Season 4 Spoilers and Cast Additions

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Question: I'm very disappointed! You didn't say anything about Desperate Housewives in last week's AA. — Jose Carlos
Ausiello: I was waiting till I had something to say, and now I do: I've seen the season premiere and, save for the lame resolution of the Edie cliff-hanger, the episode is actually pretty good. All of the actors seem on top of their game, including Dana Delany and Nathan Fillion who are fantastic as the sorta-new couple on the block. On the spoiler front, I can tell you that this season's big mystery centers on what happened to Delany's daughter (Lyndsy Fonseca) during their early days on Wisteria Lane. There's also a big baby twist, a funny sight gag involving a barbecue fork that underrated funny lady Marcia Cross just nails, and a housewife's death is averted by none other than Mrs. McClusky.
Question: Any hint on which guy is going to die on Desperate Housewives?— K.K.
Ausiello: Assuming Marc Cherry sticks with Plan A, the dearly departed is the spouse of a housewife.
Question: Desperate Housewives! — Jane
Ausiello: Lynette Scavo's family tree continues to grow: The show will soon be introducing her elegant and hard-edged older sister.

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Episode 4.06: Title Unknown
Airdate: November 2007

09/07 - It looks like Lynette is said to win her battle against cancer this Fall. Source: TV Squad
09/05 - The episode will feature flashbacks from 1973, when three boys scare an 8-year-old Edie by showing her plastic snakes she believes are real. Bob and Lee host a Halloween party. Lynette will attend the event and learn more about the couple by talking with one of Lee's friends. Source: SpoilerFix.com
09/01 - Mike and Susan go to a prenatal diagnostic center to get information about amniocentesis. Susan doesn't want to undergo the testing because it's done using a huge needle and is said to be painful. Lynette gets a PET scan in order to know if her cancer is gone. When she is in the machine, Lynette panics and orders the technician to let her out. While in a costume shop, Carlos and Gaby get in a heated argument. It seems that Gaby knows Carlos had money stashed away when they were married. Edie asked an IRS agent to check on an offshore account (probably where Carlos hid his money). Source: SpoilerFix.com


Episode 4.07: Title Unknown
Airdate: November 2007

09/20 - If plans don't change, Danielle's baby (aka Bree and Orson's baby) will be named Benjamin Hodge. Source: TV Squad
09/16 - At the Scavos, Lynette and her two sisters, Lucy and Lydia, argue about where their mother should stay next. Lucy doesn't want her because her boyfriend just moved in with her and she hasn't told him her real age yet! Lydia seems to have personnal issues (she is seeing a therapist) that prevent her from taking their mother in. Lucy thinks that Lydia's issues surfaced because she took care of Stella for two years. Lucy suggests they all chip in and buy an apartment for their mother. Elsewhere, Stella has a new boyfriend, Stan, who spent the night at the Scavos. Source: SpoilerFix.com
09/14 - It looks like Danielle will give birth to a boy. Orson and Bree will not see eye to eye about circumcision. Lynette tells her sisters she cannot put up with their mother anymore. Source: TV Squad

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Question: Tell me more about this tornado on Desperate Housewives — specifically regarding the casualties. — Danielle
Ausiello: As I scooped in my Ausiello Report vodcast this week, the twister touches down on Dec. 2. And when the dust settles, at least two characters will be dead.

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Question: Teri Hatcher hinted in USA Today that one of the two upcoming deaths is someone she likes a lot. Please tell me Julie isn't one of the fatalities. — Cody
Ausiello: We should be so lucky. Unfortunately, Julie survives the twister. Here are the final two hints you're getting about the doomed duo: Both are recurring, and one has man parts and the other doesn't.

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Question: Here's some scoop for you: Desperate Housewives is filming at a baseball park in Long Beach today. They are also filming a funeral scene nearby. What does it all mean? — Long Beach Mole
Ausiello: It means that one of the people dying has requested his/her ashes be scattered at a baseball field. OK, now that's the last clue. I mean it.

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Question: Tell me more about this tornado on Desperate Housewives — specifically regarding the casualties. — Danielle
Ausiello: As I scooped in my Ausiello Report vodcast this week, the twister touches down on Dec. 2. And when the dust settles, at least two characters will be dead.

Gaby's husband Victor and Ida Greenberg are to die
Source National Enquirer

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Question: Tell me more about this tornado on Desperate Housewives — specifically regarding the casualties. — Danielle
Ausiello: As I scooped in my Ausiello Report vodcast this week, the twister touches down on Dec. 2. And when the dust settles, at least two characters will be dead.

Gaby's husband Victor and Ida Greenberg are to die
Source National Enquirer

And good riddance to Victor!

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Kristen from E

Kara in Fort Lee, New Jersey: Can you please tell me why the actress playing Nathan Fillion's ex-lover from Chicago looks so familiar? I've been trying to figure it out since she unexpectedly showed up at his door last night on Desperate Housewives!
Her name is Melora Walters, and you know her because she is crazy Wanda Henrickson from Big Love! You know, Joey's weirdo wife who has a penchant for poisoning people?! Turns out she'll be playing a loon on Desperate Housewives, too, and sources are saying Tom Scavo is her next victim! Do you remember when we reported back in October that Tom would be seen having dinner with an annoying hussy? Turns out that hussy is the same lady who wreaked havoc on Adam and Katherine Mayfair's marriage back in Chi-town.

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Desperate Housewives Episode Recap: "Something's Coming"

Natural disasters create strange bedfellows — or more specifically, basement fellows. While the tornado caused two deaths tonight, it was also a catalyst for forgiveness, revelation, and new and altered friendships.

I (and others who read scoop and spoilers) found out a while ago that two characters, one man and one woman, would die. And within the first few minutes of the episode, narrator Mary Alice told us that on what began as a beautiful day would end with the loss of one housewife's husband and "a friend." I had my ideas, not to mention the knowledge that John Slattery (Victor) was bound for a second season of AMC's Mad Men. Still, I found myself at moments thinking about what the show would be like if Victor had shot Carlos dead or if Tom succumbed to his cat allergy with a fatal asthma attack. My two favorite Wisteria Lane husbands (Carlos and Tom) and the Carlos/Gaby and Tom/Lynette couples would be no more.

Thankfully these couples are still intact. But their homes and livelihoods are not. The Scavos, having just conquered cancer, now have no home for their family of seven. At least Karen McCluskey is still around. I admit I have such a soft spot for her; I jumped when she and Lynette darted out into the wind to rescue Ida's cat. And I had doubts that a mattress and a bathtub were adequate shelter.

Gaby and Edie — and then Carlos and Victor — also had some outdoor action, fighting each other as the storm grew stronger. You just knew the Cayman account file would dramatically be swept away with the wind. What was less predictable (and funnier) was how the file and the scuffle that ensued forced the two to hide out together in Edie's crawl space. Even though Edie refused to hear any deathbed confessions, Gaby apologized for lying to her and hurting her. Edie admitted falling for Carlos but not hating Gaby, and the two actually hugged, thanks to a frightening rush of wind. It appears all is forgiven (for now), and knowing that Carlos and Gaby may have lost all access to their Cayman millions probably made Edie feel a little bit better.

Carlos had a very similar conversation with his ex's ex, Victor, but it didn't end in a hug. Their fistfight took them outside and then back into the house — almost. Just as Carlos crossed the threshold and Victor loomed behind him with a crowbar: crunch. Those pristine white picket fences in perky little suburban Fairview became deadly at the hands of a tornado. (I have to mention that my mom, who's visiting me and watched the show tonight for the first time ever, said casually as they were fighting that Victor would get skewered with a fencepost. How can my mother be so right so much of the time? It's bizarre.)

I'm not a big fan of the Mike's-addiction storyline, but at least I enjoyed watching Susan confront Orson about prescribing the pills while Orson was with a patient. And once Mike's moody condition caused him to lash out and get handcuffed to a chair, as well as sent her falling down the stairs (ugh, overused plot device) and to the ER, Mike vowed to enter rehab. I was glad to see Susan threaten to leave him; he needed that reality check, even after what had already transpired. Did you see that look he gave when the nurse handed Susan her pain medication? That man needs some help.

Perhaps my favorite storyline is the whole Katherine-Bree tension, and tonight didn't disappoint. Trust Bree to sit Adam's Chicago flame down and chat/gossip over a nice cuppa tea. The approaching storms (tornado and Sylvia) forced Bree, Katherine, Adam and Orson (and Benjamin and his dirty diaper) to deal with each other, revealing secrets and relying on one another in the process. Bree's soft, compassionate side prevailed with Katherine, going so far as to hold her hand after the truth of Adam's affair with Sylvia was revealed (midstorm in Bree's house!). Even I had some sympathy for Katherine. I mean yeah, she's a witchy ice queen, but what a day that woman had! The good news for Katherine is that she won't be dealing with Sylvia (Melora Walters) anymore. That apparently unstable woman got her just desserts courtesy of the tornado, leaving the rest of the street's female contingent free (for the time being) from such a demise.

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Question: This isn't really a question, but gawd, I sure hope Lynette's kids died in that Desperate Housewives tornado! Wait, I can turn this into a question! Michael, can you please tell me whether Lynette's kids are dead? Pretty puh-leeeeease with a Snapple cap on top?! — Gord
Ausiello: Regrettably, the Scavo's demon spawn survive the twister. I don't get Marc Cherry sometimes. He had a golden opportunity to kill four really annoying birds with one big shiny stone and he didn't take it. Maybe he's waiting to unload them in the May sweeps tsunami.

Question: Did Lynette's husband die in the tornado? The promos said "a friend and a husband" would die. Is it Tom? Who is the friend? I'm so confused. When are new episodes coming back? — Amy
Ausiello: Actually, it's episode, not episodes. The conclusion to Sunday's two-parter is the only remaining episode in the can. And my guess is ABC is holding onto it as long as possible.