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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5

In Prison Break Season 3 episode 4, we found out what was in the box. It was Sara’s head. That puts an end to the mystery whether or not she’ll be returning. Sucre stopped by to help, and the process of breaking out of prison has begun. Michael got a new cell, but now the question is: why that cell? T-Bag and Mahone continued to stir up trouble. They’ll be along for the ride when everything goes down, if they’re not dead by then.

Scofield does a test from his cell. He drops a piece of tin foil on the ground near his cell at night. The guards spot it pretty easily.

Lincoln breaks the news to Michael that Susan has the bird book. When asked about photos of LJ and Sara, he pretends she wouldn’t let him keep them. His day’s not getting any better either, as Michael informs him he’ll need a vehicle in the middle of the day the next day, dashing his hopes for breaking out under the cover of darkness. Crazy yes, but they don’t have a choice.

Michael asks McGrady for a watch or two and binoculars. He lets him know where to get them, though this time he doesn’t want to know why.

He explains the plan to Whistler. He figured out that the daytime is better because there is no jeep patrol or perimeter guards, so they only have to get past two guards.

Sucre gets stopped by a couple guys who know he’s the new gravedigger. They want him to get something inside the prison in exchange for $5,000.

Since they’re shorthanded, now it’s time to get Mahone involved. Aside from the whole not being able to be trusted thing, he’d make a nice ally.

One of the guards has to turn away when there’s a glare, at the same time every day. Whistler tests this by throwing a ball into the yard. The guard doesn’t notice it. He kept looking the other way for at least 6 minutes. The other guard’s not budging but is a sports fanatic who did stop to adjust the TV when he had trouble with it, so they plan to disrupt his shows to distract him.

There’s a new prisoner in town, one who seems to know Whistler and is snooping around and finding out more than anyone else seems to be smart enough to find out. Mahone notices this and confronts him.

Sophia and Lincoln are driving along and get pulled over. They’re told all roads within 2 miles of Sona are off limits. Time for plan B.

Michael asks Whistler what’s so urgent about getting him out of there can’t wait until the day after tomorrow. He says he doesn’t know.

Sucre happily sneaks the package into the prison, narrowly escaping being busted. The intended recipient, one of Lechero’s men, grabs it.

Scofield comes up with a plan to attach a power source to a transmitter, which will interfere with anything electronic. The guard gets distracted and messes with his TV, but then he shoots. I didn’t think he was shooting in Scofield’s direction, but he apparently was. The colonel charges into the prison, a siren sounds, and all the prisoners must go into the yard. They believe they saw a rifle scope pointing at one of the guards and plan to search the prison until they find it. They search and find Scofield’s binoculars and start asking prisoners one by one whose cell it is. Scofield readily admits it’s his cell. A gun is pulled on him, and he’s asked why he was watching them.

He says he wasn’t watching him. Whistler interrupts and says it’s his. He says he was watching birds. He pulls out the bird book and shows it to them. Satisfied with that answer (except for the guard, who still seems suspicious), they turn around and also leave the binoculars behind. Unfortunately, they locked up the cell while they were there, meaning the loss of supplies and an exit point.

Sucre’s got himself trapped now. They expect him to keep sneaking stuff into the prison.

The new prisoner comes up to Whistler and calls him McFadden, saying he knew him from 1997. Whistler plays him off as being crazy, but it’s obvious he’s lying.

Mahone proves useful. He notices a guard who needs his coffee fix, and Mahone managed to grab a coffee cup from the courtyard, offering them a new plan.

As always, stick around for spoilers of the next episode here at dingoRUE.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Prison Break Season 3 episode 6, which airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5 Preview

I usually like to get these up earlier, but this week got thrown off with the scheduling change last week. Here you can watch two spoiler clips from Prison Break Season 3 Episode 5 Interference. In the first scene, Michael asks Lincoln for a vehicle. In the second scene after the jump, Michael explains the escape to Whistler.

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Life Is Wild Episode 3

In Life Is Wild Episode 2, Jo started her mission to transform the lodge into something that functions, Katie met Oliver’s ex-girlfriend and got tricked by her, and Jesse lied about his age to get a job to get close to a girl.

The lodge is open for business. Jesse’s about as happy with this as he usually is about everything else, and Katie’s not much happier than him because she wants to get to school. The kids head off for school, and Jo and Art take the guests sightseeing for animals, where they manage to see a cow. Colin resolves this by taking an elephant that can’t be around people and buying something not particularly fitting to Africa, two ostriches.

Katie’s a singer, and as luck would have it, she’s trying out for the club that’s run by Tumelo and has Lauren as a lead singer. Much of the rest of the (talentless portion of the) school is there as well, since the club is a big deal and does a lot of assemblies and travelling. Katie turns out to be pretty decent, though. She gets the lead duet with Oliver.

Jesse’s upset he has to hang out with the guests’ teenage son, until he finds out he’s a rebel like himself. Drinking, being a poolshark, and forcing himself on Jesse’s boss. Despite the company he’s keeping, Jesse does get a promotion to bartender because the other person quit.

Her husband and son aren’t impressed (and the husband’s getting less impressed as time goes by), but the woman of the family staying at the lodge seems to like it. Jesse returns with their drunk child, though, which may not go over well with either of them.

Katie blows off practicing her duet to have pizza with Oliver, then gets upset about it the next morning and blames it on the lodge being under construction. When she gets to school, she can’t get anything right in the song. She blows up at her father in the morning and again when she gets home.

The two younger kids agree to pitch in and help. Jo has a minor breakdown, but Colin’s there to cheer her up and try to convince her she wasn’t a fool for reopening the lodge. Oliver invites Katie over to work on the song, but she decides to stick around and also help. The mother of the family staying with them wants to help, too.

Jesse’s boss tells him to get his friend out of the bar because he’s becoming more obnoxious. He flings some insults at the lodge and Jesse’s mom/boss, so of course things get physical. After the fight, Jesse’s boss cards the kid, finding out he’s only 17, and he tells about Jesse not being 18 either.

Colin starts the process of healing the elephant, then lets him go back to the competition in Mara to be with his family. In exchange for his help with the elephant, though, Colin does get a lot of help on the lodge in the form of workers and equipment. He also helps the man who’s staying them start to enjoy himself by letting him feed the elephant.

Jesse apologizes to his parents for the fight, which is a step in the right direction. His boss is not as easily impressed by an apology and fires him.

Tumelo and Oliver exchange words about Katie. This triangle isn’t resolved by a long shot.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Life Is Wild episode 4, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on The CW.

Reaper Episode 4

In Reaper episode 3, Andi decided to go back to college, but thanks to some help from the Devil, the all classes were cancelled due to the mysterious appearance of asbestos. C’mon, Sam. The Devil gave you another opening. Don’t screw it up.

Episode 4 starts off the way every week starts off: with Sam’s mind getting screwed with. As he’s going to get in his car, his keys disappear into thin air, so he has to take a cab to work. When he goes to pay the cab driver, the money disappears as well, along with his wallet. Ben has his keys but doesn’t know why. Then he finds his wallet in a paint can.

A new vessel arrives. As they’re trying to decide a good reason not to open it, Andi comes in and tells Sam she can get tickets to a concert for them, them meaning all of them. They make plans to head to Idaho, a 7 hour trip. Ted comes to tell them they’re in trouble for their earlier destruction of property when Sock was playing rodeo and riding a homemade bull, and Andi, who wasn’t even there, is lumped in with them. He forbids talking of a social nature while at work.

The Devil takes Sam to the scene of a car crash, where someone’s dead at the hands of an escaped soul. As usual, he’s not real big on minor annoyances like details. After Sam pushes, he’s told the name of the soul, Bellifiore, which is about all he’s going to get. Sam, hoping to get this over with so he can go to the concert, stands up for himself and says he refuses to accept his power over him. The Devil lets him know he doesn’t have a choice but to work for him by sending two tractor trailers that he needs to jump out of the way of to avoid being crushed.

The boys head back to the vessel, which is moving around. With much hesitation and fear, they open it to find a not so terrifying bird. While searching, the mouse disappears, as do Ben and Sock. They come back after Ted gives Sam a lecture about talking to himself. This gives him the idea to search for Bellifiore’s name plus the word disappear, which leads them to a magician DVD. On it, they learn he was found guilty for murder.

Andi breaks the news to Sam that she could only get two tickets to the concert. He says she should go with Josie, but she says she asked him first. The problem is the Devil made it clear he didn’t want him to go. I don’t get this Devil guy. Does he want these two together or not? But considering the invitation to be alone with Andi overnight, Sam forgets that the Devil tried to run him over with trucks.

Acting on a tip from a lady with a bunch of apples (there were apples at the scene of the accident), the boys go to a magic show. The magician gets pissed off because people applaud but don’t give him a standing ovation. He invites one of the onlookers on stage to assist him with a trick. He stabs the guy, leaving him unharmed, then disappears. When they walk outside, they discover the guy wasn’t so unharmed, as he’s got massive internal injuries and is being hauled away by an ambulance. Sam feels Bellifiore hates the audience because he blames them for his crappy career when he was alive.

Sam asks his mom to see the contract for his soul. Should be a pretty simple thing to find, but for some reason it takes some searching. Sam looks in the envelope and finds the contract fell apart. Sam tells his keys not to disappear, and they listen. His car disappears instead. As he’s walking, the Devil drives by and tells Sam his rights are an easy question to answer: he doesn’t have any. Complaining he has nothing to look forward to, Sam asks for some incentive. The Devil has his own plan in mind, and he goes to see Andi. When Sam gets to work, his car is there, parked in a handicapped spot and ticketed. Then they try to get out of work early, and Ted says there was a guy in there earlier giving away tickets to a magic show. The bird got out and flew away because Ben let him out to talk, so it may not be as quick a process to get there as they thought.

When he arrives at the magic show, Sam tries to convince Andi to leave, saying the show sucks. Of course, Bellifiore hears this and invites Sam on stage to see some real magic. He tries to talk his way out of it, but Andi says she’ll do it, so Sam agrees to do it instead. Knowing better than to admit the sword’s real, Sam steals it and runs. He finds out that Bellifiore is powerless without his sword. Bellifiore grabs his sword back, and a chase ensues. In the nick of time, Sock and Ben show up with the vessel. Thanks to Bellifiore’s mocking, Sam figures out how to work the vessel. He makes the bird disappear, and it reappears overhead (and much larger), attacking Bellifiore and sending him back to Hell.

In his rush to get out of the store to rescue Andi, Sam agreed to work the next four weekends plus Thanksgiving, which means he can’t go to the concert with her. She asks why he would do that, but he can’t answer. While he’s moping at a bar, the Devil comes up to him. He tells him he realizes that if anything’s going to kill him, it’s going to be a soul from Hell, not the Devil, who needs him. The Devil agrees to give him the contract.

Quotes from this episode:

Sam: I just had this really weird vision that he stabbed me.
Sock: I just ate this really weird cupcake, so I guess we’re even.

Sock: Beta males are in right now. Chicks dig it.

Devil: I’m not Google.

Sam to the Devil: God, you sound like Ted.

Customer: How much for the flat screen?
Sock (not feeling like talking): $1 million. Try Best Buy.

Sock: Dude, Winston is not a bird’s name, Ben.
Ben: Okay, well you tell me what a bird’s name is.
Sock: I don’t know. How about Flappy? Or Paul?

Ben: I’ve never seen a dead body up close before. It’s messed up.
Sock: I know, right. I mean you think that seeing Scarface all those times I’d be better prepared for that.

Sam: You put the contract for my soul with my third grade report card and Mr. Huggles?

Devil: Sarcasm is the lowest form of social discourse.

Guy driving by (to the Devil): Go to Hell, jerk.

Sam: I’m just the guy sending you back to Hell. Just… as soon as my friends show up.

Ben (saying goodbye to Winston): You a freaky ass bird, who scared the crap out of me, and now I can’t be comfortable around birds ever again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 5 What About Blob?, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.

Writers Guild of America Votes to Strike

In a move that may potentially have a significant impact on scripted television shows, 90% of Writers Guild of America voters authorized a strike if they can’t come to an agreement on a new contract. The current contract expires Wednesday October 31, 2007. Should it occur, this would mark the first strike since a five month strike in 1988. Though this vote would allow the union to strike immediately after the contract expires, they may wait for some time after that while they continue negotiating.

A strike now would not have an immediate impact, but it would create a big problem come early next year when the new seasons begin. One genre that would not have trouble going forward would be reality TV, which is not unionized. In the event of a lengthy strike, we would see a lot more reality TV in the spring than we normally do. Beyond that, we could expect to see a lot more reruns than usual, and news and sports shows also would be able to continue without interruption.

Fox looks pretty good. Because of the completion time of animated series being far more in advance than most shows, its Sunday night lineup is safe. Its biggest show, American Idol, also debuts early next year, and they could easily fill 2-3 nights with that. Additionally, there are several other reality shows that make up Fox’s lineup currently that could easily be used to fill the gaps. Only having to run two hours of programming a night should make it a lot easier on them than CBS, ABC, and NBC as well.

The CW has returning shows in its lineup such as America’s Next Top Model, Beauty and the Geek, Pussycat Dolls, and WWE Smackdown and is preparing new reality shows in the event of a strike. On Sunday nights, The CW’s as good as dead currently, so that should be easy enough to fill.

NBC’s heavy dependence on Deal or No Deal may not be such a bad thing after all, and they’ve also got The Apprentice and The Biggest Loser looking to make returns. On the news magazine front, NBC has Dateline. Beyond that, NBC is looking abroad, considering airing the UK version of The Office.

CBS, with its 432 procedural dramas, would definitely be in for some hurt. However, reruns of shows like CSI do quite well. Survivor remains one of the biggest shows on TV, and The Amazing Race will be making its return. A strike could actually help revive those two shows to their former glory. 60 Minutes, already running 90 minutes long, could easily be stretched to 2 hours.

ABC has Extreme Makeover, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor, and 20/20. Of these, Dancing with the Stars will be the most useful, as it’s got the potential to fill in 2 hours a night for 2-3 nights and achieve top ratings doing so.

CSI: Season 8, Episode 4 – : The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp

Last week’s episode, “Go To Hell” was a chilling story as the CSI team faced a 12-year old girl supposedly possessed by the devil. As it turns out, she was completely normal and she was the one who planned and killed her parents and sister. This week, the CSI team investigates two crime scene – one at Sam’s (Catherine’s dead father) casino site and the other at a lake where a boy was hanged.

The victim, Bryan Towne had lacerations on his chest, which appeared to have swollen mammary glands. Although the vic was stabbed, the cause of death was suffocation from hanging. Evidence found were beer bottles, which may have been used to stab the victim.

In the meantime, Catherine and her mom talked on a site where Sam’s casino used to stand. Lily was talking about how she met Sam and how she fell for him. As a way to move on, Lily threw the 5-dollar chip (that Sam gave during their first meeting). A few minutes later, police came to the site and Catherine rushes to find out that a body was found on the site. Due to conflict of interest, Sara and the new CSI Ronnie was assigned to the case.

Warrick investigates Bryan Towne’s room and finds a stash of cash, gun kept under his bed and water samples in a dozen small tubes. The victim’s mom, who is a surviving cancer patient, visits her son at Dr. Robbin’s office.

Sara and Ronnie checks out the casino site and sees an Indian necklace, which may indicate the site could be a Native American burial ground.

A man named Paul Sides called Bryan Towne several times before he died. Catherine and Brass asks about his relationship with the victim. As it turns out, Sides and the victim was working on a project and Towne became the project himself.

At the lab, Stokes found finger prints from the beer bottles that led to Larry Ludwig, a man who worked in the same water company as Bryan. Since he had rope burns, he was immediately taken to the station. He told Stokes and Warrick during his interogation that he and a friend brought 2 girls along with them to the lake, where they saw Bryan hanging out. He admitted that the girls wanted to play so he placed the rope around the tree so they could swing to the lake. When it was Bryan’s turn to jump, the girls and Larry made fun of him when they saw him “man-boobs” through his wet shirt.

Dr. Al and Sara discusses the bones found on the casino site, but Greg (who was planning to write a book on Las Vegas murders and dead bodies unknown to the press) had more insights about the case. He helped Ronnie and Sara as they went back to the site to measure the bones.

However, it was Hodgens who helped Sara determine the last location where the John Doe lived. Greg finds a roll of film from the rubbles and sees one picture that may be the clue to the John Doe’s death – Sam’s financials where the feds, state and a certain “Fergus” had their fare share during the 1960’s casino development.

While Catherine and Brass’ believed Paul Sides was in the hiding, he was found dead on his apartment, wherein they found a ripped paper stating an offer to buy his house from Bryan Towne’s boss, Jonah Quin. They went over Sides’ paperwork and experiments, where they found a freezer filled with carps.

Sara visits Grissom at his bee farm, where Grissom casually proposes to Sara and where she casually agrees to marry him.

As it turns out, the John Doe last lived in South East Asia, particularly in Vietname, but was of Indian backgrounds. As Greg was talking to Lily (Catherine’s mom) about the people found on the other pictures, she remembered a journalist who attended that party, Lee Jordan who wore an Indian costume. Greg and Sara assumed that after taking a picture of Sam’s financial statements, his bodyguard may have caught him and caused his fall down to the ground floor. Was he pushed or did he fall while running? Sara, Greg and the team may never know.

Back at the lab, Grissom becomes interested when Catherine gives him the freezer filled with fish. With the help of Hodgens, Grissom determined that the water used in Paul Sides’ experiments were endangering the lives of both humans and other living things exposed to it. Sides discovered that Quin’s water company was using the dirty water from the lake, which may have caused Bryan Towne’s high levels of estrogen.

Warrick and Stokes ruled out murder in Bryan Towne’s case because evidences pointed out to suicide. It was definitely a hate crime, but Bryan Towne was the one who hated himself. Unfortunately, his mom thought Sides killed her son, so she shot him using the gun found on his son’s bedroom. It was only until Catherine explained to her that Paul Sides was helping his son that she understood what really happened.

At the office, Catherine and Grissom was talking to the district attorney about the water problem and Jonah Quin’s case. Unfortunately, the company has plans of counter-attacking all witnesses and evidences that the water is really dangerous. About Mrs. Towne, the DA says she will not put the cancer patient and widow who has just lost her only son into court.. so she goes free.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: Las Vegas Season 8 episode 5, which airs Thursday at 9pm on CBS.

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The Next Great American Band Premieres Tomorrow

From the folks that brought us American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance comes the newest music-focused creation, The Next Great American Band. It’s in a rather iffy time slot of 8PM on Fridays, so I wouldn’t expect too much from it in terms of ratings, but it may perform well enough to move to a real night.

“You just have to cross your fingers,” said Mike Darnell, Fox’s president for alternative entertainment. He added that American Idol’s success “doesn’t necessarily translate to the band show. … You can’t compare anything to American Idol.”

Nigel Lythgoe’s not afraid to poke fun of American Idol in the process of promoting this new show. “I can pick out five bands that I can go, ‘Wow, these guys are tremendous.’ You can’t do that with the top 12 Idols,” Lythgoe said.

One of the judges, the Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik, told The Associated Press, “People are tired of seeing really manufactured artists, who are very beautiful and can sing but don’t have their own body of work… This is a cool process, not put together by a marketing team, a record company.”

The producers accepted 60 videos from online submissions and will narrow that down to the final 12 on the first night. So they will get rid of one of Idol’s biggest criticisms (yet also its biggest draw): the excessive really bad auditions. Two bands will be voted off each week.