Desperate Housewives Season 3 Recap Spoilers - Part 1

Season 3 of Desperate Housewives started with the mystery of Orson Hodge's previous life and what happened before he moved to the mysterious Wisteria Lane. We find out that he had been married and looking at his wife Alma Hodge, you got the distinct impression that she was an abused woman. She was jumpy, panicky and seemed overly eager to please her husband whenever he was close to her.

After he leaves the house, presumably to go to work, she quickly begins to pack and we see her quickly packing in what looks to be an escape attempt. Mr. Hodge returns to the house to retrieve something and catches her in the act. The next scene is of a body half in and out of an impromptu grave. We now have to wonder, did Orson kill his wife?

Mike is in a coma because at the end of the season 2 finale, Orson Hodge ran Mike over with his car. We are a bit confused because the two characters had not met before; at least we assume that they haven't. While caring for Mike, Susan Mayer meets a charming, rich man by the name of Ian Hainsworth at the hospital who is there visiting his terminally ill wife and Susan begins to date him.

After Mike awakes from his coma it becomes clear that he has lost his memory. The police after finding the dead body begin to look at Mike for the murder after finding a connection between him and the dead woman. Of course Mike has no idea if he did or did not kill her because he can't remember, an excuse the police simply does not believe. They ask for his toolbox and Mike claims that he does not know where it is but later we find him about to bury it only to have the police walk up and thank him for providing the evidence they were looking for. It turns out that one of his wrenches has the woman's blood on it. We now have to wonder if Mike is indeed a murderer; again. We still do not know how Mike is connected with the deceased woman but we find out that her name is Monique Polier and that she was Orson's mistress during his marriage to Alma.

Mike is put in jail and Susan is soon torn between helping her old love who has no memory of her and her new boyfriend who's technically still married, making her the other woman. Susan begins to investigate and realizes that Orson Hodge was probably the one who murdered the woman because his missing wife's best friend shows up to warn everyone that he is a murderer. Her friend disappeared and no one has ever seen her again and she suspected that Hodge was the reason for her disappearance.

Bree Van De Kamp has now married Orson and begins to get annoyed with Susan because if Mike is innocent as Susan believes then that would mean that Orson is guilty and as we know, Bree hates to be embarrassed. Their friendship soon begins to get rocky as each fight to protect the man that they care about. Ian realizes that Susan still has feelings for Mike and he makes her a deal. He will get Mike a good lawyer but only if she agrees to cut Mike from her life. Mike is soon released and he begins to have a few short flashes of memory.