Heroes Season 3 Episode 5

Previously on Heroes Season 3 Episode 4, Sylar blew up the future after being creepily nice, Parkman saw his rewritten future come true, Nathan saved Tracy from herself, and Hiro dug up Adam.

Nathan needs to know: is he an angel or a monster, a hero or a villain? He’s having difficulty believing Linderman’s actually there to help him.

Peter doesn’t want to be Sylar’s brother. Sylar stops him just short of ripping his mother’s skull open to get any more secrets she has been keeping.

After looking through a list of potential bad guys, Meredith promises Sandra that she’ll return Claire. They’re on the right trail. She is after Stephen Canfield, a guy who creates vortexes and makes people disappear forever.

Adam’s not happy to see Hiro, seeing as he buried him alive and all. Hiro’s willing to take risks to save the world. Adam says the villain is probably Angela Petrelli, an answer Hiro doesn’t like.

Linderman approaches Daphne and asks her to recruit for his organization for a new world order. She’s okay with whatever gets her paid.

Claire tells Stephen she’s bringing him back where he belongs. He just wants to find his family, as the company took them away from him, so now they probably think he abandoned them. He says he never meant to hurt anybody and that they have it all wrong. They just locked him up without a trial, and he just wants to see his wife, even if it’s for the last time.

Tracy’s struggling with how she killed someone, and she wants to turn herself in. Nathan wants her to know that would be a mistake because their powers are from God. Her powers are from a doctor in Reseda, though.

Claire feels sympathetic for Stephen and helps him get in touch with his wife. As their phone call is dropped, her father barges in along with Sylar. So then he opens up a vortex. With luck, the vortex doesn’t suck anybody into any hell dimension or anything. Stephen has escaped, though, and Claire is still looking to protect him. She trusts her father and tells him where he can find him.

Adam takes Hiro to a bar where he says the speedster was hired. He wants Ando and Hiro to look tough while they’re there. Adam very quickly gets into a bar brawl, ducks a punch, and Hiro gets knocked out. Easy escape for Adam.

Angela tells Nathan and Tracy that Zimmerman was instrumental in the development of synthetic abilities, which they gave to people like Tracy… and Nathan.

Maya finds Suresh’s missing neighbor. He’s not so much missing as hanging on a wall. She thinks Suresh has become a monster.

Hiro’s searched everywhere (except the dumpster) and believes Adam is gone. Knox has a little more luck finding Adam, though, and he tosses him into the back of a van.

Angela explains that what they did was wrong and that they divided the formula and hid it so it would never happen again. The formula will be used to create a world full of people with abilities that will end up destroying the world.

Nathan thinks they should go see Suresh since he’s a harmless (mad) scientist.

Stephen’s family never showed up. He thinks maybe they are afraid of him. HRG comes with an offer: make Sylar disappear, and this is all over. Unwilling to be a monster, Stephen decides to just suck himself into a vortex instead.

Hiro’s nemesis Daphne comes recruiting. He tells her they’ve changed, and that they’re bad asses now. Knox wants him to prove himself by killing Ando. So Hiro jabs Ando with a sword.

Sylar says HRG’s just a user, and Claire knows it. He may be a deranged sociopath, but he’s not entirely wrong.

Meredith never found Claire, but she did find Eric and is busy having dinner with him thanks to his mind control.

Angela hears a scream. She walks out to find Nathan and Tracy on the ground. Peter apparently didn’t do it because he, too, collapses. A man walks in and tells her she can’t stop him because she won’t even be able to move.

Daphne’s not happy about Ando being killed. Linderman wants her to recruit Parkman. She’s figured something out. She can sneak up on everybody, but she can’t sneak up on Linderman… because he’s not really there.

It appears all the strings are being pulled by Arthur Petrelli, the father.

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The Amazing Race 13 Episode 3

Despite some major mistakes from other teams, Anthony & Stephanie were the last team to arrive and were eliminated in The Amazing Race 13 Episode 2. Ken & Tina continued to be a strong team, as did Mark & Bill and Terence & Sarah, although the latter team still looks like it’s on the verge of a breakdown. Having screwed up on not one but two clues, Kelly & Christy’s literacy is coming into question.

Kelly & Christy are still upset at Starr about a sports bra mishap, or at least that’s their story anyway.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Ken & Tina – 12:51AM
Second: Mark & Bill – 12:52AM
Third: Terence & Sarah – 1:13AM
Fourth: Aja & Ty – 1:14AM
Fifth: Toni & Dallas – 1:15AM
Sixth: Nick & Starr – 1:17AM
Seventh: Kelly & Christy – 1:18AM
Eighth: Andrew & Dan – 1:22AM
Ninth: Marisa & Brooke – 1:22AM

Ken & Tina know they both need to work on how they treat each other. Mark & Bill plan to be analytical and take some extra time to think about things if needed. Sarah realizes this is not a popularity contest, which is a good thing for her and Terence. Marisa & Brooke think they’re being underestimated, which may have to do with the always coming in next to last.

The next destination is 1200 miles away in La Paz, Bolivia, where they will first go to the statue of Simon Bolivar. There are apparently two different flights, but it doesn’t seem to matter which one they get on, as they’ll be sleeping outside for the night. The altitude of 13,000 feet may make breathing difficult.

Nick approaches Kelly & Christy to see why they’re being hateful. He says he’d like to get along and receives a response that they don’t care if people don’t like them.

When the morning paper arrives, it’s time to search for the first clue, an ad which tells them to go to Narvaez Hat Shop. It’s a detour. The detour is a choice between musical march or bumpy ride. In musical march, teams must make their way on foot and collect musicians and form a band then deliver them to a bandleader. In bumpy ride, they’ll ride locally crafted bicycles on the rough roads. A U-turn is ahead.

Musical march: Andrew & Dan, Marisa & Brooke
Bumpy ride: Mark & Bill, Ken & Tina, Kelly & Christy, Aja & Ty, Nick & Starr, Toni & Dallas, Terence & Sarah (switched from musical march after realizing their taxi error)

Even though the clue says travel by foot, Terence & Sarah hail a cab, forcing them to turn around and start over after they realize the mistake. Mark & Bill also take a cab.

Mark & Bill think they’re far enough ahead that they don’t have to use the U-turn. Marisa & Brooke also choose to not use the U-turn, as do Terence & Sarah and Ken & Tina. Andrew & Dan follow suit. Nick & Starr pass Kelly & Christy going down the hill, and Nick says they don’t want to U-turn anybody, though Starr’s not so sure. Since they’ve only got one U-turn the whole game, though, they’d rather save it. Aja & Ty also don’t use it, despite Starr’s request for them to use it on Kelly & Christy. Kelly & Christy think they’re in last place, so they don’t use it either, nor do Toni & Dallas.

The next destination is Los Titanes Del Ring, where the road block is fighting cholitas (female pro wrestlers). When they successfully execute all six wrestling moves, they’ll be able to move on. Much comedy ensues. I’m not real clear why Sarah chose to pick a fight instead of Terence. While they’re waiting for their partners, Aja tells Christy that Starr wanted her to U-turn them. Ken’s surprised he has to fight a girl but does well. Dallas finds this task easy and is able to make up a lot of time. Nick, Ty, and Dan also get by quickly. Mark’s struggling with the altitude and has to get some oxygen to get through it. After three tries, he gets through, and Marisa finishes on her second try. Sarah also gets through on her second attempt. Kelly gets through, knowing they’re the last team.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Mitador El Monticulo, a hilltop park. It turns into a mad dash with the cabs, jockeying for position. On the way there, Mark & Bill are reading the clue from earlier and realize they took a cab to the detour when they should have travelled by foot. They’re hit with a 30 minute penalty on arrival.

First: Ken & Tina (win a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico)
Second: Toni & Dallas
Third: Terence & Sarah
Fourth: Marisa & Brooke
Fifth: Aja & Ty
Sixth: Nick & Starr
Seventh: Andrew & Dan
Eighth: Kelly & Christy
Eliminated: Mark & Bill

Because of the penalty, Mark & Bill have been eliminated, while Kelly & Christy will live another day, meaning we can look forward to more bitterness from them.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 13 Episode 4 I Wonder if They Like Blondes in New Zealand, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Amazing Race Asia 3 Episode 5

Following on the heels of Natalie’s overdue departure, Niroo & Kapil both stopped trying in a disastrous performance throughout the leg in The Amazing Race Asia Season 3 Episode 4 and were eliminated.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Ida & Tania – 2:00PM
Second: Vince & Sam – 2:17PM
Third: Mai & Oliver – 2:53PM
Fourth: Henry & Bernie – 2:55PM
Fifth: AD & Fuzzie – 2:56PM
Sixth: Geoff & Tisha – 3:54PM

Mai & Oliver realize they argue over stupid things. Henry & Bernie say they’re calmer now and are taking a different approach. AD & Fuzzie seem to have a loose alliance with Henry & Bernie.

The first stop is Sony Style in the New Sogo department store, where they will search among 1000 Blu-ray discs for a clue, a dumb luck task of popping discs into players until they get lucky. It becomes even more hectic when multiple teams arrive. Sam & Vince finish quickly and easily. AD & Fuzzie finish next. Henry & Bernie are third. Ida & Tania begin discussing the penalty after a while. Considering Geoff & Tisha have arrived by this point, they’ve probably been there 2 hours already. They decide against the penalty and are the fourth to finish. Geoff & Tisha are next, leaving Mai & Oliver behind. When they realize that there’s only one disc left and that all the discs have been mixed together by everybody, so they’re unsure what has or has not been checked already, they’re demoralized, but Mai suggests just getting a bite to eat and then coming back and trying again. They keep plugging away but don’t make any progress. Eventually, the shop closes, so they have to stop searching and continue with the race. They’re a good distance behind everybody else, though.

From there, they can go for the first and only fast forward on the race. Having completed the first task first, Vince & Sam opt to do the fast forward. They’ll need to get a tattoo. Should be simple enough to complete, and they do, making first place pretty obvious.

The next destination is the New Pingshi Coal Mine in Shih-Fen. It’s a road block. In this road block, one team member must dig through hundreds of kilos of coal to find a souvenir. The first couple of teams find it with no problem, but the next two aren’t so lucky. Ida & Tania manage to get another police escort, but Geoff & Tisha have a breakdown, where she starts sounding like the quitters from the last two weeks.

Mai & Oliver don’t even bother with all that. They just follow a cab straight off. Except that cab breaks down on the way there. Completely exhausted from their day of searching, they decide to sleep in the car and try again in the morning. They’d have been better off quitting the last task and taking the penalty because this will put them half a day behind.

Road block (in order of arrival): Henry, Fuzzie, Tania, Geoff

Straight from the road block, they head to a detour, pick or pail. In pick, teams must retrieve three items from a wawachi machine. In pail, teams must deliver a filled bucket to the top of a hill, which will prove to be more physically demanding than they may think. Pick looks to be quite a bit easier.

Pick (in order of arrival): AD & Fuzzie, Henry & Bernie, Geoff & Tisha
Pail: Ida & Tania

The pitstop for this leg of the race is the Taipei Astronomical Museum in Taipei City.

First: Vince & Sam (win a golfing getaway in Thailand)
Second: Henry & Bernie
Third: AD & Fuzzie
Fourth: Geoff & Tisha
Fifth: Ida & Tania
Eliminated: Mai & Oliver

When morning arrives, Allan wakes up Mai & Oliver to inform them they have been eliminated. Strangely, I’m sad to see them go.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Amazing Race Asia 3 episode 6, and don’t forget the live blogs of The Amazing Race 13.

Survivor: Gabon Episode 4

By some miracle combination of dumb luck and, well, dumb luck, the Fang tribe managed to win both challenges in Survivor: Gabon Episode 3. Kota turned on Paloma as the smallest member of their tribe and voted her out.

For some reason, Kelly decided to vote against the group and was the lone person to go against Ace rather than Paloma. Ace thinks she voted for him and hopes to make her the next victim.

Randy had previously been pitching two meals a day. Now he wants to cut it to one meal a day. Probably won’t make him any friends.

GC, Crystal, and Ken appear to be the tightest group, which is not going unnoticed by the other four who make an alliance to get rid of them.

When the tribes arrive for the challenge, they have to go about ranking the tribe from top to bottom according to importance.

Kota: Marcus, Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, Sugar, Kelly
Fang: Matty, Dan, Randy, Crystal, Ken, GC, Susie

It’s not a challenge, though. Jeff says the words you typically don’t want to hear unless you’re pretty close to toast: drop your buffs. Marcus and Matty will be captains of the tribes for which they were voted most important. They’ll get started with the team selection, picking from rotating old tribes in no apparent logical order.

New Kota: Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corinne, Susie, Bob (4 Kota to 3 Fang)
New Fang: Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly, GC (4 Fang to 3 Kota)

Since she was not chosen, Sugar will go to Exile island and join the tribe that loses a member at the next tribal council.

Marcus and Charlie remain together, along with Corinne and the guy who had been their fifth, Bob. Their other ally Jacquie is alone on the other side. Crystal, GC, and Ken stick together. Ace and Sugar are up in the air, but it seems she’s in trouble either way.

New Kota has four close allies, whereas new Fang has three close allies plus on additional person who was preparing to stab them in the back.

Kelly doesn’t like her old tribe, and Crystal hopes to swing her over and take advantage of that.

Marcus is concerned about Randy and Susie in the challenges.

In the immunity challenge, all the contestants get into boats with paddles. The object is to simply score three goals on the other team. Marcus dominates the other team, and Kota scores the first point. The second goal is the same story. And again for the third. Kota wins immunity. Marcus driving downfield and passing to Randy proved quite effective, and the complete uselessness of multiple Fang members didn’t help them any.

New Fang is reminiscent of old Fang from episodes 1 and 2.

Their original plan was to be morons and target Ace or Jacquie. After the challenge, they begin discussing getting rid of Kelly, who was apparently their new ally like a day ago. Then the immunity idol comes up. So they suggest Jacquie instead because they’re worried that if Sugar has the idol with her, rather than Kelly who she hates. Matty agrees to the plan, then goes up to Jacquie and tells her about it. She approaches Ken, who tells her it doesn’t matter how he votes because he’d be outnumbered. He tells her to go to Crystal. She does a good job of begging and agrees to take them to the end with her.

Votes
Jacquie
Kelly
Kelly
Jacquie
Jacquie
Jacquie

Jacquie has been voted out of the tribe. While Kelly is more likely to be loyal to them, it could become a bumpy ride if they’re faced with any more physical challenges. Sugar will become a member of Fang, which is probably not good news for anybody except the other tribe.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Gabon episode 5 This Camp Is Cursed, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Biggest Loser Families Episode 5

With the Presidential debate on last night, we only got half way through the week, so tonight we get a special dose of The Biggest Loser. Following her contestants being lazy, Jillian threw Amy C out of the gym in The Biggest Loser Families Episode 4, and that’s where we pick back up tonight.

Much ado about nothing. Amy feels bad, comes back, and says she’s learned her lesson.

During the commercial for Subway, Bob has a small but useful tip: when you go somewhere, park in the furthest spot away so you get the exercise.

Michelle is struggling because she blames her mother for making her gain weight. The problem with her theory is that her emotional eating is based on her making her own choices. Jillian lets her know she’s gotta make the right choice.

Bob’s team is feeling pretty confident heading into the weigh in because they’ve noticed the lack of effort on the other side. As with last week, only one family will fall below the yellow line.

Coleen: 192 pounds (-3, 1.54%)

Michelle: 216 (-4)
Renee: 237 (-5)
Total: 453 pounds (-9, 1.95%)

Amy: 208 (-5)
Shellay: 194 (-4)
Total: 402 pounds (-9, 2.19%)

Amy: 199 (-5)
Phil: 287 (-3)
Total: 486 pounds (-8, 1.62%)

Heba: 266 (-8)
Ed: 299 (no change)
Total: 565 pounds (-8, 1.40%)

Vicky: 217 (-3)
Brady: 292 (-9)
Total: 509 pounds (-12, 2.30%)

Heba has the best week of anyone other than Brady, but it’s not enough to make up for Ed’s off week. Vicky and Brady are noticeably upset because they are close friends with Heba and Ed. Based on their discussion, it looks like Ed will be the one heading home. He blames himself for being below the yellow line, but more important is that he wants to see his wife able to have children and promises her that if he goes home he’ll be dedicated enough to stick to the program.

The decision is in. Ed and Heba have decided to send Ed home. Ed is down from his starting weight of 335 pounds to 250 pounds today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Families episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Biggest Loser Families Episode 4

The Biggest Loser Families Episode 3 took an unexpectedly harsh turn. Only one team ended up below the yellow line. Coleen and Jerry had to decide between them who should go home, and they chose Jerry because he needed time to recover from an injury and also wanted to make sure that his daughter didn’t go down the same path of bad health he has.

Everybody acts surprised by the teams splitting apart. As if they didn’t watch last season.

Vicky’s struggling with injuries and hopes to work around that. She’s unable to run because of her knees, so Bob suggests that she just walk at a high incline. She’s also struggling with her husband. Vicky confronts Brady because she believes he’s holding her back. He doesn’t appear to realize he’s doing anything wrong, but he agrees to cooperate.

Phil and Amy won a visit home the first week, which I thought was silly considering they’d only been at the ranch a day, but now it makes a bit more sense. Now that it’s been about a month, they are getting the chance to use that visit home to see their children.

Amy and Shellay are also cashing in their prize from the first challenge. They get 24 hours alone with Jillian (to go to the gym, of course). Jillian very quickly loses patience with Shellay, although Amy seems to be doing fine. Coleen and pink aren’t too happy being left on their own for a day, as it may not bode well for them at the weigh in.

The challenge looks like an endurance challenge. They see chains and water. They’ll need to hold on for as long as they can. As the water is drained out of the tank, it will be more difficult to hang on. Very simple challenge to put together, but an interesting twist on the hanging on endurance challenge. Reward is a care package from home and a 3 day pass to Universal Studios Hollywood. Renee is the first person to drop at 40 minutes. Coleen is the next one out. Heba’s out around 50 minutes. Michelle drops at 58 minutes as she realizes she’s not going to win. Ed’s out at 83 minutes. Around an hour and a half, they have to pick one arm. Shellay is eliminated after using her other arm. Amy P falls, followed closely by Phil. It’s brown against Amy C. Brady’s the next one to fall. After more than 105 minutes, Amy falls, and Vicky wins the challenge. They agree to give a care package to second place Amy and Shellay.

Jillian’s women didn’t bother doing their homework (extra cardio on their own). None of them seem to care. She wants to know what’s going on with them, particularly compared to people like Ali and Brittany from last year. She begins screaming at them and telling them they don’t have what it takes. Amy C finds this all very amusing, but the rest of them seem to be getting the hint.

Because of the Presidential debate, that’s it for tonight, but there’s a special episode on tomorrow.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Biggest Loser Families episode 5, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 4

Following an odd day with her biological mom in Heroes Season 3 Episode 3, Claire finally admitted the reason she wants to fight bad guys is revenge. Sylar turned out to be still a killer. Tracy paid a visit to Dr. Zimmerman, the man who says he created her. Parkman is on his spirit walk hoping to not become a killer. And Peter went with himself to find out more about the future.

Suresh’s rash, which looks like skin peeling off his body, looks pretty bad, but he doesn’t seem to feel it’s too big a deal.

Dr. Zimmerman tells Tracy she’s one of three identical triplets whose DNA was manipulated. She wants to know whose fault this all is, but he says the company made him forget.

Peter takes himself four years into the future. Anybody with enough money can buy powers that they get by injection. In his time, Peter’s viewed as an extremist, a villain. He warns past Peter to stop Suresh’s ability formula from happening.

Evil (except maybe not) Claire’s back with her gun, and this time it works. She manages to shoot future Peter, but the other Peter gets away.

Ando and Hiro are locked up. They begin discussing how Hiro’s mad at Ando for future Ando killing future Hiro.

Linderman, who’s invisible to everybody but Nathan, tells Nathan his plan is to make him the President. Nathan doesn’t trust him considering that whole wanting to blow up the world bit.

Maya tries to convince Suresh to take a break, but Suresh isn’t listening. He wants to keep working until he drives himself mad. He fears that there’s a link between the spreading rash and his increasing aggression and hostility.

Peter pays a visit to future Suresh to ask why he told himself to go see Sylar of all people. Suresh is cowering in the shadows because he got the formula wrong, but he does warn him to avoid Sylar. A little mind reading lets Peter know where he has to go, though.

Sylar greets Peter with a cheerful hug. Yeah, a little creepy.

Peter finds out they’re brothers. He wants his ability, but Sylar won’t give it to him. He says it’s a struggle to no longer be a killer, but he fights it for his son.

Daphne tries to convince Parkman to get Molly to locate Peter. This explains where the painting of him and the baby came from.

Thanks to Molly, Claire and her cohorts show up and take Sylar’s son hostage. It’s either him or Peter. A fight ensues, and Sylar’s son gets caught in the crossfire. No longer able to control himself, Sylar becomes an atomic boom. Goodbye world. Or at least Costa Verde.

Ando uses Hiro’s belt to open an escape hatch, and Ando tells Hiro to enjoy his escape because he’s made it clear he doesn’t need him. Hiro wants to change the future and himself.

Tracy wants to confess about the guy she killed, but since she freezes the phone, she doesn’t get very far with that plan. Then she returns to Nathan and resigns. Linderman says that his path is to help her. Presumably before she plunges to her death jumping off a bridge. It’s a good thing Nathan can fly.

Suresh realizes that he can’t remove the ability because it’s part of him now. The same goes for Maya.

Back to the future, Nathan’s giving a speech alongside his First Lady Tracy about the destruction of Costa Verde.

Peter’s trying to escape, but the Haitian won’t let him teleport. Claire wants to torture him, at least in part because 200,000 people have died. Nathan interrupts, both as her father and the President. He frees Peter, who in turn ends up killing him (again), this time with Sylar’s ability. When he returns to the past, Sylar tells him he’s already like him.

Parkman sees his future, as Daphne collapses in his arms after the blast. He wants to find her, but he’ll have to follow his guide first. Following this turtle may prove to be slow moving.

Angela tells Hiro that, since they’ve lost both parts of the formula, they’ve lost, and his father’s trust in him was misplaced. Yet, he’s the only one who can save them. He digs up his old buddy Takezo/Adam.

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