The Dresden Files: The First Four Episodes

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The Dresden Files first aired on January 21, 2007.


Birds of a Feather:
We are first introduced to young Harry whose father was just a regular magician who knows that Harry has special abilities. He tells Harry that they need to keep what Harry can do a secret to keep others from using Harry, like his uncle on his mother's side. We don't know what happened... yet but we do know that Harry was partially raised by his uncle, who was a dark wizard, and that Harry killed him.
Harry is a lone wolf, his only companion is a ancient wizard, Bob, whose spirit is attached to his skull. We also know that Bob had once belonged to Harry's uncle.
In Bird of a Feather, a young boy sees Harry's phone book ad and asks Harry to help him. He tells Harry that there are monsters in his house that want to hurt him and his mom. Harry tells the boy that there are not monsters in his house and sends the boy on his way. Harry doesn't realize that the boy was telling the truth until Harry helps Lt. Murphy in a murder case where the victim was removed of all her skin. Harry knows that its a skin walker and considering that the stolen skin belongs to the boys teacher, Harry goes to the boys house to learn that he has been kidnapped. Come to find out that this boy is magically special and has been protected since the day he was born by Ravens, who are considered magically neutral.
So the boy is safe but Harry still needs to get rid of the skin walker. Bob made a magically booby trap called a Doom Box which disintegrated the skin walker.

The Boone Identity:
Harry is hired by an antiques dealer who believes that the spirit of his daughter, who was murdered a year before when the store was robbed by a convicted felon, is still haunting the shop, trying to communicate with him. Harry goes and at first just believes that its all just about a man trying to hold on to his daughter, that is until the daughter's spirit shows Harry what happened to her.
What was stolen from the antiques dealer was an ancient tablet called the Lock of Anubis and it has the power to give someone the ability to swap bodies with another person. Harry figures out that the felon, Boone, had used the lock to swap bodies with a very rich and prominent man. However, things go wrong when Boone swaps bodies with Lt Murphy and Harry has to figure out how to save Murphy before Boone jumps bodies again since the only way to jump bodies is to kill the body that your in at the time.
Harry figures out how to get Boone out of Murphy's body without killing her, lures Boone back to the antique shop and tricks Boone into placing his hand back on the Lock of Anubis which sends his soul into oblivion.

Hair of the Dog:
This episode starts with a great line. Lt. Murphy calls Harry and asks him: "Do you want to see a dead body?" Harry helps Murphy investigate the murder of a young woman, Mina, who is found naked in a park. The whole thing is weird especially when the FBI shows up and takes over the investigation and bars Harry from giving or receiving information.
Harry takes Bob to the park since Bob can sense the person's energy through their blood and take on the shape of the person temporarily. But instead of showing Harry the dead woman, he shows Harry a very big, scary dog, the woman was a lycanthrope or werewolf.
Come to find out that the FBI agent that took over the investigation was the werewolf that had turned the dead woman into a werewolf in the first place and that her partner was helping her kill those from the same bloodline in order to break the curse but not before she turned the dead woman's roommate, Heather, into a lycanthrope.
Harry know this girl is marked for death so he tries to keep her safe but the FBI agent finds them at Harry's and now Harry has two problems: trying to keep Heather from wolfing out and killing and trying to kill the FBI agent. The FBI agent accidentally kills her partner who had turned into a lycanthrope after Mina scratched him. The curse is broken but at what price?
Harry helps Heather in trying to live with her "disease" but Heather decides to leave town in order to be strong on her own. When Heather leaves Harry's, he is worried that she'll fall of the wagon and he'll have to hunt her down.

Rules of Engagement:
A beautiful young woman walks into Harry's wanting to hire him to find a man that stole money from her aunt. Harry tracks the man down to find a crispy critter instead. Harry can smell brimstone which is a definite sign of demonic activity. And to add insult to injury, the young woman didn't even tell Harry her real name or why she was really looking for this guy.
Come to find out that a major hellion player, Sirota, had turned a young man, Matthew Jacobs, into a hellion and then sent him after the young woman, Caryn, but what Sirota didn't count on was instead of turning Caryn into a hellion, Matthew fell in love with her and wanted to turn back into a human. In order to do this, Matthew needs to do a ritual and he also needed his slave chain so he stole it from Sirota but lost it.
Harry finds the chain and helps Matthew and Caryn but he also needs to get them off the magical radar so they trick Sirota into thinking that he killed Matthew. And a member of the High Counsel, Morgan, also offers them protection by keeping them off the magical radar.

Cast:

Harry Dresden: Paul Blackthorne

Lt. Connie Murphy: Valerie Cruz

Bob: Terrance Mann

Morgan: Conrad Coates

Kirmani: Raoul Bhaneja

Tall Tales

Tall Tales was the most hilarious episode since Simon Said. Its starts out with the boys at each others throats because for one thing, they can figure out what they are hunting and for another, they each think that the other one messed with their stuff.

They call Bobby hoping that he can help them shed some light on the subject but all Bobby seems to do is play referee while Sam and Dean duke it out verbally.

They tell Bobby that it all started out as a simple investigation of the mysterious death of a professor that took the plunge out of fourth story window. The professor had an office in Crawford Hall that campus legend says is haunted. So they search the building and office, scan it for EMF and nothing. Dead end.

Then a boy is attacked outside of Crawford Hall and when the boys interview him, he tells them that he was abducted by aliens that probed him and made him slow dance.

Bobby thinks that Sam and Dean are making this stuff up but they swear their not. Dean tells Bobby what else could they do, so they keep digging. And while they're investigating, Sam accuses Dean of messing with his computer. Sam asks Dean how he feel if Sam messed with the Impala. Dean threatens Sam that if he did it would be the last thing he did.

The next victim was a research scientist who ends up in pieces. The typical alligator in the sewers legend, so Sam and Dean search the sewers but when Dean comes out, the tires of the Impala are flat as pancakes and Sam's money clip is lying next to the car. Dean comes back to the motel room, confronts Sam for messing with the Impala and they end up fighting.

Bobby tells them that if they had quit fighting each other they would have figured out that they were dealing with a trickster. They figure out that the janitor that let them into the professor's office was the trickster and they try to lure him out into the open by staging a fight in front of Crawford Hall where the janitor is watching from a window.

Dean sneaks back into Crawford Hall later, hears music coming from the auditorium and finds two half naked women sitting on a bed. (Barry White's Can't Get Enough of Your Love... very appropriate.) The trickster tells Dean that its a peace offering, he can have his fun just long enough for the trickster to get out of town. Dean tells the trickster that he can't let him continue to hurt people. The trickster tells Dean that he shouldn't have come alone but that's when Sam and Bobby come in. The trickster conjures a chain saw welding freak to attack Sam and Bobby while the hot babes beat the daylights out of Dean (Extremely ironic) but Dean stakes the trickster and they all get the heck out of there before someone finds the body. The three of them drive off but the final scene is of the dead trickster vanishing but low and behold, another one takes his place.

Born Under A Bad Sign

Born Under a Bad Sign starts with Dean frantically looking for Sam. He had just taken off on Dean and has been missing for a week. Sam calls Dean and tells him that he doesn't remember anything and he's covered in blood.
Dean tries to help Sam figure out where he's been doing for the last week. All the evidence shows a wild sign of Sam that Dean has never seen: smoking menthol cigarettes, drinking excessively, being loud, rowdy and just plain mean. They also find a bloody knife in the car that Sam apparently stole.
They go to a gas station to ask if anyone saw him. After the clerk freaks out and threatens to call the cops, Dean asks the guy which direction Sam went when he finally left the gas station. They head in the same direction. Sam tells Dean to pull on a dirt road and at the end of the road is a house with some high tech surveillance cameras. The house had been broke into and when Sam and Dean go into the house, they find the body of a man. The man turns out to be a hunter, Steve Wandell. Dean spots a video camera in the room that the body is in so they view the footage and it is clearly Sam attacking the man.
Dean is trying to cover their tracks while Sam is still freaking out so Dean trashes the computer so that no can view the same footage and implicate Sam. They head back to the motel room and Sam tells Dean that he needs to kill him. That Dean promised their dad that if Sam turned evil Dean would stop Sam. Sam hands Dean a gun but Dean can't do it. Sam then smashes the gun against Dean's head and leaves.
Dean tracks Sam by the GPS in his cell phone. Sam is in Duluth, Minnesota visiting an old friend, Jo Harvelle. Jo notices a unusual burn on Sam's right forearm. Sam is acting strange and sets Jo on edge. Jo asks Sam to leave and that's when Sam gets angry and attacks Jo. He ties her up and then taunts her by telling her the story of how her father died. He tells her "My daddy shot your daddy in the head."
Dean shows up and Sam gets even madder. He gags Jo and tells Dean that he needs to shoot Sam or Sam will kill Jo. Dean refuses to shoot Sam again but Dean throws holy water on Sam and he steams like a boiling cauldron. Sam is possessed. Dean follows Sam and they stalk each other, each trying to stop the other. The demon in Sam tells Dean that it wants to kill all the hunters and that with Sam as its vehicle, they will just let him right through the door. The demons shoots Dean and gets away. Jo finds Dean and he is alive but the bullet entered his left shoulder. Jo doctors Dean up but is upset when Dean tells her that she can't go with him to track Sam.
The demon shows up on Bobby's doorstep. Bobby lets Sam in and offers him a beer but he put holy water in his beer. Bobby tells the demon " don't try to con a con man" and knocks him out.
Sam/the demon wakes up ties up in a chair and under the devil's trap. Dean is there and they try to exorise the demon but the demon has a trick up its sleeve. The demon is the demon that they exorised out of Meg in the first season. The demon has placed a binding link, the burn on Sam's right forearm. It breaks the devil's trap and attacks Dean and Bobby. The demon is beating the crap out of Dean when Bobby takes a hot poker and burns the mark on Sam's arm, breaking the hold the demon has on Dean.
They are right back at square one. Bobby asks them if the heard of the hunter, Steve Wandell and tells the boys that they need to keep a careful eye because Wandell's buddies are after whoever killed him. Bobby also gives them charms that will fend off demon possession.
Sam tells Dean that he was awake for some of his possession. Sam yells at Dean for not shooting him. Dean tells Sam that when their dad told him to shoot Sam it was only if Dean could save Sam. They end the episode with Dean telling Sam: "You full on had a girl inside you for like a whole week. Its pretty naughty."

Houses of the Holy

Sam begins investigating the unexplainable series of murders committed by people who have no connections to the victims and claim that they committed the murders because God sent them an angel who told them to smite these evil men.
Dean is going stir crazy holed up in a dingy motel room since he is a wanted felon. Dean occupies his time by being hopelessly addicted to the Magic Fingers vibrating bed. (Which consists of two of the funniest scenes in the whole episode.)
Dean talks Sam into going to the one of the victims house to see if there is anything off. Sam goes around to the side of the house and opens the door to the basement. They search it and find a fingernail embedded in the wall. They start digging and find a body. So the man really was "evil to his deepest foundations."Meanwhile, across town, an man is visited by an angel promising redemption. The man goes to the home of another man, stabs him in his doorway and then goes to the police to turn himself in.
Dean is having a hard time believing that an angel is really appearing to these people. He believes that its a spirit preying on the weak minded. The only thing that Sam has a hard time believing is how unbelieving Dean is.
Sam and Dean go to the home of the newest murder victim and find secret emails from a thirteen year old girl on the man's computer. They also find the link all the victims have in common, they all go to the same church: Our Lady of the Angels.
They talk to Father Reynolds at the church and find out that a couple months before Father Gregory was murdered on the church steps. Dean thinks that Father Gregory is the vengeful spirit that is telling these people to commit murder but Sam still believes that its an angel. They go to check out Father Gregory's grave when Sam sees a white light appear to him. Sam believes that the angel appeared to him and told him he had a mission. Dean freaks out and tells Dean that until he sees some hard proof of God's will/angels that he's going to think that its the spirit of Father Gregory.
They check out the grave and its covered in wormwood, proof that a spirit is not at rest. Dean tells Sam that in order to know for sure that they do a seance and summon the spirit of Father Gregory. Sam and Dean buy the ingredients they need for the seance when Sam sees the "sign" behind the man that Sam is supposed to stop. Dean follows the guy and tells Sam to go to the church and perform the seance.
Sam is in the middle of performing the seance when Father Reynolds of the church walks in on him. Sam tries to explain what he is going when the bright, white light appears but it quickly materializes into the form of Father Gregory. Father Gregory tells Sam and the Father that he had come back to answer Father Reynold's prayers for deliverance, that he is an angel. Sam and Father Reynolds tell Father Gregory that he's not an angel, just a man and that he needs to be at rest. Father Reynolds gives Father Gregory his last rites and his spirit is finally at rest.
Dean follows the man that Father Gregory told Sam to stop, he picks up a young woman and they continue on their way. The man stops the car in a back ally and attacks the woman. Dean stops the man and pulls the woman out of the car but the man drives away. Dean follows the man in a high speed chase. Dean catches up with the man's car when a pick-up truck swerves in front of the man's car. A long, metal rod flies off the back of the truck and impales the man Dean was chasing, right through the windshield and the back of the seat. Dean cannot believe what he just saw.
Dean meets Sam back at the motel room. Sam tells Dean that he was right, that it wasn't an angel but Dean is still shaken up by what he saw. He tells Sam what he saw and that if he didn't see it with his own eyes he wouldn't have believed it. Sam asks him what he saw and Dean replies: "Maybe... God's Will."

Nightshifter

Nightshifter has Sam and Dean up against another shapeshifter. Their first encounter was in the season one episode, Skin.

Sam and Dean investigate a string of robberies where it looks like employees rob various institutions (jewelry store, banks, etc.) stash the pilfered items and then commit suicide.

They talk to Ronald Resnik, a bank employee whose friend, Juan, robbed the bank. Ronald tells Sam and Dean that his friend did not rob the bank but a "mandroid" that looked like his friend. Ronald tells Sam and Dean that if the authorities won't do something about the "mandroid" then he would. Sam tells Ronald that there is no such thing as "mandroids" and that his friend robbed the bank, end of story. When Dean asks Sam about why he was so harsh, Sam tells him "better to stay in the dark and stay alive."

They figure out which bank that the shapeshifer may hit next, so Sam and Dean pretend to be security camera technicians in order to spot the shapeshifter. Right after they spot it, Ronald shows up, locks the bank and pulls a gun on everyone.

Sam and Dean try to calm Ronald down but it doesn't work. Dean finally tells Ronald that the bank manager has the "laser eyes". Dean talks Ronald into taking Dean as a hostage while everyone else gets into the vault. Dean and Ronald find the shed skin of the shapeshifer which makes tracking it harder. Dean also tells Ronald that its not a "mandroid" but a shapeshifter and that silver is the only thing that will kill it. Meanwhile, the SWAT team is called to the bank since they think its a robbery.

Dean is trying to keep everything in check but Sam freaks out when he realizes the cops are outside, considering Dean is wanted by the police. The situation goes from bad to worse when Ronald gets shot and an FBI agent, Victor Hendrickson shows up on the scene and he knows an awful lot about Dean, Sam and John Winchester.

The clock is running out and the shapeshifter is always one step ahead of Dean and Sam. They think that the shapeshifer is masquerading as a young woman that is with the other hostages in the vault but come to find out that the shapeshifter actually made itself look like the dead woman. Dean fights with the shapeshifter and stabs it with a silver letter opener. Okay, one problem solved, now to figure out an escape plan.

The SWAT team enters the bank, searches the bank for Sam and Dean and just when you think that this is the end of the road for the Winchesters, they escape by attacking two SWAT team members and stealing their clothes.

The song Renegade by Styxx plays as the last scene shows Dean and Sam making their way to a parking garage where they parked the Impala. Dean sums up the entire situation in one sentence: "We are so screwed."

Heroes - Distractions

Tonight's episode of Heroes was full of revelations but the most startling revelation was the identity of Claire's biologically father.

At the end of last weeks episode, The Fix, Sylar faked his own death in order to escape from the maxium security lock down that Mr. Bennett put Sylar in. Sylar locks Mr. Bennett in the cell and proceeds to the Bennett home, looking for Claire.

Claire and Zach ditch school in order to visit Claire's biologically mother. Claire shows her mother what she can do and her mother shows Claire that is all in the family.

Peter is still hanging around the invisible guy hoping that he can help Peter control his power so he doesn't end up being a human bomb. The invisible guy ends up throwing him off a 30 story building, hoping Peter will fly. Instead, Peter plummets to the ground below, landing on a taxi cab but instead of dying, Peter regenerates.

Hiro is in big trouble with his father but after showing his father that the company can survive under the leadership of Hiro's sister, they go back to Tokyo. Hiro is still able to continue his mission of saving the world with Ando at his side.

All of this leads up to the startling revelation: Who is Claire's daddy?

After Claire leaves, her mother calls "the father" and it turns out to be none only but Nathan Petrelli, Peter's brother who wants nothing more than to deny not only Peter's powers but his own as well.

Heroes is turning out be very interesting and they are just getting started.

Who's Her Daddy?

Last week on Heroes new episode, The Fix, we were introduced to Claire's biological mother who lit her cigarette from flames that emitted from her fingertips. So, who is Claire's biological father and what abilities does he possess?
Those questions and many others will be answered tonight as Distractions airs on NBC.

Playthings

Playthings is so far my favorite Supernatural episode since the Christmas hiatus. Playthings has the boys back on a traditional job but the emotions between the brothers is still very high ever since the "revelation" of what John told Dean about Sam.
Sam and Dean investigate the curious deaths at an old inn in Connecticut. Upon arriving at the inn, Sam notices a Hoodoo "five-spot" and both boys start thinking that the deaths may be linked to Hoodoo.
They also discover that the owner is planning on selling the inn, an old mansion that has been in the family for several generations. Sam and Dean don't know really what to think until the man representing the company who is buying the inn dies by hanging himself from the ceiling fan.
This really upsets Sam who turns to the bar in their room for comfort. Sam feels like a failure since he was unable to save the man, he should have been able to save him and Ava. Sam tells Dean that he feels that if can can save people, then he can save himself from his "destiny".
Dean discovers from the old bartender that the mother of the owner, Rose, had a Creole nanny who more than likely, taught Rose Hoodoo but the theory that the deaths were caused by Hoodoo is quickly dismissed when they go to see Rose and see that she has had a stroke which would make her unable to practice Hoodoo.
Sam and Dean are kicked out of the inn for disturbing Rose but they don't go far. In fact, Sam saves the owner from getting mowed down by her own car. Sam and Dean now know they are dealing with a spirit and that spirit turns out to be Rose's sister, Maggie, who has befriended the owner's daughter.
Now its a race to save the daughter from Maggie who wants her to drown so that they can be together forever. Sam saves the girl just in the nick of time and Maggie leaves everyone alone until they go up to Rose's room and discover that she died.
The owner and her daughter, thank Sam and Dean and leave the inn. Sam and Dean start to take off when Sam brings up the conversation they had while Sam was drunk. Dean reminds Sam that he will always be there to save Sam but Sam also reminds Dean of the promise he made to John.
The very end of the episode shows the two girls, Maggie and Rose, playing together-forever.

Playthings had really good dialogue ("You're bossy... and short." and "The cure for a hangover is a nice greasy pork sandwich served on a dirty ashtray.") and emotion. Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki delivered the lines with perfect timing and execution. I don't think Supernatural would be half as good without these two talented young actors.

Tall Tales

Supernatural, Tall Tales, is set to air on February 15th on The CW Network.

Born Under a Bad Sign

Supernatural's all new episode, Born Under a Bad Sign, will air on February 8th on The CW network.

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http://www.cwtv.com/shows/supernatural/episodes

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Most Popular TV Superheroes According to Yahoo!

Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester)- Supernatural came in third.

Unfortunately, the link for this poll is lost in cyber space but here is the link to The CW Supernatural board thread that mentioned the poll:
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Hayden Panetteire (Claire Bennett)- Heroes came in fourth.
Tom Welling (Clark Kent) - Smallville was in first place.