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Season 1 Flashback: “Come In, Stranger”

by Jamie Beckett

Good morning everyone!! I’d like to continue the recaps today with a quick look at the episode “Come In, Stranger”. This one starts with the Mayers. Susan and Julie are cat-sitting and can’t find the cat. Lucky for them, just as they’re switching rooms a strange man walks through and leaves, opening the door again a minute later to put the cat who had just followed him out back inside. Susan finds evidence there was a break-in and the whole Lane is freaked out. They organize a community watch and Susan gives the screwdriver she found to the cop in charge. He later asks her out, but she stops seeing him when she finds out he lied about taking the screwdriver to the crime lab. Mike is, of course, relieved to find out about that later because it was his. He had been snooping around the houses looking for a killer.

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Gabrielle, meanwhile, has her hands full with her mother-in-law. Carlos invited the woman to stay without telling Gabby because he suspects she’s cheating. So now, Gabby has to try and find ways to ditch Juanita so she can see John. Juanita is so good at keeping tabs on her, Gabby has to resort to setting her up as a shoplifter to get time away from her. Mama Solis isn’t too happy and is more sure that something is going on.

While all that is going on, Bree is freaking out about being alone in the house for the first time in 17 years. Rex has moved out and the kids are going on a camping trip. She asks Rex to stay, but he refuses. She ends up finding something else to keep her busy, though. She is going to patrol the Lane as part of the neighborhood watch with Paul. When she shows up at his house to find he’s left for the day, she ends up striking up a little friendship with Zach. She even offers to cook him a big holiday-themed meal… especially when he makes a cryptic comment about his mom’s suicide. That friendship, and the fact Zach has broken into Bree’s house to decorate it for the holidays for her, leads to many fights between him and Paul throughout the episode. The one bright spot for Bree in the whole thing is, Rex finally calls and invites her to dinner.

Finally, there’s Lynette. She actually bugged me just a little in this one. She wants Bree to lie to a private school about the twins so the school will accept them. Bree argues that she doesn’t want to lie to them and ruin the good name she has there, as she hopes to get her grandkids in there someday. Lynette? Doesn’t really care. Now that the twins have pretty much been thrown out of public school, she’s desperate to avoid home schooling. Bree relents and gets them the interview. Lynette makes sure the kids are too tired to cause any trouble the day of the meeting and the kids are accepted. Assuming, of course, the Scavos will donate 15,000 to the school. Lynette talks Tom into selling his boat to get the money.

Well, that’s about it for that episode. It was a pretty good one with lots of action. It also gave us a bit more of a hint about what Mike’s up to. I’ll leave you now with some funny quotes and a youtube video. The video is actually a promo for the spanish version of that same episode. Now, I don’t know the people and characters for sure, but I believe that Carlos and Mama Solis’ spanish counterparts are in it, as well as the spanish versions of Gabby and John. Enjoy!! See ya next time!

Lynette: We need you to recommend Porter and Preston. We can’t even get an interview.
Bree: Oh, you, um, want me to recommend the twins?
Lynette: Yes. You can tell them how beautifully behaved the boys are.
Bree: So you want me to lie.
Lynette: Yeah. I thought that was understood.

Rex: Honey, I know it’s hard to hear, but the marriage counseling might not work out. You need to get used to being alone.
Bree: You’re right. That was hard to hear.
Rex: What are you doing?
Bree: That is for the kids trip.
Rex: Oh, come on. I’m, I’m staying at a motel. I haven’t had a decent meal in weeks.
Bree: Honey! The marriage counseling might not work out. You need to get used to bad cooking.

Officer Thompson: (after Susan turns him down for a date) Yeah, well, it’s just hard to rescue folks when you don’t feel good about yourself. Ah, they’ll probably all die anyway.
Susan: Okay, fine. I’ll go out with you.
Officer Thompson: Great. I’ll call you.
Susan: Now that you’ve gotten your date, you can tell me what that really means — that 907a.
Officer Thompson: Someone’s TV was playing too loud.
Susan: Well, thank God for the thin blue line.

Tom: Maybe it’s time that we look into homeschooling.
Lynette: I know you did not just say that.

Gabrielle: Oh, for God sakes, Bree, you’re a woman. Manipulate him. That’s what we do.

Susan: Mm, I got one — Kelly Halsteder. In eighth grade, she used to spit in my gym shoes.
Officer Thompson: Kelly Halsteder. Kelly Halsteder. There, look. Two DUIs, one check kiting, and an open bench warrant.
Susan: How tragic, by which I mean yay.”


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