All Gaby and Carlos needed to save their marriage was a drug dealer. Gaby's been hitting her husband less. Congratulations, Gaby. Carlos has been getting out of the house more often, hiking scenic nature trails, which could be highway express lanes for all he knows. Though it must be difficult to navigate rocky terrain and revel in nature's beauty when you're blind. They both have been acting civilly toward each other, but not because they're on drugs. They just live with a very nice young woman who brings out the best in both of them, but who is also stupid enough to hide her rather sizable stash of cocaine under her bed.
After accusing Ellie of being a prostitute last week, Gaby didn't want to jump to any hasty conclusions. The bricks of white powder could have been flour; maybe Ellie was just guilty of some illicit baking. Yeah, and maybe Ellie and Susan were conspiring to win the award for best biscuits at the Eagle State bake-off. Carlos shot that theory down. Besides, Gaby was a fashion model in the '90s. If there's anyone who can sniff out (or snort) drugs, it's Gaby. (Plus, Bree won that bake-off ten years in a row, so it got called off altogether.)
It's a shame Ellie met the Solises around the same time they decided to become law-abiding citizens. The two went to turn in their new best friend to the authorities but found out they'd be harboring the criminal for a little while longer. It seemed like a good deal; Carlos would be off probation if they feigned ignorance of Ellie's drug dealing until the cops caught her supplier. Luckily, Carlos couldn't see Gaby's face — she looked torn between taking the deal and running home to warn her new roomie. Given Gaby's rather, uh, abrasive personality, I doubt she makes new friends very often. And I'm positive no one has ever given her flowers for being nice. Nice and Gaby have probably never even come up in the same sentence, unless it went something like ''It'd be nice if Gaby would stop acting like such a bitch.'' Something tells me that Gaby might just take her chances with the law and — Carlos' record be damned — warn Ellie that the cops are hot on her powdery white trail.
If Ellie does end up in the slammer, it's entirely possible she'll be sharing a cell with Lynette Scavo. Lynette thought she was paying Dr. Dolan 140 bucks an hour to exorcise the devil from the depths of Kayla's conniving soul. Unfortunately, she was paying him to be the demon spawn's ally and alibi. I've been holding out the tiniest sliver of hope that Lynette and Kayla might reconcile; after all, didn't Kayla run into Lynette's arms, lovingly crying, ''Mom!'' when the two were reunited after the tornado? But all hope seemed shattered last night, with the smack heard round the mall.
Mary Alice wasted all her time giving an insufferable play-by-play of Tuesday afternoon's ''incident'' between Bree and Edie, when she should have been focusing her attention on the real showdown between a horrified mother and a stunned little girl. I thought Dr. Dolan was right, Lynette has been acting ambivalent toward Kayla, and maybe she is partly to blame for Kayla's acting out. That's a big maybe. But there's a huge difference between misbehaving and, you know, threatening your half sister and trying to kill your half brother. ''I got that idiot Preston to jump off the roof,'' said Kayla. ''I wonder what I can get Penny to do.'' That's when I would have gotten Kayla that corndog and shoved it down her throat.
NEXT: Edie gets the silent treatment
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