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Desperate Housewives Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2011 - 2012
Episode 1
Secrets That I Never Want to Know
Sun, Sep 25, 201143 mins
Susan, Gaby, Bree, Lynette and Carlos must dispose of the body of Gaby's evil stepfather, who was killed by Carlos in order to protect his wife. But feelings of guilt begin to overcome everyone in different ways. Susan starts to withdraw from her friends and family, and Gaby works to reach out to Carlos while his guilt weighs heavily upon him. As Lynette and Tom are grappling with their disintegrating marriage and impending separation, Lynette is having trouble making the right choices ever since she participated in the cover-up. And Bree must be especially careful around her new love -- Detective Chuck Vance. Meanwhile, a sexy, new neighbor moves to town, Ben Faulkner, and he's Renee's first order of business.
Episode 2
Making the Connection
Sun, Oct 2, 201143 mins
Tom no longer has to fall for Lynette's dirty trick to make him play 'bad cop' and she refuses to, so Parker gets to attend a dubious, unsupervised party and they rival to rescue him. Gaby soon loses the illusion that Carlos's sexless gloom can be broken by the usual seduction or even 'professional help' of any kind. Bree's recent secretiveness renders lover Chuck curious. Guilt-crushed Susan keeps volunteering herself for full punishment for the smallest faults, as penance for murder. Ben Faulkner cleverly sees through Renee's cheap ploy to pretend sharing an interest in the elderly, yet he stumbles on a real one.
Episode 3
Watch While I Revise the World
Sun, Oct 9, 201143 mins
Restlessly jogging at night, haunted by their conscience over Gaby's stepfather's murder, Carlos and Susan start really talking, which they never did before. When Mike finds out and fears for an affair, Susan ends up confiding in him. Bree's secrecy with detective Chuck Vance not only costs her a fine boyfriend, but makes him into a dangerous adversary, out for revenge. Lee has no choice but turn to Renée as unlikely mother figure for his adoptive daughter and fears he's losing her to basically the first female, but is reassured girls are fickle, the gay couple's parenting is exemplary. Lynette can't believe her immature, eternal screw-up sister Lydia Lindquist finally found the right man, and her impertinent praying ends up scaring off yoga guru Herbert 'Rashi' Brickmeyer for real.
Episode 4
School of Hard Knocks
Sun, Oct 16, 201143 mins
Tom is taking his life in his own hands now. Lynette begins spying on him through a tablet given to Penny. Renee's biased bad influence soon convinces Lynette that he is having an affair, supposedly with a foxy aerobics instructor Andre Zeller. Bree has a hard time controlling her 'I told you so' when Danielle moves back home with her son Benjamin, after a six month ill-considered marriage. The real confrontation comes when Bree discovers the starting capital she put up for 'fitness equipment' is for a 'love swing'. Gaby bluntly keeps taking on the tyrannical PTA president over parking privileges, ending in a surprise switch. Susan fakes her artistic personality to get into famous rebel painter Andre Zeller's open college class.
Episode 5
The Art of Making Art
Sun, Oct 23, 201143 mins
Susan is mortified but tries her best to comply when her art teacher, Andre Zeller, asks the students to show up to class in the nude in order to help them create from a point of honesty; Bree serves up some delicious, homemade soup for the homeless at the local shelter, but ends up enticing the local hipsters and pushing out those in need; Gaby finds herself without a staff to help set up a school event when her lackadaisical approach to her new job as president of the PTA insults the parent volunteers; Renee helps a reluctant Lynette get back into the dating pool by taking her to a singles bar; and Carlos finds himself hitting rock bottom when the guilt over murdering Gaby's stepfather begins to engulf him.
Episode 6
Witch's Lament
Sun, Oct 30, 201143 mins
Bree enjoys helping Ben prepare for his social real estate development building project, until she discovers it's on the very spot where the gang buried Gaby's stepfather. The bulldozers are ordered for the next day, so the trio must dig Alejandro up on Halloween night.
Episode 7
Always in Control
Sun, Nov 6, 201143 mins
Bree is stunned to learn who dug up Alejandro; Lynette spreads untruths about Jane to Penny; Gabrielle and Carlos must convince Lee and Bob that Juanita and Celia aren't the bad seeds that they used to be; Susan desperately searches her inner self.
Episode 8
Suspicion Song
Sun, Nov 13, 201143 mins
Detective Chuck Vance begins harassing Bree as his suspicions about her involvement in the disappearance of Alejandro grow; after using the murder of Gaby's stepfather as inspiration for her art school projects, Susan must find a way to graciously decline art school teacher Andre's invitation to display.
Episode 9
Putting It Together
Sun, Dec 4, 201143 mins
Gaby, Susan and Lynette are questioned; Bree's life begins to spiral into despair; Lynette's favor could ruin Tom's relationship with Jane.
Episode 10
What's to Discuss, Old Friend
Sun, Jan 8, 201243 mins
With a gun at her side, Bree prepares to end it all now that her friends have abandoned her and her life continues to spiral further into despair; Gaby begins to suspect that Carlos may have had something to do with Detective Chuck Vance's murder; Susan makes up her mind to go to New York to become a true artist - with or without Mike; and an angry Tom cancels his plans to go to Paris with his girlfriend when Lynette confesses that she's an accomplice to murder and may soon be arrested.
Episode 11
Who Can Say What's True?
Sun, Jan 15, 201243 mins
With Carlos still in rehab, Gaby asks for Lynette's help in wooing a high-stakes company to sign with her husband's firm; Renee talks Bree into getting out of the house and having some fun at a pickup bar; in an attempt to ease her guilt, Susan pays a covert visit to Alejandro's family.
Episode 12
What's the Good of Being Good
Sun, Jan 22, 201242 mins
Bree's life continues to spiral as her alcohol consumption rises -- as does her lust for men. Lynette goes out on her first date since separating with Tom -- with Renee's hairdresser; Alejandro's current wife suspects foul play is afoot and has a confrontation with Susan.
Episode 13
Is This What You Call Love?
Sun, Feb 12, 201243 mins
Susan is in for a shock when daughter Julie pays a visit and shows up six months pregnant. Bree's alcohol consumption and lust for men continues to dominate and ruin her life. Lynette's first sexual encounter since separating from Tom doesn't quite end in fireworks.
Episode 14
Get Out of My Life
Sun, Feb 19, 201243 mins
Susan discovers the identity of the father of Julie's baby; Orson makes it his duty to nurse Bree back to health; when Mrs. McCluskey throws Roy out of the house, Gaby takes him in and is reluctant to help get them back together when he proves to be an invaluable disciplinarian to her kids; after getting used to her alone time, Lynette is furious when Porter and Preston are evicted from their apartment and try to move back home; and Mike informs Renee of Ben's dire circumstances with a loan shark.
Episode 15
She Needs Me
Sun, Mar 4, 201243 mins
Susan tells Porter that she'll set up a nursery and watch over his and Julie's baby after Lynette firmly tells her son that she will not help raise her future granddaughter. Orson convinces Bree to go away with him to the Maine countryside - perhaps never returning to Wisteria Lane.
Episode 16
You Take for Granted
Sun, Mar 11, 201243 mins
Susan convinces Mike to go to the police when she discovers that Ben's loanshark is out to get him. Gaby is justifiably concerned when Carlos exhibits some strange behavior on his first day back to work. Tom's girlfriend, Jane, drops a bombshell on Lynette during Penny's birthday party.
Episode 17
Women and Death
Sun, Mar 18, 201243 mins
On the day of the funeral of a beloved Wisteria Lane resident, each of the ladies thinks back on how this person had affected their lives; Bree is called in for questioning about Alejandro's murder.
Episode 18
Any Moment
Sun, Mar 25, 201243 mins
Julie questions Susan's parenting skills; Bree's unsure of Andrew's marriage; Lynette plans to win Tom back; Gabrielle tries to teach her family a lesson.
Episode 19
With So Little to Be Sure Of
Sun, Apr 1, 201243 mins
Susan learns Mike had been keeping a secret; Bree needs a lawyer to get her murder charges cleared; Carlos is concerned with Gabrielle's job.
Episode 20
Lost My Power
Sun, Apr 29, 201242 mins
Susan tries to build a car for M.J.'s soapbox derby; Trip learns of Bree's past history, and must come clean; Renee discovers Ben is keeping a secret.
Episode 21
The People Will Hear
Sun, May 6, 201243 mins
Bree's lawyer may help her out during her trial; Gabrielle's attitude shocks the ladies; Susan has a disagreement with the teacher while in childbirth class with Julie; Lynette goes to great lengths to stop Tom from going to India. Tom breaks up with Jane after revealing that he is still in love with Lynette.
Episode 22
Give Me the Blame
Sun, May 13, 201243 mins
Bree's trial finally comes to an end with a surprise confession; Tom takes steps to finalize his divorce.
Episode 23
Finishing the Hat
Sun, May 13, 201243 mins
Everything that begins must eventually end, as the beginnings and endings walk us both forwards and backwards, taking our final stroll down Wistera Lane.