Katherine of Arrogant's Good Deed
Will Carlos and Gaby's goodbye kiss be their last? Ricardo Antonio Chavira and Eva Longoria by Ron Tom/ABC
Episode Recap: "Art Isn't Easy"
Blackmail is what Wisteria Lane does best - that, and having affairs. So Bob and Lee should fit in nicely. At first, I thought the fountain-art incident was merely a comical plot device to get the veteran neighbors buzzing about the new ones. But its jarring presence next to neatly groomed gardens and white picket fences set in motion several more interesting developments.
Lynette realized that her children escape to their tree house for a worry-less world where no one talks about cancer and white blood cells (and where, evidently, Tom's daughter is playing nice these days). Katherine's controlling nature and prim sensibilities were threatened by the new sculpture, so she ran for homeowners' association president to get the fountain removed, making still more enemies in the process. (She's been so mean and evil from the start, I didn't think that was even possible.) Lynette's passion for her family, her competitive streak and a dose of guilt led her to run against Katherine. This in turn put her friendship with Susan in danger, since Susan sided with Katherine about the fountains' removal so that she and Mike could get some sleep.
We also learned that Adam Mayfair isn't merely an ignorant pawn in Katherine's pristine suburban world. Though she continues to hold this mysterious Chicago incident over him, he still had some sound advice for her - and she listened. He wisely observed that she's been an unhappy control freak ever since she returned to Wisteria Lane, and should try to make some friends instead. Her new reign as "Katherine of Arrogant" (thanks, Lynette!) wasn't going to help in that endeavor, so she then decided the Scavos could keep their tree house.
The most intriguing revelation from the fountain's un-neighborly initiation was that Bob and Lee know all about whatever Adam Mayfair did at Chicago Memorial Hospital. Apparently it's still causing a stir; they know that the Mayfairs moved to Fairview to escape it, even though Katherine adamantly claimed the gossip was all rumor. It's
so bad, in fact, that the newbies were able to use the incident as leverage: If she wants to keep her seemingly perfect life here, they'll keep quiet - as long as the fountain stays. I'm so pleased to see that Bob and Lee are already mired in the mysteries on this block.
As for the other "talent" that runs so rampant in the neighborhood, Carlos' and Gaby's affairs - past and present - are reaching a boiling point, beyond the utility of guys-only golf trips and disguising oneself as a prepubescent lawn boy riding on the front of a bicycle. It took the reappearance of Fairview's hottest gardener, John Rowland (
Jesse Metcalfe), for Carlos to realize that he'd become the "new John" in Gaby's life and it was time to be honest, cut things off with Victor and Edie and reunite when the dust had settled. Unfortunately for Carlos, his conscience appeared too late: Edie paid a PI for photographic evidence of the love quadrangle she first spotted over last week's crab cakes. Tough call as to whose revenge would be worse - Edie's or Victor's.
Orson and Bree had their hands full with... not exactly an affair and not exactly blackmail. But it was Danielle's bedroom antics of nearly nine months ago that led her grandmother to nab her from the convent, and Danielle to decide to raise the baby in the retirement community. Orson and Bree followed Andrew's advice (he's smarter than all of them) and bribed her with an out-of-state college and a convertible for the chance to take over parenting duties. I'm sure she pondered that diaper service and those new senior citizen friends for all of 15 seconds.
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