Issue #24, 14 – 20 December 2008

Posted by AJ in Entertainment and Pop Culture TV Rewind.

This week: Sylar plays mousetrap with the Company on Heroes; Elliot uses his horseback riding skills to save the gang from going to jail on Leverage; and Cutter cockblocks himself in order to make sure justice is served on Law & Order.

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Show: Heroes
Episode: “Dual” (3×13)
You Can Watch It: Mondays at 9pm on NBC

This episode was the final for “Volume 3: Villains,” and, honestly, it couldn’t have come soon enough. Daphne, Parkman and Ando focused their energy on rescuing Hiro from 16 years ago. Daphne stole a vial of the formula that Ando then used to give himself powers. Now he can supercharge other people’s powers, and he and Daphne were able to bring Hiro back from the past. Daphne took Hiro to find the formula in present day and Hiro punched out Tracy and ripped the formula to shreds. Peter and Nathan fought like the whiny babies that the Petrelli boys are and Claire’s uncle exploded the Pinehearst building. Peter injected himself with powers to save Nathan, and Nathan got pissed at him and flew away. Mohinder was soaked in the formula and is now apparently cured. Meanwhile, while things were gettin’ ridiculous over at Pinehearst, Sylar played a fun game of cat and mouse with Angela, Claire, Noah and Meredith. Angela spilled the beans to Sylar about how she is not his mommy and how she had planned to use him as a hitman for the Company. Sylar injected Meredith’s heart with adrenaline and she exploded the building, but luckily everyone got out in time. Sylar might be dead. Claire stuck something in his brain to stop it from functioning (a la that whole tree branch thing she had back in season one), so he might have burned all up and been buried in the ruble.

Conclusions:
Let’s be real: Sylar ain’t dead. Unfortunately, I’m like 99.9% sure he is coming back.

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Show: Leverage
Episode: “The Two-Horse Job” (1×03)
You Can Watch It: Tuesdays at 10pm on TNT

This week’s episode took the Leverage employees (ha ha) to Kentucky. Elliot enlisted Nathan and the gang to help out his old flame’s father when a crooked New York City broker burned down his stable full of horses. The father didn’t want revenge or money for his troubles. He just wanted the last remaining horse, the only one to survive the fire. The team attempted to simply win the horse back in a rigged game of poker, but one of Nathan’s former colleagues from his legitimate insurance claim investigator days was on their case. They ended up having to jump through hoops to pull off an equine version of the classic European rouse “the Long-Lost Heir,” but luckily they were able to do just as much and screw the broker harder than they had originally planned. Elliot’s ex-girlfriend’s dad got over $12 million in damages and ownership of the last horse. Also, Elliot got to make out with his old girlfriend in a stable and Parker bitched about crawling through the air ducts of the stable.

Conclusions:
There is a chance Aldis Hodge is the cutest thing TNT has ever seen, but I will wait two more episodes to confirm.

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Show: Law & Order
Episode: “Zero” (19×07)
You Can Watch It: Wednesdays at 10pm on NBC

This week’s episode of Law & Order included a decoy case to completely throw us off when it turned out that this episode was really about judicial ethics and Sherry Stringfield’s return to NBC primetime. Bernard and Loops found themselves investigating the murder of a wife and mother whose body was found on a compost heap in her community garden. An old college friend had murdered her to cover up the fact that he had borrowed her car and went for a ride with his coke dealer, got pulled over, and the coke dealer shot and killed the officer that had pulled them over. A Judge Reynolds was assigned to the case, and as it turned out his clerk (played by Stringfield) was an old “friend” of Cutter’s. After several rulings went the prosecution’s way, Cutter started to get suspicious and uncovered a scheme that the clerk was running to disguise the fact that Judge Reynolds was suffering from dementia. When it became clear that going through the proper legal channels to take care of the problem were not going to work, Cutter orchestrated a plan with the defense to out the judge in the middle of open court. Mistrial, much?

Conclusions:
Sherry Stringfield looks GORG!

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