know that Heller wants to see him on Thursday, which cuts into the couple’s wedding plans. Jonah thinks that is fine and they can be back before then. Then Jonah says that he can work on his pitch in Vegas, but Riley declares he will be preoccupied and distracted. Riley then surmises that they can postpone the wedding and Jonah can do his pitch. Jonah is not happy about this. Ella leaves and Jonah asks Riley what is really up since she is willing to let the wedding go so easily. Riley then says that she doesn’t know about getting married now, because she is at a crossroads and don’t know what she wants to do with herself. So Jonah helps her out. He dumps her and stalks off in the streets of L.A.
Jonah finds himself at Ella’s hotel room and he says that Ella was right and that Riley is not the right girl for him. He needs someone that believes in him and understands him. Um, isn’t that what Riley was doing by putting your career first? I’m confused. But Ella isn’t as Jonah kisses her and the two of them go at it. When Ella asks if Jonah is sure, he says he is.
Riley is at home with the aftermath of the ‘Who Killed Sydney” mystery and Auggie shows up. She tells him the news and Auggie says he knew that Jonah was not the man for her and that it’s for the best. Riley says that he is wrong about anything for the best and Auggie kisses her. She pushes him off her and tells him to leave.
Lauren’s Dilemma
Lauren meets Rick at the hotel room and while he wants to get intimate, Lauren wants to keep it extremely business. Rick produces some drug called “nexus” that is supposed to make sex even more mind exploding, but Lauren says she doesn’t do drugs. But after the sex is over with, Lauren is sick. So sick, in fact, that she collapses, her skin starts to pale and she shakes uncontrollably at times. Rick admits to slipping her some of the drug in her drink, but thinks Lauren had too much to drink. His dumbass doesn’t think, though, that Lauren could either be allergic or that he might’ve gave her too much. Lauren tells him to leave, before she collapses again. David calls her and she begs for him to help her. She gives him the address and room number of her location. Her cover is soooooo blown now. David gets the medical doctors to help, but they tell him that she might’ve had an overdose on something… We last see Lauren either having her stomach pumped or something and David tearfully watching the procedure.
Now… Who. Killed. SYDNEY?!?!
Vanessa Mancini (guest star Brooke Burns) visits Michael in jail and she asks why did he kill Sydney, but Michael knows who really killed Sydney Andrews: Vanessa.
Huh?
While she (and I) ask him what the hell is he talking about, Michael says that he came to see Sydney and found her dead in the pool and Vanessa running away from the crime scene. He picked up the necklace to save his family so that Noah wouldn’t be traumatized by his mother going to jail.
AHAA!!!! Vanessa plays dumb, but Michael declares that when the prints come back on the necklace, Vanessa is toast.
Michael then makes a call to David convince him that Vanessa is the killer and to get Noah before Vanessa skips town with him. David goes and does just that, but when Lauren calls, the only person at the apartments left to watch Noah is Violet. When David stops by to see her, Violet is painting a huge ass picture of Auggie in Pollack form. Noah recognized Violet from baby-sitting, but she plays it off. David then stupidly tells Violet to not let Vanessa find Noah, because she was the one who killed Sydney.
Crazy Violet is initiated and ready for action.
Vanessa shows up in the courtyard later and she flashbacks to the night of the murder.
Vanessa stopped by Sydney’s and the two women whine at each other. Vanessa sees David knocked out in Sydney’s bed and calls
Sydney a whore, which Sydney throws back at Vanessa since Vanessa slept with David as well!!!! WHAT!?!?!? Vanessa says she screwed with David before she met Michael and that doesn’t count, but Sydney has Vanessa figured out. See Vanessa slept with David five years ago. Noah is five years old. Skankish slut!!!! So basically David is actually Noah’s father!!!!!! Vanessa pushes Sydney hard and the two girls go at it. Vanessa gets the upper hand and finds the knife that Sydney stabbed Auggie with and stabs Sydney in the shoulder. Sydney fights her off and runs from the apartment. When she reaches the courtyard, Vanessa serves the death blow in Sydney’s back and Sydney falls in the pool, dead.
Vanessa comes back to the present and hears Noah’s voice coming from Violet’s apartment. When she knocks on the door, Violet answers, but doesn’t let Vanessa in. Vanessa recognizes Violet as well and demands to know where Noah is. Violet feigns ignorance, which infuriates Vanessa, who tries to force her way into Violet’s apartment. This is when Violet reveals that she knows that Vanessa killed her mother, the last person who ever loved her, and then we flashback to the night of the murder.
Sydney stops by Violet’s apartment and Violet thinks Sydney is about to kick her out, but Sydney has actually come to reconcile and admit that Violet is her daughter. Sydney claims that turning her back on Violet was the worst mistake of her life and she wants to get to know her. She hugs Violet and Violet is happy.
Flash to present and Vanessa gets crazy and pulls a gun on Violet. Bad move! Violet tackles Vanessa and the two land in the pool and they struggle until Violet gets the upper hand. While all this is going on, Amanda walks in and witnesses Violet bashing Vanessa’s head against the pool and strangling her in anger. Vanessa dies and Violet is in total shock. Amanda snaps out of it and runs to calm Violet, who simply says: “She killed my mom.”
The police arrive and Det. Rodriguez arrives and asks Violet if Vanessa attacked her. Amanda jumps in and says that Violet actedin self-defense and that she saw everything, which is kind of true. After Det. Rodriguez leaves, Violet thanks Amanda, saying that she doesn’t know how to repay her. Amanda, through a knowing smile, responds that Violet will find a way one day to do just that.
Hmmm….
Violet later sees Auggie kissing Riley and sadly walks away.
Conclusions
– Amanda calls someone to get to the apartments the next day so they can look for the painting in each person’s apartment. She looks out into the courtyard and sees Violet burning the picture she made of Auggie. Goodbye, Violet!!!!! You will be sorely missed!!
– Auggie sits rocking and slightly praying, but he can’t hold it for long. He grabs the bottle in front of him and takes a hard swig and he has officially fallen off the wagon. Goodbye, Auggie!!! Take care and come see us now!
– While Jonah and Ella get busy in the hotel room, Riley tearfully watches the video Jonah made for their anniversary back in the pilot episode.
Mail Call!
– So Vanessa killed Sydney. Did NOT see that coming! I like the ending and it all makes sense, but with both Sydney and Vanessa dead, will Michael and David ever find out Noah’s true paternity?
– So pissed at Lauren’s john, the dumb prick. If she dies, then he killed her. I would’ve at least made sure that she got help, but then I wouldn’t have used the drugs in the first place so…
– Jonah and Ella… Don’t know if I like that right now.
– Still hate Jonah. If my girl was OK to postpone our wedding so I could get my career started and take care of her, then I would have been ready to marry her even more! Now, Riley was screwed up, but I didn’t think that her wanting him to make his meeting with the producer should have been the catalyst of their split. Maybe if they had gotten to Vegas and Riley showed some signs of pause, then I would have bought that. But movie career over a last minute wedding plan? No brainer.
Well, guys, this was the last new Melrose Place of 2009. What did you think? Did you hate it? Did you like it? Are you content on knowing who killed Syd and why? Get at me! And I will see you in 2010!!!
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