Author: Shane

Heroes Season 3 Episode 22

Danko teamed up with a Sylar looking shapeshifter in Heroes Season 3 Episode 21. Meanwhile, Angela had a dream that she needs to reunite the family and go see her sister.

HRG’s examining what appears to be Sylar’s body. Danko says to trust him and that he’s not getting up this time. Funny how HRG’s tried all these years to capture him, yet Danko managed to do it this quickly.

Hiro and Ando are searching for big Matt Parkman. It’s their duty to unite the two Matt Parkmans. First they have to overcome the mystery of how to get the baby to stop crying. That and why their new car all of a sudden has stopped working.

Parkman’s looking for revenge on Danko.

Sandy comes to see HRG, and she’s not leaving town until he finds Claire.

The shapeshifter plans to destroy HRG.

Noah gets a call from Angela, talking about Coyote Sands. For 20 years, he’s asked about it but been told not to ask. She has spoken to Nathan, who will meet her there with Claire. He needs to meet them there as well. Noah, however, would apparently prefer to do some more digging into Sylar’s dead body.

Ando and Hiro are now hitchhiking. They’re picked up by a guy who looks Japanese but speaks redneck. His truck is now broken, too. Must be the baby.

HRG pulls the object out of Sylar’s skull. He wants a DNA analysis, but he does not want the body cremated.

Sandy brings some papers to sign. She wants to get a divorce because he’s a liar who’s endangered their lives. If only it were the real Sandy and not some shapeshifter.

If they can get the baby to stop crying, they’ll be able to proceed on their way. Until then, they’re stuck making funny faces. Ando probably can’t stay like that all the way to New York.

Parkman follows Danko to someone he apparently cares about. Except it turns out to be an escort.

The DNA matches James Martin, the shapeshifter. At least he was the shapeshifter until Sylar came along.

Matt tells the escort, Elena, that whatever Danko’s told her, it’s all a lie.

Suresh has gone to his apartment and finds some items in storage. There’s a place called Coyote Sands.

Sandy gets a visit from an angry gun-toting HRG. The signature on the divorce papers doesn’t match hers. If she’s really a shapeshifter, though, she probably wouldn’t have her phone and know where the dog’s pills are. His explanation about Sylar’s shapeshiftingness, which she believes, doesn’t ease her mind.

Elena has found where Danko really lives, thanks to Parkman. His fantasies of a normal life don’t change the fact that he kills people for a living. He really does care about her, though. Still, Parkman can’t kill her, so he drops the gun. Danko, however, has no problem killing Parkman. In the nick of time, Hiro arrives to stop time and wheel Parkman away. He lost the girl and didn’t hit the target.

Sylar’s gotten his hands on HRG’s old Primatech files. Only it’s not Sylar. It’s the real HRG. He wants Sylar on a platter. He’s on assignment as the leader of team six.

Matt Parkman didn’t want to be rescued, but perhaps he’ll change his mind when he meets Matt Parkman.

HRG goes with Danko to confront the leader of team six. After he shoots him, he insists he’ll heal. He doesn’t. Not until everybody else is out of the room anyway.

Danko calls Elena to explain his being a mad dog killer type. Jakob is the man he really wants to be, and he wants a chance to prove himself.

Angela, Peter, Nathan, and Claire have arrived at Coyote Sands. Whatever has happened, Nathan’s still his brother. They have to understand the past, which means grabbing some shovels and digging. Whose skull is that? Perhaps if they keep digging, they’ll find more. During this body hunt, HRG arrives as well.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 23 1961, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 6

Dennis Rodman finally got the axe in The Celebrity Apprentice 2 Episode 5, to go along with the intervention he received.

Melissa Rivers tripped and tore two ligaments in her leg at the Loews Regency Hotel.

Now that the men have been decimated, it’s time to mix up the teams. The new Kotu is Herschel, Joan, Natalie, Clint, and Khloe. The new Athena is Jesse, Melissa, Annie, Tionne, and Brande. Jesse’s in a group of all women, while Melissa no longer has her mommy to protect her. Brian McKnight will not be there this week and will probably end up on the losing team when he returns.

Each team will be responsible for producing a viral Internet video for All Laundry Detergent to be judged on buzzworthiness, branding, and originality. Perez Hilton will be sharing his expertise. Apparently a celebrity gossip blogger will be able to offer insight on this product.

Melissa will be the project manager for Athena because she produced something before. Clint has produced music videos and will be the project manager for Kotu.

Jesse James wants to film a biker buddy being married to Brande, who thinks it’s hard to be married to a biker. Annie doesn’t like that. Her alternative: Jesse being bathed by midgets (because the name of the product is Small & Mighty). He doesn’t like her idea either.

Joan Rivers suggests having a midget washing machine like the clown car where people keep getting out. Herschel Walker would rather have midgets be hung out to dry after bathing in the bath. Clint comes up with a dirty joke about how doing the wash is a euphemism for sex. Sounds lame, but they’re going to run with it.

The All people say their target audience is young women. If they have children, they’re women with children, not moms.

The executives from All are quite confused by Kotu’s pitch. They tell them they can do whatever they want, but they don’t give them any indication that they like the direction they’re headed. Whatever they do, it will involve going back to the drawing board.

When they return to brainstorming, they’re throwing things on a wall and hoping something will stick. Clint insists they stick to his original idea.

Jesse reluctantly agrees to be bathed by little people.

Clint has taken complete control of his team’s task and doesn’t really want their input. They’re just following him off a cliff like lemmings. Joan attempts to stand up to him, but he thinks his idea is so great and unsurprisingly doesn’t want to hear anything.

Jesse says that his new team is way more organized.

Little Don raises an eyebrow at the concept of midgets bathing Jesse. The actors are happier doing this than being an oompa loompa, though.

Kotu has decided to dismiss their original actor. If they were going for sexy, they weren’t getting anywhere with it.

Melissa is tired of Annie.

Now that Clint’s gotten rid of the actor, he will be reading the lines himself. Joan repeatedly asks what they’re doing. She doesn’t get an answer. After much of Joan’s screaming, he reveals his plan. He will be the lead, and one of them will be the female. Joan, perhaps?

None of them are interested, so they hire a woman to be a wife or the girlfriend, whoever she’s supposed to be. The women on the team don’t actually know what Clint’s idea is. Joan just goes to sleep because they have nothing else to do.

Tionne and Annie have handled the wardrobe. At Jesse’s suggestion, they dress them up as All bottles.

Annie’s gotten over her problems with Jesse and is now pleased that he’s there with them.

Herschel’s been eleswhere for the day. When he arrives that night, he hears what they’re doing. He’s as confused as everybody else. He tries to talk to Clint, but he doesn’t want to hear from him either.

The women continue on about how it’s not funny, but they thought it was hilarious originally (when it wasn’t).

Herschel throws out an idea. Put captions on the video to fill in thought bubbles.

When he gets into the editing bay, Clint says he doesn’t feel very good about what they’ve done. Then he locks the others out. Once he’s done editing the video, Clint calls the others in. Now that it’s all done, he finally agrees to ask for some input. Herschel wants to add captions still. Joan doesn’t know what the video tells her. Khloe thinks it’s cheesy. Since he continues to shoot down their ideas, Joan’s tired of wasting her time. She hopes she never sees him again when this is over.

Looking at the finished product, Clint has agreed to at least one idea someone else suggested: thought bubbles.

Perez Hilton was disappointed with the Kotu video. It wasn’t very funny at all. However, he thought the Athena video was excellent. He doesn’t believe that either of the videos would appeal to women with children, though.

The execs completely missed the idea of the Kotu video, not that everybody else didn’t. They considered it to be a video about cheating men, rather than a guy who did the job himself.

Clint acknowledges he did not great. Joan is ashamed to have had any part of that video. She will be taking every CD of his and throwing it out.

Melissa interrupts the fighting between Clint and Joan. Now it’s time for the daughter to come to the mother’s aid.

Melissa doesn’t believe she or her mother are even a little obnoxious. Oh really?

Annie thinks Kotu’s video is terrible, and she doesn’t get it any more than anybody else does.

Kotu finds Athena’s video hilarious, and they’re not hiding it.

Despite the high praise for Athena’s video, though, the result is that the executives from All hated both videos. Not overly surprising considering they didn’t appear to have a sense of humor. If all they wanted was a serious commercial, they shouldn’t have asked for a viral video.

Melissa will be bringing back Tionne, who said she will stand by her, as well as Brande.

Clint will be bringing back Khloe and Natalie. But not Joan.

Of those people, two people will be fired, which seems quite pointless to me because there’s only one person who screwed up so badly that he deserves to be fired. The second person is just for show.

Melissa says that she has nothing to fault anyone else on her team with. If they lost, she’s willing to take the bullet. Both of her team members speak highly of her.

Trump goes back to Bradford, who volunteered to come back to the boardroom. He was fired. Since Tionne volunteered to come back, she’s fired. Stupid, stupid, stupid. There is no point to this firing. This is the kind of thing that derailed this show in the first place. The theory is to boost ratings by getting people talking, but it irritates people and has the opposite impact.

Trump that says there’s no chance he could have fired Joan because she was right, so it was smart not to bring her back.

He asks everybody if they want to be fired. Clint says no, he’d rather continue with the game. Natalie likewise would like to continue, even if it means missing a big golf tournament in Asia.

As for Khloe, where was she last week? She had a DUI that she had to take classes for. Nobody on the show told Trump about it, but she came to him and admitted what had happened. Because she had a DUI, she’s fired.

Are you freaking kidding me? I just sat and watched this episode for two hours, and the two people who got fired were fired for no reason connected to any of it? Meanwhile, the only guy who actually screwed up gets off scott free. This is pathetic.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2 episode 7, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Reaper Season 2 Episode 5

Sam’s father returned in Reaper Season 2 Episode 4, appearing as if he may well be dead.

Sam invites Sock into his car. They need to talk in private. Yeah, his dead dad’s in the car. Except technically, he’s not dead, but he’s not really alive either. He made the deal with the Devil so he wouldn’t die, and now he can’t. Sock just about had a heart attack, so now he wants to invite Ben into the car so he can experience the same thing.

Ben wants Sock to know that his sister is a pretty cool person, which me might realize if he stopped drooling over her.

For his next job, Sam’s going after a vampire, or at least someone who thought she was a vampire. His vessel is a stake.

The Devil reminds Sam that his father sold his soul to him, so he might as well just forget about him and not feel bad about his current undead state.

In death, the soul still thinks she’s a vampire. Either that, or she’s a goth chick. The boys go to her house, but they’ve got good news for her. They’re not there to steal from her. They’re just there to send her back to Hell. They capture her pretty quickly. Then they find out they’re going to be stuck looking after the baby in the crib upstairs.

Souls have been known to escape from Hell to have their children here. Better schools. So what do they do with the baby then? Gladys tells them to have fun raising it. It’s probably just a regular baby, but they can send it down the return chute if they really don’t want it. She suggests asking Andi. She dates him, so she must know a lot about babies.

Sam invites Andi out for a night on the town. Ted suggests that her stress she’s been feeling is because the job tends to get a man down, especially if that man is a woman.

Sock’s idea: watch Honey I Blew up the Baby.

Ben tells Sock he’s got two options when it comes to his sister: medicate his boys into submission or workout for 15 minutes a day. The working out sounds too hard.

Tony pays the guys a visit. He came to warn Sam that they’re dispatching some demon assassins to kill him. Then he hears the baby crying. They don’t know whether it’s a girl or not because they haven’t changed a diaper yet. Or done anything else for that matter. Does he want the baby? Talking him into that was a little too easy. He wants to call her Stevie after Steve, although Sock already named her Magnum PI.

Andi arrives at the restaurant. It’s not Sam. It’s Morgan. He rented out the whole restaurant just for them. Andi’s troubled by the fact that he’s obnoxious, arrogant, rude, and, oh, his father’s the Devil. Oh, by the way, Sam’s got the same father as he does. Yeah, she didn’t know that.

When Sam gets to work, Andi wants to know if there’s anything he wants to share. Like how Satan is his real father. She can’t fire him, but he’s on dumpster duty.

There’s a small accounting error in purgatory. A missing soul. Sam already knows this soul: the baby. The kid is destined for evil, like its mother.

Sock’s back from the doctor with some pills so he can get rid of his manhood.

Sam tells his dad the fact that he’s a zombie is his fault because he made a deal with the Devil, and that he’s not his real father anyway.

The plan is to tell Tony that his food sucks so he’ll go down to the local market and leave them alone with the baby so they can vanquish her. That works. Now they just need to shove a stake through her face. Sam can’t do it. Perhaps if they sing a lullaby it’ll make it easier. Just then, Tony’s back, having gotten some tomatoes from his neighbor. He walks in to see Sam standing over his baby with a stake in his hand. After getting thrown around by Tony, Ben’s got an alternate plan. If they baptize her, the Devil won’t want her any more.

For this baptism, Sam will play the role of father, while Andi will play the role of the mother. Tony can’t go inside the church since he’s a demon and all. Sam should be fine, hopefully, since he’s half human. According to Tony, Sam is worth saving, or at least that’s what Steve told him when he appeared to him.

As they’re signing the paperwork for the baptism, the baby carriage rolls away. It gets by the traffic just fine and goes into the building across the street, where there’s a big fiery hole and a Devil waiting for it. Nature always beats out nurture. Sam’s got another idea. She can totally screw up everybody she comes into contact with, delivering the Devil a lot of chaos. She could damage a lot of people if she turns out to be a psychiatrist. He gives the baby back, but he warns Sam that you can’t stop nature.

Kristen walks in on Sock taking his pills. He tells her he has a small problem, or rather more of an average-sized problem. She won’t let him take the pills. What can she do to help him? Anything he needs, she’ll give it to him. Time to hit the gym.

Sam’s dad has rented out a storage facility as a dwelling, but Sam has recognized that he’s his father. If he is a good person, it’s because of how he was raised. So he can move into the garage. He’s a garage roomie only. The rest of the house is off limits to the mostly dead.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper Season 2 episode 6 Underbelly, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 2

Anita was sent home in The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 1. Apparently, since she was the least catty of the lot, that made her less entertaining, so she had to go home. But the made up excuse was that she was the one with the calculator who should have said something about their spending (yet the project manager and the 6 others were excused for not saying anything).

The task it to set up a catering service, first for lunch for city slickers and then for dinner for a high end event.

Rocky owns a sandwich chain, so he will be the project manager for the boys.

Yasmina also has a background in restaurants, so she will be the project manager for the girls. She believes her employees will describe her as rude, brash, and blunt. Not only should she not be the project manager, but she shouldn’t even be on the show. There’s no room for an attitude like that from a manager.

Since they’ve got a sandwich guy as their manager, the men will be doing sandwiches, and they settle on London 2012 as their theme.

Since they’ve got a bitch as their project manager, the women will be doing whatever Yasmina tells them they’re going to do, which means a Mediterranean themed menu.

Rocky wants to dress up in togas, probably not the best theme for an upscale dinner that’s probably going to be black tie.

Yasmina wants the most dirt cheap product they can find to keep costs low.

The women are starting to get their lunch orders, but the men are failing to get anything going for the afternoon. They’re going to have to work it out in the morning.

It’s up to Kate to sell Yasmina’s menu to the client. Too bad nobody’s sold Kate on the menu. The client agrees to pay for the service, but he reserves the right to deduct money if he is not happy.

Rocky tells the men who are pitching for the evening client to go in at no lower than £60, at the high end of what they’d been quoted when they called a catering company. Phil will lead the negotiation, and his pitch is £65 per head. They’re not happy with that price. He drops it to £35. Not interested. How about £17.50? Nope. They finally agree to £15. What will they get for that price? The same thing they would have gotten if they’d paid the original amount.

The client wanted high quality, but Yasmina continues her cost cutting efforts. Last week, the girls overspent, but now Kate is concerned they’ve taken it too far the other way.

Phil pretty well hates everything his team is doing.

In addition to the cheap ingredients, Yasmina also wants to skimp on the portions.

The girls already have a client lined up, so they can go straight there. She doesn’t like the lack of food that’s been brought (one food and one sandwich per person), although it seems pretty fair to me. They agree to add more, though. The client also asks for less boring salad. Awful lot of lettuce.

The men are selling sandwiches on the street, and they’re seemingly doing a good job with it.

Either it’s an error or one of Yasmina’s cost cutting measures, but one of the chicken wraps lacks… chicken.

Margaret tries giving Yasmina feedback. She doesn’t want any.

Phil promises that his team will look like idiots, but Rocky’s not budging on the theme or the props.

Paula tells Yasmina that she’s worried that their food doesn’t look very appealing. Again, Yasmina is not listening.

The togas are getting mixed reviews. They don’t have the bodies to pull them off well.

As Margaret warned, the women’s canapes are too large. Yasmina’s response is the same as it’s been all day: if she gets them drunk, they’ll appreciate anything.

In addition to the people doubting the theme, the men are having trouble getting the food flowing and keeping it warm. Somehow, their cheese on a stick is the biggest success.

The boys think Rocky was a good team leader, although there were elements he could have done better.

The women also back up their team leader.

Ignite spent £354.77. Their evening event was agreed at £750, but the client was not happy due to the poor quality of the food, so they only agreed to pay £500. That brought their takings to £1006.20, making a profit of £651.43.

Empire spent £821.37, about 20% of which went toward props. Their evening event was agreed at £750, but the obviously picky client who didn’t even want to pay anything to begin with halved that to £375. That gave them sales of £660.61, resulting in a loss of £160.76.

Despite Phil’s attitude that what they were doing sucked, which obviously it did, he comes to Rocky’s defense, saying he was a genius in food preparation and managing the team.

Rocky blames the theme, and consequently Maj.

There’s a growing consensus that James talks too much.

Like what happened with the girls last week, it doesn’t appear anybody bothered to do the costing. Rocky says Howard was responsible for this. That said, once they realized how little they were getting for the evening event, they should have become concerned about what they were spending, if they weren’t concerned before.

James and Howard will be going back with Rocky.

James realizes that he’s got a bit of a foot in mouth problem.

Rocky wants James to be fired.

Howard wants Rocky fired solely because he picked him to come back to the boardroom.

Sir Alan thinks that Howard, as someone who runs 10 pubs, should have stepped up and helped out more than he did.

Because he was the project manager for the task and made some immature mistakes, Rocky has been fired. He’s just too young.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Apprentice UK Series 5 Episode 3.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 9

Two people went home in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 8. First, Lacey finally reached the end of her rope and was thrown out of the kitchen during the service. Then, LA was eliminated.

Andrea doesn’t like Carol. And vice versa. Wow. Shocker. Paula and Giovanni consider this a problem for the team and say they’re going to be nominated if they can’t get over themselves.

Chef Ramsay asks the contestants a bunch of questions about chicken. So of course they’re cooking crab. He shows them a king crab. That thing’s huge. Robert views it as just an appetizer, though. They will have 45 minutes to all cook a crab dish. Then they must come to a consensus whose dish will be put forth for their team. The issue here is that they’ll need to get past their own egos first.

Andrea’s dish has been selected for the women. The dish is two king crab legs with asparagus and macadamia nut. Doesn’t look the most glamorous. He doesn’t like the shell being left on the plate. Carol is thoroughly pleased. It’s bland and disgusting as well, so they’re not winning.

Ben wants his dish, and Danny wants his dish. That leaves Robert as the tiebreaker. Ben’s dish is selected. It’s unclear what the heck it is because he keeps talking until everybody falls asleep. Nice presentation. Despite the extraordinary lengths he’s gone to get his king crab and asparagus on to the plate, it doesn’t have the wow factor.

Take those two dishes back. Paula and Danny, it’s your turn.

Paula’s dish has basil coconut broth and peppers and chilis. Delicious.

Danny’s dish is madeira glazed. That’s delicious as well.

Why didn’t these two dishes come up first? Even though both dishes were good, someone’s gotta win, and that someone is Danny and the blue team.

For their punishment, the red team will have to spring clean the dorm. Then they’ll cook and clean all of the crab ahead of the next night’s service.

Blue team will be spending the day on the beach in Santa Monica via Hummer limo. Before they leave, Robert will be putting his dirty underpants out to be pressed and cleaned. Ramsay’s got a surprise for them when they arrive. They’ll be riding on Segways. All of them except Robert. Yeah, there’s a weight limit on the Segway, too.

Andrea and Carol hate each other. Oh, just get into a cat fight already. I’m growing tired of both of you.

Each team will be responsible for their own menu.

The red team’s worried about Carol’s potatoes getting done in time.

Robert and Ben are clashing, and they haven’t even barely gotten started with the evening.

Each customer will choose between the red and blue menus.

Red team quickly sends out their first appetizer. It’s quickly returned. Too bland. Giovanni is the one on appetizers. This is the first I’ve seen him getting some heat.

Ben hasn’t made the same mistake. He’s overseasoned it. Too salty. He’ll try again, if he can get his soup to stop overflowing.

The whiny chick who first complained about her underseasoned red team food is going back in the kitchen to throw down with someone. Ramsay tells her not to whistle at him like a dog because she looks more like a dog than he does.

Carol’s potatoes are crunchy. She doesn’t know why they didn’t cook. What she does know is that it must be Andrea’s fault, so the chef has to explain to her that she needed to cook them before the service and not to try to sabotage anyone.

Red kitchen’s at a standstill waiting for Carol’s dish.

Ben’s dish has been blanched instead of cooked in butter. Ramsay considers the dish unrecognizable.

Carol’s potatoes are hopeless. They’ve been thrown out. They’ll need to find an alternative.

Robert’s getting backed up and forgetting things.

Carol hopes to find redemption on the meat station. Nope. The steak’s still moving, not medium.

Ben cut the meat for Robert, and Ramsay calls it sabotage.

Ramsay’s eventually had enough, so he will decide this based on the entrees. The blue team’s entrees were rated at 39% above average. The red team’s were rated at 54% above average, so they are the winners. Danny will have to choose between Ben or Robert. Carol is shocked that she’s still there.

Robert says he’s a diamond in the rough. Ben still thinks he’s the best chef ever. Danny has decided. Ben has been nominated because he has met his full potential. Doesn’t really matter, though. Ramsay wants them both to step forward.

The person going home is the person sabotaging the team who has given up. Carol. Surprising but well deserved.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 10, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

Survivor: Tocantins Episode 7

It’s been three weeks since Spencer was eliminated in Survivor: Tocantins Episode 5, but now Survivor’s finally back.

Although she originally was the object of attention for the boys, who have been keeping her around despite her lack of performance in challenges, Sydney’s getting more nervous as time goes by.

The beans were done, but Coach wasn’t happy with them. So he added dirty river water to them, meaning they’d need to boil first. Then it starts raining. Since he doesn’t want to finish the cooking he insisted on doing, the food has burned. The rest of the tribe is not happy with him. He doesn’t feel the need to blame anybody, even though he made a selfish decision without bothering to run it by anyone.

Taj wants to tell JT about the idol, which would allow her to make it to the merge. Stephen doesn’t like this idea, and besides that, he doesn’t want her talking to JT because he has somehow gotten the impression that she needs him to communicate with JT.

The challenge is to build a barricade inside the other tribe’s frame over the course of 5 minutes. Then they will toss ceramic pigs through the other tribe’s barricade. Reward is a barbeque. Erinn will sit out for Timbira. If the pig drops or breaks, it doesn’t count. Timbira gets off to an early lead 3-0. They extend that lead and go up 7-4. Jalapao’s got something good going, but they’re staying behind by a couple as time goes by. Jalapao finally manages to tie it 8-8. With three minutes left, it’s 9-9, and Jalapao takes their first lead 10-9. Timbira catches back up to tie at 12-12, then they take the lead 13-12. It’s tied at 13 with 30 seconds left. With 1 second left, Timbira wins reward. Joe is going to Exile Island, a change of pace from Taj always going, which she’s fine with since the alliance and idols are already all set. Erinn will be joining Joe. He believes he’ll charm her.

Erinn gets the urn with the clue, not that it matters. Since she doesn’t like anybody in her tribe, she’s considering trusting him, similar to what Taj did, only a bit late for it. She tells him she has no favorite on her tribe, but his favorite is JT. She decides to tell him about the idol because it’s not like she has anything to lose.

Stephen and Taj know that Joe’s going to be able to find the idol easily when he comes back. So they plan to make a fake idol.

JT’s going fishing with Stephen. He goes to grab a bag and finds the idol. If they weren’t planning to pull JT in before, they don’t have much choice now. Taj tells him that if he needs the idol, he can use it. Now they may want to consider hiding it a little better.

At the immunity challenge, each tribe will use a slingshot to break a tile releasing sand from a tower. They will retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces and move on to the next tile until they have three bags. Then two tribe members will solve the puzzle. Debbie sits out for Timbira. Tyson is the first to break a tile for Timbira. JT follows for Jalapao. Both JT and Tyson get their second bags, with Jalapao having a slight lead. Tyson gets his third. JT insists on continuing as Jalapao gets more and more behind. Brendan and Erinn are working on the puzzle for Timbira. JT finally gets his third bag, and Stephen and Joe get to work on the puzzle for Jalapao. Unsurprisingly, Timbira has won immunity. With that, they will go up 6-4, and we’re presumably headed for the merger next week. Not that that all matters considering the secret cross-tribal alliance.

Joe nicked his knee a few days ago, and it got infected. This is not a good place to have an open wound. Anyway, he needs to “go get some water.” Translation: he wants to go find the hidden immunity idol (the fake one). When he returns, he wants to get rid of Taj.

Like Stephen, JT believes that the hidden idol is his, so he doesn’t want to vote Taj out. He approaches Joe to tell him she’s probably got connections with Brendan and Sierra, giving them inroads to the other tribe at the merge. Joe’s not budging.

When Stephen and JT are discussing this, they consider getting rid of Taj. If they do that, there goes their connection to the other side. Not the brightest move just to keep Joe happy.

Votes
Sydney
Taj
Taj
Sydney
Sydney

With three votes, Sydney has been voted off the island. Joe’s all alone now because he refused to let Sydney go, but there’s one other fish in the sea for him on the other tribe.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Tocantins episode 8, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

American Idol Season 8 Episode 26

Following last night’s performances in American Idol 8 Episode 25, one more person will be voted out tonight.

Simon thinks Anoop, Matt, and Megan should be worried. Pretty fair guesses.

Megan Joy Corkrey, Matt Giraud, and Kris Allen stand up. They form one group on one side of the stage.

Adam Lambert, Lil Rounds, and Allison Iraheta stand up and go to the center of the stage.

Scott MacIntyre, Danny Gokey, and Anoop Desai go to the other side of the stage.

Seacrest indicates one of these groups is in the bottom three, but he’s apparently just messing with us.

Kris Allen is safe.

Matt Giraud is safe, at least he is if he walks toward the right set of chairs.

Megan Joy Corkrey is in the bottom three, and she doesn’t care what Simon had to say last night.

Lil Rounds is safe.

Allison Iraheta is in the bottom three.

Adam Lambert is safe.

Danny Gokey is safe.

Randy thinks Anoop is in the bottom three. Anoop thinks so as well. They are correct, and Scott MacIntyre is safe.

Simon would be willing to save just one of these people.

Allison is safe. That brings us down to Megan and Anoop. Megan has finally reached the end of the road. Simon doesn’t even pretend that she’s got a chance to be saved. In reply to her comment that she doesn’t care, neither do they.

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Lost Season 5 Episode 11

Lost Season 5 Episode 10 was the story about Sayid, starting with him killing a chicken as a boy and ending with him killing little Ben.

Jin’s recovering after being attacked, and he sees Ben lying on the ground. Not so dead after all, but he needs help.

Horace feels that somebody helped Sayid, and it must have been an inside job.

Roger Linus introduces himself to Kate, whose turn it is tonight to be the flashback character.

Not going back very far, though. She’s with Aaron, and she shows up at Cassidy’s house just after returning from being rescued. Sawyer sent her. He asked her to go give her an envelope full of money to take care of his daughter Clementine. She’s apparently not happy to be receiving a bunch of money, and all she has for Kate is sympathy because he ditched her the same way.

Horace goes to Sayid’s cell and finds janitor’s keys. They belong to either Roger, Willie, or Jack.

Juliet’s operating on Ben. He needs a surgeon. Speaking of surgeons, Jack is free to leave whenever he wants. He’ll just be shot in the leg. Kate and Hurley are also being held hostage. As for Hurley, he fears that little Ben’s death means that he’ll never get back to the island because there would be no big Ben (no relation to the clock), and, therefore, they don’t exist. He’s checking out his hand to see if it starts to disappear like Michael J. Fox’s. Miles says that what happened happened, so Ben won’t die, and they all still exist.

Sawyer asks Jack for his help. Jack refuses. If he dies, he dies. Jack already saved Benjamin Linus. He doesn’t need to do it again. Kate doesn’t like the new Jack, but he responds that she didn’t like the old him either.

Roger knows what happened. Lafleur asked him about the keys, and he doesn’t ask any questions he doesn’t know the answer to. Ben must have stolen his keys.

Hurley’s still trying to figure out what’s happening. All this already happened. And it’s happening right now, too. Miles’ explanation isn’t helping him any. It isn’t helping me any either. To prove a point, Miles asks Hurley to shoot him, but Hurley wants to just keep confusing himself instead. Why wouldn’t Ben remember getting shot by Sayid as a kid?

Having run out of options, Juliet has an idea. Maybe there’s something they can do: the others.

Kate insists on handling the voyage to the others herself. Juliet will rat her out but will buy her as much time as possible.

Back to Kate calling Jack and the others insane for wanting to go back to the island. When she’s in the store shopping with Aaron, he disappears when she gets a phone call, but the scare is short lived when she sees him walking with some woman, who says she was going to make an announcement.

Ben wants Kate to tell his dad he’s sorry he stole his keys. Then Sawyer approaches. He’s not there to stop her, though. He’s there to help.

Kate goes back to Cassidy to tell her everyone else is going back to the island. As scared as she was having lost Aaron in the store, all she could think was it’s about time. She’s been expecting him to be taken.

Juliet told Sawyer it’s wrong to let a kid die, and with that in mind, he’s helping Kate get Ben to the others.

Jack tells Juliet he came back because he was supposed to. He’s just not sure why.

Sawyer asks about his daughter, which leads to Cassidy’s theory about why Sawyer jumped off the chopper. He didn’t think he was any more fit to be her boyfriend than he is to be that girl’s father. Seems to be doing alright with Juliet, though.

Some people with guns stop Sawyer and Kate. They’re violating the truce, but they don’t really care. The gun toters will take them to Richard Alpert now.

Kate pays a visit to Claire’s mom. Aaron’s her grandson, and Claire’s alive. She didn’t tell the truth because she needed him, but she has now told Aaron she will be leaving him with his grandmother when she returns to the island.

Richard knows who Ben is, and he can save his life. However, if he takes him, he’s never going to be the same again, his innocence will be gone, and he’ll always be one of the others.

Ben awakens to see John Locke. Welcome back to the land of the living.

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