Desperate Housewives: Season 5

Susan flirts with her painter; Bree denies all help from business partner Katherine; Lynette tries to get Tom to see the light with their trouble-making twins; Edie moves back to Wisteria Lane with a new husband; Gabrielle deals with a blind Carlos and their two overweight daughters.

Bree's long working hours effects her home life; Susan worries about her ex Mike, and her new painter boyfriend Jackson becoming friendly; Lynette fails to notice the impending doom regarding the new way she's bonded with Porter; Gabrielle fails in social status due to her life change; Suspicions grows regarding Edie's new husband, and his mysterious past.

Danielle returns to Wisteria Lane, and faces psychological warfare from Bree; Susan tries to protect her son, MJ, from a bully; Gabrielle tries to deal with cutting costs; Lynette continues to deal with Tom's decision of curing his midlife crisis by starting up a garage band with Dave; Karen and Katherine continue to investigate Dave.

Bree's success has the women feeling jealous; Mike feels he's not apart of M.J's life; Gabrielle hatches a plan to have more sex with Carlos; Dave's motives for moving to Wistera Lane continues to take shape.

Periodic flashbacks to the past five years explain the missing pieces left unanswered; Each of the housewives begin to encounter problems in their love lives.

Gabrielle has a fit when one of Carlos's wealthy massage clients, Virginia Hildebrand, makes them an offer they can't refuse, but a startling discovery leaves Gabby second guessing. Lynette grows suspicious that Tom is cheating on her with the sultry Anne Schilling.

Lynette and Tom uncover an unpleasant truth about Porter; Gabrielle suspects Virginia has ulterior motives; Bree's moment of weakness with her cookbook could bring her great embarrassment and shame; Katherine's not-so-little secret is unveiled; Karen's sister, Roberta, unearths a disturbing fact about Dave.

Everyone gathers at a nightclub for the annual "Battle of the Bands, " until a fire breaks out, threatening the lives of those inside.

Susan deals with Mike being involved with Katherine; Porter is accused of setting the fire; Bree deals with Orson's snoring habit; Carlos learns he could get his sight back; Dave struggles with hiding his guilt.

Carlos' sight begins to return; Porter is arrested for the nightclub fire; Bree deals with the revelation of Andrew's latest beau; Dave starts hallucinating, seeing a mysterious woman holding a young girl.

Bree forces Andrew to bring Alex's common mother Melina to dinner, but the future in-laws instantly hate each-other, rivaling for their gay sons' presence at family holidays, and in whose town they'll live. Susan and Lee get so drunk they wake up in bed together.

Dave bunks in at Mike's after being thrown out by Edie, who ends up locked in a basement with Susan. Meanwhile, Katherine puts Mike on the hot seat by mentioning her offer to move away. Bree's future "son-in-law" Alex, defends Orson when she belittles his purchase savvy.

Local handyman Eli Scruggs dies from a heart attack on his last day of work and the housewives remember moments when he affected their lives.

Bree reaps the success of her new book; Susan is determined to send M. J. to the best school; Gabrielle joins Edie's boot camp to get back into shape; Lee is conflicted over disturbing facts about Dave.

Susan starts her new job as a teacher's aide to MJ's school in order to give her son the best that she never had. But when Mike leaves their son in Katherine's care while he works, naturally in Susan's case, anger and jealousy also pervade.

A dinner engagement results in Lynette and Tom competing for Bree's job offer; Gabrielle finds herself in a precarious position with Carlos' cheating boss; Susan becomes more unsettled after Katherine moves in with Mike; Edie begins to investigate more into Dave's past.

As Susan continues to work as a teachers' aide, she tries to stay on the reading teacher and her employer's, Jessie's, good side since she will be evaluating Susan's performance. But Jessie, who happens to be a closeted lesbian, mistakes Susan's stuttering.

Bree considers selling her business to save her marriage; Lynette is threatened by Lucy; Gabrielle and Carlos cross boundaries; Karl enrols his son in Susan's class; Edie finally learns about Dave's connection to Mike.

The ladies travel out of town to visit Edie's estranged son, Travers, to deliver her ashes, thinking back to their most significant time in Edie's life along the way.

When Orson is admitted to the hospital after he attempts to rob an old woman whose house he breaks into, he's confident that nobody will believe her because of her senile personality. But later, Bree becomes suspicious of the truth, but keeps it to herself.

Mike becomes more uncertain about his future with Katherine when M.J. asks if he is going to marry Katherine. Tom and Lynnette try out an experiment of having sex for 30 days straight to spruce up their troubled marriage. Bree asks Susan's ex-husband Karl.

Susan and Jackson announce their engagement to everyone, which has Mike feeling uneasy about it and debates with himself a future with Katherine on proposing marriage as well. Dave becomes worried when he figures out that Jackson may have witnessed him setting the fire at the nightclub.

Gabrielle becomes upset when Carlos' family invites them over at his Aunt Connie's house where she asks them to look after Carlos' niece, Ana, for a while which the not-so-innocent youngster disrupts the Solises daily routine. Lynette becomes angry at Tom.

Lynette receives surprising news; Bree must decide how to rid herself of Orson; Ana moves in with Gabrielle and Carlos; Dave puts his final plan of revenge in full force.