This episode begins with random acts of kindness being performed by residents of Wisteria Lane toward their war torn neighbors. We see fireman and work crews frantically removing debris from the site of what was once Miss McCluskey's home. Lynette stands on the sidelines, helpless as her friends, and Edie, try to comfort and lie to her. Susan convinces Lynette that the kids and Tom are fine and tells her to go get her cuts checked out since the oozing pus is making her a little sick. When Lynette walks off Edie chastises Susan for lying to Lynette and not preparing her for the possibility that her family is smooshed. Suddenly a fireman starts yelling that they've found something and Penny is pulled from the wreckage without a speck of dirt on her. Unfortunately they found nothing good. The rest of the gingers, the future stripper and Tom quickly follow her. Lynette rushes to her family and hugs them furiously shaking her fist at the Devil for backing out on their deal. When Miss McCluskey asks about Ida, Tom simply hangs his head and Miss M begins to cry.

"Where the hell did this come from? And more importantly: where the hell was I while all this was happening?"

The next morning everyone on Wisteria is busy cleaning the rubble from their destroyed homes and lawns. Bree finds a lawnmower in the living room, Big Gay Bob finds a piece of his sculpture on the lawn and Lynette's future stripper stepdaughter finds both her beloved music box and the dead body of a crazy woman in a tree.

We cut to Katherine and Adam at the morgue identifying the body as one Senora Von Crazypants of the East Hampton Von Crazypants, also known as the hysterical woman who accused Adam of sexual misconduct causing them to lose their life savings in Chicago. The doctor excuses himself from the room allowing Adam to let out a sigh of relief, o and sadness, that the woman with whom he had a torrid, albeit bony affair, is finally dead. Katherine immediately scoffs at Adam and reminds him that just because she's dead does not change the fact that he slept with her. It just means he probably won't do it again. Adam apologizes for having the affair and for lying about it but Katherine feels that if wishes and buts were clusters of nuts we'd all have a bowl of granola and kicks Adam out of her house.

"Is it just me or do morgues always make you hungry and horny?"

3 days later Lynette is helping Miss M clean up Ida's house and pack up her things to set upon the pyre when they float her out to see. This tradition is actually a little late since Ida has already been cremated and is almost knocked out of her urn when Lynette bumps the table while vacuuming. Lynette comments on all the baseball memorabilia in the house and is informed by Miss M that Ida played for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League during WWII. I bet Ida was the Rosie one, no way she was Geena Davis. Miss M tells Lynette that this is the reason Ida wishes to have her ashes scattered on the baseball field, and not because of her torrid affair with A-Rod. One of the Gingers enters and offers to help clean since Ida helped save his life. He tells them that when the house started to shake she made all the kids go under the stairs but was unable to fit next to them, instead opting to huddle in a corner. Miss M tells Parker to go get some ice cream and when he leaves Miss M reminds Lynette that if she had been there it wouldn't have changed anything, other than Ida possibly not dying and probably soiling herself when she did.

It was the crew T-shirt from Ida's first porn film

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