Summer can be long if you're waiting to learn how the loose ends of your favorite shows will be tied up.
Even in sitcoms, season-ending cliffhangers are commonly used to ensure viewers will return to series -- and their respective networks -- come fall. The waiting is the hardest part for us, too, so here's how we'd like to see things turn out in certain cases.
Desperate Housewives (ABC): Mike returns home, and Zach fires at him. Susan takes a swing at Zach's arm, and the bullet misses Mike, who grabs the gun from Zach and demands to know what's going on. Zach breaks down and sobs that Mike killed his father. Mike explains he let Paul live after discovering it was Mary Alice who killed Deirdre. Zach wants to know where his father is now. Mike offers to take him to Paul.Bree is finishing the silver polishing job she was engaged in when she got the call about Rex's passing. The doorbell rings, and she answers it. It's George, the pharmacist. He's carrying a huge bouquet of red roses. She realizes he caused Rex's death by tampering with his medication. Horror-stricken, she slams the door, locks it and calls Rex's doctor, then the police.
Everwood (The WB): Nina ultimately realizes that given a choice between Andy and Jake, the life experience and maturity she shares with Andy outweigh the excitement of her younger-man romance with Jake. Once she makes her decision, a dejected Jake bears out his brother's forecast and returns to Los Angeles.With his father and sister remaining in Everwood instead of relocating to Chicago, Ephram ends his European trek and decides to give life in the Brown household another whirl. Still recovering from the stress of her mother's health crisis, Amy doesn't know what to make of Ephram's return; he doesn't know how to approach her either. What else is new?The O.C. (FOX): Sandy and Julie sit in the Cohen kitchen with Marissa, who's out on bail pending charges for shooting Trey. Sandy tries to make Marissa understand the gravity of her situation, but Marissa keeps being distracted by shiny objects. Julie gets a mysterious phone call and excuses herself. Summer drops by to take "Coop" out for some healing retail therapy.Seth is startled to run into his mother, Kirsten, who explains "recovery montage" therapy got her sprung from the clinic so quickly. Later, a worried Ryan is devastated to learn Marissa has been whisked away into the Cooper Daughter Relocation Program with her sister, Caitlin. Sandy is surprised but elated to find Kirsten swimming in their back yard ... until he discovers that the pool is filled with pinot grigio.Veronica Mars (UPN): So who's at the door? After finding out ex-boyfriend Duncan isn't her brother, her father is really her father, her mother still is an alcoholic, her most recent boyfriend's father slept with and murdered her best friend and then tried to kill Veronica by stuffing her in a freezer and setting it on fire, and her father is in the hospital from injuries sustained trying to save her, you'd think the person at the door would be a pizza delivery guy.Or a traveling psychiatrist with plenty of tranquilizers handy. But here's hoping it's Duncan. If he's smart, he'll leave his dad in his mother's manipulative claws and hasten over to V's. She needs a good cry and a hug.
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