Episode 2x04
'My Heart Belongs to Daddy'

US Airdate: 16-Oct-2005
UK Airdate: 08-Feb-2006

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Thanks To Sheena @ Desperate Housewives Boards for this recap :)
The show started with Bree and George standing together, Andrew was "taking out the trash". Bree invited George over for dinner on Friday, Andrew walked up to George and said "so are you leaving or what?", George "I'll go when I'm ready" and some evil looks were exchanged. Andrew then pushes George down, Bree settling the 2 of them and tells George she'll see him Friday.

Andrew was going out and Bree made him change his shirt and wanted to make sure he'd be there for the dinner Friday, he said "if you think I'm having dinner with the pharmacist, you're crazy", she blackmailed him to be there.
We then see George and Andrew "getting along" great over dinner, laughing etc..., even Bree and Danielle thought it was "freaky". Andrew then asks George "have you ever been with a woman before?" tells him he's obviously not a player and says his parents had a great sex life. Tells George his mom has a weird moan and imitates it and said that's what she does when she climaxes  (Bree and Danielle were in the kitchen at this point and didn't hear that) George is freaking out, tells Bree he isn't hungry. Bree eating and makes the same moaning sounds Andrew did earlier, George gets up and says to Andrew "go to your room", he wants Bree to back him up but she has no clue whats going on so George leaves.

She later tells George they can't see eachother because she need to give more of her attention to Andrew. George suggests he goes to therapy at that place he went before but Bree said only if he'd get really out of control she'd do it. (now we know what George is thinking, right? )

Andrew has a swim meet and as he's about to start the "race", George shows up and gives Bree a present. Andrew watching from the pool (as he's trying to do his lap" and George sees Andrew looking and starts kissing Bree, Andrew gets out of the pool and attacks George, it was great!

Gabrielle

We see that the prison inmates enjoy when Gabby visits Carlos (they are whistling, throw remarks etc.. at her). Gabby is talking to her lawyer on the prison ground (all the inmates in the yard), she tells her lawyer she wants conjugal visits with Carlos so they have time to have sex, they argue and the lawyer basically calls her a bitch and says "I'm not your maid and I'm not your gardner" and the a prison riot occurs as the inmates are telling the lawyer to apologize to Gabby etc...
Carlos upset that Gabby caused riot and she says she's tired of arguing, he says they always argued and she said
ya but we used to have sex afterwards" "you and I need to get laid", Gabby then sees an inmate and his visitor looking at her and she says "don't judge me, you're not in here because you were caught helping the poor"

Carlos arranges Gabby to meet with a different lawyer but we see that this lawyer, David Bradley, seduces all his clients. He throws some hints Gabby's way but she's not falling for it, she tells him she is pregnant and she really loves her husband.

Later she's at the prison for her conjugal visit and she and Carlos go in a trailor and have sex. While cuddling she asks Carlos if they're going to make it (speaking of their relationship) and he says "we just did, you want to go again?" LOL
While cuddling he is telling Gabby when he gets out they will have a new life, great family and nothing in the way. He asks if she likes the new lawyer, then the phone rang, and when Carlos hung up they had sex again, so the question was never answered.

Lynette

We see Lynette get home, the kids are sleeping. She sees Parker sleeping with an umbrella. She feels like she's missing out on their lives. She asks Tom about the umbrella and he tells her that Parker has an imaginary friend Mrs.Mulberry. Lynette feels like Mrs Mulberry has replaced her in parker's life. She wakes Parker up early 1 morning to go for donuts together, as they're about to leave he tells Lynette they forgot Mrs.Mulberry, then her umbrella etc.., Lynette gets upset, Parker gets out of the car and says we don't want donuts.

Lynette then gets called for a meeting at school where they notify her that his imaginary firend is becoming a problem as he jammed a teacher with the umbrella because there was no extra desk for MrsMulberry. They ask Lynette if there are changes in his life because most imaginary friends are a coping mechanism to deal with a lost. Lynette starts to cry.
She confronts Tom and not sure what she should do. Tries to talk to Parker by telling him that she really loves him and she knows things are hard on him. Doesn't work, he still doesn't want to know anything...

She has trouble sleeping 1 night and throws the umbrella in the garbage, the garbage truck passes but the umbrella falls out and opens up. Parker sees the umbrella as he's leaving for school for then a car ran over it and he started crying saying Mrs Mulberry had died.

Susan

We see Mike and Susan kiss, he tells her this "casual" thing is weird. Susan says it will stay like that until the Zach thing gets resolved and Mike tells her that Zach is part of the package, to either accept it or don't. He walks away and she tells him she'll accept it. They kiss and he tells her they don't need to be casual anymore.
Susan was helping Mike post "missing child" signs and Edie asks her why. She tells Edie, she'll doubt they'll ever find him and Edie says "you caniving little shrew, I don't know why we're not closer"
Mike and Susan are in aprk posting signs and an ice cream man sees pic and says "isn't that him over there?", Susan sees Zach and goes up to him and he runs, he gets a piece of wood and was going to knock her with it so she ran the other way. She runs to Mike but doesn't tell him she saw Zach. She tells Bree and Gabby about it and Bree thinks she should try to get him back to Wisteria Lane so Susan went back. She saw Zack again, they went to eat, she told his dad was alive and he was glad to hear that (he's obviously thinking about paul).Susan trying to get Zach to go back home with her. Zach says maybe his Dad went to Utah etc... and tells Susan he thinks about Julie all the time and wants to make it up to her etc...Susan of course changes her mind and tells Zach he should go look for his father first and offered him money to go to Utah to look for him

Mary Alice then says:

The world is filled with good fathers. How do we recognize them? They're the ones who are missed so terribly that everything falls apart [we see Andrew packing his bags and leaving, with Bree watching]

they're the ones who love us long before we even arrive [Carlos lying next to Gabby with his hand on her belly]

They're the ones who come looking for us when we can't find our way home [Mike and Bongo in park with missing person paper]

[Lynette crying...Tom "what's wrong?"..Lynette "because of me, my son's imaginary friend got crushed by a garbage truck. I am the worse mother in the world"]

yes...the world is filled with good fathers

[Tom "honey, he is going to get over this in no time, trust me, and 1 day when is all grown up, you and Parker are going to laugh hysterically about this" Lynette"you really think so?"]

The best are the ones who make the women in their lives....

Tom "I promise"

feel like good mothers.