Desperate Housewives Season Three Episode Guide


Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Listen to the Rain on the Roof

Original Air Date—24 September 2006
Susan is visiting Mike in the hospital, who’s still in a coma. There she’s invited by another man to go on a date with him. Gabrielle and Carlos are getting a divorce, but they meet again when the mother of their baby disappears.


Season 3, Episode 2: It Takes Two

Original Air Date—1 October 2006
Bree and Orson’s wedding day arrives, despite the chagrin from her friends, especially Susan who is still disturbed by Carolyn Bigsby’s accusations. Later, Orson and Bree’s wedding reception is interrupted when the police arrive and tell Orson that a body believed to be his ex-wife has been found at a construction site. The body is not Orson’s missing wife, but he lies for some reason by pretending not to know the murder victim. Meanwhile, Lynette attempts to set Nora up with various single guys to keep her away from the house. Gabrielle and Carlos prepare for both the divorce and the baby’s expectant arrival when Xiao-Mei goes into labor, but find the baby not to their expectations. Edie’s troublesome 18-year-old nephew, Austin, comes to visit and has a meeting of minds with Julie. Also, Susan continues to be uncomfortable around hanging out with Ian.


Season 3, Episode 3: A Weekend in the Country

Original Air Date—8 October 2006
Bree and Orson are going on their honeymoon to Bermuda. But at the airport, Bree sees her runaway son, Andrew, on the public TV featured as a homeless teenager in which Bree wants to cut short their honeymoon to go look for him, against Orson’s protests. After Bree unsuccessfully tries to get Andrew to return home, Orson later meets with the troublesome youth and, despite seeing the abrasive sociopath Andrew still is, persuades him to return home by relating to his inner rage and hostility. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Lynette plan a weekend at a posh health spa while Tom is going on a camping trip with the wild and crazy kids. But Lynnette’s quiet weekend is also cut short when Tom phones with an emergency and she has to go to him. But things turn for the worse when Nora arrives and insists that she tag along with Lynnette. At the spa, the lonely Gabrielle runs into her former flame, John Rowland, who’s now a rising landscape designer, but regrets a one-stand with him in the morning when his fiancée shows up and nearly caches her. Susan goes on a quiet romantic getaway with Ian at a remote mountain cabin. But as usual for the klutzy Susan, things don’t go as planned. Plus, she is still insecure about if she’s cheating on Mike who’s still comatose. Julie has another run-in with Austin McCann, whom she allegedly cannot stand but finds herself strangely attracted to as Edie notices.


Season 3, Episode 4: Like It Was

Original Air Date—15 October 2006
Mike has woken up from his coma, but he has amnesia and has no recollection of the past two years or of who attempted to kill him. Unfortunately, the scheming Edie is there to fill in the blanks by pretending they are romantically involved. Despite the fact that Andrew has returned home and Danielle is a rising science class student, Bree finds her family is anything but perfect after learning of the “dirty way” Andrew survived while living on the streets and finds out that Danielle and her science teacher are closer than she thought. Lynette is determined not to let Parker quit baseball because he made a commitment, even though he’s terrible at it. Lynette also has a talk with Tom in she persuades him to follow his own path in hunting for a new job, as well as a new career path for himself. Carlos moves back into the house, much to Gabrielle’s displeasure, which escalates their personal war. Susan is still in the country with Ian after having their first romantic night together, when she cuts it short after receiving the news about Mike’s revival.


Season 3, Episode 5: Nice She Ain’t

Original Air Date—22 October 2006
The divorce between Gabrielle and Carlos reaches new levels of bitterness with both of them trying to make each other jealous. Susan is determined to jog Mike’s memory, and realizes Edie has been posing as his girlfriend since he woke up from his coma. Tom decides that his dream is to open a pizza parlor, and Lynette is not delighted. But Nora makes things a little worse by fanning the flames between them to break them up. Conniving Bree tries to break up the romance between Danielle and her history teacher, who’s been having an affair with her. Naughty Austin asks a reluctant Julie to help him write his English paper for class. Mike’s phone number is discovered on the mystery dead woman’s body by Detective Ridley.


Season 3, Episode 6: Sweetheart, I Have to Confess

Original Air Date—29 October 2006
Hurt after finding Mike with Edie, Susan professes her love for Ian, but in a very awkward way by crashing a dinner party he is throwing. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Carlos try to rekindle their love after she finds out about a potential new job he may be getting. Bree is confronted once again by Carolyn Bigsby who invites her and Orson with her husband Harvey, where Bree learns more about Orson’s past with his long-lost wife, and Orson finds out that Carolyn’s husband had had an affair with the mystery dead woman, and we learn that Orson had shared the same woman. Nora and Lynette go to war after Lynette finds out that Nora had tried to break her and Tom up over his planing to open up his pizza parlor. Also, Mike starts to remember things, which include the mystery dead woman, who’s name is revealed to be ‘Monique’.


Season 3, Episode 7: Bang

Original Air Date—5 November 2006
The day begins just as every other… Except today, there will be a deadly hostage situation in a local supermarket.


Season 3, Episode 8: Children and Art

Original Air Date—12 November 2006
When Gabrielle travels to New York with the desire to return to modeling, she finds it hard to go back on her terms, rather than her client’s. Back on Wisteria Lane, Lynette comes home from the hospital to recover from the shooting, and copes with the fact that her boys heard that she was shot at the supermarket. Lynnette is also grateful to Art Shephard for saving her life, but later finds some unsettling things about him. Susan comes home from a date with Ian to find Julie on the couch with a boy: the trouble-making Austin. However, Susan’s attempts to keep them apart by bringing her ex-husband, Karl, into the equation backfires greatly. Bree struggles to find out why Orson will not tell her the reasons behind his strained relationship with pesky and obnoxious mother Gloria. Detective Ridley continues investigating the murder of the mystery woman, Monique, and begins to zero on Mike Delfino.


Season 3, Episode 9: Beautiful Girls

Original Air Date—19 November 2006
Lynnette, having learned about her new neighbor’s, Art Shepherd’s obsession, assumes that he’s a pedophile and goes to the police, but she is told that they cannot do anything about it. Gabrielle gets a shot to train a group of young girls about being a model. Susan learns that Ian has a butler, named Rupert, who quietly disapproves of her dating Ian. Meanwhile, Bree learns what it’s like to live with her new mother-in-law, Gloria, and decides it time to get her a place of her own. But Bree isn’t prepared when Gloria reveals Orson’s secret about his past romance with the dead Monique. Also, the homeless Carlos moves in with Mike, who begins to think that he might have killed Monique.


Season 3, Episode 10: The Miracle Song

Original Air Date—26 November 2006
When Ian tells Susan that his parents will be visiting them for Christmas, Susan dumps the news to him that she can’t cook. Gabrielle is willing to drop Amy, the worst child in her modeling consulting class, by getting between her and the girl’s father… hunky Bill Pearce. Bree is having misgivings about dumping Orson at the curb after learning about his past with Monique, but begins to see him in a new light when he reveals how his mother conspired with Alma to trick him into marriage. However, Orson’s mother Gloria is revealed all this time to be conspiring with Orson’s ex-wife Alma, to destroy him. Edie dumps Mike when he gets arrested for the murder of Monique, leading to him to finally see the selfish tramp that Edie really is. Susan tries to help Mike, but Ian resents Susan’s meddling with her former boyfriend. The whole neighborhood dumps on Art Shepherd when Lynette spreads the word that she thinks he’s a pedophile, which puts a fatal strain on Art’s crippled sister Rebbecca’s heart.


Season 3, Episode 11: No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds

Original Air Date—7 January 2007
Alma reveals to the world she wasn’t dead, and Bree ends her friendship with Susan. Lynette has a hard time making Kayla feel she is part of the family.


Season 3, Episode 12: Not While I’m Around

Original Air Date—14 January 2007
Bree freaks about the security of her home life when she learns Orson’s ex-wife, Alma, is moving in down the street in the old Applewhite house. Meanwhile, Gabrielle freaks about her own home security when she learns she has a stalker, and goes even further when she learns the identity of her secret admirer: the natty and unbalanced-as-ever Zach Young, who has inherited Noah Taylor’s entire estate, while Carlos is just plain amused by Gabby’s new admirer. Elsewhere, Tom becomes angry when he learns Lynette helped him secure the liquor license after he told her that he did not want any help to open his restaurant. In prison, Mike is approached by Paul Young (whom he does not remember), who tries to get on Mike’s good side by pretending to be an old friend so he can seek revenge. Also, Susan freaks when she learns that Julie has secured birth control pills to consummate more her growing romance with Austin, who finally gets caught with Danielle by Susan and Edie.


Season 3, Episode 13: Come Play Wiz Me

Original Air Date—21 January 2007
Susan and Gabrielle hatch a plan to bail Mike out of jail, which means Gabby has to spend more time with her psychotic secret admirer, Zach Young, who agrees to post Mike’s bail and hire him another lawyer after the one Ian hires persuades Mike to plead guilty to Monique’s murder. Susan also learns that Ian’s comatose wife, Jane, has taken a turn for the worse and spends time at the hospital with a friend of Jane’s. In prison, Paul Young confides in Mike about his past and persuades him to try get his troubled son to visit him. Meanwhile, Orson becomes victim to a plot between his vicious mother Gloria, and his scheming ex-wife Alma who drugs and attempts to seduce Orson to bring him back into her life… until Bree finds out. Also, Lynnette gets pressured to skip another day of work to help Tom set up a street fair for some additional advertisement prior to the opening of his new pizzeria.


Season 3, Episode 14: I Remember That

Original Air Date—11 February 2007
Mike begins to remember parts of his past while visiting a hypnosis therapist in his attempt to remember the night that Monique Pollier was murdered. Meanwhile, Susan attends Jane’s funeral where she, unwisely as always, tells the attendees about her romantic relationship with Ian to throw them off his course. Lynnette crosses swords with Tom over who has the last word as to who’s hired/who’s fired from his pizzeria when she fires the loafing and troublesome Austin without his permission. Orson finally reveals the truth about his involvement with Monique Pollier’s murder to Bree. When Alma thinks about giving up on trying to break up Orson and Bree, Gloria imprisons Alma in her own house to carry out her revenge plan on her own by attempting to murder Bree with a fall off a ladder. Also, the unbalanced and quick-tempered Zach interferes with Gabrielle’s life when she has a date with a lawyer friend of Zach’s.


Season 3, Episode 15: The Little Things You Do Together

Original Air Date—18 February 2007
In a moment of letting her guard down, a drunken Gabrielle finds herself the morning after with Zach… in bed. Gabrielle confides in Carlos about this predicament and tries to make sense of it. Orson is confronted by Mike about Monique and her strange death, in which Orson barely survives a fall off the roof of the hospital. Bree wakes in the hospital following her “accident” and is in a hurry to return home and deal with Monique’s death, herself. The truth about Monique Pollier’s murder is finally revealed how both Orson and his twisted mother were involved, as well as more of Orson’s past is shown. When Alma learns of Gloria’s plan to murder Bree, she attempts to escape from her “prison” to warn her only to suffer a “freak accident”. Tom becomes nervous over preparing for the night of the Scavo’s Pizzeria grand opening, while Lynnette inadvertently makes matters a little worse with ordering the wrong chairs. Neverless, the grand opening goes off without a hitch where proposals fly left and right when Ian, learning that Mike intended to propose to Susan the night of his accident, proposes to her instead. Zach attempts to do the same to the unimpressed Gabrielle who finally ends their relationship.


Season 3, Episode 16: My Husband, the Pig

Original Air Date—4 March 2007
In narration, Bree’s deceased husband gives his own account of what’s going on in the neighborhood and how he feels about it.


Season 3, Episode 17: Dress Big

Original Air Date—8 April 2007
Lynette’s unhappy with the new uniforms for the wait staff at Scavo Pizzeria. Gabrielle meets Victor’s ex-wife, Penelope. Ian’s parents, Graham and Liz, come for a visit.


Season 3, Episode 18: Liaisons

Original Air Date—15 April 2007
When a new employee at the pizzeria takes an unexpected interest in Lynette, Tom feels threatened, and Susan considers moving away from Wisteria Lane.


Season 3, Episode 19: God, That’s Good

Original Air Date—22 April 2007
Incriminating, indiscreet photos of Gaby and her new boyfriend Victor surface, causing problems with his mayoral campaign. And two residents of Wisteria Lane share an unexpected moment of passion.


Season 3, Episode 20: Gossip

Original Air Date—29 April 2007
Angry and frustrated over learning that both Ian and Mike have been competing with each other to win her affections, Susan goes to a therapist and realizes she must choose between Ian and Mike. Gabrielle’s engagement party at the Scarva Pizzaria is upstaged by an unexpected announcement from Edie who tells her about her dating Carlos. Gabrielle tries to persuade both Lynette and Susan not to speak to Edie. But Edie yet again outsmarts everyone by hiring Lynette to cater to Travers 10th birthday party and to show off Carlos to the rest of the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Lynette continues spending more time after hours at the pizzeria talking with Rick to avoid going home her noisy and dysfunctional home life, while Tom thinks about returning to work to keep a closer eye on Lynette and Rick. Elsewhere, the rest of the neighborhood is full of gossip about the dead body of Mrs. McClusky’s husband found in her basement freezer on Wisteria Lane, and only Parker seems to know the truth about her husband’s demise.


Season 3, Episode 21: Into the Woods

Original Air Date—6 May 2007
In the aftermath of Victor’s election as mayor of Fairview, Gabrielle is led to believe she has a new-found power, but unwisely uses it to try to avoid getting a parking ticket and winds up getting arrested. Lynnette and Rick find out just how powerless they are when the pizzeria is robbed and they’re forced to spend the night together trying to stay warm in a locked cooler. Tom, on the other hand, figures there’s something going on between the two of them when he sees the surveillance tape from the robbery and therefore, threatens Rick and his job. Susan, having lost Ian, turns to find Mike who has gone on a hiking trip, and being crazy and klutzy as always, she literally gets lost in the woods. Back in Fairview, just when Carlos bonds more with Travers, Edie’s ex-husband, Charles, arrives wanting to take the boy home with him and Edie tries to prevent it from happening.


Season 3, Episode 22: What Would We Do Without You?

Original Air Date—13 May 2007
Susan and Mike finally get engaged after he proposes to her in an unusual way, while Gabrielle has a similar approach with Victor. But after Gabrielle and Susan flip out over Gabby “stealing” Susan’s wedding, they make up by offering a double ceremony. But Susan has second thoughts, and Victor tells Gabrielle that he won’t stand for it, so his wedding plans still remain up in the air. Meanwhile, Lynnette reveals she had feelings for Rick, after Tom tries to con her into a couples therapy session with a friend. Also, Edie tries to convince Carlos that they should be living together, and Edie yet again turns on her devious side to ensue he does what she wants.


Season 3, Episode 23: Getting Married Today

Original Air Date—20 May 2007
Bree returns from her honeymoon with Orson. Lynette’s mother comes to town, as Lynette faces the possibility of cancer. Gabrielle’s and Susan’s weddings both take place.



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