Carlos and Gaby meet the family who raised their biological daughter and meet her, who is called Grace. Her personality is same as Gaby’s and she even looks like her when she was little. Both families agree not to tell the girls about what happened and agree on making monthly family visits. We see that Grace is very well taught on how to behave, but Juanita, however is not. Grace falls in love with Gaby’s Chanel purse, so Gaby wants to give her a $1,500 purse, but Juanita’s real mother, Carmen Sanchez doesn’t accept it. She tells Gaby that Grace is not spoiled and is a modest child. Gaby opens up to Carlos about her argument with Carmen, during which he tells Gaby that she better not drive their daughter’s family away because they might take her and never come back. A few days later, when the Sanchez family is at the Solis home, Gaby gives Grace her a necklace that she bought at the beginning of her modeling years. The mother and daughter agree to keep that as a secret.

Maxine tells Susan that her business is expanding throughout the whole USA and suggests that Susan should take a break for about a month so she wouldn’t be over-exposed. Later that day, while driving, Susan sees that a billboard is being hung up with her on it. Furious, she rips it off and goes crying to Maxine. Maxine makes a phone call to her new business partners just to find out that Susan must pay them $9,000 for the billboards that they made if she doesn’t want them to be placed everywhere. Susan is very worried, but Maxine comforts her with telling that Va-Va-Va-Broom also offers jobs that cross Susan’s boundaries, meaning that they contain nudity and maybe pornography. Desperate for help, Susan accepts her offer. Later, a mysterious man, whose face isn’t shown, is seen taking the ripped billboard out of the trash and leaving.

Penny offers to take care of Paige after seeing that Lynette is very busy and needs help with her. However, Lynette takes advantage of Penny’s help and one day she goes jogging while she leaves Paige to Penny even though she told her that she has a test that day and she must hurry to catch the school bus. Later, Lynette arrives home and finds no one in it, so she hurries in Penny’s school where she is called to the principal. The principal tells her that Penny even took the baby monitor before she went to sleep and got up earlier to feed her baby sister, and as a result she is exhausted. Home, Lynette talks to Penny and finds out that she loves it when Lynette spends more time with her, so she tells Tom to hire a nanny so she can be the mom she used to be.

Renee ruins Bree’s date with Keith by calling Danielle with her son Benjamin, Bree’s grandson just to come visit Bree, just so Keith would find out that Bree is a grandmother. Anxious to take her revenge, she discovers from Lynette that Renee is terrified from little people after a circus incident in her childhood. While Renee is on her date with Keith in a fancy restaurant, Bree hires her friend from church, who is a dwarf to get closer to Renee, and when he does, she screams and tries to stand against the wall. Bree is in the restaurant, and after hearing Renee’s scream, she is satisfied. After another argument, Renee lets go of Keith and tells Bree that she can have him. To show her appreciation, Bree buys her a little gift.

Paul Young buys his old house on the Lane, in which he used to live with Mary Alice Young, his ex-wife and their adopted son, Zach Young. He also shows interest for buying Karen McCluskey’s house telling her that she is old and she may die soon, so she’d better sell her house now. Karen is angry at him and tells Beth about it. Beth, who agreed with Paul that there would not be anymore secrets between them, asks Paul if he talked to any of the neighbors and his answer is negative. Confused, Beth wonders what Paul is doing.

“The Thing That Counts is What’s Inside” is the 138th episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the fourth episode of the show’s seventh season and aired on October 17, 2010.

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