Season 6

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. Nice Is Different Than Good

Mike's bride is revealed to be Susan. On the day of the wedding, Katherine storms into the church and demands a public apology from Susan. Susan obliges, expressing her sorrow to Katherine during the ceremony, but Katherine still refuses to forgive Susan. Bree continues her affair with Karl but later ends it, feeling increasingly guilty. Since Orson still refuses to grant her a divorce, Bree reignites the affair. Gabrielle grows irritated with Ana's rebellious attitude. Upon learning that Ana aspires to become a model and had a similarly difficult upbringing, Gabrielle agrees to become her legal guardian. Lynette tearfully confesses to Tom that she does not love her unborn twins; he assures her that she will love the babies once they are born. Angie and Nick Bolen move onto Wisteria Lane with their 19-year-old son, Danny, hiding a dark past. Danny becomes acquainted with Julie, but Karen later witnesses the two arguing. One night, Julie is strangled outside her home by an unidentified assailant, who flees the scene.

2. Being Alive

The morning after the attack, Karen and her new boyfriend Roy find Julie unconscious. At the hospital, Lynette tells Susan that Julie had confided in her that she might be pregnant. Susan lashes out at Lynette, who reveals that Julie only told her because Lynette is pregnant herself. Lynette contemplates terminating her pregnancy, but Susan persuades her not to. Katherine offers her support to Mike and kisses him, but he pulls away. Bree worries that her affair with Karl may jeopardize her friendship with Susan. As the neighbors become suspicious of Danny, he tells Angie and Nick that he went out drinking the night before, while Ana tells the police that she snuck out to meet Danny the previous night. Gabrielle discovers that Ana lied to the police to cover for Danny, forcing her to confess the truth. Danny is arrested.

3. Never Judge a Lady by Her Lover

Gabrielle and Carlos have a chance encounter with John Rowland, who is now divorced. When Ana takes a hostessing job at John's restaurant, Gabrielle voices her disapproval, and Carlos accuses her of still being attracted to John, but Gabrielle rebuffs Carlos' suspicions. Danny is released from prison due to lack of evidence against him. Susan confronts Danny about Julie and pins him underneath a car he is fixing, prompting Angie to threaten Susan. After evidence of Danny's innocence surfaces, Susan makes amends with Angie. Lynette and Tom tell their children that she is expecting twins. At work, Lynette hides her pregnancy from Carlos as he gives her a major promotion, after he had passed over another employee because she was pregnant. Karl suggests that he and Bree go on a romantic getaway to Las Vegas, but she declines and says they are not in love, upsetting him. At an event, Bree becomes jealous upon seeing Karl with another woman, and eventually reconsiders his invitation.

4. The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues

Bree becomes concerned when Katherine begins to spy on Mike and Susan, convinced that their marriage is in crisis. At a wedding catered by Bree, Katherine makes a scene when she sees the cake she had designed for her planned wedding with Mike. Bree fires Katherine and urges her to seek counseling. As Lynette's breasts grow during her pregnancy, Carlos and her colleagues assume she has had a breast augmentation. Gabrielle becomes furious when John and Ana grow closer. John, who still has feelings for Gabrielle, kisses her just as Ana walks in. Gabrielle admits her past affair with John to Ana, but insists she has no feelings for him. Ana keeps quiet about the kiss and quits her job. Susan discovers from Andrew that Julie had been seeing a married man before she was attacked. Awakening from her coma, Julie refuses to identify the married man to Susan. Later, Nick enters Julie's hospital room while she is asleep, saying he misses her.

5. Everybody Ought to Have a Maid

Following an incident during an unsupervised playdate at her house, Gabrielle gains a reputation as a neglectful mother, which threatens to derail Juanita's birthday party. Karen convinces Lynette to hire Roy as a handyman, but Lynette later fires Roy after he accuses her of emasculating Tom. Bree finds herself at odds with a motel maid who judges her for having an affair with Karl. Julie returns home from the hospital and tells Nick their affair is over. When Julie confides in Danny that she still feels unsafe, he loans his parents' gun to her. Upon learning that Katherine had flirted with Mike, Susan publicly denounces her as a liar. One night, Susan awakens to Julie holding a gun and saying someone is outside. Taking the gun, Susan accidentally shoots and grazes the person lurking outside, who turns out to be Katherine. Since the gun is registered in the Bolens' real name, Angie dissuades Katherine from calling the police by claiming she believes Mike still loves Katherine, while Nick retrieves the gun.

6. Don't Walk on the Grass

Having developed feelings for Karl, Bree decides to end the affair, before he gifts her his grandmother's brooch. Seeing the brooch on Bree, Susan reveals that it belonged to her before she lost it; Bree claims she bought it at an antique store. Karl proposes to Bree, but she insists that he prove he is a changed man. Orson discovers that Bree lied about where she bought the brooch. After Juanita says a swear word during a school play, the principal questions Gabrielle's parenting skills. Angered, Gabrielle pulls Juanita out of the school and is forced to homeschool her daughter, leading to conflict between the two. Lynette berates Tom after learning he is cheating on a midterm exam due to failing the class. Katherine pretends to rekindle her friendship with Susan, but when Susan discovers Katherine's plan to seduce Mike, the two women engage in a physical altercation. As Katherine begins to question Angie's past, Angie convinces Susan that Katherine may have strangled Julie as an act of revenge.

7. Careful the Things You Say

Gabrielle exploits her new housekeeper—who has a PhD —by having her tutor Juanita. When Gabrielle confides in Carlos that homeschooling Juanita is affecting their mother–daughter relationship, he agrees to find another solution. As Susan attempts to prove that Katherine attacked Julie, Detective Denise Lapera offers to investigate. However, after Susan realizes that Denise is a former classmate who hated her in high school, a vengeful Denise arrests Susan for failing to report that she had shot Katherine. In order to secure a job catering an anniversary party for an Italian couple, Bree convinces Angie to share her secret family recipes with her, claiming she is cooking for a friend who is a burn victim. Angie discovers Bree's deceit, but they resolve their differences, and Angie agrees to work for Bree. After learning of Julie's past affair with Nick, Lynette and Tom, suspecting that Nick strangled Julie, inform the police about the affair. Angie tells Nick that she has known about his affair for weeks.

8. The Coffee Cup

When Susan and Katherine are both sentenced to community service, Susan is shocked to learn that Katherine and Mike once had sex five times in one day, and sets out to beat Katherine's "record". Gabrielle becomes determined to enroll Juanita into a coveted Catholic school. When Gabrielle accidentally discovers Lynette's pregnancy, Carlos, in order to avoid a lawsuit, forces Lynette to choose between running the company's Miami branch or quitting. To help secure Bree's divorce, Karl instructs her to take pictures of Orson meeting with a fellow ex-convict, serving as proof of him violating his parole. Bree and Karl are having sex in her bedroom when Orson—who has become suspicious of the affair—arrives home unexpectedly from his weekend trip, but Angie covers for Bree. Angie catches a coffee-shop waitress, Emily, behaving flirtatiously toward Nick. While alone at the coffee shop one night, Emily is strangled to death by an unseen assailant.

9. Would I Think of Suicide?

As Carlos continues to punish Lynette at work, she files a lawsuit against him for workplace harassment, further straining Gabrielle and Lynette's friendship. When Carlos gives Lynette an excessive amount of work to complete in one night, she misses the deadline and he fires her. Susan is incensed when she discovers Bree and Karl's affair, but when Bree confesses that she truly loves Karl, Susan gives them her blessing. Bree executes her blackmail scheme by arranging a meeting between Orson and his former cellmate, Lamar. After being rejected by Julie and witnessing his parents in a heated argument, Danny attempts suicide by overdosing on pills and is hospitalized. In a daze, Danny tells Nurse Mona Clark, a Wisteria Lane resident, that his name is Tyler. As M.J. becomes embroiled in Katherine's schemes to win Mike back, Mike angrily confronts her and declares that he never truly loved her. In desperation, Katherine calls 911 before stabbing herself with a knife that Mike had touched.

10. Boom Crunch

Katherine falsely accuses Mike of stabbing her. Concerned about Katherine's deteriorating mental state, Susan contacts Dylan, who arrives on Wisteria Lane and has Katherine committed to a mental institution. The feud between Gabrielle and Lynette continues to escalate. After manipulating Danny into revealing that his family has been on the run since Angie killed a man 18 years earlier, Mona blackmails the Bolens for money. Bree demands that Orson sign the divorce papers, showing him the pictures of him and Lamar. At Wisteria Lane's annual Christmas festival, Bree is furious to learn that Karl has hired a private plane to fly a marriage proposal over the festival. Upon discovering Bree and Karl's affair, Orson engages in a fistfight with Karl inside Santa's Workshop, which Bree attempts to defuse. As the plane crashes onto the lane, Mona is struck, Lynette saves Celia from being hit, and the plane smashes into the workshop while Bree, Orson, and Karl are still inside.

11. If...

In the aftermath of the plane crash, the housewives reflect on what their lives would have been like if they had made different choices. Susan ponders what would have happened to her life if she had stayed married to Karl; she is then notified of his death. Devastated by the news of Karl's death, Bree is sedated and envisions herself married to Karl. Upon awakening, Bree is informed that Orson has become paralyzed. Angie contemplates the consequences of Mona surviving and revealing the Bolens' secrets to the police, but is relieved to learn of Mona's death. Gabrielle wonders if Celia is destined to be a successful actress. The doctor tells Lynette and Tom that one of their unborn twins needs surgery. As Lynette goes into surgery, she imagines life with a disabled son. Tom tells Lynette that the affected baby died, but the other survived. Gabrielle and Lynette rekindle their friendship.

12. You Gotta Get a Gimmick

After inheriting Karl's share of a strip club, Susan learns that Mike is the club's plumber and forbids him from going back there. Mike objects to being told what to do, until Susan performs a striptease onstage to prove her point. Carlos hires Tom to fill in for Lynette while she is pregnant. Lynette is furious when Tom expects her to be a stay-at-home mother after the baby is born, while she struggles to process her grief over the loss of the other twin. Feeling guilty for Orson's paralysis, Bree brings him home so she can look after him. Orson, who still resents Bree for her affair with Karl, decides to seek revenge by exploiting her goodwill. Juanita is accepted to Oakridge School, but when she reveals she was unaware of her Mexican heritage, Gabrielle is forced to examine her own feelings of shame regarding her heritage.

13. How About a Friendly Shrink?

Tom begins seeing a therapist, Dr. Graham. Lynette visits Dr. Graham to defend herself from Tom's supposed badmouthing, but eventually agrees to couples therapy. Orson continues to order Bree around at his whim and refuses to be bathed, prompting her to spray him with a garden hose. Bree apologizes after Orson admits he is frustrated by the loss of his independence. When the Oakridge students are placed into learning groups in math class, Susan and Gabrielle compete to determine which of their children—Juanita or M.J.—is in the advanced group. Angie instantly disapproves of Danny's new girlfriend, Ana, who she feels is too fun-loving and not serious enough. Katherine is reluctant to return to Wisteria Lane, fearing she will not be forgiven, but relents when Karen visits her with Bree, Lynette, Gabrielle, and Susan, who are all willing to forgive Katherine.

14. The Glamorous Life

Susan sells off her share of the strip club and encourages Robin, a stripper with higher aspirations but no skills, to quit her job. After a failed attempt to get Robin an assistant job at Oakridge, Susan convinces Mike to let Robin stay with them temporarily. When Lynette and Tom watch Dr. Graham give a terrible performance in a local play, after she had claimed she had a gift for acting, they lose confidence in her as a therapist and subsequently stop seeing her. Carlos attacks Danny after catching him making out with Ana, but Angie intervenes and warns Carlos to stay away from her son. Gabrielle and Carlos later overhear Nick berating Angie for nearly blowing their cover due to her dispute with a neighbor, Mitzi. Bree is shocked to discover that Orson has decided to commit suicide. After stopping Orson's attempt to drown himself in a swimming pool, Bree tells him she wants to fall in love with him again, and they reconcile.

15. Lovely

Robin's arrival on Wisteria Lane gradually begins to affect the lives of several of her new neighbors. After catching Parker spying on Robin while she is showering, Lynette confronts Robin but later apologizes to her. Robin advises Bree to reconnect with Orson by reigniting their sex life. Gabrielle has Robin tell Ana about how she gave up her dreams for a boy in her youth, leading Ana to break up with Danny and leave for New York City to pursue a modeling career. Realizing she has been used, Robin tells Danny the truth, and he secretly chases after Ana. Susan grows jealous when Robin starts giving Mike massages to ease his sore back. To preserve her friendship with Susan, Robin moves out and becomes Katherine's roommate. Robin reveals to Katherine that she is a lesbian, and despite insisting she is not interested in women when Robin suggests she explores the possibility, Katherine is seemingly intrigued by the idea.

16. The Chase

Gabrielle is forced to leave the house when Celia contracts chickenpox. Enjoying the single life again, Gabrielle initially tries to prolong her stay with Bob and Lee, but ultimately returns home with a new appreciation for her children. Distracted by her pregnancy, Lynette and Tom forget Penny's birthday. Bree hires Sam Allen, a mysterious man who takes a strong interest in her. Susan pushes Roy into proposing to Karen, who learns that she may have lung cancer. Katherine's therapist suggests she stop living with Robin because she is interfering with her recovery. Later, Katherine abruptly tells Robin to leave because she has feelings for her; Robin agrees to leave, but Katherine then follows her upstairs. Angie discovers that Danny has run off to New York to see Ana. Fearing that a man from their past named Patrick will find Danny, Angie and Nick head to New York to find him.

17. Chromolume #7

Katherine seeks advice from Bob and Lee about her feelings for Robin, while Mike tries to show Susan how manly he is after he begins to feel like he is emasculated. Preston returns from Europe with a girlfriend, Irina, and announces that he has proposed to her, much to Lynette's dismay. After finding a picture of Sam as a toddler with Rex, Bree discovers that Sam is Rex's illegitimate son. Gabrielle joins Angie in New York after discovering that Ana knows she sabotaged her relationship with Danny. In New York, Angie convinces her mother Rose to let Danny stay in Fairview, while Gabrielle has a chance encounter with supermodels Heidi Klum and Paulina Porizkova, only to discover that they despise her because of her past attitude. Returning to Fairview, Angie confesses her past to Gabrielle, revealing that she joined a group of eco-terrorists with Danny's father Patrick, running away with Nick after killing an innocent man in an environmental protest.

18. My Two Young Men

Bree invites Sam to a family dinner, but Andrew storms out when Bree gives Rex's old guitar to Sam. Andrew and Orson later team up to expose Sam's true intentions. Susan and Gabrielle go to shameless lengths to top each other's children in a candy bar fundraiser; Gabrielle flirts with construction workers to convince them to buy the candy bars, while Susan has M.J. pretend to be handicapped to sell more bars. Preston announces his intentions to put off college and find a job, despite Lynette's insistence that he is making a mistake marrying Irina. Katherine is unsure about announcing her relationship with Robin to the neighborhood. After being advised by Karen to do what she wants, Katherine decides to travel with Robin to Paris to help define their relationship. Nick is torn over whether to tell Danny the truth about his father. In New York, Rose's neighbor contacts Patrick to inform him of Angie's location.

19. We All Deserve to Die

After Mike's truck is repossessed, Susan tries to help his financial woes by paying her friends to clog up their plumbing; Mike catches on and insists he does not want her help. Gabrielle offers to help Bob and Lee in having their child by being their surrogate, but backs out when Bob and Lee do not want her to have an active part in raising their child; Bob and Lee later break up. Bree fires Andrew when he suggests that Sam is manipulating her. Sam is alarmed to hear that Bree eventually plans to take Andrew back in, and he blames Andrew when the food is sabotaged at a dinner Bree is hosting. Patrick strikes a conversation with Danny at the coffee shop where he works. Lynette discovers that Irina is already married and has had several affairs with men whom she stripped of their money, causing Preston to break off the wedding. Banished from the Scavos' home, Irina walks the street and is offered a ride by Danny's friend Eddie. When Irina rejects his romantic advances, Eddie strangles her to death.

20. Epiphany

Flashbacks depict Eddie Orlofsky's life on Wisteria Lane. Mary Alice discovers a four-year-old Eddie home alone and lectures his single mother Barbara about prioritizing her son; Barbara later tells Eddie that he ruined her life. Gabrielle moves to Wisteria Lane and befriends a nine-year-old Eddie, but lets him down gently to make friends her own age. Bree gives dating advice to a teenage Eddie, but asks Barbara to let him down easy when his crush turns out to be Danielle; Barbara crudely mocks Eddie instead. Eddie develops a crush on Susan after bonding with her over his drawings. When Susan is nervous about marrying Mike, Eddie offers to marry her; Susan interprets it as a joke and laughs. Intent on killing Susan, Eddie accidentally strangles Julie. In the present, Lynette is horrified by Barbara's abusive treatment of her son. Barbara finds Eddie's scrapbook and discovers he is the Fairview Strangler; Eddie strangles her to death when she tries to call the police. Lynette then arrives and offers to let Eddie stay with them, to which he tearfully accepts.

21. A Little Night Music

Gabrielle discovers Carlos' loan to Mike and informs Susan. Before Susan can call Mike, the two women play a prank against their husbands to retaliate. After witnessing Sam argue with a grocery store clerk, Bree investigates and finds out that the clerk is Sam's biological mother, whom he claimed to have died. Bree confronts Sam, who becomes violent and angrily reveals his jealousy of Andrew and Danielle. Bree apologizes to Andrew and reveals that she is now afraid of Sam. The Scavos have welcomed Eddie into their home, but Eddie pins Porter to the floor when he refuses to help Lynette with the laundry. Lynette refers Eddie to a therapist, who wishes to meet with Barbara for a session; Lynette tries to contact Barbara, but discovers that the neighbors have not seen her for days. Patrick runs over Nick and leaves him for dead; Nick survives the attack and insists that Angie send Danny to a hotel. Angie returns home and is confronted by Patrick, who threatens to kill Nick if she runs away.

22. The Ballad of Booth

In an effort to get rid of Sam, Bree sends police officers to intimidate him. However, Sam reveals that Danielle told him about Andrew running over Juanita Solis, and blackmails Bree into turning over her entire company to him. After meeting with an IRS agent, Susan and Mike ultimately decide to leave Wisteria Lane and rent out their house. Fearing for her life, Angie agrees to help Patrick build a bomb, while Patrick lures Danny back to Wisteria Lane and ties him up to a chair. Gabrielle arrives at the Bolen house with lasagna; Angie discreetly scribbles a note and sticks it into the lasagna before sending it back. While eating the lasagna, Celia spits out the note, which reads "Danny and I held hostage. No cops. Get Nick." The police arrive at the Scavo house to inform them about Irina's death, after which Eddie abruptly moves out. After overhearing that Barbara's body was found, Lynette arrives at Eddie's house to inform him. When she realizes that Eddie is the Fairview Strangler, Eddie locks the door.

23. I Guess This Is Goodbye

Lynette goes into labor while being held hostage at Eddie's house. After Eddie helps deliver the baby, Lynette convinces Eddie to turn himself in, and she allows him to hold the baby while she calls the police. Bree hands over her company to Sam to silence him; Orson is angered by Bree's hypocrisy and leaves her. Gabrielle informs Nick about Angie's note, and they drive back to Wisteria Lane. Patrick plants Angie's bomb inside the house and activates it with a detonator. However, the bomb in the house is a decoy, and Angie reveals that she had planted the actual bomb in the detonator; Patrick is killed in the resulting explosion. Gabrielle offers Angie and Nick money to relocate to Atlanta, as they are still on the run from the FBI, while Danny moves to New York to be closer to Ana. After the women say goodbye to Susan, Bree privately confesses to Gabrielle about Andrew's hit-and-run. As Susan and Mike leave Wisteria Lane, the new occupant of their house is revealed to be Paul Young.