- Gaby, Susan and Lynette are questioned; Bree's life begins to spiral into despair; Lynette's favor could ruin Tom's relationship with Jane.
- "Desperate Housewives" - "Putting it Together" - Dec. 4, 2011
Even as the women's friendships and lives are falling apart, their dirty deed is pulling them together.
Bree is bereft without her friends so she tries to worm her way back into their good graces via fancy baked goods (as she always has done) but none of them is having it. Susan refuses to awnser her front door. Gaby's daughter, Juanita, tells Bree that her mother is not home. However, Lynette is kind enough to talk to Bree face-to-face to inform her that everything that has happened has been ALL her fault for insisting that they cover up Carlos killing Gaby's stepfather and keeping secrets from them about the annymous blackmail note. Bree says she was just trying to protect everyone, but Lynette corrects her and says she was just trying to control everything and everyone as usual and it blew up in her face. Bree reiterates they need to stick together. Lynette says that ship has sailed and refuses to associate herself with Bree anymore.
This sends Bree back to the bottle and eventually out to a bar. There she gets hammered, inserts herself into another group of three women (all of whom resemble Lynette, Gabrielle, and Susan) whom are having a "girls night out" in increasingly cringe-worthy ways.
Bree wakes up the next morning alone in her bed where Ben is attending to her where he tells Bree that her drunken binder appently ended with her showing up at Ben's door at around 1:00 a.m. and demanding he pay for her taxi. She can't remember any of this as she had a blackout. She tells him that her relapse is recent and temporary and hopes he can keep it to himself. Ben wonders why she isn't talking to the girls. She says they're all mad at her for something (but refuses to go into detail to what it is). He says to start working on the one who is the least mad. He gives her a hug goodbye, which is seen by Renee.
Bree then first goes to Gaby to try to apologize for everything that has happened, but she refuses to accept Bree's apology because yesterday Chuck Vance brought them down to the police station and sweated them about Alejandro dissappearance. Gaby, in a harsh and mean tone, tells Bree that she blames her for breaking up with Chuck which has led to him taking out his scorn on all of them.
Bree goes to visit Chuck at the police station prepared to confess to whatever she needs to in order to get her friends off the hook. But Chuck is not intrested in Bree confessing to anything and he revels in her pain by saying this is exactly what he wanted, for her to feel as badly as he did when she broke up with him. He is particularly cruel. Seeing the scorned sociopath that Chuck has become (or always has been), Bree leaves.
When the jealous Renee drops by on Ben later she raises her suspicion about what she saw with Bree, but he says nothing is happening with Bree for she is just a friend. At just this moment, Chuck shows up to harass Ben some more, making Renee leave. He tells him that Alejandro's last cell phone signal came from on Ben's work site and that he plans to shut it down to investigate, but it is clear that Chuck really just wants to make Ben's life miserable. Ben knows that Chuck wants to shut down his work project down just as part of his twisted way to get back at Bree for dumping him. (Chuck's humanity and compassion is clearly gone at this point).
Meanwhile, Renee goes to Mrs. Karen McClusky for advice about where she stands with Ben, as well as reveals knowledge that he may be cheating on her. Mrs. McClusky tells Renee not to jump to conclusions about Ben. If Ben is being unfaithful or hiding something, Mrs. McKlusky tells Renee that she should just talk to him.
Elsewhere, each of the women responds to Chuck's interrogation differently. Lynette is a cool cucumber who responds to Chuck's assertion that Tom "left her" because of whatever this issue is with a slap to Chuck's face. A very calm slap. She then rushes off to fill in Tom over what is going on. After going to his apartment building and trying to get inside, Lynette meets Jane's daughter Chloe, comming back from another aerobics class, where she tells Lynette that Tom and Jane are about to board a flight to Paris for a romantic vacation. Lynette goes to the Fairview airport and corners him in the men's room and confesses all about her part in Gaby's stepfather's murder. She does so, because if anything happens to her (like being arrested at any moment) Tom can be there for the kids. Just then, Jane comes looking for him in the mens room and is livid to see Lynette. She demands an explanation to what is going on, and Tom can't really provide one and adds they have to postpone the trip. Jane is clearly pissed off in which she hands him his ticket and says she's going to Paris and he can meet her there if he wants to. Tom angrily tells Lynette not to talk to him anymore, in which she goes home dejected.
Meanwhile, the neurotic Susan holds up fairly well under Chuck's interrogation about the painting and her guilty conscience, but she rushes home and tells Mike it's just a matter of time before she cracks and proposes taking a vacation for a few weeks... far away. He points out that going away will only make them look guilty. Mike explains that Chuck is only "fishing" and that without a body, Chuck has no case and cannot make any arrest. Susan goes to her art dealer and asks to get paid for her paintings immediately. He hedges at first but eventually comes through with a check since Susan says she's desperate to get out of town. The art dealer is hoping she's a junkie or a gambler or something else that will feed her art. Susan doesn't elaborate. He then proposes that if she wants to get out of town why doesn't she let him put her up in an apartment in New York City, she can paint, be inspired by the city, send MJ to a fancy private school and give the art dealer 50% of what he can sell. She ponders this noting that now she doesn't really have anything to hold her here. But when Susan tells Mike about her desire to sneak away to New York to live, he says "absolutely not". Mike tells Susan that this is not his dream and he doesn't want to move away. Mike also tells Susan that if she wants to move to New York as part of her twisted and neurotic away of running away from everything, he will not stop her, but he will not go with her either.
Elsewhere, Gaby's unfortunate storyline involves her having wacky hijinks at Carlos' rehab facility. During her interrogation with Chuck, she flatly denies recognizing the photograph of her stepfather. He ventures a guess that Carlos' recent trip to rehab must have something to do with Gaby and some horrible recent incident. She also denies this and says Carlos cheated on her. But because she loves him she put him in rehab and is sticking it out with him. Chuck asks if he paid a visit to Carlos at rehab if this is what he would tell him. Gaby says of course it is.
This leads to Gaby going to the rehab, pretending she's with another patient being admitted, attending that person's group intake all in the name of finding Carlos' room. Gaby finds Carlos and tells him about Detective Chuck Vance's interrogation of her as well as the haps and to tell Chuck about his non-existent affair to colabrate her story. Carlos relunctantly agrees to cover for Gaby and he also tells her that he misses the girls. She tells him not to worry and to just get better.
The next day, Chuck returns to Gaby at her house with the photo of her stepfather. He says something about her reaction to the picture in particular made him do some more investigating and he unearthed the fact that this man-- whom is married and has two young daughters and is calling himself Ramon-- was formerly Alejandro, her stepfather. According to Chuck's investigation, Alejandro, (whom has a small criminal record in Gaby's hometown in Texas) married Gaby's mother over 20 years ago (apparent from a wedding photo from an old newspaper article), and later abandoned Gaby's mother where he moved to Oklahoma, changed his name, re-marred another woman, and is currently living a new life. Gaby yet again denies knowing Alejandro/Ramon and claims that the wedding photo of Alejandro and her mother is over 20 years old and she is still not certain if the man in the wedding photo with her monther is the same man Chuck is looking for. Chuck tells Gaby to come down to the police station for another interrogation the very next day and if she tries to run, he will put out a warrant for her arrest. Afterwards that evening, Gaby (more afraid then ever) calls the rehab clinic to talk to Carlos but is informed that he checked out several hours previously and nobody knows where he went.
As the episode closes, Gaby rushes off to find Carlos, Susan is packing to leave town, and Lynette returns home alone with a heavy heart knowing the impact she's had on Tom.
Nearby, Renee goes to knock on Ben's door to apologize for her jealous behavior earlier that day, but he doesn't answer. She looks into a window and it looks like that he is not home. Renee then notices a distraught-looking Bree get in her car and drive away.
We cut to Chuck leaving a mechanic garage and calling Bree and leaving a message that his investigation has just gone from unofficial harassment to a real case and that he is working on getting a warrant for her arrest as well as all her friends. Just as he hangs up and walks across a street to his police car, a black car with the windows blacked out (hiding the identity of the driver), appears out of nowhere and runs him down without stopping. Chuck lies in the middle of the road... maybe dead.
In the final scene, Bree arrives at a seedy motel and she unpacks a bottle of wine and a gun from her purse. A vision of Mary Alice appears across the table from her. She asks Mary Alice how her life fell apart, how she went from having a perfect life to being sad and alone. Mary Alice says things change. Bree asks Mary Alice if she's happy now, wherever she is. Mary Alice replies that she's not happy, but she's not unhappy either.
Bree sits alone at the table and contemplates the gun.
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