Desperate Housewives - Ashes Make the Heart Grow Fonder
Edie takes over voiceover duties for Mary Alice this week, narrating her own death via car crash and electrocution. No lingering, she's dead. And yet she then plays coy about the mission in which Creepy Dave sends her five friends -- Bree, Lynette, Susan, Gaby and Mrs. McCluskey -- but we eventually learn it's to tell Edie's estranged son that his mom is dead and give him her ashes. On the road trip, Susan tells about her first encounter with Edie, how she first found out that Edie liked married men, and how Edie broke the news to Susan that Karl was cheating on her, proving that she wasn't as amoral as Susan thought she was. Lynette tells the story of how, when she was in the midst of chemo for her cancer, Edie brought her to a biker bar for tequila shots and told her to stop pitying herself and fight. To paraphrase Edie: "You're the strongest person I know. Screw cancer; you're Lynette Scavo." (For those of you keeping score at home, this is the part of the episode where I started crying.)
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