ROLE: Jackson Braddock
EPISODES: 1 Episode of Season Four and 15 Episodes of Season Five (See Below)
CREATED BY: Marc Cherry
WRITTEN BY: Various
CO-STARS: Teri Hatcher (Lois & Clark), Eva Longoria (Over My Dead Body, The Sentinel), Marcia Cross (Melrose Place)
STATION: ABC
SITE: http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/
SUMMARY
The “normal” suburban life for a group of close-knit housewives takes a dark turn when one of their closest friends mysteriously commits suicide. Now while trying to deal with their own hectic problems and romantic lives, each year brings on a new mystery and more dark and twisted events to come. Life behind closed doors is about to be revealed as suburban life takes a funny and dark turn.
>> 4×17 Free – Air Date: May 18, 2008
- Summary: In the season final, several residents of Wisteria Lane are faced with deadly threats; Adam is held captive by the deranged Wayne who physically tortures him for information as to Dylan’s origins… and what happened to the real Dylan Davis. Ellie, now a fugitive, contacts Gabrielle to help her retrieve a teddy bear from their house. Tom and Lee finally have their commitment ceremony in the form of a block party on Wisteria Lane. Lynette is forced to cater to the party while Tom refuses to help out because of the Kayla case. Meanwhile, Susan realizes she will soon lose someone she loves when Julie is accepted into Princeston University early and will be leaving town soon. Also, Katherine Mayfair’s secret about her past and of what happened to Dylan is finally revealed after Wayne takes her and Bree hostage in her house.
>> 5×01 You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow – Air Date: September 28, 2008
- Summary: The story of the ladies on Wisteria Lane are moved ahead five years in time to when Susan flirts with her painter, Jackson Braddock, after Mike having been gone for so long, but not willing to commit to a relationship. Meanwhile, Bree denies all the help “her” company has received from her business partner Katherine, while Andrew feels like a doormat under Bree’s influence. Lynette still has problems in getting Tom to see the light when it comes to their over exuberant trouble-making twins Porter and Preston. Also, Edie moves back to Wisteria Lane with a new husband: a charming but mysterious guy named Dave Williams who no one knows anything about. Elsewhere, Gabrielle deals with Carlos who is still blind as well as their two spoiled and overweight daughters Juanita and Celia.
>> 5×02 We’re So Happy You’re So Happy – Air Date: October 5, 2008
- Summary: Bree fails to notice the effect of her working long hours at cooking company is having on her home life as Orson, whom is revealed to have spent two years in prison after confessing to attempting to kill Mike, and whom begins to resent her. Meanwhile, Susan fails to notice that being friends isn’t necessarily a bad thing when her ex-husband Mike, and her new painter boyfriend Jackson become friendly. Lynette fails to notice the impending doom regarding the new way she’s bonded with one of her sons, Porter, after her loyal other son, Parker, gives her advice on how to approach him by pretending to be a student on his Internet chat space. Gabrielle fails to notice that she has fallen in social status due to her life change, and Carlos’ new status as a stay-at-home masseuse. Elswhere, suspicion grows regarding Edie’s new husband, Dave Williams, and his mysterious past as the elderly Mrs. McCluskey enlists Katherine’s help to uncover more about Edie’s new husband, and what his reasons for insisting to Edie that they have moved back to Wisteria Lane.
>> 5×03 Kids Ain’t Like Everybody Else – Air Date: October 12, 2008
- Summary: Danielle returns to Wisteria Lane with her son and new husband in tow, only to face psychological warfare from her mother, Bree, who naturally disapproves of how she is bringing up her son. Meanwhile, Susan tries to protect her son, MJ, from a bully, only to find out it’s Gabrielle’s daughter who is the bully, which puts a rift between the mothers. Gabrielle tries to deal with cutting costs when Carlos wants to sell their old car, and Gabby has too much pride to let it go. So, she turns to Andrew for help in borrowing his car to show off. Lynette continues to deal with Tom who decides that the cure to his midlife crisis includes starting up a garage band with Edie’s husband, Dave. Elsewhere, Karen McCluskey continues to investigate Dave with Katherine’s help, but she cannot convince Edie of her suspicious that Dave is not who he claims to be.
>> 5×04 Back in Business – Air Date: October 19. 2008
- Summary: Bree’s new cookbook and entrepreneurial success has the women of Wisteria Lane feeling jealous, especially Lynette who’s longing for a taste of her bread winning days as an ad executive leads her to lend an unsolicited hand to Bree’s marketing plan. Meanwhile, M.J.’s drawing of a family portrait of him, Susan, and Jackson has left Mike feeling like he’s not a presence in his son’s life anymore. Gabrielle hatches a plan to have more sex with Carlos, but their daughter, Juanita, gets a first-hand view of it. Susan teaches a reluctant M.J. how to fall off his bicycle when Jackson begins teaching him to ride instead of Mike. Also, Dave’s motives for moving to the neighborhood continue to take shape as he continue to hide his prison background from Edie as well as his violent temper he keeps under control with numerous sedatives, and he also persuades Mike to move into a house that he buys down the street, by working behind the scenes to have some mysterious and sinister plan for everyone involved.
>> 5×05 Mirror, Mirror – Air Date: October 26,2008
- Summary: Periodic flashbacks to the past five years explain some of the missing pieces that were left unanswered. Driven by his hidden and twisted agenda, Dave convinces Susan to throw Mrs. Karen McCluskey a surprise party for her 70th birthday. As everyone gets ready for the party, Jackson wants to take his relationship with Susan to the next level by moving in together. Susan flashes back to how she forced Mike to end their marriage, and how Jackson came into her life and who was turned on by her neurotic and unpredictable behavior. Gabrielle is concerned she might be pregnant, again. Gabby flashes back to how she became pregnant, twice, and only Carlos was happy about it. Tom tells Lynette he’s sold the pizzeria as part of his plan to relive his youth by planning a cross-country road trip. Lynette flashes back to how an accident with Tom made him decide to live life as fully and recklessly as he could. Bree continues to have problems with unemployed Orson who wants to work for her catering company. Bree flashed back to how she fell off the wagon the day when Orson was sent to prison for three years for the hit-and-run attempt on Mike, and how Katherine came to her rescue by insisting that she be made a partner in her business. Also, an outraged Mrs. Karen McCluskey has the entire neighborhood questioning her sanity when she discovers that Dave had broken into her house, and she attacks him at her party, which is all his clever ploy to remove her from the scene so no one can stop him from carrying out his secret plan for revenge against the entire neighborhood for something from his past.
>> 5×06 There’s Always a Woman – Air Date: November 2, 2008
- Summary: Gabrielle has a fit when one of Carlos’s wealthy massage clients, Virginia Hildebrand, makes them an offer they can’t refuse, but a startling discovery leaves Gabby second guessing. Meanwhile, Lynette grows suspicious that Tom is cheating on her with the sultry Anne Schilling, a promoter who wants to book Tom’s new garage band for a show. One of the Scavo twins, Porter, gets grounded for getting into trouble with the law… again. Susan and Jackson break up when she wants to continue to keep their tryst casual, while he wants to move forward with their romance. Later, when Susan shows up at his house to tries to surprise him, the surprise is on her as she finds a naked woman in his shower. Elsewhere, the bond between Bree and Katherine grows, when Bree meets Orson’s old college roommate, Peter, and she tries to set him up with the lonely Katherine. Also, Mrs. McCluskey enlists the help of her shady younger sister, Roberta, to dig up dirt on Dave and to find out what his plans are for the entire neighborhood, while the superficial Edie continues to be in denial to Dave’s temper and the secrets he is hiding when he contradicts his life story to her.
>> 5×07 What More Do I Need? – Air Date: November 9. 2008
- Summary: Lynette and Tom uncover an unpleasant truth about Porter that he is romantically involved with the blond, femme fatal Anne Schilling. Meanwhile, Gabrielle suspects Carlos’ best massage client, Virginia, has ulterior motives. Bree’s moment of weakness with her cookbook could bring her great embarrassment and shame, while Katherine’s not-so-little secret is unveiled. Susan learns of Jackson’s true passion. Also, Mrs. McCluskey’s sister, Roberta, unearths a disturbing fact about Dave when she discovers that he spent time in prison, and that he’s connected to someone who lives, or had lived, on Wisteria Lane.
>> 5×08 City on Fire – Air Date: November 16, 2008
- Summary: Susan’s daughter, Julie, comes to visit with her surprising new boyfriend, an older man named Lloyd. Gabrielle uncovers the unsettling truth about Virgina Hildebrand’s past and why she’s obsessed with moving into the Solis’ lives. Katherine has a confession to make to Susan that she is now involved with Mike. Meanwhile, Bree becomes more nervous when a reporter looks to expose her imperfections, since Bree’s entire life is built around perfection. Lynette learns that Porter and his older love interest, Anne Schilling, plan to leave Fairview and run away. Lynette begins to suspect that Anne is conning Porter by claiming that she is pregnant, and beings to doubt that she is being abused by her husband. Dave’s psychologist, Dr. Heller, arrives in Fairview looking for Dave, and has a fateful confrontation with him. Elsewhere, everyone gathers at a nightclub to see Dave, Tom, and Mike play in the annual “Battle of the Bands” when a fire breaks out, threatening the lives of those in attendance in which several people will die, but one hero will emerge… so it seems.
>> 5×21 Bargaining – Air Date: May 3, 2009
- Summary: Mike becomes more uncertain about his future with Katherine when M.J. asks if he is going to marry Katherine. Tom and Lynnette try out an experiment of having sex for 30 days straight to spruce up their troubled marriage. Bree asks Susan’s ex-husband Karl, now a divorce lawyer, for representation for her divorce from Orson in order to deny him any percent of her catering business. Karl agrees to be Bree’s lawyer, but only if she tries to get his trouble-making son, Evan, invited to M.J.’s sleepover. Elsewhere, Jackson suddenly returns in Susan life where he proposes marriage to her. But his proposal is not the kind Susan is expecting. Carlo asks Gabrielle not to wear make-up for one night during an business award ceremony to make their eldest daughter, Juanita, appreciate her own unattractive appearance. Also, Dave now focuses his energies on Susan to murder her son as well as her beau, and decides to accelerate his plans when the police pay him a visit asking questions about his murdered psychiatrist.
>> 5×22 Marry Me a Little – Air Date: May 10, 2009
- Summary: Susan and Jackson announce their engagement to everyone, which has Mike feeling uneasy about it and debates with himself a future with Katherine on proposing marriage as well. Dave becomes worried when he figures out that Jackson may have witnessed him setting the fire at the nightclub. He also gets worried when he accidentally overhears Susan confiding in Katherine that the upcoming marriage is fake in order to let Jackson stay in the country. Dave plots to remove Jackson with an anonymous phone call to the NRS authorities. Meanwhile, Karl persuades Bree to stage a break-in of her own house to steal items to keep them from Orson, in her latest underhanded attempt to hide her assets from him. Gabrielle, feeling that Juanita may he a bit spoiled, forces her to volunteer at a local soup kitchen with her where Gabby meets an old friend, named Fran, who is now homeless herself. Elsewhere, Tom wishes to have plastic surgery to not only keep his youth intact, but to use his new appearance to find a new job, in which Lynette disapproves.
>> 5×23 Everybody Says Don’t – Air Date: May 17, 2009
- Summary: Gabrielle becomes upset when Carlos’ family invites them over at his Aunt Connie’s house where she asks them to look after Carlos’ niece, Ana, for a while which the not-so-innocent youngster disrupts the Solises daily routine. Meanwhile, Lynette becomes angry at Tom when tells her that he wants to go back to college to seek more education for his job hunting when she thinks he desperately does not want to let go of his youth. The brutal battle of the sexes between Orson and Bree gets nasty when Orson discovers the storage locker, in Bree’s name, with all of the stolen merchandise from their house and blackmails her by demanding EVERYTHING of hers when she finally serves him with divorce papers. Elsewhere, Susan, still unaware about Dave’s true nature, accepts his friendly gesture towards her over losing Jackson. Also, Detectives Lyons and Collins make headway in the arson fire which leads them to finding Dr. Heller’s identity and that he was the one responsible for the fire after they have a talk with the imprisoned Jackson who confirms their story. When the news of Dr. Heller’s murder gets back to Karen McClusky’s sister Roberta from his receptionist, it puts Mrs. McCluskey and Roberta back on their case of investigating Dave.
- Marc Cherry was forced to shorten Jackson and Susan’s storyline due to Gale’s motorcycle accident halfway through filming, which explains Jackson’s absence through most of the second half of the season.
- Marc Cherry wanted to cast Gale in a role after seeing his work as Brian on Queer as Folk, but nothing came up until the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.
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