Mary Alice: "When I was alive, Bree van de Kamp was one of my closest friends...had so much in common...received a threatening letter...I had once committed a desperate act of my own...someone found out and was determined to expose me....with one final act I had to consign my act to history...history has a way of repeating itself." Was this a not so subtle reference to how this final season is alluding to many aspects of the series from years gone by. Bree (Marcia Cross) tells Vance (Jonathan cake) she has only got a letter from a friend. Karen( Kathryn Joosten) hasn't seen anyone by her mailbox. Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) : "Bree Van de Kamp and I had so much in common. We shared similar lives and now Bree found herself praying that we wouldn't share a similar fate."
How come Bree was the one to receive the note? I know it sounds a simple question, not simple as much as common question, but why her out of everyone, especially since the murder affected Gaby more? Yet Bree has turned a corner in her character, maybe not for the better some would say, all those things she has gotten up to in the past, covering for Andrew, and then now the pact to cover up the killing. Uh oh, does this mean Bree will also follow in Mary Alice's footsteps and attempt suicide?
Mary Alice: "In the divided world of the suburbs, everyone was looking for some way to make a connection...to fend off loneliness with casual conversation...help a neighbour make a difficult move...but for Carlos and Gabrielle Solis, the only connection that mattered was a romantic one. Gaby (Eva Longoria) was willing to pull out all the stops." She tries to seduce Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) and gets nowhere, he can't 'perform.'
Mary Alice: "Like Carlos, Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher) was also feeling disconnected, her guilt made the world a scary place where she could be exposed." A security guard stops her for stealing a case of soda and he calls her a criminal. She agrees she's bad and did a horrible thing and deserves punishment. Mike (James Denton) fixes Ben's (Charles Mesure) plumbing problem and tells him he should be fine now as he was the one who put in the pipes originally. Ben has heard good things about Mike and is looking for help on a real estate development, that's what he does. Renee (Vanessa Williams) wants the low down from Mike on Ben and he reminds her she never paid his bill. He saw a plaque Ben has for helping the elderly.
The children had fun with Tom (Doug Savant) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) tells him she refuses to be the bad guy anymore. That sounds like sour grapes cos she's no longer able to push Tom around and get him to do everything she wants. Tom recalls he no longer has to listen to her and leaves. The girls play poker and Gaby asks for tips on spicing things up and Bree suggests role playing. Lynette tells her about getting a stripper to teach her lap dancing. Susan understands Carlo's guilt and deserves to be punished. Gaby: "There's a bucket of crazy where your head used to be." Bree warns Susan can't attract attention to herself.
Vance asks Bree if they're okay. Renee brings Karen over a meal whilst Ben is outside and bribes her with $100 to tell Ben good things about her. Bree visits Paul (Mark Moses) and shows him the note. It's the same as Mary Alice's letter, but she was hiding something and Bree isn't, she just wants to get to the bottom of it and thinks it must be someone who knew of the original note. Martha didn't send it. Paul thinks it could be one of the girls and Paul warns her not to keep it to herself cos if Mary Alice had shared things then she may be around today and things would have been different for all concerned.
Susan drops a turkey carcass in the recycling and the binman doesn't care. Neither does the security guard who asks her for a smoke. Ben tells Renee he misjudged her and the way in which she's helped Karen. He's involved with seniors too and asks if she's free. Parker (Joshua Logan Moore) wants to go to a party and asks Lynette for permission who tells him to ask Tom. He says to ask Lynette. It's "entirely his decision." They both don't want to say no, cos even when they're separated they have to compete with each other.
Gaby wants to learn pole dancing cos Carlos is having problems in the bedroom and she falls from the pole. Ben takes Renee to serve food at a senior citizen's centre. Gaby blindfolds Carlos who comments he was blind and doesn't want to relive that. Gaby hired a stripper, Dakota (Jillian Nelson) and Carlos is embarrassed cos she told her about his problem. They will never be normal after what he did. "What I did you can't wish it away." Ben was working and Renee has nothing in common with him. She doesn't do charity and neither does he. He knows why. Does she? Rene's mother died and she was passed onto relatives , most of them were poor and she spent time in places like this. He knows what that's like and decide they do have something in common after all.
Susan parks in a fire zone in the hopes of being arrested but the policeman (Scott Michael Morgan) doesn't give her a ticket cos he's a new dad. That's how Susan's trying to alleviate her guilt and tears up his photo of the baby. He arrests her when she knocks over his bike. Ben has a problem with Mike and he knows he was an ex-con. Mike's not that guy anymore. For Ben life means getting what you want and protecting what you have. He can use him, what he sounded like he's planning some sort of a job. Carlos bails Susan out cos he was the only one she could call and she's doing these things to get caught, which helps for five minutes. Carlos can't move on. Everyone's acting like things are okay and they're not. Affair bells ringing here, anyone?! Carlos says it's good to talk about it yet he can't talk to Gaby and she can't talk to Mike.
Lynette goes looking for Parker and Tom walks by when she's upside down drinking from a barrel. He blames her for letting Parker come and get drunk. Lynette was giving him the chance to be a father. Tom can only say yes and when he was living here, had a ritual. He knew that things that mattered were okay, the children were okay. Lynette says they're excited to see him when he comes. She's losing them to him.
Bree shows Gaby the note and they have to act like normal, but she can't do anything to get rid of Vance cos she feels safe with him. Bree gets a call from Paul telling her when he confessed to Martha he mentioned the note to a policeman, named Vance. Hey great minds or what I was just thinking that when Bree picked up his badge!! Bree isn't breaking up with Vance.
Mary Alice: "In the divided world of the suburbs, everyone is looking for some way to make a connection - focusing on common good...sharing pain no one else can heal...there are those who once sought to make a connection, but who now want to escape."
Someone appears to be obsessed with Stephen Sondheim musicals as they seem to form many the titles to this show. This episode is from the lyrics to Putting it Together from Sunday in the Park with George. Gaby still seems selfish in how she's treating everyone including Susan, but I didn't like Susan's storyline at all, seems rather childish even for her. Especially since if you think back to the pilot episode she burned down Edie's (Nicholette Sheridan) house and kept quiet about it for ages without feeling any guilt at all. Now she didn't kill anyone all she needs to do is keep quiet about burying the body and she can't handle it. Okay even if they are accessories. Renee just came across as tedious man-chasing as usual. They don't seem to do much with her character. It's just a rehash of last season.
Also the same with Tom and Lynette. After all this posturing, they'll probably end up together anyway. So much for Lynette finding out about his and Renee's affair. Tom's free now and Renee doesn't want him.
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