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Lost Season 6 Episode 7

Lost Season 6 Episode 6 ended with a masscare, as the black smoke took out much of the temple and those who were dumb enough to remain behind after being warned of their impending death.

As Ben’s running away, he meets up with Sun and her group. He’s pretty sure that Sayid just got done killing Dogan, seeing as he was standing over the body with a bloody dagger.

Back in the real world, Ben is a history teacher, despite his doctor title. He meets substitute teacher Locke, who suggests he should be the new principal to replace the man in charge that doesn’t care about the school.

Ilana hands Miles what’s left of Jacob’s body. With that, he knows who really killed him. Well, that oughtta piss some people off at Ben.

Like Sun, Ilana is also looking for Jin. She doesn’t know whether she’s supposed to protect him, her, or both of them, but either way they’re candidates.

Hurley and Jack meet Richard on their way to the temple. He’ll show them the way, but he won’t tell them what he’s been up to just yet.

Ilana’s got a gun. What else is new? She drags Ben away from the group and chains his legs. She tells him to dig his own grave. Ever hear of please?

Ben gets a visit at home from Alex (his island daughter) wondering why he cancelled history club due to budget cuts. He agrees to tutor her first thing in the morning when he’s not supervising detention. During their session, she calls the principal a pervert. He hasn’t hit on her, but he did have sex with the school nurse in her office. Ben promises not to say anything.

Would Miles still like $3.2 million? Ben can arrange that if he is freed. Miles has a message for Ben: Jacob was hoping he was wrong about Ben, but apparently he wasn’t.

Richard has decided not to take them to the temple, since everybody there is dead. This is not a surprise to Hurley, who didn’t want to go back to the temple either. As for Richard, he’s got something he needs to do. Die.

Ben has a hypothetical question for the science teacher. Could he hypothetically access the nurse’s e-mail without her knowing? He’s willing to help in exchange for a good parking spot and lab equipment from this decade.

There’s a problem with Richard’s plan to die. He can’t kill himself. Would Jack be willing to assist? His new goal is to die so he can join Jacob, since Jacob’s death has meant his whole life has been without purpose. Whatever Jacob may have been grooming him for is not going to happen. After lighting the dynamite, Jack decides that now would be a good time to talk. His theory is that neither of them are going to die because Jacob has been watching him since he was a kid and brought him to the island for a reason. What if he’s wrong and they both get blowed to bits? He’s not.

Continuing to dig his grave, Ben gets a visit from Locke, who doesn’t want him to die. Since the group is leaving the island for good, somebody will need to be in charge. Perhaps Ben. With his now freed legs, he can make a run for it. He may as well run. What’s Ilana gonna do? Kill him?

With e-mails in hand, Ben should be able to sufficiently blackmail the principal into resigning. Should they continue down this path, the threat in return is that Alex will not get her recommendation to Yale.

In their dash through the jungle, Ben gets the upperhand. Go ahead and kill the chick already. No, he wants to explain. He sacrificed everything for Jacob, who he believed didn’t even care. After hearing this story, Ilana agrees to help him get to Locke, the only one left who will have Ben.

Alex has received her letter of recommendation. What becomes of Ben is speculation, but the principal shall remain in his position.

Hurley, Jack, and Richard make their way to the beach to unite with the others. Then we see a periscope come out of the water, as Charles Widmore spots people but wants to proceed as planned, whatever that may mean.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 8 Recon, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.

Lost Season 6 Episode 6

Hurley and Jack realized in Lost Season 6 Episode 5 that Jacob’s been watching them all along, while Claire introduced us to her new black smoky friend.

Sayid pays a visit to Nadia, who’s married to his brother Omar.

Island Sayid goes to see Dogan. He’d like some answers. Who wouldn’t? The machine is a scale that shows whether someone is good or evil. Sayid’s test tipped the wrong way. In the middle of a seemingly casual conversation, Dogan flips out and attacks Sayid. He stops just short of killing him, but tells him to leave and never come back.

Claire agrees to go with the black smoke. He’ll only hurt those who won’t listen.

Omar’s in trouble. He borrowed money from a loan shark instead of a bank. Loan shark’s probably got better interest rates. Sayid’s not particularly willing to bail him out, though.

Sayid has decided to leave, seeing as how he’s been banished and all. Miles tells him that whatever brought him back wasn’t these others. They were as surprised as anyone to find out he was no longer dead.

Claire goes on behalf of the black smoke to request a meeting with Dogan. If he’s too afraid to meet with him, perhaps he should send someone who won’t end up dead.

Never mind that now. Dogan’s over the whole banishment deal. Now he wants Sayid’s help to kill the evil incarnate smoke, who will come to him as someone he knows who has died. This is how he proves he’s still good.

Back on the mainland, Omar’s been hospitalized by some thugs. Nadia begs Sayid to not do whatever he’s thinking of doing.

Kate’s returned to the temple, and she finds out that Australian chick’s back.

Sayid stabs the first dead guy he sees. He’s going to have to try harder than that if he intends to kill him. Locke offers the dagger back to him. He can have anything he wants if he delivers a message, even Nadia.

Per Nadia’s request, Sayid just went home and watched the kids. No vengeance to be had. So anyway, why did he push her toward his brother? Because he doesn’t deserve her. Oh really?

Sayid returns to camp with a message: Jacob is dead, and nobody has to stay there any longer. Whoever wishes to leave the island can. Or they can stay and die.

Kate goes to see Claire to tell her she was the one who took Aaron. Oh, now you’re just asking for her to be pissed off. Kate’s dragged off as Claire leaves her with a warning. He’s coming, and they can’t stop him.

The thugs who hospitalized his brother would like to chat. So now they’re dead. As he’s leaving, Sayid meets a man locked in the freezer, Jin.

Before he can flee the island with everybody else, Sayid has to return a dagger. Why does this Dogan guy keep trying to have him killed anyway? Whatever the long drawn out reason about his son being in danger and him coming to the island at Jacob’s invitation, Sayid has decided to kill Dogan. He’s warned that he was the only thing keeping it out. He just let it in. Then the guy who warns him gets his throat slashed.

With that, if the temple was safe before, it’s apparently not any more. The black smoke arrives to create chaos, leaving bodies and destruction in its wake. And then there’s a bunch of creepy walking in slow motion.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 7 Dr. Linus, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.

Lost Season 6 Episode 5

Locke dragged Sawyer into a cave in Lost Season 6 Episode 4, and they decided to get the hell off the island.

Hugo gets a visit from Jacob. Someone’s coming to the island. He needs him to help them find it.

After her odd absence last week, Claire is back again, in the jungle with Jin and toting her gun. She’s been out there for three years.

Hugo says that he’s a candidate, and he can do what he wants. Well, that’s really all that needs to be said. In English anyway. Dogen, the samurai dude whose name is never mentioned, mutters something and leaves him be.

When he finds the secret tunnel, Hugo tells Jack what Jacob told him would get him to go along: you have what it takes. Apparently Jack knows what that means.

The guy Claire shot is not entirely dead. He was just pretending. She’d like to chat about where her son is hidden. When she leaves them alone, his warning to Jin is simple: she’s going to kill them both.

Kate hopes to find Claire, but Jack tells her that the people at the temple said that something happened to her, although they would not elaborate as to what.

Jack’s mother has managed to locate his father’s will. Did his father ever mention somebody named Claire?

Claire says that her father and her friend, whoever that is, told her that the others took Aaron.

Jack and Hurley find the caves they used to live in, and they see skeletons. What if those skeletons are them?

As she’s about ready to whack the guy, Jin tells Claire that Kate took Aaron, who’s now three and has been with her during all that time.

Hurley and Jack stumble upon a lighthouse, which they somehow have never noticed before despite all their years on the island. When they start spinning the gears there, they realize that Jacob has been watching them the whole time. Jack’s discovery of the fact he’s being watched was as Jacob intended.

Jacob’s got a warning for Hugo. Someone’s coming to the temple. Someone bad. It’s too late to warn them.

Jin says he was lying before. Aaron is at the temple. That’s good news. Otherwise, Claire would have to kill Kate. Then we meet Claire’s friend, the black smoke.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 6 Sundown, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.

Lost Season 6 Episode 4

Sayid came back to life, so in Lost Season 6 Episode 3, the natural response to this was to try to kill him again.

Back in the real world, or what appears to be maybe possibly the real world, Locke is still handicapped.

On the island, however, he’s fully capable of doing as he pleases, such as catching Richard.

Returning to his desk job, his boss has discovered that he really didn’t go to a conference in Australia, so he’s fired.

John’s a candidate, or at least he was a candidate before his demise. Richard does not know what that’s all about. Seems Jacob has kept him in the dark.

Ben blames Locke for killing Jacob. I suppose that’s as reasonable an explanation as any.

Locke approaches a house with a record player blasting, and he finds a drunk Sawyer, who thought he was dead, mostly because he is. James doesn’t care whether he’s dead or whatever’s going on, as long as he’s got whiskey. He does notice a difference, though. This new Locke isn’t afraid. So who is he? He’s the person who can answer the most important question: why is he on this island?

Having just lost his job, Locke heads outside, where he’s unable to access his car because Hurley has parked too close to allow the ramp to lower. Well, that and the fact that he refuses to park in a handicapped spot. He’s new. He owns the company now. Perhaps he’s hiring then. Locke declines the offer to talk to his boss, but Hurley owns a temp agency, too.

Some kid is appearing at random throughout the jungle. Locke is the only one who can see him. Well, the drunk guy Sawyer can see him, too. After Locke chases him, he’s told that the rules say he can’t kill him. Richard’s got a warning for Sawyer: Locke wants everyone dead.

At the temp agency, Locke meets Rose, the supervisor there, who tells him he needs to be a little more realistic about his job prospects. He needs to get past his denial, like she did after she found out she had cancer.

The black smoke says he’s been trapped for a long time, but before he was trapped, he was a man.

Everybody who was on the beach will be heading to the temple, but first they must bury John Locke. Ben has positive things to say when remebering him. And he’s sorry he murdered him.

Locke has decided to give a call to Jack and take him up on his offer. Rather, he gives him a call and then hangs up, telling his fiancee Helen there are no miracles.

James climbs down a cliff in what he believes may be a suicide mission. Not far from it. So is this where the answers are? The writing is on the wall/ceiling.

Locke’s new job is at a school, where he meets Ben, a European history teacher.

Who wrote all that stuff, and why are the names crossed out? They’re not all crossed out. Jack, Sayid, Sun or Jin, John, and James’ names have not been crossed out (well, Locke’s name is crossed out now). They’re candidates to take over Jacob’s job to protect the island.

That leaves him with three choices. Do nothing and see if his name gets crossed out. Take over the job as protector, protecting the island from nothing. Or just go and get the hell off the island. He’ll take the third one.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 5 Lighthouse, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.

The Vampire Diaries Season 2

The Vampire Diaries followed The WB strategy to a T: a supernatural show with a beautiful cast from creator Kevin Williamson (Dawson’s Creek, Scream). Somehow, it took the network three years to arrive at the conclusion that this might be a good idea.

The result? The Vampire Diaries is now the #1 rated show on the network. Perhaps this will mean an end to this whole 90s remakes strategy that’s clearly not working. Or perhaps they’ll try again and relaunch The Heights, complete with a remake of “How Do You Talk to an Angel?”

Considering its ratings success, it comes as no surprise that Vampire Diaries has been picked up for a second season.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 14

Stefan and Elena dug up the grimoire in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 13, and then promptly were forced to hand it over to Damon.

Elena’s in a room with Ben, who does that eye thing to try to control her. That doesn’t work. He’s just lucky Anna is right outside the door to stop her from leaving. When Elena gets locked in the bathroom, she finds Bonnie in the tub.

Stefan accepts blame for Damon losing Katherine, and he apologizes. Now that that’s out of the way, he needs to know what he knows about Damon. Damon’s response: he hopes she dies.

Bonnie’s still alive. They need a witch to break the spell and let the vampires out. Either she helps them, or Elena gets it.

Caroline wrote a speech for Matt. It’s a “you kissed me and I don’t want things to be weird” speech. Oh, one of those. She offers him an escape clause, but he passes on that.

Damon goes to see Bonnie’s grandmother, who tells him the spirits talk, and he is no friend to them. Now get off her porch. He tells her to step outside and say that. She’d be happy to, and she proves that he doesn’t want to mess with her.

Anna says that Damon’s the only idiot who wants to see Katherine again. She’s just after her mother.

Bonnie grabs a glass of water, which she uses to set Ben on fire. This is not sufficient to allow Elena to escape, though.

Jeremy invites Anna to a party in the woods by that old cemetery. Sounds fun.

Anna and Damon meet to discuss a deal. He needs a witch; she needs a spell book.

Stefan breaks into the hotel and shines fresh sunlight on Ben. Bonnie and Elena escape, and Stefan tells Ben to leave town or die.

To put an end to this, Bonnie’s grandmother agrees to open the tomb so that Damon gets his girlfriend, but the rest have to be destroyed with fire. Elena goes to Damon to tell him of the plan, and she takes off her necklace to prove her point. He trusts her without taking advantage of this.

Jeremy’s happy to see Anna when she shows up at the party that he’s not enjoying, but she is just there to say goodbye. She and her mom are moving away. When they kiss, her face starts to turn, so Ben knocks Jeremy out. Now Ben’s going to have to drag him because she wants him to meet her mother.

Bonnie and her grandmother Sheila open the tomb. Not wanting to be sealed inside, Damon grabs Elena for leverage. On the surface, Stefan runs into the still in town Ben and his pal Anna, who says that she’s going to get her mother, or Jeremy’s going to be a main course. Stefan lets Anna go in, and Bonnie’s grandmother lets her pass as well, knowing she’s not coming out.

Flamethrower in hand, Stefan teaches Ben why he should have listened when he warned him to get lost.

Sheila has a word of warning for Stefan. Go in, and you won’t come out. Opening the door didn’t remove the seal. It just opened the door. The seal keeps vampires from exiting. As a human, Elena can leave, but that leaves Anna, Katherine, and Damon screwed.

It’ll be Gilbert blood that brings Anna’s mother back to life. Elena will do. When Stefan hears Elena’s scream, he runs inside. Seeing that, Bonnie decides to lower the seal, with or without her grandmother’s help. The seal goes down, and Anna and her mother are the first ones out. Stefan goes back to try to talk some sense into Damon, who’s upset that he can’t find Katherine. At Elena’s request, Damon agrees to exit with his brother.

Jeremy pretends he doesn’t remember anything, but when he gets rid of his sister, his first action is to go online to search for vampires.

Damon confronts Anna, who knew Katherine wasn’t in there. Her mother has an answer for that. The guard was under her spell like everyone else and let her go. Last time Anna saw her was Chicago, 1983. Katherine knew where Damon was, but she didn’t care.

That spell took a lot out of Bonnie’s grandmother, and Bonnie discovers her not breathing on the couch.

Back in the tomb, the vampires commence their return to life.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 15, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Lost Season 6 Episode 3

Juliet died, but Sayid and Locke were still walking around despite their own demises in Lost Season 6 Episode 2.

Sayid says he’s feeling a little light headed. Well, that could be because he died. Sawyer is not happy that this Iraqi torturer gets another shot, but Juliet did not.

Kate gets the taxi driver to step on the gas thanks to the gun she stole. As they’re driving, a pedestrian gets in the way. Gun or no gun, he doesn’t plan to run him over. Claire would like to make a run for it, but that’s not happening. Kate wants the driver to go left on red, at which point he decides he’s had enough and makes a run for it. After taking Claire’s purse, Kate tells her to get out of the car. Claire would like to get her suitcase first, but Kate denies the request.

Sawyer plots a successful escape from the others. He doesn’t have to stay, even if he maybe should consider it. Kate offers to track him and bring him back. If they let her go, too.

Arriving at a body shop, Kate asks for a tire hammer. At gunpoint. First of all, that will just cut off her wrist. Second of all, if she asks nicely and pays, the guy might just be willing to help her out. Once she’s gotten rid of the handcffs, she opens up Claire’s suitcase, finding assorted baby products inside.

Sayid is brought inside and strapped down before having wires attached to him. Then it’s time for the hot poker. His wounds had almost healed, but that’s pretty well changed now. He’s told he passed the test, whatever that means, although we later learn that was just a lie.

Feeling guilty, Kate returns to see Claire, who reluctantly agrees to chat with her, accepting a ride to go meet the couple who are going to adopt her baby.

In Kate’s trek through the jungle, she’s getting attitude from one of the others. His problem: she staged her prison break by knocking the guard (him) out with her rifle three years ago. So she knocks him out again because she wants to escape again.

After finding out that Sayid’s been tortured, Jack makes his way back to confront them. They tell him he’s infected, so he needs to take a pill, which he must take willingly in order for it to work. Their pitch to Jack is that this is his chance to redeem himself, seeing as others around him keep dying.

Sayid realizes he didn’t pass the test after all. Jack pulls out the medicine, or at least that’s what it is according to them. Since Sayid trusts Jack, he’ll take the pill if that’s what he wants.

Kate bids Jin farewell and will be heading to find Sawyer on her own.

Claire arrives to see the couple, or at least one of them, whose husband left her. She’s no longer able to adopt the baby. Maybe she could have called this woman who just came half way around the world and informed her of this change of heart. That would have prevented Claire from having to go into labor on her doorstep.

Kate finds Sawyer as planned.

Claire’s made her way to the hospital, where she’s told by Dr. Ethan she can have her baby now if she chooses. Unlike when she was on the island, he gives her the option of whether to start sticking her with needles. She’s not ready yet.

Kate’s mission is to find Claire and bring her back to Aaron. She apologizes for Juliet, although Sawyer takes the blame on himself, since he convinced her to stay when she was trying to leave. He guesses some people are meant to be alone, and his planned proposal for marriage is dashed.

Jack has decided to not give Sayid the pill because he does not know what’s in it. If he doesn’t give it to him, he’ll die. Yeah, that already happened. Jack decides to swallow it himself, which leads to him being pummeled to spit it out. What’s in it? Poison.

Claire gets a visit from a Detective Rasmussen, but she chases her off by claiming Kate was just the cab driver who helped her out. Before she leaves, Kate suggests keeping the baby, whose name Claire has already blurted out.

Why do they want to kill Sayid? They believe he’s been claimed by the darkness growing inside him, and they can be sure of that because it happened to Jack’s sister.

In his attempt to flee from the guys who have awakened and now want to kill him, Jin falls in a trap. Before he can be shot, the threat is eliminated by a gun toting Claire.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 4 The Substitute, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 19

Claire and her father were sunk below ground by Samuel in Heroes Season 4 Episode 18, while Peter and Sylar escaped from years of solitude in Sylar’s mind.

Parkman gets a visit from Eli, who came alone this time, so to speak. He’s there to make sure he and the other heroes in his house are not a problem for Samuel.

Samuel wants Emma to play her cello, but she’s worried about her dream and the thousands of people who will die. He does not deny that the dream is true, so Doyle will mind control her into playing.

Hiro hops out of his hospital bed, brain healed and powers intact.

Peter goes inside Eli’s head, where he finds out that Samuel plans to open up the ground in Central Park. Regardless, Parkman has no plans to let Sylar out of his house.

Claire’s got a plan to dig her way out. HRG has given up. He figures Samuel put them down there so she can watch him die. Since her lungs will regenerate, she should be fine.

Hiro has received an origami crane, which he assumes must have come from Charlie. He goes down to the hall to see her. She’s aged a little. 65 years to be exact.

Sylar invites Parkman inside his head to see what he finds and make the call whether to let him leave or not. After doing so, he reluctantly agrees to trust them to leave.

Playing in the park, Emma is packing in the crowd. Along with the onlookers are news cameras, which Samuel has made sure show up so that the world can know.

Charlie was taken back to 1944, and she has lived all this time.

Claire’s dad wants a promise from her before he dies: that she’ll hide. As he collapses, she digs and sees water pouring in. It’s Tracy. Good thing he can swim. Lauren has lined up a chopper to take them to the carnival’s new location.

Charlie’s dying. So Hiro tells her he can fix this. Oh no. His plan is to go back to 1944 and take her back to the diner.

Sylar arrives at the carnival and finds Emma playing. He’s come to save her. First, he’ll need to overcome Doyle’s mind control.

Claire reveals Samuel’s plans to his people. They don’t much seem to care. Edgar, however, has decided that he does want to stop Samuel, so he wants to know what HRG’s plan is.

When Hiro tells Charlie his plan, she’s not interested. She already had a long happy life, and she wouldn’t want to see her children and grandchildren impacted by changing the past (again). Hiro has realized the story has come to an end.

Now that that’s settled, destiny calls. Noah needs help in New York.

Seems Doyle has underestimated Sylar’s power. It’s not long before he breaks free and gets Emma to stop playing. He’s not like Doyle. He’s a hero.

Undeterred by the room’s lack of concern, Claire tells them that Samuel draws his power from them, and that he killed his brother so that he could gain greater power. Edgar believes her. Eli then reveals that he killed Lydia to make it look like an outsider did it. With everybody sufficiently wigged, they bail and leave Samuel on his own in an attempt to make him just an ordinary guy.

They might consider running if they’re going to prevent a massacre. Samuel gets on stage and begins to make the earth quake. He’s not going to hurt anyone, not if Peter can help it.

Hiro arrives just in time. He needs to teleport everyone out of there. Maybe if Ando supercharges him and everybody holds hands. It works, and Samuel is powerless.

Volume 5 ends, and Volume 6 Brave New World begins.

Claire intends to show the press what really happened there tonight. Rather, she intends to show them by climbing the ferris wheel. Then leaping off.

With its continued ratings slide and expensive production values, there is a lot of speculation that Heroes season 5 will not happen. At this time, however, no decision has been made regarding either renewal or cancellation. Working in its favor is the fact that NBC does not have very much else to turn to, and with Leno having been cancelled, there are 5 hours a week to fill.