The Spoiler Roundup 04.30.09
April 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Email | Share | TweetWelcome to the Spoiler Roundup, the most comprehensive weekly spoiler wrapup on the internet. We scour the web for all the best spoilers on some of the most popular shows on the air.
This Week: 90210, Army Wives, Better Off Ted, Big Love, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Caprica, Castle, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Dollhouse, Fringe, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, In Plain Sight, Lie To Me, Lost, Monk, NCIS, NCIS: Legend, Nip/Tuck, Numbers, Prison Break, Private Practice, Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Stargate Universe, The Office, Ugly Betty and Weeds.
90210
We won’t know who dies until next year. We’ll see what appears to be a dead body in the 90210 finale, but the person’s face will remain hidden. (Watch With Kristin)
Army Wives
Season 3 of Army Wives returns June 7, and with big new plot twists galore: Roxy hits some bumps with the Hump Bar, Pamela struggles with her husband being away, and Roland realizes that being a stay-at-home dad doesn’t necessarily gibe with his career goals. (TV Guide)
Better Off Ted
The love triangle between Jay Harrington, Portia de Rossi and Andrea Anders continues. Says Jay, “Linda and Ted try to figure out if it’s right for them, and Veronica puts in her two cents, which usually adds up to 20 cents.” (Watch With Kristin)
As far as the rest of this season, Jay teases, “I just lost my identity, and then we have a fight club that happens in the basement for Phil and Lem, but it’s medieval. There are a lot of knaves and knights and princesses. Rose is out of town, so Ted gets involved. It’s some pretty funny stuff.” (Watch With Kristin)
Big Love
Show runner Will Scheffer says that Grace Zabriskie (Lois) is going to be front and center next season. “We’ve got a pretty big story for Lois and her husband and maybe a grandson or two. The last line she spoke in episode two last season is when she approaches Wanda and says, ‘Might you tell me from where you made the purchase of that bird, so if I might want one for companionship, I would know where to procure one.’ That’s the hint.” (Watch With Kristin)
Bones
Booth and Bones are getting together in the Bones season finale, airing May 14 on Fox! According to Emily Deschanel, “It should be surprising and good. The way it happens is surprising…I’m glad we waited this long. I think Hart [Hanson] wanted to find a clever way to put them together that wouldn’t forever taint everything on the show, and I think he figured a very clever way to do it.” (Watch With Kristin)
When Booth’s brother resurfaces this week, his feelings for Brennan haven’t really died, so a bit of a love triangle happens and it likely lasts into next season. (TV Guide)
Brothers and Sisters
Kitty and Robert will probably not be back together this season. (TV Guide)
Caprica
Paula Malcolmson says that Amanda won’t find out right away. Paula tells us, “She’s not going learn early. I think there’s just too much payoff if you let it hang out there—I mean, the betrayal, it’s just going to be massive.” (Watch With Kristin)
Sasha Roiz (”Unthinkable”) has been upped to series regular on Sci Fi’s “Caprica” after guest starring in the pilot as Sam Adama, brother of lead Joseph Adama (Esai Morales). (Hollywood Reporter)
Castle
Castle’s former wife won’t be back this season. Darby Stanchfield may return at some point as a guest star – assuming Castle earns a pick-up – but she won’t be a series regular. (TV Guide)
Desperate Housewives
Kyle MacLachlan teases, “I think Orson is much more dangerous than Dave. I’m sorry, I like Neal [McDonough] very much, but in terms of danger quotient, Orson can do things with a gas mask, watch out!” Sounds like a mystery for next season, especially since Orson is to blame for Edie’s death. “As far as the scripts go, now they haven’t really addressed it, but I have a feeling it’s going to come back to haunt me,” adds Kyle. (Watch With Kristin)
Gabrielle’s niece, Ana’s first episode will be the season finale, but she’ll be back for an arc in the fall. (TV Guide)
Dexter
When the Showtime hit returns next fall, six months will have lapsed on screen, leaving newlyweds Dexter (Michael C. Hall) and Rita (Julie Benz) the proud parents of a baby boy. “This season, we’re going to deal with: Can a serial killer juggle a personal life, work, and his ‘dark passenger’?” reveals executive producer Sara Colleton. “In other words, can Dexter have it all? Which is something all of us grapple with every day of our lives. So we’re taking something that is a very human dilemma and putting it through the prism of Dexter’s special needs.” (Michael Ausiello)
Further complicating Dexter’s intricate balancing act will be a new, as-yet-uncast male antagonist who will “cross paths with Dexter in a major, dramatic way,” teases Colleton. “He will illuminate a lot about Dexter’s life and force him to make some tough choices.” (Michael Ausiello)
Meanwhile, Dexter’s plucky sister, Deb, will unwittingly threaten to shed light on his dark secret. “All the way through the season, Deb – in her need to know her father more – is going to get closer and closer to figuring out who Dexter’s mother was and her relationship with her father,” says Colleton. So might the day come when Dex is forced to slice and dice her? “That is inconceivable to me,” declares Colleton. “Deb and Dexter are the best brother-and-sister team ever.” (Michael Ausiello)
Dollhouse
Alpha will be unmasked this Friday. (Michael Ausiello)
According to Dollhouse boss Joss Whedon, “Paul’s going to find way more than he expects to. He’s going to find a lot. It’s not pretty.” (Watch With Kristin)
Fringe
Expect the final three episodes to blow out the show as you’ve known it so far. Says executive producer Roberto Orci: “We were saving so many juicy secrets for years and years, and we’re actually going to stick a bunch of them in the finale. That may be the worst idea ever, but we’re doing it.” (Watch With Kristin)
According to Anna Torv, all sorts of nooks and crannies of the show’s mythology will be explored: “The last couple of episodes are very exciting. You get to the bottom of Harris (Michael Gaston)—there are a couple of surprises—and Jones (Jared Harris) comes back, and you find out something that I didn’t expect. And we meet William Bell!” (Watch With Kristin)
But according to Josh Jackson, the final eps are really all about Ms. Olivia: “The episodes that we’re in right now are about clarifying why it is that Olivia is so important to the FBI and understanding why Olivia specifically—not any other cop—got chosen for that job.” (Watch With Kristin)
Leonard Nimoy appears as William Bell in just one scene this season, and that scene is with Anna Torv’s Olivia. She tells us: “It was a tiny, tiny, tiny little scene, but I think we’ll pick on it when we come back. He was lovely. How exciting that he’s a part of our show, and that he’s William Bell, no less! How exciting that we get to meet William Bell and not just talk about him for another season!” For those of you who are worried that hard-to-come-by Nimoy wouldn’t be able to do as many episodes as originally imagined for Bell, Orci has some reassurance for you: “William Bell will be a bigger part of the story than you can even imagine,” regardless of Nimoy’s episode count. BTW, William Bell and Walter Bishop might be better buds that you’d think. John Noble tells us, “When Walter refers to William Bell, he doesn’t do it nastily, he always says ‘Belly and I did this or did that.’ He hasn’t got a grudge against him.” (Watch With Kristin)
Also up for examination is Peter’s much-discussed medical condition. Says executive producer Alex Kurtzman, “Yes, that’s one of those things we were going to save for a long time. You’re going to find out about a big part of Peter’s life.” And Josh Jackson says that the reveals about his character are worth the wait: “It is actually, if I may say so, shocking. It radically changes the understanding of the character. I don’t play it…It happens somewhere else with other characters, but information is revealed.” (Watch With Kristin)
Gossip Girl
Chuck does not try and sabotage Blair’s campaign for prom queen. It’s actually just the opposite. (Michael Ausiello)
The season finale revolves around the gang trying to smoke out Gossip Girl. (Michael Ausiello)
Grey’s Anatomy
Meredith and Thatcher don’t exactly resolve their issues. She, will, however reach a new understanding with the Chief. She even gives him a gift. A pretty major gift. A gift I have a hunch will play a big role next season. (Michael Ausiello)
Not only will Jessica Capshaw be back, she’s finalizing a deal to become a full-fledged series regular. (Michael Ausiello)
Sharon Lawrence makes her debut as Izzie’s mother this week, and according to Izzie’s mother’s psychic, Izzie is going to be just fine. You will be shocked to learn Izzie’s mother’s psychic is not reliable, and in point of fact, Izzie’s cancer is getting worse, not better. (Watch With Kristin)
Lexie (Chyler Leigh) is relatively happy to see her dad, but Meredith doesn’t take Thatcher’s return particularly well. In fact, Mer actually comes within inches of being fired—like midway through cleaning out your locker fired. (Watch With Kristin)
Creator Chandra Wilson said, “In [the finale], we do ultimately find out what [happens with] George (T.R. Knight)—he does make a big decision in that episode. Izzie has a lot of medical [issues] in that episode. And then we have our normal ER catastrophe that goes on. It’s got to be something bad going on where all the doctors have to assemble. That much I know.” (Watch With Kristin)
Chandra Wilson says Bailey continues with pediatric surgery despite the ramifications it has for her marriage. “Everything that I’m doing right now is still working with the kids; it’s still trying to potentially go into that fellowship. I do know that my husband is not happy about that—about spending two more years doing the same kind of hours. But when you get a calling, sometimes you have to do your calling.” (Watch With Kristin)
Heroes
Tracy’s whole revenge arc will serve as a centerpiece of next fall’s “Redemption” volume. (Michael Ausiello)
Zachary Quinto will without question be back next season. The show is also planning to introduce a cool and mysterious new villain. (Michael Ausiello)
House
There will be a House and Cuddy sex scene in the next new episode of House, on Monday, May 4. (Watch With Kristin)
In Monday’s episode, House suspects his drug habit is fueling his Amber hallucinations, so he decides to quit Vicodin cold turkey. Cuddy comes to his apartment to personally empty out his medicine cabinet, a struggle ensues, and, before you know it, they’re both on the bathroom floor and . . . well. (Michael Ausiello)
In Plain Sight
There’s a lot of guest stars this season, including Clarke Peters, Martin Landau, Richard Schiff and Sherilyn Fenn. Up first is Clarke in an episode about an architect of a faulty bridge. (Watch With Kristin)
Lie To Me
Tim Roth answers the relationship questions about Dr Lightman and his ex-wife by directing viewers to this season’s penultimate episode, airing May 6, in which the team tries to stop a serial rapist. “It kind of builds into some very strange areas,” Roth says. “You’re going to find out about Foster. You’re going to find more about me and Jennifer, and my daughter.” (TV Guide)
Lost
After you see the finale, you’ll understand why season five of Lost has not handed you Sawyer and Kate on a plate. (Watch With Kristin)
Sayid’s wife Nadia is back in the finale. We’ll also be meeting young Kate, young Tom (Kate’s friend from Iowa), young Juliet, young Rachel (Juliet’s sister) and young Sawyer, and several of those sightings happen because a pivotal figure in the Island mythology (Jacob) wants to check in on the castaways in their youth. (Watch With Kristin)
Jack’s plan to “un-crash” Oceanic Flight 815 is not foolproof, sadly. But it doesn’t lead to the deaths of everyone involved — just one person. And that death, though heartbreaking on the scale of Charlie’s end, will one day seem necessary because it sets up a raft of amazing future storylines and brings closure to some other long-running stories. (Watch With Kristin)
Among the crucial questions you’ll get answers to in the season finale, are “How did Hurley get that guitar case that he brought on the Ajira flight to Guam?” But also, “How did Hurley get out of jail?” Also, we’ll see Vincent the dog again — but while the fate of Bernard and Rose will be alluded to, we may not actually see Bernard and Rose in person. We’ll also see the face of the four-toed statue, which Michael Emerson believes is Tawaret, goddess of childbirth. And the season finale’s title, “The Incident,” is a clue to the direction the show is moving in. It’ll end with several major characters in jeopardy, until the final season begins in 2010. (TV Guide)
Monk
In the eighth and final season, Monk’s therapist, Dr. Bell, has a lot of work to do. Hector Elizondo teases, “I think eventually I may get Monk to unbutton his top button on his shirt.” (Watch With Kristin)
NCIS
It’s an emotional rollercoaster for Ziva [Officer Ziva David, played by Cote de Pablo], but it’s also physical. It’s the most physical she’s been, and Cote does all her own stunts. It gets very intense, and Ziva’s character is taken right to the edge emotionally in these last four episodes. She is in extreme jeopardy, and no one can help her. It’s the nature of the work she does. Basically, Ziva’s loyalties are tested, and she is forced to make some life-changing choices, both professionally and emotionally. (Watch With Kristin)
[Michael Weatherly's Special Agent Tony DiNozzo] has his own set of problems in these last four episodes. Tragic things happen to Tony and Ziva together, and to them separately as well. It definitely does not end up OK for either Tony or Ziva. (Watch With Kristin)
Jaime Murray comes in the second-to-last episode of the year. She’s a strikingly attractive woman, and she causes some jealousy, but not between the people you think. (Watch With Kristin)
These four episodes are really four finales in a row. Everything is designed for the fifth episode in this arc, which is the first episode of next season. Over the summer, people are going to wring their hands and wonder what’s going to happen. The first episode next season will be unexpected. People’s expectations of what they see in the first 30 seconds will be stood on their head. (Watch With Kristin)
NCIS: Legend
Legend is a word coined by the East German secret police, the Stasi, and it means deep background. If you’re going undercover, you need to have a legend, a backstory that holds up under scrutiny. The new show, which takes place in Los Angeles, takes a look at what it’s like to be an undercover agent. That is, how it differs from NCIS. No one from NCIS is moving over to this new show. We’ll announce the spinoff title when the show gets picked up. (Watch With Kristin)
Chris O’Donnell plays Special Agent Callen, who has worked undercover for CIA, FBI and DEA, and he’s been fired by all of the agencies. He’s very good at what he does, but he doesn’t like to be told how to do his job. And he’s found a home here because Louise Lombard [who plays Special Agent Lara Macy] understands his value and his worth, and she knows he can be a loose cannon, but is willing to work with him. (Watch With Kristin)
LL Cool J plays Special Agent Sam Hanna, the only married member of the team. Sam is married with four kids and is a former Navy SEAL. He’s very close with Callen; he’s like his big brother, and he looks out for him and protects him. He’s a wiser guy—an older guy with a different perspective on the world. (Watch With Kristin)
Nip/Tuck
Melanie Griffith will only appear as Kimber’s mother in one episode during the show’s seventh and final season, which doesn’t yet have a premiere date. (TV Guide)
The seventh season will feature Six Feet Under’s Frances Conroy in a ripped-from-the-headlines story about a woman whose pet chimpanzee horribly disfigures her friend. (TV Guide)
Numbers
Navi Rawat teased the big season finale, “Something really bad happens to Amita at the end of the second-to-last episode, and that flows into the season finale. It’s a bit of a disaster. The cliffhanger ends with my character. She’s put in a perilous situation, so it’s up to Charlie (David Krumholtz) and the rest of the FBI team to come to her rescue if they can.” (Watch With Kristin)
Prison Break
Michael will find out that Sara is pregnant by the May 15 season finale . . . though not from Sara herself. (TV Guide)
Private Practice
Violet’s baby drama very definitely ends in a cliffhanger; Addison and Josh do not behave themselves; and Charlotte gets herself spanked, and not in the fun-sex-with-Cooper way. (Watch With Kristin)
Secret Life of the American Teenager
A significant male character will die early into the season. And something happens as a result of it that will probably piss off the [insert name of conservative TV watchdog group]. (Michael Ausiello)
Smallville
A special guest shows up in the final scene of the season finale and he’s going to cause big problems next season. (Michael Ausiello)
Executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders officially confirmed the return of Tom Welling and Erica Durance, so they safe. Speaking of the finale, Cassidy Freeman says Tess Mercer is on the hunt for Davis, “Because I want Clark to accept the fact that he is Superman, and I don’t think he can do that until he fights Doomsday.” (Watch With Kristin)
The season finale is “magical,” says Erica Durance — but I’m not sure if that means Zatanna will be back or not. Meanwhile, she says Lois’ big fight in the finale is with another girl. And the deaths in the finale are heartbreaking and you’ll be sitting there with your jaw open. (TV Guide)
Clark is sort of responsible for turning Davis into the Doomsday we know from the comics. And the events of the season finale turn everything he’s worked for this season on its head. (TV Guide)
Sons of Anarchy
Kurt Sutter talked about some upcoming SOA casting: “Had a great meeting with an actor today whom I hope will be playing Ethan Zobelle. Zobelle is a new proprietor in Charming and the leader of an ultraconservative organization. Can’t reveal any names until the deal closes, but this guy is a fascinating actor from a very talented family. That character shoots Friday, so I hope it closes early this week.” (Watch With Kristin)
Stargate Universe
Michael Shanks only has a brief cameo in the first episode, he tells Sci Fi Wire. And don’t expect to see him popping in again any time soon after that. Since the new show has such a different feel than earlier incarnations, it could be disruptive to see people turn up from old Stargates. (SciFi Wire)
The Office
Everyone (including Amy Ryan’s Holly) gathers together for Dunder Mifflin’s annual company picnic. Here’s what you don’t know: The episode ends with a doozy of a twist, the repercussions of which will be felt well into next season. (Michael Ausiello)
Ugly Betty
“Yes, someone plummets to their death in the season finale,” executive producer Sylvio Horta confirms. “It will play a big role in the plot.” (Michael Ausiello)
Adele is in the house on May 14 for a Mode photo shoot that magically morphs into a wedding. With time being a factor, Daniel and his ailing bride are getting hitched. (TV Guide)
On tomorrow night’s “Rabbit Test” episode, Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams) finds out that she may not be the biological mother of baby William. For those not keeping up, here’s the deal: Wilhelmina’s egg and publishing king Bradford Meade’s sperm were implanted into surrogate Christina McKinney (the seamstress) to produce the golden child of publishing and help secure the diva’s standing in the company. “That’s what she thought happened,” Vanessa tells us, “but it turns out that it’s not what it appears. And it jeopardizes Wilhelmina’s standing at the company, and her livelihood is at stake. But she is a fighter, and she will continue to hold her ground and stay at the top no matter what threats are made and what consequences happen.” (Watch With Kristin)
More baby drama ensues as little William gets kidnapped in the next episode, “The Born Identity,” on May 7. “That gets resolved rather quickly,” says Vanessa Williams. “It goes in a different direction, and she doesn’t end up being a mommy for long.” (Watch With Kristin)
With her baby problems aside, it’s back to what Wilhelmina knows best: conniving, blackmailing and jockeying for position. “My next blackmail up is Claire Meade,” says Vanessa. “Yes, it’s back to Claire again. I get more dish on her. The angles in which [my character] tries to deceive and connive are hilarious and funny, and the situations that she puts herself into are outside the box. There is a scene where she sings with Christine Baranski’s character [Yes, Christine is back for more eps as Matt's mother...the same Matt who's Betty's boyfriend!] while fishing for information from her.” (Watch With Kristin)
In “In the Stars” on May 14, two wedding proposals are made, but only one is seen to fruition. “Betty and Matt are not the ones walking down the aisle, though Matt is in the finale. And, it’s not Hilda and Archie,” says Vanessa. That, of course leaves Daniel Meade and his cancer-stricken girlfriend, Molly. “That’s right,” she says, “and I can tell you that Adele sings at the wedding.” With rumors swirling that Molly loses her battle to cancer, one can only think that the new bride kicks the bucket after the wedding. “I can’t tell you everything,” says Vanessa. “She does get very sick.” (Watch With Kristin)
Along with Adele, other upcoming guests on these episodes include tennis queen Billie Jean King (who plays tennis with Christine Baranski’s character) and The View’s Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck (who have Daniel Meade on the show in part two of the two-part finale, “Curveball,” on May 21). (Watch With Kristin)
Weeds
Producers are auditioning thirtysomething actresses to play Nancy’s trusted doctor on a recurring basis. The role is calling for tasteful nudity and simulated sex. (Michael Ausiello)
