Mary Alice: "When it came to raising her children, Lynette Scavo was used to doing things without help...just when she was used to doing everything herself, doesn't mean she liked it." Porter (Charlie Carver) has a job in a restaurant but they don't have child care. Tom (Doug Savant) thinks it's good news he has a job. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) still thinks it's a bad idea for him to raise a baby as she's almost done with the heavy lifting of babies. Porter will name her Lynette, for which she hugs him but she's still not helping. Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Yes Lynette Scavo had help and she was determined that Porter would do the same."
Mary Alice: "Orson Hodge had a plan. He was determined to reclaim the heart of a woman whose loss he had never gotten over...he obsessed over every detail until at last the moment arrived when she was within reach." Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) has a book for Bree (Marcia Cross) of all her fond memories and then gives himself away by mentioning the letters she received. Bree only told him about one letter. He claims one of the women told him.
Gaby (Eva Longoria) has brought champagne for herself to celebrate when Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) returns home and has a balloon for him. That's nice, she's going to drink in front of him when he's just out of rehab. She wants Roy (Orson Bean) to patch things up with Karen (Kathryn Joosten).
Mike (James Denton) dropped Julie off at the station. Susan (Teri Hatcher) was hoping she'd come back home. Porter tells Susan he wrote his resume and Susan offers to look after the baby when he works (well she would seeing as she can have the baby around that way). Karen saw Gaby taking flowers from Bree's bush and Gaby was being selfish by wanting Roy at home.
Porter wants the bassinet and helps Susan paint the nursery, making Lynette even more angry at being left out. Renee (Vanessa Williams) tells Ben (Charles Mesure) she paid off the loan and she does what she wants. Tom offers to take the children for a week and Jane can look after Paige too, wasn't Lynette a little perturbed by Jane having her baby.
Gaby asks Roy about his first wife. Even after Karen told her not to tell him, she goes ahead and breaks her promise. Donnie (Sal Landi) comes to Renee's for more money and threatens to burn down her house. She doesn't seem to be afraid.
Bree wants Orson to take his monogrammed hat with them on the trip, but he didn't bring it and he tries every possible excuse to avoid taking her home. So why leave that display up on his wall where anyone could see it? I mean it wasn't hidden in a closet or something so he was bound to get found out.
Porter decides to name the baby after Susan's mother, Sophie. Lynette and Susan then argue over baby names and Susan calls her a pushy grandma. Lynette takes the bassinet away. Orson sends Bree away on the pretext of forgetting his key and then quickly removes the incriminating photos from the wall, but he won't be thorough enough.
Bree picks up a piece of paper on the floor, which quell surprise, looks suspiciously like the one the letters she received were written on, then spots a photo in the bin of Carlos et al carrying out Alejandro's DB. The penny finally drops and Orson admits to killing Vance for her and he was protecting her when he wrote the letters so her friends would turn against her cos he'd always be a second. He loves her and thus wants her all for himself. He's nothing to her and took advantage of her at the "darkest moment of her life."
Tom talks with Susan and Mike with Lynette about their situations, or rather stalemate. Tom explains Lynette wanted to do nothing with all five babies. Mike tells Lynette he's from white trash and Lynette isn't like that. Susan says, "She needs to be needed."
Karen knew she couldn't "trust the jumping bean to keep her mouth shut." Roy wants to be with Karen. Renee's at the hospital and calls Mike which turns out to be convenient for the plot. He notices a light on in her house (she could have left one on and Renee didn't think of warning Mike about Donnie paying her a visit earlier). Donnie trashed her house and he and Mike fight. Mike doesn't want to see him again, in which case Donnie states Mike should have killed him.
Gaby has lots of balloons for Carlos. She hates the idea of dying whilst the other one will live through it. He calls Gaby brave and how she's been the rock and held them together. Lynette brings the bassinet back. Orson calls Bree with the news he's making the ultimate sacrifice which she confuses with suicide. Mary Alice: "Yes there are times when we all could use a little help when our generosity has been repaid with cruelty... And when our future has become terribly uncertain. But then there are those who are past the point of help and in their wake they leave nothing but destruction." Orson posts an envelope to the police homicide department.
Finally the truth is revealed about Orson being responsible for the death of Vance - he admits it, but it wasn't that climactic as it was something many had already worked out. Bree realizes the depth of his betrayal and how he used her when she was down for his own selfish ends. What irked was how she walked away form him when he knows all her secrets, but about the other women too. There were no flashing red lights that her enemy - which he has become now - would retaliate; which he does by his final act of posting the envelope. He's either confessed; highly unlikely; or he puts all the women including Carlos, up for the death of Alejandro, or maybe just Bree. So he wasn't any different to Vance then and they say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. What about a man? Or can't they be in the same position?
The Lynette/Susan rivalry was on the cards since last episode, emphasizing once more their varied parenting methods. Still at least they made up after their husbands give them a talking to: swapping husbands that it. I thought Lynette would have been more angry at Tom for taking Paige to be looked after by the other woman, Jane.
Oh one thing about Bree, it was Orson who helped her through her rough patch and saved her from the assailant. None of the women were really there for her and this episode they forgot about her completely.
Did Renee really think she'd tell Donnie she's not from here and so can't be threatened and he'd just roll over and play scared? Then Mike had to get involved as we knew he would. Lynette propositioning Mike to pee off Susan!
The title of this episode was from a Stephen Sondheim song, Illya Darling, but wasn't actually recorded. Also Orson bean was in this musical. How could Bree imagine Orson was contemplating suicide? He wasn't in such a frame of mind when she walked out. Again she was only thinking of herself and how she was driven to taking her own life. Her religiousness showing there.
Gaby was showing some maturity for once when she helps Karen and gets Roy to go to her in hospital. Also the same with Carlos which was rather touching, if not a little maudlin - until Carlos suggests maybe Gaby can cark it first.
As for the photo Orson had , it only showed Carlos et al, taking something out, not that it was an actual DB. Did Orson have photos of them burying Alejandro? Anyway, this DB was removed by Mike and Orson couldn't have known this was going to be done. So without a DB the police can't prove murder per se. Orson blending into the crowd was quite creepy.
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