Season 4 starts out talking about secrets, which is already making me think of how juicy the season will be. The Mary Alice voice over intro starts out with everyone thinking about secrets they can’t tell their friends.

Now the audience already knows some of the secrets from the end of the last season. Lynette has cancer and Bree is faking a pregnancy.

Lynette starts the show attempting to hide her cancer from her friends with a wig and fake bravado. But her mother’s cruel words when Lynette is too tired to pick up Penny after promising to run a benefit at the school force her to acknowledge her limits. She pulls off her wig in front of the bitchy mom forcing her to run the benefit and at the same time lets her secret out to the entire neighborhood.

Bree’s secret is nothing new, but it does have a startling development. After a close call with a bbq fork at a picnic, Orson tries to get Bree to call the whole scheme off and let Danielle keep the  baby. Bree confesses to Orson that she wants to raise the baby so that she can have another chance to raise a child right.

Other secrets that come out are new. We find out through a flashback that Gabi is already unhappy with Victor and she wants to run away with Carlos. They decided that he will pick her up on her wedding night after he has a chance to pack some things. So he runs off to Edie’s to get his stuff together.

But there are more secrets at Edie’s. She is not actually trying to commit suicide. She is faking to keep Carlos with her. She is hanging from the rafters by her arms until he gets home so he can “find her” and “rescue her.”  And then she takes his freedom away, bit by bit, using blackmail about a $10 million account he has been hiding in the Caymans! And to think I almost liked her! No wonder he starts up an affair with Gabi!

Sorry, getting ahead of myself. Carlos tells Gabi that he cannot run away with her immediately because he has to take care of Edie. He proposes starting an affair. She basically tells him that he deserves Edie. Then she tries to patch things up with Victor, trying to get him to take her on a vacation to make her happy. He tries to put her off until April. A pissed off, desperate Gabi calls Carlos and gets him to her old house, where he finds her looking really hot and saying that she wants to get him away from Edie. And therefore the cheating begins. Which in itself is kind of ironic, the cheating couple, cheating with each other. Cherry is a genius!

Susan’s secret comes and  goes all in this episode. She goes to visit the gyno, who tells her she might be going through early menopause. She freaks out about being old and not being able to give Mike children, then finds out she is pregnant.

Although Kathryn, the new neighbor, wants to appear normal, her house holds its secrets too. Most of which seem to center on the daughter Dylan, who cannot remember most of her childhood, which gave the tvguide blogger the idea

 My first thought was that something happened to the first Dylan and Katherine’s trying to pass off this replacement. Then Julie discovered that Dylan has one remaining memory/dream from childhood 

 Dylan has been having a creepy dream about a man reaching for her in the dark. And her mother doesn’t want her to seek therapy. That leads towards theories of some kind of childhood abuse.

Emily522 on the ABC message board theorized

my thoughts:
-she was abused somehow when she was longer and went through head trauma or something
-could it really not be her? like could there be a “real Dylan” that died or something b/c of the parents and they kidnapped this Dylan?

The episode ends with a secret conversation about a room in Kathryn’s new house, and leaves the audience thinking hard about the new mystery.