'Melrose Place': Did David kill Sydney?

Tonight on "Melrose Place," David flashbacks to waking up with a bloody knife the night Sydney died.

Ella & Lauren
Ella is starting to get suspicious about Lauren's many, many dates. Ella gives a very genuine offer to let Lauren bend her ear, but Lauren turns her down. Later, one of Ella's clients ODs on Oxy. Luckily he ends up at Lauren's hospital. Ella tries to get Lauren to create fake admissions documents that say he had an allergic reaction to penicillin, offering her a few grand. Caleb tells Ella to go back to Lauren with an offer of $50,000.

Except Ella finds Lauren's ledger and wad of cash and calls her "Pretty Woman." Snerk. Ella gets all "you won't fudge hospital records, but you'll fudge random dudes" and Lauren gets mad because it is SO not the same thing and Ella knows that. Lauren still turns down the $50,000 because her career comes first. I'm totally with you, Lauren. You'd be DONE as a doctor if you got caught. I'd rather be a prostitute than take that chance too.

Ella goes back to Caleb with Plan B: The Truth. She says they have to let the story out so that they can control it and Jesse gets himself into rehab because if he doesn't stop with the nose candy, he'll kill himself. Ella then finds Lauren and apologizes for trying to buy her. She also says she won't bring up the 'ho thing but is there for Lauren if she needs to talk. Lauren is still mum.

Jonah, Kendra & Riley
They are out for drinks (is this the same drinks as last episode or not?) and Kendra kisses him. Jonah reciprocates for about 3 seconds, then blurts out that he's engaged. Kendra is rather alarmed and wonders why he kissed her if he's ready to get married.

The next day Riley tries to talk to him about Auggie but he's all evasive and weird. When his buddy bails on a wedding they're shooting, Riley inserts herself as his helper. This ought to go well.

Riley is totally deluded, asking Jonah what's up with him and whatnot. Um, what's up is that you kissed Auggie. The Kendra kiss aside, he could STILL be weird about that, you doofus. He finally tells her about it but says his thing is different because Riley kept it a secret and didn't even seem to be bothered. Riley insists it was meaningless and not worth telling him.

Riley confronts Auggie about it and says that there was no "moment" and that they shouldn't hang out anymore because it bothers Jonah. Ouch. Also: that's kinda weak, Riley. Cutting Auggie out isn't going to fix things with Jonah.

Riley tells Jonah what she did about Auggie and he says he wouldn't tell her to do that. She says she wanted to because they come first. When she finds out that Jonah is going to see Kendra again for his movie, she freaks. They talk about how ever since they got engaged, things have been off and Riley says they have to work because relationships are hard.

Violet & Auggie
Auggie offers her some food at work and she says, "I could definitely eat. My dinner was cherries and olives." Um, we can see that, Skin-and-Bones. A big-shot guy named Mason is there to put together a new menu and Marcello totally steals Auggie's menu idea and passes it off as his own. Crazy Eyes is not going to take this lying down.

Except she doesn't get a chance to help Auggie because when Marcello gets lecherous about Riley, Auggie beats him all to hell. Eh. That guy's had it coming. Violet comes by Auggie's later to return his knife set that he left at the restaurant. She "comforts" him by sleeping with him, though we all know who he's pretending she is.

David & Det. Rodriguez
They're suspicious of David because the night Sydney was murdered, Ella hired a P.I. to break into Sydney's apartment and Ella is David's alibi. We flashback to David crying over his mother's grave and it's... pretty bad. Sorry, Shaun Sipos. Anyway, that's where he and Sydney first hooked up. I mean, not ON the grave. They left together.

David goes to Ella, telling her that Rodriguez is on to Ella and the P.I. Ella is stunned. She tells David that if the P.I. got caught, he could've snapped and killed Sydney. David assures her that the P.I. didn't do it and when asked how he knows, David says he confronted Sydney about sleeping with his father and he thinks he could've snapped and killed her and then blacked out.

David then goes to get the bloody knife he buried after he woke up the night Sydney died. Um, what? Dd I miss something? Has he always remembered that or did he just remember? I do not enjoy this, it's confusing. Anyway, the bloody knife is gone. A construction worker found it and turned it in to the police. Uh oh.

David goes back to the graveyard to cry over Sydney's grave and it's still so very bad.

Thoughts & Tidbits

• While I'm definitely not sad that Ashlee is on her way out, I think Colin Egglesfield really got shafted. To be honest, I think Shaun Sipos is the weak link.
  
  
• Ella: Stop putting that stuff up your nose. If you don't, you'll be having a power lunch with River Phoenix ... Who's River Phoenix? Kill me now.
  
  
• Um, that line doesn't really work since Katie Cassidy was SEVEN years old when River Phoenix died. We can all tell she's not, like, 30. Give me a break.
  
  
• Not to bag on Ella some more because I love her character but I cannot abide that white high-waisted pantsuit she had on. I don't care how fashionable it is, it is U-G-L-Y.
  
  
• Ella: Oh and Caleb, for the record. My friend? She's not a nurse. She's going to be one of the finest doctors this hospital's ever had on staff.
  
  
• More Lauren and Ella interaction. They're the best two things about this show.
  
  

Follow Andrea on Twitter and follow Zap2It's general feed for all your movies, TV and celebrity news

Related Links

Jessica Simpson disses Melrose Place on Twitter
Drinking with the Stars: Colin Egglesfield 
Trailer: Heather Locklear back as Amanda Woodward