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When Desperate Housewives returns for its second season in September, some of the ladies on Wisteria Lane will be sucked even further into the problems they faced in the first-season finale, while others will be using the opportunity to make a clean break.

Get Desperate! sources today revealed that Lynette Scavo falls into the latter category, as a large part of the second-season premiere will be devoted to her search for a new career in advertising. Lynette begins her job hunt with a lot of bravado, thinking her impressive resumé and good people skills will land her a good position in no time. But she quickly learns that the advertising world has changed a lot since the time she left it -- when she brags about having a rolodex that money can't buy, she's quickly reminded that everyone uses computers now. And things get worse when her prospective boss, a thirty-year old career woman, finds out Lynette left the advertising business to raise not one but four kids, and launches into a tirade about co-workers who always miss appointments because of baseball games and dance recitals. Has Lynette been marked for life?

But even if Lynette is challenged by having to prove she's not an obsolete dinosaur, at least she's making an effort to get back in the game. For Bree van de Kamp, the season opener will mostly be about getting some closure on the events from "One Wonderful Day." In one scene, she'll have to visit the hospital morgue in order to confirm that it's really her husband who died. When the coroner lifts up the sheet to reveal Rex's body, that should put to rest all rumors that Rex didn't really die in last year's season finale.

Meanwhile, Gabrielle will end up with a broken arm, her boyfriend John in jail, the police suspicious of her, and Carlos in even further trouble after he makes a desperate attempt to get his revenge on John. But with both her lovers in jail, could this be the catalyst that leads Gabrielle to her new love interest (story)? And it seems another of the characters on the show will be losing their father -- amid suspicious circumstances that make it seem like he was the victim of blackmail, and could easily set off a long quest for revenge by one of his surviving family members...

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by ABC or Touchstone Television, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumor. Spoiler information like this often comes from early script versions and some story details are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

The Desperate Housewives season premiere, the title of which is not yet known, is expected to air on the 2nd of October, 2005.

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