- Julie questions Susan's parenting skills; Bree's unsure of Andrew's marriage; Lynette plans to win Tom back; Gabrielle tries to teach her family a lesson.
- "Desperate Housewives" - "Any Moment"- March 25, 2012
Renee had been waiting for a proposal from Ben for months and he had many opportunities. She got so frustrated after a romantic six course meal she basically yelled at him "where's the ring?!" It turns out he was going to propose but chickened out. But just as he's getting down one knee to pop the question the police show up to inquire after a body found on his construction site.
The next day Renee and Ben come to show off their ring and share their news. Ben mentions the cops and while Renee blathers about the engagement, Ben and Bree engage in a coded conversation in which he reassures her that he's in the clear and the cops aren't suspicious of him.
Meanwhile, Susan's troubled eight-year-old son, MJ, is struggling with the loss of his dad. He's demanding ice cream for breakfast, playing video games at 2:00 in the morning, and sassing Julie as she tries to get him under control. Susan is inclined to disipline him since he's suffered such a big loss. But when Susan learns that MJ threw a stapler at his teacher's head and injures her for no reason, and then she herself gets so angry that she sweeps all of the stuff off of the same teacher's desk and hurts her foot she realizes it has to stop. She goes to MJ and explains that trying to cover up their hurt and anger with food, video games, violence and other distractions isn't healthy. They need to mourn and be angry so they can heal. To that end she takes a basket full of jam that one of the neighbors gave her and she and MJ take turns hurling the jars at the garage wall to let their feelings out in a healthy way.
On a mission to get Tom back, Lynette enlists Penny to get him out of the house for the night by essentially tricking Jane into taking her to see Taylor Swift in concert. Lynette lies and says the power is out to get Tom over and to have an excuse to have lit hundreds of candles. Once there she claims that she's trying out a new recipe for beef bourguignon which she pretends to forget that he loves. And then she just happens to have some old photo albums out from their second anniversary. They drink wine, eat, and reminisce about how romantic they were before work, kids, and life got in the way. They are about to have a moment when Tom's sleeve catches on fire after he puts it too close to a lighted candle. Lynette runs to turn on a light to see how burnt he is... and he immediately realizes the power isn't out and she tricked him into coming over. He is livid. Tom claims that he just moved in with Jane and can't believe Lynette would pull a ruse like this. She apologizes for the manner in which she got him in the mood but says he can't deny the mood was there. Tom angrily stalks out. Later, Lynette explains to Penny that the ruse didn't work. Penny tells her to keep fighting, because what guy could resist that. At their apartment Jane applies some balm to Tom's arm and says as his physician he's cleared for sexual activity. He begs off saying he has work to do. And she says the beauty of them living together is she's there if he changes his mind.
Elsewhere, Gaby is having trouble getting her head around the idea that they're self-indulgent lifestyle is going to change so she decides to get a job. But after a blunt conversation with an employment agency reveals she has no skills she goes on an ill-advised shopping spree at the department store to soothe herself. Carlos comes home and informs her in no uncertain terms that the stuff must go back. When she goes to return the items the store employees-- who were wowed by her shopping prowess-- offer her a job as a personal shopper. She snaps it up.
Finally, Bree is in for a big surprise when Andrew comes home with a new romantic partner: a woman named Mary Beth. When Bree discovers that Mary Beth is the daughter of a food magnate and an heiress she realizes that Andrew is only marrying her for her money. She tries to convince him to give this up, she says he's here, he's queer, and she's used to it. He balks. So she throws an "engagement party" to which she invites all of his old gay friends. He is flabbergasted. Mary Beth joins Bree in the kitchen and comes clean that she knows Andrew is gay. She points out that she used to be morbidly obese and thought that when she lost the weight the men would come running and they didn't. She thinks Andrew is sweet and funny and nice and figures she could do worse. Bree tells her that she should never settle and that true real love is out there for her. Mary Beth leaves and Andrew is livid. He breaks down and explains he's in serious financial trouble and didn't want to come running home to Bree again like he did when he needed a job or when he was drinking and he's tired of her seeing him as a failure. Bree says the fact that he didn't want to come to her means she's a failure. They agree to say they're both failures with a laugh. She offers him a place to stay until he gets back on his feet.
Later in the final scene, she calls Ben to thank him for not ratting her out to the police. The only problem is, she's ratting herself out. After they got a finger print match off the mug from last week's interrrogation, the police (whom still hold a bitter grudge against Bree for dumping Chuck Vance) got a warrant to tap her phone. And she admits that she put that body in the ground and it weighs on her mind every day. We cut to the interior of a police van across the street and the cop saying "gotcha."
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