Eddie Orlofsky

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Edward "Eddie" Orlofsky is the main antagonist of the sixth season. He's a good guy on the outside, but in reality he's the notorious Fairview Strangler, murderer of many women.

Early life

Since he was a child, Eddie has had a friendly relationship with the women on Wisteria Lane. For example: Susan paid for him to attend an artists' seminar to encourage his artistic ability; Gaby let him unpack boxes in her house when she first moved in; Bree gave him some love advice, not knowing that her affections would be towards her daughter Danielle; Lynette tried to include him in the Scavo family game night to help him fit in. Eddie had such a desperately lonely childhood because his mother Barbara was abandoned by his father when he was four, claiming that he never wanted to have children. Barbara becomes an alcoholic and also claims that she never loved or wanted him. Keeping note of his history with his absent father and alcoholic mother.

Temporada 6 Part 1.

Eddie is shown working at The Coffee Cup, a local cafe where Emily Portsmith, a waitress, becomes the second known victim of the Fairview Strangler. Eddie mentions that he was glad he was late for work, because he doesn't think he could have handled the discovery of Emily's body. Eddie invites Julie and Danny to watch him do stand up comedy at a local club. Julie doesn't want to go, but Ana wants to go out with Danny and convinces Julie to take her to Eddie's event so she can get closer to Danny. Eddie picks up Irina after Preston Scavo drops her off on their wedding night. After hitting on her, she tells him he's out of her league and says she didn't come all the way to America to hook up with a guy with greasy hair. Angry and obviously hurt by the comments, he pulls the car to the side of the road. He is then seen lancing down his throat. He is then seen digging a hole in the forest next to Irina's corpse.

Temporada 6 Part 2.

In 'Epiphany' we see how each housewife meets Eddie. We saw in a flashback when Mary Alice meets Eddie for the first time, she was running on a Monday while seeing Barbara and Hank arguing. In another flashback we see Mary Alice visiting Eddie and Barbara, and then again when Barbara left Eddie at home to go to a pub. In another series of flashbacks we see Gabby meet him when he first moved to Wisteria Lane and for a week Eddie and Gabby had become good friends. Bree first met Eddie when he was helping clean the ditch and Bree gave some advice on "attracting" a woman, however, Bree didn't realize it was her daughter, Danielle. In another flashback we see Eddie falling in love with Susan when she offers to help Eddie with his art and applies it to Art Collage. We then see Eddie strangle Julie Mayer, but he thought it was Susan after being rejected. In flashbacks we see Eddie talking to Romona, a prostitute he approached for sex. After being mocked and laughed at for giving him flowers, Eddie left her for dead in an alley.

Temporada 6 Part 3.

When his mother, Barbara, discovers that he had strangled a teenager, she tries to call the police. Enraged, Eddie strangles Barbara to death, and minutes later, Lynette invites him to move into her house, which he tearfully accepts. Later we see Detective John Booth looking at a board of victims from the "Fairview Strangler", in the lineup of victims we see Julie Mayer, Emily Portsmith, Ramona (no last name) and two Jane Does. In the season finale, Lynette realizes that he is the Fairview Strangler when she sees a look of remorse on his face and he can't look her in the eye when she tells him that the police found her mother in the woods. . He locks Lynette in her childhood home, holding the fate of Lynette and her unborn child in her hands. In the end, after helping her deliver the baby, he makes Lynette call the police and turn himself in, thanks in part to Lynette intervening and saying she believes in him.