- Susan learns Mike had been keeping a secret; Bree needs a lawyer to get her murder charges cleared; Carlos is concerned with Gabrielle's job.
- "Desperate Housewives" - "With So Little To Be Sure Of" - April 1, 2012
Lee is helping Susan pack up Mike's things to give away when he comes across a locked box in the closet. She wants to open it but he convinces her to let him open it and then decide whether she should know what's in it since he doesn't want Mike's reputation to be tarnished in her eyes. She agrees. That is until he opens and then refuses to tell her what's inside. It drives her crazy for a few hours so she goes over to his house and demands to see the contents. Inside are several things: passports, photos, keepsakes. But the thing that Lee was worried about her seeing was a checkbook and drawings. Eight years ago, before he and Susan got back togeher, he opened a secret account from which he sent checks every month to a woman named Laura Hernandez. With the checkbook are children's drawings. So of couse Lee and Susan assumes this means that Mike had a secret child. When she and Julie go to speak to Laura Hernandez it turns out that she runs a group home for developmentally disable adults and Mike didn't have a child but an older sister with severe autism. Mike was paying for her care in this group home. Susan wonders why Mike didn't tell her. Julie finally reads the old letters in the locked box and discovers letters from Mike's mother explaining. Mike never told Susan because he himself didn't know until 8 years ago. His mother explained that she put his sister in this home because Mike's father was a hard man and caring for a child with severe autism would've been too difficult. She was too ashamed to ever tell Mike until she was very old apparently and she begged him not to tell Susan or anyone lest they judge her. Susan and Julie realize, Mike wasn't keeping a secret FROM them, he was keeping a secret FOR his mother.
Even though her last grand plan to woo Tom back went disastrously when he caught on fire Lynette is still determined to get him back so she begins making his favorite cake for his birthday. Meanwhile at his house Jane is offering up other ways to celebrate his birthday, like bringing up his divorce papers and when he's going to get Lynette to sign them. Tom begs off saying he's been very busy. She offers to have them messengered over. He promises he will do it soon. But that's not good enough for Jane. On the pretense of bringing back some of the kids schoolbooks' Jane goes to Lynette's. They snipe at each other as Lynette explains she's making Tom's favorite birthday cake. Then Jane pulls out the divorce papers as her coup de grace saying Tom has already signed them. Lynette is so shocked and upset she whips green cake batter on Jane's clothes. Jane storms out. Later that night Lynette confronts Tom at the restaurant where he's meeting Jane for dinner. She brings the divorce papers. He is beside himself that Jane brought them to her. She asks when he signed them. He says awhile ago. They begin to bicker and he points out that this has been difficult for him too. She point blank asks him if this is what he wants, to dissolve their marriage. He says nothing. She signs the papers and leaves the restaurant. As she's backing up her car she almost hits someone. She calls out to them "I'm sorry." And then breaks down into tears saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" in her car by herself. At home Tom is so mad at Jane he can't even speak. She tries to explain that she was trying to help. He explodes at her that dissolving his 25 year marriage is not easy and she is not helping and that he will always care about Lynette because she is the mother of his children and Jane had better decide if she can live with that and then he storms out.
Gaby is struggling finding clients at the department store until her boss suggests she go to the men's department, take off her wedding ring, play up her cleavage and make some sales. Not surprisingly she is successful at getting shlubs to shell out for pricey suits and gear when she flirts with them. Carlos isn't thrilled about this but Gaby says them's the rules baby and besides he was constantly playing up her sex appeal when she went out with him on client dinners so he can't complain now. When she treats Carlos to a fancy dinner and one of her clients shows up, she whips off her wedding ring, hands it to Carlos and tells the client that Carlos is his brother. Carlos doesn't care for this and storms out. At the valet she says she is only doing what he wanted, becoming the breadwinner since he wanted to be a counselor. He says he's not comfortable with that. She says it's too bad.
Bree is throwing Renee a bridal shower that is very proper, from the perfect roses to the mini-quiches to the directive to the guests to give Renee appropriate gifts. Renee is annoyed that there are no fun, sexy, vibrating gifts just sensible kitchen gadgets. Gaby pulls Bree aside and warns her she hired some male strippers to spice things up. Bree is aghast. The doorbell rings and it's the cops. Gaby mistakes them for the strippers but they are very much real police who arrest her for the murder of Ramon Sanchez. Bob springs her quickly and he and Bree note that the case against her is pretty thin but she'll need a real hot shot defense attorney to make it work. The girls offer to pay for this attorney since Bree is taking the heat for all of them. (Carlos is upset about it but Gaby points out that right now silence is his best option since this would be his third strike.) Bree goes to see a "shark" Bob recommends named Tripp Weston. He points out the many ways he could get her off but declines to take her case because it is boring because she is innocent. The detectives on the case, looking for ways to connect Bree to Ramon, head to a motel where he stayed. The proprietor produces a box of stuff he left behind including a map on which he circled Wisteria Lane. One detective points out this might not be enough, so the other-- the one who was partners with Chuck Vance and has a vendetta against Bree-- writes the number of her house on the map, forcing a connection. They call Bree back to the police station and she is confused when she sees the number of her house on the map. (Since Ramon/Alejandro didn't know her this makes no sense.) While waiting for Bob to arrive before answering any more questions she goes to get a drink of water. Clearly distraught she runs into Tripp who offers on the spot to be her lawyer and dresses down the detective for trying question Bree without counsel. He and Bree leave. She wonders why he will now take her case. He says it's gotten more interesting: she may be innocent but it's obvious to him that she knows who did do it.
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