Mary Alice: "Paranoia: it's the irrational fear someone is after you. That you're going to be exposed at any moment. Paranoia sneaks upon you causing you to stumble at every turn...paranoia reminds you that no place is truly safe." Bree (Marcia Cross) Gaby (Eva Longoria) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) stumble about in the woods as if someone is after them. Actually the part with Bree in the opening was good, it was like she was having a nightmare, but don't think she has nightmares really. They need to dig up Alejandro and Gaby wants it over with already.
Mary Alice: (Brenda Strong) "Paranoia: it's the irrational fear someone is after you, but even after you hope it isn't real, it can still scare you to death."
3 Days earlier Mary Alice: "Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher) had always been a great student...knew how to be the teacher's pet: gifts, extra credit and some just liked her...in her new class Susan would learn not every teacher was in line for a pet." Andre (Miguel Ferrer) selects Susan as his intern. Gaby checks Carlos's (Richardo Antonio Chavira) cup for booze. He's not an alcoholic but agrees to attend an AA meeting. Gaby makes him "promise not to be one of those whiny ones" if he turns out to be one. She's no compassion does she, really who's the whiny one in that family?
Jane (Andrea Parker) brings Penny (Darcy Rose Byrnes) home with Tom (Doug Savant) and she's agreed to make Penny a cat costume. She's also teaching Tom French, show off. Lynette tells her she's making the costume for Hallowe'en since it's a mother/daughter tradition. Bree draws the curtains before trying to tell Gaby about the development and they're interrupted by Juanita (Madison De La Garza) who is going as a fried egg, with Celia as bacon. Bree tells about a witches story which Juanita thinks was lame. Bree describes the development at the woods in her story. Gaby thinks the story was scary. Er, who is going to see them though the window anyway, aren't they more afraid of being heard? It's not the windows that have ears, but walls, ha.
Ben (Charles Mesure) hasn't seen Renee (Vanessa Williams) for two weeks and wants to have dinner for Hallowe'en. She wants him to beg for a date on his knees, plus it gives her a chance to check if he's got a bald spot. Knew there had to be something shallow going on with her.
Andre introduces Susan to Jasper, (Mason Cook) his son and she's to watch him for the weekend. It's an internship and not a babysitting gig cos he doesn't have to pay her. Renee thinks she and Ben will be 'getting it on' tomorrow. Lynette: "Eeww, not in front of my kid's costume." She got some sex drugs from Chinatown and recommends her friend in New York who is a fashion designer and is always in need of money, so can make the costume.
Carlos attends the meeting in the hopes of being able to talk and meets Alan (Scott Lawrence) and he's jealous cos he could recall all his benders. Carlos pretends nothing much happened to make him start drinking two months ago and can't think of how it was triggered.
Bree eggs Ben's window and tells him it's people against the development, they shouted Australian slurs. He hasn't heard any Aussie slurs before and asks what they said. He's already moved the development once, when the environmental impact report found some endangered frog species. Giving Bree an idea; as she goes frog hunting with Gaby, who adds she'd never kiss a frog like the story with the princess. Carlos then lies to Gaby about the meeting and getting a sponsor.
MJ (Mason Vale Cotton) is going as a candy robot and Jasper hates he can't go. Susan tells him it's the best day of the year with free candy and dressing up. Andre doesn't want him to go as Hallowe'en is for kids, which is what he is. Susan takes them both after hiding his painting.
Bree lets the frogs out and they all escape. Bree suggests they need to dig him up and of course it's obvious what's coming, there won't be a body.
Susan thinks of Andre as the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz and he prefers to call Jasper by his first name. This year Susan was dressed as Glinda the good witch from the Wizard of Oz. Last season, she was a maniac rag doll.
The costume arrives in time, but it's missing a bottom and Tom says that's not right for Penny, unless she's "trick 'n' treating for money." Renee takes more than a few drops of the potion and they kiss. Didn't they want to draw the curtains with all those children about!? She gets rashes. Andre knows most people don't like him and his work comes first. Susan thinks being a better father will make him a better painter. He thinks painting blocks out everything and Susan won't let that happen to her. Renee gets an allergic reaction and scares the children.
Jane tells Lynette her husband left her too (wonder why) and she thinks Lynette is smart, confident and they could she friends with her. Lynette thinks she could be her friend too but she asks her to leave Tom alone. Lynette will fight for him and he told Jane that Lynette is always fighting. Gaby and Bree come for Lynette and who'd she leave the baby with.
Ben tells Renee she told him about the woman love fluid and she wanted the night to be special cos she likes him. He likes her too. Carlos opens the door and imagines Alejandro there and then goes into the room he said he couldn't be in last episode and drinks. Lynette thinks it's a bad idea to return to the scene of the crime. Bree methodically tells them what to do and has brought supplies. Someone chases them and they discover the empty grave...
Mary Alice: "paranoia it's the irrational fear that the whole world is against you, but it's no longer paranoia when you discover someone really is out to get you." They start running around the woods, where we came in, in the opening. Those three looked like Charlie's Angels running around like that.
A bit of a fun episode for Hallowe'en, even though it had its dark moments. Carlos not coming to terms with having a drinking problem and Gaby thinking everything's okay with him cos he says he's attending AA. Susan teaching Andre, at least attempting to show him the error of his ways in not being a father to Jasper. Susan may be ditzy but no one can accuse her of not being a good mother. Renee and her own Hallowe'en mask, wait it wasn't a mask, ha. That was one way to save on the candy. Will Ben be the right one for her or turn out to be another loser she's fallen for?
Oh that Jane came across as a marriage wrecker, some may say Lynette had it coming. No wonder Harm (David James Elliott) didn't end up with her in JAG, ha. I digress. Andrea Parker was in the Pilot episode of JAG and in a few other episodes. Scott Lawrence was also in JAG. Anyway Tom and Lynette aren't even divorced, they're separated and yet she makes no bones about being after Tom and seems to be using Penny to get into his good graces too. Tom can't see that of course. Alejandro had to be missing which means someone's dug him up - either to move him somewhere safer or someone really is out to get them. The episode was about paranoia but don't think anyone's out to get them by moving his body. The blackmailer seems to have some other motive or purpose. Like driving them crazy, particularly Bree.
Nice bit where Carlos opens the door and sees Alejandro and they find he's gone at the end. It makes it look realistic since his grave was empty. Apparently where Gaby swerves the car and stops when the frogs escape is meant to be where she parked when Alejandro was chasing her in season 7 Come on Over for Dinner. Renee's rash has been done before in the show, back in 2.6 I Wish I Could Forget You when Bree was dating George.
The title is from the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods.
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