Desperate Housewives Episode 1.16 The Ladies Who Lunch

Maisy Gibbons is arrested for prostitution -- in full view of all the neighbors! The scandal rocks the neighborhood, and while everyone else is happily dishing the dirt, Bree is worried that Rex's name will come up. Especially when she hears that Maisy kept a black book of all her clients.

Bree brings Maisy a gift basket in jail and asks her to take Rex's name out of the book. She's willing to pay her $14,000 for the favor, but Maisy won't go for it. When Bree and Rex go out to eat at the country club, everyone is staring at them and they realize the secret is out. They stay and eat dinner with as much dignity as they can, but Bree decides it's time to quit the country club.

When Gabrielle and Carlos' sewage backs up into the house, they can't afford to fix it, so instead they improvise, using the bathrooms at their neighbors' houses and doing their laundry in the Jacuzzi in the backyard. Life without indoor plumbing is getting to Gabrielle, so much so that she doesn't hesitate to steal a Porta Potty from a construction site.

After Gabrielle uses Bree's bathroom for the zillionth time that week, Bree gently asks her if she's having money problems and is hurt that Gabrielle wouldn't tell her about it. Gabrielle says it's the same as Bree not telling her that Rex was one of Maisy's clients. "Great friends pretend nothing happened," Gabrielle says, and they both pretend they don't know each other's humiliating secrets.

Bree decides to give the money to Gabrielle instead, for her house repairs. "Good friends offer to help in a crisis. Great friends don't take no for an answer," she tells Gabrielle.

Lynette's boys Preston and Porter are blamed for an outbreak of lice at their private school and soon they are disinvited from the event of the season, Topher Brennan's birthday party. Lynette is desperate that they don't become social pariahs, so she gets the school nurse to tell her who the real culprit is. It turns out the birthday boy is "patient zero." Lynette shows up with the boys, uninvited, and threatens to expose Topher unless his mom tells every other mother her boys are clean.

Now that Paul has changed his mind about selling his house, he needs his key back from Edie, who was his realtor. He tells her he'll be out of town tonight, so she can bring the key back tomorrow. She jokes that maybe she'll keep it. "After all, it's been six months since your wife died. Lighten up!"

Susan is moping after her breakup with Mike, and Edie decides it's time she's out and about, so she takes her out drinking. Susan admits she just wants Mike back and she knows he didn't kill Mrs. Huber. So who did? Susan says she doesn't trust Paul, and Edie recalls he was awfully quick to make Mike sound guilty to Mrs. Huber's sister, Felicia.

Since Edie has the key to Paul's house and knows he'll be away, the two women decide to do some snooping. They find a tape labeled "Utah, Angela Award Party," that Paul was watching earlier. The women don't get a chance to see what Paul saw -- that Felicia is on the tape too -- because just then Paul comes home and the women hide behind the couch.

Edie pops out and tells him she is there to return the key, but when he doesn't buy that, she kisses him. That leaves Susan free to make her getaway, where she runs into Mike. She hasn't been returning his phone calls, so he takes the opportunity to assure her he's not a cold-blooded killer. And then he kisses her.

After Edie leaves, Paul discovers the tape hidden in the sofa cushions -- not at all where he left it.