Myra Laing came up with a little gold bucket. Plopping it down on the podium she greeted Howie and the rest of the world with enthusiasm and gusto. Grandma was in the house and ready to win herself a cool million!

“What’s in the bucket?” we all thought. Pills? Butterscotch candies? Her teeth? Someone else’s teeth? Turns out it was photographs of her relatives, all twenty thousand of them. Whenever it would be her turn to pick a case this bucket of pics would be delved into, plucking from it one picture with a smiling face on the front, number on the back. Her first pick, and the case that she was going to keep by her side until the bitter end, was case number 4. From there out, however, it was a wild ride.

Myra knocked out a lot of numbers both big and small. $0.01 here, $200,000 there. Three of her four daughters cheered on, screaming and jumping as their mom got that much closer to the big payoff – for her and them, if not a little delayed. She alluded to her fourth daughter living in England with her son-in-law who was currently fighting in Iraq. I’m assuming he’s part of the army but maybe he’s just like Russel Crowe, fighting ’round the world.

So guess who shows up as a surprise for dear ol’ grandma? Yeah, like you didn’t NBC that coming a mile away. It’s the missing daughter! Huzzah! Anyhoo, grandma continues to eliminate cases left and right with reckless abandon. Oops, there’s goes $750,000. Oops, there goes $1million. Yeah. Offers from the banker plummeted to a dismal $17,000 but towads the top of the hour granny got some steam behind her and surged ahead to come down to 8 cases remaining with $300,000 still in the hunt.

What will happen? Join us on Monday to find out, one Battlestar and one Heroes away.