A Desperate Housewife's Question?

they are friends but not close. Carlos and tom are bit cautious as mike had this criminal aura or sumtin. The friendship before refers to hand waving or the dinners the housewives usually have together once a while. But the accident make them closer, cause he is then much more innocent, you know. He is just a guy with a loss memory and love to watch ball games not a guy who had vengeance and notorious violence.