- The housewives decides to organize the dinner Mary Alice was organizing; Gabrielle is blackmailed by a 9 year old girl; Bree tries to hide her broken marriage; Karl returns to discuss terms with Susan.
- The women decide to go ahead with the big dinner party that the late Mary Alice Young had planned to host, despite the more-than-minor disturbances in their own lives. Adulterous Gabrielle finds herself with a nine-year-old blackmailer, named Ashley, who catches Gabrielle in the act with John. Meanwhile, control-freak Bree struggles to keep her crumbling marriage a secret. Susan bares all (in more ways than one) as she confronts her ex-husband Karl over his new girlfriend (who's half his age). Lynette has her husband Tom look after their kids for one evening just to show him just how uncomfortable her home life really is. Also, Paul and Zach continue to quarrel over the late Mary Alice and about her mysterious past they are desperately trying to hide.—Anonymous
- Bree (Marcia Cross) doesn't want the kids to know that Rex (Steven Culp) is sleeping on the couch, so she wakes him up early to move back into the bedroom. She then sabotages the springs of the sleeper sofa.
Susan (Teri Hatcher) convinces the other women to go through with a dinner Mary Alice had planned. Bree agrees to host. Susan despairs at being the only single woman there, but then Mike (James Denton) jogs by. The men of Wisteria Lane are less enthusiastic about the dinner -- Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) is busy and Tom (Doug Savant) says he's too tired from traveling and begs Lynette to cancel the sitter. Rex is tired of keeping up appearances about his and Bree's marriage. She informs him that their cover story for therapy is they're taking tennis lessons.
After arguing with her ex-husband Karl (Richard Burgi), Susan feels bad and asks him to come over, intending to apologize to him. When he stops by, he catches her just out of the shower, wearing only a towel. During their ensuing argument, she slams his car door angrily -- right on her towel, which he takes with him as he drives off. She's naked in her front yard! And she's accidentally locked herself out! She's hiding in the bushes when Mike happens by and says he'd love to go to dinner. "I assume the dress is casual," he jokes at her expense.
Zach (Cody Kasch) finds the gun Mary Alice used to kill herself and demands to know why his father kept it and why he won't talk about her at all. Just then Bree stops by to invite them to dinner, but Paul (Mark Moses) declines. Zach is disappointed but thanks Bree for remembering his mother.
Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) is making out with John (Jesse Metcalfe) in her foyer when a neighbor girl looking for her lost ball sees them through the glass door. Gabrielle decides the best bet is to bribe her with a doll. But what she really wants is a bike. When Gabrielle buys her one, she assumes that's the end of the blackmail, except now she has to teach her how to ride it!
Lynette (Felicity Huffman) blows her top when she sees photos from Tom's business trip of him downing margaritas with the guys at a Mexican restaurant. He says they can go to the dinner party, but she's already canceled the sitter, so he agrees to babysit. Irked when Tom is dismissive of the difficulties of taking care of the boys, Lynette urges the kids to load up on sugar.
At the dinner party, when Carlos peppers Rex with questions about tennis, Rex admits that he and Bree are in marriage counseling. Everyone is shocked but Bree plasters on a fake smile and says "Dinner is served." The mood is tense until Susan breaks the ice with her humiliating experience earlier that day. Lynette and Gabrielle both admit similarly embarrassing incidents. But the laughter stops when Bree blurts out, "Rex cries when he ejaculates." A furious Rex grabs his keys and leaves.
After dinner, Susan thanks Mike for being a perfect gentleman and he admits he snuck a peek. "And for what it's worth, wow!" he says. When Karl shows up with his new girlfriend, Brandy (Anne Dudek), the next day, Susan apologizes to both of them, even if they won't do the same for her. And then it's Brandy, not Karl, who offers the long-awaited apology.
Lynette tells Tom about the dinner fiasco and then asks him "Are we happy?" He reassures her by putting on a sombrero and making margaritas.
Rex is moving to a hotel while Bree cheerfully packs for him. When she asks him why this is happening, he says it's because she can't even let him pack his own suitcase.
A distressed Bree stops by Dr. Goldfine's office to ask him what Rex said in his private session. While he delays his next client, she notices audiotapes of his sessions and decides to take Rex's. Instead, she only has time to grab a tape marked "Mary Alice."
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