Now I don't know about you, but I almost passed out from holding my breath over the Lexi/Amanda confrontation, so let's get right to it! Mood Hair Woman bursts upon the Queen at the bar and is about to spill them there kidnapping beans when Peter comes up behind her and grabs her. Kyle lurks about behind them, wondering what's going on. But then again, if you had as few brain cells rattling around in your skull as poor G.I. D'oh, you'd wonder what was going on in general. Peter follows Lexi to the parking lot and sneers that he knows Lexi wants him back and the reason she didn't tell Amanda is because she doesn't want to see him go to jail. Considering that he recovered completely from a gunshot wound in one week, I would suppose that in Melrose time a jail sentence would only be about two or three weeks, and gosh, yes, that would be a travesty for poor Mood Hair Woman, so okay. Lexi growls "You bastard! You're going to beg me to come back. You think this buys you time to get Amanda back - you are wrong. I'm taking her down before you even get close. I'm going to show you what a sorry-ass bitch she really is." May I add here that Lexi is exactly what this show needs to get some blood pumping through its collapsed veins? She peals away as the guitars begin their requisite wailing. Peter looks concerned, and Doy Boy Kyle peers through the window of the Upstairs entrance, all suspicious-like. Looks like maybe someone DID buy Kyle a ticket to the clue bus! And we see the credits..

We arrive at the beach house where Jane and Michael are waking up in their floral sheets. Jane is all snuggly wuggly and Michael is all squirmy wormy, and I just have to say that this whole Michael agonizing over the Alex affair possibility storyline is getting oh so very old right about when it first began. Jane, in her sexy black lacy negligee, is stroking Michael's chest, and he freaks out, squeaking "Hey, hey! What's going on?" "Sex," responds Jane. Ten points for getting right to the crux of the situation, there, Janie! Sticking to his "make Jane get all sex-deprived and run to Alex" scheme, he turns her down. She tells him that she wants to get married right away, "before anything happens to mess it up." Now, wouldn't logic tell you that if something kept getting between you and your lover, that maybe it's not FATE, but COMMON SENSE knocking on your concrete skull? Oops. Logic? This is Melroseland. Forget that. Michael gets suspicious and slithers out of bed, telling her that he has an early surgery, but he's sure that she'll come up with something to keep her busy. A frustrated Jane heaves a sigh and collapses back onto the pillows.

I give the writers a large high five on the double entendres that flow like McBride scotch in this episode. Example number one: we arrive at Kyle and Amanda's apartment, where Mr. Macho himself is doing pushups on the floor. Stretching across the new bed linens, the Queen-of-the-Red-on-Red-Striped-Sheets purrs "you wouldn't care to do that up here, would you?" Kyle denies her generous offer (this must be the episode for male SO's to deny their female mates), telling her that he's going to play "B-Ball" with Wet-Baby-Lip-Boy. Amanda jokes that if Ryan cuts into their time together, she'll have to evict him. Kyle says he thinks it's about time they move out and get a house. Amanda wonders about their original plan to save up for a "dream house". He counters with "There's one thing that's clear to me now, and that's that we have no idea what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone a year from now." Right, Kyle, so why plan and save for the future when you can just put yourself in more debt now? That's the kind of thinking we rely on you for! Kyle asks Amanda about the big non-scene with Lexi at the bar, and Amanda pleads ignorance. Kyle postulates that it may have something to do with the missing journal page. I think at this point if someone were to ask Kyle any great mysteries, like who exactly killed JFK, did Marilyn really commit suicide, who was the man in the iron mask, and how Lisa Rinna's lips stay so fat and juicy, he'd claim that all would be revealed if someone could just locate that damn page. Whatever. "I'm so sick of that missing page," Amanda proclaims, taking the words right out of my mouth. Amanda leaves to take a shower, and Kyle tries to figure out how to put on his shoe.

Ryan is about to knock on our favorite ex-hooker's door just as she opens the door to leave for work. "Hey, how's it goin'?" he asks, that stellar font of early morning banter. He asks if she got her tires fixed in Phoenix, and she tells him she "got a whole new set. The guy said they were pretty worn." Megan is wearing a navy blue button-down shirt that is WAY too tight, and not in the sexy Melrose kind of way. It is gapping most horrifically, and when we get a side shot, you can see her white bra gleaming triumphantly like the angel on the top of a Christmas tree. Yikes, Megan. Got a mirror? Anyway, Wet-Baby-Lip-Boy persists in asking her out. Consistent with his earlier bad pickup lines, he tells her, "You looked so great under the stars I thought maybe, you know, wanna see how you'd do under some candlelight." Interesting coincidence. I was just wondering what this special couple would look like engulfed in flames, myself. Folding like the proverbial house of cards, Megan agrees to dinner that night. Wow, what resolve and determination this woman has! She's an inspiration to us all. "It's a date," he says. "No it's not; it's dinner," she responds. Oh the fun-loving repartee of these two! Bestill my heart.

Over at Wilshire Memorial, Michael is whining about his stupid plan to Peter. And one of the most endearing qualities that Peter possesses is that he can dole out advice to others, sounding like a completely rational individual, while we all know about his crazed plots and plans. This is about as sane as when Kimberly became a shrink and was advising Sydney, and it's doubly as amusing! Another high five to the writers for either deeming the viewers too pathetic to realize that Peter is completely off his rocker or for just assuming that we are with them in the whole tongue-in-cheekedness. I'll assume the latter. Anyhow, Peter is arranging cream cheese, tomato slices, and lox on a bagel while Michael spews endlessly about his plan and how it's not working. Peter smiles benevolently and tells Michael that they both have "exactly the same problem - we don't know how to be happy." Well, of course not. If they did, they wouldn't be very interesting on the show, eh?

Over at Mood Hair Woman's brand spanking new and highly successful new agency, the camera pans up Lexi's legs to show us HEY! A miniskirt! I had almost forgotten it's Miniskirt Monday! Whooopeeeee! Kyle lopes into Lexi's office wearing a God-awful orange and yellow striped shirt, grimaces (hey, someone's got to do it now that Coop's gone) and asks her about what she wanted to tell Amanda. Lexi tells him that she was going to tell Amanda some lie about her relationship with Peter gaining new steam or some stupidity like that that even Doy Boy Kyle would never believe. Kyle tries to get her to form an alliance with him, reminding her that they both are out to get Peter. Lexi tells him that it's "not Peter that I want to destroy." Since Kyle left his one operative brain cell in a jar next to his bed, he ignores the threat to his beloved Queen and says "We both want Burns out of Amanda's life. You give me the dirt; I'll make it happen." Just at this moment Megan appears at the door, interrupting to tell Lexi that she's "back from the soap wars." Kyle turns to her and says non-sequitorly, "my brother has a crush on you," which sounds just about as juvenile as he is. He tells Lexi to think about his offer, and walks out past Megan. In typical Melrose walk-into-the-president-of-the-company's-office-and-discuss-one's-personal-life fashion, Megan immediately segues right into conversation about her upcoming date with Baby-Lips. Forgetting about the severe rivalry that existed between herself and Lexi just a few short weeks ago when Lexi was fighting tooth and nail for that wincing Coop waste of space, Megan takes Lexi's offer to "chaperone" her date. Whatever.

We end up at some lame meat market club where Lexi is extolling the virtues of the L.A. nightlife scene (I guess anything's fun and new after eating and drinking at Kyle's every night) and the deliciousness of the tender meat that struts about to her chaperonees, Ryan and Megan. Wet-Lips looks uncomfortable and comments that he's trying not to notice, which is a really impressive thing to say on a first date. "Nothing if not a gentleman," Megan says, and I think that nothing is a more accurate description of Ryan, if you ask me. Lexi asks Ryan to come and work for her "upscale company," and mentions, double-entendre-like, that she thinks she could "find some use" for him. He replies that he "hasn't known Amanda long enough to quit, and he hasn't known Megan long enough to be ignoring her like this," and escorts Megan to the dance floor. Lexi makes some comment about Ryan being nothing like his brother and how it's obvious that Ryan got the brains in the family. Well, she's right about that. No matter how annoying Wet-Baby-Lip-Boy gets, he at least comes off as more wise than G.I. D'oh which isn't really that much of a compliment when you consider a jar of strained peas has more intelligience than Kyle.

At Upstairs, and thank GOD we are finally here! I was beginning to wonder if we were watching the right show! There is a very attractive woman singing very folksy sounding music on the stage and watching Kyle. Peter goes to Amanda and begins to apologize for the scene with Lexi. Amanda gives him the ol' snubberoo and walks to Kyle, wrapping her arm around his. After the singer finishes, she comes down off the stage to talk to our dynamic duo. Recalling her irritating "Rocky" character from GH, I expected her to start popping her gum and talking in that annoying diner accent, but thankfully she sounds quite normal and accent-free. Kyle tells her that he'll have his house band finish the set, and that her type of music isn't exactly what they are looking for. Well, how BRAINFREE is this woman to begin with that she could peddle her folk songs to a bar that claims to be a jazz club in the first place? Hmmmm? Kyle tells her that he is "running a rock `n roll club, and she's got a very folky sound." Wait. I thought Kyle's dream was to open a JAZZ club, not a ROCK `N ROLL club. My mistake. The woman, Eve, is obviously distraught. She runs out of the club and bumps into Peter who asks her if she's alright and proceeds to manhandle her until she is forced to wrench herself away violently, right into the path of a SPEEDING CAR! As Peter shouts for help, Amanda nuzzles up to Eve, telling her "You're going to be alright, Eve. I won't let anything happen to you." Feeling guilty over the whole Christine thing that you found out anyway was a fraud or something, Amanda?

Back at 4616, Amanda is reading the morning paper. There is an article with a picture of Lexi spouting about Sterling-Conway's new business venture. Since none of us knew what the old company did, I guess this is good news. Amanda says that the company "sold off their assets, hired an ad firm," and maybe I'm really confused, but why does an advertising agency need to hire an ad firm? Amanda proclaims that "if she has any delusions about turning this into a takeover of my company, she better buckle her seatbelt." Why would anyone in Amanda's position believe that an upstart company led by a woman who "doesn't know squat" about advertising could be anything but a joke is beyond me. Sure is nifty that all you need is a miniskirt and the desire to have a successful company in a field you have never even tried and BOOM the papers are touting your great new important company! I think I'll quit my job and start up my own ad agency! In fact, we ALL should quit our jobs and start ad agencies. Like now. Today. Whatever.

Over at Wilshire Memorial, Eve is eating a breakfast that looks NOTHING like ANYTHING you would possibly find in a hospital. Peter walks in, and it is obvious that he has developed an interest in this young woman. Perhaps it is their joint GH alum status that makes that fire burn so bright... He yaps about her condition and how she's doing very well and are he and Michael the only doctors in this hospital? Why doesn't anyone else ever treat the patients? He starts prying into her life, and she gives him a brief summary of her rough childhood and lack of steady relationships. He tells her, and I am NOT kidding here, that he has diagnosed her with the "sometimes life stinks syndrome" and tells her that she can stay at the hospital for a while to get back on her feet. Wow, insurance fraud much? He tells her he'll put in a good word with Kyle for her. Yeah, that's like Monica putting in a good word for Bill with Hillary. They get all flirty and yummy, and I feverishly crunch down some Tums. A nurse walks in with a note for Peter that tells him to meet Amanda at the club at 2:00AM. He gives Eve a parting glance and leaves. She snuggles up to her cup of coffee and looks all happy and dreamy.

Now, is it just my delusional imagination, or is the waiter that leans Igor-like toward Megan and gurgles "Cocktails?" Kin Shriner from GH? What is this? The big GH Exodus show? Megan asks for an iced tea, and Lexi wants a "vodka martini dry." Lexi suggests that they use Baby-Lips to spy on Amanda. Aghast, Megan refuses to have anything to do with it. Amanda comes to the table and pours champagne for the three of them, welcoming them to the world of advertising. After some light banter, Lexi informs Amanda that she's going to "wipe the floor with her." Amanda toasts "dreaming the impossible dream." Kin comes back, and Amanda tells him to put the champagne "on the redhead's bill." And I LOVE LOVE LOVE this Amanda/Lexi rivalry. It promises such delightful cattiness for our viewing pleasure that I can hardly contain my joy. Megan smiles girlishly while Lexi scowls and sips her martini.

At the beach house, Michael, Jane, and Malibu Alex are hanging out. I'm going to make a long long story very very short because this is the most tedious plotline I have ever seen in my entire Melrose-watching experience, and I want to make the hurting stop. Michael asks Alex to make Jane's wedding dress. He has apparently made plans for a wedding in two weeks. Michael makes a quick exit, lying that he has a medical convention out of town for a couple days, and leaves the ex-lovers alone so he can spy. Alex has Jane take her shirt off so he can measure her, Michael knocks over a watering can in his spying bumblingness, the two designers rush to the patio and see nothing; we see Michael hiding below the deck. Whatever. Let's just move on.

Now for the scene of all scenes. The scene we have been parched for, hungering for, hankering for, dreaming of. NOW is the time to put on your seatbelts, folks, cuz the joyride is about to commence! Sneaky G.I. D'oh sent the letter to Peter, NOT AMANDA! His diabolical plot is for the two of them to sit around and do shots while insulting each other. Sounds like a great plan to me. Kyle sets out two shots glasses, saying that he wants them to play a game in which they tell each other what they really think of each other. Apparently, the unwritten rule is that you do a shot after each flaming barb. How awfully butch and manly! Peter does a shot and says "Well, I think you're great." Kyle says "No, I mean what we really think of each other. Fool." Ouch. That must have hurt. "You mean that a real man would have given that girl Eve a second chance as opposed to handling with it like a gutless swine?" Peter retorts. Kyle: "No, more like I think you're an effete [okay,we all know he must have gotten that word from a Learn a Word a Day calendar] spineless snob who makes his money off other people's pain. Your turn." Peter: "Okay, macho lowlife mouthbreather. You don't deserve a woman like Amanda. No, no, pal. You reached your high water mark with Taylor." Kyle: "No, no, I still don't think you've grasped the concept. Listen, it's more like this. I can't fathom how you get up and look at yourself in the mirror every morning. I hate you. And I hate the fact that you're always sneaking around. Give it another shot." I hate you? Gosh, Kyle, you're so rough. Peter: "So we're going to get personal here, hmm? Remember when I snuck in, looking for the kidnappers. I was looking for that missing journal page. Now I'm not sure what's in it, Mr. Marine, but I'll bet it's something about how much Amanda loves me and she just can't bear to throw that entry away, cuz she wants to read it over [pause] and over [pause] and over." Kyle smacks the shot glass out of Peter's hand and snarls "I could kill you right now, you know that." Keeping his cool even as his windpipe is being crushed by G.I. D'oh's meaty paws, Peter asks, "Does that mean I win the game?" Let me check my book of rules. The answer is YES!! Most definitely! Peter 1, Kyle 0. Kyle walks off in a huff; Peter straightens his jacket, does another shot, and walks away.

Over at AWA, Amanda pulls Wet-Baby-Lip-Boy into her office to lecture him on the dangers of "chasing Megan". She notes that Megan works for the competition and could very easily steal some of Ryan's advertising ideas that he conveniently leaves lying all around his apartment since he's such a slob and nevermind the fact he hasn't landed a single account yet and, therefore, has no such papers. Amanda goes on to tell him that Megan, despite the fact she's never hurt anyone on this show ever, could easily become a thief and her stealing one, single, solitary idea from Ryan would mean the end of the advertising empire that is Amanda Woodward Advertising. Ryan reminds Amanda that no one - not even bossy blonde Special Guest Star sisters-in-law - tell him what to do because he *IS* in charge of himself and he *IS* a big boy and he knows all this because he recently stopped using Pull-Ups Training Pants. "Back off!", Billy - err, I mean Ryan - snaps and storms out of the office.

Michael is sleeping in his office when Peter comes waltzing in for another day at The Medical Office With No Patients Since Kimberly Is Dead And Nobody Else Trusts Us To Be Their Doctor. Seeing Michael, Peter immediately assumes Jane kicked him out but Michael corrects him and informs him of his great Secret Spy plan and shows Peter the Junior Joe Detective kit he got in a box of Fruit Loops cereal. Peter is afraid to ask why Michael is doing this but does anyway so Michael tells him defiantly, "Because I love her!" Man, if I were Jane I think I'd rather just have some flowers or something. Speak of the devil, Jane comes in so Peter rushes out to the waiting room to talk with her. Jane tells Peter about Michael's convention and asks if he has a number where he can be reached since Michael never called. Peter does a really bad job of covering for Michael so Jane barges into Michael's office to check for an itinerary on his desk. As she starts rifling through the papers on his desk, we see Michael hiding underneath the desk. Peter takes this golden opportunity to ask Jane about Alex which is bizarre enough considering they hardly know each other but even weirder than that is the fact that Jane starts confiding in Peter about how sorry she is she ever had the affair OVER 8 YEARS AGO and how sorry she is for hurting Michael and how sorry she is she's become so sorry. Jane leaves and Michael comes out from his hiding place, completely unaffected by Jane's tender speech. Instead, he focuses on her "pregnant pause" when she referred to her feelings for Malibu Alex and tells Peter, "She's trying to spare me the pain, but she's not going to get away with that!"

Julie 90210 Reject is in Amanda's office telling her about how they already lost a client to Lexi and it looks like other clients have been contacted by her. Amanda spots Ryan out by his desk, marches out to him and openly accuses him of giving Lexi their client list. Ryan denies it but to no avail - he gets fired on the spot. Claiming he was setup, Ryan hisses, "Nice knowing you" and leaves.

Within seconds Ryan appears at Mood Hair's office and abruptly asks Megan to leave (but not before confirming their date later that evening). Closing the door, Ryan turns to Lexi and informs her he just got fired for selling her Amanda's client list even though they both know he didn't do it. "Not that I wouldn't," he adds and asks if she still has that job opening for him. Lexi tells him she doesn't need him since she already has a "mole" so Ryan tosses some papers at her and says, "Yes, but can your mole get you these?" Looking at the documents that turn out to be marketing strategies for AWA, Lexi coos, "No secretary can get me this" and offers Ryan a job, which he gladly accepts.

Amanda goes to visit her new bestest buddy Eve in the hospital and bumps into Peter in the hallway outside her room. She gleefully tells him that she's there to offer Eve an apartment in the building since, after all, half the apartments ARE vacant. Peter, equally gleeful, tells her he's discharging Eve and then gives Amanda grief for firing her in the first place. This somehow leads into yet another debate over G.I. D'oh as Peter baits his ex by telling her about his run-in with Kyle the previous evening. "We had a coupla drinks and, well, he lost control... threatened to kill me - you know, his usual," he tells her. Dr. Love then gives us his best bedroom eyes and tells Amanda how both he and Kyle think the missing journal page is about Peter and Amanda. This has its obvious intended effect on Amanda but before she can come up with some witty rebuttal, Peter is paged and excuses himself to take the call.

Recovering quickly, Amanda flips her hair and enters Eve's room where Eve is packing to leave. Amanda asks how she's doing so Eve tells her sullenly, "I'm surviving." Amanda replies, "If you want to do more than just survive, you've got to do something about this hair" which seems like a pretty rude thing to say to someone you just met AND just fired. However, Eve knows Amanda has stock in Loreal so she takes it all in stride and Amanda laughs and thankfully this scene is over.

Jane and her disco yellow car cruise over to the home of Malibu Alex. Outside, Michael scales the cement wall even though he could have just as easily walked through the front gate. Inside the house, Jane starts talking about work although Alex makes it quickly obvious that she's not there on business. She confesses her fear that Michael is having an affair with Megan and how it's tearing her up that he's being so dishonest because if he were honest like her he'd run to his ex-lover for comfort in the middle of the night. Alex, not well rehearsed in the area of Big Lovable Supportive Guy, tells Jane she can't marry Michael who is now outside on a window ledge being attacked by a dog. And, despite the fact the dog's barking is louder and far more noticeable than the previous evening's watering can interruption, neither Alex nor Jane seem to notice. Alex tells Jane he loves her and wants to be with her and get his face in the opening credits because he really needs the work no matter how bad it might be and deep down he knows Jane wants the same thing because she hasn't thought twice about him in 8 years and that's obviously a big sign of true love. Jane is shocked and annoyed so she makes a quick exit. Alex chases after her as Michael, the dog, and Michael's shoe continue to watch on unnoticed. He continues begging Jane to let Michael go and insists she loves Alex and for a minute I half-expected him to start singing "You Must Love Me". He tells her, "You can't say you don't" and takes her continued silence as proof of this instead of taking into consideration the fact that she might very well spew if she dares open her mouth. Jane hastily gets in her discomobile and speeds away.

Now it's time for the fourth quarter of the show which is where every scene ends with people fighting and going their separate ways. First up - Ryan McBride. Despite the fact he's supposed to be starting his new, exciting job being a love slave to Lexi, he's back at AWA to tell Amanda he knows who the "spy" is. Turning to Julie, he orders her to get him a cup of coffee as he and Amanda go into her office. Julie follows almost immediately and hands Ryan his coffee. As she turns to leave, Ryan flatly asks her, "You gave Lexi our client list, didn't you?" 90210 Reject Girl denies the accusation but is interrupted by Ryan who continues, "You also told her about the soap account so she could send Megan in to scoop us." Julie continues her denial and does her best "dumb blonde" routine as she asks who gave him his information. "It doesn't matter," he replies, "I can prove it." Julie stammers and tells him, "N-No, it wasn't like that..." Busted! Turning to Amanda, Julie tells her how sorry she is but how she "couldn't turn down that kind of money". Amanda barks at her, "Get out!" and then quickly offers an apology to Ryan. Ryan accepts her apology, as well as a raise and his own office. Walking out of Amanda's office, he encounters Mood Hair Woman who angrily throws the AWA marketing strategy documents at him which turned out to be ten years old despite the fact AWA has been in business for barely one year. She warns Wet-Lips that making her his enemy was a mistake and then orders Julie to come with her because her company specializes in giving jobs to the non-qualified, idiot blondes of LA. Queen Amanda emerges from her office and sarcastically warns Lexi not to trust Julie so Lexi tells her she should treat her employees with respect which Amanda insists Lexi knows nothing about which causes Lexi to make a comment about Amanda and loneliness so Amanda tells her "Oh yeah? Well my dog is better than yours" but Lexi retaliates with "Oh yeah? Well mom likes me best!" and leaves.

Next up is Jane at home folding the laundry when Michael returns home from his "convention". He notes how Jane looks exhausted but she explains she just has a bit of a hangover despite the fact Josie Bissett has never looked bad on this show ever with the exception of that lawnmower haircut she sported a few years back. She explains she was up all night working and drinking wine and changes the topic of conversation by asking Michael about his convention. He answers by telling her he couldn't stop thinking about Alex... and the dress... and how he hopes he gets the chance to dance with Alex at the wedding. He asks if Jane will need more fittings but with an accusatory tone so Jane snaps about her suspicions surrounding his trips out of town. "When could I tell you anything?" Michael yells to which Jane replies, "When we trusted each other!". They each exit the room via separate doors.

Continuing on with this pattern are Kyle and Amanda who are at an open house to look at a new house. They chit-chat about Eve and giving her a second chance and isn't it a little odd that they're being this gracious to a complete stranger yet told Mecca Christine to take a hike? Their conversation quickly turns sour as the topic of Peter once again rears its ugly head. Amanda mentions the ransom money which aggravates G.I. D'oh so Amanda tells him he's turning into Peter with all his jealous behavior. She tells him how she knows about their little "barfight" the other night so Kyle counters by asking if Peter also admitted he broke into their apartment to look for the missing journal page. Instead of being shocked at this information, Amanda focuses on the words "missing journal page" and tears into Kyle for bringing it up. "It's about you and him," he tells her and when she denies it he angrily adds, "Look at you - you're still trying to protect your ex-husband and it's making me sick." "I'll send you a Get Well card," Amanda snipes and walks out of the house.

At the Upstairs, Eve is singing her slow, folk music in her shrill Joan Baez voice while some idiot on the dance floor is twirling around as if he's hearing a different song entirely. Megan with her Dippity Doo hairstyle enters and approaches Ryan. They plan to go downstairs for dinner but first Megan needs to dump all her emotional baggage on Wet-Baby-Lip-Boy and tell him all about her secret past as a call girl because this is, after all, their second official date so she better tell him everything right now instead of letting him get to know her gradually like normal people. She tells him how she has this pattern of filling the voids in her life with some guy and how she can't do that anymore and needs to "make herself whole" as if being healthy is really what Melrose viewers want and now I'm wondering if the writers really have been checking out these synopses for the past few years and think they're doing us a favor by catering to our sarcastic comments and if that is truly the case I need to say here and now BRING BACK THE PSYCHO STORYLINES THAT MADE NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!! Sure, in the REAL world no one could blow up a building and end up practicing psychiatry all within a 3 month time span but if I wanted reality I'd watch the local news. Back to the scene... Needless to say, Ryan is surprised so she suggests they forego dinner so he can "sleep on it" (no pun intended). Megan leaves, Eve continues screeching, "I will be strong" and Amanda enters. She goes straight to Kyle's office where they both start apologizing. She promises she doesn't know anything about the missing journal page, has no secrets regarding Peter and has no secrets at all from Kyle. In return she gets Kyle to promise never to bring up the subject of the missing journal page ever again or at least not until next week. He agrees and she says ominously, "the secret died with Matt." Fat chance.

Out in the club, director Peter enters looking absolutely radiant. He smiles a perfect smile at Eve who returns the smile, finishes her song and rushes over to Peter. Exhuberant, she thanks him for all he did to help her and then plants a big kiss on him since that's how patients repay their hospital doctors in LA. Witness to all this is a jilted-looking Amanda who wanders outside in a daze. Eve follows after her and Amanda turns to her with this weird look in her eyes as if she thinks she's Michael Jackson in that "Thriller" video. "I told someone about our secret years ago and he wrote it in his journal," Amanda blurts out. "He's dead now and I tore the page out - I'll never tell another soul." Eve is surprised that she didn't tell Kyle so Amanda explains she can't tell him this but she just told him "no more secrets" so this means Eve should be spilling the beans any day now. "Thank you for all the years you...", Eve's voice trails off and the two Women With A Past hug.

--written by zinc and Stacie, edited by Stacie

Amanda and Eve discuss the fact that Peter likes them both as if something similiar has happened in the past; Jane catches Michael at Megan's and confronts him about his "affair"; Lexi has sex with a stranger and a "vicious lie" could destroy Amanda.