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Desperate Housewives Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
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Sun, Sep 25, 200543 mins
John is delighted now Carlos is jailed for eight years and has laid a rose petals path to her bed for pregnant Gabrielle to celebrate their henceforward unhindered love-life, assuming to be the baby's daddy, but is literally thrown out in his boxers as 'traitor' while she tries to patch up things with Carlos, who demands a paternity test, at the very least... Lynette eagerly grabs the professional opportunity presented by Tom's domestic 'career switch', but when she finally has a recruiting appointment for her advertising dream job, household-novice Tom has hurt his back to tears just moving a bit, so she has to take the baby to the interview with neurotic, hasty firm CEO Ed Ferrara after having assured unsympathetic supervisor Nina Fletcher she would never allow her family to come in the way of her job, any hours any day, and leaving the baby with office junior Stu... Bree predicted trouble at Rex's funeral, and gets it in the round shape of ever-criticizing mother-in-law Phyllis Van De Kamp, who must learn who's in charge the hard way, even if that takes threatening with armed guards and a non-church funeral to subdue reverend Sikes program-wise. Andrew enforces his dearly missed dad's last will, so 'our bitch' grandma is 'welcomed' after all, but sneakily puts non-designer prep school cloths on Rex, so before the casket is closed Bree, who noticed nothing else during the generally attended service, stops everything to change the corps with a tie she grimly commandeers from baffled Tom's willlessly bared neck. After Mike rescued Susan from Zach, the boy goes missing, the corps the lovers identify is a John Doe, but Susan realizes he's Mike's son and concludes that's the one house-mate she won't consider even for his sake... The new neighbors Betty, who makes her first public appearance filling in for the church organist at Rex's funeral, and son Matthew Applewhite have a secret in the basement, which they feed from a tray, chained and guarded with a gun...
Episode 2
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Sun, Oct 2, 200543 mins
Susan does not know where she stands with her undefined relationship with Mike, but things get complicated when she wakes up one morning to find that her ex-husband, Karl, had a sleepover with her arch-rival: the sluttish Edie Britt. Phyllis freely expresses her grief to anyone within range, totally upstaging a very annoyed Bree. Unfortunately, that's the least of Bree's problems when the police begin to investigate Rex's death, and George Williams returns wanting to re-start his relationship with Bree. Carlos is being exploited in prison and needs Gabrielle's help to deliver money to his violent cell mate's girlfriend. She accepts to help only if she gets access to his secret bank account. Lynette, unsatisfied with Tom's approach to stay-at-home parenting, does some cunning intervention involving a stray rat. The Applewhites' secrets are slowly revealed to their mysterious captive in the basement of the house and their continuing adjustments to keeping a low profile in Fairview.
Episode 3
You'll Never Get Away from Me
Sun, Oct 9, 200543 mins
Bree throws Phyllis out of her house. Susan tries bravely to accept Edie's new role in Julie's life. Lynette's demanding boss, Nina, makes her miss Parker's first day of kindergarten. Gabrielle finally breaks after seeing John with an older woman.
Episode 4
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Sun, Oct 16, 200543 mins
On one of Gabrielle's prison visits to see Carlos she creates a terrible riot, which lands Carlos in hot water when his lawyer Doyle quits. In finding a new lawyer for her husband, Gabrielle meets an interesting attorney, named David Bradley, whom she is attracted to. Susan puts her feelings aside and joins Mike in searching for Zach. When Susan finds Zach living in the streets, she learns of his intentions to get back together with Julie, and feels she must take matters into her own hands to keep him away from her and Julie. Lynette is surprised to find out that her son Parker has an imaginary friend and desperately tries to ensure Parker breaks free from his fantasy friend. George and Andrew both vie for Bree's attention as they both compete in making each other look bad in front of her. Bree continues to be unaware that both her psychopath suitor and her son mean her harm. George takes the conflict too far when he successfully provokes Andrew into attacking him and playing the poor victim to win Bree's affection.
Episode 5
They Asked Me Why I Believe in You
Sun, Oct 23, 200543 mins
Susan helps her dear friend in financial trouble; Lynette is forced to go out to bars with her man-hungry boss; Bree is allowed to re-bury Rex; Gabrielle hires David Bradley to defend Carlos, but rejects him; More of the Applewhite's past is shown; Paul Young returns.
Episode 6
I Wish I Could Forget You
Sun, Nov 6, 200543 mins
Susan tries to get Paul Young arrested, while her mother pays another visit. Carlos continues serving his jail sentence, while Gabrielle tries to free him, but his lawyer refuses to represent him. Bree gets a bad rash every time she tries to be intimate with George.
Episode 7
Color and Light
Sun, Nov 13, 200542 mins
Gabrielle tries to revisit her past when old friends come to town, but doesn't want anyone to know that she's three months pregnant when getting dressed up. With the aftermath of her breakup with Mike, Susan finds temporary solace with her ex-husband Karl as his relationship with Edie hits a bump. Meanwhile, Lynette and Tom learn more about the new neighbors, the Harpers, when they babysit their two wild children and uncover a sex tape of the couple. Bree continues to have no idea that George is completely deranged and she's still being casually nice to him. When George buys a house for himself and makes an offer to Bree to move in with him as well as shows her off to his equally crazy family and friends, she becomes more uncertain about where she stands with him. George also learns about Bree's therapist giving her relationship advice, and again decides to take matters into his own hands. Also, Betty and Matthew's captive, Caleb, gets lose from the basement and roams around Wisteria Lane at night, which leads to major consequences for Gabrielle when Caleb breaks into her house leading her to fall down a flight of stairs.
Episode 8
The Sun Won't Set
Sun, Nov 20, 200543 mins
The residents stress about security; Lynette fears Tom doesn't keep his eye close enough on their offspring; Susan decides to meet her biological father; Bree later gets a visit from a mysterious woman; Gabrielle learns to face her feelings.
Episode 9
That's Good, That's Bad
Sun, Nov 27, 200543 mins
Ruining her husband and son's lives was one thing, when dumped wooer George publicly messes with one of her dinner parties Bree doesn't hesitate to shoot with live ammo! Visiting her therapist Dr. Albert Goldfine in hospital she realizes the attacker's blue bike is George's and contacts police detective Barton, who informs her he's also Rex's apparent killed, but seeing the police he hides in a hotel where she attends a charity function and sends her a message he just took suicide pills; she makes sure he confesses to her and dies relieved, pretending to have phoned an ambulance... Lynette is tired of boss Nina's verbal abuse, so when she sees office gopher's pants down to frolic with her uses that as blackmail, only to see the poor kid fired first when Nina is to select a series of budget axings. She incites Stu to demand his job back threatening with an intimacy suit, but he actually sues, Nina is only the first of a wave of firings, assuring Lynette her promotion to VP of accounts is the end of life worth living as incompetent boss Ed is 'the most needy baby in the world'... Carlos is delighted to get paroled early thanks to a Catholic action group, Gabrielle unamused when this corrupts him to the (consumerist-viewed) vice of charity, trough the groups driving one-nun force, suspiciously sister Mary Bernard, so unable to top her as good girl she outclasses her as seductive bad girl, but when the holy terror declares some marriages are doomed, notably selfish Gaby corrupting a basically good man, holy war for her provider is declared with hellish fire... Now Susan knows her biological father Addison Prudy is alive and keeps a shop, she postulates for a sales job, denied as overqualified, then tells the truth but finds he considers any intrusion on his present family by a 'mistake' from decades ago unfair, especially (!) as his wife Carol knows of more recent affairs...
Episode 10
Coming Home
Sun, Dec 4, 200543 mins
Newley promoted vice president Lynette tries to put a daycare center in Parcher & Murphy by recruiting employees' children to get the program started. But she deals not only with her boss, Ed Ferrara's wariness to start it, but his domineering wife reluctant to give up their one-year-old daughter to daycare. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Sister Mary Bernard face off over Carlos' mission of mercy to Africa in which Gabrielle resorts to some drastic measures to ensue that Carlos stays. Bree brings Andrew home from juvenile rehab and tells him about the revelation of the late George Williams poisoning his father. Not surprisingly, Andrew does not react as Bree hoped, and plots to drive her over the edge of sanity by provoking her anger. Susan confronts Addison Prudy's wife after she mistakenly thinks they are having an affair. Also, Zach Young returns to Wisteria Lane to stay with his father, who give Mike a stern warning to stay away from both of them. Elsewhere, Betty and Matthew help Caleb escape from the local mental hospital, while a mysterious PI/hit-man hired by the Foster family begins tracking Caleb.
Episode 11
One More Kiss
Sun, Jan 8, 200643 mins
Gabrielle playfully kisses Tom during an evening get-together. Lynette is not happy, and it drives a wedge in her friendship with Gabrielle. Susan and Julie try to bring Mike and Zach together by arraigning a outing at the local bowling alley. But when Paul finds out that Zach spent time with Mike, against his orders, he attacks Mike. Meanwhile, the hit man, Curt Monroe breaks into the Applewhite household to abduct Caleb, only to get accidentally killed, and Betty and Matthew decide to hide Monroe's body in his car trunk. Andrew tries to blackmail his mother with the knowledge that she let George Williams commit suicide, in which she turns to Karl for help.
Episode 12
We're Gonna Be All Right
Sun, Jan 15, 200643 mins
After a bad blind date, Susan meets and flirts with a handsome doctor, named Dr. Ron McGreadie, but she takes a wrong approach by feigning a terminal illness. Some old pictures of Gabrielle turn up on the Internet, and she asks a reluctant Carlos to get them back from an old photographer boyfriend.
Episode 13
There's Something About a War
Sun, Jan 22, 200643 mins
Dr. Ron informs Susan that she needs a spleenectomy, but it's the doctor's first time, which makes the neurotic Susan even more uneasy. Gabrielle is not pleased when Carlos brings up the topic of "baby" again as Carlos still wants to continue trying to conceive again. Gabrielle and her arch-enemy Sister Mary Bernard finally face off in a major cat-fight in church when Gabrielle confronts her about getting rid of her from Carlos' life. Tom decides to apply for an empty position at Lynette's firm, which revives past issues in their marriage. Matthew and Danielle's romantic relationship is found out by both their mothers, with major repercussions later on when Betty silences Bree by threatening to tell the authorities about Bree helping Andrew cover up the hit-and-run accident last year if Bree tells anyone about Caleb's presence.
Episode 14
Silly People
Sun, Feb 12, 200643 mins
Tom tries hard to bond with his boss Ed Ferrara, but at the expense of his dignity when playing boyish frat games at the office. Lynette tries to get Tom off. Susan gets some help from Edie and Karl on her situation of getting health insurance before her upcoming surgery. Susan plans to marry a gay man who's hiding the fact that he's gay from his mother. When the plan fails, Karl makes Susan an offer she can't refuse. Gabrielle becomes very attached to a Chinese immigrant housekeeper, named Xiao Mei who is staying with them after being rescued by a slave owner employer. Bree tries to uncover more about the Applewhites by sneaking into their house to meet Caleb, which eventually leads to a heart-to-heart conversation between Betty and Bree about Caleb's past. The dying Noah Taylor finally learns from Felicia that Zach Young is his grandson, and he has the corrupt detective Sullivan threaten Mike to spill all the information he knows about the Young family.
Episode 15
Thank You So Much
Sun, Feb 19, 200643 mins
On Valentine's Day, Edie thinks that Karl is going to pop the question after she finds an engagement ring and prenuptial agreement in his briefcase, but Karl is actually trying to get Susan to marry him, instead, so she can get insurance for her upcoming surgery.
Episode 16
There Is No Other Way
Sun, Mar 12, 200643 mins
Carlos and Gabrielle decide to adopt, but the process comes to be a lot more difficult than either had expected when they find out they have to be perfect role models. But things get even worse when they find out that John Rowland's vindictive mother, Helen, is an employee of the agency.
Episode 17
Could I Leave You?
Sun, Mar 26, 200643 mins
Susan comes home from the hospital after her surgery where she invites Dr. Ron to meet Karl after he finds out about their arranged marriage. But the conniving Karl creates friction by having Mike and Dr. Ron meet face to face to provoke a reaction for his own amusement.
Episode 18
Everybody Says Don't
Sun, Apr 2, 200643 mins
Bree overcomes her alcohol addiction by falling in love with her AA-sponsor Peter, only to find he's also a recovering sex-addict, so he passes her on to a woman. Meanwhile, Lynette is torn between testifying at Andrew's emancipation trial in his favor.
Episode 19
Don't Look at Me
Sun, Apr 16, 200643 mins
Lynette is called in to her kids' school as Parker has gone from being obsessed with Dinosaurs to being obsessed with female nudity. Carlos and Gabrielle must go to court to get custody of their baby, Lily, after they "steal" her from the hospital nursery ward.
Episode 20
It Wasn't Meant to Happen
Sun, Apr 30, 200643 mins
The teenage father of Gabrielle and Carlos' adoptive baby wants to lay claims; Edie is heartbroken after Karl breaks off their engagement; Lynette helps coach Ed's online love life, which backfires; Bree puts her mind to keep Peter in her life.
Episode 21
I Know Things Now
Sun, May 7, 200643 mins
Bree and Andrew finally end their conflict. Lynette learns that Tom hasn't been honest about his trips to Atlantic City. Edie's private detective begins to uncover numerous details of Karl and Susan's relationship. Gabrielle is having a tough time keeping her Chinese servant in the country.
Episode 22
No One Is Alone
Sun, May 14, 200643 mins
When Susan hears from Edie she took revenge by burning down her house, Mike accepts to help Susan by planting a wire to tape a confession. Now Andrew is out of the picture, Bree is determined to make up for forgetting Danielle's 17th birthday, which was six weeks ago.
Episode 23
Remember: Part 1
Sun, May 21, 200684 mins
Periodic flashbacks to moving-in day on Wisteria Lane and how the control-freak Bree, the ambitious Lynette, the neurotic Susan, and the narcissistic Gabrielle met Mary Alice Young for the first time and how she brought them all together. Other flashbacks show the day that Melanie Foster was murdered back in Chicago.
Episode 24
Remember: Part 2
Sun, May 21, 200684 mins
More frequent flashbacks featuring Rex, John Rowland, and George Williams, take us back to key moments in time for Bree, Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle and how they connect to the present. Lynette finds out that Tom has an illegitimate daughter from before they were married.
