Lynette: "I thought this was an in-house position."



Tom: "Okay, I'm going to go shower."



Lynette: "Look, wait, wait. I know what this means to you."



Tom: "No, you don't. No, you don't. I am forty-one years old. If I don't make vice president now, it's never gonna happen. This is my career. It's, it's important to me."



Lynette: "So was mine, but I'm here, aren't I?"



Tom: "I'm gonna take the job."



(He goes upstairs.)



[John and Justin's Apartment]



(Bree and John sit facing each other in the living room.)



Bree: "She said that you broke up with her because she refused to have sex."



John: "Wow. Um, okay, here's the deal. I said that, but it was just an excuse. The truth is, I wasn't that into her."



Bree: "Really?"



John: "And she was always so proud of never having done it, I figured, hey, this is my way out."



Bree: "Well, she feels very passionately about you."



John: "Well, don't get me wrong. She's nice, but the truth is, there's someone else."



Bree: "Oh, are you going steady?"



John: "Not exactly. We were seeing each other pretty regularly but this other lady - girl, she sorta dumped me."



Bree: "Oh, I see."



John: "Well, look. I'll talk to Danielle, and don't worry, I'll let her down gently."



Bree: "Uh, actually, I would prefer if you didn't."



John: "Huh?"



Bree: "I know my daughter. She's very determined, and unless you're really firm with her, she's going to continue to think that there's hope."



John: "Okay. I'll be firm."



Bree: "Better still, be brutal."



[Diner]



(Mike enters and finds Mr. Shaw eating a big piece of chocolate cake. He sits down at the booth with Mr. Shaw.)



Mike: "Decided to indulge your sweet tooth, huh?"



Mr. Shaw: "I'll be dead inside a year. I got bigger things to worry about than my waistline. So, who's the woman they think you killed?"



Mike: "Martha Huber, local busybody. I thought her murder was random."



Mr. Shaw: "Nothing random about her jewelryending up in your garage. Did you kill her?"



Mike: "No. Whoever set me up did a good job, though. The cops are all over me."



Mr. Shaw: "You getting close to something?"



Mike: "If I'm getting close, I don't see it."



Mr. Shaw: "What I'm saying is, people leave trails. One of those trails could lead to Deirdre. Whoever set you up must know that."



Mike: "Yeah, maybe. But I won't be much good to you locked up."



Mr. Shaw: "I'm rich, Mike. One of the best things about being rich is the security of knowing you can buy your way out of any problem. I'm not taking my money to the grave. I'm gonna use it to save your ass."



[John and Justin's Apartment]



(Justin opens the door. Gabrielle is on the other side.)



Justin: "Mrs. Solis!"



Gabrielle: "Hello, Justin."



Justin: "What are you doing here?"



Gabrielle: "I am here to talk to your roommate."



Justin: "John? I didn't think you guys talked anymore."



Gabrielle: "Well, now we have something to talk about. You."



Justin: "Me?"



Gabrielle: "Yes, I'm gonna tell him how you're trying to blackmail me into sleeping with you. I wonder how he'll react."



Justin: "Mrs. Solis --"



Gabrielle: "Think he'll get violent?"



Justin: "You can't talk to John about that."



Gabrielle: "Oh, I can, and I will, you little worthless piece of crap."



Justin: "Listen, Mrs. Solis. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't want to blackmail you."



Gabrielle: "Then why did you?"



Justin: "I really needed to sleep with you."



Gabrielle: "Why?"



Justin: "Because. I think I might be gay."



Gabrielle: "Oh."



[Tom's Office]



(The boys come running in, followed by Lynette.)



Boys: "Daddy!"



Tom: "What's up?"



Lynette: "Oh, we went out for burgers and the boys knew you wouldn't be home till after, um, bedtime so we decided to pop in and visit the new V.P."



Tom: "Yeah, well, check it out. I finally got an office with a window, huh?"



Lynette: "Yep, it's all about the window."



Tom: "Hey, guys, hey, who wants chair rides?"



Boys: "Me!"



Tom: "C'mon, out this way. Here we go."



(Tom and the boys run into the lounge area and begin playing. Lynette watches them from the other side of the glass.)



(A woman walks into the office and grins at Lynette.)



Mrs. Peterson: "Checking out the new executive digs?"



Lynette: "Oh, you know it."



Mrs. Peterson: "Can I tell you a little secret?"



Lynette: "Sure."



Mrs. Peterson: "Dan wanted to hold the promotion over for Tim Doogan and I'm the one that convinced him to give it to Tom."



Lynette: "Really?"



Mrs. Peterson: "Uh-huh. Tom is such a workhorse and he wanted it so badly."



Lynette: "Yeah, he certainly did."



Mrs. Peterson: "What is wrong? Aren't you happy about this promotion?"



Mary Alice Voiceover: "Lynette realized it was in her best interest to lie to the boss's wife."



Lynette: "Well, it's great, obviously. Thank you."



Mary Alice Voiceover: "Provided she wasn't too convincing."



Lynette: "Of course, I mean, I will miss him being gone all the time. He'll be bringing in more money, but he is gonna miss the birthdays, baseball games, first steps. That's the trade-off, right? I just hope one day Tom doesn't look back and regret being gone so much. I better get out there before they break something."



Mrs. Peterson: "Of course, I will see you soon."



Lynette: "Okay."



(Mrs. Peterson watches Lynette.)



[John and Justin's Apartment]



Gabrielle: "So, have you been acting on these feelings?"



Justin: "I got a buddy. We get together, mess around, but it's no big deal. Just lately, I've been starting to, like, care about him and I don't know how to handle it."



Gabrielle: "Wow."



Justin: "Yeah, and I thought if I sleep with somebody like you, I'll know for sure and I can stop freaking out about this."



Gabrielle: "Yeah, but why me? You're a good looking kid. Why don't you test drive someone your own age?"



Justin: "Girls talk. If I start something with somebody and it doesn't...work out, everybody at school will find out, and I figured I could trust you because you have husband and all."



Gabrielle: "Well, I guess that makes sense in a weird sort of way."



Justin: "You know, my buddy and I, we've been messing around for quite a while and, this whole time, I just kept telling myself, it didn't really mean anything. Guess I just been kidding' myself, huh?"



Gabrielle: "We're all in denial about something. But you're finally facing the truth and I think that's sort of brave."



Justin: "Thanks."



Gabrielle: "I should probably go."



Justin: "Uh, just so you know, I never would have told Mr. Solis about you and John. I may be gay, but I'm not a jerk."



(She walks up to him and kisses him passionately.)



Gabrielle: "Did you feel anything?"



Justin: "Not really."



Gabrielle: "Definitely gay."



[Susan's House, nighttime]



(Susan answers a knock at the door while Julie does her homework at the kitchen table.)



Susan: "Hi."



Detective Copeland: "Hi. I'm sorry to bother you at night, Miss Mayer, but I was hoping that maybe you could come down to the station with me, uh, just answer a few more questions."



Susan: "Now? Well, I'm, I'm sorry, my daughter and I were going to go see a movie tonight."



(As Susan and Detective Copeland talk, Julie looks out the kitchen window across the street to where Zach's party is.)



Julie: "Mom- we can do it another night. I'll be fine."



Susan: "Uh, let me get my purse."



Detective Copeland: "Great."



Susan: "Are you sure?"



Julie: "Yeah."



Susan: "I'm sure I won't be late. Bye."



Julie: "Bye."



[Police Interrogation Room]



(Susan sits at a small table. Detective Copeland sits down across from her, next to a video camera that's trained on Susan's face.)



(Behind a two-way mirror, a dark-haired man watches the two of them in the room.)



Detective Copeland: "You said that Mike came to your house around ten p.m. on the night of the seventh?"



Susan: "Um, am I supposed to talk into the camera?"



Detective Copeland: "No, no, just talk to me."



Susan: "Okay. Uh, yes. He came over around ten o'clock."



Detective Copeland: "Do you know of any tension between Mike and Martha Huber?"



Susan: "No."



Detective Copeland: "Were you aware that Mike was shot recently?"



Susan: "Yes, on Valentine's Day."



Detective Copeland: "And do you know how it came about?"



Susan: "He dropped his gun, cleaning it."



Detective Copeland: "Miss Mayer, with all due respect, I've been working around guns for years. I've never seen one discharge when it hits the ground. Someone has to pull the trigger."



Susan: "Well, I wouldn't know about that."



Detective Copeland: "Were you aware there was a home invasion, uh, three blocks from you on Pine Avenue, the day before Valentines?"



Susan: "No."



Detective Copeland: "The intruder was shot in the stomach. Where was Mike's wound?"



Susan: "The stomach."



Detective Copeland: "Do you love him?"



Susan: "What? What does that have to do with -"



Detective Copeland: "It's just sometimes people do stupid things when they're in love. I should know. I've been married four times. Tell me the truth. He wasn't with you that night, was he? He asked you to lie for him, didn't he?"



Susan: "No, he didn't. He was with me and Mike wouldn't kill anybody. I'm sure of that."



(Detective Copeland stands up and picks up a nearby file folder. He puts on his reading glasses, opens the thick folder, puts it on the table, sits down, and reads out loud.)



Detective Copeland: "Mike Delfino. Convicted nineteen eighty seven, did five and a half years for drug trafficking and manslaughter."



(He turns the folder around towards Susan so she can see Mike's fingerprints and mug shots.)



Detective Copeland: "You want a coffee. I'm gonna go for coffee."



(She looks up and shakes her head.)



(He steps through the door that has the two-way mirror on it and stands with the other man.)



Detective Copeland: "So is she covering for her guy?"



Man: "Nah, she's just a sucker."



(On the video camera, Susan looks shocked as she looks through the folder.)



[Zach's Party]



(Danielle and Julie enter. The party is in full swing, with lots of kids around.)



Julie: "I guess no one's in the pool yet. Are you gonna swim?"



Danielle: "Please. I just spent an hour blowing out my hair."



(She sees John sitting alone on the couch.)



Danielle: "I'll, I'll see you later, okay?"



Julie: "Okay."



(Danielle joins John on the sofa, and gives him a quick kiss near his mouth. Subtly, he pulls slightly away as she kisses him.)



Danielle: "Hey, I've got a surprise for you. You want to go somewhere and talk?"



John: "Yeah. We should talk."



(They get up. Zach comes in from the kitchen.)



Zach: "Hi, you made it."



Julie: "Andrew's here. I didn't think he'd come."



Zach: "Yeah, he brought a lot of friends. They're acting like total jerks. Alert the media. I don't care. You're here now. This is gonna be great."



(In the pool area, a couple of kids are in the water, but most are hanging around by the pool.)



(From one of the entrances out into the pool area, Danielle enters. John rushes after her.)



John: "Danielle!"



Danielle: "Don't touch me!"



(John stops and Danielle rushes off.)



(Andrew and another guy pick up a lawn chair with another boy in it and throw it and the boy into the pool.)



(Zach and Julie, sitting on another lawn chair, watch.)



Zach: "Can you possibly take it easy?"



Andrew: "It's cool, man. Look, he floats. Relax, it's a party. You're the main party animal, right? Am I right?"



Zach: "I guess."



Andrew: "All right. Well, then act like it. C'mon, give me a howl. C'mon, you're the host. Revel in it. Give me a howl. (howls) Awooo!"



Zach (feebly): "Woo!"



(Several kids standing nearby laugh and Andrew chuckles, then slaps Zach on the back before walking off.)



Andrew: "There you go."



Julie: "You okay?"



Zach: "What do I care? He's nothing. I could take care of him if I wanted to."



Julie: "What do you mean?"



Zach: "I know where my mom kept her gun."



(He holds up his hand, pointing his index and middle fingers at Zach as though his hand were a gun, and pretends to aim and shoot Andrew.)



Zach (quietly): "Pow."



Julie: "That's not funny, Zach."



Zach: "Well, if you think about it, yeah, it kind of is."



(Julie begins to leave.)



Zach: "Julie!"



(Outside, Danielle stands crying by the mailbox. Julie comes up to her.)



Julie: "Hey, Danielle. Are you okay?"



Danielle: "I just want to go home. Can we go?"



Julie: "Sure."



(They start walking when Zach runs out of the house after them.)



Zach: "Julie!"



Julie: "I'm taking Danielle home."



Zach: "Are you coming back?"



Julie: "I don't think so."



(They keep walking. Zach looks at the house, then turns and starts running in the opposite direction from Julie and Danielle.)



[Lynette's Bedroom]



(She gets into bed where Tom is reading.)



Tom: "So how was that P.T.A. meeting?"



Lynette: "Long."



Tom: "So Peterson called me into his office today."



Lynette: "Really?"



Tom: "Yeah, he, uh, changed his mind. He's gonna hold that promotion for Doogan."



Lynette: "Oh."



Tom: "Yeah, it's, it's fine. Y'know, I'm glad, really. Having to work all those long hours and you know how I hate flying, it just does, you know horrible things for my back. God, with all that extra stress, I'd have ended up exactly like Tim Doogan ten years from now, so."



Lynette: "Yeah, of course."



Tom: "So, it's, it's over."



Lynette: "Look, you're gonna make vice president one of these days."



Tom: "It's okay. Honest. I am really glad it worked out this way."



Lynette: "Okay."



[Susan's House, nighttime]



(A police car drops her off in front of her house. As she walks towards her front door, Mike comes up behind her.)



Susan: "Oh, God, you scared me."



Mike: "How'd it go?"



Susan: "It went just peachy, and humiliating, and shocking."



Mike: "Susan..."



Susan: "How could you? God, 'Susan, do you trust me?' Yes, of course I do. Oh, I'm such an idiot, and you're such a liar. Oh, and apparently a killer, and a drug dealer. That's just quite a personal ad you've got going there."



Mike: "Susan, I came to Wisteria Lane--"



Susan: "Stop! Stop Mike, just stop. If you keep talking, you're gonna work your way into my heart and I just don't want you anywhere near my heart. Ever."



(She goes into her house and shuts the door. She leans against it and starts crying. Pushing herself away from the door, she starts towards the stairs.)



Susan: "Julie? Mommy needs a hug. Julie?"



(She turns and sees the unfinished homework on the table. Looking out the window, she sees the party scene across the street. She marches over. A couple of boys stand outside and Susan passes by them on the way inside Paul's house.)



Susan: "Is Julie in there? Julie Mayer?"



Boy: "I don't know. It's pretty dead in there."



(She walks into the living room, which is empty, and then into the pool area, which is completely vacant, except for two people kissing passionately at the far end of the pool.)



Susan: "Julie Alexandra Mayer!"



(There's a small splash as the two people duck underneath the water.)



Susan: "Oh, Julie, Zach, this is ridiculous. You can't hold your breath forever."



(Her feet get tangled in something on the ground. She untangles herself and realizes she was trapped in a pair of men's boxers. Holding them up in front of her, she glares furiously at the two submerged bodies in the water.)



Susan: "Oh, you might as well just stay under there and never come up for air because when you do, I'm gonna choke the living daylights out of you."



(One person emerges and Susan sees that it's Justin.)



Susan: "Oh, um, is my daughter under there?"



(Justin shakes his head, and the other person in the pool emerges, taking a deep breath of air. It's Andrew.)



Susan: "Oh."



Andrew: "I'm not, I'm not gay."



Susan: "Oh, I, okay, I'm, I'm sorry. Uh, I'll just, I'm just gonna leave those right there."



(Susan begins leaving the pool area, but in her haste and surprise, trips over everything in her path. Andrew and Justin just watch her as she hurries out of the area.)



Susan: "Oh! I'm fine, it's good, you just, you know, uh, did, did you see - no! Oh, good bye!"



[Gabrielle's House]



Carlos: "Sell the house. Are you crazy?"



Gabrielle: "Carlos, we can't afford to live here anymore."



Carlos: "But if our lawyer gets the Justice Department to unfreeze the bank accounts then--"



Gabrielle: "Then what? Huh? Finish the sentence, Carlos. We've tons of legal bills, you've lost all your clients and even with our savings, we're screwed."



Carlos: "But, it's our house."



Gabrielle: "Honey, I know. I love this place, too. It's just, I think it's time for us to face the music."



(He walks out to the front porch. She follows.)



Carlos: "I never thought I'd be poor at this stage of my life."



Gabrielle: "You know, Carlos, I've been broke a lot of times in my life. But, I've never been poor, because poor is just a state of mind, and right now you and I are just..."



Carlos: "Without funds?"



Gabrielle: "Exactly."



Carlos: "I guess we could get an apartment. Start over."



Gabrielle: "Who knows? It might even be fun."



Carlos: "And once we're back on our feet, we'll get a house as big as this one."



Gabrielle: "Bigger."



(They kiss and turn to look at their house.)



[Diner]



(Mr. Shaw sits at a booth across from a man whose face isn't visible right away.)



Man: "So I get my wife this dog for her birthday. A stray, from the pound. The cheapest gift I'd ever gotten her and she loves it, so I'm a genius, right? Then, I find out it's got this weird blood disease. Now I'm laying out six hundred dollars a month for doggie medicine for this mutt and I'm a genius, right?"



Mr. Shaw: "Don't be cynical. You did something nice, made your wife happy. Now, let's talk about what's gonna make you happy."



(The man is shown and we see it's the second detective from the police station.)



Mary Alice Voiceover: "Yes, each new day in suburbia brings with it a new set of lies. The worst are the ones we tell ourselves before we fall asleep."



[Bree's House]



Mary Alice Voiceover: "We whisper them in the dark, telling ourselves we're happy..."



(Rex and Bree lie in bed. Rex is sleeping while Bree is awake. She looks over at Rex.)



[Lynette's House]



Mary Alice Voiceover:"...or that he's happy..."



(Tom and Lynette lie in bed. Tom is sleeping while Lynette is awake. She looks over at him.)



[John and Justin's Apartment]



Mary Alice Voiceover:"...that we can change..."



(Justin props himself up on his elbow in bed, staring into the darkness.)



[Bree's House]



Mary Alice Voiceover:"...or that he will change his mind."



(Danielle props herself up on her elbow in bed, staring into the darkness.)



[Mike's House]



Mary Alice Voiceover: "We persuade ourselves we can live with our sins..."



(Mike lies in bed, awake. He turns over, away from the camera.)



[Susan's House]



Mary Alice Voiceover:"...or that we can live without him."



(Susan rolls over, facing the camera, tears glistening on her face.)



[Outside Susan's House]



(The nighttime slowly fades to daybreak.)



Mary Alice Voiceover: "Yes. Each night before we fall asleep we lie to ourselves in a desperate, desperate hope that, come morning, it will all be true."



~ The End ~

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