Desperate Housewives Spoilers
Updated on May 5, 2008
Desperate Housewives airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. Due to the strike, 17 episodes will be completed. The series was renewed for a fifth season.
Episode 4.15: Mother Said
Airdate: May 11, 2008
- 04/23 - [...] tongues are wagging that Edie's actions during the rest of the season are so reprehensible they could actually lead her to leave town. [...] What does she do that's so bad? "One of her neighbors is in a bit of a predicament and Edie good-naturedly attemps to help her out," Sheridan reveals of the May 11 episode. "But in doing that, she gets lured into an alcoholic haze that gives her momentary extraordinarily bad judgment." In short, "Edie crosses a huge moral boundary that she has never crossed before," creator Marc Cherry has said. "It's not that despicable," counters Sheridan. "The women are all quite evil at the end of that episode. Those nasty wenches! I mean, come on, they're the ones that are killing people, having affairs!" Edie's saving grace could be that the other ladies are so busy putting out fires in their own lives that they don't have time to deal with her. Source: TV Guide
- 04/21 - Orson got himself a new apartment. Edie flirts with a maintenance man in order to get inside the apartment. Bree warns a woman who is thinking of moving on Wisteria Lane that her real estate agent, Edie, is not to be trusted. Wayne has a lab tech run some DNA tests. It seems that the scenes where Lynette and Kayla go to the therapist may have moved to this episode. The doctor wants to do family therapy while Tom and Lynette want him to focus on Kayla. Source: SpoilerFix.com
- 04/21 - Adele Delfino, Susan's mother-in-law, arrives for a visit, Carlos and Gaby find out their tenant, Ellie, has a dark secret, and a full scale war erupts between Bree and Edie. Guest starring Celia Weston as Adele Delfino, Gary Cole as Wayne Davis, Justine Bateman as Ellie Leonard, Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey, Peter Birkenhead as Dr. Joshua Dolan, Steve Kramer as Detective Hewitt, Colleen McGrann as Lauren Baxter, Rick Otto as Det. Paul Bullock, Amy Chaffee as Keri and Hailee Denham as young Dylan. Source: ABC
- 04/09 - Gabrielle's house is a crack den! Actually, she's just renting a room to a coke dealer, but when she uncovers the boarder's secret and tries to turn her into the cops, it turns out the cops have already been staking out her house for weeks. Oddly, Carlos and Gaby are not super-duper excited about being in the middle of an undercover drug sting. Tom and Lynette consult a therapist about Kayla after she convinces the boys to jump off the roof. Source: Kristin on E!Online
- 03/23 - The ladies will freeze out Edie when they think she's slept with one of the husbands, but "she has not," [Marc] Cherry says. "Well, she's probably gone farther than she should." Source: Entertainment Weekly
Episode 4.16: The Gun Song (Season finale, part 1)
Airdate: May 18, 2008 at 9 p.m.
- 04/28 - Guest starring in "The Gun Song" are Nathan Fillion as Adam Mayfair, Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey, Gary Cole as Wayne Davis, Justine Bateman as Ellie Leonard, Tuc Watkins as Bob Hunter, Kevin Rahm as Lee McDermott, Peter Birkenhead as Dr. Dolan, Billy Gardell as Roy Harding, Rick Otto as Det. Paul Bullock, Bill Smitrovich as Rev. Green, Peggy Blow as Fern Parrish, Lisa Long as Irene Semanis, Wendy Schenker as female police officer, Paul Keith as Joe, Michelle Marsh as Sheila, Melody Butiu as Nurse Janice, Sonya Eddy as Vanessa, Kristen O'Meara as Griselda, Leslie Karpman as hostess, Danny Gurwin as assistant pastor, Helen Slayton-Hughes as elderly woman, Dale Waddington Horowitz as nurse #1 and Mark Brady as cop #1. Source: ABC
- 04/27 - After four years away, Reverend Michael Green returns to Fairview. Orson learns that the Reverend wants to talk about sexual promiscuity as a "red-headed harlot" needs to be unmasked. Since he thinks Green is referring to Bree (he actually is), Orson confronts him. Roy, a detective, places various listening devices here and there in the Solises' house in order to gather evidence against Ellie. Gaby admits to Roy that she has become friends with Ellie. While Adam is at the house for breakfast, Children's Service drop by to tell Katherine that they've received word that she may have hit Dylan. Later, Katherine is arrested and Dylan leaves to go with her maternal grandparents, Joe and Gleannis. Susan gives birth to a son and tries to have his name change after Mike names him "Maynard." She tries to bribe a nurse to change the name to Connor but, in the end, Mike will still have to sign a new birth certificate. Source: SpoilerFix.com
- 04/27 - The ladies of Wisteria Lane meet Susan and Mike's new baby, Gaby forms a strong bond with their new tenant, Ellie, and Lynette is accused of child abuse. Source: ABC
- 04/23 - Healthwise [Susan's baby will] be fine. Unfortunately, there's another issue: Susan is letting Mike choose the kid's name, and it won't be pretty. Source: Kristin on E!Online
- 03/23 - The two-hour finale will include the unveiling of Katherine's secrets and a huge twist ending. What could it be? "How can I describe this without giving it away?" [Marc] Cherry teases. "It's going to be shocking, and it's going to change the whole series." Source: Entertainment Weekly
Episode 4.17: Free (Season finale, part 2)
Airdate: May 18, 2008 at 10 p.m.
- 04/28 - Sources confirm to me exclusively that former Queer as Folk cad Gale Harold has booked a potentially recurring role on Desperate Housewives. The Vanished actor will play a quick-witted, charming and buttoned-down suburbanite. He'll be introduced in the May 18 finale and could return next season in a recurring capacity. Source: The Ausiello Report
- 04/28 - Several residents of Wisteria Lane are faced with deadly threats, Susan realizes she will soon lose someone she loves, and Katherine Mayfair's secrets are finally revealed. Source: ABC
- 04/27 - Adam is injured and when a driver passing by asks him if he's okay and what happened to him, Adam says: "Wayne Davis." Then, Adam pulls the driver out of his car and drives away. Police officers are at Katherine's house. She is sitting in her living room, unresponsive. There will be flashbacks of a younger Katherine when she and Wayne were still married. One will feature Katherine at the Mount Pleasant Police Station admitting to a policewoman that her husband has been hitting her and promising each time that he'll stop. It's not the first time Katherine goes to the police. The policewoman warns Katherine that since Wayne is a fellow patrolman, it's likely that the paperwork about Wayne's abuse will be lost again since he has a lot of friends at the station. She suggests to Katherine that she gets all the money she can and that she runs away with her daughter. It sounds like Lee and Bob may try to get married in this episode. It looks like they are going ahead with the time jump to the future since 40-year-old Ken (mentioned below in a spoiler from Kristin) is said to be someone's new husband. The wife, who sounds a lot like Susan, is hanging at her young son's school on his first days of school claiming that it's a "minefield" and that she found choking hazards all around (e.g., a little plastic sand shovel in the sand pit)! Ken warns his wife that it's time to let go. Andrew and Ellie also appear. Source: SpoilerFix.com
- 04/23 - The season ends with the wrap-up of Katherine Mayfair's mystery. But I'm also hearing we meet a new character by the name of Ken in the finale. He'll initially come off as the perfect, straight-laced husband type. However, sources say he'll have something to do with next year's big mystery. Source: Kristin on E!Online
- 04/06 - Sources tell me there is a plan on the drawing board to fast-forward the show five years into the future in the closing moments of the season finale - and continue on from there for the duration of the series. Source: TV Guide
General Spoilers:
05/05 - Nicollette Sheridan [...] will continue to wreak her special brand of havoc on Wisteria Lane next season, despite rumors to the contrary (and despite the fact that she's not scheduled to appear in the last two hours of this season). A source close to the production tells EW.com that the actress will make at least "several appearances" when the ABC drama returns in the fall. Source: Entertainment Weekly - 04/23 - One of the gay guys will run down the street naked and this season will get juicer: Gabrielle's house becomes a crack den, [...] along with the death of Kayla and a re-appearance of Karl. Source: SpoilerTV
- 03/27 - It seems that [Marc] Cherry has decided to take a page from the Lost playbook and set Housewives' expiration date well in advance. He plans to pull the plug after three more seasons, once the series' standard seven-year contract runs out in 2011. Source: Entertainment Weekly
- 01/10 - In Monday's USA Today, [Marc Cherry] told reporter Will Keck that he's considering downsizing Lynette's demonic progeny. "I will probably do a storyline about one of the women, probably Lynette, dealing with the death of a child because I think it's one of the saddest things that can happen to a human being." Source: Ask Ausiello @ TV Guide
- 02/21/2007 - Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has inked a four-year, eight-figure pact with ABC Television Studio (né Touchstone), Variety reports. The agreement keeps Cherry lording over Wisteria Lane through May 2011, at which time he anticipates wrapping up the story of Bree, Lynette et al. (ABC has also quietly negotiated deals with key cast members through '11.) "After seven seasons, it will be a good time to call it quits," Cherry tells the trade mag. "I don't want anyone else to run the show, and I don't want us to fade away." Source: TV Guide Online
- 02/13/2005 - Strong is contracted to be both heard and seen throughout the series' anticipated seven-year run. Source: USA Today
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