Desperate Housewives / Season 4

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Season 4 of Desperate Housewives
Original title Desperate Housewives
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Episodes 17th
Country of production United StatesUnited States United States
First broadcast September 30, 2007 - May 18, 2008 on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 February 11, 2008 - November 10, 2008 on SRF two
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This article contains all episodes of the fourth season of the American dramedy series Desperate Housewives , sorted by the US American premiere . They were broadcast from September 30, 2007 to May 18, 2008 on the US broadcaster ABC . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the Swiss free TV broadcaster SRF Zwei from February 11 to November 10, 2008. The fourth season is the shortest season of the series, as there was a writers' strike on ABC and the fourth season was therefore early had to be ended.

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Leading roles
Susan Mayer Teri Hatcher 17th
Lynette Scavo Felicity Huffman 17th
Bree Hodge Marcia Cross 17th
Gabrielle Solis / Lang Eva Longoria 17th
Edie Britt Nicollette Sheridan 15th
Carlos Solis Ricardo Antonio Chavira 17th
Julie Mayer Andrea Bowen 14th
Tom Scavo Doug Savant 17th
Orson Hodge Kyle MacLachlan 17th
Katherine Mayfair Dana Delany 16
Mary Alice Young Brenda Strong 17th
Mike Delfino James Denton 16
Supporting roles
Andrew van de Kamp Shawn Pyfrom 12
Dylan Mayfair Lyndsy Fonseca 14th
Danielle van de Kamp Joy Lauren 4th
Preston Scavo Brent Kinsman 14th
Porter Scavo Shane Kinsman 14th
Parker Scavo Zane Huett 10
Kayla Huntington-Scavo Rachel Fox 10
Guest roles
Adam Mayfair Nathan Fillion 11
Karen McCluskey Kathryn Joosten 10
Penny Scavo Darien and Kerstin Pinkerton 8th
Victor Lang John Slattery 7th
Stella Wingfield Polly Mountains 5
Ida Greenberg Pat Crawford Brown 4th
Bob Hunter Tuc Watkins 7th
Lee McDermott Kevin Rahm 7th
Phyllis van de Kamp Shirley Knight 2
Lillian Simms Ellen Geer 2
John Rowland Jesse Metcalfe 1
Benjamin Hodge unknown 8th
Milton Lang Mike Farrell 2
Sylvia Greene Melora Walters 2
Detective Lyons Billy Mayo 1
Wayne Davis Gary Cole 3 7th
Father Crowley Jeff Doucette 1
Reverend Sikes Dakin Matthews 1
Monique Polier Kathleen York 1 1
Gloria Hodge unknown 2 1
Rick Coletti Jason Gedrick 2
Ellie Leonard Justine Bateman 4th
Karl Mayer Richard Burgi 1
MJ Delfino unknown 3
Ms. Voorhees Dale Waddington 2
Jackson Braddock Gale Harold 4th 1
Celia Solis Daniella Baltodano 4th 1
Juanita Solis Kaili Say 4th 1
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Legend and notes
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Episodes

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71 1 Everything comes to light Now you know Sep 30 2007 Feb 11, 2008 Larry Shaw Marc Cherry
Wisteria Lane is in an uproar as new neighbors move to Wisteria Lane. It's Katherine Mayfair with her daughter and her new husband. Katherine lived on Whisteria Lane a few years ago. However, after talking to Katherine's daughter Dylan, Julie realizes that the family has a great secret. Susan gets from her new gynecologist and neighbor Dr. Adam Mayfair is diagnosed with menopause. Susan is desperate, but then she learns that Adam was wrong and that she is actually pregnant. Susan is overjoyed. Gabrielle and Carlos want to run away together. But then Carlos learns of Edie's suicide attempt, which was actually only intended for Carlos to come back to Edie. Carlos chooses Edie and just wants an affair with Gabrielle. Lynette doesn't want to tell her friends about her cancer in order to be able to deal with them normally. However, when a mother at her children's school demands that Lynette take care of school matters more, Lynette comes out as having cancer. Her friends are shocked, but want to help Lynette get through the difficult time. Bree and Orson notice that it is not that easy to act out their pregnancy to the neighborhood. After Lynette comes out to her friends, Bree feels guilty.
72 2 Cake fight Smiles of a Summer Night Oct 7, 2007 Feb 18, 2008 David Grossman Matt Berry, Bob Daily
Susan gets into a conflict of conscience when Mike bans Julie from a party that Susan has already given her consent to. She finally forbids Julie to party in front of Mike, but secretly sends her there. But Mike notices the dizziness. After Lynette no longer wants her husband with her cancer therapy because he is too sentimental about the matter, she asks her friends for help. They all agree, only Gabrielle tries to stay out of it. When Lynette asks her about her quirks, Gabrielle confesses that she has a problem with cancer because of her past. Karen informs Dylan that her father has often been with Dylan. However, Dylan has the information from her mother that her father left her when she was a baby. Dylan demands that her mother release the mystery. Bree is furious that Katherine has apparently replaced her as the most perfect housewife on Whisteria Lane and at all costs wants to steal a recipe from a cake at Katherine. When the Mayfair family shows up, Bree goes into hiding and, through a conversation, realizes that Katherine is actually hiding a great secret.
73 3 charade The Game Oct 14, 2007 Feb 25, 2008 Bethany Rooney Joey Murphy, John Pardee
Susan asks Bree to contact her gynecologist. Since Bree is only faking her pregnancy, she chooses any doctor from the newspaper. When the practice turns out to be a failure, Susan realizes that something is wrong with Bree. After Edie blackmailed Carlos into marrying her, Carlos turns to Al Kaminsky for help and then tries to run away with Gabrielle. Her husband Victor makes it unmistakably clear that he would kill him if he started an affair with Gabrielle. Stella secretly mixes hashish in her brownies for her daughter Lynette to ease Lynette's cancer pain. When Lynette finds out, she is mad at her mother. Katherine tells a lie about what Dylan's father did to her and says he molested her.
74 4th Plagues If There's Anything I Can't Stand Oct 21, 2007 3rd Mar 2008 Larry Shaw Alexandra Cunningham, Lori Kirkland
Susan makes herself directly unpopular with her new neighbors Bob and Lee. She wants to straighten this out when she finds her dog and places it in her garage so that she can stand as the dog's rescuer. But the gay couple next door gets out of the fraud and disregards Susan like never before. Edie gets the diagnosis of pubic lice in her genital area from her doctor. When she realizes that Victor is also using a cure for the plagues, Edie discovers that Gabrielle and Carlos are having an affair. When Bree's ex-mother-in-law Phyllis visits, she notices that Bree is just pretending to be pregnant. She doesn't tell anyone, but she brings Danielle from the monastery to her home. Katherine's aunt Lillian comes home to spend her old age there. She always tries to tell Dylan the truth, but Katherine forbids her. Shortly before her death, Lillian wrote the truth on a piece of paper.
75 5 Art is subjective Art isn't easy Oct 28, 2007 10 Mar 2008 David Grossman Jason Ganzel
An eye-catching and loud fountain by Bob and Lee provides a powerful topic for discussion in Whisteria Lane. Katherine brings the neighborhood watch back to life and runs alongside Lynette, who is afraid for her children's tree house because of Katherine's chairmanship. Katherine comes to power through Susan voting for Katherine and against her friend. But the well is not demolished because the life partners have learned of Katherine's past in Chicago. Bree manages to get Danielle from her grandmother and bring her home. While Gabrielle meets John Rowland again, who wants to revive the affair between them, but Gabrielle rejects him because she is already having a love affair with Carlos, Edie lets Gabrielle shadow with Carlos and now has the security that between Gabrielle and Carlos one Affair exists.
76 6th fear Now I Know, Don't Be Scared Nov 4, 2007 17th Mar 2008 Larry Shaw Susan Nirah Jaffee, Dahvi Waller
Susan notices that her husband always lied to her about his father and that he is still alive. When Susan demands an explanation, she learns that Mike's father has been in prison for life for murder. Susan is initially shocked. When Carlos leaves Edie, she wants revenge and whistles to Carlos at the tax office. When this has no effect, however, she informs Victor that Gabrielle broke up with him because she is having an affair with Carlos. Lynette beat cancer and is overjoyed. The heavily pregnant Danielle comes to Bob and Lee's Halloween party in disguise to hide her pregnancy. When Danielle's amniotic sac bursts, however, her baby is born in the presence of the gynecologist Adam, who already knew about Bree's fake pregnancy. With a heavy heart, Danielle decides to go away to study after giving birth.
77 7th Deception You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover Nov 11, 2007 24 Mar 2008 David Warren Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg
Susan finds out about Mike's pill addiction. Mike swears to stop, but he can't keep his promise. Victor takes Gabrielle with him on his yacht. When she gets a call from Carlos on the sea that Victor knows about Gabrielle's betrayal, Gabrielle believes Victor wants to murder her and throws him overboard. When she goes back on the yacht, she goes to sea with Carlos again to save Victor. When Victor then attacked Carlos with a knife, Gabrielle throws Victor overboard again, but he does not appear again. Lynette no longer wants her mother to live with her. She asks her sisters to shelter her mother. However, when they clearly signal that they hate Stella, Stella notices this and sadly takes a taxi out of Whisteria Lane. Bree wants Benjamin to be circumcised at all costs, but Orson is strictly against it, as he has had his own experience with it. When Bree gets the circumcision through against Orson's will, Orson doubts whether Bree will accept him as a father.
78 8th flotsam Disant past Nov 25, 2007 31 Mar 2008 Jay Torres Joe Keenan
Mike promises Susan to stop taking pills. When he asks Adam for this favor to prescribe some for him, Adam cannot do so because he is a gynecologist. Adam goes to Orson and asks him to prescribe pills for Mike, since Adam also knows about Orson's family secret. Gabrielle and Carlos are tense to hear that Victor has washed ashore. In the hospital, Victor pretends to have amnesia, but privately he makes Gabrielle realize that he will ruin her life. Lynette goes looking for Stella with her ex-stepfather Glen. They finally find her and decide that Stella will be living with Glen from now on. In addition to Bree's family planning with Benjamin, she completely forgets about her other son, Andrew. He feels like the unloved child of the family and begins to buy an apartment. When Bree visits him and asks him about it, they both speak out.
79 9 tornado Something's coming Dec 2, 2007 Apr 7, 2008 David Grossman John Pardee, Joey Murphy
Susan falls down the stairs during an argument between Susan and Mike. When she then drives to the hospital with Mike and Mike is handcuffed and tied to a chair in front of the hospital staff because of the long wait, he realizes how serious his situation is. Whisteria Lane receives a tornado warning. The housewives prepare for the big storm, but Gabrielle prepares to escape with Carlos from Victor. When Kaminsky wants to bring the documents for the stolen account, Edie pretends to be Gabrielle and takes the documents with him. When Gabrielle overhears this, they argue that the documents fly away from the tornado's headwind. Gabrielle and Edie find shelter in a basement hatch in Edie's house. Victor finally waits for Carlos in Gabrielle's house. When he tries to kill him with his pistol, the two have a big fight outside. While Victor is pierced by a flying garden fence post and dies, Carlos passes out from a flying brick that flies into his face. Bree notices an argument between Katherine and Sylvia a few hours before the tornado. When she approaches Sylvia, Bree is told the truth about Adam's past from Sylvia. When Sylvia barricades herself in the bathroom of the Hodges, Bree calls the Mayfairs for help, but they cannot get Sylvia to leave the room either. Five of the two families are now looking for shelter in another room, while Sylvia goes outside and is sucked in by the tornado and dies. Lynette had taken refuge with Karen a few hours before that, but she wasn't particularly keen on the loud organs of Lynette's children. However, she agrees. The Scavos and Karen are sitting in Karen's basement with Ida when they notice that Ida has brought her cat and that Tom has a cat allergy. When everyone is asleep, Lynette tries to bring the cat up, but Karen follows her to bring Toby back. When the tornado rips open the door, Toby is thrown out. Karen and Lynette want to look for Ida's cat, but when the tornado comes, they seek shelter in Lynette's house. When the storm stopped raging, Lynette and Karen noticed in panic that Karen's house, along with Ida and Lynette's family, was completely buried.
80 10 After the disaster Welcome to Kanagawa Jan. 6, 2008 Apr 14, 2008 Larry Shaw Jamie Gorenberg, Jordon Nardino
When the buried people are rescued from Karen's house, Lynette's family emerges from the rubble, but Karen's best friend Ida did not make it. When cleaning out Ida's apartment, Lynette realizes that Ida saved her children and then died sacrificially. When Ida's heartless niece comes to Whisteria Lane to collect her furniture and the urn without throwing it where Ida wanted it, Lynette seizes the opportunity and swaps the ashes. That night, Lynette and Karen finally scatter the ashes on the baseball field where Ida began an impressive career. Lynette realizes that she never noticed what a great person Ida was during her lifetime. After Bree's roof was completely destroyed by the tornado, she finds shelter with Susan. After initially being unhappy about Bree's presence, Susan gradually realized that there are tremendous benefits to having an impeccable housewife as a roommate. When Bree takes care of a roofer, Susan makes sure that he does not start his work. When Bree notices this, Susan confesses her selfish behavior. While Carlos receives news from his doctor that he is forever blind, but has not yet confessed to Gabrielle, a second world collapses for Carlos when he hears from Gabrielle that the embezzled money is gone and the Solis family is broke. Katherine throws Adam out of her house. While packing, Adam finds Lillian's letter that tells the truth about Dylan. When he notices that Kathrin has not told him the real truth either, she does not separate from him, but he separates from her. Dylan finally finds the note too and is shocked by the past.
81 11 Sunday Sunday Jan. 13, 2008 29 Sep 2008 David Grossman Lori Kirkland Baker & Alexandra Cunningham
Susan learns from her cousin Tim that Katherine hit her ex-husband at the time. Gabrielle marries Carlos in the hospital. When she learns from Edie a short time later that Carlos has no chance of recovery, she wants revenge on him. Bree takes Lynette to her church. After being embarrassed that Lynette asks questions during the sermon, she asks her not to come back to church. However, since the priest found Lynette very likeable, Bree is now fighting to get Lynette back, but Lynette has already found support in the Catholic Church.
82 12 Blind In Buddy's Eyes Jan. 20, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 Larry Shaw Jeff Greenstein
Susan finds Orson sleepwalking around her house again and again. When Julie also meets the sleepwalking Orson, she overhears him in a dream apologize to Mike for running over him. Julie is shocked. When Gabrielle is able to park in disabled parking spaces with Carlos, she realizes that Carlos' blindness can also benefit her. Bree co-organizes the annual Fairview Ball with Katherine for the first time. But when Bree notices that Katherine is getting out of hand and then takes away her eulogy, Bree takes revenge with bad food, which she gives Katherine. When Katherine finally announces Bree as the winner, Bree feels guilty and apologizes to Katherine. After Bree makes it clear that Katherine does not fit into her circle of friends because she is an image of herself, Katherine has the opinion that because of this one could get along well. Tom admits to Lynette that it was he who damaged Rick Coletti's new restaurant that could rival the Scavos. Lynette forgives Tom. When the restaurant burned down a day later, however, Lynette doubts her husband's character.
83 13 Hello little girl Hello little girl Jan. 27, 2008 Oct 13, 2008 Bethany Rooney Susan Nirah Jaffee & Jamie Gorenberg
Julie tells Mike that Orson ran him over. Susan and Mike blame Orson seriously, but want to forgive him. Bree, however, cannot forgive her husband and separates from Orson. Gabrielle cannot make friends with Carlos' new guide dog. It is from Edie, of all people, that Gabrielle realizes that from now on she can no longer treat Carlos in such a disparaging manner. Lynette can't believe her husband that he didn't burn Rick's restaurant down. But that evening Porter and Preston come to their mother and confess that it was they who set Rick's restaurant on fire. Wayne contacts his daughter Dylan. From now on, Dylan meets regularly with her father without telling her mother.
84 14th welcome Opening doors May 4, 2008 Oct 20, 2008 David Grossman Dahvi Waller & Jordon Nardino
While preparing for the birth, Susan meets her ex-husband Karl and her pregnant wife. Susan is eager to show her ex-husband that her family is as successful as his. But Mike talks about his drug past. Gabrielle and Carlos let Ellie Leonard live with them as a lodger. When Gabrielle watches how Ellie is slipped money from many men, she tries with Bob and Lee to find out whether Ellie is prostituting herself. When this turns out to be wrong, Ellie tells Gabrielle that she secretly runs a tattoo parlor in her room, but that she is actually selling drugs. Lynette learns from her twins that Kayla initiated the arson. In revenge that she will now also be punished, Kayla begins an intrigue and tells her siblings that she could fly off the roof with an umbrella. When Preston tries to do the same, he breaks his arm. Kayla triumphs. Bree notices Edie sheltering Orson and is fairly familiar with her recently abandoned ex-husband. Katherine learns that her daughter has met her father, Wayne. When Dylan confesses it to her a short time later, Katherine and Wayne speak for the first time since their separation. Katherine makes her point of view clear that she has become a different person and will no longer put up with everything. Karen is looking for Ida's cat Toby, who has been missing since the tornado. After all, Karen is overjoyed to have found the cat and from then on takes care of the animal.
85 15th Mother's Day Mother Said May 11, 2008 Oct 27, 2008 David Warren Chuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-Giordano
Susan gets a visit from her mother-in-law Adele. Adele doesn't hide the fact that she has a lot to complain about about Susan. Just in time for Mother's Day, Susan finally goes into labor and gives birth to a boy. Gabrielle notices that Ellie is smuggling drugs and takes them to the police. They have been hot on her heels for a long time, but want to let her continue to get to the masterminds. In order for Carlos to get his probation reimbursed, the solos have to put a good face on the bad game and deal with Ellie normally. Gabrielle, who has come to love Ellie, finds this very difficult. Lynette seeks help from a family therapist. Kayla realizes how she must act in her favor and provokes Lynette in such a way that she is beaten in front of the surveillance cameras. Kayla then calls the therapist and says she is afraid of Lynette. After Edie learns that Benjamin is not Bree's son, but the child of Danielle and Austin, she tries to blackmail Bree. However, Bree does not go into Edie's game, but confesses to her friends that she was pregnant. Her friends understand and the four of them make it clear to Edie that they will now ignore her and hate her. After Edie has been deprived of all social life, she decides to move out of Whisteria Lane and spend more time with her son Travers. Wayne notices that he doesn't have the same DNA as his daughter. When he then sees a video in which Dylan has a large scar on her arm as a small child, which no longer exists, he realizes that Katherine's daughter Dylan is no longer his daughter Dylan and throws her out of his apartment.
86 16 Names The Gun Song (1) May 18, 2008 Nov 3, 2008 Bethany Rooney Matt Berry & Bob Daily
Susan and Mike struggle to find a suitable name for their baby. After they decided on "Conor", Mike got the idea to name his son after his late grandfather Maynard. Susan finds the name awful at first, but when she hears what a hero Mike's grandfather was, Susan fully supports Mike's decision. When the FBI tries to storm the house, Gabrielle feels sorry for her friend Ellie and gives her a way out. Kayla's intrigues towards Lynette come to a head that Lynette has to go to jail and has no contact with her children. Through a hidden phone, Tom talks to his daughter about the deed, which everything before him confesses. Lynette is acquitted, but Kayla has to leave the family and is picked up by her grandparents. When Bree is harassed by a new pastor from Fairview, but she will keep her distance, the pastor wants to ridicule Bree in front of the entire congregation. Orson stands up for her and even pays to have him hospitalized. When Adam and Katherine attend an orchestra performance by Dylan, Adam is kidnapped by Wayne during the break.
87 17th liberation Free (2) May 18, 2008 Nov 10, 2008 David Grossman Jeff Greenstein
Julie leaves Whisteria Lane to study, although Susan finds it very unfortunate. Bob and Lee's wedding is coming up. Bree is overwhelmed with the preparations. Frustrated that Katherine did not help her, she comes to her house. However, Katherine is being held there by Wayne. Ellie, who takes shelter in Katherine's house, is immediately shot by Wayne. To spare Bree this, Katherine tells her husband the dark secret about Dylan. Adam manages to escape from captivity and he also gains access to Katherine's house. During a showdown, Katherine shoots Wayne out of hatred and fear, as Wayne made it clear to her that he will get revenge if he is released from prison. Bree makes her friends testify for Katherine in what looks like self-defense. The friends succeed.
5 years later:
Katherine still lives on Whisteria Lane and is good friends with the women. Dylan moved to France and got engaged to her boyfriend Bradley there. Lynette learns from Tom that her twins have committed another crime. Bree has become a confident businesswoman. She lives with Orson again and her son Andrew has become her manager. Gabrielle has two children with whom she is completely overwhelmed. It seems like her life hasn't been as glamorous as it was before. Susan has a new, unknown man by her side.

Episode specifics

No. episode Specialty
1 Everything comes out to light (Now You Know) First episode of the fourth season. Katherine Mayfair, Dylan Mayfair and Dr. Adam Mayfair appear in this episode for the first time in the series and carry the big season secret.
2 Cake battle (Smiles of a Summer Night) Al Kaminsky appears for the first time in this episode in the series.
3 Charade (The Game)
4th Plagues (If There's Anything I Can't Stand) Bob Hunter and Lee McDermott appear for the first time in this episode. Rex's mother, Phyllis, has a guest appearance on this episode after being a permanent cast in Season 2. Lillian Simms dies in this episode.
5 Art is subjective (Art Isn't Easy) Phyllis Van de Kamp has her last appearance in this episode. Jesse Metcalfe makes a guest appearance on this episode.
6th Anxiety (Now I Know, Don't Be Scared) Danielle's son Benjamin is born in this episode. Danielle made her last appearance this season in this episode. After that she only appears sporadically in later episodes.
7th Deception (You Can not Judge a Book by Its Cover)
8th Flotsam (Disant Past) Sylvia Greene and Detective Lyons make their first appearance in this episode.
9 Tornado (Something's Coming) Most expensive episode produced by the series. Second disaster sequence. Ida Greenberg, Sylvia Greene, Victor Lang and Al Kaminsky die in the tornado that ravages Whisteria Lane in this episode.
10 After the disaster (Welcome to Kanagawa)
11 Sunday (Sunday) Wayne Davis first appeared in this episode.
12 Blind (In Buddy's Eyes) Rick Coletti returns from this episode.
13 Hello little girl (Hello, Little Girl) Orson's secret that he ran over Mike is resolved in this episode.
14th Welcome (Opening Doors) Ellie Leonard makes her first appearance in this episode. Karl Mayer makes a guest appearance in this episode.
15th Mother (Mother Said) Susan's son MJ is born in this episode. Edie Britt leaves Whisteria Lane in this episode and only returns to the street five years later.
16 Names (The Gun Song) The last appearance of Kayla Scavo, double episode with episode 17
17th Liberation (Free) Double episode with episode 16. Fourth season finale. Dissolution of the relay secret. Wayne Davis and Ellie Leonard passed away. Lillian Simms and Mary Alice Young appear in flashbacks. Celia Solis, Juanita Solis Jr. and Jackson Braddock are introduced as roles in this episode. Last episode before the final time jump of five years.

Season Secret: The Mayfair Family Secret

The big secret of the fourth season of Desperate Housewives involves the mysterious past of Katherine Mayfair and the truth about Katherine's daughter Dylan. The resolution of the secret can be found in the main article . Here is a list of the facts about the secret that were revealed during the season.

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1 Katherine, Adam and Dylan move to Whisteria Lane. They lived there before.
Dylan can't remember her childhood friend Julie.
In the past, Katherine has left Whisteria Lane in a hurry without saying goodbye to her neighbors.
Katherine was strictly against Dylan coming to terms with her past.
Julie believes Dylan is not the same girl she knew when she was a child.
Something very terrible happened in one room of the house.
Katherine involuntarily had to move back to Whisteria Lane.
2 Shortly before Katherine's departure, she was very nervous and pushed her friends away.
Dylan received false information about her father from Katherine.
3 Katherine is very jealous and can't stand it when her husband gets too close to other women.
4th Lillian and Katherine committed a crime with Dylan and covered something up. Lillian cannot bear to go to her death with this secret and writes it down on a piece of paper.
5 Something bad happened at the Chicago hospital related to the infidelity of Katherine's husband Adam.
7th Katherine is very scared of her ex-husband.
8th Sylvia Greene and Dr. Adam Mayfair had a close relationship.
9 Sylvia Greene was a patient of Adam.
The Mayfairs moved to Fairview over Sylvia's sexual harassment charges.
Adam actually slept with Sylvia.
10 Katherine told Adam that her ex-husband was to blame for the blow of fate for Dylan, but according to Lillian's letter, it was Katherine who was to blame.
When Dylan learns the truth from her great-aunt Lillian's letter, she is shocked.
11 Katherine's husband, Wayne Davis, was always violent towards Katherine.
Katherine has a grave in a forest where a loved one has been buried.
According to Lillian, Dylan's father was murdered.
13 Dylan's father Wayne Davis lives and contacts Dylan.
15th Wayne is not genetically related to Dylan.
Wayne realizes that Dylan doesn't have the scar on her arm that she did in a childhood video.
17th Denouement: Katherine ran away from Wisteria Lane years ago and no one knew why. Now that it's back, the secret is coming to light. 14 years ago, Katherine tried to report her then-husband Wayne, because he had repeatedly hit her and she feared that he would be violent against her daughter Dylan. However, since her husband has good contacts with the authorities as a police officer, the complaint disappeared. A policewoman advised Katherine to take her daughter and leave as soon as possible. She then fled to Wisteria Lane to her aunt Lillian Simms. But after a few months, Wayne followed her. Since there was no time to escape, she tried to confront her husband. Before that, she had placed a Dylan doll that her father had given her on a tall cupboard. The conversation with Wayne was noisy, and Katherine knocked him down with a candlestick. Lilly came over because she had heard a row and asked about Katherine. However, this seemed happy and believed Wayne finally to be rid. The two noticed, however, that the noise hadn't come from the scuffle between Katherine and Wayne, but from Dylan, who had tried to get her doll from the closet. Dylan had been killed in the closet. Lilly and Katherine buried the body, afraid that the police would assume Katherine had killed her daughter to keep her away from Wayne. Knowing that Wayne would kill her if he ever found out, Katherine went to a Romanian orphanage. There she found a girl whose mother had died in childbirth and whose father was murdered. The girl passed her off as Dylan because she looked amazingly similar to her, and moved to Chicago, where she met her new husband Adam. However, she always told Adam that Wayne was responsible for Dylan's death.

Flashbacks in the series

In the season, memories of earlier appearances often appear. In addition to the flashback episodes mentioned in the main article, where the entire episode is based on these flashbacks, all the flashbacks of the fourth season that the roles remember are listed here. In flashbacks, dead characters usually appear as guest roles.

episode person memory Guest role
2 Susan Delfino When Susan knocks on Katherine's door, Susan remembers the last time she saw Katherines in her own place. A few years ago she knocked on her door with Mary Alice to ask why she was moving away. Katherine was very nervous and in a hurry. She quickly picked up her friends at the front door. After this memory, Susan realizes that something is mysterious about Katherine's return. Mary Alice Young († S01)
11 Katherine Mayfair After Adam broke up, Katherine remembers that her ex-husband, Wayne Davis, used to hit her, then kept apologizing, but kept going. Then one day Katherine knocked him down with a candlestick. Wayne Davis
Tim Susan's cousin Tim told Susan how he saw an argument between Katherine and Wayne when he was about to bring Katherine flowers. Katherine slew her husband with a grim look with a candlestick. Then Tim ran away out of fear.
17th Katherine Mayfair Katherine remembers going to the police for help at the beginning of the episode after abandoning her abusive husband, Wayne. The policewoman advises her to get out of Fairview because Wayne has too good contacts with the police. A second flashback of Katherine occurs while telling Wayne the truth about Dylan under threat with a gun. After Wayne gains access to Lillian's house, Katherine manages to evict Wayne through her own violence. However, her daughter Dylan has an accident the same evening when she tries to get her doll off her shelf. However, the shelf collapses over her and Dylan dies. Since Lilly is sure that Wayne wants to kill Katherine for it, they bury Dylan and fetched a girl who looks exactly like Dylan in a Romanian orphanage and move out of Whisteria Lane. Mary Alice Young († S01)
Lillian Simms († 04)
Dylan Davis (†)

Relay deaths

episode person Kind of death action
4th Lillian Simms Old age To spend her old age, Lillian Simms comes back to her old house where her niece Katherine currently lives. Knowing about a bad secret about Katherine's daughter Dylan, but Katherine forbids her to tell Dylan about it, Lillian writes the truth on a piece of paper. A few moments later, Lillian dies.
9 Al Kaminsky Electric shock After he allegedly gave Edie, who had pretended to be Gabrielle, embezzled money, Carlos was hit with his car on a power pole on the way home due to the storm of the tornado. There he came into contact with the electricity and died as a result of the electrical conduction.
Victor Lang Stabbed In a tussle with Carlos during the tornado, Victor is stabbed through the chest by a flying garden fence post.
Sylvia Greene tornado When leaving Bree's house, Sylvia gets caught in the tornado, is sucked in and found dead on a tree by Kayla Scavo a day later.
Ida Greenberg Burial When the tornado destroyed Karen's house, where Ida took shelter with the Scavos, she saved Tom and his children in a hollow in which they could not be injured. Since there was no room for Ida there, she sacrificed herself and died when the tornado hit.
16 Maynard Delfino sr. Old age Shortly after the delivery of Mike and Susan's baby, Mike receives the news that his beloved grandfather Maynard has died. Mike then names his child Maynard. His name is later abbreviated to "MJ".
17th Ellie Leonard Gunshot wound When Ellie Leonard sought refuge in Katherine's apartment while fleeing from the police, a hostage-taking took place there. Wayne then shoots Ellie through her chest.
Wayne Davis After Wayne takes Katherine and Bree hostage and kills Ellie, Wayne lies on the ground and Katherine has the opportunity to kill her hated ex-husband. She finally does, but thanks to her friends, the act can be portrayed as self-defense.

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  1. ↑ Desperate Housewives: TV series broadcast dates . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved January 21, 2017.