Desperate Housewives

After the death of Edie, all her friends share memories about her during a four hour road trip to bring her ashes to a relative.



Susan says that she and Edie were friends until she found out that Edie was sleeping around with a married man. Edie tried to tell Susan that she saw Karl, who was Susan's then husband, with another woman. Susan did not believe her. A few weeks later, Susan had indeed found the bra of another woman in Karl's glove compartment.



Lynette asks everyone if they remember when they had to take turns to drive her to chemotherapy. She says that no one did it quite like Edie did. While everyone was babying and pampering her, Edie took her to a motorcycle bar, where she showed her the men who lost limbs, saying that it never slowed them down. Edie had told Lynette that she was one of the strongest people she knew and that she had to fight off the cancer.



Bree talks about her visit with Orson in prison and how she was shocked to learn that another woman was visiting Orson weekly. She went to see Edie, who lived away from Wisteria Lane, demanding what she was doing these days. Edie told her that she was not up to anything and she wanted to know why Bree had not yet visited Orson. After Bree could not come up with a reason as to why she had not visited him, Edie told her that she should not visit him and that he could find a better person than her. After that, Bree went straight to the jail and told Orson that he had every right to hate her. She asks him how she can forgive him and he says that he just wants her to be there when he gets out.



Gabrielle tells everyone how Edie revealed to her that she knew she was going to die young. She starts to talk about the time when she and Edie went out clubbing and had a contest where whoever had the most drinks bought for them in an hour wins. Gabrielle ends up winning and Edie left the club without her. She finds Edie on the swings and Edie talks about how her youth has gone by so quickly. She confides in her that ever since she was a child, she kknew that she would not live to see 50. She says that she is going to live it up today since she may not live to see a lot of tomorrows. Edie was very appreciative of her life.



Finally, the van arrives and the women have to tell Edie's son, Travers, that Edie is dead. Lynette tells him about the accident and says that she is sorry about everything that happened. Travers says that he is okay and has to go to He says that he feels bad that she died, but they were never close and she never really tried to raise him. Karen grabs his tie and tells him that his mother really did love him.



She talks about how Edie saw her drinking on the anniversary of the death of her son. Karen told her that there is nothing worse than losing a child, and tells her that she is lucky that she does not have any kids. Edie had told her that she did have a son but she did not see him because he lived with his dad. She said that she wanted to protect him from herself because she wanted him to grow up normal and give him a chance. She really had tried to be a good mom and she said that she loved him enough to allow him to hate her.



Travers thanks them for driving all the way there and they give him the ashes to scatter. He says that they should keep it since they were her best friends and they know where she belongs.



The girls return home. Karen starts talking to the urn and asks Edie what they should do with her. At that moment, the door blows wide open and as Karen looks down the street, she sees it as a sign to share the ashes with all of Edie's friends. The women decide that they are going to say one word to describe how they feel about Edie. Gabrielle says, "sexy," Bree says, "perceptive," Lynette says "strong," Karen says "beautiful," and Susan says she needs four words to describe her, "one of a kind."

The women take the ashes and sprinkle them in their front yards. Then we hear Edie's voice say that it is hard to die when you know you have lived.