Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Lynette had tried hard to take the high road in her divorce but sometimes the low road was easier to find."
Mary Alice: "Carlos Solis (Richardo Antonio Chavira) was used to sitting in a position of power...the head of a power lunch, helm of a powerful company. Now Carlos Solis started a new career he suddenly found himself in a much humbler place." Gaby (Eva Longoria) visits his new place of work and tells him all he needs is a "yellow tape and a noose and you're ready to entertain." She has to get to work early and she's earned $12 already listening to him tell her he makes $12. She doesn't care about his "meaningful work."
MJ (Mason Vale Cotton) is down cos he can't enter the father/son soapbox derby and Susan (Teri Hatcher) decides to build him one. Trip (Scott Bakula) tells Bree (Marcia Cross) there are too many cases where the wrong person has been convicted, but she'll be fine for the pre-trial hearing. All she has to do is look classy and innocent. His success rate is impressive. He tells her about a prostitute he got off and she comments that defending a prostitute is terrible. To her "sex is sacred." That's why she was engaging in so much of it with complete strangers! Then she's shocked when he tells her he's anti-gun. She has guns. Trip asks if she "coordinates your firearms with your shoes." They do have one thing in common, they both agree the salad "sucks." But Bree doesn't agree with the language he uses.
Gaby dismisses with an old lady at the store, she's looking for personal shopper. Before she hears about her rich husband, William Hammond and wants to help her now. Gaby went into the library once for directions. Gaby takes the cape back from the other shopper. Renee (Vanessa Williams) plans her wedding. Ben (Charles Mesure) receives a subpoena to appear as a witness and Renee doesn't think it can be a coincidence, re the Db found at the construction site. He can't keep a secret about a murder and she will walk if he does. Her first husband kept secrets and it ended their marriage.
Gaby invites Doris (Doris Roberts) to dinner and Carlos knows it's just to make money off her. Carlos and Doris discuss philanthropy and Carlos may get money for the centre. Not if Gaby can help it. Lynette wants to save the discussion of Jane (Andrea Parker) and Tom's attraction to another night and Greg will make Tom work the weekend. Lynette tells Susan Tom can help with the car, it's okay to ask for help..
At the per-trail hearing DA Stone (Christina Chang) brings up a list with the men Bree brought home from the bar. She didn't tell Trip about the list. Bree never met Sanchez but had her print on his shirt button. He calls Bree "a champion of conservative values." He needs the truth, who and when. Bree "can't talk about this with you." Doris returns the clothes as she wants to help Carlos. Her husband used to say "those that do well, also need to do good." Gaby is angry over her commission, Carlos has taken her golden goose.
MJ pushes the car in the road and it's run over by a truck. He's treated differently at school as he doesn't have a father and it will be worse at the father/son derby. He wants his father. Greg told Tom about Lynette and he finds it awkward. Lynette isn't embarrassing him like he kissed Jane at the office Penny (Darcy Rose Byrnes) asks for chocolate and in return she'll tell Lynette about Jane losing her temper cos Tom hasn't filed the divorce papers. Ben loves Renee but if he tells her what's happened she'll get dragged into it and the secret is to protect her. She brings up spousal privilege and once they're married he'll have to tell her.
Trip turns up at Bree's and comments she's alive cos she's not answering her phone. He doesn't judge people, he defends them. He knows everything but she has to tell him to his face and "own this part of your life." Trip tells her his sexual secrets. Bree replies men aren't embarrassed by their conquests. He had sex at 24 and he wasn't good. Also mentions his enlarged prostate, which E4 cut out from the afternoon showings for some reason. Bree was in a dark, lonely place, in pain and drinking. Bree was so drunk she forgot everything.
Gaby asks if her hotshot lawyer didn't object along the lines of "you can't handle the truth." The worst thing for her was the look on Trip's face. She believes in him. Gaby says she has a crush one her lawyer. Susan says she's smitten and Lynette mentions his dreamy blue eyes. Bree corrects her, they're green with a hint of brown. Yes Scott does have dreamy green coloured eyes!! Susan adds how we fall for men who rescue us.
Gaby has done up Carlos's office so Doris doesn't give him any money. Ben, Tom, Lee (Kevin Rahm) Bob (Tuc Watkins) help build a car for MJ. Greg says Tom and Jane will fight when Tom has to work late and he's thinking about transferring him to the Mumbai office for a year. Carlos said Doris thought them both nuts. Gaby calls him a shark, it's in his nature to go after something.
Mary Alice: "It isn't easy giving up power. Admitting that we might need help from our friends and neighbours, deciding that a loved one might know what's best for us. Giving up our better judgement for a slightly darker agenda. But for some the hardest kind of power to give up is the power to control their own desires. Trip invites Bree to dinner and she accepts. As she would, well who could resist. Bree's storyline was what made this episode interesting, especially since it sets up the finale. Always great watching Scott in anything cos he's always so good.
Lynette and Tom were just repeating themselves and their own history in just splitting up and really wanting each other. As was Gaby and Carlos's story, a repetition. Gaby becoming money hungry like Carlos used to be, well she did always want money and it was kind of poetic justice that in the end, neither one of them got any of Doris's money. So much for their bickering. The same with be and Renee and how could she have backed off without putting up more of a fight for him to open up to her, she was just repeating the same mistake in her first marriage.
Th episode title is from Stephen Sondheim musical Into The Woods, from a lyric in the song Ever After. Maybe the title refers to 'lost the plot' as this ep had some highs and lows.
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