Posted by Dustin on 04.13.2008 at 11:38 pm

This was the first post-strike episode of “Desperate Housewives” and the ladies were back and as good as ever.

After facing cancer and a tornado, Lynette got the church bug and decided to join Bree at her Presbyterian church. However she embarrassed the heck out of Bree by standing up during the sermon to ask various questions, like why does God let crap happen? Bree later told her that she was out of line, church was not a place to ask questions, you listen to the sermon and are given answers. Too funny, but in many cases shockingly accurate. I am not surprised those words came out of Bree’s mouth at all. She suggested if that was the kind of church she needed, try the Unitarians as anything goes with them. Later though it was Bree’s foot she had in her own mouth when the pastor thanked her for bringing in a new family, a refreshing one that asked questions which he liked. He told her church should be about asking questions! She scrambled to find Lynette, who went to the Catholic church which is what her family are. Bree tried to bribe her back, but Lynette wouldn’t go to please Bree, who really just wanted the brownie points to get elected to the ladies’ auxiliary board. Lynette told Bree because of what she went through, she needed answers to her questions. She went to Bree because of all of them, she seemed to really have a relationship with God and had faith, or so she thought. Lynette thought that perhaps she was wrong about her and her faith, so she’d stick with the Catholics as they don’t look at her funny for having so many kids! Later Bree apologized and let Lynette know her words were right and she had lost sight of things and what faith was about along the way. They made up and hugged.

Over to Gabby who went to the church this week, but for an entirely different reason. She wanted a priest to marry her and Carlos pronto! Meanwhile Edie being Edie poked around at the hospital only to learn Carlos’ blindness wasn’t temporary as he told Gabby, but permanent. Of course he didn’t tell her the truth as she showed up as with the priest to marry them and he chickened out. Well Edie had no qualms about telling Gabby the truth, especially after learning the diamond bracelet Carlos gave her awhile back came from a garage sale and was a fake! Carlos told Gaby that he was afraid to tell her, that she might leave him. Gaby showed a sincere side she rarely seems to show, albeit after torturing him a bit by making him walk into things to get to her. She said she loved him and this was for better or for worse, no matter how hard it would be. Touching, but I’m more ticked at Edie than anything. They seemed to have once again picked right up where they left off, with making her character nastier than ever before. I think now I realize why with all the supposed reports that this may be her final season on the show. Are they just trying to make us loath Edie to the point that we won’t care if she’s gone?

Over to Adam, who left Katherine after reading the note from her aunt and went to a hotel this week. Meanwhile Dylan found the remnants of the note her mom tried to burn and told Julie that it appears her mother killed her father, according the the note her great aunt wrote her. Dylan called Adam and wanted answers, but he of course told Katherine what was going on. Grrrr! I was hoping he would have taken a stand and not stayed her little whipping boy. Katherine then told Adam exactly what to tell Dylan should she show up. She also made a plea to him to try and work things out, but he told her now and it was over. Finally, at least he did take a stand against the new wicked witch of Wisteria Lane. I do like the character so I hope they can keep him around, but nobody but Edie is single and she doesn’t deserve him for sure!

Meanwhile Susan’s nephew Tim showed up to help her with her taxes now that he’s grown and an accountant. He apparently stayed with her the summer he was 16 and remembered little Dylan and her mom Katherine. He seemed to take an interest in Dylan, which Susan really didn’t like and tried to keep him far away from her, given she was still underage. Later Susan went to see Mike in rehab, but rushed out when she called home to check on Tim and heard a woman giggling in the background. She feared it was Dylan, but shockers of shocks it was Katherine! Well hey at least it wasn’t Andrew in the bed! That boys wound up in enough beds as is. Then even more of a shocker, we learned Katherine and Tim had a fling the summer he was in town and she took his virginity! That’s what the “reconnected” over. And right after she tried to get Adam back, for shame! My sympathy for this woman is as non-existent as my sympathy for Edie at this point.

The show ended with Tim explaining to Susan that he only had the one time with Katherine, she seemed ashamed it happen and sent him away. Then later he went back to see her, but saw her fighting with a man. In the flashback we heard the man (Gary Cole) yell that “he was her father!” Katherine then picked up a candle stick and smacked him over the head, he fell down and of course didn’t get up. Tim said he ran after that and never saw Katherine again. Meanwhile Dylan showed up to see Adam, who claimed her aunt was senile and that her mother absolutely did not kill her father. Does Dylan believe him? That is the question.

So once again we are left with questions. It seems Katherine was keeping Dylan’s father from seeing her, but why? Dylan used to have the dream of a man standing over her bed and trying to possibly take her. Was he molesting her as many of us originally thought and is that why Katherine did what she did? Or is something else going on? Is he even dead? The show seemed to hint he was and that Katherine may have even buried the body in the yard (what was with the cross of cobblestones?). Or just like everything else on this show, is he not dead but alive? Gary Cole is set to return for more episodes and everything seems to point to his character being very much alive. Remember one of the neighbors told this to Dylan as well, that her father wasn’t dead like her mother told her he was. Ugh I’m so confused! If he’s not dead . . . . has Katherine killed someone else then?

Next Week’s Previews:
The cops show up at Lynette’s’ house. Uh Oh!
Orson sleep walks nude and runs into Susan!
Gabby uses Carlos handicap parking privileges and gets into a confrontation with a man in a wheel chair. She tells him he wheels around all day while she has to walk in heels!
The Founders Day ball is held and Katherine and Bree decide to try and work together to plan it, with the comment from Edie if they can do so without killing each other.
Lynette is shocked when Rick returns!

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