![]() Smarmy, perma-smiling Sam Allen ( Sam Page) continued to integrate himself into the Van De Kamp/Hodge family this week, even winning over returning half-sister Danielle ( Joy Lauren). The outcome is obvious a mile off as one parent backs down from their shameless mission at the last minute, but this plot line - for all it's good intentions - was hardly worthy of the large chunk of the episode it was granted. Susan is determined that MJ will sell the most so he can finally win at something, while Gaby is determined her unpopular daughter will win so she can make friends at the winner's party. Having settled their anxieties about whose child was in the smartest class at school back in "How About A Friendly Shrink?", Susan (Teri Hatcher) and Gabrielle (Eva Longoria Parker) spend far too long retelling an analogous morality tale this week, as Juanita (Madison De La Garza) and MJ ( Mason Vale Cotton) raise money for their school by selling overpriced bars of chocolate. ![]() Slow-burning indeed I just hope Patrick Logan ups the menacing ante next week and ignites a spark in this long-gestating storyline before it's finally extinguished. ![]() Unfortunately, writer Bob Daily was more interested in recycling an immaterial competing mother's storyline, granting Barrowman just one (slightly underwhelming) scene to demonstrate just what Angie Bolen (Drea De Matteo) has been running from all these years. I was really hoping for an explosive entrance from the Torchwood star, after all, this was big enough news for the UK's TV Guide to feature the story on this week's cover. ![]() GUEST CAST: John Barrowman, Julie Benz, Shawn Pyfrom, Joy Lauren, Sam Page, Ellen Crawford, Max Carver & Helena Mattsson After 18 episodes of slow-burning build-up, scraps of overheard information and whispers behind closed doors, the Bolen's worst nightmare - Patrick Logan ( John "Captain Jack" Barrowman, in a rather juicy role) - is back on their scent and finally seen on screen, making his way to Fairview, presumably to ruffle some feathers and take back his son, Danny (Beau Mirchoff), following a tip-off from greedy New Yorker Iris Beckley ( Ellen Crawford). ![]()
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