A spark to pierce the dark
It's the long-awaited camping trip where Dave intends to put the final part of his revenge masterplan into action. He lets Mike and Katherine go for a hike on their own, then hopes to shoot Katherine from a distance and blame her death on reckless local hunters at the National Park. He wants to leave Mike suffering with the grief of losing a loved one. But it doesn't go according to plan after Edie calls him on his mobile phone just as he's about to take a shot and it causes him to miss. Freaked out, Mike and Katherine decide to head back home... After her research with the local newspaper, Edie has finally rumbled what Dave is up to and she confronts her unhinged hubby when he gets home. There's a violent skirmish where he almost strangles her. Luckily she escapes into the car, and drives off in a hurry. Disaster strikes, however, when she swerves to miss Orson who's running away from a burglary. Edie ploughs straight into an electricity pylon and she's electrocuted when she steps out of the car. Is she dead? A psychiatrist diagnoses that the root cause of Orson's stealing compulsion is that he does it to humiliate Bree. Her illustrious cookery career is getting in the way of a good relationship. She decides it might be time to sell up the catering business, but after some persuasion from son Andrew and some stubbornness by Orson, she changes her mind at the last minute. Is it the end of her marriage? Susan has a new pupil, Evan, in her art class - and to her astonishment it turns out he's the son of her ex-husband Carl. She's at a loss what to do, especially when he starts handing in some very disturbed drawings. A massive row with Carl in the head's office scuppers Susan's plan to keep her past history with Carl hush-hush. Gaby thinks she can tempt Carlos to bed with some kinky sex games, but he's too tired and simply ties her up so he can get some shut-eye for a few hours. Lynette clashes with Carlos's ex, Lucy, at the office, so she sets her up for a big fall after using Carlos and Gaby's bratty kids to destroy her glass figurines collection.
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.