George Williams (Desperate Housewives)

George Williams was a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character was played by actor Roger Bart.

Season 1
George Williams was the Van De Kamp family pharmacist since at least 2001, who started to have a relationship with Bree after she discovered that Rex had an extra-marital affair with local prostitute Maisy Gibbons. Things were going extremely well until Bree mistakenly shot off his toe with a gun that was given to her as a gift by George. He returns after a short absence and starts to lust after Bree. Rex immediately took offense to his advances on his wife and it culminates with him being pushed into a pool at Carlos Solis's going-away party. It had been found out that he is obsessed with Bree, as can be noted by the scene showing him watching surveillance footage of her, and had been doing anything in his power to destroy the Van De Kamps' already rocky marriage. He is now responsible for the death of Rex Van De Kamp through his tampering with Rex's prescription drugs, by replacing his heart medication with placebos.

Season 2
After Rex's death, George attempts to move in on Bree and have sex with her, but it is revealed that she still feels a great deal of subconscious guilt and attachment to Rex, which manifests itself in an itchy rash on Bree's skin. While on a vacation with Bree, George attempts to drug Bree by talking her into taking her antihistamines (which she took for her rash) with alcohol. It appears as though George thought better of taking advantage of Bree in this way, but after Bree comes to, he tells Bree that he won't wait for too much longer, thereby finally getting Bree into bed. George proposes to Bree and she agrees to the marriage (though it is possible she was pressured into it). After Bree told George about her chat with Dr. Goldfine, in which he suggested she and George had been moving their relationship too fast, George stalks the doctor on his daily exercise path and beats him up, throwing him over a bridge. (Dr. Goldfine survives but was injured. In a conversation with Bree, two episodes later, Dr. Goldfine mentions that the attacker's bike was blue — Bree realizes that George rides a blue bike and calls the police to report her suspicions.)

After the bridge incident, George starts to become rather possessive. He objects to the fact that Bree was reluctant to wear her engagement ring, and was angry that she still believes the relationship is moving too quickly. Bree, in turn, becomes annoyed when she saw her engagement to George announced in the newspaper. This announcement leads an ex-fiancée of George's to Bree's house, where she warns Bree that George was quite unstable, and not the type of person to have a relationship with. At first, Bree dismisses her, refusing to believe what she said about George. Later, while Bree and George are out at dinner, they run into Bree's old college boyfriend, Ty Grant. Ty asks Bree for a dance, to which she agrees, much to George's dismay. It was at this point that Bree tell George that the engagement is off. In retaliation, George steals Ty's valet ticket from his jacket, speeds off in his car (which appears to be a Porsche), takes it out to some remote location, and sets it on fire.

Bree is eventually getting stalked by George who tries to get her back by singing to her in front of her house during a dinner party, Bree takes out a shotgun and blows out the speaker as a result. George then finds out he is being closed in on by the police who has begun searching his house after Bree tells the cops her suspicions about George's involvement in Dr. Goldfine's attack. George retreats to a hotel room (in the same hotel where Bree is co-hosting a charity event) and proceeds to stalk Bree by giving her a note, he then overdoses on sleeping pills (when he knew Bree was coming to see him) which ultimately leads to his death. George begs Bree to call an ambulance, but she has just received a call from the police saying they had evidence that George was responsible for Rex's death. She tell George that she has called while he was sleeping, and then sits and watches him die.

Trivia

 * Starting in episode 2.08 "The Sun Won't Set", one of George's patients named Ethel Hollings was supposed to have a three episode arc, but as most of season two's plotlines, it didn't work well with the writers and thus was scrapped.
 * When Roger Bart was brought on to play George, the character wasn't supposed to stick around for long. After Cherry and his writing crew loved Bart's portrayal, they decided to keep him on, and have him be the one who ultimately kills Rex.

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