Mary Alice: "In their twenty years together Tom and Lynette Scavo followed a few simple rules...always share the housework...and never go to bed angry. The rules for being together were simple, the rules for for being apart were anything but." Lynette (Felicity Huffman) doesn't want Tom (Doug Savant) having dinner with Jane. He's been taking her out to lobster places for dinner, she still gets the credit card bills. Tom claims Jane lives in his building and so he was being nice. They're just friends. The counsellor asks if they want to get back together or are looking for a graceful way out of their marriage. Tom was hoping to work things out and they haven't been happy with each other for a while. Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Tom and Lynette were learning the rules of separation and the first rule, there are no rules."
Mary Alice: "In any group there are roles that people are destined to play...financial wizard...busybody and sometimes the important role of all goes to someone who's not prepared for it." Gaby (Eva Longoria) is late to the PTA meeting, she's wasted their time going to the spa and they all leave. Reverend Sikes (Dakin Matthews) visits Bree (Marcia Cross) he's been missing her snacks. She doesn't feel worthy of God's love right now so he suggests she speak with Ben (Charles Mesure) as he works with the homeless.
Susan (Teri Hatcher) can't stop talking at her art class. She aims to show Andre (Miguel Ferrer) she has pain. He gets them to draw the naked male form and she can't stop giggling and smirking like a school kid. We know what catches Susan's eye. Carlos (Richard Antonio Chavira) can't go into the room where he killed her stepfather. (Wasn't he in that room a few episodes ago?) He thinks of that night and he doesn't want to be dependent on drink. Gaby thinks the PTA are jealous of her and Carlos has a drink anyway. Ben asks Bree what she's done: something she's ashamed of and she asks him the same thing. He replies he wouldn't answer. His development is being held up by the council. Bree whisks up her own simple soup recipe for the homeless.
Andre states some are uncomfortable by naked bodies and so next class the painters will go nude Gaby brings along her beauty team to make over the PTA women and tells them they don't have to be jealous and they agree to help with the food etc. More fool Gaby for thinking they would. They're not helping her but themselves. Renee (Vanessa Williams) thinks she's caught Lynette looking at porn and throws some porn terms at her. She's actually signed up to an online dating site since she and Tom have decided to see others, well he's decided. Renee comments Lynette's video is "more disturbing than any porn I've ever seen." She'll take Lynette to a bar.
Susan walks around nude at home, surprised none of the neighbours saw her through her kitchen window. It's to shed her inhibitions. Mike (James Denton) thinks Andre is good as he gets to "see naked co-eds and call it work." Susan isn't a 'naked person.' What about the stuff she did last season to make money? She was practically naked in her lingerie and falling out of it too. She's not a serious artist but Mike thinks the class is good for her. She strips for Lee (Kevin Rahm) who turns up with Bob's mother.
Bree's attracting the wrong crowd at the soup kitchen and the college student has given her a good review online, which appeals to her vanity and pride. Mike sends Carlos away and says if he had killed someone he would have gone to the police (he didn't do that in the past) and not goad Gaby into covering for him. He should leave Susan alone. Carlos finds it's helps to talk to her. Mike doesn't see it helping her. Susan turns up to class naked and finds the others dressed. Andre sent her an e-mail, the school wouldn't let him do that. Susan vents he just wanted to humiliate her and she quits. The Reverend points out the homeless are no longer at the soup kitchen and asks where they can go for a hot meal as she's taken their home away. Bree needs to keep it for the hungry; the place was theirs before she took it away. Ben wants her to make a speech for him at the council.
Andre comments on Susan's giggling and running away. She's hiding something and he'll find out what. Gaby calls Carlos for help as the women refuse to budge. Carlos is drunk. Lynette has been through dating and finds it depressing to be back. Renee agrees, she has Ben and deserts her - nice friend she was and it was her idea. Gaby is more worried about Carlos embarrassing her and wants him to leave. He drove here in that condition. Did she really want him to leave the same way? Cindy (Melissa Greenspan) decides to help and gets the others to as well. Porter's friend sees Lynette at the bar and she leaves, mistaking a man for a valet. They go for a drink and later at his apartment, she kisses Scott (Richard Ruccolo )and loses her wedding ring and leaves.
Bree impresses at the meeting and she doesn't even know where the development is yet. Mary Alice: "We all think we are destined to play a certain role but sometimes those roles can unexpectedly change...longtime wife confronts a harsh new reality...a woman also wanted to do a little bit of good might find herself playing a role she never expected." This episode was quite a borefest, no really it was all done before. Susan and her naked inhibitions, but it's okay to cover up a crime even if it was only an accident at the time. Bree making everything about her as always and taking things over - like she did with Danielle last episode. Carlos getting drunk now of all times just as though he couldn't talk to Susan. Why go to her house? He turns to drink instead of talking to Gaby who is too busy as usual to see his pain. It was her stepfather after all. Perhaps Bree and Carlos should have shared as she's turned to the bottle before.
Tom and Lynette reaching the same impasse. Bree sticking up for something she knows nothing about was really not like her, driving the nail further into reinforcing her destiny. Why didn't Gaby call someone else for help setting up the hall for the PTA? She can afford it. Also Cindy deciding to help after seeing Carlos drunk, showing Gaby has a human husband after all, unlike Gaby who didn't really have any emotions or the slightest bit of humility in her.
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