Pretty Little liars Season 6 Premiere Recap

Picking up immediately after the events of last season’s finale, the girls remained trapped at Chez Charles, where the dude-but-still-a-bitch entertained them with all sorts of fun games, including dress up and hide-and-seek. Honestly, throw in a bouncy castle and it was basically a reenactment of my 10th birthday party. The comeback of pretty little liars season 6 premiere and it is full of questions.

Back in Rosewood, Alison remained a helpless worm, dangling from Detective Tanner’s hook in the hopes of luring Andrew suspected of kidnapping the girls, natch out of hiding. But Ali ain’t about that WormLife, so with a little assistance from Ezra and Caleb, she snuck out of her house and made tracks for a rendezvous with the hot nerd.

Unfortunately, Andrew was nowhere to be seen upon Ali’s arrival at Tyler State Park. Instead, her car’s built-in “guidance” system Sleepy Hollow fans, did anyone else immediately yearn for Yolanda? directed her to open her trunk, where she discovered a delightful greeting card with an even more delightful message: “Put on these clothes and start walking… or they die.

After three weeks of Charles’ twisted shenanigans, the girls finally reached their wits’ end take it from me: waking up everyday, wondering if you’re missing a kidney, gets old fast and decided to torch the damn place. And I was just as surprised as you were when the plan actually worked and the girls managed to escape alive! It was great to see the liars reunited with their loved ones after enduring so many traumas: Caleb and Hanna, Spencer and Toby and Emily and… Alison? That’s right, Emerson ‘shippers, don’t think I didn’t notice that little moment between the former sleepover pals.

But wait! The premiere’s final moments had one more surprise in store for fans: The police entered Charles’ compound and discovered a sixth girl trembling in fear none other than Sara Harvey, who went missing around the same time as Alison did.

But what’s Sara’s connection to Charles? And while we’re at it, who is Charles?

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Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 7 The Gift Full Wrap Up

We come to the episode of Game of Thrones The Gift on the heels of last week’s horrifying rape scene, only to find that some time has passed, and Sansa is in perhaps even more dire straits than we realized.

She is locked in her room when Reek brings her food. Bruises cover her arms. She begs the man who was once Theon to help her, makes him promise to light a candle in the tower so that someone will come to save her. But instead he goes to his master, Ramsay.

It’s scary stuff, the way the show presents marital abuse and rape as truly awful. It’s scary, too, that so many viewers would decide to not watch or discuss the show over this topic, since it’s a very real, human issue that people face in the modern world as well as Westeros.

These viewers will also have missed one of the best episodes of the season, an episode that ups the ante quite a lot, ratcheting up the tension, and setting in motion events that will carry us into what I suspect will be a harrowing final three episodes of Season 5.

In the North, three stories begin to play out.

Jon Snow heads off to find the Wildlings so that he can bring them south of the Wall to help fight the army of the dead and repel the White Walkers when they actually come. This leaves Sam alone with Gilly and a dying Aemon.

On his deathbed, Aemon observes Gilly’s baby, likens him to his own little brother “Egg.” This is Aegon, who would become king when Aemon refused the Iron Throne. Aegon is one of the titular characters in Martin’s Dunk & Egg stories. He’s the grandfather of Aerys II, the “Mad King” who killed Ned Stark’s older brother and father, and who Jaime Lannister killed. This also makes Aegon the great-grandfather of Daenerys Targaryen, and Aemon her great-grand-uncle.

Upon his death, the only known Targaryen left alive is Dany herself, though there are questions of lineage yet to be resolved.

Sam is left alone with hostile Crows. At one point two of them attempt to rape, or at least harass, Gilly. Sam stands up for her, tries very unsuccessfully to fight them off. He’s beaten badly, but doesn’t back down and almost certainly would have been killed if Ghost hadn’t suddenly showed up. Which reminds me, why haven’t we seen any direwolves lately? Not only Ghost and why isn’t Ghost with Jon? but any direwolves at all. I really wish Arya’s wolf, Nymeria wasn’t cut from the show, and that we’d see some of the Brotherhood Without Banners. C’est la vie. Oh, and Gilly takes Sam’s virginity, which is cute. It’s a funny reversal of roles, in a way. She’s on top, asks him if it hurts, and so forth.

The second story in the North is that of Stannis’s second great assault on one of the bad guy armies. The first time he was defeated by a combination of factors, though mostly it was Tyrion and his wildfire that stopped the Baratheon army.

This time it’s the snow. The army is running out of food. Horses are dying. Davos Seaworth urges Stannis to turn back and winter in Castle Black. But this could be a winter that lasts years, Stannis reminds him. By the time it’s over, it will be too late.

He makes a good point, though as Ramsay Bolton himself notes, the Northerners are used to fighting in the frost; Stannis and his men are not.

The Red Lady, Melisandre, has an idea, though. Stannis needs to sacrifice those with king’s blood in order to use her dark magic and bring victory The only person within miles that has any is Stannis’s own daughter, Shireen. Melisandre urges Stannis to sacrifice his own daughter in order to achieve his victory. At least for now, he refuses her, telling her to get out of his sight.

After his earlier profession of love to Shireen, I can only hope that he remains as stubborn in his resolve to protect her as he does in his resolve to march to victory or defeat. Spooky stuff. For being a lady of fire, Melisandre is one stone-cold…sorceress.

The final story in the North, which I began discussing up at the top, is the continuing trials and tribulations of poor Sansa Stark.

The lady—Lady Bolton now, I suppose is in bad shape, but she’s the bravest and most poised we’ve seen her yet. Her suffering isn’t intended merely as impetus for Theon to shake off his mental shackles, as some critics suggested last week.

If anything, it will be Sansa’s will, her sheer force of personality and courage, that finally convince Theon to help her if he does help her at all. So far he’s simply gotten an old Northern woman flayed. And if he does help her? She will be helping him as much, if not more. Theon is a victim, too, we’d do best to recall. But Sansa, in spite of her torment, is hardly broken the way Theon is broken.

She reminds Ramsay that he’s still a bastard that Tommen who legitimized him is a bastard, too. He doesn’t seem very pleased about this, and I shudder to think what he will almost certainly do to her later, but she’s obviously not lost her courage. If anything, she’s just now learning how brave and strong she truly is.

Here the inevitable fallout of all of Cersei’s plotting and conniving comes to a head, with not only Loras and Margaery in chains, but the Queen Dowager as well.

Cersei has been playing with fire, foolishly assuming that the High Sparrow was a corrupt ally, when all this time he’s been tricking her into letting her guard down.

It’s interesting that Littlefinger is portrayed as the one calling the shots here again. He supplied Loras’s lover to confess against the Knight of Flowers; and now he’s at least informing Lady Olenna that Lancel Lannister will do the same to Cersei.

Either way, it’s gratifying to see Cersei get a taste of her own medicine. She’s been as vile as ever all season, meddling and meddling and so smug. But she’s done more to weaken her family and gut the power of House Lannister than any Stark or Baratheon or Martell ever could.

Equally gratifying—or nearly so—was the wonderful exchange between the Queen of Thorns and the High Sparrow. This is the first time Lady Olenna has truly been at a loss, though I can’t help but root for her against the seemingly humble, but very dangerous, High Sparrow.

The man is a fanatic, no matter his plain demeanor and simple ways. He’d bring all sorts of zealotry and horrors to an already horrible world, and the targets of his “many” would not only be pampered noble deviants, but many other disenfranchised people in the lower class as well, no matter his Marxist leanings. The episode draws to a close with Cersei cursing her captors, locked up in the very same dungeon she concocted for the Tyrells. You know what they say about Karma.

In Dorne, Jaime confronts Myrcella. He wants to take her home, but she won’t hear of it. She’s fallen in love with young Trystane, the Dornish princeling. She’s happier in Dorne where, other than a few crazy Sand Snakes, things are relatively peaceful and incidents of intrigue, murder, and war are all fairly nonexistent compared to King’s Landing. Meanwhile, Bronn sings to his prison-mates, the Sand Snakes, and engages in playful banter. Viewers who thought he’d been “killed” by the Sand Snakes’ poison last week can eat their hats. While the sell-sword was indeed poisoned, the girls give him an antidote before it kills him. It’s a funny scene, with gratuitous levels of HBO nudity/strip-tease. But the entire Dornish story feels a bit anemic still at this point. We cannot languish too long wondering why we’re supposed to care.

The other big moment—one that’s danced around in the books but never actually happens—is Dany and Tyrion meeting at a small fighting pit in Meereen.

Dany has reopened the pits, has agreed to marry the charming Hizdahr zo Loraq, and is thus far refusing Daario’s entreaties to just kill all the great masters and put an end to the Sons of the Harpy terrorism once and for all. Be bloody, bold, and resolute, he tells her (in so many words.) But she says she’d rather be a ruler, not a butcher. “All rulers are butchers or meat,” he replies. Ten points to Daario.

In any case, Dany watches one of the matches where a bunch of slaves who aren’t supposed to be slaves fight each other to the death in order to qualify for the actual fighting pits. This strikes me as a hugely stupid and inefficient way to run gladiators. Why kill off your own slaves before they even have a chance to fight and make you any money? It doesn’t make sense. The slave owner is just burning money, basically, not even able to bet on the winner, or fight his men against the men of another slave owner. It’s absurd.

Dany thinks so also but then a new champion takes the field. It’s Jorah Mormont, though she doesn’t know it yet. He beats everyone quickly, as a trained knight surely ought to, and without actually killing them, and then reveals himself to Dany. Who just happened to be there at this very fighting pit, just like Tyrion just happened to be at the tavern where Jorah was, and this series of very contrived moments just keep coming over here in the east, away from Westeros.

“Of all the fighting pits in all the world, she walks into mine,” Jorah quips to himself, we imagine, before he takes the field.

But Dany is less happy to see Jorah, and almost has him taken away before Tyrion shows up. “Wait!” Jorah begs his queen. “I brought you a gift.”

Tyrion is fairly bold in announcing his presence as said gift. I’m really excited to see where the show takes their meet-up since it was one thing I so desperately wanted to happen in A Dance with Dragons and never got. The Targaryens and the Lannisters have a somewhat…troubled past. Tywin, Tyrion’s father, ordered the execution of basically Dany’s entire family. There’s no love lost between the two Houses. But Tyrion, as we all know, is a Lannister of a different color.

I think that this just might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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The Originals Season 3 Spoilers: Hayley wont Forgive Klaus

More unexpected things just happen in the originals season 2 finale and some of the characters might gone through a major changes in the next season of the series. Hayley, will go through major changes when the originals season 3 returns now that she has been cursed to live as a wolf except for on the rare occasion that there is a full moon.

During the The Originals Season 2 finale, Klaus cast a spell on the mother of his child in order to win Dahlia's trust before defeating her. Under the curse, Hayley will be forced to live in wolf form unless there is a full moon.

Although Klaus' plan of deception helped him send his evil aunt to the underworld, Hayley won't be very understanding now that she has to live with the ramifications of his master plan.

"Hayley's not going to be able to forgive him easily for what he's done," the actress told at The CW Upfront presentation. "Even if he did it for the good of his baby, I don't think he did it in the right way. He should have let Hayley know that's what he was doing so she could have been part of the plan. But he didn't do that, so now, pissed." Because of the curse, "we're only going to see Hayley once a month" when she can return to her human form.

"I hope that at least one episode will be the full day when I'm human," said the series star, adding that "it could be really cool" to see "Hayley in wolf form."

"Built into the DNA of the show is the Mikaelson family. There's also this young baby, and that baby has a mother, and she has a clear tie to Klaus and a clear tie to Elijah; she's fundamentally important to the show. Even though she's in a worst-case scenario, we definitely have not seen the last of her. The show runner also confirmed that Tonkin is "not being written off the show."

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The Originals Season 2 Episode 14 Recap

A thrilling ending in the previous episode of the originals season 2 but this episode will turns the table of the storyline of the series. Cami is more than a little freaked out, what with a house just exploding in front of her, but Elijah finds her and keeps her and little Hope moving toward safety.

Hayley is packing to run, what with Hope’s safe house exploding and all, but Klaus shows up just in time to remind her that she is soon to be queen to an army that will no longer be loyal to Finn.

Freya visits the morgue to see Finn’s charred remains. More than a little disturbing if you ask us. He was wearing Freya’s charm when he died, and she begins a spell and sprinkles a little salt. While Freya works her magic, Kol and Davina perform the spell to create the anti-Klaus dagger. When the spell completes, Davina kisses him, but before they can have more than a quick moment, Kol begins bleeding from his nose. At that exact moment, Finn awakens in the body bag in the morgue.

Kol plays off the blood dripping from his nose to Davina, but the second she leaves the room, he calls Becs to ask for help.

Rebekah does her sisterly duty and brings Hayley a beautiful white gown to wear that night. Becs makes sure she knows that no matter who she marries, Hayley will always be a Mikaelson.

Josh is eager to beg for forgiveness after attacking Aiden while under Finn’s spell, but before he can be relieved that Aiden isn’t holding it against him, he finds out that Aiden is worried that Josh will have a huge target on his back if they continue to date when the wolves have the power to shift at will. Josh is more than a little miffed at being ‘protected’ by Aiden, and stomps off in quite the snit.

Cami, Elijah, and Baby Hope show up, and Hayley rushes to her. Hayley introduces the baby to Jackson, who seems enchanted by the youngster while Elijah watches jealously from the wings.

Klaus makes it clear to Elijah that he wants Hayley to go through with this wedding. He reminds him that they all must do their part, and for Elijah, that means staying out of it.

Elijah wants to tell Hayley how he feels, but she begs him not to. He never could vocalize his feelings before, and she understands, but wants it to stay that way.

Aiden and Jackson have an adorable, manly moment where Aiden addresses his worries about the wolf/vamp tension post-ceremony. Aiden quickly bows out when Hayley arrives to say hi to her betrothed. Jackson presents her with a special necklace, as a representation of something entirely hers being a part of the day.

Aiden arrives and sits next to Josh and our hearts do an adorable tumble. Hayley and Jackson walk into the hall and up the stairs to where the elder is awaiting them. At the top of the stairs, they are equal to the balcony across the way, where Klaus and Elijah are standing and watching the proceedings. The elder binds their hands together, and they light a candle. With a kiss, the bond is official, and the ritual is complete as the eyes of every wolf present flash white before settling back to their normal color.

Klaus runs out with a gleeful expression on his face, now that they ceremony is complete. He intends to kill Jackson that very night, and he believes that Elijah wants him dead even more. It wouldn’t be a big event if Klaus didn’t have some sort of death planned, that’s for sure.

Davina tells Josh that she wishes Kol were there, and seconds later sees him lurking in an alley. He doesn’t look great, a bit pale and shaking like a leaf, but he finally tells her what happened to him.

Hayley and Jackson are dancing and enjoying the festivities when Klaus arrives with Hope in tow. He announces her lineage and presence to the pack, and implores them to care for her as one of their own. He also invites Jackson and Hayley to live with the other Mikaelsons in the compound and welcomes Jackson to the family with a toast. Elijah is more than a little skeptical, and we sure as hell don’t blame him. Davina has joined Rebekah and Kol to help find a cure for the hex, but despite their frantic searching, he knows it’s pretty hopeless. He asks Rebekah to give him and Davina some time alone.

Hayley searches out Elijah to thank him for being present for the ceremony. He tells her that he plans to move out with Marcel and help him with the vampires. Hayley doesn’t want him to leave, but it seems that it might be best for all parties involved.

Rebekah arrives and lets Klaus know that Kol will not last the night. She couldn’t find anything to help him, and the three Original siblings leave to be with him in his final moments. We find Kol dancing with Davina in the cemetery, crying. He truly cares for her, and asks her to leave him alone for his final moments. Moments after he asks her, Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah arrive to be there for him.

Hayley finds Jackson on a balcony and they have a really beautiful moment in which Hayley tells Jackson that she has always felt safe with him. Since the moment he appeared out of the woods, she has known that he was trustworthy. She wants him to know that she didn’t marry him just for the pack, but that she did it for herself too. They kiss. We swoon a little.

While Kol suffers, each of the Mikaelsons gives him strength with their presence. He is surrounded by family and Davina as he exits this world. Rebekah promises him in his last moments that she will consecrate his body, and that before she leaves the witch body she is currently inhabiting, she will find a way to bring him back to them. The episode ends with Freya and Finn in the morgue after she has just used her magic to bring him back from death. So. Not. Fair.

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The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 10 Recap “Them” Meeting a New Stranger Named Aaron

If you were expecting a barn-burner follow-up to last week’s The Walking Dead Season 5 emotional farewell to Tyreese, well you got your barn, but not much else. Think of a season of television as a rock concert, with each episode representing one song of a set list. This is the moment about three quarters of the way through the show where the band unplugs and plays a ballad or two. Maybe you spark up a joint, or sit down to rest for a minute, or hit the bathroom. Just as every song can’t be a mosh-pit anthem, every episode can’t be total zombie mayhem. Even Slayer knows you have to pace yourself or you’ll burn out.

So now we pause for a moment to examine the emotional and physical cost of what the survivors have been through. The opener is a close-up of Maggie’s tear-soaked eyes. She doesn’t so much as flinch when a walker approaches from behind. Knife to skull, slump to the ground, resume crying. This is life: killing zombies, crying, loss, eating the occasional worm. They’re 60 miles outside Washington, three weeks removed from the showdown in Atlanta, a day and a half without water and all running on empty.

No one’s unscarred at this point, but at the moment, it’s Sasha, Daryl, and Maggie who are suffering the most. It’s understandable, since the deaths of Tyreese and Beth hit those three the hardest. Each of the three depressives manage their pain differently. Sasha acts out, ignoring Michonne’s blunt advice to not act “stupid,” like her brother once did. Sapped of energy and faced with a posse of walkers, the gang decides, smartly, to simply shove the flesh bags down an embankment, rather than waste energy or ammo in killing them until Sasha goes rogue. As the others rush to her aid, Rick nearly gets chomped. Later, Sasha rejects the Sarge’s attempt to comfort her. Friends? We’re not friends, pal. Of course, we know that’s the anger and sadness talking.

Daryl is in pain, too. Instead of throwing tantrums that could get everyone killed, however, our favorite bike-riding bowman buries his grief. He's the only survivor who gets a pass whenever he decides to wander off solo in the woods to scavenge and brood sexily, but oh so vulnerably. Only when he’s alone does he allow himself to have a good cry.

Like Daryl, Maggie also manages to look hot while on the verge of a breakdown, which I imagine is a requirement for all potential cast members. In what seems to be an attempt to address the critics who wondered why Maggie seemed unconcerned with her missing sister’s fate, she offers a rather unsatisfying explanation as she opens up to Glenn: “I never thought [Beth] was alive. I just didn’t. After Daddy, I don’t know if I couldn’t. And after what Daryl said, I hoped she was out there alive. And then finding out she was and she wasn’t in the same day — seeing her like that, it felt like none of it was ever really there.” So she was in denial that her sister even existed? Otherwise, if she had hoped Beth was out there alive, why not, I dunno, go look for her?

It’s worth noting that Father Gabriel is also rather down, thanks in part to Maggie reminding him that he’s a coward who let his congregation get eaten alive. But Gabe is so one-note that really, who cares at this point? He cries out to God for forgiveness, ditches his collar and takes a big ol’ bite of dog meat. Maybe Gabe will toughen up a bit, finally. Eugene is more useful at this point. At least he was willing to run a “quality control” test on that water left behind by the mysterious “friend,” who also seems to possess loose-leaf paper and a Sharpie.

The tempo picks up when the thunderstorms roll in and the gang takes cover in a nearby barn. There, Rick says he was wrong about how tough life must be for Carl; he’s a kid, and kids grow with the world around them. It’s a fair point, even though he’s probably not going to get any No. 1 Dad coffee mugs with that kind of talk. Rick also tells a story about his grandpa who fought in the war. As if it weren’t clear enough throughout the episode — as we watch the survivors amble down the road, nearly lifeless, barely outpacing the zombies on their trailRick drives the point home: “This is how we survive. We tell ourselves … that we … are the walking dead.” Whoa! That’s like the Fonz saying, “Hey, Richie, these are happy days. Ayyyyy.” What they’re all debating at this point, either verbally or internally, is whether they can keep on keepin’ on. But amid the misery and the gruesome discoveries around every corner a walker in a trunk, bound and gagged; the zombie child in the barn there are still signs of hope. Just as it looked like the barn was about to be overrun, in comes a tornado to sweep the groaning horde away. Sasha and Maggie watch a sunset. The music box plays for a moment. The gals share a hard-earned laugh.

And then enters a hunky guy with an LL Bean vibe and what appears to be access to loads of drinking water, a working shower, and bath products. How does he know Rick’s name? Does he realize that saying “stranger danger” makes him more, not less, creepy? Is there any chance he’s not a cannibal or a rapist or a child molester or a sociopathic cult leader or a Scientologist or something even more twisted? And what is this news he brings? Gotta give it up to Sasha and Maggie even when the music box springs back to life, they keep this new friend squarely in their sights.

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The Originals Season 2 Episode 13 Recap Baby Hope’s Powers Revealed

Is it just us, or does the Mikaelson clan have a bad case of baby fever? The Originals Season 2 Episode 13 focused on Hope’s secretive storyline and Finn’s desperate attempt to find the missing child during “The Devil Is Damned.” However, Finn’s mission to track down Klaus and Hayley’s daughter came to an abrupt halt when Freya made her shocking debut.

After revealing her identity, the two siblings spent the rest of their time together catching up with one another. Freya explained that Dahlia, who is still alive, had cursed her by putting her into a deep sleep -- one that would only allow her to sparsely wake so that she could remain young and beautiful. And that’s not all she divulged during her one-on-one reunion with Finn. Freya revealed that Dahlia is not only a witch but also a hunter driven by deception. That’s when the two stumbled into the conversation of whom exactly Dahlia hunts. Freya explained that Dahlia tracks down the first-born of every Mikaelson generation but insisted Dahlia had no one left to chase down considering all the Mikaelsons were vampires. That’s when Finn let her in on Hope’s existence.

Freya’s eyes lit up with the mention of Hope. She then questioned Finn about the newest Mikaelson’s current location. But our suspicions only grew with Freya’s next statement. “You have to let some things die so that others might live,” she stated. Is it safe to assume that Freya has officially joined the dark side? Perhaps that’s why she’s back, to help her captor hunt down another first born child. While Finn seemed excited to welcome Freya back into the picture, Klaus couldn’t care less about the news of his sister’s return, which Rebekah had so kindly relayed. Instead, he was more interested in the woman who placed this curse on the family: Dahlia.

But Klaus had bigger things to worry about than his wicked aunt’s whereabouts like the death of Kol. In episode 12 Finn has cursed Kol with death and the life-loving which was anxious to reverse the spell. However, he didn’t want to pay the cost, which would involve Klaus slipping into his mind to unlock the spell Finn used.

After Klaus jumped into Kol’s head he could see that Kol was planning on deceiving him. But after a few moments of bickering the brother’s decided to put their issues behind them to save the life of Hope. Kol even turned out to be a useful ally as he informed Klaus that not only does Finn have an army of vampires hostage in his lair but he’s also torturing Marcel to get something top secret out of the head vamp: the location of baby Hope.

Finn sent his blood-sucking pawn on a wild goose chase to get Hayley’s blood so that he could track down the baby. But Marcel was reluctant to betray Hayley so quickly. Instead, he revealed to the hybrid just what Finn had up his sleeve, which is when Hayley decided to call Klaus, giving him an update. After Hayley’s check-in, Klaus, Rebekah and Kol picked up the pace on trying to take down Finn. But what they learned was frightening: Finn had known about Hope’s location all along. He was just toying with his family to distract them while he visited the baby’s current residence.

In order to protect Hope, Kol revealed he would need to channel some seriously dark magic with the help of his siblings. As Klaus collected the items to use against Finn, their treacherous, vampire-hating brother was already at the barn, searching for the baby.

However, Hope wasn’t home. Instead, she was out with Cami running errands while Elijah stayed behind, taking care of things around the house like evil brother’s wanting to kill his niece.

Finn greeted Elijah by stabbing him in the back and chest. But unfortunate for Finn, Elijah seemed to be stronger than he was before. As Finn searched the house, Elijah rose to his feet to return the hospitable favor, stabbing his brother in the stomach. The two than partook in a major brotherly show down until Elijah ended it with the flick of a flame. Just as Kol had used his dark magic to turn Finn powerless, Elijah had bravely self sacrificed himself to blow up Hope’s hideout -- with Finn inside.

But it wasn’t Elijah’s selflessness that surprised us. What shocked us at the end of episode 13 was a glimpse at Hope’s powers. While the baby and auntie Cami were driving back to the house of horror, Cami’s car suddenly stopped. A moment later the two witnessed their home being blown to smithereens. Cami looked at Hope, wondering if it was the baby who had prevented them from being barbecued with the rest of their belongings.

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The Walking Dead Season 9 Sum Up The Cost of Living

In Sunday’s midseason premiere, one of Noah’s zombified brothers put the bite on Tyreese, and rather than try to hang on post-amputation, the gentle giant decided that he was through paying “the high cost of living at The Walking dead Season 5 episode 9 episode.

Don’t let the oddly literal and unsexy title of this episode fool you the kickoff to the back eight of season five is a stunner. You want action? There’s plenty. Existential apocalyptic angst? Check. Good, old-fashioned zombie gore? In spades. Ghost cameos? Yes, ghost cameos. And it all ends with a triple-Kleenex moment that reminds us why these survivors are still trying to push forward after all they’ve been through rather than simply wave a white flag and call it quits.

The opening scenes are moody and impressionistic, with only enough dialogue to set the table for what’s happening. We see Maggie weeping, and then catch a brief glimpse of Father Gabriel presiding over a burial: “We know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God. A house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.” Logic would suggest it’s Beth’s funeral we’re witnessing; last we saw of the group, they’d reunited as Daryl carried Beth’s body out of the hospital. But what of these flash vignettes? Photos of two young black children — brothers, it seems. Abandoned cars. Skeletal remains. A framed painting of a small cottage, splattered with blood. Trees passing by. Soon it becomes clear that these are all pieces of a puzzle that’s assembled slowly over the course of the hour, and the picture it reveals is a grim one.

Noah tells Rick that he and Beth had a plan to head back to Noah’s house just outside of Richmond, Virginia, where his family had fortified themselves. So it’s back on the road again for them, along with Michonne, Glenn, and Tyreese behind the wheel. I’m still puzzled by the existence of working walkie-talkies at this point in mankind’s collapse, but Rick uses one to keep in touch with Carol back at base camp.

Here’s where those puzzle pieces begin to fall into place. Noah’s father is dead, he says, but he hopes his mother and twin brothers the boys in those photographs are still safe. As they pull off the roadside near Noah’s old neighborhood, the Shirewilt Estates, there’s those abandoned cars and that skeleton. Tyreese also tells a story about his father, who probably listened to NPR and read the newspaper at the kitchen table every morning. Follow the news, take note of what’s going on around you, he’d tell little Tyreese and Sasha. “Paying the high cost of living,” he called it facing life head-on. Whatever safety Shirewilt once offered is now gone; it's been replaced by bodies and burned-out homes. Noah collapses in tears and Tyreese tries to comfort him with a “choose to live” speech. “This isn’t the end,” he tells him. It’s typical Tyreese playing the role of protector, the good guy. He’s arguably the purest “hero” still left among them. It’s also cruelly ironic, given what’s to come.

The group agrees to stick around and scavenge a decision that seems sound at the time, but as we know, there’s no such thing as an easy errand for this crew. Noah can’t help but return to his house and see for himself if there’s any trace left of his family. Turns out it’s the house we saw in the opener, with clothes scattered on the lawn and crimson splashed across the open front doorway. Noah’s mother is face-down on the carpet, a large chunk of her skull no longer there. Tyreese finds one of Noah’s brothers on his bed, partially eaten. Above hi m on the wall, those photos of the boys that we saw earlier it’s such an unsettling tableau the corpse of a child in his bedroom, still decorated with toys and snapshots that Tyreese doesn’t hear the undead twin brother behind him. The tussle ends with Noah finishing his little bro with a fighter jet to the face and Tyreese losing a chunk of his forearm to a zombie bite. The episode kicks into another gear as Noah runs off to get help, leaving poor Ty alone to bleed out and hallucinate. There’s the asshole from Terminus whose life he spared, chewing gum and saying I told ya so. If Tyreese had killed him when he should have, maybe none of this would have happened. “Domino shit,“ he says. Nonsense, says one-legged Bob, insisting this was all meant to happen. The feverish cameos continue — the Governor barking about earning your keep; the bloody Lizzie and Mika; and Beth, who even in death is still haunting this world with her incessant singing. When the imaginary Guv morphs into a very real walker, Ty has little choice but to use his forearm as a zombie chew-toy. Of all the tight-quarters combat we’ve seen, this moment could be the most intense. The close-ups of the monster snapping its jaw in Tyreese’s face, nose to rotted nose, is a reminder that this show can still be horrifying.

Before Noah returns with reinforcements, Rick agrees with Michonne’s new plan head to Washington, even though Eugene’s cure is fiction. Her rationale makes sense. Where the hell else would they go now? Three of the night’s most intense moments follow. What looks like an easy kill for Michonne turns into a struggle when her sword bounces off a piece of rebar stuck in her target’s neck. Moments later, the sisters holding Ty’s hand morph into Rick, who’s prepping his pal for samurai-sword surgery. “One hit, clean, go!” he yells, and Michonne cuts Ty’s arm in half, as he and most of the viewing audience passes out. Finally, as they scramble to escape, there’s a dazzling slow-motion fight scene at the Shirewilt gates, featuring some of the coolest special effects in the series to date. Michonne decapitates one zombie and gives another a nasty lid reduction as Rick pumps two bullets into a third walker as it closes in on Noah.

They make it to their truck, where they discover what happened to the tops of all those zombie bottoms they found outside the Shirewilt walls.

Tyreese is not looking good, figuratively or literally: He's still seeing visions of the dead. Some of those puzzle-piece snapshots from the opener were actually a preview of Tyreese’s final thoughts trees passing by, the watchtower at the prison, the train tracks to Terminus. Tyreese hears a news report in his mind, a reminder that life is hell. “Turn it off,” he says. His last words suggest he can’t bear to see this world for what it is anymore. He can’t be the hero in a place where the white hats either get dirty like Rick and Glenn, who admit they both would have killed Dawn if Daryl didn’t first or die. “People like me,” Tyreese told the Guv, “they can’t live.”

So, it turns out that wasn’t Beth’s burial we saw in the opener. Sasha stumbles in a daze in just a couple days, she’s now lost her boyfriend and her brother leaving Rick to finish the job of putting shovel to earth. The episode ends with a shot of Tyreese’s cap atop a makeshift cross. No music over the closing credits, only the sound of Rick digging, ringing out to a most haunting effect. Now it’s on to D.C., in search of safe haven and a new babysitter for Judith, since we know that deadbeat dad of hers won’t be carrying her around. Almost as cruel as Tyreese’s death is the thought that the thug from Terminus was right all along. But through him, we understand why these survivors haven’t given up to honor the hero’s spirit inside each of them, and to pay tribute to those they’ve lost. Rest in peace, big man.

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The Originals Season 2 Episode 12 Sum Up Sanctuary

It must be the season of the witch. The Originals returned with more mystical madness when Season 2 of the hit CW series aired episode 12 entitled Santuary.

When we last saw Rebekah she had summoned a spirit to help her escape the insane asylum that Kol had trapped her in. But little did she know it was her very own sister Freya who had answered her cry for help. Freya was taken centuries ago due to Esther’s fertility deal with her sister Dahlia. In exchange to have children, Dahlia would require the first born of every generation as collateral.

However, it looked like Freya wasn’t killed by her evil aunt. As Rebekah slept, she had visions of her long-lost sister being taken from their mother all while a ghost, who we theorized was Freya, watched her from the hallway. While Rebekah endured her nightmare of a situation, Klaus battled his own demons in wolf form. Klaus was on the hunt for Hayley to put an end to her marriage to Jackson. Klaus discovered that in order for Hayley’s wedding to Jackson to be legitimate, she would have to partake in a marriage ritual that required her to divulge her deepest and darkest secrets to her husband to be. Yes, that meant revealing Hope was actually alive.

“Some secrets are meant to stay buried,” Klaus said in the previous episode. But Hayley was rather skeptical about showing Jackson the skeletons in her closet. She claimed that whatever he was going to tell her during their truth session wouldn’t come close to the secrets she was hiding.

That’s when Jackson intrigued her with a teaser to his own secret. “It has to do with how your parents died,” he stated. Jackson then took Hayley to a werewolf graveyard filled with pack members who acted treacherous. One of the deceased wolves was his grandfather. According to Jackson, his vampire-hating grandpa killed Hayley’s parents after they tried to make amends with the vampires in their community.

“That was my secret. Whatever yours is, if you don’t want to tell me – don’t. It doesn’t change a thing, least of all how I feel about you,” Jackson stated. That’s when Klaus appeared from the woods. Prior to showing up out of thin air, Klaus visited Jackson’s grandmother to track down the duo. But she was no help. Instead, he was forced to follow his nose -- and as it turned out, he’s got a good one.

“Quite the romantic sentiment,” Klaus chimed in, before asking for a moment alone with Hayley. As Hope’s parents hashed it out, Finn spent episode 12 torturing Klaus’ secrets out of Marcel. But Finn quickly realized that Marcel truly didn’t have any valuable information for him to use.

While Finn tortured Marcel and his vampires, Rebekah was getting tormented by the staff of the mental institution for witches. Rebekah had given the new witch of the asylum an apple to munch on but her rebellious behavior got the newbie in trouble with the staff. After having her head slammed into the table a few times, Rebekah decided to step in. She punched the torturer in the face, which resulted in her hand getting broken. The new girl asked why Rebekah stood up for her. “Maybe I just like the idea of us girls sticking together,” she sweetly said.

Back in the bayou, Klaus revealed that he feared for Hayley to tell Jackson about their daughter being alive, suggesting that the outcome of her strategy wasn't worth the risk.

“Dammit, Klaus. This is our chance. We can bring her home,” she argued. But Klaus wasn’t hearing any of it. Instead her forbade Hayley to marry Jackson.

“It’s a good thing I don’t take orders from anyone especially not from you,” she said. Hayley elaborated on her frustration with Klaus claiming that it was he who was the threat, not the wolves. “You’re so paranoid that you can’t see that this wedding can help her. She can home. The wolves are on our side,” Hayley cried. Klaus then brought up that he killed his own father to protect Hope, which is when Hayley challenged Klaus that maybe he’s just scared to let people in.

“You have to trust me,” she begged only to have her neck snapped by Klaus. “I just don’t trust Jackson,” Klaus replied.

Klaus then sought out Jackson to put an end to Hayley’s plan by killing her soon-to-be-husband. However, his plan was foiled when Jackson asked Klaus to help save the wolves after he was dead and gone. Klaus paused, which is when Hayley arrived in the nick of time.

“Go on tell him. Have your wedding. Save your wolves,” he gave them his blessing before threatening to stick Jackson’s decapitated head on a spike in his grandmother’s garden if he betrayed Hayley. Back at the asylum, the new girl paid Rebekah a visit in her sleep and questioned her about her brothers. “Why do you fight with your own family when you should stand beside them?” she wondered. “It’s complicated,” Rebekah revealed before beginning her journey to sneak out of the institution. When Rebekah walked into the mystical room to gather help from the strong, mysterious energy she found the woman who broke her hand dead. That’s when the Harvest girl Cassie walked in, revealing that she was never Rebekah’s friend.

But the new witch wasn’t going to let Rebekah get hurt. She took Cassie’s face and basically melted it in her hands. “I despise traitors,” she said, fixing Rebekah’s hand. “You didn’t disappoint me. There’s a spark in you Rebekah. You’re willful and also kind. You’re not half as bad as our brothers.”

Rebekah couldn’t believe she was meeting Freya. But this was actually their second meeting! Freya once made an appearance at one of their parties many moons ago. Freya revealed to Rebekah that she would be paying her brothers a visit very soon.

Episode 12 concluded with Finn figuring out that Klaus was hiding a secret about his daughter. Why else would he have washed memories from Marcel’s head?

“She’s still alive. And now you and your vampires are going to help me find her,” he stated.

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The Originals season 2 episode 11 Sum Up "Brotherhood of the Damned"

A werewolf bite, a plotting Mikaelson, and a whole lot of talk about secrets and truths make up the bulk of The Originals season 2 episode 11.

Marcel, his vampires, and Kol are still trapped in the compound, and Klaus is eager to find a way to get them out. Marcel breaks the bad news that he was bitten by a werewolf during the earlier struggle. So, many years before, in response to Klaus’ forbidding his romance with Rebekah, Marcel enlisted and went to fight Nazi’s with the Harlem Hellrazers. While in the trenches, a fellow soldier suspects him to be something more than human. When their commanding officer falls in the middle of a less than inspirational speech, that man proposes that Marcel be their new leader.

Davina has little luck working her locator spell against Finn/Vincent, so she tries another route. She uses a spell to see what Finn is doing, and where he is. She is able to pinpoint his location, and she also knows that he is channeling the power of both parents and using totems. She and Klaus turn to go after him, and Klaus passes out.

Elijah is working with Cami to find a way to put his demons behind him, particularly those that involve the red door, and most specifically those involving Tatia. While they work, Elijah too grows faint and passes out just like Klaus. Kol is similarly brought down.

Finn uses those totems to put all three of his siblings down for the count. Once they are all unconscious (Klaus, Elijah, and Kol), they ‘awake’ in a nightmare of a cabin. Their bodies remain behind, but their minds are trapped with Finn’s.

Davina tries to rouse Klaus to no avail. While doing so, she discovers Klaus’ phone and answers it. When she learns from Cami that Elijah collapsed too, Davina instantly knows what she saw was Finn working a spell against all three of his brothers.

Back in dreamland, Finn tells the boys that he intends to keep them until sundown in the real world, when the barrier spell will drop and the vampires will be released upon the unsuspecting locals. Finn/Vincent, then releases Kol back to the present, just in time for Kol to tell Marcel everything.

Hayley and Jackson meet with a Crescent wolf elder to complete the wedding rituals that must be performed before they can be bound in mystical matrimony. Hayley becomes unsettled when she learns that one of the rituals involves smoking a special herb that will force her and Jackson to spill all their secrets. She immediately refuses and hustles away.

Finn continues to hold Klaus and Elijah hostage as he is most eager to know what Klaus truly values the most. Finn has been systematically pulling on strings to figure it out to no avail. Elijah was broken, Rebekah taken, the city is about to be lost, and Klaus still hasn’t reacted. We all know what Klaus protects. It’s the same secret Hayley doesn’t want to divulge. There’s a little baby whose very life hangs in the balance if anyone finds out she’s alive.

Jackson hurries to catch Hayley. While we know she has a good reason for keeping her secrets, Jackson does a heck of a good job of convincing her that he will not only protect her, but that her secrets and burdens will become his and she will never have to fight them alone again. It’s moments like these that have us truly questioning if Jackson is a better match for Hayley than Elijah appears to be.

Marcel’s visions show that back in the war, when all the soldiers were down on their luck, one man, Joe, asks to be turned so the fight would be even. Marcel agrees and turns them.

In present day, Marcel proposes a solution to his vampire brethren. When the barrier drops, rather than eating the locals alive, he wants them to follow him to his place across the river where they will have all the blood they need, and he has a vial of Klaus’ blood to cure himself. Gia is the most critical of Marcel, but even she sees the logic and wisdom in his plan. The barrier drops and the vampires leave the compound.

Finn thinks he has the remaining two brothers at his mercy, but when Elijah points out the flaw in the magic of their prison, the walls come tumbling down. Representational magic must be very precise, and Finn chose animals to represent the boys, but Elijah’s harboring of the secret regarding Tatia’s true murderer and Klaus’ willingness to forgive him show that the stag and the wolf are poor representations of their true spirits. Both awake where they fell.

Marcel leads the vampires in the present, and in the past addresses the vampire soldiers he commanded once in war to harness their hunger and use it to make them stronger. The past needed the men to feel upon enemy soldiers, and the present needs these vamps to fight it with everything they have until they reach a safe place and a safe blood supply. Marcel collapses in the street.

Marcel awakens in his loft, in Gia’s care after she administered Klaus’ blood to him, and set the vampires loose on Marcel’s blood bag stores downstairs. She apologizes for being so much trouble, and Marcel tells her that only the weak refuse to question authority. Finn shows up to congratulate Marcel and his vampire brethren on their strength of character. He then tells Marcel that his brothers have gone to some lengths to keep a secret from him. He knows he has no chance of getting it out of them, but he believes he can rip it from Marcel and kidnaps him.

Klaus arrives to Marcel’s loft, but he finds the vampires and Marcel gone. Aiden arrives per Klaus’ request to help, and the two get to talking. Aiden unwittingly lets Klaus in on Hayley’s plan to free her people. Klaus is unnerved when Aiden talks of them smoking the Blue Carumus plant, as he knows exactly what that herb is used for. He plans to go to the bayou and put a stop to this before Hayley can divulge the secret they all must keep: Hope.

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The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 12 Sum Up "Prayer For The Dying"

I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I sure am ready for some loose ends to be tied up in this week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries, which is why the mysterious opening scene, consisting of Caroline and the cancer patient she healed at Duke doesn’t bode well for me. In short, the guy shows up in Mystic Falls on Caroline’s front door step begging her to tell him what she’s done. And in true Caroline fashion, she phones the help of a friend (Stefan), who is able to solve the puzzle in seconds. “He’s a vampire,” he tells her…so what does this mean for Sherriff Forbes? In other news, the rekindled flame between Damon and Elena seems to still be blazing. The two lovebirds share a series of flirtatious moments and she eventually informs him he’ll have to start at the very beginning…aka – she wants to be full on courted. This should get fun to watch. Speaking of love being in the air, in the next scene, we’re taken to Liv’s bedroom where she and Tyler have collectively decided they won’t be leaving anytime soon…until Liv’s dad shows up, that is. He’s come to take the twins to dinner, and perhaps talk about this impending merge between Kai and Jo? I vote yes. Let’s get back to the Caroline saga –she and Stefan have enlisted the help of Jo to determine if there is anyway to save her mom from turning. (fyi – it’s not looking hopeful). Collin (Duke cancer guy) has officially died and come back as a vampire, meaning Sheriff Forbe’s days are numbered…but, of course, witch doctor Jo has an idea. She thinks if she completely transfuses Collin’s blood with human blood, it will somehow counteract the magic of Caroline’s forced dose of vampirism. In a matter of a few scenes later, we learn that won’t be the case. In short, and in the eloquent and always sensitive words of Damon…Caroline just killed her mom. Turns out this whole merger ordeal is going to have to happen sooner rather than later. Liv and Luke turn 22 in just two weeks, so unless they can convince their dad that Jo can beat Kai…he’s going to insist Liv and Luke go through with it. Translation Tyler loses Liv forever. And not to top off the continuous stream of bad news with more…well, bad news, but Caroline has officially lost all hope. In fact, when Stefan finally finds her, she’s in the process of planning her mom’s funeral by picking out flowers. She’s too ashamed to face her mom after what she’s done, but Stefan insists she has to go back to the hospital. “She doesn’t think there is anything to forgive,” Stefan whispers. “She just wants you to be with her. While Caroline heads back to her mother, Liv and Luke are failing miserably at convincing their father that they don’t need to merge over a nice dinner conversation. Luke refuses to kill his own sister, which you think a dad would understand…oddly enough, he doesn’t.

Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention that the gang has Kai drugged out in a state of comatose in order to give Jo time to grow stronger in her powers. This seems like a great plan before Damon takes matter into his own hands and transfers the zombie-like-state to Tyler…officially waking Kai up. But why you ask would Damon do such a thing? Aside from losing his mind, Damon thinks Kai can suck the magic out of Sheriff Forbes, effectively saving her from her vampire-induced fate. So what’s the tradeoff, you ask? If Kai saves her, he wants to merge his twin sister tonight. You know what that means…let the merging games begin.

Well, actually, before we do that there’s something else you should know. The twins have no idea what Damon’s done, and they have actually persuaded their father to allow Kai and Jo to merge instead of them…sound to good to be true? Yeah, that’s because it is.

Just as we feel the fatherly love, he quickly turns his back on his children. He knows Kai is loose and about to merge with Jo…meaning he attempts to force Liv and Luke into a merge…fortunately, Tyler breaks it up before Jo loses. And now that the blond twins know what’s going on, Luke’s got a plan. He’s going to merge with Kai. Basically, it’s about to go down.

And not to end this recap on a bad note, but it’s time I clue everyone in on something else. Despite the fact that Kai absorbed the magic from Sheriff Forbe’s body, her vampire-bloodless self is proving not strong enough to withstand the transition. Just as her body is about to turn lifeless, Elena and Damon enlist the help of a doctor to paddle her back to life. Unfortunately, it’s just too late…and Caroline isn’t even there to…

Plot twist. This last paragraph summary was all in Caroline’s dream. Sheriff Forbes is going to make it. Damon, for once, was right. Guess what that means? Elena is totally and completely in love with him.

Okay, so now for the real final scene of this week’s episode. Luke and Kai have officially gone through with the merge – resulting in both of them ending up on the ground…both appearing dead. Jo shows up hoping to stroke the life back into her little brother, but, sadly, it doesn’t work. And just like that we hear the words no one was wanting.

“I always win,” Kai quips.

Could this be real? Is Luke really gone and Kai really the leader of their coven? And what about Liv and Tyler, what will this mean for them?

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Revenge Season 4 Episode 13 Recap

Last week episode of Revenge Victoria Grayson and Emily Thorne were in the middle of a good ol' fashioned screaming match when everyone's favorite Canadian, Malcolm, shot them with tranquilizers. Now these arch enemies are rotting away in a jail cell, while everyone else is epically failing to rescue them. No seriously, Jack Porter is not qualified to be a policeman. Someone please help him help himself.

Victoria and Emily Get Their Bond On, Jack Porter Attempts To Hatch A Plan. Victoria and Emily have been Malcolm-napped, and now it's up to David Clarke and Jack Porter to save them. In other words, we're so worried. To make matters worse, Malcolm wants his daughter, Agent Kate Taylor, alive which is slightly tricky considering that Jack murdered her. The thought of David and Jack being responsible for Victoria and Emily's fate is a terrifying prospect, but fortunately, Jack convinces Officer Ben Hunter to join the dream team.

Sure, Ben is slightly moody due to being left out of the revenge loop, but at least he has a few functioning brain cells. With his help, Jack and David re-edit Kate's voice messages so Malcolm thinks she's alive, and then Ben and Jack set about locating Emily and Victoria. Sounds like a plan! Of course David is no help whatsoever, and decides to go on some insane vigilante mission all on his lonesome.

Meanwhile, Victoria and Emily spend their time in jail braiding each other's hair and making friendship lanyards, by which we mean arguing every spare second they get. And to make matters more tense, Victoria gives up Jack's name in exchange for her potential freedom, which prompts Emily to tell Victoria that David's trying to kill her.

Louise Ellis Gains Her Freedom, David's Plan Fails. Now that Louise Ellis has stopped taking the unprescribed medication that her family was secretly feeding her, she's ready to plot her revenge. The perfect opportunity? When this Southern belle's mother decides to summer in The Hamptons after learning from Lyman that her darling daughter is acting out. Mrs. Ellis threatens to cut off Louise financially, which gives Nolan a brilliant idea: He and Louise should totally get married! That usually solves all problems.

These fast friends decide to get hitched on the fly, making Nolan Louise's conservator which means he controls her cash flow. Sounds good, except Mrs. Ellis is like"Oh, I forgot to mention that you killed your father and I'm going to tell everyone, bye!" So, yeah, it's safe to say that plan backfired.

While Louise battles her domineering mother, one of Malcolm's henchmen pays a visit to Jack and Ben, but fear not Ben beats said henchman to a pulp and finds a clue to Emily's location hidden on his body. Meanwhile, David "I Am Literally the Worst at Planning Things Ever" meets up with Malcolm for a daughter switcheroo, but Malcolm immediately realizes that Kate is dead, shoots David in the thigh, and locks him up with Emily and Victoria. You know what that means: Jack and Ben have to save the day. God help us all. Jack Is an Unlikely Hero, Margaux Is an Unlikely Enemy. Despite plotting Victoria's death, David refuses to kill either Emily or Victoria when Malcolm asks him to. Naturally, Malcs decides he should probably burn them to a crisp instead starting with Emily! However, before Malcolm can kill off "Revenge's" main revenger, Victoria saves Em's life and tells Malcolm that she killed Kate. Shocking. Of course, before Malcolm can fly into a rage, Ben and Jack actually manage to save the day and Malcolm ends up being shot! Plus, Victoria apologizes to David for betraying him. So...happy ending? Not quite. Remember last week when Victoria told Margaux the truth about Emily? Thanks to all those pregnancy hormones, Margaux basically cannot with Miss Thorne, and decides to reveal her secret. Of course, first she has to hire a henchman of her own to find evidence, and we have a feeling we'll see this handsome fellow when Revenge returns. Every episode is getting better and better and a lot of things are happenings and more secrets revealed.

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Revenge Season 4 Spoilers: Who Is Lyman? Louise’s Brother Teased to Have Possible Romance with Nolan

New Year, new drama. And that’s exactly what Revenge fans can anticipate when Season 4 airs episode 12, “Madness,” on Sunday, Jan. 11. According to the synopsis for next week’s exciting installment, viewers will get to watch David’s premeditative plan of taking down Victoria begin. But daddy dearest won’t be working solo on this menacing plot he’ll be requiring the help of his vengeance-seeking daughter Emily to finally kill the woman who caused so much chaos in their lives.

Sunil Nayar, the series showrunner, teased to E! Online that this shift in the storyline would help “deepen relationship with her father.” Talk about a strange bonding experience.

But believe us – that’s only the beginning to the family drama set to occur in “Madness.” According to reports, everyone’s favorite, crazy southerner Louise will be having her fair share of family woes when her easy-on-the-eyes brother makes his Hamptons debut.

TVLine reported that the ever so handsome Sebastian Pigott would be taking on the role of Louise’s kin, acting as her brother Lyman. Lyman is described as a manipulative character that uses his southern charm and familiarity with politics to get ahead. And from the promo pictures of episode 12, it looks like he’ll be using his charisma on an unsuspecting victim: Nolan.

Since Louise made her first appearance on the hit ABC series, fans have known that the red head beauty has been up to no good. But we can only imagine what Louise will do now that she equally as mischievous brother is in town. It was theorized by TVLine that the golden child of the Ellis family would be catching the eye of a completely smitten Nolan. But would Emily’s BFF be so foolish as to trust anyone related to crazy Louise?

We have a feeling that Nolan’s dinner party is perhaps the event which leads to a possible budding relationship with Lyman. In the promo images it’s shown that Louise gets rather undone when Emily makes her unexpected arrival to the table. Sweet Lyman tries to calm his sister down but she’s inconsolable. Is it possible Nolan will be fooled by Lyman’s alleged caring heart for his blatantly mental sister? As if Nolan’s friendship with Louise couldn’t get any weirder.

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