It’s been 7 long days since we sat down and watched the excellent offerings from Thursday night’s TV, and after all the shows you’ve seen since then, perhaps your memory is a little fuzzy on the details. Well, RTVW is here to help! Sit back and enjoy our Previously On recap from Thursday, May 8 so you’ll be all caught up and ready for the next instalments tonight.
Ugly Betty 
Instead of killing Charlie by slicing her head open and taking her secret powers, Betty tries to win her over by hosting a baby shower. She goes to ridiculous lengths to make it “just right” for the very picky mommy to be, but Charlie continues to be a biotch right up until her water breaks. And when the Betty is born—in the Suarez living room—Betty can no longer pretend that she is the most important person in Henry’s life. It’s pretty heartbreaking even for those of us on the Betty/Gio bandwagon. In other news, Hilda gets her groove back. When she goes into Justin’s school to give his gym teacher a piece of her mind she ends up going all gooey for him. I don’t have any insider info, but I’m pretty sure we haven’t seen the last hottie Coach Diaz. Too bad for Hilda/Daniel shippers! Speaking of Daniel, he went to a therapist to deal with the attempt on his life/messy breakup but he ended up boinking his therapist. Oops! Somehow that did the trick though and at the end of the episode he was back at Mode and back on point. And oh yeah, Christina found out she’s carrying a dead man’s heir and confronted Wilhelmina who in turn announces to Daniel, Alexis, and Claire that she is having Bradford’s baby and her child is entitled to one-third of the Meade empire. Just another day in the fashion magazine business… - Spads
Smallville 
Lex consults an expert about the cryptograph he obtained from the Veritas security deposit box in Zurich. He’s then attacked by the Zurich bank officer and has the Kryptonian symbols for traveler, savior and sanctuary carved into his chest. Chloe deciphers the message and sends Clark to a church in Montreal where he finds the last surviving member of Veritas, Edward Teague. Teague is not pleased about Clark’s non-committal nature towards destroying Lex, whom Teague deems pure evil, and he decides that he must kill Clark to protect humanity. Meanwhile, Lex also finds his way to the church and finds a key inside a clock after applying the cryptograph to it. Teague discovers him, there’s a struggle, and Lex is just about to kill him but Clark saves him, after just being rescued by Chloe himself. Lex takes the key back to the castle in Smallville, where he finds the last remaining artifact to control Clark, a multi-sided spherical object. When Lex inserts the key into the sphere, it shows him the location of the fortress of solitude. - G
Grey’s Anatomy 
Without even stepping foot in Seattle Grace, Dr. Preston Burke creates chaos among the lady heart surgeons. After an announcement is posted in the hospital that Burke has won a prestigious medical award, Christina and Hahn finally have something in common… or so Hahn thinks. But for Christina it’s the last straw, and she spends the episode alone and hurt. Let’s hope this marks the return of strong and snarky Yang. Meredith is still in therapy, and all she can talk about is wanting Derek. But he’s with Rose. And he was really ‘with’ Rose this week… but all he could think about was Meredith. Sloan’s slutty ways finally caught up with him, when the nurses teamed up to boycott his surgeries. Depressed and lost, he sulks until Miranda takes pity on him and convinces the nurses to get back to work. Izzy and Alex fight over Rebecca and her pregnancy, but Izzy keeps her patients’ confidence and doesn’t tell Alex that he’s not going to be a daddy. The chief gets a visit from his wife. - JJ
The Office 
Michael, Pam, Oscar and Darryl represent Dunder Mifflin at a job fair at Pam’s alma mater, where Pam is surprised to find out that she needs Photoshop experience to be a graphic artist (duh!). Jim tries to schmooze a potential client by golfing with him. Dwight is left in charge of the office and everyone leaves early except Angela. - G
Supernatural
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Dean and Sam are still searching for the solution to their problems when, along the way, they run into a case of someone stealing people’s vital organs. It turns out it’s a doctor who, back in 1816, seems to have found the secret to eternal life. Sam, thinking the doctor might be able to help them with Dean’s problem, wants to talk to the guy while Dean is having none of it. When Dean gets a call from Bobby with the address of someone who knows where Bela is, he wants to head out right away. Sam resists and the two part ways. Dean meets with an old hunter and wins him over. The hunter shares some disturbing news about the real Bela and Dean confronts her about the Colt. Unfortunately, she’s already sold it and Dean realizes that there’s more going on than Bela wants to admit. Meanwhile, Sam’s found the doctor’s cabin in the woods but he gets himself captured in the process. Dean shows up in the nick of time and the two take down the doctor but not before Sam wants to question him. Dean, angry, tells Sam that he knows what he faces but saving himself is not worth sacrificing his beliefs. Later that night, Bela shows up to murder the two while they’re asleep but Dean’s two steps ahead of her. When he calls, she admits that she was doing it for Lilith who holds her soul and, if she didn’t murder the two by midnight, the hellhounds would come for her. As she lets Dean know that it’s Lilith who holds his soul as well, we hear the hounds in the distance. - R
Lost 
Locke, Ben and Hurley continue their hunt for Jacob’s cabin, until finally Locke has a dream that points them in the right direction. This prompts Ben to make a sad face and tell Locke that “I used to have dreams”. Locke’s dream leads them to a map, and the map leads them to the cabin. While Ben and Hurley wait outside and share a snack, Locke – as the new chosen one – goes inside the cabin to talk to… Christian Sheppard and Claire! Jack’s daddy tells John that Aaron is where he’s supposed to be, Claire being there is a secret, and oh yeah – they have to MOVE THE ISLAND!! Meanwhile over on the freighter, Keamy catches the island crazy and shoots the captain. But not before he slits the doctors throat and tosses him overboard… it seems he really was alive and well on the boat after he washed up dead on the beach. Unbeknownst to Keamy, Sayid steals the dinghy and heads back the beach to help his friends. IN THE PAST: Locke was a preemie, born to a 15 yr. old girl named Emily. Emily isn’t ready to have a baby, so little John is given up for adoption. As a young boy John is visited by the mysteriously un-aging Richard Alpert, who gives him a test and asks him to pick items that will belong to him. Locke fails the tests and Richard leaves in a huff. Then in high school, Locke is recruited for a science camp at Mittelos Bioscience – the same company that recruited Juliet to the island – but he politely declines the offer. Later in life, he receives another visit, this time from Matthew Abbadon who sets him on the path to his Walkabout. It seems the moral of our story this week is that John Locke has a deep connection to the island. – JJ







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1. Comment by Spadada on 16 May 2008:
Jody, how freaking awesome was the kid who played the soldier who waited by the other soldier’s bedside? He made me cry so much. And he’s so cute! That kid’s gonna be a star. (His name is David Giuntoli and Eli Stone fans might recognize him as the guy who played Maggie’s fiance, the one who was supposed to be on the bridge when it collapsed.)