Careful the things you say

Careful the things you say
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Flashbacks show how Julie started, then broke off, her affair with married man Nick Bolen when she was at college. He’s not the sort to take no for an answer, and he’s still pestering Julie now he’s her neighbour in Fairview. Lynette actually hears the pair arguing furiously and Julie’s left with no alternative but to admit the affair to her mum’s friend. Lynette doesn't tell Susan the identity of her daughter’s lover, but instead decides to confront Nick, who threatens her. But in the end she and Tom go to the police with their suspicions that Nick could have been Julie’s attacker. In the meantime, Susan wants the police to investigate Katherine as a suspect in Julie’s attack. But the police officer assigned to question Katherine turns out to be a former pupil at Susan’s old school called Denise, who Susan used to taunt by calling her ‘Moose’. It seems that Moose still holds a grudge and after having a chat with Katherine, arrests Susan for shooting Katherine a few week’s back. Home-schooling in the Solis household is not going at all well, with Gaby and Juanita at each other’s throats most of the time, particularly when it comes to learning fractions. But it all seems to get sorted when Gaby’s new Romanian maid turns out to have a PHD and is a much greater help for Juanita than Gaby. Bree steals an old family recipe off Angie so she can cater for a big Italian family anniversary – but she’s eventually rumbled by Angie, who’s not best pleased at such teachery. After a huge row and some home truths, Bree feels so guilty she ends up offering Angie a job in her catering empire. Angie’s husband Nick is pleased about that, but not quite so thrilled when Angie tells him she knows about the affair with Julie...

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.