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BREE: Paul, Zachary.

ZACH: Hello Mrs. Van De Kamp.

P

AUL: Bree, you shouldn't have gone to all this trouble.

(P

AUL extends his hands to take the baske

ts from BREE, who moves the baskets out of his re

ach as he tries to take them from her.)

BREE: It was no trouble at all. Now the basket with the red ribbon (holds up the basket) is filled with desserts for your guests. But the one with the blue ribbon

(holds up

the other baske

t) is just for you and Zachary. I

t's got rolls, muffins, breakfast type things.

P

AUL: Thank you.

BREE: Well, the least I could do is make sure you boys had a decent meal to look forward to in the morning. I know you're out

of your minds with grief

.

(REX, ANDREW and DANIELLE exchange long-suffering glances and mental eyeballing.)

P

AUL: Yes, we are.

BREE: (beat) Of course, I will need the baskets back once you're done. (Smiling serenely)

(REX looks with disbelief at his wife.)

P

AUL: (taken back) Of course.

(BREE walks off with the baske

ts, leaving the rest of them stunned. REX is lite

rally open- mouthed with disbelief

.)

(Cut to: EXT. MAYER HOUSE - PORCH --- DAY)

(SUSAN and her daughter JULIE comes out of their front door.

SUSAN holds a flat, rectangular dish covered in tin foil. The wi

nd blows the foil off; SUSAN snatches it back

and recovers the dish as she and JULIE walk down the pathway.

NARRATOR: Susan Mayer, who lives across the street, brought macaroni and cheese. Her husband Karl always teased her about her

macaroni, saying it was the only thing

she knew how to cook, and she rare

ly made it well.

It was too salty the night she and Karl moved into their new house.

(Flashback to: SUSAN and KARL sitting at their kitchen table,

laughing and smiling. JULIE, as a baby, is sitting be

tween them.)

NARRATOR: It was too watery the night she found lipstick on Karl's shirt.

(Cut to: SUSAN throws a towe

l at KARL, who catches it and throws it on the ground, as they yell at each other. JULIE, as a toddler, sits the

re watching her parents

argue.)

NARRATOR: She burned it the night Karl told her he was leaving her for his secretary.

(Cut to: SUSAN and JULIE at about 13, sits at the table, the macaroni and cheese in the middle, untouche

d. KARL

comes

down the stairs carrying suitcases, and leaves via

the kitchen door. SUSAN s

tarts crying, as JULIE rubs her arm.)

(End of flashback. Resume to present.)

NARRATOR: A year had passed since the divorce. Susan was starting to think how nice it would be to h

ave a man in her life, e

v

en one who would make fun of her cooking.

JULIE: Mom, why would someone kill themselves?

SUSAN: Well,

sometimes people are so unhappy they think it's the only way the

y can solve their problems.

JULIE: But Mrs. Young always seemed happy.

SUSAN: Yeah, sometimes people pretend to be one way on the outside and they're totally different on the inside.

JULIE: Oh you mean how Dad's girlfriend is always smiling and says nice things but deep down you just know she's a bitch.

SUSAN: I don't like th

at word, Julie. But yeah, that's a great example.

(Cut

to:

YOUNG

HOUSE

-

LIVING

ROOM

--

WAKE

---

DAY

SU

SAN and

JULIE

walk in

the

front

door. SUSAN

puts the

dish

down

on

the

table

and

takes

the tin

foil

off

.

JULIE

joins the teenage group standing next to the table.)

JULIE: Hey, what's going on?

(Cut to: YOUNG H

OUSE - KITCHEN -- WAKE --- DAY SUSAN walks in, dumping the tin foil i

n the bin.

BREE, GABRIE

LLE and L

YNETTE are sitting around at the kitchen table.

L

YNETTE is holding the baby.)

SUSAN: Sorry I'm late.

GABRIELLE: Hi Susan.

L

YNETTE: (smiles at SUSAN) Hey.

(BREE looks up at SUSAN, looking upset. SUSAN takes her place at the table, and looks at the one empty chair in the table, where MARY ALICE used to

sit. She picks up the

coffee pot, and starts pouring coffee into a mug. We follow the stream of coffee into the mug.)

(Flashback to: The same stream of coffee being poured into a mug. SUSAN looks up at MARY ALICE, who is pouring coffee into SUSAN'S mug. MARY ALICE sits back down in

her seat and puts down the coffee jug.)

MARY ALICE (to SUSAN) :So? What did Karl say when you confronted him?

SUSAN: You'll love this, he said it doesn't mean anything, it was just sex.

(They all groan.)

BREE: Oh yes, page one of the philanderer's handbook.

SUSAN: Yeah, and then he got this Zen look on his face, and he said, you know Susan, most men live lives of quiet desperation.

L

YNETTE: Please tell me you punched him.

SUSAN: No, I said, really? And what do most women lead, lives of noisy fulfillment?

GABRIELLE: (raises her eyebrows) Hmm.

MARY ALICE: Good for you.

SUSAN: I mean, of all people, did he have to bang his secretary? I had that woman over for brunch. GABRIELLE: It's like my grandmother always said, an erect

penis doesn't

have a conscience.

L

YNETTE: Even the limp ones aren't that e

thical.

BREE: This is hal

f the reason I joined the

NRA. (SUSAN looks at her.) Well, when Re

x started going to those medical conferences, I wanted at the back of his mind that he

had a loving wife at home, with a loaded Smith and W

esson.

MARY ALICE: Lynnie? Tom's always away on business. Do you ever worry he might..?

L

YNETTE: Oh, please, the man's gotten me pregnant three times in four years. I wish he was having sex with someone else. (Smi

les)

BREE: So Susan, is he going to stop seeing that woman?

SUSAN: I don't know. (Smiles, te

aring up) I'm sorry you guys, I just... I

just don't know how I'm going to survive this.

MARY ALICE: Listen to me. (Puts her hand on SUSAN's hand) We all have moments of desperation. But if we can face them head on, that's how we find out just how strong

we really are.

(SUSAN puts her other hand on top of MARY ALICE's hand, smiling at her.)

(End of flashback. Resume to present.)

BREE:

Susan?

Susan.

(SUSAN

withdraws

her

hand

from

the

same

position

from

the

flashback.)

I was

just

saying

Paul wants

us

to

go

over

on

Friday.

He

needs

us to

go

through Mary Alice's closet, and help pack up her things. He

says he can't face doing it by himself

.

SUSAN: Sure, that's fine.

BREE: Are you OK?

SUSAN: Yeah. I'm just so angry. If Mary Alice was having problems, she should have come to us; she should have let us help her.

GABRIELLE: What kind of problems could she have had? She was healthy, had a great home, a nice family. Her life was

?

-

L

YNETTE: -our life.

GABRIELLE: No, if Mary Alice was having some sort of crisis, we'd have known. She lives 50

feet away, for god's sakes.

SUSAN: Gabby, the woman killed herself

. Something must've been going on.

(They all look down and consider this point, as

P

AUL, unseen, leans against the living room doorway, eavesdropping on their conversation. He sips his drink, looking very

shifty and suspicious, like he knows more than he's letting on.)

(Cut to: YOUNG HOUSE - DINING ROOM -- WAKE --- DAY)

(Food is set out on the table buffet- style. SUSAN walks into the room, where MIKE is spooning some of SUSAN's macaroni and cheese onto his plate)

SUSAN: Oh, I wouldn't eat that if I we

re you.

MIKE: Why?

SUSAN: I made it,

trust me. (MIKE prepares to take a bite) Hey, hey, do you have a death wish?

MIKE: No, I just refuse to believe

that anybody can screw up macaroni and cheese.

(MIKE takes a bite of the macaroni, as SUSAN gestures apologe

tically, smiling.)

MIKE: Oh my god. (Makes a face) How did you? I

t tas

tes like it's burnt and undercooked.

SUSAN: Yeah, I ge

t that a lot. H

ere you go.

(SUSAN gets a tissue and gives it to him, as he spits his mouthful of macaroni and cheese into the tissue.)

MIKE: Thanks. I'm Mike

Delfino, I just ren

ted out the Sim's house next door.

SUSAN: Susan Mayer, I live across the s

treet.

MIKE: Oh yeah, Mrs. Huber told me about you, said you illustrate

children's books.

SUSAN: Yeah I'm very big with the under 5 se

t. (MIKE laughs) What do you do?

MIKE: Plumber. So if you ever have

a clog. Or something.

SUSAN: (laughs) Now that e

verybody's seen th

at I've brought something, I should probably just throw this out.

(JULIE looks over to see SUSAN and MIKE flirting with each other, smiles. SUSAN takes the dish of macaroni and walks off

. MIKE watches her as she leaves. She stops and

looks back at MIKE. She smiles, and then continues walking to the next room.)

(Cut to: INT. YOUNG HOUSE -

BACK ROOM WI

NDOW SEAT -- WAKE --- DAY L

YNETTE struggles with the baby, covering it in a blanket. MRS. HUBER hurries up the path, sees