Desperate Housewives

I’m sorry it’s been so long since we’ve had a post!  But it’s also been a long time since there’s been a new episode to talk about.  Darn that writer’s strike anyhow!  (not that I can blame that, it was really the American Music Awards’ fault)  Anyhow, to see what I thought about the last episode, check this post here.

Gaby is at church and trying not to think too hard about Victor being missing.  She’s meeting Carlos who is feeling extra guilty and wants to go to the police.  She thinks they should play dumb and ride it out.  She is sure that Victor would have killed them had he lived.  And we see Victor washed up on shore.  Is he dead?  As for Mike, he’s still on the pills.  And he’s got a dealer.   But he has no money for more pills.  Meanwhile, Susan obsesses over Julie’s dating life.  Over at Bree’s house, Orson wants to put the baby in the crib but she wants him in the bed with her.  There is an ensuing argument with the same issues brought up on both sides that you’d expect.  Lynette is looking for her mother, calling around bars hoping to find her.  She’s feeling guilty for what her mother may have heard her say about her.  Gaby is packing a suitcase when the police come calling.  Victor is apparently, *gasp*, missing.  The coast guard found his empty boat in the bay and his office said he hasn’t been in in several days.  She hopes the cops will assume Victor went out to sea and did something foolish after finding out she was leaving him.  They don’t, since the boat was found with nary a fingerprint on it, even Victor’s.  D’oh!  Didn’t think that one through, did they?  So foul play is especially suspected.

Susan is upset to see Julie is out on a date again when Mike’s dealer comes knocking on the door.  She hears the dealer is pre-med and hopes that maybe she can hook him up with Julie.  Oy.  Orson is annoyed at the lack of sleep he’s getting because of sharing the bed with Ben.  Bree is determined to learn from her mistakes with her own children and refuses to budge.  He thinks maybe he should sleep in the den.  Susan continues to try to match-make.  She shows the dealer pictures of Julie, hoping to impress him.  He’s impressed.  He leaves shortly after (has to go make a deal) and Susan is all but gushing over him.   Bree asks Tom if they did the “family bed” in their house and wonders if it caused issues between them.  Tom freely opens up with the methods he and Lynette had “special time”  together.  Meanwhile, Andrew lurks in the background and perhaps feels a little bad that his mother has so easily cast him aside.

Mike replaces a gasket for Adam and Katherine when someone named Sylvia shows up on Adam’s doorstep.  He’s upset to see her, doesn’t want her in the house.  She apparently ruined his life.  He finally gets her to leave, but not before Mike sees her.  Adam asks Mike not to tell Katherine about Sylvia’s appearance.  Mike has a favor too.  He wonders if Adam could write a prescription for pain pills for him.  Adam is reluctant, since him being a gyno and writing a script for a guy would be suspicious.  Bree shows up at Orson’s office and she’s got sex on the brain.  It’s pretty funny.  Lynette gets home and her step-father is there.  Glenn is his name.   She’s so happy to see him.  He’s there because Lynette’s mother called him asking for money and he was going to deliver it to her at Fairview Park.  Did Lynette want to go with?  Of course!  Adam stops by to visit Orson (and runs into Bree who is leaving).  He wants Orson to write this prescription for Mike.  It is implied that if he does, Orson will keep Bree’s baby secret.  Back at home, Andrew is leaving.  He’s moving into an apartment in a crappy neighborhood.  To give Bree room from her “past mistakes”.  She’s stunned that he got so upset over everything.

Orson delivers the script to Mike, along with a warning that he should be seeing a physical therapist.  Mike would like to, but he’s got be working around the clock to live up to Susan’s shopping habits.  Mike makes mention of whomever it was that ran him down that one time and since it was Orson and he doesn’t want that to exactly get out, he hands over the script.   Susan tells Mike about the dealer showing up and misses her comment about this guy being perfect for Julie.  He calls Barrett up on the phone and warns him to stay away from the house.  Edie reads about the missing mayor in the paper and makes a phone call to the police.  She wants to leave an anonymous tip.  Carlos is freaked out about the whole fingerprints thing and really wants to go to the cops.  He’s going to go and fess up and urges Gaby to go with him.  She wants a drink first, to calm her nerves.  And his, to which she adds some sleeping pills.  Oh dear.  This girl deserves to go to jail.  Barrett is visiting with Julie and they’re getting along great.  Of course, then Mike comes home and finds this guy is there and sorta freaks out.  Mike does not want Julie leaving the house with this guy and Barrett threatens to let Mike’s secret out.  So what does Mike do?  He outs Barrett as a drug dealer in front of Susan as the guy who sold Mike the pills she found.  Susan kicks him out and that is a problem solved.  Sorta.  Except now Susan is turning eyes on Mike once again.  Carlos is feeling tired and just about then, the police show up at her door.  Convenient!  They ask her about having an affair with Carlos.  And they tell her that Edie is the one who called him (so much for anonymous!).  They get a call, they found Victor and he’s alive!  Unconscious but stable and in the hospital!  Yay!  Except, not.

Lynette and her step-father show up at the park to meet her mom.  He tells her it was more complicated, the circumstances around his departure when she was a kid.  Susan explains the whole Barrett thing to Julie.  She’s a little less sure than Susan is that Mike is off the pills.  She saw him pick up a prescription at the drugstore just that morning.  Stella and Glenn meet up and he hands her the money he asked for.  That’s when she spots Lynette in the car and takes off.  Lynette tell sher she wants her to come home with her.  Lynette brings up the cheating thing again and Stella asks her to drop it.  Glenn implores Stella to tell Lynette the whole story.   He tells her he left because he’s gay, not because she cheated.  Which may change things.  Bree drops by to visit Andrew and to ask him to come home or at least let her help him out.  He tells her he’s mad because he changed, turned things around, and she never noticed.  Or said anything.  She doesn’t want them to part on bad terms again.  Then he thanks her for leaving him on the side of the road, because it made him become a better person.  Aww!  Glenn continues telling the story to Lynette and she seems shook by it.  She asks Stella why she never told her.  She says she wasn’t proud to admit it.  She was ashamed.  Lynette wishes she’d told her.  It would have changed things.  She wants Stella to come home with her, the last few months had been great.  Stella doesn’t want to, if she did, she’d screw it up.  She wants to keep things good between them.  That’s when Glenn offers up his guest room to Stella and there’s a good solution for everyone.

Mike continues to hide his pill-popping from Susan, who watches him through a window.  Gaby visits Victor in the hospital with a police escort.  She’s nervous about what he’ll say in front of the cops.  Who, for their part, want to ask some questions.  Apparently, Victor doesn’t remember the boat.  Yay for memory loss!  Which, you know, won’t last.  Once the cops clear out, Victor tells her he remembers everything about the accident.  He threatens that he’ll need all his strength here pretty soon.  She leaves the hospital looking a lot more concerned.  As she should.  Susan learns, regretfully, that Orson prescribed the pills.  Oops!