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24 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 28, 200843 mins
Susan flirts with her painter; Bree denies all help from business partner Katherine; Lynette tries to get Tom to see the light with their trouble-making twins; Edie moves back to Wisteria Lane with a new husband; Gabrielle deals with a blind Carlos and their two overweight daughters.
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 5, 200843 mins
Bree's long working hours effects her home life. Susan worries about her ex Mike, and her new painter boyfriend Jackson becoming friendly. Lynette fails to notice the impending doom regarding the new way she's bonded with Porter. Gabrielle fails in social status due to her life change.
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 12, 200843 mins
Danielle returns to Wisteria Lane, and faces psychological warfare from Bree; Susan tries to protect her son, MJ, from a bully; Gabrielle tries to deal with cutting costs; Lynette continues to deal with Tom's decision of curing his midlife crisis by starting up a garage band with Dave; Karen and Katherine continue to investigate Dave.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 19, 200843 mins
Bree's new cookbook and entrepreneurial success has the women of Wisteria Lane feeling jealous, especially Lynette who's longing for a taste of her bread winning days as an ad executive leads her to lend an unsolicited hand to Bree's marketing plan. Meanwhile, M.J.'s drawing of a family portrait of him, Susan, and Jackson has left Mike feeling like he's not a presence in his son's life anymore. Gabrielle hatches a plan to have more sex with Carlos, but their daughter, Juanita, gets a first-hand view of it. Susan teaches a reluctant M.J. how to fall off his bicycle when Jackson begins teaching him to ride instead of Mike. Also, Dave's motives for moving to the neighborhood continue to take shape as he continue to hide his prison background from Edie as well as his violent temper he keeps under control with numerous sedatives, and he also persuades Mike to move into a house that he buys down the street, by working behind the scenes to have some mysterious and sinister plan for everyone involved.
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 26, 200843 mins
Periodic flashbacks to the past five years explain some of the missing pieces left unanswered; The housewives deal with problems in their love lives; Karen has the neighborhood questioning her sanity after Dave breaks into her house.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 2, 200843 mins
Gabrielle has a fit when one of Carlos's wealthy massage clients, Virginia Hildebrand, makes them an offer they can't refuse, but a startling discovery leaves Gabby second guessing. Lynette grows suspicious that Tom is cheating on her with the sultry Anne Schilling.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 9, 200842 mins
Lynette and Tom uncover an unpleasant truth about Porter; Gabrielle suspects Virginia has ulterior motives; Bree's moment of weakness with her cookbook could bring her great embarrassment and shame; Katherine's not-so-little secret is unveiled; Karen's sister, Roberta, unearths a disturbing fact about Dave.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 16, 200843 mins
Everyone gathers at a nightclub for the annual "Battle of the Bands, " until a fire breaks out, threatening the lives of those inside.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 30, 200842 mins
In the aftermath of the devastating nightclub fire, Susan deals with the fact that the recovering Mike is now involved with Katherine. Meanwhile, Porter gets accused of setting the fire, and Lynette decides to protect him despite not believing his innocent claims that he did not start the fire. Lynette also confronts Annie in which she bribes her to leave town and never see Porter again. Bree deals with Orson's snoring habit resulting from his broken nose, and in trying to deal with her sleepless nights, has an unfortunate reaction to one too many sleeping pills to cope with it. Carlos learns that there's a possibility he could get his sight back, but this isn't good news for Gabrielle who doesn't want him to see her as she is now. Elsewhere, Dave (the real culprit of the fire) struggles with hiding his guilt, while he begins planting evidence that Porter is the guilty party for setting the fire.
Episode 10
Sun, Dec 7, 200843 mins
As Carlos' sight begins to return, he begins to see what sacrifices Gabrielle made to keep her family intact, while Porter gets arrested after Dave tells the police he saw the boy coming out of the storeroom just before the fire. But when Porter tells Lynette and Tom about a separate crime that he committed by breaking into Edie's house to steal a gun to use against Annie's husband, Lynette takes great measures to try to sneak back in to Edie's house to return it unnoticed. Meanwhile, Bree deals with the revelation that Andrew'a latest beau is Orson's plastic surgeon, Dr. Alex Cominis, which leads her to invite Alex over for dinner at her house. While Katherine's new romance comes to bloom with Mike, it's his son, MJ, who doesn't approve. Elsewhere, Dave keeps seeing a mysterious woman holding a young girl all over the neighborhood, including his own doorstep.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 4, 200943 mins
Bree forces Andrew to bring Alex's common mother Melina to dinner, but the future in-laws instantly hate each-other, rivaling for their gay sons' presence at family holidays, and in whose town they'll live. Susan and Lee get so drunk they wake up in bed together.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 11, 200943 mins
Dave bunks in at Mike's after being thrown out by Edie, who ends up locked in a basement with Susan. Meanwhile, Katherine puts Mike on the hot seat by mentioning her offer to move away. Bree's future "son-in-law" Alex, defends Orson when she belittles his purchase savvy.
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 18, 200943 mins
When a neighborhood handyman, named Eli Scruggs, suddenly passes from a heart attack away one day before his retirement, the residents of Wisteria Lane come to realize just how much he affected their lives. Gabrielle recalls how Eli helped her make new friends when she first moved in, including her friendship with the late Mary Alice Young. Lynette remembers how Eli came to her aide when she was overwhelmed in raising her four wild kids, and as a result, neglected Penny. Susan remembers on how he repeatably helped her stay sane and was always there for her as a shoulder to cry on each time a man walked out of her life and was the only man who accepted her slightly-insane and neurotic personalty. Edie looks back on their "special friendship" she had with Eli at numerous times. Finally, Bree thinks fondly of how a small gesture Eli once made that helped get her to where she is today.
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 8, 200943 mins
Bree reaps the success of her new book; Susan is determined to send M. J. to the best school; Gabrielle joins Edie's boot camp to get back into shape; Lee is conflicted over disturbing facts about Dave.
Episode 15
Sun, Feb 15, 200943 mins
Susan starts her new job as a teacher's aide to MJ's school in order to give her son the best that she never had. But when Mike leaves their son in Katherine's care while he works, naturally in Susan's case, anger and jealousy also pervade.
Episode 16
Sun, Mar 8, 200943 mins
A dinner engagement results in Lynette and Tom competing for Bree's job offer; Gabrielle finds herself in a precarious position with Carlos' cheating boss; Susan becomes more unsettled after Katherine moves in with Mike; Edie begins to investigate more into Dave's past.
Episode 17
Sun, Mar 15, 200943 mins
As Susan continues to work as a teachers' aide, she tries to stay on the reading teacher and her employer's, Jessie's, good side since she will be evaluating Susan's performance. But Jessie, who happens to be a closeted lesbian, mistakes Susan's stuttering.
Episode 18
Sun, Mar 22, 200943 mins
Bree considers selling her business to save her marriage; Lynette is threatened by Lucy; Gabrielle and Carlos cross boundaries; Karl enrols his son in Susan's class; Edie finally learns about Dave's connection to Mike.
Episode 19
Sun, Apr 19, 200943 mins
It is revealed that Edie died fairly quickly after the accident and electrocution, and as she puts it, she died as the lived... the center of attention. Dave asked the housewives sans Katherine to take Edie's ashes to Travers, and while none of them want to, they all decide to do it for Edie. On the trip, all the housewives remember Edie.
Episode 20
Sun, Apr 26, 200943 mins
When Orson is admitted to the hospital after he attempts to rob an old woman whose house he breaks into, he's confident that nobody will believe her because of her senile personality. But later, Bree becomes suspicious of the truth, but keeps it to herself.
Episode 21
Sun, May 3, 200943 mins
Mike becomes more uncertain about his future with Katherine when M.J. asks if he is going to marry Katherine. Tom and Lynnette try out an experiment of having sex for 30 days straight to spruce up their troubled marriage. Bree asks Susan's ex-husband Karl.
Episode 22
Sun, May 10, 200943 mins
Susan and Jackson announce their engagement to everyone, which has Mike feeling uneasy about it and debates with himself a future with Katherine on proposing marriage as well. Dave becomes worried when he figures out that Jackson may have witnessed him setting the fire at the nightclub.
Episode 23
Sun, May 17, 200943 mins
Gabrielle becomes upset when Carlos' family invites them over at his Aunt Connie's house where she asks them to look after Carlos' niece, Ana, for a while which the not-so-innocent youngster disrupts the Solises daily routine. Lynette becomes angry at Tom.
Episode 24
Sun, May 17, 200943 mins
Lynette accepts Tom's decision to go back to college. But when Lynette later finds out that she's pregnant with twins, they must decide what path their future will take. Meanwhile, Bree must decide how to finally rid herself of Orson and contend with the advances of Karl, her lawyer. Ana moves in with Gabrielle and Carlos over Gabby's objections that Ana is not who she claims to be when she begins throwing her weight around by slacking off and coercing the Scavo twins into doing her household chores. Also, Dave puts his final plan of revenge to kill M.J. in full force while Mike and Katherine plan their Las Vegas wedding trip. When Mrs. McCluskey and Roberta break into Dave's house to look for evidence against him, they find the suicide DVD of him talking about killing M.J. as revenge for his wife and daughter's death from the car accident (in the season opener) and Detectives Lyons and Collins rush out to find him, while Mike is forced to leave Katherine behind at the airport to find and rescue Susan and MJ before it's too late.