Bree's dinner party is about to start, and she's keeping Alma hidden upstairs so she can make a big surprise entrance -- all the better to shame Susan. Bree coaches Alma to keep quiet about all of the sordid Monique+Orson details, and Alma sunnily agrees. Bree: "All they need to know is that you're back and we're on good terms." Alma: "And Orson didn't kill me." Bree and Alma giggle conspiratorially until the doorbell interrupts them. There's something repugnantly "Elephant Man at the circus" about the way Bree is using Alma in this scene. Not to mention the fact that the whole setup is designed to publicly demonstrate how wrong Susan is. Bree runs off to get the door, and the smile immediately vanishes from Alma's face. It was all just a put on! (Which reminds me, didn't Alma return to Fairview at the beckoning of Gloria? If so, where is Mama Hodge in all this?) Alma reaches for her bag and pulls out an IV needle, uncorks it, and plunges it into the dark meat of her thigh. What. On. Earth? Am I missing something? Is Alma a drug addict? A diabetic? Or have I just been away from the suburbs too long...maybe this is some sort of secret housewife thing? I don't know! I don't think I even want to know! Holy shit. (I don't like needles.)