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Dexter – Nebraska – Episode Recap

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Dexter Season Six Episode Six – Just Let Go saw the death of Brother Sam, and Dexter trying to carry out his final wishes. When he was unable to do so, his brother The Ice Truck reappeared seeming to take over as his guide from Harry as Dex’s monster took over.

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Dexter contemplates “being lost” Rita, Lumen, but his brother Brian has found him. Dexter is turning… saying he can “stop pretending there is any light in him”. The brotherly reunion is interrupted by sister with news. Trinity has popped up again. This floors Dexters. Two new deaths, his wife and daughter. But we know Trinity is dead… so who is the culprit. Jonah, the son survived an attack. Likely suspect #1. Brian figured it out and suggest a “road trip”. Conviently Deb gives him the day off. Shouldn’t Deb be more sad about Lundy? Dex thinks of her last always.

Travis is trying to reform. Spending time with his sister. He almost asks her how he ever fell for Gellar’s B.S. And, on cue, Gellar is at his door. Travis says he is done. Gellar insists they were chosen. Geller will carry on with God’s work until Travis’s “detour” is over with.

Dexter with new guide Brian examine the crime scene photos, piecing together the details of their deaths. Dexter insists that Jonah loved his mother and sister, he did in fact attempt to protect them from Trinity (dad). Brian says, “when has love ever stopped anyone”. “It’s in the blood” Dexter says as he looks at Harrison. Dexter is having second thoughts. Brian talks him back into though, “When was the last time you had fun.”

Laguerta and deb, conference, low numbers etc dex continues his trip. deb says not 4, she needs help, dex is drive by his dark passenger, semi-literally filled by the apparition of his dead brother. brian gives Dex urges to kill against the code. Instead Dexter has sex with her and steals the gun from behind the counter. Dexter is losing it, shooting a gun down the highway and speeding at his brother’s urging.

Dexter arrives and finds Jonah working at a supply store. Jonah knows that Kyle Butler is Dexter Morgan. Jonah lies about seeing his father there, killing his mother. Jonah doesn’t show much emotion while describing the death of his mother, possibly only slight anger. The girl that Travis let go has reported it to the police. Batista and Deb interview her. She recounts her torture and forced blood drinking… ewwww..

Dexter has a flat at the shady lane motel and their something a little weird about the hotel owner who offers to fix Dexter’s flat and tells him to stick to the road walking to town. Dex does not at brother Brian’s urging and discoversa pot farm in the middle of the corn field.

Travis checks in on the church and Gellar disembowels an alligator… creepo.

Mike, Batista and Quinn talk revelations and the Whore of Babylon. She was forced to drink Gellar and Travi’s blood. New intern is going to try and narrow 2400 accomplice suspects. New intern visits with Jamie, he shows her his computer game. It’s a Miami Metro game featuring her brother Batista in primitive graphical form. Deb busts in trying to find Dex because he won’t return her calls while he in psycho-land with his dead brother. Dexter is a dick to his sister when she finally gets a hold of him… not good.

Brian argues against the code. Motel man has stolen his knives and forensics kit, Dexter goes in anyway Jonah’s home regardless. He finds evidence of a cleanup and traces of blood… but Jonah shows up. Dex confronts him and he flees.

Back at shady lane the owner tries to blackmail dex, when he pulls a gun, it’s over for him. In a weird mental representation, Brian pitchforks the owner and we camera roll around his back to Dexter holding the pitchfork. The brothers then strike into a twisted American Gothic portrait pose. Brian see how much Dexter enjoys “the light going out of their eyes”. Dexter “feels like anything his possible”; he seems to spiraling out of control. They dump the body in a grain silo.

Travis returns to Gellar to give him back his things. Gellar paints a picture of the evils of the world trying to conflict the boy and insisting he and Travis must stop it. Travis rages. He wants to be free, Gellar releases him. Back at Miami Metro, Quinn apologizes, finally. Oh god they begin to kiss… but she can’t let this happen. “They are really over” realizes Quinn in a sad moment of closure.

Dexter heads to a meet point with his next victim. The catch is that Jonah wants to die. Dexter makes him explain. His sister killed herself. Their mom was mentally destroying them, blaming the kids, wishing for her serial killer husband to return… causing the sister’s suicide. Jonah raged and killed his mother. Brian urges the kill. Dexter comes to his sense and gets the heck out of town, telling the boy, “forgive yourself”.

Masuka’s intern created software to find the accomplice and narrows the huge list to 200. Travis is on this list. Gellar was in the Travis’s house, creepy. Yay! Harry is back! “Welcome home son,” as Dexter returns to Miami.

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Dexter – Season Six Episode Six – Just Let Go Recap

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Last weeks Dexter episode left us with a ton of drama. Brother Sam is shot, Travis was released by Dex and is having second thoughts and Quinn most likely completely destroyed a case by sleeping with a material witness.

Just Let Go – Season Six Episode Six

Dexter just misses out on finding Gellar after following Travis because Deb has informed him about Brother Sam. Gellar chastises Travis for being hesitant, telling him to do as he’s told or, “be destroyed along with the rest of the scum”. At the crime scene Dex lays out the crime perfectly, leading Masuka’s new intern to call him a “fucking rock-star”. That he is. Dex collects a blood sample from the bat the he took out the assailant previously with, pegging this guy as the likely shooter.

Masuka and Batista give Lt. Deb the cold shoulder. LaGuerta is on her ass about the Doomsday killers. LaGuerta isn’t even interesting as a character anymore. Dex visits Brother Sam at the hospital and vows to let his Dark Passenger bring him justice. Later while at a candelight vigil at the shop, he tries to convince Nick to give up his old crew. Sam’s dog is trying to tell us and Dexter something, just not sure what… could Nick have possibly been involved?

Batista and Quinn explain Gellar’s paper, believing Revelations to be a sort of 7-step program to creating the Apocalypse. These tenants he created are what got him kicked out of the university.  Quinn recognizes the tattoos on the “test” victim in old photos as Professor Porter, the woman Quinn slept with and Gellar’s former T.A. Quinn tries to force Batista into keeping it from Deb.

Travis prepares a brand to mark the “whore of Babylon”. But will have find “strength” enough to do it as Gellar and God demand of him? Batista plays Deb to try and go see Porter, but Deb tells him to bring her in, thus destroying Quinn’s ruse.  Quinn is screwed and deservedly so. Batista is going to “handle her”, but what the hell can he do?

Dex stalks the the gang. Jamie is packing Deb’s stuff, she shows interest in Dexter again. Don’t know if they take that anywhere.

Dexter is losing it, can’t admit to himself that he cares about someone that is not his immediate family. Dex talks with Harry about seeing the good within himself. Dex is tasting a small portion of redemption again. Deb is struggling as well. It comes out during what should be a final meeting with the precinct psychologist. Deb feels out of place, she can’t interact with people like she used to. Shrink tells Deb to relax and to stop suppressing things. She tells Deb she should go along with her housewarming party idea.

Dexter returns to stalking the Locos crew, Leo specifically. Mike is doing some detective work of his own when he spots some crack-heads. He hits up the junkie for some Locos information. He “flamingos”  the guy to get Leo’s name, this will conflict with Dexter’s dark revenge. Leo pops out for Dexter just as Mike shows up at the door. Leo takes on the cops with a shotgun… and he’s down. The sadness on Dexter’s face is noticeable. What does he do with the anger. It’s not over yet, it can’t be.

Mike’s sure this is the right guy. Dex notices the DVD player is running. It’s the security footage from the garage. The footage is inconclusive. Mike points to Leo. Dex feels it’s wrong and so do we. I’m pointing to Nick again, based on the dog’s recation. Dexter figures out the same thing.

Travis is putting his blood in a jar? Part of the branding? There are many jars of blood in the fridge? He grabs sandwich fixin and makes up some food for the “whore”. She begs to see her son and to be let go, but Travis doesn’t comply. Travis visits his sister who is teaching class. Travis is a very lost soul that Gellar latched onto. He is kind and mild-mannered. It won’t end well for him though.

Dexter hits up Nick’s apartment to do some forensics work, matching a 9mm slug to the assault on Brother Sam. Dexter is barely containing his rage.  While Dexter moves, Batista questions Professor Porter. She confirms her identity in the photo. Deb realizes Quinn is not in on the questioning and tells him to get in there. This is where it begins to unravel. When the questioning gets tough, she lets it out that she slept with Quinn. She leaves, angrily. When Deb reprimands Quinn he tries to spin it as jealousy. What the fuck?!

Dexter sends Jamie with Harrison to Deb’s housewarming. He’s about to go after Nick, when he gets the call that Sam is awake. He is going to die. Sam doesn’t want revenge. Even as he is dying, he has a message for Nick, that he forgives him. He only trusts Dexter to deliver this message. This is a major challenge for Dexter. He knows about Dexter’s darkness but he sees his light in him as well. This was a touching scene.

Quinn shows up to Debra’s completely waste.. Masuka’s intern questions Jamie about Dexter. Intern is flirting with Jamie, she shows interest, until Quinn gets in her face. Batista punches Quinn when he won’t stop talking about Jamie. He is an amazing douchebag, no matter what happened to him with Deb. They try to soften things, by Quinn asking Deb is she ever loved him.

Gellar expects the marking to be done, while he “furthers preparations”. Travis grabs the

brand and approaches the victim. Will he? Won’t? He let’s her go! Brother Sam is gone and Dexter struggles with the idea of proposing forgiveness to Nick per Sam’s request. Harry tries to make sure Dexter does the right thing. But when Nick shows up, he invites him for a ride. Deb calls for Dexter, she needs help… guidance and eyes the card of the psychologist.

Nick killed Sam to get back into the gang. He delivers Sam’s message. Dexter is doing the right thing, until Nick starts to laugh about the situation. So Dexter performs another baptism. “There’s no light in me.” Woah, Ice-truck killer brother shows up, is this his new guide, has Harry, the voice of reason been pushed aside for this darker manifestation? The only thing more disturbing than this ending are the scenes for next week.

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Dexter Season Six Episode Five – The Angel of Death

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Dexter examines the wings from the Doomsday killing in last weeks episode. He discovers a resin specific to restoration work. Gellar and Travis pray, with Travis seeing some strange visions of a bleeding Gellar.  The Doomsday crew are looking for their next victim, “The Whore of Babylon”

Deb has a staff meeting on the case and Dex lies to her about finding anything with the Wings. Masuka has replaced hot intern with new computer expert, who figures that 1260 is the next target number (found on or in victim’s bodies). Later Quinn seems to be acting civil for a change and politely asks for the engagement ring back. She agrees, only issue is that she doesn’t know where she has left it, she asks Jamie (Harrison’s babysitter) for help.

Dex bumps into brother Sam at the precint, apparently Nick’s old brothers shot up the shop. These guys are definitely friends now. Dex awkwardly invites Sam over to see Harrison and an awkward acceptance is given in kind.

Dex hits an art gallery to talk about restoration. Where… dun dun dun, Travis works restoring paintings.  Mike Anderson (new detective from Chicago) calls in Dex at a crime scene. It’s a murder-suicide which Dex solves in minutes. Mike wonders how he works with the “chuckleheads” at Miami Metro. Dex not so subtly lets him know that Deb is his sister… poor Mikey, so uncomfortable in Miami.

Gellar and Travis are at a club looking for the Whore of Babylon where the spy the latest newspaper featuring Gellar’s face and the doomsday killer title right on the cover. Travis’s abnormally long neck frightens me. Gellar ducks out leaving Travis to do the stalking, but he botches it.  Dex talks about his  mother with Sam, pretty strong thing for him to be sharing with someone. They talk about the darkness. Dex tries to remember his mother. Sam says, there’s , “no darkness the light can’t overcome”.

Gellar comforts Travis on his screw-up and tells hims it’s OK. They will “carry out God’s plan” on the following night. The next day Dex is tracking Travis. He enters Travis’s apartment when he leaves. Dex finds the numbers, apparently cut from an ancient bible. He secures a sample page for analyzing and they match perfectly.

Batista and Quinn talk to professor Porter, she was Gellar’s teacher’s aide and defends him without prompting. Admitting to man people’s admiration for the man and how he likes to stir trouble. Charismatic and brilliant, she seems enamored. She lived with him for awhile. She was one of a “long line” but still seems enamored with him. Quinn flirts. At the precinct Mike and Deb talk, Mike misses Chicago obviously and Deb lets him know she sees that he’s unsure of his co-workers.

Later that evening, Quinn is flirting with a drunk Porter, Quinn doesn’t know shit about literature, and is an idiot for getting involved with a witness. Batista is trying to talk him out of it. Because it is possibly tampering with the investigation. But they end up at her place anyway. Jamie finds the ring. She a Deb are fighting and Dex has to deal with it. Deb is obviously having issues, and when forced to talk with the department psychologist she unloads, reluctantly at first.

Gellar and creepy minion hit drunk man and woman and nab the incoherent female and throw her in the trunk. At Professor Porter’s house, Batista seesboxes marked Gellar, with hand-written documents, including creepy and elaborate drawings and images depicting things specific to the Doomsday killing… but are they there under false pretenses. This will come back to bite them in the ass. Wowsers.

Deb takes the ocean-front apartment with some advice from the psychologist and secures herself a good price with some help from Mike. Masukas intern sort of helps with the ice truck stuff, “erasing all traces of it from the Internet”.

Dex has Travis.  Travis is totally brain-washed. Dex is pretty creepy under the red light in back of Travis’s car.. Travis didn’t perform any of the killings… thus he is not part of Dex’s code. “I know more about darkness than most”. Dex counsels Travis and then… lets him go. Gellar gently threatens Travis against running away. In the morning Dex is on Travis’s trail again.

Drama at every turn this episode only heightened with Brother Sam entering his garage and being shot multiple times by an unknown assailant. Dexter will avenge his friend, pretty certain of that.

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Dexter Season Six Episode Four – A Horse of a Different Color

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Episode three ended with the the “4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse” riding through town, one wearing the head of an unfortunate jogger, victim of the cult now dubbed the Doomsday killer. Will Quinn continue to be a problem? Hot intern has stolen evidence. New hire detective from Chicago has arrived. Lots of stuff happening. Onto…

A Horse of Different Color Recap

Dexter is attending the baptism being held by Brother Sam. Dex ponders religion vs
science. He seems to still be trying to grasp the concept of redemption. He discussed this Brother Sam and Dexter Talkwith Brother Sam. Dex is called away to the apocalypse crime scene, horses still roaming the middle of the street. Guess it wasn’t just his head; his parts were spread throughout the 4 horsemen. Mike (the new detective) connects this scene to passages from Revelations.

Dex and Deb discuss the case as he reconnects the body parts at the lab. He finds a number hidden inside the eyelid. They go back and check the snakes victim with apocalypse stomach stitching and there are numbers inside the intestines. The killer(s) are leaving messages, but what do they mean?

La guerta having trouble with deputy chief. He informs her that Deb will be handling the press conference, which takes the spotlight away from LaGuerta. Deb gets tips from LaGuerta on “being herself” probably more of nudge towards failure, and Mike tells her to dress nice, which she doesn’t like hearing but ends up doing anyway. The end result is Deb dressed up nice, but being herself, by cursing on live television and cutting the conference short. LaGuerta thinks she’s won based on the performance, but later the Dexter - Hot Intern with Vincedeputy chief lets us know the public is eating up Deb’s no-nonsense approach.

Hot intern girl continues to be hot and lets Vince know that she’s also a roller-derby participant. She continues to flirt with Vince, but wants their “date” to take place in the evidence room looking at more serial killer cases and evidence. Vince is getting played, but not for long. A man calls asking as to the authenticity of an ice-truck killer part up for sale on an ebay clone. He quickly figures it out and confront hot roller-derby intern. She insists is was because they were going to waste and she was short on rent. Masuka is downtrodden, though she insists she has genuine interest in him. Vince tells her to leave.

Dexter Morgan and Brother Sam Talk Demon

Later EJO and Travis, his follower, are having lunch at a restaurant. Trav is making headway with the cute waitress, EJO wants him to focus on the task at hand. Meanwhile Dex is taking his car to the bodyshop, again, and has a talk with Brother Sam about Revelations and how people use God to justify strange things.  Dex ends up back in the lab and figures out based on the delicate horsemen scene setup and the hack-job on the corpse that two different people are participating in this “show”.

Immediately following Deb’s botched (but not really) press conference Dexter is called to the hospital where his son’s appendix has just burst. Brother Sam graciously joins them to support Dexter. These guys are becoming legit friends though neither will admit to it when Deb questions them.  Brother Sam shares the story that essentially start his journey with a “dark passenger”, watching his father murder a man after using young Sam as a distraction. Aster and Cody are finally mentioned at the hospital, guess they do still exist!

Deb and Dex at the Hospital

While all rhis is going down Quinn who is still being a major asshole and Batista are smoking weed in Batista’s Trans Am. I guess it was kind of funny but it seems sort of pointless otherwise.  Not sure if this plays into anything later.  They think they have found a lead, but it’s the same one new detective Mike has found to0. A man named James Gellar, EJO’s character, who is a “Revelations Expert”.  Gellar was fired from his professor religious studies job, he is thought to have stolen an ancient sword, believed to have belonged to John the Revelator. This sword happens to possibly match forensics on the kill weapon for the Doomsday murders.

Dexter - Third Doomsday Kill

The final scenes of the show involve the elaborate death trap for Travis’s unfortunate female waitress companion.  After Travis defiled her, Gellar felt her purification fit “God’s plan”. She is hung on a cross with sharp instruments around her neck and arms.  The entering police trigger the trap which snaps her neck and lacerates her throat.  To top off the scene a plague of locusts, bibilical style is released upon the crime scene.

Have to say, not real excited about the Doomsday performances yet, but their kills are impressive. Mos Def is doing a great job. His acting is really up several notches over what I’ve seen from him before.  The musical score in this episode was especially good. The last scene is perhaps some of the creepiest music ever from this show.

 

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Dexter Season Six Episode Three – Smokey and the Bandit

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So we left off last week with Dexter doubting Brother Sam as a killer, Deb destroying her relationship with Quinn and becoming his boss and the rest of the departments as well. Also, the creepy cult with Edward James Olmos as the “Christ-figure” made another kill.

Smokey and the Bandit

Deb is already stressing herself out to start the show, worrying about what to wear. She banters with Dex. Meanwhile at the abandoned church we find that the jogger was not a Dexter - Ronny Cox - Walter Kenneykill, but an abduction. He is chained to the floor and will not “be released” until he repents. The EJO character is painting mannequin parts and “waiting for the right time”.

We head to a crime scene where Batista spots a Smokey and the Bandit car, that he’s wanted since he was a child. The scene has a dead hooker and it appears that someone tried to pull out her tooth. This reminds Dex of a serial killer icon from his childhood, the Tooth Fairy, who murdered women and stole one of their teeth in the Northwest during his childhood.  Quinn shows up at the scene with a chick and is obviously trying to get back at Deb, trying to turn Batista against her as well.  Batista sticks with Deb, giving her advice for dealing with LaGuerta later in the show.

Dexter researches the Tooth Fairy and surmises he would be a man in his seventies and tracks one Walter Kenny from Grants Pass, Oregon.  This is played actor Ronny Cox who has appeared in many television shows and movies. I instantly recognized him as the captain from Beverly Hills Cop. Dex gets his car back from Brother Sam, who invites him to the baptism of the young man whom he helped to save from thugs in the previous episode.

Masuka continues, in bad judgement of course, to flirt with his hot intern.  He shows her evidence from the Ice Truck Killer case and she is very interested. She later agrees to go on a date with Vince, but does she really have any interest or is it just so she can steal some evidence from the aforementioned case, which she does.  She seems to have a serial killer fetish. I wonder ifBrea Grant - Dexter - Hot Intern this will possibly carry over to Dex?

Deb leads her first briefing and is doing well until Quinn tries to mess with her. LaGuerta backs Quinn, Batista backs Deb. Later Deb has a conversation with Quinn whom seems to be mellowing… nope wait… he’s an asshole! Yeah, I can hate Quinn again! Dex gives Quinn the cold stare during the briefing, this may reignite their spotty history.

Dex eventually confirms Walter Kenney as the Tooth Fairy and proceeds to get “close” to him. Its a pretty funny dynamic of an old serial killer turned cantankerous old man. Dex laments Kenny as possible fate for himself, alone with nothing as the last days of his life come in old age. Kenney figures out that Dex knows who he is and tricks him into the car at gunpoint, but Dex crashes his car (again!) to avoid the danger.  Dex takes the tooth fairy out, smothering him (a natural death) in order to not continue his legacy. One more bad guy down.

Later the jogger begs for forgiveness and to be “purified”, EJO says he’s ready. What does that mean? Apparently that means parading four horses with the painted mannequins parts riding them through crowded city streets.  Except one of the mannequins now wears the poor joggers head.  This is Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse style and the killer/s are dubbed the Doomsday Killer. At the end of the show Batista rides away Smokey and the Bandit style.

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Dexter Season Six Episode Two Recap

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Following the Dexter Season Six premiere episode recap, we have quick recap of episode 2, entitled “Once Upon a Time”.

Once Upon a Time Recap

Mos Def is a con turned preacher/mechanic shop owner, he did work for Hererra, the snakes in the stomach guy from episode one who also apparently has drug cartel ties. Batista pegs the snakes as a cartel thing, Dex has serial killing on the mind. Also, turns out that Brother Sam’s character was a past potential kill for Dex until he was arrested in a drug bust. Looks like Dex has Mos in his sights.

Deputy Chief Matthews looks like he might be targeting Deb for Lieutenant over Batista, she is an Internet sensation after all. And yes, he was and she is. First she gets a proposal from Quinn in the morning over pancakes (and she doesn’t commit), and now she’sDexter and Brother Sam Lieutenant. “Holy Fuckballs”, as she says. Deb is taking the job, but not sure about the marriage so she hides out at Dex’s place.

Hanx’s kid visits his sister. The cult is obviously part of some “end times” things based on references to dead crows and the symbols on the body.  He needs to go work with the leader, Olmos’s character, as they were prepping something in an abandoned church with mannequin parts?  She convinces him to stay. He is later reprimanded by Edward James Olmos’s (still unnamed character, I think), who puts a hot iron to his own arm.  Apparently he is pushing himself as some sort of Christ figure.

Dex damages his car on purpose, so that he can take his car to “Brother Sam’s” garage. Sam preaches his story, outright telling him about his past killing (a mistrial due to the judge dying). Dex doesn’t appear to be wavering on going after the man though. Meanwhile Deb has coffee with Batista and lets him know that his job is going to be hers. She says she’ll take it only with his blessing.  He gives it though obviously upset. He cares about Deb and actually respects her as a detective.

Dex believes he sees Sam murder someone, but really he just knocked out one of his criminal workers who took a shot at him, high on drugs. While there some thugs come to reclaim Sam’s worker and Dex lays the smack-down on one with a metal bat, while Sam preaches. “You sure don’t fight like a lab geek”. The incident at Sam’s gives Dex a new target, the assailant, Julio Benes, who names a Hector Nunez as a “body never found”. Dex takes Julio out later all the while pondering if Sam is truly reformed.

Holy shit, I actually feel bad for Quinn. I’ve never liked him, and after getting destroyed like that, how can I not. Deb shoots down the idea of marriage and he tells her to get out when she can’t really explain why not to take the next logical step. “Oh, by the way I’m your new boss. Deb is made lieutenant while everyone looks on.

Holy shit, did Dex sleep with Batista’s sister or she is she just there early to watch the kid. Obviously we have a “sitcom TV” moment, the other kids have been written out and Harrison seems to have aged a few extra years. Watch for the story between Sam and Dex, does Dex question his own possibility of reformation? Or does Sam go back to his old ways? How does Batista handle not getting the job that was rightfully his? Also what happens with Masuka’s hot new intern, now that she knows he, “likes to watch”.  My bet is on something with her and Batista as somewhat of twist.  They need to explain this cult thing a little more quickly.  Come back next week for another recap.