Bree and Katherine decide to start a business together, Lynette tries to deny her feelings for another man and Mike learns the truth about his nearly fatal accident.

Creator Marc Cherry said he got the idea to write the series after a conversation with his mother. She told him that raising Cherry and his siblings with their father away most of the time made her feel "desperate" sometimes. "It sprang from a conversation I had with my mother, where for the first time I realized that maybe she hadn't been such a happy housewife after all," he said to Variety magazine.