Desperate Housewives: Season 5

Five years after the season 4 finale, Bree and Katherine now own a successful catering company, with Andrew working as Bree's personal assistant. Bree is about to publish her own cookbook, but Katherine feels she gives her less credit than she deserves. It is revealed that years earlier, Danielle forcefully took Benjamin from Bree when she married Leo, an environmental lawyer. Lynette is having trouble controlling her now teenage twin sons Porter and Preston due to their latest antics, including

Lynette pretends to be a teenage girl on a social networking site in order to reconnect with Porter, but it backfires when he falls in love with her alias and eventually discovers the truth. Susan does not like how fast Mike and Jackson are becoming friends and feels Jackson may start observing her from Mike's point of view. Gabrielle goes to drastic lengths to protect her social standing when she is uninvited from a party because Carlos massages the guests at the country club, but Carlos eventu

Bree is reunited with Benjamin after three years, only to find herself repulsed with Danielle's parenting techniques, such as raising Benjamin as a vegetarian. To prevent this, Bree secretly asks him to eat two hot dogs but Danielle finds out and leaves her. Orson gets angry at Bree for ruining Danielle's visit and blames her for Benjamin's departure. Susan and Gabrielle get into a brawl over their children when Susan discovers M.J. is being bullied by Juanita Solis. Gabrielle and Carlos sell th

Bree's new cookbook makes Lynette jealous and she decides to help her with the ad campaign; Bree refuses and decides to go with the original campaign designed by Stu, an ad exec of Lynette's when she was working at Parcher & Murphy. Bree finds out that Orson lost his job three weeks earlier due to his criminal record and he asks her if he could join the catering company, but Katherine refuses to have him as a partner. However, Bree gives him the job when he gets sad and moves into the guest bedr

On the night of Mrs. McCluskey's 70th birthday party, the wives reflect on crucial events that have occurred over the last five years and led them to where they are today: Gabrielle had two "miracle" babies and asked Carlos to get a vasectomy because she decided not to have any more kids; Bree, a former alcoholic, began to drink again the night Orson left for prison, but Katherine helped her to move past it; Tom had a near-death experience that fueled a midlife crisis and his need to add a tinge

Susan and Jackson decide to start over after their brief break-up. Bree decides to set Katherine up with one of their clients, Peter Hickey, but finds out he was Orson's cellmate in prison, who was serving time for organ trafficking. Katherine, upset over her date, ponders moving to Maryland with Dylan, but finds a friend in Mike. Mrs. McCluskey decides to find out what Dave is really up to and gets help from her sister, Roberta, who pulls a few records from her company, Teleshore. Mrs. Virginia

Lynette and Tom discover that Porter is having an affair with Anne, who is supposedly married to a husband who abuses her, and ask their son to end the affair. However, Porter discovers that Anne is pregnant and decides to run away with her without telling his parents. Gabrielle thinks Virginia is becoming too close for comfort and asks her to stop all the weekend visits; Virginia is angered and uses her contacts to make Carlos lose his job for inappropriate physical contact. Roberta and Mrs. Mc

Everyone gathers at the White Horse Club to attend the "Battle Of The Bands" where the band is performing. Julie visits Susan with her much older boyfriend who has been divorced thrice. When he proposes to her, Julie refuses, which makes Susan learn that her daughter does not believe in marriage because of the consequences of her own mother's marriages. A reporter tries to dig up dirt on Bree to include it in a review of Bree's cookbook. Virginia gives Carlos his job back and adds both Carlos an

Gabrielle finds out Carlos can gain back his sight thanks to the injuries he suffered in the stampede of the nightclub. Thinking that Carlos may not find her beautiful anymore, Gabrielle takes drastic measures to regain her figure. Susan decides to let go of Mike when she learns of Katherine and Mike's relationship. Bree asks Orson to undergo a surgery of his injured septum which causes him to snore loudly, but Orson decides to drug Bree with sleeping pills, which causes her to almost miss her c

When Porter gets arrested, Lynette hires Bob as Porter's lawyer and finds out that Porter stole a gun from Edie. Lynette secretly returns the gun after removing Porter's fingerprints, still hiding from Tom the fact that she used up his emergency fund. Porter skips town after his bail is posted when he is threatened by Warren, causing Preston to take his place in court. Carlos realizes the extent of Gabrielle's sacrifices for their family once his sight returns and decides to make it up to her fo

Bree and Alex's mother, Melina, compete for Alex and Andrew's affections, and when Bree feels that Melina is plotting to make them move to Oakdale, she buys the boys a nice house from Edie on Wisteria Lane to keep them nearby. Gabrielle urges Carlos to take a six-figure job to support the family, even though it means spending more time away from home, but he wants to take a job at the community center to help the blind. Susan turns to Lee for company while Jackson is away and Lee makes her reali

Alex objects to the way Bree criticizes her family and decides to give back the house she bought for him and Andrew. He ultimately re-accepts it when Bree tells him about how she has become insensitive to others since her business flourished and she would not mind if he corrected her. Gabrielle takes desperate measures to control her children when they stop listening to her while Carlos is busy at his new workplace. Lynette discovers that Stella is hiding Porter to get back at Lynette for leavin

When neighborhood handyman, Eli Scruggs, dies, the residents of Wisteria Lane come to realize just how much he affected their lives. Gabrielle recalls how Eli helped her make new friends when she moved in. Lynette remembers how he came to her aid when she was overwhelmed with her new job and unintentionally neglecting a newborn Penny. Susan reflects on how he was always there for her as a shoulder to cry on each time a man walked out of her life. Edie looks back on the special bond they formed a

Susan is envious when she discovers Mike has bought Katherine new pearls yet says he cannot afford to pay for M.J.'s private school, Oakridge Academy. She steals Katherine's pearls which Mike confesses to both of them are fake as he could not afford them. To pay for M.J.'s education, Susan gets a job at Oakridge to get a 50% discount on tuition. Bree reaps the rewards of her book by buying a car and giving Lynette and Tom $20,000 to help with their financial troubles after posting Porter's bail.

Because of Susan's new job at Oakridge, Mike has to take care of M.J., but he drops him off at Katherine's, whose delicious recipes and care start making M.J. feel that Katherine's house is more fun than Susan's. When Susan discovers this, she confronts Katherine and tells her to stay away from her son. Katherine tells Susan that Mike is moving in with her and hence, she will be seeing more of M.J. Lynette tells Tom they have to sell Scavo Pizzeria when it continues to suffer economically, coupl

In a gesture of friendship, Bree tells Lynette she will help Tom secure a new job from an advertising executive named Bruce as they have sold their restaurant, but the tension heats up when Lynette and Tom compete over the new job, leading neither of them to get it. Orson starts behaving like a kleptomaniac, stealing from people who are rude to him; he steals from Tom when he rejects his help, then Bruce who behaves rudely to him, and then Bree, who catches him stealing and tells him to stop. Br

Susan tries to be friendly with Jessie, her boss at Oakridge, so that she gets a good evaluation, but freaks out when her friendliness gets translated into romance by Jessie, who is a lesbian. Edie looks for information in the newspaper on the people who died in Mike's car accident and discovers that it was Lila and Paige Dash, Dave's wife and daughter. Edie confirms that Paige really was his daughter when she asks Dave if he wants a child but he refuses. Dave convinces Katherine to join them ca

Lynette is threatened by her new boss, Lucy, when she makes her work permanently on Friday nights, preventing her from coaching Penny's basketball team. Carlos fires Lucy after realizing that she is a rude and demeaning woman. Bree finds out that Orson is committing theft to hurt her, and that she is unintentionally emasculating him by being the breadwinner of the house. She plans on selling her company, but decides not to when Andrew makes her realize that she should make herself happy by conti

The episode is narrated by Nicollette Sheridan as the late Edie Britt, as the wives take a road trip to give Edie's ashes to Travers and inform him of her death. The housewives reminisce about the special times they shared with Edie: Susan recalled how Edie and she had started as friends while sniping at each other when Edie discovered Karl was cheating on her with Brandy; Lynette remembers how Edie helped inspire her to battle cancer and not be weak and mourn; Bree reflects on how Edie taught h

Susan tries to console Dave after Edie's death by telling him about her and Mike's car accident; she reveals that she was driving the car, not Mike, and felt incredibly guilty after killing Lila and Paige. Realizing he is targeting the wrong resident, Dave plans on killing M.J. to hurt Susan. Orson tries to hide the crime he committed in Rose Kemper's house by telling the hospital authorities that she has dementia, but Bree finds out indirectly from Katherine about the theft and asks Andrew for

Juanita starts wearing make-up, which prompts Gabrielle to teach her a lesson about inner beauty; Gabrielle breaks the boundaries herself when she desires make-up at an event involving the mayor of Fairview. Gabrielle promises Juanita that she can beautify her outer self when she is done beautifying her "inner gooey center". Bree decides to divorce Orson, but her search for a divorce lawyer that can help her keep her cookbook company safe from Orson's hands leads to Karl, who promises to help he

Gabrielle wants Juanita to volunteer for the church soup kitchen when she appears to be ungrateful and acts like a spoiled brat. Gabrielle runs into an old housewife, Fran, who is now poor because of her husband's death, forcing Gabrielle to realize that she may, again, face financial troubles. Susan cancels her and M.J.'s boating and fishing plans with Dave, much to Dave's dismay. Mike asks Katherine to marry him when he sees Susan and Jackson getting ready to plan their fake marriage. Susan te

Gabrielle becomes upset when Carlos offers to have his not-so-innocent niece, Ana, come and stay with them for a while and disrupts their routine. Meanwhile, Lynette becomes angry at Tom as he desperately tries to hold on to his youth. The brutal battle of the sexes between Orson and Bree gets nasty when Orson discovers what she's been up to. Elsewhere, Detectives Lyons and Collins make headway in the arson fire.

Lynette adapts to Tom's decision to go back to school, Orson takes a beating that Bree cannot comprehend, Gabrielle's niece moves to Wisteria Lane, and Susan and MJ's lives are in grave danger at the hands of Dave.