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10-31-2005, 10:05 AM
2.01 - Next
Airing 9/25/2005
We last left Susan in Mike's house with Zach holding her hostage at gunpoint. He's waiting to kill Mike because he thinks he killed his father, Paul. When Mike comes home, Susan tackles Zach. In the resulting confusion, Susan trips and falls, the gun goes off harmlessly and Zach runs off.
At the hospital, where Susan is being treated for the lip she accidentally bit, Julie hears Mike giving police a different version of events, one that downplays Zach's murderous intentions.
Julie tells Susan and she confronts Mike about it. He admits he doesn't want to press charges. He tells her about how Mary Alice and Paul killed Deirdre because of Zach. He's interrupted by a call from the police -- they've just found Zach. He's dead. Since Paul is missing, Mike and Susan go to the morgue to identify his body. Only it's not Zach. When Susan sees Mike's reaction, she realizes what he was about to tell her - Zach is his son. She freaks out and leaves him there.
She shows up at his house later to tell him that she's so happy he has a son since he always wanted children. But she can't let Zach near Julie and so she decides they can't move in together. She runs off in tears.
Bree tells her friends she can't fall apart after Rex's death. She has to stay calm to deal with his emotional mother, Phyllis. When she starts emphasizing how happy Rex's life was pre-marriage, including asking he be buried in a hideous prep school tie, Bree tells her to say what she really means. Phyllis tells Bree that she ruined Rex's life when she married him. Bree snaps and bans her from the funeral, until Andrew and Danielle beg her to reconsider. Bree relents and Phyllis apologizes to her and all is well. Until the funeral, where Bree sees that Rex is wearing the hated prep school tie and not the Ralph Lauren tie she picked out. "Don't close that coffin!" she orders and in full view of the entire church, demands Tom's tie and props up Rex's body so she can put it on instead.
At her job interview, Lynette tries to make a good impression on Nina, who doesn't approve of anyone who takes time off to be with their kids. Lynette assures her it won't be a problem. But then the day of her follow-up interview, Tom throws out his back and can't take care of the baby, so she's forced to take her to the interview. She manages to wow Nina's boss with her multitasking skills, changing the baby while pitching them ideas on how to take their agency to the next level. She's hired, although Nina is less than thrilled.
John shows up at Gabrielle's house with a suitcase -- he's ready to move in and start a life with her and the baby now that Carlos is in jail and knows about their affair. But she's still mad at him for spilling the beans and throws him out.
Gabrielle visits Carlos in jail and tells him she's sorry and she wants to start over. He tells her he wants a paternity test. She fakes a test that says he's the father and is surprised when he isn't happy. He says all he asked for was for her to be faithful and she says his meddling with her birth control was worse than her affair. "We're not very nice people are we?" Carlos asks. "At least we're still rich," she says and they both nod sadly.
Bree introduces herself to new neighbor Betty Applewhite and her son Josh, asking Betty if she can play the organ at Rex's funeral since their organist is on vacation. Betty agrees and tells Bree "Us widows have to stick together."
2.02 - You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Airing 10/2/2005
Susan is dismayed to see her ex-husband, Karl, emerge from Edie's house one morning. She runs over to confront him and he admits he's sleeping with Edie and may move in with her.
When Edie comes by -- on rollerskates -- to apologize for not telling her, Susan pretends not to care and gets in her car to drive away. Edie brags that Karl told her that sex with her was the best of his life. Susan snaps back that Karl told her he's still in love with her and recently asked her to come back to him. She drives off, Edie still in pursuit, and after their ensuing argument, accidentally backs up into her. Oops!
Meanwhile, Mike wants to know where their relationship stands now that they're not moving in together. Susan says she wants to keep it "casual," but he doesn't know what that means. "We can still go see a movie," she explains, as he comes closer. "Anything else?" he asks and as he starts to kiss her, she says, "Brunch. We can go to brunch!" and runs away.
Rex's mother Phyllis publicly embarrasses Bree when she starts crying over Rex's death. So Bree slaps her! She apologizes later, but with Bree's uncanny composure and her eagerness to settle Rex's will, Phyllis starts to suspect Bree isn't sorry Rex is dead.
The doctor treating Rex finds the note he wrote before he died, forgiving Bree, although it doesn't say why. The suspicious doctor hands it to the lead insurance investigator. The same investigator Phyllis calls when she sees Bree being comforted by the ever opportunistic George.
Gabrielle's outburst last time she visited Carlos - about him being a rich man - means unless he pays a violent inmate off, there'll be hell to pay. She agrees to deliver $7,000 to the guy's girlfriend, but it's for breast implants she doesn't want. Gabrielle quickly agrees she doesn't need them and takes the cash back.
The next time she sees Carlos, he's been badly beaten and he orders her to convince the girlfriend to take the money. She refuses, unless he gives her control of their bank account.
Lynette is dismayed to come back from a long day at the office to find the house is a pigsty and Tom already in bed. The final straw is when she realizes he didn't change the bed after the baby threw up in it.
She starts changing the bed around him and he tells her she has control issues. She leaves him the bed and goes to sleep on the couch. While flipping channels she comes across a horror movie about rats and has a brainwave.
The next day she lets loose a rat in the house and waits for it to have the desired effect. When she comes home, the house is spotless. Tom admits he let the house go too far but that the rat inspired him to clean. And that he killed it with a shovel.
She's both pleased and horrified by the news. She goes to take out the trash and apologizes to the dead rat, but also thanks it for saving her marriage.
Susan asks Betty about the strange clanging noises she's been hearing coming from her house in the middle of the night. Betty pretends not to know what she's talking about but then the noise comes again. She explains that it's just her son, Matthew, but then he walks up behind them, having just gotten home. Betty says a quick goodbye, leaving Susan more suspicious than ever.
Betty complains to her psychiatrist that she can't sleep, telling him how her husband used to beat her and how she still has nightmares because she wasn't able to prevent him from killing their son. The doctor prescribes a sleeping pill, which she grinds up and puts in the food she brings to the chain-rattling captive in her basement.
2.03 - You'll Never Get Away From Me
Airing 10/9/2005
On a visit to Rex's grave, Bree is horrified to discover that they've dug up his body. Her mother-in-law Phyllis has "forgotten" to tell her about the insurance investigator's suspicions that Rex was poisoned.
Bree promptly packs Phyllis's bags and sends her off in a taxi -- and then insists on taking a polygraph test to clear herself of all suspicion. But when they ask her if she loves George, the readout spikes. She tells George that he has to take a polygraph test too, because now they suspect the two of them of conspiring to poison Rex. When he asks why she didn't pass her test, she admits she might have feelings for him after all. George agrees -- and aces his test.
Carlos tells Gabrielle she's never really apologized for her affair and she throws in his face how much John said he loved her. On a nostalgic impulse, she follows John to his new job and is horrified to see him disappearing inside with the woman whose lawn he's cutting. After seeing them kissing, she grabs an electric hedge trimmer and destroys the woman's rose bushes. When John confronts her, she admits she did it, and asks how he can be with someone new if he still loves her. He says he'll dump the other woman if she wants him back but she reluctantly says no, it's better this way. At last she can go back to Carlos and tell him she is truly sorry. Carlos tells her it's the best anniversary present she ever gave him. And she tells him that his - an Astin Martin she purchased for herself without his knowing - is the best present he's ever given her.
Lynette's new boss, Nina, says no when she asks to take the morning off to bring Parker to school for his first day. So Lynette rigs up a remote camera so she can be there -- only she keeps getting called away to meetings. She maneuvers a piping hot mug of coffee so that it spills in Nina's lap, canceling the meeting. She's then free to talk Parker through his first day.
Susan is furious to find out that Edie is going to accompany Julie on guitar in a church family talent show. She goes to Betty for help in brushing up her piano playing skills, but she catches her at a bad time, just as their mysterious prisoner in the basement has gotten free and had to be forcibly subdued. Betty refuses to help or let her in and explains the red stains on her shirt are because she was making a cherry pie.
Matthew convinces Betty that it's less suspicious to help Susan out, so Betty changes her mind and gives her lessons. Susan than forces Julie to choose between her and Edie for the talent show and Julie caves and picks her mother. But when it comes time to perform, Susan sees Edie in the audience and feels bad and asks her to play instead. Edie accepts, even though she doesn't have her guitar with her. She insists she can play piano too, only not very well as it turns out.
Mike goes to see how Felicia is doing and asks if she knows where he might be able to find Zach. She says that after he beat her and pushed her down the stairs, she's a little less interested in his well being. She's also disappointed to hear that he didn't end up killing Paul and warns he'll be back looking for Zach himself.
2.04 - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Airing October 16, 2005
Lynette feels like a bad mother when she learns that Parker has invented an imaginary friend, the Mary Poppins-like Mrs. Mulberry now that she's gone back to work. Her efforts to persuade him that Mrs. Mulberry doesn't exist are useless, so she resorts to throwing away Mrs. Mulberry's umbrella and tells Parker that she's gone to another little boy who needed her more.
Only the umbrella falls out of the back of a garbage truck and is run over -- in full view of a horrified Parker. At least now he accepts that she's gone for good.
Gabrielle accidentally incites a riot at the prison when she argues with her lawyer over conjugal visits and the inmates -- who appreciate seeing her on a regular basis -- take her side. She gets a new lawyer, one who instantly hits on her, but one who also successfully gets her her conjugal visits.
Susan and Mike are still being "casual" until she accepts that Zach is part of his life. So she tells him she's OK with that and even starts helping him look for Zach. Edie sees a flyer and tells Susan she knows that Mike's Zach's real father since Julie let it slip. Susan admits she doesn't think they'll actually find Zach and Edie tells her she's trying to have it both ways -- help Mike while not having to deal with Zach.
At a park where runaways are said to hang out, Mike and Susan split up to look for Zach. Susan is buying ice cream when the vendor points out Zach to her. She goes running, sending her ice cream sundae flying everywhere. She corners Zach and he swings a piece of wood at her, so she runs to Mike. Except all she tells him is that she ate his ice cream, and doesn't mention Zach at all.
Gabrielle tells Susan she did the right thing but Bree feels Susan should help him, so she tracks him down again and buys him lunch. She tells him Paul's OK, just missing, and that he should just come back with her. But he starts to ramble obsessively about Julie and asks whether she thinks he still has a chance with her and Susan changes her mind. She encourages him to go look for Paul and asks him how much money he needs to get to Utah.
Andrew interrupts Bree saying goodnight to George and rudely tells him he should be going. George stands his ground and soon the two are shoving each other like children. Bree snaps at both of them but she's already invited George to dinner and the invitation stands. Andrew doesn't plan to be there, telling Bree she's embarrassing the family by seeing George so soon after Rex died. She threatens to withhold his swim club fees unless he shows and he reluctantly agrees.
Bree tells George that she thinks she needs to spend more time with Andrew and so they should stop seeing each other. He asks about the camp Andrew was sent to -- is that maybe an option after the way Andrew treated him? Bree says that sending Andrew to camp again would only happen if he got completely out of line.
George shows up unexpectedly at Andrew's swim meet and presents Bree with a "farewell gift" - some rare china that has her hugging him in thanks. George kisses her and Andrew is so incensed he jumps out of the pool and starts hitting him. Chalk one up for George: Andrew is next seen packing for camp.
2.05 - They Asked Me Why I Believe in You
Airing 10/23/2005
Bree threatens to sue the city and the police until they release Rex's body so he can be properly reburied and they agree. But then the detective who's been trying to get her to confess to poisoning Rex shows her the note that he wrote before he died, the one that says, "I understand and I forgive you."
She's horrified to realize that he went to his grave thinking she murdered him. She's already invited her closest friends to a small service at his reburial because she was too grief-stricken at the first funeral, and when they show up, she marches them over to a new plot. "I don't want to spend eternity lying next to someone who thinks I'm a murderer," she huffs.
Lynette tries to destress her boss, Nina, with a series of thoughtful gifts, but nothing works until she takes her out for a drink. Nina confesses it's been ages since she dated and that she's shy when it comes to meeting men. So Lynette finds a man for her! The next morning Nina's all smiles -- and wearing the same clothes she had on the night before.
But now Lynette is on permanent drink buddy duty with Nina, or her job is in jeopardy. After five nights of this, she finally realizes the only way to get out of it is to become the competition. She bares some skin, throws back some shots and -- gasp -- dances on top of the bar. Nina's been thoroughly upstaged and Lynette knows she's off the hook now.
Susan goes to meet with her book agent, Lonnie, but is appalled when he reveals that he's been dismissed from his firm for "moving money around." She wants to stay loyal to him and the new agency he's starting, since he's an old friend, but Mike advises her not to trust him -- adding that he has a "one strike, you're out" policy about people lying to him. She's already feeling guilty that she didn't Mike him she paid for Zach to leave town, but now she's afraid of what he'll do if he finds out. She tells Julie, who realizes she did it to protect her, but doesn't know what to advise her.
Susan decides to stick with Lonnie, despite his problems, but when she realizes there actually isn't a new agency, she tells him she can't trust him anymore. She says he'll always be "her Lonnie," though and he interprets that as an opportunity to kiss her. "No," she yells. "I didn't mean it like that," and she runs out.
Gabby wants to keep her new hotshot lawyer, David Bradley on the case, because she's convinced he's the only one who can get Carlos off. But Carlos is too jealous of his model good looks -- and how Gabby's smiling at him -- to agree. So she tells David to tell him he's not interested in her, which they both know is a lie. Instead, he tells Carlos he does want to sleep with Gabby - but that the only way that's not going to happen is if he stays on as their lawyer since he could be disbarred for sleeping with a client's wife. Now Gabby wants him gone but Carlos insists he stay.
Betty sees on the news that they've arrested someone in Chicago for the recent murder of a Melanie Foster. She starts to write a note to the police saying they've arrested the wrong man, but Matthew stops her from sending it. She tells him that Caleb -- the man in the basement -- is not a killer. He was confused and didn't know what he was doing. Caleb is about to make a break for it, until he overhears Matthew say they won't care that he's "slow," they'll just execute him. So Caleb meekly goes back into the basement.
2.06 - I Wish I Could Forget You
Airing November 06, 2005
George's romancing of Bree hits a bump when she breaks out in hives whenever he tries to get more than a goodnight kiss from her. Bree's therapist suggests it's psychosomatic because she still feels married to Rex.
Bree decides a change of scenery will help, so she tells George she wants to go away for a romantic weekend. But no sooner do they check into the hotel than she breaks out in hives again. At dinner, George convinces her to take some antihistamines, even though she's drinking wine, resulting in a very relaxed Bree.
When she wakes up in the middle of the night, he's sitting, watching her. She asks him to wait for her and he says he'll try but the day might come when he just won't be there. Bree reconsiders and they go to bed. But as George sleeps, it's Bree sitting in the chair, clearly wondering if she's done the right thing.
Lynette is horrified when her boss Nina starts making fun of her less than fashionable suits in front of the rest of the staff. She rushes out to buy something more stylish but Tom balks at the price tag on one suit in particular: $900. She promises to return it but then decides to wear it just once to an important presentation. But she doesn't realize her price tag is showing. Nina yanks it off - meaning she has to keep the suit now. To appease Tom, she buys him a set of high-end golf clubs, saying they have to indulge themselves sometimes. "I feel like a better parent already," he says as he practices his swing.
At the courthouse, Gabrielle's hunky new lawyer, David, is shot at by a disgruntled stalker but when the gun ends up in his hands, the police mistakenly shoot him. She visits him in the hospital and he seems more smitten with her than ever. So much so that at the hearing the next day, he walks out and tells her it's because he's in love with her.
She summons him to her house, clad only in lingerie and announces he can have her, but that she's not leaving Carlos. He insists he wants all or nothing but as she starts kissing him, he agrees to an affair. And then she declares that he can't really love her because Carlos, who really does love her, would never agree to those terms. So she orders him back on the case or she'll have him disbarred for sexual harrassment.
While Susan is fitting her mother, Sophie, for her wedding dress, Sophie says she expects that Susan will wear it when she marries Mike, who's sitting in earshot. He casually says he expects Susan will select her own dress for their eventual wedding. It's the first time he's mentioned marriage and Susan is ecstatic.
The next day, Paul Young shows back up unexpectedly on Wisteria Lane and Susan and her friends call the police and tell them how he confessed to Mike. But when they ask Mike about the confession and Mrs. Huber's diaries that implicated Paul, he says he doesn't know what Susan was talking about. Later he tells her as an ex-con, he can't admit to kidnapping and murder threats and the diaries implicated her in burning Edie's house, so he was only protecting her. But it also means that Paul is free -- and living right next to them again.
When Paul comes over to ask about one of the flyers Mike had made up to find Zach, Susan is so scared of him she blurts out that she gave Zach money to go to Utah. Paul thinks she's lying, and says as much to Mike, who immediately confronts Susan. She's in the middle of trying on Sophie's wedding dress and all her hopes come crashing down when she has to tell him yes, she sent Zach away. She runs out into the street after him, still in the dress, and he tells her "We're done" and drives away. She collapses, sobbing, in the middle of the street and all her friends come to her aid.
recaps courtesy of abc.com
Airing 9/25/2005
We last left Susan in Mike's house with Zach holding her hostage at gunpoint. He's waiting to kill Mike because he thinks he killed his father, Paul. When Mike comes home, Susan tackles Zach. In the resulting confusion, Susan trips and falls, the gun goes off harmlessly and Zach runs off.
At the hospital, where Susan is being treated for the lip she accidentally bit, Julie hears Mike giving police a different version of events, one that downplays Zach's murderous intentions.
Julie tells Susan and she confronts Mike about it. He admits he doesn't want to press charges. He tells her about how Mary Alice and Paul killed Deirdre because of Zach. He's interrupted by a call from the police -- they've just found Zach. He's dead. Since Paul is missing, Mike and Susan go to the morgue to identify his body. Only it's not Zach. When Susan sees Mike's reaction, she realizes what he was about to tell her - Zach is his son. She freaks out and leaves him there.
She shows up at his house later to tell him that she's so happy he has a son since he always wanted children. But she can't let Zach near Julie and so she decides they can't move in together. She runs off in tears.
Bree tells her friends she can't fall apart after Rex's death. She has to stay calm to deal with his emotional mother, Phyllis. When she starts emphasizing how happy Rex's life was pre-marriage, including asking he be buried in a hideous prep school tie, Bree tells her to say what she really means. Phyllis tells Bree that she ruined Rex's life when she married him. Bree snaps and bans her from the funeral, until Andrew and Danielle beg her to reconsider. Bree relents and Phyllis apologizes to her and all is well. Until the funeral, where Bree sees that Rex is wearing the hated prep school tie and not the Ralph Lauren tie she picked out. "Don't close that coffin!" she orders and in full view of the entire church, demands Tom's tie and props up Rex's body so she can put it on instead.
At her job interview, Lynette tries to make a good impression on Nina, who doesn't approve of anyone who takes time off to be with their kids. Lynette assures her it won't be a problem. But then the day of her follow-up interview, Tom throws out his back and can't take care of the baby, so she's forced to take her to the interview. She manages to wow Nina's boss with her multitasking skills, changing the baby while pitching them ideas on how to take their agency to the next level. She's hired, although Nina is less than thrilled.
John shows up at Gabrielle's house with a suitcase -- he's ready to move in and start a life with her and the baby now that Carlos is in jail and knows about their affair. But she's still mad at him for spilling the beans and throws him out.
Gabrielle visits Carlos in jail and tells him she's sorry and she wants to start over. He tells her he wants a paternity test. She fakes a test that says he's the father and is surprised when he isn't happy. He says all he asked for was for her to be faithful and she says his meddling with her birth control was worse than her affair. "We're not very nice people are we?" Carlos asks. "At least we're still rich," she says and they both nod sadly.
Bree introduces herself to new neighbor Betty Applewhite and her son Josh, asking Betty if she can play the organ at Rex's funeral since their organist is on vacation. Betty agrees and tells Bree "Us widows have to stick together."
2.02 - You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Airing 10/2/2005
Susan is dismayed to see her ex-husband, Karl, emerge from Edie's house one morning. She runs over to confront him and he admits he's sleeping with Edie and may move in with her.
When Edie comes by -- on rollerskates -- to apologize for not telling her, Susan pretends not to care and gets in her car to drive away. Edie brags that Karl told her that sex with her was the best of his life. Susan snaps back that Karl told her he's still in love with her and recently asked her to come back to him. She drives off, Edie still in pursuit, and after their ensuing argument, accidentally backs up into her. Oops!
Meanwhile, Mike wants to know where their relationship stands now that they're not moving in together. Susan says she wants to keep it "casual," but he doesn't know what that means. "We can still go see a movie," she explains, as he comes closer. "Anything else?" he asks and as he starts to kiss her, she says, "Brunch. We can go to brunch!" and runs away.
Rex's mother Phyllis publicly embarrasses Bree when she starts crying over Rex's death. So Bree slaps her! She apologizes later, but with Bree's uncanny composure and her eagerness to settle Rex's will, Phyllis starts to suspect Bree isn't sorry Rex is dead.
The doctor treating Rex finds the note he wrote before he died, forgiving Bree, although it doesn't say why. The suspicious doctor hands it to the lead insurance investigator. The same investigator Phyllis calls when she sees Bree being comforted by the ever opportunistic George.
Gabrielle's outburst last time she visited Carlos - about him being a rich man - means unless he pays a violent inmate off, there'll be hell to pay. She agrees to deliver $7,000 to the guy's girlfriend, but it's for breast implants she doesn't want. Gabrielle quickly agrees she doesn't need them and takes the cash back.
The next time she sees Carlos, he's been badly beaten and he orders her to convince the girlfriend to take the money. She refuses, unless he gives her control of their bank account.
Lynette is dismayed to come back from a long day at the office to find the house is a pigsty and Tom already in bed. The final straw is when she realizes he didn't change the bed after the baby threw up in it.
She starts changing the bed around him and he tells her she has control issues. She leaves him the bed and goes to sleep on the couch. While flipping channels she comes across a horror movie about rats and has a brainwave.
The next day she lets loose a rat in the house and waits for it to have the desired effect. When she comes home, the house is spotless. Tom admits he let the house go too far but that the rat inspired him to clean. And that he killed it with a shovel.
She's both pleased and horrified by the news. She goes to take out the trash and apologizes to the dead rat, but also thanks it for saving her marriage.
Susan asks Betty about the strange clanging noises she's been hearing coming from her house in the middle of the night. Betty pretends not to know what she's talking about but then the noise comes again. She explains that it's just her son, Matthew, but then he walks up behind them, having just gotten home. Betty says a quick goodbye, leaving Susan more suspicious than ever.
Betty complains to her psychiatrist that she can't sleep, telling him how her husband used to beat her and how she still has nightmares because she wasn't able to prevent him from killing their son. The doctor prescribes a sleeping pill, which she grinds up and puts in the food she brings to the chain-rattling captive in her basement.
2.03 - You'll Never Get Away From Me
Airing 10/9/2005
On a visit to Rex's grave, Bree is horrified to discover that they've dug up his body. Her mother-in-law Phyllis has "forgotten" to tell her about the insurance investigator's suspicions that Rex was poisoned.
Bree promptly packs Phyllis's bags and sends her off in a taxi -- and then insists on taking a polygraph test to clear herself of all suspicion. But when they ask her if she loves George, the readout spikes. She tells George that he has to take a polygraph test too, because now they suspect the two of them of conspiring to poison Rex. When he asks why she didn't pass her test, she admits she might have feelings for him after all. George agrees -- and aces his test.
Carlos tells Gabrielle she's never really apologized for her affair and she throws in his face how much John said he loved her. On a nostalgic impulse, she follows John to his new job and is horrified to see him disappearing inside with the woman whose lawn he's cutting. After seeing them kissing, she grabs an electric hedge trimmer and destroys the woman's rose bushes. When John confronts her, she admits she did it, and asks how he can be with someone new if he still loves her. He says he'll dump the other woman if she wants him back but she reluctantly says no, it's better this way. At last she can go back to Carlos and tell him she is truly sorry. Carlos tells her it's the best anniversary present she ever gave him. And she tells him that his - an Astin Martin she purchased for herself without his knowing - is the best present he's ever given her.
Lynette's new boss, Nina, says no when she asks to take the morning off to bring Parker to school for his first day. So Lynette rigs up a remote camera so she can be there -- only she keeps getting called away to meetings. She maneuvers a piping hot mug of coffee so that it spills in Nina's lap, canceling the meeting. She's then free to talk Parker through his first day.
Susan is furious to find out that Edie is going to accompany Julie on guitar in a church family talent show. She goes to Betty for help in brushing up her piano playing skills, but she catches her at a bad time, just as their mysterious prisoner in the basement has gotten free and had to be forcibly subdued. Betty refuses to help or let her in and explains the red stains on her shirt are because she was making a cherry pie.
Matthew convinces Betty that it's less suspicious to help Susan out, so Betty changes her mind and gives her lessons. Susan than forces Julie to choose between her and Edie for the talent show and Julie caves and picks her mother. But when it comes time to perform, Susan sees Edie in the audience and feels bad and asks her to play instead. Edie accepts, even though she doesn't have her guitar with her. She insists she can play piano too, only not very well as it turns out.
Mike goes to see how Felicia is doing and asks if she knows where he might be able to find Zach. She says that after he beat her and pushed her down the stairs, she's a little less interested in his well being. She's also disappointed to hear that he didn't end up killing Paul and warns he'll be back looking for Zach himself.
2.04 - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Airing October 16, 2005
Lynette feels like a bad mother when she learns that Parker has invented an imaginary friend, the Mary Poppins-like Mrs. Mulberry now that she's gone back to work. Her efforts to persuade him that Mrs. Mulberry doesn't exist are useless, so she resorts to throwing away Mrs. Mulberry's umbrella and tells Parker that she's gone to another little boy who needed her more.
Only the umbrella falls out of the back of a garbage truck and is run over -- in full view of a horrified Parker. At least now he accepts that she's gone for good.
Gabrielle accidentally incites a riot at the prison when she argues with her lawyer over conjugal visits and the inmates -- who appreciate seeing her on a regular basis -- take her side. She gets a new lawyer, one who instantly hits on her, but one who also successfully gets her her conjugal visits.
Susan and Mike are still being "casual" until she accepts that Zach is part of his life. So she tells him she's OK with that and even starts helping him look for Zach. Edie sees a flyer and tells Susan she knows that Mike's Zach's real father since Julie let it slip. Susan admits she doesn't think they'll actually find Zach and Edie tells her she's trying to have it both ways -- help Mike while not having to deal with Zach.
At a park where runaways are said to hang out, Mike and Susan split up to look for Zach. Susan is buying ice cream when the vendor points out Zach to her. She goes running, sending her ice cream sundae flying everywhere. She corners Zach and he swings a piece of wood at her, so she runs to Mike. Except all she tells him is that she ate his ice cream, and doesn't mention Zach at all.
Gabrielle tells Susan she did the right thing but Bree feels Susan should help him, so she tracks him down again and buys him lunch. She tells him Paul's OK, just missing, and that he should just come back with her. But he starts to ramble obsessively about Julie and asks whether she thinks he still has a chance with her and Susan changes her mind. She encourages him to go look for Paul and asks him how much money he needs to get to Utah.
Andrew interrupts Bree saying goodnight to George and rudely tells him he should be going. George stands his ground and soon the two are shoving each other like children. Bree snaps at both of them but she's already invited George to dinner and the invitation stands. Andrew doesn't plan to be there, telling Bree she's embarrassing the family by seeing George so soon after Rex died. She threatens to withhold his swim club fees unless he shows and he reluctantly agrees.
Bree tells George that she thinks she needs to spend more time with Andrew and so they should stop seeing each other. He asks about the camp Andrew was sent to -- is that maybe an option after the way Andrew treated him? Bree says that sending Andrew to camp again would only happen if he got completely out of line.
George shows up unexpectedly at Andrew's swim meet and presents Bree with a "farewell gift" - some rare china that has her hugging him in thanks. George kisses her and Andrew is so incensed he jumps out of the pool and starts hitting him. Chalk one up for George: Andrew is next seen packing for camp.
2.05 - They Asked Me Why I Believe in You
Airing 10/23/2005
Bree threatens to sue the city and the police until they release Rex's body so he can be properly reburied and they agree. But then the detective who's been trying to get her to confess to poisoning Rex shows her the note that he wrote before he died, the one that says, "I understand and I forgive you."
She's horrified to realize that he went to his grave thinking she murdered him. She's already invited her closest friends to a small service at his reburial because she was too grief-stricken at the first funeral, and when they show up, she marches them over to a new plot. "I don't want to spend eternity lying next to someone who thinks I'm a murderer," she huffs.
Lynette tries to destress her boss, Nina, with a series of thoughtful gifts, but nothing works until she takes her out for a drink. Nina confesses it's been ages since she dated and that she's shy when it comes to meeting men. So Lynette finds a man for her! The next morning Nina's all smiles -- and wearing the same clothes she had on the night before.
But now Lynette is on permanent drink buddy duty with Nina, or her job is in jeopardy. After five nights of this, she finally realizes the only way to get out of it is to become the competition. She bares some skin, throws back some shots and -- gasp -- dances on top of the bar. Nina's been thoroughly upstaged and Lynette knows she's off the hook now.
Susan goes to meet with her book agent, Lonnie, but is appalled when he reveals that he's been dismissed from his firm for "moving money around." She wants to stay loyal to him and the new agency he's starting, since he's an old friend, but Mike advises her not to trust him -- adding that he has a "one strike, you're out" policy about people lying to him. She's already feeling guilty that she didn't Mike him she paid for Zach to leave town, but now she's afraid of what he'll do if he finds out. She tells Julie, who realizes she did it to protect her, but doesn't know what to advise her.
Susan decides to stick with Lonnie, despite his problems, but when she realizes there actually isn't a new agency, she tells him she can't trust him anymore. She says he'll always be "her Lonnie," though and he interprets that as an opportunity to kiss her. "No," she yells. "I didn't mean it like that," and she runs out.
Gabby wants to keep her new hotshot lawyer, David Bradley on the case, because she's convinced he's the only one who can get Carlos off. But Carlos is too jealous of his model good looks -- and how Gabby's smiling at him -- to agree. So she tells David to tell him he's not interested in her, which they both know is a lie. Instead, he tells Carlos he does want to sleep with Gabby - but that the only way that's not going to happen is if he stays on as their lawyer since he could be disbarred for sleeping with a client's wife. Now Gabby wants him gone but Carlos insists he stay.
Betty sees on the news that they've arrested someone in Chicago for the recent murder of a Melanie Foster. She starts to write a note to the police saying they've arrested the wrong man, but Matthew stops her from sending it. She tells him that Caleb -- the man in the basement -- is not a killer. He was confused and didn't know what he was doing. Caleb is about to make a break for it, until he overhears Matthew say they won't care that he's "slow," they'll just execute him. So Caleb meekly goes back into the basement.
2.06 - I Wish I Could Forget You
Airing November 06, 2005
George's romancing of Bree hits a bump when she breaks out in hives whenever he tries to get more than a goodnight kiss from her. Bree's therapist suggests it's psychosomatic because she still feels married to Rex.
Bree decides a change of scenery will help, so she tells George she wants to go away for a romantic weekend. But no sooner do they check into the hotel than she breaks out in hives again. At dinner, George convinces her to take some antihistamines, even though she's drinking wine, resulting in a very relaxed Bree.
When she wakes up in the middle of the night, he's sitting, watching her. She asks him to wait for her and he says he'll try but the day might come when he just won't be there. Bree reconsiders and they go to bed. But as George sleeps, it's Bree sitting in the chair, clearly wondering if she's done the right thing.
Lynette is horrified when her boss Nina starts making fun of her less than fashionable suits in front of the rest of the staff. She rushes out to buy something more stylish but Tom balks at the price tag on one suit in particular: $900. She promises to return it but then decides to wear it just once to an important presentation. But she doesn't realize her price tag is showing. Nina yanks it off - meaning she has to keep the suit now. To appease Tom, she buys him a set of high-end golf clubs, saying they have to indulge themselves sometimes. "I feel like a better parent already," he says as he practices his swing.
At the courthouse, Gabrielle's hunky new lawyer, David, is shot at by a disgruntled stalker but when the gun ends up in his hands, the police mistakenly shoot him. She visits him in the hospital and he seems more smitten with her than ever. So much so that at the hearing the next day, he walks out and tells her it's because he's in love with her.
She summons him to her house, clad only in lingerie and announces he can have her, but that she's not leaving Carlos. He insists he wants all or nothing but as she starts kissing him, he agrees to an affair. And then she declares that he can't really love her because Carlos, who really does love her, would never agree to those terms. So she orders him back on the case or she'll have him disbarred for sexual harrassment.
While Susan is fitting her mother, Sophie, for her wedding dress, Sophie says she expects that Susan will wear it when she marries Mike, who's sitting in earshot. He casually says he expects Susan will select her own dress for their eventual wedding. It's the first time he's mentioned marriage and Susan is ecstatic.
The next day, Paul Young shows back up unexpectedly on Wisteria Lane and Susan and her friends call the police and tell them how he confessed to Mike. But when they ask Mike about the confession and Mrs. Huber's diaries that implicated Paul, he says he doesn't know what Susan was talking about. Later he tells her as an ex-con, he can't admit to kidnapping and murder threats and the diaries implicated her in burning Edie's house, so he was only protecting her. But it also means that Paul is free -- and living right next to them again.
When Paul comes over to ask about one of the flyers Mike had made up to find Zach, Susan is so scared of him she blurts out that she gave Zach money to go to Utah. Paul thinks she's lying, and says as much to Mike, who immediately confronts Susan. She's in the middle of trying on Sophie's wedding dress and all her hopes come crashing down when she has to tell him yes, she sent Zach away. She runs out into the street after him, still in the dress, and he tells her "We're done" and drives away. She collapses, sobbing, in the middle of the street and all her friends come to her aid.
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