I'm Still Here (Desperate Housewives)

"I'm Still Here"
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 13
Directed by	Lonny Price
Written by	Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott
Original air date	January 16, 2011
Guest actors
Brian Austin Green as Keith Watson Emily Bergl as Beth Young Polly Bergen as Stella Wingfield Larry Hagman as Frank Kaminsky Max Carver as Preston Scavo Rochelle Aytes as Amber James Sayeed Shahdi as Charlie James Monica Garcia as Nurse Matthew Glave as Detective Foster Derek Webster as Detective Harrison Gregory Itzin as Dick Barrows Ava Rose Williams as Scooter Girl Isabella Acres as Jenny Hunter-McDermott Joe Gillette as Ethan Bill Zasadil as Man Tom Ramsey as Gardener

"I'm Still Here" is the 147th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the thirteenth episode of the show's seventh season and was broadcast on January 16, 2011.

Plot

Bree finds out that a woman, who is looking for Keith, has a son that he knows nothing about. She agrees to help the woman in finding out if Keith would like the opportunity to meet his son and become a father. Bree questions Keith whether he is happy that the two of them can never have children and he responds that there was a time in his life where he would have loved to have been a father but that it doesn't matter to him anymore because he has her. Bree then lies to the woman that Keith didn't want to see his son because she becomes scared of losing him.

Susan tries to have a conversation during her dialysis treatment at the hospital with a rude and angry patient called Dick. Susan continues to attempt to bond with him but he remains cold towards her. When a young patient who is receiving treatment the same time as Susan and Dick receives a phone call telling him that they've found a donor for him; Susan sees the disappointment and sadness in Dick that it wasn't for him. She decides to comfort him and he finally lets her.

Lynette's mother Stella visits and informs Lynette that she is to marry a new boyfriend called Frank Kaminsky. Lynette meets Frank and realizes he's rude, arrogant, sexist, and racist and begs Stella not to marry him. She tells Lynette that she's only doing so because he has a lot of money. Lynette has second thoughts of walking her mother down the aisle but is talked into it by Tom after he tells her that if she refuses she may ruin her relationship with Stella. Lynette asks Stella once more during the service not to marry Frank, but realizes her mother wants to do so as Frank needs her, and nobody else does.

Bob and Lee are confronted by Renee when they decide to hire another interior designer to decorate their adopted daughter's room instead of her. They tell her that they believed she had no maternal feelings and wouldn't get the room how they wanted it, but they agree to give her a chance. When they see what Renee has done to the room they are amazed with how perfect it is and are surprised when they discover that she once dreamed of having children a long time ago. Bob and Lee introduce their new daughter Jenny to Renee first and she is touched when Lee asks her to be there as a mother figure for Jenny should she need one.

Karen finds out about Gabrielle's obsession with her new doll and as a concerned friend, decides to tell Carlos. He confronts Gabrielle who remains insistent on keeping the doll, and he becomes worried as he knows she is using the doll as a replacement for Grace. While going out for dinner Carlos is alarmed to discover Gabrielle has strapped the doll into a car seat and asks her to see a therapist, but she refuses. While driving in a dangerous neighborhood they are carjacked by an armed man. Gabrielle stays in the car, frantic to rescue the doll. Carlos pulls her out to stop her from getting shot and the carjacker drives off, leaving Gabrielle hysterical. Carlos tells her the doll is not Grace and comforts his wife.

Paul becomes emotional after Beth's betrayal and believes that she was the one who shot him. He decides to get revenge and kill her on a trip to a cabin. Before they leave however detectives arrive and show the gun to Paul, who becomes alarmed. The detectives believe the gun did belong to Beth but Paul reassures them otherwise. He then tells Beth that the trip's off and that she "dodged the bullet", which confuses her. The episode ends as Paul looks at a picture of him and Zach, realizing that Zach may have been the one who shot him.

Reception

On its original broadcast on ABC, the episode scored 10.251 million of viewers and achieved a 3.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic.^[1] With the DVR Rating, this episode is up 2.1 in million of viewers (rising to a total of 12.3 million of viewers) and it's up 0.9 in the adults 18-49 demographic (rising to a total of a 4.0 rating).^[2] The lower ratings were because the 68th Golden Globe Awards was airing at the same night, resulting in many other shows within the same timeslot to decrease in ratings especially Desperate Housewives since both the award show and the Housewives share much of the same audience.^[3]

Notes

Although credited, James Denton (Mike Delfino) does not appear in this episode.
Madison De La Garza (Juanita Solis) and Mason Vale Cotton (M.J. Delfino) do not appear and are not credited.
Polly Bergen reprises her role as Lynette's mother Stella Wingfield for the first time since season 5.
As almost always, the episode title is also the title of a song from a Stephen Sondheim musical; "I'm Still Here" is one of the most famous songs from Sondheim's Follies, sung by Carlotta, an aging showgirl who's seen it all. Polly Bergen starred as Carlotta in a 2001 Broadway revival of Follies at the Belasco Theater and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She performed "I'm Still Here" on that year's Tony Awards.

International titles

Arabic: يتجاوز حدود (Exceed Limits)
German: Die Puppe (The doll)
Italian: Rimpianti (Regrets)
French : Ceux qui se comportent mal (The ones who do bad things)

References

Desperate Housewives episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Ah, But Underneath" "Pretty Little Picture" "Who's That Woman?" "Come In, Stranger" "Running to Stand Still" "Anything You Can Do" "Guilty" "Suspicious Minds" "Come Back to Me" "Move On" "Every Day a Little Death" "Your Fault" "Love Is in the Air" "Impossible" "The Ladies Who Lunch" "There Won't Be Trumpets" "Children Will Listen" "Live Alone and Like It" "Fear No More" "Sunday in the Park with George" "Goodbye for Now" "One Wonderful Day"

Season 2	"Next" "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" "You'll Never Get Away from Me" "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" "They Asked Me Why I Believe in You" "I Wish I Could Forget You" "Color and Light" "The Sun Won't Set" "That's Good, That's Bad" "Coming Home" "One More Kiss" "We're Gonna Be All Right" "There's Something About a War" "Silly People" "Thank You So Much" "There Is No Other Way" "Could I Leave You?" "Everybody Says Don't" "Don't Look at Me" "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" "I Know Things Now" "No One Is Alone" "Remember"

Season 3	"Listen to the Rain on the Roof" "It Takes Two" "A Weekend in the Country" "Like It Was" "Nice She Ain't" "Sweetheart, I Have to Confess" "Bang" "Children and Art" "Beautiful Girls" "The Miracle Song" "No Fits, No Fights, No Feuds" "Not While I'm Around" "Come Play wiz Me" "I Remember That" "The Little Things You Do Together" "My Husband, the Pig" "Dress Big" "Liaisons" "God, That's Good" "Gossip" "Into the Woods" "What Would We Do Without You?" "Getting Married Today"

Season 4	"Now You Know" "Smiles of a Summer Night" "The Game" "If There's Anything I Can't Stand" "Art Isn't Easy" "Now I Know, Don't Be Scared" "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover" "Distant Past" "Something's Coming" "Welcome to Kanagawa" "Sunday" "In Buddy's Eyes" "Hello, Little Girl" "Opening Doors" "Mother Said" "The Gun Song" "Free"

Season 5	"You're Gonna Love Tomorrow" "We're So Happy You're So Happy" "Kids Ain't Like Everybody Else" "Back in Business" "Mirror, Mirror" "There's Always a Woman" "What More Do I Need?" "City on Fire" "Me and My Town" "A Vision's Just a Vision" "Home is the Place" "Connect! Connect!" "The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened" "Mama Spent Money When She Had None" "In a World Where the Kings Are Employers" "Crime Doesn't Pay" "The Story of Lucy and Jessie" "A Spark. To Pierce the Dark." "Look Into Their Eyes and You See What They Know" "Rose's Turn" "Bargaining" "Marry Me a Little" "Everybody Says Don't" "If It's Only In Your Head"

Season 6	"Nice is Different Than Good" "Being Alive" "Never Judge a Lady By Her Lover" "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues" "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" "Don't Walk on the Grass" "Careful the Things You Say" "The Coffee Cup" "Would I Think of Suicide?" "Boom Crunch" "If..." "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" "How About a Friendly Shrink?" "The Glamorous Life" "Lovely" "The Chase" "Chromolume No. 7" "My Two Young Men" "We All Deserve to Die" "Epiphany" "A Little Night Music" "The Ballad of Booth" "I Guess This is Goodbye"

Season 7	"Remember Paul?" "You Must Meet My Wife" "Truly Content" "The Thing That Counts Is What's Inside" "Let Me Entertain You" "Excited and Scared" "A Humiliating Business" "Sorry Grateful" "Pleasant Little Kingdom" "Down the Block There's a Riot" "Assassins" "Where Do I Belong" "I'm Still Here" "Flashback" "Farewell Letter" "Searching" "Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed" "Moments in the Woods" "The Lies Ill-Concealed" "I'll Swallow Poison on Sunday" "Then I Really Got Scared" "And Lots of Security..." "Come on Over for Dinner"

Season 8	"Secrets That I Never Want to Know" "Making the Connection" "Watch While I Revise the World" "School of Hard Knocks" "The Art of Making Art" "Witch's Lament" "Always in Control" "Suspicion Song" "Putting It Together" "What's to Discuss, Old Friend" "Who Can Say What's True?" "What's the Good of Being Good" "Is This What You Call Love?" "Get Out of My Life" "She Needs Me" "You Take for Granted" "Women and Death" "Any Moment" "With So Little to Be Sure Of" "Lost My Power" "The People Will Hear" "Give Me the Blame" "Finishing the Hat"

Desperate Housewives

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Characters	Betty Applewhite Angie Bolen Edie Britt Mike Delfino Susan Delfino Orson Hodge Bob Hunter and Lee McDermott Julie Mayer Karl Mayer Katherine Mayfair Karen McCluskey Renee Perry John Rowland Lynette Scavo Tom Scavo Carlos Solis Gabrielle Solis Andrew Van de Kamp Bree Van de Kamp Rex Van de Kamp Dave Williams Mary Alice Young Paul Young

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