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April 30th 2008 01:52

The X-files: I Want to Believe! Here are some new shooting pics. Nothing major as far as Mulder and Scully are concerned, but it gives us something to look at in nice new HQ.

Behind-the-scenes of filming:

The FBI Search Party:

Mulder and Xhibit's character:

Amanda Peet:

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Posted By: Meggie - Category: The X-files (News about the upcoming movie!)

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Lost: The Shape of Things to Come

April 29th 2008 04:34

Kate spots Jack taking some medicine and jokes, “You got a prescription for that?” He laughs. “Yeah I wrote it myself.” He assures her he just has a stomach bug and she tells him he should eat some crackers, they always made her feel better.

Kate then asks why Sayid and Desmond aren’t back from the ship yet, and Jack just tells her not to worry about it. They’re probably just trying to work on the engine and radio.

Suddenly Vincent starts barking and Bernard starts shouting for help. Jack and Kate rush outside to see him pulling a man from the water. Vincent continues to bark as everyone else comes over. They roll the man in the white lab coat over to reveal his throat has been slashed.

Jack looks at Daniel. “Do you know who this is?” Daniel nervously answers that he was the doctor on their ship.

Cut to:

Hurley: We’re all gonna die.

Sawyer: Calm down Chicken Little, the sky ain’t fallin’ just yet.

Hurley: This is exactly what he wants, for us to fight amongst ourselves. You’re makin’ a big mistake dude.

Locke: It’s his to make Hugo. Let’s get on with it.

Sawyer: Right…I’m attacking Siberia.

That’s right, the boys are playing Risk. As in the board game. (haha!) Aaron sits on Hurley’s lab as he watches and listens to Hurley complain about Sawyer giving up Australia to Locke…

Meanwhile, Alex is being forced through the jungle by camouflaged snipers. We have yet to see any of their faces. They lead her to the fence (as in the one that can kill you and stop the smoke monster at the same time) and force her type in the code to turn it off. She begs them not to hurt everyone else, “They have a baby with them—” The men won’t hear of it. She types in the code.

Suddenly the phone rings. Sawyer, Hurley, and Locke just stare at it. Finally Locke gets up and slowly answers it. “Code 14 J…Code 14 J…Code 14 J…” When Hurley asks who it is, Locke merely answers, “I think it’s for Ben.”

Ben’s piano playing is interrupted by all three guys and Aaron as Locke asks, “What’s Code 14 J?” Ben stops playing. “Where did you hear that?” Locke tells him he picked up the phone and—Ben flings the piano bench open, pulls out a shot gun and pumps it.

Shocked, Sawyer gets ready to move, but Ben simply hands it at him and says, “We need to get to the other house. It’s easier to fortify and we’ll have better positions on the tree lines.”

Locke asks, “What are you talking about?”, to which Ben just answers, “They’re here.”

FLASH

Suddenly Ben gasps and wakes up in the middle of the Sahara Desert (complete with a heavy Dharma coat on and a gash is his right arm). He sits up, throws up, then jumps up as two men on horses with guns rush up and start shouting at him and each other.

Ben staggers to his feet and asks them if they speak English. They motion for him to take off his jacket. He does, and one of the men starts patting him down. His rifle clinks against something in Ben’s pocket. Ben laughs and starts to pull it out and—WhooshBamBoom! Ben takes both men out in record time with some mad fighting skills we haven’t seen before.

He rips off some the fabric from one of their turbans, ties it around the gash in his arm, then grabs a rifle, hops on a horse, and trots off into the dessert.

FLASH

Ben is trying to fortify the house and Sawyer argues that he has to go get Claire, and the kids. Ben assures him that they’re safe. He sent Rousseau, Alex, and Carl off already. Sawyer just glares at him. Claire’s still out there.

Ben argues, “There’s no time!”

Sawyer just pulls out his gun. “I’ll make time.”

(Note: Have I mentioned I love Sawyer and hate Ben? Yeah, just thought I’d bring that up again…LoL)

Locke starts to follow Sawyer, and Ben pulls him back. “You wanna live? I’m your best chance.”

Back at the beach, Jack asks Daniel if he knew anything about the doctor’s throat being slit. Daniel says no. Juliet asks if there’s any hope of fixing the satellite phone, and Daniel points out that the mic is busted. Bernard points out that they could still use it for a kind of Morse Code telegraph. Kate says they might have the stuff Daniel needs from the plane wreckage. They go off to find out.

Back at the barracks, Locke and Ben are moving couches, desks, bookshelves, basically anything they can get their hands on to block the door. Hurley tries to calm a crying Aaron as he asks, “How’s Sawyer gonna get back in?” Ben just looks at him. “He’s not.”

Outside, Sawyer rushes to try and find Claire. Some random guy stops him and asks him about his gun, and Sawyer yells at him to, “get inside and wait till—” BAM! Random guy is dead. Shot through the chest.

Sawyer swings around and shoots into the trees and then has to make a mad dash through a rain of bullets, using everything from white picket fences, swing sets, and grills as cover. (Ahhh! Run, run, run Sawyer, duck, watch out, how-are-you-not-getting-shot? !) He wildly shoots back, shouting for Claire. He makes a run for it and—BOOM!

The entire thing blows up.

“Claire!”

Tozeur, Tunisia

Ben checks into a hotel under a different name, and when the woman behind the desk asks him if this is his first time in Tunisia he says no. But it’s been a while since he’s been there.

Before heading up to his room Ben asks, “Today’s date is…?”

“October 21st.”

“2005.”

“Yes, sir…2005.”

(Interesting…is Ben time-jumping?)

On his way up the stairs, Ben sees Sayid on the TV being swarmed by press people as he says, “I just want to bury my wife in peace.”

FLASH

Hurley’s checking out the window at Claire’s burning house as Aaron continues to cry. Locke and Sawyer are loading a couch onto their pile. Locke orders Ben to tell him what’s going on and Ben simply says, “Shock and awe.” Hurley asks, “Was that Claire’s house? Claire was in there.”

Locke ignores him and tells him to get the baby away from the window. He and Ben continue to argue and finally Ben says that they need to work together to find Jacob’s house. Locke reminds him that he doesn’t know where the cabin is.

Ben pumps the rifle. “I know. But Hurley does.”

Outside, Sawyer continues to yell for Claire, throwing aside charred and smoking furniture until he spots her feet. Sawyer rushes to her side, and pulls her into his arms. She mutters, “Charlie?” and he tells her it’s okay.

Sawyer yells at them to open the door, and when Hurley runs to start pulling things away, Ben tells him he doesn’t want to do that. Locke doesn’t look like he’s about to help either. Hurley just glares at them both, then picks an ottoman off the pile of furniture and hurtles it through the window. (HA! You go Hurley!)

Sawyer hands over Claire then climbs through the window himself. At least Locke helps them through and asks if she was alright.

Sawyer asks why those people would just start shooting without telling them what they want, and Ben says it was to make him mad enough to throw Ben to the wolves. Sawyer thinks that’s not a bad idea. He slams Ben against the wall and looks at Locke. “What do you say, on three?”

Suddenly the doorbell rings.

Sawyer and Locke go to peek through the curtains despite Ben’s warning, then suddenly start pulling the furniture away. Sawyer opens the door, grabs Miles, and pulls him through. He brings a satellite phone. “They” want to talk.

FLASH

We’re at the funeral procession for Sayid’s wife. Ben rushes onto a roof, takes out a camera and starts snapping pictures of a bald guy hanging out sipping a drink and watching Sayid help carry his wife’s coffin. Ben turns the camera on Sayid, who senses his watchful eye and turns just in time to see his picture being taken.

Ben shoves the camera back into the bag and makes a run for it. He doesn’t far before Sayid smashes into him, yelling at the vultures who continue to follow him and—wait. Ben? What are you doing here?

Sayid shoves Ben into a side street and asks him what he’s doing there. He says he’s there to get the man who killed Nadia. Sayid asks him how he got off The Island and Ben said he used Desmond’s boat, The Elizabeth, setting a course for Fiji, where he chartered a plane.

Sayid asks, “Why now?” and Ben reminds him of Charles Widmore. He tells him he’s there now because he spotted a man named Ishmael at Nadia’s procession who was spotted three blocks from where she was killed. He was caught on camera by a traffic camera. Sayid crumples the picture, a renewed determination in his eye. (Guess we know why Sayid’s working with Ben in the future now, huh?)

FLASH

Miles tells Ben there’s about six men outside, and Ben lets out a sarcastic huff, “Well Miles sounds like you’re not gonna collect your $3.2 million.”

Miles shoves the phone at him, “Just take it.” Ben insists that he has no reason to talk to them. Miles tells them they have a hostage and Ben just says that every single one of his people are willing to die for him. Miles interrupts, “It’s your daughter!”

Ben stares at the phone in shock, then finally takes it. *click* “Hello?”

A voice on the other end asks, “Am I speaking to Benjamin Linus?”

“That’s right.”

“My name is Martin Keamy. I’m an employee of Charles Widmore.”

Sawyer asks who Widmore is and Locke just waves him off, “Later.”(LoL)

Keamy tells Ben to come to the window. He then tells Ben to come out and no one else will get hurt, of which Ben doesn’t believe at all. When Ben still won’t cooperate, Keamy whistles and another man brings a plastic-cuffed Alex out. Ben stiffens.

Keamy and Ben continue to non-negotiate, until Ben finally shoves the phone at Alex and says, “Tell your daddy goodbye.” Alex grabs the phones and sobs, ““Dad! They’re serious. They killed Karl and my mother.”

Ben tells her that he has everything under control. “Everything’s going to be okay.” Alex cries, “Please! Daddy!”

Keamy gives Ben 10 seconds…9…8…

“She’s not my daughter. I stole her as a baby from an insane woman…she’s a pawn, nothing more…she means nothing to me. “I’m not coming out of this house, so if you want to kill her, go ahead and do it—“ BAM!

Ben stares in total shock as Alex falls to the ground dead…he continues to stare…

Sawyer checks out the window. “I don’t see ‘em. They just left her body there and disappeared into the jungle!” he tells Locke, disgusted. Locke says, “They won’t be gone for long. It’s gonna be dark in about 20 minutes, and then they’re going to come for him.” Sawyer still just wants to hand Ben over. He doesn’t have any intention of dying.

Suddenly Ben says slowly, “He changed the rules…”

Locke asks him what he’s talking about, but Ben just walks into his secret room, the door slams down behind him, and he goes into his secret secret room with the secret secret secret tunnel…

FLASH

Ben orders a drink at the bar and watches the man who killed Nadia outside at a table. The man gets up and Ben rushes after him through the market. The guy knows he’s being followed, disappears around a corner and—“Walk.” He sticks a gun into Ben’s back, shoves him forward, then flips him around, demanding to know why he’s following him.

Ben tells him his name and that he needs him to take a message to Widmore. When the guy asks what the message is, Ben opens his mouth and BAM! Sayid shoots Nadia’s killer from behind. He falls to the ground and Sayid continues to empty the clip into his wife’s killer, pulling the trigger long after the bullets are gone.

“That should do it,” Ben says, then starts to leave. Sayid stops him, asking where he thinks he’s going. Ben tries to talk him out of following him, “This is my war, this is not yours.”

Sayid grabs his collar. “I spent the last eight years of my life searching for the woman I love. I finally found her and I married her. Then I buried her yesterday. So don’t tell me this is not my war.”

Ben looks at him. “I’ll be in touch.” (Argh! No Sayid! Don’t do it!) Ben walks off smirking. His plot to get Sayid involved has worked perfectly.

Back in the house, Sawyer pounds on the secret door (the first one that is) and demands Ben open the door. He continues to pound and shout until Claire, Aaron, and Hurley come out. Claire asks what’s going on and Sawyer swings around to look at her.

In a completely different, very concerned sweet tone, Sawyer asks, “You alright, Sweetheart?” (Awww, Sawyer!)

She says that she is, just a little wobbly, but she’ll live. Miles says he wouldn’t be so sure about that. Suddenly Ben’s door swishes up and he comes out covered in…dirt?

“Excuse me.”

Sawyer stares at him. “Excuse me?!” He demands to know what Ben was doing in there, but Ben just tells them they don’t have much time. When he gives the orders, they’re to run as fast as they can for the tree line.

Confused, Hurley asks, “You mean towards the guys with guns…”

“No,” Ben says, “We want to get as far away from them as possible.”

Suddenly the entire room begins to shake, windows break, thinks fall off shelves.

And then IT happens.

Ben goes to the window to watch as outside the smoke monster as we’ve never seen him (er…it?) before freaks out! It WHOOOSHGROWLS in, swoops around like a killer tornado, and attacks the guys with guns. Sawyer, Locke, Claire, and Hurley watch the whole scene with pretty much the same stunned horror as the rest of us.

Locke: “What did you do?!”

Hurley: “Did you just call that thing?!”

The black smoke is clearly angry and doesn’t seem to mind the bullets being fired at him. Shouts and screams can be heard from the forest.

They all start to run for safety, and when Ben doesn’t follow, Locke asks him what he’s doing. Ben says, “I have to say goodbye to my daughter, John.” Ben walks over to Alex’s body, kneels down, and cries. He closes Alex’s eyes, kisses her forehead, and weeps.

Back at the beach, Daniel is tapping out Morse Code. He can’t believe they might actually have a signal. He says he’s asking what happened to the doctor. A message beeps back. Daniel turns to them, relieved, “Okay. They didn’t exactly say what happened to the doctor, but your friends are fine and the helicopter’s comin’ back in the morning.” Kate smiles.

Bernard pipes up, “He’s lying. What the message said was, ‘What are you talking about? The doctor’s fine’.”

Daniel turns to him. “You know Morse Code.”

Kate’s smile is gone. Jack turns to Daniel. “What does that mean the doctor’s fine?” Daniel insists he doesn’t know.

Jack grabs Daniel by the collar, asking him if his people were ever going to take them off The Island. Daniel stares sadly at him for a long time, then finally answers, “No.”

Jack is furious, and disappointed, but more than that, he’s sick. Jack grunts and doubles over, but clearly doesn’t want anyone to know what’s wrong. He shakes it off when Kate starts to look concerned.

Back in the trees, Miles decides he’s going to stay with them instead of go back to be with his chopper buddies (and the smoke monster!) There’s a noise in the trees, and Locke cocks his gun. It’s just Ben returning.

Locke looks at him. “I’m sorry about your daughter.:

“Thank you, John.”

“That being said, you lied to me. You told me you didn’t know what the smoke monster was.”

Ben merely says, “You can ask Jacob all about it when we go to the cabin.”

Sawyer can’t stand it any longer. “Hang on - Jacob? Who the hell’s Jacob?”

“He’s the man who’s gonna tell us what to do next, James,” Ben answers calmly.

Okay, Sawyer’s really had enough of Team Locke. “You know what? I’m done with all this! I never should have followed you wackos in the first place. I’m going back to the beach and Claire and the kid are coming with me. You good with that?” Claire nods, yeah, she’s good with that. As is Miles. “Let’s go. You too, Hurley.”

Hurley turns to go with them but Locke and Ben both pull out their guns. Sawyer stops, sighing when he hears the guns. “Have you lost your mind?”

“Hugo stays with us.”

Sawyer swings around, pulling his gun on Locke. “Not a chance.”

Hurley tells them both to stop, but neither Sawyer or Locke

“I’m sorry, Hugo,” Locke says, gun still pointed at Sawyer, “We need you to find the cabin.”

Sawyer once again lets Locke know Hurley’s not going anywhere with them, but Hurley finally interrupts, “Stop! Put the guns down, I’ll go with Locke.”

Sawyer: “Hugo!”

“It’s okay, Sawyer.” Hurley turns to Locke. “Please, put your gun down.” He does. Hurley nods to Sawyer, “You too.”

With a pained expression, Sawyer tells Hurley, “You don’t have to do this.”

Hurley insists that they should go back to the beach. “I’ll catch up sooner or later.”

Sawyer puts down the gun but stomps up to Locke, making sure he can see he means every word as he growls, “You harm so much as one hair on his curly head, I’ll kill you.” (Dude! I’m lovin’ Sawyer more and more this episode!)

Locke stares at Sawyer and says, “Fair enough.”

Sawyer continues to glare at him, then turns to Claire and Miles. “Let’s go.”

Locke looks at Ben. “Which way?”

Ben looks at Hurley then says, “Follow me.”

FLASH

Ben steps out of a cab in London and into a hotel. The bellhop stops him. “Good evening, sir. may I help you?”

“Oh, yes. I’m here to see Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick in 4E.”

“At this hour, sir?”

“They’re expecting me. Feel free to call up.”

The bellhop studies him as Ben fingers the weapon behind his back.

“No need, sir. Good night, sir.” Ben heads for the elevator.

He picks the lock to get the elevator to the penthouse suite…he walks into a bedroom.

“Wake up, Charles.”

Charles Widmore sits up. “I wondered when you were going to show up. I see you’ve been getting more sun.”

“Iraq is lovely this time of year. When did you start sleeping with a bottle of scotch by the bed?”

“When the nightmares started.” He turns to the bedside table and pours himself a drink. “Have you come here to kill me, Benjamin?”

“We both know I can’t do that.”

“Then why are you here?”

“I’m here, Charles, because you murdered my daughter.”

“Don’t stand there looking at me with those horrible eyes of yours and lay the death for that poor girl on me, when we both know very well I didn’t murder her at all, Benjamin. You did.”

“No, that’s not true.”

“Yes, Benjamin, it is. You creep into my bedroom in the dead of night, like a rat, and have the audacity to pretend that you’re the victim? I know who you are, boy. What you are…I know that everything you have, you took from me. So once again, I ask you - why are you here?”

“I’m here, Charles, to tell you that I’m going to kill your daughter.”

“Penelope, is it? And once she’s gone ,..once she’s dead? Then you’ll understand how I feel…And you’ll wish you hadn’t changed the rules.”

“You’ll never find her.”

Ben raises an eyebrow.

“That island’s mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again.”

Ben almost smirks. “But you’ll never find it.”

“Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us,” Widmore states matter-of-factly.

“I suppose it is.” Ben stares at him then adds curtly, “Sleep tight, Charles.”

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Hmm...so the smoke monster is Ben's deadly pet then is it? LoL

FINALLY things are starting to happen! I guess the one good thing about the writers' strike is the fact that it's forced the Lost writers to get things moving (and quickly at that!) They did, after all, have to get Hurley and Aaron back to the same place as Jack, Kate, and Sun I guess if they're all going to get off The Island. Although if it's not Daniel and Co.'s ship that saves them...Hmmm...I'm just glad Sawyer's still alive!

Oh yeah, and Ben? DON'T KILL PENNY!!! Poor Desmond...

Great episode!

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Moonlight @ Paley Fest and Comic Con 2008

April 27th 2008 19:28

Kristin over at TV Guide talked to the cast of Moonlight during this year's Paley Fest, and we find out that Sophia Myles (a.k.a. Beth) wore hair extensions for the first part of the season, and Alex O'Loughlin thinks Beth is Mick's true love, but he's still got to go through a lot to get over Coraline's return.

Oh yes, and Alex is officialy a Hollywood "hunk/stud" now.

Jason Dohring talksk about episode 13 (a.k.a. Fated to Pretend: see recap HERE), where he says, "It broke my heart. Like really, I was stunned for like 1-2 hours afterward, it was really weird. I've never, I don't get emotional and that sort of thing and it was very emotional."

Yes, yes it was.

Over 4,000 fans donated blood to help save lives and their favorite new show! We want more seasons of Moonlight CBS!!!

Clips below thanks to TV Guide!!

At NYCC Alex and Jason talk about what they would miss if they were really turned into vampires. Things like apples and their family.

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Moonlight: Fated to Pretend

April 26th 2008 06:48

6 days 8 hours and 42 minutes since Mick to the cure that changed him from a vampire back into a human and he’s thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. He’s swapping the fridge for the couch and his breakfast blood for good ol’ orange juice and coffee. We’ve never seen him so happy.

He heads off for the beach to enjoy a hot dog with everything on it. (“Sure nobody knows what’s in it, but I used to be a vampire! You think I care?”) Today he doesn’t feel like he’s 85 years old, and he’s going to make the best of his human time. And that means a picnic at the beach with Beth. In the sun!

He lies down on the blanket, enjoying a strawberry (Beth brought a little bit of everything since she realized she had no idea what he liked), and Beth tells him how good it is to see him so happy. When she comments that it’s like a whole new Mick, he tells her that no, it’s actually the old Mick. The one he was before he turned into a vampire.

Beth asks him how long he thinks the cure will last and Mick says he doesn’t know, maybe six months? In any case, he’s definitely not letting any moment pass him by.

He tells her he’s glad she called, and she lets him know that she wanted him to know that she doesn’t blame Mick for Josh’s death. When he brings up the fact that she was wearing his engagement ring at the funeral, she tells him that, “Even if he had been able to propose to me, I wouldn’t have been able to say yes...” She then goes on to tell him the reason is because “there’s someone else. There has been for a while…I care about him a lot. And, I think it’s time he figured out what he’s gonna do about it.”

Mick takes the hint, and smiles.

Mick heads on over to Josef’s to find his best friend trying to deal with his new interior decorators (Josef is not liking their “think Clooney” idea at all). Josef tells the decorators to leave, looks at Mick and asks, “Are you…are you tan?” Mick answers, “Am I? I had lunch at the beach with Beth. Not something you’ll be doing any time soon.”

Josef asks Mick if he’s sealed the deal yet and Mick argues that it’s not about sex. Josef argues that it always is, and Mick insists that it’s not that simple. “I’m 58 years older than her, okay? I sleep in the freezer, I drink blood I buy from the morgue, and I have this tendency to bite down when I—”

“Some women like that,” Josef interrupts. “You keep coming up with all these excuses. You’re not afraid Beth’s gonna get hurt, you’re afraid you’re gonna get hurt.”

Mick laughs it off, then thinks a second. “I, am in love with her.”

“Yeah,” Josef smiles and gently answers. “Yeah you are. Now go do something about it before it’s too late.”

Beth enters her apartment ally smiley and looking at a picture of Mick on her phone. She plugs it into her I-phone speakers and starts listening to music. The music is interrupted by a call, and it’s Maureen ordering Beth to get down to Buzz Wire in 20 minutes. Beth tries to get her to wait for the morning, but her boss will hear none of it. She hangs up and Beth sighs and heads back out.

Down at Buzz Wire, Beth enters telling Maureen that, “If this is one more Brangelina alien baby thing I swear—” She stops dead in her tracks when she sees that the entire building has been ransacked. Her gaze drifts towards Maureen’s office. The door is open…No!

Beth runs in and finds her friend and boss murdered. Shot through the head.

The cops show up along with Assistant DA Ben Talbot. He asks about Maureen and puts the magazine down as a trashy tabloid. Beth defends Buzz Wire, “We cover serious news stories here, one of which just got Maureen killed!”

Enter Mick. She tells him what’s going on and Talbot asks Mick who he is. When Mick tells him he’s a PI, Talbot frowns. He’s heard of him, and those “things” aren’t really good ones. Talbot leaves and Mick asks Beth if she’s alright. Her answer? “Not really.”

Mick visits his morgue buddy (completely freaking him out that he’s not a vampire anymore) and gets a look at Maureen’s body. He and Beth find out that Maureen was definitely around a vampire at the time of her death. They start to leave and Guierrmo calls out, “Hey what about that gallon of A Positive I got stocked up, man. You’re the only one who drinks that stuff!”

Mick and Beth break into Maureen’s apartment, where she tells him that it was a lot more fun when he was a vampire.

Beth: *whispering* It’s a shame you can’t still do that sexy vampire jumping thing.

Mick: *whispering* Yeah well the jumping thing was kinda tied to the blood-sucking thing.

The killer has Maureen’s laptop, but Beth is convinced she had to have a USB backup hidden somewhere. Mick starts to look and tells Beth that people hide things in the last place they think anyone’s going to look. Beth has an epiphany, “Tampons!”

Mick: Excuse me?

Beth tells him that that’s where she hides all her good jewelry and runs off to get a box. When she returns with the USB drive, Mick can’t believe it. Maureen’s cat wanders in and Beth picks him up, pets him and tells him they’ll find someone good to take care of him, then sets him on Mick’s lap. Mick tries to stop her as cats instinctively hate vamp—oh, look at that. Mick is amazed and grins as he starts petting the purring cat.

They hook it up to the computer but find the entire thing password protected.

It’s okay. Mick knows a guy.

Guitar Hero time! Mick takes Beth to visit computer wiz Logan, who, unlike Mick, the cat hates (I mean why wouldn’t he, Logan thought he was lunch). Mick shouts over the music, “Is that all you do?”, to which Logan scoffs, “No! Tuesdays and Thursdays when I rule World of Warcraft!” Mick introduces Beth and Logan and gets Logan to look at the computer files.

Logan has a tough time. It’s not only password protected but also encrypted by a novice who thinks they knew what they were doing. Logan tries everything, her phone number, SS number, driver’s license…Mick interrupts, “Try her cat’s name, Travis.”

Logan just laughs. “No one every uses their cat—”

Beth: It worked! We’re in!

Logan: We shall never speak of this again.

In Maureen’s files they find an article about Jill Button who died of a heart attack after eating some new diet doughnuts. She was their spokesperson. “Killer doughnuts…” They move on to the next article, which is about Kent Morrow. A guy who’s running for mayor. He’s expected to win.

Apparently Maureen received an e-mail from a Luis Perez who claimed that Morrow’s wife was killed in a car accident that wasn’t an accident. They figure this is the right article. Logan says his money is on Josef Kostan who’s been running some sort of charity scam. When Mick says it can’t be Josef, Logan asks him why Mick hasn’t introduced him to the richest vampire in town. Mick simply answers, “Logan, you never leave your basement.” Logan can’t argue with that!

Mick insists that Josef didn’t kill Maureen, it’s not his style, I mean Maureen? Beth argues that she was near a vampire when she died and vows that she’s not letting whoever killed her friend get away with it.

They pay Josef another visit. “Oh look, it’s my two favorite humans.” Beth immediately gets to the point and after joking when they first entered, Josef tells Beth he’s sorry when Mick explains Beth’s editor just died.

Josef: Am I a suspect? Cool, it’s like role-playing, only without the leather.

Mick tells Josef his name came up in connection with the story Maureen was working on. When Josef asks if her body was found in the tar pits and they say no, he says, “That was the only person I killed this week.” Mick tells him that, “This is serious,” and Josef just says, “No, this is stupid.”

Josef goes on to tell them that Maureen was the one to tell him the charity was bogus. He didn’t know until then and immediately backed out when he found out. He even set up another charity for the victims of the people who fell for the first. Why would he want to kill Maureen? He tells them, “I know it’s always tempting to blame the vampire, but I think this time you guys are going to have to look for the killer someplace else.” They leave.

Mick goes to one of Morrow’s press speeches, where he runs into Morrow’s very bored daughter who complains that her dad’s speech is exactly the same every time. Mick jokes, “Maybe he’s lip-syncing.” Bonnie laughs and tells him he must be lost, he seems way too cool to be hanging out with these losers. Mick tells her appearances can be deceiving and goes off to try and talk to Morrow. He’s stopped by his campaign manager though, and when they find out he’s a PI they tell him to leave and walk off.

Mick follows, asking Morrow if he knew that Maureen was looking into his wife’s accident. Morrow asks him again who he is and Mick asks him if he knows Louis Perez. He tells him that Perez is claiming his wife’s death wasn’t an accident. Morrow stares at Mick. “I have nothing to hide.” He exchanges a long glance with his daughter and walks out.

While Mick is off following Morrow’s lead, Beth heads to check out the killer doughnuts. The woman behind the desk insists that their doughnuts are perfectly safe. Beth argues, “Yet your spokeswoman is perfectly dead.” The woman argues that she had a heart attack that had nothing to do with her diet. She tells Beth that’s all she’s getting without lawyer, and offers a box of doughnuts on the way out.

Back in Logan’s basement, he’s found out that the company offer is legit. Beth tries the doughnuts and makes a face. Mick comes in and sees the doughnuts. His eyes light up and he grabs one, taking a bite. “Mmmm, that’s not bad!”

Beth just looks at him. “When was the last time you had a doughnut?”

“1952.”

Beth stares at him. “I have two words for you. Krispy. Kreme.”

Mick continues to eat his doughnut telling them that he didn’t have to be able to hear Kent Morrow’s heartbeat to know he’s hiding something. He asks Logan what he found out and he pulls up the report about the accident. Morrow’s wife was driving and she smashed into an oncoming car, killing both her and the other driver.

When they ask about Perez, Logan says the guys a ghost. The best he can do is try and trace the e-mail sent to Maureen back to the computer that sent it. Mick hands over some more cash and he and Beth start to leave. He explains that they’re going back to talk to Guierrmo because he got him to let them have a look at Jill Button. When Beth says, “I thought he was mad at you,” Mick explains, “I bought up all the A positive he couldn’t unload.” When she points out that he can’t drink blood anymore, Mick tells her he sent it to Josef as a “sorry you were a suspect present.”

At the morgue, Mick and Beth examine Jill Button. They find strange marks on her that Beth IDs as liposuction scars and both men just look at her. Mick asks, “Really?” and Beth explains defensively, “I have friends.” They determine that the liposuction didn’t kill her, and Mick gets a text from Logan with an address for Perez.

Mick heads off to the address and Beth sticks around to see what she can find out about the coroners report. She runs into the DA in the hall and he warns her not to continue with Mick. Even if they do find evidence, he’s still going to need to have it be permissible in court. Does she really want Maureen’s killer to get off on a technicality? Beth hates it but realizes he’s right.

Mick shows up at Perez’s house, knocks on the door…”Mr. Perez?”…muffled running…Freeze on Mick’s face: ”I’m actually gonna have to chase this guy? Crap.”

Mick takes off as his Voice-over explains, “I haven’t had to run like this for a long time.” (Lots of running, jumping, smashing through fences and over a kid’s wagon, “Hey! Hey!”) “The first few minutes were fun…And now?” (Mick leaps over hedges, still chasing Perez.) “Now let’s just say I do feel like I’m 85 years old.” (Freeze. He’s almost on him!) “And I really am gonna have to cut back on all those hot dogs and doughnuts.”

Mick finally catches up to Perez and smashes him through the white railing by the stairs. Perez yells, “Please! Please!”

Inside the house he and Mick sit in the living room and Perez explains that he thought he was INS. They came by this morning. Mick says it was Kent Morrow. They start talking about the night of the accident when Perez was the valet who handed over the keys…not to Morrow’s wife, but to Kent Morrow.

Mick leans forward, “Kent Morrow was driving that night?” More than that, he was drunk and angry. When Mick asks Perez why he didn’t tell the police, why contact Buzz Wire now? Perez just looks at him confused. “What’s Buzz Wire? I didn’t contact anybody.”

Mick asks to see his computer and calls Logan. Together they figure out that someone was routing the e-mails to look like they came from Perez, when in fact they came from somewhere inside Kent Morrow’s offices. From his campaign manager actually.

When Mick confronts the two, the campaign manager insists that a lot of people use her computer, and that it wasn’t her. Beth and Ben Talbot enter and Beth asks to talk to Mick.

They step outside the office to talk and Talbot joins them. Perez won’t testify for fear of being deported and now it’s just his word against Kent’s. Suddenly Morrow’s daughter, Bonnie, gets up and runs out of the room. Mick turns around, “I’ll be right back.” He rushes out after her.

Mick comes out on the roof and, “No! Bonnie!” He rushes over to where she’s about to jump and she tells him to go away. She’s crying. Mick tells her just to step back and she asks, “Are you gonna give me the, ‘there’s so much to live for’ speech? You have no freakin’ idea.” Mick tells her no, but people are going ask why she jumped and he’d like to be able to tell them that she made an informed decision.

Mick steps onto the ledge with her and she asks, “What now you’re gonna jump to?” He answers, “I’d really rather not. I’ve never even had a Krispy Kreme doughnut.”

Bonnie: Are you nuts?

Mick: Yeah.

Bonnie: No you’re not. But you know what is? Living every day with a secret that you want to tell someone—that you want to tell but can’t.

Mick: Listen to me, okay? Secrets are like a disease, and if we don’t share them, they eat us up on the inside until there’s nothing left. Until it feels like we’re already dead.

Bonnie looks at him. “You have a secret too, don’t you?” Mick admits that he does and that it ate him up until he told somebody. When she asks if it turned out for the best, he answers, “You know what? I think it did.”

Suddenly the roof door busts open and everyone else comes running out, yelling. Mick immediately tells them to back off, and Bonnie cries harder, telling them to get her dad away from her. She doesn’t want him here! Mick talks her down, “Hey, hey, hey, it’s just you and me up here okay? You talk to me.”

Bonnie tells them all about the night of the car accident (“I woke up in the car…and mommy was dead.”) and how she doesn’t want to be by the man who killed her mom and then forced her to keep it a secret.

Kent: *being held back* Bonnie you’re all I got left!

Bonnie: Because you killed my mother!

Mick: *softly* It’s okay…it’s okay…

Bonnie: He was driving, but he said to say that she was. And he said that if I didn’t, that he would…go to jail and I-I would be all alone.

Mick: You wanted people to know the truth right?

She tells him she just wanted people to know the truth about her mother, but she was too chicken to tell, and then she tried the e-mail thing and screwed that up to and—NO!

Bonnie jumps and Mick leaps at her, grabbing her and pulling her back just in time. They both fall to the floor. Bonnie looks at him, breathing hard, shocked, and Mick just keeps telling her she’s okay. She starts to cry again and leans into him. Mick stays on the ground, pulling her into a hug and holding her as he continues to tell her it’s okay.

Kent Morrow tries to get to his daughter and Talbot stops him. “If you cared about your daughter you wouldn’t have lied.” He drags him off as Morrow yells Bonnie’s name. Bonnie would rather stay with Mick.

Morrow’s campaign manager goes over to get Bonnie and Beth rushes to Mick. “Are you okay? For a second I thought…” It’s only then that Mick recalls, “Yeah I just remembered that I don’t like heights.” Beth tells him she’s not used to having to worry about him dying. Mick grins, “Me neither. It’s kind of exhilarating.” She tells him that’s not exactly the word she would use.

They decide that if Kent didn’t kill Maureen, they’re left with the doughnut queen. Talbot tells them later on the phone that he found out that the coroner was paid off by Jill Button’s plastic surgeon, Dr. Pierce Andrews. His patients have been hospitalized after procedures for unexpected blood loss. Mick wants the address and he’ll give text it to them as long as they meet him in the morning. Beth decides Talbot is starting to grow on her.

They head for the car and Mick stops her, “Hey. You want to come over to my place for dinner tonight? I’ve uh, figured out how to work the over.”

Beth looks at him, surprised. “You’re going to cook me dinner?”

Mick grins. “Yeah I’m gonna try.”

“Are you asking me out on a date?”

“Why isn’t that what humans do?” Mick heads for the car and Beth gives us the biggest Yes! smile ever, before turning to follow him.

Mick, Beth, and Talbot all go to talk to the plastic surgeon. He tells them he considers himself an artist, blah, blah, blah, and when they start to push and Talbot threatens to get a warrant, the vampire attacks. Mick tries to fight him, but seeing as how he’s human again he’s no match. Both he and Talbot are thrown across the room (Mick into a glass table) and knocked out and the vampire goes after Beth (after she shoots him twice with Mick’s gun to no avail).

He licks her bloody lip. “Type AO negative. Unusual. Tasty.” Beth looks for Mick but he’s still unconscious.

Mick goes to Guierrmo to get the giant glass shards out of his leg and his friend argues that he should be at the hospital. Mick doesn’t have time for the hospital, he needs to find Beth. Guierrmo tells Mick that he knows about the guy who took Beth. The plastic surgery thing is just a front, he takes extra (usually rare) blood from his patients while he’s out. Not good. The rare blood thing is describing Beth perfectly.

Beth and Ben are on the floor in some surgical lab tied up back-to-back and blindfolded with medial gauze. Beth says that Mick will come and Ben argues that Mick is probably dead, “No one is coming to save us, we’re on our own.”

Leg is sewn up, Mick heads back to his apartment and starts pulling the weapons out from behind his super-cool black bookcase. Suddenly Josef appears, “What are you doing?”

Mick: Don’t do that!

Josef: *grinning* What? Use my crafty vampire abilities to sneak up on you?

Mick: What are you doing here?

Josef: Guierrmo called me, said you were about to do something incredibly stupid. I said, ‘Wait, that can’t be the Mick I know’.”

Mick: You should come, you love a challenge.

Josef: No see, I’m a lover not a fighter. Besides I’d just get dead trying to protect you, the human liability.

Mick argues that he can take care of himself, and suddenly Josef goes all vampire and attacks Mick. He knocks the weapons out of his hand, throws him across the room, and pins him to the wall, shouting, “Is this how you’re face them? This how you want it to end?!”

Mick yells at him to get off him, and Josef backs down. He’s proven his point. Mick takes a deep breath and turns to his friend. “You were right. I can’t save Beth as a human. But I can save her as a vampire. You have to turn me back.”

Josef can’t believe what he’s hearing. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. This is not—”

“Just turn me back.”

Gone is the usual teasing Josef. “Mick. You’re human again. After all you went through to get the cure you’re gonna give it all up this easily?”

Mick’s anger and emotions are quickly building. He breathes hard as he answers, “You think this is easy? This is not easy, okay? I don’t have a choice.”

“What you’re asking me to do—” Mick cuts him off by grabbing Josef by the collar.

“Listen to me! Alright?” Mick begs Josef. “He has Beth…He has my Beth. So please….please brother…”

“Mick.” Josef looks at his best friend. “Forgive me.”

Josef attacks Mick, biting him on the neck as he begins to drain his blood. Even in his vampire eyes you can see that it’s killing him to do this. Mick staggers and Josef holds him while he continues to suck, gently lying Mick on the table as he turns him back into a vampire.

Now that is one loyal friend. (Note: This is also the first time we actually see Josef turn vampire! We get just a glimpse of how powerful the guy really is!

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Mick lies on the table and Josef takes off his jacked and rolls up his shirt. He bites his arm and dribbles his own blood into Mick’s mouth.

A single tear slides from Mick’s eye.

The blood hits his tongue and he barely moves. “Come on Mick, rise and shine. ” Josef continues to drip his blood into his friend’s mouth, arm shaking. Finally Mick takes Josef’s arm and starts to drink. He lies back for a moment, then sits up. When he opens his eyes, he’s back to a vampire.

Mick and Josef bust down the door and find a bunch of vampires lounging around drinking blood in the room where Beth and Ben are still sitting on the floor. One of the vampires looks at them, “You’re, a—”

Mick: Oh yeah.

Josef: It is so on.

*Cue awesome Mick and Josef team vampire fight!!*

Mick throws one of the vampires through a glass wall into a bunch of blood, then stakes two of them while as Josef watches his back. When it’s all over Josef jokes, “Woo! Very dramatic. I like it.”

Mick unties Beth and takes off her blindfold. She sees him and asks, “Your face, what happened?” Mick’s only reply is, “Like they say, life is short.”

Josef pulls Ben to his feet, keeping him blindfolded and reminding him that they’re saving his life. They leave the staked vampires and head out.

Later on, Mick and Beth sit on the roof in a candlelit night picnic. Beth explains that she told Talbot she was unconscious for most of the time and doesn’t know what happened, and Mick assures her that the cleanup team does a very good job. He won’t find out about the vampire part.

Beth takes a bite of a strawberry and Mick asks her if the food is okay. He wasn’t sure about the seasoning…Beth can’t get over what he did for her, what he gave up. She tells him, “part of you must hate me.”

Mick just looks her in the eye. “I could never hate you.”

He tells her he doesn’t have any regrets, and Beth says this isn’t exactly how she pictured their date either. She’s back to being a human, he’s back a vampire. He won’t look at her as he mumbles, “I just didn’t want you to get hurt.”

Beth says softly, “Maybe you’re afraid of getting hurt.” She tells him she knows what it’s like to lose someone you love. Mick argues that human-vampire relationships are too complicated.

“I know, you told me.” Beth stands up, tired of this. “If you hadn’t have been a vampire, I’d have died today. I’d have died 23 years ago.” Mick stands up as she adds, “Being a vampire isn’t all you are. It’s not what’s keeping us apart…It’s just you.”

She starts leave and Mick suddenly grabs her and pulls her into a passionate kiss. Finally, he pulls back to look at her. “Maybe you’re right. I don’t know. But just give me a chance to figure it out…okay?”

“Just don’t take too long” Beth whispers back. “You may have forever, but I don’t.”

Beth steps back, her hand slipping out of his. Mick watches her go then jumps up onto a pedestal on the corner of the roof, wind blowing around him, full moon in the background…

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Whew! Okay, this was a fantastic episode. I don’t know if it’s just because it’s been forever since I’ve seen a new one, or if they’ve just stepped it up a notch, but I really thought tonight’s episode was very good.

There were more than a few scenes I sat telling my TV, "I love you Mick!!" (The saving-the-young-girl-from-ju mping anyone? The tear? The kiss?) And I now have a renewed attachment to and appreciation for Josef. I do believe I even uttered a few “I love you Josef”s during that whole turning scene. It was so sad! But so very good.

Poor Mick. Still didn't get his Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Great job Moonlight! I can’t wait for next week!

Quotes of the week:

Mick: Do I miss sleeping in an industrial freezer? Would you?

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Mick: You look good.

Beth: So do you. Mortality suits you.

~*~*~

Vampire: You’re, a—

Mick: Oh yeah.

Josef: It is so on.

~*~*~

Mick: He has Beth…He has my Beth. So please….please brother…

Josef: Mick…Forgive me.”

~*~*~

Mick: I am in love with her.

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XF2 in People Magazine

April 26th 2008 01:57

It's just a little blurb, but the picture is so worth it! (click to view full size

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Supernatural: Ghostfacers

April 25th 2008 07:46

We interrupt this episode of Supernatural for an all new episode of “Ghostfacers" starring, you guessed it, Ed Zedmore and Harry Spangler, self-proclaimed “professional paranormal investigators”.

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Bones: Player Under Pressure

April 22nd 2008 05:11

Originally slated for last season, this episode was postponed to a more appropriate time due to the Virginia Tech shootings. There were rumors that some of it would be reshot to fit into the season 3 timeline, but it ultimately ended up being shot in its original form (hence the somewhat odd reaction Angela has to Cam when she brings her something to give to Hodgins

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Batman vs. Superman! Who's your pick? (poll)

April 21st 2008 03:57

There are those inevitable “this or that?” questions that come up in conversation: Chocolate or vanilla? Day or night? Summer or Winter? Batman or Superman

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Funny Bones/X-files cartoon

April 20th 2008 18:52

This is so true...

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EW talks XF2 as Empire Magazine reveals Scully’s job

April 20th 2008 15:26

Great week to open up my Entertainment Weekly and find two new promo pics for XF2 and a nice article to go with them

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If you liked Mick as a vampire…

April 19th 2008 07:13

Moonlight fans, Mick is back next week (4/25) and he’s making the most of his human time! Here’s the promo for the new episode. (And just a reminder, it’s in ONE WEEK, not 2 like the promo says.

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