AntBlog701: Not While I'm Around, Desperate Housewives

30 April, 2007

Not While I'm Around, Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives

Last week on Wisteria Lane, Gaby accused Carlos of sabotaging her new relationship, and she lost her new boyfriend. Tom and Lynette tried to make Kayla feel like part of the family, Kayla blames Lynette for the death of her mum. Susan, meanwhile, visits Mike in jail to tell him how she can help. Alma Hodge appeared, and the mystery was solved.

Tonight on Desperate Housewives, (Season 3 episode 12, Not While I'm Around)

Bree isn't happy that Alma has moved to Wisteria Lane while Gabrielle's secret admirer is finally revealed. Meanwhile, the new Scavo Pizzeria faces an uncertain future. Elsewhere, Julie and Austin go to Edie about giving them parental consent to buy birth control pills.

Desperate Housewives airs at 8.30 tonight on Channel Seven after The Rich List.

Desperate Housewives

Previously on Desperate Housewives (Season 3 episode 11, No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds ), the recap:

In a flashback, we find out that Alma decided to leave Orson when she discovered he was having an affair. But instead of making him beg her to stay, he told her he didn't care if she left. That's when she realized she needed a better plan, to punish him.

Alma, now returned from her stay in Canada, shows up on Bree's doorstep and introduces herself. She confesses that she wanted people to think she was dead, and that they'd blame Orson. Her goal was to make his mistress, Monique, scared of Orson, and leave him. But now she's found a guru who urged her to come clean. When Orson comes home, he's suspicious that she's up to more than making amends. Bree decides to throw a dinner party for her friends, with Alma as the surprise guest of honor, to prove that Orson's not a murderer.

Susan tells Gabrielle and Lynette that Orson was seeing Monique, and that he spent time in a mental institution but they aren't convinced that makes him guilty of Monique's murder. Susan visits Mike in prison to tell him that she's hired a lawyer for him, and that since she's with Ian now, she won't be seeing him again. She accepts Bree's invitation for dinner, even though she's called Detective Ridley to tell him about Orson's affair with Monique.

Gabrielle's new boyfriend, Bill, treats her to a picnic in the front yard, not knowing she hates picnics. Her cell phone rings. It's Carlos, who's spying on her from Mike's porch, and proceeds to insult the new guy in her life. Gabrielle's not happy to learn that Carlos is living just down the street at Mike's. She comes back from a date with Bill to find a bouquet of pink roses on her front porch. There's no note, but she decides it must have been Carlos who sent them, to sabotage her new relationship. He denies it.

She makes Bill drive her to the florist to buy flowers for her mother, she says, but it's really to find out who sent the anonymous flowers. When the florist won't tell her, she locks her in the refrigerator to look through the files to see if it was Carlos after all. When Bill comes in, he realizes she's still not over Carlos, and breaks up with her on the spot.

She tells Carlos he's won because she and Bill are over. He insists he didn't send the flowers, because he would have sent her favorite flowers, orchids. She says she hates that he knows her so well, and that starting over with someone else is tougher than she thought.

Tom brings Kayla home to live with them, but Kayla insists on doing things the way her late mother did, like letting her watch TV during dinner. The boys want to follow suit, and are resentful when Lynette won't let them. Lynette has given Kayla her own favorite doll from childhood, which Kayla promptly mutilates and throws in the trash. Lynette wants Tom to spend more time with her but he's busy with the pizzeria. Instead, he tells Lynette to take a firm hand with her, like she does with the other kids.

At lunch at a restaurant the next day, Kayla refuses to leave until she's finished her dessert. She starts to scream "You're not my mommy," when Lynette tries to make her leave and everyone stares, horrified, at Lynette. At her wit's end, Lynette bribes the boys with a promise to let them eat dinner in front of the TV for a week if they drag Kayla into the car.

Later, Kayla tells Tom she blames Lynette for Nora's death since she wouldn't have been at the supermarket that day except to confront Lynette over custody. Tom tells her it's a lot more complicated and that Lynette loves her. Kayla promises to be good but says she'll never love Lynette.

Julie tells Danielle she's glad that Austin isn't pressuring her for sex, but Andrew butts in, saying that if Austin isn't getting sex from her, he'll turn to someone else. On their next date, Julie agrees to have sex with Austin. What she doesn't know is that Austin is already sleeping with Danielle.

At the prison cafeteria, Mike tells another inmate that, due to his amnesia, he doesn't know if he's a murderer or not and another prisoner pipes up to say he believes him: Paul Young.

Bree expects an apology from Susan after she produces Alma at the dinner party. Instead she realizes that Susan revealed what Bree told her in confidence about Orson when Detective Ridley shows up to interrogate him about Monique. Bree declares that their friendship is over. Ian is prepared to break up with Susan after hearing that she saw Mike in prison, but when she says she loves him, he reconsiders.

Edie shows a house to Alma; she's decided to move to Wisteria Lane.

Desperate Housewives

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