- Susan flirts with her painter; Bree denies all help from business partner Katherine; Lynette tries to get Tom to see the light with their trouble-making twins; Edie moves back to Wisteria Lane with a new husband; Gabrielle deals with a blind Carlos and their two overweight daughters.—Moviedude1
- "Desperate Housewives" - "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow"-September 28, 2008
Mary Alice tells us that five years ago Susan gave birth to a baby and almost ran into another woman named Lila at the hospital who gave birth the same day. Their paths crossed often but they never met. Until they got into a car wreck together. We see the other woman lying on her steering wheel. Susan climbs out of her car. Mike is lying, bloody on the road. She screams his name.
Credits.
As Mary Alice talks about time flying we see Mrs. McCluskey dust a photo of her younger self; Lynette see the now teenage twins off; Bree walk into a professional kitchen where she's the boss; Gaby walking into a dress store looking shlumpy with her chubby children.
Gaby wrestles with Juanita into a dress. They need a princess dress for a party but Juanita is too big. She asks the saleslady for a bigger size. There isn't one. Gaby gets mad at the woman for saying her daughter has a weight problem, calling her perfectly average for a four year old girl. We hear the dress rip.
Bree is at a photo shoot fighting with the director about her motivation while taking a pie out of the oven. He thinks she's too icy. She advises Andrew to chat with the photog. Katherine shows up and is mad that Bree keeps absconding with the key to the cash box when people who are working their events need to get paid. Bree says she knows Katherine has been feeling overworked and undervalued so she shows her the galleys of her new book, which is dedicated to Katherine.
Lynette goes down to the pizzeria and discovers that Porter and Preston have turned it into a poker den for about 30 friends. She is livid that they are risking the restaurant's liquor license and the family's livelihood by serving beer to their friends. She grounds them for two weeks. They complain it's homecoming.
Susan finishes making athletic love with her new man Jackson (played by Gale Harold.) She promptly kicks him out, even though they've been dating four months. He wants to know why he can't spend the night or meet her son or her friends. He says he likes her and wonders why they can't be a couple. She says she can only handle what they've got right now. He leaves.
Neal McDonough knocks on a door and says he's going to help a bald man. He hands him a wad of cash to buy him out of his lease. The man asks if he's crazy. He answers "a little bit." The man tells him to leave. Neal enters and threatens him saying he made a generous offer and he knows the man will make the right decision and starts counting back from five, threateningly. He goes to a car and says "All taken care of Mrs. Williams." The window goes down and it's Edie who says "thank you Mr. Williams."
The next day Edie emerges from her house and begins washing her car in her cheetah swimsuit. Lynette spies her and calls the posse. They come to confront Edie. She tells them she has a husband now. Susan says, "Really, whose?" They enter the house and meet the husband, Dave, who is a motivational speaker, who met Edie at one of his speeches. They welcome them to the lane and plan a party. Edie has more pressing questions to ask, like what the hell happened to Gaby?
Gaby says she had two children. Edie asks, "For what? Breakfast?" Dave asks her not to be rude. Edie apologizes. The women are surprised. Edie also baked muffins. More surprise. Lynette tells Dave they love him.
At the Solis house Carlos is making brussel sprouts with cheese. They fight about the Solis family fat genes. They fight about Juanita's weight problem. Gaby thinks they should admit it. Carlos says her constant nagging will make Juanita have a weight problem.
In the Scavo driveway Tom is washing a red sports car as Lynette says she's sick of the twins' behavior. She says she's tired of being the bad cop. Tom says he can handle it and keeps getting annoyed at Lynette leaning on his car. Later Lynette overhears Tom yukking it up with the boys. Hardly laying down the law. Lynette yells at him. He says she has to admit starting their own casino was creative. Just like selling fake IDs and hotwiring McCluskey's car she asks? He says it's nothing like that, he beams with pride about their "coolness." He agrees. She realize this is Tom, high school nerd, reliving his youth through his "awesome-ass" kids. He claims he was cool. She scoffs and mentions the marching band. He says she's overreacting and tells her he handled it by un-grounding them from the homecoming dance. As he leaves he also points out it wasn't trombone, it was tuba. "Know your brass."
At the princess party Gaby is yelling at Juanita about the size of the piece of cake she's eating.(It is huge.) And it's her second piece. Gaby goes into the kitchen and overhears the other moms talking about how it's Gaby's fault that Juanita is fat.
Susan returns home to Jackson, who is apparently a painter. He strips off his coveralls and they start making out like a Penthouse forum letter. Lynette barges in to bitch about Tom and Susan pushes Jackson out. She tries to cover throwing his overalls out the window by hugging Lynette. As Jackson grabs his coveralls in the side yard, Bob and Lee, the gay guys next door, snap a photo of him in his underwear. Susan sees Lynette out and Gale returns asking again why he must be kept a secret. She says she's not ashamed of him but that it's complicated. He says he wants more from her than being her dirty little secret. She shrugs him off and says she can't do that.
Gaby offers to take Juanita to the park so she can run around and burn off the cake. Juanita declines the offer. (On the plus side, hee, she found a dress.) Gaby gets the car and tells Juanita they're going to play a game. Winner gets a new doll! She keeps driving away as Juanita gets to the door. Gaby tells Juanita she's "winning."
Katherine enters Bree's kitchen where Bree promptly tells her that "What's Cooking Fairview" is sending out a crew to shoot a segment on Bree and her new book. Katherine read the book and is livid that Bree took her name off of recipes that they developed together. Bree says that's silly that she always changed something in them. Katherine asks what "the font?" Katherine quibbles about the recipes and says that Bree can't even make some of them. Bree condescends that she "lets" Katherine do certain things to gratify her ego. Katherine says, "Let? I thought we were partners." Bree says they are, and that's why the book is dedicated to Katherine, who stalks off.
Gaby is still playing "the game." Juanita says she's tired and sits. A bus pulls up. Juanita gets on it. Gaby follows the bus.
At the Scavo house Tom and Lynette are telling the twins they can go to the homecoming dance. Lynette pulls her trump card. She's letting them take Tom's convertible! Now he's not so psyched about his "cool" kids.
Bree welcomes the camera crew into her kitchen. (It appears to be in her garage.) She introduces her gifted "staff." The reporter asks who's known Bree the longest. When Katherine raises her hand he asks her what it's like working with Bree. Katherine pours on the sugar saying "There's absolutely nothing she can't do." Katherine then pretends to strain her wrist while the cameras roll. Turns out she was just about to execute one of those moves that she knows Bree can't do. The reporter says "Bree to the rescue." It involves spinning sugar and Bree tries to do it and accidentally whips the hot sugar into the interviewer's eye.
Gaby and Carlos now argue about the "game." Gaby reiterates that Juanita has a real problem. (I'm starting to feel really bad for this little girl actress**just to note the girls name is Madison Lovato and she's really not that big in real life**). Carlos wonders if she doesn't still have the right to feel good about herself even if she's heavy? Gaby says she's protecting her from the cruel world. She gets tearful and says she's glad sometimes Carlos can't see her. (Five years, two kids, no facials, no gym). Carlos says he sees her face every time he kisses her and in five years or fifty she will always be beautiful. (Awwww.)
Back in the kitchen Bree's trying to drape her spun sugar around the big cake with little success. She finally tells them to turn off the camera. Katherine says her wrist is suddenly feeling a little better so she's going to give it a shot. Meow.
On the Scavo porch, Tom is anxiously awaiting the twins. It's 30 minutes past curfew. Tom is freaked. Lynette says she knows he loves them but sometimes he finds them so cool and entertaining he doesn't parent them. She says they used to let their rambunctiousness slide because of their age but now that they're 16, she and Tom only have a little time left to help them grow up properly. And they need to be in sync to do that. They pull up. They have a fun story to tell. Tom isn't having it. He grounds them for being late for curfew. They say he's only doing it because he cares about his precious car. He goes and kicks the driver's side mirror off to make a point. As the boys go in Lynette thanks him but says he didn't need to disfigure his car. He admits that the mirror was scratched and he's already ordered a new one. Sneaky!
At the party for Edie and Dave at the pizzeria we get our first Orson sighting. He's singing karaoke. (It's extra funny because he's singing the Doors' "Break On Through" and Kyle McLachlan played Ray Manzarek in "The Doors," the Oliver Stone movie.)
Edie greets Mrs. McCluskey with surprise that she's still alive.
Susan spies Jackson at the bar and freaks. (I still don't think we know his character name). She tells him to leave. He grabs another drink instead.
Edie thanks the women for the party and says there aren't that many people who would go to this much trouble to say they're sorry. The women are nonplussed, but Edie continues with the apology theme. Gaby says it's not a "we're sorry" party it's a "we forgive you" party. Edie thinks they're kidding reminding them that they froze her out and threatened to ruin her business and it's taken her five years to stop hating them. Dave is overhearing this and comes over to compliment them on the party. He takes her away.
McCluskey points out that Jackson is onstage singing "I Want to Be Your Boyfriend." She runs off and cuts the power. She grabs him offstage and asks why he would embarrass her in front of her friends. (It's not clear that any of her friends know what's up yet). He says he's just trying to get through to her and it's making him crazy. She says he's not horrible but if he meets her friends then they'll be in a relationship and she's not ready for that. He promises that he'd make her happy. She says "maybe I don't deserve to be happy." Wow, bummer. She sits and explains that a few years ago there was an accident....
Edie walks into the kitchen bitching to Dave about "those smug bitches" and wants to know why he was so "gung ho" to come to Wisteria Lane. He says they can be happy but they need these people to like us. That it will make everything easier.
Back outside Jackson is telling Susan she has nothing to feel guilty about. Susan says she's heard it all a million times and she only told him that she wants him to understand why she can't let him into her life. He offers to hang out for the next few months and see if she changes her mind. The power comes back on and he sends her back in.
Back in Bree's regular kitchen she's trying to do the spun sugar thing as the towering cake sits on the counter. She opens a drawer to get the whisk and spies a sippy cup. We flash back to Danielle taking Benjamin, her child that Bree was raising as her own, away from Bree. Apparently she's married now, to Leo the lawyer, and she tells Bree not to fight it. Bree begs her not to saying now that Orson is gone (in prison I'm guessing) and the kids are gone, Benjamin is all she has. Danielle advises her to find something else. Back in the present, Bree is tearful. Orson enters telling her to come to bed, it's after two. Bree says the cooking show agreed to re-shoot her segment so she wants it to be perfect. Good-naturedly, he says he won't tell her how to run her business then, "it's your baby." "Yes it is," she says to herself.
In Susan's kitchen she's washing dishes and, flashing back to the accident. She looks out her window and sees Mike. He waves and comes in and asks if MJ is ready. So he's not dead. We flash back to a fight Susan and Mike had post-accident in which she said she asked him to check the brakes. He did. She meant a mechanic. He said it wouldn't have mattered since "they" crashed into them. Susan points out that "they" were a mother and a child and she and Mike killed them. Mike clarifies that they didn't kill them, that they died. She's very upset. He says they've been over and over it that it's like she wants to suffer. She says it's like he doesn't feel anything. He storms out. Back in the present Mike is on the way out with their son and asks if she's doing anything special this weekend. She says she's started seeing someone so she might do something with him. Mike says "good for you" and seems to mean it but also looks hurt.
As Mary Alice talks about time flying again she voices each woman's inner thoughts: "How could he have left me" as Susan opens a drawer and pulls out a picture of her, Mike, and MJ; "When did my beauty start to fade" as Gaby vacuums and looks sadly in the mirror; "Why has my friend changed?" As Bree appraises an angry looking Katherine in the kitchen; "Was I the best mother I could've been?" As Lynette watches the boys do yard work.
We see Edie lying in bed asleep as her husband stares as the ceiling, and Mary Alice says, "Of course, there are some people who understand how quickly time passes. That's why they're so determined to get what they want before it's too late." Dave's phone rings and it's a Dr. Heller who is apparently supposed to check in with once a month as "a condition of your release." Dave says the meds are working so well he kind of forgot about the check in. The doctor reminds him he still needs to check in. Dave says he will. In the doctor's office we see him click on a video of him confronting Dave about his rage in a facility he's been in for six weeks. Dave says he likes his rage just fine. The doctor, on the tape, says the charges were dropped because you agreed to put yourself in a doctor's care. As we listen to the audio of Dave asking what kind of progress the doctor wants to see, if he needs to slap a smile on his face and pretend "this thing" isn't eating him alive.
What we see is Dave going outside and picking up his paper off the lawn. We hear him say, on the tape, "I've never been a danger to myself and as far as the others are concerned there's only one person who should be worried."
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