Mary Alice: "There is nothing more peaceful than sounds of Wisteria Lane at night...murmur of neighbour's television...hum of the street lamps...song of the nightbirds. Wisteria Lane is so peaceful that even the slightest disturbance can be very alarming." Bree (Marcia Cross) hears a noise and gets her gun, to find Vance (Jonathan Cake) in her home, claiming the front door was open and he got her call on the radio. Yeah he got here PDQ, which Bree didn't notice. She's certain she locked the door. But Vance tells her it's funny the things you recall and don't recall. He calls Bree a Vic and knows she's hiding something. She doesn't feel safe but he's watching out for her.
Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "There is nothing more peaceful than the sounds of Wisteria Lane at night, until someone comes along and disturbs the peace." Vance doesn't want her losing any sleep over it.
Mary Alice: "In a stressful world, we can all be forgiven for having a few weaknesses...lured by a sad face. Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) was about to discover that some weaknesses aren't so easy to forgive." Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) is brought home in a cab, drunk. She suggests his take the day off work as she can sign the payroll as she's forged his signature before when she got the platinum card.
Felix (Leslie Jordan) throws Amy's (Becky Wu) work away but he likes Susan's. (Teri Hatcher) She doesn't show it, but to him, it's dark and brooding. The painting tells a story. Susan reminds him of Andre (Miguel Ferrer). Renee (Vanessa Williams) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) are still running their business, not that you'd think they still were from past episodes. It's Tom (Doug Savant) and Lynette's anniversary. Cindy (Melissa Greenspan) tells her about fighting for her husband, she got a new wardrobe and got her hair done and it made a huge difference. Giving Lynette the idea she must fight for Tom.
Bree needs to speak with Gaby. There's no more poker night anymore. She's lost her family and now she's lost her friends and wonders what if they're not in the clear. She tells Gaby about Vance. Carlos is still drinking . Bree comments drink is the only friend she has left, then lies about Vance and Gaby insists she's still Bree's friend. Gaby goes to Carlos's work and knows Frank (H Richard Greene) but she can't interest him in her. Thus enter smarmy Geoff (Jeremy Glazer) who pretends to be there to help Carlos and Gaby falls for it, thought she was a better judge of character than that.
Susan likes Felix and Andre feels threatened by Susan. She refuses to have the painting displayed in the gallery. Lynette receives roses from Tom by mistake. Carlos calls Geoff a snake and a backstabber, he's not keeping him on when his contract ends. Lynette gets a new look and is going to put Scotch on his table in his apartment. It's what they do for their anniversary. Whereas all Renee can do is make comments about sex.
Andre insists Susan put her painting on display since if a student does well he can teach at a better college. Vance follows Bree, more like stalks her and reminds her of the car she and Gaby dropped off, which belonged to the missing man. He's going to talk to Gaby. He doesn't think Bree killed him but it's probably one of her friends. Bree throws him off her street. Gaby confronts to Geoff and tells him about Carlos's drinking, really you don't tell your personal business to just anyone. Frank visits Carlos and shows him his 14 year sober chip. He needs to admit his problem and attend rehab.
Lynette hides under the bed when Tom brings back Jane (Andrea Parker). He forget to cancel the flowers and he's going to do that now. That's all he had to say and was rather abrupt about it. Well it's no good noticing her hair if he's not going to do anything about it. Felix displays the paintings, being more than one and Susan tries to remove them from the wall. Then calls Bree and Gaby for help. Oh now she wants their help to get her out of a mess of her own making, putting them all in danger. Bree refers to them as "illustrated confession." They need to pay $10,000 for her art and she's surprised.
A man calls it an allegory 'for bludgeoning and burying the middle class'. Vance followed Bree, again she didn't think of that and knows they dumped him in the woods. He points them all out in the painting by name and asks who the DB is. He enjoys "watching the ice princess melt." Hey that's the title of one of my books, well almost, substitute maiden for princes and then it will be. Susan is angry at more secrets but Bree was protecting them all, oh brush calling painting black, what about her paintings. She didn't tell anyone about those. Now Gaby walks out on her too. Susan is unhappy and Andre congratulates her since she's finally an artist.
Mary Alice: "There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses...when our secrets remain private, pain can no longer be ignored; but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we'd overcome suddenly becomes too hard to fight." Carlos starts drinking again like Bree.
Quite a lot happened this episode but we know it all boils down to Vance being bumped off for getting to the truth and well you really can't have any one of the women being exposed in such a way. Leading Bree closer to drinking and yet more isolation. For someone who only tried to help Gaby, appears she's the one suffering the full brunt of their secret and doing it worse than Susan. Gaby seems to be fine in comparison though she has Carlos to deal with.
When Bree makes the call in the opening, she gives the house number as 4355, which is Lynette's house, her number is 4354. Tom forgot to cancel the roses for their anniversary, as Paul did the same in 1.14 Love is in the Air with the flowers for Mary Alice on Valentine's day. Another thing about 1.14 is that Lynette's children planted Martha's jewellery in Mike's tool box, which Susan may turn over to the police. Here it's Susan's painting which also gives the game away about burying Alejandro in the woods.
Another Stephen Sondheim title this week from The Race to Urger - unproduced song - set on the play The Exception and the Rule by Bertolt Brecht.
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