'Housewives'

The 'Housewives' endured pregnancy, cancer, bratty kids, crazed exes, drug-addled husbands and a hostage crisis. That's a lot of dirty laundry. Catch up on all that you missed when the Season 4 DVD is released Sept. 2 and read on for the season's highlights. -- By Aimee Deeken

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Keeping Up Appearances: Bree finds a foe -- but later a friend -- in rival domestic goddess Katherine Mayfair. Bree banishes her pregnant teen daughter and fakes a pregnancy of her own, in hopes of raising the child herself. Orson moves out when Bree discovers what he did to Mike Delfino.

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Love Is Blind: Gabrielle marries Victor, a sneaky politician, but continues her affair with Carlos. When Victor disappears, Gabby must do some conniving of her own. Following a tornado, Carlos is gravely injured, altering her and Carlos' relationship, not to mention their upscale lifestyle.

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Enfant Terrible: Lynette battles cancer, her difficult mother, her past feelings for Rick, as well as her husband's manipulative daughter Kayla. The little tyke uses every opportunity to incite dissension that puts Lynette and Tom's marriage and the whole family in trouble.

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When Ignorance Is Bliss: A pregnant Susan discovers her newlywed husband Mike has been popping pills. She threatens leaving him unless he enters rehab.

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Desperate Indeed: The truth about Katherine's past is revealed, but not before her maniacal ex-husband takes a few hostages at gunpoint . The last minutes of the season finale reveal Wisteria Lane's residents five years on, with problem children now teenagers and a new love for one of the housewives.

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