'Desperate Housewives': Death overcomes them

In this week's episode of "Desperate Housewives," lives lie in the balance and lead the ladies to ponder their past and possible future.

After last episode's plane crash, Karl and Orson are both in surgery, but Bree had no major injuries. Gabrielle's daughter, Celia, had a concussion, but she'll be OK. Lynette saved her life by pushing her out of the plane's path. Mona Clark, who was actually hit by the plane while blackmailing Angie, was severely injured.

As everyone gathers in the hospital waiting room, Lynette begins to feel pains in her stomach. Her instinct is that something is wrong with the babies.

Susan swallows her pain.
As Susan is waiting to hear about Karl, she's confused by her feelings. She has hated him for so long and, now, he may die.

She then considers what life would have been like if she had stayed married to him after she discovered his affair. In the alternate scenario, Susan decides to give Karl another chance for their daughter's sake. Over the next few years, she soothes her unhappiness by eating and gains a lot of weight. Enter the much ballyhooed fat suit. The day after Mary Alice's funeral, Mike comes over to fix the sink. Susan hovers over him the entire time and admits that she knows Karl is sleeping with his secretary. She then comes on to Mike and he rejects her advances. In her tubby state, he just can't see the woman he would have loved. Later, Karl decides to leave Susan, even though she has started to lose weight. He tells her that he tried, but she would have been better off if she made him leave way back when.

After she comes out of her daydream, a doctor informs her that Karl has died. While sad about his loss, Susan realizes she's grateful she made the decisions she did. Saying good bye never seemed easier, no?

Bree finds her options aren't pretty.
After Bree reacts hysterically to the news of Karl's death, the doctors sedate her. She then dreams of what life with Karl would have been like. After a passionate beginning to their marriage, she soon catches him cheating on her. After leaving Karl, Bree is summoned to Orson's apartment by his landlord. Turns out Orson died and Bree was his emergency contact. In the 10 years that have passed, we learn that Orson never remarried. Bree discovers that he kept a shrine to their marriage on the dresser. She realizes that she may have left the man who really loved her.

When she wakes, Bree finds out Orson has survived, but he has sustained spinal injuries and may be paralyzed.

Has Bree rediscovered her love for Orson? And, is it enough to get her to stay with him if he's paralyzed?

Angie lucks out, again.
The Bolens find out that Mona may still survive the accident, then Angie imagines what life would be like if Mona told the police what she knew. She, of course, would end up in an orange jumpsuit. Nick is also being detained. As an FBI turncoat, it doesn't sound like he's going to get off easy. Danny has gone to her mother. The FBI wants to know where Angie's cohort, a guy named Patrick Logan, is. She tells him she doesn't know. Later, in court, she testifies that they never meant for anyone to get hurt. She then apologizes for bringing pain to her son and her new Fairview friends, who have made her feel normal again. She's sentenced to life as Danny yells her name.

She then comes back to reality and learns that Mona didn't make it. When the nurse, who thinks Angie is a concerned friend, urges her not to be angry at God for the loss, Angie answers, "Don't worry, hon, Me and God are good."

So, who will be the next to discover their secrets? And to what lengths will Angie go to preserve the new life she has come to like? And, will we be meeting Patrick Logan soon?

Gabrielle doesn't age gracefully
Celia, Gaby and Carlos' daughter, is injured and the doctors want to keep her overnight for observation. Gaby dismisses the idea that Lynette saved her for the notion that God saved Celia, because she has a gift. That gift, of course in Gaby's fabulous world, is acting. Gaby then becomes a total stage mom while Carlos tries to talk her out of forcing Celia to act. In her zeal to make Celia an actress, she loses Carlos. Years later, Gaby grows old (a la "Grey Gardens") holding on to the idea that Celia, despite her colossal failure, is destined to be a famous actress.

When she wakes up, Gaby realizes that her daughter is special (world recognized talent or not).

Lynette loses.
Lynette finds out her son may be disabled. She pictures the ideal baby, then she pictures life with a disabled baby. She imagines that the process isn't going well with her disabled child. She feels like quitting until Tom convinces her to keep going. Flash forward and the child is an adolescent walking with the help of walking canes. She gets into an argument with him over making himself a sandwich, which to her teaches him to do things for himself. Years later, he graduates from college. During a speech, he thanks his mother for teaching him those lessons.

When she wakes up, she finds out that she lost one of the twins.

After finding out about the loss, Gaby visits Lynette to thank her for saving Celia and deliver her condolences for losing her son.

Does this mean the whole pregnancy discrimination lawsuit plot is done-zo? I'm ok with that, are you?

I didn't really enjoy this gimmicky what I call "in the meantime, in between time" episode. I look forward to hitting the story lines harder next week. But, did you enjoy this death-filled, dreamy episode?

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