By Stephen Viens

MELROSE Place is saying goodbye to fans after seven years with the most outrageous show finale ever - the deaths of Amanda Woodward (Heather Locklear) and Dr. Peter Burns (Jack Wagner).
     But that's not the real shocker- STAR has learned exclusively that Amanda and Peter have faked their deaths so they can run off and remarry each other!
     Melrose fans have come to expect the outlandish from the campy nighttime soap, which became so popular in the mid-'90s that TV's top-rated show, Seinfeld, featured an episode where Jerry is forced by a girlfriend to take a lie-detector test when he denies being a Melrose-watcher.
     At one point, Melrose was so popular that producers devoted an episode to a Top Ten countdown of the show's most outrageous moments.
     But even die-hard fans are going to be shocked by Melrose's finale.
     Insiders who've gotten a peek at the top-secret script say the fake funeral - and then a mind-boggling wedding - for Locklear and Wagner's characters outdoes anything the prime-time soap has pulled off yet.
     Having decided they can't live without each other and should never have gotten divorced, Amanda and Peter plot to find a way they can be together without hassles from their respective spouses, Kyle McBride (Rob Estes) and Eve Cleary Burns (Rena Sofer).
     So they convince master conniver Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro) to help them fake their deaths in a fiery car crash off an oceanside cliff.
     After helping them stage the accident, Michael returns to Melrose Place to break the news that Amanda and Peter are dead.
     Recalling that Amanda always wanted her ashes to be scattered in the ocean, Kyle arranges for a seaside service.
     Jane Mancini (Josie Bissett), Megan Lewis (Kelly Rutherford), Kyle and Michael all gather on the beach in front of an enlarged photo of Amanda and Peter - and urns supposedly bearing their ashes - as a minister begins the service.
     Kyle tearfully recalls the last time he saw Amanda, whom he still loves.
     "I will never forget you, Amanda," says Kyle.
     Just then, Eve, deranged with grief and anger, shows up wearing a cheerleading outfit from her schoolgirl days with fellow pompom girl Amanda.
     Sensing trouble, Michael tries to stop her from interrupting the service, but Eve insists on trashing Amanda, whom she still blames for letting her take the rap for a murder Eve committed to save Amanda from being raped in high school.
     "What can you say about a woman who let me spend 15 years in prison for something she did - robbed me of a life, stole my husband. You can all pretend to be sad, but I'm glad they're dead. May they both rot in Hell!"
     Outraged at Eve's antics, Peter's old girlfriend Lexi Sterling (Jamie Luner) starts to protest - and is rewarded with an urn full of "Peter's" ashes dumped all over her, courtesy of Eve.
     "There you go," Eve tells Lexi. "You always wanted Peter all over you."
     On another beach, far away, a much more peaceful scene is unfolding.
     The farewell scene of Melrose Place shows Amanda and Peter exchanging wedding vows on a beautiful Hawaiian beach.