Home is the Place
| "Home Is the Place" | |
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| Desperate Housewives episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | David Grossman |
| Written by | Jamie Gorenberg |
| Production code | 511 |
| Original air date | January 4, 2009 |
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"Home Is the Place" is the 98th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the 11th episode of the show's fifth season and aired on January 4, 2009.
Bree meets Alex's mother, Melina Cominis, for the first time. From the offset their relationship hits the rocks as Alex's mother starts to "call" the children for holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. The fight to win over their affections begins as Alex and Andrew start to look for houses. Bree recommends the Adams house which is shown to them by Edie, but Melina suggests that they both move to Oakdale and buy a house there instead. While having a family dinner, Melina announces that a doctor back at Oakdale is leaving and Alex has been suggested to take over the practice. Scared of losing Andrew, Bree lies and states that she's already bought the Adams house for the boys as a wedding gift. While the dinner continues, Bree calls Edie so she can make the arrangements to buy the house.
Susan suffers from boredom while Jackson is away, and witnesses an argument between Lee and Bob. Susan asks Lee if she can go clubbing with him for the night, and they go out together. While at the club, Susan receives a call from Jackson who tells her he's been offered a job away from Fairview, and he asks her to move with him. She and Lee talk about it at the club and Susan decides she's going to move. The next morning, however, she wakes up with Lee in bed next to her and assumes that they've slept together when she goes downstairs to see a Jazz CD in the player and two empty bottles of wine on the table. Susan asks Gaby for advice without telling her who it was, believing she purposely slept with Lee to sabotage her relationship with Jackson. When Bob comes over to ask if Lee stayed the night, Gaby puts two and two together. Later on, Susan directly asks Lee if they slept together, to find to her relief that they didn't. Lee advises Susan that she shouldn't move away with Jackson until she is in love with him and she is sure that is what she wants.
Gaby becomes tired of struggling to provide for her family, and her hopes are raised when she runs into an old work friend of Carlos's, Bradley, who is after someone for a six-figure-salary job. Gaby speaks for Carlos telling him he'll take it, but Gaby discovers Carlos is already after a job at the community center to help the blind. Gaby arranges a dinner with Bradley and his wife to convince Carlos otherwise. At dinner we learn of Bradley's wife's discontent for him. While Gaby is trying to push Carlos to take the job, Bradley's wife convinces Carlos to be a good person and take the job helping people at the Community Center. Carlos declines the job offer, but later on Gaby talks to Carlos again saying she's sick of struggling. He asks her not to make him do it, but in the end he agrees, phones Bradley, and takes the job.
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