Susan keeps playing. Loud hip-hop music begins playing from somewhere within the house.



Susan: "Boy, your son really likes to play his hip-hop music loud."



Betty: "The good news is it drowns out the sound of the dryer. Arch your fingers, Susan."



Betty's House Basement



A stereo sitting on a table plays loudly while Matthew mounts a lock on the basement door using an electric drill.



Edie's House



Edie is on the couch playing the guitar while Julie is singing.



Julie (singing): "Let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine."



Susan walks in, clapping.



Susan: "Hi. I'm sorry to interrupt. I knocked, but I guess you guys didn't hear me."



Edie: "No, we heard you. We were just hoping that whoever it was would go away. I'm still hoping that'll happen."



Julie: "What's up, mom?"



Susan: "Well, I have good news. Um, I've been taking piano lessons with Betty Applewhite, and, uh, well, I just thought maybe I could join you guys. You know, like a trio. Doesn't that sound fun?"



Edie: "I don't do trios, but thanks anyway."



Susan: "Well, I don't mean to be technical here, but this show, I mean, it really is supposed to be a family thing, and I hate to point out you're not family."



Edie: "No, but I have talent, and to most audiences, talent trumps family."



Susan: "Well, what makes you so sure I don't have talent?"



Edie: "Hmm, just a hunch."



Susan: "Yeah, well, we've all seen your talent, which is a nice way of telling you why don't you put some curtains on your bedroom window?"



Julie: "Guys!"



Edie: "Oh, come on, be honest. You didn't want any part of this until you found out that I was involved."



Susan: "That is so not true!"



Edie: "Oh, yes, it is. It burns you that your own daughter picked me over you."



Susan: "She did not pick you. It just didn't occur to her that I would agree to do it. Well, now she knows, and if she had it to do over again, she'd pick me."



Edie: "No, she wouldn't."



Susan: "Well, why don't we put it to a test? Julie, who would you rather have play with you?"



Julie: "Oh, no, no, no, no."



Susan: "No, it's okay, honey. Who do you want to be with you in the family talent show?"



Edie: "Yes, who do you want with you in front of all of those people? And remember, it's a church. They are going to be judging you."



Julie: "Oh, okay. Well, first of all, you both suck, but if I had to choose, I guess I'd pick my mom. Sorry, Edie."



Edie: "Fair enough. I'd like my pitch pipe back, please."



Gabrielle's House Daytime



Gabrielle walks down the sidewalk to get her mail. John comes up to her.



John: "It was you, wasn't it?"



Gabrielle: "Hello, John. Long time, no see."



John: "One of the neighbors saw an Aston Martin driving away" (points to Gabrielle's car) "and what do you know?"



Gabrielle: "Well, someone had to tend to the yard. You were busy elsewhere."



John: "You saw us?"



Gabrielle: "Yes, and I have to say she's old enough to be your mother. Hell, she's old enough to be my mother."



John: "Joan's only forty-one."



Gabrielle: "Joan? You're calling her Joan?"



John: "Why shouldn't I? She's my friend."



Gabrielle: "I know your friends, and I have a hunch you don't do to your friends what I saw you doing to that wrinkly old lady."



John: "Okay, so you caught me doing it with somebody else. What's the big deal?"



Gabrielle: "You're supposed to be in love with me."



John: "What?"



Gabrielle: "How many times did you say it? How many times did you whisper in my ear, you're the only woman I'll ever love?"



John: "I don't know. A bunch."



Gabrielle: "So were you lying to me? Were you just trying to get me into bed?"



John: "No, of course not. I loved you, but we broke up."



Gabrielle: "Yeah, like five minutes ago! Haven't you ever heard of a mourning period?"



John: "I know it seems quick, but I have feelings for her. In fact, I think I may be in love with her."



Gabrielle: "Oh, my god."



She clutches her stomach.



John: "What's the matter? Is it the baby?"



Gabrielle: "No. Oh, no, no. It's me. I am beyond stupid."



Gabrielle sits on her front steps.



John: "You're not stupid."



Gabrielle: "Oh, no, I am. Yesterday, I was still fantasizing that it could work with you, that a one-bedroom apartment might be cozy."



John: "Mrs. Solis, please."



Gabrielle: "Oh, my god. I almost left my husband for someone who calls me Mrs. Solis."



John: "So, are you upset because you want to get back together? Because I can break up with Joan."



Gabrielle: "That's okay, sweetie. I'm good."



John: "So this is it for us? cause I really feel like we should end it better than this."



Gabrielle: "Actually, John, given how stupid both of us have been, this an entirely appropriateending."



Police Station



Bree, Andrew and Danielle enter the Detective's office.



Detective: "Mrs. Van de Kamp. What can I do for you?"



Bree: "I would like to submit myself to a lie detector test to eliminate any uncertainty about what happened with my husband."



Detective: "Are you sure you don't want a lawyer present?"



Bree: "I'll waive all that. My only stipulation is that I want my children to be able to see me answer the questions."



Detective: "I think we can accommodate you."



Investigation Room



Bree is connected to a lie detector. The Detective, Andrew and Danielle are watching through a one-way mirror.



Technician: "Is your name Bree Van de Kamp?"



Bree: "Yes."



Technician: "Were you married to Rex Van de Kamp?"



Bree: "Yes."



Technician: "Did you and your husband temporarily separate last year?"



Bree: "Yes."



Technician: "Did you kill your husband?"



Bree (emphatically): "No."



Bree looks at the lie detector screen. The line remains even.



Technician: "Do you know a man named George Williams?"



Bree: "Yes."



Technician: "During your separation from your husband, did you have a relationship with Mr. Williams?"



Bree: "What does that have to do with anything?"



Technician: "Just yes or no responses, please."



Bree: "Well, I'm not gonna respond to something that's none of your business."



The detective enters the room.



Detective: "Mrs. Van de Kamp, if you want us to take this polygraph seriously, answer the questions we ask, okay?"



The detective leaves the room.



Danielle: "Who's George Williams?"



Andrew: "He's our pharmacist."



Technician: "During your separation, did you have a relationship with Mr. Williams?"



Bree: "Yes."



Bree looks at the screen. The line remains unchanged.



Technician: "Are you in love with Mr. Williams?"



Bree: "What? "



Technician: "Are you in love with Mr. Williams?"



Bree: "No"



Bree looks at the screen. The lines are spiked.



Bree: "Um, I, I was thinking of something else just then, so why don't you ask me the question again?"



Technician: "Are you in love with Mr. Williams?"



Bree: "No."



The lines on the screen are spiked all the way to the top of the screen.



Danielle: "Did you see that?"



Andrew: "Yeah. I saw it."



Bree looks at the mirror. Andrew walks away.



Wisteria Lane Daytime



Betty is taking flowers out of her SUV. Susan walks up with sheet music.



Betty: "Hello, Susan. Are you ready for your lesson?"



Susan: "Yep, I am. I think I'm going to make another push for using that pedal. I think it adds grandeur."



As they walk to Betty's house, a car screeches up with the horn honking.



Karl: "I want to talk to you!"



Susan: "I'm busy now."



Karl: "I cannot believe you kicked Edie out of Julie's performance!"



Susan: "I did not kick Edie out. Julie made that call."



Karl: "Because you played the mom card."



Susan: "Well, it is a family recital, and Edie is not family."



Karl: "One day, she could be."



Susan: "Oh, don't even joke like that."



Karl: "How about your plumber-slash-convicted murderer, huh? He seems to keep popping up at "family" events."



Susan: "It was not murder, it was manslaughter, and that's totally different. Mike and I aren't even living together, and he cares about Julie."



Karl: "Well, so does Edie, huh? She was really looking forward to performing with Julie."



Susan: "If you think Edie Britt cares about anybody other than herself, you are living in a fool's paradise. You don't know her the way I do, and the only reason she's interested in Julie is to mess with my head."



Karl: "Hey, that's both crazy and self-absorbed. That's a twofer! Way to go! Whether you choose to believe it or not, they're both great together, and if you don't believe me, ask Julie."



Karl gets in his car and drives away.



Susan: "I'm sorry you had to witness that."



Betty: "Oh, that's okay, hon. I have lived my share of family knock-down drag-outs."



Susan: "Well, I hope it wasn't as ugly as me and Karl."



Betty: "You'd be surprised."



Lynette's Office



Lynette sits at her desk, setting up the video conferencing system. Parker and Tom are on the computer screen.



Lynette: "Parker, honey, can you hear me? Tom, why isn't he talking?"



Tom: "Um, honey, there are a lot of kids here. He's a little stressed. Parker, say hi, say hi."



Parker: "Mommy?"



Lynette: "Oh, hey, honey, this is so exciting. Your first day of school. You're going to make so many friends."



Nina sticks her head in the door.



Nina: "Lynette, staff meeting, now."



Lynette: "Uh, right, yeah. I'm going to be right there."



Nina: "Now. Now, now, now!"



Nina walks out and puts her coffee cup on Stu's desk.



Nina: "Stu, this coffee, it's cold."



Lynette: "Honey, I'm gonna be right back."



Parker: "Mommy? Where are you going?"



Lynette: "Right back."



Parker: "Mommy, come back!"



Conference Room



The staff is sitting around a large table.



Nina: "Okay, let's turn to page five."



Lynette: "Damn. I forgot my prospectus. Any extra copies? No? Oh, I'll be right back."



Lynette gets up and rushes out of the room.



Lynette's Office



Lynette: "Hi, I'm back. How's he doing?"



Tom: "Um, um, honey, he's upset because he wanted to show you his cubby. You left."



Lynette: "Oh, honey, I'm here. I'm here. You can show me your cubby now."



Stu sticks in head in Lynette's office.



Stu: "Nina found extra copies. She wants you back now."



Lynette: "Okay. I'll be back in two seconds, sweetie."



Parker: "Mommy! Mommy! Don't go!"



Conference Room



Lynette sits at the table with the other staff members.



Nina: "So the big issue here is second-quarter billing."



Lynette gets up and starts leaving the room.



Nina: "Where are you going?"



Lynette: "Ladies' room."



Nina: "No."



Lynette: Nina, nature is calling."



Nina: "Lynette, hold it for ten minutes. We have to get through this."



Lynette sits down again.



Nina: "What I'd like to do is trade out the invoicing structure. Let's take a look at our graphs on page ten, please."



"Lynette had been struggling to balance her career and her family. She finally saw an opportunity to tip the scales in her favor."



Nina drinks from her coffee cup, then sets it down on a folder. Lynette sees that the cup is tilted and near the edge of the table.



Nina: "Instead of badgering clients with invoices on the shorter term campaigns, I say we bill on delivery."



Lynette: "Yes!"



Lynette hits the able hard. The cup moves closer to the edge.



Lynette: "Bill on delivery, yes!"



She hits the table again. The cup moves to the edge of the table.



Nina: "Are you having a seizure?"



Lynette: "No, no, I'm just, I'm very excited. It's a really good plan. Yeah."



Nina: "Now, what happened on the Burman account is that they were sent duplicate bills by Tina and Ron in accounting and I'm not pointing any fingers, but Tina, Ron, about walking in and seeing all my lines lit up with disgruntled.."



Lynette sits back in her chair and lifts the table up with her knee. The coffee cup falls into Nina's lap. She jumps up.



Nina: "Aah! Ohh! Hot! Hot! Help. Stu! Aah! Aah!"



Lynette's Office



Lynette: "And that's why we packed you extra cookies so you could share with all your new friends, remember?"



Parker: "Uh-huh."



Tom: "I think we're good to go now, honey."



Lynette: "You're gonna be great, Parker. I love you."



Parker: "I love you, too, mommy."



Lynette throws a kiss to Parker and turns the screen off. She spins in her office chair and sees the staff hovering around Nina, who is holding ice packs to her inner thighs.



Pharmacy Daytime



Bree enters and walks up to the pharmacy counter.



George: "Bree, hi. What can I do for you?"



Bree: "Well, for starters, you can help me prove to the police that we didn't conspire to kill my husband."



George: "Okay."



Bree: "So because of the anomalies in Rex's blood, the police started to wonder if I'd been poisoning Rex."



George: "That's absurd. Lots of things can cause high potassium levels: renal failure, low sodium."



Bree: "Well, that's why I took the polygraph, to prove to them that I was innocent."



George: "Obviously, you passed."



Bree: "Sort of. Well, I think the police now have a different theory, which is if I wasn't poisoning Rex on my own, then maybe you were helping me."



George: "You're kidding."



Bree: "No, that's why I need you to take the polygraph, too."



George: What? "



Bree: "It's the quickest way to prove to the police that they're wrong."



George: "I. I don't understand. We're just friends. Why would the police assume that people in a platonic relationship would want to murder someone?"



Bree: "Um, um, during the test, they asked me some questions about you and, um, us and whether we had a relationship and I said yes, because it's true. And then they asked me something else, something I hadn't considered."



George: "Which was?"



Bree: "They asked me if I loved you."



George: "What did you say?"



Bree: "I said no."



George: "Oh."



Bree: "But according to the polygraph, that wasn't exactly true."



George: "Well, I don't, I don't know if that means anything. Polygraphs aren't completely reliable."



Bree: "I think perhaps the machine picked up on something, something that I wasn't aware of."



George: "Wow."



Bree: "That's why I need you to take the test and answer the detective's questions, because I'm not going to know exactly how I feel until we put this behind us, but then, once we do..."



George: "We can move on."



Church



Emcee: "Can those Chicorelli sisters dance or what? Wow, look out Broadway! Now don't forget that we will have cookies and juice set up in the basement after we're done here. We want to see you all there. And for our next act, please welcome the musical styling of Julie and Susan Mayer."



The audience applauds.



Susan and Julie come out on stage. Julie goes to the microphone and Susan sits at the piano. After a couple of seconds of silence, Susan gets up and whispers in Julie's ear.



Susan: "I'll be right back." (into the microphone) "Oh, um, I'm just gonna need a couple of seconds, so feel free to pray."



Susan runs down to Edie in the audience sitting next to Karl.



Susan: "The other day when I saw you making music with my family, I got a little jealous and I went a little crazy and I pushed you out. Seeing you sitting here today, well, I can see how much you care about Julie, and she comes first, and it should be you up there playing with her, not me. So I'm sorry."



Karl: "Thank you, Susan."



Edie: "How convenient that you decided this after I showed up without my guitar."



Susan: "Well, like I said, I'm sorry. I wish it could be you up there."



Edie: "You know, I play piano."



Emcee: "And so let's all welcome Julie Mayer and her Aunt Edie."



The audience applauds. Susan sits next to Karl, while Edie is at the piano. She begins to play.



Karl: "You did a good thing."



Susan: "Yeah, well, I try."



Edie plays the piano off-key. Julie cringes as she begins to sing.



Julie (singing): "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine."



Julie turns to look at Edie.



Edie: "Ohh, give me a break. This thing has, like, ninety flats in it."



Susan: "Poor Julie."



Karl: "Stop it. You're loving this."



Susan: "No, not at all."



Susan pushes the camera Karl is holding up to film.



Julie (singing): "Let it shine, shine, shine let it shine."



Jail Visiting Room



Carlos enters. He sits across from Gabrielle.



Carlos: "So, they said you needed to see me. What is it? What's going on?"



Gabrielle: "Um, I've been thinking, you know, about, um, everything that happened with John, and, and, um, I was really selfish and stupid. And I'm sorry. I really am sorry. That's all I had to say, really."



Carlos: "You know what? That is the best anniversary gift that you've ever given me."



Carlos reaches across the table and holds Gabrielle's hand.



Gabrielle: "Really?"



Carlos: "Yeah."



Gabrielle: "Actually, the one you gave me is really nice, too."



Wisteria Lane Daytime



Chloe Pendergrass holds her tea party with her friends.



"Everyone enjoys a game of make-believe now and then. Of course, the ways in which we play can vary greatly."



Lynette's Office



Lynette picks up a framed picture of her and Parker from her desk.



"Sometimes we tell ourselves work won't interfere with our family life."



Nina sticks her head in the door.



Nina: "Lynette, staff meeting, now."



Lynette: "Yeah."



Wisteria Lane Daytime



"Sometimes, we imagine certain relationships to be more meaningful than they really are."



John is mowing a lawn. Gabrielle jogs by. John waves to her, but Gabrielle doesn't respond.



Betty's House



"Occasionally, we put on a show, as if to convince ourselves our secrets aren't really all that terrible."



Matthew and Betty are preparing the meal tray. Matthew gets the gun.



Police Station



Bree and the Detective are standing on the glass side of the one-way mirror into the investigation room.



"Yes, the game of make-believe is a simple one."



Inside the room, George is taking a lie detector test.



Technician: "Did you know Rex Van de Kamp?"



George: "Yes."



Technician: "Did Mrs. Van de Kamp ask you to poison her husband?"



George: "No."



Technician: "Did you poison Rex Van de Kamp?"



"You start by lying to yourself..."



George: "No."



The line on the polygraph is unchanged.



"And if you can get others to believe those lies, you win."



George smiles.



~ The End ~

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