Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "When Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) decided to stop drinking, her recipe for success was the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. She admitted she was powerless over alcohol...she made a list of all the people she had harmed; so when her son, Andrew, had decided to stop drinking...to follow those steps as successfully as she had." Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom) has been 30 days sober and has a keychain to show this. Number 8 on the steps is the list of people they have harmed and on top of that list is Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira). Bree says it's hard but he should give it a go, she thinks Andrew is referring to her, but she's number 7 on the list. Mary Alice: "Bree was diligent about following the 12 steps, but even she could recognize a step too far."
Mary Alice: "We teach our children to apologize when they make a mistake, we tell them that it's wrong to blame others or pretend it never happened, or try to cover it up...there are times when apologizing is the biggest mistake of all." Bree worries Carlos will injure others when he finds out the truth about his mother. When Rex (Steven Culp) died Carlos comforted Andrew. Paul (Mark Moses) is shocked to find his house is taken over by Felicia (Harriet Sansom Harris) wonder if he was more shocked by her being there, out of prison, or by her taking the house. He put it in Beth's (Emily Bergl) name. Beth made a will, so Felicia owns it. Paul gasps they have "a manipulative psycho for a neighbour" on the street, just like he was/is. Felicia has stolen Beth's ashes.
Susan (Teri Hatcher) visits Dick (Gregory Itzin) in hospital who promises to take her gambling when he gets out. Doesn't look like he'll be doing much getting out. Tom (Doug Savant) arrives home late and gives Lynette (Felicity Huffman) $100,00 to spend on herself. "Go crazy, it's on me." He can't celebrate as he's busy. As I said it's all about money with this family. Makes you think they wouldn't have any meaningful moments or storylines if work and/or money wasn't part of it. Susan wins a poker game and realizes she's on a winning streak. As we know Susan, she won't stop now. Gaby (Eva Longoria) comments she'll need a face transplant if she takes anymore of her money. Susan doesn't need to look at her cards, she knows she's won. Bree suggests Susan should buy a lottery ticket and eat it. Renee (Vanessa Williams) calls Lynette pathetic for buying kitchen appliances with the money and takes her shopping for clothes.The shop assistant is stroppy and Renee threatens her with dismissal after buying the store just to fire her.
Carlos takes Andrew hunting. Since when did Carlos go hunting should be the question on everyone's mind. Gaby believes sobriety ruins lives, as does drinking, Gaby. Carlos could kill him and since Andrew's gay, could be charged with a hate crime. Felicia apologizes to Paul. At least she puts on an act of being sincere. If she cut off her fingers and framed Paul for her sister's murder, there's no telling what she'll do as revenge for her own daughter's death. Paul should have known better. People like that don't change, he didn't. She wants to scatter Beth's ashes and wants him there as Beth loved him. Seems everyone's running to the woods with ulterior motives in mind.
Dick dies and leaves Susan a poker chip. She should "never walk away from a winning streak." Carlos didn't know about his mother, but Bree spills the beans in her attempt to help Andrew, failing abysmally yet again. They're trapped in the cabin as the road's blocked by a fallen tree. Tom needs to go away on business after Lynette planned a celebration. Renee advises her that since Tom's a bigshot now, she'll spend less time with him, these are the perks she wants and there's a price to pay for them. Andrew has been sober a month and Carlos says he should drink in his mother's memory. They're no longer friends. All Bree did was look out for herself. He also finds out Gaby knew the truth, yet he doesn't get as angry at her than he does at Bree. His own wife kept secrets from him, where's the trust there? Also he didn't get angry at Tom leaving the company either after Carlos gave him the job there in the first place. He didn't expect any loyalty from Tom in return.
Tom loves his new job as people take notice of him. Lynette takes lobster over to Tom, in her new dress, but he's got to leave now. Felicia asks Paul if Beth suffered, she's actually talking about her sister. He drove Mary Alice to suicide. Felicia admits that she at least loved her sister and tried to destroy him for her death. Beth paid the ultimate price for their hate. Felicia already said that about Beth, why repeat it again. Paul is ready for closure. Susan wins over $12,000 and keeps on winning. Then cries, why does she win when others lose, she got a kidney and others died. Susan wonders what will happen when her luck runs out.
Paul doesn't trust Felicia and brought a gun with him, yet more guns maybe he should have taken care of Felicia here too. Anyway Felicia took it and asks how to trust someone if they don't trust you? She could shoot Paul and still go free, she doesn't want him dead, but just wants it over. Yeah meaning over in a way other than shooting him. She'll want to see him suffer slowly and prolong the agony, that's in her nature. Paul scatters the ashes. Felicia keeps Beth's ashes in the urn and relishes revenge on Paul. Again I don't know why he fell for her sob story. Carlos is at his mother's crypt. Gaby didn't like his mother but that was since she wasn't a mother yet and didn't know what it was like, that you don't let go. Andrew let Bree defend him too many times and he needs to do this himself and make it right.
Mary Alice: "Whenever we make mistakes, we need to apologize and then we need to move on; accept changes in our lives or choose to trust an old enemy or learn to stop fighting our children's battles. But sometimes the pain we've caused is so great, there is no moving on." Carlos tells Bree to go to hell, she's an adult and she's no longer his and Gaby's friend. How could Paul have been so gullible, he hasn't really changed so what made him think that anyone as deceitful as Felicia, who got to use her own daughter to seek revenge on her enemy, could be forgiving. She says Beth came in the middle of their fight, but she's the one who put her there to begin with. So she's got no one to blame but herself.
Carlos going all silent on Bree, is just what Andrew said to her, that she's just interfering in his life and other peoples' lives too. Then that's the nature of this show. Some win, some lose and others just don't know when to stop interfering; or quitting whilst they're ahead.
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