Mary Alice: "Previously...Bree's relationship with Detective Vance got serious. Tom and Lynette decided to separate. Gaby's stepfather returned to terrorize her again until Carlos stopped him, permanently. Yes there was the dinner party."
Mary Alice (Brenda Strong): "Every hostess knows there's work to be done after the guests leave the party - only best friends stay to help clean up the mess." They need to bury Alejandro (Tony Plana). "No task more unpleasant than getting rid of an unwanted guest." Bree (Marcia Cross) tells them the hardest part's over after they finish burying him and then his phone rings, cos no one checked his pockets. As Susan (Teri Hatcher) also says. So what else did they miss and she thinks people will come looking for him and they can still go to the police. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) adds it was self-defence. Susan: "We're not criminals." Bree takes a firm stand in that they have to protect Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) and Gaby (Eva Longoria). Bree: "When we bury the body, we bury the secret forever." They all make a pact. Though nothing lasts forever in this show.
Mary Alice: "It's only the best friends who stay to help clean up the mess...even when that mess may be bigger than they bargained for. It has been said that change doesn't happen overnight..a woman who helped cover a crime is now sleeping with a detective [Bree] - a woman who once told her husband everything is keeping a terrible secret [Susan]...a couple will go to great lengths to show nothing has happened." Lynette and Tom (Doug Savant) still haven't told the children they're separating and he thinks they should. Gaby's having a barbecue now. What was that in aid of? Wasn't it a bit too soon even though she said she wants to move on?
Vance (Jonathan Cake) tells Bree everything's changed since they had the party but Bree attempts to take his mind off things using her feminine wiles. Juanita (Madison De La Garza) has made waffles and Carlos is abrupt with her. Carlos is angry cos he killed a man and wants to move on. He needs to confess and Gaby agrees. He needs his conscience to be clear. Susan resorts to cleaning tiny dust particles from the windows, causing Mike (James Denton) to worry about her. She's had a fight with the girls and she doesn't see them now. Susan goes jogging and ends up in the woods by the grave. So will she cave in and blab, but that would be too soon since the show's only just started. They haven't had the blackmailing element introduced yet. Oh wait, that's happening next episode.
The women talk of a new man moving in. He's rich and single, called Ben (Charles Mesure). Renee (Vanessa Williams) thinks the worst about his looks and he comes up behind Gaby. He now realizes why his jeans cost $200. Renee shouts "dibs" on him. Well who else was going to chase after him, considering they're all married or have someone, aside from Lynette who's separated. Susan's avoiding them and they worry about that, with Gaby calling her a loose cannon. Bree finds comfort in the fact if there's an investigation, she'll be the first to know. Really it's cos Vance is great in bed.
Susan is a substitute teacher and has to bury a dead school pet, bringing up those memories for her. She did look a nervous wreck. At confessional Carlos finds there's a new priest and Father Dugan (Sam McMurray) is taking a sabbatical, also he's about to tell Carlos what he heard in confessional. Gaby tells him she once made out with two chicks in college (when did she go to college). Susan is anxious about burying the hamster and wasn't meant to be here today. She's "in the wrong place at the wrong time" again. Gaby is still concerned about Susan and begs for her to keep the secret for the sake of Carlos and the girls.
Vance informs Bree about finding a DB today and it's not theirs of course, not yet. He saw the car which the killers forgot to get rid of, which sends warning signals to Bree's brain. She and Gaby have to find his car. She suggests they drop it off in the bad part of town. Gaby has to drive since it's a stick shift, which is actually called a gear. She gets pulled over by Vance no less and he drives for them, needing them to resort to pretending it's Gaby's aunt's car. Vance was nosing around in the car. Even if he is a cop, remember don't let someone like that in your car, or anywhere else. He finds men's cologne which Bree attributes to her aunt being a lesbian and Gaby chews tobacco. When they stop cos Gaby's sick, the car is carjacked and Bree says Aunt Shirley took it.
Ben refuses Renee's advances which wasn't anything new cos he has to have some secret of his own and he didn't invite anyone in. Nor did Bree turn up with her muffins, or Susan even. Okay they have things on their mind but still it's a Wisteria Lane ritual. Gaby finds Father Dugan and takes the airport van on a detour. He tells Carlos he needs to show repentance by what he does, such as confessing to the authorities, but he can't cos other innocent people are involved. Carlos won't ever be okay and Gaby needs to find a way for him to stop thinking about this. Carlos finds there's "no absolution" for him so Gaby will absolve him. She tells of how her stepfather, Alejandro, would always be waiting for her everywhere. She was afraid of him and he'd be in her dreams, her nightmares, she couldn't escape him and now she's not scared anymore cos of Carlos. "Took a life but you also saved one." Gaby managed to escape him just fine for 7 seasons, until the writers wrote him in, ha.
Lynette dreams of Gaby's stepfather now but it's a ploy to make her run to Tom for comfort and they spend the night. He's okay with them getting back together but that wasn't what last night meant to Lynette. She was afraid. They finally tell the children. Susan doesn't want to go to the barbecue. Mike has concerns about them and their marriage cos she's been keeping him out and Susan insists it's not him. The others, especially think her telling Mike is a bad idea and Lynette sides with Susan. Susan should let Mike know. Also stating Bree didn't ask for anyone's opinion when she made that pact. Gaby and Susan wrestle one another and end up in the pool on the pretext of a lost earring. Lynette thinks Mike and Tom not knowing means they can't be implicated. Susan can never tell anyone and she'll try and live with it. Wonder if she would have done the same thing for Mike when he killed a man? Bree would agree with Gaby as she's been through all that with Andrew.
Mary Alice: "It's only the best friends who to help clean up the mess - to cleanse the pain of a guilty conscience, to pick up the pieces of a broken marriage...good to have friends who clean up our messes - every housewife knows when one mess is cleared another appears." Bree gets a note: 'I know what you did and it makes me sick. I'm going to tell.'
Don't know about you but this episode was kind of tedious with just the usual happening over again. One of them would have a guilty conscience, Susan, whilst the others would try and prevent the secret getting out. (Think this show did run its course so it was best to quit while they were still a little ahead.) There are only so many secrets and acting up stories that can be done. Also Renee wasn't a part of their pact, wonder why? Now we've got the mystery of the new neighbour moving in and this time it's man and not the usual family or single woman.
This opening episode however, did bring us back full circle to the Pilot episode, where Deidre was also put into a chest just like Alejandro here. Also Mary Alice's 'I know what you did...' note rears it's ugly head again now and harks back to the first season too. But Mary Alice was alone and didn't really share anything with the women, though they were around at the time, which led her to taking her own life. Another episode title taken from a Stephen Sondheim musical, 'Into the Woods' from the song lyric, "I know things now." A reason for this being used is that they buried Alejandro in the woods.
Alejandro drove a two door Ford Focus in the season 7 finale and here it tuned into a four door.
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