Desperate Housewives Episode 5.10 A Vision's Just a Vision

The police arrest Porter, over Lynette's protests. Tom assures Lynette, "We'll get a lawyer, we'll get through this." They hire their neighbor, Bob, as their lawyer, and Porter tells them he has an alibi: He was at Edie's stealing her gun! Since no one saw him there, Lynette tells him, "Honey, that's not an alibi. That's a confession to another crime." She surreptitiously returns the gun, without anyone being the wiser.

At the follow-up after Orson's nasal surgery, Bree is shocked to see a a photo of the doctor with her son! She's hurt that Andrew never mentioned he was living with someone and invites him and his boyfriend, Alex, to dinner the next night. She also invites her "dear friends" Bob and Lee, who think they recognize Alex, but they can't say from where. At dinner, Alex admits that he and Andrew are engaged. Bree sees Bob and Lee exchanging looks and summons them to the kitchen, where she gets them to admit where they've seen Alex before -- in a gay porn film!

Bree takes Andrew aside and shows him Alex's DVD, but he already knows about Alex's "sordid past," and that he did it to afford med school. He tells his mother, "We both know I have sort of an interesting past myself, so, you know, glass houses... stones. Not to mention the fact that I love him. Very much." When Bree admits that she just wanted to make sure that Alex is being honest with him, Andrew says, "This might be about the nicest thing you've ever done for me. Not every boy can say that his mother's willing to rent gay porn for them."

Carlos is overjoyed that he can now see light after his operation, but his vision will take a few weeks to come back. That leads to problems for Gaby, because he'll now see that she's sold his prized baseball signed by Lou Gehrig. She asks the collector she sold it to give it back, but he refuses, unless she dances on the table for him. When she comes home, Carlos's vision has improved already and he wants to know where one of their paintings has gone. She admits that she had to sell it. He says he doesn't care, so she confesses to having sold the baseball too. That, he is not okay with, and calls her a "featherhead" and a "little thief." "This 'featherhead' kept our family afloat for five years," she says, saying he has no idea what she's had to do to survive. She gets the ball back, but Carlos, realizing the sacrifices she's made, sells it to buy her a beautiful dress.

Susan is trying to be okay with Katherine dating Mike, but little MJ is flat out against it: A zoo visit ends with MJ throwing a sundae in Katherine's hair. Susan realizes that she's going to have to make an effort to show MJ that she approves of his dad's moving on. Mike agrees it's a good idea if Susan comes along on their next outing, but Katherine isn't so sure. Susan's presence smoothes things over as MJ "shows" Katherine how to bowl, but when Mike unthinkingly puts his hand over Susan's, MJ, ever hopeful for a reunion, drops the bowling ball on Katherine's foot. MJ finally says he's waiting for Mike and Susan to get back together. Susan admits that one night, out of desperation when MJ was horribly upset, she told him that "maybe" Mike was coming back. She asks Mike, "Don't you ever think about it?" He doesn't answer.

Edie tells Dave that Porter's been arrested. He's staring hard at a woman and small child across the street and is so upset that he breaks the glass he's holding. Porter's bail is set for $20,000, and Tom is counting on their "emergency fund," to help them out. He doesn't know that Lynette used that money to pay Anne Schilling to leave town. Edie admits as much to Bob, swearing him to secrecy. The Scavo house is already "mortgaged to the teeth," so Lynette has no choice but to mortgage the restaurant. Warren Schilling sees Porter, who's out on bail, and threatens him, saying, "One day, you'll be walking home and you'll just disappear." Terrified, Porter leaves town and Preston takes his place at the arraignment. He fools Bob, but not his parents. Tom insists that they tell the truth and forfeit the bail, but Lynette says to trust her, and for now, tell everyone that Preston is Porter.

Dave goes to the cemetery and vows to a pair of gravestones that read "Laila Dash, Beloved Wife" and "Paige Dash, Beloved Daughter," "Soon, I will be with you, but first Mike Delfino has to pay. I want him to lose what I lost."