Desperate Housewives (TV Series)

Love Is in the Air (2005)

Marcia Cross: Bree Van De Kamp

Quotes 

• [watching an S&M video demonstration with Rex] 

  Rex : Well?

  Bree Van De Kamp : What the hell did your mother do to you?

• [Bree has agreed to try "dominating" Rex] 

  Rex : If things do get too rough, we'll have a control word. If one of us says it, the other backs off immediately.

  Bree : Okay. So what's our control word?

  Rex : Well, lately I've been using "Philadelphia". What's wrong?

  Bree : Well, it's just that my Aunt Fern lives in Philadelphia, and I don't want to be thinking about her while I'm spanking you with a leather strap.

  Rex : Okay. Fine. You pick a control word.

  Bree : Um, how about "Boise"?

  Rex : "Boise"?

  Bree : What's the matter with "Boise"?

  Rex : We're going to be doing psychological role playing here, Bree, and a funny word like "Boise" would ruin the mood. We need something that sounds serious.

  Bree : Hmm.

  [sombre tone] 

  Bree : How about "Palestine"?

  Rex : "Boise" will be just fine.

• Rex : I want you to say you'll try it, just once.

  Bree Van De Kamp : Try what? Hurting you? You actually want me to hurt you?

  Rex : So I can feel pleasure, yes!

  Bree Van De Kamp : Fine.

  [slaps Rex across the face] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : So, was it good for you too?

• Bree Van De Kamp : Rex and I are hosting a dinner party for 10 next week. We're using our best china and serving duck.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : So, you and Rex are a couple again?

  Bree Van De Kamp : Yes. You know, that's one of the things I hated most about our separation, not being able to throw dinner parties. There is just something so civilized and elegant about them, don't you think?

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : I take it you've resolved your feelings about his infidelity?

  Bree Van De Kamp : Let's just say I've put them in an imaginary box and don't plan on looking at them for a while.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Do you think that's the healthiest way to achieve a reconciliation?

  Bree Van De Kamp : Well, it won't be easy at first. There will be a lot of forced smiles and perfunctory lovemaking, but after a few decades whiz by, I'm sure I'll find a way to forgive him.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Well, as long as you have a plan.

  [smirks] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : [Looking pensive]  I do want to forgive him Dr. Goldfine but,

  [pauses] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : there is still something he's not telling me.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Really?

  Bree Van De Kamp : I think it has something to do with why he had the affair.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Have you confronted him?

  Bree Van De Kamp : Once... and you should have seen the look in his eyes. He was terrified that I'd figure it out.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : [looks away] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : You know what it is, don't you?

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Bree, I can't discuss other patients.

  Bree Van De Kamp : I realize that. This thing that he is hiding, is it bad?

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : [Looks away] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : OH! OK, um,

  [nervous laugh] 

  Bree Van De Kamp : maybe it's better that I don't know.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : Bree, how does the reconciliation have a chance if the two of you can't be honest about the innermost parts of your lives?

  Bree Van De Kamp : We're, um, WASPs Dr. Goldfine. Not acknowledging the elephant in the room is what we do best.

  Dr. Albert Goldfine : You'd settle for that? A life filled with repression and denial?

  Bree Van De Kamp : And the dinner parties. Don't forget the dinner parties.