The story is set in a fictional world, where, fifteen years earlier, human beings lost the ability to have children and to truly die. Those who have died continue to exist, regardless of injury and decay. According to legend, God abandoned his creations but left them one final gift in the form of "gravekeepers," strange individuals with the ability to give rest to the living dead. Twelve-year-old Ai is one such gravekeeper. Her life changes forever when an immortal gunslinger named Hampnie Hambart massacres the residents of her small village. With no place to go, Ai is forced to rely on Hampnie, and she comes to learn the truth about him and her village.

Afterward, she sets out on a journey, performing her duties as a gravekeeper and striving to learn more about why the world has fallen into such a state, and she declares her desire to save the world God has abandoned. While on her journey, she encounters new people: Hampnie's childhood friend Julie, the gravekeeper Scar, a mysterious boy named Alice, and a ghostly witch named Dee.

Following a shoot gone wrong, director Koji Shiraishi finds himself forced to employ two violent criminals in his future productions.

In Nagoya, Japan, an office worker named Hiromi Shimizu walks home at night, taking a path along an overpass near a train station and railway. She feels a sudden wind, hears a scuttling sound and is chased by an unseen fast-moving entity. She manages to hide from the threat and overhears children in a nearby building arguing over the specifics of an urban legend. As she steps onto the road, the wind picks up again, and the entity slices her in half at the waist.

Sometime later, schoolgirl Kana Ohashi is asked by her best friend and classmate, Ayaka Sekiguchi, to ask soccer player Utsumi Keita out for her. Kana obliges, and Utsumi agrees to go on a date with Ayaka. The next day, Utsumi shows Kana and Ayaka a news report on his cell phone about the mysterious death in Nagoya. Utsumi recalls a story he heard in elementary school about ''Teke Teke'', a ghost with no lower extremities. When individuals walk on the overpass at night, it is said that ''Teke Teke'' will chase after them (making a "''teke teke''" noise as she moves along the ground), and that if they look back, she will cut them in half.

As Utsumi rides away on his bicycle, Kana and Ayaka walk back to their homes together. Ayaka upset that Utsumi seems to like Kana more than her, angrily takes a different route home. Reaching the overpass, Ayaka sees ''Teke Teke'', and trips after trying to run away from her. ''Teke Teke'' severs Ayaka's upper body from her lower body and disappears along the train tracks into the night. After school, Kana learns that Hiromi's boyfriend was arrested by Aichi Prefecture police officers for her murder. He denied any involvement in her death and told the authorities that he saw a woman with no lower half.

The next night, Kana places a bouquet at the site of Ayaka's death. She hears Ayaka call her name and turns to see ''Teke Teke'', who begins to chase her. Kana runs into Utsumi, who helps her escape on his bicycle. Kana conducts research about ''Teke Teke'' at a library, where she sees her cousin Rie Hirayama. Rie informs Kana that anyone who encounters ''Teke Teke'' and survives is said to die three days later. They visit a scholar in Kakogawa, who tells them of a woman who committed suicide in 1948 by jumping off of an overpass in Mikasa-cho. The scholar's assistant, Takeda, leads them to the daughter of a landlord who lived in that area. She tells Kana, Rie, and Takeda that the woman who killed herself was a nurse named Kashima Reiko, who was assaulted and raped by an American soldier. Traumatized, Kashima associated the color red with the bleeding she experienced during the incident and discarded all red objects in her sight as a result.

Afterward, Takeda informs Kana and Rie of rumors he heard in middle school, which told of a memorial built for Kashima in Mikasa-cho, which has since fallen over. Rie, who reveals that she also encountered ''Teke Teke'' not long after Kana did, drives to Mikasa-cho by nightfall with the help of directions given by Takeda. There, Kana and Rie discover the fallen memorial in a forested area. They lift the memorial back into its original position, and after returning to Rie's red car, Kana and Rie notice ''Teke Teke'' behind them in the road. They soon abandon the vehicle, removing red clothes and accessories from themselves as they run away. Rie accidentally cuts her head on a branch, causing her to bleed. ''Teke Teke'' jumps at Rie, slicing her in two, and appears to rush towards Kana. Sometime later, a group of children walks and discusses rumors about Kashima, and ''Teke Teke'' runs behind them.

In a mid-credits scene taking place one year later, Takeda visits Kana and her mother, who are living at a new residence. Kana, who has been in an almost catatonic state since Rie's death, is offered a red box of sweets by Takeda, which causes her to go into hysterics.

Policemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realise they are probably the only two honest cops on the force.

To escape from a hot tropical place Shuleykin (Yevgeny Leonov) accepts a position on a ship looking after a cargo of twelve cages with tigers. Chief mate ("starpom" in Russian), played by Ivan Dmitriyev) has continuous arguments with Marianna (Margarita Nazarova) about the little tricks she plays on the crew. One day a stowaway monkey opens the cages and the limited capabilities of Shuleykin get exposed. In this situation Marianna unexpectedly turns into a skilled animal trainer.

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

A 13-year-old Jewish boy (Norman) develops an obsession for his older brother's wife (Rose), who is under parental pressure to start a family. The hapless dentist brother is not up to the job, and ditsy Rose encourages Norman's infatuation. While it is never made explicit how it came about, Rose eventually does become pregnant, to the satisfaction of the various interested parties.

Dorothy Bloom is a 32-year-old single soap opera writer planning a long, quiet weekend in Melbourne. Her Aunt Esther wants her to meet a gynecologist but instead she runs into Karl Stanton, an old friend from uni days.

The actors of the TV series ''Copfile'' investigate when their scriptwriter is killed.

The small town of Minyaka (aboriginal word for 'tomorrow') is run by greedy councillors who ignore the needs of the children; having promised them a swimming pool, children’s library and playground but for months the town has been suffering from a great drought. The heat and dust become almost unbearable until one day, during a council meeting, a mysterious and gentle stranger, known only as Fluteman (John Jarratt), offers to make it rain by playing his flute; though under the condition that he be paid $1,000. The councillors mock him and say that they will pay him $5,000 if he can make it rain by sundown of the following day.

All the children believe in him, and for the next day Fluteman plays his flute in different parts of the town; hope is almost lost, until, to the towns surprise and relief, it begins to rain – only it continues to rain nonstop for four more days - then the councillors refuse to pay him until he can make it stop; and so he does. But despite the children’s protest, the councillors still refuse to pay him, spreading doubt into the townsfolk by calling Fluteman a fraud; and that it was merely a coincidence that he happened to play his flute at the right time or maybe that he knew the rain was coming all along.

At that moment, Fluteman stands before the people and tells them that he will put a curse upon the town, a curse that the people would never forget for as long as they live; and as the sun sets Fluteman plays an eerie melody upon a hilltop, and the next morning towns people wake up to find that all the children are missing... except one. A deaf boy called Toby (Emil Minty). But in spite of his affliction Toby tells his school teacher, Sally Cooper (Debra Lawrence), through sign language, that he heard Fluteman and the children; and followed the sound to the hills where he saw coloured lights in a cave. Though many men go in search of the cave but no lights or children could be seen.

Until one night Toby and Sally see lights in Fluteman’s house and so they go see who it is; and it is Fluteman himself, finding that his home and belongings have been wrecked and trashed. Sally begs him to give the children back, but Fluteman tells her it is too late - the town had their chance to do the right thing, but it is only now that the children are gone that their parents miss them - he then asks Toby if he would like to join Fluteman and the other children. Toby knows he would be happy with the children but he also knows it would devastate his mother if she lost him. Sally tries to reason with Fluteman; saying that people make mistakes and the townspeople have learned their lesson. Fluteman agrees to free the children, so long as he gets the $5,000 he was promised.

The councillors calculate that they don’t have an awful lot in the town’s funds but just enough to pay Fluteman, but the money is missing and it turns out the town’s treasurer, Clarence Quint (John Ewart), had stolen the money, in hopes of paying for a long desired holiday in Singapore, and had given it to his stuttering partner, Oswald Snaith (Michael Caton), to keep hidden. The town chases after Snaith in his car, Fluteman and the children arrive just in time to stop him from leaving town; but Snaith swerves around them, as they chase after him, Fluteman plays his flute which causes the car to overheat and break down – causing Snaith to drive into the river.

The councillors get the money back, and as the adults and the children celebrate together, Fluteman is nowhere to be seen; Toby’s mother is talking to Sally saying that Fluteman had given her the $5,000, in hopes that Toby will get the best possible treatment for his hearing. Sally drives down the road and finds Fluteman; she tries to convince him to stay, and help celebrate in all the happiness he has given to that town but Fluteman declines her invitation. And tells her that he must go wherever he is needed; where ever children need him most.

Sacha (Gad Elmaleh) is a talented jazz pianist who does not take life too seriously. He loves his friends, his piano, and he loves to party. At night, he plays in a jazz club and enjoys seducing pretty young girls. He lives for the moment, looking for pleasure, with no responsibility, no family, and no taxes. Sacha's carefree life changes suddenly when he meets a forty-something career woman named Charlotte (Sophie Marceau) one rainy afternoon. After they make love, Sacha discovers that Charlotte has three children, not to mention a jealous soon-to-be ex-husband who runs the multinational company they both work for. Although she no longer loves her husband, she has a hard time untying the knot because of his wealth and power. Sacha and Charlotte have seemingly nothing in common, but they may just be made for each other.

Sisters Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) and Beth (Alison Brie) are in relationships with bandmates Andrew (Martin Starr) and Kevin (Geoffrey Arend). Beth is making plans for her wedding with Andrew. Sarah, an artist, moves in with Kevin but struggles to overcome her ambivalence. At a performance by Kevin, Sarah is approached by Jonathan (Mark Webber), who has a crush on her and has been hanging around the bookstore she manages. He decides to approach her but withdraws when he overhears she's living with Kevin. Kevin, ignoring warnings from Andrew, proposes to Sarah from the stage. Overwhelmed, she moves out and gets her own apartment. She talks to Jonathan at the bookstore and a new relationship blossoms. Beth, in the meantime, has become obsessive about her upcoming wedding plans, causing friction with Andrew and Sarah. Sarah feels isolated when she discovers she's pregnant and pulls away from Jonathan without explanation. She eventually tells Beth, who seems to take it as an attempt to ruin her wedding plans. At this point Sarah has a first solo show of her work. Andrew, Kevin, and Jonathan all attend, but Beth doesn't. The opening at the gallery acts as a catalyst, and all things come to a head. Andrew gets angry at Beth for not showing up at the gallery. He wakes to find a note from Beth who is waiting for him at the synagogue. Meanwhile, Kevin shows up at Sarah's apartment and wants to date her again. Sarah rejects him, saying that she is pregnant and the child is not his. The next day Kevin beats up Jonathan at his aquarium, but later apologizes and tells him everything. Beth and Andrew postpone their wedding. Sarah visits a clinic to get an abortion. Beth meets Sarah before it happens and Sarah changes her mind. When Sarah reaches home she finds Jonathan with her cat who was missing. She kisses him and the movie ends with Sarah saying "Jonathan".

Tom Waltz, a college professor, finds out that Stanley, his father, is in Lourdes, France. He quickly catches a flight there over his wife Marion's objections.

Stanley is a furniture mover, happily married to Elsie but tempted by Lena, an artist. No actual affair takes place, but Lena does give him a poem as a parting gift that Stanley later enters in a contest. He wins a $10,000 prize and donates the money to Tom's department at the university. Tom is rewarded with a promotion over his rival, Littlefield.

Trouble develops when the "original" poem is exposed as being one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets. Littlefield gets the job and Tom's reputation is sullied. Stanley prays for divine intervention and Littlefield promptly dies. Stanley flies to Lourdes to atone and pray for forgiveness, but is relieved when Tom informs him that Littlefield's death occurred before his request for help from above.

The film is a mockumentary which examines the possibility that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide at the end of World War II in 1945. It centers around historian Skule Antonsen of Sweden (Jon Rekdal) who along with film director Idelfonso Elizalde of Spain (Julián Elizalde) investigates Adolf Munchenhauser (Dick Nilsson). Munchenhauser is an individual who bears a striking resemblance to Hitler, and he was taken captive in Berlin in 1945 by the Allies and was one of 13 men transported on board a U.S. cargo plane who all happen to appear similar in appearance to Hitler. After gaining freedom in 1946 from captivity in a facility called Camp Rebecca located in the Great Basin Desert, Munchenhauser chose to remain in the United States. Skule researches evidence surrounding Munchenhauser's activities in an effort to authenticate whether or not he is indeed Hitler. During the course of his investigation, Skule's research efforts are stymied by unknown individuals.

When weary Old Dan collapses at Central Railway Station he entrusts his beloved dog Molly to young Maxie. Maxie takes up the challenge, developing a soft spot for her special new companion - a dog with the rare ability to sing in tune.

In 1942, a young couple, Ben and Ruth Watkins, purchase a house in a small rural town in Louisiana. Unknown to them, the house has a violent past. In 1928, the bank foreclosed on the previous owners, the Monroes, which led to a shootout on the property. Ruth and Ben slowly learn that every new resident, since 1928, has met a violent end and now Ruth becomes convinced someone is trying to get them to leave. Ruth is repeatedly terrorized by a mysterious slow-moving lurker when Ben is away. A series of flashbacks show the same lurker murdering several people who move into the house.

Near the end, Ben himself tries to stop the lurker from hurting Ruth only to end up being killed by accident when Ruth attempts to shoot the lurker only to shoot her husband. When Ruth decides to move out, she decides to say goodbye to her neighbors only to discover that the lurker resides in the house next door. The lurker/killer is Dwayne Monroe who lives with Anna, who is actually Olie Monroe. The real estate agent Jake, who sold the house to Ben and Ruth, is actually Todd Monroe who has been running a real estate scam for decades; Jake/Todd Monroe sells the old Monroe house to unsuspecting young couples, while his sister-in-law Anna/Olie Monroe befriends the new tenants to learn more about them, and their brother Dwayne Monroe terrorizes, harasses, and eventually murders the new owners, enabling Jake to buy back the house and live off the sale proceeds which he splits with Olie and Dwayne. During a scuffle, Dwayne murders Olie and then goes after Ruth, only for Jake to shoot and kill him in self-defense.

In the final scene, set five years later in 1947, the now-insane Ruth has married Jake and willingly joins him in his continuing scam of selling the old family house to unsuspecting people, murdering them, and then living off the sale of the property to new owners.

Bonnie and her mother are on a road trip to visit Bonnie's grandmother; Bonnie has brought Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, Mr. Potato Head, and Trixie with her. In the trunk of the vehicle, the toys are watching a horror film on a portable DVD player. When the car gets a flat tire, Bonnie and her mother must spend the night at the Sleep Well roadside motel, as a tow truck cannot be sent out until the next morning.

Once Bonnie and her mother are asleep, her toys exit Bonnie's bag to explore the motel room, but Mr. Potato Head goes missing. At this point, Mr. Pricklepants begins to narrate ongoing events as if it were part of an actual horror film, considering himself an expert. The toys search through the motel for Mr. Potato Head, but several are taken by an iguana named Mr. Jones, leaving only Jessie. In a bathroom, Jessie meets an action figure named Combat Carl, who was separated from his owner, Billy. Combat Carl urges Jessie to flee to her owner for safety, but she insists on trying to rescue her friends. The iguana returns to take Combat Carl, then Jessie. The iguana is revealed to be owned by the motel's manager, Ron, who has trained Mr. Jones to steal unattended toys and other items from motel guests so he can sell them in online auctions. Ron puts Jessie in the back room of his office, in a glass cabinet containing her friends, Combat Carl, and other stolen toys.

As morning approaches, a buyer purchases Woody online and Ron packs him into a box. Jessie is sold soon after, but Ron is distracted by the arrival of the tow truck and Jessie is left on the counter. A delivery lady takes Woody's box out to her truck, and Combat Carl tells Jessie that their only hope to rescue Woody and escape is for Jessie to travel to the truck in a box. Terrified, Jessie insists that she cannot enter a box, but Combat Carl helps her gain confidence. Once inside the truck, she frees herself and Woody. They return to the office, where Bonnie and her mother are checking out. Mr. Jones attacks Jessie, but Mr. Potato Head's hand manages to open a curtain, revealing the stolen toys to Bonnie and her mother, who threatens to turn Ron over to the police. Bonnie retrieves her toys, and the trip is resumed.

During the credits, Combat Carl boards the delivery truck with the remaining toys in hopes of returning to their owner, Billy. Two police officers later arrive to interrogate Ron, who attempts to escape by hijacking their police car, but is forced to flee on foot after immediately crashing it into the motel sign; the officers initiate a manhunt for him.

Mort is holding a funeral for Horny Dave, the head of an outlaw motorcycle club called the "One-Eyed Snakes". After the ceremony, the gang goes to Bob's Burgers to have beers, much to Bob's dismay. After having wrecked much of the restaurant, Critter, the new leader of the "One-Eyed Snakes", pays for the damage and gives Bob a card which he can use to ask the gang for a favor in the future.

Meanwhile, the kids are crossing by a street corner which is often occupied by skateboarding teenagers after school. Louise taunts Logan, one of the teens, to the point where he grabs Louise's bunny ears and runs off. Louise, unable to cope with the loss, starts to act crazy and wears a hoodie as a replacement. She is determined to get her bunny ears back. When bribery fails, Louise begins to follow and stalk Logan in numerous desperate attempts to get them back. Logan is resistant because he believes that the bunny ears have given him good luck. She finally tattles on Logan to his parents. When his parents confront him, Logan tells Louise that he had them sent to the dumpster. Louise tries to track them down to the waste management plant, but it is believed that they are incinerated and she is too late.

This brings Louise to her breaking point as she plots revenge. She cashes in the "One-Eyed Snakes" card and the gang arrives to threaten Logan. He confesses to never having thrown the bunny ears away and pulls them out of his backpack to give back to Louise. The gang returns to Bob's Burgers to celebrate, as Louise tells them food and drinks are on the house.

Having learned that their son was threatened, Logan's family gathers the neighbors and they all confront the "One-Eyed Snakes" in the restaurant. Linda also gets into a fight with Logan's mom. When Critter tries to break up the fight, Logan's mom accidentally tears off Horny Dave's jacket from Critter, and a standoff between the neighbors and the "One-Eyed Snakes" ensues. Critter, in an attempt to prove his leadership, plans to beat the neighbors up. Before the fight can begin, however, Mudflap, Horny Dave's pregnant lover, who Critter had sex with, goes into labor. Logan's dad is a doctor and takes charge of the delivery, where everyone in the restaurant lends a hand. After the baby is born, Mudflap confesses to Critter that he is the child's biological father.

Everyone is at peace, except for Louise and Logan, who were looking forward to the fight. But Louise is happy to have her ears back anyway.

On Halloween, the kids ask Bob to let them go trick-or-treating unsupervised for the first time. Teddy is happy as Bob and Linda can now attend his Halloween party. When they get there, everything is painted black and orange, including Teddy's guinea pig Frances. Seeing that Bob is the only one in the party not in costume, Teddy pulls out a fat suit from his closet for Bob to wear.

While trick-or-treating, the kids are disappointed by the lousy treats that the locals are giving. So they take a ferry to the nearby island called King's Head Island, home to a posh community. They meet up with two neighborhood boys, Milo and Ned, and are shocked to find that many houses are giving them full-size chocolate bars, something they're not used to back home. As the night gets late, Milo and Ned want to get out of the streets because Hell Hunt is soon approaching. Hell Hunt is when the teenagers in the neighborhood come out at night and attack any kids that are still on the streets. The teens arrive and the Belcher kids escape while Milo and Ned are caught. Louise and Gene are ready to board the ferry to get back home, but Tina feels they owe a debt to the neighborhood for having given them the best candy they ever had and they all decide to go rescue Milo and Ned who are being held hostage with other kids in a tennis court as the teens humiliate and force them to watch their candy be eaten.

Meanwhile, Teddy's party comes to a halt when Frances is found dead. Teddy assumes that someone murdered her and holds everyone at the party hostage until he finds out who was responsible. Linda spots black and orange hair on Bob's fat suit and Bob realizes that he might have killed Frances.

Louise steals a cell phone owned by Amanda, a teenage girl that the Hell Hunt boys have a crush on and uses it to lure the teens to Amanda's house for a skinny dipping party. The Belcher kids free the trick-or-treaters and then go to Amanda's house to get payback on the teens. They are spotted and the teens chase the Belcher kids down the street. The trick-or-treaters come out and fight back against the teens using the urine-filled balloons that they were going to use on them forcing the teens to retreat.

After Teddy holds a funeral for Frances, Bob confesses to having possibly killed her. But then it is revealed that Frances was 14 years old, unusually long for a guinea pig. Realizing that Frances might have died due to old age or exposure to the black and orange paint, Teddy finally lets everyone go home.

The Belcher kids go home to enjoy their candy, except for Gene, who lost all of his in the chase. Bob and Linda then recount to the kids the events that happened at Teddy's party, unaware of what they were really up to the entire night.

Ada is in a relationship, with a child, about to get married, when she meets Paul, a single man with a daughter and an overbearing mother. His father dies.

A guitar playing drifter (Gabriel Sunday) helps a rancher's granddaughter (Rainey Qualley) find her true calling. They soon find themselves in the middle of a land war instigated by Cap Davenport (Martin Kove).

A group of strangers are sucked into the alternate universe of UberTokyo. They must try to find a way home by using plotholes to teleport between dimensional realms. Each realm is stated by characters to be a parody of a given genre of anime/manga or video games, such as sports, sentai, fantasy, and horror.

The comic archives are split into several distinct story arcs, called "Lands," each representing the world being visited in that arc. Known lands include:

• Amazon Land
• Shōjo Land
• Pr0n Land
• Space Drama Land
• Sports Land
• RPG Land
• Monster Bear Land
• Dream Land
• Mahou Shōjo Land

The lands are generally unrelated to each other, though some characters do appear in different lands (ex. a group of winged men from Space Drama Land playing as a Killer Croquet team in the Sports Land). Also, alternate universe versions of main characters, such as Yamichi and Minami, have appeared.

Recurring plot points in the series involve the ''Beauty Man Garden'', a restaurant chain where all the waiters are bishounen and wear only extremely short aprons; a pair of cat boys, Spike and V, who monitor the group's progress from afar; and the schemes of Evil Overload Kerisu, the series' main antagonist, who wants the female main characters to serve as his groupies.

Joe Lucas is determined that his son Adam will become a champion iron man. He neglects his younger son, Steve, who is an aspiring band manager and enjoys karate, as well as being his brother's training partner.

The leading iron man event is The Coolangatta Gold, an arduous competition for $20,000 prize money. The favorite for this event is champion iron man Grant Kenny. Kenny's father beat Joe Lucas for the iron man title in 1960.

Steve falls in love with a ballet dancer, Kerri, who inspires him to compete with his brother in The Coolangatta Gold.

Ron is an Adelaide man in his early 20s struggling to find work after he is laid off from his machinist apprenticeship. Though his crass manner has been a hindrance, Ron blames others for blocking his dreams. He fantasises about driving a coastal road in a Porsche 911 with a girl in the passenger seat, following a black sedan driving erratically before driving into a ravine. Ron can sweet-talk his way into favourable situations, including joyriding in a Triumph Stag under the pretence of a test-drive.

Ron sees the Porsche from his dreams near his house. The driver is an old school friend, Annie. The two agree to meet later in the city, but when Ron overhears Annie on the phone implying she will seduce him to spite her lover, Ron steals the Porsche and leaves Adelaide.

Ron meets Sally at a service station. She asks if Ron can take her to Sedan, South Australia. She plans to retrieve her son who is in foster care there. Sally tries to snatch her son, but Ron aborts the plan when he hears police arriving, and he and Sally escape.

Ron accidentally runs down a policeman while escaping, and regrets his escapades. The following morning, Ron leaves a sleeping Sally and draws the police away from a nearby roadblock, but damages the Porsche's engine in the process. He finds himself on the same coast road from his dreams, even finding the black sedan wrecked at the bottom of the ravine. Noticing the incoming police, Ron pushes the Porsche into the ravine and escapes by hitchhiking back to retrieve Sally.

Roger Scatti (Serrault) is a conservative police inspector of the old school. He finds intolerable the liberalization of the justice system. More and more people from the underground world slip away from the justice. Finding allies in the police circles, he founded the ultra-right secret illegal organization called "Police devotion". Its purpose is the immediate punishment, usually death, of the notorious criminals, with no trials or whatever inquiries and no bureaucracy. The activities of the organization are particularly brutal, serving for edification to the public. When the punitive operations of the "Police devotion" go out of all bounds, the police chief Cazalières (Gérôme) assign a task to inspector Eugéne Grindel (Delon) to investigate the present circumstances.

As described in a film magazine, Dibec (Malatesta), a whiskey smuggler who trades liquor to the Indians for blankets and furs, is being pursued by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Dubec stops at the post where Mrs. Delisle, wife of Sergeant Delisle, is alone with her daughter Nonette and her baby sister Julie. Dubec kills Mrs. Delisle and abducts Nonette. Twelve years later, Julie (Compson) is celebrating her 16th birthday. The men of the Royal Mounted attend this function, and while the dinner is in progress, Sergeant MacNair arrives. He at once falls in love with Julie, and she with him, and this love persists even though MacNair is to succeed Julie's father as commander of the post. The post is located at Chino Landing, and Sergeant Delisle has been unable to curb the lawless element brought by the gold rush. After twelve years Dubec has returned from the gold camp and is accompanied by Nonette. She is now a woman of the dance halls, and at first she succeeds in keeping her identity secret from her father. But when Delisle's life is endangered by the lawless element and Julie is kidnapped by Dubec, Nonette reveals her secret. While MacNair, who has also been taken prisoner, fights to save Julie, Nonette brings her father and others to the scene. Dubec is captured and there is a happy reunion.

Bob receives a package containing his childhood toys, which consist of nothing more than a scouring pad, a rusted spatula, and a dog-shaped soap bar. The toys make Bob recall memories of constantly working at his father's restaurant, and he realizes that his job deprived him of a normal childhood. Worried that he is doing the same to his own children, he fires Tina, Gene and Louise and encourages them to enjoy their summer vacation. In their place, he hires newly released bank robber Mickey, whom the family had previously befriended, to do various jobs around the restaurant, in exchange for free meals and shelter in the basement.

Meanwhile, the children find outdoor summer activities unsatisfying and soon grow bored. They later wander into a blueberry farm and meet its elderly owners, the hippie couple Beverly and Cooper, who offer to hire Gene and Louise to "pick weeds" and Tina as a blueberry delivery girl. With the promise of a daily $10 salary, the children accept and soon become unsuspecting accomplices in a marijuana delivery business. One night Bob discovers Mickey making a hole in the basement, and Mickey reveals his plan to dig his way into the same bank he previously robbed, believing that the double jeopardy defense will clear him of any crime. Bob explains to Mickey that he can, in fact, be jailed again, and promptly fires him.

Bob attempts to rehire his children the next day, explaining that he now realizes that he is a better parent than his distant, alcoholic father, only to discover that they have found other work. A customer of the farm delivery service later walks into the restaurant looking for Tina, leaving behind a box of blueberries. Bob and his wife Linda discover marijuana hidden in the box and set off to find the children, with Mickey leading them to the farm's location. As they arrive and take back the children, a SWAT team – led by the aforementioned customer, who is actually an undercover DEA agent – shows up and arrests the hippies. The scene cuts to Wagstaff School, where Louise has narrated the episode's events to her class for her report on how she spent her summer vacation.

President Coyle's children, Zoe (who is depicted as 'always getting in trouble' or starting it) and Ethan (who is the opposite of his sister, and is often picked on and bullied by fellow students at their middle school), speak to each other alone in a shed, when Secret Service open the door to take them to assembly, they find Zoe and Ethan have been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Metro Police Department cop Alex Cross, along with FBI agents, and Secret Service, discover a vehicle that rushes quickly out of the school grounds. Upon chasing the van, a massive car crash results soon afterward. Alex interrogates the driver, who is badly injured and sent to the hospital. Alex later learns the driver's name to be Pinkey. Meanwhile, FBI agent Ned Mahoney is told by Director Ron Burns that all information must be kept from Metro Police, and others, especially Alex Cross – who is a close friend of Mahoney. Ned feels guilty, and later offers to give info to Alex. Alex later tells his best friend, John Sampson, the case reminds him of the case of Gary Soneji, who was a math teacher that kidnapped two children.

After being sure the FBI is keeping information from him, Alex asks Ned for help, but he refuses, annoying Alex. Alex is later asked to see the president's wife. The First Lady tells Alex she is confident, and hopes, Alex can help rescue her children. She responds by telling Alex about her children. Two messages are given from the kidnapper, one saying "there will be no ransom" nor negotiations. Later, when being called upon by the CIA for a private meeting, he discovers the two messages, and also makes up with Ned. Later, at a FBI meeting, Alex and Ned are shown a video of the Coyle children sedated and sleeping. President Coyle reveals that Al Ayla, otherwise known as "the Family", a group of Saudi people, may have something to do with it. The Family consists of Hala, her husband Tariq, and others. Their first mission, together with another couple, is the poisoning of Washington's water supply. Aware that there is a traitor in the Family they kill the other couple afterwards.

The target of their second attack is the Washington Metro. Hala and Tariq work with a different couple and their two sons but are nearly caught and Hala shoots two cops. After fleeing from the site they are offered a home from Uncle, a member of the Family. The couple with the two sons is later found by the FBI but manage to take their suicide capsules.

Meanwhile, Alex goes to the school and interrogates many, including Zoe's friend, a counselor, the principal, and the male nurse Mr. Glass. The kidnapper is revealed to use a recorder to record his thoughts and feelings on why he did the kidnapping and what outcomes he wishes to have.

Uncle and his wife are later arrested and interrogated. The wife is the FBI's secret informer, and she helps them to arrest several Family members on their next mission. Only Hala and Tariq escape, Tariq being shot in the hand. One of the arrested women finally confirms that the kidnapping of the president's children has most likely nothing to do with the Family.

Nana Mama is kicked down and robbed by a young girl, angering Bree – Alex's wife – who goes looking for the girl. Upon finding her, she brings the girl to Nana to apologize. The girl reveals her name to be Ava and has no parents. Nana and Bree decide to adopt her, against Alex's initial wishes, but he later agrees. Ava is shown to interact with Jannie and Ali, Alex's children, very well.

Alex also learns from the First Lady that Zoe doesn't have a phone, when one of Zoe's friends said she did. Interrogating Zoe's friend, he learns someone used her phone to text Zoe to lure her out of the school – possibly the kidnapper. He asks Ryan, the bully that picks on Ethan (who earlier got into a fight with Zoe and Ethan), about why he texted her a year ago on a field trip. Ryan shows him the message ("I want to cum on your tits.") but also claims someone else wrote it. It seems that the kidnapper uses the phones from different kids to contact Zoe. Alex suspects the killer is the school's janitor after interrogating him, since the janitor runs off. It is later revealed that he's not the kidnapper but has pornographic pictures of children on his computer. Alex later suspects Glass – the school's nurse – is the killer. When asking Glass' wife about Glass, she reveals he wanted to be a doctor, but after the death of their son, Zach, he got mad and blamed everyone for his death. She also reveals that Glass kidnapped her and held her hostage in a basement with food and water. However, he later took her back home, left her, and wrote a message saying "sorry." Since he has lost his own child, Glass probably doesn't want the President to have his. Alex, the FBI, and others watch Glass, who gets away. Alex calls upon Ned's and Sampson's help. The three drug Glass, tricking him into showing them where the Coyle children are being kept. After finding them, Alex arrests Glass. Ron Burns informs Alex that due to a lack of evidence, Glass will be in jail for a couple of days only. The First Lady, Zoe, and Ethan thank Alex and tell him the kidnapper was male and spoke into a recorder. Alex and Sampson find Glass and arrest him again, with the evidence being the recorder found in the glove compartment of his car. Glass tries to get out his gun and is shot by Alex and Sampson in self-defence.

Tariq and Hala are contacted by another man and wife, who bring them to Jibbo which means "Grandfather". He plans on them killing themselves with a suicide capsule, which Tariq takes and dies. Hala, however, feels betrayed by the Family and shoots the man and wife, and kills Jibbo. She flees, deciding to start a new life, not knowing whom she should fight in the future.

At church, the First Lady speaks up about and for Sampson and his wife Billie's idea to open up a new school. The entire Cross family get to meet the First Lady. Meanwhile, President Coyle ponders over Tariq, Jibbo, and other dead bodies. Deciding that the Family has fled, Coyle demands things go back to normal.

Summary

The president's son and daughter are kidnapped, and Alex Cross is the first one on the scene. Meanwhile, a deadly contagion has contaminated the water supply, crippling half of the capital's, and Cross discovers someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes – one that may alter the fate of the entire country.

The policeman Stan Jalard and his colleague Simon Lecache are rather fed up with police work. They are toying with the idea to quit police service in order to run a hotel on the Antilles. Single father Lecache has already asked his son Christian about it. But at the very evening when Lecache tells Jalard that his son approves of their plan, Lecache is murdered by the professional killer Charly Schneider.

Jalard changes his mind. He dedicates his life all the more to police work. After two more years he has been promoted but he had no chance to get Schneider yet because Schneider disappeared. Eventually Schneider returns to France and commits crimes. Moreover, he threatens Jalard on the phone and later devastates his flat. He even sends somebody to shoot Jalard and his godson Christian in the street.

Jalard identifies Schneider's new accomplices and puts them under pressure. Step by step he closes in on him until he can confront him in his hide-out. Schneider refuses to show any regret, eludes and steals a car. He tries to run over Jalard who arrests him anyway. Now that Jalard has brought the murderer of Christian's father to justice, he allows Christian to call him "Dad". He, who has put his godson away into boarding schools all the time and lived only for his police work, now demonstrates a shift in priorities. When they drive home, Jalard puts a police siren on top of his car and drives wiggly lines just because that obviously amuses little Christian a lot.

Alex Cross is a widower-detective-father who often fights against threatening villains—and criminals who wish to kill Cross and others. It mainly focuses on Cross trying to solve very difficult cases while attempting to maintain a relationship with his family. For example, in ''Merry Christmas, Alex Cross'', Cross misses out on Christmas Eve and Christmas itself to focus on finding and defeating a terrorist group. One of his regular foes in the earlier books is Gary Soneji, the "Mastermind" who wants to kill Cross, out of revenge for Alex putting him in prison. In some books, Cross sometimes works with—or against—the President/Secret Service in a few books such as ''Along Came a Spider'', ''Jack & Jill, I, Alex Cross'', and ''Kill Alex Cross''. An ongoing theme in the earlier novels is the unsolved murder of his first wife, Maria. Cross later reveals another reason for trying to solve the cases: so he can protect his family from danger. Cross currently lives on Fifth Street in Southeast Washington, D.C., along with grandmother Nana Mama, children Damon, Janelle ("Jannie"), and Alex Jr. ("Ali"), and his current and new wife, Brianna "Bree" Stone-Cross.

When Alex was 9, his father died of alcoholism, a year after his mother died. He went to Washington, D.C., to live with his grandmother—Nana Mama. During his childhood, he met his later best friend John Sampson. He also later met his wife, Maria, in Washington, and married her. After giving birth to two children, a few months or years later, she is murdered. Alex later meets a woman named Christine, who becomes pregnant, giving birth to an additional third child for the Cross family—Ali. She later leaves Ali with Alex dealing with traumatization over her kidnapping in ''Pop Goes the Weasel''. Afterwards, she tried claiming custody over Ali and succeeded. However, she later gave Ali back to Alex, who had joined the FBI at the time. His deadliest foes are Geoffrey Shafer and Gary Soneji; both have been killed through the course and events of the book series.

In ''Cross'', Alex discovers who really killed his wife, and will do anything to take down her murderer. He learns he was chasing a false killer, and the real killer is Jimmy Hats, whom Sampson killed long ago. At the end of the novel, Alex comes to terms with Maria's death and moves on with his life. ''Double Cross'' sees Alex as he falls in love again—with detective Bree Stone; he must also assist her in the case of DCAK, a murderer, known as DC Audience Killer, as he retired from the FBI before the events of ''Cross''. In ''I, Alex Cross'', he decides to find and solve the murder case in which his late niece, Caroline Cross, was the victim. He later learns who the murderer is—the president's husband—but the murderer is later killed by an agent from the Secret Service. Also in the book, Alex proposes to Bree and she accepts, becoming his fiancée. By ''Cross Fire'', Alex and Bree get married and face off once more against Kyle Craig, who dies at the end. With Kyle dead, Alex, Bree, and his family experience a sense of peace, something they haven't felt for a long time.

In ''Kill Alex Cross'', after Nana Mama finds a girl trying to steal from their house, she and Bree agree to adopt the girl towards the end of the book; he also goes on the case to rescue the new president's children. In ''Merry Christmas, Alex Cross'', Alex risks everything to solve a case, stop possible murders, help a church, and must use every skill he knows of to help him solve the case and may not make it to Christmas dinner alive. Alex misses Christmas which upsets him and his wife, Bree. In ''Alex Cross, Run'' renowned plastic surgeon, Elijah Creem, is arrested and wants revenge on Alex. Alex eventually defeats Creem. However, one of Alex's stalkers, who is bent on murdering Alex, kills Ava after having the foster care services take her away from the Cross family for alleged drug use. Alex, in retaliation and along with Sampson and Bree, finds the killer and arrests him. At the end of the novel, several issues are left unresolved, such as Alex's lifetime problem: endangering his family's life as well as his own. He ponders whether he should stay with the Metro Police. His therapist assures him he will eventually outgrow the issue, or solve it somehow. There are also some unresolved issues between Alex and Bree as well, but their love for each other continues to remain strong, helping them recover.

''Cross My Heart'' is the twenty-first novel in the series. For most of the novel, Alex is trying to solve a double killer case in which the murderers kill prostitutes. Soon Alex and Bree learn that there is only one murderer, who has multiple personalities, and arrest him. Additionally, Bree is searching for Ava, when Alex realizes that the teen may have killed a girl and faked her own death. Halfway through the novel, Damon is offered a ride home by a strange woman - throughout the novel it's revealed that the Cross family were being watched - and the woman drugs Damon afterwards. Meanwhile, her accomplice kidnaps the rest of the family including Bree, Ali, Nana Mama, and Alex's daughter. They alert Cross he can do nothing to try to save his family. Meanwhile, Ava reappears along with Sampson, assuring him to continue life normally while they handle the kidnappings. The novel was released in November 2013. A subsequent novel titled ''Hope to Die'' was released in November 2014 and continued the events in ''Cross My Heart''. It was followed by a 23rd novel named ''Cross Justice'', released in November 2015, in which the Cross family travels down south to help one of Alex's cousins who is wrongly accused of murder. At the end of ''Cross Justice'', Alex finds his long lost father Jason, who was presumed dead for over three decades but in reality had been a police sergeant in Florida. A 24th novel, ''Cross the Line'', was released in 2016, in which Alex and Bree look for a killer who is murdering criminals and another killer who has murdered one of their former police chiefs. In ''Cross Kill'', Alex and his partner, Detective John Sampson, are ambushed by an Gary Soneji imposter and Alex goes on a desperate mission to uncover the truth about the mysterious attacker while having no idea that it would have terrible consequences. In ''Detective Cross'', Alex is awaiting trial for the killing of two of the Sonjei followers and has to help his wife, Chief of Detectives Bree Stone, in stopping a mysterious bomber from setting off deadly explosives before it is too late. In ''The People vs. Alex Cross'', Alex is on trial for murder, and he also has to assist his former partner, Detective John Sampson, in finding missing blonde women and prevent them from being brutally murdered on the internet while trying to prove his innocence with a determined prosecution hoping to put him behind bars. In ''Target: Alex Cross'' A leader has fallen, and Alex Cross joins the procession of mourners from Capitol Hill to the White House. Then a sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, must solve the case or lose her position. The Secret Service and the FBI deploy as well in the race to find the shooter. Alex is tasked by the new President to lead an investigation unprecedented in scale and scope. But is the sniper's strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation?

The film stars several actresses who play themselves as they appear on a paranormal television show to investigate the exorcism of the Kaneda family. The supernatural events in the Kaneda household are recorded by the documentary team. A mysterious shaman seems to be the only hope of salvation not only for the family but for the investigators as well.

Tomoe Kaneda and her 15-year-old daughter Miho have been experiencing strange bumps, bangs, rumbles, and shocks since they moved into their house three months ago. When Miho records a short movie to capture one of these sudden thumps, she unknowingly captures a ghostly face in the background. This in turn catches the attention of an investigatory television program, which sends several popular actresses to document the subsequent exorcism.

The actresses Yu Abiru, Mayuko Iwasa, and Mari Iriki are nervous and suspicious, decides to go to the Kaneda's home to meet the mother, daughter, and the Buddhist priest Unsui. The priest explains that the energy around the house is impure, and performs several purification gestures, chants, and rituals. However, several strange incidents occur. After one such ritual, where he places a small dish of salt on the floor to help cleanse the area, the dish flies up into the air of its own accord and seemingly vanishes, leaving behind only the salt on the floor in a strange, spiral-like geometric pattern. Miho then displays a large piece of the shattered plate, which she says suddenly appeared in her hand. In another demonstration, a tennis ball rolls along it of its own accord. Unsui explains that this is the route of evil energy near the home. He instructs everyone not to eat any meat until after the house is fully exorcised, lest they attract negative spirits.

Later, during the exorcism, it is revealed that one of the actresses sneakily ate a hamburger. The exorcism seems to fail, and the family dog is lured upstairs to Miho's bedroom, where Miho herself enters, in a feral trance, and eats the pet. Unsui is barely able to subdue her. The trio of actresses returned to the house, this time with Unsui and his superior, the more powerful Ryugen. They first show another dish of salt, which burns Miho's hands when she touches it. The priests explain that this is because an evil spirit is still attached to Miho. The actresses, however, all find the salt to be room-temperature, except Mari, who jokes that it is hot, only to be chided by the others for joking about something that is becoming more and more serious. Mari apologizes and becomes silent with guilt. She breaks down in tears and returns home before the exorcism can occur.

At the next exorcism, an apparition appears, a black tendril of smoke with a gaping face for a head. The two monks chant fiercely, however, the black spirit manages to touch Unsui, causing him to collapse. Ryugen is barely able to banish it. Afterward, Miho and her mother send a thank-you video to the actress's television company, however, the surface of the smooth kitchen table catches Miho's reflection, which is face contorted with a gaping mouth. The actresses then receive news that Unsui did not recover and passed away two days after the exorcism, and Ryugen was in a serious accident and is now in the hospital.

Yu and Mayuko visit Ryugen in the hospital, where he is weakly able to warn them that the house is yet impure. He then stops responding, becoming fixated on an empty corner of the hospital room. Security footage later shows a tall, thin black tendril of smoke appearing in the corner of the room. In a panic and too wounded to escape, Ryugen chants mantra to no avail. It approaches him, fills his lungs, and causes a seizure which ultimately kills the priest.

Meanwhile, a new exorcist has joined the actresses, the eccentric and arrogant Neo, who self-styled after the main character from the Matrix. He is disappointed that Mari is still absent, as the only reason he is offering his assistance is that he wants to meet her after seeing her on television. His rude demeanor initially makes the staff dismiss him as a crank, however, he can perform impromptu psychic surgery on one of the actresses and removes a remnant of an evil spirit, a twisted black coil of flesh, convincing them.

Together, they return to the house. Neo comments on the tainted atmosphere, and he finds several totems which have been secreted around the house, confirming that someone has purposefully cursed it. They discover that the neighbors have been casting the curse, and confront them. One of the neighbors is a sickly-looking woman with a mark on her skin that looks exactly like the salt pattern from earlier. Neo is finally able to exorcise the mother and daughter fully. The neighbors move away the very next day. Meanwhile, the security camera shows Mari being scolded by her boss from running away from her job, however, she smiles and uses her telekinetic ability to crush him with his own desk, all while explaining that her god is coming.

Later that night, while the Kanedas are sleeping, a strange group of people walk up to the house and begin chanting. This seems to curse the house once again. Tomoe wakes up and walks to her daughter's room, vomiting an evil spirit into her before leaving to join the chanters outside. However, they are approached by Neo, who frightens them away with a cursed totem from earlier. He subdues the mother and daughter and calls the television crew to come back.

The two actresses are horrified at first that he has tied up seemingly innocent people, however, he produces a photograph of Miho and her mother from before they moved into the house, and it is evident that Tomoe is a totally different person from the woman in the photograph. Tomoe is revealed to also have the geometric pattern on her skin, hidden by her clothing. She admits that she is part of a cult that kidnapped Miho and managed to alter her memories using mild possession with evil spirits, as those who are possessed are highly susceptible to suggestion. Miho, she explains, happens to be the perfect conduit for their god to enter the human world, which will result at the end of everything to fulfilling their god's prophecy.

Neo tries to banish the spirit which possesses Miho, however, it materializes fully into its true form, a strange twisted mass of tentacles, topped with a human-like head that opens its mouth to reveal more long tentacles. It battles with Neo and he manages to subdue it, however, his power is spent and overwhelmed. In the chaos, Tomoe attempts to flee, an apparition of Mari appears, explaining that the wheels are now in motion. The god is interested in this world, so it is inevitable it will find another doorway and fully emerge, and the world and life as we know it will come to the end.

A sinister government organization hunts down mutants, and one of such is a young woman with enhanced abilities. But when she encounters even stronger serial killer who emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances. This is not an advertised sequel, but it is the continuation of the story from the 2017 movie "Kill Order".

In ''King's Quest'', King Graham shares his previous adventures with his curious granddaughter, Gwendolyn. It is through these tales that Gwendolyn learns about the life led by her grandfather.

Along with new stories, the series re-imagines certain events, elements and backstories from previous games. Some of Graham's backstory even differs from that given in Sierra's previous material. Rather than having grown up in Daventry, he is now an outsider that has recently come to the land. The main tale of Chapter I, according to Graham, is from the time when he was but a lad, before he was a knight, and before he came to Daventry for the first time from Llewdor. He has only read about Daventry from travel guides he used to read as a child, and could not wait to see its famous landmarks for himself (the kingdom is reimagined as a bustling walled city surrounding Castle Daventry, where as in the original game the castle was a lonely keep, surrounded by mostly wilderness).

Classic games as well as ''The King's Quest Companion'' are reused for references and reimagined events including places from the expanded universe. ''Chapter 1'''s prologue reimagines events from ''King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown'' and focuses on the Mirror of the three treasures as the main treasure Edward sent Graham on to become king of Daventry (as it had been the only treasure stolen from him), the events of the dragon's lair from the ''King's Quest I'' are completely reimagined as an action sequence involving being chased by the dragon, and having to make a final choice on how to distract the dragon to escape back up the well to the surface. Later chapters put further focus on the mirror, and point out that he went on separate adventures throughout his life for other treasures as well (including the Shield and Chest), and wants to go on adventures to find even more lost treasures of Daventry even in his old age to save his legacy.

The main is about Graham coming to the kingdom to take part in a Knight Tournament to become a Knight of Daventry, and the winner will also be in the running to become the next king. The story involves Graham having to defeat each of the other knights at various challenges. He befriends one of the knights Achaka, who teaches him how to properly use his bow, but witnesses his death to the dragon (Achaka is often seen to be his 'best' and lost friend throughout the series, even as much as seeing his ghost in the final chapter). Ultimately he defeats the last knight Manny at a game of Wits, and banishes the evil knight from the kingdom.

''Chapter 3: Once Upon A Climb'' completely reimagines the events from ''King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne'' by taking the story of the princess trapped in the tower by an evil witch Hagatha, but now there are two princesses trapped in the same tower, trapped along with the witch who is herself a princess as well. Graham himself becomes trapped with them in the tower, and has to figure out how to escape. The player ends up choosing between the two princesses (both who will end up the 'canon' Valanice for the player based on whoever is chosen) to be his wife. The synopsis suggests that the original story players may remember was only a fairy tale, and that the new series tells the real and more complicated story.

''Chapter 4: Snow Place Like Home'' reimagined elements of ''King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human'', including the details of how Alexander was stolen with the Royal Family (in the original story it is said Alexander had 'disappeared', and no one knew what had happened to him or who had taken him), as well as elements of Alexander's stay in Llewdor. Manannan fled there soon after the kidnapping, with Alexander imprisoned in a mansion. Alexander and Mordon were trained in magic in preparation to conquer Daventry, and usurp the throne.

Alexander eventually escaped by turning his master into a cat, and returned to a relatively peaceful Daventry. Surprising the royal family as they discuss vacation plans, they decide to allow Alexander to accompany them, and ultimately end up travelling to a mysterious Ice Labyrinth. The princess whom the player did not choose turns out to be Icebella (reimagining some of the details from ''King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder''). Icebella is ultimately killed by Manny (in the form of a Sphinx). Manny is defeated again by Alexander, who uses a magic cookie to transform him back into a cat. In the end, one of Icebella's ice guardian creations picks up her crown and declares herself the new Icebella (foreshadowing the Icebella Graham would later encounter during his quest in ''King's Quest V''). Mordon ends dropping his "slave name", and changes his name to Mordack, further foreshadowing ''King's Quest V''. Some of Alexander's dialogue also foreshadows events of ''King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow''; he mentions that a crystal ball predicted that he would encounter a minotaur in a labyrinth in the future, and that he would encounter a woman with olive skin and green eyes.

''Chapter 5: The Good Knight'' takes place late in Graham's life as an elderly man. He has one last encounter with Manny -- a chance to prove he is still healthy and sound of mind. The events of ''King's Quest V'' are revised, as well; rather than stonework, the location where Graham and Mordack had their magical duel had wooden floor boards, which he hid under after casting a fire spell. Similar references are made to ''King's Quest VI'', including the idea that Graham is contemplating his mortality, and his travels to the Realm of the Dead to stand before Samhain (rather than Daventry's afterlife Dimension of Death from ''King's Quest: Mask of Eternity''). One reference in particular shows the gates to Realm of the Dead in their classic digitized-watercolor style. Graham manages to save his kingdom, but is poisoned in the process, and Manny tries to exact his final revenge; Mordack takes pity on Graham (as he had been manipulated and abused by Manannan as well) and saves the king. The former rivals become friends.

The framing story takes place in the last weeks or months of Graham's life while he is bedridden from the poison in Chapter 5. King Graham is relating the tales of his life to his grand-daughter, Gwendolyn, to assist her in becoming a wise and just ruler when he passes on. To ensure that Gwendolyn will be allowed to assume the throne, Graham revises the laws of Daventry, which previously stated that only a male heir could take the throne. As the poison takes its toll, Graham sees the ghost of his old friend Achaka, and begins to forget the details of many of his adventures; Gwendolyn fills in the gaps where possible, and eventually concludes Graham's story by interpreting the events he had already related. Graham passes away later that night, leaving a letter for Gwendolyn to read that urges her to build her own legacy, rather than relying on his.

In the Epilogue, Gwendolyn (presumably the heir to the throne) embarks on her own adventure: the hunt for a yarblesnoof (a turkey-like lizard/dinosaur creature). Along the way, she encounters Achaka's own granddaughter, Taskia, who arrived in Daventry to defeat a dragon and avenge Achaka. When the two located the dragon, they discover that it's still an infant, innocent of any involvement in Achaka's death. The two befriend the dragon and return to the castle.

Lily (Juno Temple) and Alison (Kay Panabaker) are best friends living in a poverty-stricken California town near the Salton Sea. The two are complete opposites: Lily is a suicidal rebellious girl who lives with her single mother, Margaret (Leslie Mann) while Alison is a cautious and careful girl who lives with her alcoholic dad. Alison finds solace under her uncle Hogan's (Neal McDonough) automotives and horses while Lily wants to flee her troubled home life as soon as possible. Together, the two girls venture into their secluded town and join skateboarding boys from Los Angeles: Louis (Carlos Pena), David (Chris Coy) and Jesse (Kyle Gallner) with whom Lily soon becomes smitten. Before the boys leave, Jesse kisses Lily and writes his number onto her arm, which upsets Alison.

Lily asks Alison to borrow Hogan's truck so they can meet up with Jesse and his friends in Los Angeles and Alison reluctantly agrees. When they stop at a convenience store, Lily saves Alison as she gets caught trying to return the goods Lily stole for them. The two soon find the three boys and Alison drives them to their place. While walking in the streets, Lily bumps into a hustler and she demands an apology. When the man tries to reason with her, David hits him over head with a skateboard and the five run away, leaving Alison in shock. The group settles at the boys' abandoned rundown apartment where other homeless teenagers reside. Alison tries to warn Lily that Jesse might be more dangerous than they think but Lily refuses to listen. Alison shares an intimate moment with Louis but quickly rebuffs him when he starts groping her.

In the morning, Lily and Jesse break into an empty house where Jesse explains that it used to be his home until his family moved to Arizona but he decided to return to L.A. on his own. Meanwhile, Alison calls her uncle Hogan and apologizes for taking the truck. Hogan urges her to come home and Alison promises to bring Lily back. Back at the house, Jesse notices Lily's self-harm scars when they are kissing. He is intrigued by her suicidal demeanor and also reveals his scar on his chest to make Lily feel better. David discovers a dating website and convinces a hesitant Jesse to use Lily as a bait for scamming and stealing from older men. Lily agrees and meets up with an old man and lures him to their place where the boys, along with a hesitant Alison, threaten the man with a gun in exchange for money before setting him free.

Alison makes Lily promise that they will go home but David gets into an argument with Alison and throws her out of the group. Alison tries to convince Lily to come along but Lily refuses, saying that she is staying with Jesse. The two argue and their friendship is damaged. Lily continues to help with the scam and meets up with a middle-aged guy, John (JR Bourne). However, John is a violent psychopath and overpowers the boys. He knocks out David and Louis while Jesse runs away, leaving a terrified Lily. John forces a crying Lily onto the mattress and prepares to rape her but he is shot in the back. The shooter is revealed to be Alison, who decided to come back for Lily one last time. The girls reconcile and Lily agrees to come home. On their way back, Alison pulls over near the beach. They both step out and enjoy their last moments in Los Angeles before finally heading back home.

Saul (Mandy Patinkin) shows the video of Brody's confession to Estes (David Harewood). Saul and Estes agree to spy on Brody (Damian Lewis) for the time being, in hopes of getting information on what al-Qaeda is plotting. They do not tell anyone else in the CIA, other than analyst Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), who is in charge of the operation by Estes's insistence. Cameras are set up to watch Brody at the Rayburn House Office Building and his phones are tapped. Virgil (David Marciano) and Max (Maury Sterling) are tasked with following Brody when he is outside of the surveillance areas. Carrie and Quinn clash at first; Carrie is surprised that an analyst that she had never even met is running things.

Brody attempts to apologize to Jessica (Morena Baccarin) for his actions but Jessica demands an explanation. Brody says he wants to tell her, but he cannot. Jessica gives him an ultimatum: tell her "something true" about what he has been up to, or sleep somewhere else. Brody just walks away. Quinn's team is able to get a feed to the security cameras at the Ashford Hotel where Brody ends up staying.

Quinn asks Carrie to run into Brody to make him paranoid and hopefully compel him to contact his handler. Carrie meets a surprised Brody outside of Langley. She hints that she is back with the CIA in some capacity. Brody is spooked after the encounter. He speaks with Roya Hammad (Zuleikha Robinson), and tells her that Carrie is back with the CIA and that it must have something to do with him. Roya is not so sure, suggesting that Carrie may have just been brought back in to pursue Abu Nazir.

Lauder (Marc Menchaca) shows up at the Brodys' house ranting about Brody and refusing to leave until Brody gets home. Jessica, wanting to get him out of the house, calls Brody, who does not answer. When Brody finally calls back an hour later, Jessica angrily tells him that she needed him an hour ago, and that Mike (Diego Klattenhoff) is helping her out instead. Mike drives Lauder home and they discuss Brody. Both agree that Brody is clearly no longer the same guy since he came back. They speculate that Brody and Walker were always a team, and may have been working together for someone, possibly the CIA, on the day Walker shot Elizabeth Gaines.

As he shows her some of the "perks" of being the Vice President's son, Finn (Timothée Chalamet) takes Dana (Morgan Saylor) inside the Washington Monument while it is closed for renovations. While they admire the view of DC, Dana and Finn start to kiss, but Dana cuts it short, saying she needs to talk to Xander before going any further.

Brody, in the bar of the hotel, calls Carrie and invites her to have a drink and "bury the hatchet." Encouraged by Quinn, Carrie goes to the bar, and they have a pleasant conversation. Brody admits that he is on the outs with his wife. They discuss Carrie's road to recovery and about how she is now hot on the trail of Abu Nazir. They part ways, and Saul and Quinn congratulate Carrie on a job well done. However, Carrie is dissatisfied, certain that Brody is on to her due to a brief moment of anger she showed in the conversation. Quinn disagrees, and orders Carrie to come back to headquarters. Carrie instead goes up to Brody's hotel room. She immediately blows her cover, proudly telling Brody she knows who he is, running down everything he is guilty of, and finally calling him a traitor and a terrorist. Quinn and Saul, watching in disbelief, immediately dispatch their men to apprehend Brody. Seemingly about to hurt her, Brody tells Carrie that he actually liked her to which she replies "I loved you," leaving him stunned, just before Saul's team enters the room and arrests Brody. Carrie struggles to hold back tears as she watches Brody get taken away.

Opening Sequence

Captain Hook's ship is featured in the forest.

In the Characters' Past

As Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) returns home, he discovers Baelfire is all alone. Realizing that his wife, Milah (Rachel Shelley), has gone down to a village pub, Rumplestiltskin and Baelfire decide to confront her there, only to discover that Milah has been drinking with a group of pirates. It turns out that Milah is not happy with being married to Rumplestiltskin because she sees him as a coward, but Baelfire manages to convince her to return home. Unfortunately, the next day, Rumplestiltskin learns that Milah has been abducted by the pirates. He arrives at their ship to meet Killian Jones (Colin O'Donoghue), the captain of the vessel, and asks that he turn Milah over to him. Killian then offers Rumplestiltskin a chance to duel him, only to let Rumplestiltskin's cowardice get the best of him. Several years later, Rumplestiltskin, now the Dark One, sits at a tavern where he is approached by a black market trader about a magic bean that can transport between worlds. Before that transaction can take place, Jones shows up, and as expected, Rumplestiltskin decides to confront him once again.

At the area near the docks, Rumplestiltskin pretends to be an old beggar, and Jones nicknames him 'Crocodile' after his scaly appearance. Upon learning who he is, Jones tells Rumplestiltskin that Milah died years ago, so the two decide on a sword fight to the finish with Rumplestiltskin gaining the upper hand and finally defeating Jones. But just as he was about to use his power to rip Jones's heart out, Milah appears. It turned out that Milah was never dead and was living among the pirates as Jones's lover. She asks that their lives be spared in exchange for the bean, which she took from the trader. Aboard Jones' ship, the ''Jolly Roger'', Milah explains that she wanted a life of adventure over Rumplestiltskin, who was upset that she would leave both him and their son behind. Milah does admit that she regrets leaving Baelfire but allowed her hatred of staying with Rumpelstiltskin to prevent her from thinking about Bae. Milah then throws the bean to Killian so Rumplestiltskin would keep his promise, but a furious Rumplestiltskin decides to make them pay by ripping her heart out and killing her instantly, followed by slicing off Jones's left hand, believing that he had the bean in his fist. Rumplestiltskin declares he wants Jones to suffer as he did, so he leaves him alive. Killian then stabs Rumplestiltskin with a hook, but to no effect, as the Dark One is immortal. Jones vows to find a way to kill Rumplestiltskin, who doubts he will even live long enough to try. "The Crocodile" takes Jones's left hand and disappears in a puff of smoke, leaving the hook behind. As it turns out, Rumplestiltskin was once again tricked by Jones, who kept the bean in the other hand, then brought out the kidnapped black market trader to make sure the bean worked and after throwing it into the ocean, a portal opened up. Jones swears vengeance against Rumplestiltskin, and attaches the hook to left arm stump, revealing that he is none other than Captain Hook. Revealing his name to be William Smee, the trader agrees to join Hook's crew as they prepare to enter the portal for a place where the crew will not age, so Hook can discover how to get his revenge on Rumplestiltskin; a place called Neverland.

In Storybrooke

At Mr. Gold's mansion, Belle (Emilie de Ravin), who after having a nightmare in which Gold gives her a necklace only to see him transform into Rumplestiltskin and choke Leroy (Lee Arenberg), sees him spinning gold and mixing potions in the basement. The following morning, Belle demands Mr. Gold to come clean as to why he was doing this. When he refuses to explain why, Belle leaves him, prompting an upset Gold to turn to David (Josh Dallas) for help. As they search the town for Belle, the residents refuse to assist them. They decide to visit Belle's father, Moe French (Eric Keenleyside), at his home, but they come away empty-handed, not forgetting what happened during Maurice's previous encounter with Rumplestiltskin. Unaware to both David and Gold, Belle was actually hiding out at Granny's where she made fast friends with Ruby (Meghan Ory). Belle expressed her need for a job, so Ruby suggests that, given Belle's love for books, she should reopen the boarded-up Storybrooke Public Library and become the town's newest librarian. Unfortunately, after leaving the diner en route to the library, she is kidnapped by William Smee (Chris Gauthier), who had been hired by Moe to take Belle to the mines and to have her memory erased once they arrived at the city limits in order to make her forget about Gold. But thanks to Ruby's ability to trace Belle's scent, David, Gold and Ruby reach Belle in time and stop Moe from going through with his plan with the help of Mr. Gold's magic. Belle is grateful that Gold saved her, however, she is still angry with both her father and Gold and tells the two that she never wants to speak to either of them again.

Later on that day, Ruby gives Belle a gift that had been distributed to her. When Belle opens the small box, she finds the keys to the library inside. As she opens the place up, Belle sees Gold (who gave her the keys) inside, despite the warning she gave him back at the mine. He tells Belle that he came to apologize to her and to explain the real reason why he created the curse in the first place, which was to find Baelfire and to hopefully overcome his life as being a cowardly person through magic. Gold had hoped that once the curse was broken, he would be able to find his son beyond Storybrooke. However, since nobody can leave the town, he was hoping to find a way to break that curse as well. As Belle and Gold make up, now that she has forgiven him, and promise to have a hamburger together, it turns out that Gold has already kept one detail from Belle. He has bound and locked William Smee in his basement. Smee readily answers Gold's questions, but is unable to provide him with Killian Jones's location in Storybrooke since it appears that he hasn't been trapped in Storybrooke.

In the Enchanted Forest

On an isolated beach, Jones, now known as Captain Hook, surveys the survivors' island refuge. After a moment, he is met by Cora (Barbara Hershey), who has brought the ashes of the wardrobe. They discuss their plan to try to make it to Storybrooke to go after Regina and Rumplestiltskin.

The plot revolves around the lives of a few people around an ancient Syrian church in a Kuttanadan village called Kumarankari. Solomon is in love with Shoshanna who is the daughter of a wealthy contractor. Solomon is a failed band member however he is the son of the famous Estapan ashan, who was renowned in Kerala for his clarinet playing abilities, and died in a boat accident. Fr. Vincent Vattoli comes to the church as a new recruit to the parish. He learns about the relationship and tries to unite the couple. At this time, the marriage of Shoshanna gets fixed. Solomon attempts to elope, in vain. They are caught by Shoshana's parents and Solomon is mercilessly beaten up. The people of Kumanamkari and the neighboring town then place a bet in which the St. George's band has to win in order for Solomon's marriage to occur. It was said that Shoshanna would be married to Solomon if they win the competition with Solomon leading the band. The band takes intense practices and wins the bet, while Solomon's band master dies. At that night Shosana's father backs out of the bet. Him, the evil old parish priest and Solomons uncle are haunted at night by St. George at the time when they were destroying the church. They all came to the realisation that Solomon had divine powers on his side and they stood aside from Solomon's life as obstacles.Solomon marries Shosana and the band continues to participate in other competitions. Later a call comes to the church informing that the new Priest Fr. Vincent Vattoli is taking charge. The Kumarangiri folks now come to know that Fr. Vincent Vattoli was actually the saint himself who appeared in front of them.

Randy Marsh announces to his family that he has purchased a Blockbuster video store outside of town for $10,000, a venture he believes will make them rich. His family is skeptical of this idea, since online video streaming and Redbox-DVD vending machines have made brick and mortar rental stores obsolete. This is illustrated by the eerie, abandoned-looking store, which houses ghosts, and which the citizens of South Park regard as a haunted house of sorts. Despite this, Randy forces his whole family to work at the store. When this precludes his son Stan from trick-or-treating with his friends, Kyle Broflofski resorts to using FaceTime on his and Stan's iPads in order for Stan to participate in the activity via telepresence. The boys dress up as the Avengers and throughout their walk, Eric Cartman becomes infuriated when people fail to recognize that he is dressed as the Hulk. When the boys see a convenience store being robbed, they charge into the store, playing the roles of superheroes. But when they see that it's being robbed by a group of thugs called the Redbox Killers, and that the Killers have murdered the store clerk, the boys flee. In so doing, they lose Kyle's iPad and a flyer for a Halloween party called the Monster Mash. The Redbox Killers find the iPad and flyer, torture Stan virtually, and learn that the boys are going to the Monster Mash. The Killers dump the iPad in a field before heading to the Monster Mash to silence the boys as witnesses.

Meanwhile, as the Blockbuster Video fails to attract customers, a desperate Randy begins to deteriorate. He experiences a vision of an old Blockbuster employee who tells him that the store will never succeed as long as Sharon and Stan's negative attitudes hinder it, and that Randy must do something "extreme" about them. He then begins wandering the store menacingly, stalking Sharon and Stan, oblivious to the sight of his daughter, Shelly, setting fire to the store.

The boys report the Redbox Killers' crime to the police, and are later reunited with Stan after Kyle's iPad is found and brought to the hospital. The police devise a plan to capture the Redbox Killers by sending one of their own, Peterson, into the Monster Mash as "GangnamStein", an amalgam of Frankenstein's monster and "Gangnam Style" singer Psy. They use Kyle's iPad as GangnamStein's head, with the telepresent Stan providing navigation to Peterson. At one point, Randy commandeers Stan's iPad, sending Peterson on a rampage through town, resulting in him being fatally shot by the police. The Redbox Killers are also captured. Stan "dies" when the iPad runs out of power. The following morning, after the Blockbuster store has burned down, Sharon finds Randy half-frozen in the snow but still alive—and tells him that they will be able to recover some of their money from the insurance company. Before she and Stan leave to get lunch, Stan sets his iPad to stream a movie and places it in Randy's hands.

There lived one gravedigger with magical power at a very small village in a remote region. He lived a quiet, solitary life in a corner of the cemetery. He kept away from the village people due to his very ugly appearance. One day, he found the graves were ransacked and some corpses were stolen. He didn't want the village people to find out, so he decided to eliminate the grave burglars by himself. Thus, he patrolled the cemetery every night.

He found out that a powerful Wizard has been stealing corpses to build his army of undead to terrorize the village. He then took himself to eliminate the Wizard once and for all.

After defeating the Wizard, he returns to his solitary life. Eventually, the villagers find out about his bravery in protecting them from the menace of the Wizard and go to his house and say thank you to him.

The book follows protagonist Cal Innes, a private investigator and former convict whose parole after being released from HM Prison Manchester is finished. He is employed as a caretaker of a boxing gym called the Lads' Club managed by Paulo Gray in Manchester. Innes has allegiance to an influential criminal figure named Morris Tiernan, also known as Uncle. Innes agrees to a request from Uncle to accompany a novice 17-year-old boxer named Liam Wooley to a significant boxing match in Los Angeles.

Once there, Innes becomes acquainted over drinks with a former boxer named Nelson Byrne. The job, originally intended to be looking after Wooley, becomes a sinister operation as Innes learns there may be impropriety related to the fight. Innes deals with his dependence on codeine and alcohol along with Wooley's anger management problems. Innes finds himself in a difficult situation in an unfamiliar city, suffers a gunshot wound and his charge Wooley is involuntarily subdued with medication and kidnapped. Innes becomes the suspect in a murder investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department, finds and rescues Wooley and learns that his supposed friend Byrne was the culprit. After being exonerated by the police, Innes escorts Wooley back to England.

A young Irish girl detective named Noreen comes across Satanic ritual abuse taking place in the small country town where she lives.

Six months travel by hyperdrive from Terra is the planet Zarathustra, a world colonized by the Chartered Zarathustra Corporation (CZC) to exploit its mineral wealth, including its unique ''sunstone'' gemstones. Still in the early stages of colonization, Zarathustra was thought to be devoid of intelligent life until prospector Jack Holloway discovered a race of small furry humanoids, the Fuzzies. Subsequently, the Pendarvis Decision had declared the Fuzzies to be sapient and thus the owners of the planet's mineral rights, which cost the CZC its mining charter.

Things have been quiet on Zarathustra the last few years for the Colonial Government, Jack Holloway (now Commissioner of Native Affairs), the Fuzzies, and the (now) Charterless Zarathustra Company. Baby Fuzzy has made his first kill, the sunstone mining agreement with the CZC has kept the colonial government in the black; Fuzzies and humans have peacefully co-existed in a nearly symbiotic relationship.

Then the mysterious John Morgan from the planet Freya arrives, and starts digging through CZC files. No one knows what he is looking for or how it could affect the Company. Victor Grego, the company CEO, assigns young Akira O’Barre to keep an eye on the mysterious Mr. Morgan. What she discovers could put one of several men at risk, among them Jack Holloway and the Chief Colonial Prosecutor, Gus Brannhard. John Morgan is looking for someone, not something; someone he intends to kill.

To make matters worse, the most infamous criminal on the planet escapes from Prison House with the aid of unknown confederates, who have plans that could shake the foundations of the colonial government and the CZC.

The story ends on a cliffhanger, and is concluded in Diehr's sequel, ''Caveat Fuzzy''.

At a lake, the mentally handicapped Nina spots her brother Jacob, his girlfriend Jamie, and their friends Tony and Sammy skinny dipping. Nina follows Jacob and Jamie into the woods, observes them having sex, and is dragged off by Tony and Sammy. When Jacob and Jamie finish, Jamie goes off alone, and is chased by a man who has murdered Tony and Sammy. The man drowns Jamie in the lake, while Jacob (who was looking for Nina) watches in shock. Jacob goes to the police station, where he tells the chief that he received a call from his father, Willy, who he thinks has committed suicide.

While doing a feature for the news, reporter Sabrina Meyers (the chief's daughter, who glimpsed a bloodied Jamie the night she died) finds Jamie's necklace in the lake, theorizes Jacob (who says Nina was found and placed in a sanitarium, while Jamie went back home) murdered her, and asks around about him. Meanwhile, Sabrina's boyfriend Matt and three others (Joe, Cindy and Dana) are getting a summer camp ready. Sabrina uncovers more circumstantial evidence that something happened at the lake, but no one believes her stories, though her investigation draws the ire of the killer (who murders Sabrina's cameraman Andy and his girlfriend Jennifer) and his accomplice, a figure dressed in white that attacks Sabrina, but is scared off by her father.

People take Sabrina seriously when Jamie's body is discovered (only to be stolen moments later) and a waitress Jamie had sought help from the night she died is found dead from bee stings (something arranged by the killer). The chief questions Jacob, and finds holes in his story, the main one being Nina's whereabouts. When her father finishes, Sabrina interviews Jacob herself, and goes home, where her father has stationed an officer to guard her. Matt stops by, and while he and Sabrina argue over her visiting Jacob, the white figure knifes the officer and Matt, and abducts Sabrina. The chief realizes something is wrong when he calls Sabrina's cellphone, and a dying Matt answers.

Sabrina regains consciousness and sneaks away from the white figure, revealed to be Jacob. Jacob and the main killer, his father Willy, are committing murders because Nina was raped and accidentally killed by Tony and Sammy. The two are wiping out witnesses to the duo's crime, and their own homicides. Jacob and Willy realize Sabrina has escaped, and follow her to the summer camp, where they murder Dana and Joe. Sabrina and Cindy are forced into the back of Sammy's stolen van by Jacob, who tries to poison them with exhaust fumes. As Jacob is driving, he is forced off the road and fatally shot by the chief, who revives Sabrina and Cindy. The film ends with Willy's whereabouts unknown, and Sabrina giving an interview to the media.

Tom Deese (Charles Shaughnessy) falls in love with his daughter's roommate, Amanda (Charlotte Ross), and becomes the focus of his daughter Catherine's (Dedee Pfeiffer) suspicions when Amanda is murdered.

Since long ago, human civilization had lived on the ocean floor, developing a scale-like layer on their skins called Ena which allows them to live underwater. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two. After Nami Junior High School closes down, four 14-year-old students from the sea village Shioshishio have to attend Mihama Junior High School on the surface. What follows is their struggles adjusting to a new environment and the relationships between the land and sea humans, while dealing with their own newfound feelings that have just started appearing with the end of their childhood.

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman desperately seeking to get out of the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives. Resentful of the miserable life that took her sister, she plans to use her beauty and intelligence to enter the world of luxury to which she wants to belong.

To this end, she enters her classmate and friend Aurora's group of friends. There she meets Aurora's cousin Raul, a young but neurotic millionaire with suicidal tendencies. Telling Raul that she is rich, coupled with her beauty, Raul becomes smitten with her. Even though he and Aurora discover that Teresa lied about her wealth, Raul is obsessed with her and forgives her.

Fearing that their opposition to the relationship will end with Raul's suicide, Aurora's parents accept the romance of Teresa and Raul. However, Teresa discovers that her deceit and ambition leads to unhappiness and loneliness.

Ayami is a beautiful and intelligent teacher who is popular with both her students and colleagues alike. However, she has a darker side- she does not genuinely feel for others nor does she believe in love or trust. One day, however, Yuiko, a girl whose dreams are able to predict terrible events of the future, transfers into Ayami's class after dreaming that Ayami is a saviour of the world. Ayami reluctantly gets dragged into helping Yuiko change the terrible fate of the people around them.

The novel is a story of English social and political life. William Ashe is a rich, handsome, and successful politician, and heir to the title of Earl of Tranmore. Ashe falls for Lady Kitty Bristol, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Madam d'Estrees, whose charm draws many influential men and overcomes any questions about her reputation. Ashe proposes to her just three weeks after they meet, and she accepts though she warns him that her temper and uncontrollable nature may cause him to regret asking.

Three years later, the couple are settled in London, with Kitty heavily involved in the London social scene. They have one son, who is physically disabled. Kitty's social activities start to affect Ashe's political career; she strains Ashe's relationship with Lord Parham, the prime minister, and also flirts with the dashing but unprincipled Geoffrey Cliffe. After their child dies, Kitty is left a physical wreck and goes with Ashe to Italy to try to recover her health. Kitty meets Cliffe in Italy and runs off with him, while Ashe is in England trying to suppress a salacious book Kitty has written. Two years later, Ashe comes upon Kitty unexpectedly at a small inn in the Alps. Kitty has had many hardships, but dies in the comfort of Ashe's presence.Warner, Charles Dudley, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=va-EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA584&lpg=PA584#v=onepage&q&f=false Warner's synopsis of books ancient and modern, Vol. II], 584 (1910 edition)

The book focuses on Lilly and her path to Woodbury, Georgia, a rural town that is barricaded and walled off to separate the living from the undead. It seems to be the perfect sanctuary. Life appears idyllic, with plenty of food, shelter and security provided to its residents. The town expands and grows stronger every day, and its leader, The Governor (Philip Blake), keeps the citizens in line.

Lilly begins to suspect all is not as it seems. Blake, who relishes his title as The Governor, has disturbing ideas about law and order. Lilly and a group of rebels band together to fight The Governor. Mayhem and destruction result when they challenge his reign.

In this film, young Ram is a thinker who has grown up in a primitive and superstitious society, hated by his brothers and suspected of sorcery. Dissatisfied with the nomadic lifestyle of his family, he dreams of traveling to Egypt to study agriculture. Forewarned by his weather knowledge, he saves the family's flocks from a destructive sandstorm, and manages to persuade his father to let him leave for Egypt. His older brothers travel with him, but at the shipping dock they tie him up, knock him out, and dump him into the hold of a boat traveling to Egypt. When he wakes up, he is discovered by the boat owner family, who intend to sell him as a slave. They let Ram know that this sale would be his opportunity to enter the service of a powerful family, since the man they wish to sell him to, Ozir, is assistant to Amihar, the military head of Thebes. Ram actively participates in the bargaining to get the best possible price for his purchase. His initial months as a slave are a disappointment, however, since he is assigned to assist in the mummification of bodies rather than learning about agriculture. Ram is not afraid to express his contempt for the Egyptian obsession with death and the preservation of one's mortal remains, and affirms his belief in one God and the immortality of the soul independent of one's body. Amihar is impressed by Ram's honesty, takes a personal liking to the young man, and gives Ram a chance to convert a barren stretch of land into a working farm. Through a combination of hard work, good mentoring, and a bit of luck, Ram is successful in this endeavor.

Unfortunately, Ram becomes caught up in an intertwined mesh of sexual, political, and religious intrigues. Ram's relationship with Simihit and Amihar is far more complex than in the Biblical version of the story. Amihar is a eunuch, a former harem guard. His marriage to Simihit, former princess of a vanquished nation, was at first simply a political maneuver, but he later came to care deeply for her. Ram catches the eye of Simihit. As in the Bible, when Simihit is caught after making advances towards Ram, she tries to cover her tracks by accusing Ram of attempted rape. Amihar does not necessarily believe her. He asks Ram what happened, but Ram steadfastly defends Simihit's honor, leaving Amihar no choice but to have him thrown into prison. Simihit is deeply affected by Ram's willingness to accept prison rather than reveal her attempted infidelity and relents of her accusation, confessing the truth. After Ram's release, he becomes involved in a power struggle between the wealthy followers of Amun, chief of the traditional Egyptian pantheon, ''versus'' the oppressed followers of Aten, god of the monotheistic Atenist heresy. Although Simihit is a priestess of Amun, she is a secret convert to the Cult of Aten. Throughout these troubles, Ram is fiercely loyal to both Simihit and Amihar, and his loyalty is rewarded by his release from slavery. Over the subsequent years, he rises in stature, takes an Egyptian wife, and becomes a trusted adviser to Pharaoh. Severe famine strikes, and Joseph's brothers turn up asking for food. Ram toys with his brothers before revealing his identity, and they become reconciled. The movie ends with Ram and his family traveling back to his homeland and becoming reunited with his father.

While playing a soccer match Inazuma Eleven are being attacked by an army of LBX when Danball Seki tried to stop the army of LBX. Now they have to work together as one team to protect the stadium and the people nearby. The trio Asta, San and Fran are the main antagonists, while Fran is supposedly their leader.

version The inhabitants of the kingdom of Alkria were living their happy and carefree lives, until one day the evil dragon Quido descended on the land, burning everything and everyone with his fire breath. The only hope now rests on an unlikely hero - little Towdie, who must overcome all the obstacles which get into his way on a mission to unite the remaining citizens of the kingdom and, with their help, defeat the dragon Quido.

Throughout the game Towdie meets and interacts with many of Alkria's inhabitants, including a prince & princess, a cook, a smith, an executioner, a wizard, along with various other creatures who can help or hinder Towdie's progress towards his goal.

A father-to-be and his pregnant wife become the targets of a revenge campaign after the man reports the criminal activities of a trio of wealthy teens to the police.

The novel opens with a 13-page section consisting almost entirely of paragraphs that begin "It all began with ...". These include some simple one-liners (including "bathroom smells, bathroom noises", "hunger, and thirst of course", "the loss of his credit cards") any one of which could start a typically written novel, but here do not. They also include longer paragraphs that refer all over the map, including some that look like they might have something to do with ***. For example, one paragraph starts by mentioning that Stu was very much liked by his fellow tenants (Mr. Bresson, Mr. Dostoevsky, Mr. Balzac, Mr. Xman). But being captioned ''very much liked'' was so terrible that Stu needed "a manly atmosphere, heady with *** work, to cure him of this pathos."p. 16. Another says that the beginning was when Stu felt he was one in an assembly line of listeners, each bound to repeat the story to the next listener.p. 17.

The story properly begins with Stu Potts attending a party hosted by Bette Kaye, noted for when "Dov Grey became Dov Grey."p. 22 Prominent among the attendees are Dov Grey and his wife Gwenda, employee Jomm Dawrson and his wife Tullshie (also called Miss Tullshie Dawrson née Dreadnought). Dov and Jomm share their hostility to the popular Hinkle-Winkle, who is "the eternal embodiment of goodish news,"p.31. and a "freeloading ... world-class houseguest."p. 38. In contrast, their wives are sympathetic to Hinkle-Winkle and his associates, "a band of brotherly strugglers all, unhierarchizable sodality of free souls."p. 38. We learn later that Gwenda's sister Trendy is "wife and, depending on the time of day, concubine" to Hinkle-Winkle.p. 57.

Stu is hired by Dov, engaged in housecleaning. After six months,p. 107. Stu hates his job, and long philosophical conversations with Jomm do not help. Along the way, Stu takes a break walking outside, where he is confronted by the receptionist, Ms. Redmount.pp. 71,75. He ignores her, and interprets street activity as incomplete transformation of raw into ***.

The next day, Dov dictates to Redmount, now his private secretary, while they make love, witnessed by Stu and Jomm over a glass partition.pp. 85–90 Soon after, Stu listens in on Jomm and Dov discussing Gwenda, raws, and ***s.pp. 91–102 Gwenda then has Stu in for his six-month review.

Olívia is in love with Miguel who she thinks is the man of her dreams, though she hardly knows him. In fact, Miguel is a playboy who keeps secret romances with Bianca (his brother's bride) and other women. Bianca is also mad about Miguel. Her planned marriage to David, Miguel's brother, is kind of a business deal between their two families. David is not mad about anyone. He never had time for these things, he always wanted to be a well-behaved child who did what was expected of him. Accordingly, he agreed upon marrying Bianca because he was supposed to.

In the first episode, Miguel becomes the victim of an attack that nearly kills him. He is saved by Olívia who seems to have accomplished her wish to be close to him. Miguel remains in a coma for some time and is brought home to his parents in this state. Since Olívia was his savior and visited him in the hospital, Miguel's family takes her for his girlfriend. In reality, Olívia does not know him personally, but her attempts to tell the truth are constantly interrupted. So she becomes part of the family and even receives the possible engagement ring that is found in Miguel's flat. This part of the story seems to be inspired by the 1995 movie ''While You Were Sleeping''.

Bianca is jealous of Olívia and sneaks her way into her home, pretending that she is escaping a domestic violence situation. She introduces herself as Susana and is offered to stay at Olívia's house. Eventually, Olívia admits that she is not engaged to Miguel. Bianca secretly taped this confession, reveals herself as Bianca, David's fiancée, and blackmails Olívia: Either she disappears and leaves the Campelo family alone, or she will take the taped confession to the police. (episode 9) At first, Olívia seems to comply, but then she appears at the house of the Campelo family and confesses. The family is about to expel her for good when finally Miguel awakens from his coma (episode 11). Funnily enough, he seems to recognize Olívia all of a sudden. Although he just remembers her from her job as a waitress, he learns that it was her who saved his life and tells everybody that she is, in fact, his fiancée. However, this is just another one of his tricks, he notices how well this story works with his parents and sticks to it while continuing his affair with Bianca.

The aftereffects of the Portuguese financial crisis are also present in the series. Carlos Cardoso loses his job and faces unemployment, he and his family are temporarily evicted from their home. Originally, Carlos is an ''enfermeiro'' (male nurse) and after another dubious temporary job (as a stripper in a nightclub) he applies for a position at the house of the rich Campelo family who are looking for a personal (female) nurse. He uses the Mrs. Doubtfire routine, dresses up as a woman and, under the name of Carlota Rufino, gets the job. Carlos's telling signature tune is ''Um Dia Mau'' (''A Bad Day'').

Robert "Bobby" Trench and Michael "Stig" Stigman are questioned by the US Border Patrol after meeting with drug lord Manny "Papi" Greco in Mexico. Unknown to Stig, Bobby is an undercover DEA Special Agent who reports to his superior, Special Agent Jessup, that he did not get the cocaine from Papi they need to convict him.

Against orders, Bobby remains undercover to assist Stig in robbing $3 million - in a bank vault in Tres Cruces, Texas - to prosecute Papi for money laundering. Bobby then meets with fellow DEA Agent and ex, Deb Rees, while Stig, an undercover US Navy SEAL and Petty Officer 1st Class with the United States Navy Office of NavaI Intelligence, meets with his commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Harold Quince, and is told to kill Bobby so they can fund covert operations.

Bobby and Stig are surprised to find $43.125 million and not $3 million. Stig follows orders to betray Bobby and escape with the money, pulling his gun as Bobby is about to pull his. Stig wounds Bobby in the upper arm rather than kill him, and then sees Bobby's DEA badge. Unsure what to think, Stig leaves him in the desert.

After debriefing, Quince orders his death. Stig escapes after learning the money will go to the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, a man named Earl aggressively interrogates the bank manager about the stolen money and the vet who treated Bobby's wound.

Bobby goes to Stig's to find the money, only to have him contact him from a sniper's post across the street. A hit squad sent by Quince attacks the apartment but Bobby and Stig escape. Bobby tries to tell Jessup what happened, but Earl and his men are already there. Earl kills Jessup, frames Bobby, and lets him go, agreeing to clear his name if he recovers the $43 million.

Bobby and Stig kidnap Papi, interrogating him in Deb's garage. Earl is a CIA Agent Papi reports to, and the money they stole was the CIA's payments. The agency has forced Papi, and other cartels, to pay a 7% cut in exchange for using CIA planes to smuggle products across the border. The garage is attacked by Quince's hit squad. Bobby, Stig, and Deb escape, as does Papi, who calls his crew. All three are captured by Papi and taken to his farm in Mexico. After a beating and a visit from Earl, Papi gives the men 24 hours to return the money, or Deb will die.

At the base, Bobby infiltrates Quince's office, discovering he is Deb's boyfriend, and they had planned to steal the money for themselves. Meanwhile, Stig asks Admiral Tuwey for help. Tuwey orders Quince's arrest but disavows Stig to protect the Navy's reputation. Both Quince and Stig evade arrest from US Navy Masters-at-Arms officers. Unable to find the money in time, Papi kills Deb. Bobby later realizes the money is in a motel room he and Deb had frequented and goes to help Stig, who had returned to Papi's farm for vengeance.

There, Stig is surrounded by Papi's men, then both Quince and Earl intervene. Bobby arrives in a car filled with money, and blows it up, scattering the money everywhere, leading to a massive shootout. During a standoff, Earl reveals that the CIA has 20 other secret banks, and the loss of the $43.125 million is only a minor setback. Signaling Stig with a phrase from an earlier conversation, Stig shoots Earl, and Bobby shoots Quince. Bobby and Stig kill Papi and the duo escape, but first Bobby shoots Stig in the leg as payback for shooting him in the desert. While planning to continue to take down the CIA's secret banks and sabotage their black operations, Bobby reveals to Stig that he did not blow up all the money and had some stashed away.

The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio operator Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen (John Hahn-Petersen). They all have their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, who wants to take over CrownTaxi.

The film, situated in Hollywood, or Tinsel Town as the narrator (Lt. Lannon/Josef Sommer) calls it, opens with Hollywood House of Wax owner Raymond Everett (Lenny von Dohlen) receiving delivery of some valuable antiques from Poenari, Romania. He anxiously takes delivery of a sixth crate even though he was only expecting five. Later that evening, at a Jazz bar called The Blue Angel, a sleazy but lonely patron hits on a mysterious dark-haired woman (Sylvia Kristel) who wanders in. Soon after, they leave together and travel to a secluded park where this peculiar woman kills the man. More shenanigans ensue that night when two thieves break into the wax museum while Raymond is upstairs watching ''Nosferatu''. During the robbery, a creature with webbed hands and dagger-like nails attacks one of the thieves. The thief’s throat is ripped open, and his blood is drained by a long tentacle emitted from the creature’s mouth. The other man escapes. Following this attack, the mysterious brunette from earlier enters the room where Raymond sits unsuspectingly. After a very short battle of wills, Raymond is taken possession of (with a bite) and forced to renounce his girlfriend, Jenny Harker (Rachel Jones).

The next day, Lt. Lannon and his partner Citrano (Traber Burns) are called to the crime scene at the park. A clue left in the grass leads them to The Blue Angel, in which witnesses are unable to contribute much. Meanwhile, Raymond tries to free himself from the vampire’s hold but fails; instead, he cleans up her mess before Jenny arrives. Raymond’s girlfriend, who also works at the museum, observes his distress. She tries to comfort him, but instead, Raymond tries to bite her, unsuccessfully. As night falls, the creature attacks again. This time it is a night watchman ironically watching a news report about the park murder at the onset of his death. Summoned by the vampire, Raymond picks her up in his car. She tells him that he must return her to Romania to her husband, Count Dracula. However, Raymond informs her of Count Dracula’s death and that Van Helsing is responsible. At this moment, Raymond’s girlfriend, Jenny, glimpses him in the car with the other woman. The police receive a valuable part of the puzzle from the frazzled burglar who witnessed his accomplice’s death at the wax museum the previous night. Later, through Van Helsing’s aged grandson (Stefan Schnabel), we learn that all vampires were destroyed with the exception of Vanessa, who is the true wife of Dracula. She is described as both a beauty and a beast. In a sleazier part of town, Vanessa and Raymond encounter a group of hardcore occultists who seem to sense Vanessa’s evilness and welcome her. She surprises them, though, when she transforms into the beast and slaughters all save Raymond.

The next morning, Jenny angrily confronts Raymond over the phone and then abruptly hangs up. Distressed, Raymond writes a letter confessing his predicament, hoping she will forgive him. Back at the wax museum, Raymond is met by Lt. Lannon, who casually searches the premises. The lieutenant confronts Raymond with the burglar’s admission, which he denies. However, their meeting is cut short when Lannon is called to another of Vanessa’s massacres. There, Lannon meets Van Helsing’s elderly grandson, who tells him that vampires, not devil worshippers are to blame. To establish his theory, they journey to the morgue where Vanessa’s first victim is located. With a wooden stake and mallet, Helsing makes Lannon a believer as the victim is briefly reanimated at the moment of his true death. Later, Lannon visits Jenny hoping to discover more information about Raymond and gain her trust. Jenny afterwards meets up with Raymond, and he gives her a cross to protect her. Night arrives, and more murders follow as Vanessa slays Citrano and Helsing. Consequentially, Raymond is arrested, and his wax museum searched for evidence, which police discover.

While in custody, officers try to elicit a confession from Raymond that does not involve a beautiful vampire monster. However, the only cop who believes him is Lt. Lannon. He and Jenny eventually collaborate to locate Vanessa and exonerate Raymond. As night approaches, Raymond is taken to a vacant warehouse by a few officers for a bit of police brutality. Vanessa intervenes, hoping to eliminate Raymond herself. Jenny, via supernatural intervention, discovers the warehouse. Both she and Lannon are able to distract Vanessa, while Raymond takes the opportunity to kill her, thus regaining his humanity.

The film takes place in August 2011, one year after the events of the anime series. After going through a painstaking journey across multiple 'World Lines' due to the invention of 'D-Mail', text messages that can be sent to the past, Rintaro Okabe has assumedly landed in the "Steins Gate" World Line, in which he was able to prevent the deaths of both Mayuri Shiina and Kurisu Makise, as well as prevent a future ruled by SERN due to the invention of a time machine that no longer exists. On August 3, Kurisu arrives in Japan for a press conference and reunites with all the members of the Future Gadget Laboratory. Meanwhile, Rintaro starts having intense side effects from his time travels, seeing visions of alternate Worldlines. The next day on August 4, a mysterious visitor shows up at Kurisu's hotel, telling her to remember three things: a cell phone, a microwave oven, and SERN. Later that day, as Kurisu is talking to Rintaro about how her own instances of déjà vu may be similar to Rintaro's 'Reading Steiner' ability to remember things from other World Lines, Rintaro suddenly disappears before Kurisu's eyes. Furthermore, no one else seems to remember Rintaro ever existed, with Kurisu barely retaining a faint memory of someone.

A week later on August 11, as Kurisu finds a fork that Rintaro left behind and remembers the words the stranger left her, she learns Itaru "Daru" Hashida had for some reason hacked SERN, suddenly giving her the urge to build a Time Leap machine. Using the machine, Kurisu leaps back to the night of August 3, where she observes Rintaro disappearing and reappearing from existence, with everyone's memories of him changing accordingly. She is then contacted by the visitor from before, revealed to be Suzuha Amane, who came from the future using a time machine Kurisu built. She explains to both Kurisu and Rintaro that all the memories of World Lines Rintaro had visited is overloading his Reading Steiner, causing him to fluctuate between the current world line and the "R" world line, the only other world line where neither Mayuri nor Kurisu die. Suzuha states the only way to save him from vanishing completely is to use a time machine to travel to the past, but Rintaro ostensibly refuses, as he feels neither time machines nor time leap machines should exist and doesn't want Kurisu to go through the same suffering he went through, saying he would rather disappear to allow her and Mayuri to live in peace. He instead urges Kurisu to forget about him, leaving her with a kiss.

As Rintaro disappears once again the next day, Kurisu breaks down in tears before grudgingly deciding to accept his wish and try to forget him. Later, on August 13, as the Future Gadget Lab gets word that it might have to close up, Kurisu is once again approached by Suzuha, who tells her that she is not being honest with her own feelings, eventually convincing Kurisu to go with her in her time machine. In order to keep Rintaro in the Steins Gate world line, he must be implanted with a powerful memory that helps distinguish it from other world lines. The two travel back to June 30, 2005, where Kurisu attempts to talk with the young Rintaro, only to result in him getting into a car accident instead, leaving her too afraid to attempt another trip to the past. Back in the present, Kurisu discovers Mayuri and the others also possess faint memories of Rintaro, which are soon awakened when she does an imitation of his persona, Kyouma Hououin. Encouraged by everyone's feelings, Kurisu returns to the past, this time succeeding in her mission by implanting the concept of Kyouma Hououin into Rintaro's mind and giving him his first kiss, which led him to take on his 'mad scientist' persona to protect Mayuri. With this, Kurisu manages to bring Rintaro back to the Steins Gate world line and the movie ends with Rintaro asking Kurisu if she will return his first kiss to him. Smiling, Kurisu says "Never".

In the ''Story Mode'' of the game, the player assumes the role of ''Lord Cain''. Illustrated by still images and text, he learns from the Elven magician ''Briannah'' that his brother, knight ''William'', was killed in battle by the three-headed dragon ''Belzom''. Cain vows to take revenge for his brother and to save the kingdom from the flying dragon army of Belzom. The Elven Council gives Cain the task to retrieve three "items of legend", the first one being a ''Stone Shield'' made from the "''Glowing Obelisk''" which can be found to the north in the "field of stone towers" where lava flows.

When a bar owner named Schiller tells loan sharks Holt and Rocco he cannot pay back the money he owes them, the two thugs beat and torture him. As he is being assaulted, Schiller offers Holt and Rocco his wife, Anna, in place of money. Taking Schiller up on his offer, Holt and Rocco rape, torture and humiliate Anna in front of Schiller, and leave with her. Despite her injuries, Anna escapes Holt and Rocco's clutches, and swears bloody and brutal revenge on them and Schiller, who has moved on with a new girlfriend.

A contemporary synopsis of the novel's plot describes it as follows:

This is the story of a young Irish boy named Sandy Kilday, who at the age of sixteen, being without home or relatives, decides to try his luck in the new country across the ocean. Accordingly, he slips aboard one of the big ocean liners as a stowaway, but is discovered before the voyage is half over and in spite of his entreaties is told he must be returned by the next steamer. Sandy, however, who has a winning way and sunny smile, arouses the interest of the ship's doctor, who pays his passage and gives him some money with which to start his new life. On the voyage Sandy has made friends with a lad in steerage named Ricks Wilson, who earns his living by peddling, and he decides to join him in this career. Sandy has also been deeply impressed by the face of a lovely young girl who is one of the cabin passengers and when he discovers that she is Miss Ruth Nelson of Kentucky he decides to make that state his destination. He and Ricks remain companions for sometime although Sandy's strong sense of honor causes disagreements as to the methods of their dealings. Sandy finally becomes disgusted with this life and after catching a glimpse of Ruth at a circus, where he is dispensing his wares in a humorous manner, he decides to abandon it altogether.

He parts from Ricks and falling ill by the roadside is picked up by a colored woman named Aunt Melvy, who is in the employ of Judge Hollis. The latter takes Sandy to his home and his wife nurses him through a long fever and then, as they are childless, they adopt him into their household. The Judge gives Sandy a good education, sends him to college and he becomes a successful lawyer. All this time his love for Ruth has been unswerving though she has not responded to his advances. Judge Hollis is shot by an unknown assailant and Sandy, who discovers the assailant to be Ruth's dissipated brother Carter, refuses to give evidence against him. Sandy is kept in jail until freed by Ruth's intervention, Carter having confessed his crime to his sister before his death. The Judge recovers from his wound and Sandy and Ruth are happily married to the satisfaction of all concerned.Warner, Charles Dudley, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=va-EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA593&lpg=PA593#v=onepage&q&f=false Warner's synopsis of books ancient and modern, Vol. II], p. 593-94 (1910 edition)

Main Story

After their mother dies of an illness, high schooler You Kogasaka and his younger half-sister Chinami move back to their childhood hometown of Hibarigasaki to live with their aunt, Shino. Their return prompts You to recall his childhood, when he spent the evenings playing by a lookout with a white-haired girl. Upset at You moving away, the girl made a promise with him to return and marry her one day. Upon returning to Hibarigasaki years later, You locates the now fenced-off lookout, whereupon he encounters a mysterious girl who looks exactly like his childhood friend did seven years ago. She introduces herself as Mare, and tells You that she has been waiting for him for a long time. You points out her unusual clothing and large scythe, and describes her as a ''shinigami'', a name she takes upon herself. Later, while You is visiting Mare at the lookout, she tells him to close his eyes, then stabs him in the chest with her scythe. While no blood is drawn or injury occurs, You forgets the name of his childhood friend, and Mare informs him that she has "reaped" his nightmare.

Meanwhile, back at school, You ends up joining the Astro Circle (Tenkuru), which is in desperate need of new members and has been demoted from an official club to a hobby circle. Its members include Asuho Minahoshi, the daughter of a local cafe owner, Kosame Hisakaki, the younger twin sister of student council member Komomo Hisakaki, and club president Haruto Okaizumi, along with third-year student Suwa Setsuna, who rarely comes to club meetings. Setsuna is implied to be investigating the lookout where Mare appears, for unknown reasons. The Astro Circle eventually recruit You's neighbor Isuzu Aoi by recreating the southern night sky in a homemade planetarium, due to Isuzu loving the southern constellations, resulting in their elevation to official club status.

While visiting the lookout with one evening, You, Chinami, and Mare are attacked by an unseen figure, implied to be Setsuna. Chinami is knocked unconscious but recovers; subsequently, the attacker texts You and asks to meet him at the lookout. The attacker is revealed to have been Kosame, whose intent is to eliminate Mare, whom she describes as an "illusory dream." However, before she is successful, Komomo intervenes, and Kosame later apologizes for her actions, which You forgives.

''Hoshizora no Memoria'' features seven alternate endings depending on the player's choices throughout the game, all of which begin after Kosame's attack.

Character Endings

In Asuho's route, Asuho confesses her love for You, but as the two begin dating, she is held back by her fear that You loves the lookout girl from his memories more than her. Asuho, who also knew You in his childhood, has kept with her a Tanabata card written by You on which he wished to reunite with Yume, the lookout girl. Determined to prove that he loves Asuho more, You has Mare destroy the card and thus reap Asuho's nightmare.

In Komomo's route, it is revealed that Kosame is in fact not properly human, but is an illusory dream of similar nature to Mare. Kosame died in an accident at the lookout during her childhood (explaining why the lookout is fenced off), prompting a grief-stricken Komomo to use her powers as a shrine maiden to give her new form as an illusory dream, using the shrine's sacred object, a meteorite, as her host object. Kosame is revealed to have attacked Mare in order to protect Suwa, and furthermore is the one who requested that Suwa be sent to Hibarigasaki, in order to eliminate Kosame herself. However, Suwa, who has grown to care for Kosame, ultimately refuses to carry out her task. Kosame then asks Mare to send her back using her scythe, but You and Komomo intervene. Komomo instead asks Mare to reap her own nightmare, which turns out to be Kosame's ephemeral nature. As a result, she is able to remain in human form.

In Kosame's route, it is revealed that she is unable to retain a physical form while under the light of the full moon. When You discovers this, Kosame expresses sadness about her unreal nature and explains that they can never be together, but You, unable to accept this, is able to cause Kosame's physical form to return. However, Kosame, still unable to accept that she is anything but a ghost destined to disappear at any time, ultimately asks Mare to eliminate her. Mare, however, criticizes her for this and points out that You would be grief-stricken if she were to depart. To prove this, Mare instructs Kosame to vanish, then tells You that she has "returned." You, seeing through Mare's deception, borrows her scythe and cuts his wrists, causing him to enter an oneiroid state that allows him to perceive of Kosame, who tearfully recognizes You's love for her and decides to stay. You is later taken to a hospital, during which time he has a vision of his mother, Kasumi, who says she no longer needs to watch over him.

In Isuzu's route, You learns that she was in fact raised in Australia, but moved to Hibarigasaki with her parents due to her younger sister Suzuha's fragile health. Isuzu, devastated after moving away from her childhood home, began to visit the Hibarigasaki science center to see planetarium shows of the southern night sky. After the science center closed down, its director gifted Isuzu with an old telescope, along with a key to Hibari High's rooftop, so she could continue stargazing. While stargazing one night with Chinami and Suzuha, Isuzu and You are visited by Mare, who recognizes Isuzu's "nightmare" and reaps it with her scythe, causing the telescope to fall apart in Chinami's arms. Isuzu blames Chinami for breaking the telescope and stops talking to her, which results in You seemingly distancing himself from Isuzu as well. However, Chinami and You later give the repaired telescope back to Isuzu, revealing that they worked together to fix it in order to mend their friendship. Isuzu forgives Chinami, and reconciles with You as well. Years later, You takes Isuzu to Ayers Rock in Australia to see the southern night sky once again.

In Chinami's route, Chinami and You, along with their friend Mirai Asuka - the president of the Occult Circle of which Chinami is a member - perform stakeouts at Hibari High to investigate reports of a ghost which plays music on the upper floors. While investigating alone one night, Chinami and You recognize the sound of the mysterious music as a song composed by Chinami's late father, Chihiro. The player then learns that the music is coming from a music box under secret repair by Taiga, You's father, along with the astral deity Ren, whom Taiga has asked to watch over Chinami. It is revealed that in the past, Kasumi and Chihiro were lovers, but due to his poor health, Chihiro asked Ren to erase Kasumi's memories of him. Kasumi then married Taiga, giving birth to You; however, after learning of Ren's actions, Taiga divorced Kasumi out of guilt, and Kasumi returned to Chihiro, giving birth to Chinami. Chihiro later died from his illness, prompting Kasumi to move away from Hibarigasaki. As she becomes intimate with You, Chinami is able to reconcile with her past, and the two of them later work up the courage to introduce themselves to Taiga and Ren.

True Ending

After each individual route's completion, a mysterious girl begins to encounter You in each subsequent playthrough; You eventually recognizes her as the lookout girl, but is unable to approach her. In the true route, Asuho confesses to You but You turns her down, after which she reveals to him the name of the lookout girl: Yume. You's friends then work together to find the lookout girl; their search ends when Setsuna reveals that there is a patient the Hisakakis' father's hospital by the name of Yume Ototsu. You begins to visit Yume, who at first pretends not to remember him from their childhood. The two later sneak out with aid from Asuho, Kosame, and Komomo, visiting the lookout together, where Yume is able to get You to express his true feelings of grief from over the years. After this, You and Yume continue to see one another, but eventually Yume asks Mare to reap You's memories of her. Mare complies, and subsequently vanishes. Years later, You visits the lookout and encounters Yume, which causes him to faintly remember their history. You is able to communicate with his mother's spirit, who tells him she will help him reunite with Yume.

The game then reverts to just after You and Yume first visited the lookout together. You visits Mare, who attempts to cheer him up by stripping naked, but You rejects her advances. Later on, Yume begins to succumb to her illness, and writes a final farewell to You. It is also revealed that Yume has been communicating with Chihiro's ghost, whom only she is able to perceive due to her illness. Later on, Mare asks You to reap her with her scythe, as she came into existence due to the wishes made by You and Yume; by returning her "light" to them, You will gain the power to help Yume survive. You reluctantly complies and reaps Mare. Years later, Mare is reborn as Mea, the daughter of You and Yume, and the family visit the lookout together under Hibarigasaki's starry sky.

Secret Ending

Mare's route is unlocked only after completing Yume's. In this route, You accepts Mare's feelings after she strips for him in the second timeline of Yume's route, and the two have sex. You later takes Mare on a date to visit Yume, and the two return to You's house and enjoy dinner with his family. You then realizes Mare is forcing herself to retain her form at daytime, and he promptly embraces her, promising that he will always be with her. Mare expresses a desire to marry You and someday visit the stars with him, so she can introduce him to her family.

Leung Chun-yue (Bryan Leung) is a famous architect who is about to marry his girlfriend, Hydi (Pat Ha). He is, by chance, reunited with Wong Kin-hang (Damian Lau), a long lost friend whom Leung invites to be his house as a guest. Wong is now in Hong Kong with the aim to kill jewel king, Wai Kit (Chang Yi), who has ruined his family. Wong fails in his attempt but is captured and tortured by Wai. Wong warns Wai all evidence against him is being kept by a friend. Mistaking Leung to be the friend, Wai send two killers, Honey (Philip Ko) and Man (Michael Chan), to get Leung. Man kills Hydi but Leung manages to escape. Leung has just read Wong's diary and know everything about Wong. Now Leung decides to take law into his own hands in order to challenges Wai and his gang.

In Istanbul, Turkey, 18-year-old Morena (Nanda Costa) is auctioned by a group of wealthy and successful men. She ended up being sold for a U$3.500 bid. The next scene shows Morena running desperately through the streets, screaming for help. The scene flashes back to eight months earlier.

Morena is a single-mother who lives with her four-year-old son Junior (Luiz Felipe Mello) and her mom Lucimar (Dira Paes) helps her to support him. Though unemployed, she manages to garner strength and resolve in order to forge her own path.

Following the 2010 occupation of the Complexo do Alemão by the Brazilian Army, Morena meets Theo (Rodrigo Lombardi), a cavalry officer who is charmed by her spontaneity and sensuality. They fall in love, unaware that love does not conquer all.

Motivated by the prospect of a better future and facing eviction, Morena accepts a job offer to work in a coffeehouse in Istanbul for a few months. Her decision, however, not only ends her engagement to Theo, who disapproves of her trip, but leads to her being a victim of an international human trafficking ring.

Cunning Wanda (Totia Meirelles), who offered Morena what turns out to be a fictitious job, works with Livia Marini (Cláudia Raia), a sophisticated, intelligent and seemingly irreproachable woman. The truth, however, tells a different story: although she claims to be a world-renowned talent agent, Livia is in fact head of an international human trafficking organization which generates billions of dollars every year.

Upon arriving in Turkey, Morena is forced to work at a dreary nightclub where Russo (Adriano Garib), head of security and member of the ring, constantly intimidates young women by threatening to harm their families in Brazil.

Despite being held captive, Morena refuses to accept her fate and decides to fight against the crime that victimized her. Together with her ill-fated companions, she counts on the help of Police Chief Heloísa (Giovanna Antonelli) to take down the ring's villainous scheme. On top of such difficulties, Morena also has to deal with another challenging mission: to regain Theo's love and trust. Theo still loves her but has since entered into a new romantic relationship and is determined to forget her. In the end Morena with the help of Mrs Heloisa will expose the traffic gangs then Morena and Theo will live happily.

A woman, named Sylvia, being kept prisoner in a dungeon, breaks her chains and escapes, but falls into a deep trap-hole outside, breaking her leg. She’s taken inside and “prepared” with seasonings and veggies before being roasted alive in an oven.

At “The Gingerbread House”, a pie and pastry shop run by an older woman named Lilith, employee Gretel Grimm is hosting a private family dinner after hours for her twin brother, Hansel, their widowed father, Brandon, and his girlfriend, Ruby Lumiers. Brandon reveals he intends to marry Ruby, infuriating Hansel. He storms out into the nearby woods and eventually Gretel follows him, finding him in a bear trap. She spots a nearby cabin and, to Gretel’s surprise, Lilith answers her knock at the door and invites them inside. Gretel notices several very old family pictures up of Lilith and her children, twin boys John and Bobby, and Abigail, who died as an infant. Lilith feeds Hansel and gives Gretel some tea and they soon fall into a deep sleep. Gretel wakes up the next morning with a headache in Lilith’s bed with Lilith sitting beside her. Lilith tells Gretel that a neighbour took Hansel to the hospital and suggests she shower to feel better.

Hansel wakes up in a dungeon with three others, Kevin, Dana and Jane, all chained to the walls. The now brutish John and Bobby bring in a tray piled with cakes and pastries and pull Dana out with them as they leave. They prepare her on a human spit roast in the oven. After Gretel showers, she is confronted by Lilith, who offers her the deed to The Gingerbread House, telling Gretel she intends to leave the bakery to her. When Gretel agrees, Lilith jerks the deed from her hand “accidentally”, giving Gretel a paper cut. A drop of her blood falls onto the deed, “signing” it unintentionally in blood, to Lilith’s delight. Gretel notices a bloody fingernail on the floor and finds a trapdoor to an underground dungeon, hearing Hansel calling for her. Having been found out, Lilith has her sons force Gretel to join in on “family dinner”, where she serves the freshly cooked Dana. Gretel stabs John with her knife, causing Lilith to throw her into the dungeon.

Bobby takes Jane out of the dungeon to prepare her, but Hansel is able to soon pick the lock. Kevin decides to save himself and escapes while Hansel and Gretel decide to save Jane. Hansel and Gretel overpower Bobby, killing him. They free Jane but John finds Bobby’s body, dons a gas mask, and fills the dungeon with hallucinogenic gas. Hansel, Gretel and Jane each have their own horrific hallucinations. Meanwhile, Brandon has since alerted Sheriff Woody Mekes about his children’s disappearance and he begins searching for Lilith. Brandon and Ruby search the forest and eventually find Lilith’s cabin. Brandon recognizes Lilith’s car outside, but Lilith attacks him with a pitchfork, then kills Ruby with a machete. In the dungeon, John kills Jane, but Hansel and Gretel crawl inside the oven and through a small vent shaft while John gives chase. They make it outside and find Lilith having just murdered Ruby. Brandon attacks her, allowing Hansel and Gretel to escape with John still pursuing. As they are running away, they encounter Sheriff Mekes, who has accidentally hit and killed Kevin while he was on the highway trying to flag someone down. Mekes shoots and kills John but Lilith emerges from the forest and kills Mekes with an arrow. She forces the siblings back to the cabin and tries once more to convince Gretel to join her, but Gretel stabs her in the face with Ruby's silver cross necklace. She and Hansel run to the dungeon, luring Lilith into the oven and trapping her before she realizes it. Gretel turns the oven on, burning Lilith alive. She and Hansel narrowly escape as the hallucinogenic gas ignites and the cabin explodes.

Later, Gretel is in Lilith’s bakery when Hansel stops in to let her know that their father is being released from the hospital. She says she’ll meet him and he leaves. Gretel goes to the door and flips the closed sign to open, then returns to the counter and takes a bite of a meat pie, smiling menacingly.

The film chronicles the adventures of an off-kilter career girl whose life goes berserk after she meets her idol, British rock star Morrissey, the former Smiths frontman, who remains a towering figure in the Britrock pantheon.

A hapkido teacher named Jang Man-ok (Hwang Jung-eum; Man-ok means "full house" in Hanja) poses as a stylist for top idol group TAKE ONE and moves into the band's luxurious house, which superstar musician Lee Tae-ik (No Min-woo) inherited from his father. A love triangle emerges as Lee vies against fellow band member Won Kang-hwi (Park Ki-woong) for Jang’s affection.

Akash and Shibu are two convicts. They are being transported to another jail with another convict via train. Shibu and the other convicts beats the cops and Shibu jumps out of the train with Akash in tag.

Meanwhile, not so far away is a village called Poomala, which is on the Kerala - Tamil Nadu border. Poomala is the home to a famous centuries old Latin Catholic church which has been closed for many years now. Thommichan is the only prominent and wealthy man in the village and is respected highly by the townsfolks. He manages to get two priests to come and reopen their church (But the men were saying that they cannot come. Thommichan misheard it as they will come). He begins to start the preparations to welcome them.

As fate has it, Akash and Shibu reach Poomala. They end up reaching the church and they find themselves surrounded by the townsfolk. Soon, they realize that the people have mistaken them to be priests. The men begin to masquerade as priests to avoid being captured. Akash becomes Fr.Paul and Shibu becomes Fr.Sebastian aka Sebu.

The men find luck on their side as their doings end up having a positive effects and strengthening the belief of the townspeople. Some examples include the time when Shibu causes the old and unused church bell to become good again while he was trying to steal it. Another example is when they are to cure the insanity of the mother of Mathukutty, a tailor and friend. The woman attacks them and unknowingly hits a socket and gets electrocuted, which cures her. But the event leaves Geevarghese, a preacher who does not like the new priests to unknowingly get shocked and become insane.

The men constantly hear the people telling that 'the men came even after knowing everything'. The duo have no idea what the people mean by that. They ask Achankunju, the sexton, about the truth and he tells the truth.

A priest named Fr.Rodriguez was the priest of the church years ago. A girl fell in love with him and committed suicide after revealing the truth to him. When the townsfolk heard the news, they came to question Fr.Rodriguez, who by then had hung himself. It is said that his ghost has been killing all the priests who come to the church and perform rituals during the Perunal or holy day.

Akash and Shibu become scared and plan to escape. Moreover, Akash finds out that he knows Thommichan's daughter Eleena and she knows who Akash is. Akash was a magician who was a friend of Eleena. He was arrested for cheating and robbery. She at first threatens to expose the men but later forgives them after knowing the deeds they did.

The men's attempts to flee end up failing as they circle back and end up back in Poomala. Finally, Shibu plans to steal some ornaments and escape. But Akash opposes leading to a fight. Shibu locks him in a room and runs away, but Achankunju frees Akash (initially believing that it was a ghost). Akash finds that Shibu has not run away and they reconcile.

Later, they perform the ritual where the priests are said to die. Akash tells that the Fr.Rodriguez is the cause of the curse and moves to destroy his gravestone. But just before he makes his move, he seemingly bleeds and dies. When the townsfolk blame Fr.Paul, Fr.Sebu insults Fr.Rodriguez. This invokes Pappichayan an elderly photographer who is highly respected, and he shouts that the church should be destroyed and a new church in Fr.Rodriguez's name should be built.

Just then, the seemingly dead Fr.Paul gets up and reveals that he faked his death to reveal the truth to the townsfolk. He reveals that Pappichayan is actually the father of Fr.Rodriguez. He blames the town for killing his son and has been killing every priest who comes to the church. He poisons a food item (Vayanayappam) which the priests eat during the ritual, thus making it look like a curse or clueless death. It is revealed that Shibu saw Pappichayan poisoning their Vayanayappam the night he tried to run away with the loot. This prompted him to return and reveal the facts to Akash. To avoid exposing Fr.Sebu, Fr.Paul lies that Fr.Sebu had a vision in which he saw the truth and the townsfolk blindly believe them (owing to the fact that the townsfolk believe the priests have mystical powers). Pappichayan is subsequently arrested.

Sometime later, the priests ask the townsfolk to close their eyes for prayer. When everyone is praying, the men escape. While running, Akash sees Eleena, who tells him to keep running. But they soon are caught by the police. The police inspector Vetrimaaran, who has been hunting the duo since their escape, tells the men that he knows what they did in Poomala and as a reward, their punishment will be reduced. Akash smiles and winks at Eleena, as the cops take him and Shibu.

It is shown that the people of Poomala still have not learned the truth about the priests and consider them to be god's angels. The end credit scenes shows two men in Santa costumes celebrating Christmas with some elderly women. The men are later revealed to be Akash and Shibu, who have once again escaped.

The residences of little coast town San Carlos are living peacefully, until the arrival of the rich, mysterious man Marco Duran (Saul Lizaso).

Marcos’ presence will awake old stories and burn big passions.

Maria del Cielo (Gabriela Spanic) is a pretty girl that easily captured Marco's interest. He sees in her the girl he had always dreamed about.

On the other hand, Maria del Cielo sees him as nothing but an intruder.

Cielo is a very proud girl. She lives with her father, Nicolas, her grandmother, Paz and her sister Brisa (Margarita Mangana). She took the role of her mother to Brisa since they lost their mom when they were just little girls.

Cielo is engaged to a town doctor, Sergio Zambrano (Gerardo Murguia).

During the wedding preparations, she learned that Sergio has fallen under the influence of her sister Brisa and that he spent a wild passionate night on a beach with her.

To keep the good family name, Cielo sacrificed her love. She brokes up her engagement to Sergio and forces him to marry her sister Brisa instead.

Towards Marco, Cielo shows nothing but despise and contempt, she is not aware that slowly, she started to fall in love with him.

Marco doesn't know his biological roots; he grew up as an orphan and that left big trails in his life. But, in spite of that, with his persistence, he made big fortune. In front of Cielo, he acts like a bastard, without any manners and education. Even when he is in love with Cielo; he has his long time mistress, Miranda (Katie Barberi).

Miranda is a young adventuress, who is capable of doing everything to have Marco marry her. The big part in San Carlos belongs to Raquel and a secret she thought was buried deep in the past. Meanwhile, Sergio is unhappy with his own marriage, he comes to bother Cielo all the time. To counter, Cielo accepted Marco's marriage proposal.

Now, there are a lot of things working against Marco and Cielo and Miranda comes with a vengeance to take what she thought belonged to her.

Phillip Drummond (Arthur Maude) is summoned from America to England to attend the bedside of his dying uncle, the Baron Drummond. Upon arriving at the castle where the baron lives, Phillip learns that he has a long-dead ancestor, also named Phillip Drummond, whose murder a century earlier is still a mystery. In a room of the castle that is always kept locked, he encounters the female spirit (Constance Crawley) of his dead ancestor's past lover. Phillip's interest in the paranormal leads him to seek out the haunts of this ghost, during which he finds out that he himself is actually the reincarnation of the former Phillip Drummond. His wife then arrives from America, just in time to find Phillip's body still warm after his spirit has departed to be with the "Wraith of Haddon Towers."

Plagued by creditors, but with no money to pay his debts, Lord Loveland (Arthur Maude) leaves England and sails to the United States hoping to find a wealthy heiress to marry. During the voyage, he makes friends with a lady playwright named Leslie Dearmer (Constance Crawley), whom he likes, but believing her not to be the wealthy heiress he seeks, he is reluctant to develop their friendship further. Leslie likes Loveland also and tries to help him after the ship arrives in port.

Unfortunately, they part unexpectedly when Loveland joins a theater troupe and suddenly leaves town, hoping that he can make some quick money as the troupe tours across the country. But when the troupe performs one of Leslie's plays without her permission, she tracks them down, not realizing that Loveland is among them.

Finally catching up with the troupe, Leslie is surprised and overjoyed to find Loveland once again, and she gives him a job driving her car. Although Loveland still intends to marry a millionaire, he falls in love with Leslie, and after she tells him that she actually is an heiress, both their dreams come true when he asks her to marry him.

The novel begins with Mr. Jamms hiring X— to convince his estranged artist son Jim to return for one last visit home before Mr. Jamms dies of his just diagnosed terminal illness. X— has three qualifications: his own father died the previous winter, he once knew Jim, and he bears a strong visual resemblance to Jim.

X— finds Jim in Rhinebeck, living with Maggy and Bessy. Jim explains his refusal to see his parents, recalling a previous medical episode and extensive philosophizing. Maggy tells a little about the hostile attitude of the father's doctor, one Doctor Scotoma. Yet Jim and X— end up on a train back to Manhattan. They dine and barhop. Soon after three in the morning they encounter a policeman, and Jim offers up a photograph, apparently of his parents, an event that X— obsesses over. They then run into Joe Testic, a friend of Jim, an acquaintance of X—. At dawn, they part. X— wanders around the Financial District.

Later, while dining in a fine restaurant, one Colletti asks X— to recruit Jim for help distributing some pharmaceuticals of an unspecified nature. X— arranges a meet, and Jim refuses. Afterwards, as Jim walks away through a park, X— bashes Jim's head in with a rock, and buries him under the leaves. X— types a letter in Jim's name, claiming to take a sabbatical. X— visits Jim's residence, and picks up clothing from Maggy.

X— stays in Jim's hotel room. While Colletti is there, Joe Testic pays a visit, and recognizes Jim's clothing on X—. Colletti kills Testic, and X— helps Colletti bury the body. Two police detectives soon interrogate X— about Jim and Testic. They talk philosophy, they know Testic is dead, they suspect Jim is dead also, they encourage X— to continue in his normal business.

X— travels on business for Colletti to a Florida island. He is accosted by Testic's father, who accuses X— of the murder of his son. He is also accosted by Doctor Scotoma, who speaks very negatively about drugs. X— returns to New York, and meets with Mrs. Jamms, her own private detective, and Maggy.

Mr. Jamms dies. The private detective invites X— for another talk, which turns out to be in the company of the two police detectives who talked with X— earlier. In the end, they exonerate X—, who makes plans for another trip.

Leslie (Amy Poehler) has organized a sexual education seminar, as sexually transmitted diseases are rampant among Pawnee's senior citizens. Ann (Rashida Jones) is asked to help out due to her medical background. After getting into a car accident due to constant use of his smartphone, Tom (Aziz Ansari) is taken to court and sentenced to one week without looking at a screen. Tom finds life without technology very difficult, so Ron (Nick Offerman) decides to take Tom to his cabin in the woods so he can "detox" from his technology addiction.

Leslie's seminar is stopped by Marcia Langman (Darlene Hunt) of the conservative Society for Family Stability Foundation, and Marcia's strongly hinted to be closeted gay husband, Marshall Langman (Todd Sherry), claiming the seminar is against the law. Chris (Rob Lowe) reveals Pawnee's law that abstinence-only sex education must be applied citywide, so the seminar is shut down. Leslie refuses to put up a vote to change the law due to overwhelming public support for it. At the next seminar, Leslie finds herself unable to force the abstinence view on the seniors, deciding to toss condoms into the audience. As a result, she is formally censured by Mayor Gunderson. Anticipating further punishment from Chris, Leslie is surprised when he says that she is technically his boss.

In the wilderness, Tom takes an entire day divulging to Ron everything he does with technology. Saying he is going to buy steaks, Tom drives Ron's car to get a new smartphone, only to crash the car into a tree for using the smartphone too much. Tom later admits that his own personal life isn't going well, and he feels the need to be distracted from it by technology. Ron gives Tom an auto manual to read so Tom can help fix Ron's car. Perd Hapley (Jay Jackson) interviews Leslie about the censure, where she refuses to apologize and vows to work hard to change the abstinence-only law, despite the public backlash she will receive.

In another subplot, Ben (Adam Scott) and April (Aubrey Plaza) meet Congressman David Murray, whose reelection campaign they are working on. April is disturbed by Murray's (Adam J. Harrington) almost robotic-like manner and becomes convinced he may actually be a robot. Even Ben becomes put off by Murray's complete lack of personality, rampant use of generic friendly chat, and non-offensive political talk. Ben later watches in befuddlement as Murray does everything his handlers tell him without a hint of having thoughts of his own, which makes him beloved by his advisors as the perfect political candidate.

Nete is a strong woman of 35 who manages effectively her job, husband, and teenage daughter. After her widowed father suddenly becomes ill, Nete discovers he may have only three weeks to live. Despite their poor relationship, Nete insists he leaves his flat and moves in with her, saying "You should die with your family." She even tries to reconcile him with his estranged gay son, her brother. When he does not die, his presence increasingly places a strain on Nete's family. His appetite returns and the doctors reconsider the prognosis. With pressures increasing in a limited space, Nete's husband accepts offered comfort elsewhere, her daughter rebels with her grandfather's encouragement, and the relationship between Nete and her father unravels.

Anna is a young protestant minister who starts to work in a women's prison. There she meets a new inmate who is said to have supernatural healing capacities. The supernatural skills seem to be confirmed when the woman, Kate, tells Anna that she is pregnant. This turns out to be true, even though Anna had tried to become pregnant in vain before. But her private happiness is darkened by the announcement that there is a risk for a birth defect of the embryo. The decision whether or not to abort weighs on Anna and her relationship to her boyfriend. Desperate, Anna tries to even ask the mysterious inmate for help. But in the meantime, she has also learned that the background of Kate was severe child neglect due to drugs that led to the child dying from thirst. When Anna asks Kate to lay on hands to help the embryo she is pregnant with, she breaks down. Anna is drunk, and screams audibly for other inmates that Kate is a child murderer, which another member of staff had warned her would result in severe mistreatment of the inmate by other inmates. The member of staff who Kate has a secret romantic relationship with comes to find out who had screamed, and also tells Kate he will not see her anymore because another colleague had told him that she knew about their contact and relationships between staff and inmates are not allowed. When Kate enters the kitchen for breakfast, everybody knows she is responsible for the death of her daughter and not even women who she was previously friends with talk to her. Kate then commits suicide. The movie ends with Anna meeting her boyfriend at the hospital where the abortion is scheduled.

After a horrific car crash kills his father, young Ha-eun is taken in by a family of strangers and raised to be a caring, happy young man (Uhm Tae-woong). He becomes a police officer and begins to look into the death of his father, only to discover some horrifying truths about not only the accident, but also his own identity. Ha-eun discovers that his name is really Yoo Kang-hyuk and that he has a twin brother called Shin-hyuk (also played by Uhm), who is now VP of a large company. When a cruel twist of fate gives Ha-eun the opportunity to assume his brother's identity, he sees this as his chance to discover the truth about his tragic past and avenge the wrongs done to him and his family.

The naval captain Sir George Thunder and his valet and bosun John Dory arrive at an unknown country house on their hunt for deserters. They soon discover that it is the home of Thunder's niece Lady Amaranth, who has been left a legacy on the condition that she live as a Quaker – with another Quaker, Ephraim Smooth, on hand to make sure she sticks to this. Hearing his son Harry has left the naval academy at Portsmouth, he sends John to bring him back to woo Amaranth. Harry has been playing truant with a travelling theatre troupe, where he has made friends with another actor called Jack Rover. However, he decides to leave the troupe and return to the academy.

Rover arrives near Amaranth's house in a storm and seeks shelter with the miserly Farmer Gammon. Gammon refuses and instead he takes shelter with his neighbour Banks and his sister Amelia. Gammon is trying to impoverish Banks to encourage Amelia to marry him and the following morning Rover pays off a debt Banks owes Gammon. Rover then sets off for the London coach, but realising he has no money left, instead takes employment with a new troupe. He then meets Dory, who mistakes him for Harry, then meets Amaranth, with the two falling in love. He and the troupe then end up performing at Amaranth's house, with Amaranth playing Rosalind to Rover's Orlando in ''As You Like It''.

Sir George Thunder hears that 'Harry' (actually Rover) is already wooing Amaranth as hoped. He then meets with the real Harry, who is non-plussed and goes to meet Rover. They keep up the deception, even when Thunder arrives. Thunder then continues his pursuit of the deserters and is saved from them by Rover, who also ends up defending Amelia from Gammon's bailiffs. Amelia then goes to Amaranth to explain how she and Banks became poor – years ago, a young naval officer tried to trick her into a sham marriage. However, her brother Banks was then a naval chaplain and performed the ceremony, making it valid. She had a child but the officer then left her – she ended up travelling to the East Indies and then back to England.

Ephraim is angered at the play being put on, but tries to use it as a cover to woo Amaranth's new handmaid, Gammon's daughter Jane. Overhearing this, Amaranth denounces Ephraim's hypocrisy, renounces her Quakerism and reveals her love for 'Harry'. Rover reveals his true identity and it is revealed that George was the naval officer and Rover their son. However, this invalidates George's second marriage and makes Harry illegitimate, but Rover makes over the Thunder family estate to Harry, asserting that Amaranath and her fortune are enough for him.

The film is set at the outset of the Boer War, beginning at the farm of Jobe De Larey, a Boer, and his family. His oldest daughter Gretchen and falls in love with Englishman Allen Hornby, superintendent of the mines, while attending an English school at Kimberly. Allen asks Jobe for consent to marry Gretchen and he refuses.

Gretchen overhears Jobe and Piet Cronje planning for war and intentions to seize the mines. She then sees Hans, a young Boer whom Jobe wanted her to marry, receive a message to seize the mines and capture Allen. Gretchen steals the message and Han's horse and rides to Kimberley to warn Allen. Gretchen is pursued after the message and horse are found missing, where at the bottom of the mine she refuses to leave and stays with Allen.

Three months pass when Piet captures a dispatch and learns the movements of a group of men Allen has organized against the Boers. With the information Piet sets a trap. Allen's men ride into the trap and a battle ensues. They escape when a passing regiment of Gordon Highlanders comes to their rescue. Piet and Jobe, fight several battles when Lord Roberts outwits the Boers and forces Piet to surrender.

Hans and Jobe escape and go to Kimberly at night. They seeks out Gretchen intending to kill her for her treason. Allen arrives in time and gets into a fight with Hans, who is killed. Two years after the war at Allen's home, Jobe begs his daughter's forgiveness. Allen and Jobe reconcile the past.

During the chaos of the late Qing Dynasty, Liu Lai-shi (Max Mok) envies the glory of his fellow townsman and eunuch Siu-tak-cheung and asks his parents for purification. Soon, the Qing dynasty collapses, Liu failed to become an imperial eunuch and was sent to Beijing to study opera. Subsequently he meets his childhood friend Chiu Tai (Irene Wan). Liu intends to lead a normal family life, but unable to do so after his identity of a eunuch was exposed. The opera troupe leader (Sammo Hung) sympathizes Liu's life experiences and tried to arrange him to the palace to be China's last eunuch. In 1924, Xuantong Emperor was expelled from the Forbidden City and Liu also began his wandering career.

After a job interview, Ha Yoon-joo, a woman with photographic memory gets hired by a police division where she meets members who to her surprise are largely unarmed and don't wear uniforms, as they specialize in surveillance rather than policing. She joins a team led by a man named Hwang, the division avoids arresting criminals and focuses exclusively on following them around to gather information. The surveillance team immediately runs into trouble when they can't identify a particular ring of robbers due to their masks and their efficiency in robbing the bank. In response, Hwang, Ha, and six other officers spend several weeks wandering around the city streets, tagging after people who match the criminal's physical description. When they finally find him, they put cameras outside his apartment.

Meanwhile, James, the leader of the criminals, wishes to quit his line of work, but his elderly mentor responds by sending a man to kill him, whom he successfully defends against. When James's subordinates confer to discuss the next mission, they are successfully tracked by Hwang's officers who call in a SWAT team to subdue them. James, who was standing in a separate location, finds it necessary to murder one of Hwang's officers to escape. Later, after James is given criticism from the mentor, he attacks the mentor's hide-out, murdering the mentor and his body-guards. He then acquires a fake Thai passport and gets ready to leave South Korea.

Hwang and Ha both feel sad at the death of their colleague. As a result, Hwang announces his resignation while Ha takes a leave of absence. However, while Ha is doing her laundry, she suddenly remembers using her good memory that she had randomly run into James in the past. Namely, on the day of her police interview, James had fleetingly walked past her inside a subway car, carrying a grocery store brochure. Ha runs to the grocery store and waits there, managing to catch sight of James again, and urgently notifies Hwang and his officers while staying on James's tail. When James walks into a tunnel, Hwang takes over the pursuit, but James recognizes Hwang (he had seen him in the mirror earlier when he was being followed) and stabs him. Luckily, though, the wound isn't fatal. Ha continues the pursuit into the subway tunnels but this time she is also recognized by James and eventually held hostage. When the SWAT team comes down to the subway tunnel, James lets go of Ha but escapes and runs deeper into the tunnels.

As the chase goes on, James finds himself trapped between the advancing SWAT team and the mouth of the tunnel, which is being guarded by Hwang, who ran the long way around. As James decides to charge at Hwang, the latter, finding himself at the juncture of an oncoming train, stands his ground to shoot at James, risking a 50/50 chance that the train will flatten him. Fortunately, the train takes the other branch and James is hit by Hwang's revolver and killed.

Encouraged by the success, Hwang withdraws his resignation, and together with Ha, goes on to execute further such missions including the pursuit of an international terrorist.

The plot follows the events of an unnamed young girl's arrival at the Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young Ladies. She is affected by her subsequent nightmares, where she transforms into a clawed creature and traverses hostile dreamscapes full of monsters, always waking with a grimoire on her bedside table. As the game progresses, she wakes from these nightmares sporting more and more aspects of her dream-self's monstrous form in reality, and repeatedly attempts to rid herself of the book, only for it to reappear next to her the following morning.

Her nightmares are representative of the ways she tries to rid herself of the book - burying it, tossing it in a river and trying to burn it in a furnace lead to nightmares revolving around earth, water and fire respectively.

Once her fire related nightmare is over, she awakens fully transformed to a dark ritual being performed by the Headmaster of the Academy, surrounded by similarly transformed girls, presumably the other students of the Academy. After plunging her claws through the book and fighting through a final nightmare where she eventually shreds the 'heart' of the book, she awakens fully human and departs from the Academy. However, back in the Academy's library—where she originally picked up the grimoire—the remaining books continue to glow ominously...

A mysterious man dresses in a Santa Claus suit, complete with a mask. Once dressed, "Santa" captures and kills Jordan (Brendan Fehr), a deputy sheriff, in the small town of Cryer, Wisconsin. Jordan is sleeping with the married Alana Roach (Ali Tartaryn) and is electrocuted with Christmas lights in his home. The following day, Christmas Eve, Cryer Sheriff Cooper (Malcolm McDowell), calls Deputy Aubrey Bradimore (Jaime King) in on her day off when Jordan doesn't arrive at work. Aubrey is a new addition to the sheriff's office and is still reeling from the unexpected death of her husband John. She doesn't think she's a good deputy, as she is trying to live up to her father, who is a retired sheriff. Aubrey was going to spend the holiday with her parents, but instead goes out to check on Jordan, finding his mangled body, and Roach, who has been dismembered, later in the day. Sheriff Cooper decides not to tell Mayor Revie (Tom Anniko) until the case is solved.

Meanwhile, the masked Santa killer goes on a murder spree, killing those who have done something he considers 'naughty.' His next victim is a bratty teenage girl who he kills with a cattle prod. He then makes his way to the local motel, murdering two of three people during a softcore porn shoot. One woman manages to escape and tries to hide inside a Christmas tree farm, but the killer chops off one of her legs and throws her feet-first into a woodchipper. Sheriff Cooper calls in Deputy Stanley Giles (Andrew Cecon) and goes out to find the killer himself, but comes back empty-handed. Aubrey starts to suspect Santa Jim Epstein (Donal Logue), a local drunken Santa portrayer, drug dealer Stein Karsson (Mike O’Brien), and the perverted Reverend Madely (Curtis Moore).

Aubrey attempts to interrogate Karsson, but he flees. Aubrey gives chase, and she is nearly killed but is narrowly saved by Sheriff Cooper. That evening, during the town's annual Christmas parade, Aubrey searches for the killer but is unable to identify him among a crowd of men dressed in Santa Claus suits, though she arrests Jim when he flees from her. The killer Santa continues on his spree, The killer then arrives at the church and kills Reverend Madely. He murders Mayor Revie, his porn star daughter Tiffany (Courtney-Jane White), and her boyfriend Dennis (Erik J. Berg). Aubrey goes to Karsson's motel room to arrest him, and is forced to kill him when he draws a gun.

Aubrey notices a gift box that contains a piece of coal, and recalls that both the station and her father had received the same gift. Aubrey arrives at her parents' home, only to find her father dead and her mother hiding in the closet. Meanwhile, the killer attacks the station, killing Cooper, Giles, and Jim. Aubrey, along with the station secretary Brenda (Ellen Wong), are cornered by the killer inside the police station, where the killer tries to burn down the place with a homemade flamethrower. Aubrey is able to overpower the killer Santa and sets him on fire, but in the end he manages to escape.

It is later revealed that the killer Santa is Ronald Jones, Jr., owner of a local chimney cleaning and repair service, and he survived the flamethrower attack. During the hunt for the killer, Aubrey learns from another Santa portrayer that Ronald Sr. had crashed his ex-wife's Christmas party many years ago, burning her alive with the homemade flamethrower. Aubrey's father was the deputy that responded to the situation and gunned him down, only to find out that Ronald Jr. was in his father's truck watching the entire time. The tragedy caused Ronald Jr. to go insane and seek revenge, dressing as Santa so he would not get caught during Cryer's Christmas festivities.

Liz (Tina Fey) continues with her plan of getting pregnant, while helping Jack (Alec Baldwin) with his plot to tank NBC by letting her writers write whatever they want for ''TGS'', with the results being terrible sketches and low ratings. At Jack's request, she agrees not to write anything political, as that has raised their ratings in the past. Things are hindered when vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan drops out of the Presidential race (after being discovered to have been born in Kenya), and Mitt Romney replaces him with Governor Dunston (Tracy Morgan), a bumbling southern Republican with a striking resemblance to Tracy (Tracy Morgan). Liz comes under pressure from Pete and her writing staff to write sketches making fun of Dunston. At Jack's request, Liz promises not to write any political sketches making fun of Governor Dunston, but she eventually caves in to Pete and the writers' demands yet manages to keep her promise by only quoting Dunston verbatim.

When ''TGS'''s sketches begin to receive tremendously high ratings, Kabletown CEO Hank Hooper orders the show to be broadcast five nights a week, thus requiring Liz to organize her life. Liz then realizes that organization is what was missing from her sex life and for the first time is eager to make love with her boyfriend Criss (James Marsden).

Meanwhile, Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) is visited by his mother Pearline (Catherine O'Hara) and her "friend" Ron (Bryan Cranston), a kind, but somewhat dimwitted, man. Kenneth's disdain for Ron is obvious, but it is accentuated when Ron accidentally reveals that he and Pearline have actually been married for seven years. However, when Kenneth overhears Jenna (Jane Krakowski) harshly insulting Ron, he becomes surprisingly defensive of him, stating that only family members can talk about one another in such a negative way. With this point, Kenneth realizes that he and Ron have truly been family for years and reluctantly shares an embrace with him.

Jack's plans for tanking the network are further complicated when his former Bush administration coworker and Republican lobbyist Cooter Burger (Matthew Broderick) encourages Jack to make more sketches about Dunston, as they portray Dunston as lovable buffoon rather than the controversial figure that he actually is. In the end, Liz and Jack are faced with the choice of tanking ''TGS'' and thus securing Jack's future at the expense of Liz's sex life, or continuing the sketches and thus preserving Liz's chances to have a baby and aiding Romney's chances at the Presidency. Liz ultimately decides to continue the sketches.

Liz (Tina Fey) must deal with a magazine article saying that Jenna (Jane Krakowski) is 56 and Tracy (Tracy Morgan) saying women are not funny. When Tracy goes as far as to insinuate that even monkeys are funnier than women, Liz goes far as to revive her own two-women show that she had with Jenna (depressed at being beat by Jamie Lee Curtis for a "Spokes-Crone" role), which makes Tracy laugh at what he perceived the joke of a female doctor (Liz) and a "sad old prostitute trying to look young" (Jenna), which Liz takes as a win.

Meanwhile, Jack (Alec Baldwin) discovers that his girlfriend Zarina (Nina Arianda) is using Ryan Lochte as a sex idiot, mirroring how he is seeing a woman as a fellow sex idiot. When he notices that he is part of a group chat involving other people seen by Zarina, he realizes he fits the "father" archetype. A talk with Jenna encourages him to stay being the "older person" in the relationship to enjoy the benefits that come with being perceived as old.

Jack (Alec Baldwin) invites Liz (Tina Fey) to a Republican Party fundraiser as his "chum" with the understanding that she will keep her liberal politics to herself in exchange for access to the all-you-can-eat shrimp bar. Once at the party, Jack provokes Liz into an anti-conservative rant, which Jack uses as bait to get the attendees to contribute more to the Romney campaign. Realizing Jack has manipulated her, Liz is furious and receives a lecture from Jack about the power of money over ideas. Determined to prove him wrong, Liz decides to promote the Democratic Party through ''TGS'', using Lutz's grand nephew Kellan Lutz as a guest star on ''TGS'', to promote her liberal political views. Jack, meanwhile, is outraged to learn that the Romney campaign has all the money it needs and is looking for ideas. Jack uses his donation money in an attempt to lure minorities into the Romney camp, paying Don Cheadle $10 million to appear in a Romney campaign commercial. Both of their attempts fail: Grizz and Dot Com are horrified by Jack's commercial and the audience cheers so loud at Kellan Lutz' appearance (and the subsequent removal of his shirt) that they drown out what he is saying.

Meanwhile, Jenna's (Jane Krakowski) new "chilled" out public image, a result of her song "Catching Crabs in Paradise", has attracted the attentions of a group of hard-partying fans who proclaim themselves "Crabcatchers" and have started a 24-hour party outside 30 Rock in preparation for Jenna's appearance on the ''Today Show''. Pete is driven nearly insane by the noise outside his office and the other members of the staff are similarly inconvenienced, but Jenna rejects any attempt to send her fans home. When Toofer, Frank and Lutz realize that she can't afford to shatter her image by being her usual high-maintenance self in front of her fans, they torment her publicly while she is unable to retaliate. Their plans backfire when Jenna threatens to use her fame with America's white trash to destroy their lives. The writers collect all of Jenna's most horrible moments and plan to release them on the internet. However, Pete thwarts their plans by destroying a compilation DVD of Jenna's embarrassing moments because Jenna's fans have given him peace and relaxation.

Tracy (Tracy Morgan), who has a unique understanding of America after performing Stand-up all over the country, teaches Liz about the US election map, while Jack is doing exactly the same thing with representatives of the Romney campaign. They both realize at the same time that Northern Florida will decide the election, and that a substantial chunk of their population are Jenna's "Crabcatcher" fans. Hence, they both come to the conclusion that Jenna Maroney could decide the presidential election.

The 14-year-old protagonist Lulu moves to a small provincial town with her mother and little brother, where she gets bored and dreams of a more magical world. Suddenly, the little brother is possessed by a spirit. With the help from a rich kid named Oliver, and Ricard, disillusioned clairvoyant and inventor, they fight the dark forces hiding on the island of the lost souls.

A few months following the events of ''The Sun Trail'', the cats formerly from the Tribe of Rushing Water have settled in to their new home. Thunder, the son of Clear Sky and Storm, a rogue cat who lived in the forest before the Tribe cats arrived, is being raised by his uncle, Gray Wing, after his mother died and his father rejected him. A forest fire rages through Clear Sky's territory, forcing him and his group to temporarily seek shelter with Gray Wing. While staying with Gray Wing, Clear Sky asks Thunder if he wants to live in the forest with him instead. Thunder accepts the offer, wanting to get to know his father, and he stays with Clear Sky for a short while. After seeing that Clear Sky is power-hungry and uncaring about the needs of his cats, Thunder leaves and returns to Gray Wing and his group.

While Tyler is in the hospital, Connor sneaks in and subdues him. He takes werewolf venom from Tyler before leaving him unharmed.

Stefan wants to give Elena a fun day due to her transition going badly. Damon wants to track down Connor and kill him. Though Stefan offers his help, a proud Damon rejects it. He plans on leaving Mystic Falls afterwards because of the agreement the two made in "Before Sunset"; the brother Elena does not choose leaves town so Elena can fully be with her choice. Stefan's previous action in the last episode (hitting Damon after he fed Elena his blood) makes Damon think Stefan wants him gone, and Stefan tells him to not be dramatic, since Damon arguably deserved it.

As she needs fresh blood, Elena begins to feed on Matt. He is fine with it since he still feels responsible, though Elena is more wary. Matt is surprised that Elena wants to be in school with everything going on, Elena replying she wants to be back so she can have a few hours of peace from everything. She goes to history class with Stefan, which Alaric used to teach. Elena's depression quickly turns to annoyance when they discover Rebekah has come back to school as well. She is having a party to break the new curfew rule, and invites Elena and Stefan so they can get past their previous problems. Noticing Rebekah has apparently moved out of Klaus' mansion, Elena makes a snide comment about Klaus being one of the only people who likes her (either aware or unaware of the fact that Klaus has disowned Rebekah for her action in "Growing Pains"). Rebekah responds by making a casual comment about Alaric being absent because she killed him. An angered Elena attempts to stab Rebekah with a pencil, but Rebekah quickly catches it and stabs Elena instead. Elena, with blood staining her sweater, leaves with Stefan. She expresses her anger with surprise at how passionate it is due to her vampirism. They notice Connor is now in the school looking for vampires. Worried, Elena goes into the bathroom to clean up. Rebekah comes in with a compelled classmate bleeding from the neck. She mocks and taunts Elena about her attempts to ignore her bloodlust, and smears blood on Elena's face. Though Elena bears her fangs, she controls herself since Connor is outside. She later meets Stefan and Caroline outside so she can vent her frustration. She wants to use the White Oak stake to kill Rebekah, but calms down and they decide to go to the party to smite Rebekah.

To Tyler's dismay, he finds Klaus has come back; with Connor lurking around, he wants to protect the last of his hybrids the best he can (though admits he does not care for Tyler). Hybrid bodyguards are to watch over Tyler now. To his surprise Hayley, a werewolf who helped him with his sire bond named, shows up, having previously assumed that Tyler was dead.

Jeremy and Connor meet again, and he reveals that the only another hunter or potential hunter can see his hunter tattoo. He asks Jeremy for help in killing the vampires of Mystic Falls, noting most of them are attending school. Jeremy reluctantly agrees.

Rebekah tries to apologize to Matt about her actions, but he rebukes her and leaves. He is soon cornered by Connor, who demands to know who is a vampire. Matt tells him Rebekah is so she can die, and Connor knocks him out before leaving.

Damon goes to Connor's trailer and finds the letter Pastor Young left April, talking about a greater evil coming. Damon gets trapped in the trailer by arrows that are attached to bombs so he calls Meredith for help. While Elena and Stefan are at the party, Elena and Rebekah get into another fights with Elena's daylight ring nearly being destroyed by Rebekah. Stefan takes Elena for a ride on his motorcycle, but not before Elena drinks beer that had been poisoned with werewolf venom. They both start getting sick so Stefan calls Klaus and he comes over to help cure Elena. During her hallucinations, Elena sees Damon, and he tells her she may be more like him than she realizes. Rebekah, being an Original, is fine though weakened. To her surprise, April Young helps her clean up the house.

Klaus meets Hayley and, hearing Caroline at the door with Tyler-who does not tell her Hayley is with him- begins to suspect Tyler and Hayley may have had a brief affair. When he questions Tyler about this Damon calls for Tyler's help in catching Connor. Klaus decides to go instead.

Damon and Klaus set up a trap at the hospital to catch the vampire hunter by shooting the same arrows attached to bombs at him that were in his trailer. Klaus says that he is "One of the five" because of the markings on the stake that the hunter tries to stab him with. The hunter tries to kill them all by exploding the bombs.

Matt comes over to Elena's so she can feed but her rage over the day mixed with her thirst for blood causes her to feed more than normal and almost kills him before Damon stops her and saves him. He compels Matt to forget it and tells Elena that he will show her the "right" way of being a vampire... which is his way. In the last scene you see that Klaus actually saved the hunter and tells him that he is "The most well protected vampire hunter in town."

Yulissa Torres-Quintero is a young woman, married to Ignacio Aguirre, a powerful man whom the people fear but who cannot walk due to an accident. They live on a farm called Arroyo Negro. Yulissa lives tormented in her marriage and escapes to Puerto Escondido, where she meets Luis Angel Zaldivar, a renowned and famous doctor. The two fall deeply in love but Yulissa hides several things from Luis Angel, posing as Marina. Yulissa gives herself to Luis Angel. Later, after being threatened by Ignacio, she decides to return. Luis Angel stays and with a broken heart.

Then one day when Ignacio, Yulissa and Leticia, Ignacio's sister were watching television, Luis Angel came out, talking about Yulissa by the name of Marina. Leticia falls in love with the doctor and Ignacio thinks that Luis Angel can cure him, and invites him to Arroyo Negro. Luis Angel discovers Yulissa's lie but forgives her. They continue to see each other in secret. Ignacio is operated on and follows a scam to heal. But a series of misunderstandings cause Yulissa and Luis Angel to separate. Luis Angel makes love with Leticia.

Leticia finds out that she is pregnant, around the same time that Yulissa finds out that she is also pregnant but Leticia loses the baby. Ignacio wants revenge for Yulissa's lie and he and Leticia plan to take the baby from Yulissa when she is born.

One night, Yulissa's baby is born. It's a baby boy. Leticia takes him with her and passes him off as her son. Ignacio tells Yulissa that her baby died and she does not accept it and insists that her son is still alive. Soon, the baby gets sick because of the milk and the nanny takes him to the hospital after having gastrointestinal problems. The nanny then tells Luis Angel he's the father of the baby boy and that Leticia is the mother. Some DNA tests are run and Luis Angel is confirmed as the father of the boy. Yulissa runs away from Arroyo Negro again, depressed from the loss of her son.

Luis Angel married Leticia. Slowly, Yulissa starts discovering the truth and tells Luis Angel. Leticia is jailed for kidnapping a child. Ignacio, who is already healed, takes the boy. Luis Angel and Yulissa go to Arroyo Negro to get their son back, but Ignacio refuses to give him back threatening to kill him. He tries to run off with the boy but he gets shot and Luis Angel and Yulissa get their son back, whose name is Luis Angel. Jr. Ignacio dies

Yulissa and Luis Angel each go separate ways, with Yulissa taking Luis Angel. Jr

The book opens with a video feed from predator drones in Karbala, Iraq, where it is observed that an unmarked drone with American colors fires a missile on the dense crowd during a religious ceremony, killing many people. Repercussions of this attack are felt worldwide.

A team at the vision lab in Stanford are informed by a patent lawyer that their computer vision code has been stolen by some people and appears in public forums. One of the students then traces the code, and observes that it initially appeared in a location in China. Just as they assemble the team to discuss this development, they are killed by a laser guided missile.

Linda McKinney is studying the swarming behavior of weaver ants in Africa. Later that night, Linda is woken up by some noises, and is lured away from her house just as her house is completely destroyed in a missile attack. She is then sedated and kidnapped by Odin and his crew. On the way back to the US, we observe a military operation in Pakistan to reverse engineer US predator drones. Odin realizes that it is a farce put up to implicate Pakistan for the attack at Karbala, and decides to stick to his original plan. They land in Kansas City, and then make their way to the base of operations, which is located in SubTropolis, an old limestone mine.

Linda manages to escape the base in a Fire truck. She seeks protection of the FBI from the people who have 'kidnapped' her. Ritter, claiming to be from the Department of Homeland Security turns up and takes her into custody. Ritter is unable to convince Odin to step down on his mission to prevent the widespread adoption of unmanned kill-drones. Odin takes charge of Linda again. Odin realizes that his base of operations has been compromised. They execute their mission quickly, which is to capture one of the automated drones in Northern Utah. They manage to capture a drone just before it self-destructs, but then their plane is targeted by missiles. The teams jumps off with parachutes and lands safely. Odin and Linda make their way to another base in Colorado. Soon after they land, they find that their communication has been tapped. Suddenly, Hoov is killed by a sniper, and they are attacked by many automated drones. The team barely manages to escape in a plane, but sustains many injuries in the process.

Odin and their team take sanctuary in Mexico, where they meet up with ''Mouse''. Linda and Odin fall in love with each other. They sneak back into the US, and then they meet up with Mordecai, who tells them about Henry Clarke. Odin infiltrates Henry Clarke's workspace, and intimidates him and his superior, Marta into giving him information about the location of the pheromone making site, which is in Pakistan. The team reach Pakistan and find that a very large shipment of pheromone-making chemicals was indeed shipped there, but most of it has been processed and shipped off. They also find evidence of larger drones that can perform specialized tasks.

They go to a shipyard in China where they inspect shipping boxes. They discover that a large shipment of drones have been transported via the ship ''Ebba Maersk'', in a path that will intercept an American navy ship. The complete destruction of the ship by the drones will probably convince the government to fund the companies building the drones. Odin is temporarily stopped by Ritter, but they manage to take Ritter into custody. They try to fly a helicopter towards the ''Ebba Maersk'', but find that their fuel is probably insufficient to reach it. They land on a ship carrying BMW cars, ''Tonsberg'', and hijack it. They release the crew of the ship, but convince the captain that to help them.

Linda proposes a plan of spraying themselves with pheromones so that the drones think of them as friendly entities. Using this as a cover, Odin, Foxy and Linda manage to land on the ''Ebba Maersk'' and maneuver the ship away from the navy ship and towards a rocky island. Just as they are about to escape, their supply of friendly pheromones runs out. Odin creates a diversion by throwing a canister of attack pheromones on the opposite side of the ship, and they make it out safely. The team returns to the United States, and are commended for their actions by their superior. Linda meets her father, and introduces Odin to him. Henry quits his job just as Marta's car is hit by a missile.

NCIS is called in to investigate a helicopter crash when the missing crew washes up on the shore. However, the pilot is still missing. Meanwhile, Ziva is upset that DiNozzo and McGee gloat about meeting a group of girls on a night out and their arranging a next-time. Fed up of their gloating, ZIva dares the two to ask out the first woman they see, which happens to be CGIS agent Borin, who is also investigating the crash. After interviewing the two conscious crew members, the team fails to find any information that can point to the exact location of the crash or the pilot. Ducky also notes that besides severe dehydration and exposure, the crew lacks any of the injuries consistent with a helicopter crash. Soon after, while looking for any helicopter wreckage on the beach, DiNozzo and McGee find the pilot's corpse and discover that he was shot in the head. When confronted with this revelation, the crew claims that the pilot was mentally unstable and tried to commit suicide after finding out his son was terminally ill.

However, Gibbs is skeptical after hearing differing accounts from the pilot's wife and commanding officer. When the fourth crew member regains consciousness, he admits that the pilot didn't try to commit suicide. With this new evidence, the team interrogates the crew again and they finally crack, and admit that they had planned to sell the helicopter. The original plan came from the three crew and their commanding officer, who baulked at the last minute. So the others told the pilot, thinking he'd go along go get money for his son. The pilot initially went along with them, but quickly reveals he intended to catch them all and have them arrested, only to be shot and killed by the buyer. The crewmen were then forced into a life raft and left to drift far from their supposed crash point. With the crew's testimony, the team tracks down and arrests the buyer and recovers the helicopter. Meanwhile, Ziva learns that Dinozzo and McGees 'wild night' was actually an online games marathon with a sorority-sister team. She also reveals that she told Borin about the bet and that it was a ploy to teach them a lesson for not inviting her out to their recreational activities.

Spoiled Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) lives with her doting grandfather, ruthless business magnate Alexander Guthrie (Ralph Lewis), in his Fifth Avenue, New York City mansion. She is initially delighted when he offers to take her with him on a trip to Europe. However, as the day approaches for their departure, she changes her mind and decides to go live with her newly returned father, "sociological writer" John Burke (T. D. Crittenden), at Craigen Street, wherever that is. Unused to having his plans thwarted, Guthrie becomes cold to his beloved granddaughter.

Craigen Street turns out to be in one of the slums of lower New York, the subject of her father's study. At first, Amy is horrified by the squalor. She makes it clear to a couple of friendly young women who want to become acquainted and to Nora (Aggie Herring), her father's cook and servant, that she feels she is far above them. Deeply unhappy, she eventually takes her father's advice to treat their neighbors as equals. She fits in after several weeks. She makes friends with boy inventor Dish Lowry and young man William Turner (Kenneth Harlan), a reclusive neighbor. Amy also ends a years-long feud between Irishman Pat O'Shaughnessy (Andrew Arbuckle) and Jew Abram Isaacs (Max Davidson) through good-natured trickery.

When a policeman is alerted by a sore loser to her game of craps in the street, she escapes by hiding under the cloak of newcomer Peter Cooper, who takes a room on the floor above the Burkes'. Unbeknownst to Amy, the new resident is actually her grandfather in disguise, come to see how she is doing. He is initially disgusted with her behavior, noting on paper that she "has become a hoodlum". When Amy takes a sick mother and her children under her wing, she asks Cooper to look after a baby, only to be brusquely rebuffed. Cooper has a change of heart, however, and adopts a whole new, more benevolent attitude, much to Amy's delight. He returns to his mansion a changed man (taking along Dish Lowry).

One night, Amy spots a thief in Turner's room. The intruder flees. Turner informs Amy that it was no thief but an agent of Alexander Guthrie looking for his writings. Guthrie framed him to hide corrupt business practices, resulting in a year in the penitentiary. Amy and Turner break into her grandfather's mansion to try to steal evidence that would prove him innocent, but set off a burglar alarm and are caught. When Guthrie recognizes Amy, he has Turner freed and offers to exonerate him. Afterward, Amy and Turner are married.

Upon the death of her parents, little Hulda find herself sole guardian of her three small brothers. Fortunately, she receives a letter from her wealthy Uncle Peter in Pennsylvania inviting the three orphans to come to America and live with him. Shortly afterwards, Uncle Peter drives to the Port of New York to pick them up, but is injured by an automobile accident and taken to a hospital where he lies unidentified. Uncle Peter's disappearance not only causes distress to the three newly arrived Dutch immigrants, but also to a railroad president, Mr. Walton, who is trying to buy the right-of-way through Uncle Peter's farmland and has only three deals left in which to close the deal. The search for the old man by both Hulda and Mr. Walton's son result in a blossoming romance between the two.

Jang Ji-Goo is a 16-year-old juvenile offender under probation who lives with his only known relative - his grandfather who is sick in bed all the time with severe diabetic complications. To Ji-Goo, home is only a place that stinks with sickness and school, a place to hang out. His only interest in life is his sweet new girlfriend, Kim Sae-Rom. One day, he gets caught after committing burglary with the neighborhood big boys. And without a parent to plead for him, the judge sentences Ji-Goo to the juvenile reformatory while others get lighter penalties.

Eleven months later, Ji-Goo is informed that his grandfather has died. After the funeral, his teacher tracks down Ji-Goo's mom, who he thought was dead but in fact had run away from home after giving birth to him at age 17. Ji-Goo is simply shocked to realize that he has a mother. But after he gets discharged from the juvenile reformatory, he and his young mother try to make up for their time lost. Ji-Goo starts off living together with his mother with high expectations, but he soon realizes that his mother is much too young just like himself and he comes to understand why she had to leave him right after giving birth. But when Ji-Goo falls into a similar situation with his girlfriend, his mother, who he thought would understand is appalled at the news which creates a conflict between the two.

Tong Shan (Donnie Yen) is a doctor who returns from Britain to Shanghai after graduating from medical school. Tong opens a clinic in a poor village in Shanghai to help sick people who cannot afford medical care. However, the Axe Gang, led by Yue Lo-chat, arrives and plans to tear apart the village and build a casino there. Tong and his assistant, Bond (Ruco Chan), protect the village and drive the gang away, angering Yue. One day, Tong meets Yue's younger sister, Yue Siu-sin (Athena Chu), who is mute due to an illness. Tong cures Siu-sin and their relationship grows closer, which angers Yue even more since he is against western medicine. Later, some kids are kidnapped and found dead without internal organs. Tong investigates and discovers that his mentor, Lui Mung, and Yue are the masterminds behind this. Lui and Yue frames Tong and Yue starts a persecution on Tong.

Widower Lee Sang-hyeon lives a quiet life with his 15-year-old daughter Su-jin. But one day she is abducted and raped, and her corpse is found at a derelict public bathhouse. Sang-hyeon is left helpless in the face of his daughter's death, with nothing left to cling on to but his feelings of anger and despair. The investigation into his daughter's death is progressing slowly, so restless and unable to sit quiet any longer, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Sang-hyeon receives an anonymous text message with information on the culprit, including an address where the sender claims Sang-hyeon would find electronic evidence of the crime; when he gets there, he sees a man, Kim Cheol-yong laughing as he watches a video showing Su-jin's rape and murder. Sang-hyeon accidentally kills Cheol-yong in a fit of rage, and upon learning that Cheol-yong had an accomplice, becomes hellbent on finding the second rapist/murderer. Upon examining Cheol-yong's murder scene, Jang Eok-gwan, the detective who leads the investigation into Su-jin's murder, realizes that Sang-hyeon was the killer and sets out on his trail.

Part One

The story revolves around Stan (Planer), a lonely and not-very-intelligent Midlands security van driver and ham radio enthusiast who strikes up a long-distance romance with Frances (French), an ornithologist on expedition to the Falklands with Kathy (Saunders), a lazier woman she detests immensely. One night while trying to contact her, Stan hears the sounds of a violent altercation and becomes convinced that the island is under attack and that Frances' life is in danger.

After his attempts to report his concerns to the police are rebuffed, he and his military-obsessed best friend Billy (Edmondson) decide to rescue her themselves, and hatch a plot to rob a bank that is on their route to finance their expedition. They break into the house of the manager, Max (Coltrane), an alcoholic with a crumbling marriage, and hold his wife Mary (Burke) hostage until he opens the vault and gives them the money; unfortunately, the bank vault has a time lock, meaning it cannot be opened until the next morning and forcing the two would-be robbers to stay overnight. As a consequence, they strike up a friendship with Max, try to help him bond with his wife by cooking them dinner, and thwart the attempts of Rollo (Richardson), a smooth-talking burglar, to steal from him.

Rollo is persuaded to join the bank heist and Max, having been fired from his job and with nothing left to lose, throws his lot in with the robbers as well. The robbery goes well, but their attempt to purchase a jet from British Aerospace to get to the Falklands ends with everyone except Stan arrested and sent to Dartmoor. Resolving to get them out, Stan learns from the widow of an ex-convict that there is an unused tunnel dug as part of a failed escape attempt that has never been discovered leading from Cell 109b to the outside world.

On learning this, at his request Billy is moved into the cell with the tunnel, only to discover too late that it is now also occupied by Randy Ron, a violent prison rapist, while Rollo and Max are moved into the cell next door, a scene of horrific squalor. Breaking into Billy's cell, they rescue Billy from Ron as Stan arrives to lead them through the tunnel to freedom, and the episode ends with the main characters fleeing Dartmoor in an ice cream van.

Part Two: Argie Bargie!

The episode opens with Stan and Frances facing an Argentinian firing squad before General Galtieri (Nesbitt), about to be executed as spies. It transpires that while Stan's initial impression of Frances' life being in danger was mistaken, there was in fact an Argentinian military force hiding on the island, preparing to retake the Falkland Islands. Stan manages to get a stay of execution by telling Galtieri and his men the story of how he reached that point; after the escape from Dartmoor, Stan and his accomplices sneaked about a passenger jet heading to Vancouver by pretending to be the crew, Max having had some limited experience in flying Cessna aircraft "before my first breakdown."

Once in flight, Max is surprised to discover Mary aboard, intending to move to Canada and start a new life; he resolves to try and win her back. After numerous set-backs and calamities on the way, the plane is safely landed on a beach on the island, and Stan and Billy set off to find Frances. They instead find Kathy, who has attacked Frances and left her on the rocky cliffs to die—however, having previously mistaken her for Frances, Stan is unaware of the difference, and Kathy begins to seduce him. Discovering evidence that she is not Frances, Stan confronts her; Kathy reveals herself to be both an Argentinian agent and Galtieri's lover and attacks him. Fighting her off, Stan escapes and discovers Frances on the cliff-edge. While he manages to rescue her, they are discovered by the Argentinians and captured. Billy, having left Stan and Kathy alone to give them some privacy, discovers the Argentinian forces.

Stan concludes his narrative by proposing marriage to Frances, who accepts. Galtieri mocks Stan's story, before suddenly collapsing; Max has infiltrated the Argentinian base posing as a cook and has fed him a poisoned omelette. Billy at that point attacks the camp wearing a Ned Kelly-style suit of armour and firing flare guns at the Argentinians, while Rollo and Mary stage an attack by British forces. Kathy, distraught over Galtieri's death, commits suicide and the Argentinians flee in disarray. Having thwarted the invasion, the group return to Britain as heroes and it is revealed that in light of their actions the Home Secretary has commuted the thirty-year prison sentence that Stan, Billy, Max and Rollo were facing into a sentence of "one year at an easy prison".

Synopsis

Nobody thought the stone was truly cursed... In the view of the robbers who took it, it was just another jewel... But like with all great mystery thrillers, things are not what they appear to be ("The Sher Mountain Killings Mystery (1990) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia", n.d.).

Storyline

When Davey Joe (Jeffrey Rhoe) is hired to take an ancient stone from an old Ranger's castle, he keeps it for himself in the expectation that it would bring him good luck and endless life. However, what follows is a path of mystery and deception. While Davey Joe running away, he hid the cursed stone under Caine’s (Phil Avalon) bed and the possession of gemstone turned over the Caine. Alex (Tom Richards) brings his mute brother Caine (Phil Avalon) on some kind of field trip to Sher Mountain, unaware that Caine has the cursed stone in his hands.

Alex departs with Caine, meanwhile Conrad and Sole bring Davey-Joe to his sister Muriel's place, where he has concealed the glowing cursed stone beneath Caine's bed (Conrad also complains that Davey-Joe could do with a bath). But the stone has vanished, and Caine is now with Alex, carrying the glowing stone, and they're visiting the Sher Mountain Forest ranger (Joe Bugner), who promotes Caine to Junior Ranger. The strange Ranger has pupils that shine an unsettling blue.

Conrad and Sole barged into Muriel and Davey-apartment Joe's in the city. Sole and the Conrad manage to elude Muriel and drive to the Sher Mountain Wilderness Park with Billy in the back car. Sole and Conrad apprehend them and, using Billy as a hostage, threaten Alex and order that he tell the location of the cursed stone. However, Alex kicks Conrad in the balls, and he, Billy, and Caine grab the opportunity to flee the hapless Sole and Conrad. Sole, on the other hand, was able to reclaim ownership of the gemstone. However, this has had a detrimental effect. Ranger returned to take the gemstone. Sole shoots his rifle at the old ranger, but the shots miss as the figure takes back the bag and twists and contorts Sole's arm. Sole tries to run, but blue light streaming down from the heavens captures Sole. He bursts into flames and dies.

The blue light fades back into the skies, and the survivors gather at the ranger station, with Alex informing Davey-Joe that he's in trouble. "Thought I may be," a reflective Davey-Joe says. Muriel finally caught up to Billy, who moans over not being able to pee for three hours, while Alex walks in on Dianne, who rapidly returns to reality (Martin,1990),Martin, V. (1990). Sher Mountain Killing Mystery [Film]. Australia; Avalon Films Corporation. ("Sher Mountain Killings Mystery - Review - Photos - Ozmovies", n.d.).Sher Mountain killings mystery - review - photos. Ozmovies. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2022, from https://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/sher-mountain-killings-mystery#detail

Wendy is unhappy with her life and with her preoccupied husband, Ronnie. She reads Mills and Boon romantic novels and dreams of a new life featuring a dream lover, Jake.

Picking up exactly where "Unwindulax" left off, Jack and Liz have each realized that the 2012 Presidential election will be decided by a group of Northern Florida voters who are devoted fans of Jenna Maroney's latest single, "Catching Crabs in Paradise", and thus Jenna is likely to decide the next president of the United States. Jenna, however pays no attention to politics. To attempt to sway her to their respective parties' side, Liz and Jack hold a formal debate moderated by Jenna. Jack wins the debate not by focusing on the issues but by pointing out that Jenna will be the coolest celebrity in the Republican Party and giving a speech filled with meaningless buzzwords. Liz attempts to convince Jack not to let Jenna endorse anyone, claiming no one should live in a world where Jenna Maroney is the most important woman in America, but Jack rejects her attempts at emotional manipulation.

Utilizing Tracy's penchant for making horrible jokes about recently deceased celebrities, Liz logs him into Jenna's Twitter account and sets him loose, getting her banned from social media before she can endorse Mitt Romney. Jack, meanwhile, finds that he is unable to go through with his plan after witnessing a young girl who wants to be an entrepreneur be inspired by Jenna's success to skip business school and get implants. In the end, Jenna endorses neither candidate, and Liz and Jack settle their differences, each acknowledging that they've rubbed off on one another.

Meanwhile, Pete is attempting to get everyone as excited for this election as they were in 2008. He claims to be genuinely invested in the outcome but it is clear he is really attempting to recreate the moment of Obama's election, where he received an elated kiss from Maria, one of the security guards. No one else is excited by the election, Maria plans to leave work before the results are announced. Pete grows increasingly desperate, even attempting to get Brian Williams to call the election early. He is eventually provoked into a furious rant about how he wants to recreate the moment of the kiss because at the time everything seemed possible and optimistic, and nothing has changed yet. When he makes a last-ditch attempt to prevent Maria from leaving, she kindly tells him to move on before leaving with her boyfriend "Peter Horn", Pete's cooler, luxuriously-haired doppelganger.

In a third subplot, Kenneth receives his absentee ballot from his hometown, and is thrilled to be voting for the first time. However, he is frustrated to learn he doesn't know enough to make many informed decisions about issues on the ballot. He is advised that nobody does, and winds up sending his ballot off (by bald eagle) just before the polls close. He encounters a disappointed Pete, and his enthusiasm about the election prompts Pete to give him a passionate kiss.

Flashing forward to 2012, Teresa and Leo are running from Bloody Face. Bloody Face is knocked unconscious and stabbed, but while the couple attempt to escape, two armed Bloody Faces ambush them leaving mortally wounded. Another Bloody Face appears behind these two Bloody Faces.

Sister Mary Eunice gives Sister Jude a newspaper from 1949, with a story about a missing child that Jude had hit with her car. Mary Eunice announces that ''The Sign of the Cross'' will be shown to calm residents during a winter storm. Eunice then kills a woman who suspected she was possessed. Meanwhile, Dr. Arden inspects a wound on sanitarium resident Kit, who Arden suspects is a Stasi spy, and Lana asks Dr. Thredson to deliver a note to Wendy.

Jude accuses Arden of corrupting Mary Eunice, while he believes it to be Shelley and Jude's lack of control. While a radio announces the approaching storm and strange lights in the sky. Kit's removed implant mysteriously rattles in a jar.

Thredson tells of his visit to Wendy's empty house to Lana. He reports that he believes Wendy to have been murdered due to similarities between her empty house and the scenes of the other Bloody Face murder victims. During the presentation of ''The Sign of the Cross'', Mary Eunice revels in Christian persecution segments, while Shelley, Lana, Grace, and Kit sneak out to begin their escape. Jude searches the ward for the missing suspicious female patient and sees an alien in a lightning flash.

Three escapees giddily reach the outside, but Arden catches Shelley. Grace, Kit, and Lana discuss heading for the main road. The Raspers force the three escapees to return inside the asylum tunnel. Mary Eunice fetches Jude to tell her of the escape. Jude shuts down the movie, and any other future group events.

In his laboratory, after a failed attempt to rape Shelley, Arden informs her that she is being blamed as the instigator of the escape attempt and everyone believes she is outside the asylum. He then reveals he has amputated both of her legs.

Part 1

A woman, identifying herself as Anne Frank, is brought to the Briarcliff asylum. She attacks Dr. Arden after finding him to be similar as the doctor of the Auschwitz concentration camp: Hans Grüper. Later, suspected serial murderer Kit begins to question his memory in a meeting with Dr. Thredson: although he is suspected to have killed many people, including his wife, he does not remember such events.

Thredson suggests that Lana take aversion therapy to cure her homosexuality. Although initially hesitant, Lana's therapy goes badly, and Thredson promises that he will take Lana when his asylum visit is over.

Arden confronts the woman who claims to be Anne Frank, who uses a stolen gun to injure Arden. Upon investigating his laboratory, the woman discovers a disfigured Shelley, who begs Anne to kill her.

Part 2

A man named Jim Brown arrives at the asylum claiming "Anne Frank" is his wife Charlotte, who has become obsessed with Anne's story. He takes her home but later returns her after she tries to smother their baby. Dr. Arden suggests Charlotte be lobotomized.

Kit is asked by Dr. Thredson to record his admission of the murders on tape. He claims this will help Kit believe what really happened, as well as aid any future legal action to permanently commit him and avoid the death penalty. The recording, in conjunction with Thredson's file, is later used in Kit's arrest for the murders.

Jude leaves the asylum after Arden tells her that he is pressing charges against her for allowing a patient to acquire a gun. Arden learns that Mary Eunice had removed the disfigured Shelley from his lab while his wound was being treated at the hospital. Shelley is found in a stairwell near a school playground.

Thredson manages to help Lana escape. At his home, Lana finds a lampshade made from human skin and a secret room with tools and drying skin. Thredson, who is revealed to be Bloody Face, traps Lana next to Wendy's frozen corpse.

At home, Charlotte appears as a normal wife and mother. She has packed away most of the clippings – but a photo shows a young Hans Grüper behind Adolf Hitler.

A group of twelve people on a camping tour of the Rio Grande decide to spend the night in an old ghost town, and an unseen killer begins to dispatch them one by one. On the first night at the stroke of midnight, three of the group are killed in rapid succession: Allen is found hanged; his friends Ross and John both hacked by a cleaver. In the morning, the nine survivors try to leave, but find their three rubber rafts slashed apart by someone (or something) forcing them to spend another night at the ghost town. During the day, two youths on motor dirt bikes arrive and one of the guides, named Jerry, leaves with one of them to get help from a nearby ranch which is over 30 miles away.

At nightfall, Bob takes over as ''de facto'' leader of the group and has them set up traps to try to trap the killer, but the unseen killer seems to evade them every time leaving no evidence, not even footprints. Soon, the unseen killer strikes again by killing Rod, one of the dirkbike youths, by throwing him though a wooden door. Jerry is soon found dead, and Andy is beaten and axed in his face. Bob is decapitated with scythe, while Stan and the overweight, slow-witted Lou are badly are injured in the scuffle.

At the stroke of midnight, a mysterious horse-drawn stagecoach arrives in the ghost town, being driven by a mysterious cowboy who introduces himself as Charlie Winters (Woody Strode). Charlie tells the group that he has been hunting the killer for over 40 years and also claims that the culprit is the ghost of an old sea captain who drove people out of town years ago. The rest of the survivors are wary about trusting Charlie, but soon realize that he may be their only hope of survival.

When Charlie wanders off with no explanation, Rudy takes over as leader of the group and takes the survivors to barricade themselves in a wood shed as the killer tries to break in. Just when Lou is pulled out of the shed and is about to be killed, Charlie reappears and shoots the killer (revealed here to indeed be an invisible force), which then drops the scythe. Charlie then rides away into the night. Minutes later, a ranch owner and his wife arrive on the scene in a pickup truck to greet the relieved survivors.

After years of living in the U.S. with her mother, 13-year-old Libby (Elya Inbar) is sent to Israel to live with her estranged father, Shaul (Gur Bentwich), a hapless inventor who is currently “in-between apartments” (i.e. homeless). Libby's arrival coincides with the outbreak of the 2006 Lebanon War and, in order to provide a home for her, Shaul pretends that they are refugees from Northern Israel so that a wealthy Jerusalem family, who want to extend a helping hand to their fellow citizens, can take them in. Finally in a “normal” household, Shaul and Libby begin to build their father-daughter relationship, but their false identities can't last forever, especially as Libby unleashes teenage fury at the lies permeating her life, those she must tell now, and those she's been fed since childhood.

While Peter (Joshua Jackson) is out collecting gas, he stops in a pawn shop, looking for a necklace to replace the chain they had to use previously from Etta's (Georgina Haig) old necklace. He encounters an Observer who attempts to read his mind, and though Peter employs Etta's advice to mask his thoughts, the Observer does obtain an image of Etta; Peter leaves quickly before he is caught by other Observers and Loyalist forces. Lead Observer Captain Windmark (Michael Kopsa) brings in Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick), warning him of a possible leak in the Loyalist forces, and then considers why Peter purchased the necklace from the shop. Meanwhile, at the lab, Etta restringsj the bullet from her old necklace onto the new chain, which Olivia (Anna Torv) learns is the very same one she kept and that Peter had called "the bullet that saved the world" (as seen in "Brave New World"). Etta admits she took it from their home after her parents disappeared, but otherwise did not understand its significance.

Walter (John Noble) and Astrid (Jasika Nicole) extract another tape for part of Walter's plan, describing the reversibility of particles. The location of the necessary information is lost on a torn part of the tape, but Walter recognizes the story his past self was telling, pointing to a subway station deep inside Observer-controlled Manhattan. Entering Manhattan through the Observer and Loyalist checkpoints would be impossible, but Walter directs them to a secret basement below his lab where he had stored elements from all the past Fringe cases. They look for some way of creating a distraction from these elements.

The suspected Resistance mole is interrogated by an Observer; he reveals the name "The Dove" as an unknown entity who set him up in the Loyalist forces the existence of the lab at Harvard. Etta is alerted to this by an unknown agent, and they are able to re-amber the lab and hide in time before Loyalist forces arrive; to them, the lab remains as if it were still abandoned. Windmark considers that if Etta is able to hide her thoughts from the Observers, perhaps others can.

Walter, Peter, Olivia, and Etta use a chemical developed by David Robert Jones that causes scar tissue to form over facial orifices (as seen in "Ability") which cause the guards at the checkpoint to suffocate, diverting attention long enough to recover the package from the subway tunnel. Once safe, they find the package contains an extremely complex physics equation that Walter cannot understand or decipher. As they review it, Broyles arrives, reunites with his former team, and explains how he was recruited into the Resistance after seeing and recognising Olivia in Etta and learning from her how to block his thoughts from the Observers. Broyles helps to arm them, but they soon find Observers and Loyalists converging on them, following a previously placed tracking device on their car. They give the equation to Broyles and cover his escape before racing off to an abandoned warehouse. As the Observers and Loyalists move in, the group is split up, and Etta is cornered by Windmark. Windmark interrogates Etta to try to understand why Peter gave her the necklace, and determines it's due to love. He then shoots her in the chest.

Peter, Olivia, and Walter regroup and find Etta, dying from the wound. Peter and Olivia try to convince Etta to let them take her out, but she reveals that she has armed an anti-matter device, and dies shortly after returning the bullet necklace to Olivia. The group escapes, while the anti-matter device wipes out many Observers and Loyalist forces (though Windmark manages to escape). They take a moment to mourn their daughter so soon after they were reunited with her.

The show focuses on the Mystery Diners, an organization that goes undercover at specific restaurants at their owners' requests, and sets up undercover stings and unseen surveillance cameras to catch misbehaving restaurant employees in the act.

Beginning in Season 9, ''Mystery Diners'' made changes to its format including the addition of private investigators, new technology, new graphics and opening credits, and advanced equipment. In the opening sequence, Stiles narrates that the changes were made on the pretext that restaurant staff have grown more aware of the show and the company and become more savvy in their scams.

The Consultation

Charles greets the owners with his signature, "Charles Stiles, Mystery Diners" at the episode's beginning. He and one or more of his fellow Mystery Diners meet with a restaurant's owner(s) to discuss the restaurant's problem(s) before opening, or at a neutral venue, and Charles learns of the possible suspect(s). Charles then tells the owner(s) that his team will come after hours to wire the restaurant with hidden cameras and microphones.

The narrator gives details of where the hidden cameras and microphones have been set up (usually with a floorplan graphic presenting a simplified layout of the establishment), and also mentions which Mystery Diners will be going undercover as new staff members or customers. Microphones and cameras are set up only in areas of the restaurant where legally allowed and customers and employees have no expectation of privacy (with restrooms and locker rooms universally excluded from stings), and sometimes are set up outside in patio and 'breakroom' areas of the establishments, whether outside or inside.

The Sting

Charles and the owner(s) operate from a control room setup, usually within an isolated part of the building without easy employee access, or in another nearby building rented temporarily during the sting length. Sometimes, a luton van or similar is hired. A number of large-screen LCD televisions featuring the live camera footage and graphics involving the sting subjects are configured in a multi-screen matrix and a switching system is utilized, along with audio monitoring of the establishment through shotgun microphones. The Mystery Diner decoy employees and customers are wired with hidden duplex two-way communication to Stiles and the control room, either through audible means and/or cameras hidden in common objects such as eyeglasses or other personal effects.

• Usually the owner introduces one undercover team member (who may have already spent some days at the establishment in advance of the sting) to the staff as a trainee waiter. The owner then retires to the control room to watch events unfold. Although the owner(s) are usually the contact, this individual can be acting on their behalf. On several occasions, a subordinate employee or co-partner has contacted Stiles for a sting against an owner accused of neglectful supervision, operation of the restaurant, or theft.
• Several episodes also have Stiles conduct a sting on behalf of owners appraising someone they want to sell their establishment to for their trustworthiness; in all cases, the buyers were proven to have ill intention.
• Others on the team appear as regular diners, charting the progress of service and quality of the food, and generally observing the staff to help reveal what goes on during the restaurant's regular operations.

From Season 9, Charles has also brought in one of his private investigators who shows the owner information he has found while doing background checks on the employees and details that are connected to any illegal activities.

The Confrontation

After seeing enough, the owner goes down and rounds up the staff members responsible for the problems and brings them to the control room to be confronted by Charles Stiles, an event which usually ends with said staff members getting fired and/or occasional law enforcement intervention if a confrontation becomes violent (though several have sighted the sting and quickly flee the building before the confrontation can take place). Otherwise, innocent staff members who prove to have been manipulated by the troublesome staff member are normally spared by the owners. There are also cases in which the staff member is merely reprimanded or quits without allowing the owner to render action against him/her.

Four Months Later or Restaurant Update

During the closing credits, the narrator tells the viewers what has happened, since the recording, to former and remaining employees and anyone else who was involved and reports on the restaurant's current status.

A graphic at the end of each episode states "Certain events may have been re-enacted for dramatic purposes."

The "Four Months Later" update element was dropped as time went on and the segment took on the generic "Restaurant Update" heading, as the program was able to economize their editing process to turn-around an episode in much less time than the earlier seasons.

The Empire of Great Kesh has risen in battle against the western lands of The Kingdom of the Isles on Midkemia while palace coups take place in Roldem and Rillanon, Jim Dasher's intelligence network has been dismantled and minor noblemen threaten the thrones of the West. Pug and the Conclave of Shadows suspect another player is behind the events.

As Pug and his son Magnus work to unravel the plot to plunge the world into chaos, they discover an island civilization of Pantathian serpent men, and are startled to find that these Pantathians have a refined culture and social structure, unlike any they have encountered before. Deepening the mystery is a mysterious energy matrix that Pug and Magnus feel certain they must decipher.

Hal, now Duke of Crydee after his father's recent death, though he is not initially aware of this fact, is given the task of protecting Princess Stephané of Roldem, along with his friend and rival Ty Hawkins of Olasko, and Stephané's bodyguard Gabriella, as they flee Roldem following a coup attempt. Along the journey, Hal and Stephané begin to fall in love, though Hal knows his rank and station would never allow them to be married. Meanwhile, Kesh has pushed the Kingdom armies in the West to the strategic city of Ylith, where Hal's younger brothers Martin and Brendan try desperately to hold the city against the siege.

Child and Belog, two demons from the fifth circle of Hell, having been mysteriously implanted with the memories of Miranda and Nakor – Pug's slain wife and close friend, respectively – have assumed Miranda and Nakor's forms as well, and seek out Pug and the Conclave in order to assist with the looming crisis. Along the way, they find themselves in Ylith, where they aid the Kingdom in its defense, and are joined by the elf prince Calis and Arkan, a dark elf also seeking Pug. After Ylith's immediate future is secured, the four make their way to Sorcerer's Isle and eventually reunite with Pug and the Conclave, though because of their true nature, the reunion is strained, especially for Magnus.

In the war between Kesh and the Kingdom, a truce is called suddenly, and their rulers gather in Roldem to discuss terms. At the evening's banquet, though, shadowy supernatural assassins known as Death Dancers are unleashed, and only the skills of Hal, Ty, Jim Dasher, and his Roldemish counterpart and lover Lady Franciezka are able to save the rulers of the three nations. Agreements are reached, and the rulers return to their kingdoms, but King Gregory of the Isles, already in poor health, dies with no heirs, leading to a potential war of succession, and puts Hal's life in danger as a cousin to the king.

Meanwhile, the magicians' combined efforts are eventually able to make progress with the matrix, but when they delve too deep, they set off a trap, creating a cataclysmic release of energy, obliterating the island and everyone on it, and summoning every dragon on the world from their slumber.

Nathalie, a young attractive woman is in love with a young attractive man, François. He proposes and they marry (portrayed in something resembling a ‘dream’ sequence), honeymoon, and are immediately pressured by family to have children. Nathalie takes a new job, hired partially because her new boss is sexually interested in her. One day, François goes out to jog and is killed in a traffic accident. Nathalie is devastated.

After wallowing in pity from the tragedy for several days, she collects most of François' stuff (reminders of him) in their apartment and tosses it into the garbage. Her friends and family are very concerned about her. She eventually returns to work, exciting her (married) boss as to her new ‘availability’. Time passes. On the job for three years and focusing solely on her work, she has gone without any other romantic relationship. One evening her boss takes her to dinner to celebrate getting a big contract and he hits on her. She is not attracted to him, and tells him so, but that they can still respect each other and work together.

One day at work, Markus, a subordinate on her work-team (unseen until now) enters her office to discuss a case, and she, in a trance-like state, just walks up to him and passionately kisses him. He is pleasantly stunned, and later leaves work confident and happy, passing several beautiful women in the street as they (in his mind) ‘ogle’ him. That night, he thinks about what happened and tries to imagine what Nathalie is doing.

His confusion about this incident is because he is a native Swede (who has worked in France the past 15 years, with his parents living nearby), balding, an average looking guy, maybe 40 years old, and cannot possibly imagine why someone like Nathalie would be interested in someone like him.

The next day at work he asks Nathalie why she kissed him, and she seems to not remember. She tells him she must have been ‘elsewhere’ and to forget it. He tells her he cannot. She says her behavior was inappropriate and that she was daydreaming, and he leaves her office. She tells her friend about the exchange. The first thing her friend asks her is "Is he hot?"

The next day at 5 pm at work Markus goes to see Nathalie and kisses her; she is surprised, but then enjoys kissing him, as they embrace. He leaves, and she goes to find him. They talk and agree to go to dinner. They seem to connect well. Markus still cannot believe this is happening.

They go to a play together a few nights later. As he walks her home, he realizes he is falling in love, and tells her that, and that it's "ridiculous" and he doesn't want to get hurt, then runs away, leaving Nathalie puzzled.

The next day at work Markus purposely ignores her, to her annoyance. Nathalie lets slip to her assistant that they went to see that play, and office gossip about them being a ‘couple’ soon spreads. Nathalie goes to find Markus and tells him she enjoyed being together, but he still ignores her. Later that day, at an office birthday party for the assistant, Nathalie confronts Markus about his attitude in front of everyone, leading to further gossip. They reconcile, and he gives her a particularly sentimental gift. Later, Nathalie goes home to her father and cries.

Nathalie and Markus go on another date, where a guy openly hits on Nathalie, not believing she would be with a guy like Markus, and Markus and he fight. The next day at work, her boss asks about her new relationship, hinting at his disapproval, and infuriating her. The boss then calls Markus into his office to talk to him; they later have dinner, so the boss can figure out what Nathalie sees in Markus, discovering he is just a nice guy and a ‘poetic’ thinker. Markus puts the drunken boss into a cab, then goes to meet up with Nathalie at her friend's home, where there is a small party occurring. Nathalie is happy to see him and to introduce him to her 'crowd', but they, all ‘attractive people’, cannot see what she sees in him, either. Markus is very uncomfortable at this, and Nathalie senses that, so they leave and go home to her place, where they just fall asleep in separate chairs, holding hands. At breakfast they talk about the "relationship" they are not having, which everyone else thinks they are in, and her annoying boss.

At work she confronts her boss about his meeting with Markus. Her boss calls Markus an "ugly, insignificant guy", and she tells him off. After further insulting words are put forth, including a comment about her ‘unfaithfulness’ to her deceased husband, Nathalie walks out, ignoring a major project meeting. She drives to the countryside where she grew up and where François was from too, even though they did not know each other then. Nathalie phones and then picks up Markus in a small town, and takes him to the cemetery where François is buried, but it is locked. Then, in the pouring rain, she takes him to her grandmother's home, where they are both warmly welcomed, and her grandmother is impressed by Markus, as she tells Nathalie, "He is a good man."

That night, after a simple soup dinner, they consummate their relationship. The next morning in the garden, as Markus plays hide-and-seek with Nathalie, he imagines her in various phases of her life in that garden, and hides amongst the many ‘hers’. Nathalie, counting, looks contented, enigmatically and wryly smiling into the camera.

During the 1982 Lebanon War, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed, a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Israeli air attack, agrees to help Yoni escape and lead him out of the city if Yoni will get him over the border and back to his family's ancestral village, where Fahed intends to plant an olive tree that his father had been tending in Beirut. As they embark on a hazardous road trip across the war-ravaged country, Yoni and Fahed move from suspicion and mutual antagonism to a tentative camaraderie as they make their way closer to the place they both call home.

"Tin Soldier" tells the story of Maris, an ex-soldier who, following wounds sustained in battle, has received cybernetic implants that, as a side effect, slow his aging to "about five years for every hundred" (he is 115 years old as the story begins, though physically he looks "about twenty-five"), and Brandy (short for Branduin), a female starship crew member.

Maris has started a bar named "Tin Soldier" in the spaceport town of New Piraeus. None of his customers know his real name and call him "Tin Soldier" – or "Soldier" for short – after his bar.

Only women are allowed to crew starships since male bodies cannot handle the stresses of space travel. Since trips between star systems require decades (while the female crew do not age due to relativistic effects), Soldier does a brisk business among starship crews because, apparently never ageing, he is the only familiar face they can see, decade after decade, whenever they come into port.

Brandy is "maybe eighteen" and assigned to her ship which only visits Soldier's planet every 25 years, when she first meets Soldier. Because of the relativistic effects of space travel, she only ages a few years between visits, while Soldier ages even less.

The novella follows the relationship that develops between two people who fall in love, but through circumstances can only see each other for a few days every 25 years.

Flashing forward to 2012, Leo and Teresa attempt to escape Bloody Face while in the Briarcliff mental institution. Leo is stabbed multiple times while Teresa hides in a room, where Bloody Face pounds on the door.

Wendy becomes regretful of her decision to sign her partner, Lana, over to the Briarcliff Manor Sanitarium, resolves to recant her signature and free Lana. Before she can, Bloody Face kills her in her own home.

At Briarcliff, Lana states that she remembered what happened to her, prompting Sister Jude to ask Dr. Arden to give Lana electroshock treatment. Jude is disturbed by the violence of the treatment. Lana continues to secretly document her experiences, now doing so because her memory is impaired by the electroshock. Lana reveals to Grace that she knows of an escape route, of which they plan an escape. Meanwhile, Kit is deemed insane by a state psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson.

Jude visits Jed, a violent teenager who has been brought to the sanitarium. Monsignor Timothy Howard and Father Malachi decide to perform an exorcism on Jed. As the exorcism begins, the possessed boy reveals details about each of the participants' lives and flings objects around the room. The exorcism causes a power outage, allowing Lana and Grace to escape. Grace wishes to bring Kit with them and goes to retrieve him, but Lana disagrees with her. They separate as Grace and Kit try to escape, and Lana screams for the guards, ruining their chance at escaping.

Meanwhile, Dr. Arden hires a prostitute to dine with him. While she is changing, she discovers photographs of bound and mutilated women. Dr. Arden finds her with the photos and blocks her exit. The prostitute attacks Arden and escapes.

The possessed Jed goes into cardiac arrest. Before he dies, he stares directly at Mary Eunice, who is flung backwards and knocked unconscious. The next day, Dr. Arden visits her, and Eunice acts mysteriously when he leaves.

Lana is brought into Jude's office. Jude tells her that she understands the sacrifice Lana took to sabotage Kit and Grace's escape, and as a reward, allows her to watch the two receive a caning for their escape attempt. Lana is disturbed by the spectacle and apologizes to Grace, who scorns her. Before Grace can be caned, Kit offers to accept both of their punishments instead: Jude then begins to cane him.

A bamboo cutter named Sanuki no Miyatsuko discovers a miniature girl inside a glowing bamboo shoot. Believing her to be a divine presence, he and his wife decide to raise her as their own, calling her "Princess". The girl grows rapidly, earning her the nickname from the village children. , the oldest among Takenoko's friends, develops a close relationship with her.

Miyatsuko comes upon gold and fine cloth in the bamboo grove the same way he found his daughter. He takes these as proof of her divine royalty and begins planning to make her a proper princess. He relocates the family to the capital, forcing the girl to leave her friends behind, and the family moves into a mansion replete with servants. The girl is saddled with a governess who is tasked with taming her into a noblewoman. The girl struggles with the restraints of nobility, yearning for her prior life in the countryside.

When she comes of age, she is granted the formal name . Miyatsuko holds a celebration, where Kaguya overhears partygoers ridiculing her father's attempts to turn a peasant girl into a noble through money. Kaguya flees the capital in despair and runs back to the mountains, seeking Sutemaru and her friends, but discovers that they have all moved away. She passes out in the snow and awakens back at the party.

Kaguya grows in beauty, attracting suitors. Five noblemen attempt to court her, comparing her to mythical treasures. Kaguya tells them she will only marry whoever can bring her the mythical treasure mentioned. Eventually, spring comes, and the Princess wishes to see the cherry blossoms bloom. Her mother and one of her handmaidens take her back to the country, where not far from the hut she once lived, a tree is in bloom. Reveling in its bursting forth with life, she happily whirls amid its petals, until she accidentally stumbles across a small child. The family of the child quickly takes it away, bowing in her presence, reminding the Princess of who and what she is now.

Returning to the capital, the cart the group is in finds itself stuck, when a ruckus is heard outside. Kaguya notices several men running through the streets, and upon seeing one of them, recognizes Sutemaru. Unable to contain herself, she cries out to him, but upon realizing her station in life, quickly retreats into the carriage as it drives off. Sutemaru attempts to go after her, but is beaten for his attempts, as Kaguya cries.

Two suitors attempt to persuade her with counterfeits, the third abandons his quest, and the fourth gives Kaguya a flower instead of his treasure, but is found by his wife before Kaguya can accept. When the last suitor is killed in his quest, Kaguya becomes depressed. The Emperor takes notice of Kaguya's beauty and tries to kidnap her but she convinces him to leave.

Kaguya reveals to her parents that she originally came from the Moon. Once a resident there, she broke its laws, hoping to be exiled to Earth so that she could experience mortal life. When the Emperor made his advances, she silently begged the Moon to help her. Having heard her prayer, the Moon restored her memories and said she will be reclaimed during the next full moon. Kaguya confesses her attachment to Earth and her reluctance to leave; Miyatsuko swears to protect her and begins turning the mansion into a fortress.

Kaguya returns to her home village and finds Sutemaru. The two profess their love, and in their joy, they fly over the countryside, only to encounter the Moon and fall. Sutemaru wakes up alone and reunites with his wife and child, interpreting the experience as a dream.

On the night of the full moon, a procession of celestial beings led by the Buddha descends from the Moon, and Miyatsuko is unable to stop it. An attendant offers Kaguya a robe that will erase her memories of Earth. She is granted one last moment with her parents before an attendant drapes the robe around her, appearing to erase her memory. They leave, and Miyatsuko and his wife are distraught. Kaguya looks back at Earth one last time, and cries as she remembers her mortal life, which is now only a dream to her.

A cocaine deal in Miami is interrupted by a group of motorcycle-riding ninjas led by Yashito, who steal the drugs and ride back to Orlando to party. At a club, Yashito's close associate, Jeff, sees his sister Jane onstage. She has become romantically involved with John, the bassist of the club's band, Dragon Sound, which consists of an ethnically diverse group of five men who are best friends. They live together, train Taekwondo together, attend University of Central Florida together, and are all orphans. Jeff disapproves of his sister's relationship with John and confronts him at school, but Mark, rhythm guitarist of Dragon Sound, and Taekwondo instructor and father figure to the other band members, stands up to him.

Another band confronts the owner of the club over his hiring of Dragon Sound, but gets beaten up. The band leader brings a large group of rowdy guys to Dragon Sound directly and fights them in the street, but Dragon Sound defeats them with Taekwondo. Consequently, the rival band enlists the help of Jeff, who summons Dragon Sound to fight at a train depot, but he and his gang are badly defeated by Dragon Sound's superior martial arts skills. Jeff tries again by kidnapping Tom, the lead guitarist and singer of Dragon Sound. The remaining band members stage a rescue, wherein they free Tom and accidentally kill Jeff. Yashito is angered by Jeff's death and sets out for revenge.

Meanwhile, the keyboardist of the band, Jim, has revealed that he is searching for his long-lost father. He finally receives word that his father has been located, so the band pools their money to buy him a suit and then heads to the airport. Along the way, Yashito and his gang of ninjas surround Mark, Jim and John and chase them into a park, where they do battle. Jim is critically injured, but John and Mark manage to kill all of the ninjas, and Mark kills Yashito in single combat. At the hospital, Jim survives his wounds and reconnects with his repentant father.

• Time? "In the episode "This is Not Happening".." - maybe "In the eighth season episode "This is Not Happening" " Confusing: "Skinner orders Mulder's body exhumed at a hospital, .." - Isnt Multer buried? Is he buried in a hospital?
• Wording: " a decomposing Mulder—despite all medical knowledge—shows weak vital signs." - "despite all medical knowledge" is not quite right. Maybe: "contrary to all scientific expectations" or "contrary to all rational expectations" etc
• Wording: "and Scully notices that he has two heartbeats while visiting him." -> and while visiting him, Scully notices that he has two heartbeats." may be better
• Explain: "At the FBI, Kersh tries to persuade Skinner to stop investigating Mulder's apparent death, ..." - what is Kersh's motivation for stopping it?
• Who? - " When he leaves Kersh's office and walks down a hallway, rogue FBI agent Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) " - who is walking? Krycek? or Skinner?
• Wording: " him stumble over in pain. " -> "stumble in pain"
• Motivation? - "However, he says that he will only give it to Skinner if Scully does not give birth to her baby." - why?
• Wording: "Scully, however, gets a new lab report, ..." - "new" can probably be deleted.
• Better words: "After Scully reveals the truth to him, .." - "truth" could probably be better: we dont know what truth is. Maybe "After Scully tells Dogget about the genetic transformation ..." or similar.
• Wording: " Doggett later catches Skinner nearly removing Mulder's life support; .." - would it be more accurate as " Doggett later catches Skinner attempting to remove Mulder's life support; .."?
• Better word? - " but Doggett argues that they are unreasonable. " - Hmm. I haven't seen the show, but is there some more precise way to describe the argument that Dogget used, like: Krycek is bluffing, or it is unethical to kill Mulder, or that they could steal the vaccine from Krycek, or ???
• Detail? - "Krycek nearly runs him down with a car, smashing the vaccine on the ground as Doggett races to save it.." - Did Krycek throw the vaccine on the ground? or what?
• Define: "..t, Mulder will die or become a hybrid." - Was "hybrid" defined earlier in the article? if not: define now.
• Wording: "They laugh, to which Mulder asks, "Did anybody miss me?" and Scully responds with tears" - "to which" is not quite right. Maybe "They laugh, and Mulder asks Scully, "Did anybody miss me?" to which she responds with tears"

''Bealby'' is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the ''nouveau riche'' couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor. Bealby's week-long "holiday" has three phases.

First, he is taken up by three women in caravan, one of whom, Madeleine Philips, is a well-known actress whose beauty inspires in Bealby an adoring infatuation. Miss Philips is also the lover of a Captain Douglas, a guest at Shonts who has been wrongly blamed for wrecking the weekend party there. Captain Douglas believes he must capture Bealby and use his testimony to exonerate himself in the Lord Chancellor's eyes, but when Bealby gets wind of this he flees—not, however, before accidentally wrecking the party's bulky, yellow caravan.

Bealby then falls in with Billy Bridget, an amoral tramp who takes his money and persuades him to abet a burglary. This goes awry, and Bealby runs away. But when he buys a meal in Crayminster he is recognized as a runaway. Bealby escapes, but not before the attempt to catch him has wrought havoc in the town.

Bealby's spirit of revolt is by now thoroughly cowed, and when he chances upon Captain Douglas, who has been looking for him, he offers no resistance. Douglas takes him to London, but through no fault of Bealby's the effort to exonerate the captain in the eyes of the Lord Chancellor fails miserably.

The novel concludes with Captain Douglas renouncing his passion for Madeleine Philips and a contrite Bealby returning to Shonts and telling his mother he is willing to "'ave another go" at a career in domestic service.

A water-borne virus has led to a widespread outbreak of zombies in San Francisco. A group of survivors, including Dr. Lynn Snyder (Mariel Hemingway) and others, create a refuge on Alcatraz Island. Snyder receives communications from Dr. Arnold (French Stewart), a scientist conducting experiments to create a cure for the virus. Meanwhile, Dr. Dan Halpern (LeVar Burton), another of the refugees, is studying parts culled from the bodies of the zombies, but he is unable to make much headway because he only has access to 'dead' zombies. His research is further hindered when Caspian (Danny Trejo) and other refugees burn the zombie corpses being stored on the island.

A horde of zombies are washed onto the island by the tides, causing panic in the camp. While they are defeated, many of the refugees are killed, and two are infected by the virus, one of them being Halpern's daughter, Julie (Kerisse Hutchinson). The survivors decide to set out for the mainland, while Halpern stays to study the two infected victims. Later in the film, Halpern is forced to kill himself by detonating a grenade when his daughter bites him, before the virus can claim him as well.

The group on the mainland splits in two because of conflicting goals. Snyder wishes to find Dr. Arnold, as she believes he has found a cure, while Caspian's group instead wants to find supplies and ultimately reach what they believe to be an evacuation point. Caspian and several others are soon infected, and the group's numbers dwindle. It is eventually revealed that the 'evacuation point' has already been overrun by the zombies, rendering escape seemingly impossible.

As the group siphones gas from a car, Ashley commits suicide on a trolly by rolling it down the street colliding with a bus.

The last survivors of the group - Snyder, Kyle (Chad Lindberg) and Marshall (Ethan Suplee) - discover Dr. Arnold's refuge, the water treatment plant where the outbreak began. Arnold reveals that he has indeed discovered a cure, based on his tests on animal subjects. As the five flee for a chopper on the roof of the plant, both Kyle and Marshall are attacked, but Arnold's vaccine saves them. The group escapes the city, and Arnold requests a laboratory to manufacture his cure, expressing optimism that anything is possible.

The film dates back to critical points in Finnish history, until 1906, when a new law guaranteeing universal and equal suffrage was enacted, and until 1907, when the Finnish people went to the parliamentary election for the first time to draw a "red line." The main characters are Romppainen's couple, Topi and Riika, who live in a backwood cottage with their five children. The knowledge of the election and the hope for change will bring faith to the future of the poor family at Christmas.

After returning to Copenhagen, a sailor discovers that his wife has died a few days before shortly after giving birth. He now tries to bring up the child, with the help of a young woman he has met.

In the 1940s, two outlaw brothers kidnap their wealthy 14-year-old second cousin, but things get complicated when her chaperoning nun refuses to abandon her charge.

Whilst on their way to a rodeo festival Lucy (Angela Kennedy), Nick (Richard Morgan) and Bronco's (Brett Climo) car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town. The odd-ball locals send them to Sir Alfred's house on the top of hill where once inside things become even weirder. Sir Alfred's wife seems quite deranged, his daughter almost psychotic and his son is extremely eccentric. After becoming separated, Lucy, Nick and Bronco are taken on a surrealist journey through the mansion, which is still decorated with Christmas decorations. The scenes in the house are shot in blue-tones, characters are able to climb on walls, people are told to "follow the bouncing ball", doors suddenly vanish and there is a music-video style performance by a band at one point. The three friends must band together to find a way out of this haunted house and rid the town of this un-dead family once and for all.

A woman becomes obsessed with her best friend's husband and seeks to remove all obstacles between them, including his young son.

After the reclusive and bookish scholar Vasily Ordynov is compelled to leave his apartment he wanders aimlessly through Saint Petersburg, contemplating his despair over a loveless life, his childhood and his future. Through this distraction he finds himself within a church, where he notices an old man, Ilia Murin, with his young wife, Katerina. His fascination for the couple, particularly Katerina, causes him to contrive further encounters, with the intention of securing a lodging at their home. He becomes their house guest. The gloomy Murin is a perceived Old Believer, with powers of clairvoyance that have perturbed his neighbours and the local police, and which appear to control his wife. Katerina implies that Murin was her mother's lover, that she might be Murin's biological daughter, and that the pair ran-off together after he killed her father. There is an unresolved suggestion that Murin caused the death of Katerina's fiancé during their escape.

Ordynov develops a passion for Katerina, which she reciprocates after nursing him through delirium. While in delirium Ordynov, in dream or reality, spies on Murin who has taken to his bed through illness and is recounting tales to Katerina – he rushes into Murin's room; Murin's attempt to shoot Ordynov with a gun, misses. Ordynov tries to convince Katerina of her need to detach herself from Murin physically and psychologically, and believes he has overcome her reluctance to do so when he hears her sing a song of love and freedom. Katerina offers wine to Ordynov and Murin as she considers her choice. Murin uses the language of prediction and psychology to show any choice as futile, as Katerina is predestined by her sex to be a captive of a master and her own grief. Ordynov now fully believes that Murin is a sorcerer and that Katerina is his slave, as she herself believes. Using Murin's argument, he offers to buy Katerina, to effect her liberation. Murin indicates a veiled threat that the price would be bloodshed for both buyer and goods. Fearing a lost cause, Ordynov intends to kill Murin, but fails as a knife falls from his hand and as Katerina falls at her husband's feet.

Murin afterwards explains to the police that both Katerina and Ordynov are weak and would hand back freedom if it were given; that she needs the control of a master, and he couldn't kill a stronger man even with the means to do so.

The game begins in the present day, when Carmen Sandiego breaks into ACME Timenet headquarters in San Francisco and steals a time travel device called the ACME Chronoskimmer. Carmen sends her V.I.L.E. villains to travel through time and steal historical treasures, thereby altering the course of history. She also provides them with a note detailing where to hide before she picks them up.

After the theft, the Chief greets the player and explains the importance of recovering the device and restoring history, as well as the Chronoskimmer's safeguard mechanic of leaving time tunnels behind. The Chief sends the player on a series of missions to stop Carmen and her crooks. After the ninth case is solved and all the crooks are incarcerated, Carmen Sandiego uses the Chronoskimmer to bail them out and commit more thefts in history. After reinforcing the prison, the Chief sends the player to recapture the crooks and catch Carmen once and for all. After the player finishes recapturing the crooks and restoring history, Carmen Sandiego lets the player retrieve the Chronoskimmer then goes through time, until she returns to the present to steal her personal dossier from ACME HQ. After a chase by all five Good Guides, Carmen Sandeigo is caught and incarcerated.

Once the player is successful, the Chief lets them in on top secret information: Carmen Sandiego was once an ACME agent but felt the challenge of catching crooks was too easy so she became a villain to outsmart her former colleagues. She aimed to delete a detailed dossier about her transition, which is thematically linked to her desire to delete the memory of history's greatest figures and achievements (dubbed "Project: History Sweep"), under the pretense of simply "stealing history's greatest treasures." Though unstated in the game, it is implied that Carmen Sandiego only ordered her henchmen to steal these items as a decoy to ensure the ACME headquarters was completely empty while all agents were cleaning up her trail of historical messes.

Elizabeth and Bertrand are typical representatives of Parisian society. Behind the facade of a perfect marriage is dissatisfaction and boredom. He is a successful real estate agent having fun with much younger women or men behind the back of his wife. She suffers under the crushing uneventful life of a housewife and looks forward to a family holiday with daughter Emily. Bertrand backs out at the last minute and sends in his place Julie, Elizabeth's best friend and his former lover. He is free for a new love affair in Paris. The neighbors, Véro and Jérôme have very different problems. Jérôme is unemployed and collects gas meters. He hides his feelings of failure from Véro and son Loic. Since Véro wants to keep up with the neighbors, both families end up in the same resort. Numerous mistakes, misunderstandings and surprises are inevitable.

After suffering severe coughing fits, John Constantine checks himself into a hospital. There he is diagnosed with advanced terminal lung cancer, and told that he has only a short time to live. Upon hearing this, Constantine determines to cure it and save himself, knowing that his soul is damned and Hell is set to claim it upon his death.

John visits a friend and fellow mage in Ireland named Brendan Finn for help. Upon arriving, he learns that Brendan cannot help him, and that he too is dying. Disappointed, John and Brendan decide to spend their remaining time drinking together. Brendan tells John the secret of how Jesus turned water into wine. He leads John to the cellars, where he changes a pool of holy water into Guinness. The two get drunk together and share one final drink as Brendan passes away. As John leaves, he has his first meeting with Satan, known as The First of The Fallen, who has come to collect Brendan's soul.

The First tells Constantine that Brendan sold his soul in exchange for the largest wine collection in the world, and that he agreed to the deal because he finds a hopeless drunkard like Brendan amusing. The deal decreed that the First must collect Brendan's soul at midnight the day he died, or the deal would be null and void. The First suspects that Brendan may have been trying to cheat him due to the fact he hid himself inside an undetected holy place. Angered by the discovery, John attempts to save his friend's soul from being dragged into Hell. Five minutes before midnight, he invites the First for a drink, offering him a glass. Unbeknownst to the First, the drink is actually holy water that has been transformed into alcohol. The First drinks it and is poisoned. With the First in a weakened state, John mutilates him with a shattered bottle and sends him back to Hell. With Brendan's soul failing to be collected within the allotted time, his soul is sent to Heaven instead of Hell, thus saving him from eternal damnation.

John then seeks to enlist his demonic ally Ellie's aid in his search for a cure. Ellie reveals that the First is furious with John and that upon Constantine's death, his soul will be claimed by Hell and tormented like none before it. Now understanding that he cannot afford to die, John crashes a gentlemen's club and seeks aid from the Angel Gabriel. John reminds the angel of his debt to the conman, but Gabriel is unfazed. Believing that no mortal can issue orders to an angel, Gabriel rebukes him, saying that he deserves Hell for all the mortal sins he's committed. Realizing that he can only rely upon himself, John sets about saving his own life, though only after stopping to give his goodbyes to his lifelong friend Chas Chandler and to an old man and fellow cancer patient whom John has befriended.

On the eve of his death, Constantine sells his soul to the other two Lords of Hell, Azael and Beelzebub, doing so separately such that each believes himself to be the only one who has claimed John's soul. As John dies, the First of the Fallen arrives to taunt John during his dying minutes. The First, however, is shocked when the other two lords also arrive to claim John's soul. The three lords are faced with a dilemma: If Constantine dies with all three lords claiming ownership of his soul, they will be forced to go to war for it, causing unbalance in Hell and creating an opening for Heaven to attack. However, each of the three lords is too proud to simply cede John's soul to the others; surrendering a deal is seen as humiliating, and all three wish to uphold their reputation. Unwilling to accept either outcome of John's death, the three decide to heal him of his cancer. Once the healing is complete, John taunts the Lords of Hell, flipping the First of The Fallen the finger.

Gérard Barbier was a clothing salesman. Dismissed because he defended a child caught stealing boots, he decided to become a teacher. Once at school, he realized that this teaching profession is not quite as he had seen it.

Viruta and Capulina are two painters who work painting skyscrapers. One day, while lunching on a scaffolding, Capulina accidentally spills paint onto a policeman down under and he decides to escape by walking off the scaffolding. He falls, but he rapidly holds on to Viruta as he tries to stand against a window. On the other side of that window, a man named Lorenzo stabs a certain woman meanwhile his lover Carmina is watching. As Capulina stands next to the window, Lorenzo and Carmina see him as he tells them that he has "never seen death from up close". Lorenzo, believing that Capulina has witnessed the crime, searches for his gun meanwhile Capulina achieves safety when Viruta hauls the scaffolding downward as he picks him up. As both Viruta and Capulina get out of Lorenzo's reach, they encounter the policeman to whom they spilled paint who fines them two-hundred pesos as punishment.

After another incident with a painting, Capulina decides to become an artist instead of a painter as he confirms his occupation's danger. Viruta and Capulina also visit a nearby artists' club where they meet two beautiful art students, Diana and Julia. Both Diana and Julia study art at the studio of Diana's father, an Italian art professor. Viruta and Capulina manage to negotiate a deal with the professor in order to receive art classes. As a result of the negotiation, Viruta and Capulina paint the walls of various rooms within the studio.

This story is about a genius who failed in life.

Minnie (Harding) runs the Polka saloon during the days of the California Gold Rush in California, and lives on the money brought in by the drinking and gambling at her establishment. She is highly respected by the miners who live in the area and they protect her and see to it that no harm comes her way. Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson (Rennie), who mysteriously rides into town one day. Minnie does not know that he is a notorious road agent who is being sought after by the agents of the Wells Fargo express. Instead, Minnie believes that Johnson is a miner.

Jack Rance (Banister) is a sheriff in love with Minnie, but who is rejected by her. Johnson plans to rob the Polka saloon, which serves as a depository for the miner's gold dust; however, he drops his plans to rob the saloon as he becomes attracted to Minnie and falls in love with her. Rance finds out that Johnson is staying with Minnie and heads out to the saloon to arrest him. Minnie denies that Johnson is with her and while he attempts to escape from the saloon, he is spotted and wounded. He manages to escape, however, and Minnie shelters him again once the sheriff has left.

The sheriff comes back once again and Minnie again denies that Johnson is there. Johnson, who is still bleeding, is hiding on the rafters near the ceiling and when drops of blood fall to the floor the sheriff realizes that Minnie has been lying. Minnie then challenges the sheriff to a poker game for Johnson's freedom, as well as her own, and wins, much to the chagrin of the sheriff. Vigilantes approach the saloon and demand that Johnson surrender himself to be hanged. He is given a few moments to say goodbye to Minnie after which he attempts to shoot himself. The vigilantes finally relent after Minnie's pleading and allow Johnson and Minnie to escape. The film ends as we see them on their journey to begin a new life together.

In 1993, Wai Kat-cheung is an underling of Prince. Since Cheung was young, his father was a triad member so Cheung also joined the triad. One time when Prince owed Crazy Ball a HK$3 million debt, Crazy Ball abducted Prince and Cheung rescues him by slicing Crazy Ball's left eye. Although he later became highly regarded by Prince and his status rose, he also had to pay a heavy price. He not only forged a vendetta with Crazy Ball, that night, his wife Cindy also saw him slaughtering and went to help him but was run over by a car.

Cindy's good friend Ruby, who has had a longtime crush on Cheung, helps Cheung take care of his son Tai-hung. Since Cheung is always referred as a bad guy by Tai-hung's classmates which made Tai-hung have violent tendencies toward his classmates and develops serious eccentric sense.

Five years later, in 1998, Cheung and Prince have a partnership in a factory specializing in the production of unlicensed VCD movie discs, Prince was hiding from Cheung and secretly operate a dirty mass production of cocaine. One time while collecting debts, Cheung crushed a man named Chow Tai-man's head and was sued to court and therefore meets defense attorney Sandy. Sandy's boyfriend, Michael has been monitoring Cheung's factory and suspects Cheung of engaging in drug trafficking activities. When Michael knew Sandy was fighting the case for Cheung, he suggested that Sandy abort Cheung's defense but was refused, and later Sandy successfully helped Cheung win the case.

While Cheung looks over his factory with Prince, he also protects Ruby, who works in an entertainment venue. Prince coveted Ruby for a long time and was hindered by Cheung, Prince resents toward Cheung. Finally one time when Prince tried to get Ruby and got into conflict with Cheung, Cheung was seriously injured. Since then, Cheung and Ruby formally start a relationship

One night when Cheung and Sandy were out in the streets, they were confronted by Crazy Ball who came for revenge. Cheung successfully escapes with Sandy on his motorcycle. Afterward, Cheung asked for help in the gang to cope with Crazy Ball, but they refused to help since they considered it to be Cheung's personal enmity.

Sandy learned from Michael that Cheung might be involved in drug trafficking activities, therefore she goes to ask Cheung. Later Cheung goes to the factory to examine and discovers the truth of the gang's long-term drug trafficking. At this moment, Crazy Ball broke into Cheung's residence and holds Ruby and Tai-hung hostage. On his way to save the two, Cheung was arrested by the police for drug trafficking. Although he was released soon, but that night, Ruby was gang raped and Tai-hung lost his eyesight.

Crazy Ball cannot be reconciled for not finding Cheung and in order to continue to take revenge, he killed Prince, which angers the gang leader, Uncle Mei. Uncle Mei sends many henchmen to kill Crazy Ball. Although he was chased by the gang, he finally died in the hands of Cheung. This was witnessed by David, who was an undercover cop planted by Michael. Cheung was wanted for murder Crazy Ball and goes to Sandy for help. Sandy reveals that she loves him and will not let him go to jail. Sandy suggested Cheung to turn himself in so she can defend him, and let Cheung be the tainted witness of drug trafficking case, which leads Uncle Mei to prison.

Michael always wanted to arrest Cheung, but David, who has been undercover for a year, conscientiously gives a favorable testimony of Cheung. In the most critical moment of the last trial, she commissioned another lawyer to be Cheung's defense lawyer, and she transformed into a new witness. She testifies that Cheung is her boyfriend, and during Crazy Ball's murder, they were in her apartment. Her testimony was accepted by the jury and Cheung was finally acquitted. She also felt guilty lying to herself and felt unworthy for her boyfriend Michael.

Outside the courthouse, Cheung catches up with Sandy to express his gratitude to her, and Sandy said they do not fit together, and claims she only did that just to not let him go to jail and tells him to take good care of Ruby and Tai-hung. As they separate, Cheung was unexpectedly killed by Uncle Mei's henchmen on the streets.

A middle-aged couple are hiking through the remote wilderness in the Sierra Nevada, when the wife becomes convinced someone is following them. Shortly after, an unseen assailant attacks the husband with a hunting knife, stabbing him to death. The killer then pursues his wife, and slits her throat.

Some time later, two Los Angeles couples— Steve and Sharon, and Charlie and Teddi—plan a camping trip to escape the city. Sharon and Teddi depart before their husbands, who plan to meet them later that evening. While hiking toward their planned camping spot, Sharon and Teddi find themselves in a sudden thunderstorm, and make a camp at the base of a waterfall. Unbeknownst to them, the ghosts of two young children, John and Jennifer, watch them from a nearby cave. Sharon and Teddi are horrified when an apparition of the children's dead mother appears before them, asking where her children are, before disappearing before their eyes. This causes Teddi to panic. Meanwhile, Steve and Charlie, who have been trailing after the women, become lost as night falls.

The ghosts of John and Jennifer visit their father, John Sr.—a cannibalistic hermit who lives in a cave and hunts hikers passing through the woods—and informs him that they saw two young women camping by the river. When John Sr. leaves to pursue the women, Sharon, who has fallen asleep, is awoken by the ghostly children, who warn her that their "daddy is coming." Sharon flees, leaving Teddi alone at the campsite. John arrives at the camp and stalks Teddi before killing her. Sharon manages to elude John by jumping into the river. Steve and Charlie, meanwhile, seek shelter in John's cave during a rainstorm; they are perplexed to find the cave furnished and with a fire-pit roasting a slab of meat. Moments later, they are confronted by the ghosts of John Jr. and Jennifer before their father arrives. Steve and Charlie are baffled when the children vanish, and John informs them they only "come to visit." John allows the men to stay in the cave, and offers them the meat—which, unbeknownst to them, is in fact Teddi's flesh.

John regales Steve and Charlie with the story of how his wife abused their children, John Jr. and Jennifer, and carried on numerous affairs with men. In the morning, Steve and Charlie separate to search for their wives. While climbing over rocks, Steve falls and breaks his leg. Meanwhile, the ghosts of the children awaken Sharon, warning her that their father is coming to hunt her. She heeds their warning, and flees. Later, the children confront Sharon again, and explain to her that they are in fact ghosts, and that their abusive mother still makes attempts to hurt them beyond the grave. They tell her how their father killed their mother and one of her lovers before fleeing with them into the woods. After some time, the children, depressed and in ill health, committed suicide together, which drove their father into a psychotic state.

As night falls, the children attempt to lead Sharon to the injured Steve. Meanwhile, Charlie is confronted by the ghost of the children's mother before John attacks him. The two get into a violent fight, but John manages to kill Charlie. In the morning, Sharon stumbles across John butchering Charlie's corpse. John threatens to kill Sharon, but the ghosts of the children persuade him not to, telling him Sharon is their friend. Sharon eventually stumbles across the injured Steve, who is being pursued by John, but Sharon manages to ambush John, stabbing him to death. The ghosts of the children bid Sharon and Steve farewell. Moments later, their mother's apparition appears, asking where they are, but she vanishes when Sharon tells her they are gone.

At the beginning of the summer, Heather arrives in a small unnamed town to stay with her grandmother, Maude Chalmers, whose house—a former funeral home—has recently been converted into an inn. Maude's husband, James, an undertaker, has been missing for several years, and she has been forced to make a living selling artificial flower arrangements in town; she hopes to supplant her income by opening the home to traveling guests. Billy Hibbs, a mentally-challenged man, lives with Maude as the property handyman.

Nearby, a farmer named Sam reports an abandoned vehicle discovered on his property, which is traced to a missing real estate developer who had been surveying the area. At the inn on the evening of Heather's arrival, guests Harry Browning and his mistress Florie check in. When Maude realizes the couple are unmarried, she asks them to leave, but they refuse. That evening after having drinks, they drive to a local quarry recommended by Heather; while there, Maude's truck arrives, smashing the back of their car and pushing them into the water below, where they both drown. The same night, Heather goes on a date with Rick, a local teenager, and returns home to hear her Maude speaking to an unseen man in the basement. When she inquires, Maude denies it.

The next day, while Maude is in town, Rick stops by the house. He tells Heather that her grandfather, James, was a known alcoholic, and recounts a story from his childhood in which Mr. Chalmers had locked he and a friend in the funeral home's basement to scare them. The two explore the property while Maude is gone; in the garage, they discover Mr. Chalmer's Cadillac hearse, and Heather finds a necklace with the initials "H.D." engraved on it. That evening, Heather again hears Maude speaking to someone in the basement, this time arguing with a male voice about a woman named "Helena Davis." Heather discovers Helena has been missing for some time, and was rumored to be have eloped with her grandfather. Mr. Davis, Helena's husband, arrives at the house to ask Maude about the alleged affair, which she denies ever occurred. Later that evening, Mr. Davis is murdered with a pickaxe.

The following day while Heather and Rick are swimming in the quarry, Florie and Harry's bodies are discovered. Heather confides in Rick that she believes her grandmother is hiding someone in the basement. That evening, they return to the house. Upon finding that Maude is not home, the two decide to explore the basement. There they discover Billy's corpse, and are attacked by Maude, who, imitating her husband's voice, scolds Heather for coming into the basement. Maude attempts to kill Heather with an axe and she flees through the basement, discovering a hidden room where James's corpse rests in a bed of Maude's artificial flowers. Just as Maude is about to strike Heather with the axe, she lapses out of her dissociative identity. The police arrive at the scene in the basement, and Joe, a local police officer, asks Maude if they can talk about what has occurred. She agrees, so long as she can prepare a cup of tea.

Later, Joe explains to a news reporter that Maude had murdered James and Helena, his mistress, after discovering their affair. After, she preserved James's corpse, and buried both Helena and Mr. Davis in the local graveyard.

Opening Sequence

An electrical storm is featured in a black and white forest.

Event Chronology

The Enchanted Forest events happen after "We Are Both" and before "Quite a Common Fairy". The Storybrooke events happen after "Broken (Once Upon a Time)".

In the Characters' Past

In the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) is preparing to teach Regina (Lana Parrilla) everything she needs to know about magic. It is not as easy as it seems, especially after she struggles to take the heart out of a unicorn. She protests over doing this, but he tells Regina, "Nothing is innocent," before taking the unicorn's heart out himself. He also tells her not even magic will bring her fiancé Daniel (Noah Bean) back to life. The Mad Hatter/Jefferson (Sebastian Stan) later arrives to overhear the two and shows off a crystal ball that Rumplestiltskin has requested. Rumplestiltskin, however, had told the Mad Hatter that he actually needs "the slippers" to enter a realm with no magic, since the Mad Hatter's hat can only travel between realms with magic. Now that they meet for the first time, Jefferson tells Regina he has heard of a "wizard" who can help her bring back Daniel. They travel to see this person, who prefers to be called a doctor. As he examines Daniel's body, the doctor tells Regina that he is an ideal candidate for his "experimental" procedure, though, he still needs an enchanted heart, as normal ones cannot withstand the procedure. Regina lets him pick one from Cora's vault of living hearts. That night, the doctor begins his work on restoring Daniel to life, but announces his failure. This devastates Regina, who returns to being Rumplestiltskin's pupil and demonstrates her readiness by ripping the heart out of his new protégée, crushing it to prove her advancement. It is revealed that Rumplestiltskin was actually in league with the doctor, who exchanged the strong heart for the "monster" he got in Regina, and the Mad Hatter, who allowed him safe passage back to his world, the Land Without Color. Before departing, Rumplestiltskin and the Mad Hatter scoff at the doctor's claims that science is more powerful than magic. Rumplestiltskin bets that the doctor will one day see things his way, much to the doctor's doubts.

It is later revealed that the doctor took the strong heart Regina gave him back to his laboratory, where he hands over the prized possession to his assistant and places it inside the body of the doctor's dead brother so he can bring him back to life. The doctor is revealed to be none other than Victor Frankenstein (David Anders), and that he relies on science, not magic.

In the Enchanted Forest

As Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), Snow White/Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), Mulan (Jamie Chung) and Aurora (Sarah Bolger) return to the island from the castle, the foursome discover that everyone at the camp has been killed and their hearts ripped out by Cora. However, they discover Captain Hook/Killian Jones (Colin O'Donoghue) hiding among the bodies. Hook claims that he was the only survivor and pretends to act like a traumatized victim in an effort to gain their trust. However, Emma is suspicious of his claim, and is convinced that he is lying about the attack. She ties him to a tree and threatens to leave him to the ogres if he does not confess; Hook finally comes clean and reveals his identity along with Cora's plans to travel to Storybrooke. Hook then tells the four women that Cora is searching for an enchanted compass that he will help them find, so they could get back to Storybrooke if they take him back with them. Emma asks him why, and Hook reveals that it is so he can kill Rumplestiltskin. While Snow senses that Hook is using this plan to throw them off, Emma is aware of Hook's deception, knowing that as long as they don't trust him, they won't be surprised if he double-crosses them. The five individuals then prepare for their quest to search for the compass, which happens to be located at the top of an enormous beanstalk.

In Storybrooke

Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein approaches Prince Charming/David Nolan(Josh Dallas), who then punches him for sleeping with Snow White/Mary Margaret. Dr. Whale asks David if there may be a chance that they could find another portal that could lead them to another world, and hopefully find Dr. Whale's missing brother. Dr. Whale suspects that Regina may have the answer. Meanwhile, Regina is visiting Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper (Raphael Sbarge) for a series of sessions to let go of using her magic so she can see Henry (Jared S. Gilmore) again. Dr. Whale bursts into Archie's office and confronts Regina during her session to demand that she send him back to his world so he can find his brother. Regina, however, tells Archie that she only brought along whom she wanted, including the body of her beloved Daniel that she preserved with a spell. Later that night, while driving home in the rain, Regina sees whom she believes is Daniel roaming the streets, then finds his glass coffin empty, leading her to believe that Dr. Whale is behind this. As Regina arrives at the hospital to confront the doctor, she sees him on the lab floor with his arm ripped off. Dr. Whale confesses to Regina that he has brought Daniel back, but he has become a "monster." The following morning, David confronts Regina at the hospital; she tells him about what Dr. Whale did, and David reveals that he knows what Snow White/Mary Margaret did to her that started this immense hatred. Regina suggests to David that the resurrected Daniel is reliving his last thoughts and probably has gone to the stables. Unfortunately, Henry is also there, tending to the new horse that David gave him.

At the stables, Daniel finds Henry and begins to strangle him, believing that Henry is Cora trying to pull his heart out. David and Regina stop him before he can do any harm, allowing Henry to escape. David locks Daniel in the stable; he is ready to kill Daniel with his gun, but Regina insists she can talk to him. She manages to get as far as pulling the "real Daniel" out long enough for him to urge her to stop the pain, and let go of their feelings for each other. Just as he loses control and attempts to kill Regina, she tearfully immobilizes him, then vaporizes him. Later, Regina returns to Archie, confessing that she has used magic. Dr. Whale shows up at Mr. Gold's pawn shop to get his arm reattached. Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold makes him first admit that he needs magic to prove to Whale that magic is superior to science; after he magically reattaches his arm, Dr. Whale thanks him and leaves.

Brody (Damian Lewis) is brought to an unknown location and is alone, handcuffed in a room with cameras watching him. Quinn (Rupert Friend) enters and begins the interrogation while Saul (Mandy Patinkin) and Carrie (Claire Danes) observe from another room. He starts with a line of questioning designed to get Brody to tell a series of lies. Brody denies knowing Abu Nazir's son, and claims he never wore a suicide vest and had no involvement in any plot with Tom Walker. Quinn then shows the video of Brody's confession that they acquired and leaves him alone for a while to think about it. When Quinn returns, Brody readily confesses to knowing and loving Issa, and being angry at Vice President Walden, but denies ever wearing a suicide vest. Brody boasts that nothing happened in that bunker and they have no real evidence on him. When he cannot extract any more information, Quinn explodes in anger and stabs Brody in the hand with a knife. Quinn later explains his actions to Saul as a performance, because "every good cop needs a bad cop."

Carrie takes over the interrogation and begins by shutting off all of the cameras in the room, though Saul and Quinn can still hear the audio. She removes Brody's handcuffs and gets him some water. Carrie then sits down and recaps how Brody wrecked her career and her life, and asks whether he felt any guilt doing it, and whether he had any feelings for her, to which Brody does not answer. She traps Brody in a lie about the confession video, and asks Brody when the last time he told the truth about something was. Carrie says it can be fun to tell the truth, and disarms Brody by blurting out that she wishes he would leave his family and move in with her. She describes how Abu Nazir systematically broke Brody down and rebuilt him, and recounts in detail some of Abu Nazir's past terrorist attacks which resulted in mass civilian casualties, referring to the civilians as "Chrises, Danas, and Jessicas." Carrie correctly surmises that it was a phone call from Dana that kept Brody from exploding the vest. She stresses that behind all of Brody's lies, there is a good man, and that is the Brody she fell in love with. Carrie characterizes Abu Nazir and Walden as "monsters" who will kill innocent people, but that Brody is not such a monster, because he was put in a position to do so but did not explode the vest.

Carrie asks Brody what Abu Nazir's plot is. Brody finally breaks, confessing that Abu Nazir is planning an attack on the U.S., though he does not know the nature of it. He gives up the names of Roya Hammad, his handler, and Bassel, the tailor who crafted the suicide vest. As Brody recounts the various al-Qaeda associates he has had contact with, he realizes all of them are now dead. Later on, Carrie tells Brody his options. He can be exposed publicly, go to trial, and face prison time, or he can use his position to help the CIA anticipate Abu Nazir's planned attack, and nobody will have to know the truth about him.

Finn (Timothée Chalamet) takes Dana (Morgan Saylor) out on a date. Finn speeds away from a red light in an attempt to lose the Secret Service protection following him. The teens laugh as they speed through the streets weaving through traffic. Pulling out of an alley, Finn accidentally hits a pedestrian, seriously injuring her. Finn wants to flee the scene, dreading the consequences if anyone found out what he did, while Dana frantically protests. They drive away when they see another bystander helping the injured pedestrian.

Brody returns home. Jessica (Morena Baccarin) again demands the truth about what Brody's been doing if he is to be welcomed back into their home. Brody tells her that he is working with the CIA "helping out on matters of national security."

The film includes behind the scenes clips of the recording session of Jackson's seventh studio album, ''Bad''. It also features various people that had worked with Jackson during the ''Bad'' era (1986–1989) talking about the production of the album and the tour, acting or starring in some of Jackson's ''Bad'' singles and music videos including Sheryl Crow who was the duet partner with Jackson on the Bad World Tour for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", Siedah Garrett, the original duet artist, talks about her experience with Jackson and many others. There are also interviews with influenced entertainers and artists.

Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.

Bruno Bozzetto's animated satire about two descendants of superpowered beings, known as the Vips. One of these modern day superheroes—SuperVip, to be exact—is easily recognizable as such, possessing an Adonis-like physique, a dynamic personality and an array of heightened abilities. The other—MiniVip—is not quite so prepossessing. His growth is stunted, he wears horn-rimmed glasses, his paunch is wider than his chest, and his powers are a bit more limited than his brother's, being able only to fly through two little wings while emitting a small glow at night that makes him similar to a firefly. But both Vips are needed when a Happy Betty, lady tycoon with a taste for ruling the world, rears her ugly head. The question is, can MiniVip defeat his worst enemy—his intimidated ego—to help save the day?

A talented teenager named Doina is training for an important international piano selection, but the piano is not her real passion and soon she has to choose whether to follow the path everyone else has planned for her or seek her own.

Angel Face's widow kidnaps and poisons Doc McCoy, and unless John does some 'menial' tasks for her, she will leave McCoy to die. These menial tasks inevitably brand Cooper and his friends as criminals, since they involve robbing a bank and stealing a train full of U.S. Army weapons. While Cooper and his team are forced to perform the tasks, they discover that they - as is Mrs. Goodman - are mere pawns for a more dastardly plot: the Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate Chester Alan Arthur, the President of the United States.

The town of South Park discontinues using their "What would Jesus do?" bracelets after learning that traces of performance-enhancing drugs and other illicit substances were found on the Shroud of Turin, leading to the conclusion that Jesus did not suffer for humanity's sins or perform miracles of his own ability, but was merely under the influence of drugs. Stan Marsh, however, controversially refuses to take off his bracelet because he simply likes it and has had it for some time. Though he draws criticism, he also inspires a movement called "Stanground" whose adherents wear bracelets to express nonconformity, independence of thought and authenticity. The movement becomes so popular that Stan becomes a celebrity, and appears in a Nike commercial.

However, Stan is subsequently accused by French scientists of having removed his bracelet and gluing it back together. Though scientific tests confirm this, Stan continues to deny the allegation, labeling the matter a "witchhunt". When Stan goes to the lead French scientist's house to search for evidence to discredit him, he runs into Jesus, who is there for the same reason. Agreeing that the accusations against them distract the public from more relevant issues, such as the plight of farmers in Belarus, the two decide to raise awareness of that problem by going to the P.F. Pityef Bracelet Factory, where they learn, in a sequence featuring rhyme and animation in the style of Dr. Seuss, that such bracelets are called scauses. Orange ones are made for the Belarus campaign, which becomes the number one concern among the public.

Despite the scauses, the Belarusian farmers are slaughtered by their government. The public trades in their now-obsolete orange scauses for more timely ones, and after having profited from South Park consumers' money, P.F. Pityef, the scause manufacturer, leaves town. After Jesus and Stan realize they were duped by the factory, Jesus consumes some human growth hormone, and transforms into a monstrous, muscle-bound version of himself. He destroys the P.F. Pityef Bracelet Factory, and kills P.F. Pityef by sending him through one of his machines. After returning to normal, Jesus tells the public that causes should not be expressed on one's wrists. Instead, he says, they should be expressed on T-shirts: revealing his shirt which reads, "Free Pussy Riot".

The scientist Ludvík Jahn returns to his hometown after two decades away. He is interviewed by Helena, an attractive older woman whom he begins to seduce. Jahn then discovers Helena is married to Pavel, an old rival.

Jahn flashes back to his college days and his love for Markéta, a devout believer in communism. In an attempt to make the humorless Markéta lighten up, Jahn sends her a postcard reading "Optimism is the opium of mankind. A 'healthy spirit' stinks of stupidity. Long live Trotsky! Yours, Ludvík". Markéta turns the postcard over to the Party, however, and Jahn is brought before a Party hearing to answer for his words. Pavel, a friend who had pledged to help him, calls in the meeting for Jahn's expulsion from the college and the Communist Party, and Markéta joins the vote against him.

Jahn then undergoes six years of "reeducation", which are split between prison and army service in Technical auxiliary battalion under a sadistic drill sergeant. While in the army, a true believer of communism Alexej appeals to higher authorities against their treatment; when the man is consequently expelled from the Party, he commits suicide.

In the present, Jahn successfully seduces Helena, motivated more by a desire for revenge on Pavel than attraction to her. Though Helena falls in love with him, he discovers that she and Pavel have long been estranged, and Pavel has a new lover of his own. The only person hurt by Jahn's attempt at revenge is Helena.

Married couple Anna and Marco run a hi-tech automated poultry farm, breeding boneless chickens. Unbeknownst to Anna, Marco is a serial killer, who lures prostitutes to motel rooms before stabbing them. The arrival of Anna's cousin Gabri further fragments the troubled marriage, as she and Marco begin an affair and conspire to run away together. However, Gabri is actually plotting with her husband Mondaini to kill Anna and frame Marco, as they have discovered Marco's secret. When Marco discovers Anna's body in his hotel room, he cleans the crime scene and takes the body back to the farm to dispose of it. What Gabri and Mondaini do not know is that Marco's fixation is not with killing prostitutes, but simply hiring them to role-play murders, letting them go safely and handsomely paid. At the farm, Marco falls into a machine used to grind chicken feed in which he was trying to dispose of Anna's body. When the police arrive, having responded to the "murder" at the hotel and then coming to the farm to investigate Marco's alleged activities, the police focus their attention on Gabri, suspecting her of committing the murder out of sibling jealousy. Gabri and Mondaini are eventually arrested for Anna's murder, as the farm chickens feed on Marco's ground corpse.

Forced by her grieving mother to move from her home in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to the strange "atom bomb" town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Davey no longer knows who to be or how to fit in. Everything that once mattered—the friends, reputations, parties and expectations that fuel high school days—suddenly seems insignificant and Davey is certain no one has the first clue about the turmoil she is going through.

But when she meets Wolf, a mysterious Native American climber exploring the surrounding canyons, she feels he is able to see right into her most wild and secret emotions. Their intense relationship brings Davey back from the edge as she finds the courage to embark on the first great adventure of her life.

12-year-old Ida Clayton (Bailee Madison) lives with her single mother, Elaine (Alicia Witt), but Ida's summer days are boring and full of nothing to do, so she begins sneaking off to rodeos in order to keep herself entertained. Ida's father, a man named Walker whom she never met, is a subject that Elaine refuses to speak about, and is part of the reason why she disapproves of rodeos. When Ida is given the opportunity to tour America with ''The Sweethearts of the Rodeo'', a group of young women who perform at rodeos, Ida takes it, and after several scenes, Elaine approves. Ida quickly befriends the ''Sweethearts'' managers, Terence Parker (James Cromwell) and his daughter, Rebecca (Kathleen Rose Perkins). She sets off on a quest, looking for her father with the help of fellow ''Sweethearts'', troubled, retiring alcoholic, Kansas (Dora Madison Burge), Madison (Leslie-Anne Huff) and Kansas's new lover whom Rebecca disapproves of, Justin Wood (Jackson Rathbone).

Originally entitled '''''Emily''''', it tells the story of a poor, yet cultivated, young woman, Emily Hood, from a small town in the north of England. While serving as a governess to a wealthy country family, she becomes enamored of her employer's son, Wilfrid Athel, and the two are engaged. However, during a visit to her parents' home, she is confronted by her father's employer, Dagworthy, who threatens to expose her father as a thief unless Emily marries him. The situation is resolved when Hood Sr. commits suicide to spare his family the shame of his deeds as he had, indeed, 'stolen' ten pounds from his employer.

Emily rejects Wilfrid, partly out of sympathy for her father, but they meet again, many years later, and are married.

It tells the story of a young, lower-class, Radical working-man, Richard Mutimer, who unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. He becomes the leader of a socialist movement and decides to use his inheritance to set up a cooperative factory. However, his new wealth and power serve to highlight the defects of character that he brings from his working-class origin and he begins to treat his workers harshly, as well as abandoning the girl of his own station to whom he had been engaged.

Later in life, Mutimer marries an upper-middle-class woman (who does not love him) and stands for Parliament. However, his downfall begins when his wife, Adela, finds a later version of the will that had enriched Mutimer. As this could deprive him of his inheritance, he wants to destroy it but Adela will not permit this and the money goes to the rightful heir. The cooperative factory is shut down and the couple move to London, to live in relative poverty.

Mutimer starts another populist movement but is killed by a stone thrown at him by a demonstrator during a meeting at which his followers turn against him.

Frank (Nathan Pidgeon) and his sister Caroline (Agnes Podbielska) accidentally get transported to mythical Attic Town in a world of mystery, adventure and intrigue: Shadowland. The land is ruled and robbed by The Great Syndicate and, while scary Shadows kidnap anyone who is out after dark, the Patrolling Thieves make the daylight miserable for everyone. Not realizing that they shifted in space and time, the siblings split, while looking for directions. Frank meets Donlore (Andrew Guy), a young Patrolling Thief, and trusts this shadowy figure despite his first instincts. Caroline finds herself on a farm outside of town. She soon sets on a journey to find her brother and help him realize his mistake. She has to find him before dark. When the night falls, he will remain one of the dark rulers forever and there will be no way back. In the meantime, the underground opposition of Attic Town begins to revolt.

Journalist Barney Duncan (Barry Newman) discovers that an earthquake on the Australian outback was found to be a small nuclear detonation, and the work of an extortionist who vowed to detonate more devices unless his conditions for blackmail are met.

''Nuclear Union'' was intended as a large-scale role-playing video game, taking place in a post-apocalyptic alternative reality in which the world has survived a nuclear war that broke out after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fifty years after the war, the fragments of the Soviet Union that were hastily brought underground have gradually become a real state with its own capital, a city called Pobedograd.

The game's main protagonist is a former pilot of the Soviet military aviation, who is sent from the underground city of "Pobedograd" in the subsoil of Moscow to the radioactive external surface, for various missions on behalf of the underground government of Pobedograd, including the recovery of advanced Soviet pre-nuclear war technologies and investigating a set of strange and mysterious phenomena that are happening on the outer surface.

The protagonist is depicted as carrying the Korobov TKB-408 bullpup rifle, a Soviet prototype from 1946. According to in-game lore, the Korobov was revived when counter-revolutionary gangs found the documentation and the weapon began appearing in the regions of Ryazan and Tambov; the deficiencies of the weapon were corrected with it being referred to as "Object 93" (''Ob'yekt 93'') in reference to the year its schematics were discovered.

Raymond Lau (Andy Lau) is a young lawyer who grew up in an orphanage. He had an anonymous “uncle” who had always given him extra money that was used for Raymond's extra schooling. Raymond had fought a lawsuit for a prostitute named Lau Wai Lan (Deanie Ip). He does not know that Wai Lan is actually his mother.

Lau Wai Lan still lives a harsh life as a prostitute, often being extorted by CID officers. Unfortunately, her son's birth certificate falls into the hands of a corrupt police officer, Wong Fat (Kirk Wong), who extorts a large sum of money from Wai Lan. They compose a written agreement on the sum of money. She is forced to somehow raise money so she decides to cheat in a mahjong game, and is caught and beaten. With help from her prostitute sisters, they finally raise the money, however, Wong Fat has gone back on his word, and has amended the written contract. He has added an extra zero, adding to the sum of money that Wai Lan needed to turn over to him. Out of desperation, Wai Lan plots to kill Wong Fat. She successfully kills him but is caught by another prostitute that was with him earlier in the night. Wai Lan was arrested and pending trial.

When Sister Mary, of the orphanage, becomes aware of the matter, she finds Raymond and asks him to again defend Wai Lan.

Wai Lan does not want to let her son know about their relationship, she'd rather commit suicide than have her lawyer son know that his mother was a prostitute. Fortunately, her suicide attempt failed. In the hospital, Sister Mary could not help but to tell Raymond the secret, telling him Wai Lan is the unknown “uncle” who paid for his studies abroad, and that she is actually his mother. Raymond visits Wai Lan in the hospital and embrace, for the first time, as mother and son.

Raymond has had friction with the judge and prosecutor (Paul Chun), and with profound grievances, it was a disadvantage for him to defend his mother. For the sake of his mother, Raymond bribed witnesses and his acts of instigating false statements was brought to light and he is on the verge of facing penalties for knowingly violating the law. Raymond tells of his real identity in court, tells the greatness of his mother Wai Lan, which the final jury agreed to Wai Lan not guilty for murder, while accusing the judge for his bad attitude and bring unjust, saying that if the judge can not give a lighter sentence, he clearly has personality problems. Finally, the judge ruled out that Wai Lan is sent to three years incarceration, suspended for five years, and was released immediately.

Twenty something Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realization that he is gay.

Anita Blake gets a call from Micah's mother. Micah's father has been bitten by a zombie and is close to death. Anita, Micah, Nathaniel, and her bodyguards fly to Colorado so Micah can see his father and make amends for his estrangement from the family. While in Colorado, Anita discovers that Micah's father is not an isolated case and there have been several deaths and disappearances related to the flesh-eating zombies. Aided by Jean-Claude (who is now the head of a new American vampire council) and Edward, Anita works to uncover the mystery of the flesh-eating zombies in time to save Micah's father.

Two years after being presumed dead, Stanley Caldwell (under the alias of "Alan") meets with an agent named Lauren on a boat to discuss a new screenplay. They soon learn that despite public protest, director Mike Helton has begun principal photography on ''Cabin by the Lake'', a film based on Stanley's old screenplay detailing his exploits as a serial killer. Amongst the protesters is Paul Parsons, the brother of Kimberly Parsons who was one of Stanley's last victims. When Lauren confesses to hiring someone to rewrite his screenplay, Stanley binds her to a cement flower pot. A horrified Lauren realizes Alan's true identity and desperately suggests that he become a director. Stanley is intrigued by the idea, but nevertheless pushes her overboard to drown.

On the set of the film, Paul Parsons confronts Mike Helton and demands that he cease the production, but is dragged away by security. Stanley then arrives in disguise, claiming that he owns the cabin where the film is being shot, in fact the actual cabin where he had lived two years prior. While wandering the set, he bumps into screenwriter Alison Gaddis, who praises Stanley's work and is curious about his background.

Helton receives a call from JC Reddick, the producer's nephew and second unit director whom no one has ever met. Helton tells him he will send a plane for him at the airport. Stanley leaves the set and races to the airport while donning a new disguise. There, Stanley retrieves JC, then drugs and kills him on the lake. Posing as JC himself, Stanley returns to the set and once again runs into Alison. He claims to be acquainted with Stanley and gives her several details about him, mentioning his preference for strong women as victims. She explains her fascination with Stanley as a film student and invites him out for coffee at a later date, which Stanley accepts.

Helton unveils the indoor set for ''Cabin by the Lake'': An enormous water tank almost identical to Stanley's original "garden". Tasked with shooting the underwater scenes, Stanley dons scuba gear and dives into the tank to tend his garden, infuriating Helton by ignoring his stage directions. Later, Stanley and Alison finally meet to discuss Stanley more in depth. When she mentions Kimberly Parsons, Stanley describes how she had fought the hardest of all his victims, remembering vividly how she had scratched and clawed him.

When Alison returns to the tank alone to continue writing, she is ambushed by an unknown person. Helton believes that Paul Parsons is responsible, in an effort to sabotage the production. Helton then discovers that Stanley has made changes to the script without his knowledge, further angering him. In turn, Stanley drugs Helton and takes him back to the cabin where he buries him alive, using fireworks to cover his panicked screams.

Stanley takes over as director, micromanaging every aspect of the film. At the lake, Paul confronts Alison about her part in the production. He apologizes for scaring her at the tank and invites her to meet him at the bar to discuss his sister. Paul gives details of Kimberly's death that eerily correspond with those from Stanley himself, rousing Alison's suspicions. When she confronts Stanley, he gives her a drugged glass of wine that renders her unconscious. She awakens in Stanley's cabin basement, chained to the floor by her ankle just like all his previous victims. As he greets her with food, the scars on his forearm confirm his identity.

Paul repeatedly calls the set looking for Alison, but is told that she finished rewriting the script and went home. Stanley then falsely informs Paul that he is planning to scrap the production and invites Paul to meet him at the stage that night. Stanley directs the final scene of the movie, but secretly rigs a light fixture to fall into the tank and electrocute the actress inside. When Paul arrives on set just afterwards, Stanley frames him for the incident and sends him fleeing.

Stanley coerces the actors playing Mallory and Boone to come back to the set for one final shot, then returns to the cabin where a defiant Alison manipulates him into bringing her to the stage. She tries to warn the two actors that Stanley is planning to kill them, but to no avail. While looking for Alison, Paul discovers she was abducted by Stanley.

Holding them at gunpoint, Stanley carries out his plan to drown Mallory's actress. As the actor playing Boone struggles to free her, Alison pushes Stanley off the platform before shooting the tank with Stanley's gun, flooding the stage. Paul returns to help, but Alison is recaptured by Stanley and forced into his car. While driving, Alison deliberately crashes the car and escapes, but Stanley recovers and pursues her back to the cabin.

Stanley finds her hiding in the bathroom, but Alison strikes him with a towel rack and knocks him into a bathtub full of water. After a brief standoff, she throws a hair dryer into the tub and electrocutes him. The police arrive with Paul but a search of the cabin yields no sign of Stanley. They find his boat on the lake, and Alison finds a watch he had stolen from JC on the dock. The police decide they will drag the lake tomorrow and try to reassure Alison that Stanley is dead.

A news report states that ''Cabin by the Lake'' was a surprise hit in its opening weekend, earning $36 million at the box office with a sequel already in the works. Alison and Paul have since started a relationship, but Alison still has nightmares about Stanley, who is shown reading the newspaper article about the film's success.

Flashing forward to 2012, the police arrive at Briarcliff, where by phone, present day Bloody Face explains he only killed the three people who impersonated Bloody Face. The police find Leo's body and missing severed arm. After learning Leo was on his honeymoon, they search for Teresa, whom Bloody Face is holding captive.

A mother drops her daughter Jenny off at the asylum, believing the girl has killed another child. Sister Mary Eunice sympathizes with her, reflecting on a previous humiliation. Mary Eunice supports Jenny's dark side. Later, Jenny kills her entire family and, when asked by the police who has killed them, she tells the same lie to the police as when she killed her friend.

Dr. Thredson tells his captive Lana about his past; he is an orphan with abandonment issues, who relates the first corpse he skinned, a woman who resembled his birth mother, but decided to only skin living women afterwards due to the odor of formaldehyde. He treats Lana as a maternal figure, something Lana goes along with. While Thredson takes a phone call from Kit, who enrages him by calling him a liar, Lana attempts to escape. Thredson finds out and prepares to kill her, but Lana stops him by acting as a mother figure.

Monsignor Howard is called to a hospital about a disfigured patient, Shelley. Howard realizes that Arden disfigured her, and chokes her to death with rosary beads to cover it up. He then confronts Arden about his "research". Arden tells Howard that his experiments will create "superhumans" who will survive almost anything. He blackmails the monsignor to keep his work a secret and to fire the suspicious Sister Jude.

Sam Goodman calls Jude to tell her he has found evidence that Arden is, in fact, Nazi war criminal Hans Grüper. However, he needs Arden's fingerprint to prove it, which she manages to get. Mary Eunice goes to Sam's apartment and stabs him in the neck with broken glass. Jude finds him dying, and he reveals a nun stabbed him. Mary Eunice shows Sam's evidence to Arden, using it to blackmail him.

Grace, due to an infection brought on by the botched hysterectomy performed on her, begins to die, and the Angel of Death is about to give her a "kiss of death" before she is resuscitated by one of the nuns. Dr. Arden states to Sister Mary Eunice that he never performed a hysterectomy on Grace. He later cures her of her infection.

Later, a patient named Miles attempts to commit suicide. Mary Eunice becomes distressed when she sees the name of the angel written on the wall in ancient Aramaic, in blood. Miles is bandaged and placed in solitary, where the angel appears to him and gives him the kiss of death, and he dies. Mary Eunice can see the angel, who is called Shachath. Shachath senses Mary Eunice is possessed by the Devil. Mary Eunice's true personality briefly calls out to Shachath, begging for freedom, but the Devil regains control. Shachath says the two will meet again.

Kit meets with his state lawyer, who tells him that Dr. Thredson's taped recording of Kit's confession has made his chances of avoiding execution unlikely. After Kit learns Grace is seriously ill and may die soon, Kit attacks the lawyer and escapes back to Briarcliff to find Grace.

In Thredson's basement, Thredson rapes Lana, who begins to see Shachath, but refuses to die just yet. After deciding that their 'relationship' has reached an impasse, Thredson then attempts to kill Lana, but she manages to attack him and escapes. Lana gets into the car of a man who reveals himself to be a mentally unstable misogynist whose wife has left him, and he commits suicide by shooting himself in the head, letting the car crash with her inside. Lana, seriously injured after the crash, is returned to Briarcliff by the police.

Sister Jude learns from the dying Sam Goodman that Mary Eunice was who attacked him. After Mary Eunice calls her Jude realizes that Mary Eunice is possessed by the Devil. Jude then sees Shachath, who offers to let her die. After this, Jude decides to visit the parents of the girl she thought she had killed, but the girl is revealed to have survived.

Kit makes his way into Briarcliff and finds Grace and they begin to escape, but are seen by a nun, who is then attacked by a rasper who had followed Kit in. The creature then attacks Kit, who manages to kill it. Frank finds them and pulls his gun on Kit. Grace jumps in his way and is shot. Shachath then gives Grace the kiss of death, letting Grace die.

On a boat in the North Sea, three men are importing drugs into Essex: Mickey Steele, Darren Nicholls and Jack Whomes. Unbeknownst to the other two, Nicholls is a police informant who has told D.I. Stone, a police officer, about the drugs. The drugs, however, still reach Essex because Steele anticipates trouble and sends Whomes away on a boat with the contraband.

It is revealed by Nicholls, who serves as the film's narrator, that the three men are suppliers to an Essex-based drug dealer named Tony Tucker. Tucker, his right-hand man Craig Rolfe and the psychotic Patrick "Pat" Tate serve as the three core members of the Essex boys. The gang grows progressively in stature until a girl falls into a coma and later dies after taking a "pure" ecstasy pill.

Enraged, Tucker and Tate visit Steele and threaten him. To repay them, Steele tells them of a job in Amsterdam, which Nicholls, Tate, Rolfe and Steele successfully complete. Nicholls, however, is wracked with guilt after killing three men. Meanwhile, Tate sees himself as "unstoppable" and cheats on his partner Karen, only for her to leave him for Steele. He also brutally assaults a pizza restaurant employee because the employee refuses to make a bespoke pizza for Tate's new partner, giving the police solid charges against a member for the first time. Despite this, Stone tells the employee to drop the charges as he knows a longer-term conviction is needed. Nevertheless, he comes under scrutiny from his superiors for this decision.

The now wealthy gang approach veteran criminal Billy Carmichael and, despite Tucker arguing with Carmichael, they secure a share of a lucrative shipment of guns and drugs going into Rettendon. They then recruit former associate of Carmichael, Ronnie Walsh, who is described as psychopathic and "would eat your face for a fiver and a gram of coke". Nicholls, knowing the power and influence they would hold if the job was successful and fearing for his life, informs Steele of the shipment and Steele duly puts into motion a plan to kill Rolfe, Tucker and Tate.

One night, Tate, Tucker, Rolfe and Walsh drive to a farm track in Rettendon. On the way they snort cocaine and joke about why Walsh ended his association with Carmichael. They meet a gate, and Walsh exits the car to open it. As he approaches it, two masked gunmen approach the dealers' Range Rover and shoot dead Rolfe, Tucker and Tate but spare Walsh. Shortly afterwards Steele and Whomes arrive and find Rolfe, Tucker and Tate dead. The next morning, the bodies are found and Stone acknowledges that it was the result he wanted.

Steele and Whomes return to Steele's home with Nicholls, who drove the shooters to the location. Steele is suspicious of Nicholls and persuades him to come in, only for Nicholls to call the police and report the crimes. Whomes discovers this and approaches Nicholls with a shotgun, but Nicholls surprises the two and escapes to a nearby field. Steele orders Whomes to return to the house and follows Nicholls to a farm, where he assures Nicholls "you're dying today". After a brief chase, Steele corners Nicholls and as he is about to kill him, the police arrive to apprehend him. Nicholls ends the film, saying that after the events of the film "[he] just vanished".

Vince Dreyser (George Ardisson), an American private detective working in Rome, meets with his old friend Walter Dempsey (Hans von Borsody) in the countryside. Several days later, Dempsey has vanished under suspicious circumstances, leading Dreyser to investigate the disappearance. Dempsey was in the country to be married, and the search for his whereabouts leads Dreyser into a web of organised crime, while trying to keep an eye on the hippie daughter of a wealthy client. The detective is beaten and left for dead by two thugs, after which he manages to kill the gangster who disposed of his friend. One sequence features a death scene in which a gangster is shown falling to his death from the roof of a building as the camera follows him down in a point-of-view shot. Vince continues on, trying to find his missing friend.

In 1995, super soldier Alexei Shostakov and Black Widow Melina Vostokoff work as Russian undercover agents, posing as a family in Ohio with Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova as their daughters. They steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and escape to Cuba where their boss, General Dreykov, has Romanoff and Belova taken to the Red Room for training. In the following decades, Shostakov is imprisoned in Russia while Romanoff and Belova become successful, dangerous assassins. Romanoff eventually defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. after helping Clint Barton bomb Dreykov's Budapest office, which apparently kills Dreykov and his young daughter Antonia.

In 2016, Romanoff is a fugitive for violating the Sokovia Accords. She escapes from U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross and flees to a safehouse in Norway supplied by Rick Mason. Meanwhile, Belova kills a rogue former Black Widow but comes in contact with a synthetic gas that neutralizes the Red Room's chemical mind-control agent. Belova sends antidote vials to Romanoff, hoping she and the Avengers can free the other Widows, and goes into hiding. When Romanoff is unknowingly driving with the vials in her car, Red Room agent Taskmaster attacks her. Romanoff escapes from Taskmaster and realizes that the vials came from Budapest. There she finds Belova, who reveals that Dreykov is alive and the Red Room is still active. Black Widows and Taskmaster attack them, but Romanoff and Belova evade them and meet with Mason, who supplies them with a helicopter.

Romanoff and Belova break Shostakov out of prison to learn Dreykov's location, and he directs them to Vostokoff, who lives on a farm outside Saint Petersburg. There she is refining the chemical mind control process used on the Widows. Vostokoff alerts Dreykov and his agents arrive to take them, but Romanoff convinces Vostokoff to help them and the pair use face mask technology to switch places. At the Red Room, an aerial facility, Vostokoff frees Shostakov and Belova from their restraints. Dreykov sees through Romanoff's disguise and reveals that Taskmaster is Antonia, who suffered damage severe enough that Dreykov had to put technology in her head to save her, in turn creating the perfect soldier, capable of mimicking the actions of anyone she sees. Romanoff is unable to attack Dreykov due to a pheromone lock installed in every Widow, but negates that by breaking her own nose and severing a nerve in her nasal passage. Shostakov battles Taskmaster while Vostokoff takes out one of the facility's engines. They then lock Taskmaster in a cell.

Dreykov escapes as other Black Widows attack Romanoff, but Belova exposes them to the antidote. Romanoff copies the locations of other Widows worldwide from Dreykov's computer as the facility begins to explode and fall. She retrieves two surviving antidote vials and frees Taskmaster from the locked cell. Vostokoff and Shostakov escape via a plane while Belova takes out Dreykov's aircraft, killing him. In freefall, Romanoff gives Belova a parachute before battling Taskmaster. After landing, Romanoff uses one antidote vial on Taskmaster and gives the other to Belova along with the locations of the other mind-controlled Widows so she can find and free them. Belova, Vostokoff, and Shostakov say goodbye to Romanoff and leave with Antonia and the freed Widows. Two weeks later, Mason supplies Romanoff with a Quinjet to use in freeing the imprisoned Avengers.

In a post-credits scene set after Romanoff's death, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine blames her death on Barton and assigns him as Belova's next target.

Ingeborg Dahlstrom puts in an ad in the Swedish newspaper ''Svenska Dagbladet'', she is looking for a summer house. Later Ingeborg, her husband Gustaf and their 17-year-old daughter Mona travel to Stockholm archipelago, to the place they got hold of with the ad. It turns out, however, that the man they hire the house from takes a big interest in Ingeborg. But it's not only Ingeborg who gets courted elsewhere, so is Gustaf.

The team investigates the murder of a marine who was beaten to death in his backyard. They find out his Marine wife Georgia Wooten (Christina Cox) was abused and that the husband had an affair. She is initially suspected and remains uncooperative throughout the investigation. At one point, Ducky suggests sending Ziva to talk to Wooten, noting that the former had "been through things you and I can't even imagine" and knew how it felt to be controlled, and was therefore the only one who could relate. Gibbs is reluctant to open Ziva's old wounds but ultimately complies. Wooten, however, denies that she was responsible for her husband's death.

The team finds numerous suspects, including the murder victim's pregnant girlfriend, but eventually narrow it down to a bar owner who was a friend of the wife. He admits to the murder because he felt the marine didn't deserve to have a wife like her.

Meanwhile, McGee becomes the victim of identity theft, as somebody starts using his credit card to buy various expensive items. Tony tracks down the identity thief, who turns out to be the son of McGee's landlady. The boy remarks that he stole McGee's identity because he felt he was too boring and didn't take time to enjoy life. Also, since the purchases were clearly the result of fraud, McGee is only liable for $50. Together, Tony and the boy manage to convince McGee to come with them to buy video games.

The novel follows Dion Moloch, an intellectual, prejudiced, unmotivated, enigmatic employment manager at the Great American Telegraph Company in New York City. Moloch, a third-generation American, resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Blanche, and their young daughter. Miserable in his unhappy marriage, he goes out at night looking for adventure, trading stories with friends and engaging in extramarital affairs. He regrets not marrying his first love, Cora, and feels Blanche should have married a previous lover, Jim Daly. He intends to use his past as material for a book, but when he sits down to write, he is unable to accurately capture his thoughts.

The film opens with a teenage girl running through the woods until she is caught by two pursuing hillbillies. Subdued with a sack over her head, she awakens to find herself tied up in the fruit cellar of a remote cabin, where an old woman is reciting incantations from a strange book. The girl pleads with her father Harold to release her. After he refuses, she reveals her possession by a demonic spirit and threatens to kill him. Harold sets her ablaze and shoots her dead.

Years later, David Allen and his girlfriend Natalie arrive at the cabin with their dog Grandpa, where they meet his estranged younger sister Mia and her friends Eric, a high school teacher, and Olivia, a nurse. The group plans to stay in the cabin while Mia overcomes her heroin addiction. Mia begins having serious withdrawal symptoms and complains of an overwhelming scent of decay, which the others ignore. David discovers that the cabin's cellar is littered with rotting animal corpses, a worn double-barrel shotgun, and a book called the ''Naturom Demonto''.

A curious Eric reads an incantation from the book, awakening a malevolent force. Mia begins seeing a bloody girl in the woods and begs the group to leave. They refuse, thinking that she must be seeing hallucinations. Mia steals Eric's car and leaves, but sees a naked girl and swerves, crashing into a tree. She runs into the woods, where vines from a demonic tree trap her. After Mia sees a demonic version of herself, a vine enters her body, possessing her.

David finds Grandpa beaten to death with a hammer and goes to confront Mia in the shower. He sees her scalding herself and tries to drive her to a hospital, but a sudden rainstorm washes out the road. That night, Mia wounds her brother with the shotgun and vomits a large amount of red bile onto Olivia's face before Eric manages to lock her in the basement. Olivia is later possessed by unseen forces. When Eric discovers her in the shower mutilating her face, she stabs him repeatedly with a hypodermic needle before he bludgeons her to death. Mia lures Natalie into the cellar and bites her before slicing her own tongue apart with a box cutter, and then forcibly kissing her. David helps her escape before locking Mia back in.

Eric explains that according to the book, the "Taker of Souls" must claim five souls to unleash the "Abomination". Natalie, convinced that her arm is infected, amputates it. Eric explains that Mia must be "purified" either by live burial, dismemberment, or burning. The now-possessed Natalie attacks the pair with a nail gun, but David shoots her other arm off; Natalie returns to normal but soon bleeds to death from her injury.

David begins to douse the cabin in gasoline, but when Mia starts singing a song from their childhood, he decides to bury her instead. He digs a grave and heads into the cellar to retrieve Mia, who attempts to drown him. Eric intervenes but is fatally stabbed. David sedates and buries Mia, and after hearing her heartbeat stop, quickly digs her up and attempts to use a homemade defibrillator to resuscitate her. After several seemingly failed attempts, David covers his sister and says she's "at peace". Returning to the cabin, he hears a voice behind him and finds Mia alive. David enters the cabin to retrieve his car keys, but Eric's possessed corpse stabs him. David locks Mia out to protect her and shoots a gasoline can, killing both him and Eric in the resulting blaze.

With David's death, blood begins to rain down from the sky and Mia is attacked by the Abomination in the form of her demonic doppelgänger. Mia finds a chainsaw and severs the Abomination's legs, but it retaliates by overturning David's Jeep which lands on her left arm and traps her. Pushed to her breaking point, Mia frees herself (losing her left hand in the process), grabs the chainsaw, and bisects the Abomination's head before it sinks back into the ground and the rain stops. An exhausted Mia leaves to search for help, unaware the ''Naturom Demonto'' is still intact, and slamming shut on its own.

In a post-credits scene, an older Ash Williams (the protagonist of the original three ''Evil Dead'' films) is seen in shadowed profile. He remarks "Groovy" before turning suddenly to face the camera.

Maricruz Olivares lives with Ramiro, her maternal grandfather, and Solita, who is Deaf and who was found abandoned, by her mom Guadalupe Mendoza/Guadalupe Olivares and her grandpapa when she was a little baby. She lives in a shack located in the middle of nature, near the Narvaéz's ranch property line. Miguel and Octavio are siblings and they both own the Narvaéz's Ranch, which is mortgaged because of the bad administration Miguel, the older brother, has made. Octavio is a pilot and arrives in the ranch in need of money since he has lost his job and wants the lands to be sold. He doesn't imagine that soon he will forget this purpose and will discover that the earth, the sowing and sharing with the workmen become a source of passion for him.

Octavio meets Maricruz while he is traveling around the lands and catches his foreman trying to take her on. Regardless of her humble origins, he defends her as a gentleman. Immediately, he is trapped by her sympathy and beauty. When Octavio discovers the malice with which Lucia, his sister-in-law, treats Maricruz, he gets really angry and decides to marry Maricruz in order to teach his brother and Lucia a lesson. But Maricruz continues to get dissed and judged for her way of being, talking, acting and eating.

However, when he receives a tempting job offer as a pilot, Octavio leaves the ranch and asks his brother to give Maricruz his part of the land. Lucia and her cousin Esther set a trap for Maricruz to accuse her unjustly of being a thief and ends up in jail. A lawyer believes in her and achieves her freedom; but when she returns, she is shocked to discover that her grandfather died during a fire by Lucía's order done by Eusebio.

Maricruz leaves to the capital city with her sister Solita and starts working as a maid at Alejandro's house, who happens to be her father, without any of them knowing about the bond between them. Maricruz gains his trust and love, and he helps her to get educated and become a high society woman. In the meantime she accepts to help him with the administration of the casino-cruise ship, posted in Isla Dorada. There she will have to face the ambition of the Canseco sisters Carola and Raiza, who keep their lives comfortable at Alejandro's cost. Alejandro's butler; Tobías, discovers Maricruz's birth certificate where her real name appears: María Alejandra Mendoza Olivares. In order to avoid the big impression that could kill Alejandro, since he suffers from a heart disease, he decides not to reveal him that Maricruz is his daughter, but he does tell Maricruz the truth and she feels very happy with such news.

Miguel informs his brother that Maricruz disappeared after her grandfather's death. Octavio arrives in the casino, invited by a friend. Octavio's good looks catch the interest of sophisticated women and he feels flattered, but he cannot forget Maricruz. He doesn't imagine that the humble youngster who used to be his wife is no other than the elegant María Alejandra Mendoza, the heir, manager and main host of the casino-cruise ship.

With their father tied up with a long-term business contract, siblings Kate and Ben move in with their aunt. As they explore their new surroundings, they meet and befriend a local boy named Spider. They also encounter Rocco and Ah Leong, who are stealing produce from the shops and households.

Kate, Ben and Spider eventually decide to explore Castle House, a mysterious huge manor that has been abandoned for 15 years. However, they soon discover that the house has inhabitants: An old lady named Miss Markham, to whose family the house belongs; her new ground caretaker Mr. Wilberforce; and his two dimwitted aides Morris and Stakovich. While Miss Markham proves to be very friendly, Mr. Wilberforce and his men strive to keep the children away from the grounds. After the children's visit, Miss Markham discovers that Wilberforce and his men are keeping her own cellar locked up; and when she decides to investigate, the men overpower her and tie her up.

On their way back to the house's jetty, Ben, Kate and Spider discover a secret tunnel to the house, and in it they run into Rocco and Ah Leong. As the two boys disclose, Ah Leong's father was kidnapped by Wilberforce and his goons to help them in a break-in, since he is supposed to disable the security system, and is kept captive in Castle House's cellar. The children try to free Mr. Leong, but only succeed in alerting Wilberforce about their knowledge of his plans, and with the robbery about to take place this very day, the gangsters decide to speed up their plans. The children do what they can to slow down Wilberforce's plans, and manage to free Miss Markham. Using Miss Markham's personal high-power speedboat, they catch up with the gangsters, overpower them and free Mr Leong.

Gabriel Owen Emerson is a brilliant and enigmatic professor of Dante studies at the University of Toronto. His cold, aloof exterior masks dark secrets he successfully hides, though he has never overcome them. A lovely, intelligent graduate student in his seminar triggers a dim memory - one he cannot place, but which is the key to the happiness he long thought was impossible.

Julianne Mitchell, a compassionate, kind young woman, is still struggling to overcome a childhood of neglect and abuse. When she enrolls at the University of Toronto, she knows she will see someone from her past - a man she met once, in an encounter she has never forgotten. Gabriel cannot recall what Julia knows: that they have a shared history rooted in an important moment of their lives.

The story unfolds around the electrifying connection between Gabriel and Julia and their increasingly passionate affair. Gabriel sees her unconditional love as his path to salvation even as he acknowledges his selfishness in doing so. Julia struggles with her own self-worth as she grows to trust Gabriel's feelings for her. Determined to capture the happiness that eluded them when they parted years ago, they must defy their own painful pasts as well as obstacles which now conspire to keep them apart.

Sammy and Ray are supervising their new grandchildren, when seagulls attack them and both Sammy and Ray and two of their grandchildren Ella and Ricky are captured on trawler. While Ella and Ricky are separated and sent to the seabed, Sammy and Ray are taken to an aquarium with Lulu, a crazy lobster and Jimbo a bug-eyed blobfish. Escape plans are run and tried by the leading seahorse Big D. Ella and Ricky set out with Annabel and Margaret, the pink octopus mother and daughter in order to rescue their grandfathers, getting chased by a pair of barracudas when they get there. After much communication trouble, Ella and Ricky interpret from Sammy that in order to escape the aquarium several squids expel ink into the ventilation system, while all the aquarium inhabitants play dead. Before initiating the escape plan, Sammy and Ray get the tyrannical Big D out of the way. The reluctant aquarium manager opens the emergency doors allowing all sea creatures out to happily freedom.

Yesterday's X-Men

Following Cyclops's escape from prison after the war with the Avengers, he, Emma Frost, Magik and Magneto begin a crusade against mutant persecution, freeing mutants who are being held prisoner after their powers have manifested, violently striking out at the humans responsible at the same time. As the other X-Men bemoan their inability to strike back at Cyclops's actions without triggering a mutant civil war, a frustrated comment by Iceman about how the past Cyclops wouldn't tolerate his present self's actions inspires Beast to take action; he travels back in time to the early days of the Xavier Institute shortly after Professor X has taken a leave of absence and Beast's younger self was about to temporarily leave the X-Men for the first time to recruit their assistance, informing them that Cyclops must come to the future to stop himself from committing mutant genocide.

Although shocked at the news of Cyclops's future, as well as the discovery that he has killed Professor X in the future, the young X-Men decide to help Beast, the younger version recognizing that he wouldn't do something like this unless it was necessary. After arriving in the future at the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, during which Wolverine instinctively attacks Cyclops before Jean Grey knocks him out, Beast collapses, and the younger version of Beast reveals that his future self is dying; his actions are the result of his desire to accomplish something good in the time he has left to live. Although shaken at the future they have witnessed as they are isolated in one of the rooms, Jean reads Wolverine's mind when he tries to send them back to their own time, noting that, while he is consciously against their presence, he is inwardly grateful to Beast for taking this chance. When they hear news of a mutant riot, young Cyclops reaffirms his dedication to Xavier's dream of peace and the five original X-Men depart in a new Blackbird, determined to confront the future Cyclops.

While talking to Magneto, the present Cyclops realises that their powers are fluctuating after their exposure to the Phoenix Force; he can contain his optical blasts without his visor, but has trouble maintaining them when they are used, and Magneto is having trouble with his own powers. They attempt to rescue Emma Frost from captivity, but she is also having trouble with her powers as her telepathy appears to be weakened even if she can still turn into her diamond form. Magik, however, has gained new abilities from her exposure to the Phoenix Force. Having set up a base in an old Weapon X facility, Cyclops and Magneto depart to rescue a new group of mutants, but are subsequently confronted by the original X-Men, with the young Cyclops challenging his future self to justify his current talk of a "revolution".

Shocked to see his younger self and Jean, Cyclops wonders if they are a psychic illusion. He realizes that they are real and lack context to the position he is in. His thoughts cause Jean's latent telepathy to activate and she hears him admit that he killed Xavier. Unable to control her telepathy and overwhelmed, she reveals that Cyclops killed Xavier and lashes out with her telekinesis; Cyclops's visor is knocked away and, unable to control his optic blasts, he levels the area, before Magik is able to extract him and Magneto. The young X-Men are confused by Magneto's willingness to flee from a fight and surprised that Cyclops attacked them. The team returns to the Jean Grey School to return to their time, disconcerted by what they've seen, but find that the present version of Beast has gone into cardiac arrest.

While the present Cyclops recruits a new mutant whose power involves gradual evolution and shapeshifting to develop the mutant powers of others in his vicinity, the temporally-relocated Jean uses her new telepathy to help the two Hanks make mental contact with each other. After Beast is convinced to tell Jean about what she will experience in the future, Hank manages to determine a means of treating his future self's condition. Out in the courtyard, Scott is uncomfortable about the harsh stares he is receiving from the other mutants, and is nearly pushed to tears when Wolverine publicly threatens to kill him unless someone steps in (to which no one does), before the two Hanks emerge from the school, the older Hank now fully cured and reverted to a more human-like appearance. Although Wolverine is in favour of the original team returning to the past where Xavier can erase their memories, Jean refuses to depart until they have saved the future, with the rest of the team agreeing with her except for Angel, who wonders where his present self is in this scenario before voting. With Kitty Pryde volunteering to take responsibility for the old team, past Scott attempts to talk to Jean, but she orders him to stay away from her.

Here to Stay

After a nightmare in which present-Cyclops and Magneto come to warn her before Wolverine tries to kill her, Jean wakes up in a panic, temporarily overwhelmed by her newly awakened telepathy, but Kitty and Storm are able to calm her using a technique she will learn in the future. They also suggest that Jean should serve as team leader of the originals during their time in the present, as Cyclops's recent actions would make the students reluctant to trust him. Uncomfortable with the stares he is receiving, Cyclops departs the school on Wolverine's motorbike to find out more about the future, resulting in a brief confrontation between him and Wolverine in the street. While Angel has an encounter with his future self, the Warren of the present being casually cheery about his past self's presence while past-Warren is confused at his future self's metallic wings, Mystique is shown reading a newspaper about past-Cyclops's presence on the streets.

While Kitty gives the other X-Men a crash-course in hand-to-hand combat, Cyclops visits a bank where he keeps a safety deposit box to collect some of his future self's belongings. When the police arrive to arrest him, believing him to be his future self, he is rescued by 'Wolverine', but it is revealed to be Mystique in disguise. Mystique tells Cyclops to be cautious and not to trust the brutal Wolverine, but reveals to an unidentified ally after leaving Cyclops that her true agenda is to sow discord among the X-Men while they prepare for another plan. Back at the school, Cyclops reveals one of the items from the safety deposit box to Jean; an invitation to their wedding.

While out flying with his future self, Warren prevents a HYDRA attack, but is discomforted by his future self's attitude, the confrontation with HYDRA ending as the Avengers show up. Although Beast manages to talk down Captain America's initial anger at the discovery of what Beast has done, his meeting with his future self prompts Warren to try and use the time machine to return to the past and leave the X-Men; however, Jean Grey erases the memories of what he had just learned.

The time displaced X-Men are later seen in the Danger Room doing an exercise on a sentinel attack. Jean is using her telepathy to read people's minds without their consent, much to the annoyance of Kitty Pryde. Jean reveals Cyclops's meeting with Mystique much to the anger of Wolverine. Meanwhile, Mystique infiltrates the Raft prison with Sabretooth and breaks Lady Mastermind out by offering her riches. To avoid the guards, Lady Mastermind creates an illusion that the guards are being attacked by Zombie Avengers. At The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, the adult Cyclops appears with Magik, Emma Frost and Magneto proclaiming "To me, my X-Men".

Out of Their Depth

Cyclops arrives to recruit more X-Men. While Wolverine and Cyclops argue about the original X-Men's returning to their time, the Stepford Cuckoos converse with Emma concerning Jean Grey's current weak and amateurish control over her telepathic abilities. Meanwhile, Lady Mastermind, Mystique and Sabretooth rob banks under the illusion of the time-displaced X-Men and Wolverine's attacking them. Back at the Jean Grey School, the Stepford Cuckoos join Cyclops and, with much surprise and shock, the time-displaced Angel also joins him. Before being teleported away, the Stepford Cuckoos soundly defeat Jean Grey in a psychic battle for attempting to control Angel's mind. While flying in the Blackbird trying to find Mystique, the young X-Men, along with Shadowcat and Wolverine, are intercepted by the Uncanny Avengers.

The Uncanny Avengers believe that the time-displaced X-Men are responsible for the attacks on the banks. Havok and the time-displaced Cyclops are shocked to see each other, as Cyclops thought that his brother was dead. Jean Grey, using her telepathy to see that the Scarlet Witch decimated the mutant population, loses her temper and telekinetically attacks her and the Avengers. She is stopped by the Scarlet Witch, and the situation is explained to her, although she is furious and distraught. Wolverine then reveals to the time-displaced X-Men that they are going to confront Mystique.

The X-Men search for Mystique, and eventually locate her hideout, where she welcomes Madame Hydra and the new Silver Samurai, revealing to them her plan of buying Madripoor. Both groups watch Havok's recent speech about the "M-word", and Kitty Pryde disagrees with the speech. Although Wolverine and Kitty Pryde order the time-displaced X-Men not to follow them, they go after them and, as a battle ensues, Lady Mastermind apparently causes Jean Grey to manifest the Phoenix Force, much to the shock of others. The X-Men and Brotherhood are frozen in distress as Lady Mastermind angrily persuades Jean to kill them all. While Jean proceeds to blame Mystique for causing this, Wolverine prepares to kill Jean in order to stop her from using a power that she cannot control. As Wolverine slashes Jean, it is revealed this is a psychic vision of the Phoenix that Jean somehow manifested into the minds of the Brotherhood, and that inadvertently entered the minds of Wolverine, Kitty, and the other X-Men. Mastermind creates one final illusion that she and Sabertooth use to escape, but Mystique is caught and sent to "The Cage", an extra-max prison (from which she quickly escapes). The team now has some time to relax, so Bobby and Scott go to a carnival and try to pick up some teenage girls. Jean grey practices her telekinetic skills with older Beast and destroy Wolverine's motorcycle. While putting it back together she reads Beast's mind and discovers that Beast had a long-time crush that he never pursued in respect for Scott Summers. Jean then confront time-displaced Beast and the two share their feeling and a romantic kiss.

Arms of the Octopus

This crossover event included The Superior Spider-Man and The Hulk. The team decides to travel to New York City to unwind and have fun. Beast is still baffled by the kiss with Jean, especially when she and Scott go to the movies together. He decides to try his luck with the ladies before he turns blue and has no chance. He meets a girl in Central Park reading Anne Sexton and realizes that she's a student at Empire University and studied with the same gamma radiation-focused professor he had when he was young, Dr. David Jude. They visit his lab, which is small compared to his previous facilities. It seems after the Hulk was exposed to gamma radiation, the field is no longer favorable. The lab is suddenly attacked by the classic Dr. Octopus. Superior Spider-Man comes and assists the X-Men in dispatching the villain. Superior Spider-Man assures then that this is not the real Dr. Octopus, since he is really Dr. Octopus trapped in Spider-Man's body. They decide to bring in Bruce Banner to assist with the research since Dr. Octopus is teeming with gamma radiation. Suddenly, a younger version of The Abomination, who has been dead several years, appears. The theory is that Dr. Octopus and The Abomination some how followed the X-Men from the past, Superior Spider-man is worried that if his past self is killed or not returned he will either die, vanish or create a time paradox, so they fly to Westchester with the X-Men while Beast and Hulk deal with The Abomination. Hulk destroys The Abomination, who turns out to be a very advanced robot, and the Dr. Octopus robots blows up almost killing Spider-Man and the X-Men. Dr. Jude feels slighted by the Hulk for destroying the gamma radiation field of study and wanted to use the X-Men's time machine to travel back in time to kill Bruce Banner. Dr, Jude imbued himself with gamma radiation and is able to discharge energy. Superior Spider-man and the X-Men are having a difficult time dispatching him, but it was really meant to distract him while Hulk delivered a large energy prison to trap Dr. Jude. Superior Spider-man contemplates using the time machine to travel in time and convince his younger self to join the Avengers instead of becoming a villain, but he then realizes that he would never become Superior Spider-Man and wouldn't appreciate doing good unless he was a villain.

Battle of the Atom

The story involves the X-Men of the future traveling to present time in order to force the All-New X-Men (original five X-Men) to return to their rightful time, as their presence in the current timeline will result in disastrous consequences.

All-Different

Following the events of Battle of the Atom, Kitty Pryde takes a leave of absence from the Jean Grey School to help mentor the original 5 X-Men who have joined Cyclops's New Xavier School for the Gifted to better help change the uncertain future. They encounter and battle the Purifiers hunting new mutants, which results in X-23 being recruited to the team. Cyclops and X-23 begin to develop a relationship.

Trial of Jean Grey

Soon Jean Grey is then kidnapped by the Shi'ar to pay for her future self's actions as the Dark Phoenix in the "Trial of Jean Grey". This led to an alliance between the X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy and a confrontation with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. While on trial, Jean was shown her entire future and death in a brief psychic surge. As the X-Men and Guardians attempt to rescue Jean, they are helped by the Starjammers. After making it back to Earth, another confrontation with the Imperial Guard ensues. All the pressure built up from her knowledge of her future, plus the newfound information of the death of her family and entire bloodline at the hands of the Shi'ar in the End of Greys, causes Jean to discover a new ability. Using this new power to absorb psionic energy and combining it with her telepathy and telekinesis, Jean rebuffs Gladiator and destroys a Shi'ar Warship. Cyclops then leaves with his dad Corsair and the rest of the Starjammers.

One Down

Present Beast is visited by The Watcher who shows him multiple realities that will never occur due to his meddling with time. Back at Cyclops's New Xavier School for the Gifted, X-23 leaves the school upset about Scott leaving with the Starjammers. She then gets stabbed by Raze Darkholme, who shapeshifted into Scott. Raze then sneaks into the school pretending to be X-23. The Future Brotherhood of Evil Mutants then attack the school. It turns out that after the Battle of the Atom, Raze send himself a message into the future to warn himself that they lose the Battle of the Atom and need a new strategy—use the Cuckoos to take out the team and neutralize Jean. What he didn't expect was X-23 healing herself and returning to the base. X-2 was able to sneak in thanks to Jean's Psychic shielding and stabs Charles. It turns out the Brotherhood has been under Charles psychic manipulation the entire time. Charles then forces the X-Men to fight each other, but the Brotherhood, no longer under Charles' control, fight him. After the battle the Brotherhood agree to return to the future peacefully and Raze and Charles are sent to The Cage, an extra-max prison for super villains. Charles is depowered while in prison, but he is allowed to write a note, which he writes for his future self to warn him about the loss.

In the aftermath, Angel and X-23 have some time to bond and start a relationship. Kitty and Star-lord continue their long-distance relationship by chatting via hologram. Jean Grey and Emma Frost have a psychic sparring session, but eventually bond and finally become friends. Current Beast, current Bobby Drake and Storm find the school to announce that Scott Summers is needed in Westchester for the reading of Charles Xavier's last will and testament.

The Ultimate Adventure

While the staff of the New Xavier School for mutants travel to Westchester for the reading of Xavier's last will and testament, the students inspect cerebro. They notice a new mutant appear in Texas, so they decide to visit the mutant. It turns out she is a teleporter and in a panic teleports them into the Ultimate Marvel universe by accident. Jean Grey meets with the new Spider-Man, Iceman stumbles into Mole Man's lair, Angel and X-23 meet up with Wolverine's son and the Ultimate X-Men. They all join up to save Beast who was captured by the local Doctor Doom. They eventually track down the girl and teleport back to Earth-616, but right before Jean Grey gives Miles Morales a kiss.

Returning to their universe, the team are reunited with Cyclops when they are called upon to aid the Guardians of the Galaxy in retrieving the fabled Black Vortex. Cyclops, Iceman and Groot become superpowered by the Vortex and return it to Captain Marvel.

The Utopians

Emma Frost takes the young Jean Grey to Madripoor to train her powers. She takes away Jean's telepathy and forces her to face off with The Blob using only her telekinesis and wits. Soon after Cyclops rejoins the team. The team encounters the Guardians of the Galaxy while hunting down The Black Vortex, during a storyline in which Angel gets cosmic powered wings.

Upon their return they are asked by S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate a disturbance in the derelict mutant island Utopia, off the coast of San Francisco. The all new X-men investigate with Magik and discover Random, Masque, Boom Boom, Elixir, Madison Jeffries, and Karma trying to create a new settlement. After an initial disagreement, the two groups battle, but Jean Grey eventually mind blends with Karma and learns about the difficult times these mutants had since Cyclops killed Professor Xavier. The X-Men tell S.H.I.E.L.D. that the vagrant mutants escaped, but actually teleported them to the New Xavier School for Mutants.

Ghosts of Cyclops

In the aftermath of the crossover, the All-New X-Men decide to take some time off and go on a road trip in Hank's "Nerd Wagon", which is a converted VW Bus the interior of which defies physics and is actually a large apartment and lab. Oya, Kid Apocalypse, and Pickles the Bamf have joined the team after Kitty Pryde's departure. X-23 has taken on the mantle as the All-New Wolverine, and Angel doesn't appreciate her reckless fighting style. After the older Scott Summer's death, the young Scott also parted ways. He has been hunting a rogue team of mutants that call themselves the "Ghosts of Cyclops." They wear Cyclops masks and claim to spread his message, but are really thugs that use the chaos to steal. Eventually Scott finds them, but gets himself and the leader of the Ghosts arrested; however, the rest of the X-men track him down and bust him out of jail, but only after a scuffle with the rest of the Ghosts who also came to spring their leader. The team then uses a portable Cerebero and algorithm from Twitter to track new mutants and criminal attacks. This leads them to Paris, France, where The Blob is causing a disturbance by stealing endangered animal and forcing famous chefs to cook it. The team has difficulty subduing him and X-23 is beaten within inches of her life, so in an act of partial desperation and part foolhardiness, Angel uses his new cosmic wings in a fireblast that incapacitates the Blob. X-23 is upset that he acted so reckless, but Angel pointed out that how he feels when Laura jumps headfirst into battle and get hurt—only to be saved by her healing powers. Emotionally he cannot continue his relationship with her. During the fight, they don't realize that the Toad kidnapped Scott Summers. Later, though, Angel and X-23 rekindle their relationship.

Apocalypse Wars

The X-Men are able to track Cyclops into the Catacombs of Paris. He is in critical condition from a cave-in, so Beast tried to use the best modern medicine has to offer to revive him. Cyclops isn't responding, so he tries alternative methods and consults Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange is in the middle of investigating the Empirikul. He gives Beast the Third Eye of Horus to show him the realm between science and mysticism. Beast then shows him that even magic has a scientific base and points out his spells are based on mathematical theorems and there are flaws in the computations. Dr. Strange thanks him for enlightening him and leaves him the mask. Later on Evan's birthday, Evan goes to Beast's lab and tries on the mask, both of them are teleported into ancient Egypt and encounter a teenage En Sabah Nur. Unlike his future self, this En Sabah Nur is generous and selflessly protects his friends. His father is an evil sand raider. Evan attempts to spirit him away to Greece before he can turn evil, but Beast gets captured by the founder of Clan Akkaba, so En Sabah Nur refuses to leave him behind. Evan and En Sabah Nur both knowingly run into a trap to save Beast, but En Sabah Nur gets captured, then Beast forces Evan to return to the future. Evan is furious, since he had an opportunity to prevent En Sabah Nur from turning evil.

Hell Hath So Much Fury

Recovering from his fight with Toad, which has left him wheelchair-using, Cyclops compiles a list of solo missions to occupy Wolverine who is feeling restless after her breakup with Angel. Wolverine finds that several of the enemies have already been defeated and, during a fight against some demons, discovers that Angel is responsible. Teaming up against the demons, the pair reconcile and get back together. Idie and Evan try to boost Bobby's self-esteem by taking him to a gay bar so that he can get used to flirting with guys. Bobby is extremely nervous and embarrasses himself, running out of the bar and crashing into Romeo, a boy he instantly feels comfortable with. Romeo explains that he is looking for a friend and the pair are interrupted when a moth-like NuHuman attacks them. Bobby, Evan and Idie try to bring it down but Romeo reveals that he is an Inhuman who is part of Crystal's team and that he is trying to help the NuHuman. He uses his powers to calm the NuHuman, explaining that his is an emotional empath. Bobby figures that this is the reason he felt at ease and not because he and Romeo genuinely connected however, Romeo surprises him by giving Bobby his number before returning to New Attilan with Crystal. Meanwhile, Cyclops is getting bored of being cooped up by himself and tries to get into Hank's lab, noting that Hank has locked himself inside ever since he and Evan returned from Egypt. His attempts fail and he is suddenly attacked by a huge demon. Similarly, Bobby, Evan and Idie also come into contact with demons Hank reveals that he is responsible for the demon outbreak, as he had been experimenting with black magic in an attempt to unlock the secrets of time travel to return them home. The demons are led by Madelyne Pryor (from Secret Wars) who seems to be getting the upper hand before Hank uses a magic spell to transform himself into a beast-like demon and banish her.

Inhuman War

Bobby's relationship has been slowly developing with Romeo but the two are caught in the middle when the X-Men declare war on the Inhumans. Beast reveals to Bobby that the Terrigen cloud travelling the globe will collapse, making the Earth uninhabitable to mutants so the decision has been made to attack New Attilan in an attempt to destroy the cloud. Bobby joins the other X-Men in the attack so that he can find Romeo and the pair escape from the battle. Cyclops is briefly possessed by the body-jumping Inhuman Mosaic, which allows him to 'see' some of the memories Mosaic has acquired from past hosts, including the memory of how his future self actually died in the first release of the Terrigenesis cloud and Emma simply used his image to make a stand against the Inhumans. Thus assured that his future self was not a monster, when Jean returns to them, Cyclops suggests that they return to the past, but Beast reveals that he recently managed to go back through a complex system of science and magic, only to find that the five of them are 'already' there, fighting Unus the Untouchable, just as the history of this timeline records. Although Cyclops briefly argues that they may simply come from an alternate timeline, Jean and Hank convince him to accept the idea that they are in a new world with no obligation to go back to the past. With this revelation, the X-Men decide to leave the X-Mansion and travel the world to make their own way, leaving a recorded message via the Danger Room to assure the modern team that they are safe.

X-Men: Blue

During the young team's travels, they begin working with Magneto as a teacher, Magneto wanting to use them to set an example to the world that he couldn't. In the course of their travels, they recruited new members from other realities in the form of Jimmy Hudson- the son of a parallel version of Wolverine- and a version of Storm who was a vampire. The team learn that their brief trip to the past was actually a trip to the true past; the X-Men they saw were actually another iteration of the future Brotherhood that went back in time and took their places, creating a corrupted timeline where the X-Men took over the world. The team are able to prevent this scheme, but decided not to remain in the past at this time as they had to return to their era at the time when they had left it.

The team subsequently joined forces with Venom to save Corsair from a space pirate bonded to another symbiote, returning to Earth to fight off an invasion of the Poisons, a species that sought symbiotes across the multiverse. Jean Grey was briefly consumed by the Poisons, but she was able to eventually overcome their influence from within, allowing her to disrupt the entire Poison hive mind, essentially destroying all of the Poisons while allowing some of them to be returned to their original state.

Extermination

The entire X-Men team find themselves hunted on two fronts with one group being the mutant-hunter known as Ahab from a dark possible future where he has turned various mutants into his 'hounds' to hunt their fellows, and another being a younger version of Cable who is so determined to send the young X-Men back to their own time that he actually kills his own future self to stop him interfering, as well as performing 'surgery' to restore Warren's original feathered wings. After Mimic is killed when he acts as a decoy to save young Cyclops, the original five accept the need to return home, but only after taking a detour into the future to meet the younger versions of Ahab's key mutant soldiers, allowing Jean to learn how their powers work. With this new knowledge, Jean is able to program a 'time delay' on the original five's memories once they return to the past, erasing all knowledge of events in the future until they reach that point, simultaneously granting the present Jean with knowledge of how to stop the Hounds. The timeline is thus restored to its original course, with Jean, Hank, Warren and Bobby meeting for milkshakes to talk about their new memories, unaware that young-Cable is talking with a now-alive adult Cyclops.

In this episode, the crew reviews Steve's life and struggles, and accomplishments. Steve and Terri also decide to go into depth about the "Baby Bob" incident that occurred earlier in the year, and telling how their baby was never in any real danger, and how the media exaggerated the story in part. They show us video footage that they took of the incident and show us that Bob was further away from the crocodile than initially believed. Also contains archive footage from other episodes.

''"Las Bandidas"'' tells the story of three sisters, who were raised in a different way by their father who is engaged in the business of breeding horses. The three sisters seek to build their path in their lives, in ways that are not exactly what their father envisioned for them.

''Eye of Pain'' is the first installment of a three-part adventure. This module throws the adventurers into the designs of an elder orb as it schemes to overthrow a hive mother and claim control of its city. The PCs are hired by the disguised beholder for a scenario which is designed to test their suitability for its plans.

The inside front cover has maps displaying a beholder's lair, its location and a small community nearby.

''Death Unchained'' is set in the merciless regime of Falkovnia. A horde of dark and sinister assassins pursue the players from the moment they step out of the mists.

''Death Ascendant'' takes place in the realm of Darkon, one of the less civilized areas of Ravenloft. The player characters come to Nartok, where public hanging and child-branding have become commonplace, and discover that this place is being torn apart by a secret war between two sets of spies. The characters are warned of their goal using the fortune-telling Vistani Tarroka, and then rumors of war and a new type of zombie drive them to their target location; once there, the characters are left to resolve Nartok's current crisis.

Klaus and Rebekah tell Stefan about The Five, a group of vampire hunters of whom they have known for 900 years. Rebekah had fallen in love with one of The Five, Alexander. However, Alexander betrays her love and daggers Rebekah. The Five then attempt to kill the rest of the Originals but their plan is thwarted when the dagger dipped into the white oak ash does not work on Klaus as a result of his werewolf side and Klaus kills Alexander. The tattoos which mark the bodies of The Five are a map to a way of ridding the world of all vampires. Stefan later convinces Rebekah to reveal the missing piece of the map- Alexander's engraved sword, which Rebekah had buried with him. Klaus convinces Stefan to help him as the map may lead them to a cure for vampirism. Stefan agrees, thinking of Elena's struggle to adapt. A guilty Stefan apologizes to Rebekah just before her brother daggers her.

Bonnie, Elena, and Damon visit the college where Bonnie's grandmother used to teach, at which there is a Halloween party. As Professor Shane helps Bonnie, Damon shows Elena how to feed properly. At first, Elena lets her emotions get in the way of her feeding but later at the Halloween party, she finds that preying on wrong-doers lessens her guilt. Elena, intoxicated with the human blood, dances with Damon as they both drink. However, when she sees Bonnie looking on in horror, Elena snaps out of the haze and feels guilty. They then go home to Mystic Falls where she apologizes to Damon for lashing out at him after the party, and admits that deep down she believes Damon's way of living as vampire is the right way. However, Elena expresses that she hates that feeling and Damon assumes she is saying she doesn't want to be like him even though she feels this way, but before Elena can respond Stefan shows up and Damon leaves.

Connor, meanwhile, has been kept prisoner by Klaus. Klaus enlists Jeremy's help in drawing the tattoos as he is the only one with the ability to see them. However, the tattoos - and by extension, the map - are incomplete. The tattoos spread each time Connor kills a vampire, therefore meaning that there are more vampiric deaths to occur before the map can be completed. After Jeremy finishes the drawing, Klaus leaves a hybrid, Nate, to look after Connor. Nate is killed by Connor when he manages to escape using an earring ripped from Nate's ear. The episode ends with Connor arriving in Professor Shane's office at Whitmore College where it is seen that Shane sent Connor to Mystic Falls to kill vampires.

Tobey Marshall is a former race car driver who owns his late father's garage, Marshall Performance Motors, in Mount Kisco, New York, where he and his friends tune performance cars. Struggling to make ends meet, he and his crew participate in street races after hours. After a race, Tobey's former rival Dino Brewster conscripts them into completing the build of a rare Ford Shelby Mustang worked on by the late Carroll Shelby, in exchange for 25% of the car's sales revenue. The completed Mustang is displayed for auction at a party in New York City. Tobey and Dino meet Julia, an English car broker whose client, Bill Ingram, wants to purchase the car if they can prove it will drive over 230 mph, as Tobey claims. Despite Dino's objections, Tobey takes the Mustang to a local race track and successfully drives it at 234 mph, convincing Ingram to purchase it for $2.7 million.

Dino, enraged that Tobey disobeyed his order, challenges Tobey and his friend Pete to a race after Pete flatly tells Dino that everyone knows Tobey is a better driver than him. Dino offers to relinquish his entire share of the Mustang sale if Tobey wins, otherwise Tobey will have to forfeit his share. He challenges them to race with his uncle's three illegally imported Koenigsegg Agera R cars from Europe. On the home stretch, Dino, realizing he is going to lose, intentionally bumps Pete's car, sending it down a ravine and killing Pete when it bursts into flames. Dino disappears from the scene and Tobey is arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, unable to prove that Dino was there.

Upon his release on parole, Tobey sets out to avenge Pete's death. He borrows Ingram's Mustang to enter the De Leon, a winner-takes-all exotic car race organized by the mysterious Monarch. As a condition, Ingram requires Julia to accompany Tobey while Tobey is driving the Mustang. The pair have 45 hours to reach San Francisco before the race starts. In Detroit, they cause an interstate chase with the Michigan State Police and upload the footage. Dino offers his rare Lamborghini Sesto Elemento to anyone who can stop Tobey entering the race, causing a group of truckers to go after the Mustang as well. Julia retaliates by convincing Monarch of Tobey's innocence, securing his invitation to the De Leon.

The truckers ambush Tobey and Julia in Utah, forcing them off the road. Maverick, a member of Tobey's crew, appears in a military helicopter stolen from the National Guard, and carries the Mustang mid-air to Tobey's crew at the Bonneville Salt Flats, getting himself arrested in the process. Tobey and Julia reach San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel in time to register for the race, but on Nob Hill, a tow truck smashes into the Mustang, wrecking it and injuring Julia and Tobey. Desperate to get another car for the race, Tobey meets Dino's fiancée Anita, his ex-girlfriend and Pete's sister. Having discovered Dino's involvement in Pete's death, Anita gives Tobey the location of Dino's hidden Koenigsegg, which Tobey and crew member Joe extract. Tobey meets Julia at a San Francisco hospital, and confesses his feelings for her with a kiss, letting her know that he has a "fast" car, and that this is for Pete.

The next morning, Tobey surprises Dino by showing up in the Koenigsegg he had driven when Pete was killed, and giving him Anita's engagement ring, informing Dino that she is through with him. Besides Dino's Lamborghini and the Koenigsegg, the other participating cars and drivers include: :Texas Mike's McLaren P1 :Johnny V's GTA Spano :The Gooch's Saleen S7 Twin Turbo :English Paul's Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport In the ensuing race along the Pacific Coast Highway, the racers and pursuing California Highway Patrol officers crash one-by-one, leaving Toby and Dino racing side-by-side. Dino attempts to ram Tobey the same way he killed Pete, but Tobey dodges, causing Dino to crash and flip over. Tobey pulls Dino from the wreckage before reaching the finish line, but not without punching Dino to avenge Pete; both are subsequently apprehended by the police, with Dino eventually convicted of the murder of Pete.

178 days later, Tobey is released, and Julia meets him at the prison gates in a 2015 Ford Mustang. The couple drives to a prison in Utah, where Maverick is getting released early for good behavior.

A man receives a letter from a girl stating that she does not want a relationship with him anymore. After this, he becomes the "woman hater" referenced in the title.

The mountain of Geumo, located in Chilgok County, was the home to the Pyeongsan Sin clan. Mount Geumo was an auspicious mountain, and Sineui was born under its power.

Sineui grew into a fine boy, then a great general. Above all, Sineui wanted to cheat death.

One day, a Jeoseung Saja came to Sineui's house. Jeoseung Saja were death gods, who reaped the souls of the dead and brought them to the Underworld. The Jeoseung Saja attempted to enter Sineui's house, but he could not cross the orange trees that surrounded the house. Sineui himself had planted them, knowing that oranges warded off evil. But after four days, he found a peach tree, a plant of evil. He crossed the walls using the peach tree.

When the Jeoseung Saja met Sineui, he found that he had pierced a silver pin on his head. Silver also warded off evil gods. However, the Jeoseung Saja hid under the floors of the house. When Sineui went to wash his face, the Jeoseung Saja sprang up and reaped him by hitting him with an iron hammer. His will was not to bury him for a week.

Sineui escaped the Underworld, defeating the Gaekgwi (Gaekgwi are ghosts that roam between the Underworld and the mortal world), and returned to his family. However, his family had buried him under the earth. Because his body was underground, he suffocated quickly and died again.

is a magical world where everyone's hearts live happily with the guidance of their ruler Princess Marie Ange. However, one day, an evil force known as the Jikochu (Saban: Mercenares) attacks the kingdom. A warrior who served Marie Ange goes to the human world with her pixie partner to find the missing princess, and they bring a trio of young pixies along to find the special girls who can be granted magical powers to help save the kingdom.

Sharuru (Saban: Kippie), one of the pixies, finds an enthusiastic middle-school girl named Mana (Saban: Maya) during a visit to the Clover Tower. When Mana encounters a monster Jikochu (Saban: Distain), which is formed from the soured heart of a person, Sharuru gives her the ability to transform into the magical heroine, Cure Heart (Saban: Glitter Heart) using items called and a smartphone-like device called a . Mana is joined by her friends to form the magical girl Precure team.

In a grammar school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day of school before the summer holidays. Professor Vivaldi, Italian literature teacher, before the end bitterly remembers what happened in that year and he wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school. But they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the professor has noted, today's youth are in most cases changed, drifters and without a sense of civic duty.

Gepy is the famous host of a television talk show in Rome. He has built his fame on the populist pursue of highly emotional scoops, trivializing the real problems of his public and faking over-the-top drama in order to increase his audience. One day a paraplegic girl, Arianna, exposes during the show Gepy's hypocrisy and his instrumental abuses of his guests' private life. This leads to the show being canceled and Gepy being fired by the national broadcasting company. He tries in vain to recover his public image, and to find a second wind for his career within a much smaller private network. While Gepy's professional efforts aren't successful, on the personal side he starts to date Arianna and to gradually develop a more mature conscience. Their relationship however remains full of struggles, since Arianna remains very jealous of her independence, and Gepy seems unable to really accept her handicap as a permanent condition. After a final unsuccessful attempt with an experimental treatment in Prague, the two appear to reconcile with their limits and each others.

Yoon Eun-chae is an only child. Her parents own a mid-sized construction company, which her mother Son Jung-in runs with an iron fist. There is nothing Jung-in wouldn't do for the family business. Unlike her mother, Eun-chae has a positive outlook on life. She is currently a graduate student studying interior design, and dating Lee Young-gyun.

Lee Young-gyun is an ordinary salaryman. His parents run a restaurant, and he has three older brothers and one sister—his eldest brother Jin-gyu is an aging bachelor, Sung-ryong has a limited mental capacity, and Il-bong is a troublemaker. Because of this, Jung-in doesn't approve of him as a match for her daughter.

Beth Humphrey is a middle aged woman living in Burning Bush Texas. One day, while going through menopause, she discovers that the local breast cancer screening unit is closing down due to a lack of funding. Beth is upset as her friend Tess Muldoon, who died from breast cancer three years ago left the center her money and the state was going to match it. Beth then discovers that there was a mix-up when she filed the paperwork and that she had to reapply yearly. She later calls the state health department which tells her that she needs to raise $25,000 within two months to keep the clinic open.

Beth gets in contact with some other women from the Burning Bush High School's 1980 basketball team. Ginger Peabody, who owns a car dealership, Florine Clarkston, who's running for mayor, Roxie Rosales, a pothead and Clementine Winks, a multiple divorcee. Beth tells them they can get the money if they can make $15,000 on concessions and admissions, as well as a betting pool on themselves for three games against the state champions the Lady Armadillos, for which her daughter Jocelyn is a member.

When the other four Women along with their new team manager Laurie show up for practice, Florine tries to talk Beth into think of other ways to get the money, but Beth convinces her that she's still capable of playing and appoints her as starting line up. Beth then names the team the “Hot Flashes". At the Post office where Beth's husband Lawrence is the Postmaster, Beth puts up posters for the event while the church Secretary Kayla Rash, whose daughter Millie is one of the Lady Armadillos, assumes the church will receive the money and split half of it with the School's marching band. Beth tells her the proceeds are going to the mobile unit. Kayla tries to convince Beth otherwise, but Beth stands with her choice.

Beth then asks Paul Lazarini, a veterinarian who lost his license for committing a minor felony and a friend of Tess to coach the team, to which he agrees. The team starts off rough with infighting among Clementine and Roxie, but Paul manages to get all of them to stop and reminds all of them to use their innate abilities and to use it to their advantage. He even manages to get them more focused with playing. Roxie designs the team's uniforms which Ginger prints up. Roxie then goes to her friend Roy and asks him to serve as Referee for their games as he has taken it up as a second job due to money being tight for him.

Beth later discovers that no one's betting in the pool and that they have less than $200. While meeting with the others and telling them about these new problems, Beth tells them that she doesn't know if her marriage is good. Just then Millie and her friends come by and deliver backhanded complements to them.

The first game has very few spectators and the betting pools now has $400. Paul convinces them to go and play and tells them that his Aunt died of Breast Cancer as her town didn't have a mobile unit to treat her. Roy is unable to referee the game due to food poisoning, but the Hot Flashes manage to score 18 points, despite losing to the Lady Armadillos who score 37, as well Clementine pulling a muscle and some harassment from the Lady Armadillos' coach Slaughter, who is also one of her ex-husbands. As the Hot flashes leave, Millie lies by saying that Ginger tried to feel her up.

As Kayla and Millie leave, Kayla gives Beth a back handed complement and makes a homophobic insult about Ginger. Beth then gets into an argument with them, with Kayla saying that Millie has followed and respects the bible. Beth rebukes them by telling them that Millie and another boy were making out at the miniature golf course a week earlier and blackmails them to not insult Ginger, or she'll put it on Facebook. Kayla then insults Beth and says the Hot flashes are a bad influence and believes that everyone in town will listen to her instead of Beth.

As Beth does some more practicing for the other games, Lawrence believes she would by tired of this, but Jocelyn is sure that the Hot Flashes are taking these games and the donations seriously. One day, when Beth comes home, she discovers a hair pin that doesn't belong to her or Jocelyn in Lawrence's truck and believes that he's having an affair. When he comes home, he denies it and says something misogynistic to her. When Jocelyn comes home, she's angry at Beth for listening to her phone calls, which is how she found out about the golf course incident. Even though Beth wasn't eavesdropping to get Millie grounded and says that Millie deserved it for what she did to Ginger, Jocelyn's teammates are barely speaking to her.

At game 2, the Hot Flashes are more focused and are no longer in-fighting. There's also $1,500 in the betting pool and Paul tells the team that they have to win this game or they won't be able to get the third. Roy has recovered from his food poisoning and manages to let the Hot Flashes get away with dirty techniques, which makes Kayla angry. Millie attempts to insult Clementine, only for Clementine to insult her back. Coach Slaughter also threatens Roy for allowing the Hot Flashes to get away with their dirty playing. The Hot flashes then win 39 to 38.

While celebrating their win at a local bar, Paul notices that Lawrence has left. Beth tells Paul that ever since the Post Office had to layoff several workers, Lawrence has been working overtime every night. Roxie and the others convince her to go down and temp him with a "special delivery". A newspaper reporter comes by for Photos and Clementine offers a story on how the team got started as Ginger tells them that she sold her pickup truck and got them some money.

Beth asks Roxie to drop her off at the Post Office so she can visit Lawrence. When Beth Visits, she hears Kayla and discovers that Lawrence is having an affair with her. They then discover that Beth has found them out. The next morning, Jocelyn is still mad at Beth, while Lawrence says that his affair with Kayla is due to her husband working on an Oil Rig. Beth doesn't believe him and when he tries to leave, she demands that he be honest. He then says that Beth being with the Hot Flashes makes her feel 18 again and that's how he feels with Kayla. Heartbroken, Beth Doesn't want to attend the game. When her teammates show up at her house, they tell her that they didn't know about the affair either. Beth feels that Lawrence will leave her and that she'll be completely alone when Jocelyn goes to College and that she also hoped that playing again would make Lawrence see her the way he used to. However, the other women tell her that they're standing by her. Beth then tells them that she was the reason the mobile unit ran out of money as she forgot to re-apply and that she was too ashamed to tell them. Her teammates don't care about that and Florine reads the newspaper article on them and the praise they're receiving, telling Beth that she would be quitting on all of them. This gets Beth back on her feet to practice for the last game.

When they arrive at the High School, Slaughter says that the School Board has banned the whole team from using the Gymnasium for believing them to be bad influences and their third game has been canceled. He then insults them by calling them inferior. Beth decides to go to the schoolboard's meeting the next night to get them to play there again. She learns that they were banned from playing due to smoking, bribing Roy, "promoting homosexuality" and "excessive" profanity. Beth Looks at the letter and discovers that Kayla filed the complaint. Beth offers to have the team improve their behavior, but the men still refuse. Beth tries a new approach, telling them that their wives were High School Cheerleaders and called all of them on her way to the meeting and offered them to do a halftime performance. The men call their wives and after hearing that Beth was telling the truth, decide to lift the ban. When Beth comes home, she tells Lawrence not to come to the last game if he wants to continue his affair.

On the day of the last game, Paul tells them that the betting pool has been raised to $25,000, their newspaper interview went viral and that ''Good Morning America'' wants to do a pregame interview with one of them. The women vote Roxie to give the interview and she does well. Before the Game begins, Beth notices that Jocelyn is still mad at her and that Lawrence hasn't shown up, while Roxie's husband Tito and Ginger's girlfriend Jewel have.

During the halftime performance, Kayla's husband returns from the oil rig, having decided to work back home, while Lawrence shows up near the end of the final quarter, in which Millie trips Beth. During a time-out, Beth notices that Lawrence has shown up while Paul successfully asks Laurie out. When Jocelyn asks Millie why she tripped Beth, Millie Just says it was accidental. Jocelyn then tells three of her other teammates that Millie was having sex with their boyfriends, causing them to ignore her and play in a new manner to make sure that the Hot Flashes win. Beth Manages to score the winning shot and reconciles with Jocelyn, while Clementine is now on better terms with Slaughter.

Afterwards, Lawrence tells Beth how proud he is of her, but when she asks why he came so late, she realizes that Kayla left him instead of the other way around and kicks him out. Lawrence says that Beth can't make it alone at her age, but Beth tells him that her teammates have been there for her, while he has been completely unsupportive. With the new money, the clinic remains opened.

Six months later, Laurie is working at the Clinic and is engaged to Paul, while Florine is now the Mayor of Burning Bush. Even though Kayla is still working at the Church, her reputation has been destroyed as Millie has gotten herself pregnant. Jocelyn is away at College and Beth reveals that her website site has been making a lot of money as she prepares to write about making it alone, showing that she has divorced Lawrence and is doing well for herself.

Prologue

In 2012, Phantom leader Wiseman sends his subordinates Medusa and Phoenix to assist the Akumaizer - Zatan, Eil, and Gahra - in their plot to use five captive Gates' mana to create an army of monsters as part of the Akumaizer's plan to seek revenge against humanity for driving them underground millennia prior. With their forces bolstered, Eil travels five years into the future to retrieve a device necessary for their plans.

''Kamen Rider Fourze''

In 2017, Interpol agents Ryusei Sakuta and Inga Blink defeat a group of psychic criminals and learn they are working for Kageto Banba. Meanwhile, astronaut Yuki Jojima is returning to Earth from the International Space Station while her childhood friend and teacher, Gentaro Kisaragi, attempts to help his student Miyoko Ohki maintain the Space Kamen Rider Club, of which she is the only member. However, another of Kisaragi's students, Saburo Kazeta, and three of the latter's friends cause trouble with their psychic powers. Kisaragi and fellow teacher Haruka Utsugi try to stop Kazeta, who transforms into the monstrous Sanagiman, receives the Zeber device from Banba to enhance his powers, and overpowers Kisaragi until Sakuta rescues Kisaragi and suggests they reunite the original Kamen Rider Club to help him.

Sometime later, Banba assembles other psychic youths to power the Zeber for the Akumaizer, claiming it is part of a crusade to stop space exploration and force Earth's governments to focus on terrestrial problems instead. While Kisaragi and his friends expose Banba and convince most of the youths to leave, Kazeta and his "Monster League" continue to stand by Banba. As Sakuta battles Banba and Kisaragi's friends subdue the league, Kisaragi confronts Kazeta, who claims it is too late for him because he is a monster. To win over the boy's trust, Kisaragi sacrifices his Fourze Driver and convinces Kazeta that he has the power to become someone else. Suddenly, Banba defeats Sakuta and kidnaps Ohki. The reformed Kazeta transforms into Inazuman to defeat Banba, but Eil steals the Zeber and damages Jojima's return module before returning to the present. Nonetheless, Nadeshiko Misaki rescues Jojima before joining Kisaragi and Sakuta in pursuing Eil through time and borrowing Kisaragi's present self's Fourze Driver.

''Kamen Rider Wizard''

In 2012, Haruto Soma destroys several of the Akumaizer's monsters before facing the Akumaizer themselves, who overpower him, escape through a Gate's Underworld after Eil rejoins them, and order Medusa and Phoenix to stop Soma for them. However, the Phantoms flee, no longer wishing to be associated with the Akumaizer. Soma pursues the trio, only to be stopped by more monsters while his friends Shunpei Nara and Rinko Daimon accidentally follow him and leave Koyomi behind. Soma, Nara, and Daimon find themselves in what appears to be their world with no memory of what happened. Additionally, everyone around them seems to be focused on preparing a birthday party for someone named "Poitrine".

While exploring the streets, Soma finds a group of children being attacked by monsters. While Nara and Daimon get them to safety, Soma confronts the monsters until a young woman named Yu Kamimura arrives and transforms into "Belle Mask Poitrine" to defeat them. The monsters flee, but Kamimura says they must not be followed as they have abandoned the fight. While the children beg Daimon and Nara to remember the truth, the pair and Soma celebrate Kamimura's birthday. Soma awakens at the start of the day and remembers the truth. When the monsters attack the children again like last time, Soma destroys the monsters before Kamimura arrives. As she and the civilians harass him for doing so, he discovers that he, his friends, and the children are trapped in Kamimura's Underworld, which is connected to the Akumaizer's machine. Soma tries to rescue Kamimura, but Gahra stops him and convinces her to let Soma join her birthday party until Soma and the children bring her to her senses. Free of the Akumaizer's control, Kamimura joins Soma in fighting Gahra until the other Akumaizer arrive, kidnap her, and send more monsters to stop Soma.

''Movie War Ultimatum''

As Kisaragi, Sakuta, and Misaki rescue Koyomi from monsters and travel to the Akumaizer's machine, Wiseman reveals to his subordinates that the Akumaizer plan to use the Zeber in an ocean of magic underneath Kamimura's Underworld to generate enough magic to kill humanity. After Koyomi explains the situation, Kisaragi uses a Magic Ring that he received in the past to grant himself and his allies entry into Kamimura's Underworld, arriving in time to save Soma. During the battle, Kisaragi recognizes Soma, but the latter does not reciprocate. Suddenly, the Akumaizer send their army to kill the Riders while they escape with Kamimura and the Zeber. Meanwhile, Eiji Hino arrives to protect Koyomi from the machine, use his powers to reach the children, and give them Magic Rings that allow them to summon Kamen Riders OOO, Birth, W, and Accel to aid Soma, Kisaragi, Sakuta, and Misaki.

The eight Riders defeat the army before rushing to intercept the Akumaizer and rescue Kamimura, destroying Eil and Gahra in the process. Zatan makes a final attempt to fulfill his plans, but Kisaragi and Soma receive a power boost from their allies and destroy him along with the Zeber. Returning from the Underworld, Kisaragi asks Soma to return the Fourze Driver to his present self before joining Sakuta and Misaki in returning to their time, where they learn Kazeta and his friends plan to dedicate themselves to fighting those who misuse their psychic powers as the Youth League. While freeing the Gates, Soma and his allies learn the children are unable to remember what happened while Kamimura, who Soma learns is the Doughnut Shop Hungry's effeminate male manager to his dismay, retains his memories. As Soma returns the Fourze Driver to the present day Kisaragi, he also gives him the Magic Ring that Kisaragi will use in the future.

In a post-credits scene, Kamen Rider Beast makes a brief appearance.

Tal (Agathe Bonitzer) is the 17-year-old daughter of recent French immigrants to Israel who live in Jerusalem. Following a bomb attack on a local café, she throws a bottle into the sea near Gaza with a message asking for an explanation. Naïm (Mahmoud Shalaby), a sensitive but aimless 20-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza, discovers the bottle and tries to answer Tal's question by initiating an email correspondence. Their mutual suspicion soon develops into a tender friendship.

After the events of the first ''Goat Story'', the Goat leaves old Prague for the fairy cheese kingdom. The king loves cheeses from the castle on a steep hill, because of which, according to the cunning chamberlain Kobyel, he has already emptied the cash register. In the village of Kuba s Mácou, their children Honzík and Zuzanka and Koza make cheese. The king goes to sleep in the smell of their cheese and picks it up. The mare is amazed in the morning, the cheese makers have already disappeared. If someone does not set them free within three days, they will never see them again. The children go on a rescue expedition with Koza. The King will get intoxicating cheese from Kobyel. A goat with children in a pub under the castle finds out that the road to hell leads through the Devil's Mill. The rescuers will take Tall, Broad, and Sharp-eyed to help. However, they are incompetent. The expedition sees explosions in the distance. Then he sleeps in the woods. The king plays with the cheesecakes, whose "smell" drives everyone out of the castle. The expedition arrives at the cottage where the devil's grandmother lives. Honzík subtly picks up her living water. The mare confiscates the king's cheese and puts it in a sack. It inflates like a balloon and hangs over the castle. Lifeguards get lost in the woods. The supernatural power of the three helpers has waned, but in the end, thanks to the Insight, they will find the right direction. The scent attracts the king again. He tells Kobyl that morning and shows him a piece of cheese. Believing that he was ordering cheese, he signs a letter to the chamberlain, according to which he surrenders to the throne in his favor. He has no idea that the servant locked up all the cheese makers in the castle cellar, where they make cheese day and night. The mare on the balcony in the tower changes shape: suddenly it looks like the devil. The rescuers who arrived at the Devil's Mill will see two confused devils at night, but will not talk to them. Suddenly, Kobyl arrives (he has special wings attached) and kidnaps Zuzanka to the castle. The others know him. Honzík "revives" the properties of fairy-tale companions with living water and everyone rushes to the castle. Široký drinks water from the castle moat to the waterman. When they get inside the secret corridor, they will return the water. The mare will take the monarch's crown. The throne is his. Panic breaks out. The king hides in the crown hall. Koza and his friends will also arrive there. The mare lets everyone fall into the famine and goes to bed. Zuzanka climbs out of the bag quietly, the rope from the balloon with the cheese runs through the castle and ties Kobyl's toe. As the balloon rises, the Mare pulls through the castle. At the same time, the walls of the famine and cheese factory are broken down, freeing the prisoners. The villain hangs over the castle. The children will meet their parents. The mare will bring the devils from the mill to the band.

A Navy Petty Officer is fatally shot during a late-night joyride in an expensive Ferrari sports car. The gun used in the murder is traced to a local pawn shop, where Gibbs and Tony are surprised to see a Congressional Medal of Honor on display. The pawnbroker says she bought it from an elderly World War II veteran who needed the money badly, despite the fact that buying or selling a Medal of Honor is illegal. Reading the citation that came with the Medal, Gibbs is shocked to recognize the name: Leroy Jethro Moore, his father's best friend and Gibbs's own namesake. Gibbs reveals that Moore was his boyhood hero, and his actions on Iwo Jima inspired the young Gibbs's own decision to join the Marine Corps.

While the rest of the team is investigating the murder, Gibbs tracks down Moore at a local retirement home. Moore says he is in good health, but needed the money to help fix the electric lift used by the home's more frail residents. Gibbs remembers that Moore left Stillwater after a falling-out between Moore and his father, but Gibbs never knew why. Moore is reluctant to say, but when Gibbs confronts his father, Jackson angrily says that Moore allowed Gibbs's mother to commit suicide by drug overdose in order to end her suffering from terminal cancer, something that Jackson never forgave him for.

Additional investigation reveals that the deceased Petty Officer worked part-time as a valet, and "borrowed" the sports car for a joyride. The team also traces ownership of the gun to a local university student. His true target was the car's actual owner, a billionaire entrepreneur who he believed stole his idea for a filesharing network, and the Petty Officer was killed in a case of mistaken identity. The suspect is quickly apprehended.

Gibbs forces his father and Moore to meet for the first time in years, and convinces them to end their feud, pointing out that all three of them shared common ground in their love for Gibbs's mother. Jackson and Moore finally make amends and renew their friendship. Jackson redeems the Medal from the pawn shop and returns it to Moore, inviting him to move back to Stillwater.

Gibbs installs a vintage Shopsmith Model 10ER combination machine that he purchased from the pawn shop in his basement, and is pleased to see that his father successfully mended a coffee mug of Gibbs's that he smashed earlier in anger at Moore - an apt metaphor for how the two old veterans have mended their friendship.

The episode ends with a dedication to the Montford Point Marines.

Bill, an independent film director, discovers waitress Gloria in a Hollywood eatery and casts her in the lead role of Kim in his new film, ''Sunset Dreams'', which is financed by his friend Rod, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and Rod's girlfriend, Nathalie. Shortly into production of ''Sunset Dreams'', a toxic rain falls on Hollywood which causes preserved killer birds and cavemen to emerge from the La Brea Tar Pits and zombies to come to life in a nearby cemetery. Bill, Gloria, Rod and Nathalie make their way around Hollywood with a dwindling band of survivors, fighting off the various threats before the birds eventually cease attacking and fly away.

As an anthology series, each episode is a self-contained science-fiction story taking place in a different world, with different characters played by a different cast and adapted from a story previously published in the '' '' magazine. However, the show also proposes that all the stories are linked together by an asteroid, called the " ", which is passing close to the planet where the episode's story is taking place.

The opening credits, narrated in French by voice actor Benoît Allemane, inform that the " " (Screaming Metal) is the last fragment of what was once a living planet, led to destruction by the madness of its inhabitants and condemned to travel ceaselessly through space and time, screaming its sadness and despair.

The seven shorts are:

The film starts in October 1952 after Alan Turing (Ed Stoppard) has been convicted. He is talking to his psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum (Henry Goodman). Dr. Greenbaum and Alan continue to discuss; Alan informs Dr. Greenbaum that he cannot talk about his war time activities. Dr. Greenbaum informs him that he can talk about anything he wants. Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan, is shown and he goes on to explain how life was for John Turing (Alan's brother) and Alan Turing during their childhood. David Leavitt appears next and talks about Turing's school time activities. David further explains that Turing was good at mathematics and athletics. His favourite sport was running.

The scene shifts backs to the discussion between Turing and Dr. Greenbaum. Turing speaks about a school friend he was interested in, Christopher Morcom. They were in different houses so they could meet a couple of times a week. Turing worked on improving his handwriting because Christopher would make fun of it. Turing goes on to explain that he cared more about what Christopher thought about him than what he thought of himself. Christopher Morcom QC (nephew of Christopher Morcom) goes on to explain that Christopher and Turing became close friends during their school days. They were planning to join Cambridge University but on 13 February 1930 Christopher died.

The scene again shifts backs to the discussion between Turing and Dr. Greenbaum. Turing informs him that he wrote letters to Christopher's mother and even managed to acquire his photograph. He still has the photograph in his wallet, and he shows it to Dr. Greenbaum. Turing later goes on to publish his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". A computer in those days did not mean a machine, it meant a person who calculates or computes. Turing proposes automating these tasks, proposing a universal Turing machine. It involved performing mathematical operations using zeros and ones. This became the basis of modern computers. Steve Wozniak goes on to explain how normal people these days carry and use Turing machines in the form of mobile phones, cameras, computers, etc. Alma Whitten explains that there are almost no fields of modern science and everyday life which are not impacted by a Turing machine.

As World War II broke out, he was recruiting to be part of Government Communications Headquarters based at Bletchley Park. It was a diverse group of people consisting of mathematicians, chess players and crossword puzzle solvers. Asa Briggs goes on to say "You needed exceptional talent, you needed genius at Bletchley and Turing's was that genius". The Germans were coding their messages using Enigma machine, which the Germans believed was unbreakable.

Turing speaks about proposing to Joan Clarke and how he broke the news that he had homosexual tendencies. But midway through he realized he could not continue with the relationship and called off the engagement. Turing admits he knew it would hurt Joan but he knew it was better to hurt her now rather than cheat on her and hurt her later. David Leavitt goes on explain how Alan Turing goes on to decrypt the German messages. Alan Turing designs the Bombe to decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages.

Turing and Dr. Greenbaum continue to discuss if something like human consciousness can be kept in an inorganic vessel. The documentary now concentrates on Turing's paper on artificial intelligence "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". The movie now concentrates on Turing's sexuality and his interaction with Arnold Murray which finally leads to his downfall. Turing and Dr. Greenbaum discuss Turing's relationship with Arnold Murray. Turing explains that Arnold had moved into his house and he felt Arnold was stealing money from him. One day when he came home he found his father's pocket watch and other items missing. When Turing asked Arnold, Arnold admitted his friend Harry committed the burglary. Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation he acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Dr. Greenbaum explains to him that he should not have told them bluntly that he was homosexual.

Turing entered a plea of "guilty", despite feeling no remorse or guilt for having committed acts of homosexuality. Turing was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment and probation, which would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. The documentary goes on to explain the impact of those events on Turing. During this stage Turing writes an article called "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" describing the way in which non-uniformity (natural patterns such as stripes, spots and spirals) may arise naturally out of a homogeneous, uniform state.

Turing was targeted by government officials, which led him to feel that he could never have a normal life. The hormonal treatment also started having impact on him. Turing admits to Dr. Greenbaum that he should have gone to prison instead of taking the hormonal treatment. During another interaction with Dr. Greenbaum, Turing speaks about killing himself by using a poisoned apple like in the story "Snow White". The movie explains that On 8 June 1954, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed. A post-mortem examination established that the cause of death was cyanide poisoning.

Lono (Rachmat Hidayat) is a former revolutionary soldier who has become a criminal, recognised by the Alfa Romeo-produced car he drives. He robs the rich, corrupt government officials and gives the money to the poor, leaving a black glove at the scene of his crimes as a calling card. His elder brother Djoko (Soekarno M. Noer), however, is a police officer tasked with stopping Lono.

In his crimes Lono is supported by Sukma (Rima Melati), a law student whose father has been crippled in a staged hit-and-run accident for his work as an anti-corruption activist. As she falls in love with Lono, Sukma discovers his background and becomes increasingly understanding of Lono's motivations.

After Lono's final heist, a theft from a major corruptor named Ongko (Wim Umboh) in the capital city of Jakarta, he goes to his brother's house nearby. The two reminisce on old times until Djoko says that he must arrest Lono; the latter comes willingly. Sukma agrees to defend Lono in court.

The story of the film revolves around the lives of three women– Aparna, Damini and Nancy. Aparna is a journalist. She suspects that her husband is having an affair with Damini, an IPS officer. Aparna's husband is kidnapped. Aparna goes to meet Damini and a relationship between Aparna and Damini begins. Nancy is a call-girl who is raped. She lodges a complaint to the local council but it goes in vain. She then approaches a news channel where Aparna is a journalist, Aparna helps her to get justice.

1000 years ago, the Demon King caused a great amount of trouble for the human realm, but was sealed by the legendary hero Creasion. Now in the present, a large hole has appeared in the world, from which a large number of demons have emerged. The King has ordered the 75 probable descendants of the original hero to destroy the demons and save the world. Senyu follows the story of Alba, hero number 45, and his quest to save the world. Along the way he is accompanied by Royal Soldier Ross, who is less than helpful and whose semi antagonist antics provide humor. The plot contains a number of twists and turns, fitting the screwball nature of the manga/anime. Alba quickly teams up with the demon queen herself, a little pink haired girl who reveals the whole issue was an accident.

The series starts almost exclusively comedic, with episodic gags mainly involving Alba's bad luck and Ross abusing him. A more serialized story and plot starts to develop halfway into Volume 1, as an order of 12 powerful demons themed after the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar starts making its move to revive the original Demon King. Simultaneously, other of the probable hero descendants also interfere, with lesser demons and government officials caught in the crossfire.

The past and origin of the world's affairs are explored in the second volume, as well as Creasion's role in history and his modern whereabouts. The third volume focuses on the remnants of the 12 demons, especially the strange machinations of one of them, Elf November. The fourth volume explores Elf's past and his complex involvement with existence as well as the true nature of several elements of the world. This volume concludes Senyu's main original storyline.

Volume 5 serves as an epilogue, tying up loose ends from the rest of the story and later shifting to a comedic slice of life where the characters are adapting to the world after all the changes brought in by the catastrophic events told in the past volumes. The later portion of Volume 5 starts a new serialized storyline, reexploring some aspects of Elf's past and bringing a new group of antagonists

Benno (Fabian Krüger) lives a relatively quiet life, working as a stamp dealer and living alone, although he frequently visits his girlfriend Patrizia (Florine Elena Deplazes). However, he has one great irritation in life: His apartment lies above a diner owned by a woman called Sandra (Irene Brügger), who frequently keeps Benno awake by practising her one-man-band act for a talent show at night.

One morning, Benno notices that he is losing sand; he cannot explain where it comes from, and tries to ignore it at first, but it increases, and soon he leaves sand almost everywhere he goes. Visits to a doctor do not reveal anything wrong, and a psychiatrist cannot help either, believing “losing sand” to be Benno's metaphor for his life instead of taking it literally. Benno even tries calling Dimitri (Michel Gammenthaler), a television psychic, but is only told to “search within your dreams” and that “the answer is nine”.

Furthermore, it seems that anybody sniffing the sand (including Benno himself) falls asleep. This, and the constant leaking of sand, makes Benno's life more and more problematic, until he realizes that he and Sandra keep dreaming the same dream, but only he is awake and aware that he's dreaming. He asks her for help, and eventually realizes that when he is honest, the sand stops leaking.

Overjoyed, Benno goes out and tries to live a new life in honesty, but it does not work too well: His boss becomes furious when Benno has to admit he's been bringing sand into the office, as well as stealing a famous stamp for himself, and his girlfriend leaves him when he says he does not really love her. Instead, Benno retreats more and more into Sandra's dream, where he is free to do whatever he wants, but in real life, the sand in his apartment is piling up, eventually trapping him. In desperation, he asks Sandra for help in her dream.

Waking up, Sandra indeed rescues him, but is furious that he has been invading her dream. Benno eventually understands the psychic's advice: To be freed of the curse, Sandra must perform the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th symphony, his favorite musical piece, in their shared dream. Reluctantly, she promises to help him, and they practise both in and out of the dream world. However, when the time finally comes to perform the piece with an orchestra (although in an empty hall), Benno realizes he is the director, and the performance degenerates into cacophonia. They wake up, and once again become enemies—but as she leaves, Sandra reveals that her practice was for Benno, as she is in love with him.

Dismayed, Benno calls Dimitri again, now outside his television show hours. Dimitri, however, admits being a fraud, who has been making up his “psychic advice”. Benno, now almost totally disintegrated due to all the sand loss, makes a final visit to Sandra, and although he is not allowed into her apartment, he tells her softly how much he “hates her face” and “wants to be as far away as possible from her”. As Sandra opens the door, she sees that all that's left of Benno is sand, proving he really meant the opposite, and sniffs it to join him in a final attempt to perform the symphony. They enter the stage in a packed concert hall, but Benno has realized that they should not perform the symphony, but rather Tango Plagööri, the piece Sandra rehearsed as part of her one-man-band show. As the performance ends and the crowd applauds heavily, they wake up in each other's arms, with all the sand gone.

When the bank forecloses on the property of an isolated and financially troubled kibbutz in Galilee, Israel, most of the residents gather their belongings and abandon the community before the bailiffs arrive. In their haste to depart, however, they neglect to bring with them a dozen senior citizens who now are forced to fend for themselves as they attempt to oppose the construction of a luxury spa and casino and save their kibbutz single-handedly. In the process, they rediscover the pioneering spirit they felt when the kibbutz was first established.

Antonio leaves Italy for Berlin to reach Peppino, who works the miserable job of "magliaro". Since he is very poor, Antonio makes a pact with the daughter of former Nazi admiral Attila Canarinis, who is his perfect double, so that in West Berlin he will be tried by the Americans for war crimes. Antonio escapes from jail, but the troubles for him are not finished, because in East Berlin he is mistaken by the Russians for a secret agent, due to a misinterpretation of the Neapolitan book "La smorfia".

John John opens with the eponymous character alone in his poorly kept home, wondering after the whereabouts of his wife, Tyb, and debating whether he should beat her when she arrives. However, when she does come home, she is instantly domineering, and he is instantly submissive. John believes his wife has been with the local priest, Sir John, and claims that he is a well known knave. Tyb, however, claims to have been making a pie with Sir John and several other women’s help. She then produces the pie as evidence.

Tyb orders John to go invite the priest to sup with them, but not before she makes him carry out all the domestic chores in preparation for Sir John's arrival. John goes to Sir John’s house, where he and the priest converse, and John is relieved to hear that the priest has chastised Tyb for her treatment of John, and believes that Tyb is furious with him for his words. The priest initially refuses to come, but John convinces him, believing that the priest a friend.

Once at home, Tyb sends John out to fetch water in a pail, and it is revealed during his absence that the priest has been lying to him, and that Tyb and Sir John intend to make a fool of him. John returns with no water, as the bucket has a “cleft” in it. Tyb tells him to repair it, and Sir John produces two wax candles for the work. The priest and Tyb then go to eat pie at the table together, while John is left to polish and rub the hard wax candles alone by the fire so they will be soft enough to repair the cleft.

Tyb and Sir John finish the entire pie, then mock John when he complains, pretending that they gave him some. John has had enough by this point, so he fights with both of his tormentors, throwing them out. John does not have long to enjoy his victory, however, as his anxiety over what the two will do now that they are alone together quickly sends him out the door after them.

Antonio is a poor man who has to support his daughter and especially he should pay her stay at a prestigious boarding school to study dance. Antonio so starts with his friend Camillo to deceive the poor people of Rome stealing many sums of money with various confidence tricks. Among the various scams that famous are the receipt of a billion dollars for the prince of Katanga (Antonio in blackface) and the sale of the Trevi Fountain to a foolish entrepreneur.

The first series focused on the new Head Teacher Jack Rimmer's attempts to keep the school of Waterloo Road open, following the school being threatened with closure by the LEA, owing to falling pupil numbers, bad behaviour and the bad publicity the school had been receiving following the previous Head Teacher's mental breakdown. In order to improve things around the school, Jack Rimmer employs enthusiastic Andrew Treneman as Deputy Head. However, Andrew struggles to connect with both the staff and the pupils at first, having come from a more successful upper class school and background.

One of the major plots this series focused on the death of student Adam Deardon, who dies in a car crash. Classmate Donte Charles was driving the car when it happened, both underage and under the influence of alcohol. Another central character in the first series is Lewis Seddon, who bullies fellow student Rory Bears for being homosexual and who does not behave well in class. His out of control behaviour culminates in him sexually harassing Pastoral Care teacher Kim Campbell.

The first series also explored the break-up of English teachers Tom Clarkson and Lorna Dickey's short-lived marriage, due to Tom's love for the school's Drama teacher and Lorna's best friend, Izzie Redpath. The series ends with Lorna taking a step towards the edge of a canal in an attempt to end her own life.

The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as bullying, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, losing a baby, an affair between a teacher and a pupil, online abuse, overactive bladder syndrome, suicide, knife crime and drug abuse.

Premise

Following the events of the series one finale, it is revealed that English teacher Lorna Dickey (Camilla Power) survived what was portrayed as a suicide attempt. Her former husband Tom Clarkson (Jason Done) and previous best friend Izzie Redpath (Jill Halfpenny) continue their relationship, with Izzie now pregnant, making life in the staff room very difficult for all parties and even more so when tragedy strikes for both Tom and Izzie and Lorna, who is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

The second series included the arrival of prospective school governor Roger Aspinall (Nick Sidi), who promised to invest in the future of the school in return for a seat on the governing body, having got the final decision back from the LEA at the end of series one that the school would remain open. Roger's son Brett (Tom Payne) enrolls at the school and is later involved in one of the major plots this series when he starts an affair with the new, glamorous school secretary, Davina Shackleton (Christine Tremarco).

Other major plots were the drug-dealing antics of two pupils which later ends in the violent stabbing of one of the school's teachers, the alcoholism of trainee teacher Russell Millen, the bullying and attempted suicide of Mika Grainger (Lauren Drummond) and the return of former pupil Maxine Barlow (Ellie Paskell), who is later fostered by the school's French teacher Steph Haydock (Denise Welch).

The series ended with the school's board of governors preparing to make a decision on who should take up the position of becoming Waterloo Road's Head on a permanent basis.

The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as death, running away from home, prostitution, child grooming, HIV/AIDS, child abuse, homosexuality, Asperger syndrome, deportation, activism, blackmail, plagiarism and assault.

Premise

This series opened with headteacher Jack Rimmer (Jason Merrells) recording an emotional message for the entire school to hear, following the death of his colleague Izzie Redpath (Jill Halfpenny). Jack was witness to Izzie's stabbing at the end of Series 2, but it was previously unknown if she had died or not.

Jack's second-in-command Andrew Treneman (Jamie Glover) was replaced by Eddie Lawson (Neil Morrissey), having accepted a teaching post in Rwanda alongside Kim Campbell (Angela Griffin) at the end of Series 2. Jack struggles to fulfil his role as headmaster this series, and later resigns when the school's board of governors find the school's budget has been misused. He is succeeded by Rachel Mason (Eva Pope), an ex-prostitute who used to be named Amanda Fenshaw.

One of the major plots this series is the marriage between two pupils, Chlo Grainger (Katie Griffiths) and Donte Charles (Adam Thomas). Being so young, everybody has their doubts. These doubts are confirmed when Donte finds Chlo sleeping with her sister Mika's (Lauren Drummond) boyfriend, Brett Aspinall (Tom Payne). When Mika tells her she never wants to see her again, Chlo runs away to Manchester, but this only causes more trouble for her and the Graingers, who are already struggling following the death of their mother. Chlo does return to Waterloo Road, but she and Donte's relationship may never be the same. While Mika does rekindle her relationship with Brett, and the pair begin to publicly fight for environmental rights.

Another central character this series is Davina Shackleton (Christine Tremarco), who is accused of having a sexual relationship with pupil, Brett, and who was then forced to date his father. Other storylines included the deportation of a pupil, a plagiarism scam in the school that catches the examination board's attention and English teacher Jasmine Koreshi (Shabana Bakhsh) being accused by new pupil Michaela White (Zaraah Abrahams) of assault.

The Series 3 finale saw a fire spread throughout the school. During the fire, Davina was rushed to hospital and headmistress Rachel and contractor, Stuart Hordley (who had both blackmailed Rachel and started the fire) were both trapped under the rubble. Pupil Chlo was trapped in the toilets, but was saved by English teacher Tom Clarkson (Jason Done) and former lover, Donte.