Acquaintances of Lynette Scavo
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The following are fictional characters in the American television series Desperate Housewives. They are all family members and acquaintances of Lynette Scavo, one of the protagonists of the series.
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[edit] Immediate family
[edit] Tom Scavo
[edit] Preston and Porter Scavo
Preston and Porter Scavo (Brent and Shane Kinsman (Season 1-4), Charles and Max Carver (season 5-) are Lynette's eldest sons. They are very rebellious, they tend to play rough and fight a lot. It is often hinted that they have ADHD and can often get uncontrollable. The twins are often in trouble, particularly in season one, when they had a more prominent role in the show. Porter appears to be the more dominant twin. Since then, Preston and Porter's younger brother, Parker, and older half-sister, Kayla, demanded more of Tom and Lynette's time and attention. In Season 5, they have continued their mischievous ways but in higher forms such as underage drinking, smoking, and joyrides with their family's cars. But the twins learn they must straighten up their act, because their parents are finally showing that they mean business. So it seems they are beginning to act more mature. For instance Porter now shows a distinct, and intelligent interest in poetry, far more than just enough to use it to pick up girls as it first appears. It is later discovered that Porter was having an affair with his best friend's mother, Anne Schilling. She ultimately leaves town and Porter is accused of starting the fatal fire that occurred at Anne's estranged husband's club. The charges are ultimately dropped.
[edit] Parker Scavo
Parker Scavo (Zane Huett season 1-4, Joshua Logan Moore [1] season 5-) is the youngest son of Lynette and Tom born on September 24, 1997. In the first season, Parker stays at home while his brothers are in school. He, just like all of Lynette's kids, drives her crazy. After his brother's stuck bubble gum in his hair, Lynette used his cancer patient-like appearance to get into a yoga class. In season two, Parker gets ready to go to school, but gets upset when he finds out that his mother can't go with him because of her new job and her mean boss. Thanks to his mother's absence, he grows very fond of an imaginary baby-sitter and her umbrella. He also gets chicken pox, along with his brothers, and gets very curious about human sexuality, asking several girls to see their vaginas, including Mrs. McCluskey's. Parker proves to be the most sensitive of Lynette's three young boys as he is very shocked when he finds out that his mother got shot and refuses to let her out of the house. He gets along very well with his new sister, Kayla, and is the most connected to Mrs. McCluskey, especially when she is victim of rumours that she killed her husband, convincing her to tell everybody the truth. In the fourth season of the show, Parker gets to play Friar Tuck in a play, Robin Hood, he, along with his brothers and sister, witnesses that Danielle's baby was born on Halloween and he notices his grandmother leave after his mother's discussion regarding Stella. He also gets buried alive in Mrs McCluskey's house during the tornado and is the second one to be pulled out of it. He then reveals to his mother that Ida Greenberg saved his life.
[edit] Penny Scavo
Penny Lynne Scavo[2] (Dylan and Jordan Cline - season 1; Darien and Kerstin Pinkerton - seasons 2, 3 and 4; Kendall Applegate season 5-) is Lynette and Tom’s daughter and youngest child. She has her first line in season three episode God, That’s Good. She's the most well-behaved out of Lynette's children. Lynette wanted Penny to be Gabrielle’s flower girl at her wedding, but due to her having “zero charisma,” Gabrielle chose Victor's housekeeper’s daughter who resembled herself. She was the first to emerge from Mrs. McCluskey's wrecked house after the tornado.
[edit] Kayla Scavo
Kayla Huntington Scavo (Rachel Fox) is the daughter of Tom Scavo and Nora Huntington, and stepdaughter of Lynette. Kayla is introduced after Lynette discovers Tom sneaking out of the house to meet a woman, later revealed to be Nora. After Lynette confronts Tom, he reveals that he has just found out that a one-night stand twelve years prior had resulted in the birth of his daughter, Kayla. Nora wants the child support money that Tom has been owing her for all these years back. Lynette finally agrees to give her a lot of money, as long as that keeps her away from their family. But Nora wants the two families to gather and spends the money on an apartment close to Wisteria Lane, so that gathering can happen. Lynette tries to include Kayla in their family, but it becomes increasingly difficult due to Nora's hostility. Kayla's true personality does not emerge until after Nora's death. As a result of this Kayla moves in with the Scavos full-time.
In season four, Kayla seems to be closer to Lynette and fits in the perfectly with the rest of the family. Later on in the season, however, she persuades Porter and Preston to set fire to Rick Coletti's rival pizza joint. When Lynette discovers this she takes Kayla to see a therapist. Afterwards, Kayla purposefully tricks one of the twins into jumping off the roof of the house by pretending that she had safely done so herself by using an umbrella as a parachute. Her therapist tells Lynette that she and Kayla should spend more time together, so Lynette takes her shopping. Kayla blackmails her to get what she wants in the store, and she then threatens to hurt Penny, causing Lynette to slap her. Later, Kayla calls her therapist and tells him that Lynette has repeatedly hit her many times before. These accusations bring Child Protective Services to the Scavo home. After hearing that Lynette could possibly have her children taken away from her, Kayla burns herself with a curling iron and claims that Lynette did it to her, leading to Lynette's arrest. Later that night Tom comes into Kayla's room while finishing a conversation with Andrew over the phone. Tom informs her that Lynette can no longer be around her, to which Kayla replies by asking where Lynette will live. Tom proceeds to explain that Lynette will stay in the house but Kayla will have to be moved somewhere else. Afraid of being sent away, Kayla confesses everything. Tom tells her that she'll have to admit everything to the police but that she'll still be sent away. Kayla then threatens to continue lying but Tom reveals that he had left the phone on and had actually been talking to Kayla's therapist, who had been listening to their conversation the entire time. In the end Kayla is forced to move away and live with her grandparents, but Tom promises to visit her.
[edit] Unborn twins
Lynette is currently pregnant with twins (3.5 months) and had to leave Mike Delfino's wedding due to morning sickness... It is rumoured if one of the twins are female, she will be named Patrice and Philip if it's a boy, as all Lynette's children names begin with the letter P.
[edit] Extended family
[edit] Stella Wingfield
Stella Wingfield (Polly Bergen) is Lynette's mother. She used to be an abusive mother, who frequently beat her girls. She used to get drunk and abuse drugs very often, and also bring strange men over to their house. She was almost always absent, so Lynette had to take care of her little sisters and make them go to school. Stella had breast cancer when she was younger, and while she was enduring chemotherapy, Lynette asked her if she felt like she was being punished for what she had done.
Stella first appeared on the show in the season three finale, after learning that Lynette had Hodgkin's lymphoma. She didn't want her mother to know, but Lynette needed the money for chemotherapy, so Tom asked her. Stella appeared at the Scavo's door unannounced, and told them she would be staying for as long as Lynette would have to fight cancer. Later that night, Lynette and Tom had an argument in their room. She was angry because she didn't want her formerly abusive mother looking after the Scavo kids, but Tom told her that Stella offered the money they needed for chemo. He then tells Lynette that she owes it to him to forgive her mother and live with her after what happened with Rick. Little did they know that Stella was just outside their bedroom door, listening to it all. When her daughter and son-in-law attended Gabrielle's wedding, she stayed home taking care of her grandchildren. Kayla asked her if she could watch another "grown-up" video, and Stella told her she could if she told her about a man named "Rick". When Lynette got home from the wedding, she told her mother that she was not going to need her anymore, but Stella surprised her with a conversation about Rick Coletti. She then asked her daughter if she felt like she was being punished for what she had done. She also said that Lynette could either fight the cancer or her mother, but she wouldn't have the strength to do both.
In the season four premiere, Stella and Lynette attended Parker's school play of Robin Hood. Lynette was feeling sick from the chemo, yet, when a woman named Muriel came to her and told her she needed to organize a gala, Lynette didn't refuse. Stella told her daughter that she should have said she had cancer, and that she didn't feel strong enough to perform her chores, but Lynette didn't want people to know of her condition and pity her. Later, when everyone was raising up to cheer to the play, Lynette threw up in a purse, thinking it was her mothers'. She said she would buy Stella a new purse, to which she responded that that purse wasn't hers. It belonged to Muriel. In episode three, it is revealed that Stella hates to cook, but that she does it anyway to try and feed her daughter, although Lynette doesn't want to eat. Stella then offers to give her daughter some marijuana to help overcome the pain, but she refuses to use drugs. Later, Stella makes a deal with Andrew Van de Kamp, who gives her some drugs, which she puts in some brownies she prepared. She later makes Parker pose as if he had made the brownies himself, and offers them to Lynette. She then goes to Susan's charades party under the influence of drugs. When she gets it out of her system, she gets mad at her mother, but soon forgives her.
In the sixth episode, the family has problems with a possum in their yard, and Lynette wants to get rid of it. The family then learns that Lynette is cured from cancer, and Stella celebrates with the daughter. The possum served as a metaphor for Lynette's illness. The next episode, Lynette tried to convince her sister Lydia to take her mother with her, and actually tricked her into doing it. So Lucy and Lydia ( her two younger sisters ) both showed up at her house delivering their mother. After a talk between the three sisters in Lynette's living room, Lucy and Lydia told her they didn't care about their mother. Lynette got disappointed at them and told them that she wouldn't forgive them, and that they shouldn't come back until Lynette stops hating them. Then, Parker comes inside the house stating that his grandmother has left. Lynette runs outside to witness her mother leaving in a cab. In episode eight, Lynette was looking for Stella, and learned that she had broken into a car and slept in it during one night. She then talks to her former stepfather, Glen. Lynette had always thought that it was her mother's fault that the couple had divorced, but Glen told her he was gay. After they find Stella in a park, the three have a conversation in Glen's house, and he agrees to let Stella stay with him, as he misses having her around.
In the fifth season it is revealed that Lynette has taken Stella to a retirement home. When Porter left home fearing retribution from Mr. Schilling, he hid with Stella. After Lynette finds out here Porter is, she visits Stella but Stella is hostile towards Lynette. Lynette leaves the home, upset at her mother's anger, and is on the phone to Tom when two vehicles in front of Lynette collide, and that gives her the idea to pretend she's in a car accident. This lures Stella and Porter to the hospital and to Stella's shock Lynette appears perfectly fine from around the corner. Lynette returns to the home to an angry Stella and explains her reasons for putting her in the home and why visiting her is not a pleasant experience. Stella reveals her fear of dying and says she stays angry because it's all she has left. Lynette agrees that if Stella changes she will visit at least twice and week and sometimes bring the children along with her.
[edit] Lydia and Lucy Lindquist
Lydia and Lucy Lindquist (Sarah Paulson and Carrie Preston) are Lynette’s younger sisters. In the episode "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover", as Lynette tries to get her mother to leave the house, she tries to get her sisters to take her in. They categorically refuse her request, eventually telling Lynette that they do not care about their mother because of her alcoholism and the abuse they endured during their childhood. The sisters both claim that Stella was ruining their lives while living with them. Lynette, stunned that her sisters have no feelings for their mother at all, asks them to leave.
[edit] Glen Wingfield
Glen Wingfield (Richard Chamberlain) is Lynette's former stepfather, who is gay. Lynette had always considered Glen to be the only true "father figure" she ever had. After the divorce, Lynette grew up believing Glen left due to Stella's adultery. It isn't until thirty years later that Lynette learns Glen left due to his sexuality, and Stella lied because she thought she "made him gay". Much to Lynette's approval, Glen invites Stella to be his new roommate. In Season 5 (which takes place five years later), it is discovered that Glen died several years earlier.
[edit] Rodney Scavo
Rodney Scavo (Ryan O'Neal) is Tom’s father, married to Tom's mother, Allison. Rodney comes for a visit to see the family and Lynette walks in on him with a woman who is not his wife. His visit spurs a frank conversation between the Scavos about commitment and fidelity. Tom confided in him that he has a secret, one that Lynette doesn’t know about, revealing that he may not be the perfect husband – later it turns out to be the fact that he slept with Nora Huntington, which we didn't see until the end of season 2, when he was single.
[edit] Nora Huntington
Nora Huntington (Kiersten Warren). was dancing on a cruise where she met Tom. The two ended up having a one night stand and Nora became pregnant. Ed Ferrara, Lynette's boss, hires a forensic accountant to check his employees' expenses, and finds out that Tom has spent some company money on flowers and theater tickets in Atlantic City, thus firing him. Tom makes up excuses, but Lynette does not believe him, so she follows him to Atlantic City in episode 2.22, "No One Is Alone", where she finds him together with Nora, assuming they're having an affair. When Tom gets back, he finds out that his family are not in their house anymore. Lynette and the kids are staying at a motel. When Porter suffers a fall and breaks his arm, they reunite and Tom tells his wife the truth: he isn't having an affair, but he and Nora had a one night stand which resulted in them having a daughter, Kayla. Tom had recently found out about this, and when they meet, Nora asks for the back child support that Tom has been owing her for all these years. Lynette finally agrees to give her all the money, as long as that keeps her away from their family. But Nora wants the two families together and spends the money on an apartment close to Wisteria Lane.
Apparently, Kayla is a very sweet girl that gets along very well with Lynette. It's Nora that causes all the problems. She and Lynette don't get along, because Nora is childish and annoying, and also, she's intent on stealing Tom from Lynette. When Tom wants to open a pizzaria, Lynette doesn't appreciate the idea, but Nora is very supportive behind Lynette's back, and one night Nora meets him at the restaurant and they have dinner together, and after they've drank a bottle of wine, they kiss, but Tom swears to her that he doesn't want anything more and reassures her that he loves his wife. Nora is very upset at this, and leaves. Tom and Lynette had had a fight before this event, and when he comes back home, they get back together on good terms. But, when her husband explains to her what happened, Lynette breaks into Nora's house and threatens her that if she ever comes near Tom again, she will hurt her. Due to this, Nora decides to leave to Mexico with her daughter, to work as a stripper in a danceclub. However, Lynette tries to sue for custody of Kayla, and then goes to the Field's Supermarket to shop for hamburgers for lunch, and Nora, recognizing Lynette's car in the store's parking lot, enters to confront her about the custody case.
Meanwhile, Carolyn Bigsby, a neighbour, creates a hostage situation because her husband Harvey cheated on her. During the event, Nora picks up on the fact that Carolyn is going crazy. She delibrately blurts to Carolyn that Lynette is trying to steal her kid, Carolyn picks up on this and asks Lynette seemingly disgusted if that's true. Lynette quickly snaps back trying to defend herself saying her and Nora are sharing custody but Nora had tried to seduce her husband therefore she was seeking full custody. Because Carolyn hates people who cheat she says to Lynette "Why didn't you say so?" and shoots Nora in the chest shocking all the hostages in the store. Before she dies, Nora tells Lynette that Kayla is the only thing she's ever done right in her whole life and that she needs Lynette to take good care of her. Lynette promises her that she will love Kayla like she was her own daughter, and Nora closes her eyes, rests her head and dies.
[edit] Joe and Sheila Huntington
Joe and Sheila Huntington (Paul Keith and Michelle Marsh) are Nora's parents and Kayla's grandparents. Kayla now lives with them.
[edit] Season 1 introduced acquaintances
[edit] Jordana Geist
Jordana Geist (Stacey Travis) is Lynette’s friend who has kids with ADD. She is able to juggle her incredibly busy life by taking her children's ADD medication. She tells Lynette her little secret and Lynette does the same. When Lynette runs out of pills, she asks Jordana for more, but Jordana says no because her sister is coming to visit and she needs all the energy she can get. Lynette gets mad and storms away. In season three, she is seen gossiping and participating in Travers McLain’s birthday party.
[edit] Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson (Edward Edwards) is the boss of Tom’s firm. He lied that he didn’t promote Tom because Lynette asked his wife not to, but never wanted to promote Tom in the first place. During Tom’s final confrontation with him, Tom is openly rude to him and tells him he makes crappy decisions on a daily basis. Tom quits after that.
[edit] Janie Peterson
Janie Peterson (Elizabeth Storm) is Dan Peterson's wife. Dan tells Tom that Lynette persuaded her to get her husband to drop Tom's promotion, because she doesn't want her husband to go on even more business trips than before.
[edit] Claire
Claire (Marla Sokoloff) is a nanny who is hired by Lynette to help her take care of her kids. One night, however, she sees a baby-food stain on the robe she is wearing, so she takes it off and throws it into the wash, thus leaving herself completely naked. Unfortunately, Tom comes down and catches her as she’s trying to get back to her room and talks to her embarrassingly, then goes back up and eases his arousal by making love to Lynette. Unfortunately, Claire tells Lynette, and Lynette later makes Tom admit he has the hots for her. Eventually, Claire is let go when it is apparent that her appearance continues to be a distraction.
[edit] Annabel Foster
Annabel Foster (Melinda McGraw) is Tom’s ex-girlfriend. Lynette is extremely jealous of her and has been doing anything she can to break her up from Tom. She gets the promotion of vice president which Tom was eyeing. No relation with Melanie Foster as far as we know, except that they both lived in Chicago.
[edit] Season 2 introduced acquaintances
[edit] Ed Ferrara
Ed Ferrara (Currie Graham) is the "big boss" of "Parcher & Murphy". He first appeared in the season two premiere when he hired Lynette because he liked her. He fires the majority people at the company on "That’s Good, That’s Bad" due to a sexual harassment lawsuit against them. He hires Tom on "There’s Something About a War". In the following episode, "Silly People", he and Tom place bets that Tom could do certain tricks, one of them being eating a donut out of the toilet. Tom became known as "Toilet Boy". Lynette tries to stop all of these games, so Ed tells her if she could eat a package of raw bacon, they'll stop. Lynette succeeds and Ed and Tom have had a business-like relationship since. But after having marital problems with his wife Fran, he asks Lynette to send instant messages to her to help him with his sex life. When Fran figures out it wasn’t Ed, she tells him to fire the person who wrote the IMs or she'll leave him. He tells her it was Tom, and fires Tom instead. In season three, Ed threatens to fire Lynette after she fakes being ill to help Tom with his pizza business at a fair.
[edit] Nina Fletcher
Nina Fletcher (Joely Fisher): Lynette’s boss at the "Parcher & Murphy" ad agency. Nina makes it clear to Lynette on her interview that she despises mothers who put their children above everything else. When Lynette brings Penny to work after Tom has a back problem, Lynette hides the baby with the receptionist. However, this does not go as planned. Lynette then brings baby Penny in and multitasks by changing a diaper and delivering a business plan at the same time. Nina’s boss is very impressed and welcomes her aboard. Nina is less welcoming and wants Lynette to be dedicated to her work and not her children. One night, Nina is caught in an affair with Stu (see below) by Lynette, who offers to keep silent about it if Nina would be a little nicer on the job. Unfortunately, Nina fires Stu, and Lynette talks to him and ends up uttering something about a lawsuit. Next time she walks in, the place is in chaos, as it is found out Stu threatened a lawsuit against the firm and they paid him off to settle, forcing people to lose their jobs, including Nina. Nina then explains to Lynette that being nice was one of many luxuries she gave up to keep the firm afloat, and told her that if she thought she wasn’t seeing her kids enough before, then she'll see them even less now.
[edit] Stu
Stu (Charlie Babcock) is a former receptionist at "Parcher & Murphy", who had an affair with Nina Fletcher. After Lynette found out about it, Nina fired him. Lynette then told Stu that he could go to Ed to get his job back, because Ed wouldn't want him to sue the whole company. Stu does just that. "Parcher & Murphy" is sued, and Ed fires a lot of employees, including Nina, and promotes Lynette to her position, making her his second-in-command. Before that, Lynette had asked Stu to play the role of a child kidnapper in order to teach her kids a lesson. In the episode Back in Business Stu now works for Bree for the marketing of her cookbook.
[edit] Jerry
Jerry (Mitch Silpa) is an employee at "Parcher & Murphy". He and Ed Ferrara come to pick up Lynette to her first day coming back to work after she got shot.
[edit] Season 3 introduced acquaintances
[edit] Rick Coletti
Rick Coletti (Jason Gedrick) is hired by Lynette at Scavo Pizzeria. He used to be a chef at a four-star restaurant. To deal with the stress of the job, he took cocaine, but kicked the habit. Because of his former cocaine addiction, Tom doesn't approve with Lynette's decision to hire him. As Lynette's marriage starts to shake, she and Rick get closer. After Lynette and Rick are locked in a freezer as a result of the pizzeria being robbed, the two cuddle close together for warmth and go to sleep. Tom confronts Rick after seeing a surveillance tape, in which Lynette and Rick were having dinner before the pizzeria was robbed. Tom makes a speech about how although his marriage to Lynette is shaky, it is rock solid and Rick would never break it up. Tom asks Rick to quit, and he says he won't leave unless Lynette fires him, because "she doesn't want him gone". Rick and Lynette are alone in the restaurant and Rick talks about his lunch with Tom (when the confrontation took place). He said he had feelings for her. He told her it was obvious she has feelings for him. This enrages Lynette and she fires him, pretending it didn't affect her. After finding out Tom was returning to work, Lynette sobs in her bathroom, distraught over the loss of Rick. He returns in season four, informing Lynette and Tom that he is opening a restaurant around the corner from Scavo's. It is shown that Rick still has feelings for Lynette. The restaurant steals customers from the Pizzeria until it burns down. Lynette believes Tom set the fire until Porter and Preston reveal that they set it themselves due to a fear of Rick separating their parents.
[edit] Season 5 introduced acquaintances
[edit] Anne Schilling
Anne Schilling (Gail O'Grady) is the mother of Porter's schoolmate and best friend, Kirby. She is introduced as a real estate agent who sold a rehearsal space for Tom Scavo's garage band, and she, alongside Tom, was caught by his wife Lynette, who became suspicious. One night, Kirby Schilling is over at the Scavos' house, and supposedly Porter will spend the night at his place. Kirby tells Lynette his mom stopped by the rehearsal space to bring Tom some furniture, and Lynette heads there as her suspicions grow further, and she realizes that there's nothing wrong, her husband isn't two-timing her. But Tom notices a condom wrapper on the floor, and later that night returns to the rehearsal space where he learns Porter was there having sex with some girl. Tom tells his son the girl has got to go, and without him knowing Porter's lover is Anne Schilling. Anne leaves, unbeknownst to the fact that Lynette was watching her go. Lynette, having followed Tom, believes he is having an affair, but then Tom tells her he caught Porter with some girl in the rehearsal space and Lynette puts two and two together, realizing her son is having an affair with his best friend's mother. The Scavos want their son to break it off, but Porter claims to be in love with Anne. The next day, during a school meeting, Lynette beats up and threatens Anne in a bathroom, and Anne later tells Porter she is pregnant. Preston tells this to Lynette, who goes to see Anne and talk to her, not knowing Anne's abusive husband Warren was listening in on the conversation. Warren is infuriated, although he looks calm, and asks Lynette to let him have a private conversation with his wife. Lynette goes, although Anne quietly begged her not to, but she returns, feeling guilty, and witnesses Warren kicking Anne, who's lying on the floor. Lynette saves her, and she is hospitalized. Porter threatens to kill Warren at his club, and after it was set on fire by Dave Williams, Lynette gives Anne some cash in order for her to go away and never contact Porter again, and Anne reveals she was never pregnant before she goes.
[edit] Warren Schilling
Warren Schilling (Peter Onorati) is Anne's husband. When he discovers that Anne is having an affair with Porter, he beats her until he is stopped by Lynette. Warren owns a club which is burnt down by Dave Williams after killing Dr. Heller. Warren thinks that is was Porter who burnt down the club, after a fight they had when Porter knew that Warren beat Anne. Later in the season, Warren threatens Porter, so the boy goes into hiding.
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