Mother Said

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“Mother Said”
Desperate Housewives episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 15
Written by Chuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-Giordano
Directed by David Warren
Production no. 415
Original airdate May 11, 2008
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"Mother Said" is the 84th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the fifteenth episode of the show's fourth season and aired on May 11, 2008 in the United States. It aired on Mother's Day and is the series' first Mother's Day themed episode.

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[edit] Guest Starring

[edit] Co-Starring

  • Steve Kramer as Detective Hewitt
  • Colleen McGrann as Lauren Baxter
  • Amy Chaffee as Keri
  • Hailee Denham as Young Dylan

[edit] Plot

The episode begins with Bree confronting Edie about the kiss with Orson. Edie tells Bree that she is not interested in Orson. When Bree slaps Edie across her face, this marks a full scale war between them. First Bree sabotages Edie's business by hounding off a family that wanted to move in to the Young house. Orson arrives at Bree's house trying to reconcile with her, and wants to take Benjamin to a carnival, but all his apologies fail and she called in a lawyer to sort out Benjamin's custody. Edie then goes to Orson's apartment to complain about Bree and she notices Orson's statement about Benjamin on the table. In the statement, it is revealed that Benjamin's biological parents are actually Austin and Danielle. Edie then blackmails Bree to be kind to her and do whatever she wants, or all her secrets will be exposed. Bree reveals Benjamin's true parentage to Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle explaining Edie's attempt to blackmail her. The women of Wisteria Lane then march down to Edie's house and finally disown Edie. Edie expressed that she's sorry, but unfortunately that has fallen on deaf ears. Edie then told her son Travers that she will be spending Mother's Day with him as she leaves Wisteria Lane saying that she's going to be spending a lot more time with him from now on.

Mike's mother, Adele Delfino, comes for a visit. Adele brings Susan a recipe book as a present, since she had heard from Mike that Susan is not a good cook. Adele also offers herself to teach her to cook. Adele brought up their financial issues while she and Susan prepare for dinner one night, but Susan insists that they do not have any problems financially as they both have jobs, although Adele thinks Susan's job as a children's book illustrator does not pay much. When Adele, Mike and Susan go to a restaurant to lunch, Susan tells Mike not to complain to Adele about her, but Mike insists that his mother is trying to help. As Adele rambles on about Susan's shortcomings, deciding that she would stay to spruce up the house, Susan fakes labor by spilling her club soda on her leg.

Lynette and Tom hire a family counselor Dr. Dolan to work things out within the family. Lynette told the counselor to focus more on Kayla since she thinks Kayla's the problem within the family. Kayla overheard the discussion and quickly act upon it by giving Lynette a drawing she made in school. Later, Dr. Dolan suggests that Lynette and Kayla should spend more time together as often as possible to have a parent-child bond. Therefore, Lynette takes Kayla to a boutique and Kayla wants to spend a lot of money, much to Lynette's displeasure. Kayla threatens Lynette that the fun does not have to end as long as Lynette gives in to her demands. She tells her that she can convince Penny to jump off the roof, causing Lynette to slap Kayla in the face. On the morning of Mother's Day, Lynette's children and Tom make her breakfast in bed, while Kayla calls Dr. Dolan and tells him that Lynette has been hitting her.

Carlos and Gabrielle's relationship with their new tenant Ellie grows during her stay. One day when Ellie takes Carlos for a walk in the park, the fire alarm sounds in Ellie's room. Gabrielle then goes to deactivate it and she finds cocaine under Ellie's bed. Carlos then calls the police to report about Ellie's drug possession. The detective who Gabrielle recognizes as Ellie's "tattoo client" told them to pretend nothing had happened as the police wanted to use Ellie to catch the suppliers. Ellie then gave Gabrielle a bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day which moved her.

Dylan confronts Katherine, who had planned to move out now that Wayne knows where they live. Dylan refuses to move out as she wants to stay with her father. When Wayne picks up Dylan to take her to her recital one day, Katherine tells him that she is not interested in a reconciliation. She tells him that she cheated on him during their marriage, and Dylan is not his daughter. When Wayne asks about Dylan's actual father, Katherine replies that it does not really matter now. As she walks back home, Wayne picks up the chewing gum Dylan chewed on earlier for DNA examination. He says that he wants to get a confirmation of relation between a suspect and a victim. The results reveal that her DNA sample has no relation to the "victim". When Dylan visits Wayne on Mother's Day, Wayne checks on Dylan's arms for scars (he had watched home videos of Dylan learning to ride a bike and she had wounded her arm). Furious that she is not his daughter, Wayne yells at Dylan to get out of his apartment before he calls the police.

Susan then goes into labor for real later at home when Mike confesses to his mother that certain things she said hurt Susan's feelings. The episode ends with Susan embracing her newborn baby at the hospital.

[edit] Quotes

Edie: Hey, guys. What's...going on?
Bree: I told them everything, Edie. About Orson, Benjamin, everything.
Edie: You did?
Lynette: She did, so you can kiss that little blackmail scheme goodbye.
Edie: Well, I was only doing it because...
Gabrielle: You were only doing it because you're the devil!
Edie: OK, fine. Shoo me out and let's get on with it.
Susan: It's not like all the other times, Edie. We're done.
Edie: Done?!
Susan: We're not inviting you to poker, we're not talking to you, we're not even gonna wave when you jog by. From now on, you are invisible.
Gabrielle: And we're gonna make sure every woman in a five-mile radius knows the kind of crap you pulled.
Lynette: We've tried to be your friends, but you don't even understand what that word means. So now we're gonna be something you do understand.
Edie: Guys, wait! Wait, I know I've crossed the line this time, and...well, I'm...I'm sorry!
Bree: Did you hear something?
(Gabrielle, Susan and Lynette murmur "No".)
Bree: Neither did I.
Edie: (speaking with Travers on her cellphone) No, Travers. No, I decided that spending Mother's Day with you is more important than spending time showing people stupid houses. Oh, I love you, too, sweetheart. Actually, I think mommy's gonna be spending a lot more time with you from now on. But we'll talk about that when I get there, OK? I love you, baby. I'll see you soon.

[edit] Cultural references

This episode's title is derived from the lyrics to the song I Know Things Now from the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods

[edit] Notes

By garnering 15 million viewers, this episode joined another season 4 episode titled "In Buddy's Eyes", those episodes have the least amount of viewers for this season.

10.6 Million viewers watched this episode in the UL coming 26th in the week it was aired. On it's first cable run the episode had 7.4 Million viewers.

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