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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 7

In Prison Break Season 3 episode 6, they continued to prepare for the breakout. Mahone accepted a plea agreement and got out of prison the old fashioned way. Lincoln finally had to tell Michael the truth about Sara, and we left off with him blaming Whistler and throwing down the chicken foot.

They are to return in 15 minutes for the chicken foot fight. This looks like the replacement distraction for the now cancelled soccer game.

Mahone’s on his way to meet with the special prosecutor, which is a “formality.” They promise him he’s got full immunity and that it will be over within the hour.

As I expected, the fight was just a setup. It’s a diversion to help them get out of there without being seen. Michael tells Whistler not to mention the name Sara again and says he’s going to kill whoever’s responsible for killing her.

Bellick asks whether it’s true about Sara and says he’s sorry and she was a good person.

Sucre’s sticking around, and this time he’s near the van where they’re holding LJ, preparing for the exchange.

As they’re breaking the bars off their windows, Whistler gets concerned that Mahone might rat them out. Mahone faces some complications, as some people are getting “cold feet.” He’s told he’s got no better choice unless someone else is offering a get out of Sona free card.

A few seconds after 3:13, the second guard is distracted by the glare they anticipated. As they’re trying to break out, though, they hear Sammy, who gets in and out fairly quickly, though he does hesitate. They hop out the window and climb down the rope ladder. Only problem is the weather’s not cooperating, and although Michael’s made it to the ground, Whistler’s still at the top when the clouds start to cover the glare.

They’re both forced to climb back up the ladder. The ladder gets stuck, so they stash it just as Sammy comes looking for them for the fight.

When they get into the yard, they tell Lechero it’s been a terrible mistake and that everything’s been settled. He doesn’t care and insists they settle it in a fight to the death. Finally, Whistler decides to punch Michael to get things started. The crowd’s unhappy with the quality of the fight, however, and one of the guys watching it throws something at Whistler to make things more interesting.

Sofia pulls a gun on Lincoln and tells him she can’t let him hand Whistler over.

Susan threatens LJ, but he’s not afraid because he knows she needs him. She says if it’s not over by today, she doesn’t need to bargain any more, though.

The second guard finally realizes his coworker is missing and radios down for a replacement. After some investigation, they find the rope ladder, which is now hanging out the window.

Then they sound the alarm and storm the prison. Now the fight’s over at least.

Susan calls Lincoln, who pretends they made it out safely.

They know one thing. The cell belongs to members of Lechero’s crew. So then they shoot one of his men at random. He follows this up by turning his attention to Lechero, blaming him for the escape attempt. He may have fooled the guards, but Scofield’s not fooling anyone inside the prison, as they know the only guy who would actually make an attempt like that.

Lang asks Mahone about the men he killed, and he suspects she’s setting him up.

Susan receives confirmation that the escape didn’t go down as planned. They pack up the van and take off. Lincoln tells Sucre not to let them leave. Sucre complies… and his car is hit at top speed. I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t survive the episode.

Lincoln drives up to the scene of the wreck. Susan and her buddy are injured. Lincoln shoots the driver and grabs her. The guy in the back has a gun to LJ, though. Susan tells Lincoln to go ahead and kill her, but he refuses to do so in order to save LJ. He asks for one more chance. She seems to accept and takes off, but they leave behind some body bags in their haste to leave. The good news is that Sucre is okay.

Sammy grabs Scofield and brings him in to see Lechero. Lechero asks a straightforward question: whether Michael’s trying to break out of the prison. Michael refuses to tell the truth, but because nobody trusts him any more, Lechero doesn’t kill Scofield. Instead, he tells him he’s breaking out, and he’s taking him along.

Mahone’s told he needs to wait until the next morning, but he demands that it needs to happen right now. He gets no cooperation.

Susan goes to the prison, where she meets with Whistler. He asks for four more days. We find out her real name is Gretchen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Prison Break Season 3 episode 8 Bang and Burn, which airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 6

In Prison Break season 3 episode 5, the escape plans started to take shape. While watching the guards, they got caught, which resulted in Scofield’s cell being taken away. Mahone, an ally for the time being, managed to come up with an alternative plan.

Tonight, we will get to see both episodes 6 and 7 in a special 2 hour block, so stick around for the live blog.

Scofield confronts the guy from last episode who said he knew Whistler. He says he swears he worked with him at a hotel in France. Mahone’s concerned Whistler’s got a stalker.

Michael tells his brother the new plan. The guard with the cup of coffee needs to be taken care of by putting something in his coffee to make sure he’s unconscious. Lincoln continues to lie about Sara being okay, but Michael’s not buying it. He refuses to go anywhere if he doesn’t see pictures of LJ and Sara by 2:30 that afternoon, a couple hours from then (and also about half an hour before the planned escape).

Susan tells LJ a story about how she was a hostage and tried to run, which led her to be recaptured and abused. She tells him if he doesn’t try to be a hero, he’ll be fine.

Mahone gets a visit from an old friend, FBI agent Lang. She offers him a deal, a move out of the prison and an 8 year sentence. She tells him to take the deal, or he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life. He’s not interested.

The new prisoner’s now dead, in a dispute settled outside the ring, which upsets Lechero. There is no shortage of possible suspects, as this guy’s pissing off a lot of people. Because he’s an asshat, Sammy pulls McGrady aside. He says he saw one person go into the stairwell, then he heard an argument. That person? Whistler, of course.

Scofield blames Mahone, then later blames Bellick as well. Both insist they didn’t do it. Lechero has a chat with Whistler, who makes a convincing argument that it doesn’t need to be resolved right away. Lechero says they have all the time in the world, and that he can stay in the chair until they do figure things out.

Sucre identifies who he believes is the correct guard they want to take out. Lincoln tries to give him a coffee that’ll knock him out, but it doesn’t work. So Sofia steps in and asks for a ride from Link, and the guard readily offers to help her.

T-Bag comes up with a plan. He tells Scofield to drop Sammy’s ring in the blood to set him up.

While on the way to where Sofia says she’s going, the guard stops and propositions her. She pretends she’s one of Lechero’s girls, which makes him give up, but it’s enough distraction to give her the opportunity to switch coffee cups with him.

Lincoln lets Susan know there’s a complication drugging the guard. She gets suspicious because she was under the impression they were breaking out at 9 at night, rather than in the middle of the afternoon. So she threatens to kill LJ, which gets the truth out of him.

Contrary to T-Bag’s plan, Michael instead decides he wants to setup Mahone, who shortly thereafter receives another offer of 4 years of minimum security prison. While Michael’s blaming Mahone, he’s being escorted out of the prison, apparently having accepted the deal.

Lechero seems to want to kill Whistler, and Scofield calls him a joke for killing someone for no reason. Lechero does stab someone, the guy standing next to Whistler, who’s been smoking cigars Augusto used to pay to Lechero as tribute.

Because of the dead body, Sucre gets another chance to spray down the fence, hopefully reducing the odds of electrocution.

Susan gives Lincoln the picture he asked for. Too bad it’s the same newspaper Sara was holding last time. With that, Lincoln finally tells Michael Sara’s dead, but they still need to break out so LJ doesn’t die. Scofield blames Whistler (or so he says) and throws down the chicken foot.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Prison Break Season 3 episode 7 Vamonos, which airs next on Fox.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 7 Preview, Part 2

Three minute spoiler video of Heroes Season 2 Episode 7 Out of Time.

Scenes include:

HRG calls Suresh to discuss the paintings he found.
Claire’s afraid they’ll be caught because West was careless.
Bob again requests that Suresh give a shot, this time to Parkman’s father.

Watch the video after the jump.

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NBC Shuts Down Heroes Production

Interesting post by Travis Yanan over at PIFeedback. “I’ve heard that NBC has shut down production on Heroes. They were in the middle of shooting Episodes 13 and 14. They were asked to reshoot the ending to Episode 11 (which ends the ‘Generations’ volume) to be a season-ender.”

This is the kind of thing we can expect to continue hearing for the foreseeable future as the strike progresses. Most shows don’t have a significant backlog of episodes.

Strike Starts Monday

The Writers Guild of America plans to go on strike as of Monday. Most TV shows will continue to operate normally for the next couple of months, but midseason is when it becomes dicey. Immediate impact is likely to be felt by talk shows by Late Night, however, and they will likely go into reruns right away.

The concern is primarily about new mediums like digital delivery and DVDs, but the interesting thing is that TV networks have already been struggling this fall as it is, so all a strike threatens to do is make it even more difficult to get the attention of viewers again. Enough successful new reality and news shows that otherwise may not have made the cut will also likely bump some unionized shows out of the picture. Just in general, the studios will continue to seek ways to continue reducing the reliance on union workers as time goes by.

Economic fallout will be potentially significant. Los Angeles county’s entertainment industry accounts for $30 billion in revenue. Beyond just the writers and TV/movie studios, anybody who is in some way tied to the industry, whether it’s actors/producers looking for work next year, construction companies who build sets, or tourism in southern California, will also feel the impact.

ABC seems most willing of the lot to rely on repeats. Beyond that, though, this month will mark the premiere of Darren Star’s newest show, Cashmere Mafia, along with Notes from the Underbelly and October Road. This will be followed in January by Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann. And in February, Lost returns, though only half its season will be ready by that time.

For CBS, the first part of its midseason plans begins this Sunday night, with The Amazing Race 12. If they didn’t delay it until midseason to begin with, which was a stupid idea all along, they could just run The Amazing Race 13 in January, but now there’s going to be a gap come March. Swingtown is a new show that’s ready to go. Additionally, Jericho will be returning in an abridged 7 episode season 2. Survivor will be back as always, as will Power of 10 and Regis (in Million Dollar Password). Rumor has it Big Brother may be making an appearance earlier than expected as well. CBS has normally been able to get very strong numbers out of reruns of its procedural dramas.

Fox is looking good as it does every year around this time. American Idol will be making its return in January, and regardless of the big deal some are making about how its ratings have fallen, it’s still easily the highest rated show on TV. This could be stretched into multiple two hour episodes at the start of the season, with even more filler as the season progresses if needed. 24 will also be making its return, though when and how much remains to be seen. Fox will be hosting TV’s biggest night, the Super Bowl. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, New Amsterdam, Canterbury’s Law, The Return of Jezebel James, and Unhitched are new shows in the lineup. The Sunday animated block would be unimpacted by a strike for the foreseeable future. Reality shows are always something Fox is working on, so we can expect at least one new one in midseason. When all’s said and done, Fox will barely even notice a strike unless it drags on for a year.

NBC will continue its increasing reality show presence. Celebrity Apprentice and The Biggest Loser will be making their returns, as will one of the network’s strongest and most used shows, Deal or No Deal. New reality shows include Clash of the Choirs and Amnesia. Law & Order and Medium will be returning in January, along with new drama Lipstick Jungle. Given the success of The Office, there has been talk of grabbing the original British version of the show, along with other foreign English language programs.

The CW has returning reality shows America’s Next Top Model, Beauty & The Geek, and Pussycat Dolls, with new reality shows Crowned and Farmer Wants a Wife. Then there’s WWE Smackdown, which makes Fridays, typically a weak night for most networks, The CW’s strongest night. One Tree Hill will be back in January, with a fast forwarded plot in which the characters have graduated college. Like Fox, The CW probably won’t even notice a strike. Sure, there will be more reality TV, but the network’s been struggling so much to find its way that a forced change of identity may even be a good thing.

CSI: Season 8, Episode 5 – The Chick Chop Flick Shop

Last episode, Grissom and the CSI team faced two cases, both of which resulted as unsolved because of a huge company planning to cover up a water-related poisoning and a widowed mother with cancer who killed a guy thinking that he was the reason for her son’s death. This week, the CSI team celebrates Halloween with a morbid case concerning the queen of horror flicks, Weatherly Adams.

Stanley, the studio manager of a horror film production, reported Weatherly Adams missing. Although the actress is known for dying horrible deaths on screen and practically died in every way possible, this time, she was killed with an ax for the last time.

Stokes and Catherine investigates the crime scene for prints and evidences, while Brass takes fingerprints from the staff. Production owner Vincent Lafoon arrives and tells the CSI team he knows who killed Weatherly. An ex-worker named Zargo used to work for the production and had a relationship with the actress. When a fire accidentally burned Zargo’s face, Lafoon did not pay for his accident and to make it all worse, was dumped by Weatherly. Since then, Zargo breaks into the production set to give actress gifts to the actress every now and then.

Traces of DNA and semen from Weatherly’s nails and body lead to Zach Putrick, the movie director. During interrogation, Putrick admits having sex with Weatherly all the time and she was an “ass-scratcher”. Putrick proved his claim by showing his ass to Brass.

Back at the lab, Wendy the CSI lab tech along with the other lab staff and CSI watched a horror flick where she played a small role, (a victim who was stabbed and cut in half). Wendy says she was paid $600 for that role. Sara reacts to the film and tells Greg that it bothers her dark-haired women always gets killed in horror films, while blondes always survives. Sara admits to Greg that she is “sick of seeing death everyday”.

Dr. Al examines the body and ax, while Stokes finds out that Vincent Lafoon was faking the break-in (caught in the company’s videotape) to blackmail Zargo. Since the ax was not the murder weapon, Stokes, Cath and the new CSI Ronnie went back to the crime scene to determine where Weatherly was moved.

During their investigation, Dickie Jones (the dwarf actor) tries to ask Cath out and hopes to tell her something, as Stanley interrupted their conversation. Cath and Ronnie left the crime scene in separate cars, while Ronnie had to go back to the production set to get her celphone that she left. Back at the lab, Catherine receives a call from Dickie, asking her to meet him at the production set urgently.

Stokes discovered (while checking the videotapes) that Mason Lafoon tried to disguise as his brother Vincent. Mason admitted that Weatherly killed herself when her heel got stuck and she tripped off, falling back first to a pipe. Stanley tells Mason that the show must go on and the production company did not need any problems, so Mason agreed to hide the actor’s body.

Ronnie arrives back at the set to see Dickie tied to the ceiling dead. She sees a lady in a blue dress and hides. Zach Putrick then appears with a gun shot on his back. As Ronnie kept Putrick from dying, Stanley appears with a gun and a shot came off. The lady in the blue dress, which turned out to be Zargo, shot Stanley on the back, just in time as Cath and the police arrives.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: Las Vegas Season 8 episode 6, which airs Thursday at 9pm on CBS.

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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 6 – “Boo”

The last episode, Down the Rabbit Hole gave Mac and the CSI team an introduction to the virtual world and how a world from the Internet can just be as dangerous as the real world. They faced a professional assassin, who killed several people as well as Congressman Duvaine, only to escape. This week, the CSI team celebrates Halloween with two weird cases – one was a murder/suicide of a family and the other was a true-to-life zombie.

The episode started when two men were working in a graveyard digging up a grave. While the older guy was telling horror stories, the other was digging the gravesite when a hand bursts out of the soil and a zombie attacks the old guy.

Danny and Lindsay took up another case where 2 boys and the mom were killed, while the dad supposedly committed suicide. The Duncan little girl was missing. According to the locals, the home of the Duncans is possessed by evil, since the same murder-suicide happened 30 years ago, where a little girl also became missing and never was found.

In the meantime, Stella and Mac investigates a dead guy who was part of a group that wanted to scare tourists and cause a riot. He died being hit in the head by an unknown weapon.

Lindsay examines the Duncan house and discovers that the little girl is hiding inside the wall, also shot with a shotgun like the rest of her family. She was immediately hospitalized. Lindsay then sees an old lady that warns her to “leave now” because the house was cursed. The old lady escaped through the passage wall, but left DNA when she scratch Lindsay.

Hawkes tested the gunshot to determine if Gill Duncan, the father, really did kill his family and committed suicide afterwards. The results showed that it was impossible for Gill to use the shotgun and kill himself.

At the hospital, Lindsay asks Rose Duncan if she remembered what the bad guy looked and pointed to her drawing book where she drew a monster. Luckily, footprints from the crime scene determined that it was owned by Henry Willens. Dog hair pointed to Willens as he is working as a driver for a dog babysitting company and since they have no way to track Willens down, they tracked down the dogs instead.

Curious about an emergency call made by 2 men reporting a zombie tried to attack them, Mac and Stella goes to the grave site to find a coffin with a hole and a voodoo doll inside it. The vic was identified as Dexter Nevins, an immigration attorney that was recently buried. Stella examines the voodoo doll to find a torn photo of Dexter, Hatian coffee beans and Hatian rum, which were supposed to be offerings for the god of death.

While Mac tells Flack that the stalker who kept calling him at 3:33am stopped the calls for about a week now, Mac becomes paranoid when the owner of the voodoo house they were investigating written 333 and 666 on her two eyelids. As it turns out, Josephine Delaquoia really did make the voodoo doll to keep Dexter from returning back to the dead. She explains to Mac the meaning of 333, a proverb and the son’s devil’s equivalent to 666.

Mac and Stella put the pieces together and discovered that Dexter was faking his own death for an insurance scam. While the CSIs were unable to contact his wife, they checked out the doctor who declared him dead, Dr. Burkis.

At the lab, Lindsay and Danny finds a signal on the location of the dogs and it was back at the Duncan house. Henry Willens, as it turns out, was the son of Betty Willen (the old lady that attacked Lindsay) who were the first owners of the Duncan’s house. They were seen leaving the home with a briefcase (with baby skeletons inside it), but stopped by police to be arrested. The legend of the murder-suicide 30 years ago was cleared when Betty Willens admitted that her husband left her and her son accidentally shot his sister. Betty cleaned up the crime scene to protect her son. Wanting to get the briefcase before the Duncans renovated the house, Henry Willens came back to the house in search of the briefcase when he was surprised by the early return on the family. Afraid of being imprisoned again, Willens shot the family when threatened him that they’ll call the police.

In the mean time, Stella and Mac visits Dr. Burkis’ house only to find Dexter’s wife and Burkis naked. The CSIs figured out that after the burial, the two who was having an affair, just left Dexter for dead to claim the insurance money. When Dexter squeezed his way out of the coffin, he went straight to Burkis only to find his wife sleeping with him. A struggle happened and Dexter was hit by a bat after giving his wife a shot. Both the wife and Burkis survived, but was half-dead from the medication. Mac described them as being true to life zombies.

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