- Susan tells Porter that she'll set up a nursery and watch over his and Julie's baby after Lynette firmly tells her son that she will not help raise her future granddaughter; Orson convinces Bree to go away with him to the Maine countryside - perhaps never returning to Wisteria Lane; Karen pleads with Gaby not to tell Roy about her condition; and good deeds never go unpunished when, after paying off Ben's loan shark, the thug sets his eyes on destroying Renee's life.—ABC Publicity
- "Desperate Housewives" - "She Needs Me" - Mar. 4, 2012
Porter has called Tom and Lynette together to announce that he's got it all worked out: he's gotten a job-- waiting tables-- and it offers health insurance for himself and the baby. Only problem is? No day care. Even though he dangles naming the baby after her, Lynette immediately puts the kibosh on being his nanny, having already raised five kids and with three still on her hands.
Enter Susan, who tells Porter that she will be happy to take care of the baby while he works and what's more she wants to help him build a nursery in Julie's old room. What she really wants, as Mike knows, of course is to have Julie come back and want to be a mom. She tells Lynette she's welcome to come over to play with the baby anytime and Porter asks for her old bassinet.
While this is happening Tom comes home and in a nice gesture takes the kids off Lynette's hands for spring break, even baby Page, because his girlfriend Jane wants to take care of her. Tom says he knows he was away a lot and that Lynette often had to carry the whole burden and deserves time to herself. She doesn't know what to do with herself so heads over to Susan's to help but the room is done, complete with the baby's name on the wall: Sophie, Susan's mother's name.
This causes a tiff between the women with each trying to explain their side and Susan calling her hands-off and Lynette calling Susan pushy. Lynette takes back her bassinet. Then the men intervene. Tom goes to visit Susan and explains that Lynette needs to be needed. Tom points out that Lynette's lost a lot and doesn't want her to lose Susan too. Mike visits Lynette and explains how Susan's hoping Julie will be lured back and is glomming onto the baby for that reason. The men succeed. Lynette returns the bassinet. Susan offers to let her help spackle the holes in the wall where she's taken out the letters of Sophie.
With Carlos about to return from rehab, Gaby tries to get Roy and Karen to make up. Gaby goes to see Karen, pretending flowers she stole from Bree's yard are from Roy. Karen's not buying it and says she doesn't want Roy back anyway. She gets very flustered and collapses. Gaby calls 911. At the hospital she learns the news about Karen's cancer which has progressed to the advanced stages. She begs Gaby not to tell Roy since he already lost his first wife to cancer.
Back at the Solis house, Gaby asks Roy about his first wife Miriam, who he never talks about. He tells Gaby that his first wife died from cancer two weeks before their 40th anniversary. He chokes up talking about her saying when you love somebody a long time you get lazy and you stop saying it and showing it but when you know you're going to lose them you make damn sure they know it and he told her everything he needed to tell her. Gaby breaks her promise and tells Roy.
He visits Karen in the hospital and says they married for better or worse. She admits she's scared. He knows. Meanwhile, Carlos comes home and Gaby gives him a big celebration she says she doesn't want to take him for granted anymore. She tells him Karen's cancer is back and she may not live long. They talk about mortality. He calls her one of the bravest people he knows and they embrace.
Meanwhile, Renee is with Ben in hospital. He wakes and she tells him she paid off the loan shark and says all he has to worry about now is getting better. He protests he doesn't want her to be involved. She says she does what she wants He thanks her and says it will take awhile to pay her back. She says she's not going anywhere. Later, the loan shark returns to Renee's and tries to shake her down for more money. She tells him to go back to the Godfather movie he crawled out of and she won't be intimidated. He says that's his business (to extort money and intimidate people) and business is good. She says she is not from the suburbs and not so easily threatened and that their business is done. He says he'll decide when they're done and he'll see her around.
Later, Renee calls Mike and says she and Ben are at the hospital, back together and all is well. Mike sees a light go on at Renee's house and confronts the loan shark who is wrecking Renee's house. They tussle but Mike gets in some good ones and tosses him out the front door. Mike says he doesn't want to see him again. As he leaves, the loan shark threatens Mike and says: "If that's the case, you should have killed me". (Implying that the loan shark will now be comming after Mike... and anyone else he personaly knows).
Finally, we once again are reminded in flashbacks of Orson's grand plan to reclaim Bree: writing the blackmail notes, killing Chuck Vance etc. In these flashbacks we see he built an obsessive wall of clues, stealth photos, newspaper clippings and detritus. In the present we see him give her a present, pictures of his cottage in Maine. He says it's what she needs right now after an awful year with the murder investigation and the chilling letters she received. Startled, Bree points out she never told him about the second letter. He says he talked to Lynette about it and that's just another reason those women can't be trusted.
They pack up the car and Bree is excited to wear monogrammed hats she made for a cruise they never took. Orson forgot his so she wants to stop at his apartment and get it. He nervously tries to convince her not to go to his place, but she insists. When they arrive at the apartment building, he feigns forgetting his keys so she'll leave him alone. He races in the apartment in his wheelchair and pulls down his wall of crazy and trashes it. She returns and compliments his lovely place but then notices two things that he overlooked while tearing down the notes and photos of his wall: a note laying on the floor and a photo in the wastbasket that Orson took of her, the girls, and Carlos taking Alejandro's body out of Gaby's house the night of the murder. We watch as she quickly pieces it together and realizes it was Orson who wrote the letters and killed Chuck Vance. He says he did it for her. She says it was a torment at the lowest point in her life and she almost committed suicide. Orson seems suprised by Bree's revelation and tells her that he needed to isolate her from her friends because he knew he would always come after them and he wanted her all to himself. Bree calls him insane. Orson tries to justify his actions by saying that they both know what it means to commit a crime for the greater good. She calls him a sick pathetic man says she never wants to see him again. She walks out of the apartment, leaving the wheelchair-bound Orson looking on.
Later, Orson calls and she tells him to never call again. He says a sacrifice must be made. She tells him not to commit suicide just because she told him that it's over. He cryptically says that he has no intention to commit suicide, but she doesn't have to judge herself or anyone else for their actions for someone else will do that for her and he hangs up.
It looks like it will be a real judge because right after Orson hangs up, we see him place a large envelop addressed to the Fairview police (apparently containing all of the evident of Bree's and the ladies involvment in the murder of Alejandro) into a public mailbox at the Fairview town square and then rolls away among the annymous crowd around him.
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