Bree's cookbook success has almost everyone in a dither this week. First, her friends are all jealous (and matters aren't helped when she includes a "personal" note in each of the other ladies' copies of her cookbook that calls that woman "the sweetest, most wonderful friend I've ever known"). Then, Orson wants to come work for her since no one will hire him now that he's a criminal. And, finally, Katherine's all sort of angry: jealous about Bree's success, and not at all okay with Orson joining the company. So Bree tells him to wait it out, but after he sleeps in the guest room for a few nights, she offers him a white flag in the form of a chef's hat. Screw Katherine, apparently. She threw Bree's cookbook out with the trash anyway.

Lynette's jealous, too, and tries to catch a ride on the Bree success train by taking over the cookbook marketing campaign without being asked. She tries to get Bree to change course now that the book's all ready to go and the marketing campaign has begun, but Bree tells her she's happy with what she's got. When they all show up to support Bree's Bussinesswoman of the Year award at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, Lynette meets Bree's marketing guy, who happens to be Lynette's former assistant. Lynette gets good and drunk, confronts Bree, and gets good and kicked out. She takes the emergency exit door, to be sure to cause a scene. She apologizes later, and Felicity Huffman once again shows us why she won that Emmy, as Lynette explains her jealousy and ends up looking all vulnerable and sweet, even while making Bree seem a little bit more human.

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