Whether it's the son Betty Applewhite locked in the basement or Angie Bolen's explosive real past, mystery has always played an important role on Desperate Housewives.

As the latest question mark on the ABC prime-time soap, Paul Young's new wife, Beth, has been equally hard to decipher — even for the actress playing her.

"I was on a date last night and the guy asked me to describe my character, and it was really difficult with this one," Emily Bergl tells TVGuidecom. "It's kind of like when someone asks you to describe yourself."


Since first appearing in the Season 7 premiere, Paul's new blushing bride has become the target of almost as many inquiries as her two-faced husband. She refused to sleep with him after she admitted she only married him in hopes that he would remain behind bars. Then, she began to show her true feelings for Paul (Mark Moses) by pulling a gun on attacker Susan.

"Beth definitely starts to develop real feelings for him," Bergl says. "We're going to begin to discover that are some things about her past that would lead those feelings to be very complicated for her."

One complication is surely her original connection to Paul's past. In the final moments of last week's episode, fans got their first glimpse of the real Beth when she was shown visiting her mother — Paul's longtime nemesis, Felicia Tillman.