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CSI: Season 8, Episode 7 – Goodbye and Good Luck

Last week, Grissom’s team and FBI Malone were able to uncover a 6-year old case, but were too late in arresting the killer. This week, the CSI team is faced with another old face with a new case.

In a campus, a lady falls from the roof to the ground floor. Although it was the third jumper of the school, Stokes and Catherine determines it is not a suicide case due to inconsistent wounds on the vic’s body. Brass identifies the victim as Kira Dallanger.

Sara and Ronnie handles a crime scene with lots of blood, but no body. After a few minutes inspecting the house, a lady (mrs. jimenez) enters the crime scene with a knife on her back. She says she and her husband had a fight and had no idea where he was. When Mrs. Jimenez was being treated, the husband arrives hysterically screaming to his wife saying, “did you call the cops on me?”

Ronnie asks Sara about what to do because the case is obviously domestic abuse. Sara reacts like it was just any other case and tells Ronnie that they’ll just come back for mrs. jimenez’s body, or the husband’s or both after a month.

Stokes and Greg determines that the crime scene was Kira’s room. They discovered that she was part of a goth band and got a lubricant tube as evidence. As it turns out, one of the finger prints matches Marlon West, the brother of the famous girl, Hannah West, who manipulated the jury to save her brother in a murder case a few years back. Sara asks Grissom if she could be part of the case, and Grissom agrees.

Grissom interrogates Marlon West. He admits that Kira and him had a fight because he saw her kissing someone else. The guy punches him and gave Marlon a fat lip. While interrogating Marlon, Hanna walks by and talks to Sara, telling them they had no right to ask her brother questions.

Greg finds Kira’s online blog and discovers a post where she talks about two boys fighting over her – torchx and drummerboy19. Both boys, drummerboy (who is Marlon West) and torchx (who is identifieed as Jordan Rockwell) had their finger prints on the lubricant tube.

Brass interviews Jordan. He says Kira and him used to date in high school and they just caught up with their lives online. He visited her on campus and got into a fight with West. They went back into Kira’s room, had sex, but when he started to feel sick, he left with his car and got into an accident. As it turns out, both Kira and Jordan were positive for GHB.

Greg finds photographs of the goth band and pictures from the Marlon and Jordan’s fight. One of the pictures clearly shows Hannah picking up a piece of Marlon’s broken tooth and taking it. As Sara interrogates Hannah about the tooth, the girl just pissed her off.

At the police station, Sara sees Mrs. Jimenez voluntarily asking for help. Ronnie says she thinks it’s just right to tell victims about their right, but Sara says Mrs. Jimenez will only be out of her husband’s life for a week or so.

Sara tries her luck talking to Marlon. He admits that he thinks Hannah was a weird girl, but after their first trial and their parent’s accident, his little sister Hannah got weirder. One night, Hannah enters Marlon’s room to find Kira and him having sex. That night, Kira walks out of Marlon and ended her relationship with him. Since Hannah is a chemistry whiz, Marlon asks her sister to make GNB just to mess Kira up for leaving him.

Marlon ends up in jail and agrees to Sara’s idea of trapping his sister to answer some questions. When Hannah visited him, he asks her what he did to deserve being put in jail for the rest of his life. Hannah simply answered that she loves Marlon.

Sara agrees that Hannah is way too smart for her brother and for her since the girl is spinning her in circles. Not only did the trap not work, Marlon committed suicide on his cell a few hours later.

Sara visits Hannah on campus. She tells her about Marlon’s suicide and she doesn’t believe her, thinking it was another trick. When Sara showed Hannah the picture of Marlon hanging, she becomes hysterical.

After a traumatic day, Sara goes back to the lab and greets Grissom with a 2-minute kiss. She then went straight to the locker room to get her surname patch from her CSI vest and throwing it on the trash as a sign that she quits being a CSI agent. She then leaves a note for Grissom telling him that she has to leave and she will love him always.

Will this be the last time we’ll see Sara Sidle on CSI?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: Las Vegas Season 8 episode 8, which airs Thursday at 9pm on CBS.

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Heroes Season 2 Episode 9 Preview, Part 2

4 minute spoiler video of Heroes Season 2 Episode 9 Cautionary Tales.

Scenes include:

Clair going to school as if nothing’s happened, refusing to leave town as her father has told her, and accusing him of abducting West.

Molly’s back to her old self but again wants to help out Parkman, who just wants her to be a normal little girl.

Bob takes Suresh to meet his new patner, Elle.

Video after the jump.

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Saturday Night Live Staff Fired

Saturday Night Live was expected to be one of the early strike victims due to the nature of the show, and now the New York Post has received word from multiple sources that almost all of the production staff of SNL, even long-term employees, were informed Friday that they were being let go, reportedly without severence.

Regardless, the crew put on a non-televised show yesterday that will benefit the Writer’s Guild strike fund.

Other late night shows are left scrambling. Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are reportedly in secret talks to return, though if they don’t, their staff, too, will suffer a similar fate. However, David Letterman will be paying his staff through the holidays out of his own pocket.

NBC Picks Up Quarterlife

NBC will be moving Quarterlife, which is airing in 36 eight minute episodes on MySpace and Quarterlife.com, to TV, reports Variety. The TV show will air as 6 hourlong episodes as early as this spring.

The show was first developed three years ago for Touchstone Television and ABC but was not picked up. Touchstone returned the rights of the show to creator-producers Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who have since funded the project through private funding, including NBC.

Reaper Episode 8

Sam and Andi continued to pretend to be “just friends” in Reaper episode 7. They’re probably gonna make him wait all season before he gets the girl.

Gladys comes to The Work Bench. Sock’s got questions and is “almost certainly going to do something stupid.” She’s less happy to see him than he is to see her. In the back of her car is what appears to be a body bag. She goes to run him over, he jumps out of the way… and gets hit by someone else not even trying to hit him.

Sam gets the dog of the month award from Ted, meaning he’s shown an utter lack of everything. Sock’s offended because he wanted to be dog of the month again. But Sam is the Devil’s employee of the month. He gets a watch as a reward. What’s the catch? He also gives him the case file for the next escaped soul, Curtis Dean Mays, a multiple murderer. Now Sam’s wondering what the catch is, too. He does stick him with getting the bill, but there’s gotta be more evil afoot than that.

Sock and Ben spy on Gladys’ shopping history and find out she’s been buying some rat poisoning. Sam says that’ll have to wait until they figure out where the killer is. It doesn’t make any sense yet, but Sam’s got a bird tattoo that he didn’t have before. They decide to go to the courthouse, where Sam sees another tattoo, a 6. He also shows the boys the gift he got for Andi, a necklace with a diamond in it, but they tell him that it’s a wife present, not a friend present. They convince him to get her something else, then they head upstairs to look for clues. If only they’d turn around, they would see that Curtis has walked in behind them.

They pretend they’re writing a book about true crimes and go to ask someone who works at the courthouse and says Curtis never used the same weapon twice and blamed everybody but himself, including his own now dead defense attorney. While they’re chatting, Judge Collins is killed by Curtis with barbed wire. They suspect the prosecutor is the next target. They finally get a vessel that doesn’t suck, a taser. Sock and Ben are still more interested in stalking Gladys than helping with Curtis, though.

Andi’s boyfriend Greg asks Sam for his help surprising Andi with a huge party at a club. Sam warns him she doesn’t want that, but he agrees to help. Then he gets another tattoo, a 1.

A bunch of kids go up to Gladys’ house and toss eggs at it. She runs out with a broom and chases them off her lawn. So apparently she’s this neighborhood’s mean old lady who all the kids are afraid of. She threatens to cook their brains, which I’m assuming is just a figure of speech.

Sam uses his taser. Too bad he used it on a cop, detective Dan Stafford, who looks nothing like Curtis. As he’s getting arrested, Dan sees his watch, so he takes the watch and leaves. He’s got the vessel as well.

Everybody meets up at the bar, where Andi reminds Sam she doesn’t want a surprise party. He’s afraid to deny it, smoothly running away saying Sock’s on fire. Andi takes this as a yes, and she gets upset at Greg, who she says hardly qualifies as her boyfriend. Josie says the person she’s describing for her boyfriend is somebody like Sam, and Andi again plays the friend card.

Sock and Ben return to Gladys’ place, this time when she’s at work. They find out she’s into angel figurines and flowers. Then she shows up and finds out someone’s been in her home, so she comes in swinging with a shovel. The way she goes crazy just makes the neighborhood, all of whom are watching the scene, even more convinced she’s mean.

Dan probably recognized the watch, which belonged to Curtis’ defense attorney. Sam’s afraid this will link him to the murder. Then the Devil’s kind enough to point out that Sam was also on the scene of the judge’s murder. To make him feel better, the Devil offers Sam the opportunity to “go all Barry Bonds on my ass” and gives him a baseball bat to hit him with. Sam’s more than happy to hit him again and again. When he gets back to work, Sam’s informed by Ted that the police showed up and searched his locker.

Sock, who claims he was 6 feet tall at age 7, starts to get sympathetic for Gladys, who he believes was once an angel and now is frustrated with little kids picking on her all day.

Greg’s got a new plan. He doesn’t want to throw Andi a surprise party on her birthday. Instead, he wants to blow it off, then throw the stupid party the next day. Sam tells Greg his idea is stupid, and Greg gets suspicious that Sam’s trying to sabotage their relationship, when in reality he’s doing a great job of sabotaging it on his own. Then they get into a chick fight.

Sock and Sam go to see the detective, where Sock pretends to be an attorney. Unsuccessfully. Dan threatens to beat his face with a phone book, getting him to leave the room. After all but accusing him of the murders, the detective spots some blood on Sam’s hand. Sam responds “That’s not my blood.” It’s just Greg’s blood from when he slapped him in the face, but still, not a good response. Then Sam starts asking the Devil for help and admits he’s talking to him. Dan spots Sam’s tattoo, which is now complete to spell out 613 Cardinal Drive, Dan’s address. Rather than locking him up, the detective seems to believe Sam’s story, so they go to check out his house. Sam asks for his taser back and tells him Mays is back.

Sock goes to see Gladys and apologizes for not considering her feelings. He goes into her house for coffee and cookies. She eventually tells him she wants to kiss him, and he’s fine with this. They start to kiss and get undressed. Then he wakes up from his nightmare.

Sam finally convinces Dan to get his taser. They go out to the car to get it, when a fireball comes flying at it. Like the barbed wire, Mays has a fire tattoo, as he’s drawing all his weapons off his body. Sam knows bullets won’t do anything, but he shoots Curtis with a shotgun. It’s enough of a distraction to prevent him from killing Dan and buys him the time he needs to get the taser from the burning car. Sam takes Dan into the house and calls 911 to get him some assistance. Before he can get through, though, Dan pulls a gun on him. Catching an escaped soul won’t work. He’ll need to catch an actual person to get credit for this, meaning Sam.

He tries to shoot Sam but can’t. Instead, the gun is turned around, and he shoots himself. Thanks to the Devil. With the combination of the defense lawyer’s watch and written confession upstairs, it should be pretty slam dunk that Dan gets blamed for being a copycat killer. It seems Dan, too, made a deal with the Devil. Catching himself was the fifth and final case in exchange for his soul.

Sam apologizes to Andi for hitting Greg, when she stops him and tells him they broke up… then she asks him “You punched Greg in the nose?” She jokes that she should have waited for her present first before breaking up, so Sam gives her the present he originally planned to give her. She cries and says she can’t accept the gift because it’s not a friend gift. He suggests not wearing it as a friend, but he’s too important to her for her to want to risk it.

When they go to the DMV to turn in the vessel, Gladys asks Sock whether he’s had any good dreams lately. This time, Gladys also has something to give Sam, a gift from the Devil. He doesn’t want to open it but Sock insists. It’s a get out of Hell free card. Whether it’s real or not, Sam’s keeping it.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 9 Charged, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.

CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 8 – “Buzzkill”

Last week, the CSI team uncovered two cases in major NY tourist spots – at the Madison Square Park and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both crimes clearly want to send a message. This week, the team faces a robbery and a woman electrocuted in a rooftop party.

On the other hand, Stella agrees for a “drink” with Drew, but she ends up having a dinner date in a rooftop in New York. However, Stella feels that all his gifts and style is way too aggressive for her. She then walks out to go to a crime scene.

Flack and Stella examines the crime scene and finds Jenna Donovan’s body in a giant martini bowl, electrocuted to death. The team finds several tennis balls in the scene and Lindsay sees indentation marks on the surface wall. She measures the impact of the marks to find the origin while Flack and Stella interviews the management of the ad agency that organized the rooftop party. They talked to Lia and Damien, who says it might be their competitors looking to get their billboard spot. Dr. Hammerback investigates Jenna’s body.

In the meantime, Danny is in an ambulance with a robbery victim named Brandi and her boy friend, Paul Larkin. Mac, Hawkes and Detective Angell examines the robbery crime scene, with another dead man.

Lindsay finds the origin of the tennis balls as Stella and Flack finds the room filled with tennis balls. They arrest a man named Nick Conway and he admits targeting the party because he is a recovering alcoholic and he just wants the party to stop.

Hawke’s investigates Brandi’s clothes and from there, Mac suggests that the bullet shots from the dead victim and Brandi’s did not match. As the lab results showed Brandi had DNA semen that matched the shooter, they discovered that she was the inside contact and that the robber double-crossed her.

Back at the lab, Dr. Hammerback tells Stella that the tennis ball shooter was not Jenna Donovan’s killer. Since the vic did not die due to electrocution, Lindsay examines Jenna’s bag and its contents. Inside was plenty of money, tons of lollipops and cotton balls. Stella gets a piece from the lollipop to see it was heroine and discovers that the purse handle is the exact match to the bruise on Jenna’s shoulders.

Mac visits Brandi at the hospital. When her boyfriend Paul talked to her, her heart collapses and the doctor hesitated on reviving her. The doctor then whispers to Mac that he needs his help. They talked privately and Dr. Moore tells Mac that his brother Charles was kidnapped and in return, the kidnappers want him to let the witness die. As it turns out, Paul Larkin was not Brandi’s boyfriend. The team examines the camera outside the bank.

Lindsay finds the symbol “91x” from a grain of rice that is part of a kanji ring. 91x, which means magic, is the chemical resulted when phetonel (a chemo drug) and heroine is combined. This information led to Donovan’s killer, Pattie Larkin, who was the maker of the kanji rings. However, Dr. Hammerback says the killer is not Pattie because the vic’s stomach contents included a marine chemicals only available in salt water. Lindsay and Stella reexamines the crime scene to get samples from the large martini glass.

As it turns out, Paul Larkin’s name was Paul Campbell. Mac and Hawkes traced down where Paul worked and was able to get fingerprints from the gloves. They went to his apartment only to discover a courier box where the robbers must have placed the money. Det. Angell calls the phone of Dr. Moore’s brother only to find out that the celphone was in the apartment.

Back at the lab, Lindsay and Stella finds the murder weapon – a poisonous jellyfish that only survives in sea water. It was placed inside a beach ball and the only ones to have access was Lia and Damien. They interrogated the two and discovered that Lia handed the beach ball to Damien because HE was the target, instead of Jenna. As it turns out, she wanted him dead because the large martini glass and billboard party was her idea and Damien stole it and pitched the idea to the boss.

On the other hand, Danny finds a piece of paper that had a trace of an address. This led Mac and the team to an apartment where Paul Campbell, another suspect and the kidnapped Charles Moore was staying.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: NY Season 4 episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 10/9c on CBS.

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Bionic Woman Episode 7

In Bionic Woman Episode 6, Jaime and Tom pretended to be married, which rekindled the romance they were trying to pretend they didn’t have.

Jaime’s too busy flirting with Tom to notice the guy she’s after has shown up. He gets in his car and drives off, but it’s still not fast enough to get away from her. She runs, jumps in front of him, causes an accident, and grabs the case she was after.

Becca wants to cook for Tom, who Jaime insists is not her boyfriend.

Antonio is concerned about Jaime’s cell phone chatting with Tom and the exposure risk it created due to the messiness of her mission being accomplished.

They’re after a rifle that can see 3.5 miles, which was used in attempt to take out President Rudan, a ruthless oppressive dictator, who they want to protect because the evil they know is better than the one they don’t.

Jaime’s not enjoying or getting anything out of her therapy sessions with Ruth. Shocker.

Tom comes over for dinner. They should have gotten their stories straight beforehand, as they’re not answering anything the same. Then again, Becca already knows Jaime’s lying to her. During dinner, Jaime gets called and pulled away for work. Tom sticks around, though, which can’t be not awkward. He eventually offers to take them out for dinner at a restaurant next week, then he gets called away as well.

Jaime spots a sniper, who starts shooting but doesn’t connect with his target. Antonio wants to get the president out of the country, but he refuses to cooperate. Tom shows up and questions why Jaime’s there without any protection or a gun. He and Antonio continue the little tiff they have with each other.

Ruth gets a plant for her office. Apparently that’s supposed to make Jaime comfortable being psychoanalyzed.

Becca really likes Tom, who’s a lot better than the losers Jaime normally dates.

Antonio goes on a mission by himself and tells Nathan to just let Jaime sleep. So of course Nathan calls Jaime and tells her to get down there. As she’s leaving, she finds two people spying on her, who tell her she’s going to have to ask Tom if she wants to know why. When she arrives on the scene, she finds out Antonio’s been communicating with the assassin. Not sure what to do, she goes to Jonas.

Tom’s excuse for having Jaime followed is that he officially told the CIA she’s his girlfriend, which requires an investigation.

In dealing with the Antonio’s desire to assist the shooter, Jonas feeds him false information. This doesn’t go over as well as they’d hoped, and Antonio pulls a gun on Jaime when they get to the race track. He says he’s not working with the assassin, but he does know her. He’s trying to talk her out of it, but he can’t take her down because she’s saved his life more than once. The problem now is that they’ve been fed false information and don’t know where the president actually will be.

Jaime hears a gun and jumps up on the building where it is. She can’t stop the shot but does prevent it from actually hitting anyone. The shooter wants revenge for all the wrong the president’s done. She pulls a gun on Jaime for getting in her way. Jaime tells Antonio to take the shot, but he resists. When a shot’s fired at Jaime, though, he takes the bullet himself, then does end up taking the shot after that. She’s the one who broke his heart, which Jaime’s been prying about to try to figure out why he is the way he is.

Antonio later dies in the ambulance, which leads Jaime to believe she’s not cut out for this.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Bionic Woman episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.