Born in 1962. Died in 2004 (suicide).Mary Alice is the most mysterious of the housewives because only bits and pieces of her story are known. A loving, doting wife and mother who was generous to her family and neighbours, she was the last person any of them expected to shoot herself in the head.In death, Mary Alice sees things she would not have seen in life: her friends' vulnerabilities, lies and secrets. She doesn't judge them so much as love them more because of their foibles, pitying them for the ways they manipulate and hurt those they care about most.Perhaps because Mary Alice represents a part of them, the women decide to get to the bottom of her suicide. They can't quite make sense of why her husband and son are so odd, or why this vivacious woman had married a man who seems to be withholding and cold.After finding a blackmail note in Mary Alice's clothes, the women make a series of discoveries: She was being treated by Dr. Goldfine; she once went by another name, Angela; and she may have had something to do with a baby that disappeared.When Felicia Tilman comes to town and realizes she knew Mary Alice by her former identity, it's only a matter of time before the women learn just how much Mary Alice may have been hiding.In the first season's finale, the mystery of Mary Alice's death is revealed. Years ago, Mary-Alice (whose real name is Angela Forrest) couldn't conceive. She bought a baby illegally from a heroin addict, Dierdre, and moved to Wisteria Lane with her husband and the new baby to start a new life. The Young family's beautiful, happy life on Wisteria Lane was nearly destroyed when the woman returned, seemingly sober, wanting her baby back. After a verbal fight, as the woman went to reclaim her baby, Mary-Alice stabbed her, killing her, as the child, originally named Dana and renamed Zach, watched. Mary Alice and Paul chopped up the body and buried it under their pool. Zack's father turned out to be Mike Delfino. Years later, when Mrs. Huber discovered Mary Alice's secret via her sister, Felicia, who worked with Angela, she blackmailed Mary Alice. In desperation, Mary Alice committed suicide.Mary Alice was the first housewife to move to Wisteria Lane, more than twenty years before the show's initial setting (the day Mary Alice shot herself in the head, killing herself) . In the second season finale, Mary-Alice appeared in the episodes in various flash backs, describing her meeting with all the major housewives. While Mary Alice Young is dead, she recalls with precision the first time she met each of the women she grew to love. She met Susan Mayer fourteen years before her expiration ; when Mary Alice rescued Susan after she locked herself in her moving van. The second character she encountered was Bree, who arrived at the Youngs house, with Andrew and Rex in tow, to make Andrew apologise for stealing a garden ornamental frog. She met Lynette several years later: Lynette and Tom were arguing over how Lynette was pregnant with twins, and that it is completely ok for Lynette to punish Tom for neglecting to tell her that his family had eight sets of twins over three generations. Gabrielle was the final housewife to be greeted by the group: she was dressed in her underwear, after just having sex with Carlos, when Mary Alice, Susan, Lynette and Bree walked in.In Bang, episode 7 of the third season, Lynette Scavo has a series of dreams about the last time she talked to Mary Alice, which happened to be moments before she shot herself. Lynette tormented herself over not trying to save Mary Alice. After a hostage situation in which two people were killed and Lynette was injured, she had one final dream of Mary Alice. This time, however, Lynette tried to prevent something bad from happening by asking to help Mary Alice. To which Mary Alice replied that she couldn't, but she could do something. She could enjoy the lovely evening that was at hand. Mary Alice, as the narrator, says that was the last time Lynette would ever dream of her, and for her sake, that was a good thing. Show less «