Jackson Braddock (played by Gale Harold) is a housepainter by trade (revealed later in the show as a fine arts painter by vocation, when he unveils a portrait of his lover Susan Mayer). When the show did its much publicized five year leap forward at the beginning of Season Five, the relationship was already in place.The seconds-long appearance of Jackson (not identified by name) in the last moments of the flash forward teasers at the end of the Season Four finale shocked the show's viewers, who had never seen him before and expected Susan still to be married to her husband Mike Delfino.Jackson's affair with Susan started when he was hired to paint her house. At first Susan insisted it be concealed from her friends and neighbors (and son MJ), resulting at one point in Jackson having to slip out a window in his underwear. (The handsome and semi-dressed man was snapped by one of Susan's gay neighbors on a camera phone.) The secrecy wore on Jackson, and after he forced the issue, Susan took their relationship out of the closet.When Susan's ex-husband Mike Delfino insisted on getting to know the other man in his young son's life, his instant manly rapport with Jackson annoyed Susan. In one droll episode during their relationship, Jackson provoked a crisis with Mike by yielding to MJ's entreaties and teaching him to ride his new bicycle. Susan's inability to commit, however (Jackson wanted to move in), forced a temporary separation.Jackson briefly landed in the sights of revenge killer Dave Williams (the Season Five villain) when he inadvertently witnessed Dave exiting a storeroom after murdering his psychoanalyst. Accordingly he was trapped by Dave in a rock and roll club mensroom (Dave had set the club on fire), whence he exited by smashing a window.Gale Harold, who played Jackson, was absent the show for a time due to a serious motorcycle accident, and Jackson was reported to take a job in another town (his voice was heard in a couple of episodes on the telephone). When Jackson returned to Wisteria Lane following Harold's recovery, it was to propose marriage to Susan.By this time, Susan (who missed him) had experienced a thaw in her resistance, and was willing to marry Jackson, but she soon learned it was in the nature of a personal favor, since Jackson (a Canadian, we now learned) was seeking a green card marriage. After long resistance from Susan, Jackson's personal feelings had finally cooled.Susan agreed to the marriage of convenience, but before any wedding could take place, Jackson was dragged away by agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Show less «