 Gabrielle and Carlos are surprised when their adoptive baby s biological teenage father, Dale Helms, wants to lay claims to his infant daughter. The Solis want Dale to sign away his rights, but the dumb jock doesn t seem to see it their way, until a little intimidation from Gabrielle makes him do just that. Edie is heartbroken after Karl breaks off their engagement, and Susan becomes very worried that Edie might find out about hers and Karl s fling. This leads to Edie going out drinking with Susan where she gets so drunk that she attacks a waitress. When Lynette s boss, Ed, has her work late to forget his marital problems, she tries to coach his love-life back to health, but it backfires with Tom taking the heat. Bree puts her mind to keeping Peter in her life by having his overprotective sex-addict sponsor removed and continues pursuing him, but soon learns just how bad his other addiction is. Also, Caleb is caught at another horny intrusion when he makes a play for Danielle, but his mother believes he s better off dead then institutionalized as Bree intends... with nobody aware that Danielle and Matthew orchestrated the whole thing.