The Spoiler Roundup 07.09.08

Welcome 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. Catch it here every Wednesday at The TV Remote.

This week: Army Wives, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Californication, CSI: New York, Eli Stone, Entourage, ER, Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, Lost, Medium, NCIS, Pushing Daisies, Rescue Me, Scrubs, Smallville, The Closer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Unit and Weeds.

Army Wives

As part of his teen counseling work, Roland gets entangled with a troubled young man who just lost his father to combat in Afghanistan. The teen, Jake, adopts Roland as a surrogate father of sorts, and things quickly start getting too close for comfort. [Kristin@E!Online]

Bones

Booth brings to the Smithsonian a finger that Parker found in a bird’s nest. The team, along with “grad of the week” 40-year-old Scott Starret, study it to find answers. Scott is Brennan’s oldest grad student, the father of four boys, and had many jobs before this, including parks supervisor and car salesman. Booth enlists Sweets help to make sure that Parker isn’t stressed for life after having found the finger. Turns out Parker is traumatized but not from the finger. Hodgins opens up to Scott and tells him about his latest problems: best friend (Zach) in jail, his relationship with Angela going south, etc. Cam also appears. [SpoilerFix.com]

Brothers and Sisters

Ryan [Walker] isn’t slated to be introduced until the second half of the season. [Michael Ausiello]

Rebecca and Justin keep their relationship a secret from the rest of the family at first. Rebecca’s getting her own apartment, so that helps with their clandestine cozying. [Kristin@E!Online]

Tommy and Kevin have major tension this season, and Tommy might even fire Kevin. [Kristin@E!Online]

Californication

Mia tells Becca to make nice with the shallow and promiscuous people in Hollywood. Hank still hangs out with Lew Ashby. Trixie is at Ashby’s mansion. She tells Hank that she has been worried about him since she hasn’t heard from him in a while; he replies that she could have called. Trixie agrees to sleep with the lead singer of a band Ashby is auditioning. Charlie is still helping out Daisy with her porn career. [SpoilerFix.com]

CSI: New York

A CBS spokesperson confirms that Jacqueline Pinot (Rikki) will return for a “few” episodes this season. [Michael Ausiello]

Eli Stone

Jordan Wethersby, played by Victor Garber, decides he wants to take the entire firm pro bono. [Kristin@E!Online]

Entourage

Jamie-Lynn Sigler (aka Meadow Soprano of HBO’s The Sopranos) is coming back to HBO to join up with Entourage for a three-episode arc. She’ll be playing herself and a potential love interest for one of the boys, and the storyline is juicy. [Kristin@E!Online]

ER

Life After Death (Season premiere) [Airing September 25]: Abby and Malik try to help 8-year-old Jasmine Esquivel, who was in the back of a burning car. The kid knows a lot about medicine for her age as she can tell Abby exactly what type of inhaler she has for her moderate persistent asthma and can say words like “Beclomethasone” and “leukotriene.” Gates tries to intubate a conscious Pratt. Sam and Morris are by him. Neela is called in to help out Pratt . . . who will eventually need CPR. [SpoilerFix.com]

Abby talks with 11-year-old twin brothers Curly and Larry. She expects that the conversation will be about sex, drugs, relationships, etc., but the twins are more interested in knowing if putting a penny on the El track will cause the train to crash or if vampires can have AIDS. At one point, Abby thinks she is being punked. Morris is unsure about his abilities, especially since Pratt’s last words to him where “Don’t screw it up, Morris.”Zeke, one of Abby’s patients makes his way to the roof in order to jump. Abby tells Brenner that this is her last shift at the hospital. She also takes the opportunity to tell him to get real with people or he’ll never make it as a successful doctor. According to a rumor going around the hospital, Abby got a job at a hospital in Boston and she, along with Luka and their son, are relocating there. Sam, Neela, Gates, Dubenko, Grady, Marquez, and Haleh also appear as well as new character Catherine Bancroft. [SpoilerFix.com]

Friday Night Lights

Gaius Charles (Smash) and Scott Porter (Jason), have been taken off contract and will only appear on a recurring basis in Season 3. Although NBC isn’t talking, I’m told the decision was made for both budgetary and creative reasons. [Michael Ausiello]

Grey’s Anatomy

There will be a slight time lapse between the finale and the premiere. We’re talking more than a few days and less than a month. [Michael Ausiello]

There’s a rumor going around that Callie will start off the season with a little McSteamy in the oven, but a reliable Grey’s insider insists it’s “not true.” [Michael Ausiello]

Kevin McKidd has just signed on to join ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy for its upcoming season. Playing a surgeon who arrives at Seattle Grace fresh from a tour of duty in Iraq, McKidd will first be (barely) glimpsed during the two-hour season premiere. McKidd’s character, by some accounts, ultimately will play doctor with Cristina, who has been nursing a broken heart and a seriously bruised ego ever since Burke left Seattle a season ago. [TV Guide]

When Rose is excised from Derek’s love life, though she plays it cool with Mer, she is far from Zen about the whole thing with the boyfriend. “I’d count on at least one emotional outburst,” previews a setsider. “Rose is not her usual composed self with Derek.” What’s more, although as recently as this afternoon the talk was that Stamile would only appear in the two-hour season opener, there are now rumblings that Rose may remain a thorn in the supercouple’s side just a tiny bit longer. [TV Guide]

Heroes

Mohinder Suresh has a lot coming up this season, including a love connection with a female Hero we already know. And let’s just say that if you had a sneaking suspicion Suresh might have some kind of superability, you would not be wrong at one point this season. There is more to him than meets the eye, but he ultimately may need to “scale back.” [Kristin@E!Online]

Ali Larter is coming back as a totally different person, meaning someone who is not Niki or Jessica or Gina, and with a whole new power. [Kristin@E!Online]

Claire’s biological mother Jessalyn Gilsig is also returning. [Kristin@E!Online]

Nathan Petrelli’s brush with death may have some consequences. Petrelli might now be able to see dead people including Malcolm McDowell’s Linderman. [Kristin@E!Online]

Lost

John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are in talks to return next season on a recurring basis. In the fine print of both their contracts, it states that Lost has the right to pick up series regular options on both actors for the show’s sixth and final season. The prospect of expansive roles for Jack’s maybe-dead dad and Penelope’s dastardly deep-pocketed pop suggests a theory about the Island’s true significance. Here is a seemingly-magical place where the lame can walk anew, the impotent can once more shoot bullets, and anyone can crank on ancient donkey wheels and leap through time. In other words, the Island provides the means for mortals to cheat death. Which is why Widmore wants to find it. As for Jack’s dad, the Island allows him to stick around in his inexplicable spectral state and might even be facilitating a full-blown bodily resurrection; either scenario represents a violation of the natural order of things. In the end, Jack will no doubt have to convince his father — and possibly his maybe-dead half-sister Claire, too — that they need to move on. [Michael Ausiello]

Medium

The Dubois domestic distress of yesterseason is fully gone! In season five Joe has settled into a cool new job, and Allison is going back to work in the D.A.’s office. [Kristin@E!Online]

NCIS

NCIS will, in fact, take a page from House’s unorthodox playbook this fall and introduce a new crew for Gibbs. We’ll also learn what happened to McGee, DiNozzo and Ziva after Vance reassigned them. [Michael Ausiello]

Pushing Daisies

Unbeknownst to both Chuck and Ned, someone with close ties to one (or both) of them has been frequenting the Pie Hole for quite some time. [Michael Ausiello]

Rescue Me

Michael J. Fox is nearing a deal to join the cast of Rescue Me for a multi-episode arc. He’ll play a love interest for Denis Leary’s on-screen ex, Janet (Andrea Roth). An FX spokesperson confirms that Fox is circling the role, but insists “no deal is done yet.” [Michael Ausiello]

Scrubs

Michael J. Fox is currently in talks to reprise his role on ABC’s comedy Scrubs. An inside source close to the show says that Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence has indeed been talking to his good friend Fox (they worked together on Spin City) about coming back to Scrubs this season for what could be Sacred Heart’s last hurrah. He last appeared in 2004 for two episodes as Dr. Kevin Casey. [Kristin@E!Online]

Smallville

Get ready for a Jimmy/Chloe/Doomsday triangle, although I have a feeling I know which suitor will ultimately win her heart: the one who doesn’t turn out to be a serial killer! [Michael Ausiello]

The Closer

A young woman is dead after supposedly committing suicide after having been raped by a classmate. The young man in question is the son of a Sheriff’s deputy, who becomes irate with Brenda when she uncovers the truth about his son. [SpoilerFix.com]

The New Adventures of Old Christine

Producers are taking advantage of California’s new gay marriage law by marrying off leading lady Julia Louis Dreyfuss to another woman. And not just any woman — Wanda Sykes’ Barb! No word on the storyline that will move the characters to this point, stay tuned. [Michael Ausiello]

The Unit

Mack is with a woman who’s interrogating a terrorist using her feminine whiles. Later they’re on a mission together in Iraq. There’s some mutual attraction. She knows Mack’s kids and Tiffy. [SpoilerFix.com]

Weeds

Coming up, in the second-to-last episode, someone’s getting kidnapped and held hostage. [Kristin@E!Online]