The Beautiful Life Cancelled

Well, that lasted about a week. The CW has cancelled its DOA new series The Beautiful Life: TBL after just two episodes. The show’s first episode had just 1.3 million viewers, fading to 1.1 million for its second outing. If they really want to give Ashton a show, why not give Beauty and the Geek another shot?

At least The CW still has The Vampire Diaries and, well, that’s about it at this point. Monday nights are limping along, Tuesdays are fairing even worse (with Melrose Place on life support out of the gates), and even the previously dependable Top Model is struggling, now down under 3 million viewers.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 3

After playing games about whether or not they were interested in each other, Stefan and Elena finally ended up kissing at the end of The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 2.

Following her encounter with Damon, Caroline wakes up with blood on her neck. She tries to sneak out without waking him, but he’s right in front of her before she notices him move. Then she tries to hit him with a lamp, which obviously isn’t going to do anything.

Bonnie now wants Elena to take it slow, after having been the one to tell her to go for it in the first place.

Tyler believes he can hit Stefan upside the head with a football while he and Elena are talking. He believes wrong. Stefan hears that thing coming, turns around, and catches it, then throws it back. Having seen this throw, Elena now wants to talk him into joining the football team. Yeah, he doesn’t really seem like a team kinda guy. Oh, and Matt and Tyler hate him.

When he’s done showing off his football skills, they go to history class, where Stefan again proves to Mr. Tanner that he knows more than him.

After class, Stefan decides to try out for the team. Tanner, also the football coach, just wants to see him get hit, so he’ll give him a chance. Matt and Ty will be happy to oblige.

Caroline shows up at practice and looks just fine, aside from the scarf she’s now wearing.

Stefan proves to be a formidable wide receiver. Even Matt’s impressed. Tyler, however, wants to see if he can injure the new guy. Well, he can try.

Bonnie’s obsessed with numbers today: 8, 14, and 22. Pointless discussion or some sort of clue?

While they’re eating dinner, Damon and Caroline show up. He’s gonna need an invite from someone who lives in the house. As much as Stefan may try to prevent this invite, he’s free to come in anyway.

Katherine died in a fire. It wasn’t exactly what you would call yesterday, though. The fact that she dated both brothers is not lost on Elena.

Stefan likes Caroline’s really nice scarf. Can he see it? No, she can’t take it off. She really can’t.

That night, Elena has a dream that she’s rounding second base with Stefan. When she takes off his shirt, he turns into Damon. As she wakes up, she fails to notice the crow in her window.

Following Damon’s advice, Elena has decided to quit cheerleading. It’s just not important to her any more. She shows up at the game with everybody else anyway. While there, she gets a necklace from Stefan. So what’s this necklace’s purpose?

Bored with the festitivies and angry that Stefan’s already a starter, Tyler decides to pick a fight with Jeremy. After some punches are thrown, Tyler learns that if he wants to fight, he’ll have to fight Stefan. He punches him. No impact. Then Jeremy gets up with his broken bottle and slashes Stefan’s hand. Obviously, this wound heals right away. He pretends that it wasn’t his blood, but Elena knows what she saw.

After that, Elena needs to find out what’s going on. If only she knew a psychic witch. When she touched Stefan, Bonnie got a feeling, a feeling of what she imagines death to be like.

When Damon meets up with Elena, he’ll bet she thinks about him and has even dreamed about him. Right now, she wants to kiss him. That mind control doesn’t work. Guess that explains the necklace.

Although Tyler still hates Stefan’s guts, Matt is coming around.

Stefan has managed to figure out the small bit of humanity still left in his brother. Damon loves Katherine and always has. Not that that humanity will prevent him from killing the coach for no reason.

Bonnie finally figures out what those numbers mean. Building 8, a car with 14 on the license plate, and the number 22 next to the trail of blood. Creepy, but not the most useful vision.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 4 Family Ties, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor: Samoa Episode 2

Because she kinda sorta but not really crossed Russell, Marisa was voted off the island in Survivor: Samoa Episode 1.

Hunter H says that he got rid of Marissa because he doesn’t want to worry about her strong mind. Isn’t she one of the people he called a dumbass last week?

Betsy and Russell agree with each other that they don’t trust each other.

Yasmin hates the outdoors. You’re on the wrong show.

Jaison was shocked by how aggressively Russell H acted at tribal council. If he thought that was aggressive, he’d better just wait because it will get even worse as time passes.

Russell H’s got a new plan: find the hidden idol. He starts searching in the middle of the daylight with everybody standing right there, and somehow this works. Great job of hiding that thing, producers. He immediately tells Jaison.

Mike and Betsy are the next two on the chopping block for Foa Foa.

The challenge is a battle to retrieve three balls and pass them to three other tribemates, who will attempt to shoot them into the opposing basket. Typically, these battle challenges are a bad idea. This challenge is for immunity, reward (fishing gear), and a twist. Monica sits out for Galu. Liz scores the first point for Foa Foa. The women get rougher than the men were and are warned about choking and aggressive hits to the head. John scores for Galu to tie it. Probst warns them they’re right on the line of getting ugly. Dude, this challenge is your fault. You want a rough challenge, you’ve got it. Anything resembling a cheap shot will result in elimination. With a kick to Russell S’ knee, Ben has been eliminated from the challenge. Jeff calls this first time in the history of Survivor that this has happened (refer to Survivor: Thailand Episode 3, another battle challenge). With that, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Foa Foa’s too outnumbered to be a factor. Erik scores for Galu to take the lead 2-1. Then Laura scores to win immunity for Galu. What a poorly planned challenge.

The twist involves the leader. Russell S must select one person from his tribe to accompany someone else back to camp. Yasmin is chosen. She has been given something to open in private, presumably the clue to the already discovered idol.

Mike will be staying behind to have medical look at him. It doesn’t seem that it’s the poorly planned challenge that caused his problem, though. Rather, it is the physical activity. He’s suffering from very low blood pressure, and it keeps dropping. They will be pulling him from the game, without a choice.

Foa Foa’s now down to 8 members, but tribal council still looms.

Shambo said that spear fishing is her thing. It’s apparently not. She’s unable to catch anything and instead does some floating in the water. To make matters worse, she broke the mask.

When Yasmin visits Foa Foa, she insults them. She’s there to help because she doesn’t want this to be a cakewalk. They’re too inept to do anything on their own, so she’s there to save them. When she’s done with her condescending speech to the tribe as a whole, she wants to talk to Ben in private, except it’s not very private because everything she says is yelled. He tackled her like a dude, but he ain’t gonna apologize. So she runs her mouth some more.

Yasmin receives a clue to the idol. She knows it’s up a tree, but she won’t bother to look.

In the middle of the night, Ben is making as much noise as he can, working along as he would during the day. His tribe really doesn’t need much more reason to vote for him. Regardless, Betsy is the weakest link, so that may be his saving grace.

When they go to tribal council, Betsy is the only one to bring her bag.

Ben still believes he can win this game.

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By a unanimous vote, Betsy has been voted off the island. She warns that they need to open up their eyes, and based on the previews, maybe they will.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Samoa Episode 3, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 3

The stop in Phoenix in So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 2 brought us Sasha Mallory, Allison Becker, Willem de Vries, Jacob Jason, and Jonathan “Legacy” Perez. Tonight we head to Boston, where Mary and Nigel are joined by Tyce Diorio.

Teddy Tedholm says he’s whimsical. Whatever that’s supposed to mean, I’m not getting this dancing, but the judges love him. He’s going to Vegas.

I’m not sure what to expect from Jean Lloret from how he starts, but when he gets down to his power moves, he proves to be an excellent breaker.

Kimara Wood will be joining him in Vegas.

Channing Cooke has been waiting until she turned 18 to be on this show. Nigel thinks she’s got everything needed. Tyce would like to see her go further. He asks for more guts on the stage. If she’s looking for clear guidance, she ain’t getting it here. She advances to choreography.

Brian Casey is a 6’8″ tall tap dancer. They’ll probably pair him up with some girl who’s just shy of 5′. Nigel is impressed by his feet, and he’s going to choreography.

Russell Ferguson is a krumper, and he’s hoping to be the first one to ever make it to Vegas. Nigel says that was buck, which what we’ve gathered from Lil C is a good thing. His concern is that krump is too one dimensional. Tyce thought that was filthy and dirty, and Russell’s one of his favorite people there in Boston. He will be getting a shot at choreography.

Fabrizio “Breeze” Jenkins may or may not have just injured himself. He acknowledges he fell in the middle of that, but he just kept going. Tyce tells him he’ll need to train and gives him a no to choreography, but Mary and Nigel say yes.

His advance to the choreography round turns out to be pointlesss, as Breeze is unable to continue without being able to do the turns after having fallen earlier and landed the wrong way on his ankle. Brian will not be going to Vegas. Channing, however, will be, and so will Russell.

Married couple Karen and Matthew Hauer are cha cha dancers. Mary calls her a hot tamale. She’s Jennifer Lopez hot with solid technique. They will be both heading to Vegas.

Gene Bersten has fallen in love. With himself. Cat can’t help but roll her eyes at him. Although he’s a good dancer, his arrogance will be a big turn off, and I don’t see him getting the female votes he’s expecting. Mary’s worried about his out of control facial expressions, but he will be advancing to choreography.

Paul Magliato is, uh, well, it’s not clear what he’s doing. Tyce is afraid. Aside from the fact that he wasn’t really what you would call dancing, he’s 46, which puts him outside the age range for the competition to begin with. Mary says he’s off his rocker.

The final dancer of the night, Kevin “K’Bez” Hunte, auditioned during season 3. Mary still doesn’t know whether he’s strong enough. He’s good but not great. Tyce wants to know why he didn’t show off his contemporary, which he says he’s been training in. He will be going to choreography. Why choreography?

K’Bez obviously makes it through Vegas, and so does Gene.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 2

After she and Julio fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 1, Alexandra was voted out.

Shay doesn’t think Julio should be here due to his low weight loss. As a percentage, Amanda and Dina lost less than he did, but they had stronger partners. Should they, too, not be there?

Seeing how hard the vote has been on them, Allison makes a proposition. At the next weigh-in, they have the opportunity to keep everyone above the yellow line. They must lose a combined total of 150 pounds. If they can, everybody is safe. If not, two people will go home.

Daniel knows the potential perils of week two. He lost 3 pounds last season. Mo’s hope is to coach them into that 150 pounds, and his message to Julio is that he owes them. With his poor weight loss the first week, Julio’s got the most potential to pull off a big number.

Julio’s safety elicits wows from Bob and Jillian. More surprising to them is the twist for the week. Jillian suggests just picking two people to go home right now. Her message to them is proper diet. Watch your intake, but don’t starve yourself.

Bob tells Dina that she needs to chill out, or she won’t make it very far if she keeps spinning her mind out of control. Stress is the worst thing she can do to herself at this point.

Mo returns to the hospital to visit his partner, Tracey, who collapsed during the first challenge. He gives her the news that she’s got the chance to come back.

Shay remains frustrated with Julio, believing that he’s not working still. He walks out of the gym for a bahtroom break. He returns 2 hours and 19 minutes later. Everybody else was working out when he left, and everybody else is still there now. He also doesn’t seem to know how many calories he needs to burn. If he continues to slack off for another week, I agree with her that he should go home.

Tracey is out of the hospital and ready to get started on the ranch, even though she’s feeling weak. This experience has served as a big wake up call. If she can collapse at age 37 after just 1 mile, think what another 50 pounds and 10 years would do. The doctor has allowed her to come back under restricted exercise, which means her nutrition will be even more important than it would be otherwise. Having one extra person may bode well for the house because it gives them an extra shot at losing that 150 pounds.

Curtis Stone has 7 tips to share with the contestants, which Allison will quiz them on later. The prize is a 15 pound advantage.

Which plate contains the correct portion size for a family of 4?
Mo and Tracey choose the correct plate that is 3-4 ounces of 4 servings.

Name 3 out of 5 ways of cooking without oil.
Baked, poached, and steamed. Shay and Danny score another point.

How many calories are in this popular chain restaurant’s chicken season salad?
1010. Liz and Danny are correct. Just because it’s salad doesn’t mean it’s healthy if you load on the dressing.

How many fewer calories are there in a serving of zucchini combined with pasta rather than just pure pasta?
248. Amanda and Rebecca are correct.

How many calories would you consume if you had one 16 ounce glass of soda with 3 refills?
747. Answering 789 calories, Abby and Allen are incorrect.

Which dessert is less than 150 calories?
Cup of strawberries with half an ounce of melted dark chocolate dipping sauce. Answering the parfait, Antoine and Sean are incorrect.

Name 2 of 3 reasons why it’s important to add protein to any snack.
It makes you feel fuller and gives more fuel to your muscles to work longer. Rudy and Dina score a point to win the challenge, bringing their goal weight loss down to 135 pounds.

The challenge involves 4 rafts separated by balance beams. Their job is to get every person across the balance beams from one raft to the next. Everybody must get on each raft before moving on. They have one shot. If one person falls off, they lose. If everyone reaches the first raft, they get a 5 pound advantage. The second raft is an additional 5 pounds. The third raft is phone calls from home. If they complete the challenge, they get another 10 pounds, for a total of 20 pounds. Each balance beam is narrower than the one before it. They all cross the first balance beam for 5 pounds. The second balance beam is harder, but they all make it, securing an additional 5 pound advantage. The third balance beam requires a lot more teamwork, but they make it across and get phone calls. Keep your eyes on the prize, folks. That 10 pounds and staying here another week beats a phone call to someone you haven’t talked to in a week. The final beam is 6 inches wide and more wobbly than the others. Everybody makes it to win the challenge and get another 10 pounds. That brings them down to 115 pounds they have to lose to prevent anybody from going home.

Jillian’s ready to kill Julio to get him to work.

Bob wants Shay to gain strength from her experiences, rather than continuing to play the victim.

The 115 pound goal comes out to a little more than 7 pounds each.

Amanda: 240 pounds (-4, 1.64%)
Rebecca: 255 pounds (-6, 2.30%)
Pink Total: 495 pounds (-10, 1.98%)

Tracey: 228 pounds (-10, 4.20%)
Mo: 327 pounds (-9, 2.68%)
Purple Total: 555 pounds (-19, 3.31%)

Antoine: 341 pounds (-8, 2.29%)
Sean: 411 pounds (-11, 2.61%)
Red Total: 752 pounds (-19, 2.46%)

Allen: 296 pounds (-10, 3.27%)
Abby: 221 pounds (-11, 4.74%)
Green Total: 517 pounds (-21, 3.90%)

Liz: 247 pounds (-10, 3.89%)
Danny: 394 pounds (-12, 2.96%)
Brown Total: 641 pounds (-22, 3.32%)

Rudy: 400 pounds (-14, 3.38%)
Dina: 237 pounds (-8. 3.27%)
Blue Total: 637 pounds (-22, 3.34%)

Julio: 375 pounds (-19, 4.82%)

Daniel: 293 pounds (-7, 2.33%)
Shay: 443 pounds (-16, 3.49%)
Orange Total: 736 pounds (-23, 3.03%)

As a group, they’ve managed to lose 155 pounds, enough to not only be safe for the week but to beat their original goal of 150 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser 8 Episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 11

Sabrina was sent packing in Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 10.

Having made it to the final 6, the blue and red teams are now done. Break out the black coats.

The challenge is to recreate a dish based on seeing and tasting it. They will be divided into three teams of two: Van and Ariel, Tennille and Kevin, and Suzanne and Dave. Kevin knows right off the bat that the fish is turbot, and the others all eventually end up at that same conclusion. They all answer the same on the garnish, calamari. At Ariel’s suggestion, she and Van go with celery root for the puree, while the other two teams pick parsnip. For the sauce, Ariel and Van go with star fruit, Kevin and Tennille pick grapefruit, and Dave and Suzanne choose passion fruit. As time’s ticking down, Van drops the fish, running the risk of yet more undercooked fish. At least it’s not halibut this time. Ariel and Van get close in presentation, but that’s not gonna win them anything unless they’ve nailed the dish as well. Kevin put the garnish off to the side. Too far to the side, as they forgot to include it in their dish. The correct ingredients are: turbot, white onion (everybody missed it), calamari, and passion fruit. Kevin and Tennille aren’t even in this due to their lack of garnish, so it came down to the sauce, which Dave and Suzanne correctly identified to win the challenge.

For their reward, Dave and Suzanne will get to meet the winner of Hell’s Kitchen season 4 at Chef Ramsay’s restaurant. The punishment will be to do a prep for that night’s service for couple’s night with a beautiful romantic setting.

Suzanne asks Christina whether she was the know it all on her season. With a yes answer in place, Suzanne believes she can win this. Not sure what’s given her reason to believe that, but at lesat she’s staying positive. Dave’s having great fun, except for that he’s stuck being there with Suzanne.

Dave and Suzanne are treated like outcasts upon their return, but Tennille realizes that they still need to work together because every mistake costs the team.

Kevin is on tableside service, while Suzanne is on hot appetizers. The coordination of timing between the two is critical, so Suzanne cooking the incorrect quantity will not get them off to the best start. Kevin’s left having to buy time for them because Suzanne’s 2 minutes is more like 5 or so. Suzanne’s hope: you don’t have to be that perfect to win this show.

Van’s on fish again. New night. More screaming. First he starts to cook too early. Then he sweats into the food.

Tennille’s taking the lead on the meat station and is the first hint of good communication to come out of the kitchen tonight. Her lamb is also perfectly cooked.

Van delivers undercooked halibut. Oh no. Not this again. Then Ramsay ends up in the fetal position on the floor.

At least the lettuce is not undercooked. Ariel left some lettuce on a burner that’s on, then she turned around, resulting in really well done garnish.

Ramsay walks out of the restaurant. Maybe now they’ll get some peace.

With Ramsay gone, Tennille takes it upon herself to take control. She seems to be doing a good job, but Ariel’s limping around and not having it. Dave tries to bail Ariel out but realizes she seems defeated.

Then Kevin takes over at the pass to prove that they can still get this done on their own. When he gets them caught up and heads out to the dining room, that leaves Suzanne in charge. She doesn’t know what she’s doing, though. So Van has to do it for her. Her strategy it turns out is simple. Don’t do anything at all because she doesn’t want to be blamed. With that attitude, go home.

When he returns, Ramsay throws out Suzanne, Van, and Ariel, leaving Tennille, Dave, and Kevin to finish dinner service. Suzanne may have some hope here. Van’s closing in on a meltdown.

The three remaining chefs finish dinner service, and when it’s over, Tennille is told that’s the best anyone’s done on meat. Since those three are all safe, they will be able to choose who should be up for elimination of the other three.

Dave’s considering a strategic move here, which would mean the nomination of Ariel. In order for this to work, though, she has to actually go home. Not happening no matter who she’s up against.

The two nominees are Suzanne for her refusal to help at the pass and Ariel because she burned some lettuce (is that really the best excuse you could come up with?). When asked whether Ariel’s one of the weakest chefs, Tennille responds that she does not believe so. Suzanne and Van should be up there.

Ramsay asks all three of them to step forward. Ariel’s name is called, and she immediately assumes she’s being kicked off the show. Nope, she can get back in line. Next time he calls your name, staying put would show more confidence. Van can hand over his jacket. Wrong choice. For her refusal to work on the pass, Suzanne should not have been given yet another chance.

Dave is upset with Tennille for saying that Van was one of the weaker choices. In reality, it was Dave’s own fault. He should not have made that stupid attempt at a strategic play without giving it some additional thought. Burnt lettuce? Really?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 10

The men lost Andy, then they were saddled with Suzanne in Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 9.

The women are thrilled they don’t have to deal with Suzanne any more. The men are not so thrilled with this change, and they let her know they have no use for her. What this does do is gives the blue team a one person advantage, if she counts as a whole person.

The chefs are given a challenge to take 15 ingredients and combine 5 together into three dishes. Sabrina feels her teammates are ignoring her. As for Suzanne, the men don’t want to hear what she’s saying either. Tennille and Ariel believe they’re working with lamb, so Sabrina sabotages them and lets them keep thinking it’s lamb instead of venison. Ramsay has brought two people I never heard of before, figure skaters Sasha Cohen and Jonny Moseley. The blue team gets a point from both for their first dish. There’s a concern that the red dish is too rich. Tennille presents lamb, which Sabrina finds hilarious. She wants to see her team fall on its face. When questioned, Tennille realizes it’s venison. Despite Sabrina’s efforts to sink her team, they still get the point from both judges. Van and Sabrina step forward with the final dishes. Van doesn’t know what he’s prepared. The judges seem more split than they had been on the previous dishes, but both pick the blue dish, so the blue team wins the challenge 4-2.

For their punishment, the women will work at a local farm milking cows and cleaning a pigpen. For their reward, the blue team goes to a restaurant to learn how to make grilled cheese sandwiches.

Ramsay’s menu has been torn up, so each team will have to create their own menu. They’ve got an hour to come up with three appetizers, three entrees, and three desserts. The women are not happy with Tennille’s suggestions, and they’re clashing already. Blue team, however, are collaborating well. Sabrina doesn’t even hide the fact that she doesn’t like Ariel’s menu choice, and she tells Ramsay as much. Apparently having spent most of her time making fun of Tennille, Sabrina did not produce a menu item of her own.

Tennille’s on the garnish station but has no clue how to cook the dish she’s being asked to cook.

Ramsay asks Van to tell him what 2 times 3 is. It’s like watching Jordan from Big Brother try to figure out how many quarters there are in an hour.

Ariel has delivered frozen pork on her first appetizers. Van goes the other direction, burning his scallops. Then Ariel again delivers some more stone cold food.

Dave’s been going through this with one hand the whole time. When he lifts a pan, he’s hit with pain in that hand. Time to see a medic. Nonetheless, he’s going to push through the pain and continue with the service. Commendable effort on his part, or lame editing to try to trick us?

Sabrina needs to pick up the speed. Does she need a timer to see just how slow she’s going?

As Ramsay’s being a big baby and whining for no good reason, Van just laughs at him. Not happy being laughed at, now it’s time to blow it all out of proportion. He’s not there to fight with him, though. So who’s he there to fight with?

Tennille starts sweeping in the middle of service. Next time, she might want to serve the food first, then sweep.

Van has delivered raw halibut. Dave considers this a rookie mistake. Van’s not new to cooking halibut. His second attempt is still uncooked. He doesn’t seem to be taking too well to this being screamed at all night long.

For her part, Sabrina, likewise, is getting yelled at for uncooked halibut.

With neither team able to get their halibut cooked, they’re shut down. Nobody won. Both teams will have to come up with one name.

The blue team has a choice. Either Suzanne, who’s on her last life, or Van after his performance tonight.

Tennille and Sabrina hate each other, so it will come down to which of them Ariel wants nominated.

The red team has nominated Sabrina. The blue team has nominated Van, although Suzanne’s their weakest chef. If you’re going to nominate Van, just nominate Van. Don’t talk badly about someone who you wish to remain in the competition and be part of your team. Unless their strategy is merely to make sure they survive intact so that there’s no choice but to get rid of the other team’s member.

The person leaving Hell’s Kitchen is Sabrina. She proved she needed to go home when she laughed at her team’s mistake rather than trying to help correct it.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 6 Episode 11, which airs next on Fox.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 2

Heroes Season 4 Episode 1 started us off with the introduction of new character Samuel and his quest to change the past, Hiro’s accidental traveling back in time to change his own past, and Sylar’s return as he tries to overpower Nathan and get his body back.

Sylar’s now got baby Matt Parkman, and he won’t put him down until he gets his body. It’s all in his mind, his very disturbed mind.

HRG makes a call to his wife. A man answers the phone. It’s not a wrong number. After hanging up, he gets a call from Tracy, who wants to show him Danko’s body.

Hiro wants to go back to the future. He runs into himself, and he thinks he looks familiar. He’s returned to the moment he got that fortune that brought him down this path. His efforts to return to the future are not working, so instead he runs into Samuel.

Claire’s got some questions to answer. Her roommate had too much self esteem and was an overachiever. That’s not the impression the suicide note left, although Claire distinctly remembers her pillow case was crisp and lacked a note. How can a dead girl write a suicide note?

Ando tells Hiro’s sister the truth. Hiro slipped out of time and space and is 14 years ago at a carnival. The truth is lost on her.

If Hiro interferes in what’s going on over there at his fortune telling, he won’t save the cheerleader, and New York will explode. His belief is that everything is connected, so he doesn’t want to change anything while he’s there. Not even one little thing? Like preventing Ando from spilling a drink all over his sister Kimiko’s favorite dress. Nope. If Hiro won’t change things, Samuel pushing him in the way of the drink might. When he returns to the future, it worked. Now Ando and Kimiko are dating, or just really friendly.

HRG notices that all of Danko’s wounds are to the stomach. The killer was looking for something, but he left it behind. It’s a key. To what?

Noah stops by to see Peter, who intends through his paramedic job to make up for all they’ve done. It turns out the key opens a safe deposit box. He’s looking for a partner to defend him from the guy who’s super fast and has a thing for knives.

Gretchen can’t make sense of Annie’s suicide either. Who maps out their life for the next 50 years then throws it out the window? So how do they prove it’s murder?

HRG bets Peter knows the name of everybody he’s saved. Do any of them know his? Speaking from experience, Noah says it’s not good to live life alone. They’ve found out what Danko got killed for: a compass. A broken compass at that. As expected, they’re attacked, which allows Peter to copy the attacker’s power. When the fight’s over, Peter’s concern is to save the banker’s life.

When Peter grabs the compass, it starts spinning, but Peter wants to stay away from this. He just came along for the new ability.

Gretchen suggests the jump, push, fall test. By getting a dummy the approximate size and weight of Annie, they should be able to determine whether she fell, jumped, or was pushed.

Hiro has a new mission in life: to go back and undo his wrongs.

Matt’s interrogating a suspect. Sylar has a suggestion: just read his mind. Because the suspect thinks he’s crazy, which he may very well be, he folds after having a chair thrown in his general direction and gives up a name. Didn’t need to read minds after all.

While on duty, Peter gets a call. Arriving on the scene, he finds out that Noah’s been slashed, and the compass is gone.

Tracy has a suggestion. Maybe their plan should not be to stop the guy with the knives but to figure out a way to help him.

Matt returns home where he finds the water guy Roy. He had no problem fixing the hot water. Must be tough out there for a single mom. She’s not exactly single as far as Parkman knows, but tomorrow, Roy will be asking for a new route and never stop by there again.

Claire opens her window. She’s about Annie’s size and weight. Based on where she landed, she’ll have to go with fall. Guess Annie did kill herself. Oh, and Gretchen’s standing there watching Claire push her ribs back into her body.

Now that Samuel’s got Hiro on the path he wants him to be on, it’s time to get the rest of them.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 3 Ink, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.