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Reaper Season 2 Episode 1

Reaper’s back. Finally. Unfortunately, The CW is trying to kill it by placing it up against American Idol (the biggest show on TV), The Biggest Loser (the only thing NBC has going for it), and the increasingly strong NCIS, having moved already renewed 90210 as far out of harm’s way as possible. That combined with the abridged first season and 10 month hiatus is giving the series a big hill to climb.

The guys have been on the road for 4 weeks. Sam wrote a letter to Andi to let her know what’s going on, but Sock forgot to mail it a few weeks ago.

When they get back, Sam goes to see Andi, and just to make sure she’s in a good mood, he brings some salt & vinegar chips with him, a completely random food that she may not even like. She’s cleaned out his apartment, which he was evicted from, and his answering machine is probably full with a bunch of messages from her. In a life or death situation, would he call Sock? No. If he wanted a piece of toast, would he call Sock? No still. So why entrust him with the letter? More good news: Ted fired Sam, Sock, and Ben, and he’ll have them arrested for trespassing if they return again.

Sock wants to move back home. The person who answers the door doesn’t know him. No one mentioned any Sock.

They can’t sleep in Sam’s car (like they’ve been doing for 4 weeks), so now it’s time for some trespassing. They can get plenty of supplies at The Work Bench.

The Devil’s there to greet Sam. The trip was a snorefest, but regardless, vacation’s over. He gives him a little welcome home gift, a cattle prod, to catch a bunch of behemoths, about 20 souls. They’re all heartless brutal killers.

As the guys are chatting about the souls, Ted walks in. Now he gets to fire them to their faces and charge them with breaking and entering, vandalism, and trespassing. It’s a good thing Sock is so good at blackmail. Ted will see them at work tomorrow.

Andi doesn’t want to get lunch later, or say more than a couple words.

Sock returns home to yell at the girl living in his house. He gets into a fight with the door, which he promptly loses, falling down the stairs. Kristin, who introduces herself as his sister, figured everything out. Sock is Bert. She’s housesitting when their parents are honeymooning. She always thought her brother would be much more Asian. Considering the cleavage she’s inadvertently flashing at him, he’ll need to try extra hard to remember that they’re related.

He wants the opinion of Sam and Ben on whether he should date his sister, but before they can really get into that, they might consider turning their attention to the two mad dog killer types. They capture one of them with the vessel, but the second one proves problematic. Seems they have to wait for the light to turn green before using the vessel again.

Sock and Ben hope to get Andi back on speaking terms with Sam. So they decide to read her the letter, or at least their version of the letter based on what they’re able to recall from it. She wants to be left alone, since it’s between her and Sam.

Perhaps Satan will help make things easier for Sam with the demon hunting, so he summons him. The nepotism card is charming, but he’s not helping. He’s sired too many whiny children to tell Sam anything other than to suck it up. By the way, it’s not 20 souls any more. It’s 40.

Sock brings a little thinking elixir (beer) to prepare for the soul capturing tomorrow. The next morning, they realize they may have crammed too hard, but now they have a plan. Get the souls drunk and pounce when they’re sluggish and stupid. Their beer mascot on their truck is a baby. That’s all Ben knows how to draw.

Andi thought that one of the souls finally caught up with Sam, and that he was dead, so she’s been worried all this time.

All the potential captured souls are out cold now, getting drunk as planned. Sock and Ben lower Sam down on a rope, and he proceeds to use his rechargeable vessel to capture them one by one. This is working fine until the knot unties and Sam falls into a pit of demons. Thinking he can fend them off with a hose, Sam starts squirting them with water. This doesn’t work, but it does turn the place damp enough that he can channel the vessel into something that can suck up all the souls at the same time. That excludes one guy, who pretends he’s good. Sam doesn’t buy it and tries to capture him anyway, but he seems to be immune. He beat the Devil. Somehow. If Sam’s able to find this guy again, maybe he can beat the Devil, too. Andi agrees to help.

Kristin is happy to have a big brother. Try as he might, Sock’s not going to get any useful touching.

The Devil’s waiting out in the parking lot for Sam, listening to that song at the end of The Karate Kid. Sam wants to go out and party with him, but the Devil just drives off, making it rain.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper Season 2 episode 2 Dirty Sexy Mongol, which airs Tuesday March 10 at 8/7c on The CW.

Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 8

Kyle uncovered a secret about Cassidy in Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 7. It seems that Cassidy is responsible for, or at least involved in, Sarah’s disappearance.

With their matching mood necklaces, Kyle and Jessi fall asleep together, and they look quite comfortable for two people who don’t even have feelings for each other.

When Kyle wakes up, Jessi’s doing some research by tapping into the rental car company’s records. The car was returned the day after Sarah supposedly left town. Kyle plays along that they’ll find her.

Josh wants to bring home a stray. Perhaps his dad will be dumb enough to let his teenage girlfriend move in with them.

Jessi is struggling with a headache, or something.

Lori’s going stir crazy, enough so that she jumps at the chance to go to The Rack with Declan.

Kyle causes a light to blow up to create a distraction for Jessi. She hopes to steal Sarah’s ring back, but she’s too sick to do so. Kyle believes she’s pretending until she faints.

Lori is busy boring Declan because she and Hilary refuse to be in the same room as each other. It’s a trap. Declan’s locking them in the room together until they learn to play nice.

Jessi is learning how to recall her holographic memories. Perhaps if she gets in his tub, she’ll be able to relax enough. She goes back to the day she found out that Sarah was gone. That was also the night she met Cassidy. Since he’d also met Kyle at Latnok, he must have been in a hurry to get back to beat her there. In his basket of laundry, she sees blood. That’s about all she can take since she’s burning up. Kyle believes the illness is psychosomatic.

Declan wants the girls to have a food fight… and spray each other with whipped cream.

Then a fourth wheel shows up, Declan’s new friend Jackie. Someone for both of them to hate equally.

If Jessi lets him, Kyle can access her memories.

Lori and Hilary aren’t being watched closely enough, which allows them to climb out the top of the room they’re in, right into a dumpster.

Kyle is able to access Jessi’s memories, but all he can see is the happy thoughts she’s thinking (all about him). He goes back to earlier when they were in bed together, and he’ll let her guide him through her memories. She takes him back to her and Cassidy in the hallway.

Now it’s Declan’s turn to be locked in a room by a couple of girls who could use a bath. They want to have a little chat with Jackie.

Josh is popping quarters into a machine until he pulls out a ring. Then he proposes to Andy. Her response involves the words idiot, asinine, and crazy.

Amanda sees the Latnok symbol on Nate, who now knows that Adam is Kyle’s father.

By adjusting their vision, Kyle and Jessi are able to see things in an ultraviolet light, like in a crime scene. She sees more blood, a lot more blood. With that, Jessi starts screaming. Kyle wants to figure things out another way, but Jessi pulls him back in. They have to break into apartment 505, but Kyle stops her. Then they hear a heartbeat, which is slower than it should be. It’s a memory, so they can’t change it, and they have to just listen to Sarah die.

Declan gets a kiss after Hilary and Lori are done with their interrogation. He can see the little blonde bimbo, but they will crush her if she hurts him.

It’s a good thing Declan left behind his food fight supplies so that Andy and Josh can work out some of their frustration. Still, Josh doesn’t know what he’s going to do to fix things.

Kyle has found Sarah’s disposable cell phone data. All her pictures were of Jessi.

Andy shows up to see Josh, but all she can do now is hold him.

Having bonded by going into Jessi’s mind, Kyle finally decides to kiss her.

When he checks his safe, Cassidy sees that Sarah’s ring is missing. He asks Nate, who tells him that Jessi was in his office earlier. Of course, Nate’s really the one with the ring.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 9 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, which airs Monday at 9/8c on ABC Family.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 18

HRG continued to walk the line between the two sides in Heroes Season 3 Episode 17.

Claire’s still hiding Alex in her closet. There’s a train leaving to Albuquerque, where he can start over. He’d rather stick around to be with his family and friends because they’ll find him anyway. After her mother comes in to grill her about the missing $300, Alex can come out of hiding since he’s now been discovered.

Peter and Parkman are now priority 1. Danko has authorized any means necessary, including lethal force, to take them down.

Speaking of Parkman, he’s still painting creepy pictures of the future. Peter wants to run, but Parkman just wants to find Daphne. He’s got a lead from when he was in Noah’s head: they need to find a hallway. The computer pops in with some actual information, an address to Daphne from Rebel, who says they’re coming. Just in time, they flee the scene. Given the paintings, there’s a good guess where they’re headed, though.

Claire introduces Alex as her new boyfriend. She tries to claim they’re intimately involved, but since she’s jailbait, this doesn’t fly. So she tells the truth. Would have been better off with the lying.

Luke and Sylar are still on their way to Sylar’s father. They have managed to escape the agents for now. While Luke’s trying to talk Sylar out of his need to see his father, Sylar all of a sudden stops at Big Jim’s Franks & Fries, for no apparent reason.

Sandra knows that there’s a van parked right outside watching Claire. She wants to help come up with a plan, and Alex is open to this.

Since Matt can only control so many minds, Peter borrows his ability. This means that they can control more minds, but it rules out the rooftop escape plan since he can no longer fly. They’re able to mind control enough people to gain access to a computer, but since that room is being monitored, it tips off Danko and the others exactly where they are. HRG tells Danko to not go out there, but he doesn’t listen, so his guys draw their guns on him.

In order to make a fake ID, Sandra grabs Lyle’s driver’s license because he got a C- on his history exam. Sometimes Claire just wishes she was normal to make things easier, but her mom doesn’t blame her for her problems with her father, whether they get a divorce or not.

Sylar and Luke go inside the abandoned building, where Sylar says he’s been before with his father back in 1980. He’s positive he can remember his father, and as proof, he’s found the toy car that he had that day from his memory.

Alex was hoping to get a kiss, but Claire’s mom interrupts just in time to stop them. There’s a compartment in the basement that he can hide in. The agents barge in the house, but they’re unable to find anything.

Daphne has been transferred to a medical facility. Rebel’s back, and he shows them a tape of the operation. Peter makes a copy of the footage as a bargaining chip.

HRG triggers the fire alarm in order to disrupt Parkman’s train of thought. It works, and they’ll have to run. Just in time, too, as Rebel warns them they have 30 seconds. They’re captured in the hallway. Parkman insists on holding them while Peter escapes.

Sylar recalls more of what happened, when he saw his dad kill someone, leaving her on the side of the road with a gash in her forehead. Mommy?

Nathan asks his mother whether she’s helping Peter, and whether she’s Rebel. She denies that she’s doing any of it. Then he gets a call from Peter. He wants a trade: Parkman and Daphne in exchange for the stolen files. Not the best deal.

Sandra causes a distraction, while Claire and Alex slip out the back. It buys them some time, but not much. When they get to the bottom of the hill, it’s a good thing he can hold his breath underwater. This also gives him the excuse he needed to kiss Claire, who is struggling to breathe underwater.

Danko’s not making the deal. He has another plan. He’s following orders, just not Nathan’s. Because he considers Peter a terrorist, he refuses to make a deal with him.

HRG goes with them and lets Peter read his thoughts that this is a double cross and that he needs to get lost. Danko’s shot strikes Peter, who falls but flies away. Obviously, Nathan’s involved, since he would have needed him to be able to fly away. Nathan agrees to take care of Peter if he just comes with him, but all the help he needs is a hug, which allows him to get the flying ability back. Angela warns Nathan that the game has changed, and he needs to be ready.

The footage has been leaked to the media as promised.

Sylar will let Luke live, so he can go back home to his mother and suffer. Now that he’s seen the truth, Sylar wants his father dead.

Danko drugs Parkman and drops him from the van wearing a bomb. He hopes people will beg him to hunt them.

Claire has learned that she wouldn’t trade her life for anything. Then she goes downstairs to see the creepy puppetmaster guy, who got a message from Rebel that Claire will save him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 19 Shades of Gray, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 3

Connell paid to date Echo in Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 2. Everything was going fine until he turned out to be a psycho and tried to hunt and kill her.

During a singing performance, one of the people on stage catches on fire.

Echo and Sierra are friends, or so they’re told.

Boyd shouldn’t have taken the arrow out because it does more damage coming out than going in. He’ll remember that next time he’s being bow hunted, but he’s healing nicely. He wants to be certified by the doctor so that he’s the one who goes out there with Echo next time she needs a handler.

Lubov arrives at Ballard’s apartment pretending to be an old friend from the navy… or a friend from Old Navy. He wants to meet with him on Friday.

If they hadn’t changed the choreography, it would have been Rayna, the singer, who caught on fire during the performance. Someone’s apparently trying to kill her. She needs someone who she likes and who can protect her without knowing she’s protecting her. It turns out Echo’s got a decent voice, and they’re looking for a backup singer to replace the person who was on fire.

Dr. Saunders doesn’t like this new high risk assignment. Echo is only flagged for romantic or altruistic missions. As some added security, they will be sending in Sierra as backup. Rayna’s people also have beefed up security, going from three body guards to eight plus a full security staff and sending her mail to the police to be checked.

Ballard and Lupov meet as planned. Lupov has thrown around the word Dollhouse where he works, and he’s come to the conclusion that it’s just an urban legend. They’ve given Ballard the one job they know he can’t blow because it doesn’t exist.

Lubov is greeted by Topher inside the Dollhouse and is called Victor.

The night of the last performance, there was a creepy looking guy in the audience. He’s back again and appears to be up to no good. He also shows up at the post-show party, where Echo sees a guy approaching and attacks him.

Ballard arrives at an abandoned basement as instructed by Lubov. On arrival, he gets jumped and shot, but he turns the tables and takes out his attackers.

Echo comes in to Rayna’s dressing room and sees some recent letters from the stalker. Rayna has been communicating with him out of the belief he’s her #1 fan, who will do anything she wants. She dismisses Echo’s belief that the guy’s insane. Then Echo looks under the orchids and sees a threat that tonight will be her last goodbye, but Rayna doesn’t mind being killed. While he prepares his gun, Echo runs around trying to convince security to stop the show. They don’t believe her, so she’ll have to stop it on her own. By waving the spotlight around, she’s able to locate the shooter, then shove Rayna out of the way as shots are fired. Rayna is disappointed by her lack of dying. The reaper will one day come to bring her to freedom. So Echo’s services as a background singer are no longer wanted.

The guy who believes he’s Rayna’s biggest fan isn’t happy that there’s another #1 fan, so he takes the contest winner Audra (Sierra) hostage and holds her at gunpoint, then sends a video message to Rayna with a request to call him (she has the number). She doesn’t get the message from him, but maybe Echo can help deliver one with a chair upside the head. She wants to make an exchange. The stalker can have Rayna, who Echo is now holding hostage, in exchange for his current hostage.

After the four of them arrive at the location, Boyd comes in from behind and has a clear shot, but Adelle doesn’t want him to take it just yet. Rayna has finally decided that her #1 fan is insane as Echo said. Echo shoves Rayna off the ledge, but she’s got her tied to it so she doesn’t fall and die. This distraction is enough to gain the upperhand and get the gun away from the psycho.

Laurence wants Echo sent to the attic for going off mission. The others, however, are impressed because she took the mission parameter and did even better. Claire becomes concerned that too good may be problematic, like Alpha, and Echo would be better off merely being good enough.

Ballard’s made it to the hospital and is recovering from his gunshot wound. His neighbor, who coincidentally is always at her door when he arrives, has gone to see him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Dollhouse Season 1 Episode 4 Gray Hour, which airs Friday at 9/8c on Fox.

Lost Season 5 Episode 7

Those who left the island (minus Aaron) got onboard Flight 316 to head back to the island in Lost Season 5 Episode 6.

A group of people have found someone, a man wearing a suit. It’s John Locke. He wants to see the passenger list of the plane that brought them there. Nobody remembers him being on the plane, but he doesn’t remember being on it either. What he does remember is that he died and that the suit is what he was going to be buried in.

Now that that’s done with, it’s time for him to wake up in Tunisia. A truck drives up to him, and some men grab him to take him to a hospital. The doctors reset his leg. When he wakes up, he’s greeted by somebody he doesn’t know, who met him when he was 17. It’s Charles Widmore. Locke looks exactly the same since it’s only been 4 days, but Widmore’s an old man now. Widmore was the leader of the others, who protected the island peacefully until he was exiled by Ben. He wants him to bring the ones who left back. Either he gets back to the island in time for the coming war, or the wrong side will win.

Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher. Now he’s Locke’s new identity. Charles wants Locke to believe that he’s special and should be the one in charge, which is why he sent the boat with all the C4 to get rid of Ben. He denies that the only way is for Locke to die. His driver will take him to the airport where he will head for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Sayid’s there when he arrives. He doesn’t want to go back and wants to know who’s manipulating John (considering Sayid was manipulated by Ben for two years). Because he left the island, he was able to spend the best 9 months of his life with the woman he loved.

Then it’s off to New York, where he sees Walt, who’s not surprised to see him. He says he just wanted to make sure he was okay. Locke’s not worried. If he convinces one, the rest will follow. Ben’s there as well, watching in the shadows.

Next stop Santa Rosa, CA to visit Hurley, who greets him by asking him about how he didn’t make it. He may be in a wheelchair, but he’s not dead. Yet. He gets a second opinion to make sure he’s talking to a dude in a wheelchair. Hugo’s paranoid by the sight of the driver, who he thinks is evil, abruptly ending their conversation.

Locke remembers. His driver was an orderly in the hospital, and he’s the one who convinced him to go on that walkabout, which led him to the plane crash and the island. He helps people get to where they need to.

Kate refuses to return to the island, regardless of the consequences. After their discussion about whether he’s loved anyone, he insists he needs to get to Helen. So they go to a graveyard in Santa Monica. She’s where she’s supposed to be, but he’s supposed to be back on the island.

Thanks to a stray bullet, Locke is forced to hop in the driver’s seat and flee. After the ensuing car wreck, he wakes up in a hospital again, this time with Jack by his side, since he was brought into his hospital. Perhaps he’ll go back with him. Locke’s theory is that someone was trying to kill him to prevent him from succeeding. Jack calls him delusional and walks out. At least he tries to walk out until he’s told his father said hello. By process of elimination, it must be Jack’s father anyway. Still, Jack just wants to be left alone.

That night, John decides he’s going to die one way or another. As he’s about to hang himself, there’s a knock on the door. It’s Ben. He has a man watching everybody to keep them safe. He was the one who shot the driver, and he says that Widmore’s just a user. He tells him that Jack booked a plane ticket to Sydney, and if he got Jack, he can get the rest of them as well. John can’t die because he’s got too much work to do.

Locke knows where to go. They have to see Eloise. Ben knows her. With that, having just talked Locke out of killing himself, he turns it into a homicide instead, which he later rigs to look like a suicide.

Caesar, who seems to be the leader of the group of people that found Locke at the beginning of the episode, wants to know how the big guy with curly hair disappeared before his eyes. John wants some help finding his friends and thinks he knows how he got there. The pilot took the passenger list when he took off, but everybody is accounted for, except for the people who got hurt. That would include the man who killed him.

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

Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 7

Kyle went to Latnok as planned in Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 6. Although they offered him a way out, the need for money to pay Nicole’s hospital bills pulled him back in. That said, perhaps the key part of the episode came at the end when Jessi finally admitted her feelings for him.

Granted, while Kyle thinks Jessi is thinking about him, Jessi is talking to Lori about Cassidy. Meanwhile, Nate’s trying to steal Amanda from Kyle.

Jessi wants a take back. She was either crazy or had ebola. Either way, she wants Kyle to unfreak if he is freaking.

Kyle wants to go back to Latnok, and Jessi wants to go with him. Cassidy is concerned that she’s volatile and unpredictable. Unlike Nate, apparently. His real concern is Sarah, who’s no friend of Latnok. Kyle will vouch for Jessi, so he says yes to keep him happy.

Andy and Josh are spending their last days together as she goes to Ohio of all places. At least they’re trying to do so in between the fighting and name calling.

When Kyle and Jessi arrive at Latnok, they’re told Cassidy wants to throw a party. They’re in charge of the “wow.”

Amanda receives an invite to the party from Nate. Josh likes the new jealous Kyle, who doesn’t want Nate taking advantage of Amanda.

Jessi asks: how does Amanda make him feel? She wants to understand the difference between friendship and love, so he responds how it’s like a chemical reaction, which she never experienced with him. She suggests testing their physiological compatibility to see whether they have chemistry. This sounds like the wow they’re looking for. The plan is to base it on a mood ring. Before he proceeds, he wants to make sure Amanda and Nate are two different colors, which requires DNA samples from both. Jessi can get something from Nate, while Josh just pulls a hair off Amanda’s head. Real subtle.

Josh gets a visit from a girl who’s excited to see him. He has no idea who she is, but she introduces herself as KBug223. Doesn’t ring a bell. Sounds like Andy’s been trying to hook him up.

Lori wants Amanda to eliminate the ex. But not literally. She only knocked someone unconscious in a dark alley once.

Kyle thinks he’s figured it out. Nate is green; Amanda is red. With that information, he hopes to get Amanda back, along with getting his life back by finding what Cassidy’s hiding.

Jessi has invited Josh and Lori to the party, and she doesn’t want to be a downer by uninviting them (like Kyle is). But he can feel free to uninvite them himself if he wants.

Josh wants to hold on to Andy, but she just wants him to let her go because it’s not practical to hold on.

Declan has discovered that Cassidy moved in the same day Sarah took off.

When he sees Amanda at the party, her necklace is green. That’s… different. A perfect match for Nate. Kyle thinks Nate may have done something to affect the results. Kyle’s and Jessi’s match (they’re not working at all), although Lori’s and Mark’s do not. They don’t want to be influenced by the lack of a match, though. Lori seems to finally have figured out that she’s been helping Jessi get Kyle, not Cassidy.

Declan and Jackie (the girl Kyle helped last week at Latnok) are matching yellow. He assures her he’s about 80% good guy.

Kyle heads into Cassidy’s office to try to crack the code. Inside the safe is a Latnok ring.

Deciding he agrees with Andy, Josh is at the party with Katie, both matching blue.

As Amanda and Nate are about to kiss, Kyle interferes. She doesn’t want to talk to either of them, but Kyle realizes she’s right. He can’t measure love with science.

Lori’s figured out the real culprit. Jessi was the one who messed with Amanda’s necklace.

Josh is not quite ready to start kissing just yet.

Kyle’s sure that the ring in the safe is Sarah’s. It has a red stone and is one of a kind. Now he can’t get his life back, and he can’t be with Amanda.

Nate admits to Amanda that he just asked her out to get back at Kyle, but he enjoyed himself afterward.

Jessi apologizes to Amanda for messing with the necklace, but she realizes that Kyle and Amanda want to be with each other and should be together.

Jackie doesn’t need a ride home. She’s already got one from Declan. Not good news for Lori.

Josh and Andy agree she’s an idiot. Back to Josh’s plan. Two teenagers living across the country. Yeah, that’ll work.

A confused Amanda doesn’t want to be mad any more and wants to follow her heart, but Kyle doesn’t want her to get hurt. He can’t explain.

Kyle tells Jessi what he found. How does he explain the letter Sarah wrote and the checks she’s been sending? Since Cassidy gave him a check to pay for the necklaces, he knows the same person wrote everything because the writing is the same. After promising to help her find out what happened to Sarah, their mood necklaces start working, and they match.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 8 The Tell-Tale Heart, which airs Monday at 9/8c on ABC Family.