<P> Chuck starts to dig deeper into Gabrielle's stepfather's disappearance . Gabrielle tells Bree that Chuck brought them in for questioning and Bree snaps, causing her to head to a motel . When she arrives she sits at a table in her room, pulls out a bottle of wine and a gun, and begins talking to the spirit of Mary Alice . Bree asks her asking if she is happy after having killed herself who replies, "I'm not unhappy". Bree is ready to kill herself when Renee kicks in the door, mistakenly believing Bree is with Ben . After yelling, threatening to hit her and telling her she's "nothing more than a skank in a Nancy Reagan nightie", Renee noticies the gun and the note . After reading it she takes Bree home and stays there to make sure she's okay . When Renee says she won't let a friend die, Bree points out they're not quite friends, hurting Renee . She confesses to Bree how her own mother committed suicide and makes Bree see it's not the way out . Bree is happy at first, more so when she hears Chuck was killed in a hit - and - run . However, when she opens her mailbox, she finds a note saying "You're welcome ." </P> <P> Renee takes Bree to a bar, encouraging her to live a little and Bree ends up going with a man, skinny - dipping in a pool before the owner of the house comes home . Bree soon is going to bed with a succession of men which gets the Reverend concerned about her behavior . Determined to show he's wrong, Bree comes to the bake sale where she meets one of her lovers, only to discover he's married . When Karen McCluskey says that they do not know what Bree is really like, Bree decides to live up her reputation as the new town slut . Bree is soon bed - hopping to the point where she hits upon a man in a bar without remembering she had gone home with him just two nights previously . When they hear about Renee taking Bree to a bar, her friends try and stage an intervention at which point Bree reaches boiling point and blasts them for their less than friend like behavior recently . At the bar, she's approached by a man and realizes how far she's fallen, ready to go home . The man follows her to the parking lot, threatening to assault Bree only to be interrupted by a wheelchair - bound Orson . He uses a taser to knock the man out, telling Bree her friends called him to help and if there's one thing they did well together, it was "cleaning up each other's messes ." Orson soon convinces Bree that the girls are still angry at her and to go away with him for a weekend . What Bree doesn't know is that Orson has been stalking her for months, seeing the girls bury Alejandro's body and he was the one leaving Bree the notes as part of his warped scheme to win her back . Bree soon discovers the truth while visiting Orson's apartment and despite his claims he did it all for her, she says she wants nothing to do with him . Orson calls her later, claiming that their love requires sacrifice and Bree believes he's going to kill himself . Instead, Orson mails a folder of evidence to the Fairview Police . </P> <P> Bree is surprised when Andrew comes home, engaged to a woman named Mary Beth . Learning she's an heiress, Bree suspects Andrew is just marrying her for her money . Mary Beth tells Bree she knows Andrew is gay but is still willing to marry him as she's been unlucky in love . Bree convinces Mary Beth to find a man who truly loves her and she breaks up with Andrew . Andrew is upset at losing a chance at the money but Bree tells him he can stay with her and accept her help getting back on his feet . </P> <P> Meanwhile, the police become suspicious of Bree and the murder of Gaby's stepfather and the help of his cover - up, so they tread carefully in trying to get proof that she is one of the suspects . They interview her, and she says that she has nothing to do with it . But as she was drinking her cup of tea, her fingerprints were on the mug . The fingerprint that the police found on the body, and the fingerprint on Bree's cup match . The police go and talk to Ben, still about the murder of Alejandro . Ben keeps Bree's secret, and the police leave, with no more evidence than the fingerprint . - But they do not stop there: a detective tracks down a call of Bree to Ben that night regarding Alejandro's murder, and they record it . </P>

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