Farewell Letter - Recap

Lynette is rudely awakened by Parker and Preston being complete idiots.
One shakes her awake asking if they have any eggs, where do they keep
them, how do you make an omelette? She gets up, it's easier to just make
them herself. That's when she finds out the boys have girls over, and
they're trying to place special orders. They met them at a kegger. She
has a chat with the boys, then goes to bed without making anything to eat.

Tom greets the twins with the classified ads. They have seven days to
find somewhere else to live. They'll need jobs of course.

Susan is on the phone via headset behind the wheel. She slams on her
brakes, spills her coffee, and gets pulled over. The chipmunk is still
alive though. She didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign on
Ferndale. She spills her guts about running late for dialysis. The cop
feels sorry for her and lets her off with a warning.

Gabby is whining. She doesn't want to make a trip home. Her therapist
wants her to read a letter at her stepfather's grave. Writing down how
being abused felt helped, now she can get closure by reading the letter.
Carlos tells her she doesn't have to if she really doesn't want to. But
he hopes she will. She agrees.

Mike drives Zach to rehab. Paul is in the back seat with him. Paul
offers nothing but recriminations. Zach tries to jump out of a moving
vehicle. Paul physically attacks him for shooting him. Zach has a
choice. He can either go to jail for shooting Paul, or he can continue
on his merry way to rehab. He stops fighting. Paul straps him back in
and they continue driving.

Keith teaches Charlie how to throw a baseball. Bree watches through the
window. Amber arrives to take him back to the motel. They need to pack
and head out. Keith wishes he'd had more time to spend with Charlie, but
unfortunately he lost a week while Bree tried to decide whether to tell
him they were here. She apologizes again. He tells her what she did was
unbelievably selfish. If they are going to have any future at all, they
have to be honest with each other. Bree asks him not to be angry with
her and Keith says he is angry, but not at her. It's this crappy situation.

MJ is whining at the grocery store. He wants to be home for cartoons.
Susan promised he would be. She plays the kidney card again, and they
motion her to the head of the line. MJ bounces back with the foil and
happily announces he's going to get to see Tom and Jerry. Susan tries to
play it off as Tom being her doctor, and Jerry being her nurse, but
nobody is fooled.

Tom and Gabby arrive, and she is greeted with open arms as the super
model that everybody knows. Gabby sees a nun, leaps into the cab and
heads for the hotel.

Keith returns from dropping Amber and Charlie off at the airport. Three
days ago he didn't know Charlie existed, and now he doesn't know how
he's going to live without him. Keith is an army brat. He doesn't want
his son growing up without him. Bree wishes there was something she
could do, but Keith says there's nothing anyone can do. It is what it is.

Parker and Preston are moving out, Lynette and Tom are in the driveway
saying good-bye. They drive across the street and over to the
McCluskey's house.

Susan is on the phone from Renee's. She got out of jury duty using
dialysis. Renee is impressed. They should go to a fancy restaurant that
doesn't take reservations and cut to the head of the line.

Gabby and Carlos go out for a bite to eat. He's apprehensive, since he
swears he just saw two cockroaches throwing up, but she ushers him in.
The walls are covered with pictures of Gabby, and the customers are
stunned to see her there. One of the men asks Gabby's 'chauffeur' to
take a picture of them. He'd be happy to. Another lady asks for an
autograph. They also have a nacho platter named after her. The principal
shows up to welcome her. She had no idea everybody remembered her. He
asks her to come by the school, talk to the girls, he'll even invite the
press. Carlos tries to let him know that they're on a tight schedule,
but Gabby is loving the attention, and says yes.

Beth is preparing dinner when Paul arrives home. She misses him. He's
been really cold and distant. She wants to put all that behind them and
start over. When she hugs him, she finds her gun. He borrowed it. For
protection. Zach tried to kill him. But what about her? Why did Beth
bring a gun into their home? It's not very romantic. Beth is beside
herself. If the gun bothers him, they can get rid of it. She doesn't
understand why he's acting like this. He refuses to discuss it.

Keith asks Bree to move to Florida with him, so he can be near his son.
There's nothing keeping anyone where they are. She says her friends. He
offers to build a guest house, and they can stay all winter. Her answer
is no, this is her home. If she won't go, he can't. Long distance
relationships don't work. He kisses her good night. Now Bree's the one
who can't sleep.

Gabby gives the local paper a story. Carlos is happy she's happy, but
she still has to accomplish what she came here for. She thinks she has.
This trip has been amazing, getting all this love from all these people.
He's happy for her, but Carlos just doesn't know if it's enough.

Tom and Lynette watch out the window at the twins across the street. The
boys didn't leave the nest, according to Tom. "This is more like nest
adjacent." Lynette figures this is a good thing. If anybody can whip the
boys into shape, Karen can. The phone rings, and it's Karen. She wants
to know how to make a Denver omelette. She made one for the boys, and
they didn't like it. They said Lynette's are better. She says she'll
come right over.

She finds the boys and their dates at the McCluskey table. The boys are
being brats. Karen excuses herself to go get the boys' laundry out of
the dryer. She'll leave it at the end of their beds. Lynette points out
that them moving was supposed to help them grow up. All they did with
this lateral move was go from Lynette's boob to Karen's. One of the boys
chokes on his breakfast, and Karen reproves Lynette for the "nice
breakfast talk."

The women step aside to talk in private. Karen thinks the boys are
great, but Lynette figures that's because it's only been one day. So
far, they've been perfect tenants.

The principal re-introduces Gabby to Sister Marta. She's been with them
for almost 30 years. Surely Gabby remembers her. After the principal
walks away, Sister Marta is cold and snide. Carlos notices Gabby's
reaction. She doesn't answer him when he asks who the nun is. She
excuses herself and confronts the nun.

Twenty years ago, she told Sister Marta that her stepfather molested
her. The nun accused her of lying then, and she still believes it now.
She blames Gabby's choice in reading materials to be the culprit -
trashy romance novels. Gabby is astounded. She came to Sister Marta with
a horrible secret she couldn't even tell her mother or anyone in her
family, and the nun dismissed her. Does she remember what she said to
the young Gabby? Sister Marta says she's not going to stand there and
listen to this, but Gabby snaps at her "YES, you are." She called Gabby
a liar, and told her she should be ashamed of herself. And Gabby has
been ashamed, ever since. Marta asks if Gabby came back here to accuse
her and Gabby tells her no. She came back because her therapist had the
crazy idea that if she stood on the grave of the man who abused her and
told him how she felt, it could help Gabby heal.

Gabby feels healing would be better served by confronting Sister Marta,
so she lets her have it with both barrels. Gabby didn't deserve what
happened to her. She was a child. But Marta? She was a grownup, and she
did nothing. She should be ashamed of herself. The nun remains silent.
Gabby tells Carlos they can go home now.

Lynette brings the twins a keg to congratulate them for landing on their
feet. They can't drink it all by themselves, so she suggests they have a
party. Show everyone their new digs.

Paul confronts Zach. Why did he shoot him? Because he wanted him dead.
Too vague? Zach tells Paul that he has always hated him. Paul doesn't
believe him, so Zach says it again. The hate was always there, and as he
got older, it got bigger. Zach tells Paul he's the reason Mary Alice
killed herself. He finally struck a nerve. Zach has a realization. Paul,
alive and in pain, is much better than Paul dead. Paul says Mary Alice
loved him. Zach gets in his face, looks him in the eye and tells Paul
"No one could ever love you."

Karen marches the boys in the door, hauling them by one ear each. "I'm
returning these. They're defective." Not only did they damage the
exterior of her home, but they broke three of her collectible shot
glasses. She almost had one from every state! Lynette orders them to
apologize, and one of them looks at Karen and asks for their security
deposit back.

She leaves, and Lynette has words with them. One of them is stupid
enough to have words back, and she puts her foot down. They're fully
grown men who can do nothing for themselves. Gee, they wonder - how did
that happen? Whenever they tried to, Lynette said it was just easier to
do it herself. She realizes they're right. She just wanted them to stay
kids for as long as possible. She grew up with a crazy mom, taking care
of her sisters. She wanted them to have a childhood, but she let it go
on too long. She apologizes, but they are now going to grow up and start
their own lives. They want an omelette before they go, and she says yes,
then no. She'll teach them how to make an omelette.

Keith and Bree talk about Charlie. She feels he should move to Florida.
He refuses, but she insists. He's already in a long-distance
relationship. Unfortunately, it's with his son. He needs to face the
facts. One of these relationships isn't going to make it, and it has to
be Keith and Bree's. He loves her. And he's not leaving. She tells him
what she knows. From the first day they met, she has pretended that
their age difference doesn't mean anything. But it does. She's already
had what he's always wanted, and now has. Children. She's fallen in and
out of love with several men in her life - but she's never fallen out of
love with her children. Keith cries as she tells him that she knows he
may think he'll never love another woman like he loves her, but she
knows that he will. He doesn't see how that's possible. Bree says that's
because he's young. He's given her so much. Let her give this to him.

Renee asks for a table at Gerard's, and the hostess tells her she's
looking at a two-hour wait. She calls to Susan, who trots out her tired
old dialysis excuse. The hostess says she'll see what she can do.
Another customer says he's diabetic and his wife has rheumatoid
arthritis, but you don't see them trying to get any special treatment.
He sets Susan straight. The only thing special about her is her sense of
entitlement. He advises them to get to the back of the line, and they do
so. Susan doesn't feel well, and promptly passes out. Renee thinks she's
faking it, but she's not. Renee asks for someone to call 911.

Paul sits on the bed with Beth's suitcase, waiting for her to get done
in the bathroom. He hauls her down the stairs, telling her he knows who
her mother is. At least Felicia had the guts to hate him to his face.
Beth hid it. She protests that she doesn't hate him. He throws her out
the door as she begs forgiveness and professes her love. He repeats what
Zach said. "No one could ever love me." He hands her her gun and slams
the door in her face.

Mary Alice talks about leaving as Parker and Preston pack their car,
Gabby and Carlos head home, and Keith packs. Beth walks down the street,
her hair still wet from the shower. She has nowhere else to go.

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