Eva Longoria Parker by Danny Feld/ABC
The Housewife:
Gabrielle aka Gaby (Eva Longoria Parker)
The Household:
• Ex-husband Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) — currently blind and broke after the disastrous tornado and the almost equally disastrous affair he was having with Gaby behind everyone's back.
• Mayor and dead husband Victor (John Slattery) — killed when hit with flying debris during the tornado (ironically for this show, the debris was a dangerously sharp edge of a white picket fence).
Her Desperate Situation:
Gaby was cheating on her formerly alive husband with her still-alive but now-blind ex-husband. Trouble is, she's unaware that Carlos' loss of sight isn't temporary — it's permanent. Oh, and Victor left her nothing in his will. Victor's wealthy father Milton (Mike Farrell) called Gaby a "cheating, lying whore" at the funeral and told her she was getting zilch. Gaby quietly stormed out of that church as if she was walking the catwalk. Adding to her desperation is that little issue of losing the needed paperwork from Carlos' $10 million Cayman Islands offshore account due to the tornado's strong winds and desperately trying to grab the papers away from Edie (Nicollette Sheridan). It doesn't help that Al the accountant perished in the tornado and Gaby wasn't able to retrieve copies of the paperwork during an awkward visit to Al's grieving widow's house. This means Gaby and Carlos are desperate for dough.
What We Know Will Happen (Possible Spoiler Alert):
Gaby's formerly secret relationship with Carlos is a real eyesore after they get remarried and he continues to hide his blindness diagnosis. Edie will continue her desperate desire to lure back Carlos by spilling the blindness beans to Gaby. Gaby surprises all by standing by her man... and taking advantage of his handicapped parking placard, even when Carlos is not in the car with her (this makes a handicapped man in the neighborhood very angry). Carlos gets a seeing-eye dog named Roxy and Gaby tries to get Roxy to help her do things like fetch the remote. Carlos won't be the only husband on the block who Edie spends time with: The housewives will wrongfully accuse Edie of bedding one of the other hubbies. And continuing the "best guest stars from our favorite shows of the past" tradition, Justine Bateman from Family Ties joins the show as an artist living with Gaby and Carlos.
What We Think Might Happen:
When Edie reveals to Gaby that Carlos will never get his eyesight back, she says, in classic Edie fashion: "What are you, blind? Oh, I'm sorry, that's right... Carlos is blind. But what you don't know is that he's never going to see again. He's too scared you'll leave him so he's pretending it's temporary." Cue the bitch slap. However, in typical soap-opera fashion, Carlos miraculously gets his sight back. Then there's that rumor about what might happen to everyone in the season finale!
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