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"now out know" ..weeks. She angrily informs him she'd rather try to it make work with Victor and hangs up.The next day, she's alarmed to find Victor showing a realtor around her house and insists she's not ready to sell it yet.Susan is convinced that after a month of wedded bliss, Mike just isn't as happy as he could be, but he assures her he's perfectly happy.All of Wisteria Lane gathers to see who the new neighbors are and Susan is thrilled to see it's her old friend, Catherine Mayfair.Orson chides Bree, who's still pretending to be pregnant, that she has to stop "roughing up" everyone who wants to touch her stomach for good luck.Susan goes to see her doctor about her irregular periods and is informed he's busy, would she mind being seen by his new partner? She agrees, but is taken aback when she realizes it's Dr. Adam Mayfair, Catherine's husband, whom she just met the day before. She reluctantly submits to an exam. He hints that she might be experiencing signs of menopause and wants her to take a blood test to be sure. She declares she's not nearly old enough for that yet. That is, until she sees that he just graduated from med school 10 years ago, and she agrees to take the test.At Catherine's housewarming party, she tells Mrs. McCluskey that her best times were when she lived on Wisteria Lane with her first husband, Bill, but Mrs. McCluskey remembers how they took off in the middle of the night without saying goodbye.Still moody from her visit to the doctor, Susan bursts into tears and confesses her possible diagnosis to Mike, who assures her that it doesn't make any difference to him since they'd already agreed not to have children.At the party, a distracted Bree doesn't realize that she's accidentally gotten a large fork stuck in her fake belly! A neighbor notices and thinks that the barbecue sauce is blood. Orson, thinking fast, says that it's a trick fork they purchased at a magic shop and sticks it back into her belly to prove it's harmless! After this near miss, Orson wants to end the whole charade, but Bree tells him they can't turn back now. She messed up with Danielle and she wants a second chance to raise a child right.Lynette is keeping her cancer a secret and trying to live her life as usual, but when another mother hounds her about not doing her share for a school gala, she has no choice but to take off her wig and declare, "I have cancer." Now that all her friends have seen her bald head, she reassures them that she's not going to die. They scold her for not telling them sooner and she proposes a pact, "No more secrets. From now on, we tell each other every shocking detail of our lives." They all make the same promise, but no one else comes clean.Edie gets out of the hospital and announces that she and Carlos are talking marriage. Gaby is upset at this news and Carlos swears it's not true but she doesn't believe him.Gabrielle suggests that she and Victor go away together for a few weeks and rediscover what made them fall in love, but he can't free up any time in his schedule until April.Carlos tells Edie he's going to the Scavos and when she asks to come, he says she needs to give him some time alone if their relationship is going to work. Of course, he's really sneaking off to see Gabrielle.Edie finds him asleep on the couch in the morning and he says he got in late and didn't want to wake her. She says she trusts him and she just wishes that he'd trust her more, like telling her about his offshore bank account with $10 million. The threat is clear: She'll turn him in if he ever leaves her.Adam goes over to Susan's house to tell her the good news. She's not going through menopause in fact, she's pregnant! Mike overhears and sweeps her up in his arms. He tells her he's never been happier."getting married today"
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Three days before her wedding, Gabrielle wants to know why Carlos hasn't RSVPed and he tells her he's not going because he'll jinx her marriage. She insists that Edie can't show up alone because everyone will think she has a problem with him seeing Edie. He says he'll burst out laughing when she swears "'till death do us part," so she gives up and tells him he can just come to the reception.Lynette asks her sister Lucy for a loan to pay for her upcoming medical bills she'll incur in treating the lymphoma, but she's also strapped and can't help out. She orders her not to tell their mother, Stella, but she shows up anyway with her luggage, announcing she's there to help while Lynette goes through chemo since she managed to conquer breast cancer. Lynette wants her to leave, reminding Stella what a horrible mother she was. But Tom informs Lynette that Stella has come up with the $10,000 they need and they can't throw her out. Lynette tells him how Stella used to get drunk and smack her children around but Tom tries to persuade her that Stella has "mellowed."He tells her if he can forgive her for Rick, she can forgive her mother. "So forgiving my mother is my penance?" she asks and he tells her yes. Meanwhile, Stella has been listening at the door. Later, when she's babysitting Kayla, Stella asks if she knows anything about a guy named Rick. Kayla offers to tell her, if Stella will let her watch a "grown-up movie."Mike worries that Susan is going over the top in planning their wedding, but she wants to make sure it won't pale in comparison to Bree and Gabrielle's lavish ceremonies. That night, she catches Mike sneaking out at 3 a.m. He's started advertising himself as a 24-hour plumber because he needs the extra cash to finance Susan's dream wedding. She offers to scale it back but he vows that even though he's not Ian, he's going to give her the same wedding Ian would have.Victor and Gabrielle have dinner with his father, Milton, who tells Victor that if his numbers stay high, he should run for Governor. Gabrielle declares she hated campaigning and she has no intentions of ever going through that again. The night before the wedding she finds Victor going over polling data and she tells him she meant it when she said she didn't want him to run for Governor, especially if it would mean leaving Fairview. He responds that she's going to be his wife, not his political advisor and she doesn't get any say.She says she was already married to a man who put his career first and she swore never to do it again, while he's vowed to never again let a "stupid woman" hold him back. He tries to apologize, saying he's been under a lot of pressure and she tells him he now has one less thing to worry about since she's canceling the wedding. He says it's too late to cancel but she responds that it's "just in the nick of time."The next morning Milton shows up early on her doorstep to apologize. She tells him it's not his fault and he insists it is, since Victor has always been desperate for his father's approval, especially since he's never gotten it. She wonders why she should marry a man who values his father's opinion more than hers. Milton tells her that after she left, Victor called him up and "tore him a new one" and blamed him for driving her away. Just then Victor arrives with roses and Milton sneaks out the back. He looks on approvingly as Victor and Gabrielle embrace.Gabrielle is ready to walk down the aisle but is freaking out because Bree is late bringing her "something new" -- a bracelet from her honeymoon trip to Switzerland. When she finally arrives, Susan, Lynette and Gabrielle's jaws drop. Bree is pregnant! Alone with Orson later, she tells him she wouldn't blame him if he ran like hell. He swears to love and raise the baby as if it were his own.Edie is feeling guilty about deceiving Carlos into thinking she's gone off the pill and is trying to get pregnant. He, meanwhile, has been doing research and is coming up with ways for her to get pregnant faster. She urges him to "let nature take its course," and he says that at their age, nature isn't on their side anymore and that her eggs aren't "farm fresh." He also forbids her to drink alcohol, at least until after the baby is born and she's done nursing.She's on her way to Gaby's wedding and tells Carlos she'll see him at the reception. Just as she's leaving, she runs into the paper boy and asks Carlos if he'll pay him. Carlos is short of cash, so he goes through Edie's purse and finds her birth control pills.At the wedding, Edie is taking the opportunity to quaff some forbidden Scotch when Carlos shows up early and catches her. He holds up the birth control and tells her not to bother explaining. In full earshot of the wedding party, she runs after him, calling his name. She tells him she really does want to have a baby but that she wanted to give him a chance to fall in love with her first. He tells her he doesn't believe her and he won't ever trust her again and Bree dissolves in tears.At the reception, Lynette wants to know when Bree's due date and she vaguely answers, "the early fall" and changes the subject. Bree says she can't believe everything she's missed, especially with Susan and Gabrielle are both getting married. She asks Lynette what's new and she swears everything is fine.Gabrielle has gone to fetch Victor so he can meet Bree when she overhears Milton telling Victor that by marrying her, he's secured the Latino vote and the Governor's Mansion is "as good as his." Victor's not sure he can talk her into him running for Governor but Milton assures him that now that he's her husband, the rules have changed and that a few pricey gifts will "tame that little spitfire." Gabrielle leaves without letting on what she's heard.She sneaks into an unused room and finds Carlos downing champagne. He says he hopes he didn't ruin her wedding, but that he's also ruined his life. He laments that a few years ago he had it all -- her, the home, the career -- and now he has nothing. He's sure she wants to go find Victor but instead she grabs him and kisses him passionately.Lynette keeps sniping at her mother and Stella asks her if she doesn't think people can change. Lynette says they can't, so her mother wonders what happened to Lynette, the perfect wife and mother, once Rick came along. Lynette swears nothing happened with Rick because she's nothing like her mother. Stella reminds her that when she got breast cancer, Lynette told her it was "God's punishment" and she asks Lynette if she feels she's the one being punished now. Lynette orders her out and insists she doesn't want her money but her mother refuses to go. Stella tells Lynette she can fight her, or she can fight the cancer, because she won't have the strength to do both.Julie welcomes Bree and Orson home and asks where Danielle is. Bree tells her that she's spending a year abroad in Switzerland. Julie wonders why Danielle hasn't returned any of her calls or emails and Andrew blames it on the poor reception in the Swiss mountains. "This might not be as easy as we'd hoped," Bree frets after Julie leaves. Bree, pretending to be Danielle, types an email to Julie and just then Danielle calls from the nunnery where they've stashed her to ask to come home. Bree vows she's not coming home until after the baby is born but that they'll be up to visit her this weekend. She then removes her stomach padding and Orson notes that soon it will be time for the six-month size.Susan feels so guilty that Mike fell asleep at the reception that she asks the reverend if he can marry the two of them later that night. MIke receives another late-night plumbing call, but when he arrives at "Mrs. Wolcott's," he finds the reverend with a suit. He leads Mike to where Susan is waiting for him in a white dress. He wants to know if she'll really be okay with this simple ceremony and she says only one thing has stayed constant in her wedding plans: Him. He tells her he's never seen her look so beautiful and the reverend begins.Distraught over her breakup with Carlos, Edie leaves a note for him and then appears to hang herself."what would we do without you?"
Susan is disappointed when Mike doesn't pop the question when he takes her out for a lavish dinner since it's the anniversary of the night he was originally going to propose to her at the trailer. She chews him out in the car for not being "thoughtful" enough and he points out the same trailer decked out with lights in front of his house. He's all set to propose but she can't wait and asks him to marry her.She calls everyone from her florist to her caterer to let them know that her wedding is back on with the same date and all the same arrangements, except for the groom. But Gabrielle says she can't make it because that's her wedding day too! She co-opted Susan's date because nothing else was open and she knew all their friends would be free. After an initial snit, Susan is prepared to be magnanimous until she finds out that Gabrielle is copying her wedding down to the last detail, including pink tulips in the centerpieces.They have a vicious fight, in which they call each other's choice of groom into question. Susan decides it's not worth losing their friendship over and is on her way to apologize with a bottle of wine when Gaby shows up with a box of chocolates for the same reason. As they polish off the wine and chocolates Gaby comes up with the perfect solution: They should have a double wedding!The next morning, both of them are having second thoughts about sharing her big day. Fortunately, Mike offers to be the fall guy so Susan can get out of it gracefully. And Victor objects to sharing his wedding day with a convicted felon. Gaby is disappointed to realize that the reason Victor has been so attentive to every detail of the wedding is because it'll be a media event.Susan and Gaby break the "bad news" to each other and Susan says she and Mike can wait until the fall to get married. She adds that the 1 percent of doubt she had about Mike that their fight raised is now gone and Gabrielle says that must be nice.Mike jokes to Edie and Carlos not to get wedding fever since it's going around. Carlos laughs heartily at the idea and Edie is hurt that he wouldn't even consider the possibility. She asks him to move in with her and he begs off, saying he's just taken over Mike's lease, now that he's moving in with Susan, and he wouldn't want to leave the owner, Mrs. Sims, without the income from the rent.Edie goes to pay Mrs. Sims a visit at the retirement home and when Carlos' name comes up as her new tenant, proceeds to badmouth him as a drug user and worse. Mrs. Sims promptly tears up the rental agreement and evicts Carlos, who immediately recognizes Edie's handiwork. She asks why he's so opposed to moving in with her and he finally admits that he's not in love with her. "That's too bad," she says, because she's just purchased a home pregnancy kit. As they wait for the results, he says he'll stand by her if it's positive. He begins spinning elaborate plans for the baby and the baby's room when she reluctantly informs him the test is negative.Later, she tells him she knows he was disappointed that she's not pregnant and so was she. She suggests that he move in and really try for a baby; even if he's not in love with her, this is the best either of them can hope for. He agrees, saying he's tired of waiting for his life to start. She says she's going to flush her birth control pills down the sink but secretly keeps taking them.Parker asks Lynette if she's mad at Tom because she isn't speaking to him and she insists that it's a "comfortable silence." Tom persuades an old college buddy to stop by the pizzeria without telling Lynette that the friend is now a marriage counselor. When the conversation drifts to their current "rough patch," Lynette realizes what's going on and pulls the plug on the impromptu therapy session.That night, Tom says his doctor told him he if he was careful, he could have sex again and Lynette says she's not remotely in the mood. Tom gives her the choice of having sex or talking to him and she straddles him and starts kissing him roughly. He's horrified that she'd do anything rather than talk to him and wants to know what he possibly did to make her so angry with him. She tells him he forced Rick to reveal he had feelings for her and so she had to fire him. In the ensuing fight, she falls off the bed and bangs her head on the night stand.As they wait to see the doctor in the emergency room, Tom wants to know what she told Rick when he said he had feelings for her. When Lynette doesn't reply, Tom correctly guesses that she fell for Rick and is still not over him. She assures him that nothing happened and it's over but he knows that's not the end of it. Just then, the doctor calls them in. Lynette's head is fine, but he saw something on her X-rays he didn't like, some swelling that might be lymphoma. Lynette is stunned at the news and Tom quietly reaches over to hold her hand."Into the woods"
Lynette and Rick are enjoying another intimate dinner after the pizzeria closes when two hold-up men come in and lock them in the freezer, where they huddle together to keep warm. Tom doesn't realize Lynette is missing until the next morning. He rushes to free Lynette and is dismayed to realize she's been locked up all night with Rick. The three of them review the surveillance tapes and the cop assigned to the case accidentally rewinds too far, so that Tom sees just how unbusinesslike these late-night dinners with Rick and his wife are.Tom takes Rick out to lunch the next day and asks him pointblank if he's sleeping with Lynette. Rick says he's not and Tom assures him that even if he should catch Lynette in a weak moment, there's no point in pursuing a romance with her since she'd never leave her family.That night, Rick tells Lynette of Tom's suspicions and she breaks down, saying that she loved having these evenings to look forward to where she could feel sexy again, even though she never meant for it to go any farther. She tells him that's all ruined now and that he simply has to go.She lies to Tom that Rick gave notice because he got a better offer elsewhere. She goes into the bathroom to get ready and he tells her that he's ready to come back to the restaurant. He says how excited he is that they'll be a team again and how much he's missed her. "I missed you too," she says, as she lets the sound of running water cover her sobs.Travers' two-week visit with Edie is up and his father, Charles, has come to take him home. Carlos lets it be known to Edie that he's not going to be around as much without Travers there, so she tells Charles she's filing for joint custody. Realizing that she's doing this because of him, Carlos points out that Travers' needs should come first and being split between two different schools and sets of friends will be rough. He promises to be there for Edie, even when Travers isn't around. Edie asks him if he's sure and he says he is and they both admit they miss Travers.Gabrielle is annoyed to get a parking ticket from a meter man even though she told him she was about to leave. And to top it off, after hearing her tell Vern how Victor gave her $3,000 to buy a dress for his victory party, the meter man calls Gaby a "spoiled bitch" and tells her to let the sap who bought her the expensive dress pay the ticket for her.Victor wins the election and a friend tells Gaby that the former mayor's wife never had to pay her parking tickets: She simply handed them over to her husband, who made them disappear.The next day, Gabrielle is out with Vern again, celebrating her new status as "First Lady of Fairview," when she spies the same meter man from the day before. She deliberately parks in front of a fire hydrant and tells him there's nothing he can do about it. He writes her a ticket and she tears it up and things escalate from there, with her finally ending up in the back of a police car.Victor's position as mayor-elect means that he is indeed able to spring her from jail and have all the charges dropped, but before she explain her side of the story, he icily informs her that he expects more from his wife. He tells her she needs to act like a grown-up and not do things such as jump on him like she did on election night when he won. Shaken, she promises it'll never happen again. But then he catches sight of her bruised wrist and she says that the meter man twisted her arm. Later, as Victor and Gaby dance happily at his victory party, two men accost the meter man and savagely beat him. "Do you know how much I love you?" Victor asks.Susan gets Carlos to disclose where Mike's disappeared to: hiking the hot springs at the local state forest. She arrives at the ranger's station and is informed that it's a two-day hike to the hot springs and that she can't possibly make it without the proper equipment. Not alone, at any rate, which is why they assign her a guide, the no-nonsense Toni. Susan explains her whole complicated love life to Toni as they hike, even though she is clearly less than sympathetic. After listening to Susan's story, Toni concludes that the problem in her relationship with Mike was Susan herself, and her constant need to create drama. So even if Mike takes her back it won't last long, Toni asserts as they make camp for the evening.Stung by her criticism, Susan decides to find Mike on her own. Of course she gets hopelessly lost. Before she beds down for the night, she leaves Mike a message on his voicemail saying she's always loved him and how sorry she is. And that she doesn't want any more drama. Mike, having overheard the park rangers hunting for a "missing, klutzy brunette" finds her the next morning. "I sprained my ankle," she tells him and he says, "Good. It gives me a chance to do this." And he takes her in his arms and kisses her."Gossip."At Gabrielle's engagement party, Edie finally confides that she's seeing Carlos. Gabrielle pretends to be happy for her, but the next day day she orders her to stop seeing her ex-husband, "or else." Edie tells her she's not going to and to do her worst. Gabrielle calls on old favors to get Lynette and Susan to give Edie the cold shoulder. Once she realizes what's going on, Edie sets out to top her. She makes Lynette an offer she can't refuse: Catering Travers' birthday party. Lynette agrees, since she knows Gabrielle will be busy with Victor. Susan also gets roped in when Edie tells her she's got 20 copies of her children's book and all the children are expecting autographs.Unfortunately, Gabrielle comes back early and demands they leave the party right now, or their friendship is over. Carlos settles things by bodily removing Gabrielle from the premises. She says she feels betrayed that she had to learn of his affair from Edie and he points out that he learned about her engagement on the news. She swears that she's madly in love with Victor, but he admits he's "just having fun" with Edie and that it'll never be anything serious. She realizes that he still loves her and is content.Everyone is avoiding Mrs. McCluskey since word of the body in her freezer has become the talk of Wisteria Lane. Lynette has hired another babysitter and the neighborhood boys are egging her house. Parker urges her to tell everyone what she told him, but she says it won't make any difference.When the boys paint "Witch" on her front door, she realizes the time has come to tell the truth. She walks over to Edie's, where several women are gathered after Travers' party, and tells them that Gilbert died of natural causes. But when she saw that his pension was going to go to his first wife and that he never changed the paperwork, she realized she had no choice but to keep him on ice. Lynette tells her she missed her and things go back to normal, more or less.Lynette is spending more and more time at the pizzeria to spend time with Rick, even though she tellsher family it's all work-related. Kayla says she knows Lynette is lying about it because of her telltale laugh and Lynette tells her she's being ridiculous.Rick asks Lynette if she'll accompany him to the opening of a friend's new restaurant. She turns him down at first but then agrees, rationalizing that it's work-related to check out the competition. She's just doused herself with perfume when Tom shows up with the kids, so the date is off. Kayla overhears her talking about their scrapped plans and mentions to Tom that she thinks Lynette "likes" Rick.Tom tells Lynette he's ready to go back to work. She is flustered and tells him the doctor said it would be several months at least. He says he's up for it. And he suggests maybe it's time they think about firing Rick, since his salary is cutting into their profits. She insists that Rick's cooking is bringing in so much business, he's worth every penny. She rushes off to the restaurant, leaving Tom alone with his worst fears.Edie is not thrilled to overhear women gossiping that it's obvious Carlos is still in love with Gabrielle, just as Rick is dismayed to hear the pizzeria employees say that to get ahead at the restaurant, you've got to flirt with Mrs. Scavo.Susan is so upset at men about the Ian and Mike situation that she goes ballistic on a man who takes her parking spot. She's ordered to anger management therapy, where she breaks down and admits she loves both men and how can she possibly choose? The therapist advises her that to lose one is tough but to lose both of them would be stupid and that she has to choose.She tells Mike that she's made her choice and that she's going to marry Ian after all. She says it was a hard decision and that she wishes the timing were different for the two of them. He's hurt, but says he'll always have his memories of her, at least.Ian is thrilled to have her back and starts talking up the wedding again. But when he hears Susan replaying Mike's farewell message over and over on the answering machine, he realizes she's never going to get over him. He tells her he's leaving for England, because she'll always love Mike a little bit more.The next morning, a neighbor brings a misdirected letter for Susan and tells her Mike moved out in the middle of the night, where, no one knows."God, Thats Good."A power outage strikes Wisteria Lane, causing Mrs. McCluskey to stumble in the dark and break a rib. She doesn't want to let the paramedics take her to the hospital; she's too concerned that her late husband will be found if the basement freezer thaws. Fortunately, the power comes back on, so she consents to be loaded into the ambulance. What she doesn't know is that the freezer has shorted out.At Pizzeria Scavo, the power outage doesn't stop Rick from whipping up a gourmet pasta entree, one that customers are only too happy to pay top dollar for. Lynette is thrilled with the new fare and all the money it's bringing in, but a resentful, housebound Tom vetoes a sample dish, saying his goal was always to be a family restaurant, not a "flash in the pan" fancy one. Lynette tells him he has no choice since for the first time since it's opened, the pizzeria is finally making money. To add insult to injury, the local paper gives the new menu a rave review, pointedly noting how forgettable the original one was. Meanwhile, Lynette is spending long hours at the pizzeria with Rick, who plies her with wine and asks her if she ever wears her hair down. On her way to work the next time, she does.Edie is frustrated with Carlos when he wants to keep their relationship a secret, out of respect for Mike. He can't sleep at her house because of her son and they can't sleep at his house because of Mike, so she starts arranging rendezvous at the houses she's showing -- until they get caught by a fellow realtor. Carlos is upset about being found out and Edie realizes it's Gabrielle he doesn't want to know because he's still in love with her. Miffed that this has only been about sex after all, she walks out on him.The power outage is also eventful for Gabrielle and Victor. It traps them in an elevator and she decides to "seize the moment" and talks him into some steamy elevator sex. He's worried they'll be caught, but they're able to dress -- barely - when the elevator starts moving again. They don't realize they were caught on the building's security camera.The next morning, Victor asks Gabrielle to marry him but she says no. He wonders why she'll take a risk like having sex in public, but not marry him and she says she's not the marrying type.A man shows up with a package for Victor and finds Gabrielle instead. She takes one look at the photos of her and Victor in the elevator and tackles the would-be blackmailer. A police car happens by and breaks up their fight and the whole sordid truth comes out. The police insist that Gabrielle hand over the incriminating photos since it's now evidence in a crime. But the chief of police is the current mayor's brother-in-law and the photos are leaked to the media, causing a major scandal for Victor, whose popularity plummets. He holds a press conference to try to explain himself, without revealing Gabrielle's identity, but when reporters start asking if the woman involved was a prostitute, Gabrielle steps forward. She identifies herself and lies that Victor had just asked her to marry him and she got carried away in the moment. The press immediately embraces the romantic angle and Victor's ratings bounce back.Edie stops by Carlos' place to see if he's heard the news about Gabrielle's engagement and to comfort him.Susan is not happy when Ian announces he's completely over his suspicions of Mike and wants to have him over for dinner. She's determined to marry Ian as soon as possible, so she rushes through all her wedding planning. When her caterer, Maggie, says she's single, Susan invites her to dinner to set her up with Mike. But Mike makes a point to mention all his worst qualities, including his jail terms. He gets Susan alone and tells her he remembers everything and that he loves her.Just then, Maggie brings in the two final cake selections: one classically rich and British, one more simple and American. Susan wigs out and insists she can't decide between them.Mike finally tells Ian that he's here to try to get Susan back, poker game agreement be damned. Susan is horrified to hear that they gambled over her and orders both men out. She angrily announces she won't be marrying anyone.Parker sneaks into Mrs. McCluskey's freezer for a popsicle. He finds the body but doesn't tell anyone. He asks Lynette if they can go see Mrs. McCluskey in the hospital. She sends Lynette off an errand and privately tells Parker she had a very good reason for keeping her husband in the freezer and makes him promise to keep the secret.But the secret comes out when a neighbor looks in on Mrs. McCluskey's house while she's away. The body is discovered and Mrs. McCluskey is arrested."Liaisons"
The morning after sleeping together, Edie and Carlos both make excuses to be on their way, since the sex was shockingly terrible. Travis asks Edie if she has trouble sleeping because he overheard Carlos saying she was bad in bed. Gabrielle still won't sleep with Victor, until she attends a rally where he's speaking. She suddenly finds him much more appealing when she sees the way all the other women there respond to him. She pulls him away for "an important meeting in his limo." She says she knows his positions, now he should get acquainted with hers, as she slips off her bra. She expects him to call that night but when he goes a whole 24 hours without calling, she complains to Susan. Edie shows up just in time to admire Gabrielle's hunky handyman, Toby, who's there to fix her closet. Susan asks how the sex was with Victor and she says, "Fantastic. As good as with Carlos," while Edie merely says, "Hmm. As good as that?" Edie advises Gabby to make Victor jealous. She asks how and just then, as if on cue, Toby walks back in. At Victor's big debate with the mayor, Gabby walks in late with Toby. They sit in the front row and she puts her hand on his knee. Victor's sufficiently rattled that he can barely concentrate on the debate. Satisfied she's gotten her point across, Gabrielle and Toby waltz out, arm in arm. Victor sends her bouquet after bouquet and she still won't call him back, so he finally shows up in person with another one. He says what he did was thoughtless but her humiliating him in public was vicious. He tells her that unlike his political race, their relationship is not about winning, but about being happy. Edie confronts Carlos about calling her bad in bed. She says if anyone was bad, it was him, but admits that sex is like tennis: when you play with a poor opponent, your game suffers. He asks if she's challenging him to a rematch and pulls her into the house. He throws her onto the table, where she lands on a fork, right before the table collapses! They both end up in the ER, needing painkillers and stitches. She tells Carlos now they can to back to being friends. After a trip to the zoo with Travis, Edie and Carlos are reviewing the digital photos and Carlos says someone mistook them for a family. They look at each other tenderly and end up in bed again, but this time the sex is dynamite.Ian suspects Mike is following him and Susan when they keep running into him. While they're driving, he tells Susan he'll be needed more in the London office and that maybe they should both relocate there. He warns her of a deer in the road and she swerves, into the local lake! Ian can't swim but luckily someone stops to help, and to Ian's dismay, it ends up being Mike, who pulls him to shore.Ian is still upset about having to be rescued by Mike but Susan insists there's no shame in it and that he shouldn't feel emasculated. He says he doesn't, but when they try to make love, he can't perform.The next night, she says she will move to London with him. He suggests she sell her house and she says she can't, because "all the people she loves" live on Wisteria Lane. He assumes she means Mike and accuses her of still caring about her ex. She tells him she's sick of hearing him complain about Mike and that she's never given him a reason not to trust her. She threatens if he ever mentions Mike again, she's through.She then decides it's a good time to bring Mike their thank you gift for fishing them out of the lake. She confesses she's just had a fight with Ian and Mike kisses her. Shaken, she goes back to Ian, who tells her that he does trust her and he was way off base in his suspicions of Mike.After hernia surgery, Tom is flat on his back at home while Lynette runs the pizzeria. Lynette is interviewing candidates to replace Tom and striking out. But then she meets Rick, who used to be a chef at a four-star restaurant. She asks him why he wants to go slumming and he admits he turned to cocaine to deal with the stress. She's sold but Tom, who's cranky and in pain, vetoes the idea of hiring an ex-junkie.Mrs. McCluskey shows up at the pizzeria with all of the Scavo children; she's so fed up with Tom's constant demands that she quit. When Lynette gets home, she finds Tom full of apologies, but she's sure Mrs. McCluskey won't accept. And she's far too tired to take him up on his request for her to slip into something sexy.Lynette is having a terrible night at the pizzeria when Rick stops in to ask if he's got the job. She tells him Tom said no and he insists he can take drug tests every week. Just then, an unhappy customer wants his calzone replaced with a "good" one. A distraught Lynette is close to giving up on the whole restaurant when Rick comes over to ask what the man wants and promises to make him one he will love. Lynette has no choice but to hire him.Mrs. McCluskey, meanwhile, accepts Tom's apology over the phone, as she tells her late husband, Gilbert, who isn't just with her in spirit: his body is frozen in the basement freezer!
"Dress Big"
Gabrielle finds new incentive to date wealthy politician Victor when a plumbing leak ruins her priceless wardrobe. She hasn't fallen for him yet, but she flips over the clothes he's storing for his ex-wife, especially since they're couture and just her size! She begs to borrow a dress but Victor says no. So she sneaks back and steals off with a few. She wears one to an event Victor is speaking at and in the ladies room, runs into a woman who recognizes the designer -- because it's her dress! Victor's ex threatens Gabrielle with pepper spray unless she gives the dress back right now, leaving her hiding in the restroom in her underwear. Victor, sporting a fresh black eye, comes to offer her his coat. He admits that he treated his wife more like his mistress, giving her expensive dresses but not his time or affection. Gabrielle says that, finally, she's getting a glimpse of a man she could care for.Lynette takes issue with the Scavo Pizzeria uniform, an orange T-shirt, and refuses to wear it. She even tries to get the employees to say how much they hate it too. Tom orders her, as her boss, to wear it, and instead she goes home. When Tom doesn't come home, she assumes he's mad and leaves him several messages. She tells Gabrielle and Susan that maybe it's time she steps back from the job and that Tom should hire a manager to take her place. Finally, she decides to confront him and -- leaving her friends to watch the kids -- storms back to the pizzeria to hash it out. She finds Tom on the floor, unconscious. He has a ruptured disk and and needs surgery, and he needs to take 4 to 5 months off from work. So Lynette goes back to work, wearing the hated orange shirt.Mike is seeing a therapist to try to fill in the missing chunks of his memory. He's particularly bothered that he can't remember the ending to a movie he saw involving the heroine serving raw pancakes to her boyfriend. He admits he probably saw the film with Susan and the therapist, realizing he has unresolved feelings for her, urges him to ask her about it. Susan tells him that wasn't a movie, that was the disastrous breakfast she made for him the night after they first made love. When the therapist asks if Susan could remember the movie, Mike says no, and adds that he's done with therapy.Susan is meeting Ian's parents for the first time, and, given how klutzy Susan is, Ian is understandably nervous. His fears are well founded when she accidentally sets fire to his mother Dahlia's chiffon dress. Dahlia pooh-poohs the incident, but over dinner, when she finds out that Susan is a divorcée and not a widow, she opines that infidelity is not sufficient grounds for divorce.After dinner, disaster strikes again when Susan opens a door into Dahlia, spilling red wine over her second outfit of the evening. Ian's mother isn't the only one changing her clothes: Susan finds her father-in-law-to-be modeling her own robe and bra in her bedroom! She agrees to keep his secret. But Dahlia has decided that, like her husband (who is clearly having an affair because of the receipts she's found for lingerie not in her size) Susan is not to be trusted. Dahlia insists that she sign a pre-nup. Ian won't hear of it at first, but then he sees her chatting with Mike and changes his mind. Susan agrees, insisting she trusts him, but as the four of them sit down to sign the document, Susan, with a firm eye on Ian's father, states that she won't be the kind to keep secrets. Realizing she's about to let his cross-dressing out of the bag, he declares that Susan is clearly not a gold digger and tears up the pre-nup.Edie decides that Carlos doesn't just make a great fill-in father for her son, Trevor, he'd be a great boyfriend too. She decides the best way to put the moves on him is through his relationship with Trevor, so she invites him over to the house and instructs Trevor to go to bed early. Carlos is about to go home, so she snaps a piece off a model airplane for him to fix. He quickly realizes she's hitting on him and tells her he's not looking for a party girl -- especially one who uses her son as date bait. The next night, he sends flowers as an apology and when she comes over to thank him, she assures him that Trevor's at a sleepover so, at least for tonight, she's not being a negligent mother. She tells him he was "dead on" in his assessment of her, but that she's getting tired of being the party girl. She says she'd like him to see her for who she really is, under this façade -- as she strips off her clothes! He's moved by her naked vulnerability and hugs her, which leads to her waking up in his bed the next morning."my husband the pig"
Mike confronts Orson about having planted the bloody wrench that killed Monique on him. Mike threatens to go to the police but Orson responds by threatening to reveal that Mike caused his fall, so they agree to leave each other alone.A smooth-talking mayoral candidate deliberately has his driver bump into Gabrielle's car so he can meet her. He hands her a check for $5,000 to cover the damages, but doesn't sign it so that she has to come see him. He asks her to dinner and she agrees, but she reveals she's onto his schemes and that this will be their only date. As she leaves, he tells his driver, "I'm going to marry that woman."Mike goes to reclaim his belongings from the hospital, including the engagement ring which he no longer remembers buying. But the inscription -- "Susan, be mine forever, Mike" -- is perfectly clear.Ian presents Susan with the diamond ring he didn't have when he proposed and she loves it -- but it's too big! So she goes to the jeweler to have it resized. There, she bumps into Mike, who is returning the ring he bought for her. Because the store doesn't have another ring for her to try on, the salesperson asks her to try Mike's ring. She does, and it fits perfectly.Mike hands Ian a check to repay him for the lawyer he hired for him. He tells Ian he came into a windfall since he sold back a ring he didn't even know he had. When Ian mentions the inscription, Mike realizes that Ian only proposed to Susan after seeing Mike's ring.Carlos lines up a hot Internet date so he turns down Edie's request to babysit her little boy, Travis, whom her ex unexpectedly dumped on her. Carlos's date arrives, and is even hotter than advertised, but he's distracted when he sees Travis playing outside by himself in the dark. He brings Travis in and asks his date to wait until Edie comes back, but instead she takes off. When a very drunk Edie finally shows up hours later, Carlos calls her a terrible mother and informs her that Travis is asleep and she can come back for him in the morning. When she comes to pick him up, she admits she's not a good mother and that's why she gave up custody. And then she promises to spend the entire day with Travis.Austin hops into Julie's car at the car wash so that she'll be forced to talk to him. He hands her a note, explaining everything, and begs her to read it.A tearful Danielle reveals to Andrew that she's pregnant! Danielle next tells Austin, who refuses to marry her. While Danielle is vomiting in the bathroom, Julie stops by to say she read the note and was so moved, she wants to give Austin a second chance. He tells her they'll have to talk later.Andrew enlists Orson, who's about to leave on his his long-delayed honeymoon with Bree, to deal with the problem. He says they'll take Danielle with them and tell people that she's studying abroad and that the baby will be placed with a good family. And he orders Austin to leave town immediately and not reveal the truth to anyone. When Austin protests because he doesn't want to leave Julie, Andrew tells him that Julie deserves better. Austin tells Julie he has to leave because of an unnamed family crisis but that she's the only one who was ever willing to give him a second chance.For their nine-year anniversary, Tom wants to take Lynette out, but she's so tired from working at the pizzeria that she just wants to take a hot bath and call it an early night. He decides to surprise her by planning a romantic evening involving a limo ride to a private catered dinner, but she catches wind of his plans and is furious that he didn't listen to her request. He tells her he'll cancel the whole thing and rustle up a poker game with the guys so she can spend the evening alone.Tom invites Mike, Carlos, and Orson over to the pizzeria to play poker, and Ian too, since Susan asked Tom to include him. Tom gets a call -- it's the limo driver, who has a flat and is held up. He never got the call to cancel, so Lynette's been sitting out by the side of the road for two hours! Tom rushes to pick her up, apologizing profusely for the mistake. He swears he'll never try to surprise her again. Even though she's cold and starving and furious, she admits that he was right and that they can't give up on romance. He promises to surprise her next year and they toast to a happy nine years together.Mike and Ian continue to play a tense game of poker, during which Mike quizzes Ian about exactly when and why he proposed to Susan. Ian is ahead and Mike is nearly out of money when Ian suggests new stakes: If Mike wins, he can tell Susan whatever he likes. But if Ian wins, Mike agrees to never tell her anything. When Ian arrives at Susan's, he happily announces that he won."the little things you do together "
As he's falling from the parking garage, Orson's life flashes before his eyes. He remembers walking in to find Gloria kneeling over a dead Monique. Fortunately, his fall is broken by some trees. He also has the good luck to land right next to an ambulance!But, since he doesn't mention his fight with Mike, his fall is interpreted as a suicide attempt, given his psychiatric history. Orson admits to his doctor why he was committed as a teenager: His mother had ordered him to keep a watch on his father, who was depressed after a failed affair. Orson disobeyed and went out to meet his friends. When he came home, he found his father in the bathtub with his wrists slit. The doctor assumes Orson blamed himself for his father's death, and Orson grimly says that was his mother's job.After drinking far too much on her birthday, Gabrielle wakes up with a killer hangover -- and to find a half-naked Zach in her bed! He tells her they had sex and she goes to throw up. She reluctantly tells Carlos but insists she doesn't remember a thing.Susan and Ian are at the hospital to pick up Jane's personal belongings, where they bump into Andrew, who tells them about Bree and Orson. Susan goes to see Bree and says this is all her fault, since she pushed so hard to clear Mike's name. Bree says Orson told her something that will exonerate Mike, but she'll have to tell her later. Bree asks if they're back to being friends and Susan says they never really stopped.Ian realizes that the box of belongings he's been given don't belong to Jane, but to Mike, including an engagement ring. Susan tells Ian that Mike's in the clear and he's going to be a free man. In the confusion, Ian pockets the ring.Susan goes to tell Mike the good news, but she overhears him telling Carlos that Orson's fall wasn't an accident.It's the opening night of Pizzeria Scavo and Tom is obsessed with making everything perfect. He's furious when Lynette's chair order ends up being for high chairs. She begs and borrows enough chairs to fill the restaurant, but he can't get over the fact that his perfect night has been ruined.Bree is sent home to rest, while Orson stays in the hospital. Lynette begs Andrew to help out at the restaurant so he asks Danielle to babysit Bree. She was planning on going to the opening too, so she's miffed at having to stay home.At the pizzeria opening, Gabrielle tries to break it off with Zach, but when he says this is the happiest he's been since his mother died, she doesn't have the heart. She asks Carlos to threaten Zach for her. He follows Zach into the men's room, but when he sees that Zach is hung like a horse, he concludes that Gabrielle would have remembered if she'd actually slept with him. When he tells her his findings, she's outraged. She tells Zach she could never respect a man who lied and deceived her.Also at the restaurant, Susan tells Mike what she overheard and he will only say that things are "complicated." "They always are with you," she says, and returns to Ian's side.Tom toasts the crowd, thanking them for showing up. He says how much tonight meant to him, and that he thought it was ruined because of the mismatched chair. But then he goes on to say that that tonight is perfect anyway. He says he couldn't have done it all without Lynette. He starts to get choked up, so she finishes his speech for him, saying that if any of them want to test their marriage, open a restaurant together.Ian seizes the moment to make a toast of his own. He falls to one knee and asks Susan to marry him. She gives him an enthusiastic "Yes" as Mike turns away sadly.Next, Zach boldly proposes to Gabrielle, who drags him downstairs to chew him out. She says being friends isn't working out since he'll always hope for something more and she won't ever love him. After he leaves, Carlos admits that just being friends isn't really working out for him either. Gabrielle says she hopes he'll stick it out a little bit longer, because she still needs him.When Gloria hears that Orson tried to commit suicide, she tells Alma, who's still locked in the attic room, there's still hope. All she needs to do is take care of Bree. Danielle is surprised to see her show up with soup, but is happy to be relieved of babysitting duty. But first she takes the soup up to Bree. Alma manages to crawl out of the attic window onto the roof, but her attempts to flag down Danielle go unheard, as does her scream when she falls. Gloria tells Bree she drugged the soup and there's nothing she can do to save herself. Gloria draws a bath, setting the stage for a suicide.Andrew is alarmed when Danielle tells him she left Bree alone with Gloria. He races home, only to be tripped by Gloria's cane and sent tumbling down the stairs.Meanwhile, a nurse tells Orson that his wife has gone home and that his mother just called to make sure he was staying overnight at the hospital. He takes a cab home and is just in time to catch Gloria before she slits Bree's wrists. "You've done this before," he says. They struggle and Gloria falls to the floor. He lifts Bree to safety and then Gloria calls out, "I think I'm having a stroke."He tells Andrew that he doesn't want her to die in their house, so he carries her across the street to Alma's, where he finds Alma lying dead in the bushes. He lays Gloria next to her, and in the morning, they are found together.Orson tells Bree that all their troubles are over. Alma is dead and it appears that Gloria had a stroke upon finding her body. He left Alma's fake suicide note and the bag of teeth where the police could find them. So now Mike is cleared of the murder. And the truth will never come out because Gloria's stroke left her paralyzed and unable to speak. At the hospital, he tells her to get a good look at him walking away because that's the last she'll ever see of him"i remember that"
Mike has been seeing a hypnotherapist to try to remember details of his relationship with Monique. He now recalls how they first met -- she needed a plumber. She hit on him and he said he was seeing someone. She said she was too, but he's married and she's drunk. He had to go to the store for a tool, leaving his toolbox behind. When he came back, he saw someone else was there, but, in his hypnotic state, he can only remember seeing yellow rubber gloves. He doesn't know who the murderer is, but at least now he knows it's not him.Bree tells Orson what Alma and his mother, Gloria, did to him while he was unconscious, but he refuses to go to the police. When she asks why, he replies it's time he finally told her what happened the night Monique died.We don't hear what Orson tells Bree, just her reaction. She's furious and insists that he exonerate Mike. He says he can't, or he'll implicate himself. Andrew overhears Bree telling Orson, "You've done a terrible thing" and "If you don't fix this, I will."Orson cheerfully informs Alma and Gloria that he was forced to tell Bree everything about Monique's death. Alma complains to Gloria she doesn't believe Orson will ever come back to her, so they might as well go to the police. To make sure she doesn't do that, Gloria locks her in an attic room.Bree sees a ladder leaning up against the house with what looks like the bag of teeth hanging from one of the top rungs. As she climbs up to get it, she steps on a rung that has been sabotaged -- and promptly falls. Andrew and Orson find her lying there, unconscious. Orson calls the police and Andrew examines the bag; It's full of marbles.At the hospital, where they're told Bree suffered only a mild concussion, Andrew tells Orson he knows he's behind Bree's accident. He warns the nurse not to let Orson be alone with Bree, because it's his fault she's in here.Gaby and Zach are out shopping. She's depressed because her 31st birthday is coming up and she's single. He offers to buy her jewelry and even a car, but she turns him down. She meets an attractive single man in the mattress department and he turns out to be one of Zach's lawyers, Luke.Zach shows up at Gaby's house on her birthday, saying he didn't want her to spend it alone. She tells him to shoo, Luke is showing up in 20 minutes. He says he understands, and leaves. But midway through a romantic dinner, another lawyer shows up with important papers for Luke to initial. When he looks through them, there's a note from Zach. "Gaby is mine. Sleep with her and you're fired. Leave, but don't make it look obvious."When Gaby won't let Luke leave, Zach -- who's parked outside, watching through the window -- calls him and tells him what to say, that he usually only dates women in their 20s, so she's too old for him. Infuriated, Gaby throws him out.Gaby, who's drunk by now, finds Zach leaving a present on her porch and invites him in when she sees it's a mug that reads "World's Greatest Friend." He consoles her by telling her she's only getting prettier each year. She passes out, curled up against him.Edie begs Tom to hire her nephew, Austin, at the pizzeria, saying he's been depressed ever since Julie dumped him. He agrees, but Lynette finds Austin getting high and fires him. But Tom rehires him. Without asking Tom why, Lynette insists, in front of the wait staff, that Austin needs to stay fired. Tom takes Lynette in back and explains why he rehired him: He's hot and will attract a lot of female customers. And if he stays employed there, Edie will include a menu from the pizzeria in her welcome packages. Lynette admits those are good reasons, but that, since she's the manager, he should have told her first. He tells her she can be the boss at home, but at work, he's the boss. She agrees to cooperate -- even so far as letting him yell at her in front of the entire staff.Susan attends Jane's funeral at Ian's request, even though she's worried about being known as "the other woman" to Jane's friends and family. When she overhears Lynn, a friend of Jane's, hitting on Ian, she tries to discreetly tell her that Ian's seei
