Desperate Housewives (TV Series)

Suspicious Minds (2004)

Brenda Strong: Mary Alice Young

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Mary Alice Young : People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, able to perform great acts of charity. On the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us - between the better angels of our nature and the temptation of our inner demons. And, sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness... is to shine the light of compassion.

  Gabrielle Solis : [to Susan]  They took him away in handcuffs.

  [sobs] 

• [first lines] 

  Mary Alice Young : Gabrielle was waiting for her next great idea. Her first great idea came when she was 15 after her stepfather paid her a late-night visit. She bought a bus ticket to New York the very next day. Her next occurred five years later when she decided to seduce a famous fashion photographer. One week later, she began her career as a runway model, which soon led to her next great idea - her decision to marry Carlos Solis. Before she knew it, she had jumped off the runway and moved to the suburbs. Her most recent great idea was borne out of her boredom with her new life. That's how she came to start an affair with her teenage gardener, which was cut short by a tragic accident. So, once again, Gabrielle was in need of a great idea.