‘Desperate Housewives’: Season 8, Episode 7: Can the Housewives Really Get Away with Murder?

Last week someone took Alejandro’s body and left behind a great big hole. No wonder in the episode “Always in Control,” those “Desperate Housewives” started out a little bit more desperate than usual. They knew their free pass from prison was coming to an end; so Carlos and the girls…except Susan because they didn’t tell her… started making plans. Their futures were surrounded by a dark cloud with no silver lining, but they’d killed a man. They had to make the best of it.

Gaby and Carlos tried to handle their daughters’ future

Gaby and Carlos selected Bob and Lee to be guardians for their little girls… although Juanita and little Celia weren’t quite so little any more. Wisteria Lane’s resident Gay couple gave up their freedom to adopt a child of their own. That meant they were unselfish and really wanted to be parents, so Gaby and Carlos thought they would be perfect future parent replacements in the event of a worst case scenario. Unfortunately Bob and Lee didn’t feel the same way about Juanita and Celia as future daughters.

Gaby decided to make her girls more desirable. She invited Bob and Lee to dinner, and trained the girls ahead of time in the fine art of dining, small talk and theater. Things went very well until Bob and Lee saw the girls’ graffiti: “Gays R Stupid.” Juanita and Celia didn’t like the idea of their parents giving them away and wanted to sabotage their plans.

Lynette handled Jane

Tom was happy with his new relationship. It was Lynette who couldn’t handle it. Jane had Tom’s heart and it looked like she had Penny’s as well. Lynette followed Renee’s advice and decided not to let Jane take her family away. It took only a few carefully chosen words with Penny to poison her mind against Jane. (Lynette could be pretty manipulative when she wanted to be.) When Tom and Jane came to pick Penny up for some bonding time, she refused to go.

Tom decided to see Penny without his tag-along girlfriend. Penny was still a no show, but Lynette got a glimpse of Tom as the sad and lonely Dad she hadn’t seen before. She reversed her poisoned tongue ways and came about as close as she could to giving Tom and Jane ‘s relationship her blessing. She even talked her daughter into seeing her father by setting her straight on why he left in the first place.

Bree handled the body snatcher

So it was Ben who found Alejandro’s body! When Bree came to have a little talk with him about Alejandro’s body, he told her that he’d already found it. He was excavating the site and there it was. Ben knew if he told the police it would become a crime scene, and that would hold up progress. He put the body in cold storage while he decided what to do. He told Bree he intended to tell the police, but then he saw Bree’s ex detective friend Chuck getting pretty rough with her.

Ben to the rescue! Not only did he forcibly remove Chuck’s hands from Bree’s body, he decided to have someone… that would be Mike Delfino…. hide Alejandro’s body so no one would ever find it. (No body-no case) Mike had agreed ahead of time that he would be available for anything at all, whenever Ben needed him. He personally dug a fresh hole, dumped Alejandro’s corpse, and watched carefully the next morning while the concrete trucks covered him up and made him part of the foundation.

Susan couldn’t handle anything

When Susan found out that Mike had been selected to get rid of Alejandro’s body, she rushed to tell the girls. Too late! The housewives were already celebrating Ben’s decision with a friendly toast. Why hadn’t they told Susan about the whole body thing… and the copycat letter thing? Susan was a loose cannon and couldn’t be trusted. She knew it, still she wasn’t pleased that everyone had secrets and hadn’t shared them with her. She told the “Desperate Housewives” she was “done” and stormed away.

Yes, Susan was a loose cannon. Viewers saw proof of that in the final scenes and previews of episodes to come. She took all her stored up emotion and guilt, grabbed a canvas and some paint; and released all that guilt and anger into her art. The result: a dark, emotional rendering of four women and a body in the woods.

Carlos and the girls might not get away with murder after all.

More “Desperate Housewives” by this contributor:

Why do Viewers Keep Watching?

Shades of ‘Crime and Punishment’ on Wisteria Lane

Before the Housewives Call it Quits, Viewers Need Answers

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“Desperate Housewives” on ABC: Season 8, Episode, 7: “Always in Control”


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