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Paul begins to suspect that Susan is responsible for his rapidly declining health; Lynette and Tom butt heads over where to go on their family vacation.

To celebrate his business success, Tom books his family a Hawaian luxury holiday. jealous Lynette refuses to cancel the usual pauper trek she planned as every year. They agree on a presentations contest before the children choose, but their competitive strife exacerbates the already mounting marital tension to a point frightening Penny it might end in divorce. Lee helps Gaby deal with the consequences of stupidly allowing Juanita to watch a late horror movie and 'flee' her own bed to a tent in the yard with her, unsuspecting a real creep is lurking around. Paul discovers the poison Felicia put into Susan's cooking but ignores the culprit, which turns Susan's attempt to charm her way back into the school into a toxic panic disaster.—KGF Vissers

Paul begins to suspect that Susan is responsible for his rapidly declining health; Lynette and Tom butt heads over where to go on their family vacation, as well as which one of them will set it up; Gaby shows Juanita a horror movie and has to pay the price when her daughter becomes too scared to sleep in her own bed; and Bree runs into some trust issues when she goes out on a date with a detective.—ABC Publicity

'Desperate Housewives" - "Then I Really Got Scared" - May 8, 2011

Susan visits Paul in the hospital, he apologizes for yelling at her. But when she steps out so the doctor can talk to Paul and he hears that his symptoms are common to anti-freeze poisoning victims he changes his tune a bit. Meanwhile, Susan has gone back to her old school to get her job back but the principal says she'll need to win over the parents council first. So she heads to a planning committee meeting for an open house to plead her case and earn forgiveness. They needle her and then give her a chance to help out. Later when she's making cookies for Paul and complaining to Felicia about the school, she turns her back and Felicia pours poison into her cookie batter. When Susan goes to drop off the party supplies at the open house one of the snooty parents notices the box of cookies and thanks Susan for bringing them since two moms flaked out on her for the refreshments. Susan reluctantly gives up the cookies but is heartened when the mom says they all need to get together with the principal to talk about getting her job back. Susan hops over to Paul's to drop off a lasagna before the open house and he tries to make her eat it. He has had her previous tuna noodle casserole tested in a lab and knows it was poisoned. She's weirded out and he tells her about his poisonous suspicions. She says isn't doing it, there's no way Mike is doing it and she's the only one making the food. She then has a Felicia lightbulb go off in her head and realizes the cookies at the open house are poisoned. She rushes off to stop people from eating them and then Paul arrives with the police who haul Susan away.

Gaby is living out a different horror. She and Juanita watch a horror movie and Carlos objects. Gaby says Juanita will be fine but of course later Juanita freaks out in the middle of the night. Gaby tries to enlist Lee to calm Juanita's fears since he used to have nightmares too but says he grew out of them. He then proceeds to tell Juanita a scary true story of horror from his childhood that makes things worse. Later Gaby decides she and Juanita will spend a night in a tent to prove to Juanita that no strange man has been standing on their lawn. But then a silhouette with an axe appears and they both scream. Turns out it's Lee with a plastic axe playing a prank and teaching Juanita the lesson between real life and the movies. Later that night when Gaby sees another silhouette on the tent she assumes it's Lee and tells him to shoo. The figure runs away and turns out to be a strange man wearing dark clothing along with a pajama hat.... "Ugly Betty's" dad! (He's not scary! But in this context, at least for now he's supposed to seem to be. I'm going to guess he's a relative of Gaby's somehow).

At the Scavo house, Tom finally makes it home in time for dinner one night and surprises the family with tickets to Hawaii. Lynette is, of course, mad, because she's been planning an RV camping trip to Arizona for weeks, just as she has planned the family vacations for the last 16 years. She's upset he didn't clear it with her first and has already made a non-refundable desposit. The kids are thrilled though and Tom says they can eat the deposit thanks to his awesome new high-paying job. After dinner, Tom tries to make up with Lynette for not discussing it first but she rebuffs him saying if she had the same budget for her road trip idea she could convince the kids to go. They decide they will both make presentations to kids. Each does their thing, Lynette trying to make a trip to the Grand Canyon, Sequoia National Park, and a theme park in a tour bus with a professional driver, sound as good as a trip to Hawaii complete with expensive helicopter rides around volcanoes and swimming with dolphins. She undercuts him with scares of a great white shark attack and helicopter crash. The kids go off to make their decision and Tom and Lynette get into a doozy of a fight. Tom reminds Lynette of the time years ago when she said to him: "when you make the money, you can make the decisions" and says she can't stand that he is running the show and become successful. Lynnette tells Tom that she resents his arrogant behavior and says that his new job's success has turned him into an egostical and pompous ass. But Tom naturally misunderstands and he thinks that his new job has turned Lynette into a raging bitch now that he is the breadwinner once again. Penny overhears all this and breaks down in tears. After consoling her, Lynette says Penny is worried they're going to get divorced. They both admit it was a bad fight and perhaps what they really need is a vacation together, without the kids, to work it out. But first, Tom has to make a call to the office to see if he can get a few days off. Lynette sighs.

Finally, the detective, Chuck Vance, who was flirting with Bree returns to ask her out. She relents after some snappy banter. But when Renee hears Bree has a date and knows virtually nothing about the man she goes to dig up some dirt on him. Bree gets the dossier from Renee right before the date and learns some interesting news we don't hear at first. On the date, Bree asks Chuck to tell her the most pertinent details of his life. He runs through the boilerplate and then she zings him with her info: Bree tells Chuck that she knows that he's still married. It's been a year and it's definitely over he says. She tries to be all judgey and then he proves he did his own background check including her police file and knows about Orson's hit-and-run against Mike Delfino and other pertinent details of her life. Bree gets pissed and demands to be taken home. Brree and Chuck drive home in silence. He asks if he has a shot at all and she says 'no'. So he decides to do his job and waves off a john chatting up a prostitute he knows named Violet. Chuck takes her to the women's shelter and Violet wonders when he'll give up on her since this is all she'll ever be. Chuck spins a tale that Bree used to be a hooker and turned her whole life around and Violet could too. Bree plays along and both she and Violet are clearly touched. Bree goes to see Chuck the next day.They both apologize. They decide to try again for a regular first date.