# Desperate Housewives 1/23 (Contains spoilers)

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**Created:** [January 24, 2005, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-1-23-contains-spoilers/286393 "2005-01-24T09:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-1-23-contains-spoilers/286393/21 "2005-01-25T02:25:39Z")

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Does anyone see Susan looking up birth or death records, to find out if Paul’s telling the truth about Dana? To reassure herself that Zach isn’t dangerous?

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**Author:** ![Marsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-1-23-contains-spoilers/286393/22 "2005-01-25T03:16:58Z")

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> [@Larry Mudd](#):
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> Okay, that episode totally reinforced the hair-brained theory I confessed to in [this thread from last month](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291530) – (ie; that the skeleton in the closet is that Zach was an intersexual baby and _is_ Dana.)
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> After the carefully-revealed chat that Mr. Young had with Zach in the car after the dance, and Zach’s reaction, I really think they’re going to go there, now.
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> Dana’s still alive, says Dad. She was in the passenger seat. I’d bet the farm on it, folks.

How about this? Julie is Dana!!! She’s adopted??? That’s why the dad doesn’t want them getting too close???

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**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-1-23-contains-spoilers/286393/23 "2005-01-25T04:05:59Z")

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So, if Dana = Dierdre = adult female in box, then Zach may well remember her death, and Paul was lying when he told Zach that Dana was very much alive. The question then becomes why exactly did he lie? To get Zach to calm down? To protect Zach from the truth? And what else did he say, such that Zach came out of that car with a much cockier attitude, mocking Paul with that ‘Dad’, and having leverage to keep them from moving?

Of course, all this is pretty thin, trying to tie together things that may not have anything to do with each other. I tell you, between this show and _Lost_, there’s no end to the speculatory fun!

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