Mary Alice: "Being in love can bring out the worst in people...they may become stingy - hostile - or simply indifferent. But in the beginning when love is still a promise, people can bring their best to the table."
Frank (Patrick Fabian) had the best date of his life with Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and she suggests dessert at her place and gets the signals crossed since dessert means something else to him. Lynette: "I was a total whore in college." Mary Alice: "Yes the promise of love can bring out the best in us...unless we find that we're a little out of practice."
Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "After a disaster every housewife has her own way of coping - some turn to drink, sweets, the people they trust the most." Gaby (Eva Longoria) is surprised at Lynette jumping into bed with someone new and Susan (Teri Hatcher) asks if she likes him. Gaby likens him to a car so she has to test drive him and Susan suggests she should get tips from Bree (Marcia Cross), she also worries about her. Well at least she got that in too. Bree brings home another man and claims not to know the women.
Juanita (Madison De la Garza) is decorating Valentine cupcakes instead of cards and asks about Carlos being on a business trip. She likes Ryan from school and she goes for bad boys just like Gaby. Susan is planning a cereal dinner for Julie (Andrea Bowen) so she got them all cos she can't remember which one she liked. When Julie arrives she reveals she's pregnant. The father left her and wants to adopt the baby out . Susan isn't happy with that.
Ryan ate the cupcake but didn't give her a card in return. Gaby thinks it may be in her backpack and writes her a card with chocolate. She shouldn't call Ryan as it would spoil their relationship. Julie's invited the prospective adoptive couple over for dinner and Susan talks to them alone calling Julie a jailbird, with mental illness and the doctor finally got her meds right. Susan wants her grandchild. Julie tells her some harsh home truths about having to sleep in her bed cos she was upset over Karl, Julie gave them breakfast cereal cos Susan wouldn't cook. That's why she doesn't want this baby on her own cos "I already raised a child. You." Claws were out.
Juanita stares at Ryan in school and kisses him. Gaby is called in to Principal Hobson's (John Rubenstein) office who accuses her of sexual harassment. Gaby calls it a crush and he's not a "presidential hopeful." Ryan cried for forty minutes. Gaby calls him a snitch and a crybaby (I was going to say the cry baby part, but rather Gaby than me). He threatens to expel her if she looks at Ryan.
Bree is on another pick up at the bar, Jerry. She doesn't recall him from two nights ago. She's watched outside and I know that's Orson. Mike (James Denton) tells Julie she was hard on her mother and she didn't tell him she was upset, cos she was hurt. She does everything out of love, which is a good flaw in a mother. Gaby says Juanita's her daughter as she thinks the kiss would lead to marriage and he'd buy her presents. Gaby sent the Valentine and Juanita doesn't like how she always lies to her. She's not a child anymore.
Susan would do all this again since Julie's the best thing in her life. What happened to MJ? Julie's having a girl. Lynette wants the lights off with Frank, but he wants them on. She leaves a message for Renee (Vanessa Williams) in which she grunted. She doesn't want to talk about it. She cried during sex and realizes her marriage is over. Renee thinks that's good cos she can now move on. Renee also lets slip about taking Bree out drinking. Lynette didn't know that. Gaby reminds them they're not talking to her. Susan misses everyone and they should help her. Gaby's funny line about Bree and her "loose morals, booze and swearing." So it's already too late to save Bree.
Bree admits she tried to kill herself and was in that motel room cos of them. They wanted a leader but then when she was in trouble no one was there but they blamed her. Frank brings pizza cos he likes Lynette. Lynette: "...weird to say frankly when your name is Frank." She needs time. Bree finds herself being harassed by a sleazy lowlife and when he tries to attack her, Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) tazers him.
Mary Alice: "Yes love can bring out the best in us, the confidence to move on - the courage to tell the truth, strength to keep hoping, but sometimes what surprises us most isn't who love brings out but who it brings back." A return to the norm this episode as we get one based on what the show is all about, dilemmas concerning the women, even though men are mentioned, it's about the women's lives. Gaby dealing with Juanita in her usual way, still making things worse when she decides to take matters into her own hands making a card for Juanita and then having to see the principal again. Last time she was in school she ended up acting president of the PTA. Take to she's over that now.
Lynette finally moved on with plenty of teething problems in her new relationship, but don't think it's the end of the marriage with Tom. Also had her line about how she's thought of other people when she was with Tom but wouldn't actually contemplate sex with a stranger. Something Bree's had plenty of practice with and after all this time they finally manage to think of Bree. That was too little, too late and not being able to handle Bree themselves, they call in Orson. At least that's what he said and he was happy to oblige probably cos he's the one watching her all this time and so he must have sent the note and ran Vance over. Well it's Orson's MO.
Julie still boring, let's rip at Susan being a lousy mother. Well she's doing the same with adopting out her unborn daughter and she's not even a mother yet, in the true sense of the word. What a quitter. Lynette apologizing for once - didn't see that coming, ha. Renee not so much wallowing and she hasn't told Lynette about her predicament with Ben.
All about mothers and daughters: Susan and Julie, Gaby and Juanita and she finally takes her to visit Carlos in rehab. Bree and her intervention - where she told them the truth and it hurt - not as much as they hurt her collectively and exiled her to a lonely fate. On the subject of adoptions; Deidre gave her son, Zach to Mary Alice and Gaby and Carlos were going to adopt Lily, Libby Collins' baby in season 2. Which also had a Frank character.
How could the school accuse Juanita of sexual harassment? How old is she, 9 - not 19! Susan cooking was no surprise as she couldn't throw a meal together in earlier seasons, but she cooked for Paul last season. She must be a fast learner. Everyone's calling Orson a superhero? This episode title is from a Stephen Sondheim song of the same name from the musical Passions.
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