8.2/10690 votes#1 - Secrets That I Never Want to Know
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2011
While Bree gives Chuck a ride, a smell becomes noticeable; Gabrielle seeks out a priest in order to help Carlos with his problem; Ben Faulkner, a new neighbor, meets Renee; Susan withdraws from her friends because of what happened to Alejandro.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Bob Daily
7.6/10541 votes#2 - Making the Connection
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2011
Gabrielle teaches Carlos how to dance on a strip pole; Susan seeks out a punishment for feeling guilty; Renee bonds with one of the customers at a senior center; Tom and Lynette wonder why Parker was at a late night party; Bree discovers Chuck's past.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10526 votes#3 - Watch While I Revise the World
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2011
Lee has a problem with Jenny; Susan and Carlos attempt to find the people responsible for tagging the wall with graffiti; Lynette grows suspicious of Lydia and her fiancé.
Director: David Warren
Writer: N/A
7.4/10517 votes#4 - School of Hard Knocks
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2011
While at a yoga class, Lynette and Renee spy on Jane, Tom's new girlfriend; Gabrielle tries to affect change at a PTA meeting; Bree discovers what Danielle is up to; Susan battles with art class teacher Andre Zeller.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Marco Pennette
7.7/10515 votes#5 - The Art of Making Art
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2011
Tom and Lynette visit a couples counselor about their separation; Bree tries to help a city council about the homeless; Carlos is in a guilty situation; Susan is embarrassed about Andre's students being naked in class.
Director: Lonny Price
Writer: N/A
7.7/10517 votes#6 - Witch's Lament
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2011
Susan grows suspicious about Amy's affair with Andre; a delivery man tries to deliver a package for Lynette; a man speaks to a sponsor from A.A. about a blackout; the housewives are in the woods with the shovels, but they're being watched.
Director: Tony Plana
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10504 votes
#7 - Always in Control
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2011
Bree is stunned when she learns who dug up the body of Gaby's stepfather; jealousy rears its ugly head when Lynette begins to spread untruths to daughter Penny about Tom's new girlfriend; Gaby and Carlos must convince Lee and Bob that Juanita and Celia aren't the bad seeds that they used to be when they want to name them in their will as guardians; and Susan desperately searches her inner self to find what inspires her in order to better her art and impress her hard-to-please art teacher, Andre.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeff Greenstein
- 8.0/10520 votes
#8 - Suspicion Song
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2011
Detective Chuck Vance begins harassing Bree as his suspicions about her involvement in the disappearance of Alejandro grow; after using the murder of Gaby's stepfather as inspiration for her art school projects, Susan must find a way to graciously decline art school teacher Andre's (Miguel Ferrer) invitation to display and sell her paintings at a gallery showing; when Carlos's drinking gets in the way of his ability to work, Gaby goes to The Office in an effort to save his business from losing a multi-million dollar account; and on the occasion of their 22-year anniversary, Lynette comes up with a plan to try to salvage her marriage to Tom.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10560 votes#9 - Putting It Together
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2011
Gabrielle, thinking the worst, goes on a frenzied search for Carlos after he unexpectedly checks out of rehab. Meanwhile, a desolate Bree goes on a drinking binge and finds herself in a desperate situation.
Director: David Warren
Writer: Sheila R. Lawrence
- 8.1/10536 votes
#10 - What's to Discuss, Old Friend?
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2012
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Director: David Grossman
Writer: Wendy Mericle
7.4/10512 votes#11 - Who Can Say What's True?
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/2012
While in Oklahoma, Susan learns that the late Alejandro has been sexually abusing his 15 year old step-daughter, Marisa, just like he abused Gabby years earlier. Meanwhile, Bree gets an unpleasant surprise from a man she meets in a bar, Gabrielle tries to bluff her way through a business dinner in order to woo a potential client for Carlos, and Mike catches Ben doing something he shouldn't do to try to salvage his faltering real estate project.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: N/A
7.7/10514 votes#12 - What's the Good of Being Good?
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2012
Karen McCluskey finds out about Bree's sex life and interferes, Bree bumps into one of her many conquests unexpectedly, Gabby shares her past with the widow of Alejandro, and after introducing them, Renee ends up paying the price when the date between her hairdresser and Lynette doesn't go well.
Director: Ron Underwood
Writer: Jason Ganzel
- 7.6/10499 votes
#13 - Is This What You Call Love?
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/2012
Bree's sexual escapades are getting out of hand and help comes from an unexpected source, Susan learns that Julie is pregnant, and Gabby has to deal with a situation at Juanita's school.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: N/A
8.0/10507 votes#14 - Get Out of My Life
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2012
Susan discovers the identity of the father of Julie's baby, and Orson makes it his duty to nurse Bree back to health. When Mrs. McCluskey throws Roy out of the house, Gabrielle takes him in and is reluctant to help get them back together when he proves to be an invaluable disciplinarian to her kids. Meanwhile, after getting used to her alone time, Lynette is furious when Porter and Preston are evicted from their apartment and try to move back home, and Mike informs Renee of Ben's dire circumstances with a loan shark.
Director: James Hayman
Writer: N/A
7.9/10505 votes#15 - She Needs Me
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 3/4/2012
Susan offers to help the father of Julie's baby raise the child; Bree agrees to go to Maine with Orson - perhaps for good; Karen pleads with Gaby not to tell Roy about her condition; and the loan shark who threatened Ben sets out to ruin Renee.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Jason Ganzel
- 8.1/10612 votes
#16 - You Take for Granted
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/2012
Susan talks Mike into going to the police when she discovers that Ben's loan shark is out to get him; Mrs. McCluskey, who's dying of cancer, asks Bree to help her commit suicide; Tom's girlfriend, Jane, stuns Lynette at Penny's birthday party; Carlos behaves oddly on his first day back at work, and Gaby is worried.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10638 votes#17 - Women and Death
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/2012
On the day of a beloved Wisteria Lane resident's funeral, each of the housewives recalls the effect this person had on her life. Meanwhile, Bree is stunned when she's called in for questioning about the murder of Gaby's stepfather, Alejandro.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10516 votes
#18 - Any Moment
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 3/25/2012
Bree is not so sure about Andrew's upcoming marriage; Gabrielle tries to find work in an employment agency in order to teach Carlos and the kids a lesson; Lynette plans to win back Tom at any cost; Susan's parenting skills concern Julie; Ben asks Renee to marry him.
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10518 votes
#19 - With So Little To Be Sure Of
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/1/2012
Carlos gets concerned about Gabrielle's new job; an affair makes Susan suspicious; the police ask a hotel owner about Alejandro's whereabouts; Bree needs a lawyer's help in order to get her charges of Alejandro Perez's murder cleared. Jane served to Lynette their divorce papers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marco Pennette
7.8/10526 votes#20 - Lost My Power
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2012
With Mike gone, Susan attempts to build a car for MJ's father-and-son school soapbox derby; Bree's attorney, Trip, learns of her previous drunken sexual spree and needs her to come clean about it in order to help strengthen her case; Lynette tries to cause some negative friction between Tom and his girlfriend, Jane, by flirting with his boss and getting him to pile more work on her estranged husband; Gaby is furious with Carlos when he tries to poach one of her rich, personal shopper clients (Doris Roberts) and talk her into helping with his newly formed charity organization; and Renee discovers that Ben is keeping a secret from her about his involvement with Bree -- and the body found at his work site.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Wendy Mericle
8.0/10519 votes#21 - The People Will Hear
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2012
In the penultimate episode leading into the two-hour finale of this landmark series, as her trial nears, Bree begins to fall for her attorney, Trip; Susan becomes concerned when Julie doubts Porter's commitment to be a hands-on father to their unborn baby; as Tom gets closer to being transferred to India for his job - thanks to Lynette - she begins to have second thoughts and tries to convince his boss to rescind the move; and the ladies are shocked about Gaby's nonchalant attitude as Bree continues to stand trial and take the fall for Carlos in the murder of Alejandro.
Director: David Warren
Writer: N/A
8.8/10756 votes#22 - Give Me the Blame
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2012
Bree's trial finally comes to an end with a surprise confession. Tom takes steps to finalize his divorce.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Bob Daily
9.1/101,091 votes#23 - Finishing the Hat
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2012
Everything that begins must eventually end. This episode of beginnings and endings walks us both backwards and forwards as we take our final stroll down Wisteria Lane.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Marc Cherry
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"Secrets That I Never Want to Know" is the best rated episode of "Desperate Housewives" season 8. It scored 8.2/10 based on 690 votes. Directed by David Grossman and written by Bob Daily, it aired on 9/25/2011. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Making the Connection".