Robbers come rolling into the Scavoria after hours and lock Tootie and Lynette inside the forty-three-degree walk-in for the night. Purely for medicinal reasons, Lynette and Tootie fall to the floor for a night-long cuddlethon (though no actual It-Doing is done). Worried, Tom comes looking for Lynette and sets them free before any actual Gilbert McCluskeying can occur. Later, when reviewing the security tapes with the police, Tom gets an eyeful of Tootie and Lynette's romantic pre-robbery meal. Tom confronts Tootie about his obvious interest in Lynette and asks him to resign. Instead, Tootie confronts Lynette about their obvious attraction for each other, and she tearfully gives him the boot, recognizing that their heretofore semi-harmless flirting can't go on now that things have come to a head. Tom is thrilled, but Lynette is sad to see Tootie go -- like, contorted-face-crying-in-the-bathtub sad.

Susan goes into the mountains looking for Mike, but she's so ill-prepared that the ranger office assigns her a guide, whom Susan immediately starts to bore with her Mike then Ian then Mike then Ian then Mike story. When the distraction-driven guide finally snaps and tells Susan everything we've all been wanting to yell at her for the last three years -- namely that she's a maddening drama machine -- Susan proves the guide 100% right by petulantly setting off on her own and getting profoundly, irritatingly, self-indulgently lost. Sadly, no bears come a-mauling; rather, Mike overhears the rangers talking about the "lost klutzy woman" and tracks down Susan himself, and kissing ensues.

The election results are in, and Maybe Mayor is now officially the Mayor of Fairview. Gabby celebrates by giving a parking meter cop the royal treatment, ripping up her ticket in his face and grossly flaunting her alleged untouchability as the new First Lady of Fairview. Gabby and the meter man scuffle (earning Gabby a bruised wrist and Meter Man a swift kick to the shin) and Gabby gets carted off in the paddy wagon. The Mayor bails her out, but he later gives her a truly unpleasant dressing-down, and she is coldly commanded to stop to the embarrassing behavior. And then he sends a couple thugs to beat up the meter cop. Is this a Mayored to the Mob type of situation? Or is he just Mayor McBusive? Either way, things look grim for the Gabster. Travers's stay with Edie is over now that his dad's back in country, and Carlos is suddenly less eager to get with Edie. Unwilling to simply accept Carlos's general lack of interest and move on, Edie instead threatens to sue Travers's dad for partial custody just so she can use her son as bait in her Carlos trap. Carlos, who's obviously a way better parent than Edie will ever be, is concerned about what all the shuttling back and forth between two parents will do to Travers, so he talks Edie into dropping the lawsuit by promising to continue dating her -- ah, sweet, sweet, manipulove!