Everyone's making connections this week, and it's (mostly) all for the better. Bree has a big ol' fight with Alex, who tells her exactly what we've all been thinking: That's she's mean and cold and emasculating her husband. She gets snippy about it, but comes around to realize he's right -- and that she needs someone like him calling her out on it so she doesn't get even worse. Meanwhile, Edie tells everyone she left Creepy Dave and they respond by ... talking to Susan about her plans to move in with Jackson. Then Edie and Susan end up locked in a basement, and they sort of bond: They insult each other, Edie spills her childhood stories, then slaps Susan. I said sort of. But they both learn from it, because next thing we know Susan makes a mysterious call to Jackson and then sits on her porch alone, while Edie takes Creepy Dave back. In the interim, though, Creepy Dave stays with Mike and bonds with him. He learns that Mike is falling in love with Katherine, and that she is thinking of moving to Baltimore. So Creepy Dave gets Katherine some flowers to keep her close, apparently making her the "Mike has to lose what I lost" target instead of Susan.

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