CSI: Season 8, Episode 3 – Go To Hell

Last week’s episode, A La Cart, faced the CSI teams with two unusual cases. This week, the team tries to solve a murder of an entire family, except for one of the daughters (who is supposedly possessed by the devil) that remains missing.

The CSIs stumble upon a horrible multiple murder in a motel. To identify the victims, the CSIs asked a copy of the motel registration and found out that the family were checked in for a week. The car’s plate number and registration led to an address, where Warrick and Stokes immediately investigated only to find out a child dead sleeping on her bed.

In the meantime, Sara works a morning-shift case with the newbie CSI, Ronnie Lake, which bombards Sara of numerous questions about everything she could think of. Their victim is a homeless man who died of cardiac arrest because of dehydration.

Back at the other case, finger prints led to numerous recorded criminals along with a sex offender-turned reverend, Rev. Rhodes. As it turned out, the parents found dead in the motel attempted to rein their daughter in after discovering she is having a relationship with a 23 year old man. As parents who find it hard to believe that their little girl is having sex voluntarily, they become convinced that their daughter is possessed, seeking the help of Rev. Rhodes.

During the interrogation, Grissom asks Rev. Rhodes if the exorcism has worked on little Amy. Unfortunately, Rhodes admits he has failed because Amy’s father interrupted the procedure. As a result, the parents end up being murdered, while Amy remains missing.

In Sara’s case, she notes a complication on their victim: handcuff marks, leading Sara to believe that a cop may be the one responsible for the homeless man’s death. As it turns out, the homeless man punched the police officer, after the officer stopped the victim and another homeless man who were fighting for food. The cop knew that the man only punched him for an opportunity to go to jail where there’s free food and water. Since the cop really did kill the man, Sara wished he had just taken him into jail after all.

As the police searched for Amy, the CSI team figures out who committed the shocking murders. Grissom and the other first believed that they were after people who are involved in child pornography, killing the parents to kidnap Amy for a new film.

The police eventually found Amy with her 23-year-old boyfriend. She was immediately placed into child services. However, the evidence begins to point to an even inhumane conclusion as the CSI team finds an online conversation between Amy and the man, as she asks the 23-year-old man how far he could go just to be with her. As it turns out, Amy had planned the whole thing.

Unfortunately, Rev. Rhodes, knowing that Amy had committed the murders due to the evil inside her, hunts her down and finds her at the Child protection facility. Amy falls from the top floor as the Reverend tries to “save her”, causing her immediate death.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of CSI: Las Vegas Season 8 episode 4, which airs Thursday at 9pm on CBS.

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CSI: NY Season 4, Episode 3 – “You Only Die Once”

Last week’s episode “the deep”, Mac and the CSI: NY team investigated an underwater crime scene and stopped two Albanians who are attempting to bomb the city. This week, Flack opens the episode as he fools around with his girlfriend (Devon) in her Manhattan apartment. While they were in the apartment, Flack heard noises coming from the living room to find out they are being robbed. The robber sees Flack and immediately escapes down the window using a rope.

Flack chases the robber, who stepped into a one-of-a-kind, batmobile-like car. Using a taxicab that Flack stopped, he chases the robber down the city. The robber’s car emits some unique fluid, which becomes lit with fire that blocked Flack’s pursuit.

The CSI team arrives and investigates the robbery. Flack and his girlfriend gives a description of the man. A few hours later, Mac calls Flack for another crime scene in Bond Street only to find the corpse of the robber he saw earlier in Devon’s apartment. The same man robbed Chief Brigham Sinclair and now puts pressure on Mac and the team to solve the case.

The thief, who died of asphyxiation, was identified as James Stanton. Dr. Hammerback discovers long underwear and a tuxedo under Stanton’s jumpsuit. A part of the thief’s skull has been removed post-mortem.

The CSI’s evidences, particularly the butterfly wing scales, led them to the Manhattan Conservatory that hosted a benefit the same night as Devon was robbed. Randall Rodrique was incharge of the event coordination, but does not recall Stanton’s presence. His assistant Maude, on the other hand, does and says that Stanton was thrown out of the party for fighting with another guest.

Back at the lab, Lindsay and Danny study the batmobile car and found out that it had state-of-the-art tires and “memory polymer siding”, which makes it possible for the car to repair itself literally. A new robbery leads the CSIs to arrive at a serial number, which they were able to trace to Elliot Gano – a man working at a car dealership. Gano tells the CSIs that he loaned the car to James, but got into a fight with him after claiming the car was stolen, eventhough it was parked just outside the benefit.

Mac eventually tells Flack about the stalker and harassing calls h e has been receiving since he went back from his vacation. The message left by the caller was recorded on a flight on 767 to JFK airport – the exact flight Mac had when going back to New York. Flack promises to investigate about the mysterious caller.

At the lab, Hawkes determines a breach on their lab firewall. Mac orders the power to be shut down, but their lab table continues to glow, within Stanton’s tuxedo. The team discovers microtechnology sewn in the tuxedo’s lining, making Stanton and his partners guilty of not only stealing jewelries, but also hacking into the rich and famous’ PCs and committing identity theft.

Upon recovering the stolen information, Hawkes shows Mac an e-mail that accuses Chief Sinclair of sexual harassment. Mac tells Hawkes to keep the info private as he talks to Sinclair about the e-mail. The chief claims it is an extortion attempt to destroy him.

Linday discovers that the liquid emitted from the high-tech car was a combination of ethanol and Gilmore 171- the alcohol brand that sponsored the conservatory party. This led to the CSI team’s investigation back to Randall Rodrique. With lack of evidence, Stella and Flack decided to spy on a big party held that evening for the mayor, which Rodrique coordinated.

At the party, Stella pretends to be an event photographer to look for signs of “smart water”, which the robber was sprayed with during the last Manhattan apartment robbery. After taking a couple of shots, Stella discovers the smart water on Maude, the assistant. Maude tries to escape using her batmobile, but is stopped after a couple of barricades and car brake failure. However, she denies killing James Stanton.

Lindsay and Danny discovers that the airbag in the car was rigged to kill, while the breaks were sabotaged. The cayenne pepper found on the airbag leads the CSIs to Booth Rody, the co-employee of Elliot at the car dealership.  As it happens, Rody was the lookout for all robberies, but became jealous of his partners since he fells they are only using him and never letting him get into the action. As a result, Booth Rody sabotaged the car to kill his partners.

Back at the office, Mac finds out that someone leaked out the damning e-mail, which brought Sinclair’s attention back to Mac again. Plus, Mac receives his lost luggage, only to discover a bloody t-shirt inside it.

Who is sending these messages and shocking items to Mack?

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

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Reaper Episode 3

In Reaper episode 2, Sam accepted his fate as the devil’s bounty hunter (then again, that’s what I thought in episode 1 as well), and as a reward, the Devil set it up so that he would be working with Andi in the garden center.

Sam’s day starts off with his toothbrush having a large bug on it. It doesn’t get any better from there, as any time he tries to put anything in his mouth, it’s covered in bugs. As Bert is feeding Sam his apple, which needless to say looks odd to those around them, Andi comes up and invites him to a lecture at her college and then out for coffee after. He rejects this because he’s stupid or something.

Ted offers Sam a promotion to assistant manager of the plumbing department, with a message that he’s going to spend the rest of his life working at The Work Bench. Sam tells the Devil he just wants something that doesn’t suck. The Devil tells him he’ll need to come up with a better plan than that, but in the meantime, he shows him some pictures of dead people, who all got killed by bugs. Sam and his sidekicks follow a van with a giant bug and think they’ve located the escaped soul, but a bunch of bugs fly in and kill him, so that lead’s out the window. It does, however, lead them to an apartment complex where the soul lives.

Andi met a guy at school who’s trying to convince her to quit her job and go to school full time. They’ll have to deal with that later, but for now they have to worry about the federal offense of stealing and opening other people’s mail, as Sock grabbed the mail from the apartment complex and is investigating it to see if there’s anything out of the ordinary.

Bert and Sam sneak into Josie’s office looking for Harold Bunsen, who was the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, then disappeared in 1972. This week’s vessel is a toaster. As usual, their first attempt at using it is a failure, and this time, in the process of escaping, they leave a clue behind telling Harold where they’ll be.

Ted calls Sam and Andi to his office. Sam rejects the job offer, so Ted gives it to Andi. She says no and blurts out her plans to quit. While they’re out celebrating, or pretending to celebrate, the Devil shows up and says Sam’s embarassing him because he’s not getting the soul or the girl.

Harold shows up at The Work Bench and blames Gloria, a jealous woman going after anyone she thinks is coming between them, for the murders. Armed with a fog machine, a toaster, and some long extension cords, they head back to Bunsen’s apartment. Gloria outsmarts them, and while Sam and Ben check the apartment, she corners Sock and convinces him to spill the beans about the plan, which is prety easy because it’s Sock. Ben and Sam come in to find Sock in trouble, but Harold walks in, so she lets him go. Harold tells her he never loved her and just stayed with her out of fear. The boys then realize the toaster is a bug zapper and was working in its original state, but they just didn’t realize it. After unfixing the toaster, they’re able to capture Gloria and zap her back to Hell.

As we can probably come to expect, there’s a hidden meaning in this. Because Harold didn’t say how he truly felt, a bunch of people died, and he lived a miserable life. Sam’s able to relate to this. He runs to Andi’s school to tell her he’s upset that she quit, but when he gets there, he finds out all the classes were cancelled because of a tip the school received about the building being filled with asbestos. Once again, the Devil comes through for Sam.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 4 Magic, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 4

In episode 3, Will decided to be an idiot and win a challenge he didn’t need to win, which pretty much meant he was screwing himself over no matter who he picked. His partner got to keep her boytoy, and while Hollie and Josh were eliminated, Erin and Jesse still want revenge.

We start off with Rebecca picking up right where she left off, getting into bed with her “distraction.” Not shy about this fact, they wake up Nicole, who gets up and leaves and starts crying. She worries about what people will think about her, but I don’t think anyone has a problem with her. She comes to the conclusion that Rebecca is the problem, making another person who wants to get rid of Will/Rebecca.

The challenges for the week were picked by the public on The CW website based on their favorite of three choices. For the beauties: rocket science, computer science, and social science. For the geeks: massage by geek, fashion by geek, and body by geek. They don’t tell them which challenges are chosen, so they have to study for all of them.

Shay tries to teach Joshua how to squeeze his butt cheeks together, which goes over as well as can be expected. He’s the Richard of the show, minus the ADD. Will and Rebecca hope for the massage challenge since she’s in school for massage. Luke reveals he doesn’t have any use for that team either.

America has indeed chosen massage. Big surprise. Chicks with fake boobs in bikinis. Shay’s full of confidence, saying her partner’s probably going to suck at this. Each geek must massage each beauty (Sam included) for three minutes and will be judged on how they do. Dave uses the typewriter technique. Because his mother likes to be massaged that way. William’s a scratcher. Somebody goes a little too high when massaging their legs. Three people tied for second place, one point away from the winner. Will, John, and Joshua came in second. The winner of the geek challenge is Jesse, which was way too obvious because they made such a big deal about how they were afraid of Will winning.

Rebecca breaks down crying already, even though she hasn’t even competed in her challenge yet. After the challenge, Will goes to Erin to try to plead his case. She takes offense because he kept putting it off until after Jesse won the challenge. Not letting himself get down, Will believes Rebecca’s serious about the challenge, as we go to a scene of her wasting her time with Sam. Sam said earlier he felt bad about Nicole being upset, but he’s still ignoring her and not bother to study with her.

For the beauties, America has chosen rocket science. Each beauty must assemble and launch a rocket. Like the last challenge that increased Rebecca’s odds of staying in the house, this challenge increases Sam’s, as he’s the clear favorite here. This is an example of where the male beauty is unfair. Sam wins the challenge, coming in ahead of Rebecca, meaning if she goes home, it’s ultimately his fault. But better her than him I suppose. If nothing else, it does at least give him the opportunity to choose Rebecca’s opponents. Nicole gives him advice of who to pick, telling him to send someone she thinks can beat them (but telling Sam she thinks they can’t).

Jesse picks Will and Rebecca. Rebecca says it’s about revenge, but Erin denies it. Sam chooses William and Jen, as Nicole suggested. They must again study all three subjects. Rebecca starts crying in her confessional (again), saying she needs this change. Apparently making out with Sam counts as change. People volunteer to help Jen because she actually tried to do something to get to know them. Rebecca’s crying (it’s like watching Amber in BB8) that nobody wants to help her. Jasmine tells Will to get people to help, but Rebecca refuses to let him.

Jen gets her first question right, but Rebecca misses hers. Jen gets her second question wrong, as does Rebecca, giving Jen a 1-0 lead. William gets his first question right, but Will misses his. Rebecca and Will have been eliminated. He played too hard, and she was more interested in a guy. A fitting boot, one everybody but Sam will be happy with. Rebecca feels they were setup, which they were (just not by Sam), but considering they didn’t get a single question right, it really doesn’t matter who they went up against.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 5, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Heroes Blog Launches

I’ve been thinking about adding additional Heroes content to dingoRUE, as it is one of the most popular shows on this site. I didn’t want to overwhelm the site with Heroes coverage, however. So to that end, I’ve decided to launch a Heroes blog. dingoRUE will continue to feature its current Heroes coverage (recaps, previews, and the occasional news story), but regular Heroes updates will be on heroes.dingorue.com. Hope to see you there. If this goes well, I will consider adding additional blogs for other shows.

NBC, CBS, CW Order More Scripts

As we near a possible writers strike, the networks are scrambling to get more scripts from their new shows, Variety reports.

NBC has ordered three more scripts for Chuck, Bionic Woman, Life, and Journeyman. CBS has ordered four more scripts of Cane. The CW has ordered three more scripts of Aliens in America.

Most of these shows will probably be picked up for a second season, and these orders are a sign of this. Bionic Woman aside, NBC’s probably not thrilled with the performance of any of these but doesn’t have much choice. The CW, meanwhile, dumped all its top performers but a couple, so they’ll take what they can get at this point. The only show that looks like it may be in danger is Cane.

Regis Philbin Hosting Million Dollar Password

Well, it was only a matter of time before this happened. CBS will be updating the game show Password and has brought Regis Philbin to host it. The network has ordered 6 episodes of the series. Those of you paying attention a few years back saw ABC run Regis ragged in “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” by airing it almost every damn night.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 4 Preview

Here are 3 minutes of preview video clips of Heroes Season 2 episode 4 The Kindness of Strangers. Contains spoilers. Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another preview of episode 4 later in the week, along with a live blog from the east coast the night the show airs.

Heroes Season 2 Episode 4 Preview, Part 2

Scenes include Claire’s parents discussing whether she’s met a boy, Angela Petrelli trying to get a cleaned up Nathan on the right path, and Micah with his new family.