She enters the darkened house with a key. Bongo begins barking and growling.



Susan: "Now, you be a good boy, Bongo, or you're gonna go to bed hungry."



Susan goes into the kitchen. Zach comes out from behind a wall. Susan turns and sees Zach. He has a gun in his hand.



Zach: "Hi, Ms. Mayer. Can you sit down, please?"



Susan is sitting at the dining room table. Zach is sitting across from her with the gun on the arm of the chair. Susan looks into the kitchen and sees a block with knives on the counter. She looks around the room. She sees a tall vase and part of a moose horn. She begins standing up.



Susan: "I'm just gonna go get some water."



Zach: "I'd rather you didn't."



Susan slowly sits back down as Zach keeps his gun trained on her. Edie walks up Mike's porch. She knocks.



Zach: "Don't answer it.



Zach gets behind the door where it's dark and peeks out. Edie looks through the window and sees Susan quietly sitting there.



Edie: "I know you're in there, Susan. I can see you. If you don't want to talk to me, fine. At least have the courtesy to hide."



Edie begins to knock louder. Susan looks at Zach as though saying, "what should I do?"



Zach: "All right, but don't let her in."



Susan gets up and opens the door a crack. Zach is standing behind the door holding the gun on her.



Susan: "Edie, what a pleasant surprise."



Edie: "Right. Is Mike home?"



Susan: "Uh, no, he's on a big plumbing job. What's up?"



Edie: "Can I come in?"



Susan: "Why?"



Edie: "I'm warning all the neighbors. Felicia Tilman was attacked."



Susan: "She was?"



Edie: "At the Young house. They just took her away an ambulance. I'm totally freaked out. My guys haven't shown up at the job site yet. I'm over there all alone, so do you think maybe I could just come in and hang out for a while?"



Susan mouths "Zach is sticking a gun at me" to Edie, but Edie misunderstands.



Edie: "Stick it up my what?"



Susan: "Just get the hell out of here."



Edie: "God, you are such a bitch."



Susan slams the door on Edie. She faces Zach who continues holding the gun on her.



Susan: "Why?"



Zach: "I asked Mrs. Tilman to tell me the truth about my father. She did."



Susan: "What'd she say?"



Zach: "Mr. Delfino took my dad away to kill him. Now I'm gonna kill Mr. Delfino."



Courtroom



Gabrielle is on the stand.



Gabrielle: "Your Honor, this whole mess is just a result of my loneliness. My marriage is a bit strained, and after Carlos was convicted-"



Judge: "No one's been convicted yet, Mrs. Solis. This is just a Grand Jury hearing."



Gabrielle: "Oh, no, no, I'm talking about his other crime."



Judge: "Oh, right. Go ahead."



Gabrielle: "Anyway, he was placed under house arrest, and he being the jealous man that he is, got a little crazy every time I left the house."



The courtroom is filled. Justin, with a bruised face, is sitting in the back. Also in the courtroom is the cable guy Carlos previously attacked.



Gabrielle: "He knows how men look at me, and, well, I, I didn't exactly ease his mind. I falsely led him to believe I was having an affair. And, and before Carlos's house arrest, he was always working, and he was never with me. And I thought that maybe if he believed I was having an affair, he would realize he loved me. And I know it sounds stupid, I do. I just-"



Prosecution Attorney: "Is there a point to this?"



Gabrielle: "My point is that Carlos is an angry, jealous Neanderthal. But he's not a gay-basher."



Judge: "All right. I've heard enough. Counsel, approach."



Holding his hand over the microphone, the judge speaks with the attorneys.



Judge: "I've got to be honest, I don't think we have a hate crime here."



Gabrielle, listening intently, turns to Carlos and nods encouragingly at him. Just then, John enters the courtroom. As the judge and attorneys continue talking, John approaches Carlos from behind. Gabrielle watches in horror as John leans to whisper into Carlos's ear.



John: "Just so you know, you beat up the wrong guy. Didn't you think it was strange that you had the only lawn on Wisteria Lane that needed to be mowed three times a week?"



He claps Carlos on the back and gives Gabrielle a brief fierce stare before walking off.



Carlos slowly turns his head to look at Gabrielle. Her eyes widen and Carlos turns his body to look at where John is standing directly behind Justin.



Carlos: "You are so dead! You are so dead. You are dead!"



Carlos jumps over the barrier and runs toward John. Judge pounds the gavel.



Judge: "Order!"



Gabrielle: "Aaah. Carlos!"



Attorney: "He's doing it again!"



Lady: "He's going after the gay guy!"



Carlos runs toward John but Justin is in his way. He knocks Justin down.



Cable Guy: "Hey, for God's sakes. Somebody stop him!"



Guard: "Get off of him!"



Gabrielle: "Stop it!"



Guards pull Carlos up. John stares at Carlos with hate in his eyes. Carlos yells at John.



Carlos: "I'll kill you! Te voy a matar! I am gonna kill you!"



The guards pull Carlos out of the room.



Judge: "Ladies and Gentlemen, please be seated. We will have order!"



Everyone sits down. Gabrielle looks at John who has a very smug look on his face.



Desert



Mike drives his truck up to a very deserted area. He gets out and opens the back door.



Mike: "Get out."



Mike pulls Paul out of the back. He pulls the tape off Paul's mouth. Paul's hands are tied behind his back. Mike takes a shovel out of the truck.



Paul: "I'm not trying to justify anything. I don't know how you knew Martha Huber, but she ruined lives. For fun. She destroyed my family."



Mike: "This isn't about her."



Paul: "I don't understand."



Mike: "Walk."



Mike pushes Paul and they begin walking.



Hospital Room



Rex's doctor, Dr. Craig, is looking at Rex's chart.



Dr. Craig: "Remember when we first tested you, your potassium level was bit high."



Rex: "Yes. You made me stop eating bananas.



Dr. Craig: "But as we've continued testing, it's kept climbing. We've now run an entire battery of tests, and your kidney function is fine. It has to be something you're ingesting."



Rex: "Let me see. These numbers can't be right."



Dr. Craig: "Who prepares your meals?"



Rex: "Bree."



Dr. Craig: "I understand you've been having some marital problems."



Rex: "All right, wait a minute."



Dr. Craig: "Wasn't there also an incident at a salad bar? She gave you onions when she knew you were allergic."



Rex: "That was an accident."



Dr. Craig: "You're getting this potassium from somewhere."



Rex: "Get out."



Dr. Craig: "Rex."



Rex: "I mean it. Get out. Leave the chart. I want to read it."



Dr. Craig leaves the room. Rex begins reading his chart.



Lynette's House



Tom comes in. He sits at the table across from Lynette.



Lynette: "So, did you have a fun day?"



Tom: "As a matter of fact, I did. I probably had the most fun that I have had in a long time."



Lynette: "You know, I didn't tell you to quit."



Tom: "No. No, no, no. No, you made damn sure that I'd go nowhere for the next twenty years."



Lynette: "I don't know what to say."



Tom: "I hear "please forgive me" is popular."



Lynette: "Yes, I am sorry. I am so, so sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. But I was trying to protect our family. If you got a promotion, we never would have seen you. You would have been traveling all the - "



Tom: "Lynette, Lynette, Lynette, you're right. You're right. You're right. That promotion would have just killed us, so this is gonna all work out."



Lynette: "What does that mean?"



Tom: "It means that I can use the break."



Lynette: "Oh, well, yeah. I think it would be good for you to take some time off."



Tom: "No, not some time. Full time. I'm gonna be a stay-at-home dad."



Lynette: "Huh?"



Tom: "What the heck? You earn the living for a while."



Lynette: "Tom, that's...crazy."



Tom: "Why? Why is it crazy? You and I both know that you're better at the ad game, and you tell me all the time how hard it is to be a mom."



Lynette: "Well, yes, yes, it is hard, but I, I love it, too, and I've been doing it for six years, and I haven't complained the entire time."



Tom: "Fair enough. Fair enough. But be honest. Secretly, you miss the ad game, don't you? I mean, you miss the pressure and the deadlines and the, the power lunches. Or am I wrong? Maybe, maybe you want to sort dirty socks the rest of your life."



Lynette: "We should talk about this seriously before we make any rash decisions."



Tom: "I already made the decision. You're going back to work."



Tom gets up and goes upstairs.



Mike's House



Susan is sitting on the stairs. Zach is sitting on the floor next to Bongo.



Susan: "Can I at least get you something to eat, Zach?"



Zach: "You can get me a soda. Thanks."



Susan gets up and walks toward the kitchen. Zach gets up behind her. Susan goes to the refrigerator.



Susan: "I gotta say, I think you're making a mistake. Mike couldn't kill anybody. I mean, this could just be a misunderstanding."



Susan hands Zach a soda she has opened for him.



Zach: "This is not a misunderstanding."



Susan: "Listen, I know you're upset, but is this really what you think your mother would want you doing?"



Zach: "Probably not."



Susan: "Exactly. Because she raised you right. Look you have been through a lot. you've lost your mom. you're still carrying around the guilt over what happened to your baby sister."



Zach: "I never had a baby sister!"



Susan: "Honey, I know about Dana."



Zach: "How stupid are you? I'm Dana. My mother was some junkie. They stole me and changed my name. They have been lying to me my entire life. Everyone lies to me! My mother! My father! Mrs. Tilman! Even Julie. Do you understand how much that hurts?"



Susan: "Look, Zach. I know you're upset. Let's just, let's just sit down and talk."



Zach: "Why! So you can lie to me also?"



He points the gun at her and she puts her hand up as though pleading for Zach to stop.



Zach: "No more talking."



Susan nods and Zach points the gun downward.



Hospital Room



Rex closes his chart. He breathes heavily as he grabs a pen and paper and begins to write, "Bree, I understand and I forgive you."



Bree's House



Bree is polishing silver when the phone rings.



Bree: "Hello?"



Dr. Craig: "Bree, it's Dr. Craig. I'm at the hospital, and I'm afraid I have some bad news."



Bree: "Oh?"



Dr. Craig: "Rex passed away about ten minutes ago."



Bree: "But his operation, it's not until tomorrow."



Dr. Craig: "I know. He just didn't make it. I'm so sorry. We did everything we could. Bree?"



Bree: "Yes, of course you did. Thank you very much for calling."



Bree slowly hangs up the phone. She walks into the dining room and finishes polishing the silver. She closes the box and puts it on the shelf. She walks to the table and straightens the tablecloth. She sits down and, looking at the empty chair across the table from her, begins to sob.



The camera slowly pans over to a photograph of Bree and Rex on their wedding day.



Desert



Paul and Mike continue walking.



Paul: "This is a long way to go to do what you could have done in my backyard. You're kind of taking your time, walking a lot. You sure you know what you're doing? You ever actually had to kill anyone for real before?"



Mike: "Yeah."



Paul: "Oh."



Mike: "But since you're so tired of walking, let's just do this here."



Mike pushes Paul to his knees. He pulls out a gun and points it at Paul



Paul: "I don't expect any favors from you, obviously. But could you at least do me the courtesy of telling me why we're here?"



Mike pulls out a photograph of him and Deirdre and tosses on the ground in front of Paul.



Paul: "You knew Deirdre?"



Mike: "Yeah. And I know what you did to her. She was just a sad girl with a lot of problems, and she did some terrible, crazy, selfish stuff, but you tell me what she ever could have done to deserve death at the hands of somebody like you."



Paul: "It's complicated. It's, uh, complicated."



"And just like that, my husband began sharing my secrets."



Mary Alice's House



Flashback to when Mary Alice was alive. Mary Alice cut up some vegetables.



Mary Alice: "You want some carrots, Zachary?"



"Secrets I had died to protect."



She carries the carrots into the dining room.



Mary Alice: "There you go. We have to get that fence up in the backyard before the pool's finished."



Paul: "I know."



Mary Alice: "I'm serious. You know how kids are drawn to water."



She continues cutting up vegetables when there's a knocking at the door. She goes to answer the door, opens it, and finds Deirdre standing there.



Deirdre: "Hello, Angela."



Later, Deirdre sits in the living room across from Paul and Mary Alice.



Deirdre: "You did a good job covering your tracks. I had to spend a lot of my father's money hunting you down."



Mary Alice: "Congratulations. You found us."



Deirdre: "You know, I never told the police what happened."



Paul: "You didn't?"



Deirdre: "They would have put Dana in foster care, or worse, given him to my father. So I kept our little secret."



Mary Alice: "Well, we appreciate that."



Deirdre: "Anyway, I guess you can see I've gotten myself cleaned up."



Mary Alice: "Yes, you look lovely."



Deirdre: "I'm not the same person you knew back then, Angela. I'm in a good place now."



Mary Alice: "You can't have him."



Deirdre: "Just because I didn't go to the police before doesn't mean I can't do it now."



Mary Alice stands up.



Mary Alice: "Zach is our son."



Deirdre: "His name is Dana."



Mary Alice: "If you think I'm giving my baby to some junkie, you're crazy."



Deirdre: "He's not your baby."



Paul: "Look, just calm down."



Deirdre: "You were always so high and mighty back at the clinic, looking down on us poor degenerates, pretending you wanted to help when all you really wanted was to feel superior. You self-righteous bitch."



Mary Alice: "You're still using, aren't you?"



Deirdre: "Go to hell."



Mary Alice grabs Deirdre's arm. Deirdre tries to pull away.



Deirdre: "What are you doing?"



Mary Alice: "Let me see your arm."



Deirdre: "I said I'm clean!"



Paul steps in the separate them.



Paul: "Take it easy. Let's just take it easy."



Deirdre begins to go to the stairs.



Mary Alice: "Where do you think you're going?"



Deirdre: "I'm getting my son, and I'm taking him home."



Mary Alice: "Paul, stop her."



Paul runs after her and grabs her.



Paul: "Deirdre, please."



He pushes her back to living room and she falls on the floor.



Paul: "Come on. Sit down. Sit down."



Deirdre: "Get your hands off me!"



Mary Alice: "We raised him. We're his parents."



Paul: "Come on. Come on.



Deirdre grabs the poker from the fireplace and hits Paul. He collapses.



Mary Alice: "Paul!"



Deirdre: "Don't worry. I'll give him a good home."



Deirdre throws the fireplace poker down and starts towards the stairs again. Mary Alice grabs a knife and stabs Deirdre.



Mary Alice: "No!"



Deirdre falls coughing and groaning. Paul begins to get up, holding his bleeding forehead.



Paul: "Oh, Mary Alice. What did you do?"



Mary Alice goes to Zach's room, quickly emptying his toy chest. Zach wakes up.



Zach: "Mommy?"



Mary Alice: "It's okay, Zach. Mommy needs to borrow your toy chest. You go back to sleep, okay?"



She hugs him.



In the living room the toy chest is next to Deirdre's body.



Paul: "What are we gonna do?"



Mary Alice: "You said they were pouring the concrete for the pool tomorrow?"



Paul: "You can't be serious."



Mary Alice: "They'll never find her. We can put her in this."



Paul: "She won't fit."



Mary Alice: "Then we'll have to make her fit."



Mary Alice bends down and pushes Deirdre's sleeves up.



Paul: "What are you doing?"



Mary Alice: "Checking for track marks."



They see that her arms are clean.



Mary Alice looks up to see Zach standing on the stairs watching them.



Present - In the Desert



Mike: "Deirdre had a baby?"



Paul (nods): "Let's get this over with."



Mike points the gun at Paul. After a few seconds, he drops his hand, then walks away, leaving Paul tied up on his knees, watching him go.



"It's an odd thing to look back on the world, to watch those I left behind. Each in her own way so brave, so determined, and so very desperate."



Lynette's House



"Desperate to venture out, but afraid of what she'll miss when she goes."



Lynette stands in the doorway of the boys' room watching them sleep.



Gabrielle's House



"Desperate to get everything she wants, even when she's not exactly sure of what that is."



Gabrielle sits alone in her bedroom.



Bree's House



"Desperate for life to be perfect again, although she realizes it never really was."



Bree is in her bedroom, laying out Rex's burial clothes.



Mike's House



"Desperate for a better future, if she can find a way to escape her past."



Zach stands by the front door and Susan is at the kitchen table.



Mary Alice's House



Focus in on the original picture of the five women hugging each other and smiling for the camera.



"I not only watch, I cheer them on, these amazing women. I hope so much they'll find what they're looking for."



Mike pulls in the street in his truck. He pulls into his driveway and walks into his house. Zach and Susan hear him walk up the stairs.



"But I know not all of them will. Sadly, that's just not the way life works. Not everyone gets a happy ending."



Mike walks into his house and closes the door behind him.



~ The End ~

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