Mary Alice: (Brenda Strong) "Bree Van De Kamp believed in doing everything with dignity, even in the most undignified of circumstances." Even having time to give the stripper a dirty look.
Mary Alice: "Sometimes no matter how much we plan things don't turn out the way we expect. A sterling reputation may become tarnished, and one person may end up paying the price for a crime that everyone thought was shared."
Bree returns home with Bob (Tuc Watkins) who bailed her out. The police have the letter Orson sent them but can't be used as it can't be corroborated and the conversation she had with Ben doesn't prove much either, being ambiguous. Bob also tells them of Bree's fingerprint on Alejandro's shirt button. Bree believed out of respect she should tidy Alejandro. The women want to confess but Gaby insists Carlos (Richardo Anthonio Chavira) will go to jail. Besides Bree knows she's best equipped to take the wrap since she's alone and has no job. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) tells her she has "a halo over your head." Bob knows a lawyer, "a real shark, he's not cheap but he's worth it." Susan (Teri Hatcher) says they will all pay.
Det Murphy (Michael Dempsey) is still harping on about Bree killing Chuck and therefore wants her to go down no matter what. Gaby tells Carlos the news and he won't let Bree suffer either. Gaby warns this will be his third strike and he will end up in prison for life. Bree will be okay as she's getting "a hotshot defence attorney" which she loves saying.
Susan puts away Mike's things and finds Lee (Kevin Rahm) crying, oh he turned up now did he after the funeral. He discovers a box which Susan hasn't seen before and Lee thinks it may not be a good idea to open it since it's locked, adding if this was in his house he wouldn't want Bob looking it it. Lee suggests he open the box and he'll tell her if she needs to know since, "men have secrets."
Renee feels she's owed another bridal shower and Lynette is baking for phase two of "get Tom back." Tom (Doug Savant) says his children are throwing him a party and Jane (Andrea Parker) reminds him to take his divorce papers. He promises to get round to it, cos he's putting it off, of course he doesn't want those served, but Jane decides she should do the dirty deed. Well Lynette should have served her on a silver platter instead!
Lazaro (Matt Winston) suggests Gaby try the men's department and she should show more cleavage and remove her ring. Bree waits for her "hot shot lawyer" who arrives having a phone conversation about his client being innocent and takes one of her muffins, asking if it's got raisins, cos he hates those. He tells Bree to call him Trip (Scott Bakula) and liked her muffin. Bree tells him her case and he has a reason for everything the police have against her. She thinks Bob was right, Trip is actually "amazing" though, yeah isn't he just! He doesn't take her case though as it's a "snooze" besides no jury would convict her. He likes cases with challenges, Bree leaves, taking his half eaten muffin with her. Suppose it was still her property.
Gaby goes down a storm in the men's department and Susan ponders over the box contents. She knocks down Lee's door and he opens the box finding cheques he had written to Jennie Hernandez (Sarah Zimmerman). There are also drawings inside the box and an address for Jennie. Jane arrives at Lynette's whilst she's beating the cake mixture and she tries to put her off her beats. Lynette claims she's like Rain Man. Tom has signed the divorce papers and Lynette should sign them now. Lynette confronts about the divorce papers and whether that's what he wants, that he already signed them. She does so too and later she cries.
Tom confronts Jane and they argue, Tom will always care for Lynette as she is his children's mother and she has to deal with that. Jennie tells Susan the cheques were for Laura (Stephanie Jones) Mike's sister. Who is autistic. At a resting home, Murphy and Heredia come across some of Ramons' belongings, in particular a map with Wisteria Lane circled. Murphy writes Bree's house number on the map. Murphy later shows Bree the map and that she should come clean now otherwise he can't help her. Bree will wait for her lawyer. Trip is also there and sees Bree by the water cooler. She says she's fine and she's waiting for Bob, that they found some evidence and she doesn't know what it means. Trip enters the room to rescue Bree and tells Murphy he's Bree's lawyer. Bree asks what makes this case so interesting and he says Bree may not be the killer but she knows who is and that makes it interesting.
Carlos is annoyed by Jason (Sean Kanan) whilst he and Gaby are at dinner and then leaves, angry. Gaby calls him a hypocrite for all the times he wanted her to show cleavage to his clients. Gaby enjoys her job cos she can now treat Carlos after all these years. Julie (Andrea Bowen) finds a letter about Mike not knowing about Laura until eight years ago, or rather the writers thought about writing that in now. Mike was keeping the secret from Susan cos his mother asked him to. Susan wonders how a mother can give away her own child, which hits home to Julie. Who admits the baby is inconvenient but she's resolved to keeping the baby now.
Mary Alice; "yes in life we all make plans, but sometimes they don't turn out the way we expect...by attempting to reach out we may push someone further away...but then there are those who refuse to let go of their plans no matter how badly they're turning out." Heredia reminds Murphy that Trip has the case now and he won't give up until he gets what he wants.
The title is from a Stephen Sondheim song of the same name from the musical Anyone Can Whistle. A lot of repetition in this episode with Tom and Lynette going over old ground again, how many times have they had arguments and bust ups when they didn't need to. Tom not really telling her how he feels and then doing the same thing with Jane. He doesn't answer Lynette when she asks about him signing the papers and yet with Jane he says he will always care for Lynette. Sounded like her being the mother of his children was just an excuse.
Murphy turns out to be as bad as Chuck what with 'doctoring' the map just to get Bree, without that he doesn't have a case and to add insult to injury he's reminded Trip is now her lawyer, though they didn't have much more interaction. Gaby will always be Gaby and this time round she's the breadwinner doing exactly what Carlos used to do yet it hits home with him and he doesn't like the flirting with her clients.
Well call me biased, but I liked Scott as Trip, he was much better than Karl and yes, he was a "hotshot" lawyer in more ways than one. Not to mention intelligent and on the ball (no pun!) even liking Bree's baking straight off, her orange glazed muffins. It was funny watching her bring in muffins when she's about to go on trial for murder. That can wait, "I've got baking to do..." Liked the ball scene with Trip (Scott) too as a nod towards his role as Captain Jonathan Archer in Enterprise and his love of water polo!
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