you find out why mary alice killed herself in the first - season finale.
when do you find out why mary alice kill herself?
the first - season finale
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at eli's funeral mary alice herself recalls how she changed eli's life. she remembers how one morning before he had any steady work, he approached her and introduced himself. initially commenting that she doesn't have any work for him mary alice changes her mind when she notices eli is wearing worn shoes and had obviously fallen on hard times. she asks him if he will fix a vase she broke for her. eli appreciates her sympathy and initially declines but mary alice is insistent. a few years later now that eli has found steady work thanks to mary alice recommending him to the women of the neighbourhood, eli walks in on mary alice reading a note. mary alice tries to be upbeat despite the fact that something is obviously troubling her, and offers eli the vase that he fixed for her a few years ago. eli gratefully accepts and leaves, worried about mary alice's fragile state but thinking it best to leave her alone. it is then revealed that the note mary alice was reading is the one she was blackmailed with and that day is the one that she killed herself. an ambulance arrives and the neighbourhood shows up in force to find out what happened to mary alice complete with martha huber (the blackmailer) gossiping with other women about mary alice's suicide. eli watches from afar and regrets having done nothing to stop mary alice's suicide. from that day forward he makes a vow to not only fix people's belongings but their lives as much as he can as well. at his funeral the women gather around eli's coffin and bree fixes eli's flower arrangement before the coffin is lowered, remarking that after all the fixing eli did for them, she wanted to fix something for him.
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