Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Brothers and Sisters: 2x14 - Double Negative

  • Rebecca finds out that David is her biological father; Rebecca confronts David; He skips town; Rebecca lies to Justin about the results
  • The Republican presidential candidate asks McCallister to be his Vice President; McCallister declines on moral grounds
  • Scotty slices his hand open; Kevin suggests they form a domestic partnership so Scotty can get health insurance; Scotty declines because it's too practical, not romantic
  • Saul made the deal with Graham behind Sarah's back; Sarah gets mad; The Chinese company goes bankrupt and Ojai Foods is on the hook for $20 million
  • None of Kitty's embryos are viable
  • Nora decides to open a home for families of pediatric cancer patients

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Desperate Housewives: 4x13 - Hello, Little Girl

  • Dylan gets stalked by a cop who claims to be her real father, Wayne; They secretly hang out
  • Rick confronts Tom over the arson thing; They brawl; At the police station, Lynette lies by saying she is Tom's alibi
    • The fire was actually started by Lynette and Tom's twin boys
  • Bree and Orson move out of Susan's house; Mike returns home from rehab
    • Julie tells Mike about Orson saying that he ran Mike over; Mike confronts Orson; Orson confesses to everything; Mike and Susan forgive him; Bree kicks Orson out
  • Carlos gets a seeing-eye dog, Roxy; She protects Carlos from Gabrielle's abusiveness; Gabrielle unsuccessfully tries to get rid of her
  • Katherine and Bree agree to start up a party-planning company together

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Dexter: 1x08 - Shrink Wrap

  • A high powered female lawyer is found shot dead; It's ruled a suicide; The case resembles two others; All three women had the same therapist
    • Dexter starts seeing the therapist himself; During a session, he has a breakthrough and rushes home to finally have sex with Rita
    • Thanks to a hidden camera, Dexter discovers the therapist talked the women into suicide; Dexter kills him
  • Maria continues interrogating Perry; He reveals confidential details about the case that got Maria promoted; Maria realises that Perry hacked into the station's records
    • The body buried at Perry's trailer was his mother and the cause of death was a heart attack
    • Maria brings a severed head into the interrogation room; Perry freaks out and admits to lying; Captain Matthews decides to still go ahead with a trial
  • Rudy and Deb have sex and go public with their relationship
  • Dexter misses the Ice Truck Killer, so he posts a personal ad on Craig's List
  • Rudy is the Ice Truck Killer!

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Lost: 4x09 - The Shape of Things to Come

  • The freighter's mercenaries attack the barracks; Three random Losties are killed; Claire's house is blown up by an RPG; Ben fortifies his house in preparation for a fight
    • A mercenary threatens to kill Alex if Ben doesn't surrender; Ben insists that Alex means nothing to him; Alex is killed
      • Ben seemingly releases the smoke Monster, which attacks the mercenaries
    • Ben, Locke, and Hurley go looking for the cabin so that Jacob will tell them what to do next
  • The freighter's doctor washes up dead on the shore with a slit throat
    • Bernard catches Faraday in a lie about a Morse Code message from the freighter about the doctor; Faraday admits the freighties weren't ever going to rescue them
  • Jack is having some crazy stomach problems
  • FLASHFORWARD: Ben and Sayid
    • Ben finds himself dazed, confused, and wearing a parka in the Sahara Desert; He is rather gleeful that it is 2005
    • Sayid attends Nadia's funeral procession in Iraq; Nadia was killed 5 days earlier in Los Angeles
      • Ben and a guy named Bakir also attend; Ben tells Sayid that Bakir is one of Widmore's men and was responsible for Nadia's death
        • Sayid kills Bakir and asks Ben who needs to be killed next
    • Ben pays Charles Widmore a visit; Widmore vows to find the island and take it back; Ben announces that he's going to find and kill Penny

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Dexter: 1x07 - Circle of Friends

  • Deb discovers Neil Perry, a previous voluntary witness, got parking violations near two of the Ice Truck Killer's crime scenes
    • Angel and Deb search Perry's trailer; They find photos from the crime scenes and other creepy stuff
      • A female body with severed limbs is found buried next to the trailer; The body has been there for at least 2 years
    • Perry is arrested after being caught with a bound and beaten victim in a hotel room; Maria gets him to reveal information that wasn't released to the press
    • Dexter finally concedes that maybe Perry isn't too pathetic to be the Ice Truck Killer; He changes his mind again when he realises Perry doesn't know who he is
  • Dexter recognises a new murder victim as the work of the teen murderer that he recently dealt with
    • Doakes arrests the teen; Dexter tells him to fake his emotions; The teen commits suicide while in custody
  • Deb goes out with Rudy, the guy who made the guard's new prosthetic limbs; They kiss
  • Paul shows up and tries to suck up to Rita and the kids; Rita gets Paul to sign the divorce papers by threatening to stop him from seeing the kids

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Grey's Anatomy: 4x12 - Where the Wild Things Are

  • Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, and Alex compete in a surgical contest
    • Izzie runs several unnecessary tests on Cheech Marin, who has a broken ankle, to try to score more points; She realises her instincts suck
    • Cristina forfeits the contest in order to watch Hahn perform a cardiac surgery
    • Three people are admitted after a bear attack; One was disemboweled and dies
      • Meredith discovers the provoker of the attack has a huge brain tumour; It wins her the contest and a sparkle pager
  • McDreamy and Rose have gone on 5 dates but haven't had sex; Rose tells Lexie that she loves him; McSteamy is suspicious of the whole situation
  • George and Lexie move into a crap-artment together; Lexie steals stuff from the hospital to decorate it with
  • Meredith goes to therapy, but won't talk to the therapist
  • Cristina gets jealous when she learns that Callie and Hahn are friends

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Dexter: 1x06 - Return to Sender

  • The Ice Truck Killer returns the body of the female human trafficker that Dexter killed, but didn't cut up, to the scene of the crime
    • Masuka discovers the victim was injected with a highly controlled animal tranquilizer
    • Dexter throws all of his tools and evidence in the ocean; He keeps his box of blood slides; Dexter finds a new slide in the box, courtesy of the Ice Truck Killer
    • Dexter creates and plants fraudulent evidence to incriminate the 'missing' husband, whom Dexter already killed and disposed of properly
    • A small Cuban boy who witnessed Dexter carrying the bodies is questioned; Maria bonds with him and considers adopting him until he is claimed by an uncle
      • The boy doesn't identify Dexter; The sketch looks like Jesus Christ
  • Rita's ex, Paul, is released from jail; He asks to go to Rita's daughter's birthday party, but Rita says no
  • Doakes brings Deb to his mom's house for dinner; Everyone, except Doakes, has a great time

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Dexter: 1x05 - Love American Style

  • The team searches the abandoned hospital for evidence; It's totally clean, except for a cough drop wrapper
    • Deb and Doakes question the guard, but he doesn't remember anything besides the cough drops; Deb buys the guard a hooker to cheer him up
  • Rita's friend's fiance was killed by human traffickers for not paying enough money to be smuggled into Miami from Cuba
    • Dexter hunts down the human trafficking couple; Dexter kills them both
      • Someone sees Dexter carrying the bodies away; Dexter disposes of one of the bodies without cutting it up first
  • Dexter stresses that he isn't showing enough emotion to Rita
  • Angel and Dexter go clubbing; Dexter discovers Angel isn't living with his wife anymore when he tries to bring a drunk Angel home

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30 Rock: 2x13 - Succession

  • Geiss names Jack as the new Chairman of GE; Jack picks Liz as his successor
    • Liz accidentally sends Geiss into a diabetic coma at Devin's bachelor party; Dr Spaceman attends to Geiss' condition
      • Devin gets his fiancee, Kathy Geiss, approved to be the Chairman behind Jack's back; Devin and Kathy take over Jack's office
  • Tracy tries to create a pornographic video game, despite Frank's nay saying; Frank destroys the plans in a fit of jealousy

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The Office: 4x11 - Night Out

  • Ryan drops by the office and tells everyone they have to work on Saturday due to website issues
    • Jim convinces everyone to work late on Friday instead; But, they all get locked in when Jim forgets to tell the security guard
      • Toby touches Pam's knee for a little too long, announces that he is moving to Costa Rica, and then jumps over a fence and runs away
  • Michael and Dwight go clubbing in New York; They meet up with Ryan, who is literally on drugs
    • Dwight makes out with a female basketball player; Ryan gets beat up by some girls; Michael has no luck with the ladies

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Lost: 4x08 - Meet Kevin Johnson

  • Ben instructs Alex, Karl, and Rousseau to flee to a secret sanctuary, called the Temple, to join the remaining Others
    • A sniper attacks; Rousseau and Karl are shot and killed; Alex surrenders
  • Sayid demands Michael tell him how he ended up on the freighter; After he explains, Sayid turns him in for working for Ben
  • FLASHBACK: Michael
    • After leaving the island and returning to New York, Michael tried to kill himself in a car crash
    • Walt didn't want to see Michael after learning that he killed Libby and Ana-Lucia; Michael started having visions of Libby
    • Micheal tried to shoot himself in an alley, but Tom appeared and stopped him; Tom said the island won't let Michael die yet
      • Tom claimed that Widmore staged the fake 815 wreckage and is going to kill everyone on the island unless Michael kills the freighties first
    • Michael joined the freighter's crew; He tried detonates the bomb Tom gave him, but it was a fake
      • Ben called Michael on the freighter and told him that he doesn't kill innocents; He also instructed Michael to sabotage the freighter

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Brothers and Sisters: 2x13 - Separation Anxiety

  • McCallister loses in the primaries and drops out of the presidential race
    • Kitty worries that McCallister is going to be asked to run for Vice President
  • Isaac asks Nora to Washington with him; Nora says yes; Everyone freaks; Nora says no
    • Isaac moves back to Washington, leaving Nora behind
  • Holly thinks David is trying to imply he's Rebecca's father; She admits that she isn't 100% that William is Rebecca's father
    • Rebecca secretly goes for a paternity test; Justin goes along for moral support
  • Sarah rejects Graham's business offer so as to not interfere with their relationship; Saul is pissed
  • Everyone gets into a fight at Rebecca's birthday party
  • Kitty starts hormone therapy so that her eggs can be harvested

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Desperate Housewives: 4x12 - In Buddy's Eyes

  • Orson worries that Mike will remember that his mother killed Mike's mistress
    • Orson starts sleepwalking naked; While asleep, he tells Julie that he is sorry that he ran Mike over
  • Bree reluctantly organises the Founder's Ball with Katherine's help
    • Bree's inferiority complex causes her to poison Katherine with rancid dip
      • Katherine surprises Bree by presenting her with an award and asking for her friendship
  • Rick is opening a restaurant across from the Scavo's Pizzeria
    • Tom throws a brick through Rick's window; Lynette suspects Tom when Rick's is burned down
  • Gabrielle gets a handicap parking permit for Carlos so she doesn't have to walk as far
  • Some unknown crazy person is stalking Dylan

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Lost: 4x07 - Ji Yeon

  • Sun decides to move to Locke's camp because she trusts neither the freighties nor Juliet
    • To stop them, Juliet tells Jin that Sun had an affair and that Sun will die if she doesn't get off the island within 3 weeks
    • Bernard gives Jin a pep-talk about karma and being a good hubby
    • Jin forgives Sun for the affair and blames himself; Sun decides they need to get off the island
  • Sayid and Desmond get a note under their door saying not to trust the captain; They meet Captain Gault anyhow
    • Gault says that Charles Widmore owns the freighter and is calling the shots; He also says Ben staged the fake 815 wreckage, complete with 324 dead bodies
  • A woman on the freighter commits suicide by jumping off the ship; None of the freighties seem to care
  • Sayid and Desmond discover Micheal is the freigher's janitor under the fake name of Kevin Johnson
  • FLASHFORWARD: Sun
    • Sun gives birth to a baby girl and names her Ji Yeon
    • Hurley visits Sun and the baby in Korea; They visit Jin's grave
  • FLASHBACK: Jin
    • Jin went through an ordeal to get a present for the Chinese Ambassador's new-born grandson on behalf of Mr. Paik

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The Office: 4x10 - The Chair Model

  • Michael forces everyone in the office set him up with someone they know; Pam sets up Michael with her landlady; Michael doesn't dig her
  • Michael develops a crush on a girl in the chair catalogue
    • Dwight tracks down the model and learns she died in a car crash; Dwight and Michael sing and dance on her grave
  • Jim jokes to Pam that he is going to propose to her; He wasn't kidding and already has bought the ring
  • Kevin and Andy assemble the Five Families of Scranton Business Park to resolve a parking issue

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30 Rock: 2x12 - Subway Hero

  • Liz's ex, Dennis, gets 15 minutes of fame when he saves a stranger from being killed by a subway train
    • Dennis proposes to Liz; Liz says no
  • Kenneth gives a studio tour to a TV star from the 1940-1950s who tells Kenneth messed up stories about the good old days
  • Jack and Richard Nixon's ghost convince Tracy to be a spokesperson for the Republican party

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30 Rock: 2x11 - MILF Island

  • Someone from TGS told the New York Post that Jack is a 'Grade-A moron'
    • Kenneth knows it was Liz; Liz blame everyone else; Jack knew it was Liz all along and guilts her into admitting it
  • Everyone watches the finale of MILF Island, a popular reality show
  • Pete gets stuck in the vending machine

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Office: 4x09 - Dinner Party

  • Michael finally ropes Jim and Pam into having dinner with him; Angela and Andy are also invited; Dwight and his old babysitter crash the party
  • The dinner party is extremely awkward
    • Jan has started a candle business and plays the song Hunter wrote about them doing it
    • Jan and Micheal fight; Jan throws a Dundie at Michael's beloved $200 plasma TV and breaks it
    • The cops show up; Dwight takes Michael home

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Lost: 4x06 - The Other Woman

  • Juliet runs into Harper in the jungle; Ben sent Harper to tell Juliet to stop Charlotte and Faraday from releasing poisonous gas from The Tempest
    • Jack and Juliet go after Charlotte and Faraday; They find Kate, who was knocked out by Charlotte; Juliet slips away
    • Juliet finds Faraday typing feverishly in The Tempest; He claims to be rendering the gas inert to prevent Ben from using it; Juliet pulls a gun; Charlotte attacks Juliet; Faraday fixes everything
  • Ben reveals a hidden safe behind a painting to Locke; Inside is a VHS tape of Charles Widmore and a comprehensive file
    • Ben claims Widmore owns the freighter and is trying to find the island so he can exploit it
    • Ben supposedly tells Locke who his man on the boat is; Locke releases Ben
  • FLASHBACK: Juliet
    • Juliet saw a therapist, Harper (who was married to Goodwin), when she first arrived on the island
    • Ben had a major crush on Juliet; Juliet fell in love with Goodwin; Harper caught them and warned Juliet to back off so that Ben wouldn't hurt Goodwin
    • Ben took Juliet to see Goodwin's dead body as a warning

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Friday Night Lights: 2x15 - May the Best Man Win

  • The waitress is preggers with Jason's baby; She wants to have an abortion, but Jason convinces that it's a miracle and they need to go for it
  • Smash begs colleges he had previously rejected to sign him, but fails
    • Eric takes Smash to visit Whitmore, who are still willing to give Smash a scholarship; Smash accepts
  • Tami runs into her high school sweetheart, Mo, who has become a successful businessman; Eric gets jealous
    • Eric and Mo get drunk and fight in a restaurant over Tami
  • Riggins starts his own sports show on the Christian radio station and continues going to church
  • Lyla has dinner with Chris' family at their cabin
  • Landry and Tyra go public with their relationship
  • The Panthers win an easy game; Landry scores a touchdown and Eric lets the other team score one out of pity

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Desperate Housewives: 4x11 - Sunday

  • Gabrielle and Carlos get remarried
    • Edie reveals to Gabrielle that Carlos' blindness is permanent; Gabrielle decides she wants to be married to Carlos anyhow
  • Susan's cousin, Tim, is in town; Susan thinks he is having sex with Dylan, but he is really doing it with Katherine
    • Tim tells Susan that when he was a teenager, he saw Katherine whomp a dude with a candlestick
  • Dylan's burnt scrap from the note says that her father was murdered; She confronts Adam, who totally lies to her
  • Lynette goes to church with the Hodges; She accidentally embarrasses Bree during the service
  • Susan and Julie visit Mike in rehab

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Lost: 4x05 - The Constant

  • The helicopter arrives at the freighter after encountering a nasty storm
  • Desmond starts acting crazy; He is 'stuck' in 1996 and doesn't understand what's going on and can't recognize Sayid
    • It's a side-effect of travel to/from the island after being exposed to radiation or electromagnetic energy
  • Sayid calls Jack and Juliet; Faraday explains the perception of time on the island is whacked
    • Faraday tells Desmond to visit Faraday at Oxford in 1996 during his next flash into the past
  • Desmond and Sayid sneak into the freighter's Radio Room, which has been sabotaged
    • Sayid fixes stuff so Desmond can phone Penny; Penny answers and Desmond stops going crazy
  • FLASHBACK: Desmond
    • Desmond kept 'flashing' ahead to the present day of 2004, while his mind was stuck in 1996
    • Desmond went to Oxford during a couple days leave from the Scottish army to see Faraday
      • Faraday said Desmond needed to find a constant that exists both in 1996 and 2004 in order to get back to normal; Desmond chose Penny
        • Desmond visited Penny and begged her for her phone number and to answer it when he calls on Christmas Eve, 2004

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Lost: 4x04 - Eggtown

  • Kate breaks Miles out of the boathouse and brings him to Ben; In return Miles tells Kate the freighties know about her criminal record
    • Miles threatens to give Ben up to the freighties if Ben doesn't cough up $3.2 million
    • As punishment, Locke kicks Kate out of the barracks and puts a live grenade in Miles' mouth
  • Jack stresses when he can't get through on the phone the freighter to check on Sayid and Desmond
    • Charlotte calls the emergency number; The freighties don't know anything about the helicopter leaving the island
  • FLASHFORWARD: Kate
    • Kate is on trial on several charges, including the murder of her step-father
      • Jack testifies that only 8 people survived the crash, 2 of whom died on the island, Kate took care of everyone, and that he no longer loves her
      • Kate makes a deal and only gets probation after her still dying mother refuses to testify
    • Kate's 'son' is actually Aaron

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