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.

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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

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 3

In Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 2, Sam escaped the axe, which few people were happy about. Tony and Amanda ended up getting eliminated, which was pretty much expected since Tony was so shy and didn’t seem able to overcome it.

Everybody’s happy Natalie and John escaped elimination, or so it appears. Perhaps they’re just excited to have some alcohol.

Sam says the geeks have experience with knowledge, while he has experience with the stuff they don’t know anything about, namely girls, who for some reason aren’t creeped out by his eyes. He then starts up truth or dare. Rebecca is dared to do a sexy dance for John. She dares Sam to do a stripper dance for Nicole, but she says it’s uncomfortable, so he does it for the beauties. Nicole takes truth and says she’s attracted to someone in the house but doesn’t say who. She says in her confessional she wants to meet an “alphanerd.” Dave assumes it’s him. Rebecca and Sam are obviously attracted to each other. It’s not long before they’re kissing. She says she’s concerned because she’s there to find out who she is as a person, which apparently making out with a guy for three hours who she just met will assist with.

The beauties’ task is to learn about anatomy; the geeks’ task is to learn about courtship and romance.

The geeks go first, and they must pick out gift baskets to be judged by the beauties. Nicole’s happy because she believes she’s more in touch with what girls want than the guys are. Joshua gets a pie, which pretty quickly gets destroyed, and one of the beauties bets it’s his basket. Will seemingly just grabs a bunch of stuff without really thinking but manages to pull it together somehow. Jesse gets a pink hat and unicorn stickers.

The beauties are asked whether they studied hard. Of course they didn’t. The top two are Will and Jesse, and the winner is Will. After winning, Will decides to do storytime, reading The Tell Tale Heart to a bunch of people. Somehow, the editors managed to find a correlation between this and a makeout session with Rebecca and Sam. Odder still, some of the girls take offense to him telling them a story.

Next up is the beauties’ task, identifying and drawing body parts. The geeks must get in their underwear and let the beauties draw on them with fingerpaints. Everybody gets the heart right. When asked to identify the left earlobe, Sam and Shay get the earlobe part. Too bad it’s the right earlobe. Erin does the whole ear. Those three are eliminated. Then it’s the appendix. Katie is eliminated because it’s on the wrong side (she got her appendix taken out 4 years ago, though), Hollie and Natalie were too low, and Jasmine just guessed and went overboard. It’s between Rebecca and Jen, and they must locate the nasal septum. Jen tries the neck. Surely at least some of these girls had nosejobs.

Since Rebecca won, Sam thinks he’s safe until next time, but he’s forgetting about Will. Will’s between a rock and a hard place. If he doesn’t target Sam, he’s stuck with a partner whose attention is divided (even she knows it’s a distraction). If he does target Sam, he’s stuck with a partner who may hate him. It also means they have to pick both teams, so someone’s going to be coming back and may seek revenge. Beyond that, winning that challenge made him a big threat, which puts a big target on his back when he does lose. On the whole, nothing good came out of that win. If he were truly smart, he’d have thrown the challenge and let someone else do the dirty work.

Rebecca decides to send Hollie and Josh because she feels they don’t need much more improvement. Will sends Jesse and Erin because he hasn’t seen them interacting with anyone other than their partners. Erin starts crying and doesn’t feel the assessment is correct. She calls him a hypocrite since he hasn’t been making an effort with her either. Hollie, similarly, feels Rebecca is a hypocrite, since she’s not focused on her transformation and is more concerned with Sam. These are two pretty strong teams, so at least some good will come out of it since having one of them gone will help, though whichever girl survives will be out for blood, not just because they were sent but also because they were sent against a good friend.

The girls go first. Erin gets the first question correct, as does Hollie. Erin also gets the second question correct, and so does Hollie. Jesse gets his first question correct, as does Josh. Jesse gets his second question correct, but Josh misses his. Hollie and Josh are eliminated, but they have a very classy exit. I’m sure Erin and Jesse will be happy to seek revenge for them.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 7

In Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 6, Iban lost immunity, and instead of trying to keep the numbers advantage, ex-Bajau voted off one of their own, Rijesh, who’s been playing too hard the whole time and hasn’t kept it as secret as he’s hoped. Whether you like each other or not, at least pretend so you don’t get Pagonged. Oh, and in case you missed it, Lisa did nothing. Again.

As they mentioned in last episode, Iban’s out of food, which is bad news with Bajau having just eaten a goat. Dyke tells Irshaad that he may not necessarily vote him off. I wouldn’t completely trust the girls either if I were him, but I don’t think he can trust Irshaad for that matter.

They believe the communique is about a food eating challenge. Bajau is afraid because, beyond the fact that food challenges are always gross, they’re all completely full. Mandla doesn’t have a problem with Hein but continues to be frustrated by Angela being what Mandla considers Hein’s right hand woman. Hein and Angela come up with the concept of giving a gift of food to the other tribe. Makes more sense than throwing it away because the meat’s shelf life with no storage is quite limited. Then again, it may also give the other tribe a boost in the immunity challenge, which is most dangerous for Angela and Lisa.

Reward is a bunch of items to get clean (portable shower, soap, body lotion, etc.) or a wok and rice. As expected, it’s a gross eating challenge. Grant and Dyke are up first, who must eat a dried frog, fried cockroaches, and dried beetles. Dyke wins pretty easily. Angie and Hein must eat a raw baby squid, hardly a fair matchup. Hein obviously wins to tie it 1-1. Irshaad then goes against Angela, and they must eat fish eyes. Irshaad easily wins to retake the lead. Amanda and Lorette are up next, and they must eat live prawns. Amanda wins. Iban wins reward. They’ll take the food. After that, Angela goes up and gives them the goat meat they brought with them. Grant is displeased with this gift and lets it be known.

Angie’s slowly getting tired of her tribe, most notably Irshaad. If they lose immunity, it’s going to come down to a choice between the two.

While he’s out fishing, Hein catches a shark. Not the first shark we’ve seen in Survivor, but always a welcome sight.

The immunity challenge has runners on a balance beam trying to get torches past people throwing sandbags at them, light the torches, then run back with them still lit and without falling in the water. Lisa, who originally was supposedly being kept around because she was good at challenges, sits out again. Dyke takes a 1-0 lead over Mandla. Mandla ties it, but Dyke scores again for a 2-1 lead. Dyke’s strategy proves very effective, and he returns his third and final torch to give Iban the immunity win.

After the win, Angie seems unimpressed because she would have liked to be able to vote off Irshaad.

Grant, who’s been the reason Lisa’s made it this far, as he’s been dragging her instead of just dropping her when he should have, now says he feels like she’s joined up with Hein and Angela, leaving himself somewhere in the middle. When making his case, he refuses to give out a name and says he needs to be told who Hein and Angela want to vote for first.

The two names that keep coming up are Angela and Lisa. Everybody else is safe. Tribal council is mostly a debate over why Lisa’s sitting out of challenges, whether she’s volunteering or being forced.

Votes:
Lisa
Lisa
Hein
Lisa
Lisa

Lisa votes for Hein to be an asshat, but she finally gets voted out after hanging on for about 4 episodes too long. This makes the numbers 5-4 in favor of ex-Iban, but with loyalties being questioned and changed, it’s still anybody’s game.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 8, and don’t forget the live recaps of Survivor: China.

The Race 2 Episode 3

The Race 2 is a production of ICTV that’s structured similarly to The Amazing Race. Watch The Race 2 online.

In The Race 2 episode 2, Dave & Matt continued their dastardly ways but put up another strong performance, while Hal & Matilda and Daniel & Jeff continued to sink to the bottom. But in the end, obsessed with Dave & Matt, Kristiyan & Nick fell into last place and were eliminated.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived:

First: Jon & Jenna
Second: Dave & Matt
Third: Ginalola & Sadie
Fourth: Drew & Vanessa
Fifth: Daniel & Jeff
Sixth: Hal & Matilda

In the first challenge, teams must find cans and bottles and bring them to The Can Man redemption center. Teams were able to utilize whatever means they could think of to obtain cans. Jon & Jenna as the first to depart have a big advantage. They just ask for cans at the Park Diner, the pitstop for the last leg of the race, and take everything they have, which is more than they need. Dave & Matt just buy their cans, and the clowns that they are, they empty them while driving (but do at least slow down, if that earns them any points). Sadie & Ginalola head to bars and restaurants. Drew & Vanessa dig through the trash, and Hal & Matilda follow their lead. Daniel & Jeff head to their dorms at the University of Binghamton after also digging through the trash. Having no luck with the trash, Hal & Matilda also happen upon the strategy of just buying the cans, after much debate over the subject. Drew & Vanessa are struggling coming up with either a strategy or how to get anywhere, but they eventually start visiting restaurants, then Drew eventually suggests looking through dumpsters again, then they switch to buying the cans, then back to dumpsters… make a decision already.

The next challenge is to drive to Ostiningo Park and look for a man named Gordy, based on the color zipper and shoes he’s wearing. Jon & Jenna are obviously first to arrive, even before Gordy does. Dave & Matt are in second and get pulled over by security for driving in an area clearly marked not to. But it’s just park security, so I can’t imagine anything too bad happens to them, even if it is just a big waste of time. Sadie & Ginalola arrive in third, after Jon & Jenna leave, but they’re able to leave before the boys because the security guy is stupid and pulls them over again because they supposedly fit the description of someone from last week. Once they’re done dealing with the security guy and making fun of him, Dave & Matt leave in third, and Hal & Matilda arrive within seconds of that to leave in fourth. Daniel & Jeff are fifth, and by the time Drew and Vanessa show up, he tells them “It took you long enough.”

The pitstop is the Oswego fire department.

First: Jon & Jenna
Second: Dave & Matt
Third: Sadie & Ginalola
Fourth: Hal & Matilda
Fifth: Daniel & Jeff
Sixth: Drew & Vanessa (eliminated)

Jon & Jenna had a pretty easy first place. Dave & Matt take second after cutting off Sadie & Ginalola, who get a bit lost anyway. Showing up in last are Drew & Vanessa, which I was expecting last time. With no real direction or plan, it was just a matter of how far behind the others they would finish this leg. I do like the concept of people who don’t know each other teaming up, even if it didn’t go so well in practice.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Race 2 episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 9:30/8:30c on ICTV and via live webstream, with the video on demand version available on Thursday.

Reaper Episode 2

In Reaper episode 1, Sam found out his parents had sold his soul to the devil. So basically just a normal 21st birthday. When all was said and done, though, he seemed happy to be on this new path where he had some direction and responsibility.

Until he had some time to sleep on it anyway, so now he’s back to avoiding the issue. The problem is the issue refuses to avoid him. The vessel the Devil gave him keeps following him around wherever he goes. For some reason, leaving the box in the woods and running away from it doesn’t trick it.

Andi and Sam end up on cart duty, which means wandering the neighborhood to find missing shopping carts. She sees this as an opportunity to goof off and invites him along for the ride. He’s happy about this, but the Devil shows up wanting him to open the vessel. This happens while Sam and Sock are stocking shelves, which in Bert’s mind includes throwing merchandise. Because he’s distracted, Sam misses, and it knocks out a customer. The boss informs them a bloodied customer is not a happy customer. As punishment, they’re put on the night shift until they inventory the whole store, which he suggests will take a year.

Sam brings Bert home for dinner and tells him not to blow his secret because Sam already told his mom that the thing with the Devil was done. He says no problem and the secret’s safe with him, so obviously it takes all of two seconds for him to blow it.

The Devil transports Sam to the top of the building, where Sam again tries to back out of the deal. Yeah, that’ll go over well. There are no threats this time, however. Instead, just a guilt trip about innocents dying.

The next morning, Sam finally breaks down and opens the vessel. It’s an RC car. Of course, he’s not provided with any instructions as to how to actually use it. After that, his father gives him a brand new car in an effort to buy him off, so he doesn’t tell his mom that he’s working for the Devil.

The demon they’re after is using lightning strikes to cause blackouts. One blackout is at a hospital, and they just so happen to order generators from Sam’s store, so he volunteers to take them down there. They find out that the hospital used to be the medical wing for a guy who got arrested. On his way back to the store, Sam checks out a guy whose car got struck by lightning, and while there, he sees the soul he’s chasing.

Back at home, the Devil shows up and asks Sam if he’s having problems at home. Sam says he’s the problem, but the Devil responds that Sam’s the problem because he lied to his mother. He advises him that lying never solves anything. Shouldn’t the Devil encourage lying?

Sam asks Josie what she knows about Arthur Ferry, and she tells him about how he stole energy and sold it to other states, causing rolling blackouts and people to die. The news is on the radio, and they hear a report about problems at the dam, so they drive up there to find out what’s going on. They find Arthur and try to send the RC car after him, but the minor glitch in the plan is that it gets run over by a truck. Even without the vessel, Sam’s not intimidated by the soul and stands up to him. He escapes, but at least Sam and his friends aren’t dead.

They take the RC car back to work, where they “repair” it with duct tape, unsure whether or not it will actually work, but then again, they still don’t even know how it works to begin with. The really bad news is they work at a store with a lot of power tools, all of which can be easily turned against them in a scenario such as this. The vessel then falls apart, but Sam’s not concerned because he has other plans.

He goes into the parking lot and yells for Arthur, who’s upset because they took away his name on the building, which is hiding the good he did. Sam figures out that the car was just for show and that it was the controller that was actually the vessel. It turns into a lightning rod, which allows him to capture Arthur. When they bring the vessel to Gladys at the DMV, she’s pleasant as always, telling them the fact that they haven’t been killed yet astonishes her.

Sam goes home and tells his mother the truth. She’s okay with it and says no more secrets… except they’re not going to tell Sam’s brother. Then at work, he’s pulled off the midnight shift and put on garbage duty, since the store looks like a bomb went off and all, but the Devil pulls some strings and gets him into the garden center, where he can now shovel manure instead. But the Devil’s not so bad after all, as Andi’s also working in the garden center.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 3 All Mine, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.