Meanwhile, Andy is a little stunned upon learning the extent of Nina's feelings for Jake and, with a little encouragement from her friend, Bright, Hannah decides to go on a date with a smitten Topher. Meanwhile, Harold and Rose worry about Amy after she sets her mind to auditioning for a rigorous ballet program in Denver, and Andy unintentionally humiliates Delia in front of her hockey team.
Also, accepted at Princeton, Amy assumes that her father secretly sent in her application. However it is Bright that discovers her true reservations and convinces her to make a potentially life-altering decision. Upon hearing news that Madison's band is performing in town, Ephram seeks guidance from Bright, signaling a thaw in the boys' chilly relationship as of late. Ephram makes a bold move -- and breaks his father's heart in the process -- in an attempt to raise money for a plane ticket to Europe. Bright finally admits his feelings to Hannah. Meanwhile, Jake surprises Nina by asking her out on a date; Ephram and Bright realize their friendship may have grown too far apart to salvage; and neurotic-as-ever Dr. Abbott struggles to come up with a medical invention after learning that Dr. Brown and Dr. Hartman have successful inventions of their own. Lastly, Rose begins her treatment at the hospital with Harold by her side. Lastly, health issues create tension between Rose and Harold, but the tension turns to fear when Harold finds out that Rose has a 3-centimeter long tumor.
The Four: Battle for Stardom Meanwhile, Bright takes a job working at the restaurant, "The Firehouse" where he mets waitress Serena. Lastly, Andy and Amanda experience a miraculous breakthrough in their music therapy with Amanda's husband, but Andy quickly questions the results. Meanwhile, Andy and Amanda experience a miraculous breakthrough in their music therapy with Amanda's husband, but Andy quickly begins to question whether their celebratory mood is premature; and Bright continues down his unfortunate path of apathy by getting fired from his job - for getting intimate with a waitress ...
This devastating revelation causes Ephram to make decisions that will alter the course of his life. Andy contemplates, who does not appear in the episode) pregnancy. Meanwhile, Andy is plagued by guilt over whether he made the right decision concerning Madison's pregnancy, and Dr. Abbott befriends the town's newest citizen, Jake Hartman, who turns out to be a doctor from California looking to open a new practice in Everwood. Meanwhile, Nina can't quite put her finger on why Andy has been acting strangely of late, whereas a more perceptive Delia comes right out and asks her father whether he has feelings for Nina, and Bright's green-eyed monster makes an unexpected appearance when Hannah goes to prom with Topher.
At her father's suggestion, a heartbroken Amy is determined to make the most of her senior year in the wake of Ephram returning from New York and telling her that piano has to be his number one priority. Fate plays a hand when Ephram runs into Madison in Manhattan and they make plans to see each other, causing Andy to take matters into his own hands.
Upon hearing news that Madison (, who does not appear in the episode) and her band are performing in Everwood, Ephram seeks guidance from Bright. The soapy series about a … Meanwhile, Amy continues to give Ephram the cold shoulder for lying about Madison, Also Edna builds a writing room for Irv. Andy puts his foot in his mouth by picking a fight with Everwood's patron saint, Amanda Hayes, who, unknownst to Andy, has been caring for her profoundly disabled husband for the past five years. Meanwhile, Bright finally confesses he has feelings for Hannah. In the end he kisses Nina and you are left hanging. Amy makes) popular. Jake's visiting accountant brother Brian (guest-star Tom Parker) from LA says he sees no future for Jake and Nina, prompting Jake to seek advice from Andy. However, he's caught off-guard and questions his plans when Andy reveals the secret that Amy has been keeping from Ephram. Still, all those just complaints aside, the Season 3 DVD set nevertheless gets five stars from me, for being "Everwood", even if it is "Everwood" after being mugged by its parent company. Amanda decides to send her husband to a very nice treatment facility causing Andy to colapse as a result of stress and guilt over what has happened between him and Amanda.