MUMBAI: A murder - maybe two - a philandering husband, the discovery of a mysterious love child, an escape from a psychiatric hospital and a police sniper's deadly shot ending a confrontation.

Wisteria Lane is becoming increasingly dangerous. The final episode of the second season of Desperate Housewives airs on 27 August at 10 pm on English general entertainment channel Star World.
There are several questions that hang in the balance. One issue is a showdown between the three men in Susan's life. Susan is played by Teri Hatcher. There is also the issue of whether Susan and Mike get back together again. Another of Wisteria Lane's housewives might discover that her husband is two timing her.

Interestingly a recent report in Entertainment News Network states that a child killer trial inspired writer Marc Cherry to create the show. Cherry recalls watching the harrowing trial of Andrea Yates, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in her second murder trial for the bathtub drownings of her young children, with his mother.

He says, "I was watching this horrific tale on TV and I turned to my mother and I said, 'Gosh, can you imagine a woman being so desperate that she would hurt her own children?'

"My mother took her cigarette out of her mouth and said, 'Yeah, I've been there.' "