Heroes Season 4 Episode 9

Hiro went back to the past and saved Charlie in Heroes Season 4 Episode 8, but Samuel took advantage of the situation and hid her somewhere in time.

Back to Claire and Gretchen in the slaughter house. Claire’s got an excuse/explanation. The water bottles must have been drugged. Problem solved. Aside from the whole someone trying to kill Gretchen deal.

Peter’s using his new healing power to help the people he’s rescuing. As if miraculously, these patients are turning out not to be as bad as they first thought.

Parkman (aka Sylar) is headed to New York. The last thing he remembers is being stabbed by Peter. Maybe he’ll tell him the rest. There’s a problem. The socks he thought he was packing this morning… actually Parkman’s gun. Airport security’s gonna have a problem with that.

Lydia’s starting to believe that getting Claire on their side is a lost cause, but Samuel will continue to pursue it. Claire, meanwhile, wants to hunt down Becky, while Gretchen stays behind and fears for her life.

At the hospital, somebody hands a patient off to Emma and tells her to keep pressure on the wound until she sees a nurse or a resident. She feels ready to take care of this situation herself.

The girls from the slaughter incident have completely forgotten about it. The Haitian is in town. They don’t remember being kidnapped or anything about an attempted murder.

Sylar’s free after hours of talking, but he’s still on the no fly list, which means he’ll have to drive to New York, as long as he can avoid Parkman’s sabotage. After getting a flat tire from an object in the road Parkman didn’t want him to see, he kills a guy as a senseless random act Except he didn’t kill him. Parkman did. Sylar can do whatever he wants, like killing people in cold blood. Either Matt accepts that and stops the sabotage, or he’ll have to deal with further consequences.

When Claire returns, Gretchen’s packing. Claire’s reassurances fall on deaf ears. Her fear of being killed by an invisible psychopath is winning. As Gretchen walks out, Samuel comes to visit.

Sylar takes Parkman’s body to a restaurant, where he’s got a funny (not funny haha) story. He tried to kill a waitress there once. Either he spills the details of why he’s trapped inside his body, or Sylar kills again.

Samuel tells Claire that she’s not the one Becky is after. Becky says that it’s all about HRG. She’s seen him before. Back when he killed her father when she was 5. It was then that she discovered her ability to be invisible. Her plan isn’t to hurt Claire. It’s to hurt both of them.

There’s a reason why Claire is standing there listening to Samuel tell the story about Becky’s past. She’s stalling, waiting for her father to show up with a gun. Something everybody in the room can agree with: Rebecca is very disturbed. Before they throw down, HRG wants some answers, such as what’s up with the compass and the dead bodies it always shows up next to?

Emma discovers a girl on the floor. She’s not breathing, and there isn’t any time to get her to the ER. Emma saves the day.

As HRG’s preparing to haul Samuel off, he and Claire are attacked by something invisible. Rather than shoot, he lets them escape, at Claire’s insistence.

Thanks to the blackmail, Parkman has agreed to tell Sylar the whole story, which sounds kind of crazy. With this information, he’s gonna go find Nathan, then he’ll kill every single person remotely involved. He’ll have to get past the cops first. Seems Parkman has doodled threats on a napkin, and police surround the building. Parkman wants to prove he’s man enough to take a life. Sylar’s. He’ll die, too. Matt provokes the shooting, Sylar falls, and Parkman disappears.

We find out why Emma dropped out. Her nephew drowned right before her second year of residency, and she tried to revive him but was too late. Maybe she couldn’t save him, but she did save the little girl. For his part, Peter saved Emma.

Following the shooting that left multiple bullet wounds in his chest, now the paramedics are trying to revive Parkman.

Although Becky failed, Samuel feels comfortable that Claire’s right where they want her, and he still promises revenge.

Nathan pays Peter a visit. He thinks he’s in trouble.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 10 Brother’s Keeper, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 8

Vicki was unable to control her hunger in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 7, so a decision had to be made to get rid of her.

Stefan gets a visit from fellow vampire Lexi, his oldest friend. About 350 years old. So what are they doing for his 162nd birthday?

The sheriff is asking questions about Vicki’s disappearance. Everybody has their stories/lies straight. When they’re done, Elena has decided that being around Stefan is just too much. Again.

Bonnie’s grandma doesn’t want her giving that necklace back to anybody. That talisman will continue to protect her.

Jeremy’s doing homework. That’s different.

Damon arrives at the police station with the requested vervain. Sheriff Forbes tells him she suspects that maybe vampires can now walk around in sunlight, so they’re looking at anyone new to town.

Bonnie has a plan to get Elena’s mind off how she dumped Stefan. She rips open a pillow and throws feathers all over the place. Then she makes them float. Oh, that probably will not put her mind at ease. Now she’s gotta deal with a witch as well as vampires.

Caroline’s done with Damon. Well, not really. At his will, she agrees to throw a party so that Stefan and his BFF will come. He intends to solve this town’s little vampire problem. Also, he’d like his crystal back from that witch.

Stefan is suspicious, but Lexi doesn’t care. They’re going to that party.

Elena goes to visit Stefan, where she’s greeted by the blonde girl in a towel staying there. Lexi’s reaction: oh my God. How? Who? Don’t worry. It’s not Katherine. Looks a lot like her, though. Whatever the case, Stefan’s in love with her.

Despite feeling like a Native American giver, Caroline asks for her crystal back. Bonnie can’t give it back. Well, then, it makes her look fat. That’s not going to work. Caroline attempts to snatch it from her neck, but that doesn’t work for her any better than it worked for Damon. So Damon calls her stupid, shallow, and useless.

Then he wanders outside looking for some people in heat. He drinks the guy while the girl screams in terror.

Elena wants to know what Damon did to her brother. Why’s he acting different? He’s studying, not doing drugs, and not drinking. And this is a problem?

Lexi (aka towel girl… she’s been called worse) has a lesson for Elena. The love of her life was human, but love conquered all.

The cops arrive on the scene to find a corpse and a scared girl.

Matt agrees to take the now very drunk Caroline home. Her mom’s kinda standing right outside.

What’s Damon really doing in Mystic Falls? He has a diabolical master plan. How very cryptic of him.

The sheriff heads inside with the girl from the alley. She recognizes someone. Not Damon. Lexi’s drugged with vervain and hauled off. Might want to try a larger dose next time. She shakes it off, throws the cops around, and shrugs off some bullets. Then Damon stakes her.

Matt had planned to leave Caroline in bed to recover from her binge, but she doesn’t want to be left alone. She don’t have to ask him twice.

Stefan wants to kill Damon, although Elena begs him not to. Now she wants to talk to him, but he’s not interested. He won’t really kill him, though. Just scare him a bit.

In hear dream, Bonnie is warned that it’s coming. Whatever it is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 9 History Repeating, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 8

Tracy and HRG tried to bust Jeremy out of prison in Heroes Season 4 Episode 7, but their efforts proved futile when they found his body in the street. Samuel, who met up with Tracy while she was in town, got vengeance for his death, though. Speaking of deaths, Gretchen found out someone was trying to kill her, while Parkman’s body was overtaken by Sylar.

Tonight we head back to Hiro, where he left off three years ago with Charlie at a diner in Texas.

You’ve heard the story before. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl dies. Boy travels back through time to try to save her life.

No matter how hard Hiro tried, the Brain Man, Sylar, always got to her. So he’s back to try again.

Samuel believes they need Hiro, so it’s time for him to go back to the past as well.

Sylar finds out that Charlie’s got a genius memory. His theory: the cause is that blood clot in her brain. Perhaps he could help her fix that.

HRG’s at the diner, too, trying to stop a deranged serial killer with super powers from offing his cheerleader daughter. He’s also having breakfast with some blonde chick, something he does twice a week, only this time she’s brought a motel key with her. Duty calls, though.

This is the biggest butterfly Hiro needs to correct. Samuel’s willing to help, but he wants to make sure that Charlie’s actually worth it to Hiro. She is.

Hiro freezes Sylar (and the rest of the world), wheels him off, and tosses him in the bottom of a bus. Once that’s done, he plans to be awesome charming super cool. Then he realizes a flaw in his plan. If Charlie doesn’t die, he doesn’t go back to save her, and history goes kablooey. Great scott. So then he pays a visit to himself. Don’t bother with the cheerleader. Save the waitress. Go back six months into the past. With that, now he’s in the picture with her.

So then future Hiro goes to talk to Ando. He promises to wait for six months ago Hiro to show up.

Charlie has decided to go to Japan with Hiro. That’s where Takezo Kensei was born. As she starts spouting off random facts, it seems something’s wrong. She’s still genius girl… on autopilot. Her aneurysm is rupturing, and she’s dying. Not if he can help it. Time to go check that bus for Sylar. Hiro’s got an offer: help and learn about the future. His life… and death. He agrees to help and fixes Charlie with ease.

Living up to his end of the bargain, Hiro tells Sylar’s story. He gathers a lot of power, becomes the strongest of them all, and dies alone, with nobody caring.

HRG wants to back out of this workplace romance with Lauren. He still loves his family.

Charlie was okay with dying. Now she feels like she’s cheating. Saving her changed history and was selfish. Eventually, she reconsiders and realizes that she loves him, too. When she steps outside, butterfly man has taken her back to his carnival. Hiro takes them forward to the carnival, where they meet another time traveller, a dead one that Samuel asked to trap Charlie somewhere in time. So where is she? Samuel has no plans of telling just yet because he needs help fixing his past.

He made a mistake about eight weeks ago. He killed Suresh. Well, that explains where he’s been.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 9 Shadowboxing, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Southland on TNT

NBC had planned to air Southland season 2, but just before the season was scheduled to begin, the plug was pulled, a casualty of primetime Leno. TNT has now picked up the rights to the show.

Southland will premiere on TNT Tuesday January 12 at 10/9c. The network has grabbed the seven episodes of season 1 that aired on NBC, as well as the six episodes of season 2 that were scheduled to air.

So far, no plans have been made to film any new episodes.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 7

Vicki joined the vampire crew in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 6.

Everybody thinks Vicki’s drugged. For once, she’s not on anything, but she could use a fix. She pays a visit to Ty, who’s lucky Stefan is around to save him. Damon’s there to mind control him into forgetting, then he has fun tossing him across the parking lot.

Nothing about that dead Logan guy in the paper. Somebody’s covered it up.

Stefan has a solution for Vicki’s hunger. What is it? Skunk? Saint Bernard? Bambi? Complete with the animal blood comes a lecture about how it’s wrong to feed on people. If she messes up by trying to feed and ends up killing somebody, she’ll have to live with that for the rest of her life, which would be eternity.

Bonnie’s grandma is a witch, which everybody knows, but it’s too absurd for them to actually believe.

Elena doesn’t want to take the risk that Jeremy will get hurt. If she’s going to enforce that, she will have to be willing to take the risk that her head will be ripped off.

Stefan’s planning to keep an eye on Vicki. He’ll need to keep an eye on his brother, too, then. Damon’s lesson is the perks of being a vampire, such as super fast speed, which can easily get her away from the watchful eye of the brothers. Oops.

Vicki returns home, where her brother isn’t going to make this an easier. Stefan drops by, but he’s not exactly invited in.

Jeremy wants to see Vicki, whether it means getting bit up or not. He gets a text from her and will go see her, regardless of his sister’s warnings. They’re headed to school. It’s Halloween. Perfect place for an addict vampire to hang out.

Damon’s also at school, where he meets up with someone who’s looking to secure some vervain from the now dead Zach. He also gets some information that anyone who showed up during the day was eliminated as a vampire suspect. So he should be good then. In his travels, he also meets up with Bonnie, who burns his hand when he tries to take the necklace she’s wearing.

With the aid of distraction from Matt, Vicki is able to hook up with Jeremy at the party. If he comes with her, they can be together forever. Or longer. Unable to control herself from getting all bumpy faced and biting him, perhaps now Vicki has lost the trust of Jeremy. Not before Elena ends up bloody and bitten, though. Stake through the heart should fix her. Unconcerned about what he’s just witnessed, Jeremy’s mostly just sad to see her go.

Damon did this. It’s all his fault. Elena confuses him for someone with remorse.

Elena’s plan is to make Jeremy forget. Stefan doesn’t have the ability to do it, so Damon volunteers. The new story is that Vicki left town, but it’s for the best. She, too, would like to forget, but she doesn’t want to lose how she feels about Stefan.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 8 162 Candles, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Trauma Cancelled

NBC’s had a rough go of it on Monday nights this season, and Trauma is the first casualty. Trauma, which started with low ratings to begin with, fell off slightly from those low starting levels as the season went on. As a result, NBC has finally decided to cancel it.

The plug will be pulled on the show after it is finished filming its current 13 episode commitment. Without much else in the pipeline, NBC will allow the remaining episodes to air.

In related news, Chuck, which is scheduled to take the place of Trauma in midseason, has been given an additional 6 episodes.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 7

Hiro travelled back in time again in Heroes Season 4 Episode 6, this time with a goal to save Charlie. Samuel attempted to get Sylar to turn to the dark side, culminating in the death (thanks to Edgar) of the cop who was after Sylar. HRG and Peter paid a visit to healer Jeremy, which gave Peter a healing power and Noah a new purpose.

Being trapped inside Parkman’s head offers fringe benefits to Sylar: the ability to sleep with his wife.

Jeremy has been locked up by the cops. He seems to be having a pattern with problems in that town. Whether charges are being pressed against him are unclear, but help is just a phone call away. Tracy arrives in the town with no lattes. They won’t release Jeremy to Noah because he’s not family, but it turns out he’s very fond of his aunt Tracy. I’ll bet.

Claire wants to talk about how her roommate has a crush on her. She doesn’t want to mess up the first real friendship she’s had since she left Texas. While they’re chatting, people with hoods and masks bust in. Naturally, Claire beats them up. Next time, they might want to choose a better initiation for their sorority. Realizing what’s going on, Claire allows them to kidnap her and Gretchen so they can spend some time tied up together in the dark. Claire’s gonna need some more time to decide which team she wants to bat for.

When they arrive, they’re left in a room to compete with another pair of girls. The winner gets to sit out Hell week. They’ve been taken to a slaughterhouse to search for clues.

Despite the arrival of Jeremy’s next of kin as requested, the police still want to hold him. They’ve found a drawing and some words in his notebook about being the bringer of death. Noah responds that half the songs in his iPod sound just like that seeing as he’s 17. Jeremy also allegedly kills animals for fun.

Samuel shows up. What’s Tracy’s next move once she frees Jeremy? He takes her to the carnival and insists he’s a friend.

Gretchen hasn’t yet decided either. She has had more boyfriends than girlfriends. Claire, meanwhile, is a virgin. Maybe they’re strange attractors, a physics term for particles that end up together that don’t really belong together but end up super powerful when they are. Fascinating place to be having this discussion. This time, Claire ends up having to save Gretchen’s life from certain doom, and she’s starting to think this isn’t a game.

Matt asks Janice to trust him while he goes out and gets rid of the psycho inside his head. She’d like him to stick around, and she’ll take baby Matt Parkman elsewhere. His plan is to call Suresh.

HRG has given Jeremy a new identity, Jared Mitchell. He will be living a few doors down the hall from him in DC. Tracy assures him nothing will happen, and he will be safe.

Gretchen keeps asking questions she probably doesn’t want to know the answer to. She eventually arrives that the conclusion that somebody’s trying to kill her, although it’s not a conclusion she’s ready to believe.

As he’s being escorted out of the prison, Jeremy’s confronted by someone who doesn’t want him to get away with murder. Jeremy kills him in front of a mob of people. Well, that’s gonna be a little harder to cover up. HRG says that he can save him. Perhaps that will buy him some forgiveness. Not interested.

Jeremy’s been dragged outside by one of the cops, who chains him to a car and has someone start driving it.

During his drinking binge, Parkman has found a way to get rid of Sylar. Keep chugging until he’s ready to pass out. In the process, he discovers that Sylar is afraid of dying.

Claire and Gretchen have won. They find a teddy bear hanging on a meat hook. As Claire realizes she needs Gretchen, the next attempt on her life comes a bit closer with Gretchen’s strangling. That didn’t work either. In the process of this battle, Claire stabs the invisible Rebecca to reveal their attacker. That probably wasn’t part of the plan. Now would somebody mind getting Claire down from the wall she’s been stabbed to? With that, two additional people now know Claire’s secret.

Tracy and Noah find Jeremy’s body abandoned in the street.

Parkman wakes up from his drunkenness. When he blacked out, Sylar stepped in. Now Sylar’s in the driver’s seat. Good luck with that.

Samuel has arrived at the scene of Jeremy’s murder. With the flick of his hands, the people responsible for it (and the building they’re in) are no more.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 8 Once Upon a Time in Texas, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 6

Sylar began his path toward rediscovering himself in Heroes Season 4 Episode 5.

Peter’s at the hospital overseeing Hiro, who collapsed in his apartment the night before. So the question now is whether Peter’s there to help Hiro, or if Hiro’s there to fix Peter.

Sylar awakens with no memory, including that of the name Sylar. The police told him his name is Gabriel. He’s opting for neither of the two. You can call him Nathan. The memories are returning, but they’re someone else’s memories.

Peter goes to HRG, who recalls Jeremy Greer, a kid with a healing touch ability. Years back, he was healing insects with a leg still twitching. Perhaps he could save Hiro.

Edgar introduces himself to Sylar by attempting to attack him. This does not go well, and Edgar ends up sitting in a wheelbarrow of cement.

Samuel decides to introduce Sylar to Damien, claiming his gifts will allow his true memories to return. Sylar is ready to know the truth.

At Peter’s suggestion, Emma goes to talk to Hiro about her power. She has just one question. How does she turn it off? His not helpful answer: it’s not a light switch.

HRG and Peter arrive at Jeremy’s house, where everything seems to be dead. Apparently, Jeremy can control the flow of life and has opted to take away rather than give.

Sylar heads into the house of mirrors with Damien. He remembers his mom, more specifically how he killed her.

Hiro wants to chat with Emma. He is the master of time and space, or at least he was. So what about her? She just wants it to stop.

In addition to his power, Jeremy has himself a shotgun. What happens if somebody approaches him? Everything he touches ends up dead. Like how he killed his parents. So, like, did he consider burying them? If Noah comes one step closer, he swears to god he will shoot him. Peter pops in, a shot is fired, and Peter ends up on the ground. Well, now would be a good time to start the healing. If he doesn’t, he’ll die anyway. With some encouragement from HRG, he agrees to use his powers for good and brings Peter back.

Hiro has decided to show Emma his power. It’s like time is standing still. Pretty much because it is. His lesson to her is that there are no bad powers and that she should learn to understand her power and do good things for the world.

Seeing more of his past, Sylar runs out of the house of mirrors screaming. So how many people did he kill? A dozen? Two dozen? Oh, you might want to think of a higher number. With this newfound power, where’s he going to go from here? Samuel promises to bring him into a community who loves him for who he is. His first act will be to find the police officer who was hunting him, the one who has conveniently showed up and is in the house of mirrors (thanks to Samuel’s invitation).

Peter’s shooting was no accident. Having been healed, he is now a healer. HRG sends Peter off to do his thing, while he will remain behind with Jeremy until he knows he’s okay. He’s ready to pick up the ball again and return to helping people.

Sylar is not quite ready to go back to his old ways. He warns the cop to leave while there’s still time. The counteroffer: be shot to death in cold blood. Sylar’s counter is to electrocute him, but not to death. If Sylar won’t kill him, Edgar will.

Hiro disappears, but he leaves behind a message. Save Charlie. He returns to three years ago at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, TX.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 7 Strange Attractors, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.