Carlos Solis (/soʊˈliːs/) is a fictional character portrayed by Ricardo Chavira on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.
[8] In 2003 they both moved to Fairview, to 4349 Wisteria Lane, where they met Mary Alice Young, Bree Van de Kamp, Lynette Scavo and Susan Mayer.
He's arrested for illegal business practices, takes a plea bargain, and serves 8 months in jail; separately, he gets tried for hate crimes against two gay men who he thought were sleeping with Gabrielle.
Gabrielle originally refuses to get him off doing extra time after finding out he messed with her birth control, but makes him promise to take care of the baby in exchange for her testimony.
Through the program, Carlos meets a nun, Sister Mary Bernard, who inspires him to live a more religious life.
She neglects to mention his allergy to eggs, resulting in Carlos suffering an allergic reaction to a vaccine, forcing him to stay in Fairview.
In the third season opener, Gabrielle and Carlos decide to divorce but it is complicated, due to the baby that their surrogate, Xiao-Mei, is expecting.
However, Xiao-Mei goes into labor on Bree & Orson's wedding day and gives birth to a black baby.
For the sake of Travers, he agrees to commit with Edie, not to let her feel lonely and in need of a family; this makes her call off the custody.
Edie is upset by Carlos laughing at the idea of getting married so she asks him to move in, but he refuses, having signed a lease with Lillian Simms.
She narrowly escapes with her life, as Carlos notices her when Karen McCluskey complains to him about the garbage cans but sees something in Edie's bedroom window.
She takes it further by proposing marriage under the threat of telling the IRS about his offshore bank accounts, so Carlos agrees but quietly moves the money.
Edie hires a private detective to spy on Carlos, and gets pictures of him and Gabrielle sharing a passionate kiss.
When his sight is restored, Carlos finds his daughters and wife beautiful and notices that Gabrielle sold nearly all her valuable belongings to support their family.
He eventually takes a high-paying business job so he could give Gabrielle and his daughters financial security.
When Lynette threatens to sue, Carlos responds by giving her an impossible amount of work to do in one night and when she couldn't complete it, fires her for incompetence.
Her father gets arrested after failing to show a valid driver's license to the police, leaving Grace's non-biological mother to go in hiding.
When Andrew seeks rehab for drinking, he decides to come clean to Carlos about running over his mother.
Bree and Gaby both try to stop him and when Carlos invites Andrew to a camping trip, they suspect the worst.
They chase Carlos to the woods and when they see him with a bloody towel and dirty shovel, Bree blurts out what Andrew did just before her son returns.
This changes, however, after Carlos kills Gaby's stepfather, who returned to Wisteria Lane and was tormenting her.
While in rehab, he discovers that what counselors do has much more impact on people's lives and is more helpful than his own position as a business executive.
When it turns out that Bree may face 20 years to life sentence, both Carlos and Gaby are about to confess that they committed Alejandro's murder; in the end, Mrs. McCluskey herself confesses she committed the murder, after overhearing a conversation between Carlos and Gaby, and is left without charges due to her advanced age and health condition.
It is revealed at the end of the finale that Carlos helped Gaby to start an online shopper company, which eventually leads to her becoming a host in her own talk show.
Carlos and his family leave Wisteria Lane one year after the events of the series finale, and move to a mansion in Los Angeles.