EPISODE

7. Always in Control

Bree discovers who dug up Gaby's stepfather and is shocked; Lynette lies to Penny about Tom's new girlfriend; Susan searches desperately for her artistic muse to impress her hard-to-impress art teacher Andre; and Lee and Bob think that Juanita and Celia Solis are still bad kids, so they don't want to let Gaby and Carlos name them as the girls' legal guardians in their wills.

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Susan suffers a creative block after Andre criticizes her portfolio as boring and predictable. As Penny and Jane become close, Lynette tells Penny lies to turn her against Jane. Tom is upset when Penny starts to avoid him, until Lynette convinces Penny that spending time with her father is important. When Gabrielle and Carlos, afraid of going to jail, consider appointing Bob and Lee as Juanita and Celia's legal guardians, Juanita worries about how unhappy her parents have been lately, but Gabrielle comforts her. Bree learns that Ben is responsible for the disappearance of Alejandro's corpse, and she confesses that she helped bury it. When Chuck, who has been assigned to investigate Alejandro's disappearance, harasses Bree, Ben fends Chuck off and protects Bree by having Mike bury the body under the concrete foundations at the site. Susan is furious to learn that the other housewives tried to move the body without telling her. Susan and Lynette storm out after discovering Bree and Gabrielle have kept the anonymous letter a secret from them.

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