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House Season 4, Episode 3 – 97 Seconds

Last week,  House hides a patient from Dr. Cuddy and allows 40 of his applicants to diagnose the mystery patient. This week, after firing 30 of the applicants for his new staff, House splits the ten remaining candidates into two teams, by gender.  One lady applicant insists that she groups with the males, or as House calls them, “the danglers”.

The two teams compete ferociously in diagnosing a wheelchair-bound man with spinal muscular atrophy who was admitted due to fainting and showed signs of aspiration and liver failure.

At the clinic, House faces a suicidal patient that tries to kill himself by placing a knife on a live electric plug. House became curious with the patient’s motifs and tries to talk to him. The patient replies by explaining after being in an accident and becoming dead for 97 seconds, “it was the best 97 seconds of my life”.

As the two teams try to one-up each other, complications arise when one team assigns a treatment to the patient but does not follow through to make sure their treatment was executed.

While the students are busy with their assignment, House experiments on himself to see what happens in the moments when people hover between life and death. He did what his suicidal did with the knife and obviously, became paralyzed for a few hours and eventually came back to his senses, even saying “i love you” to Wilson.

Meanwhile, Foreman runs his own team of fellows in his new job at another hospital. Although Foreman and House had the same case, House let the patient die because he was busy making the diagnosis into a competition, allowing an applicant to screw up. Foreman, on the other hand, got it right, but was fired for using a “House-like” treatment to help a patient.

Next week, watch out as House diagnoses a patient that could see dead people.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of House Season 4 episode 4, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on Fox.

Bionic Woman Episode 3

On Bionic Woman episode 2, Jaime decided she’s okay with joining the agency, where she learns that doing so will allow her to help save countless lives.

Jaime learns that, with practice, she can hack into herself and change the information. She then learns she’s got a GPS in her so they can track exactly where she is, which upsets her because she feels it’s an invasion of privacy. Jonas calls her and tells her to stop a guy from leaving. He’s not real into the whole being cooperative thing, so she needs to use force.

Sarah Corvis goes to see Jay’s father Anthony, who tells her he can help her if she brings him Jaime.

Jonas assigns Jaime to babysit a “spirited” teenage girl to avoid a war with Canada.

Becca and Jaime are talking about family and how Becca’s a packrat saving everything from their past. Becca tells her she saves everything because she doesn’t like secrets.

Following some odd hard to follow flashing sequences that may or may not be flashbacks/dreams/insanity, Sarah shows up and wakes up Jaime, telling her to meet her alone without backup. She tells Jaime she needs her, too. Jaime goes to Jonas and agrees to help bring her in but wants him to promise if they bring her in, they’ll help her.

When she shows up to meet Sarah, Sarah tells her she’s sick and needs her help to get well. She tells the story of how Will revived her from the dead. Sarah wants Jaime to save her life by correcting her from losing her way again with the more advanced technology in the newer design. The brilliant tactical thinker she is, Sarah decides to tell Jaime that Will was just using her, so she doesn’t get anywhere. Not yet anyway. Before they can really get to the bottom of things, though, backup shows up, and Sarah has to run away.

The fact that backup showed up convinces Jaime to want to help Sarah some, which the argument she heard didn’t appear like it would accomplish in itself. There’s concern that she was going to say something that Jonas didn’t want to be revealed.

Four guys show up and get into a fight with Jaime because they’re after the girl she’s watching. Sarah just sits back and enjoys the show, waiting for an admission she’s needed. Once she hears the word, they kick ass together, which is followed by Sarah again saying she needs Jaime’s bionics so she doesn’t die.

As a show of good faith, Sarah teaches Jaime how to visualize the tracker and disable it with her thoughts, allowing her to no longer have someone watching her every move. Jaime wants Sarah to go back with her, but she’s not having any of that since she doesn’t trust them anyway, plus with Will’s death, there aren’t any surgeons there.

And now we finally figure out what the heck was going on earlier in the episode (or at least I finally figured it out). Could have done without the creepy visual effects. Anthony talks about how she killed her sister and how Jaime will never trust her until she can relate to her. The previous scene replays, where Sarah was sideswiped by a truck, with her sister in the passenger seat.

When she gets home, Sarah’s chatting with Becca, pretending to be their new neighbor. Sarah threatens to kill Becca but proves Jaime right when she says there is some humanity left in her. Then Jaime turns her tracker back on and threatens to kill Sarah the next time she sees her near her family. She is, again, warned that she can’t trust the people she’s working with, and that Will didn’t love her but just studied her.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Bionic Woman episode 4 Face Off, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

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More Gossip Girl

Variety reports that The CW has ordered the back half of the first season for one of its new shows, Gossip Girl. I’d rather see them extend Reaper myself, but Gossip Girl does look like it has the potential to be the next One Tree Hill, which was highly successful for The WB, particularly as time went on and word spread. In its early weeks, Gossip Girl is already proving to be the top show among teenage girls.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 3

In Heroes Season 2 Episode 2, Peter agrees to help the guys who found him in order to get his identity back, and West caught Claire cutting her toe off and watching it grow back.

Peter’s informed of the plan. They want to rob an armored car. Peter finds out he can read minds like Parkman. He hears one of the guys planning to doublecross the others.

Maya and Alejandro try to steal a car but aren’t very subtle about it. A cop sees it and chases them down, catching Alejandro.

Micah and Niki are finally back. They’re at the graveyard visiting their father/husband.

Speaking of finally being back, here’s Sylar. He’s in Maui with a woman he doesn’t recognize, or so he thinks. She says she rescued him. He figures out nothing’s actually real and that he’s really on a table bandaged up.

When she sees West at school, Claire claims she was just giving herself a pedicure, an excuse he doesn’t even pretend to believe.

Takezo Kensei finds out he’s a hero, and he thinks it’s a curse, blaming Hiro. Not quite the reaction Hiro was hoping for. Kensei hops on his horse and flees.

Caitlin tells Peter she’s got his back. He’s not sure he can trust her, but she makes a convincing argument.

In class, West pushes the issue, coming up with a hypothetical situation in which a lizard mates with a human and asking the teacher whether a cut off appendage would reattach itself. Claire walks out of the room.

Hiro manages to convince Kensei it’s not quite a curse, but he just views it as a chance to get rich. Hiro teleports him to get the fire scroll against an army of men sworn to protect it and leaves him there, with the hope that it’ll turn him into a hero.

West pushes Claire to admit she’s different, and she does so angrily, saying she’s tired of pretending to be someone she’s not. He then shows her he’s also different, picking her up and taking her flying.

Peter and his new friends proceed to rob the armored car as planned.

Bob and Suresh show up at Isaac’s loft, which has been converted into a lab, one built for Suresh so they could watch his every move.

Kensei returns with the scroll, and the swordsmith’s daughter is now in love with him. Hiro may have fixed history after all.

Niki relocates Micah to New Orleans, where she makes him not use his powers, in an effort for him to be a normal person with a normal life. She’s leaving him with family (who he doesn’t know) and going off to do something on her own.

Maya goes to prison to get her brother out. She attempts to pay the bail, but they don’t let her. She tells them they have to get to the US, and one of the guards asks if she has papers, threatening to call the border police on her. She sees a wanted poster of both of them on the wall and warns the guards they’re murderers. She then kills them as they try to lock her up. Dumb guards. As before, Alejandro reverses the damage she did, however.

Peter’s mind reading comes true. One of the guys turns traitor and tries to take all the money for himself. He then shoots Peter, who obviously doesn’t die, and then Peter starts choking him until Caitlin stops him.

Hiro prepares to head back to the present. Kensei’s worried that he’ll go back to his old ways when he leaves, but Hiro must go because he’s got a life to get back to and almost broke history as it is. Just as he’s about to leave, though, Hiro decides not to return home, not yet anyway.

Sylar’s lost most of his powers due to his injuries. The woman who thinks she’s going to help him is in for a rude awakening. The first powers he wants to gain are hers. His plan doesn’t work out as he hoped, though, as he’s unable to actually use her powers.

Now it’s time for Peter to get his box back. He’s afraid of what he’ll find out if he opens the box, as he’s not sure whether he’s good or evil. Caitlin tells him to just leave it be for now and kisses him.

Claire and West are sitting on a beach, talking about their abilities. After they also kiss, he tells his story about the guy with the horn-rimmed glasses, who he hates.

Niki calls Bob from his office. She says she needs him to cure her.

Suresh says he’s in over his head but does find painting 8 of 8. He takes a picture of it with his phone and sends it to Claire’s father, just as Claire walks in. The picture’s not good news either, not that any of them will be. Noah finds out he’s going to be the one dying.

As usual, keep reading dingoRUE for spoilers of next week’s episode throughout the week.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Heroes Season 2 episode 4 The Kindness of Strangers, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 4

In Prison Break Season 3 episode 3, Michael and Link tried to pull a fast one and rescue LJ and Sara, but they were unable to get them in time. Susan B. Anthony warned Link not to interfere again and left him something in the garage as a warning. So for episode 4 Good Fences, we’re now left with one question: what’s in the box?

Lincoln goes to visit Michael, who asks him to reach out to the prison’s gravedigger. Link starts to feel sorry for all the people who have been hurt because of him. Link has a flashback to what was in the box. It’s Sara’s head. Sure to piss off Michael if he finds out. No attempt here to even try to keep hope alive for her and Scofield.

When he goes to visit Susan, she says the company did handwriting analysis on the book he gave her, and she wants the actual one since she knows he wrote what was in the other one.

Michael asks McGrady for a favor (he wants his cross), and instead of just cooperating without questions, he says this time he wants to know why. He then goes to a slowly losing it Mahone and asks him for a favor, a felt tip pen, and he tells him to get his act together. Bellick then goes up to Mahone and wants to help.

Sophia confronts Whistler about him breaking out and tells him she wants to help. She insists on getting involved no matter what he says.

When the electricity goes out, Lechero goes to Scofield for a fix (no electricity means no phone, and no phone means big trouble). Since the electricity is outside the walls, Michael tells him he can’t fix it, and Lechero responds that he’s going to have to. Michael pretends to be concerned about the danger involved. He asks for a specific cell, claiming he wants it because it’s the first one to get sunlight in the morning.

Sucre wants to leave the country to get a job. Lincoln asks him to stick around to be a translator. Sucre doesn’t want to miss his bus, but just as they’re talking, Sophia shows up looking to help.

Whistler tells Michael he knows who he is. He says Bellick’s not in but Mahone is, or at least he thinks he is.

Bellick runs and tells Lechero that Scofield’s planning on breaking out. He tells him about how he trusted Michael in Fox River, which allowed him to break out of there. He informs him of something Scofield buried where they’re digging, and Lechero makes him unbury whatever it was. He shows him it’s just duct tape, or at least that’s his story anyway. Then he goes to turn the switch on and has a flashback to why the power’s off. He took the cross and jammed it in there to make believe they lost power. Removing the cross made the power go back on. He has to wait for an opening while Lechero’s there watching him, but he manages to get the power back on.

T-Bag’s up to his old tricks. He kills one of Lechero’s men, pretending it’s a drug overdose. Lechero tells him there’s now an opening on his crew.

Mahone’s slowly going more and more insane without his drugs. He’s hearing and seeing Haywire, one of my favorite characters from season 1.

Lincoln and Susan buy off the gravedigger, or so they think. They bring him $15,000, and he demands more. Susan’s response? She shoots him, saying he’ll just sell them out to the cops.

The power being back on is enough to get Lechero to trust Scofield again. Bellick, however, is in trouble. It’s time to start torturing him.

Scofield gets his new cell and thinks all is going well, but Mahone stops by and threatens him. He tells him he’s going with him and isn’t his errand boy.

Lincoln stops by the prison again. As could be expected, he tells Michael Sara’s fine. The good thing to come out of it is that Sucre feels bad about Sara’s death, so he comes back to help. He takes the gravedigger’s place. They spray a chemical used to kill the odors of bodies, which also eats through steel, such as fences.

As usual, return to dingoRUE for spoilers posted throughout the week about next week’s episode.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Prison Break Season 3 episode 5 Interference, which airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.

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Prison Break Season 3 Episode 4 Preview, Part 2

Here’s Fox’s official description for Prison Break season 3 episode 4, Good Fences, along with the promo video.

As always, stay tuned to dingoRUE for a live recap of the show from the east coast.

In case you missed it, also check out the sneak peaks and part 1 of the preview.

Prison Break season 3 episode 4 recap

LINCOLN RECEIVES A HORRIFIC DELIVERY;
MICHAEL FORMULATES AN ELECTRIFYING ESCAPE PLAN;
MAHONE IS HAUNTED BY A FACE FROM THE PAST;
T-BAG MOVES UP THE LADDER;
BELLICK GETS IN HOT WATER WITH LECHERO
ON “PRISON BREAK” MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, ON FOX

After his failed attempt to rescue LJ and Sara, Lincoln receives a deadly warning from The Company; Michael formulates an electrifying escape plan from Sona; Mahone is haunted by a face from the past; and T-Bag crawls up the ladder as Bellick lands in hot water with Lechero in the “Good Fences” episode of PRISON BREAK airing Monday, Oct. 8 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (PB-304) (TV-14 L, V)

Cast: Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows; Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield; Amaury Nolasco as Fernando Sucre; Robert Knepper as Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell; Wade Williams as Brad Bellick; Robert Wisdom as Lechero; Chris Vance as James Whistler; Danay Garcia as Sofia Lugo; and Jodi Lyn O’Keefe as Susan B. Anthony; with William Fichtner as Alexander Mahone

Guest Cast: Silas Weir Mitchell as Haywire; Laurence Mason as Sammy; Carlo Alban as McGrady; Manny Rubio as Nieves; Curtis Wayne as Cheo; Carlos Compeon as Colonel Escamilla; Crystal Mantecon as Sister Mary Francis