The Thing That Counts is What's Inside
| "The Thing That Counts Is What's Inside" | |
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| Desperate Housewives episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | David Grossman |
| Written by | Jason Ganzel |
| Production code | 704 |
| Original air date | October 17, 2010 |
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"The Thing That Counts Is What's Inside" is the 138th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the fourth episode of the show's seventh season and was broadcast on October 17, 2010.
Carlos and Gaby meet the family who raised their biological daughter Grace. Their personalities and looks are astonishingly similar. Both families agree not to tell the girls about what happened and agree on making monthly family visits. We see that Grace is very well taught on how to behave, but Juanita is not. Grace falls in love with Gaby's Chanel purse, so Gaby wants to give her one, but Juanita's real mother, Carmen Sanchez, doesn't accept it. She tells Gaby that Grace is not spoiled and is a modest child. Gaby opens up to Carlos about her argument with Carmen, during which he tells Gaby that she better not drive their daughter's family away because they might take her and never come back. A few days later, when the Sanchez family is at the Solis home, Gaby gives Grace a necklace that she bought at the beginning of her modeling years. The mother and daughter agree to keep that as a secret.
Maxine tells Susan that she has sold her business, and the new investors' plan for expansion is heavy marketing in the United States. She tells Susan she has about a month left before their adverstising campaign begins and her activities could be exposed to friends and family. However, the next day while driving, Susan sees that a "Va-Va-Va-Broom!" billboard is being hung with a screen-capture of her on it. Panicked, she managed to rip down the segment with her face and goes crying to Maxine. Maxine makes a phone call to her new business partners just to find out that Susan must pay them $9,000 for the cost of the billboards if she doesn't want them displayed. Susan is very worried, but Maxine comforts her with telling that "Va-Va-Va-Broom!" also offers jobs that cross Susan's boundaries, meaning that they involve nudity and maybe pornography. Desperate for help, Susan accepts her offer. Later, a mysterious man, whose face isn't shown, is seen taking the ripped billboard out of the trash and leaving.
Penny offers to take care of Paige after seeing that Lynette is very busy and needs help. Lynette takes advantage of Penny's help and one day she goes jogging while she leaves Paige to Penny even though Penny told her that she has a test that day and must hurry to catch the school bus. Later, Lynette arrives at home and finds no one in it, so she hurries to Penny's school where she is called to the principal. The principal tells her that Penny even took the baby monitor before she went to sleep and got up earlier to feed her baby sister, and as a result she is exhausted. Lynette talks to Penny and finds out that she loves it when Lynette spends more time with her, so she tells Tom to hire a nanny so she can be the mom she used to be.
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