Gay plotline on upcoming Reaper

Going into the fall television season, Reaper was one of the most buzzed about shows on any network’s lineup. The Kevin Smith-directed pilot about Sam, a young slacker forced (due to a deal his parents made with Satan before Sam was born) into collecting souls that have escaped from Hell, was met with much geeky enthusiasm by the fanboys (and girls) when it was screened earlier this year at Comic-Con International in San Diego. It seemed that The CW had a surefire hit on their hands.

Subsequent episodes have slightly lessened the enthusiasm; everyone seems to agree that Reaper is a decent show, but nothing has quite lived up to the brilliance shown in the pilot.

Possibly hoping that a dose of gayness will liven things up a bit (and really, when has it ever hurt?), an upcoming episode features a gay-centered plotline.

The (somewhat mystifying) summary, courtesy of Spoilerfix.com:

Sock and Sam move into a condo together and when their electricity goes out, they go next door to ask for help locating the breaker box. They meet their neighbors, a gay couple named Steve and Tony, who not only come over and flip the breakers but offer to get light bulbs to replace the dead ones in the kitchen, notice the empty fridge and say they are going to fill it up with great food, they then ask the guys over to dinner that night. Sock and Sam find a vessel in the living room later that evening and open it to find a cane, but decide to go to dinner first. They hear a sander running when they go next door. Sock is offered some expensive scotch that he notices inside. During dinner when Sam spills something on his shirt and when Steve takes him into the bathroom to use a stain removing pen on it, Sam notices two belt sanders hanging in the bathroom.

I’m not entirely sure what those last few sentences mean; I know that for each soul he must collect, Sam is provided a "vessel" which is specifically designed to help him complete his task (it was a Dirt Devil in the pilot), so are the sanders the vessels? Or is it the cane? What’s up with the scotch? Are the gay guys the souls who’ve escaped from hell? If so, I’m assuming that they weren’t in Hell simply for being gay.

Regardless of how much the synopsis left me scratching my head, the episode sounds like it should be fun. Though if anyone can elaborate and explain what exactly it all means, I’d be much obliged.

The episode is entitled "Unseen" and is set to air in January.