Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
Desperate Housewives Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Listen to the Rain on the Roof
Sun, Sep 24, 200643 mins
Six months later. Mike has been in a coma since the hit-and-run accident, with Susan by his side, and nobody suspecting it was the shady Orson, who proposes marriage to Bree, without either asking for sex first. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Carlos are getting divorced, but they are briefly reunited when their pregnant surrogate mother Xiao Mei runs away after being unable to stand Gabby's constant bickering. While adjusting to having Tom's other child around the house, Lynette realizes that the girl's trailer-trash mother, Nora, is more than she bargained for when she keeps showing up at the house with Kayla as if Tom's other wife, and makes Tom decide who comes first, a birthday party does the rest. While at the hospital, Susan is asked on a date by Ian Hainsworth, whose spouse is also in a coma. During Bree and Orson's engagement party, the mysterious Carolyn Bigsby arrives, claiming that Orson murdered his wife Alma who he claims has left him. Edie is desperately trying to sell the Young house in the aftermath of their departure from Whisteria Lane.
Episode 2
It Takes Two
Sun, Oct 1, 200643 mins
Bree and Orson's wedding day arrives, until the reception is interrupted when the police arrive and tell Orson that a body believed to be his ex-wife has been found; Lynette attempts to set Nora up with various single guys to keep her away from the house; Gabrielle and Carlos prepare for both the divorce and the baby's expectant arrival when Xiao-Mei goes into labor; Edie's troublesome nephew, Austin, comes to visit and has a meeting of minds with Julie; Susan continues to be uncomfortable around hanging out with Ian.
Episode 3
A Weekend in the Country
Sun, Oct 8, 200643 mins
Bree and Orson are going on their honeymoon to Bermuda. But at the airport, Bree sees her runaway son, Andrew, on the public TV featured as a homeless teenager in which Bree wants to cut short their honeymoon to go look for him, against Orson's protests. After Bree unsuccessfully tries to get Andrew to return home, Orson later meets with the troublesome youth and, despite seeing the abrasive sociopath Andrew still is, persuades him to return home by relating to his inner rage and hostility. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Lynette plan a weekend at a posh health spa while Tom is going on a camping trip with the wild and crazy kids. But Lynnette's quiet weekend is also cut short when Tom phones with an emergency and she has to go to him. But things turn for the worse when Nora arrives and insists that she tag along with Lynnette. At the spa, the lonely Gabrielle runs into her former flame, John Rowland, who's now a rising landscape designer, but regrets a one-stand with him in the morning when his fiancée shows up and nearly caches her. Susan goes on a quiet romantic getaway with Ian at a remote mountain cabin. But as usual for the klutzy Susan, things don't go as planned. Plus, she is still insecure about if she's cheating on Mike who's still comatose. Julie has another run-in with Austin McCann, whom she allegedly cannot stand but finds herself strangely attracted to as Edie notices.
Episode 4
Like It Was
Sun, Oct 15, 200643 mins
Mike has woken up from his coma, but he has amnesia and has no recollection of the past two years or of who attempted to kill him. Unfortunately, the scheming Edie is there to fill in the blanks by pretending they are romantically involved. Despite the fact that Andrew has returned home and Danielle is a rising science class student, Bree finds her family is anything but perfect after learning of the "dirty way" Andrew survived while living on the streets and finds out that Danielle and her science teacher are closer than she thought. Lynette is determined not to let Parker quit baseball because he made a commitment, even though he's terrible at it. Lynette also has a talk with Tom in she persuades him to follow his own path in hunting for a new job, as well as a new career path for himself. Carlos moves back into the house, much to Gabrielle's displeasure, which escalates their personal war. Susan is still in the country with Ian after having their first romantic night together, when she cuts it short after receiving the news about Mike's revival.
Episode 5
Nice She Ain't
Sun, Oct 22, 200643 mins
The divorce between Gabrielle and Carlos reaches new levels of bitterness with both of them trying to make each other jealous. Susan is determined to jog Mike's memory, and realizes Edie has been posing as his girlfriend since he woke up from his coma. Tom decides that his dream is to open a pizza parlor, and Lynette is not delighted. But Nora makes things a little worse by fanning the flames between them to break them up. Conniving Bree tries to break up the romance between Danielle and her history teacher, who's been having an affair with her. Naughty Austin asks a reluctant Julie to help him write his English paper for class. Mike's phone number is discovered on the mystery dead woman's body by Detective Ridley.
Episode 6
Sweetheart, I Have to Confess
Sun, Oct 29, 200643 mins
Hurt after finding Mike with Edie, Susan professes her love for Ian, but in a very awkward way by crashing a dinner party he is throwing. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Carlos try to rekindle their love after she finds out about a potential new job he may be getting. Bree is confronted once again by Carolyn Bigsby who invites her and Orson with her husband Harvey, where Bree learns more about Orson's past with his long-lost wife, and Orson finds out that Carolyn's husband had had an affair with the mystery dead woman, and we learn that Orson had shared the same woman. Nora and Lynette go to war after Lynette finds out that Nora had tried to break her and Tom up over his planing to open up his pizza parlor. Also, Mike starts to remember things, which include the mystery dead woman, who's name is revealed to be 'Monique'.
Episode 7
Bang
Sun, Nov 5, 200643 mins
Everyone's lives on Wisteria Lane are forever changed when Carolyn Bigsby holds shoppers hostage at a local supermarket after finding out that her husband, the store manager, was involved with the mystery dead woman. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Carlos finish dividing their assets: Gabrielle gets the house, and Carlos gets everything in it. Susan is preparing to go to Paris with Ian, but cancels when when learns that Julie is one of the hostages along with Austin who was caught shoplifting, as well as the cynical Edie, and Lynette and Nora whom are still feuding over Tom. Also a new guy move into Whisteria Lane into Paul Young's old house; a middle-aged man named Art Shepherd who also ends up being one of the hostages at the mercy of he psycho Carolyn Bigsby.
Episode 8
Children and Art
Sun, Nov 12, 200643 mins
When Gabrielle travels to New York with the desire to return to modeling, she finds it hard to go back on her terms, rather than her client's. Back on Wisteria Lane, Lynette comes home from the hospital to recover from the shooting, and copes with the fact that her boys heard.
Episode 9
Beautiful Girls
Sun, Nov 19, 200643 mins
Lynnette, having learned about her new neighbor, Art Shepherd's, obsession, assumes that he's a pedophile and goes to the police, but she is told that they cannot do anything about it. Gabrielle gets a shot to train a group of young girls about being a model.
Episode 10
The Miracle Song
Sun, Nov 26, 200643 mins
When Ian tells Susan that his parents will be visiting them for Christmas, Susan dumps the news to him that she can't cook. Gabrielle is willing to drop Amy, the worst child in her modeling consulting class, by getting between her and the girl's father.
Episode 11
No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds
Sun, Jan 7, 200743 mins
Alma reveals herself to Bree, and explains that she wanted to frame Orson by making everyone think he killed her for his past infidelity. Bree invites her friends for dinner to introduce them to Alma, proving the innocence of her husband, but she does not know that Susan has already called the police to tell them about Orson's affair with Monique Pollier. When Detective Ridley and the police interrupt the dinner party to arrest Orson, Bree ends her friendship with Susan, who also almost loses Ian when he discovers that she paid Mike a visit in jail. Kayla moves in with the Scavos, and she immediately gives Lynette a hard time. Gabrielle is convinced that Carlos is trying to sabotage her new relationship with Bill Pearce. Julie wonders whether she should sleep with Austin, who is having a secret affair of his own with Danielle.
Episode 12
Not While I'm Around
Sun, Jan 14, 200743 mins
Bree freaks about the security of her home life when she learns Orson's ex-wife, Alma, is moving in down the street in the old Applewhite house. Meanwhile, Gabrielle freaks about her own home security when she learns she has a stalker, and goes even further.
Episode 13
Come Play Wiz Me
Sun, Jan 21, 200743 mins
Susan and Gabrielle hatch a plan to bail Mike out of jail, which means Gabby has to spend more time with her psychotic secret admirer, Zach Young, who agrees to post Mike's bail and hire him another lawyer after the one Ian hires persuades Mike to plead guilty to Monique's murder.
Episode 14
I Remember That
Sun, Feb 11, 200743 mins
Mike begins to remember parts of his past while visiting a hypnosis therapist in his attempt to remember the night that Monique Pollier was murdered. Susan attends Jane's funeral where she, unwisely as always, tells the attendees about her romantic relationship with Ian to throw them off his course.
Episode 15
The Little Things You Do Together
Sun, Feb 18, 200745 mins
In a moment of letting her guard down, a drunken Gabrielle finds herself the morning after with Zach... in bed. Gabrielle confides in Carlos about this predicament and tries to make sense of it. Orson is confronted by Mike about Monique and her strange death, in which Orson barely survives a fall off the roof of the hospital. Bree wakes in the hospital following her "accident" and is in a hurry to return home and deal with Monique's death, herself. The truth about Monique Pollier's murder is finally revealed how both Orson and his twisted mother were involved, as well as more of Orson's past is shown. When Alma learns of Gloria's plan to murder Bree, she attempts to escape from her "prison" to warn her only to suffer a "freak accident". Tom becomes nervous over preparing for the night of the Scavo's Pizzeria grand opening, while Lynnette inadvertently makes matters a little worse with ordering the wrong chairs. Neverless, the grand opening goes off without a hitch where proposals fly left and right when Ian, learning that Mike intended to propose to Susan the night of his accident, proposes to her instead. Zach attempts to do the same to the unimpressed Gabrielle who finally ends their relationship.
Episode 16
My Husband, the Pig
Sun, Mar 4, 200743 mins
Tom and Lynette have a small limousine problem when he attempts to give her a night to remember for their ninth wedding anniversary. Gabrielle gets a new boyfriend: Victor Lang, who is 15 years older than her... and wealthy. He is running for mayor of Fairview. Meanwhile, Edie's 9-year-old son, Travers, comes to Wisteria Lane, and Carlos ends up babysitting for him after the irresponsible Edie goes off on another night on the town. While Bree leaves town for a few days, Danielle reveals to Orson and Andrew that she's pregnant from her tryst with Austin who is trying to win Julie back. Orson forces Austin to leave town for good while agreeing to look after Daneielle. Mike also learns that Ian has proposed to Susan and faces off against him in a one-on-one card game for Susan's affections. In an unusual twist, Steven Culp narrates this episode as Rex Van De Kamp from beyond the grave.
Episode 17
Dress Big
Sun, Apr 8, 200743 mins
Lynette becomes unhappy with the new orange-colored uniforms for the staff at Scavo Pizzeria. Edie sets her sights more on Carlos as he and her son Travers spend more time together. After Gabrielle's wardrobe is ruined from a leaking heating system, she takes a dress used to be owned by Victor's ex-wife from his house since she likes expensive tastes. But later, Gabrielle meets Victor's ex-wife, Samantha, at a fund raiser where she recognizes the dress. Meanwhile, Ian's parents, Graham and Dahlia, come for a visit where the neurotic and klutzy Susan makes a poor impression on them, while she also finds some marital secrets that Graham is hiding. Also, Mike continues seeing his hypnosis therapist to remember his happier times with Susan.
Episode 18
Liaisons
Sun, Apr 15, 200743 mins
Susan considers moving from Wisteria Lane to London with Ian after they get married. Later, an accident causes Ian, Susan and their car to find themselves stranded in a lake, and Mike happens to rescue them. Tom, incapacitate from his injured back, feels threatened by Lynnette's interest in new Scavo's Pizzeria employee Rick Coletti, a former gourmet chef who adds more flavorful menu items. Tom also takes out his anger and frustration over being incapacitate from his injured back on the elderly Mrs. McClusky. While debating his opponent in the mayoral election, Victor Lang witnesses Gabrielle trying to make him jealous by flirting with another guy after he does not return her affections. Carlos and Edie debate with each other over wanting to continue their sordid affair after their passionate night together.
Episode 19
God, That's Good
Sun, Apr 22, 200743 mins
Gabrielle and Victor will make an unexpected twist in their relationship and will also face a crisis as a video of them sharing a passionate moment in an elevator was caught on tape and is now being used to blackmail them. Meanwhile, Edie and Carlos continue to meet in various houses to spruce up their growing sex life. Ian invites Mike to have dinner with him and Susan to try to mend broken fences, while Susan tries to set up Mike with her wedding caterer to keep her romantic feelings for him in check. Also, a power blackout leads to the elderly Karen McCluskey having a fall and admitted to the hospital where a secret of hers is discovered by Parker Scavo who finds her long-dead husband... in her basement freezer. Tom continues to feel more threatened by Rick's charisma and food cooking skills for the pizzeria, as well as his attention to Lynnette who continues working long hours at the place.
Episode 20
Gossip
Sun, Apr 29, 200742 mins
Angry and frustrated over learning that both Ian and Mike have been competing with each other to win her affections, Susan goes to a therapist and realizes she must choose between Ian and Mike. Gabrielle tries to persuade both Lynette and Susan not to speak to Edie.
Episode 21
Into the Woods
Sun, May 6, 200743 mins
In the aftermath of Victor's election as mayor of Fairview, Gabrielle is led to believe she has a new-found power, but unwisely uses it to try to avoid getting a parking ticket and winds up getting arrested. Lynnette and Rick find out just how powerless they are.
Episode 22
What Would We Do Without You?
Sun, May 13, 200743 mins
Susan and Mike finally get engaged after he proposes to her in an unusual way, while Gabrielle has a similar approach with Victor. But after Gabrielle and Susan flip out over Gabby "stealing" Susan's wedding, they make up by offering a double ceremony.
Episode 23
Getting Married Today
Sun, May 20, 200742 mins
As Gabrielle prepares for her fairy tale wedding to Victor, Bree finally returns to Fairview from her two-month honeymoon with Orson with a surprise that she's pregnant... or is she? Meanwhile, Lynette's stern and estranged mother, Stella, pays a visit after finding out Lynette has cancer in which she's not happy to have her mother around because of her long history of alcoholism and domestic abuse. Carlos eventually discovers that Edie had lied to him about going off her birth control pills and he ends their relationship for good. Gabrielle bonds more with Victor's politician father, Milton, but she gets disturbed when she secretly learns the reason why Victor wants to marry her: to advance even further his political career. Finally, Susan and Mike tie the knot in an unexpected location with Julie as the only attendee
