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Synopsis:
Bree meets Orson's mother (Dixie Carter); Gaby decides to get back into modeling; and Lynette is suspicious of her new neighbor.
(From ABC)
Gabrielle decides to get back into the world of modeling, Lynette is suspicious of her new neighbor and Bree meets her antagonistic mother-in-law.
(Recap From ABC)
Edie is getting Mike's house ready for him and is furious when she finds Mrs. McCluskey unlocking his garage to use his mower. Mrs. McCluskey says she found all the pictures of Mike and Susan that Edie threw out. When she threatens to show them to Mike, Edie lets her borrow the mower.
When Mike comes home, nothing looks familiar. Of course, he doesn't realize all the photos of Edie are new additions.
Lynnette comes home from the hospital and thanks her new neighbor, Art, for saving her life by vowing to make him a cake, which she never does. The twins take the news of the shooting in stride, but Parker has a harder time of it. He begs Lynette not to go to the supermarket because that's where she got shot. Since he spends all his time reading comic books, Lynette gets the bright idea of persuading Parker that Art is a superhero, "Protector Man." He opens his shirt to reveal a T-shirt with the letter "P" underneath, so Parker is convinced.
When they stop by Art's house to drop off the cake, Parker is fascinated to discover a model train laid out in the living room. He follows it into another room, where there are are all kinds of toys and pinball machines. Lynette is charmed too, until she sees the wall full of pictures of young boys.
Susan feels like she's being overprotective when she ends dinner with Ian early to check on Julie. She's shocked to find her on the couch, making out with Austin! She forbids Julie to see him, but Julie says she's going to keep seeing him anyway. Susan tries to get Edie on her side and is surprised to see that Mike is out of the hospital -- and at Edie's. Edie tells Susan if they try to keep Julie and Austin apart, it will just make them try harder to be together. Susan calls in Karl to play bad cop. But her scheme backfires when Austin tells Karl about Ian. Karl says he gave Susan up to be with Mike, not some new guy, and forbids her to see Ian. Susan insists she can date who she wants, and when Julie seconds her, she realizes she's lost the battle. Julie asks why Susan doesn't trust her judgment and Susan says that when it comes to love, there's no such good thing as good judgment and she just doesn't want her to get hurt.
Detective Ridley gets a search warrant for Mike's house after lab results connects paint found in Monique's head wound to a high-end wrench only plumbers use. The search turns up nothing, not even a tool kit. Later, Mrs. McCluskey brings over the missing kit, telling Mike he might want to clean off the wrench since it's covered in something.
Bree gets an early start on her Christmas cards and asks Orson for the address of his mother's nursing home. He doesn't want to give it to her, saying his mother is senile, but Bree insists. When Orson reveals the nursing home is only 30 minutes away, Bree decides to pay her mother-in-law a visit. But she finds Gloria Hodge to be quite lucid, so she invites her home to dinner. Orson is furious when he sees his mother and refuses to eat with her but Bree demands he be civil.
Gloria says that since her hip is better now she'd like to go back to her house, but Orson delights in telling her he sold it, and all her possessions. She screams that she wishes she'd smothered him as a baby. They call a van from the nursing home to pick her up but while the driver is inside talking to Orson, Bree gets into the van to try to talk Gloria into staying for dessert. Gloria tries to flee, but ends up driving the van into a fire hydrant!
Bree offers to let Gloria stay with them but Orson won't hear of it. Gloria asks to speak with him alone. She threatens to tell Bree what their feud is about unless he lets her stay and he has no choice but to say yes.
Gabrielle gets nostalgic for her modeling days, so she visits her old agent, Marcella, in New York, who tells her that she can't just pick up where she left off. Gabrielle says she just wants to work and Marcella lines up a shoot for her right away. But Gabrielle is devastated when they hand her a dowdy dress -- they want her to be the mother of a sexy young model. Her attempts to sex up the outfit result in a dressing down from Marcella, telling her this is all she can get anymore at her age. When she returns home, she's immediately greeted by Susan, who says how much they'd all miss her if she moved to New York. Gabrielle says she's staying right here.