Who Can Say What's True? - Recap

The scene opens with Bree receiving a strange card in her mailbox, saying ‘You’re Welcome’, and takes it to Lynette and Gabrielle. Bree hopes they can help her with the suspicion she is so unable to handle. She tells them this could have something to do with their friend’s murder, before which a similar trend of strange postcards happened. However, Bree is not getting any assistance in holding her nerves. When Gabrielle asks Lynette if they should still be mad at each other, Lynette suggests yes. After all, Bree is the one receiving the strange messages, so she should know why they keep coming. Besides, they do not want anything to do with this strange message that they are not receiving. Bree is livid, and does not want the blame for something that a sociopath has been doing. If they are not helping, she is leaving. On her way home, she is being watched.

Meanwhile, Susan, well prepared for her destination, manages to drive to the house, but only to find she doesn’t know what to do once she has reached. She calls her partner who thinks she has taken a flight, but not before long, a realty agent arrives. The open house is not open until an hour, but she loves early birds. Presuming Susan to be a home buyer, she lures her in. She hangs up her call with her partner saying she is about to buy a house. Meanwhile, Renee arrives at Bob’s door, only to find him too busy – even though she says she misses him, he cannot get off the phone. She never says she misses anyone – she is not the missing someone type of person! She bangs the door on her way out.

Renee gets to Bree’s place to find her drinking away depression. She is not talking about it, and wants herself left alone. Renee suggests a night out, but Bree needs to figure out things by herself. Just as Renee is about to leave, Bree says okay to a night out. Renee knows this naughty place with a lot of naughty men. However, Bree suggests if Renee get a nice dress for her – her wardrobe is too frosty. After Renee leaves, Bree pours herself some more of the wine. Meanwhile, as Gabrielle cleans her lawn and tries to show her daughter the benefits of hard work, her husband Carlos’s secretary arrives hoping that Carlos can be excused from rehab for a little wine and dine with his client. Gabrielle is not letting him off the rehab, especially for wine and dine. However, when she hears the client is a $90 million account, she tells his secretary to set up the meeting – she has an idea.

Meanwhile, Susan is checking out the house she had reached with another objective. She asks the agent why the house is up for sale. The agent replies the husband’s been gone four months. It could be drugs, or another woman. The wife is trying to make ends meet, and even a couple of jobs are not enough. However, Ms. Sanchez, the resident, is already back, and when she overhears their conversation, she is livid at the agent’s behavior. Susan apologizes for prying, and Sanchez insists her husband is a good man, and a loving father. The daughter is listening, and looks a little nervous when Sanchez talks about her man coming back. Not before long, Susan wants to buy the lego toys lying around saying she is an Americana collector. When Sanchez looks surprised, she explains these are rare legos – first generation stuff, and writes her a check. Sanchez thinks she has added an extra zero, but Susan is not leaving without helping them.

Later that night, as Lynette hopes she will serve a great dinner that her kids will enjoy, the light above the dining table starts flickering. The kids wish their dad was here, but Lynette can do what their dad did. What did their dad do, she asks, and they tell her he would go to a box and jiggle something. However, Lynette fails, blowing up the light trying to jiggle. The next day, Mark approaches his boss Ben for his pay because his paycheque has bounced for insufficient funds. Pretending everything’s okay, Ben gives him cash. Back at Lynette’s place, when her daughter suggests calling an electrician, she replies why should she have to do that. She needs to figure out things, and why can’t she. It was her dad that left things in a mess by simply putting things together just so that they worked temporarily. When her daughter gives her a stare, Lynette claims she is just talking about the light. Soon after that, Gabrielle arrives looking for help. She has to attend a dinner with Carlos’ clients, but she knows nothing about finance. Lynette has spent her whole life learning about the subject, and how can she teach her all that in a couple of weeks. Well, Gabrielle’s got only a couple of hours, and thinks a little sweet talk will be all she needs to do. When Gabrielle cannot get Carlos’ papers because they are in his office on the other side of town, Lynette can do nothing to help her.

Later that night, Renee and Bree are at a bar. While Renee coaxes her to be a bad girl, she insists that her father always expects good behavior. Renee argues her father is not watching now, and she should gel with a stranger man to have fun. Meanwhile, Gabrielle hopes Lynette can teach her some jargon for the dinner with the client. However, when Lynette insists she needs to understand the concepts, she feels Lynette just takes too long. Besides, she doesn’t have time, and wants to hide a piece of paper with technical terms written on it. Lynette is livid, and asks her to leave and stop wasting their time. At the bar, Renee’s found a dancer, and Bree cannot keep sitting all be herself. She approaches a man sitting by himself at a table, and gets talking. They talk for hours, and finally agree they should be leaving together since they have known each other for long enough.
Meanwhile, Susan approaches the daughter outside the house she was about to buy. She asks her if the father who left them had ever been harsh on her. Correcting father to stepfather, she looks nervous, and does not answer directly, but her expressions are enough. Susan tells her he won’t be back, and she can promise that. Meanwhile, Bree arrives with her man in front of a lavish poolside house. She thinks the house belongs to the stranger, but his boss, the real owner, arrives soon and breaks them up.

The next day, Mark catches his bankrupt boss Ben cashing in a briefcase full of loan. When asked to mind his own business, Mark insists this job is his business, and he is not going to allow the company to go deeper in debt. When Gabrielle talks to Carlos’ clients at dinner, she barely manages to talk sense, even though she has a chit hidden behind her menu. Her daughter calls and she loses the menu, and the chit in it when she is not looking. She panics when she can’t find the menu anymore, and soon fails to make any sense. When Lynette’s kids return home, they find she has made a hole in their walls in the process of looking for the secondary fuse box. When the kids express irritation on why she doesn’t call an electrician, she breaks down suggesting that she feels the need to know what their dad knew, especially after he has left, and is not coming back!

Ben arrives at Renee’s place with a bottle of wine, but she is about to turn him out since he ignored her the last time. She wants to know how much the wine costs, and when she hears $115, she lets him in with a kiss. Lynette brings a bottle of bourbon and ice creams to say sorry about being a pain in the ass for Gabrielle. Both of them talk it out, and realize how much they miss their partners and how helpless they feel without them. But they are there for each other, and Lynette promises everything will get better. Bree and Renee talk about their experiences at the bar. Bree lets on that her stranger’s car was also not his own. Meanwhile, Sanchez learns from her daughter that Susan promised her stepfather is not coming back. Suspicious at Susan’s confidence, she pulls out her check and notes Susan’s address on it. It gets clearer for Ben as he speculates monetary opportunity while spending time with Renee. Bree gets back to the bar. When asked if a new man can get her another drink, she leaves with him saying he can buy her breakfast. But someone’s watching her again. The episode ends.

Written By David Sibert

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