What's the Good of Being Good - Recap

The scene opens with Bree making out with another man she picked up from the bar, but she cannot anymore as the clock has already struck 4am. The alarm rings, and Bree asks her man to get out. Surprised, the man can’t believe she is throwing him out at four in the morning. However, she cannot let her neighbor, who wakes up at five and has coffee by her window, see that Bree has been sleeping with a stranger. The man hopes he can get back in touch with her, but Bree lets him know she felt good having sex with him, but does not intend to see him anymore. She leaves the man standing with a hanging jaw and a cup cake outside her door.

Later, Gabrielle has Renee and Lynette over because she is planning a renovation at her place. Can Renee do it in a couple of weeks? What’s the rush, asks Renee. Gabrielle hopes the room will not freak Carlos out when he is back from rehab. When Renee asks what about the room would freak out Carlos, she tells them carefully that she conceived her daughter there. Gabrielle wants to know if Lynette’s husband is back, but no he isn’t. He is still seeing his new girlfriend in Paris, and Lynette wants to go on a date with someone. She wants Gabrielle and Renee to find her a man with whom she can spend some time. Surprised, the two friends suggest she is a wonderful person, feisty, sexy and strong, but it needs a special kind of man to notice all that. Gabrielle lets on finding a guy for Lynette will be a bit of a challenge. However, Lynette believes there is a guy out there who finds her appealing, and the two friends are going to find him for her.

Meanwhile, Bree wakes up to a knock on her door, and is shocked when she looks at the clock. It is already 8, and her man for the night has not left as yet. Didn’t the alarm go off at four? It did, but he put it off and went back to sleep. No, that is when he is supposed to leave. All men leave at four. When answers her door, it’s her old neighbor. She is so angry she can spit. Turns out the responsibility of making lemon tarts at church is going to someone else because the other person uses real lemons. Before long, Bree’s man is coming down the stairs, and he doesn’t have his lemons covered. While Bree thinks the neighbor cannot see him, she has already caught him in a reflection. She can turn around, but is waiting for the man behind her to put on his pants. The man hurries down after putting on a pair of shorts, and wants Bree to find his pants. Bree reminds him where it is, and he rushes to the dining room. When the neighbor gives her the judgmental eyebrow, she claims he is a friend visiting from outside town. After he leaves, the neighbor complains Bree has not been herself off late. But she claims she is alright.

Ben brings Renee to his place and he’s got a surprise. He has his big swordfish binned, and he is inviting her to dinner. There awaits a bigger surprise, and she will have to come for dinner to find out. When Ben gets a phone call, he tells her it’s about work, and she goes upstairs telling him to be quick. Ben tells his colleague not to send out the bankruptcy files, because he is almost got it covered. Is he at the bank? No, he is at something else. Meanwhile, Claudia Sanchez arrives at Susan’s place, assuming she has stolen her husband. She shouts his name thinking he is hiding somewhere in the house, but Susan tries explaining she is mistaken. When Susan’s son arrives, Claudia leaves saying Susan’s the one who is the home breaker, not she.

Lynette and Renee go to a salon, where they meet Renee’s hairstylist – Frank. He is impressed with Lynette’s hairdo, but she thinks he could be her date. She wants to know why would Renee not fix them up, and after a bit of cajoling, she manages to make Renee let on to Frank that Lynette is single. Frank immediately agrees for a dinner with Lynette. Meanwhile, Susan steps out of her door to pick up the newspaper, and finds out that Claudia has posted the entire neighborhood with a flyer for her husband. It reads ‘Has anyone seen this man? Your neighborhood slut Susan has’. Not only is the flyer on the newspaper, but on every lawn and sidewalk in the neighborhood. Before long, Gabrielle finds out the flyers as well, and the two go removing them from the neighborhood. Gabrielle blames her for bringing up the whole issue by visiting Claudia’s place. Why did she have to do that? However, when Susan reveals she has learnt that Claudia’s husband abused his stepdaughter, Gabrielle begins to understand. They must tell Claudia about it.

Frank and Lynette are having dinner at a restaurant. Frank brings up his ex-wife, and tells Lynette about how demanding she was. Everything was alright as long as she had her way. She always frustrated him saying why he works for someone else when he can have his own salon. Lynette sees a point and begins telling Frank his ex-wife may have been right. She knows she is being feisty and getting on his nerves, but she can’t stop telling him he should open his own salon. How could be seeing himself cutting hair at 60? Frank is already feeling badgered. Meanwhile, Bree is at a bar seducing a brauny young man, when her pastor arrives wanting to know what she is up to. When he complains about her recent behavior, she claims she is lost, and hopes to find herself right here. The pastor complains she is not being herself, but Bree is livid and wants to be left alone. However, the pastor cannot save her position at the church’s women’s forum if she continues doing what she is doing. After the pastor leaves, Bree pours herself another drink. Meanwhile, Lynette has drafted 5-year plans for Frank, and he is beyond frustrated, but is trying to keep his cool.

The next day, when Renee arrives for her haircut before her dinner date with Ben, Frank tells her the date was interesting, and he owes her one. Renee ends up getting the hairdo she couldn’t hate more, and lays in to Lynette. She spoilt her date so bad with Frank, that she could have really done better than giving the self-contented a 5-year plan on a napkin paper. When Ben takes out his ring as a surprise for Renee, she can hardly believe it and says yes. She never thought she could feel safe with anybody because of the way he previous relationships went bad. She thought she could not trust someone any longer. Realizing what Ben is getting her into, he takes back his words, and reveals his financial distress. Renee realizes Ben wanted to marry her for her money, and leaves livid breaking a flower vase on the way out.

The next day, Susan brings Claudia to Gabrielle’s place. Susan says she would rather wait outside and leave Gabrielle and Claudia with some privacy. Inside, Gabrielle announces that Claudia’s husband is a child molester. He molested Gabrielle as a stepfather when she was fifteen. However, Claudia’s not buying any of it. Before long, Marissa, Claudia’s daughter is at the doorstep – will she believe her? She was too scared to tell her, but now she reveals what her stepfather did to her. Claudia finally believes, and hugs her daughter in tears. Later that night, Ben ends up taking the loan Mark stopped him from taking earlier. He will have to pay every week, and if he fails once – he better watch out. If he fails twice, he wouldn’t want to fail twice.

Later, Lynette apologizes to Renee for being feisty with Frank. She always had a little voice saying she is getting too hard on him, but she couldn’t stop. When Bree arrives at her church with a strawberry tart, she is heavily drunk. Before long, she meets the man she kicked out at 4 in the morning, but he is with his wife. It doesn’t take long for the truth to come out, but Bree is liking her new image. The episode ends.

Written By David Sibert

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