We are left again with another shocking episode. This was the episode over spring break since they did not play one this past Sunday.
Gaby sees Bob and Lee have been taking their newly adopted daughter, Jenny, for violin lessons for the talent show. With the way they praise her for having her do things to make them happy as to playing the violin, Gaby questions their parenting skills. However, she starts to compare Jenny with her daughter Juanita and sees that Juanita does nothing other than watch TV after school. She encourages Juanita to pursue tap dancing for the talent show, but after she sees how awful Juanita’s dance is the night of the talent show before they leave, Gaby hides her tap shoes to save embarrassment for Juanita, but mainly for herself. After seeing how upset Juanita was as to have to drop out, she sees her parenting skills are much worse and how she disappointed her daughter for her own sake.
A move like this is a typical Gaby move. She is always looking out for herself regardless of what others think. This talent show and Juanita’s skit was a big realization for her showing how selfish she really is and she reflects by giving her the tap shoes back. Seeing how happy it made Juanita made her feel good that she actually did a good deed for once.
After fainting, the doctors tell Susan her kidney is failing and to do everything now before it is too late. Her and Mike have a romantic dinner at the park where they got married. Mike ends up injuring his foot and is having trouble walking. Their car then breaks down once they get to it so they are forced to walk with a sick patient and a limping man. Mike expresses his frustration and fear of losing Susan and she tells him she will fight through this to grow old with him and to see MJ grow into a man.
Weirdly enough, Susan was very positive this whole episode. Usually she always plays the “poor me” stunt but when she is finally in a “poor me” situation, she doesn’t act out that way. Even as an adult, she is becoming more mature as to how to handle situations and realizes she has to be positive to everyone in her life and encourage them to be positive with her as well instead of everyone dwelling.
Rene tells Lynette she is interested in adopting a child of her own. To prove to Lynette she can do it, she offers to babysit Paige for an evening. Well, Rene ends up on a date, bringing Paige along to the restaurant, and Tom and Lynette are at the same restaurant. Lynette finds out Rene paid a waitress to babysit the child and Lynette and Tom let all their anger out on Rene, telling her she would never make for a good parent. She later apologizes and Lynette, her and Paige go out for an afternoon together to learn how to do daily things with a baby.
Rene is trying to change her life to be more like her friends and to prove her maturity to them; she wants to adopt a child (she is the only one unmarried without a child). After the restaurant incident, Rene sees that she is too self-involved and not ready yet for a child as she wished she would and realizes the steps she has to go through in order to prepare herself.
Bree is feeling very depressed lately after Keith left, reflecting on her past of how her evil stepson took over her business and her grown children never call and she never sees her grandson anymore. She invites the Reverend over for advice and he tells her to reach out to someone else to make her feel better about her self by helping someone. She gets a blood test and is a match for Susan and plans on giving Susan her kidney.
Bree has had hardships in the past and with this most recent one, she is feeling helpless. By helping one of her best friends, at the end of the episode she is starting to feel more positive and getting back into her regular “Bree mode.”
And finally, Beth pays a visit back to Paul’s house professing her love for him so he will take her back. He refuses and tells him about how he did in fact kill Martha Huber, Beth’s aunt (the one that found out about Paul and Mary Alice stealing Zach from Mike at the hospital). Beth goes to the jail to tell her mother about the news, but she is furious that Beth didn’t think to get the confession on tape and Beth is then removed off of her visitor’s list at the jail. Beth is now feeling totally isolated and depressed so she realizes too she is a match for the kidney but Bree insists on being the donor. Then at the hospital, Beth shots herself in the head, but the doctors are suspicious if she did or didn’t die from the gunshot.
Being isolated by Paul for good and being removed from her mother’s life, Beth is totally alone for the rest of her life and ultimately tries to commit suicide. Kind of ironic though that this is Paul’s second wife and they both committed suicide.
Next week, I hope they go into great detail about Beth’s suicide and go more into why they don’t think she died directly from the gunshot and if it was something else instead. And hopefully Bree’s kidney transplant will happen in enough time to save Susan’s life.
