Desperate Housewives – Season 2

Lynette goes back to work; Gabrielle struggles with her pregnancy and Carlos in jail; Bree deals with Rex's death; Susan learns more about Mike's past.

Susan discovers that Karl is seeing Edie. Tom can't keep up with housework. Carlos needs Gabby's help surviving in jail. Bree's mother-in-law feels the need to share her grief with the world.

Bree throws Phyllis out of her house. Susan tries bravely to accept Edie's new role in Julie's life. Lynette's demanding boss, Nina, makes her miss Parker's first day of kindergarten. Gabrielle finally breaks after seeing John with an older woman.

Lynette's son has an imaginary friend, George and Andrew fight over Bree's attention, Susan struggles with the Zach situation, and Gabby has lawyer problems.

Susan helps her dear friend in financial trouble; Lynette is forced to go out to bars with her man-hungry boss; Bree is allowed to re-bury Rex; Gabrielle hires David Bradley to defend Carlos, but rejects him; More of the Applewhite's past is shown; Paul Young returns.

Susan tries to get Paul Young arrested, while her mother pays another visit. Carlos continues serving his jail sentence, while Gabrielle tries to free him, but his lawyer refuses to represent him. Bree gets a bad rash every time she tries to be intimate with George.

Lynette and Tom find a like-minded couple to watch their kids, Susan strikes up a romance with her ex-husband, and Gabby tries to hide her pregnancy.

The residents stress about security; Lynette fears Tom doesn't keep his eye close enough on their offspring; Susan decides to meet her biological father; Bree later gets a visit from a mysterious woman; Gabrielle learns to face her feelings.

George stalks Bree; Lynette uses some leverage against Nina; Carlos is released from prison; Susan finally meets her birth father, and tries to form a relationship.

Bree has to deal with George's death, Lynette tries to get daycare at work, Susan has problems with her father's wife, Gabrielle fights for her husband and the Applewhites get Caleb back.

Gabrielle kisses Tom; Andrew tries to blackmail Bree; Mike tries to spend a little time with Zach, which angers Paul.

After a bad blind date, Susan meets and flirts with a handsome doctor, named Dr. Ron McGreadie, but she takes a wrong approach by feigning a terminal illness. Some old pictures of Gabrielle turn up on the Internet, and she asks a reluctant Carlos to get them back from an old photographer boyfriend.

Bree sees a stranger at the Applewhites' house, Gabby has a fight with Sister Mary for interfering, and Susan's budding relationship gets a little confusing.

While Tom tries to bond with his new boss, Karl makes Susan an offer she can't refuse. Meanwhile, Bree plays sleuth at Betty's house, and Gaby puts her house in order.

On Valentine's Day, Edie thinks that Karl is going to pop the question after she finds an engagement ring and prenuptial agreement in his briefcase, but Karl is actually trying to get Susan to marry him, instead, so she can get insurance for her upcoming surgery.

Carlos and Gabrielle decide to adopt, but the process comes to be a lot more difficult than either had expected when they find out they have to be perfect role models. But things get even worse when they find out that John Rowland's vindictive mother, Helen, is an employee of the agency.

Susan comes home from the hospital after her surgery where she invites Dr. Ron to meet Karl after he finds out about their arranged marriage. But the conniving Karl creates friction by having Mike and Dr. Ron meet face to face to provoke a reaction for his own amusement.

Bree overcomes her alcohol addiction by falling in love with her AA-sponsor Peter, only to find he's also a recovering sex-addict, so he passes her on to a woman. Meanwhile, Lynette is torn between testifying at Andrew's emancipation trial in his favor.

Lynette is called in to her kids' school as Parker has gone from being obsessed with Dinosaurs to being obsessed with female nudity. Carlos and Gabrielle must go to court to get custody of their baby, Lily, after they "steal" her from the hospital nursery ward.

The teenage father of Gabrielle and Carlos' adoptive baby wants to lay claims; Edie is heartbroken after Karl breaks off their engagement; Lynette helps coach Ed's online love life, which backfires; Bree puts her mind to keep Peter in her life.

Bree and Andrew finally end their conflict. Lynette learns that Tom hasn't been honest about his trips to Atlantic City. Edie's private detective begins to uncover numerous details of Karl and Susan's relationship. Gabrielle is having a tough time keeping her Chinese servant in the country.

When Susan hears from Edie she took revenge by burning down her house, Mike accepts to help Susan by planting a wire to tape a confession. Now Andrew is out of the picture, Bree is determined to make up for forgetting Danielle's 17th birthday, which was six weeks ago.

Periodic flashbacks to moving-in day on Wisteria Lane and how the control-freak Bree, the ambitious Lynette, the neurotic Susan, and the narcissistic Gabrielle met Mary Alice Young for the first time and how she brought them all together. Other flashbacks show the day that Melanie Foster was murdered back in Chicago.

More frequent flashbacks featuring Rex, John Rowland, and George Williams, take us back to key moments in time for Bree, Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle and how they connect to the present. Lynette finds out that Tom has an illegitimate daughter from before they were married.