The Lily story plays out until the end of January, well past the airing of There's Something About Amelia, but the trial itself wraps up that week. In late January, Lily's alter tries to kill Jack at a cabin before she is sent to Oregon for treatment. Jennifer Ashe seems to depart in late January with possibly making two more appearances. In late Febraury, there is a note about Jack going to see June as she is selling the house. The summaries continue to mention Lily on occasion through late March when Jack is informed that Lily is not progressing well. I believe June returns to deliver that note. This occurs the same week, I believe, as Merrill's departure from Corinth for the news correspondents job in Washington, D.C. so contracts are up.
While I agree that the network probably wasn't micromanaging the scripts at that level, I imagine part of the reason the show was not allowed to continue the story was so they could the "never before on television" angle to promote the film for awards, for which There's Something About Amelia won several.
Its worth noting that as the Lily story ends, Ann and Roger disappear from the canvas about the same time and Patrick and Rose Donovan are shipped off to Florida for some time (I think they return sometime in the spring). By mid February, Jack is in charge of Lorna as she is hiding her pregnancy and the only other reference to Roger and Ann is a mid-March reference that they oppose Tony and Lorna's wedding plans, but I don't necessarily think they were onscreen for that.
I do think there were story elements that were also revised because of the network's insistence. I believe the Stephanie Payne role in the Jonathan Maitalane / Edy Lester story was suppose to be a recast Merrill Vochek. Stephanie, if I recall correctly, was a journalist of some sorts who had been investigating the San Francisco murders and was helping Doug with the development of a television series. Merrill investigating Doug's wife for the murders would have carried a bit more weight and the impact on the Lorna / Jonathan leg of the story with Lorna and Merrill's history due to Merrill's affair with Roger and Lorna's attraction to Doug would have been more layered than what was played out onscreen.
In the case of Marland not wanting to stay long, I always come back to something Richard Backus stated; Marland had expensive tastes. I think one of the few ways to make money in any industry is to shop around for new jobs to get a higher starting salary. I have to wonder if Marland chose job stability for insurance reasons as he got older.
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