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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 2 – “The Deep”

Last week, Mac’s return from London shocked him with a crime scene on the Statue of Liberty’s face. This week, the CSI team is faced with a diver’s body that has been found with a tank filled with oxygen. How can he die of asphyxiation?

At the lab, Dr. Hammerback finds that his body has several starfish that feasted on the vic’s internal organs, but the cause of death is fatal amounts of cyanide in the body.  Since the victim had a congenital ear deformity called “cabbage ears”, the prosthetics led to the victim’s identity. His name was Doug Holden, an advanced certified driving instructor. Flacks and Stella questioned some of Holden’s students, including a married couple and two Albanian men.

Back at the lab, Lindsay discovers that the stomachs of the starfish had asbestos from subway cars, leading the team to suspect that Holden was killed in old subway cars dumped in the East River around 1970s. Hawkes and Danny took a dive to check out the cars only to discover the body of Holden’s missing partner, Matt Campbell.

The team finds out that both divers died of cyanide poisoning. Campbell’s body, however, had several gold coins in his pocket. Stella takes those coins to the antique store to determine its origin, but discovers all coins to be fake. A guy named “Drew Bedford” introduces himself to Stella.

Lindsay found larvae (in Campbell’s body) that are found in regions 100 feet deeper than the Hawkes and Danny previously looked. The two went diving again only to recover an old chest with more golden coins, a statue and a syringe. While searching for other clues, Hawkes got trapped in a metal pole. Fortunately, Danny came back to free Hawkes and they both got to land safely.

At the CSI lab, Danny examines the syringe and discovers large amounts of cyanide in it, making it the murder weapon. Plus, it also has a DNA with a mutation only unique to people from the Balkan descent. Stella recalls the two Albanian men she questioned.

At the Albanians’ apartment, the first suspect (Zamir Duka) tries to run pass Mac and Flack but was caught immediately. Stella searches for the other suspect, but instead finds a room filled with information on makings of a bomb. Mac and Flack put together that the commissioner has been running investigations into Iraqi insurgents, which the two Albanians would want to stop. After hiring the two certified divers to train them, the Albanians killed the men by luring them into the deep waters of East River with a promise of hidden treasure, which ended up being fake.

After calling in a death threat against the commissioner, the second suspect dived deep into the river to place the bomb. Flack learns about this threat and discovers that the commissioner is taking a helicopter to a UN conference, wherein they will land right over the water just as the Albanians have planned. The police disarms the bomb before the suspect could successfully set his bomb off, while Mac and Flack races to the pier to surprises the suspect that he’s under arrest.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: NY Season 4 episode 3, which airs Wednesday at 11/10c on CBS.

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Heroes Season 2 Episode 3 Preview, Part 2

This is a three minute video of preview clips from Heroes Season 2 episode 3, Kindred. Contains spoilers. Stay tuned to dingoRUE for a live blog of the episode from the east coast on Monday night.

See also: Heroes Season 2 episode 3 preview, part 1
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Scenes include Claire and West kissing on the beach, Peter discussing how to get the box back, and Bob and Dr. Suresh going to Isaac’s apartment.

Bionic Woman Episode 2

In episode 1, Jaime got into an accident and was turned into a bionic woman (didn’t see that one coming), and she then met up with her apparently evil counterpart Sarah Corvis.

Episode 2 starts in a cemetery, and at the funeral for her boyfriend Will, Jonas comes up to talk to Jaime. She doesn’t have any interest in talking to him and wants to pretend she’s just a normal person again. She then says she’s looking for Mr. right now and doesn’t have any trouble finding him, though she also doesn’t have any problem breaking his rib. Then Jonas shows up again. He tells her she could do something with her life and make a difference. He tells her his organization is saving the world and asks if she’s in or out. She says she’s out.

Becca gets caught smoking pot at school. The principal says it could lead to expulsion but also suggests taking away extracurricular activities, like the talent show. Jaime stands up for her and asks that they don’t take the talent show away, but it doesn’t take long before two of them are arguing.

Jaime meets up with her friends, who are discussing their future, which leads her to question hers, so she takes off. As she’s walking around, her powers kick in, allowing her to find and save a woman about to jump. After this, she decides she’s okay with saving the world, on her own terms. When she gets to Jonas, she realizes the guy who supposedly was a stranger giving her helpful advice in a store was actually someone sent there by Jonas intentionally. He tells her he wanted to find out of she was with another agency.

Then it’s time to train, with a repeat of the battle she had with Sarah (this time with Jay). He tells her about what her capabilities actually are. He says whether he’s in love with Sarah or not doesn’t matter because his first priority is the agency. Once the training session’s done, she offers to help investigate a small town under quarantine, where everyone’s dead. She’s not able to deal with this scene very well and has to go outside for some fresh air.

The deaths were caused by a toxin the agency developed. Upon further investigation, they go into a house and find someone still alive. They ask the girl if she remembers anything out of the ordinary, and she says there was a weird truck driving around. She’s surprised to find out the entire rest of the town is dead. A group of men with guns come up to her and Jaime pretending to be there to help. They start running, and the men shoot at them. While they’re hiding, Becca calls to say she’s moving back with her father. It’s then time for Jaime to take one of them out. Ruth Treadwell (Molly Price, Third Watch/Detective Faith Yokas), who brought Jaime there, comes in and says they have to get out of there. As they’re heading out, reinforcements arrive.

Jay goes to find Sarah, who says she thinks someone hacked her when she killed previously.

Following some interrogation, they track down the source of the problems, where they find out larger cities were the next targets. Armed with the knowledge of how many people they just saved, Jaime says she’s in. And she still has time to go see Becca in the talent show and tells her she’s never going to live with their father.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for continued another live blog of Bionic Woman episode 3, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

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NBC Picks Up Crusoe

NBC has picked up Robinson Crusoe, a drama based on Daniel Defoe’s novel, for 13 episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is expected to begin in fall 2008 or midseason 2009.

“It’s part ‘MacGyver,’ part contemporary morality tale about race and personal discovery, part comedy, and part ‘Castaway’ meets ‘Survivor’,” said Ben Silverman off NBC. The show was chosen by NBC’s development team when asked to choose a list of the most engaging stories ever told.

House Season 4, Episode 2 – House Hides a Patient

The season opener of House saw Dr. Gregory’s hardheadedness as he tries to solve a patient’s health case by himself, as he refuses to hire his new staff. In this episode, the questions remain: Is House really considering of hiring a new diagnosis staff? Will Cameron, Chase and Foreman ever return?

In a lecture room, House meets 40 aspiring applicants and discussed why Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man in the 1939 movie “Wizard of OZ” was replaced due to allergic reactions from the aluminum makeup used in the film. But when a lady officer from the NASA shows up with cash in House’s office, claiming to “hear with her eyes” and asked to keep her health condition off-the-record, House used his “resources” and let the applicants help him solve the case.

House divided the group into 4 — some tested the patient’s blood, the other group tested her stool, one group was asked to break into the patient’s home to find what she’s hiding and the remaining were asked to clean his car. House then saw Chase walk pass his office.

As usual, House went to Dr. Wilson’s office and asked what Chase was doing in the hospital. Wilson says that Chase accepted a job in Arizona and finds it interesting that House sees a vision of Chase (the one he fired) instead of Cameron or Foreman, who voluntarily quit the job. Wilson psychologizes House and says that what he’s experiencing is “repressed guilt”. House, of course, finds Wilson irritating and tries to focus on his patient.

One blonde applicant played her entire group that they’re wasting their medical education for some arrogant doctor. Most of her groupmates left with her leading the team, but she went back after only 1 “competition” was left cleaning the car. She even stole House’s car keys and just drove through carwash. Back at the office, the group of applicants were discussing her health condition to the patient when she experienced a psychotic attack, ran and locked herself in the hospital chapel.

While outside the chapel, House saw Cameron (with blonde hair) downstairs enter the hospital door. As House and the group of doctors extort the patient into coming out the chapel, Cuddy arrives and discovers that House is hiding a patient and demands to know her name. Everyone in the classroom did not disclose the patient’s name, claiming House never told me, except for one doctor who was asked to break into the patients House. When House went back into the lecture room, he immediately fired the guy who ratted the patient out.

Back in Wilson’s office, House told him that he saw Cameron. Wilson says it’s impossible since she was with Chase in Arizona. From their debate about House’s vision, he came up with a solution about his patient – they should stress the patient’s liver (and from one of the applicant’s suggestions) by getting her wasted. The patient along with House and three other doctors took a couple of tequilla shots. After a few shots, the patient drew short of breath.

While debating with one applicant about killing the patient’s dream versus the doctor’s beliefs, House saw Foreman pass by the room. He followed Foreman, but was stopped by Cuddy in the hallway. House found out that the patient’s problem was with her lungs and needed a lung biopsy to treat her. However, since NASA is unaware of her condition, the patient begged House to find another way to hide her health problem, scar or any sign of her being sick.

The remaining applicants discussed on a solution to force a patient into surgery. They ended up with an unconventional solution — asking the patient to get a boob job to find what’s wrong with her lungs. This way, NASA will only have records of breast augmentation, instead of a lung biopsy.

While in the surgery room, they discovered cysts on the left side of the lungs, while House asks the team to make a diagnosis based from the heart attacks, psychosis and cyst. No one answered correctly, except Chase who was upstairs watching the surgery. (House thought he was a vision and asked an applicant if he was seeing the blonde guy too).

After they have finally diagnosed the patient, House and the remaining doctors were back at the lecture room for the big decision. After firing more than half of the doctors, House asked the oldest guy in the batch to stay. He found out that the applicant had no medical degree and cannot be hired as a doctor. House hired him as an assistant, instead.

When House confronted Wilson about Cameron, he finally told House that she has been an attending doctor in the ER of the same hospital for three weeks. House visited Cameron at the ER and found out that it was her who recommended House to the NASA officer. When asked why House ratted the patient out to NASA, Cameron knew, House couldn’t kill the patient’s dreams.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of House Season 4 episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on Fox.

Prison Break Season 3 Episode 4 Preview

Here’s a 2 minute look at Prison Break season 3 episode 4. Contains minor spoilers. Don’t forget to stay tuned to dingoRUE for a live recap of the show from the east coast.

In it, Michael asks McGrady for another favor. He then asks Mahone for a pen and tells him to get his act together.

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Prison Break Season 3 episode 4 recap

Heroes Season 2 Episode 2

Heroes Season 2 episode 1 saw the debut of some new heroes (Maya, Alejandro, and West), Claire and her father’s (failed) attempts to be normal, Hiro trying to rehabilitate his hero Takezo Kensei, and at the end, Peter Petrelli… with amnesia. It’s almost time for another live blog. In the meantime, check out the spoilers (part 1 and part 2).

The guys looking for the iPods slap Peter around some. He tells them he doesn’t know how he got in there, but they don’t buy it.

Claire complains (again) because she doesn’t want to be normal, and her father tells her his job isn’t a normal 9-5 job but rather keeping his family safe.

Then his wife pulls out the paper showing the photo of Hiro’s father, and she makes him tell her what’s going on. He knew it was going to happen because Isaac painted it. The painting was 1 of 8, and he wants to find the other 7.

Parkman just so happens to get assigned to the case and pretends he doesn’t know the person who died. A witness saw someone push him off the roof, yet there’s only one body. Ando stops by and tells him the mark on the photo is the crest of Takezo Kensei.

Back in the 1600s, Hiro’s still trying to smack some sense into Takezo. Unable to get anywhere, he puts on the mask and fills in for him.

In school, Claire’s learning about lizards capable of cellular mutation. She asks whether it’s possible for people to be able to heal themselves. West gets (more) suspicious.

Bob finds a man with abilities who’s got a virus, the one that killed Suresh’s sister. The only cure for the virus is Suresh’s blood, so he goes to meet him.

Maya and Alejandro find someone who says she will help them without needing money.

Peter’s tied up and bloody. Caitlin walks in to try a kinder way of getting something out of him, rather than just letting her brother beat him up more. She asks his name, but he can’t even remember that. Eventually, he heals himself, and neither can figure out why.

When he arrives, Suresh is told the hero he went to save (the Haitian) doesn’t want the cure, but he insists.

A woman says she’s a healer and offers to help Maya. Alejandro says no, but she insists, only to find out that Maya can’t be healed. She thinks she’s been cursed.

Hiro confronts the enemy. He says he doesn’t need a sword, then takes all theirs. So they gets out the bows, and he makes all of them come to him as well. The swordsmith’s daughter is impressed by this display.

Peter breaks free of his ropes. Someone comes to shoot Caitin. By this time, though, Peter’s figured out how to use his abilities and defends her.

West waits for Claire after class and brings her Suresh’s book. She blows him off and tells him she was just bored in class.

While trying to flee to America, Maya kills again, but Alejandro is able to reverse the damage and return the woman to life.

Claire’s car gets stolen after she left it unlocked, which her dad uses as a metaphor for the larger problems at hand. He warns her that she’s freer there than she would be if she were to be found out.

Mrs. Petrelli is being questioned by the police, and Parkman learns the motive for the murder of Hiro’s father was revenge. She then gets attacked out of nowhere and hands over the photo of herself, which contains the same symbol.

Peter gets blackmailed into helping settle the score over the problems that will be caused by him attacking the guys who came after Caitlin. In exchange for his assistance, he’ll get everything that was on him when they found him.

Hiro promises to make Takezo the hero the swordsmith’s daughter sees. As soon as they step outside, Takezo gets shot and dies. Until he’s healed that is.

It doesn’t take the Haitian long to find Claire’s dad.

Thinking about what her teacher said about pinky toes not being necessary, Claire cuts hers off, hoping it will regenerate, which it does. Obviously, she does this in front of an open window with West watching. He leaves the book he had earlier and takes off, and that’s where chapter 2 ends.

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