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Heroes Season 3 Episode 24

The family reunited to dig up some bones in Heroes Season 3 Episode 23. They plan to put their lives back together. Nathan wants to start things off by going back to Washington, but somebody beat him to it.

Big Matt Parkman’s afraid he’ll miss out on little Matt Parkman’s childhood. He’s going to win his family back. Hiro and Ando want to go to building 26, but Parkman won’t give them directions in an effort to protect them.

One of the agents spotted Sylar on a surveillance camera. Danko assured him Sylar’s dead. That may well be true. Sylar is slowly losing himself. He’s shifting and reassembling so much that he’s not coming together the same way.

Sylar finds a guy who can smash objects into dust with his mind. Just before the guy is captured by the agents, Sylar kills him, spraying his blood on the wall with the words “I am Sylar”.

Danko tells Sylar to find an anchor, something that reminds him of him, so he has something to hang on to when he’s feeling lost.

Hiro’s got a plan. Ando is bait. He will be knocked unconscious and be taken to the lair. He considers his power superior to Ando’s. When shots are fired and Hiro freezes time, though, Ando is not frozen, so neither of them has to be bait.

Sylar gets a box from an unsolved murder victim, Virginia Grey, Sylar’s mom, who he killed.

Hiro unfreezes time to allow Ando to get tasered to continue with the original plan to have him be bait.

Danko believes he’s located Rebel. They shut down the power because no electricity means no machines. Micah sees Sylar and says he can help him with his problem. He just has to join the people with abilities instead of working against them.

Hiro’s disguised himself as one of the kidnappers so he can travel along with Ando. He gets busted because the guy he took the place of didn’t wear glasses, so Ando bails him out with his power. They’ll have to do things the old fashioned way and locate building 26 by GPS.

The agents get Micah in their sights. They shoot and knock him into the water. Another Micah runs away, though.

Micah suggests changing into someone who can make a difference, like Nathan Petrelli. He could tell the President he’s made a big mistake.

Sylar wanted his mom to die. It was no accident. Now he wants to know how he can be special when he killed the only woman that ever loved him. In memory of his mom, he can be whatever he wants, even President of the United States.

Parkman has returned baby Matt to his mom. When he arrives, he knows they’re being watched.

Nathan/Sylar is holding a press conference. He blames the President for being unwilling to meet with him despite his talk about wanting change. When the President agrees to meet him and shake his hand, real change will come to the country.

Nathan hopes to be able to get there first.

Ando wants to be equal partners with Hiro. He agrees and then tries to use his power, which causes his head to hurt.

Janice is ready to leave, but Matt says he can’t go with her. Until he ends what’s going on, he can’t have a life together with her, which he maybe wants.

Nathan Petrelli goes to confront Nathan Petrelli. It’s people like Sylar that caused him to go to the President in the first place. Just as Sylar’s about to off him, a shot is fired by Danko. You can’t go around killing US Senators. Because Sylar doesn’t want to listen to him, he jabs something in the back of his skull. He’ll have to try harder than that to kill him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 25 An Invisible Thread, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Prison Break Season 4 Episode 17

Back in December, the fall episodes concluded with Prison Break Season 4 Episode 16. Lincoln and Michael’s mom made an appearance, and it appears she’s there to cause problems for her sons.

Everybody gets pictures of people they care about. The colonel wants to properly motivate them to make sure he gets his hands on Scylla. He’s found out that Michael has joined the search for Scylla, so he’s given an order to have Michael eliminated if he’s spotted. The guy shooting at Michael proves he’s not joking.

Since they can’t afford to buy a car and can’t fly, Sarah suggests calling Lincoln.

Mahone has managed to locate some locks in Little Havana and down by the water. They will be headed there. Then Michael calls Lincoln and warns him that he’s going to do everything in his power to stop him. Oh, and mom’s alive. See you in Miami. They’re going to be hitching a ride on a truck.

Mahone and Lincoln have reached one of the locks and enter the building. Lincoln finds a picture of his mom. Someone knew he was coming. Maybe his mother has Scylla.

Michael doesn’t want to believe that his mother is a company agent. She must have been introduced to a company shrink after her operation.

The colonel is driving with some guy, who asks their driver to pull over. He has to get out to make way for his ride. As for the colonel, he’s stuck in the car, and it’s time for him to be blown up.

T-bag goes into a church and says he wants to go into the sanctuary. His soul is black, stained with the blood of the innocent, though, so he is not allowed to pass.

Lincoln says he considers his mom to be just someone in the way of his freedom.

The trucker giving Sarah and Michael gets pulled over by a cop. He busts inside the back of the truck and looks around but doesn’t see anything. He’ll need the driver to follow him back to Phoenix, so the driver calls him crazy. Then he shoots the driver dead.

Sarah and Michael will have to find an escape out of there. Maybe they can get through the side door.

The boys’ mom, Christina, has gotten word that the general is not exactly dead. He’s been taken back to the company headquarters by helicopter. The guy who attempted to blow him up but failed needs to be killed, so she has the driver shoot him.

Lincoln realizes that the photo has been doctored. They plan to head to the location a few miles north that corresponds to the license plate. He believes his mom may be one of the good guys now. He’ll be heading off alone.

The general calls Christina. She’ll have to excuse him if he sounds a bit abrasive. It’s been a while since anyone’s tried to kill him. He wants to know where she is.

Lincoln arrives at the rendezvous point. His mom is glad he got her message. If she doesn’t want to talk about Scylla, though, he claims he’s not interested in talking. He knows the truth. She works for the same people who have been trying to kill him. She claims that if a woman, a mother ran the company, it would be a lot better. What if the general were eliminated? Nobody would come after them then. Now he’s got another offer of freedom.

Michael and Sarah have managed to bust their way out of the truck. The guy trying to kidnap them will have to try again.

Self wouldn’t have a problem killing Lincoln’s mom. For some reason, Mahone would prefer not to kill her, though, if possible.

They head into the church to investigate a cruelty to animal charge. Are there chickens on the premises? They insist on going to the sanctuary. When they turn their backs, the guy pulls out a gun, but he’s promptly stopped. There are no chickens, but they have plenty of guns. The tables turn when another guy comes in and pulls out a gun on them. Then they turn again when Self starts firing, killing one of the guys.

Michael knocks the guy down who’s after them. The general didn’t send him. Before they can get an answer who sent him, he dies.

Lincoln hasn’t listened to his mom, who told him to stay away. She instructs the sniper to go ahead and take his clean shot.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Prison Break season 4 episode 18 Vs., which airs Friday at 8/7c on Fox.

Lost Season 5 Episode 13

Lost Season 5 Episode 12 was the story of Ben (a lot of Bens). It all led up to him being judged for his daughter’s death and being told by “the monster” to do whatever John Locke tells him to do.

Now it’s Miles’ turn, starting off when he was a little boy. He could already see dead people.

Sawyer wants Miles to accidentally erase security tapes from the feeds that are watching him and Kate. If anyone asks, he’s looking for an escaped hostile, his pal Sayid.

Since Lafleur’s off the grid, Miles will have to be brought into the circle. Horace instructs him to go to hostile territory and exchange something with Radzinsky, without asking questions. When he arrives, he sees a body. The guy has a bullet hole in his head. He fell into a ditch. Once alone with the dead guy, he can ask him what really happened.

Miles goes to see his mom on her deathbed. Why is he that way? What about his father? He’s dead. His body is somewhere he could never go.

Miles will be bringing the package (aka the corpse) out to Dr. Chang at the Orchid. Hurley wants to go for a ride.

Roger arrives to find that his son Ben has disappeared.

On the ride over, Hurley smells something not quite right. Yeah, it’s probably the dead guy in the back of the van. Miles tells the story of Alvarez, who had a filling yanked out of his mouth and right through his head. Then he was dead. Naturally, Hurley assumes this must mean that Miles can talk to dead people.

Naomi meets Miles while he’s on a gig. Her employer is interested in retaining his services.

Miles has managed to locate his father after all. It’s Dr. Chang.

Naomi knows that, for the right price, this is exactly his thing. The dead body leads him to find out about empty graves and a purchase order for an old airplane. She’ll be heading to an island, and she wants Miles to go with her. He’ll pass… until he finds out the fee is $1.6 million.

Roger’s beginning to think Kate has something to do with all this, since she said that his son is going to be okay.

Dr. Chang can’t tell anybody what he does there. Not even his wife or his son, who’s only three months old and happens to also be named Miles.

They go somewhere, and Hurley knows what’s going on. They’re building the hatch. The one that crashed the plane.

Back on the mainland, Bram pays Miles a visit and wants to talk him out of working for Charles Widmore. He’ll not go. If they pay him. They won’t be paying him, though, and they won’t give him a new fish taco either.

Hurley says that perhaps now is an opportunity for Miles to get to know his father. Miles doesn’t want to hang out with his dad. And stuff. As for Hurley, he’s writing Empire Strikes Back. He’ll be sending it to George Lucas.

For all their trying to cover their tracks, it seems Sawyer was seen taking the kid anyway. Looks like now they’ll need to be holding a hostage.

Hurley says that, if Miles doesn’t just communicate with his father, he’ll end up like Luke Skywalker, destroying a deathstar and being overrun by ewoks.

Miles sees that his dad did, indeed, spend some time with him. At least he tried when he was three months old anyway.

Then he and his dad head to the docks, reuniting him with Faraday.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Lost Season 5 Episode 14 The Variable, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on ABC.

The Tudors Renewed… and Cancelled

Showtime has renewed The Tudors for season 4, which will also be its last season. The final season will consist of 10 one-hour episodes and will begin airing in spring 2010.

“I’m thrilled to complete the saga of Henry VIII as reconceived by Michael Hirst. He and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have breathed new life into the costume drama by making it both modern in sensibility but also faithful to history. I think we proved that even after 500 years this is a great story,” said Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment for Showtime.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 23

Sylar the shapeshifter, Danko, and HRG started to play mind games on each other in Heroes Season 3 Episode 22, as little Matt Parkman gave big Matt Parkman the encouragement he needed to continue. At the end of the episode, Angela, Peter, Nathan, Claire, and HRG proceeded to dig up a bunch of bones when they arrived at Coyote Sands.

The digging continues. There are a lot of graves there. What happened out there?

Flashback to February 1961 and a relocation center. Angela and her sister Alice are meeting Dr. Chandra Suresh. One of the first people she meets is named Linderman. The doctor told their parents that place would make Angela’s nightmares go away. She assured her little sister everything would be fine. Before she and her parents died there. Now she knows that everybody needs to come together there now, or history will repeat itself.

Angela’s been dreaming about her sister, alive. She thinks she has to find her body to give her a proper burial. The company started there and worked fine for 50 years… until now. Peter and Claire aren’t very happy about the ways of the company, such as memory erasing, blackmail, and murder.

Young Angela believed she and the other freaks were there to be saved. Her nightmares came true, not the coolest power.

Alice has something to share with her sister. She thinks she can control the weather.

Claire asked for some alone time with Angela. Why didn’t she tell Nathan and Peter about her sister? After dancing around the question, Angela asks: did you ever do something so shameful that if you talk about it you might never stop crying? Then they’re interrupted by Angela’s dream coming to life.

Peter still blames his brother for making him miss a 1986 World Series game. Missing Mookie Wilson somehow continues to interfere with their relationship 20 years later.

There’s a severe storm warning over Coyote Sands. Mohinder arrives just in time to find the hectic conditions. He came to find out what his father was doing there 50 years ago as a doctor. Now he’s not so sure he wants to know.

Back to black-and-whiteville. Suresh wants to talk to Angela. She’s had dreams about him. He’s going to kill everybody there. He wants her to rest assured… that won’t happen.

With that flashback done, the storm’s gone, but so is Angela.

Seeing the bones, Mohinder’s disillusioned by his father’s killingness. He worked there and survived, while everybody else died. The most obvious answer is usually the right one. HRG defends his dad.

Suresh thinks they’re destined to repeat their parents’ mistakes. Nonetheless, he has to believe there is hope for redemption.

Claire can’t remember the last book she read or the last movie she saw. When does she get to go back? When does digging graves not seem like just a regular everyday experience?

Back in 1961, Angela’s plotting an escape. Her sister would just slow them down, though, so she’ll have to lie to her and leave her behind.

A growed up Angela gets a visit from her also growed up sister Alice.

Having escaped, Angela’s having trouble getting the cops to believe her. Rather than worrying about that, she’ll have a dance to make up for missing her prom. The cook won’t let her dance with a colored, but they don’t have to be afraid since he’s got the power to make him forget what he saw and go back to his cooking. When she hears about a severe storm warning, she insists they have to get back to Alice.

Alice really is still alive. She’s been there for 50 years, staying in that same place because her sister told her she’d be safe if she stayed there. And the world would be safe from her.

The night Angela left, Dr. Suresh came for Alice. Wanting him to not experiment on her, she created a severe storm. Then total chaos erupted, and armed guards began firing on people with abilities.

Now that her life’s pretty much over already, Alice doesn’t have to stay there any more. She can go home. Wherever that is.

Angela apologizes for lying to her. Time for another storm and some people to get knocked out with lightning. Despite an apology from Angela, Alice doesn’t want to go home. She will take her up on that leaving the place she’s stayed at for 50 years, though.

Peter’s ready to leave, but Suresh will be staying behind. He’s not ready to forgive himself yet.

Peter has realized that families have the capacity for forgiveness. They need to try to put their lives back together.

Nathan plans to go back to Washington, take ownership of his mistakes, and talk to the President. Looks like Sylar beat him to it. He’s on the TV holding a news conference in Nathan’s body.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 24 I Am Sylar, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Reaper Season 2 Episode 6

The boys found a baby in Reaper Season 2 Episode 5. Unable to care for it, they gave it to the first demon to come knocking, Tony.

Sock and Sam are watching bug fighting. Surely PETA will not appreciate this sport.

Then the Devil pays Sam a visit. First, he’s trying to figure out how to use a video camera. Then, he tells Sam his next soul is some tentacle thing. The vessel is a grenade. Sam plans to turn this into a road trip with Sock, Ben, and Andi.

Ben’s growing a little too attached to his demon girlfriend. She wants to be left alone for a while, and she wants to go eat a llama. Then she drops by to see Andi and notices the postcard for Dove Hollow. Ben invited her to go along on their little road trip. Oh, and by the way, Sam must be a little evil because he’s the son of the Devil.

The hotel only has three rooms. Sock and his sister will have to share a room/bed. The guy at the hotel suggests taking his sister to the silver mine. It’s quite a sight. When they go to get sandwiches, Andi and Sam are also told to go to the mine. Then, a whining Ben is told to go to the mine when he’s drowning his sorrows at the bar. The whole town’s in on this capture and kill tourists bit, and Sam’s car is among the missing, so they’re pretty much stuck there.

They report the car to the sheriff. He had the car towed, but the impound lot is closed for now. Perhaps tomorrow they can get it. Then he asks sam if he believes in Hell.

Ben’s on the phone talking to his girlfriend’s machine. Again. Andi is concerned by his stalkeriness. The word clingy might have come up. That’s not good. He’s gotta call her to make sure everything’s okay. Andi turns the phone off, though.

Every now and then, Sam gets this weird Devil power. He tries to use it to open a wine bottle. He’s getting pretty comfortable with all this Devil stuff, isn’t he? “I have no choice” is starting to sound like an excuse. So like did an angry Sam just blow up the wine?

When Sock walks into the room, he finds two beds, one that rolls away. Well, that spoils his plans to sleep with his sister. He has to figure out a way to get rid of that second bed before she notices. Maybe if he chucks it out the window. On a car. When she hears the alarm going off, Kristen knows he threw the cot out the window. She realizes he was protecting her virginity. For himself. She wouldn’t like him, though, even if they were not related. Women are like a mystery wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside a third mystery.

Kristen goes down to the bar where Sock’s getting drunk and introduces herself to him. They’re just meeting randomly at a bar. He uses his best line. “Hi, I think you’re standing on my penis.” One bed in the room will be fine by her.

The next morning, Sam and Andi are getting ready to leave and want to go get their car. They run into the sheriff. Do they have any idea how a bed is on his car? Sock opens his window and looks out. He’s not afraid to shout from the rooftops that it is his cot. He needs to be dragged away in handcuffs now. He’ll be released on Wednesday.

The sheriff wants to know about the soul hunter thing he found in Sam’s car. It’s a school project.

Sam will be going off to what could possibly be his death now. Andi’s not worried.

Nina arrives in Dove Hollow looking for her friends, since Ben hasn’t left her any new messages lately. Has she been out to see the mine yet? She says the bartender is off and not real, and he smells like Hell. She smells delicious to him, so he’ll eat her now.

Ben suggests letting Sock dig his way out of the jail like in Shawshank Redemption. Didn’t it take that guy like 20 years? Perhaps they can break the lock instead. Ben wants to get the pickaxe from the bar, where he notices Nina’s purse. The bartender’s not sure where she went, but on second thought, Ben can borrow the axe. Then the guy and his green blood goes all over the place. Perhaps the sheriff really is on their side.

The sheriff has done what he can to make people leave the town. Everybody in the town is the soul. He plans to smoke out the soul so that he will be driven toward the guys, waiting there with their grenade. Ben’s happy to just jump into that mine with the grenade now that his girlfriend’s gone. If a girl doesn’t hit on him, Sock will get lost in his eyes for days. That convinces him he doesn’t want to die, and then he’s pulled in by the creature. Then there’s an explosion, and the grenade pops out of the mine.

When they return to the sheriff’s office, they find out he didn’t set the fire. On the contrary, he warned the thing that they were coming. He wants his twisted little town to stay the same as it’s been. He’d like to shoot them now, but first he will have to load his gun.

They steal the sheriff’s car and start to fleeing. The sheriff’s somehow right in front of them, so they’ll just keep driving and hope they don’t get shot. The car dies right directly in front of the sheriff.

The Devil gives Sam a vessel to bargain with. The town and the sheriff’s creepy friends are all in that grenade.

Sam knows the sheriff used to be a good person, once upon a time, but the sheriff says it’s too late to change, so Sam tosses the grenade back into the mine. Nina’s back. Sam convinces her to let the sheriff live so he’ll have to live with what he did. Nina believes that Sam is diabolical for wanting this guy to suffer, which turns her on.

Kristen’s made her way back home on her own, and she feels ashamed. But she’s in America now, a country that doesn’t give a rat’s ass about shame. Now she can sleep with her brother again, or at least she would be able to if their parents didn’t just show up.

The Devil tells Sam he can withstand any blow. Such as Andi dumping him.

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

Dollhouse Episode 13 Won’t Air

Felicia Day, who played Vi (one of the young slayers toward the end of the series) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, tweeted that Fox is not going to air the episode of Dollhouse that she starred in, episode 13 Epitaph One. The episode was apparently created merely so that the DVD could have 13 episodes.

Nonetheless, everyone is insisting that the refusal to air this episode is unrelated to whether the show will or will not be cancelled. If Fox does keep it around for another season, perhaps they could try airing it on a night that makes sense. It’s not as if they’ll have anything else to air in the fall.