Desperate Housewives Episode 1.18 Children Will Listen

Police question Paul about a toy chest he bought 12 years ago - since it's turned up with a woman's body inside it. Zach quickly covers for his father and says they got rid of it years ago. Paul tells Zach a private detective came to take Zach away from them and that's whose body is in the chest.

Felicia invites Zach over and tells him she knew his mother long ago in Utah. And that she'd met him when he was a young boy -- when his name was Dana!

Amid their ongoing arguments about whether to have children - Carlos is for it, and Gabrielle is dead-set against it - the lawyer from the hospital shows up at the Solis' with the settlement check for the negligence case over Mama Solis' death. Carlos is furious that Gabrielle didn't tell him about the money sooner so he could have used it to fight having to go to jail. She tells him he deserves to go to jail and that at least this way, they'll have money when he gets out.

He threatens to divorce her and cut her out of the settlement unless she signs a post-nuptial that will alter the terms of their pre-nup. She counters by saying she knows about his bank account in the Cayman Islands -- proof of his illegal profits. He threatens to divorce her and she threatens to go to the police. But then he moves the money so she can't blackmail him anymore, and physically forces her to sign the post-nup.

After Carlos' attack, she runs to John's apartment. When John sees the bruises on her wrist, he wants to settle things with Carlos, but she says kissing her is the best revenge. Gabrielle doesn't know that Carlos has been tampering with her birth-control pills, so when she sleeps with John, Mary Alice tells us in voiceover, Gabrielle becomes pregnant!

A harried Lynette dumps her kids on Bree without asking first so she can meet old work friends for a drink. Bree obliges, but when Porter acts up, she spanks him --something Lynette never does. When Lynette finds out, she flips out and Bree responds by saying everyone knows the Scavo kids are out of control. Lynette coldly tells Bree she has no business criticizing her parenting skills since Andrew is now at a camp for juvenile delinquents.

Lynette sounds off to Tom, but he admits the kids are onto their empty threats to spank them. Lynette says her mother beat her and her sisters and she refuses to become like her mother. But then when the boys keep acting up, Lynette snaps. She threatens them with a spanking -- from Mrs. Van de Kamp! The boys immediately start behaving.

Bree has a crisis about whether she's a good mother when it's time to visit Andrew. She doesn't want to go but Rex talks her into it. Andrew doesn't want to see her and she assumes it's because he hates her. Stuck with the truly terrible mothers outside, she storms in and demands Andrew to admit that she's a good mother.

Rex says Andrew asked to talk to him alone first because he wanted to admit he thinks he might be gay!

Lynette apologizes to Bree, but Bree tells her she's the one who's sorry.

Susan's mother, Sophie, shows up unexpectedly and immediately gets into a fender-bender with Mike. Now that he's met her ditzy mom, Mike tells Susan that suddenly a lot of questions he had about her are answered.

Sophie reveals she's left her boyfriend, Morty, because he "shoved" her. Susan is reluctant to believe the boyfriend is abusive, due to her mother's tendency to exaggerate things. So Susan tries to get her to reconcile with Morty. But the reconciliation goes sour, and Susan is stuck with her mother -- for now.