All of the plots thicken this week, and it turns out it's all about men and how they are all apparently mysterious and/or douchebags. In Susan and Gaby's lives, it's their lying husbands. This week, the women discover that Carlos let Mike borrow $50,000 and they're both lying to their wives about it. Susan and Gaby set up a dinner where they make Mike think that Susan might be having an affair with Carlos, and where they make Carlos think Mike's been spending money like crazy since the loan. Needless to say, the guys end up eating crow, and it's not clear if Susan will ever be able to trust Mike again. The good news, though, is that it seems like she'll pay off his debts (why he would rather Carlos do that than her is beyond my comprehension, since they are MARRIED), and Gaby might get her ski chalet.
Bree's mysterious man is Sam, who gets less mysterious and more crazy when they run into his mom -- alive and well -- working in a grocery store. Turns out he's pissed since he found out that she hid a letter from Rex from when he was four, offering to take him in for full custody to give him a better life. Sam's angry and resentful that Andrew got the life he wanted to have, and he ends up throwing things while he tells Bree this. Bree and Andrew make up, and he wants to get rid of Sam, but she's scared of him and doesn't think it will be that simple. Of course not. Danny's still friendly with his biodad/murderer Patrick at the coffeeshop, until Nick comes in and Patrick asks lots of questions about him. He learns he runs at night, so he finds him running and plows into him with his car. Nick could tell it was intentional so, while he's in the hospital, he tells Angie to take Danny and run. She won't leave him, but does send Danny away. After three days she finally tells Nick she'll go join Danny, but she goes home first, where Patrick's waiting for her with candles lit all over the house (wha... why?). He invites himself to stay, saying she can't stop him or she'll go to jail, too, and they both know she won't kill him, and if she tries to run he'll kill Nick in the hospital.
Finally, there's Eddie, who's living with Tom and Lynette now. He adores Lynette and goes ballistic when Porter is rude to her and then calls her a bitch. It's a full on psychopathic rage, so Lynette tells him to learn to breathe through it, which is what she did when she grew up with an alcoholic mother. When Tom comes home from work and starts lecturing Lynette about not having dinner waiting, Eddie starts counting and breathing. Serial killer comedy: It's so wacky! Tom wants Eddie to get lost, but Lynette wants to take him to therapy. Which they do, and the therapist wants his mom to join. Lynette goes to track down Barbara and the neighbor says she's been gone but her car's there; it's so weird. I'm finding myself more concerned about this Eddie plot than I have been about anything on this show possibly ever. I think it's because I don't want anything to happen to Lynette. Couldn't they make sure the crazy people only live with Bree and Susan?
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Previously: Mike was poor, so he borrowed money from Carlos. Andrew studied up on Sam, who said his mom was dead. Eddie killed his mom, and Lynette invited him to move in with their family. Angie revealed to Gaby that Danny's real father is "a really bad guy." Now: Mary Alice's Voiceover starts: "Many years ago, a terrorist fell in love with a woman." We see Patrick Logan lying awake in bed when his alarm goes off. "This woman believed in the terrorist and his cause." Angie cooks eggs. "Until an undercover agent showed up, determined to stop them." Nick shaves. "The terrorist wanted to attack those he thought were hurting the planet." Patrick looks at a blue shirt. "So he got the woman to help him build a bomb." Angie sets down food and stares ahead. "But something went wrong, and someone was killed." Nick stops shaving, and stares at himself in the mirror. "The terrorist didn't care. He said it was unavoidable." We see his fake IDs. "The woman wanted to turn herself in, but she was pregnant." We see a picture of Angie with a baby. "So the agent convinced her to run away with him, and he raised the child as his own." A recent picture of Danny and Nick. "So they escaped from the terrorist, hoping and praying he would never find them. Unfortunately, he did."
Patrick walks into Danny's coffeeshop once again, and they make more small talk about his novel. Patrick tells Danny that endings are a bitch, and he really needs to surprise his audience. (Hey, is he speaking for Marc Cherry?) Patrick doesn't see Nick walk in behind him, so when Danny says, "Hey, I know you're my dad," he's a little worried. Until Danny finishes "But you've still gotta close the door when you come in." Nick invites Danny to join him for a run tonight, they chit-chat, and then he leaves. Patrick keeps his back to Nick the whole time, then asks Danny if that was his dad. Danny says yeah, and he should have introduced them. He says his dad runs every night, and is pretty inspiring. Patrick asks if kids his age don't usually hate their dads, and Danny says they've had their issues, but he's sacrificed a lot for him, so this is how he pays him back. (What is how he pays him back is not clear.) Patrick agrees payback is important. That night, Nick goes for his run and Patrick's out driving. MAVO: "It took the terrorist 20 years to find the man who betrayed him." He sees Nick running, passes him, turns the car around, and mows him down. "And his plan for revenge was just getting started." Title card.
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