The events of the book follow on directly from The Suns of Scorpio when Dray Prescot was taken away in the decisive moment of the slave uprising against the Overlords of Magdag. He resists the feared teleportation back to Earth but finds himself instead in a different location on Kregen. He makes the acquaintance of Seg Segutorio, a bowman from the continent of Loh, thereby beginning a life-long friendship. Seg works at the time as slave at a farm in the region of Proconia, in the east of the Eye of the World. Moments later the farm is attacked by semi-human, lizard-like Sorzart warriors which Prescot takes as the reason for him having been sent there rather than returned to Earth after he, as he presumes, failed to fulfil the Star Lords plans correctly in Magdag. Prescot manages to save the female owner of the farm, her child and Seg from the raiders.

After taking the women and child to safety and being incarcerated Seg and Prescot escape in a small boat. Attempts to head for Sanurkazz are thwarted by sudden storms, making it clear to Prescot that the Star Lords do not wish for him to go there. He learns that Seg was captured and enslaved after fighting for Pattelonia, the chief city of Proconia and ally of Sanurkazz as a mercenary. On the way the two come to a merchant ship from Pattelonia, damaged by storm and attacked by a galley from Magdag. Prescot uses the confusion of the battle to liberate the galley slaves and attack the crew of the galley. Heavily outnumbered the crew is defeated but Prescot learns that the sinking merchant ship has Delia trapped on board. He succeeds in rescuing her and learns that she has been heading for Magdag to find him. Once more he now tries, with Seg, Delia and one of her ladies-in-waiting, Thelda, to head for Sanurkazz but once again a sudden storm forces him eastwards, to Pattelonia.

In Pattelonia, Prescot meets his friend and fellow Kroziar, Pur Zenkiren, who wishes him to lead the army in the east against the forces of Magdag but Prescot explains that he is physically prevented from doing so. Instead, Prescot, Delia, Seg and Thelda head to a secret location where Delia had the flying boat, called a voller, hidden away after she arrived from Vallia in it. The four aim to take the Voller across the mountain range to the east, the Stratemsk, and over the hostile territories beyond to reach Vallia. The traverse the Stratemsk successfully but then crash in the hostile territories and continue on foot. The witness a battle between two of the many city states in the area, remnants of the collapsed empire of Loh and accidentally get involved with Delia being taken captive and carried off by warriors mounted on giant birds.

Because he saved Hwang, the nephew of Queen Lilah of Hiclantung during the battle Prescot and Seg enjoy the hospitality of the queen and recover from their battle wounds in the city. Prescot saves the queen from assassination and is offered to become her companion but declines. He learns that Thelda believes Delia died in the battle and investigates. A spy send by the queen however reveals that Delia may be held captive by Umgar Stro, the barbarian war lord of the Ullars, who have recently entered the region and captured a city. Prescot and Seg set out flying on giant birds, called , towards the city of Plicla, held by the Ullars. In the city they rescue one of the fabled Wizards of Loh instead, Lu-si-Yuong, and Prescot reluctantly leaves after learning that Delia was not there. Returning to Hiclantung, Prescot and Seg are forced to rescue Thelda from the queen.

Dray Prescot agrees to march with the queen's army against the Ullars and their allies, the city of Harfnar. The army initially is successful against the Ullars flying army but then is overrun by the land forces of Harfnar. Prescot is taken prisoner and kept in the dungeons of Harfnar. Prescot is finally reunited with Delia when fighting the Ullars and a beast of theirs, the Ullgishoa, in the arena. Prescot prevails, kills Umgar Stro, and escapes with Delia on the formers riding bird. The two are eventually rescued by a flying boat from Vallia, believing Seg and Thelda to be dead.

While having to land for the night with a defect on the voller, Prescot is drugged and left behind, with the situation arranged to look like he has left out of fear of facing Delia's father, the emperor. Prescot was drugged on orders of the Ractors, an influential political party of Vallia, who wanted him dead but his life is spared by Naghan Vanki, spy master of the emperor, who was also on board of the air ship. Observed by both the dove of the Savanti and the Gdoinye of the Star Lords, Prescot decides to head for the east coast of Turismond, to take a ship to Vallia and reunite with Delia.

The film stars Mirianne Brulé as Marie, a restless young woman from Quebec who decides to drop out of university and hitchhike west to Whistler, British Columbia on a voyage of self-discovery, much to her parents' dismay. The journey to British Columbia is not an easy one, as along the way Marie experiences a myriad of bumps and mishaps, with her finally arriving in Whistler only to have her luggage stolen. After this exasperating ordeal a man by the name of Jean-François (Papineau), who is also from Québec, takes Marie in to stay with him and his two roommates, his ex-girlfriend Gaby (Malka) and their gay friend Brad (Barton). During her time there Marie experiments sexually with Gaby and through this is drawn into an unexpected love triangle with both J-F and Gaby.

The film's cast also includes Brandon Barton, Juan Riedinger, Anik Vermette, Germain Houde, Diane Lavallée, Valérie Chevalier, Charlie David, Bruno Baronet, Adam Bergquist, Rick Tae, Niels Schneider, Bill Marchant and Linda Darlow.

Travis Shaw (Benjamin Walker) is a veterinarian, living in the city of Wilmington, NC, who falls in love on his first meeting with Gabby Holland (Teresa Palmer), who has moved into the house next door.

Their initial meeting, however, is rather rocky as Travis is hosting a noisy backyard picnic, complete with loud music while Gabby is trying to study next door. Gabby is a medical student who is in a relationship with a fellow doctor, Ryan McCarthy (Tom Welling). Travis has an on again, off again relationship with a girl named Monica. With Ryan out of state overseeing a new hospital opening, Gabby and Travis spend more time together, starting a relationship.

Ryan returns, and is keen to resume his relationship with Gabby. Unsure of her feelings, Gabby tells Travis that their relationship wasn't necessarily serious, so she says yes to Ryan's marriage proposal. Monica (Alexandra Daddario) breaks up with Travis, telling him that she knows about him and Gabby and that he should fight for her because they love each other. Travis goes to the hospital, only to find out she left after breaking off her engagement with Ryan. Ryan punches him for the affair. Travis then goes to Gabby's family home to propose. After convincing her of his love, she says yes. They marry and over the course of the next few years they have two children and become a happy family.

One evening, after a dinner to which Travis is late due to a work emergency, Gabby drives back home but is involved in an accident with another car. She survives but is now in a coma, which seems permanent. Travis, wracked with guilt, has to decide whether to take her off life support.

After a storm nearly destroys their house, Travis finds the wind chimes that Gabby had on her porch. He goes to his island and builds a gazebo, hanging them there. The shell chime starts to ring in the wind and Travis runs to the hospital where Gabby has woken up from her coma. When he walks in she says "you're late." He takes her home where she is welcomed by the family and Travis' sister's newborn child.

To make up for missing their dinner date Travis and Gabby have one in the front yard, where she tells him she heard everything he said whilst in the coma. Stating that he was "breathing for her." The movie finishes with Travis and Gabby with their children and dogs sitting in the gazebo 'Gabby's Point', looking out onto the shore and up at the stars.

12-year-old Conor O'Malley has a close bond with his seriously ill mother, and maintains the household during her regular chemotherapy treatments at the hospital. His grandmother often visits, and suggests he come live with her in the event of his mother's death. Conor doesn't warm to her due to her coldness.

At school, he is regularly tormented by his classmate Harry. He is also plagued by a nightmare in which the old church near his house collapses into a hole, where he tries to prevent someone from plummeting to their death by trying to hold onto them. Conor vents his emotions by drawing, a talent inherited from his mother.

One night, exactly seven minutes past midnight, he sees the large yew tree next to the church transform into a gnarled Monster that approaches his home. The Monster says it will tell Conor three stories during their next meetings, after which Conor must tell the Monster a fourth tale in return.

In the Monster's first story, a prince escapes from his stepgrandmother, the supposedly-evil queen. He then kills his sleeping bride under a yew tree and makes the queen the scapegoat so the people drive her away and make him king.

As Conor's mother worsens, he moves in with his grandmother. In the evening, Conor summons the Monster by forcing the hands of the clock to show 12:07. He appears, and tells the second story. In the tale, a hard-hearted parson forbids an apothecary from extracting medicine from an old yew tree, only to rescind this measure when his own children become ill. The apothecary refuses to help him, and the Monster begins to destroy the parson's house as punishment. Conor enthusiastically joins in on the destruction, but he suddenly finds he has angrily destroyed his grandmother's sitting room and valuable grandfather clock instead. His grandmother, while shocked and bitter, does not punish Conor.

The doctors turn to a final treatment involving yew wood. Conor implores the Monster to heal his mother, only for the Monster to dismiss the matter as outside of his responsibility. At school, Harry proclaims he will no longer bother Conor because he "no longer sees [him]". The Monster tells the third story of an invisible man who did not want to be so. With his support, Conor angrily attacks Harry, hospitalizing him. To his astonishment, the headmistress refrains from punishing him as she comprehends his current home situation.

When it becomes clear his mother will die, Conor runs to the yew tree, where the Monster forces him to relive his recurring nightmare. This time we see it's his mother, dangling for her life over a precipice, holding onto Conor's hand. He slowly loses his grip until his mother disappears into the enormous sinkhole. The monster then confronts Conor and repeatedly demands he tell his fourth tale, as it's the only way for him to be set free. Conor pleads not to, believing that the truth would kill him.

Eventually, Conor tells his own tale, admitting that he had long suspected his mother would not survive and secretly hoped the pain would end soon. In his recurring nightmares, he subconsciously let go of his mother's hand, which fills him with guilt. The Monster commends Conor for his bravery and tells him he did not truly want his mother to die, but simply to end the suffering.

Conor's grandmother finds him asleep under the yew tree and on the drive to the hospital, Conor reconciles with her. At the hospital, he embraces his mother one last time and as she passes she glances at the Monster, dying at exactly seven minutes past midnight. Conor returns to his grandmother's house, where his mother's old room is refurbished for him. There, he finds his mother's childhood art book, which depicts the stories that were told to him by the Monster, and a drawing of his mother as a child on the Monster's shoulder.

Two irreverent altar boys, Andy and Charlie, play hooky after every funeral they serve at their school's chapel. This comes into conflict when the boys are teamed with a timid, new kid who is less willing to break the rules.

Beth Greene (Emily Kinney) awakens in Grady Memorial Hospital and is greeted by two survivors, Lt. Dawn Lerner (Christine Woods) and Dr. Steven Edwards (Erik Jensen). Dawn explains that her officers found Beth unconscious on the side of a road, surrounded by "rotters", and they saved her life. Dawn tells Beth that as a rule of the hospital, she must repay them with labor, and Beth is assigned to Dr. Edwards as a nurse. They are called to tend to a new patient, Gavin Trevitt. Dr. Edwards immediately writes Gavin off as a lost cause, but Dawn insists Edwards try to save him. After Edwards is unsuccessful, Dawn becomes infuriated, and slaps Beth across the face, reopening her previous injuries.

Later, Beth and Dr. Edwards must treat a worker, Joan (Keisha Castle-Hughes), who was bitten while attempting to escape the hospital. Despite Joan's pleas to be allowed to die, Dawn orders Dr. Edwards to amputate Joan's arm to prevent the infection from spreading. Beth meets another hospital worker named Noah (Tyler James Williams), who warns her that Dawn and her officers are more sinister than they seem. They only take in patients weak enough to control, and no ward has ever repaid their debts and been allowed to leave the hospital. He confides that he intends to escape and return to his community in Richmond, Virginia. A recuperating Joan warns Beth that Dawn cannot control her officers, and keeps their loyalty and morale high by allowing them to have their way with the patients, implying they have raped her.

One of the officers at the hospital, Officer Gorman (Cullen Moss), begins sexually harassing Beth but is stopped by Dr. Edwards. Beth asks Dr. Edwards why he stays at the hospital. Dr. Edwards explains that, in the aftermath of the bombing of Atlanta, the officers and surviving staff took shelter in the hospital until they ran out of supplies and were forced to scavenge. He tells her that a deal was made to take in and heal the injured in return for their labor, and says that no matter how bad conditions in the hospital get, it's a better alternative to the outside.

Dr. Edwards tells Beth to give Gavin, who is in life support, a dose of Clozapine, an atypical antipsychotic, which kills him. An angry Dawn demands to know what happened, and Noah lies and takes the blame. Dawn has Noah beaten as a punishment. Dr. Edwards insists to Beth that he told her to give Gavin Clonazepam, a benzodiazepine, rather than Clozapine. Dawn warns Beth that she knew Noah was lying but was forced to make an example of him for the greater good. Dawn tells Beth that she isn't strong enough for the world as it is, but Beth insists she is.

The next day, Beth and Noah plan to escape the hospital via the elevator shaft to the basement. While retrieving a key from Dawn's office, Beth finds the body of Joan, who has committed suicide. Beth is caught by Gorman, who offers his silence in return for sex. Beth hits him in the head with a lollipop jar, leaving him to be eaten by a reanimated Joan. Beth and Noah climb down the elevator shaft, but Noah gets attacked by a walker a few floors down and then falls and injures his leg, attracting walkers. Whilst escaping, Beth shoots some walkers with the gun she got from Gorman. Noah escapes, but Beth is recaptured in the parking lot after officers arrive.

Dawn confronts Beth about the deaths of Joan and Gorman. Beth tells Dawn that the two deaths were the result of the hospital's corrupt regime and that nobody is coming to rescue them. Dawn strikes Beth in anger. Later, while Dr. Edwards treats her injuries, Beth reveals that she discovered Gavin was a doctor. Dr. Edwards admits he knew Gavin, and he arranged his death in an attempt to remain indispensable to Dawn, ensuring his own survival. Appalled, Beth later obtains a pair of scissors with the intention of killing Dr. Edwards, but she is stopped in her tracks when a gurney carrying an unconscious Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) is brought into the hospital.

Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence.

Greta is a beautiful young woman whose eccentric aunt dies leaving her a large, once opulent mansion. When Greta moves in with her friends she discovers that she must take care of her aunt’s prized black cat, Beker. The new residents take charge of the mansion, throwing wild parties and enjoying a fun filled summer until they lose track of Beker – who drowns in the mansion’s pool. What was about to be the best summer of their lives quickly turns into a spine-chilling fight for their lives.

While making popcorn, Kenny is called by an unknown person, who flirts with him. The conversation turns disturbing, and ends when a man wearing a hood and face paint breaks into Kenny's house, and rapes him. The next day, Kenny's friends discuss what happened to him, revealing that he was so traumatized from being sexually assaulted that he has suffered a mental breakdown. Investigating the attack is Deputy Derek, who questions Kenny's friends, all of whom have reasonable alibis. Derek then has sex with Ricky, and afterward Ricky mentions that Kenny had recently dumped Stuart.

After Derek leaves, dismissing a nosy reporter on his way out, Sam chats with Tom, and brings up Chris, his boyfriend who had been raped and murdered almost a year ago, supposedly by a man named Steve Warner. Sam goes home, and after masturbating he is taunted over the phone by Kenny's rapist, who then attacks him. Sam fights off his assailant, and accuses Brian of being him, as he showed up right after the attack, cellular phone in hand. Brian is arrested by Derek, but is released the next day, due to a lack of evidence, and Sam getting another call from the rapist.

Despite all that has happened, everyone attends a party being held at Stuart's house. Tom goes to get beer and light bulbs out of the garage, where he is confronted by and has sex with the rapist, who drowns him in a hot tub afterward. Ricky goes to look for Tom, and is locked in the garage by the rapist, revealed to be Brian, who is working with Stuart. Brian murdered Chris and framed his boyfriend Steve for it because Chris and Steve were having an affair, and now he and Stuart are going to kill Sam, after forcing him to participate in a threesome, as "no porno is complete without a good threeway". When the trio ejaculates, Derek and the reporter enter, and arrest Brian and Stuart, the reporter having recorded the two bragging about their crimes from outside.

A professor, Mike Lawford (Nicolas Cage) frantically searches for his son Charlie, who was abducted during a Halloween parade. As nearly a year goes by, the parents are still looking for their son and starting to hear and see their son reaching out to them from the other world—Mike sees his son on a passing bus, but upon chasing the bus down and gaining access, his son is not there. He disembarks and notices spray painted on a building, "pay the ghost," the phrase his son uttered before vanishing. He enters the building and finds homeless people living there. Unearthly screams of a woman are heard, and a blind homeless man calls for the others to mask their fires, explaining to Mike that the screams are heard every year before Halloween. Mike asks about the phrase, and is taken to a wall with more of the same phrases written on it. Engrossed by the wall and the homeless man, he does not notice the wall behind him shift into another world, and a demonic figure briefly appears behind him, then vanishes. The homeless man explains nothing, but quickly tells Mike to leave.

His wife Kristen, later sees their son's scooter move on its own, and calls him. Later that night while pouring wine, the power in their home goes out. Mike looks out the window to see three children appear and burned at the stake, then turns and sees his apartment crowded with figures of children, standing lifeless and pale. They call a psychic to investigate. Standing in their son's room, she senses nothing, but then abruptly walks to the window, looks at the approaching storm, and says, "It's here... it has all the children." The psychic is then thrown against the wall and strangled before collapsing, burn scars all over her hands. A later autopsy shows her internal organs were burned to ash.

Later, Mike walks upstairs to his wife's room, and she addresses him with their son's voice, pleading for help and saying "She's coming, Dad. I'm scared." He walks closer, and sees his wife cutting herself. Cleaning the wound, they find a symbol, which leads them to a Celtic Halloween celebration. A participant explains that the children are burning dolls to pay the ghost, so they will not be taken. Their friend Hannah who was helping them by doing research calls Mike and says: In early New York, on Halloween night of 1679, because of her Celtic worship, a young widow living on the first New York settlement was burned alive with her three children by an angry mob of settlers suspecting her to be a witch. She takes revenge every year on Halloween, when the border between the spiritual world and the physical world dissolves for a short time. Since then, every Halloween the ghost of this woman takes three living children from their parents and puts them in an alternate world. The borders solidify until next Halloween, and the children taken are able to reach out and be rescued. But if the children cannot escape this alternate world within the first year, they are stuck in this world forever.

After Mike and Kristen are injured in the taxi by a flock of black vultures, Hannah while trying to leave the institute, is killed by the ghost, being thrown out the window. Mike returns to the same building and finds the blind homeless man again, he gives him his watch in exchange for helping him find his son Charlie. He shows Mike the hazy road and tells him that he has until midnight until Halloween ends, otherwise he will be trapped there forever. Mike arrives at the widow's cabin and goes down to the basement where he finds the souls of many children who were locked up many centuries ago at Halloween time. Mike finally finds Charlie along with two other children that were also taken within the last year.

While the four of them are escaping, the ghost widow appears as she has learned that they were attempting to escape. She tries to stop Mike from taking the three children away by trying to kill him. All of the other children’s souls arrive to help him, and they are able to kill the ghost widow by surrounding her. Mike and the children manage to get out just as the portal closes. At dawn, Mike and his son Charlie finally make it home. While reuniting with Kristen it is revealed that Charlie has no recollection of the time that he spent missing. Outside, a black vulture is seen flying away.

In a scene mid-credits, three black vultures appear surrounding Hannah's corpse, and she awakens being possessed.

Hitman is a powerful story of two siblings, Rana and Shuvo, who are very different from each other. Their father was a police constable but after his death, Shuvo assumes the same duty. Due to his lack of bravery, Shuvo finds it difficult to fight crime. It is in these times that Rana, who is not a cop, steps up and assists his elder brother. As Shuvo wins many of his brother's battles with crime, the accolades are showered onto Shuvo to an extent that he is promoted as the Superintendent of Police. The turning point in the story arises when Shuvo is caught off guard and brutally thrashed. It now becomes imperative for Rana to build his brothers courage to face his fears and overcome them. This point onwards we see Shuvo stand tall and brave and how, he along with Rana, tackles the villains who are out to hunt them down.

The story begins in the 22nd century. Earth is exhausted of resources and no longer a viable planet for its human civilization, whose unsustainable growth made it impossible for developing society any further. An astronaut is sent to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, in order to find viable resources to supply Earth. Onboard of his ship, the Nomad, the astronaut sleeps in cryonics until reaching his destiny. Unfortunately, he wakes up in an unknown location, far away from the Earth.

Through his adventure, the astronaut meets many alien creatures. There are 3 civilizations that the astronaut interacts with that have a major impact: The Judges/Architects, responsible for the destruction of solar systems, Star Iron, an advanced AI that runs the stations the player can resupply in, and People Death, the original creators of Star Iron and survivors of another species whose homeworld was destroyed by the Judges/Architects. The game ending depends on which civilization the player decides to speak to or help. If he speaks to the Judges/Architects, he is only informed of what happened to him and to Earth.

If he confronts People Death and defeats them, they will see them as a sort of godly being, and allow him to use their army to ravage worlds. Only if the player helps Star Iron destroy the Judges/Architects enclave, can he use the wormhole of the system where the enclave was located to travel back to 22nd century Earth, and bring new technology and a new hope for Humanity. There is also a fourth ending, added in the "Omega Edition" of the game, in which the player uses one of the Arks left behind by humans who tried to flee Earth to colonize a new planet for Humanity and rebuild civilization anew.

Sir Gareth is fighting Vikings and then lord Rufus betrays

Insurance agent Frederick Dyson owns a house in London with his wife. Among the lodgers is a misery elderly woman, Miss Lummus, who hoards her money in the house. When she is murdered, Dyson is charged with the crime.

A woman has to decide whether to divorce her husband, who is overseas in the army.

In a small provincial town, early in the morning, Kolya encounters his friend Fedya, wearily and indifferently. Wanting to attract attention, Kolya says that he is going to leave, ostensibly, to the Far East. His decision wins unanimous support. Kolya becomes a local hero, all the neighbors assist in his training. Kolya sells his furniture off, writes a resignation letter and leaves his hometown on a bus. He is on his way to nowhere.

After Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch) scorns his advances, Finn falls into a serious depression and sings a woeful song about the romantic pain he feels, called "All Gummed Up Inside". Jake, worried about his brother, decides to find Finn a new love interest, and so he journeys to the Fire Kingdom, ruled by the evil Flame King (voiced by Keith David).

Jake bluffs that he is an emissary of "Prince Finn", ruler of the Grasslands. Jake attempts to court Flame King's daughter, Flame Princess (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) on Finn's behalf. After several disastrous attempts, including a performance of a song called "All Warmed Up Inside", Jake is told to leave. However, he uses his shape-shifting abilities to morph part of his body and make it look as if Finn has entered the palace. Jake-as-Finn then pretends to strangle Jake, which appeases Flame King. He applauds Finn's supposed butchery, agreeing to give him the hand of his evil daughter.

Jake, distressed that Flame Princess is apparently evil, flees back to the Tree Fort, with the princess on his trails. Once there, Jake tries to explain what happened to Finn, but a struggle breaks out. In the confusion, Flame Princess is nearly killed by rain, but Finn saves her. When she regains her powers, she slaps him, warning him never to mess with her. The episode concludes with Finn noting that he now has a crush on Flame Princess.

In the near future, two teenage sisters, Nell and Eva, live in a remotely located home with their father in a forest. There is a massive, continent-wide power outage that appears to be part of a region-wide technological collapse. The car battery is drained, so they are left stranded for days. Eventually their father gets the car working and they make it to the nearest town where they buy supplies including gas from a man called Stan. Later Eva attends dance class while her sister meets up with Eli, her boyfriend. Returning home, they see a stranded car and the girls' father offers to help the passengers, but after they brandish guns the family move on. The father says they will not return to town until the power is restored. Later, while cutting down a tree, he cuts his leg badly with a chainsaw. Knowing he is bleeding to death, he tells the girls to take care of each other and love one another. They bury him where he died in the forest.

Two months pass and the girls are low on food. They are also getting by with the skills their father taught them, though they miss some of the creature comforts they used to have. For instance, Eva has to dance to a metronome since she can no longer listen to music.

Eli arrives one night, having walked there looking for Nell. He says the surrounding houses are all abandoned. After Nell and Eli sleep together, he says there may still be power and order in Boston. He convinces Nell to go with him. They leave, but Nell turns back after a night away from home, unwilling to leave Eva. Nell researches plants for food and medicine, and forages. After a night of celebration when Nell confirms she is not pregnant, while Nell is in the forest foraging, Eva is surprised by Stan while she is chopping wood. He assaults her and rapes her before stealing most of the remaining gas and the car. The girls board up the house and Eva stays within doors. Eva throws up, and soon realizes she is pregnant. To Nell's surprise, Eva has decided to keep the baby, saying that she doesn't want to lose any more. To help nourish Eva during her pregnancy, Nell hunts and butchers a pig.

During a storm, several beams of the roof break and Eva goes into labor. The sisters flee for a hollowed out tree stump that once served as their play house, where Eva gives birth to a baby boy. Returning to their ruined home, Eva decides to burn down the house with the remainder of the gas their father purchased from Stan in case anyone passing will think that they died in a fire. Before setting the house ablaze, they collect a few precious items and keepsakes such as a family photo, and begin to walk into the darkened forest.

Clever Elsie, as her parents call her, is to be married. When a suitor named Hans comes to visit, Elsie goes down to the cellar to get some beer. There she spots a pickaxe stuck in the wall above the beer keg; she imagines that if she married Hans and started a family, that pickaxe could fall and kill their child. Because of this impending misfortune, Elsie begins to cry loudly in the basement. One at a time, the maid, the manservant, and the mother are sent to look for Elsie, until finally the father goes himself. When they find Elsie and discover the reason she is crying, they too begin to cry. In the end, Hans also goes into the cellar, hears about the possible misfortune and decides to marry Clever Elsie, saying, "more sense is not necessary for my household."

In the second part of the story, Hans and Elsie have been married for a while. Hans works to earn money while Elsie stays home to cut the corn. She cooks porridge, takes it to the field, eats it before she even starts to work, and then falls asleep. When Hans comes home, he at first assumes that Elsie is still hard at work, and he praises her diligence. However, when he finds her sleeping in the corn, he hangs a bird's yarn around her with small bells, goes home, and locks the front door. When Elsie wakes up in the dark and notices the clothes with bells, she no longer recognizes herself. She goes home and asks at the door if Elsie is inside. When she hears "yes," she runs away, crying, "Oh God, then it's not me." She is never seen again.

Chris, a young boy in the Pacific Northwest town of Seacliff, Washington, goes missing. Before he disappears, he writes a letter to Santa Claus, wishing that he would no longer exist in order to not trouble his divorcing parents.

Concerned that Chris is in danger of taking his own life, locals set out to find the missing child. Among them are struggling writer David Reynolds (Rick Roberts), jaded big-city reporter M.J. Jensen (Patricia Heaton), and Max (Peter Falk), a kind yet mysterious elderly man (who is actually an angel in disguise; the character is featured in two later movies).

''Doll Bones'' is the story of Zachary "Zach" Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site in another town.

Zach, Alice, and Poppy play a role-playing game with Horrific action figures and metal cut-outs. Poppy runs the game which involves Zach's character "William the Blade" and Alice's character "Lady Jaye" on a quest for the Great Queen aboard William's sailing ship, Neptune's Pearl. One day Zach discovers that his father has thrown out all of his action figures including William, effectively ending the game. Furious at his father, and embarrassed that he cares so much about a "kid's game", Zach decides not to tell Alice and Poppy what happened and instead says he just does not want to play anymore.

Zach is awakened in the middle of the night by Alice and Poppy who tell him that Poppy has had a dream about the "Great Queen" (an antique doll her mother keeps locked in a glass cabinet that the kids use for the game) and that the doll is made from the bones and ashes of a dead girl named Eleanor Kerchner who is now a ghost and wants to be returned to her proper grave. At first, Zach doesn't believe them but after being shown evidence, he decides to tag along. The three kids leave notes for their parents and take a night bus to East Liverpool, Ohio (a few hour's bus ride away) hoping to return the following evening to avoid discovery. On the bus they are accosted by a man named Tinshoe Jones who seems to see the doll as a real person and warns them that the bus driver talks with aliens who "change people's faces". The bus makes a stop in East Rochester, PA and the children flee when it appears the bus driver and station attendant intend to capture them.

They spend the night in a small park near the Ohio river and during the night their meager supplies are inexplicably torn apart and ruined. They enter a donut shop with exotic flavored donuts and the shopkeeper offers the "hungry blond girl" (the doll) a Pepto Bismol flavored donut. They argue about the quest, but, still hoping to catch the bus back home in time, decide to continue the quest if possible by walking to East Liverpool. The quest seems to end, however, when they find themselves on the banks of a tributary river flowing into the Ohio. Alice is ready to return home, but Poppy, realizing both Alice and Zach have secrets, blackmails them into continuing the quest. They steal a small sailboat named "Pearl" and clumsily sail their way to East Liverpool. Angry, wet, disheartened, and now late for the bus, the three argue again and Poppy reveals that Alice loves Zach and wants to date him.

Now angry and awkward, they enter town and find a diner where the attendant also seems to see the doll as a person which added more backing to Poppy believing that the doll is haunted. They find a map of town and break into the closed library where they research the cemetery and inadvertently spend the night when they all fall asleep. They are woken by Miss Katherine, a young, pink-haired librarian who locks them in a break room and makes them call their respective parents and guardians. The doll, however, is missing, and they resolve to break free, find the doll, and complete the quest. Zach finds the doll in a ladies' restroom in the basement near a display of Lukas Kerchner's exotic pottery and learns about Eleanor's father and her mysterious disappearance.

Fleeing the librarian the children steal two bikes and go to the cemetery where they look in vain for the willow tree that should mark the grave. Frustrated, Zach tells the girls the truth about the action figures and runs off into the cemetery where he lies down and sobs uncontrollably. The girls find him sitting by the stone of the Kerchner family which has a willow carved into it. They bury the doll and then walk to meet their respective guardians at the gate to the cemetery while promising to one another to keep the Story alive.

Vincent Lacroix is a successful singer, one of those who have everything going for them, glory, love, money. For twenty years, Muriel, an eccentric esthetician and somewhat mythomaniac, has had eyes only for him. She hasn't missed any of his concerts, watches all his appearances and buys everything he produces. One evening, Vincent's life gets out of hand. During an argument, he accidentally kills his partner.

Eoj (Carmine Capobianco), a sentient vegetable alien who wins a grand prize from a game show on his home planet of Crowak. The prize is a two-week expenses paid trip to Earth. Eoj somewhat resembles a broccoli, but he has shape shifting abilities.

Once he arrives on Earth, the alien disguises himself as a man and develops a taste for sex with Earth women. Hildy (Debi Thibeault) is a reporter who is writing a chronicle of Eoj's adventures.

After a televised press conference featuring Eoj, the mob decides to capture the alien and force it to aid in the commission of crimes, while a group of rednecks decide Eoj is communist and must be killed.

William Fielding, a missionary in China, loses his wife after she gives birth to a son named David. He then marries a Chinese woman named Lotus Blossom, who treats the child as if it were her own. A trader named Foo Chang is madly in love with the woman. Believing the child to be hers, he kills William and brands David. Lotus Blossom commits suicide as a result. However, Li Chung, aware of the child's true parentage, takes David to the home of his wealthy grandfather in San Francisco. There, the boy befriends Li Chung and later inherits his grandfather's business and the Fielding estate when he becomes older.

David marries an American woman named Winifred Wellington. Following David's marriage, however, Foo Chang appears. He is now the head of an opium ring and tries to bribe David to help him bring a cargo of opium into the city. When David refuses, Foo Chang tells David that he is half-Chinese. Although he has no proof other than the brand on David's arm, that is enough to convince David. He goes to pieces and flees with his infant son to Alaska.

Winifred goes to Li Chung, who kills Foo Chang and also promises to take her to David but not telling her about her husband's true ethnicity. Li Chung only reveals the truth when Winifred is reunited with her husband. The family returns to San Francisco to live happily ever after.

On Halloween, a babysitter is sent several threatening text messages, the last of which reads, "I'm not in the house... yet". Moments later, the sitter is grabbed by a man in a white mask, who duct tapes her to a chair, rips three of her fingernails out, and slits her throat. Elsewhere, Angela chats with her neighbor, Mr. Walker, whose daughter, April, was abducted seven years ago, and has recently been deemed deceased in absentia. Angela was a member of the same babysitters club as April, and when she was taken, every member of the club besides Angela blamed Bianca, who was with April when she disappeared. To try and cheer up the dour Bianca, Angela invites her to a party she is throwing, while out in the woods another girl is slain by the masked man. The killer then breaks into a house, where he murders a couple, mutilating the girl with a straight razor before slashing her throat.

Angela and her friend Lucky prepare for the party, as the killer butchers another girl and her co-worker in an office. Bianca, who had just argued with the victim, spots the murderer (whose disguise is similar to the one worn by the person she saw take April) leaving the building and tries to follow him, but he eludes her. The maniac continues his rampage as Angela and Lucky welcome their first guest, Arlene, and Bianca angrily blows off her ex-boyfriend, Tyler. Bianca visits Angela, but storms off when Arlene taunts her with a Ouija board, afterward deciding to check on the other babysitter club members with Tyler, due to her suspicion that the masked man could be the same one who kidnapped April.

After massacring a gathering of six people, the madman breaks into Angela's house, and chloroforms her, Lucky, and Arlene. Angela and Arlene awaken in the basement, where Lucky, who has been beaten and tied to a chair, informs them that their captor told her that he will free Angela and Arlene if they kill her with a hammer. As it is their only option, Lucky tells Arlene to sacrifice her, which the sobbing Arlene reluctantly does. Bianca has Tyler drop her off at Angela's house, where she is approached by Mr. Walker, who hints that he was the one who murdered April before he knocks Bianca unconscious with a head butt.

Mr. Walker proceeds to enter the basement, strangle Arlene, and unmask himself for Angela. Mr. Walker takes Angela upstairs, incapacitates her by cutting her ankles, and rants about how much he loves her; he murdered all of the others in order to free her from her old life, so that she could start a new one with him, asserting, "You will come to love me, in time". While Mr. Walker pours gasoline throughout the kitchen, Angela stabs him in the stomach, with Mr. Walker doing the same to her. Angela begins crawling away while Mr. Walker takes out a lighter, proclaiming, "The only thing more romantic than running away together, is dying together. Love is a bitch!" The disoriented Bianca enters, but is told to run by Angela, who reassures her by saying, "It's not your fault". The house erupts up in flames, and Bianca goes into hysterics as Tyler tries to console her, and emergency services approach.

Airmail pilot Steve Rogers (Antonio Moreno) mentors young Dave Grayson (Ben Lyon), the son of Steve's late commander in the United States Army Air Corps. On his first flight, Dave flies into a raging storm and crashes.

Thinking of himself a coward after the rough flight, Dave seeks to redeem himself. Steve covers for him and campaigns for Dave getting another chance but he again fails. In a vain attempt to avoid flying supplies to the victims of a tornado, Dave attempts to shoot himself in the leg.

With Steve's help, Dave regains his courage, later saving Steve's life. Dave wins the love of Steve's girl, Sally (Martha Sleeper), and Steve gives them his blessing.

In Emerald Bay, Florida, Lt. Mitch Buchannon and his team of lifeguards, including second-in-command Stephanie Holden and veteran C.J. Parker, protect the beaches and the bay as part of an elite division known as Baywatch.

With over 500 rescues in his career, Mitch is beloved by the community, annoying beat cop Garner Ellerbee and his superior, Captain Thorpe. On morning patrol, Mitch finds a small pouch of flakka by the Huntley Club, now owned by businesswoman Victoria Leeds, who has been bribing city councilman Rodriguez and others to control the bay.

Mitch later meets Matt Brody, who thinks his Olympic position entitles him to be on the team without trying out. He and Holden tease him, Mitch later makes Brody try to beat him on the "big boys'" course. As the course is ending, a mom and her kids start drowning, so the lifeguards and Brody rush in to save them, although Brody isn't a lifeguard yet. Finally, those who made the tryouts are Ronnie Greenbaum, Summer Quinn, and Matt Brody.

When a private yacht catches fire, the occupants are evacuated, except for deceased councilman Rodriguez. Ellerbee disapproves of Mitch's further investigative actions. After Mitch and the gang attend Leed's party without finding out about the flakka, Mitch, Brody, and Summer later infiltrate the hospital morgue. Videoing Leeds' henchmen planting an autopsy report to cover up Rodriguez's murder, they are unfortunately discovered, the recording is destroyed and Ellerbee releases their suspect on a lack of evidence. Angered, Thorpe threatens to fire Mitch if he oversteps again.

Convinced Leeds is running drugs through the Huntley, Mitch and Brody go undercover. In the kitchen, they witness the drugs being retrieved from barrels of fish. Contacting Ellerbee, they learn another dead body has been found on the beach. Thorpe, enraged that Mitch essentially deserted his post, fires him, naming Brody the new lieutenant. Brody doesn't want the job but is forced to take it and Mitch takes a phone store job.

Brody later, seeing “sand grifters (beach thieves)" steal bags using a cooler, he orders them off the beach, and keeping the cooler. After finding another pouch of flakka on the beach, Brody takes the second victim's report from Ellerbee using the cooler and brings it to Summer, who confirms the man was killed by knife instead of a shark attack. Ronnie, recognizing the victim as his friend Dave, realizes that Ronnie had told Brody that Dave was working the Leeds for the Huntley. Brody realizes that Mitch was right about the Huntley, before Ronnie helps Brody hack into Leeds' servers, and finds her plan to privatize the entire beach by eliminating the competition.

The team, infiltrating a private party on Leeds' personal yacht, discover that she's been using the hull to smuggle the drugs. Captured, Brody is placed in a bait cage to be dead, and a gloating Leeds reveals she bribed Thorpe to replace Mitch with Brody before pushing the cage into the water. Before Brody can die, Summer swims to him to give him the kiss of life. However, he's hallucinating and realizes it is actually Mitch.

They catch up to Leeds, while Ronnie and C. J. launch fireworks at her escape helicopter. As they run out, a wounded Mitch, having intentionally stung himself with a sea urchin to boost his adrenaline, uses a Roman candle to blow Leeds up. Ellerbee arrives, takes her henchmen into custody, and apologizes to Mitch for doubting him. Thorpe arrives, berating Mitch for returning to the beach despite being fired. In response, Brody punches him in the face and Thorpe is subsequently arrested for his role in Leeds' plan.

Sometime later, Ronnie and Brody begin relationships with C.J. and Summer respectively. Mitch, reinstated, announces that Summer, Ronnie, and Brody are no longer trainees and introduces them to their new captain, Casey Jean.

Following from the events of "Sky Witch", Maja (voiced by Jill Talley) summons an elemental being composed of plant material named Darren (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), with whom she allies herself; the two plan on destroying the Candy Kingdom. Once the duo attack, Princess Bubblegum is able to temporarily trap them in a force field, but Root Beer Guy sacrifices his life to get it up and running. Finn and Jake abruptly leave the scene, forcing Colonel Candy Corn (voiced by Keith Ferguson) and Princess Bubblegum to hold Darren and Maja at bay.

Eventually, Finn and Jake return with the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant (voiced by Steve Agee), and the war elephant and Darren engage in combat. Finn is able to dive into Darren's brain and kill him, causing Maja to hit her head on a tree and fall into a coma. After the battle, Finn frees the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant from servitude; this causes him to have an existential crisis as he wanders all of Ooo. Eventually, he decides to nurse Maja back to health, but also serve as a protector and moral guide for the rogue witch.

Tess Thorne, a successful crime-mystery writer, is invited to a library in upstate Massachusetts for a meet-and-greet with fans, but is scared of flying so drives to engagements even long distances away. After the event, Ramona, the organizer, suggests a quicker route home for Tess. However, it takes her via a remote rural location where her car runs over nail-studded planks lying across the road, puncturing her tire. It happens by an abandoned gas station and, having no signal for her cell phone, Tess hopes that someone will stop to help.

A man in a pickup stops and offers to assist. At first he seems eager to help, but soon turns nasty. He hits her, then brutally rapes and beats her, before choking her into unconsciousness. He drags her into a culvert and leaves her there. When she recovers the man is gone, and she finds three female bodies in the culvert, all victims (she assumes) of the same man. Tess leaves to find help, but as she walks she worries that the attack will create a scandal – she will be attacked in the media for "asking for it" and blamed. She will be re-traumatized and her reputation will be destroyed. She comes across a convenience store and calls a limousine service for a ride home. She decides that she cannot tell anyone what happened.

When Tess is safely home, she decides to avenge herself. She receives a call from Betsy, a waitress at the Stagger Inn, telling her that her car has been parked there. The pair form a bond by both being victims of violence. Tess later realizes that Ramona is her attacker's mother and accomplice, who sought her out and invited her to the library, then led her into her son's trap. That night, she goes to Ramona's house with a gun to confront her. Ramona denies all knowledge and during a struggle Ramona wrestles the gun from Tess, then reveals that she helped orchestrate the attack and pulls the trigger, firing on an empty chamber. Tess grabs a kitchen knife and stabs Ramona before shooting her. She then spots an earring that she lost during the rape attack.

In the house, Tess finds clues that identify her attacker as Lester Norville, aka Big Driver. At a nearby gas station she sees his rig, and notes the address on the truck. On the way to the address she sees the rig parked, and stops. The green pickup that he drove to the attack pulls into the lot. Fired up, Tess runs to the truck and shoots the driver as he climbs out, but then realizes he is not Big Driver, but rather his brother Little Driver. She regrets the killing, but at the urging of "Doreen" (a character from one of her books who is part of the "Knitting Club" with whom Tess often communicates) she moves forward to "finish the job."

Tess drives on to the address which turns out to be Big Driver's home. Breaking in, she finds graphic photos of his victims and photos of the brothers together with each body. There are also photos of her being raped by Big Driver. Realizing that Little Driver is not innocent, she no longer feels guilt about shooting him. Hearing noises from an outbuilding, Tess enters to find Big Driver working at a bench; confronting him, she fires twice before the gun empties and she runs outside. He painfully follows her but she hits him on the head with a nailed plank like the one that caused the flat tire. As he is trying to escape, she calmly reloads and shoots him in the groin and watches him die. Doreen appears again and urges her to leave quickly.

An anonymous tip leads police to the bodies in the culvert, and to Big Driver's house with the incriminating photos. At home shortly afterwards, Tess receives an anonymous call from a woman she realizes is Betsy, who says, "I know what you've done. Way to go, girl!"

The series shows the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning to Poland from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish in Sandomierz. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need. Each episode is a separate story.

''Impastor'' follows Buddy Dobbs (Michael Rosenbaum), a fugitive and hard-core gambling addict who, in order to hide from a pair of loan sharks, ends up stealing the identity of a recently deceased gay Lutheran pastor who was relocating to Ladner, a small-town community outside of Portland, Oregon. He hopes to keep up the ruse long enough to make the money necessary to flee Ladner, but he is inspired to stay after helping a mother and rebellious son as well as seeing how the townspeople get along peacefully. Over the series, Buddy tries to keep his true life from converging with his false life as various people from his past, plus two detectives who think he killed the pastor, come to town.

Setting

''Imouto Paradise! 2'' is chronologically set several years after the events of its prequel visual novel ''Imouto Paradise!''. The protagonist from the previous game, Sōichirō Nanase, has had children with each one of the sisters of ''Imouto Paradise!'', as all the characters share the same last name Nanase, as well as the sisters from ''Imouto Paradise! 2'' having similar physical appearances and personalities to their predecessors. Most events in the game take place in the Nanase residence, in which Keiichi, Momoka, Ririna, Yuzu, Chiharu, and Shizuku each have their own bedrooms. There is also a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and back garden.

Story and characters

The story follows , who is the main character. Keiichi is a perverted but friendly older brother to his five blood-related younger sisters. When his parents are on an overseas trip, he is left alone with his sisters, one of his sisters being . Momoka is the first sister introduced in the game. She is devoted to her older brother, and like her ''Imouto Paradise!'' counterpart Aya, she likes committing herself to household jobs. She has a generally cheerful personality, and she is quick to forgive due to her innocence, though she is quite strict at times. is the second sister. She is very intelligent, and good at studying, but quick tempered. Keiichi notes that she is a top student in all areas, and is like the disciplinarian in the family.

The third sister is . She is often teased by her older brother, Keiichi, this is due to her innocent and naive nature. She has little knowledge of sexual topics. is the fourth sister, she is always cheerful and knows how to brighten up a mood. She likes anime and manga, and plays games together with her older brother. She is a member of the cheerleading squad. The fifth and final sister is . Shizuku likes to read books, and from this, she has gained sexual knowledge and sex techniques, making her quite knowledgeable in that area.

The story of Ned Kelly which made him out to be "a dangerous embryo dictator, murderously vindictive and swaggeringly brutal in his hour of power." John Bell played Kelly but his face was never shown, he was only heard behind a mask.

The storyline revolves around a married couple, Lene (Lene Elise Bergum) and Einar (Svein Roger Karlsen), who is vacationing in Southern Norway. The husband leaves for a fishing trip with his friend Bjørn (Morten Abel). While they are gone, Lene is visited by Gaute (Reidar Sørensen), a former lover who arrives drunk. He spends the night at the vacation house but his heart stops before morning. On the next morning, Einar comes back from his fishing trip and discovers the dead body in the basement. The couple then tries to decide how to dispose of the body.

Erica Tranmore is dissatisfied in her marriage with a quiet adoring husband. She goes to London on the pretext of visiting an old school friend, Meg, but actually to see an infatuated young man, Clive. She meets Rosemary, a young film star, at Meg's flat and sets out to captivate Meg's boss with a screen test.

Rosemary falls in love with Clive. Erica has an unsuccessful screen test and returns home.

Shortly before the end of World War II, young soldier Shusaku, ill with tuberculosis, arrives at Akitsu, expecting to die soon. Shinko, daughter of a widow and innkeeper, helps him to recover and invigorates his will to live. They fall in love, and although she is first willing to follow him when he suggests to commit shinjū together, they eventually let go of their plan. Shinko muses to marry Shusaku, but her mother intervenes and sends him away. Over a span of 17 years, Shusaku, now married and a father, continues to meet with Shinko, but also has affairs with other women. During their last encounters, she declares that she is now ready to die with him, but Shusaku is reluctant. When he leaves Akitsu again after a visit, Shinko, having sold the inn and being weary of life, commits suicide alone, grieved by Shusaku.

Carrie (Claire Danes) asks Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) to confess to helping the ISI, but he denies involvement. In the middle of the session, Martha Boyd (Laila Robins) pulls Dennis out and reprimands Carrie, but this is shown to be a ploy, as Martha agrees with Carrie's suspicions. Martha later catches Dennis trying to escape the embassy and locks him up.

During the prisoner exchange, the CIA and ISI stand at opposite ends of an airstrip. Both sides release their prisoners at the same time. A teenage boy wearing a suicide vest follows along with Saul (Mandy Patinkin). At this point, Saul sits down and refuses to move because he doesn't wish to see those prisoners go free. Carrie approaches Saul and pleads with him. Finally, Saul agrees and rises up, and the exchange succeeds.

On the way back to the Embassy, the three-car convoy transporting Saul and Carrie is struck by two RPGs. The CIA staff detect the explosions, and Lockhart (Tracy Letts) sends the embassy's security guards to the scene. When Martha visits Dennis in the cell, and tells him what happened, it occurs to Dennis that the explosions are a diversion for an attack on the embassy. He confesses to Martha that he told Tasneem Qureishi (Nimrat Kaur) about the embassy's hidden tunnel.

Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar) and a platoon of soldiers, all armed with assault rifles, make use of the tunnel and get inside.

Carrie (Claire Danes) wakes up in Aasar Khan's house (Raza Jaffrey) with no memory of how she got there. She correctly suspects that she was poisoned by means of her medicine, but Khan denies involvement.

In a live video, Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) pleads that his country must not negotiate with terrorists. Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar) appears and announces a list of prisoners that he wishes to be released. While Saul is taken back to his cell, he secretly grabs a nail. Being left alone, he uses the nail to free himself from the handcuffs, and pretends to hang himself. When a guard comes to rescue him, he kills the guard, flees, and calls Carrie. Quinn (Rupert Friend) guides Saul to a shop in Makeen where a CIA asset gives him refuge. Saul makes Carrie promise that, if Saul is recaptured, Carrie will kill him and the terrorists together using an airstrike.

Immediately before a meeting between the Americans and the Pakistanis, Khan notices Tasneem Qureishi (Nimrat Kaur) talking to Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) and passing him a note. During the meeting, Carrie is confused by the Pakistanis' sense of confidence, seeing that Saul got away. She suddenly realizes that the Pakistani military can simply detect the flying drone that is watching over Saul, and give Haqqani those coordinates. As she rushes to the operations room, the Taliban surround the town. To her dismay, they open fire on the extraction team, a disguised van with U.S. Special Forces soldiers. The van is outnumbered and forced to turn back.

Saul, feeling that he is surrounded, prepares to shoot himself. Carrie lies saying that there is another path. She directs Saul out of a building and into a group of Taliban, where he is recaptured. Saul screams and curses at Carrie, realizing that she lied. Faced with such a scene, Lockhart (Tracy Letts) declares that the United States is accepting Haqqani's terms for the prisoner exchange.

Late that night, Carrie is woken by a call from Khan. They meet outdoors, and Khan insists that he didn't tamper with Carrie's medicine. Carrie criticizes him for not providing more information, but says that she believes in his innocence. Khan relents and informs her that it was Dennis Boyd working against her.

With the news that Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) has been abducted, CIA Director Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts) arrives in Pakistan. Lockhart, Martha Boyd (Laila Robins), Carrie (Claire Danes), and other representatives from the U.S. Embassy meet with a delegation of Pakistani intelligence officials. Lockhart accuses the ISI of being complicit with Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar), and declares that the U.S. will suspend its federal aid to Pakistan if Saul is not returned safely. Martha, appalled that Lockhart undermined her and potentially sabotaged her working relationships, nearly resigns as ambassador, but Dennis (Mark Moses) convinces her to reconsider. Martha starts reaching out to her contacts in an effort to secure Saul's return.

Haqqani boasts to Saul that he can now move about the country freely without fear of drone strikes, due to the presence of Saul as a "human shield". With Saul in tow, Haqqani visits his wife and children, who he hasn't seen in three years.

At a pharmacy, Tasneem Qureishi (Nimrat Kaur) picks up some pills that have been filled with an unidentified powder. Dennis breaks into Carrie's apartment and replaces some of her Clozapine pills with the pills that Tasneem acquired. Carrie eventually takes the substituted pills and soon begins to suffer the effects. After lashing out in the operations room, she realizes something is wrong and retires to her room for a nap.

Saul is taken to a dwelling near the Afghanistan border where Haqqani informs him that his release is currently being negotiated in exchange for several prisoners.

Carrie is awakened by a call from Max (Maury Sterling) who has located Aayan's girlfriend Kiran (Shavani Seth). Not feeling any relief from her pills, Carrie takes more. Becoming increasingly paranoid and hallucinating, she heads to the hospital where Kiran is working. Carrie asks Kiran the purpose of the medicine Aayan was retrieving for Haqqani, but only repels her with her overly aggressive questioning. A security guard tries to restrain Carrie, but, while hallucinating that he is Quinn (Rupert Friend), she attacks him and runs into the streets. Carrie shoots two men who approach her before turning her gun on the police, but then realizes she's not even holding a gun. The police apprehend her and deliver her to a house where she is greeted by Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis). Carrie is shocked that Brody is alive and initially doesn't trust what she's seeing. She breaks down crying in his arms, and admits that she had been willing to let him die. After an emotional reunion, it is revealed that it's been another hallucination, and Carrie is actually crying in the arms of ISI colonel Aasar Khan (Raza Jaffrey) who is asking her "Who's Brody?"

At the safehouse, Carrie (Claire Danes) presents Aayan (Suraj Sharma) with his new identity and passport, and tells him of the plan to depart for London that night. Aayan makes one last visit to his dormitory to retrieve some personal effects, but notices a man following him as he leaves. Thinking he has shaken the tail, he returns to the safehouse, but the same man, along with two associates, soon break into the safehouse and go after Aayan. Aayan is able to escape, and watches as Carrie is forcefully thrown into a van and taken away. The kidnapping is revealed to be a ruse concocted by Carrie, with the intent of getting Aayan to seek refuge with his uncle, Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar). Via a tracker that was hidden by Max in his passport, Aayan is located by a drone which relays a visual of his whereabouts to the operations room where Carrie, Quinn (Rupert Friend), and Redmond (Michael O'Keefe) observe.

Quinn learns from colleague Alan Hensleigh that Farhad Ghazi wasn't on the plane that landed in Johannesburg, and that all attempts to contact Saul have failed.

Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) reports his findings to Tasneem Qureishi (Nimrat Kaur). Following Fara (Nazanin Boniadi) from the Embassy, Dennis learned the location of the safehouse and found Aayan's personal photos inside. He also gives Tasneem the photos of Carrie's medications, surmising that Carrie is "at least bipolar, possibly beyond that".

After calling his uncle, Aayan goes to a secluded location where he is met by a convoy of vehicles containing heavily armed men. Carrie confirms to the drone shooter that if the presence of Haqqani is confirmed, they will fire on the target even though the asset, Aayan, will surely be killed as well. Haqqani emerges from one of the vehicles, but to the shock of those in the operations room, he also has brought Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) as a hostage. Haqqani tells Aayan that his "friend" has led them into a trap and that there is a drone waiting above to kill them. Haqqani thanks Aayan for the medicines and kisses him, then shoots him in the head, killing him instantly. An increasingly enraged Carrie gives the order to the drone shooter to take the shot anyway. She is talked down by Quinn, and storms out of the operations room as Haqqani and his men drive away with Saul.

The angel Max (Peter Falk) is sent to Maine to help out a family during the Christmas season. Max goes to a Christmas store and leaves behind a box. The attending counter girl, Sally (Tammy Blanchard) goes after him but Max has disappeared. Sally is a kindhearted young woman who is trying to gain custody of her younger brother Jimmy (Alexander Conti) so he doesn't go into the foster system. Because Max has diverted from his mission of delivering the box to its rightful owner by inadvertently helping the wrong family, his supervisor Jo (Katey Sagal) arrives to chastise him and guide him to the Hoffman family where father and son are almost estranged due to their disagreement in how to run their family owned Christmas ornament business.

In a flashback it is revealed that when Walt gave Jesse his savings to buy an RV, he instead spent nearly all of it partying the night away at a strip club with Combo and Skinny Pete. The following morning, Jesse panics when he realizes that he only has $1,400 left to buy an RV with, but Combo bails him out by selling him his mother's RV for the remainder of the money.

Back in the present, Jesse is furious that Walt received the other half of his payment for the meth, and calls him to demand it. Walt denies making any sort of deal for half of the profits, but nevertheless tells Jesse that he does not have his permission to cook his formula. Meanwhile, Hank is still searching tirelessly for the "rolling meth lab" RV. He learns that his friend and partner, Steve Gomez, is being sent to El Paso in his stead. Hank is left dismayed by this news, but nevertheless remains committed to his work. He returns home and has an argument with Marie after she shows concern for his well-being, feeling that he is being accused by those around him for simply doing his job.

Walt goes to see Gus Fring at Los Pollos Hermanos, admonishing him for giving him Jesse's half of the money in an attempt to lure Walt into Gus' employ. Gus apologizes for the transparency of the ploy, then asks Walt to take a drive with him. In a final attempt to get Walt to accept the offer, Gus drives him to his meth lab which is discreetly housed within an industrial laundry facility. Walt is impressed by the lab and the equipment within, but nevertheless declines the offer again, saying that his time in the meth business has cost him his family and he cannot afford to make another bad decision. Gus firmly tells him that a man provides for his family, regardless of whether or not his family appreciates him for it.

Skyler keeps enjoying her affair with Ted Beneke and is later told by Marie of Hank's change in behaviour. Her sister claims that "death changes people", prompting Skyler to reconsider her affair and her opinion about Walt. After finding his money in the house, Skyler speaks with her divorce attorney and confides in her about the fact that she is currently sleeping with her boss, Ted Beneke, as well as her doubts on whether Walt did "what he did" for the family. Her attorney encourages Skyler to leave him immediately, for the longer she stays with Walt, the more culpable she becomes towards his crimes. Skyler remains hesitant. However, when she gets home, she is surprised to find that Walt has packed his things and left, and that he has also signed the divorce contract, having finally accepted Gus' offer to continue his work in the meth business.

Walt meets with Jesse in Saul's office and hands over Jesse's other half of the payment. However, he coldly tells Jesse that it will be the last money he will ever make in the meth business, as Gus was only using Jesse to get Walt working for him. Jesse is further enraged when Saul goes over to Walt's side, re-negotiating a money-laundering deal to secure himself a cut of Walt's profits. Jesse tells them that this won't stop him from cooking, then leaves the office in a fury. He picks up a broken piece of a curb and tosses it into Walt's newly-replaced front windshield.

Hank's search for the RV leads him to the doorstep of Combo's mother, who never reported her RV stolen after Combo sold it to Jesse. Hank searches Combo's room and finds a picture of Combo and Jesse during their night at the strip club, thereby leading Hank to now set his sights on Jesse.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his desire to control the nation.

In the game, Archie and a crazy professor named Klumpfus are trapped within the professor's mansion after his latest scientific experiment went wrong, causing bizarre lifeforms to escape and roam free. In addition to this, the central computer has become paranoid and locked both the protagonists up.

The plot follows that of the musical of the same name.

The Paddy Lincoln Gang are an emerging rock band on the verge of huge success. But their complex and troubled Irish lead singer is haunted by his own paranoia and suspicions that something is not right with the band, his manager or his girlfriend.

Members of rock band Excellent Souls (ExSo) decide to give up their life in Seoul and move to a small town in the countryside to farm the land that Lee Min-ki's grandmother left to him upon her death. When Min-ki gets there, he learns that the village leader is his first love, Kang Yoon-hee.

A former barrister Alex Lambert (played by Ian Hendry) who had been disgraced and debarred has to rebuild his life. He uses his former contacts on both sides of the law to become a paid informer for the Police. Living well from the rewards paid by insurance companies, Lambert still has to hide his activities from both his wife and others behind a new persona in the guise as a business consultant. Other regulars in the series included Jean Marsh, Neil Hallett and Heather Sears. Guest actors included Peter Bowles, Peter Vaughan, Trevor Bannister, George Cole, Nerys Hughes, David Kelly, Murray Melvin, Eric Pohlmann, John Carson, Nicholas Courtney, Dudley Foster, Tracy Reed and Roberta Tovey.

Currently, only "Get Off My Back", the first episode of season one, and "Your Money of Your Life", the penultimate episode of season two, exist in the archives. The rest of the series is missing, presumed wiped.

Lisbon (Robin Tunney) walks into an empty office currently being cleared out by the FBI. Supervisory Agent Dennis Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) gathers Lisbon and the rest of her team to explain that they are now under federal investigation due to the likelihood of them also being criminals alongside CBI director Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston), who is publicly believed to be Red John.

At a gas station, Bertram calls Jane using a payphone, but their conversation is cut short when a police officer recognizes Bertram. Bertram's accomplice Oscar Cordero (Joe Nieves) shoots the officer dead and the two leave.

Abbott is unsuccessful in his team's raid of Jane's attic in the CBI. Lisbon insists she doesn't know Jane's whereabouts and leaves, only to be greeted by the rest of her team in the parking lot. Aware of the investigation, they're laying low, and inquisitive on Jane's whereabouts. Lisbon reminds them of the new dangers imposed around them. Lisbon then goes to see Jane at a park, and Jane briefs her on the situation while still remaining evasive. Aware that the FBI is attempting to trace his phone, he pays a random biker $300 for his phone plus a replacement. Calling Bertram, the two arrange a meeting at Alexandria's cemetery, where Jane's family was buried. Ignoring Lisbon's warnings, Jane takes her gun and car keys and leaves. The FBI, meanwhile, have arrived and catch up with an escaping Jane. The team ambushes him and rams his car.

Jane pleads with Abbott to give him one hour, soon backed up by Lisbon. Abbott, still suspecting Jane's corruption, catches onto their urgency. Cho (Tim Kang), Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) and Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) arrive and hold Abbott at gunpoint, countering him by inquiring whether he too is a member of the corrupt Blake Association. Abbott insists that he isn't, but is unable to provide them with proof amid the setting and circumstances. He is forced to let Jane go but arrests the team shortly afterwards. Jane, on the other hand, misdirects the FBI by allowing a few teenagers to steal Lisbon's tracked car, and hitches a ride to the cemetery.

Arriving at the cemetery's church, Jane, inside, is greeted by Bertram, who goes on to claim that he is not Red John, nor is he even among the Blake Association's higher ranks. However, reluctantly deeming Jane a loose end, he orders Jane killed. Cordero, however, also under orders from Red John, shoots Bertram instead, prompting the real Red John to enter the church: Sheriff Thomas McAllister (an uncredited Xander Berkeley), previously believed to have perished in the explosion in Jane's house at the end of the episode "Fire and Brimstone". Greeting each other, McAllister brags to and berates Jane, gloating over how he was able to survive and also find out the names on Jane's list of suspects. While admitting that he never figured out how Red John knew the names, Jane does disclose his knowledge on McAllister's survival: two bombs went off in his house, one being a concussion bomb that allowed for Red John to drag Jane, Reede Smith and Bertram out of the way before a second lethal bomb killed Bret Stiles and Ray Haffner. McAllister faked his own death by placing a body with falsified DNA evidence provided to him by the now-deceased Brett Partridge. McAllister, impressed, allows Jane to "show him something", only to be attacked by a pigeon Jane hid under his sleeve (taking advantage of McAllister's previously-displayed phobia of the creature). Jane brandishes a gun he had hidden in the church and shoots McAllister in the abdomen and Cordero dead. As Jane relishes having McAllister—whom he finally acknowledges as Red John—at his mercy, he is interrupted by a woman (Kamala Lopez-Dawson) who tries to persuade him to spare McAllister. When Jane tries to get her to leave, she attacks Jane with a knife. Using the distraction to escape, McAllister runs away while Jane overpowers the woman and takes pursuit.

While Abbott's team finds a dead Bertram in the church, Jane pursues Red John through the cemetery, a neighborhood, a playground and over to a park bordering a pond, where McAllister loses stamina and succumbs to his wounds. When McAllister tries to call 911, Jane kicks away his phone and straddles him. McAllister desperately begs for mercy, claiming that he is in fact a real psychic and thus knew the names on Jane's list; a dismissive Jane puts a hand to Red John's throat and has him blink once for "no" and twice for "yes" to answer two questions: if he's sorry for murdering Jane's family, and if he is afraid to die. McAllister blinks twice for both questions. Jane, satisfied with his answers, goes through with his revenge and strangles McAllister to death. He then uses McAllister's phone to leave a message to Lisbon letting her know his quest for vengeance is complete and that he will miss her. Jane then discards the phone and flees the crime scene for parts unknown.

The miniseries and the first series star Tara Crossley, an American teen who moves from the United States to an English village called Evermoor. As her mother and stepfather unpack at their new home, Tara, her brother, and her British step-siblings adjust to their new life.

The second series stars Bella as she tries to apply for fashion school in London. When Davorin, an evil man who is trapped inside a magic mirror, breaks Ludo into splinters, Bella and her friends must find Ludo's splinters before wish making chaos begins across the village of Evermoor.

The story begins with fourteen-year-old Buddy Clark going to visit his father Terry in prison with his mother Carol but Buddy could not get round to seeing him. Between Buddy's first two visits to the prison Des King paid a visit to his house offering them an envelope full of £50 notes as an apology for getting Terry imprisoned but Carol refused to take it. In a maths lesson on the last day of term in school Buddy found a note that read 'Debbie+Buddy=Love'. Buddy supposed it was referring to Debbie Bishop in his class and he became infatuated with her but he later learned it was a joke from his friend Julius Rybeero. Buddy got bored over the summer holiday with the Rybeero twins visiting relatives in the West Country and having nothing to do so he got a job sweeping up at a depot.

One day he found the old guitar Terry gave him for his twelfth birthday and decided to start playing it. When he got his first week's wages Buddy bought new strings for the guitar along with two music books and a pitch pipe to help him tune it. Buddy got a letter from Charmian Rybeero to say that they would be moving out with their father setting up a new taxi firm with his brother. Carol received a letter from Terry saying he wanted them to sell his Harley-Davidson motorbike because he did not want it getting rusty although Buddy polished and oiled it all the time. Buddy learned on his fifteenth birthday it was to buy a cassette recorder so he could record himself playing the guitar. Buddy recorded himself singing and playing and gave the cassette to his father for Christmas.

When Terry was released on parole after just over a year Des King who waited outside gave them a lift home then they went to the pub to celebrate where Des gave Terry the envelope of cash. Buddy and Terry went on a shopping spree with the money where Terry got an electric guitar with an amplifier for Buddy, a camcorder with a video recorder for himself and a coat for Carol. On the way home told Buddy that there was £5,000 in the envelope and the rest was going into savings. Terry tried searching for jobs but was unsuccessful with his criminal record then his probation officer found him a job at an all night petrol station. Buddy went there to visit him and that was where Terry got the idea of placing an advertisement in the local newspaper offering to film weddings and parties in which Buddy helped him. Terry placed an ad four music papers and the noticeboard in the music shop for musicians to play with Buddy but there were no replies. Terry heard from an old friend called Dougie about a group he knew called the Hi-Tone Four so he arranged to have Buddy play with them for experience. Buddy practised with the middle aged band in the shed at Des King's breakers yard then performed at weddings with them. Terry left his job at the petrol station without notice and started working at the breakers yard. Buddy's parents went with him to dinner with Carol's friend Joyce and came home having a big row. Terry left when Carol said she did not need him. Terry moved into the caravan at the breakers yard and Buddy came to visit him. This was when Buddy came up with the idea for the song ''Torn in Half''.

Buddy started the Sixth form at school after taking his GCSEs in the fourth year. In the common room he met fraternal twins Mike and Jason who also played guitar then he practised with them in the school hall. They searched for a drummer and found an eighteen-year-old milkman called Glenn who joined them and they called the band the Reflections. The band mainly played at youth clubs and Buddy continued playing with the Hi-Tone Four without telling his parents hoping their gigs would not clash. One evening Buddy went with his mother to a meal with her boss Adrian Mandell who she was seeing a lot of. At one of the Hi-Tones' gigs Terry met a woman about fifteen years younger called Dawn who he saw lot of after that but Buddy thought negatively about her as he did with Adrian. When the clash between gigs finally happened Buddy had to tell his father about the Reflections and went there instead. Terry came to the Reflections' gig and met with them afterwards and they agreed to let him be their manager. Terry booked them a session at a recording studio where they made tapes to send to clubs to get bookings. Terry then booked them a tour over the Easter holiday within a hundred miles of their town so Terry and Glenn could go to work and changed the name of the band to Buddy and the Bosses. When Terry was going over the plans for the tour Buddy asked if he loved Dawn and he said that he liked her a lot but did not love her. When the band started performing at local youth clubs again there were two girls who went to the gigs and one of them asked Buddy out on a date. Buddy went with Elaine to the cinema where they kissed. After seven dates Elaine did not turn up and at the next gig she said it was because she did not want to get serious then he dumped her. Terry arranged to have a tour for Half-term in London and some other Southern cities, a recording session at a studio and a single in the local record shops. When Buddy went to tell his mother the news she said that her boss had been offered a job in London and wanted Carol to come with him. She asked Buddy what he thought but he left it entirely with her. Buddy thought he was going mad with the uncertainty of his future and wrote the song ''Brain Train'' about it. He also wrote ''Nothing Serious'' about Elaine.

Buddy wrote to the Rybeero twins about the gig in the West Country on the tour and they came. At the same gig Mike and James met their friend Dave from Plymouth who played keyboard with them in their previous band. They hired Dave to play the keyboard when they recorded ''Torn in Half'' and ''Nothing Serious''. Terry filmed the music video for ''Torn in Half'' at the breakers yard where Paul joined them and a local known as the Video King edited it. Terry bribed the two record shops, that the local paper used to compile their chart, into stocking the single and made sure the local radio stations had copies. Terry requested the single on the radio changing his accents every time and that night it came on. On the day Carol had to hand in her notice she decided not to go to London and told Buddy that she did not love Adrian. The record peaked at number two in the local chart and stayed there for two weeks.

Terry gave the band news telling them he had been in touch with Bobby Rosen who was the managing director of major label XS Records. In their meeting at XS after a tour of the studio Rosen told the band that after finding out Terry had a police record that made them unwilling to do deals with him but they still wanted the band. The band met at the twins house where they had already talked to their parents who suggested they took the offer. Glenn was unwilling to work without Terry and suggested he started a new band with Buddy but did not think they could get anywhere with Terry as their manager. Buddy went to talk to his father about it but could not pluck up the courage. They heard a cry of pain from the office of the breakers yard and went to investigate. In the office were two big men who trapped Des King's hands in a filing cabinet. Terry confronted them with an iron bar and they left. Buddy and Terry helped Des into the van and drove him home where his wife called their doctor. When they got back Buddy told his father about the band's meeting. The next day Glenn came to meet Buddy after school and told him that Terry met him at the milk depot and gave him an envelope. Inside it was the contract the band signed with Terry who tore it in half. Terry later explained that he did not want to stand in their way. The band signed the option with XS in September.

At home Buddy tried to fix a blockage under the kitchen sink and Terry came round to deliver news. Arctic Records talked to Terry and the Video King about working with him. Terry fixed the sink and Buddy invited him to come along for a meal to celebrate his seventeenth birthday. Buddy's parents agreed.

The novel ends with the lyrics for ''Torn in Half'', ''Brain Train'' and ''Nothing Serious''.

Competing efforts to build railways into interior Alaska in the early part of the 20th century.

The film follows Dagny (Dagny Backer Johnsen), a young woman longing to escape small-town life and move to the big city. Dagny's mother arranges for her to work for a family friend who lives in the city. Dagny recalls her most recent memories of the five people who loved her the most, all while experiencing a catastrophic event.

The show revolves around a group of university friends sharing a house in the West End of Glasgow and their romantic lives. After Dylan Witter (Flynn) is diagnosed with chlamydia, he attempts to contact all of his previous sexual partners to inform them of his diagnosis. Dylan lives with best friends Luke Curran (Ings) and Evie Douglas (Thomas), the latter of whom previously harboured a secret crush on Dylan, but has since moved on, recently becoming engaged. The majority of each episode is told through flashback, showing Dylan's encounters with a number of women, as well as the changes his friends go through.

The third season, released in January 2018, focuses more on Dylan, Evie and Luke's relationships with each other, and Angus's (McGuire) own personal problems.

Martin Spellman is a trainee mental nurse at Oakdeene Sanitarium in 1935. He desires to be an author and is using the inmates cases as sources for a possible book. Two other trainees there are Alan Barstowe and Harold Moody. Eventually he is invited to look at the file of one Wilfred Larner, who became insane due to his occult researches, particularly the ''Black Book'' (Larner's amateur translation of the ''Cthäat Aquadingen''). Spellman is allowed to study Larner's materials. He later makes an enemy of Barstowe, whom the inmates seem to both fear and hate. Later an inmate dies during Barstowe's shift, having apparently gouged out one of his own eyes. Larner later asks Spellman for a copy of the ''Sixth Sathlatta'', from the Cthäat Aquadingen, to deal with "a matter of justice". Spellman studies the chant and the notes, which involve Yibb-Tstll. Later Spellman sees Yibb-Tstll in a dream, after reciting the Sixth Sathlatta, but believes it to have been a coincidence. He gives Larner the promised information and a crayon to write with. He later observes Larner passing information to eleven other inmates in the exercise yard. Larner later confirms that they intend to call Yibb-Tstll, and apologizes to Spellman about the consequences, especially the "reversals and penalties" involved in performing the ritual without using the Naach-Tith formula. Larner and the others attempt to build the Naach-Tith Barrier, using the formula, but they know only the first part. Spelllman again pronounces the Sixth Sathlatta and dreams of Yibb-Tstll, this time recognizing that it has smiled at him. On New Years Day, he learns that Barstowe has quit his job. That night he again dreams of Yibb-Tstll, in an alien clearing. The twelve other inmates are also there for the calling. Spellman refuses to participate, but Yibb-Tstll forces him to.

Barstowe is later found outside the grounds of the Sanitarium, having been killed in a hideous manner. Five of the 13 are completely cured and five others are found dead, including Larner. Spellman is a victim of a reversal and is now kept sedated in a cell.

As described in a film magazine, James Alden (Arliss), a kind-hearted philanthropist, is persuaded to retire from the automobile manufacturing business by his wife (Darling) and daughter Angie (Kenyon), and he accepts the advise of his physician Dr. Stillings (Darley) and goes to live quietly at his Long Island home. Being active and healthy, however, he is not contented, and secretly buys an interest in an automobile repair garage with Bill Merrick (Burns), a young man just back from overseas. James assumes the name John Grant for this, and complications arise when Angie meets Bill, who does not know that his partner is her father. The man they purchased the garage from threatens to force them out of business. Bill, feeling sorry for his partner who "has a wife and daughter depending on him," decides to apply to James Alden for help, because his partner John Grant stated he worked for him for years. James refuses the request for aid, however, and Angie tenders her own check to Bill. Finally, when Bill goes to ask for Angie's hand in marriage, James has to confess to the astonished young man that he is also his partner. James has won back his health and a new son-in-law.

The story revolves around Shirou Emiya, a hardworking and honest teenager who unwillingly enters the fifth iteration of a to-the-death battle royale called the Holy Grail War, where combatants fight with magic and Heroes throughout history for a chance to have their wishes granted. Orphaned and the sole survivor of a massive fire in Fuyuki City as a child, Shirou was taken in by a retired magus named Kiritsugu Emiya, who died some years later. Shirou's feelings of responsibility for those who died and his own salvation through his father formed a strong desire for justice and peace in him. Thus, he earnestly trains his body and minuscule ability with magic with the goal of helping others, even if people often abuse his generosity. One evening, Shirou unexpectedly comes across two warriors, Archer and Lancer, fighting at his school. He is attacked and nearly killed by Lancer, but Archer's master, Rin Tohsaka manages to revive him just before death. However, Lancer attacks again, and just before Shirou is about to be killed, he accidentally summons his Servant, Saber, who saves his life. With this summoning, the marks of the Command Seal appear on Shirou's hand, formalizing his entry as a Master into the Holy Grail War.

As Saber forces Lancer to flee, she engages in combat with Archer, but Shirou accidentally stops her with his magic upon seeing Rin, his schoolmate. Shirou and Rin decide to form an alliance to fight against other mages. Through the priest Kirei Kotomine, Shirou learns about the Holy Grail War's context. Although initially hesitant, he decides to participate to avoid future catastrophes happening as a result of wishes granted by the Holy Grail.

As the war continues, Shirou starts developing his own skills as a magus by imitating Archer's abilities, and Rin notes striking similarities between the two. However, in a battle against the servant Caster in an attempt to rescue his guardian Fujimura, Shirou loses control of Saber, who is imprisoned by Caster. Shirou vows to fight with his own magical strength to stop the war and save his friends. Archer betrays Rin during a fight against Caster, but Rin reforms her alliance with Shirou. With Lancer's help, the duo manages to free Saber from Caster who is then killed.

To gain more allies, Rin and Shirou decide to team up with Illyasviel von Einzbern and her servant Berserker. However, Gilgamesh, Kotomine's former servant, arrives and kills both Illya and Berserker before Rin and Shirou can stop him. At Illya's villa, Archer challenges Shirou to a fight, hoping to destroy Shirou's goals of being a hero. Confused, Saber demands to know what his true intentions are, and Archer reveals himself to be a version of Shirou from the future, who became a heroic spirit after becoming disillusioned with the path he took. However, Shirou accepts his future regardless of Archer's regrets, deciding to stick to Kiritsugu's ideals of being a hero. Gilgamesh tries to kill Archer and Shirou, but the former sacrifices himself to protect the latter. Gilgamesh takes Illya's heart, planning to use his other master Shinji Matou in order to summon the corrupted Holy Grail. In order to follow Archer's hopes, Rin passes Shirou her mana to fight Gilgamesh to replicate Archer's powers. As Shirou nearly kills Gilgamesh, Archer uses the last of his strength to deliver the final attack at their enemy while assisting Saber to destroy the Holy Grail. With the war concluded and the servants gone, Shirou and Rin move to London to learn more about magic, and Shirou vows once again to retain Kiritsugu's ideals.

In a post-credits scene, Archer appears in another dimension, and disappears as he remembers his past self's words, just as another, younger, hooded person appears in the same field.

In the prologue, soldiers from WICKED arrive to take Newt's sister, Lizzy. However, Newt and Lizzy's parents put up a fight and so are killed. Since Newt and Lizzy are now orphans, WICKED takes them both with Newt as a control subject.

In the narrative' main plot, Stephen is introduced and has been renamed ''Thomas'' by the people in the organization WICKED (World in Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). ''Killzone'' means the brain, the "kill zone" of the Flare. Thomas is only five years old, and since his father has a bad infection of the Flare, his mother has given him up for his safety.

He is under the care of WICKED in its main complex in the middle of an Alaskan forest. He meets Teresa, who, like him, is kept separate from the others. He has to go through blood tests and advanced classes and soon meets Dr. Paige, who acts as a parent to him, and he soon becomes her favorite. They start sneaking out and meet Newt, Minho, and Alby. Newt reveals that his sister was renamed Sonya and is part of Group B. They start exploring the complex every day. The three take Thomas and Teresa into the outside world, only to be caught by WICKED security officers and thrown into the "Crank pits" (except for Newt, who is taken to be tested for the virus since he is not immune), where they encounter the founder of WICKED, who is nearly past his sanity and writes on a chalkboard, "WICKED is good."

The five children are deeply changed by the experience. They have no secret meetings in the maintenance room for a while, but Teresa then manages to hack WICKED's security systems and allow the friends to meet. Teresa, Thomas, Aris, and Rachel are then recruited to build the Maze. At one of their meetings, Thomas and Teresa stumble upon Charles (Named after Charles Darwin), nicknamed Chuck, who becomes the little brother they never had. Their secret meetings continue, with Chuck included.

The day after, WICKED finds out that Minho tried to escape, and in front of Thomas, it unleashes a Griever on Minho to show him that anyone who tries to escape and gets caught will be harshly punished. After the horrible experience, Thomas goes back and directs all of his attention to building the Maze. Shortly afterward, the Maze is complete, which means his best and only friends will be sent into the maze first. Right before they are sent in, Thomas and Teresa go to say their goodbyes. Their friends ask them why only they are going in, not Thomas and Teresa. Not being able to answer truthfully about the Maze being his project only makes Thomas's friends more suspicious, and eventually angry. Chuck does not go with the first batch, and for a long time, he, Thomas, and Teresa remain friends.

Thomas begins to watch his friends covertly through the "Beetle blades" and sees one of the boys, George, suddenly go crazy and try to kill his friends, only to be killed by Alby. Dr. Ava Paige explains what happened to George and reveals that the Grievers have a virus similar to the Flare. She places the cure for it among the Box of supplies, but the cure is at its early stages.

A WICKED official, Randall, is found outside the complex and is infected with the Flare. Dr. Paige then summons Teresa and Thomas and reveals that she suspects other people at WICKED to have the Flare, and she sends Thomas, Teresa, Aris, and Rachel to kill those who are infected, a secret operation that Dr. Paige calls "the Purge." Before the operation begins, Thomas is somewhat reluctant and so Teresa reminds him of her past life that she once mentioned. It is then revealed that Teresa was originally the young girl Deedee, who survived in the prequel ''The Kill Order''.

A few months after the Purge, Thomas is sent to a desert called "the Scorch" to test a Flat Trans, a teleportation device, and is introduced to Jorge and Brenda, who indirectly reveal that the Gladers must go through the Scorch as the second phase of the Trials. Thomas has come to believe that a cure will never be possible, feels that his friends are then suffering unnecessarily, and vows to save them.

Once back at base, Thomas hatches a thorough plan to escape WICKED. He begins with an idea to insert the elite candidates into the Maze with their memories intact so that they can rescue the Gladers, but Teresa seems reluctant. She takes care of suggesting the plan to Dr. Paige without telling her their true motives. Dr. Paige approves of the plan and the night before his insertion and twenty-four hours before Teresa's insertion, they spend the night in Thomas's room. They somewhat confess feelings for each other and fall asleep in each other's arms. As he prepares to be sent into the Glade, Dr. Paige gives Thomas a strange type of tea, which turns out to be anesthetics. She explains to Thomas that it was her idea to infect WICKED staff with the Flare because they wanted to end experimenting after the Maze Trials, and she wanted the experiments to continue. She then orders Thomas's memories to be wiped, despite their prior agreement. Thomas believes that Dr. Paige has betrayed him and Teresa. Thomas's emotions are then shown as he sees his memories being lost. The book ends with him standing up in the Box with his memories gone, which set the events of the main series in motion.

Another letter from Teresa shows that she knew that Thomas' memories would be erased before insertion, and that hers would not. The letter ends with Teresa stating that she believed in WICKED and would enter the Maze with the words "WICKED is good" tattooed on her arm. She said she believed that her friends would thank her one day.

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.

A famous pianist (Montgomery Royle) is engaged to a quite younger woman. An accidental explosion results in him becoming deaf but he learns to read lips quite quickly. He decides to use that skill to help random people around him. However, he sees his fiancee in a park with a different man. Montgomery is heartbroken, but after she confesses the truth to him, he helps her to be secure with the new man.

Based on the 1907 Camden Town Murder, where Robert Wood was tried for the murder of a prostitute and was acquitted.

In 1931, William Herbert Wallace is accused of murdering his wife.

Francis Rattenbury, a famous architect, is murdered.

In 1857 Glasgow, a girl is tried for the murder of her lover. From the first meeting between the lovers to the final verdict in Edinburgh Court.

In the future, the development of massive war machines with spherical main bodies called Objects, due to their firepower and, most important of all, their integrity, have rendered all manner of conventional warfare, and even tactical nuclear weapons seemingly obsolete. As a result of this military upheaval, all of the nations of the world have fractured into four coalitions which constantly wage war on each other; the "Legitimacy Kingdom", focused on tradition; the "Capitalist Corporation" (in the anime the "Capitalist Enterprise"), which values profit; the "Information Alliance" (in the anime the "Intelligence Union"), focused on knowledge; and the "Faith Organization", which values religion above everything else. With the perception that Objects can only be destroyed by other Objects, modern-day warfare has been virtually reduced to duels between Objects, resulting in shorter, cleaner, and safer wars. However, two regular soldiers from the Legitimate Kingdom, Qwenthur Barbotage and Havia Winchell, change all of this when, convinced by Qwenthur, they use their smarts and their ingenuity to successfully destroy the "Water Strider" Object of the Faith Organization all by themselves. Having now proven Objects created by man can also be destroyed by man and not just by other Objects, Qwenthur and Havia are thrown into a new world of harrowing adventures and dangerous suicide missions, with Qwenthur also befriending the Legitimate Kingdom's Elite Milinda Brantini, pilot of the Object "Baby Magnum", having saved her during the events of which resulted in the destruction of the Object of the Faith Organization.

Researcher Audrey conducts a study on female condoms. In the course of her work, she discovers that Serena, one of her subjects, is romantically involved with her ex-fiancé. Torn between professional integrity and curiosity, Audrey attempts to learn more about Serena's life without compromising her work.

Married couple Ed (Lee Williams) and Sarah (Pollyanna McIntosh) have decided that they want to get away from their busy, stressful lives in London and move somewhere more peaceful. They believe that they've found the perfect place in a bucolic farmhouse in Scotland; however, their real estate agent Flo (Joanne Mitchell) informs them that the land is the site of a gruesome battle between the English and the Scottish. Despite this knowledge and Flo's chilly story, Ed and Sarah choose to purchase the farmhouse and restore the property. Initially all seems well, but on their first night they hear strange sounds in the nearby area and discover that they are not at all welcome in the area. Later that night while Sarah is downstairs she witnesses the key coming out of the door, implying someone is entering. Quickly, she hides under a table as three men wearing pig masks enter. Sarah moves to a different room and attempts to climb out of the window, breaking a glass and cutting her hand. She later escapes the house and enters the woods. Sarah runs through the woods before finding a car in front of an old farmhouse that holds Ed hostage. Sarah beats in his captor's face and when a second man comes in, she knocks him down, but as more come, she cuts her Achilles heel. She and Ed escape the house. Ed tells her to hide while he distracts them so that she can make a run for the road. Ed knocks one to the ground and escapes, but is later caught in a bear trap. The captor Ed knocked down wanted to kill him, but another captor stops him, mentioning "a plan" they had for Ed and Sarah.

Sarah runs into a boy who was at their house earlier and he takes her to the road. Sarah is seen limping as many men surround her. She demands to know where her husband is as they close in on her.

The film ends with Sarah and Ed being found in a square in the middle of Manchester, alive. A group of people are having a barbecue at their Scottish home. One of them is the little boy who helped Sarah to the road. He is wearing a pig mask, like the captors, implying that the pig masked captors were the ones that owned the house and wanted the rich couple from London out of their home.

Old university friends Dom, Phil, Luke, and Hutch have decided to reunite on a hiking trip through the Swedish mountains. The trip was chosen for its frugality due to the fact that Luke is unable to afford much else. The group is forced to take a shortcut through the woods when Phil develops blisters on his feet and Dom injures his knee. However, the shortcut ends up causing the group to become lost and scared, especially after they discover a disembowelled animal corpse hanging from the trees. They come across an ancient shack filled with bones and artifacts. They also find an abandoned church, desecrated and repurposed for pagan practices. Hutch falls through the floor of the church as him and Luke explore it, and find a massive amount of human remains, belonging to adults and children, and animals. The four are disturbed each night with dreams - mostly nightmares - and visions.

There is much conflict between the four. Luke is the "odd one out", the only one who didn't get a career and settle down. Further rows reveal that Dom and Phil are about to get divorced. Hutch convinces Luke to leave them and press ahead for help, but before Luke can leave, Hutch is taken by an unseen entity, and the others find him naked and gutted in the branches. Phil vanishes next, and Luke and Dom later pass his body, treated in the same fashion. Despite sleeping in shifts, and Luke managing to hurt the creature with a rock, Dom disappears as well. Luke passes out and wakes up in bed in an old room.

He is attended by three masked and painted teenagers who call themselves Loki, Fenris, and Surtr. They are moonshiners and a black metal band named Blood Frenzy. There is also an old woman who supervises the children, and Luke hears faint scuttling from the attic overhead. Luke hopes his hosts will call help but realises that they are complicit with the entity that killed his friends. When they take him outside to see Dom's body gutted in the trees, he attempts and fails to escape. Loki claims that they are Vikings and tells Luke that he will be sacrificed to Odin. Luke mocks Blood Frenzy as disturbed delinquents until they take him to the attic to see the "ancient ones": centuries-old humans with goats' legs, tended to by the old woman.

Luke is bathed and prepared for sacrifice by the old woman and tied to an upside-down cross before a pyre. As he screams defiant taunts, Blood Frenzy demands that the old woman summon the god, but she silently refuses. Luke wakes up back in his room, untied, and is given back his Swiss army knife by the old woman. Acquiring the teenagers' rifle, Luke kills Loki and Fenris, and Surtr flees into the woods. While searching for the keys to their truck, Luke hears the old woman singing in Swedish, summoning the creature which she calls "Moder", the word for "Mother". Luke realises she was using him to get rid of the teenagers for her and that he is still a sacrifice. He shoots her and sees that she, too, has goat legs.

Luke goes to the attic and kills the ancient ones, putting an end to Moder's cult. Outside, he hears the enraged Moder killing Surtr and coming for him. Luke drives the truck through the woods and finally confronts Moder, a giant goat-like beast with human arms. Moder tears apart the truck to get to Luke, but Luke stabs her in the throat, driving her off. Luke staggers, naked, through and out of the forest, stalked by Moder's "white children". Upon a rocky plain, Luke descends into a delirium and decides that, despite the many downsides of his life in London, the only thing that matters is being alive.

Janeane, a conservative housewife from Iowa, is an undecided voter who wishes to find more information about the Republican Party politicians running for U.S. President in 2012. She attends the Republican Party primary in an effort to find a politician who can offer a solution to the problems she faces. Her situation deteriorates quickly: her husband loses his job and comes out as gay, and she is diagnosed with cancer. These and other issues drive her to question her long-held beliefs and attempt to find a politician who can offer more than sound bites.

Titus Crow interviews for a job with Julian Carstairs in 1946, at his house near Haslemere, and passes. Carstairs apparently wishes his enormous library of occult works cataloged. He gives Crow drugged wine at dinner and later watches him as he sleeps, along with another man. He commands him to believe that it was a dream. Crow begins work, later finding several pinkish maggots in the house. He swiftly becomes addicted to the wine.

Crow grows suspicious, but Carstairs hypnotizes him to forget the cause. He also intercepts a letter to Carstairs from Somerset House, concerning his inquiries about Crow's date of birth. He successfully deceives Carstairs by making a telephone call and disguising his voice. He visits friends in London and has one analyze the wine and the other hypnotize him, so that he cannot be controlled by Carstairs. He also visits an old friend at the British Museum and scrutinizes their Latin copy of ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', particularly the chapter "Saracenic Rituals". The wine does turn out to be addictive, but he has been cured by the hypnosis of his friend, though he takes steps to pretend to be addicted. Carstairs offers him wine and he cannot refuse. Later that night, Carstairs visits him with two men and command him to come in the morning and ask to stay over the weekend. He pretends to obey. When Carstairs leaves, he inspects the library and discovers a secret door, giving onto steps leading down to the cellar. The weekend passes slowly. At last Carstairs leaves for a time, allowing Crow to inspect the cellar. He also finds Carstair's study unlocked and the missing pages from Carstairs' copy of ''De Vermis Mysteriis''. Upon reading them, he suddenly realises that Carstairs intends to possess his younger body to prolong his life, having been born in Chorazin in 1602.

Carstairs eventually performs the Ritual of the Worm, on Candlemas Eve, in the cellars, believing Crow to be under his control. Crow surprises him by refusing his hand. He reveals his true date of birth. The ritual fails, as Carstairs' acolytes flee, refusing his hand also. The worms devour Carstairs entirely as Crow flees the house. His car passes over the now dead worms as he leaves.

The film is based on the true story of Laurel Hester (Moore), a police officer in Ocean County, New Jersey. The story narrates the difficulties faced by a lesbian police detective and her domestic partner, Stacie Andree (Page). Following her diagnosis with terminal lung cancer in 2005, Hester repeatedly appealed to the county's board of chosen freeholders to have her pension benefits passed on to her domestic partner; she was eventually successful.

Writer is on a cruise ship where he meets another Nepali person, Atit. As writer introduces himself, Atit asks the writer if he is willing to write Atit's love story. Reluctantly, the writer agrees to listen to his story.

Atit is curious to find out the entrance topper Saaya, who also has the same way back to home as Atit has. As days pass, Atit and Saaya become good friends and eventually, Atit proposes to Saaya. Saaya accepts the proposal. But the same day, both are them are divided into two different lab groups. One group has lab work in morning while other in afternoon. Now they have to come and leave college separately. After the division, Atit and Saaya start to bunk classes. Meanwhile Atit secures second spot after First Semester as Saaya helped him during exams. After finishing MSc, Atit has to go to Dhangadi as he secured a job in a NGO meanwhile Saaya; Norway, to pursue higher degree of education. One month later, Saaya returns to Nepal through Delhi and they marry. After some months, Atit goes to meet Saaya's parents to talk about their marriage but Saaya's parents decline as Atit is from Bramhin class and they are Newars. Saaya starts to move on while Atit falls in depression. With the help of Sushmita, his office's receptionist and neighbour, Atit does not commit suicide but they eventually have physical relation. Atit starts a search for Saaya and goes to Norway. In Norway, he meets Saaya and tells about the intimate relation he had with Sushmita.(9 September 2014). [http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=82851 Subin Bhattarai continues love story with 'Saaya'], ''República'' (discussing "sequel to author Subin Bhattarai’s bestselling novel ‘Summer Love’")(4 September 2014). [http://www.nagariknews.com/entertainment/other/story/24217.html समर लभको दोस्रो भाग २३ गते], ''Nagarik News'' (in Nepali)(13 September 2014). [http://thehimalayantimes.com/rssReference.php?headline=Youngsters+throng+Sabin%27s+Saaya+launch&NewsID=427342 Youngsters throng Sabin's Saaya launch], ''The Himalayan Times''

In the end, writer shows interest in meeting Saaya and learning her side of the story. Atit gives Saaya's address but writer is unable to meet Saaya as she had gone to Kathmandu to write a thesis.

As described in a film magazine review, a garage employee in a small town has an inventive mind, and tries to interest a banker in a project to harness waterfalls for energy. He becomes discouraged. Through the kind assistance of the garage owner, he puts his idea over, and wakes up the town. He has a romance with the granddaughter of his benefactor.

On her way to school Rosie Brooks was asked by an elderly frail man to post a parcel for him the following day so it would arrive on his brother's birthday. Rosie took the parcel and went to school. Things started going wrong for her and she spotted a cat and a crow staring at her from outside. Back home Rosie was behaving badly there as well. After giving her baby brother Jimmy a ride in his push-chair out in the garden she saw the same cat and crow again. She told her mother but she was sure it was a coincidence. That night she touched the parcel and lightning struck outside with the cat and crow on the lawn.

The following day Rosie's family went to visit her grandmother while she walked to her friend Rebecca's house. After she posted the parcel a sack was pulled over her head and her captors walked her into a garage. She could not see them but she could hear and feel them. The captors, who called themselves the Finders introduced themselves as Mr Ikbal and his apprentice Sidri and told her they were after a Djinn which they believed was her until Rosie explained what had happened. Mr Ikbal told Rosie that the package contained the Djinn Star and because she had it in her possession for more than a day she had started to turn into a Djinn. Rosie did not believe it at first but accepted it when she started to fly as Djinn did and was told that she had to thing of something honest and kind to keep her bad side at bay. Ikbal explained that they would have to return the package to the Djinn so they could arrest him at Witching hour which was at midnight. Rosie agreed to help them and set off for the post box. By the time they got there the postman had just collected the mail and left but not before Rosie saw the number on the van.

Rosie and the Finders set off for the sorting office in the town centre. On the way Rosie learned that the Finders were angels, it was their job to bring Djinn back to the "other side", they were only invisible to humans and it was Sidri's first mission. As they waited for their postman Rosie telephoned Rebecca to say that she would not be able to come. When the postman arrived Rosie tried to get the parcel back but the postman said it would have to be delivered. Rosie went inside the building and found the parcel which gave her the sensation of the Djinn Star the she was spotted by the same postman. After he grabbed her the Finders moved two sacks and a trolley scaring the postal workers into thinking there were ghosts about and it made them flee. The Finders then tickled the postman with Rosie who let her go and she ran through a department store to escape. Outside she was cornered by the postal workers and thought bad thoughts to make her fly away from them. High up above town Rosie made it rain then she thought about making lightning but she realized it could hit her family and she started having good thoughts and came back down to the ground near her street.

Rosie found her way home and after sleeping there was a knock on the door. She saw what looked like two terrifying monsters through the letter box. She then heard the Finders voices call and she let them in but they still frightened her. After some coaxing Rosie realized that the monsters were in fact the Finders. Mr Ikbal explained that she had become more Djinn like and could see them as something frightening because Djinn hate angels. Ikbal suggested they should eat to keep their strength up and after their meal Rosie disguised herself as a man and set off on her bike for the address on the parcel as Ikbal suggested. Rosie cycled to Boglin with the Finders flying behind. On the way the Moon appeared to sing and summon her. The Finders stopped her from flying then told her that Djinn were attracted to the Moon and told her not to look at it. When they reached Boglin Rosie knocked on a door and asked the elderly man for directions to Gallows Tree Cottage. He told her it was occupied by Miss Kittie and Miss Rooke who baked cakes and were friendly with the villagers. On the way Ikbal pointed out that Kittie is a pet name for a cat and a rook is a kind of crow which were the two animals found near a Djinn. When they reached the cottage Ikbal could feel the presence of the Djinn but told Rosie that she would have to go in alone as the Finders could not arrest the Djinn until midnight.

In the cottage Rosie was greeted by Miss Kittie and Miss Rooke who offered her cake and a drink then Mr Robin Goodfellow, to whom the parcel was addressed, came in. Rosie went into the study to see him. Goodfellow who was actually the Djinn saw through Rosie's disguise when she tried to hand him the parcel and he revealed his walking stick to be a sorcerer's sword which only Djinn and Rosie could see. He tried to get Rosie to bow her head and swear obedience to him. When she refused he said he had time and read while he waited. The Djinn appeared to read Rosie's mind and tried to encourage her when she thought about what it would be like to be a Djinn. When the Djinn tried to temp Rosie again Sidri broke in through the window and convinced her to stay on the good side. Rosie slipped the parcel into the Djinn's hand and while Sidri distracted him she escaped to her bike and the stuffed animals in his study came to life and chased after her. Rosie cycled as fast as she could whilst the animals led by the wolf pursued her. During the escape Rosie fell off the bike so she went into the wood trying to hide but the animals still found her. Rosie climbed a tree and the animals circled the bottom. The Djinn got the ivy on the tree to bind Rosie then he tried to force her to take back the Djinn Star. Rosie resisted him even when the ivy chocked and tortured her.

On the stroke of midnight the ivy unwound itself from her, the stuffed animals froze and Rosie fell from the tree. The Finders arrived and Mr Ikbal congratulated Rosie for resisting the temptation and Sidri for doing well on his first mission. Ikbal arrested the Djinn in the names of Sidri, Rosie and the ninety-nine names of goodness sending him back to where he belonged. Rosie asked where the "other side" was and Ikbal said it was everywhere except here. The Finders glowed bright and Rosie thought they were beautiful. As they disappeared the Finders told Rosie they had to go but they would always be her friend.

Rosie went home and waited for her family to arrive. A few days later there was a storm and Rosie's younger school age brother Mark wanted her to tell him a story. She told him about the Finders and he said he knew they were real because he could see them shining in her eyes.

Hiccup and Snotlout compete and practice catching sheep for the annual Dragon Race, the new and official dragon sport event on Berk. Afterwards, Tuffnut has just finished his new creepy-looking face paint which shocks Astrid, Hiccup and Toothless. Tuffnut says that at least his doesn't look like a target, mocking the new pattern Fishlegs has applied; Fishlegs explains that it's actually the Ingerman family crest.

Snotlout arrives cheering that his new Sheep Launcher finally worked, which Astrid points out that it took him thirty-two tries to get it right. It then cuts to a sequence of sheep launches, which makes it seem that the sheep, wearing a helmet that Snotlout put on it, is invulnerable to pain as it lands on several different locations. Snotlout decides that the sheep launcher is ready for the Dragon Race. Astrid complains and asks since when did he get to make such a decision; Snotlout states it's because he created the sport. Hiccup and Astrid quickly deny that claim, saying that's not how they remember it. Astrid tries to recall the events of how and who invented Dragon Racing.

It cuts to a flashback, shortly after the events of the second season where the Riders are still in their early teens. Berk is getting ready for the traditional annual boat race called the Regatta which starts in a few days, when suddenly a herd of sheep run throughout the village, causing minor trouble. Hiccup asks Gobber what's happening, and Gobber explains that after Silent (now dubbed Not So Silent) Sven broke his silence, his sheep ran out of their pens because they're afraid of his new voice. Stoick and Gobber struggle to gather the sheep, so Stoick orders Hiccup and the gang to round up the sheep as he gets ready for the Regatta; if he has to hear Sven scream any more, he'll put a hook through his own head just to end the torture.

While in the process of catching the sheep, the Riders end up turning it in to an impromptu competition against each other in getting as many sheep as possible; they all arrive back at the pen and discover they all got three sheep each. Astrid points out that there is no winner in this 'competition'. Sven then cries out, alarmed that his prized black sheep is still missing and hoping that it didn't fall down the well again. At the mention of this, the Riders declare the black sheep as a tiebreaker. Hiccup states that it isn't a competition, but it falls on deaf ears: with the exception of Fishlegs, the others have already taken off. Moments later, Snotlout and Hiccup both spot the sheep, and they race towards it head on. Just as Hiccup is about to grab the sheep in his clutches, Gobber blocks his path and they collide, allowing Snotlout to claim the black sheep. Hiccup asks Gobber what's so urgent, and as he tries to remember Stoick calls Hiccup to come meet him, which was what Gobber was about to inform Hiccup about.

Stoick is preparing to set sail down at the docks, and informs Hiccup that he will be gone for several days to get wood from Loki Island: the lumber is lighter and stronger than any other wood they know of, and building their Regatta ship with it will be their secret weapon. He appoints Hiccup to oversee the preparations for the Regatta in his place, which Hiccup isn't excited to hear about due to the fact that he sees boats slowly moving across the harbor to be 'boring'. Stoick justifies that the Regatta is tradition and claims that it is a good way to 'blow off steam'; if Vikings aren't fighting against any enemies they need to fight against each other in competition, illustrated by two Vikings on the next dock over whacking each other with fish. Just as Stoick leaves, Fishlegs creeps in on Hiccup, saying that he is happy for Hiccup, as he considers being in charge of the Regatta as an honor. Fishlegs then helps Meatlug board a ship covered in a big cloth, which is hiding what he is working on. Fishlegs considers himself to be a sailor at heart and is excited that he is now finally old enough to compete; he and Meatlug will be working on their ship until the Regatta.

Meanwhile, at the Academy, Tuffnut is plotting out some rules for the Riders' sheep competition, but is interrupted as Hiccup arrives reluctantly prohibiting them to carry on with their plan as he has Stoick's strict orders to prepare for the Regatta. The next day, Hiccup discovers that the Riders' have disobeyed his order and have carried on the sheep catching. Down below, the villagers are enjoying the Riders' sheep catching competition and say that it is much better than the Regatta. Later, the villagers gather at the Great Hall, growing restless for entertainment and they want to see the Dragon Race again. Hiccup has Toothless quiet down the crowd, then tries to regain their enthusiasm for the Regatta but is unsuccessful.

Inspired by the twins, the crowd wants another Dragon Race. Astrid then says to Hiccup that Stoick isn't going to be back for a few days and points out that the Dragon Race is also a great way to blow off steam. Seeing no other option, Hiccup agrees to have one Dragon Race. As Hiccup points out the starting location of the race, Snotlout and the Twins suggest they should have teams. Snotlout says the teams are already decided, with Snotlout and the twins on one team and Astrid, Hiccup and Fishlegs on the other. The twins then mention their team name, 'Snotnuts'. Hiccup and Astrid then go to get Fishlegs, but after mocking the name 'Snotnuts' he declines joining the race as he and First Mate Meatlug are still too busy getting ready for the Regatta, refusing to back down on his family tradition.

The race starts as Gothi drops the flag signalling the start of the race. They all immediately set off, and a Viking signals Sven to release the sheep. Early in the race, Hiccup manages to get one sheep but the Twins manage to get two. Meanwhile, Astrid and Snotlout both spot one sheep and race head on to get it first, and both of them are relentless to turn around only until Snotlout backs off, fearing collision, allowing Astrid to get the sheep. Late in the race the scores are tallied and the teams are all tied up. As soon as it is stated by Mulch, the Riders head of to get the black sheep as it is the tiebreaker. Both Hiccup and the Twins fail to capture the sheep, and shortly after Astrid and Snotlout spot the black sheep creating another head on race. Just as the two Riders are seconds away from the black sheep, it faints, unexpectedly becoming a static target.

Shortly thereafter, Astrid and Snotlout collide as neither of them backed out, and this causes Astrid's arm to be injured. Snotlout flies off to go get Gothi, but he is still thinking about the game and he grabs the black sheep. Snotlout then runs into a branch and is knocked off Hookfang; the sheep safely lands on top of him. Sometime later at the Great Hall, the uneventful Dragon Race causes the villagers to demand another Dragon Race, but Hiccup tells the villagers the deal was only one Dragon Race and then on to the Regatta. The villagers however are unsatisfied with that and continue to shout for another Dragon Race. Suddenly Snotlout announces that Hiccup is right, but mocks him by saying that it's not like he will beat team Snotnuts anyway.

Astrid wants to back up Hiccup, but she is still injured and cannot take the risk. Snotlout points out that there's no rematch anyway as Hiccup has no teammate, but Hiccup is still determined to continue the Race, so he once again asks Fishlegs to join his team. At first Fishlegs refuses as he is putting the finishing touches on his ship. After he unveils the small ship with a flourish, Toothless can't help but laugh at the decorations. Fishlegs slowly sails out to sea with Meatlug, but Meatlug quickly begins to feel sea sick and vomits lava, causing the ship to immediately sink. Fishlegs quickly changes his mind about accepting the offer.

They both head off to the Academy where the competition is about to start. Just as the flag is about to be dropped, Stoick is suddenly heard screaming Hiccup's name: he has returned earlier than expected. Stoick appears to be in shock to see that this is not the Regatta he'd expected. Hiccup explains that he sometimes has to make difficult choices for the good of the people, and one of those difficult choices is replacing the traditional Regatta event with Dragon Racing. Stoick asks if he did this all by himself, and Hiccup, seeing the other riders awkwardly looking away, has no choice but to agree. Instead of punishing Hiccup for contradicting his order, Stoick allows him to proceed with the event but only if they do it right. Both teams put on face paint, with green paint for team Snotnuts, and red paint for team 'Hicclegs' (which Fishlegs came up with). Stoick explains that it gives the competitors and the game a warrior's feel to it.

Stoick announces to the crowd around the academy the start of the first annual Berk Dragon Race and explains that each white sheep is worth one point, while the Black Sheep is worth five. To make sure no cheating happens (looking particularly at the twins), Stoick appoints Astrid as the referee. Stoick then proclaims that the team who wins the race will have their portrait hung in the Great Hall, and a feast thrown in their honor. Gothi drops the flag and the race is started.

Snotlout quickly manages to grab one sheep, while Hiccup grabs one as well, and the Twins grab two and boast about it to Hiccup. But Fishlegs arrives bringing two sheep. Both teams drop off their sheep at the Academy. Hiccup spots a sheep placed on a raft out on the water, but Snotlout arrives to grab it. Hiccup quickly sets Toothless' tail to boost their speed and is able to snatch the sheep before Snotlout does. Meanwhile, the twins attempt to cheat by stealing sheep that are not Silent Sven's to quickly double their points, but Astrid arrives before they can grab any. Tuffnut protests that "not cheating is not trying"; Astrid has Stormfly drive them off.

Meanwhile, Fishlegs and Hiccup spot a sheep on a mountain and Fishlegs attempts to grab it, but it jumps down causing it to slide down the side. It falls into a crevasse, but luckily Hiccup and Toothless were already there to rescue it. When it is proclaimed by Astrid that the teams are all tied up, Stoick announces that whoever finds the black sheep wins. The Twins quietly talk to each other about putting their 'Super Secret Plan' into action. Fishlegs then has an idea where the black sheep might be, recalling what Sven said earlier about the black sheep always falling into the well. Fishlegs volunteers to go down the well and look for it, while Hiccup waits overhead. The Twins then fly by with the black sheep which shocks Hiccup.

This causes team Snotnuts to win the race, and Snotlout cheers excitedly over his teams' victory. Although disappointed, Hiccup applauds with the crowd. Hiccup congratulates Snotlout, who gloats about it and mocks Hiccup. But just as they are about to take their victory, Fishlegs arrives with the real black sheep, confusing everybody. Sven tells Stoick that there is only one black sheep and Team Snotnuts claims that they have it. Tuffnut then nuzzles the sheep's side with his face and reveals that they had cheated, by painting a regular sheep with black paint. A reversal is announced by Astrid, swapping the victory from Team Snotnuts to Team Hiclegs, making them the first official champions in Dragon Racing. The event closes when Toothless shoots three plasma blasts overhead, dazzling the crowd. Then Stoick finally relieves Hiccup from being the 'acting chief' and Hiccup quickly sets off before his father can change his mind.

The flashback ends and it goes back to the present time, with Hiccup concluding that it technically was Tuffnut who invented Dragon Racing (because he was the one came up with the concepts of the rules) humiliating the three of them, especially Snotlout, who is deeply depressed. Hiccup tries to cheer up Snotlout by saying that he played a part in it, and that the cheating was all him. As Snotlout happily claims that he did cheat, the Twins interrupt that Snotlout actually did not know what they were doing, and knew nothing about the secret plan. When Hiccup just tells them that they should say that they all invented Dragon Racing the Twins reluctantly accept, but Tuffnut still claims that Snotlout did nothing. Furious, Snotlout launches a sheep at Tuffnut, and points out that at least he invented the Sheep Launcher. Then a horn is heard, signalling that it is time for the Dragon Race and all the Riders quickly set off to start.

Having gone from being Dragon Riders to Dragon Racers, thanks to them a new generation of Berk's traditional events was born.

The film begins in 19th century Saint Petersburg, and examines the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a middle-aged Russian nobleman. Slothful and seemingly unhappy, Oblomov spends much of the beginning of the film sleeping and being attended to by his servant, Zakhar. In an attempt to get him more active, Andrei Ivanovich Stoltz, a Russian/German businessman and close friend, frequently takes Oblomov along with him to social events. Oblomov is introduced to a cultured woman named Olga, a friend of Stoltz. When Stoltz leaves the country, Olga is left with the task of civilizing and culturing Oblomov while he lives nearby. Olga and Oblomov eventually fall in love, but upon Stoltz's return, Oblomov moves back into town, eventually severing ties with Olga. Stoltz and Olga eventually marry, and Oblomov subsequently marries the woman with whom he was living, Agafya Matveyevna Psehnitsyna. The two have a son, and although Agafya has two children from a previous relationship, Oblomov treats them both as if they were his own. Oblomov is satisfied with his life, although it "lack[s] the poetic and those bright rays which he imagined were to be found."

Like the first film, the sequel is divided into 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. The varieties of death range from accidents to murders.

A contest was held for the role of the 26th director. The winner was music video director Robert Boocheck, who submitted his short for M.

At the Collin Sport School for Girls, Miss Anton catches Christina sleeping with her classmate Meg. As a result, Christina is sent to the Dunwich School for Girls to share a room with a student named Maria. Together they make friends with two more students, Jilly and Sandra. Miss Santana, the teacher, meets up with Miss Dambahla, a servant of Pakumba, and a caretaker named Jeff. Since Maria and Jeff are so much in love, she has to share her secret not only with Jeff, but also with the other girls. Maria's family is practicing voodoo, so she creates a voodoo doll for each of the girls in order to torture them. Just as Jilly is about to be sent over a cliff to her death by Maria's voodoo magic, Jeff arrives at the last second to save her.

Christina is later caught and tied to a cross (a la the Crucifixion of Jesus, according to Christian theology). The four women, Miss Santana, Miss Dambahla, Miss Anton and Maria, attempt to burn Christina at the stake. At that moment Jeff notices what's going on and comes charging in to Christina's rescue. He then sets the entire temple on fire, killing off the four evil women.

Engineer Rahman Tavana, a government employee, falls in love with a Christian girl, Juliet Khamse, while working in an international mission. She converts to Islam, changes her name to Ameneh, and moves to Iran with Rahman. Once in Iran she finds that she cannot accept what she sees as contradictions between the actions of Iranian Muslims, including her husband and his family, and the teachings of the Qu'ran, and eventually decides to return to the Lebanon, where she takes a job as a teacher for refugees.

Pediatrician Jane Bowers is a women's lib advocate who meets Officer Jerry Frazer when they both show up to view an apartment in San Francisco. They immediately butt heads as her militant demand for equal treatment conflicts with his traditional "ladies first" attitude. Due to the shortage of affordable housing and a misunderstanding with the landlord, they agree to pose as a married couple to share the apartment since their work schedules don't overlap, an arrangement she openly shares with Wyatt, her understanding, liberal lawyer fiancé and Mother's boy, but with not her father. Jerry keeps the secret from his girlfriend, Kitty, a Bunny at the Playboy Club.

Fellow doctor and ultra-militant women's libber Debby organizes a disruptive swimsuit protest at the club, to which the police respond, including Jerry. He sees a bikini-clad Jane participating at the protest and sends her home in a taxicab instead of arresting her, infuriating her. An upset Jane calls her father to talk, which makes him concerned enough to drive into town. Prostitute and aspiring porn actress Lilah asks Jerry to arrest her so she has someplace to sleep. Kindhearted Jerry lets her stay in the apartment overnight while he's at work, but finds a note from Jane that she will be leaving because of his "sexual bigotry." Jane's father arrives and is let in by the landlord. He runs into Lilah and assumes she's Jane's roommate. The truth comes out when Jerry rushes home after finding out Jane has left work early. Kitty arrives and recognizes Jane from the protest. Wyatt and Debby also arrive. Jerry professes his love for Jane, who runs out in confusion as Kitty angrily disavows Jerry and asks to join Debby's organization, WAM (Women Against Men). Wyatt's masochistic desire to be dominated by women is confirmed as he finds Debby's pushiness attractive. Jerry chases after Jane and catches her in the middle of the intersection, where they embrace and kiss while causing traffic to back up.

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick—called "The Kingmaker"—puts young Edward IV on the throne of England. But before Neville can arrange for one of his daughters to marry the new king, Edward marries Elizabeth Woodville in secret. As Neville begins losing his control of Edward, he plots to secure his daughters' futures.

Anne, his younger daughter, is married off to Edward, Prince of Wales. Following the deaths in battle of both her father and her husband, she is courted by the future King Richard III of England.

Donald Duck sings "A-Hunting We Will Go" as he takes off on a fox hunt, carrying nothing but a hunting horn and the leashes of several bloodhounds. Donald struggles to control the bloodhounds as they search for the scent of a fox. Meanwhile, Goofy rides a horse as part of the main hunting party. When his horse refuses to jump over a hedge, Goofy demonstrates himself how to make the jump, but discovers a pond directly on the other side.

Eventually, Donald finds the fox and chases him into a burrow. Donald uses blasts from his hunting horn to blow the fox out of the hole. Finally, Donald believes he has cornered the fox in a hollow log. He calls all the other hunters who excitedly arrive at the scene. But when Donald pulls the animal out, he discovers it's nothing but a skunk. The hunters run away in terror. As the skunk prepares to spray, Donald runs away as well as the cartoon ends.

Baek Jang-mi is a sophomore majoring in design, a rich girl who grew up without experiencing any hardship in life. Jang-mi's parents want to marry her off to an eligible man they chose for her, but she rebels and begins dating engineering student Park Cha-dol. Lively and outgoing Cha-dol was raised by a single mother, and he's eager to graduate and start earning money to take care of his mom. But when Jang-mi gets pregnant, she and Cha-dol are forced to change their plans, and must begin raising a child while both are still in college. In the process, they slowly gain maturity and learn the true meaning of love.

The film follows Etienne (Patrick Timsit), a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master (Alain Chabat) and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure (Cécile de France). Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques (Richard Berry), told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9pm.

Opening sequence

The Snow Queen's ice cream shop, "Any Given Sundae", is shown in the forest.

Event chronology

The Arendelle events take place after "A Tale of Two Sisters". The Storybrooke events take place after "White Out".

In the Characters' Past

In the wake of her sister Anna heading off towards Misthaven, a concerned Elsa is now panicking over her sister's mission, even as Kristoff tells her that her kingdom needs her more than Anna does right now. Elsa then receives news that Prince Hans is leading an army straight to Arendelle, so she has to stay and prevent him from attempting to take control of the kingdom once again. While spying on the former regent and his 12 brothers, Kristoff discovers that Hans has brought with him a sketch of an urn that once it is in use, will be able to trap people. Kristoff, fearing that he will use the urn on Elsa so he can take over Arendelle, returns to warn Elsa, who decides to follow Kristoff along after he volunteers to go after Hans before he carries out his plot.

Hours later, and after making a trek towards a cave, Elsa and Kristoff discover the urn that was kept hidden. When Elsa discovers an unfamiliar language encrypted on the item, it leads to confusion between her and Kristoff over whether to destroy it or not, only to be caught off guard by Hans and his brothers, who then takes a sword to Kristoff and demand that Elsa drop the urn or he'll kill him. After Elsa gives in, she hands over the urn to Hans, then warns Kristoff to search for Anna. Hans then opens the urn to trap Elsa, only to discover that a person is already inside: the Snow Queen. After she is unleashed, The Snow Queen, upset over Hans calling Elsa a monster, freezes him and his brothers flee the cave. The Snow Queen then returns to the palace to get to know Elsa, and reveals to her that she is her aunt after she looks at a portrait of Elsa's parents. She also tells Elsa about finding others like them who may have met the same fate as her.

In Storybrooke

Robin Hood, Marian, and Roland visit "Any Given Sundae", where the Snow Queen serves them ice cream, but unknown to them she casts a spell on the ice cream cone that she gave Marian. Meanwhile, Elsa, joined by Emma and Hook, pay Gold a visit and to find out if he has known Anna based on the necklace Elsa found in his pawn shop. Belle uses the fake dagger to “command” Gold to tell the truth but it fails, as he knows nothing about Elsa or Anna, and wishes them the best of luck finding her.

Robin, Marian and Roland join the other residents at the Mayor's office, as Mary Margaret, who is still trying to balance both maternal and mayoral duties, is holding the first annual “Mayor’s Fireside Chat,” where she assures the citizens that they are no longer afraid of Regina's influence, but it appears that they want Mary Margaret to do something about the town's snowy fiasco. Mary Margaret then tells the residents about Elsa's presence in Storybrooke and is trying to reassure everyone that she is not dangerous, only to have Marian beginning to start feeling as if something was glossing over her and she passes out. Elsa's presence has also resulted in her becoming a prime suspect, and with her heart slowly freezing, a cure must be found before Marian's heart completely freezes and kills her. The Storybrooke residents blame Elsa, who is being framed by the Snow Queen for the icy cold mayhem. With the entire town ready to go after their newest addition, Emma (who starts to question her abilities as Savior) and Hook decide to hide Elsa at the sheriff's office while she and David search for the real suspect.

Regina and Henry team up to attempt to find out the identity of the author. Before they can do that, Robin arrives to tell Regina about Marian's frozen state. As Regina is quick to suspect Elsa, as she believes that darker magic is behind this but Elsa denies it to Regina. They believe a true love kiss will wake Marian up, but after Robin kisses her, nothing happens. David and Henry surmise that the cold is creating a barrier, preventing the kiss from working, like when Frederick was turned into gold.

Emma and David arrive at Robin Hood's campsite in the forest, and as Emma draws her gun and orders whoever is inside the tent to come out, she encounters former Merry Man Will Scarlet and she demands to know who he is, but as he about to escape David catches him. Will tells the two that he doesn't know anything about the ice wall around Storybrooke, but reveals that he went into the ice cream parlor while the electricity was out, and saw that despite the blackout, the products in the back were still frozen. When they arrive at the shop, however, they find the kitchen area in deep freezing temperatures, but Will sneaks off and take the money from the register. Meanwhile, Hook decides to take Elsa to Gold's Pawn Shop instead, where he tells his former archenemy that he knows about the Dagger of Kris that Gold still has in his possession, and promises to keep it a secret, but only on the condition that they find out where they can locate the real suspect, and hopefully, find Anna. Using a piece of Marian's hair strands, Gold casts a spell to serve as a tracer to origin of the freezing spell cast on it. Elsa and Hook are able to trace it back to the Snow Queen in the forest, but as Hook tries to contact Emma with a cellphone, and later by person, the Snow Queen traps Hook's legs in ice, and when she tries to kill Hook with sharp icicles, she tells Elsa that she neutralized her powers, to keep her from interfering. Then, she discovers that Elsa has lost her memories. She tells Elsa that the Rock Trolls wiped her memory, while trying to convince her that it was Anna who had placed her in the urn. As the Snow Queen prepares to use an ice attack on Hook, Emma arrives just in time to use her powers, allowing the Snow Queen to get away upon getting distracted by helping David free Hook before the large icicles could fall on him. Emma was surprised that the Snow Queen knew Emma's name, but Elsa suspects that the Snow Queen might be lying about her remembering their past experience and about her past with Emma, although Emma assures Elsa they'll find out together.

Later on that evening, Robin confesses that he knows why the kiss did not work, although he kissed Marian, he's still in love with Regina. Regina then tells Henry to bring her a box and pulls her heart out before her body freezes, indicating it is alive and promises Robin that she will find a cure for his wife. As Emma tries to remember her past encounter with the Snow Queen, Hook confronts her, and Emma explains that after losing Neal, Graham and Walsh, she did not want to lose Hook either. They then share a kiss together.

Later that night, the Snow Queen is approached by Gold, who asks if Emma remembers her. As it turns out, Gold tells her that Emma will remember her eventually, but when he asked if she needs his help, the Snow Queen declined, and stated that when she's ready to make a deal, she'll come to him. Gold says that he eagerly awaits that moment and walks away.

Getting tired of the stalls in the boys' room being occupied, Eric Cartman puts a bow on his hat and claims to be "transginger" (a malapropism of transgender) in order to use the girls' toilets at school. Principal Victoria is unimpressed, but Mr. Garrison advises her to give in to avoid the scandal Cartman is almost certain to cause. The girls however are disgusted at Cartman's presence in their toilets, so the school compromises by installing a very fancy transgender toilet in the janitor's room.

Meanwhile, following the previous episode in which Randy Marsh appeared to impersonate Lorde for the children's party, it is now revealed that Randy actually is Lorde, who does not otherwise exist. Randy is struggling to keep this secret from both his wife Sharon, and from a suspicious ''Spin'' magazine reporter named Brandon Carlile.

To get back at Cartman for his actions, Wendy uses Cartman's private bathroom by claiming to be transgender herself, using the name "Wendyl". Cartman is furious at losing his private room. After angrily confronting Principal Victoria, Cartman takes his anger out on Wendy's boyfriend Stan by saying dating her makes him gay. Stan, now confused, attempts to discuss gender identity with his father, but Randy misunderstands and instead reveals to Stan that he actually is Lorde. He explains that he started using the women's bathroom at work out of convenience, pretending to be a woman, but eventually found the bathroom to be conducive to creating music. He even shows Stan how he uses home studio software to make himself sound like a woman on a song. This leaves Stan even more confused. At the Geological Survey, Randy/Lorde's boss proposes a separate bathroom to appease the other women at the office; however, Randy/Lorde says the bathroom is critical for his/her musical creations.

''E! News'' reports that Lorde is abandoning music and ''Spin'' will reveal the singer's secret. Cartman teases Stan about his gender confusion issues, coining the insult "cissy", based on the term "cisgender". Sharon comforts Randy and indirectly encourages him to continue to express himself as Lorde. Randy completes another, more personal song called "Push (Feel Good on a Wednesday)". Enjoying the music, and realizing the deep personal meaning behind it, the female geologists decide to accept Randy's alias, and Brandon Carlile (the ''Spin'' magazine reporter) deletes his exposé on Lorde. The school decides to get rid of the transgender bathroom and allow anyone to use the bathroom with which they are most comfortable, thus foiling Cartman's plans. For those who are bothered by transgender people, a new designation is made to keep them away from the normal people who do not care: cissy bathrooms. Forced by Butters to use that bathroom, Stan begins to appreciate it and sings a song similar to Lorde's.

The movie opens with Paolo (Picone), the owner of ''Albergo Geraci'', standing on the roof and seeming like he's about to jump off as the firefighters and the local priest try to convince him to come down. A mysterious man (Claudio Gioè) climbs on a balcony and reveals he has to show him something important. He mentions that one of the papers is real and the others are ''what [Paolo's] cousin gave him''.

Meanwhile, Gaetano (Ficarra), Paolo's cousin, rushes to the hotel to save his cousin. He sees the mysterious man, who taunts him, and seems perturbed. He walks in and Paolo tells him off.

They start fighting over the hotel's ownership, which had caused their father's fight thirty years before, after which Paolo and Gaetano hadn't seen each other until the funeral of Paolo's father, Gaetano's uncle.

The local priest starts narrating the events that took place in the last month.

Paolo, a weak and anxious man, is grieving his father's recent death while dealing with his hypochondria, while Gaetano owns an illegal marriage agency, which sets up immigrant women to marry Italian men so they have easy access to Italian and EU citizenships, thanks to the ius sanguinis principle.

He gets all his info about the men's health through his friend, the mysterious man who gave Paolo the real documents at the beginning of the movie, who works at a healthcare blood test centre, and he himself married an East-European woman, Olga (Anna Safroncik), who dislikes him and finds him idiotic, so much that she tells everyone they're only partners at work and is filing for divorce.

He's having trouble with a couple of Russian men, the Karamazov. He promised he'd marry off the woman they're protecting but has not been able to yet. Finally, he's found an old man, who wants to get married in a church because of his mother's wish.

Unfortunately for Paolo, the churches where the wedding and the funeral are taking place are close and through a series of misunderstandings, Gaetano stumbles in Paolo's father's funeral and gets applauded, as everyone thinks he wants to smooth things over in the family. Once he gets to the wedding, the groom leaves in an ambulance because his mother is going to the hospital. The Karamazov go after Gaetano, who pretends to want to help Paolo grieve so he can get away and get to the hotel.

Once he's there, he remembers his childhood when he played his cousin, as their fathers were also good friends. Then, when the fight broke out, Gaetano's father dragged him out and never went back, claiming Paolo's father ''stole'' the hotel from him.

After the funeral, Paolo finds out his father was having problems with the Camorra, which helped pay rent by sending loans that need to be paid back. He plans on selling the hotel, but Gaetano stops him because he finds out if the ever-so-anxious Paolo were to die, he'd leave Gaetano ownership of the hotel, which he still thinks Paolo's father stole from his side of the family.

He takes Paolo to get a blood test and then swaps the real results with the fake ones of an old, diabetic man. It's after being told he only has weeks to live that Paolo becomes a daredevil, tried out bungee-jumping and asks out the woman he loves and, out of euphoria, punches and kicks the Camorra man who's come for the loan. He then runs over to the police station and ordeals a plan to capture the Camorra bosses who loaned him the money.

Naturally, this puts both of them in a tight spot. The Camorra men threaten Gaetano to tell Paolo to pay in three days time, otherwise, they'll kill Gaetano, since they also think Paolo is dying.

Paolo gives Gaetano ownership of the hotel because he thinks he'll make the most of it, but Gaetano tries to sell it to get the money for the Camorra. He changes his mind when he remembers how they used to be best friends, and that's when he gets the call that Paolo is planning to kill himself. It turns out the mysterious man wanted half of the share, but Gaetano had already changed his mind, so the man revealed the scam.

Paolo is understandably upset and refuses to help Gaetano get the money for the Camorra. He leaves and talks to the man they both tried to sell the hotel to and he remembers their childhood together. He goes back and makes up with Gaetano.

However, now they're both in trouble with the Camorra. Gaetano owes them Paolo's money and Paolo ratted them out to the police. They try to meet up with three Camorra bosses and discuss a solution, but it's no use.

So now they both have to take part in the plot to arrest the Camorra boss that Paolo planned with the police, but all goes haywire and they end up getting chased by the Camorra men and the Karamazovs.

Paolo manages to call the police and set up an ambush where the Camorra men get arrested, but Gaetano still has to hold his end of the bargain and marries the Russian woman, since his wife has divorced him and taken control of the illegal marriage agency in the meantime.

In the end, Paolo and Gaetano are friends again and they both run the hotel together and they sit down to play cards as their fathers used to do thirty years ago.

Agatha Raisin, a public relations professional, gives up her life in London in the hope of starting a new life in the seemingly quiet village of Carsley, but soon finds herself a suspect in a murder case when she enters the village's annual quiche-making competition in an attempt to ingratiate herself with the community. She sets out to clear her name and solve the mystery of the quiche of death.

A group of 3 friends try to earn a lot of money quickly. After considering several options, they try to make a short film. They manage to get in contact with the famous actor Ricardo Darín (who plays himself in the movie), who mistook one of them as a relative of one of his friends, and agreed to work with them because of the misunderstanding. The group starts to film, and attempts to drive a car slowly towards Darín while filming; but the untrained driver accelerated instead of stopping the car, and killed him.

The three friends escaped, and all the media was filled with people asking for the whereabouts of Darín. They arranged some portions of the unreleased short film to make it seem as if Darín was leaving the country, which led to a national outrage. They tried to use a similar system to stage a request of a million dollars to the producers of his last film; those producers denounced that Darín had been kidnapped. This led to a complete national crisis, and the US threatened to start bombing Buenos Aires if Darín did not appear alive.

The series revolves around four young friends flying around the Robot Galaxy in a spaceship to different planets to solve various tasks.

Kali is a young vampire who suffers from not being able to live in the light. Living in the shadows and inspiring fear, he lives envious of other children who don’t even dream that he exists. One day, while once again watching young boys play beside the train tracks, he breaks from his isolation and discovers that because of who—and what—he is, he can make a difference in others’ lives.

Richard III has been killed in the Battle of Bosworth, and his devastated niece and lover Elizabeth of York must marry Richard's conqueror Henry Tudor, the new king of England, to finally end the longrunning Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York. As queen, Elizabeth can assure the safety of her mother, the Queen Dowager Elizabeth, and the rest of her family. However, she believes that Henry—who openly despises her for her former alliance with his fallen enemy—may be responsible for the presumed murder of her brother Edward, the former heir. As suggested by his mother, the imperious Margaret Stanley, Henry insists that Elizabeth get pregnant by him before he commits himself to marry her. She does, and they wed. Elizabeth bears him a son, Arthur, but Henry's rule remains less than secure. He imprisons young Edward (called "Teddy"), the son of George, Duke of Clarence and a potential York claimant to the throne, in the Tower of London as public support for the fallen Yorks seems to surge. Henry discovers that Elizabeth's mother has been secretly rallying and financing York supporters in exile, and sends her to Bermondsey Abbey. Elizabeth is torn between her mother's Yorkist cause and her own loyalty to Henry and their son, and is tortured by a secret. Though the Dowager Queen has purposely kept her daughter in the dark about her plots, Elizabeth knows that her mother had sent her younger brother Richard to safety in Flanders, while an impostor went missing and was presumably murdered in the Tower.

Elizabeth and Henry have a daughter, Margaret and a son, Henry. Elizabeth's mother dies. Rebellion builds as a boy claiming to be the lost Richard appears and is acknowledged by Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, the sister of Elizabeth's father, Edward IV. His claim is embraced by James IV of Scotland and other monarchs, and lords supposedly loyal to Henry begin to escape to Scotland. With the forces against him growing and his support waning, a volatile Henry grows increasingly mistrustful of Elizabeth and her extended family. Despite the odds, Henry is ultimately triumphant and takes the pretender Richard prisoner. The charismatic young man renounces his claims and is welcomed at the English court as Perkin Warbeck, kept unharmed until Henry can determine how best to deal with him. Warbeck is clearly the presumed dead York heir, but Elizabeth dare not acknowledge him. Meanwhile, Henry has fallen in love with Warbeck's wife Katherine Huntly, who indulges the king's attentions to keep her husband alive. On his own merits, Warbeck begins to gain allies and influence at court, so when an assassination attempt on Warbeck fails, Henry first imprisons him in the Tower with Teddy, and then arranges for them both to be caught trying to escape. Charged as traitors, Warbeck and Teddy are executed.

Since Henry Tudor's accession to the English throne as Henry VII, Margaret Plantagenet has had to distance herself from her connection to the former royal family to survive. Married to a minor Tudor knight, she now mourns her younger brother, Edward, a potential claimant to the throne who has been executed by Henry on false charges of treason after 14 years imprisoned in the Tower of London. Margaret and her husband, Sir Richard Pole, manage the household of teenage Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry's son and heir by his queen Elizabeth of York, Margaret's Plantagenet first cousin. Margaret makes fast friends with Arthur's new young bride, the Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon, but Arthur's sudden death leaves both women on uncertain ground.

Commanded by Arthur on his deathbed to marry his young brother Henry and someday become queen, Katherine asserts publicly that their marriage was never consummated. With Elizabeth now dead, King Henry considers preserving the alliance with Spain by marrying Katherine himself; his imperious mother Margaret Beaufort believes Katherine is lying, and fiercely opposes this therefore sinful marriage to her son or grandson. Richard's death leaves Margaret with five young children and a dwindling income. The King's Mother offers to relieve her burdens in exchange for a statement contradicting Katherine, but Margaret remains loyal. She is forced to foster her two oldest sons with a cousin, place her third son in Sheen Priory, and take her daughter and infant son with her to live in Syon Abbey.

Prince Henry succeeds his father as Henry VIII, and immediately marries Katherine. Margaret's maternal family fortunes and titles are restored to her, making her Countess of Salisbury in her own right. Her eldest son Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, becomes a friend and confidante of the young king, and her son Reginald is sent to Oxford to become a scholar for the king. Margaret sets to make advantageous marriages for all of her children. Katherine loses several children before giving birth to Princess Mary, to whom Margaret is named governess. The execution for treason of their cousin Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham puts Margaret and her family in danger, but the scandal blows over. Margaret's son Arthur dies. Not having a legitimate male heir, Henry seeks to somehow put Katherine aside and marry the courtier Anne Boleyn; refused any such dispensation by the pope, Henry ultimately declares himself head of the Church of England, proclaims his marriage to Katherine invalid, and Mary illegitimate. Though scandalized, Margaret, her family, and everyone in England is compelled to swear an oath asserting Henry's right to do so; anyone who does not swear is executed.

Thomas Cromwell has begun a systematic dissolution of the monasteries in Henry's name, which causes increasing unrest among the common people. It has become a treasonous crime to disagree with the king, and even after Katherine's death, Margaret and her relations must hide their support for Mary and the Catholic Church. Henry has fathered only a daughter, Elizabeth, with Anne, and the vindictive greed of the Boleyns has left them with few allies. When Henry decides on a new consort, Jane Seymour, Anne is executed for adultery, and Elizabeth is also declared illegitimate. Henry is devastated when his illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy dies, but Jane finally gives him a legitimate son. Meanwhile, in self-imposed exile, Reginald has made an enemy of the king by writing and acting against Henry's split from papal authority. Margaret and her sons distance themselves from Reginald's disloyalty, but Cromwell focuses his attentions on them. Soon Margaret's youngest son Geoffrey has been arrested, and implicates Montagu, their cousins Henry Courtenay, Edward Neville, and others in seditious conversations going back years. Despite a lack of concrete evidence, all but Geoffrey are beheaded. Though protesting her innocence of any wrongdoing, Margaret is stripped of her fortune, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and attainted. Though Cromwell himself is executed for treason in the meantime, after two years in the Tower, Margaret is beheaded.

The movie focuses on the Murphy family, whose daughter was murdered by John Burke. Sentenced to death, the man realises that his daughter will become an orphan. Unexpectedly he asks the Murphys to care for her.

A disheveled woman in a bridal gown is found stumbling along a highway, and is brought to a ranger station. As they wait for the sheriff, the only on-duty ranger asks the woman her name, and what happened to her. The bride refers to herself as Kennedy, and the film flashes back to the previous day, to when Kennedy, her fiancé Ryan, Kennedy's half-sister Hannah, their friend Emily, Ryan's cousin Derrick, and Ryan's friend Chet travelled to a secluded cabin for a Stag and doe party.

As the characters set up at the cabin, it is revealed that almost all of them have a dark secret; Kennedy's unspecified mental illness is flaring up due to wedding-related stress, Ryan is having an affair with Hannah, Derrick intends to extort Kennedy through Ryan in order to get the money he owes a drug dealer, and the caretaker, Bo, is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan. That night, while everyone else is participating in a scavenger hunt, Derrick is murdered with an axe. Upon noticing that Derrick is missing, the others go to look for him, and become separated, with Kennedy and Ryan finding Derrick's corpse, and Emily presumably being murdered after she, Chet, and Hannah encounter Bo, who has the axe that was used to kill Derrick. The remaining partiers regroup at the cabin, and discover that the power has been cut, the vehicle has been sabotaged, and that all of the cellular phones have been thrown into the stove. Chet then goes missing, Bo is found dying from a head wound, and Hannah is knifed by someone wearing a burlap sack as a mask. Kennedy stumbles onto Emily and Chet's bodies, and then Hannah's, which Ryan is with. Thinking Ryan is the killer, Kennedy attacks him, and runs off.

At dawn, Ryan returns to the cabin, where he and Kennedy fight, ending with Kennedy stabbing Ryan to death after Ryan spitefully declares that he never loved her. Kennedy then goes into hysterics, puts on her wedding dress, and runs into Emily, who claims that she had only been injured, and had faked being dead. The two women begin to walk to safety, until Emily lets slip information that only the killer could know. Kennedy confronts Emily, who asserts that she slew Derrick and Hannah, and had intended to murder Ryan, to protect her, with Chet and Bo being collateral damage. Kennedy snaps, and strangles Emily.

The film returns to the intro, and the bride lifts her veil to reveal that she is Emily, who had recovered, bludgeoned Kennedy, and taken her gown. The ranger offers his condolences for all that "Kennedy" has gone through, and when he gives Emily a pen to write down who he should contact for her, she stabs him in the neck with it, and walks out into the woods, leaving her fate unknown.

At an Australian outpost in Douglas Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory, there are seven men, who have served there for 12 months. They are meant to be relieved but then their departure is delayed.

Frieberg is a Jewish man which a power over Norwegian, Sven Nordstrom, which results in Nordstrom doing Frieberg's work. Other men include the Australian Dinny, the camp doctor Dr. Lewis Hilton, a meteorologist called Sietel and the expedition leader, Charles Forrester.

Frieberg is found dead in the snow with a bullet in his back The expedition cannot be relieved for another six months. Forrester took the only rifle and seal gun, locked himself in a separate hut, and let everyone think he did it. The expedition members decide to manhaul over the ice rather than stay in cap, but Forrester stopped that by driving the only tractor into the bay.

Eventually Sven reveals Frieberg's power over him became about because Sven's father commanded a concentration camp, leading to blackmail and murder.

Emperor High School seems to not care anymore about education, letting their students have free rein over nearly everything. The president even had to resort to teachers who came right out of a prison, because the students were so violent. One day, Ganpachi, a self declared teacher arrives, intending to bring order to this high school by introducing fear into the leader of all the gangs, Hinako. Having a hard time standing up against him, she still believes in the power of her lucky kitty gym pants.

As it turns out Ganpachi ran away from a genetic laboratory, which is probably why he has the tenacity and behavior of a cockroach.

A highschool girl working by night as a hotline owner, Rumi "Suuko" Natsumi, receives the call for help of a young man, Ryo Sugiura, who claims to transform into a destructive monster every time he masturbates. Amused and attracted by Ryo, a shy yet good-looking pulp horror aficionado, Rumi seduces him during their date on a diner, which proves him right when he transforms right there. Rumi runs away with him and, upon observing that he turns into a monster whenever sexually aroused, yet is capable to contain it by force of will, decides to try to cure him by habituating him to sexuality. They continue their date into the city's red light district following this plan.

Unbeknownst to them, they are being followed by yakuza woman Maki Nohara, who witnessed Ryo's transformation (and is also a pulp horror fan herself). Maki's twisted sukeban sister Oyuki, who happens to be a classmate of Rumi, gets interested in Ryo by a picture, so she tries to blackmail Rumi into bringing Ryo to her. When Rumi refuses and ignores her in favor of another romantic date with Ryo, Oyuki orders her yakuza gang to kidnap them. Taking the captured couple to an abandoned building, Oyuki leaves Rumi to be ravished by her men while she has her way with Ryo. Meanwhile, mistrustful of Ryo's nature and her sister's intentions, Maki sets out for the place after being warned by her henchman Hayata.

Rumi puts up a fight, but the insecure Ryo is easily raped by Oyuki, which transforms him into a monster greater than ever without possibility to control himself. Arriving there, Maki shoots him with a bazooka, but the monster regenerates and chases them to the building's roof. Before the creature advances to kill them, a tearful Rumi throws him a keepsake of their date while rebuking him, which makes Ryo snap and control his monstrous body. It is then revealed that Ryo was possessed by an alien entity that collects absorbed lifeforms, which was the cause of his transformations all along. When the entity tries to harm Rumi, Ryo finally gathers the strength to expel it from his body and send it to the night sky above.

Some time after, Maki encounters Rumi and the cured Ryo going out, and it is shown that Oyuki is now reluctanctly working in Rumi's company. However, at that moment Maki hears turmoil in their nearby building, which is caused by Oyuki transforming into a monster herself.

The film plot involves a former prostitute, Maddalena Natoli (played by Magnani), who was exiled to the island of her birth by the police. There, she suffers ostracism by the islanders, and she tries to defend the virtue of her younger sister from the advances of a deep-sea diver. ''Vulcano ''runs for about 106 minutes. 

Anita Morgan, a descendant of the famous pirate Henry Morgan, is living a carefree and careless life on an island in the Caribbean, but would much rather be living the same life In Havana. When she learns that her father, in exchange for money, has promised her hand in marriage to one of his swarthy friends, she is more convinced that Havana is the place to be. When an American comes to the island to buy some pearls, she falls in love with him. and when she discovers he is to be tricked out of his money and killed, she makes plans to save him...and go to Havana with him.

The episode opens with the Belchers and Courtney Wheeler and her father, Doug, arguing their case to Mr. Frond in his office. The story unfolds through a series of unreliable narrator flashbacks:

Wagstaff is set to put on its annual musical and is interested in producing an original student production. Gene feels this is the perfect time to pitch his long-simmering musical adaptation of the 1988 action film ''Die Hard.'' Courtney asks Gene if she can be in his musical, having liked it when he shared it with her while they briefly dated. Gene refuses and Courtney instead pitches a musical adaptation of the 1988 romantic-comedy ''Working Girl'' with the heavy assistance of Doug's musical resources. Gene accuses Courtney of intentionally ripping off his idea, calling ''Working Girl'' the "sassy sister-film to ''Die Hard.''" Doug manages to seal the deal by promising to Ms. LaBonz that if they produce ''Working Girl: The Musical,'' he will pull strings to get Carly Simon to attend, since Simon sang the film's theme song "Let the River Run." Ms. LaBonz, being a fan of Carly Simon, makes the decision on the spot.

Louise proposes to Gene that they put on a "guerrilla/protest production" of ''Die Hard: The Musical'' on the same night as Courtney's ''Working Girl: The Musical'' in the school boiler room. They fill the ''Die Hard'' cast with the students who were rejected from ''Working Girl'' (Zeke, Darryl, the Pesto twins, Regular Sized Rudy, and Peter Pescadero) and begin rehearsals. However, Gene is dissatisfied with the others' performances and decides the night before the production to demote the actors to stage crew and perform the entire show himself.

On opening night, Louise covertly distributes fliers to ''Die Hard'' to the audience during the ''Working Girl'' performance, which stars Courtney, Jimmy Pesto, Jr., and Tina in the lead roles of Tess McGill, Jack Trainer, and Katharine Parker. Bob and Linda split up to support both shows, but eventually, the crowd watching ''Working Girl'' thins out, attracted by Louise's fliers. Doug finally figures out what is going on when Jimmy Pesto is caught sneaking out of ''Working Girl'' to see ''Die Hard''. Furious, Doug barges into ''Die Hard'' while Gene is performing a song as Holly Gennaro-McClane and throws one of Courtney's shoulder pads at Gene to stop him, hitting him in the face.

The episode returns to the present, revealing that it is still opening night and the subsequent fight between Linda and Doug, Doug's false promise of Carly Simon, and the chaos of the competing musicals is why they have all been called to Mr. Frond's office. Frond decides that musical theater is "too dangerous" and resolves to cancel both performances. Seeing his classmates' disappointment, Gene relinquishes the stage to Courtney's production, stating that he shouldn't ruin musical theater for everyone just to get what he wants. Courtney confesses that she did ''Working Girl'' precisely to get back at him and wants him to do his production. The two decide to work together and put on a last minute hybrid production called ''Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl''. After being convinced by Louise that he could win an award for resolving the conflict, Mr. Frond agrees to let the production go forward. Ms. LaBonz then slaps Doug in the face for his bait and switch while paraphrasing the song "You're So Vain".

Meanwhile, the new play features the characters from both ''Working Girl'' and ''Die Hard'' in a combined situation (both works are owned by 20th Century Fox, as is ''Bob's Burgers''.). Tess and her fellow secretaries are being held hostage by Hans Gruber (Gene) and his band of terrorists (Louise and Peter) with John McClane (Zeke) working to rescue them. Tess steals Gruber's heart with her ambition, leading to an unscripted kiss between Gene and Courtney that the audience approves of. Katharine and Jack even end up together (as Tina wished they did), but McClane still has to throw Gruber from the tower. The audience loves the new production, especially its finale that brings them to their feet and reduces Doug to tears.

The closing credits feature the cast performing a reprise of the closing number with Carly Simon making a cameo appearance to sing with them.

The story takes place during World War II in which Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, & Louie, are serving as civilian aircraft spotters on the West Coast of the United States. In order to detect the sound of approaching enemy aircraft, Donald uses a listening apparatus consisting of headphones and a large horn amplifier pointed skyward.

One morning at the listening post, Donald accidentally wakes up Huey, Dewey, and Louie who were sleeping nearby. The boys, serving as Donald's gun crew, retaliate by faking an airborne invasion as a prank. They fill a motorized toy plane with gingerbread paratroopers and fly it around the amplifier. Donald awakes, sees the plane, and shoots it down with his home-made anti-aircraft battery. As the plane is falling to earth, the gingerbread men deploy. When Donald sees the parachutes, he panics and hides in the grass while Huey, Dewey, and Louie create artificial combat noises. When Donald finally discovers the ruse, he angrily calls his nephews to attention and relieves them of duty. The nephews tearfully leave as Donald continues to listen for aircraft alone.

Later, Donald hears the sound of a bee buzzing near the amplifier and believes that his nephews are playing a trick on him again. However, when he sees the boys are not up to anything, Donald returns to the listening post and continues to hear the bee, imagining the sound is approaching Japanese forces. Donald quickly reinstates the boys and has them man a large cannon. Donald carefully calculates the position of the sound and relays orders to Huey, Dewey, and Louie in aiming the cannon. After following Donald's instructions, the nephews aim the cannon directly at the acoustic horn where the bee is. Despite their objections, Donald orders them to fire the weapon, which sends the amplified blast into Donald's ears. The nephews laugh while Donald goes into his characteristic temper tantrum while suspended off the ground by his earphones.

In 2022, a young Charlene Roan is forced to watch as her family is killed on Purge night. Eighteen years later, in 2040, Roan is a U.S. Senator running for President and promising to end the Purge nights. Former police sergeant Leo Barnes is now head of security for Roan. The New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) and their candidate, Minister Edwidge Owens, view Roan as a threat and decide to revoke immunity on government officials during the Purge.

Watching the Senator's TV debate are deli owner Joe Dixon, his assistant Marcos, and Emergency Medical Technician Laney Rucker. A pair of teenage girls enter the store and begin stealing, only to be stopped by Joe. The girls mock Joe until Laney steps in, at which point they surrender their stolen goods and leave. A phone call for Joe reveals that his insurance premiums for Purge coverage have been raised beyond his affordability. Meanwhile, more tourists visit the US to join the Purge.

On the night of the Purge, Joe guards his store and is joined by Marcos, and together they manage to repel an attack by the teenage girls. Laney travels the city providing medical care to the wounded. Roan decides to wait out the Purge from her home rather than a secure location in order to secure the vote, and is accompanied by Barnes, Chief Couper, Eric and additional security forces. However, they are betrayed by Couper and Eric, who allow a paramilitary force led by Earl Danzinger to kill the security detail. Barnes escorts the Senator to safety, but is wounded in the process. He detonates a bomb in the house, killing Eric and Chief Couper.

Barnes and Roan attempt to seek shelter but are ambushed by a group of Purgers and taken captive. Before they are executed, Joe and Marcos shoot the gang dead, having seen the pair's plight from the store's rooftop. As they take shelter in Joe's store, the teenage girls return with reinforcements but are rescued by Laney, who kills the girls. The group are then ambushed by Danzinger in a helicopter, and seek refuge in an overpass where Barnes realizes they were tracked by the bullet lodged inside him, and manages to extract it as they are met by the Crips. In exchange for the group rendering medical aid to an injured Crips member, the gang plants the bullet elsewhere to divert the paramilitary team.

The group arrives at an underground anti-Purge hideout run by Dante Bishop. Barnes discovers that Bishop's group intends on assassinating Owens, in an effort to put an end to the Purge. A large group of paramilitary personnel arrive at the hideout looking for Bishop. Barnes and Roan escape back to the streets and meet up with Joe, Marcos and Laney, who had left the hideout earlier to return to Joe's store.

While fleeing the city, the ambulance is hit by Danzinger's team and Roan is pulled out before Barnes can assist. He leads the group and Bishop's team to a fortified cathedral where the NFFA plans to sacrifice her. Before Roan can be killed by the NFFA, the group arrives and cause a massive shootout that kills the congregation except Owens and NFFA loyalist Harmon James, who both escape. Owens is caught by Bishop's group who still intends on killing him but Roan is able to persuade them not to. The remaining paramilitary forces arrive, killing Bishop and his men. Danzinger fights Barnes, wherein the latter gains the upper hand. As Roan's group frees Owen's victims, James emerges from hiding and kills one of the victims but is shot by Joe in a crossfire, who later succumbs to his injuries.

Two months later, Marcos and Laney renovate Joe's store as they watch a television announcement declaring Roan's landslide victory. Another news report states of violent uprisings across the country from NFFA supporters in response to the election results.

A school teacher named Richard moves from New York City to a small town in Texas, and begins work at a new school. Shortly after this, Richard gets outed by the community in this town and is consequently fired, which is legal under state law in Texas. Following this, Richard feels the need to get revenge on the people that were hateful to him, so he returns as Bianca Del Rio, his drag persona, and spreads his hate and causes mayhem to those that were mean to him, who are oblivious to the fact that Del Rio is actually the previously fired Richard.

A Mexican woman deals with an unfaithful lover.

Amos, an unscrupulous local Member of Parliament, wants to become Maua's Governor in the upcoming elections whilst expanding his business interests. He is a key supplier to the exporter of veve, Wadu, a shrewd businessman, who commands a sizeable share of the business. Following a conversation with his backdoor accountant, Amos sees an opportunity to upgrade his working relationship with Wadu and acquire a bigger stake in the business. He shares his plan with his right-hand man Sammy, who has been instrumental in building Amos’ influence, doing the dirty work for him. But Sammy's penchant for such assignments is waning. Still mourning his wife's death despite the passage of a few years, Sammy is struggling to connect as a father with his rebellious, glue-sniffling son Kago.

Amos’ bold plan hits a snag when Wadu brushes off his proposal, driving Amos into taking things by force. He puts in motion a chain of events to drive Wadu out of business. Meanwhile, veve farmers in Maua who get peanuts for their crop want to better their lot by forming a union, led by the elderman Mzee.

Amos ambition has gradually led to a flagging marriage with his wife Esther, though he does not seem to notice this. Esther enjoys the comfort of the wealth he has, but misses out on the affections of a loving man. When she discovers he is sleeping with other women, she does not take it lightly anymore.

Kenzo, an ex-convict, is a bitter man seeking revenge by hunting down the man who killed his father: Amos. He attempts to assassinate Amos at a campaign rally and fails. Undeterred, he seeks the help of fellow ex-convict Julius, and they hatch a multi-pronged plan to attack the business interests of both Wadu and Amos simultaneously, triggering a fatal clash between the two and ultimately destroying Amos.

In a twist of events, Esther's and Kenzo's paths cross and she ends up finding solace in his arms, totally oblivious that she is falling for her husband's grim reaper. Elsewhere, Wadu suspects that his troubles have something to do with a competitor.

Sammy burns down Mzee's farm as a lesson to the unionists. As Mzee's grandson Morris wonders what to do next, his impulsive friend and wannabe documentary filmmaker Clint tries to confront Amos, which only makes matters worse.

Inevitably, things boil over. Kenzo and Julius raid both Amos’ and Wadu's business interests, and Julius pays with his life. Amos hunts down Kenzo as Sammy is torn between obeying his orders and finding his son who has run away from home. Esther struggles between being faithful to the man she married and saving the man she just met. Wadu's patience runs out after he finds out the source of his troubles, and he hires an assassin to finish off Amos.

The ''Sayohime no sōshi'' (A text) and the ''Sayohime'' (K text) have their opening setting relocated to Tsubosaka in Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture), where a wealthy man named or and his wife prayed to the Bodhisattva Kannon of Hase-dera until they were finally blessed with the birth of a daughter, Sayohime. But the rich man died penniless, and Sayohime could not afford to sponsor a memorial service for him except by selling herself. Her buyer was a man named (or "Gonga no Tayū"), who unbeknownst to Sayohime intended to sacrifice her to the snake deity of his village in place of his own daughter. When presented to the snake, Sayohime read from the Lotus sutra, enabling the deity to achieve enlightenment and shed its monstrous form. The deity then returned Sayohime to the care of her mother.

Detective Oh Gu-tak will use any means necessary to catch criminals, and his ambiguous moral line often results in him getting suspended for excessive force. Gu-tak comes up with a plan to form a team of "bad guys" to work on cases and hunt down other criminals, and with the rising number of violent crimes in their district, ambitious police inspector Yoo Mi-young signs off on the arrangement.

Gu-tak releases three convicts from jail to form his team: Lee Jung-moon is the youngest member of Mensa with a genius IQ of 165 and doctorate degrees in math and philosophy, but behind his boyish facade is a psychopath serial killer; Park Woong-Cheol is a mob boss who crushed his way to the top of the gangster chain in 25 days, and still remains top dog in prison; and Jung Tae-soo was once a hired hit man who never made a single mistake, but suddenly confessed and turned himself in one day.

The film is set in Vietnam in 1989, fourteen years after the end of the war. Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), a country "that she wouldn't be able to show you on a map". With a few dollars, her own hard-won courage, she is about embark on a life calling. The film explores her tough upbringing in Dublin and her early adult life in the UK. It is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference.

In the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester during the 1950s, Anglican vicar and former Scots Guards officer Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently his successor Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), work with the overworked Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) to forge an unlikely partnership in solving crimes. Keating's gruff, methodical approach to policing complements Chambers' more intuitive techniques of coaxing information from witnesses and suspects. Some sub-plots deal with Leonard Finch's homosexuality before decriminalisation of male homosexual behaviour in England and Wales (1967).

Cassie and David Whitman are living happy and peaceful life, raising together a teenage son; Kevin. The day after their 20th wedding anniversary, David has a business travel. The plane he flies with crashes. Everybody but David dies, meanwhile he goes into the coma. The woman sitting next to him was checked in under the same last name, which makes the insurance company believe she was his wife. Trying to explain this, Cassie discovers a shocking truth of David's double life, the fruit of which is a pre-teenage daughter.

The film begins in 1816, when a young Kurmanjan Datka is brought to a fortune teller who fortells that she will one day be worth ten sons.

The stories follows on directly from Warrior of Scorpio with Dray Prescot being abandoned through treachery in the hostile territories of Turismond. He travels on foot and manages to rescue a young local girl from the hands of a savage tribe. He successfully crosses the Owlarh Wate and eventually reaches the Klackadrin, a natural barrier between the hostile territories and the coastal lands. The Klackadrin is a barrier of poisonous gases and Prescot is taken prisoner by the Phokaym, a lizard-like race, when he tries to cross. He is prepared to be sacrificed in a pit of lizard predators. At this stage the story stops with the explanation that the tapes Dray Prescot recorded in Africa finish here.

The story resumes, now with new tapes sent from South America. Prescot has reached the east coast of Turismond and is recovering in the city of Pa Mejab, a colony of the Tomboram, a nation of the island of Pandahem, a fierce rival of Vallia. Prescot is initially quite weak from his journey through the Klackadrin but recovers and joins a trade caravan as a guard. The caravan is warned by an injured man, Inch of Ng'groga, of an impending attack. Like Seg Segutorio in Warrior of Scorpio, Inch of Ng'groga would become one of Prescots lifelong friends. Like Segutorio, Inch hailed from the continent of Loh, from the southeastern part of it in his case. Prescot and the other guards fought off the attack on the caravan successfully, reached the trading outpost of Pa Weinob and eventually returned to Pa Mejab.

During his time in Pa Mejab, Prescot first learns of the politics and divides of Pandahem and their nation states. Prescot learns that Pa Mejab is a colonial town of the Kingdom of Tomboram, located in the north east of Pandahem and in bitter feud with Menaham, another Pandahemian nation. He also makes the acquaintance of Tilda and her son Pando, who work at the inn he is staying at. When the regular convoy of trade ships arrive at the port, Prescot decides to leave on board one of these ships. He eventually learns that young Pando is the heir to the Kov of Bormark, brother of the King of Tomboram, and that Pando's late father was disinheritated when he married below his status, but that Pando's grandfather, on his death bed, reinstated his son. Prescot talks Tilda into claiming Pando's inheritance and she, in turn, talks Precot into helping them to claim it.

Prescot, Inch, Tilda, and Pando set out on a merchant ship to Pandahem. After a stop-over in the very north of Loh, the ship is caught in a storm and then attackt by pirate swordships. The merchant ship strands on a beach on an island and Prescot, his companions, and most of the crew escape after a short fight. They eventually manage to find passage on another merchant ship and reach Pomdermam, the capital of Tomboram. Prescot thereby visits the island of Pandahem for the first time.

Prescot, with the help of Inch, takes the current Kov of Bormark captive and forces him to confess to the attempted murder of Tilda and Pando he organised in front of King Nemo. Pando is accepted as the new kov by the king, but the later takes offence to the way he was treated by Prescot in the process and has him kidnapped and sent to the galleys as a galley slave. Prescot becomes a rower on one of the Kings swordships, which is eventually captured through a trick by the female pirate Viridian. The slaves are offered to join the pirates and accept. Prescot rises through the ranks, finding himself being placed in charge of the ships artillery. He challenges Viridian on occasion and almost supplants her as leader but holds back as he does not wish to lead the pirates. He is however eventually placed in command of one of the ships. When the pirates liberate the slaves of a swordship of Menaham, Prescot is reunited with Inch who was sent to the galleys for the same reasons as Dray Prescot.

When Prescot receives news from Inch that Menaham has almost overrun Tomobram and that Pando and Tilda are in hiding, he decides to mobilise the pirates against Menaham. The pirate fleet defeats an armada of Menaham and then sails to Pomdermam to save the city just in time before it falls. Prescot rescues Pando, but then, once more in the moment of triumph, is taken away by the Star Lords.

Two baby boys, born more or less at the same time, were switched soon after they had been born. When their families accidentally discover it eighteen months later, they start having troubles to decide who their real children are – the one they have been raising or the one they gave birth to.

As the human race awaits the year 2101, Russian criminals break into a science facility and steal a time machine. They end up in the 1st century AD, in the Holy Land, becoming not only a part of the unknown years of Jesus, but a part of the Second Coming and the End Time.

The player assumes the role of Jeremy Fitzgerald, a new security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (though identically named, this is a different location from the first game). An unnamed employee (believed to be Phone Guy from the previous game, as they sound alike) calls Jeremy on the office phone each night to provide advice and information about the restaurant's backstory. He explains that the "new and improved" restaurant has introduced new animatronics, which have special facial recognition software and access to a criminal database to protect the children from potential harm.Scott Cawthon (November 11, 2014). ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2''. Level/area: Night 1. Despite these features, the robots were not programmed with a proper night mode; when they detect silence, their programming tells them they are in the wrong room and they seek out the nearest source of noise to find people to entertain, which happens to be Jeremy's office. The voice from the phone also explains that 'older' animatronics reside in the restaurant, but as the restaurant company opted to redesign the characters, they are kept for spare parts in a decrepit form.

As the game progresses, the voice mentions rumors surrounding the restaurant, and later reveals it to be the subject of a police investigation. Atari-styled minigames provide insight into the restaurant's troubled past, implying that it was the site of the murder of multiple children by a nameless individual represented by a purple figure. On the game's fifth night, Jeremy is informed by the voice on the phone that the restaurant has been put on lockdown due to an unspecified event, to make sure no employees, present or former, can enter or leave.Scott Cawthon (November 11, 2014). ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2''. Level/area: Night 5. He also mentions that the restaurant's daytime security has a vacancy, and Jeremy may be promoted to it. Jeremy receives a check at the end of the fifth night, dated November 1987, revealing that the game is a prequel to the first installment.

On the sixth night, the voice on the phone informs Jeremy that the restaurant has been shut down for undisclosed reasons, albeit mentioning someone's use of a "spare yellow suit" and malfunction of the restaurant's animatronics.Scott Cawthon. ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2.'' Night 6. The voice mentions that he plans to take over for Jeremy as the restaurant's nighttime security guard when it reopens, and that Jeremy will work a daytime shift for a birthday party the following day. A newspaper is shown upon the night’s completion that announces the restaurant's closure, stating that the new redesigned animatronics will be scrapped, but their older counterparts will be saved for when the restaurant reopens, leading to the events of the first game.

On the seventh "custom night", the player acts as a new character named Fritz Smith. Upon completing this night, Fritz is fired for tampering with the animatronics and odor.

Parisian cabaret performer Lilli de Rousseau (Billie Dove), performing as Jean d'Arc on stage, is asked to leave the country by several diplomats as she is a distraction to high-ranking officers. She is set up with a villa in Italy, and Captain Tonnino (Luis Alberni) as her guardian. Lilli is also smitten by Lieutenant Roger Craig (Chester Morris) who has a reputation as a "Don Juan". She keeps her identity a secret from Roger, and begins to woo him, but remains elusive.

When her understudy in Paris begins getting accolades, Lilli presses Roger to take her there for a drink at the Ritz, although she has been forbidden to return. Roger risks arrest and his military career to fly her and his mechanic, Terry (Matt Moore), to Paris. After a night on the town, Roger is afraid he will be picked up by the MPs, as he is absent without leave.

Terry is arrested for disorderly conduct and impersonating an officer, but is released and learns that the MPS will also drop charges against Roger. Lilli performs again as Jean d'Arc and tells Roger to join her at the theater. After she receives an ovation, she admits she promised to return to Italy in exchange for keeping Roger out of jail, and accepts Roger's marriage proposal.

Set in East Kilbride in 1992, Broken Record tells the tale of Frasier & Tam who whilst working for a removal company stumble upon an trunk in a locked cupboard of an empty flat. The pair prise open the trunk to find it full to the brim of old gramophone records leading them to believe they have just stumbled upon a secret fortune. The lucky find is suddenly plunged into jeopardy when Jim, an on site painter, spots the trunk and wants in on the action. Frasier and Tam have no choice but to include Jim in on the deal but they quickly hatch a plan to steal the records for themselves.

Later that evening, the pair fake a break in at the house they were working in and steal the trunk. The following day, Frasier sets off to a local record shop to see what kind of price he can get for the records. However, after inspecting just a handful of records, the record shop owner informs Frasier that he doesn't deal with gramophone records and suggests he contacts Cecil Hardcastle who is a collector and an expert in the field. Frasier visits Mr Hardcastle and shows him the trunk of records in the boot of his car. After examining the record, Cecil offers to buy a handful of the records but Frasier is horrified to find out that each record only has a value of two pence each.

Frasier calls round to Tam's house to deliver the news and finds him in a top hat boasting about how he is going to the Ritz and that he has booked a holiday to Benidorm. Tam asks for his share of the money only to be presented with a handful of change. Questioning where the rest of the money is, Frasier explains that the records are worthless and that their chances of becoming millionaires are dead. Leaving Tam in a state of frustration, Frasier announces on his way out that he intends to throw the records in the bin.

The final scene shows a couple of bin men stumbling upon the trunk in a bin shed. After a quick inspection of the records one of the bin men says "These must be worth a fortune."

A mysterious serial killer is killing female students on and off a college campus in Oklahoma, and the only clues are gold medallions left by the bodies. A grizzled police detective, Ron, sets out to find the killer but the hunter becomes the hunted when he sees that no one around him can be trusted, not even his daughter. The detective is unaware that all the killings lead to a secret society that worships the god "Canis" and offer human sacrifices.

Jay (Ed O'Neill) wants to attend a dog's birthday party (a Bark Mitzvah) with Stella (Brigitte) and he also takes Gloria (Sofía Vergara) with him, while Manny (Rico Rodriguez) stays home to baby-sit Joe (Pierce Wallace). Gloria, who gets along with dogs very poorly, tells Jay that she is unable to stay any longer at the party and leaves. Back at home, Manny convinces her that she has to go back, in order to show Jay that she cares about what he loves, and because Jay has agreed to accompany her to the Colombian picnic with her friends the following day. When Jay sees Gloria coming back, he gets mad at Manny and tells him that his plan was for Gloria to leave so he could use it as an excuse to skip the picnic. The following day, when Gloria and Jay get ready to leave, Jay thinks that Manny convinced Gloria to go back on purpose so he could stay home alone and finally watch a movie he wanted to see, however Manny had no intention of manipulating events as Jay now suspects he did.

Alex (Ariel Winter) tells everyone that she has a boyfriend, Alec (John Karna), and while Phil (Ty Burrell) is happy with the news, Claire (Julie Bowen) and Haley (Sarah Hyland) are convinced that Alex is lying and the boyfriend is imaginary. To prove them wrong, Phil says he will ask Alex to invite her boyfriend to the house. When Alex says she is unable do so because Alec broke up with her and shortly afterwards says she found a new boyfriend, Phil starts to believe that Claire and Haley might be right. Eventually the new boyfriend (Carlito Olivero) arrives to pick Alex up for a date and they know that she was telling the truth.

Brenda (Kristen Johnston), a co-worker of Mitch's (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) gets a divorce and wants someone to talk to. Mitch tries to avoid her, especially when she asks him to stay at his and Cameron's (Eric Stonestreet) place for the night, but Cameron convinces him to be kind now that Brenda needs him, and to let her stay with them overnight. Back at home, the three of them seem to get along well, until Brenda moves to sit on their new white couch while drinking wine and later on wants to sleep on it while wearing a green beauty mask on her face. Mitch and Cameron let her sleep on their bed while they sleep on the living room floor, but Brenda ends up sleeping on the couch anyway.

Gloria (Sofía Vergara) hires a Spanish tutor, Diego (Nicholas Gonzalez), for Manny (Rico Rodriguez) despite his wish to learn French instead of Spanish. Jay (Ed O'Neill) is indifferent about which language Manny needs to learn until the moment he notices that Diego is a good-looking man and gets jealous seeing Diego talking to Gloria in Spanish not knowing what they say. Jay signs a permission slip for Manny to switch to French class and fires Diego. When Gloria finds out, she is upset and explains that she is tired of not being able to speak her native language in the house to other people. Jay ends up hiring Diego again but this time for himself, delighting Gloria.

Phil (Ty Burrell) notices that Alex (Ariel Winter) is not sleeping enough because of a test she has while Claire (Julie Bowen) tells him not to and that they should worry about Haley (Sarah Hyland), who seems to be doing nothing with her life. Phil tries to convince Claire that Haley is just trying to find herself and there is no need to worry about her. Andy (Adam DeVine) frequently visits to the house to hang out with Haley, but no one knows what they are doing. Claire asks about it, leading Haley to tell her that she and Andy are having sex to avoid the conversation. The truth is that the two of them are helping each other out with job interviews, jobs that both manage to get at the end of the episode; Andy as Phil's assistant and Haley as assistant of Gavin Sinclair (Michael Urie), a famous celebrity stylist.

Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) meet a local TV reporter, Anne Gibbs (Heather Mazur), at a dinner party, and Mitch tries to get a story at her channel about his new case on human rights. Anne, though, shows interest in Cam as an openly gay high school football coach and prefers to make a story about him. Mitch tries to support Cam by agreeing to make pancakes breakfast at school, but he finally takes a stand when Cam seems not to be paying attention to what he has been trying to tell him all along. Cam realizes his mistake and goes to court to watch Mitch while working on his case, and at the final interview with Anne, he talks about Mitch and the importance of his work instead of his team's win.

This synopsis is based on the BBC Radio adaptation.

The drama's opening setting is in a cafeteria filled with longshoremen who are waiting to hear if the man in a beaver cap who is getting instructions over the phone will be putting together a ‘gang’ or team of men for the day’s work. The man in the beaver cap is Barney. He gets instruction to handle the cargo on Pier 71 and starts to put together his gang. Phil hands out the brass counters which entitle each man to a day’s work and pay. When he gets to the last counter, he tosses it in the air so that Charlie and another man have to scrap to get possession of it. Charlie loses out. Mr. Hinkle puts pressure on Phil who then puts pressure on the gang bosses Barney and Marty to finish their work as quickly as possible in order to turn a profit. Barney and Old Dominic are driving the winch. Old Dominic uses the winch wisely, but Rocky takes over, and despite Barney’s efforts to stop him, Rocky works the winch faster and faster, until there is a huge crash. There is a tangle of steel. Beneath the wreckage is Barney’s lifeless body. Charlie asks for his job. Marty is distraught.

At Barney’s funeral, Marty passes around the beaver cap for donations. He lays the cap full of money in Barney’s widow lap. Meanwhile, Louie and Farragut are at the union headquarters. Rocky overhears their conversation. Louie has recently returned from a six-week vacation to Florida. He has missed Barney’s funeral to attend his daughter’s graduation. He takes cash from the union safe. Rocky asks Louie to talk to the ship-owners, to get them to stop putting profits ahead of safety. Louie arrives at the funeral, contributing cash to the beaver cap. He tries to serve as a pallbearer but Marty, filled with indignation and grief does not allow him to touch Barney’s casket. In private, Therese, Marty’s wife reprimands him for his behavior which could jeopardize his chances of future work. Piggy praises him and asks him to take Barney’s place as a leader. Marty leaves, determined to find other work away from the docks. Therese reminds him of the three children they must provide for.

Marty is working in a factory but the work is dull, he does not have a sympathetic foreman, and he misses the docks. He leaves the job and avoids his wife by spending time in the public park. Marty finds Piggy Dolan at Rocky’s place. Rocky is running a book and Piggy has taken up betting on horses because he can only find work one day a week at the docks. Rocky advises Marty to agitate the longshoremen and in return he will support him. Rocky wants to sever links with the mob, to regain a good name, and turn legitimate businessman. However, Marty does not believe it is possible and instead asks Rocky to give him work as a bookie.

Marty returns to his tenement home. It is his eldest daughter Irene’s birthday. Marty admits to Therese that he has become a bookie. Therese worries that he could be arrested. Irene overhears. Later, they eat their shop-bought birthday cake and Irene is given a fountain pen. She begins to cry, afraid that Marty may be arrested. He assures her he will not be. She makes a birthday wish for a couch.

Marty hears that Louie is selling union membership books to strangers for seventy-five dollars apiece, meaning that the local union members cannot get any work. He confronts Louie who warns him to mind his own business. Consequently, Marty is arrested by the police numerous times and gets a criminal record. Irene witnesses his latest arrest. Marty is ashamed. He goes to Piggy, whose home is practically bare and whose wife has left him with five small children to care for. Marty finds that in a back room of Piggy’s house the longshoremen are holding a meeting to determine how to overthrow Louie. Marty witnesses how timid the men are and he reprimands them for it. One of the longshoremen reverses the situation on Marty, reprimanding him for not leading the men in a revolt against Louie. Marty is disturbed by this. Tensions rise at the dockyard. The men refuse to continue work until they are paid. Louie threatens to cancel the union membership of any worker who refuses to work. Marty urges the workers to remain united and resolute. To placate the workers, Farragut schedules a union meeting.

Tensions rise at the dockyard. The men refuse to continue work until they are paid. Louie threatens to cancel the union membership of any worker who refuses to work. Marty urges the workers to remain united and resolute. Incensed when his couch and television are repossessed, Marty takes action, nominating himself for local union leader. Marty speaks to the people, promising to limit the sling load on the winches so that accidents like the one which killed Barney cannot happen again. The workers are suspicious that once he is president he will no longer care about longshoremen, but Marty shows them that they are responsible for the type of leader they have, ‘You know why we got no democracy in this here union? Because you guys do not care. How many of yous [sic] come to our meeting? Six? Seven? There’s nearly seven hundred in this here local.’

Louie, sensing that Marty may have a chance of winning the election, asks Rocky to stand for president in order to split the vote. Rocky will only do it if Louie gives him a pier. Louie refuses. Rocky offers to give Marty and followers a team of men to protect them from Louie’s men, but Marty refuses because he does not want his campaign to be sullied by gangsters. Rocky leaves angrily and informs Louie that Marty has money to publish a leaflet. He then double-crosses Louie, going to Marty’s apartment, and informing him that two of Louie’s men are about to rob him. They attack the two men. Louie declares war.

Farragut tells Dark Eyes to watch out for automobiles because the war is on. He wants Marty to know that Farragut gave him the tip. A car drives at Marty and his followers, injuring Piggy. Therese implores Marty to allow Rocky to provide him with protection. Enzo is out campaigning for Marty, telling them that longshoreman work is only less dangerous than lumberjack work. Rocky’s men stop workers from asking Enzo any questions. Marty realizes that Rocky’s men are hindering them from gaining the trust of the workers. He shows Marty the pier beneath which the last clean union candidate’s body was found. Enzo tells Marty that he must separate himself from Rocky by making a public speech in which he denounces Rocky as a gangster. If Rocky should start, Enzo advises open street warfare. Enzo makes the speech, Rocky spits in his face, and the workers desert him. Marty goes to Rocky’s place and calls him a punk to his face. He advises Rocky to apologize to Enzo if he wants a good name in the neighborhood. He shakes Enzo’s hand and the people are amazed.

The polling is closing. Louie tells Farragut to stuff the ballot box with phony votes because he fears Marty’s popularity. Farragut removes the ballot box to a private room. Marty’s men protest, but Farragut delays them by asking them to find where in the union bylaws it says that the counting of the votes must be public. Farragut starts counting the ballots, but with Marty and his men about to produce the bylaw that says they can watch the vote, Louie quickly stuffs the box. Marty receives 120 votes and Louie receives 631 votes. Marty insists on seeing the ballots, but the police escort Marty and his men out.

Marty and the men wait until late that night and then install themselves in the union hall. They barricade themselves in. Hefferman warns Louie to clear them out. Farragut warns him to give the men the ballots. He reasons that workers these days know their rights, they fought in the Great War, and they will achieve democracy. Farragut double-crosses Louie, giving Sal the combination number to the safe in which the ballot box is locked to give to Marty. Louie has the building surrounded with his hoodlums, ready to attack Marty and his men. The safe is opened and Old Dominic counts the ballots. They realize that Marty received 164 votes, but that it was still not enough for him to have won. Marty thinks at first that Louie must have thrown away most of votes which he got. However, the men realize that that did not happen. They realize that even some of the men are Marty’s followers did not vote for him because they lost faith in him. Louie offers to make Marty delegate. Marty is on the point of accepting, but Old Dominic gives him five dollars, something he has never done before, in order for Marty to go on campaigning, saying that Marty has taught him what America means. Marty leaves the union hall, determined to go on, to fight people like Louie, his smile widening, and the people watching him as he goes forward.

As described in a film magazine review, after the United States declares war on Germany in 1917, American citizens within Germany like Marie Lohr (Bara), who was visiting her uncle Professor Lohr (Elkas) in Strassburg, hastily attempt to obtain passports and leave the county. However, Major von Rohn (Nye), a powerful officer in the German Army, desires her as a companion, noting that German officers in war time are permitted to have any woman that they fancy. Marie's American aviator sweetheart, Robert Stedman (Ward), has reached Switzerland, and Marie attempts to keep Von Rohn at a respectful distance. She escapes one hazardous situation when Stedman, during a mission, happens to drop a bomb on a house and apparently kills the German officer. Marie is then able to take, from a female German spy who was also in the house and crushed under the wreckage, passports and secret documents that instruct that the spy be taken through the French lines. Impersonating the spy, Marie is able to get to the German border, where she is detained by German soldiers who look to her to relieve their loneliness. Her companion from her journey is able to reach Robert, who then jumps into an airplane to rescue Marie. Marie holds off the soldiers and her identity is safe until von Rohn, recovered from his injuries, shows up at the woman's apartment where Marie is being held and where Robert is hidden in a closet. Marie stabs and kills Voh Rohn, and the two patriots escape after Robert dons the officer's uniform.

Birdie, the wife of a country roadside café owner, wants to leave the cafe and start a new life with Cal.

Some weeks prior to the beginning of the story, an unexplained phenomenon begins worldwide: whenever a person lies, water falls on that person from nowhere. Phrasing a potential lie as a question does not cause water to fall, while stating an untruth that one believes to be true does. Conversely, profound or universal truths can actually remove moisture from the air.

In the midst of this phenomenon, Matt decides to come out to his traditional Chinese family after his partner, Gus, refuses to marry him until he does.

Ex-CIA agent and ex-mercenary Francis Munch (Rockwell) kills those who try to hire him. On his way from such a kill, a team including Espinoza (Da Silva) tries to kill Munch; his ex-partner and trainer, Ed Hopper (Roth), reconsiders his involvement immediately beforehand, and remains only to listen and confirm his assessment of the situation.

Martha McKay (Kendrick) is asked out by Munch and they are smitten. Munch dodges an assassination attempt by Espinoza, and they spend the night chastely. The next evening, they meet for dinner, where Munch reluctantly kills Espinoza when attacked. Over hot chocolate, he shows Martha his belief that underlying all physical objects lies a current that can be precognitively anticipated, and both of them have it. Munch throws a kitchen knife high in the air and catches it safely as it falls between them. Martha freaks out until he throws a knife at her, which she catches by the blade without being cut. They then have an intimate night.

"Von" Cartigan (Ransone) is the sole survivor of a prior spree in which Munch killed the Pirrello heroin syndicate, and, as Munch shoots those who hire him, with his partner Johnny Moon (Eklund) tries to set up his brother Richard (Mount) to be killed. Instead, a middleman is sent who Munch kills in front of Martha, frightening her enough to ask him to give her some space. Richard sends Moon, Von, and 10 other hitmen to Martha's, including a gunman named Steve (RZA).

Hopper meets Martha at her apartment, but is subdued by Francis, his former partner. Steve gets Munch with buckshot. From cover, Munch shoots one of Von's hired men dead, talks another into leaving, and kneecaps the remainder. Having previously shown Von mercy at the Pirrello job, and, getting ready to kill Von, he's again hit by Steve (whom he respects for his skills) with a bat while Moon grabs Martha. Hopper arrives and shoots the kneecapped men dead, but while his back is turned, Francis escapes.

Richard enlists Von and Johnny to stay and defend their house, defeating their plans to rule the family as sole survivors; in frustration, they abuse Martha in response to her mockery. After kicking her against a wall, she says she will kill them if Munch doesn't, as she now feels "motivated." Outside, Munch takes Steve by surprise; chatting, Steve tells him how many are inside, and they share gummy bears. Munch distracts Von and Richard's bodyguards and shoots them when threatened, but declines to shoot either Von or Richard themselves. In frustration, Von begins monologuing about his desire to kill his brother. When Munch leaves, both leap for the gun, but Von successfully kills Richard. In another room, Richard's consigliere Bruce (Kaine) confronts Munch but is disarmed. Bruce mistakenly arms a grenade, and Munch helps him disarm it without them both dying.

Munch rescues and begins to escape with Martha, but is shot with beanbag ammunition by Hopper. Moon grabs Martha and tells her he puts more dangerous people off their game by killing their weaker loved ones. Her precognitive combat abilities awaken, and she dodges Moon's attacks, then strikes him with his own knife and kills him with a statue. While escaping, she disarms and shoots Von with his own gun.

Hopper and Munch confront each other, Hopper handcuffs himself to Munch, intending to "re-program" Munch into a killer. Munch shoots the handcuffs off. Before Hopper can shoot Munch in the back, Steve shoots Hopper dead, and is ecstatic to learn of Hopper's $5 million bounty. Munch meets Martha at the entrance, notes her dilated pupils, and asks Steve to help him get them to the hospital.

Two months later, two military-style teams are pursuing Munch and Martha as they visit different countries for Martha's paleological interests; Munch shows a sign to a sniper asking "where's the girl?" as the scene cuts to Martha, who has snuck up to shoot the sniper.

In the first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income. Being called to the investigator, he thoroughly believes that this will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife and brother-in-law. Anna Vasilyevna, who, in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of property urgently sell everything that was acquired by "back-breaking" labor. In addition, Anna V. hastily divorces with the main character and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns in a good mood back home.

The following short story of the film shows the intricacies of extramarital relations. Heading into the weekend supposedly to work, but in reality to his mistress, and sometimes hard to imagine that her husband's mistress could be lover lover friend, neighbor, friend and lover in the communal - a lover of your own wife. In the end, all six characters is purely coincidental, with interesting circumstances intersect together and gathered around the table, trying to find a way out of this situation, but in the end did not need and did not come. In any case, such a conclusion can be drawn from rolling in extreme caricature dispute sixes at the table.

In 1969, Lydia and Abbie are best friends at an English girls' school. Lydia, the neglected daughter of an agoraphobic mother, becomes fixated on Abbie, who has begun to explore her sexuality. After having sex with Lydia's brother Kenneth in an attempt to abort her pregnancy by another boy, Abbie begins to suffer from fainting spells. She faints and goes into convulsions after a stint in detention with Lydia and dies in the process. Following Abbie's burial, Lydia begins suffering as well from fainting spells, and it soon becomes an epidemic, with numerous girls and a young teacher in the school spontaneously passing out for no more than a few seconds. Lydia becomes convinced that the administration must take action, much to the chagrin of the school principal.

When an assembly becomes disrupted by a mass fainting episode, the school is temporarily shut down and all affected students are hospitalised and psychoanalysed. When no cause for the spells is discovered, the school is reopened and Lydia is expelled. That same night, the virginal Lydia has sex with her brother Kenneth, with whom she has developed an incestuous attraction after Abbie's death. Their mother, Eileen, catches them, however, and, armed with a pair of scissors, angrily forces Kenneth out of the house before launching into a tirade against her daughter, in which she brands Lydia dangerous and that she ought to be locked up. Eileen then reveals that Lydia and Kenneth are only half-siblings, in that Lydia was the product of her rape by a stranger.

Upon learning this, Lydia runs out of the house and Eileen follows her outside, despite having never ventured outside in over 16 years. Searching for Lydia, Eileen is overcome with flashbacks of her own sexual assault. She eventually locates Lydia, who has climbed to the top of a tree in a breakdown over Abbie's death. Eileen pleads with Lydia to come down, but she laughs, challenging her mother's lack of maternal affection, before losing her footing and falling from the tree into a lake.

Distraught, Eileen ventures into the water, finds Lydia's seemingly drowned body, and cradles her apparently dead daughter, realising that her emotional frigidity had done more harm to her daughter than she knew. Lydia unexpectedly regains consciousness, and the film ends with the two women in a crying embrace.

In 1990, the naval submarine accidentally enters a portal in the Bermuda Triangle and disappears. Captain Alan Deakins, the submarine's commander, resurfaces several years later claiming to have traveled into the future. The navy refuses to believe him and he is confined to a mental institution. A paranormal research organization headed by Lance McCarty (Jack Coleman) bankrolls an expedition to recreate the circumstances of the accident in order to discover the truth. A government official, Charles Braddock (Bryan Cranston) authorizes Deakins' breakout from a mental institution in order to participate in the expedition. Before leaving, Deakins visits his heartbroken wife, Jeannie (Kimberly Stevens) who, overjoyed to rediscover he is alive, tries to convince him not to leave.

The expedition, including Deakins, McCarty, McCarty's assistant Marjorie (Linda Hoffman), and military men Schmidt (Jay Acovone), Cole (Larry Poindexter), and Hawks (Richard Cummings), leaves the next morning. The submarine successfully enters the portal, and after crossing is attacked and boarded by a military vessel. The leader of the force, Koda (Richard Tyson) claims to recognize Deakins, and captures the crew. In lockup, Deakins meets a man, Spitz (Chick Vennera) who tells them that they are in a post-apocalyptic year 2077, in which the U.S. is ruled by a dictatorship led by Charles Braddock. Deakins' son, John (also played by Fahey), is the leader of the rebellion. A guard kills Schmidt for talking back and sexually assaults Marjorie. Deakins kills him after finding out.

Spitz breaks Deakins, Marjorie, and Hawks out of prison. They travel to the rebels' base and meet Alan's son John. John explains that Braddock is attempting to create an army of cyborgs who can alter their appearance to look like humans. John enlists their assistance in an assault on Braddock's base to recover the computer chip which is key to the cyborgs' creation. Braddock orders the elder Deakins killed in order to alter the timeline so that John would never be born.

They infiltrate the base, recover the chip, and rescue Lance. John and Cole are believed to have been killed in the escape. However, John reappears to rescue them and they board a submarine in order to cross back into the past. They are pursued by Koda, but destroy his submarine and escape back to 1997. Soon, Spitz notices odd behavior by John, and discovers that he is actually a cyborg clone, who is then destroyed by Alan.

Deakins returns home to Jeannie, who is pregnant (presumably, with John). Hawks is revealed to be a traitor, and meets covertly with Braddock to give him the cyborg chip. Braddock then orders Hawks to kill Deakins to prevent the future rebellion. Lance attempts to assassinate Braddock in his office, but after shooting him, discovers that he is a cyborg clone. The real Braddock emerges with a gun to Lance's head. After a brief struggle, Lance finally kills Braddock. Hawks invades Deakins' home, and in the ensuing fight, Jeannie and Hawks are killed.

With Braddock's death, the heroes are assumed to have prevented the impending apocalypse. In an interrogation room, Spitz explains everything to skeptical government officials. However, after Spitz confirms Jeannie's death (thus John's nonexistence), they murder Spitz. The officials are actually working for a surviving cyborg clone of Charles Braddock. However, Spitz did realize shortly after Jeanette’s death that Marjorie is the one that would eventually give birth to John, thus ensuring the future rebellion.

When Captain Sorrell returns home from the war, his wife Dora leaves him for another man. Despite considerable hardship, the captain devotes his life to bringing up his young son Kit, who becomes the object of his devotion. Eventually, the boy grows up to have a successful career as a doctor, and the captain lives long enough to see him happily married.

Jay (Chris Attoh), a casanova, to the surprise of his friends, proposes to his girlfriend, Kimora (Yvonne Nelson). Jay's friend, Raymond (Kweku Elliot) a casanova who's now also married to one of Kimora's friends, Paula (Nadia Buari), is indifferent. Andy (Eddie Watson), the "baddest" of the trio, thinks Jay is about to get into a lifetime imprisonment.

One year after the marriage, Jay is having an affair with Judith (Jane Awindor), and constantly lies to Kimora. Jay eventually breaks up with her, because she's become too possessive of him; on his way out of her apartment, Jay bumps into Raymond, who's also coming out of a mistress' apartment, thereby discovering each other's secrets. Apparently, Paula, a lawyer, is always busy with work and never finds time for Raymond, while Kimora has also refused to give Jay a blowjob. Paula introduces Raymond to Yolanda (Itz Tiffany), her old friend, and Raymond starts an affair with her as well.

Vida (Tana Adelana), a friend of Kimora and Paula, is married to Ranesh (Kofi Adjorlolo), a 59-year-old man who leaves her very unsatisfied in bed. She meets her new neighbor Andy, and eventually confesses that she wants to have sex with him, leading to them having an affair.

Judith turns out to be a friend of Kimora's, and she's come to stay with the couple for a month. Judith constantly taunts Jay in front of his wife. Jay speaks out of tune during an argument with Kimora, leading to him confessing his affairs, including the one with Judith. Paula realizes that she's had a very bad sex life with her husband, so she makes a sex timetable; infuriates Raymond and he asks for a divorce. During the divorce deliberation, Paula reveals that she knows about Raymond's affair with Yolanda, and that it was in fact a bet between her and Yolanda.

Kimora leaves Jay's house. Ranesh catches his wife and Andy having sex; Andy escapes by jumping down from the first storey of the building, breaking his leg as a result. Paula gets back together with her husband, having been convinced to do so by her counselor. Raymond apologizes about everything, while Paula asks sweetly how many times he'd want to have sex in a week. Kimora also sees a counselor, then goes back to Jay and asks him to pull down his pants for a blowjob, but he refuses, overwhelmed by her presence. Andy is accosted by a lady who claims she's pregnant by him and tries to make a scene; Andy however cunningly escapes.

In Sweden, Eric Molander (Charles Farrell) professes his love for Ingrid (Barbara Greene), the beautiful young granddaughter of baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest). Meanwhile, in the nearby countryside, a plane with Paderewski and two other passengers on board is forced to land due to mechanical problems. The travellers take refuge at the baroness's country estate; one of them, worldly Mario de la Costa (Eric Portman), steals the naive young Ingrid away from her lover. With Paderewski's help – he plays a hauntingly beautiful rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" which soothingly calms the flighty-minded Ingrid and allows her to come to her senses – Eric exposes Mario as a shameless fortune-hunter who already has a wife, and the young hero and heroine are reunited. Seen at the beginning of the film as a happily married couple who are attending one of Mr. Paderewski's packed piano recitals, Eric and Ingrid have become the joyful parents of an adorable curly-headed little damsel who herself gets to meet the great artist in person at the concert; at Ingrid's request, he then plays the Moonlight Sonata as his finale. It is also revealed that Mr. Paderewski's playing of this very same lovely melody two decades earlier had fortuitously brought Ingrid's own parents together, as well.

Following a fear-chemical attack by the Scarecrow, Batman recovers in his new base of operations; a safehouse seized from the Court of Owls. Suddenly, Batman is attacked by Wonder Woman, who is determined to kill him. Batman instructs his butler Alfred to enact plan "Fenrir", a powerful, robotic-armor designed by Batman to do battle with the entire Justice League, flanked by a gas attack that evacuates Gotham City's citizens from the area. He manages to subdue Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Aquaman, but he is then attacked by Superman and thrown into the Gotham Royal Theater. When Batman asks who has manipulated the League into killing Batman, Superman's mouth stretches into a wide-grin as he and the subdued league members begin to laugh.

Batman battles the merciless Superman, finally subduing him with Kryptonite-laced gum. The League is revealed to be infected with a more powerful strain of Joker toxin, customized to each individual. Batman visits the Joker's former cell at the abandoned Arkham Asylum, where he meets with Eric Border, an orderly at the new Arkham Manor. Border states that he has only tried to help the city and Batman since arriving there, but he sees now that Batman cannot be helped. Batman is locked in Joker's cell, while Border removes his makeup to reveal himself as the Joker, having been using muscle relaxants and drugs to mask his appearance. The Joker confesses he now finds Batman boring following their final encounter, and now intends to bring their relationship to a permanent end. Batman is incapacitated by a paralytic gas, as the Joker announces that he will be left helpless as his plan truly begins.

Batman eventually recovers from his paralysis to find that the Joker has released an incurable airborne pathogen throughout Gotham, transmitted by laughter, that makes the victim look like the Joker, and turns feelings of love into violent hatred, triggering mass chaos. Batman travels to Gotham Presbyterian hospital to research the first recorded infection, but finds an infected Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents, and a recreation of the night Batman's parents died, revealing the Joker knows his identity. Batman is able to save Duke Thomas from Chill and the mob of infected, but not his parents. Meanwhile, James Gordon researches the hospital and finds images appearing to be the Joker, taken decades before the Joker's first encounter with Batman. The Joker attacks Gordon, who responds by shooting the Joker dead. While Gordon phones Batman to relay the news, the Joker rises up and incapacitates Gordon. As Batman screams for Gordon, the Joker picks up the phone and responds "Hello, Bruce."

Batman finds Gordon dying, with an axe lodged in his chest. Gordon is revealed to be infected, and he suddenly attacks Batman, but is subdued by Alfred's daughter, Julia. With Nightwing's aid, Batman deduces that the Joker is using a serum capable of healing him from fatal damage, and that the virus contains the serum's complete inverse. They also discover that Paul Dekker, a crazed genius in regenerative technologies, was released into Border's custody a year earlier. Batman confronts Dekker, who reveals that he was only able to develop the healing serum and virus using a rare, natural component found in the Joker's spine; Dekker believes the Joker is immortal. He injects himself with a serum given to him by the Joker, believing it will make him immortal, but it kills him. Julia informs Batman that a search has revealed images of the Joker tracing back through centuries of Gotham's history, and that if a cure to the virus is not found, the infected will die within 24 hours. Desperate, Batman turns to the Court of Owls for aid.

The Court refuses to aid Batman, but he confronts their Talon assassin Uriah Boone, who has survived since the beginning of Gotham, about the Joker's supposed immortality. Meanwhile, the Joker uses his regenerative abilities to survive the long swim into the Batcave and its defenses. Alfred attempts to subdue the villain, but the Joker chops off his hand before absconding with Batman's crime-fighting trophies. Joker then leads a parade through the city, leading floats bearing the trophies through the infected citizens. Batman rallies his family and several of his greatest foes to band together against the Joker to save the city they all share. Seeing their combined efforts, the Joker prepares for his "best trick of all".

Batman battles the Joker, but he and his allies are subdued by Joker's lethal gas. The Joker removes Batman's mask, revealing that Nightwing was pretending to be Batman as a distraction, while the real Batman searched the cave system beneath Gotham that the Joker would have traveled after falling off the cliff during the end of "Death of the Family". Batman finds a cave rigged with Joker's explosives and housing a pool of Dionesium, the healing fluid that grants Joker his regenerative abilities.

The Joker confronts Batman and detonates the explosives. As the cave begins to collapse, he and Batman battle, gravely wounding each other. Batman injects the Joker with an immune-response blocker, having deduced that he hasn't really lived as long as others claim, but is using the Dionesium. When the Joker attempts to stab a subdued Batman, he is pushed into the path of a falling stalactite which breaks his back. As he desperately tries to crawl to the pool to heal, he is restrained by Batman until the cave roof falls and destroys the pool. Resigned to their fate, Batman reveals that the Joker has failed, as Batman gave his allies small doses of Dionesium, to protect them from Joker's poison, while he has recovered a larger amount of the Dionesium for Julia to cure the citywide plague. The Joker and Batman lie on the floor as the cave collapses upon them.

In the aftermath, Alfred refuses to have his hand reattached, asserting that he no longer has someone to tend to, while Dionesium recovered by Batman and given to Julia allows the city to be cured of Joker's plague. Discussing Batman's final letter, Alfred asserts that the story of Batman would always end in tragedy, and that while Batman had the resources to be immortal and escape death as the Joker offered, he was determined to only live in the time he had and "smile at the void". The note is shown, bearing only the word "Ha", mirroring Joker's final message to him at the end of "Death of the Family".

Bianca is enjoying her senior year of high school in the suburbs of Atlanta with her two best friends, Jess and Casey, both of whom are significantly more popular than she is. Her neighbor is Wesley, the captain of the football team, who was her childhood friend.

Bianca reluctantly attends a party hosted by mean girl Madison, Wesley's "on-again, off-again" girlfriend with hopes of talking to her guitar-playing crush Toby. At the party, Wesley casually brings to Bianca's awareness that she is the "DUFF" of her friend group—an acronym which stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend. He explains that the DUFF does not necessarily have to be ugly or fat, it is merely the person in a social group who is less popular, and therefore more accessible, than the others in the group. People exploit the DUFF to get to the popular people. Bianca is insulted and devastated, but she soon realizes Wesley is right: the students in her high school are only interested in her as a way to get to Jess and Casey.

She takes her anger out on Jess and Casey and "unfriends" them on social media and in person. She later overhears Wesley's science teacher Mr. Fillmore telling Wesley that unless he passes the midterm, he is off the football team, which could cost him his football scholarship. Desperate to up her social standing and go on a date with her crush, Bianca strikes a deal with Wesley: she will help him pass his class if he helps her socially. The two have a fun time at the mall, attempting a makeover by buying new clothes.

Secretly, Madison's henchgirl records Bianca embarrassingly playing around in her new clothes and pretending that a mannequin is Toby. Madison posts the video online to embarrass Bianca because she has become possessive of Wesley and jealous of Bianca's relationship with him. Wesley suggests Bianca just "own" the video and be upfront with Toby, talking directly to him and asking him out. She takes the advice and, to her surprise, he accepts. Bianca takes Wesley to her favorite spot in the forest, her "think rock", to get him away from the constant arguing between his parents, and to help him cope with a possible divorce. They kiss, but joke about it, and pretend it didn't mean anything.

Bianca and Toby have a date at his house, but she finds herself thinking about Wesley and tries to brush it off. By the end of the date, she discovers that Toby has been "DUFFing" her, i.e., spending time with her in order to connect with Jess and Casey. She confronts him as the shallow and superficial person he has revealed himself to be, and leaves in tears. While looking for Wesley, to talk with him about the date, she finds him at the thinking rock kissing Madison.

Furious with both boys, Bianca reunites with her girl friends, who were actually genuine all along. They, along with her understanding mother Dottie, convince her to go to the homecoming dance with them in a dress they create together which incorporates elements of her previous wardrobe, such as her plaid flannel shirts. At the dance, Bianca uses Wesley's advice to be upfront, and tells him that she likes him, but he regrettably informs her that he is back with Madison, who approaches the two of them and begins to hurl insults at Bianca.

Bianca delivers her final speech to Madison, finally confronting her and proclaiming that ''everybody'' is a DUFF because there is always someone "better", and should be true to their own identity. Additionally, Madison's bullying is just a reflection of her own insecurities about herself. When Madison is crowned homecoming queen and Wesley king, he hesitates before rejecting the title, instead choosing to kiss Bianca in front of the whole school.

Tru Richmond, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long.

Restless by nature and wounded by the past, she seems to live from pillar to post, from mattress to mattress, bobbing along through life with no anchor to ground her. She gets by on her wits, her considerable good looks and charm — but at her age, it is all starting to wear a little thin.

Tru meets 60-year old widow Alice Beacon, who came to town to visit her daughter Suzanne, a too-busy corporate lawyer. Suzanne, 35, is Tru's friend.

When Tru meets Alice, sparks fly and Alice and Tru begin forging an unlikely friendship. Suzanne, who has a deeply conflicted relationship with her mother and a complicated and a secret past with Tru, becomes increasingly alarmed at the growing bond between Tru and Alice.

After Suzanne witnesses an intimate moment between the two, feeling jealous and threatened, she tries to sabotage the budding romance. But it backfires.

In the spring of 1944, German forces work to secure intelligence about the upcoming Allied invasion, after one of their spies is intercepted in London by MI5 agents, Major Cunningham and Captain Meeks. Meanwhile, Captain Mainwaring finds his Home Guard in the coastal town of Walmington-on-Sea suffer from a lack of appreciation for their work in contributing to the war effort. Things change when the platoon, during an exercise, accidentally force Rose Winters, an elegant journalist, off the road. When they learn she intends to write a report about them for a national magazine, the men feel delighted, but also are charmed by her presences, causing them to have feuds with the townsfolk, and especially with their wives. The matter is further complicated when Sergeant Wilson develops a friendship with Winters after recognising her as a student he once tutored at the University of Oxford.

Unknown to the platoon, Rose is actually the spy sent by Germany to investigate the Allied invasion plans, but a transmission she sends by radio is detected by Cunningham and Meeks, who travel there to seek her out. After meeting with Mainwaring and informing him of the situation, he takes delight in using this as a means to save his platoon from being disbanded by the Home Guard's senior officer, Colonel Theakes, after a disaster during an important patrol near Dover. Rose swiftly joins the patrol through Private Joe Walker, after discovering his illegal bootlegging business, and uses the next patrol to discover important details on the Allies' plan, including where the invasion will take place. As the platoon work to find the spy on Mainwaring's orders, Rose deceives him in believing the spy is Wilson, who is promptly arrested.

While Mainwaring decides to meet with Rose to thank her for her assistance, the rest of the platoon detain Wilson for questioning, until evidence is brought to their attention that Rose is the spy they were seeking. Tracking her down, they quickly find her holding Mainwaring prisoner with a Wehrmacht landing party, after he discovered the truth upon seeing a German U-boat appear in a nearby bay. However, the platoon help to rescue him with the aid of their wives, and manage to capture the landing party and Rose, causing the U-boat to flee. Cunningham and Meeks swiftly arrest her, ensuring her intelligence doesn't return, while Theakes commends the platoon, saving them from being disbanded. Mainwaring and Wilson reconcile, and both men join their platoon for a parade through Walmington-on-Sea.

Two sisters, Gillian and Emily, have a long history of a strained and troubled relationship, and are recently bereaved by the death of their mother. Both sisters have psychological problems. The cast are all itinerant fruit pickers on the fictional Rymans Farm. Kev, an older Scottish picker (played by Emun Elliott) who has grandiose but unfulfilled plans for his future, and Fabio (played by Jonathan Bonnici), a headstrong and sexually demanding young Italian picker, provide the material for the underlying sexual tension of the film. Gillian's attempts to escape from Emily, frustrated by her own conflicting desire to care for her mentally ill sister.

Some kids brought together by chance get into wacky situations in their magical clay town.

The virgin and repressed Charlotte Hawthorn joins the university from a Catholic school with a scholarship for participating in the fencing team. She shares the room with Nicole and tells her that her mother died and she is alone. Charlotte has thalassemia and is forced to use medicine. She gets a job working as a waitress in a coffee shop owned by Chris. Soon she meets the fencing coach, Professor Cole, who is also responsible for the literature classes, and her mate Eliza becomes jealous over his treatment of Charlotte. Soon she has daydreams and the mystic Daciana, who is the owner of a store, explains her fate in the world as a vampire hunter, but Charlotte does not believe in her until her friends die. She begins having erotic and gruesome dreams

Ten-year-old Annie lives with her father Marvin on a goat farm somewhere in Texas. Annie is often bored, having no pleasure for school, and her alcoholic father does not care about her. Since Marvin spends time with Demolition Derby and his goats, Annie is often alone. Out of sheer boredom, she makes forays into the countryside, where Annie lives out her lust for destruction.

When Annie is traveling in the nearby forest she hears a woman's voice calling for help. She follows the voice and finds a dry well in the ground. The woman (calling herself Esther) is in the well, and she asks Annie to save her. Annie reacts skeptical and believes it is the devil who wants to outsmart her. Frightened, she runs away and goes home. Arriving home, Marvin shows her how to hypnotize a chicken, wanting to show her with what is unconditional love. But Annie replies that the animals just love him because he gives them food.

The next day Annie returns to the well, bringing Esther sandwiches, Capri Sun, toilet paper and a walkie-talkie. Esther thanks Annie, but begs her to get adult help. Still, Annie remains skeptical and cannot be persuaded. One evening she radios Esther with the walkie-talkie and asks how she's doing. Esther is angry because she could not reach Annie and calls Annie a bad person. Annie is insulted and calls Esther a wicked witch.

The next morning Annie tries to talk to Esther, but the walkie-talkie issues only a faint hiss. She wanders the countryside, checking the walkie-talkie, but no matter where she goes the walkie-talkie is silent. Annie brings drinks and bananas for Esther, tossing the food into the well. She then lights and drops a fire cracker into the well, but there's still no response from Esther.

Annie goes home and watches as Marvin has a heart attack while feeding the goats, but she doesn't go for help. She goes back to the well and sits down on the edge, her legs dangling into the abyss. Then she jumps down into the dark unknown.

Series 1

Millie McDonald (Millie Innes) is a 12-year-old girl who lives with her 15-year-old sister Lauren McDonald (Tallulah Greive). Their parents have split up, so the two sisters are constantly swapping living with 'Mum' Sharon, (Hannah Jane Fox) and 'Dad' Tony (James Bachman). Millie loves the upsides of her new family set-up; two Christmas celebrations, two birthdays, and two bedrooms. However, the downsides are more tricky to come to terms with, as her parents start new relationships. The parents' new partners have children, too - and they all want to move in. Sharon has a new partner called Mike (Jeremy Edwards), who has a son called Craig (Theo Stevenson), who is a nightmare. Tony meets a new partner called Amber (Jaye Jacobs), who has 2 children called Fran (Mya-Lecia Naylor) and Jake (Marley Lockhart).

Series 2

Great Aunt Gloria visits, still convinced Sharon and Tony (now played by Richard Lumsden) are still married, Millie celebrates her 13th birthday, Lauren trains for a hike with the school, Millie and Fran go head to head in a spelling-bee, Craig goes to stay with his mum at Christmas when he feels left out at home, Jake and Fran's dad turns up at the flat, Mum loses her job at Sunnyshopper, Mum decides to get tips off of Amber to try and be cool, Millie's English teacher arrives at the house to talk about Millie's poem, Lauren gets all loved up with Craig's new mate, Justin, Tony and Amber split but soon get back together, Jake bonds with Craig after Mike forces Craig to look after him, Mike proposes to Sharon and the whole family go on a camping trip together.

Series 3

Tony and Amber are moving to a bigger flat while Craig has a new mate, Millie tries to be bad in order to go to a party, Amber announces she is pregnant, Millie's grandparents unexpectedly turn up on Christmas Day, Mike loses his job at the gym and is too scared to tell Sharon, Millie needs to start thinking about her subject choices at school, Fran gets a temporary tattoo much to the horror of Amber, it is Father's Day and Tony thinks Millie and Lauren have forgotten about him, the house goes electricity free for a week, Millie, Lauren and Craig want to be home alone so they send Mum and Mike to Dad and Amber's flat, Millie fakes a boyfriend to get the attention of Lauren, Mum and Mike eventually get married and Amber gives birth to a baby boy named Hector.

Series 4

Craig moves out to go to college and Lauren meets a boy named Declan (Richard Wisker), who later becomes her boyfriend. Dad and Amber move to Spain, so Fran and Jake are looked after by their grandma, Flora (Llewella Gideon). Millie tries to befriend a girl, Jessie (Rhianna Merralls) in her maths class who is a 'wild' girl. Meanwhile, Mike’s nephew, Leo (Oscar Morgan), moves into the house. Lauren deletes her social media after a message mix-up and Mum and Mike spark concern when they start to argue. Millie ends a feud between Fran and Jake. Jessie is having trouble at home so Millie tries to help her and Millie starts blogging to give advice to parents. At the end of that series, Lauren leaves to start college and Millie has to decide between her Mum or Dad's holiday. She picks neither of them and decides to volunteer and help in Kenya. Also, as well as Lauren leaving, so does Leo.

Due to Jaye Jacobs returning to ''Holby City'', she became a recurring cast member. Innes served as an associate producer.

Series 5 Specials

Declan and Dad each drop a bombshell and everyone's future is turned upside down. Millie and Craig travel to Spain in a mission. Craig and Millie race against time to try and save her dad's job.

Particle physicists and estranged friends Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert co-authored ''Ghosts from Our Past'', a book detailing their investigations of the paranormal since high school. Erin later disowned the work, while Abby continues her research at an inadequate research college, the Kenneth P. Higgins Institute of Science in New York City, with engineering physicist Jillian Holtzmann as her partner. Erin, now a professor at Columbia University, is in line for tenure when she discovers that Abby republished their book. Erin convinces her to cease its publication after helping Abby and Jillian at an alleged haunted house. They encounter a malevolent ghost before she escapes, restoring Erin's belief in the supernatural and friendship with Abby. Erin loses her bid for tenure at Columbia after their vlog becomes viral. She offers to join Abby and Jillian, but the dean of the Higgins Institute fires them as well. After stealing equipment, they establish temporary headquarters above a Chinese restaurant. They verbosely name themselves "Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination", build technology to track ghosts and hire jock Kevin Beckman as a receptionist.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) staffer Patty Tolan encounters a ghost in a subway terminal built under a haunted prison in Auburn and contacts the team. They find the ghost and test Jillian's prototype for the proton packs on the entity but fail to capture him. They advertise their services with a "no ghosts allowed" logo that Jillian made based on a graffiti artist's defacement, and the name pundits have labeled them—"Ghostbusters". Patty joins the team, providing extensive knowledge of New York City, rail personal protective equipment, and a repurposed hearse from her mortician uncle Bill Jenkins, named "Ecto-1".

The supernatural events have been triggered by mad scientist Rowan North, an occultist with a god complex who attracts ghosts over Manhattan with self-developed ionizers that correspond to the Ghostbusters' technology, allowing him to experiment and create a dimensional vortex powered by turned psi energy. When Rowan plants another device at a concert, the Ghostbusters are called and capture a bestial entity there, becoming city sensations but antagonizing Rowan. While debunker Dr. Martin Heiss challenges the quartet, Erin releases the ghost as proof; it throws him out of a window and escapes. The Ghostbusters are brought to Mayor Bradley and his secretary Jennifer Lynch, who reveal that they and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are aware of the city's supernatural activities. While privately acknowledging the team's work, they publicly denounce them as fraudsters.

The Ghostbusters realize Rowan is planting his devices along ley lines, with their alignments intersecting at the Mercado Hotel in Times Square, a site of violent occurrences. They find that Rowan's vortex will breach a ghostly dimension at the intersection, potentially triggering an apocalypse. During a confrontation, Rowan electrocutes himself with his main machine, after which Jillian deactivates it. Jillian finds an annotated copy of ''Ghosts from Our Past'' in Rowan's underground laboratory, explaining the similarity between their technologies. Erin later discovers that Rowan planned to commit suicide so he could become a ghost himself. Rowan returns as a deity-like ghost and attempts to kill the Ghostbusters at their headquarters by possessing Abby, but Patty stops him. He then possesses Kevin and escapes to the hotel, opening the portal and releasing galvanized ghosts. The authorities are subdued, but the Ghostbusters fight through Rowan's spectral army to reach the portal.

After leaving Kevin, Rowan appears as the ghost in the Ghostbusters' logo, grows to a kaiju-like size, and goes on a rampage. The team turns Ecto-1's reactor as a makeshift bomb, detonating a nuclear explosion inside the vortex. This reverses the portal and forces Rowan and the ghosts back in, restoring the city. Rowan tries to drag Abby with him in retaliation, but Erin leaps into the portal and rescues her.

Despite the city's fascination with the supernatural and lauding the Ghostbusters as heroes, the mayor's office continues to denounce them publicly but covertly funds their operations. With new resources, the Ghostbusters move to a disused firehouse, where they build more equipment, including an ecto-containment system. While investigating electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), Patty hears the word "Zuul".

France in 1563. Calvinist Protestantism has arrived in France. But the Catholic reaction is not long in coming and the small but steadily growing Protestant population is suppressed in French society. However, the Huguenots, particularly in the south of France and in the small kingdom of Navarre near Spain, resisted. Katharina de Medici, the actual ruler of France, wants to counter this. Her two sons, Charles IX. and D’Anjou show weakness in this fight and Henri, the young Prince of Navarre, vital strength. Katharina de Medici has to give in and makes Henri an offer of peace, which he, tired of fighting, accepts. This peace also means that Henri Margot, the daughter of the Medicis, married in Paris. But even during the wedding celebrations, the Catholics strike: They cause a bloodbath among the Protestant wedding guests who have traveled. About 20,000 Huguenots die on this Bartholomew Night.

A police inspector and his former colleague investigate a series of murders in Toulon. Eventually they detect a killer gang who works for the Serbian mafia. The criminals stop at nothing to follow through on their mission but neither do the two Frenchmen.

Agnes Benson, an elderly and paraplegic recluse, hires Jenny Merlin to care for her and her adult son, Timmy. Timmy is a skilled mimic who has the mentality of a child due to witnessing the accident that disabled his mother, and killed his father. Not long after being hired by Mrs. Benson, Jenny has sex with the woman's handyman, Charlie. When Timmy catches the two of them together, Charlie tells him that he and Jenny were only "sunbathing".

Timmy leaves to run an errand, and spots a couple having sex in the woods. When the man leaves to get cigarettes, Timmy approaches the woman, who panics and tries to run away, dying when she hits her head on a rock after being tripped by Timmy, who believes that they are playing a game. Oblivious to the woman's death, Timmy engages in intercourse with her body, and leaves when he hears the girl's boyfriend approaching.

Timmy returns home, and when his mother notices that his pants are unfastened, she angrily lectures him on the evils of sex, and comforts and sedates him when he has an outburst. While Timmy sleeps, Mrs. Benson reveals to Jenny that she was paralyzed when her drunk husband, who had tried to kill her, fell off of a cliff, and dragged her down with him. Timmy awakens, spies on Charlie fondling Jenny, delivers a package to a neighbor, and notices a husband forcing himself on his wife, which causes Timmy to flash back to his father attacking his mother. Timmy bludgeons the husband with a rock, and accidentally asphyxiates the wife while trying to calm her down. Thinking that the wife is playing the same "game" as his previous female victim, Timmy sexually assaults her corpse, then eats a chocolate bar, unaware of exactly what he has done. The media dub the killings "the Candy Bar Murders" because of the discarded sweets wrapper left at the current crime scene, and the earlier one.

Jenny and Charlie discuss their relationship, and begin to make love, when Timmy walks in on them. For his own amusement, Charlie gives Timmy wine and drugs, and invites him to participate in a borderline-bisexual threeway with him and Jenny. Later, Timmy is shown approaching another couple, which is followed by a shot of a newspaper which reads, "Another Candy Bar Murder!" Afterward, Timmy goes into the city with Charlie, and they pick up a pair of prostitutes, who they treat roughly, and make it clear to them that they will not be paying. Charlie leaves Timmy with the hookers, one of whom tries to rob him at knifepoint, angered over being mistreated. A struggle ensues, ending with Timmy stabbing one woman, strangling the other, and taking the knife.

Mrs. Benson and Jenny discuss the killings, and notice the knife Timmy has, and that he is eating the same brand of candy bars whose wrappers were left at the murder sites. Jenny believes that Charlie is the killer, but when she questions Timmy, she realizes it is him. Timmy chases and sexually assaults Jenny, but before he can kill her, he is talked down by Charlie, and runs back home; Timmy has remembered that his father caught his mother having an affair, and that she was making plans to abandon him ...... and that she knocked him off of the cliff after he raped her in retaliation.

Timmy confronts his mother, who intends to fatally overdose him with sedatives. She confesses that everything he has recalled is true, and that she never wanted him. Minutes later, a police officer called by Mrs. Benson arrives, and sees Timmy tending to the garden. The officer questions Timmy about all of the people he has "played" with, and discovers that Timmy has slit his mother's throat, and raped her body. As the policeman stands there in shock, Timmy asks, "Want a candy bar?"

Akane Tsunemori and her allies from Bureau's Criminal Investigation fight in an operation against foreign terrorists who have infiltrated Japan and recover images of their former colleague Shinya Kogami. The terrorists originate from the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn), a superstate that has begun to import the Sibyl System technology from Japan, in order to arrest "latent criminals". Tsunemori is granted permission to travel to the SEAUn; she is received by a military procession under the supervision of Colonel Nicholas Wong. Wong tells Tsunemori their guns, called Dominators, are not used in the country and that due to a lack of resources, latent criminals are fitted with collars that will deliver a lethal dose of poison. Kogami and Tsunemori escape together in the ensuing chaos. They go to the base of the terrorists, who are fighting to free their nation from Han's military dictatorship and the Sibyl System. Meanwhile, Wong contacts mercenary leader Desmond Rutaganda and hires his team to find Tsunemori and Kogami.

Kogami suspects a conspiracy is unfolding, due to Han's alliance with Sibyl and that the terrorists in Japan were not sent by their movement. Rutaganda and his mercenaries attack the camp, killing many of the resistance fighters. Kogami helps Tsunemori escape before he is captured. At Shambala Float, Tsunemori realizes the Sibyl System in Shambala Float has been tampered with and programmed to ignore Wong and the rest of the city's military, allowing them to act with impunity despite being latent criminals with elevated Crime Coefficients.

Wong and his men take Tsunemori to a helipad, where Rutaganda's group arrives with a wounded Kogami. Rutaganda plans to have them both executed and then use the helicopter to stage their deaths to look like a Japanese terrorist caused them as part of a false flag operation to increase his own military power. The drones, which been reset by Tsunemori's ally, Shion Karanomori, to accurately detect their Crime Coefficients, turn on Wong's men. Just then, the rest of Division One arrives with Nobuchika Ginoza killing Wong. In the ensuing battle, all of Wong's men are killed, except Rutaganda. Kogami pursues Rutaganda, urging Tsunemori to go after Han to discover the truth about the conspiracy.

Kogami fights Rutaganda but he is overwhelmed until Ginoza appears and together kill him. Han is found to be a criminally asymptomatic Sibyl android. Sibyl tells Tsunemori they engineered the chain of events, creating a need for the system in the SEAUn. Tsunemori still demands Han's resignation and a free and fair election. The Sibyl System grants her wish. The next day, Han claims Wong's failed coup has caused him to rethink his government and announce his resignation so an election can be held. The SEAUn in the hands of the uncorrupt military while Division One returns to Japan with Ginoza having let Kogami escape.

In a post-credits scene, Kogami overhears a radio broadcast revealing Han is winning the election. The film concludes with a voice-over by Tsunemori, promising that someday the value of the Sibyl System will be examined.

In the very old-fashioned small town of Midfield, there hasn't been a marriage in more than two years and the young people are slowly leaving the town. Minerva Snodgrass, the strict and assertive leader of the town's Purity League, has created numerous restrictions to keep the girls and boys apart. Her next-door neighbor is Miss Panadora Polly, a friendly and tolerant old maid who lives with her handyman (and catastrophic hobby inventor) Slim Wilkins and her housekeeper and companion Patsy.

Miss Polly tries to shelter the young romance between Minerva's daughter Barbara and her boyfriend Eddie, who is frustrated that Barbara remains under her mother's influence. To give Barbara courage, Miss Polly finds a mysterious liquor in her cellar that once made her shy sister marry a man. She tries the drink and as a result, she flirts with the young grocery boy and buys the sexiest dress in town.

In her new dress, Miss Polly visits the town meeting held by the mayor and Mrs. Snodgrass, who wants to establish new rules and has most of the townspeople under her control. But Miss Polly, courageous under the influence of the romance liquor, disagrees and wants to afford more freedom to the young people in town. Polly reminds the elderly and middle-aged meeting members of their own youthful indiscretions and slowly brings them to her side. Minerva states that she was always morally right during her life, but Miss Polly remembers that Minerva had an affair many years ago. Minerva collapses and, as there is no water nearby, Slim and Patsy offer her the romantic liquor to drink. Under the drink's spell, she now agrees to the marriage between Barbara and Eddie and develops a crush on Slim, chasing after him.

A couple of cab drivers, Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett, cope with the women in their lives. Tim's social-climbing wife Sadie has a secret, that she once worked as a stripper. Eddie's conniving sweetheart Mabel plans to use this information against Sadie when she becomes irritated by her.

Tim and Eddie go fishing and catch a whopper—a beautiful woman. Lucy Gibbs turns out to be the winner of the "Brooklyn Orchid" beauty pageant, but rather than he pleased, she's actually making a suicide attempt over its adverse effect on her life. She now blames Tim and Eddie for spoiling her plans.

The boys take their ladies to a health spa, but Lucy follows them and complicates matters. When a band strikes up, Sadie announces that Mabel is in the room and can do her "act." Lucy saves the day, pretending to be Sadie and hiding her secret. Sadie then cuts up Mabel's dress and tosses her into a swimming pool. Tim and Eddie decide not to go fishing again.

A court of justice in a nameless city and country is being investigated. A judge has made himself the accomplice of an underworld victim and this judge infect the whole process of justice. Judge Cust steers suspicion on to President Vanan, the ageing chief of the court, who is innocent.

Set in Sydney, the title character of the drama was a stray cat, who brings together three people, a teenager (Michael Thomas), a recluse (Ronald Morse) and an ex-suffregette (Eve Wynne).

Warren Randolph (Pete Morrison) is a rancher from New Mexico who travels to Virginia to help a family friend, Colonel Henry Morgan (Louis Fitzroy). Morgan has lost everything, and his property is being sold at auction. Unbeknownst to Morgan, Morrison purchase the property. Morgan's prize horse is stolen, and Morrison captures the thief and recovers the horse.

Alexey, a talented programmer from Novosibirsk, comes to Moscow and becomes a member of a closed semi-legal elite club called ''Spiral''. As a beginner he is lucky, and he wins one extreme game of the club after another, getting crazy fees. He falls in love with a girl that he could not even dream about.

But overnight the beautiful world around him collapses, and he gets into big trouble - he is accused of robbing a bank, a beloved girl does not believe in his innocence, and on top of everything he is trying to kill.

The film is narrated by Cayden (Lucas Till), an average teenage boy approaching the end of high school. During a football game, a rival player headbutts Cayden, causing the latter to become enraged and attack the player with superhuman strength. Cayden later hurts his girlfriend, Lisa (Kaitlyn Leeb), when the passion of making out causes him to transform into a werewolf. Cayden wakes up covered in blood, surrounded by the dismembered bodies of his parents, and flees.

Cayden becomes a drifter, trying to keep his lycanthropy under control. In a roadside bar, Cayden draws the attention of Wild Joe (John Pyper-Ferguson), who reveals himself to be a werewolf. Wild Joe explains that werewolves come in two types, purebreds and bitten. The bitten are more savage and do not give birth to werewolf children. Purebreds are natural-born werewolves from a small number of werewolf families that came to North America with the early settlers. Cayden has only recently discovered that he was adopted, and Wild Joe confirms that they are both natural werewolves and that Cayden can find out more in a remote town called Lupine Ridge.

Cayden travels to Lupine Ridge and goes to a local bar, attracting hostile attention from the small-town locals. Cayden is attracted to Angel (Angelina) (Merritt Patterson), the beautiful young owner of the bar. He is eventually driven out of the bar by the locals, and outside meets John Tollerman (Stephen McHattie), who hires Cayden as a farmhand. After working for Tollerman for a while, he heads into town one night and Cayden is approached by a wolf of his bloodline who understands who Cayden is, warning him to leave town and that he is in danger. Cayden's "cousin" (Brandon McGibbon) is then killed by Connor (Jason Momoa), the alpha werewolf whom Cayden saw as the ringleader of the patrons in Angel's bar. Cayden runs into Angel, and together they witness Connor and his pack eating Cayden's cousin after the murder.

John later tells Cayden of his origins, about his werewolf mother, Lucinda, who was John's niece. Connor had seen her and had fallen in love with her. Connor knew the tension between the packs so he had raped her. Only John and his wife (Janet-Laine Green) knew about Lucinda's resulting pregnancy, and Lucinda killed herself shortly after Cayden's birth. The peace comes with the condition that Connor can mate with Angel as he desires a son, not knowing about Cayden.

Cayden has started a relationship with Angel and wants to cancel the town's arrangement, but the town werewolves fear what the more bestial mountain werewolves would do in retaliation. Cayden goes to the mountains to confront Connor and reveals who he is, but Connor is skeptical and unleashes his wolves on Cayden. While Cayden is stronger than the individual bitten wolves, he will not use lethal force and is overwhelmed by the pack. He manages to jump off a nearby cliff to escape.

Cayden and John form a plan to deal with the mountain pack. Before they can act, Connor kidnaps Angel and readies to mate with her. Cayden kills two of the pack and lures the others into a trap where he and John use explosives to kill them all. When Cayden then beats Connor in a single battle, Connor reveals that he and Lucinda were in love; but he created the rape story because Lucinda's father was going to kill her for the relationship.

Wild Joe suddenly appears, telling Connor and Cayden that he planned the events all along, killing Cayden's adoptive parents and convincing him to go to Lupine Ridge so that he could kill Connor in revenge for his own past issues with Connor. Wild Joe kills Connor but is killed by Cayden.

Cayden decides to leave with Angel to see the world, but he promises John they will be back. John gives him a scroll showing the bloodlines of the purebred werewolves to help him find others during their journey.

Machiavel (Patrick Macnee) is a mysterious masked rider in a red cape who roams the countryside of Prince Prospero's fiefdom. The appearance of the rider is followed by a deadly plague that scars its victims and devastates the peasantry. The rural people are becoming desperate and seek to escape the devastation. Meanwhile, Prospero (Adrian Paul) barricades himself at his palace, to avoid any villagers entering his immediate domain and disturbing him. He also organizes a masquerade ball where he invites the nobility of his land to participate. Village maidens are also brought into the castle to provide entertainment for his guests. Amongst them is Juliette (Clare Hoak), an innocent peasant girl, who continuously resists the prince's lustful pursuit. When Claudio (Jeff Osterhage), the prince's friend, advises Prospero to stop pursuing Juliette, the angry prince jails them in the dungeons of his palace. Meanwhile, desperate peasants try to breach the defences of Prospero's castle to escape the Red Death. In response to their attempts to enter the safety of his castle, the prince orders boiling oil to be poured on them from high atop the battlements, scorching many of them to death. The party is in full swing when a mysterious masked man in a red cape joins the fun unannounced.

On a rainy summer day a group of young people go to a club called "Phobos", which is under construction and in the past used to be a bomb shelter. Suddenly all the club doors are automatically closed and the lights are switched off. Initially the characters perceive everything as a joke but later realize that they are trapped: their cell phones do not work and they did not tell anyone about their intention to go to this club. The goth girl Vika says that there is a creature that feeds on their fears and that they need to overcome their own feelings of fright.

Determined to beat the bully, Cyclone, a young airplane named Ace asks a retired fighter plane named Colonel to train him for a famed airshow competition.

On the Texas border, in 1887, Texas Ranger David Kingston is sent by Governor “Sul” Ross to the isolated town of Mount Hermon. Kingston is to investigate a series of murders and disappearances of Mexican citizens, in particular to search for Maria Calderon, the missing niece of a Mexican general who is threatening to invade to find her. In the town, preacher and mayor Abraham Brant – the man who killed Kingston's father in a ”Helena Duel” knife fight in 1866 – is keeping all the townsfolk in some kind of fearful grip. When Kingston arrives in town, the townsfolk act cold and hostile towards him, with the exception of Brant, who is smitten by Kingston's wife, Marisol.

Kingston hides his identity and purpose from Brant, appearing as a wandering traveler. Brant offers him the role of town sheriff, which the newcomer hesitantly accepts, hoping the position will cover him long enough to carry out his real investigation.

While Kingston explores the town and investigates the nearby Rio Grande for bodies, Brant manipulates a weak-spirited Marisol into becoming dependent on him. Marisol becomes Brant's willing consort, and betrays her husband's secrets. Kingston eventually learns Brant's secret - that he is abducting Mexicans to serve as prey for rich foreigners to hunt.

When Kingston confronts Brant and the townspeople, Brant's son Isaac challenges Kingston to a ”Helena Duel” knife fight. During the fight, Kingston is badly wounded before he kills Isaac. Kingston escapes, and frees a number of captured Mexicans from the remote prison compound, including Maria Calderon. Suffering from his knife wounds, Kingston hits Brant in a shootout while near the isolated compound, then pins Brant's leg under a boulder. When Kingston passes out, Brant cuts his own leg off and crawls to the wounded man. As he is about to cut Kingston's throat, Maria reappears and shoots Brant dead.

Kingston dumps Brant's body in the Rio Grande near the dead scalped Mexican woman. The Mexican general is grateful to Kingston for getting Maria back. When men went back to the town and the prison, they found the town abandoned and no sign of the prison at all. Kingston is last seen riding off into the brush alone, staring up at the tree where Naomi was hanged from earlier.

A young couple, Bob Lloyd and Pauline Munro see a photo in a magazine of a baby mutilated by napalm and it changes their lives. They ask is London aware, is London concerned?

''The Nice and the Good'' takes place in London and Dorset, England. Octavian Gray is a senior civil servant heading a government department in Whitehall. His seaside property, Trescombe House, is home to Octavian and his wife Kate and their 14-year-old daughter Barbara, as well as to the widowed Mary Clothier and her 15-year-old son Pierce, and the divorced Paula Biranne and her nine-year old twins Henrietta and Edward. Also in residence are Octavian's older brother Theo, and Willy Kost, a classical scholar and Dachau concentration camp survivor who lives in a cottage on the property.

John Ducane, the legal advisor to Octavian's government department, is a frequent visitor to Trescombe House. He is attempting to break off his relationship with Jessica, a young art teacher with whom he has had an affair in London, and who still loves him. He is anxious to end his relationship with Jessica so that he can commit himself fully to a Platonic relationship with Octavian's wife Kate.

The story begins in London with the suicide of Joseph Radeechy, a member of Octavian's department. Radeechy dies of a gunshot wound in his office. His body is found by his colleague Richard Biranne, the ex-husband of Paula Biranne, and the death is announced to Octavian by Peter McGrath, the office messenger. Octavian enlists the help of John Ducane to investigate the death.

Ducane learns that McGrath, the office messenger, has sold the story of Radeechy's suicide to the press. The leaked story included the information that Radeechy was a practitioner of black magic whose rituals involved the participation of naked women. It also alleged that Radeechy was being blackmailed. Later, Ducane makes a surprise visit to McGrath's home in the hope of getting more information, and is greeted in McGrath's absence by his wife Judy, who confirms that her husband had been blackmailing Radeechy. McGrath denies the charge, claiming that he was simply paid for helping with the magic rituals. He goes on to implicate Biranne, who he claims was a frequent visitor to Radeechy's home. McGrath tells him that Biranne, the first person to find Radeechy's body, had locked the office door when he went in. Remembering that Radeechy had been left handed and that the gun was found by his right hand, and puzzled by the absence of a suicide note, Ducane suspects Biranne of tampering with evidence. Ducane pays an unannounced evening visit to Biranne's house, where he finds Judy McGrath. He accuses her of being involved in Radeechy's magic rituals. She confirms his suspicion, and says that the rituals took place in a disused air raid shelter under the office building. Ducane gets McGrath to show him the underground chamber where Radeechy performed his rituals.

Eventually Biranne confesses to Ducane his involvement in the death of Radeechy. The previous year Biranne had been having an affair with Radeechy's wife Claudia and was at their house when Radeechy murdered her by pushing her from a window in a fit of jealousy. By helping Radeechy cover up the crime, making it appear to be an accident, he acted as an accessory to murder. Biranne tells Ducane that he was present when Radeechy shot himself and that he found, and took away with him, a suicide note in which Radeechy confessed to Claudia's murder and stated that Biranne had witnessed the crime. Ducane must decide whether or not to expose Biranne when he makes his report to Octavian. He reserves judgment for a few days, and advises Biranne to stop seeing Judy McGrath, with whom Biranne has been having an affair.

Meanwhile, in Dorset, many of the characters are suffering from unrequited love. The teenaged Pierce loves Octavian's daughter Barbie, as does Willy Kost. Theo is hopelessly in love with Pierce, and Pierce's mother Mary loves Willy. Mary confides in John Ducane, and he advises her to ask Willy to marry her, which she does. He is delighted and seems to agree, although he doesn't love her and claims to be impotent. Later, he tells her he can't marry her after all.

While visiting John Ducane in London, Willy encounters Jessica, who goes to Ducane's house to look for evidence of another woman. Willy catches her searching Ducane's bedroom and she tells him her story, after which they make love. He refuses to tell her his last name, and threatens to expose her spying to Ducane if she tries to see him again.

In despair over Barbie's seeming indifference to him, Pierce swims into a cave whose entrance is only accessible at low tide, with the intention of staying until the tide comes in. Ducane follows him and he, Pierce, and Pierce's dog Mingo, who has also followed the boy, spend a harrowing night huddling together on a ledge until they are able to swim out when the tide recedes. During his ordeal, Ducane contemplates his life's purpose, with important consequences for Biranne. "He thought, if I ever get out of here I will be no man's judge... To love and to reconcile and to forgive, only this matters. All power is sin and all law is frailty... Forgiveness, reconciliation, not law."

Back in London, Ducane tells Biranne that he will not expose his involvement with Radeechy if Biranne will attempt a reconciliation with his ex-wife Paula. Earlier, Paula had confided in Ducane that Richard had divorced her after she had an affair with another man, but that she still loved Richard. Richard and Paula meet and agree to reconcile.

The novel ends with several of the other characters forming couples. Ducane and Mary become engaged to be married, Pierce and Barbie have sexual intercourse for the first time, and Jessica travels from London to Trescombe House in search of Willy.

In 2430, an interstellar expedition was sent to a distant star system. Rachel Manners, an astrobiologist, awakes from cryogenic sleep by the ship's artificially intelligent computer J.U.L.I.A. to repair the ship, after it was damaged by asteroids. She finds out, that all other members of the expedition were awakened 60 years ago and died due to unknown circumstances.

Since J.U.L.I.A.s memory is partially wiped, Rachel and J.U.L.I.A. start to investigate what happened to the crew. All explorations of planets in the star system is provided by MOBOT, an exploration robot. During the exploration of the star system, the three reveal, that before the crew was killed, they attacked the sentient inhabitants of the planet Ambrosia and caused a blood bath. The crew had decided to cover up the incident by destroying the remaining Ambrosians with an advanced weapon, but were killed before that.

Rachel and J.U.L.I.A find a temple on a planet where they meet a member of a race of superior stone-like beings, that oversee the balance in the universe. It tells them about the race of Ancients that destroyed the Ambrosians because of their advanced culture and desolated their home world, before exiling the remaining of them to Ambrosia. The Ancients also poisoned the lake on Ambrosia, before disappearing forever.

Rachel, MOBOT and J.U.L.I.A. are tasked, by the stone-like being, to defeat Xir, a monster on a desert planet named Phaidros. They decide to use the weapon originally supposed to cover up the crew's failure. Xir gets eventually destroyed by the weapon and is revealed to be an extremely advanced machine. The remains direct to a new planet, that was concealed to the scanners until then. It was the home world of the Ancients before the stone-like beings apparently destroyed them. On this planet Rachel finds out that the crew was killed by J.U.L.I.A., in order to protect the Ambrosians, since as an advanced A.I., she is capable of compassion. Rachel is shocked, but in the end she reconciles with this fact. They also find a way to help the Ambrosians, but they need to use the resources on the ship necessary to get home.

If the player decides to get back on Earth, J.U.L.I.A. puts Rachel to cryogenic sleep and departs to Earth. If the player decides to help the Ambrosians, the lake is purified and Rachel wants to live with Ambrosians, but MOBOT and J.U.L.I.A. reveal that she would be slain by them. So they depart for new adventures. The game ends with Rachel doing science, while a stone-like creature is shown to have watched her. After the final credits, MOBOT is seen enjoying his time on a Planet Zenobia.

Crippen is portrayed as a downtrodden cuckold continually humiliated by his coarse, overbearing wife. There is a strong suggestion in the story that he may have been innocent of murder, possibly killing his wife by accident, and that his younger mistress Ethel Le Neve is completely ignorant of the killing. The plot ostensibly covers Crippen's trial but the story is fleshed out with flashbacks to the doctor's relationship with his wife and his affair.

The Simpsons are invited to Milhouse's birthday party, which is shown to be a big expensive party, so much that Kirk has to sell the house in order to pay for it. When Marge and Homer think that all birthdays are getting too expensive, Homer takes drastic measures by ruining other kids' big birthdays; however, the "Party Committee" discover Homer's deeds and threaten to put a black mark on the family, preventing Bart, Lisa and Maggie from ever having another birthday party. The committee offer Homer a chance to remove the black mark by ensuring that Rod has a magical birthday party, to which he grudgingly agrees. Holding the party at Springfield Air & Space Museum, the Simpsons are surprised when one of the veteran pilots being honored at a ceremony recognizes Grampa and tells them of Homer's dad's service with the pre-USAF air command services during World War II. The veterans are not happy that Homer and Grampa are estranged and actively intervene in the relationship, forcing Homer to hug Grampa at gunpoint.

Milhouse's Dutch cousin Annika shows up for a visit and Bart is attracted to her, even though she constantly complains about American culture and introduces Bart to goofy Dutch games and vaping, which he gets addicted to. Marge catches Bart and Annika vaping, but both Bart and Homer remind her it is legal in their state. When Bart learns that Annika is heading to the airport to fly home, Grampa reveals that he was in love with a waitress at the main diner near the base but was not brave enough to attract her attention, so he stopped his regular maintenance job and took a supersonic flight that nearly killed him but won over the waitress — who was Mona, Homer's mother.

Ending his story, Grampa urges Bart to be careful with making a grand gesture to win over a girl, as it may not last especially if he is pretending to be someone he is not. Bart desperately races to the airport so he can talk to Annika before she goes. Annika scoffs at his typical "American gesture" but Bart responds by telling her he actually does not like her because she does nothing but complain and is only nice to people when she wants something from them. He dumps the remaining e-cigarettes and walks away from her, leaving Annika feeling humiliated by being dumped by a friend of Milhouse's as she starts cursing in Dutch.

As the veterans leave Springfield, Homer and Grampa are on good terms again and Homer first grills, blends, and finally evaporates a big steak for Grampa.

Homer wakes up at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to an alarm, where he accidentally causes an electrical explosion at his desk. He falls back asleep while the fire is extinguished. He is taken to Springfield General Hospital, where Dr. Hibbert discovers Homer has narcolepsy, a sleeping sickness. He receives a medical note, which he uses to excuse himself from performing daily tasks. Hibbert contacts Marge to ask Homer to get some medication, which he goes to collect. While in the queue, Homer complains about waiting before falling asleep on the floor. He returns home later that night without any medication and Marge can smell that Homer has been out drinking. After Marge complains at Homer, the couple go to see a therapist. The therapist says that Homer and Marge's relationship is falling apart and that the best option for them is separation, which could lead to divorce if things do not improve. Marge, frustrated with the sleeping Homer, agrees and tells him to leave for the time being. Homer tearfully packs his bags and leaves the family, with Marge admitting she is unsure when or if she will let him return. As Homer sleeps over at the Power Plant, hoping that Marge will forgive him soon like she did after previous break-ups, Lenny learns that Marge has changed her social media relationship status to "complicated". Homer then calls Marge to discover on her voicemail she has reverted to her maiden name, Bouvier.

After visiting Moe's Tavern, Homer goes to collect his medication, and meets a female pharmacist named Candace who agrees to go out with him, and they later spend the night together. Homer wakes up the next morning, worried about his marriage to Marge, and tries to call home to speak to her. He speaks to Selma, who reveals that Marge is preparing to go on a date. Homer goes with Candace to meet her friends at a coffee shop, and they both get tattoos which they show to Moe. Candace wants Homer to meet her father, and they go out for a meal. Candace's father, Roger, tells Homer not to worry about the age difference between him and Candace, revealing he has been dating a younger woman. Marge enters the restaurant, and she is in shock to see Homer is there, while he and Candace are appalled to see that she is Roger's date and that Roger has been spending time with Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Roger apologizes to Candace for not being there for her, before he proposes to Marge. Marge agrees to marry Roger after the divorce is finalized. Candace suggests Homer should marry her, revealing she is pregnant with his child.

Homer wakes up at the therapist's office sitting next to Marge. Homer is relieved to discover it was only a dream, and he and Marge are still together. Homer tells the therapist how she should not have suggested that he break up with Marge, but the therapist admits she did not tell them to break up. Homer makes a promise to try and behave for the entirety of March, to improve their marriage. By March 31, the family see an improvement in Homer. Lisa is now eating meat, and Maggie can now talk. She sings "What a Wonderful World" with Homer confused by this, only to wake up in a bar alongside Candace, who hits him with a bottle of beer to wake him up. Homer runs to his family home to see Roger has taken Homer's place at the family dinner table. The family look happy, and Homer walks away, sobbing. Lisa walks out to see Homer, comforting him, and they hug each other. Roger calls Lisa back indoors by mentioning their pending game of chess and pony shopping, with Lisa promising Homer she will Skype him at Christmas. Homer cries out loudly. Marge wakes up in bed, alongside a snoring Homer, and is shocked to discover this was ''her'' dream, and wonders if it meant something about her marriage to Homer. They visit the therapist who is about to talk through a solution.

The camera pans out to reveal a tattoo of the entire scene on the back of Hannah Horvath from ''Girls''. When asked what the tattoo meant by her lover, she says it means "never get drunk in Brooklyn".

At a town hall meeting, the town discovers that its anthem "Only Springfield" is being used by numerous towns in North America such as Tuscaloosa, Austin, Oakland, Calgary, and Provo, after former mayor Hans Moleman bought the anthem from a salesman. Lisa and Bart compose a new anthem called "Why Springfield, Why Not" and perform it in the theatre with other students. Homer has difficulty sitting in his seat at the performance due to his obesity, and when he must stand to give a standing ovation, he inadvertently tears out his row of seats, causing destruction to the theatre. Marge urges him to join a weight-control group, but the one he joins run by the mobility scooter-bound Albert states that obesity is beautiful, and Homer decides to embrace his obesity.

The group causes a disruption outside a fashion store which they claim promotes unrealistically thin figures, and all are arrested. Marge arrives to bail Homer on condition that he leave the group and start a diet, but he refuses and returns to jail with his obese friends. Confronting Homer and the obese group at a rally, Marge finally points out that Homer should not follow Albert, who she says is too lazy to walk. He attempts to get up from his scooter to prove her wrong, but suffers a fatal heart attack. An epilogue shows Albert's funeral, Homer and Marge walking home as he promises to yo-yo diet, and a montage showing Homer's physique changing drastically with his age over the next few decades.

S. Theodora Markson and her apprentice Lemony Snicket are hired to investigate a case of arson. Sharon Haines, an employee of the Department of Education informs Snicket of the fire, and becomes friends with Theodora. Sharon's son, Keller, acts suspiciously around Lemony. There is a witness to the arson, but when they go to visit his house, they discover it has also been burned down. Dashiell Qwerty, the town's librarian, is arrested for burning down the buildings, although Snicket highly doubts it was Qwerty that committed the crimes. It is revealed that Qwerty is arrested after Theodora and Sharon inform the Mitchum Officers that he is guilty. Stain'd Secondary School is then burned down, and all the schoolchildren are moved to the previously disused Wade Academy. Two people from the Department of Truancy come to take Snicket's friends (Jake Hix, Cleo Knight and Moxie Mallahan) plus Keller Haines to the boarding school, although Snicket is not taken. The man destroys Moxie's typewriter. Lemony realizes that the two people were Sharon and Hangfire.

When Lemony returns to the Lost Arms he finds Theodora beaten. She reveals that Sharon attacked her. Lemony finds Pip and Squeak hiding from the Department of Truancy. He goes to the school to investigate and is knocked unconscious; he wakes up in Ellington Feint's room in the school. She pretends to be a student called Filene N. Gottlin (an anagram of her actual name). Lemony and Ellington meet with Moxie, Jake, Cleo, Keller and Ornette Lost (Prosper Lost's daughter) in the school library, though all the books are blank. It is revealed by Keller that he and his mother aided Hangfire in order to save his sister, Lizzie. Snicket comes up with a fragmentary plot and his friends all help to carry it out. Stew Mitchum and Hangfire warn Lemony that they will kill him if necessary before beating him up. Hangfire, the villain behind the arsons, attempts to mislead Snicket into thinking Dicey's Department Store is being burned down, but Snicket works out that he is planning to burn down the library. He removes the books before Hangfire can burn it down, although the building ends up being saved by the recently installed sprinkler system. Stew confronts Lemony and Ellington at the library, leading to Ellington being arrested for the destruction of the books. Lemony replaced the full books with the empty ones found at the school library. He then hides the full books at Black Cat Coffee. A younger Josephine then talks to Lemony about how his sister, Kit, was arrested.

Nabat and her ailing husband live in a small isolated house far from the nearest village but to which Nabat has to go every couple of days to sell milk from their only cow. As war approaches ever closer the village is slowly deserted and following her husband's death, Nabat is left all alone to fend for herself. Although the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have ordered the inhabitants to leave the village, she remains, and each evening lights lamps in some of the abandoned houses and village mosque, which dissuades the enemy forces from occupying it. Nabat's only company is a gray wolf which she traps one day, but then releases. Spying the wolf later, she asks: "And why do you remain here?". Later we see why - the wolf has cubs and so she, like Nabat, is keeping the future alive. When the Azeri military decide to re-take the village, which would allow the inhabitants to return, Nabat dies as the first winter snows fall, seated on the bench outside her home.

Fifteen-year-old John Robie's father is an Egyptologist who goes missing during an excavation in Egypt. After arriving in Egypt to search for his missing father, he meets seventeen-year-old Karen Lacy. The two team up to find clues to John's missing father and to his excavations which included a map to the treasures of the Pharaoh Ramesses II.

While they are on their search, they are pursued by mysterious men who are in search of the map as well.

In the year 2043, scavenger James Cole (Aaron Stanford) has been recruited by a team of "Project Splinter" scientists led by physicist Katarina Jones (Barbara Sukowa), to travel back in time to the year 2015, and stop the release of a deadly virus by the enigmatic organization known as the "Army of the 12 Monkeys". In Cole's original timeline, the virus caused a plague (Kalavirus) that resulted in the death of seven billion humans in the year 2017, and its on-going mutations will mean the eventual end of the human race. In the 2015 timeline, Cole will meet and enlist the help of brilliant virologist Dr. Cassandra "Cassie" Railly (Amanda Schull); the two are brought together because a recording mentioning Cole, that Cassie made after the viral outbreak, is uncovered by Katarina Jones in the future timeline, prompting her to select Cole for the mission. Cole will also encounter a seemingly unstable math genius named Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire), whose father Cole has been tasked to kill, Cassie's ex-boyfriend Aaron Marker (Noah Bean), and the dangerous high-ranking members of the Army of the 12 Monkeys, "Pallid Man" (Tom Noonan) and Olivia (Alisen Down). In the future timeline, Cole will also have to deal with his best friend José Ramse (Kirk Acevedo), and a man named Theodore Deacon (Todd Stashwick), who leads a brutal pack of scavengers from which Cole and Ramse fled. Meanwhile, Cole and Cassie will try to unveil the identity and whereabouts of the mysterious leader of the Army of the 12 Monkeys, who is only known as "the Witness" and who is always one step ahead of them.

Fred Dawson (Scott), a serving cavalry officer, requests leave of absence to visit his father, who has been shot. His commanding officer grants the request but asks him to carry out an investigation at the same time into the current conflict between the sheepherders and cattlemen in the area. Dawson arranges a meeting between the two factions to encourage mutual cooperation in an attempt to resolve the dispute. During the meeting Joe Allison (Walter Mcgrail) is shot and Dawson is framed for the shooting. He is locked up pending a trial but his friend Doc Flanders (Harry Harvey) breaks him out. Later Dawson and Ed Brandt (John Merton) have a fist fight, after which it emerges that Theodore Jason (Frank LaRue) has secretly been creating all the trouble for his own ends, hoping that the cattlemen and sheepherders would run out of money so that he could foreclose on their debts.

There is a subplot in which Fred Dawson forms a close relationship with June Allison (Carmen), the daughter of Joe Allison.

Kansas settler Jeptha Marr is leery of the railroad intruding on his territory, and opposes railroad representative Stephen Bent, only to be surprised when daughter Vinnie returns to the town of Pawnee after a long absence and is already acquainted with Stephen.

A rival railroad interest spearheaded by Champ Clanton tries to muscle its way in, trying to taint Stephen's reputation by insinuating a relationship with Rita Molyneaux, a woman with a bad reputation. By the end, though, Vinnie is reassured that Rita is actually interested in Gideon Skene, and the railroad is headed Pawnee's way under Stephen's watch.

;''Pillow'' Ching-yi is a nurse who struggles with insomnia after her boyfriend Ho-hong leaves her and disappears following a quarrel between them. After buying a new pillow stuffed with aromatic herbs, she finally manages to fall asleep and starts having dreams of herself having sex with Ho-hong. Over time, the more she uses the pillow, the more her health degenerates. It turns out that Ching-yi had accidentally stabbed Ho-hong in the neck and killed him during the quarrel. She had then cleaned and vacuum-sealed his body in a bag before hiding it in the closet. The man whom Ching-yi has been having sex with in her dreams is actually an incubus-like demon in disguise as her dead boyfriend and he has been draining her "life force". One day, after receiving a mysterious tip-off, security officers force their way into the apartment and find Ching-yi in critical condition.

;''Hide and Seek'' A group of youngsters visit the old primary school which they graduated from. The school is about to be demolished and has been completely abandoned except for the old caretaker still living there. Ignoring the caretaker's warning to leave before dark, they play a variation of hide-and-seek around the campus and unknowingly attract the attention of the ghosts haunting the school. It is revealed at the end that all the youngsters had been lost to the netherworld and did not survive that night.

;''Black Umbrella'' Uncle Lam, a short elderly man carrying a black umbrella, travels along the streets at night during the Ghost Festival. For each good deed he does, he carves a mark on the umbrella handle. He saves a woman from getting knocked down by a bus, alerts the police to a thug beating up a man, and lectures a young robber attempting to rob him and a minibus driver. Later, he encounters Jenny, a prostitute who tricks him into accompanying her to her apartment after pretending to sprain her foot. When he declines her services, she turns nasty and tries to extort money from him. He attempts to leave but she screams for help from her bodyguard, who turns out to be the thug whom Lam confronted earlier. Cornered and about to be attacked, Lam reveals his true identity as a demonic creature. He kills both of them and devours Jenny's innards, much to the horror of those whom enter the room and witness it.

As described in a film magazine review, Old Man Prouty goes to live with his son. There he becomes a general annoyance, prying into things unwittingly and spoiling plans for everyone. He finds other cronies at the Old Men's Home and, after learning that his son is to choose between him and the young wife, he goes to live at the Home.

Season 1

The Guardians of the Galaxy team consists of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot. They have obtained an artifact called the Spartaxian CryptoCube that is tied to the Spartax race. Inside is a map leading to the Cosmic Seed. The Cosmic Seed is a powerful weapon that is capable of creating a new universe. The Guardians of the Galaxy must find and destroy the Cosmic Seed before it can wind up in the hands of Thanos, his minions Ronan the Accuser, Nebula, Korath the Pursuer, and his ally J'son (who is Star-Lord's long-lost father), the Ravagers led by Yondu, and anyone else who would abuse its power to threaten the entire universe.

Season 2

Marvel Entertainment announced on their Twitter feed that the Avengers will team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy in Season 2 for an episode where they fight the High Evolutionary.

Following Thanos's defeat, the Guardians of the Galaxy get their hands on a strange sarcophagus that was found on Thanos's asteroid base that has strange abilities and later stolen by Yondu. The Guardians of the Galaxy work to find the sarcophagus while competing against Mantis and the Universal Believers. This sarcophagus later hatches into Adam Warlock where the Guardians of the Galaxy were able to get him to follow his own destiny on the right path.

After escaping from his prison and stealing the Nova Centurion helmets with the unwitting help of Sam Alexander, J'son makes plans to use them and gain control of Adam Warlock which leads to an event that turns Adam Warlock into the Magus after he absorbs J'son into his crystal where he attacks the planets associated with each of the Guardians of the Galaxy members. The Guardians of the Galaxy managed to break J'son out of Magus restoring him back to Adam Warlock. After J'son goes supernova with the Nova Centurian helmet that he steals from Peter, Adam Warlock takes the brunt of it and is cocooned by Groot until the day for his re-emergence occurs.

Season 3: Mission Breakout

A third season was announced at the D23 Expo, which is based on the Disney Parks attraction of the same name. In the final season, the Guardians of the Galaxy go on the run when they are framed by Collector who has Howard the Duck set them up for the theft of a Kree item after they broke some items in their last encounter at his special prison which leads to them evading the Kree Accuser Phyla-Vell. After Howard the Duck admitted being threatened by Collector into double-crossing the Guardians of the Galaxy as well as Collector's ship shrinking Hala by converting the black hole generator into a molecular compression engine, Phyla-Vell works with the Guardians of the Galaxy to save Hala and defeat Collector who gets away after setting his ship to self-destruct.

After traversing through the Black Vortex, the Guardians of the Galaxy discover that the Asgardians' old enemies the Darkhawks have been replacing Nova Prime and members of the Galactic Council. The Darkhawks are made by Odin's brother Serpent who plans to reclaim Asgard. Using the reforged sword Dragonfang after claiming its pieces from two different area's and Hela's domain of Niffleheim, the Guardians of the Galaxy with the aid of Thanos and Loki were able to defeat Serpent and save the galaxy.

This season included Marvel characters Spider-Man, Max Modell, Venom, and Carnage in a crossover with the television series ''Spider-Man'', with Stan Lee having a voice role to go with his cameo.

Bar 20 ranch hand Johnny Travers (Jay Kirby) sends for old friends Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and California Carlson (Andy Clyde). Hopalong Cassidy immediately suspects mine company president Dan Slack (Victor Jory) to be behind the rustlings and decides to go undercover, with the assistance of Sharon Longstreet (Shelley Spencer) and her young brother Bobby (Bobby Larson).

Hoppy, Johnny Travers and California Carlson buy 50% of a ranch. The ranch is owned by siblings who haven’t been able to pay their extravagant water bill so the ranch is almost in foreclosure.

Hoppy and comrades quit the US Marshal Service. The local land baron (Victor Jory) owns the whole valley’s water rights. He also controls the cattleman’s association.

But...instead of paying the water bill, California invests in oil drilling. Both sets of partners feel they will lose the ranch. In the end the oil drilling pays off in water and the ranch is saved.

Within the DC superhero dimension of the Lego multiverse, Batman protects Gotham City and fights crime. During his latest mission to stop the Joker and Gotham's other supervillains from destroying the city, Batman hurts Joker's feelings by telling him he is not as important in his life as he thinks he is, leading Joker to seek the ultimate revenge on him.

The following day, Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne attends the city's winter gala, which is celebrating both the retirement of Commissioner Gordon and the ascension of his daughter Barbara as the city's new police commissioner, only to be infuriated by Barbara's plans to restructure the police to function without the need of Batman. Joker crashes the party with the city's other villains, all of whom surrender except Harley Quinn, who disappears during the confusion.

Knowing that Joker is up to no good, Batman plans to steal Superman's Phantom Zone projector, a device that can banish anyone to the Phantom Zone, which houses some of the most dangerous villains in the Lego multiverse, only for Alfred to intervene and advise him to take care of Dick Grayson, whom he unwittingly adopted as his son during the gala earlier. Reluctantly agreeing to do so, Batman fosters Dick as Robin, whereupon the pair successfully recovers the projector from the Fortress of Solitude and breaks into Arkham Asylum to send the Joker to the Phantom Zone. Suspecting that Joker ''wanted'' to be sent there, Barbara locks up Batman and Robin.

While the projector is being seized as evidence, Harley steals it back as part of Joker's plan, and frees him, allowing him to return to Gotham with all the villains he had recruited in the Phantom Zone. Realizing that the city does need him after all, Barbara releases Batman and Robin and teams up with them and Alfred to stop the new threat.

Although Batman finds himself able to trust and rely on his new team upon reaching Wayne Island, he chooses to send them away, fearing that he might lose them just like his parents. Upon facing him alone, Joker, believing how Batman is incapable of changing his ways, zaps him to the Phantom Zone before stealing the Batcave's stash of confiscated bombs to destroy Gotham City. Arriving in the Phantom Zone, Batman witnesses the harm his arrogance has caused everyone and accepts his greatest fear: being part of a family. Making a deal with the Zone's gatekeeper Phyllis to be allowed back to Gotham in order to retrieve the Zone's escaped prisoners, Batman arrives in time to save his teammates, apologizing to them for leaving them and requesting their help to stop Joker.

With help from Gotham's other villains, who felt neglected by the Joker when he refused to break them out of Arkham, Batman and his team defeat the escaped villains and send them back to the Phantom Zone. However, they fail to stop Joker's bombs from going off, and the explosion begins to tear the city apart at the plates beneath it. Batman convinces Joker to help him by telling him he gives him purpose to be the hero he is, and with the help of every civilian and villain, they manage to save Gotham, chain-linking themselves together to reassemble the plates.

With the city saved, Batman prepares to be taken back into the Phantom Zone to face the consequences of his earlier behavior, only to be rejected by Phyllis, who chooses to let him remain after realizing he is a hero and seeing how much he had changed to save everyone. Afterward, Batman gives Joker and the other villains a head start to avoid capture, knowing they will be no match for the new Bat-family.

The novel starts in September, after Joe Cardone, the brother of the main character, has come back from his trip to Europe, and after the summer in Toronto for Jason Cardone (Joe's brother) and his two friends, Don and Ferguson (Peachfuzz) the novel chronicles. They have lost his lease and he is taking out his temper on Jason. September ends with Jason calling Don and Ferguson so they can start looking for a new place for Joe to live. The novel then flashes back to the previous June. The characters have convinced their parents to let them move into Joe Cardone, Jason Cardone's older brother's house for the summer. Early on, Ferguson makes Jason and Don lose their jobs at the plastics company where they work, and Jason and Don attempt to find jobs. While they are at a "teenage club" Don attempts to hit on a girl, Jessica, and ends up knocking her out cold by accident. Immediately after that, Don and Ferguson each attempt to get Jessica's attention throughout the rest of the book, Jason feeling like a 3rd wheel until the end of the book where Jessica confesses her love for Jason, after knocking Jason out cold with a pair of brass knuckles. Don finds jobs fairly easily but is almost immediately fired, however, Jason doesn't find a single job because Jessica constantly asking Jason for help with different things during the book. A friend of Joe's, Rootbeer Racinette helps Jason and Don earn money by doing various odd jobs and illegal gambling using his large size. Later in the book, Ferguson makes a plan to get revenge on their nosy landlord, Plotnick, who sells hubcaps in the deli that he owns. This results in Plotnick being hit in the head by a flying hubcap, and severely hurt, and put in traction for a month. Jason feels responsible for this and takes to running the deli in Plotnick's absence. The deli becomes a hit, and at the end of the month, Jason has earned so much money that Plotnick sells all the apartment and builds an expensive beach condo over it, thus losing the lease of all the people living there. The book ends where the start left off, and Jason finds a new, better apartment for Joe.

Sgt. Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday (William Tracy) and Sgt. Ames (Joe Sawyer) attempt to attract the affections of Phyllis Arden (Marjorie Woodworth) while the ship they're on tracks a Japanese submarine in this comedy romp.

Unlike the previous books, ''Prince of Scorpio'' does not follow on directly from the previous novel, ''Swordships of Scorpio''. Instead, Dray Prescot finds himself on an unknown beach on Kregen, after having spent some time on Earth without mentioning how long and where.

Prescot has once more been returned to Kregen by either the Savanti or the Star Lords, this time to save a group of prisoners from a stranded ship who are being killed by their guards. Prescot receives help from another agent of the Savanti, Alex Hunter, the first time he encounters another Earthman on Kregen. Hunter is mortally wounded and dies in Prescot's arms. Prescot, after saving some of the prisoners and killing all the guards, finds out that the prisoners are from Vallia and of the people-based Panval party, arrested for their opposition to the aristocrat-based Ractor party. Prescot, who the prisoners believe to be called Drak, the first time this name is used for him, finds out that he is on the island of Valka, off the coast of Vallia.

Prescot sets off to find help for the stranded former prisoners. He finds the island devastated through slaving raids and roaming mercenaries. The young population has either been enslaved or escaped into the central mountain range. Prescot is made welcome in a simple village full of old people but falls ill from drinking the poisonous canal water of Vallia. While slowly recovering, he has a first-hand experience of the mercenaries taking food from the village, with Prescot unable to interfere because of his illness. Once recovered however, when the mercenaries return he fights and kills them.

Dray Prescot then attempts to take a boat across to Vallia but is forced back by a sudden storm, similar to events on the Eye of the World when the Star Lords prevented him from travelling back to Magdag or Sanurkazz. The Gdoinye appears and, for the first time, speaks to Prescot, calling him a fool. The bird tells him that the Star Lords were not the ones to bring him to Valka but that he now had a task to complete. He replies that he wishes to return to Delia but the Gdoinye tells him she is not missing him and reminds him of the years he spend with the clansmen when only a day passed for Delia. He begins to understand that he is in a time loop and accepts his role in the liberation of Valka.

Prescot spends the next six years fighting the oppressors of the people of Valka, eventually succeeding. In the fortress of Esser Rarioch in the capital of Valka, Valkanium, he is offered and accepts the title of strom, equivalent of a count, of Valka. He prepares to leave for Vallia by ship, planning to first head to Zenicce. However, with his task completed, he is taken away from Kregen once more and transported to Paris during the 1830 revolution July Revolution.

After an undisclosed time period, Prescot is returned to Kregen, now to the mountainous northern part of Vallia to rescue two aristocrats whose flying boat has crashed in the mountains. The two are Naghan Furtway, Kov of Falinur, and his nephew, Jenbar, to which Prescot takes a liking while he finds the kov to be arrogant. He travels south by canal boat and eventually reaches the capital of Vallia, Vondium, to find that Delia and the Emperor have both gone west to the Blue Mountains. On his journey there, Prescot joins a caravan which incidentally carries the dowry for Delia's wedding to a local lord, arranged by her father. The caravan is ambushed by bandits loyal to Delia and robbed of the treasure, a plan devised by Delia to stop her wedding. Prescot is recognised by the leader of the bandits, Korf Aighos, having been told by Delia to look out for his arrival.

Prescot and some of the bandits, including Aighos, are captured by the emperors men and brutally dragged back to the capital. There, before the emperor, Prescot is sentenced to death. Delia recognises him and tries to prevent him from being taken away but fails. On the way to the executioner, Prescot is rescued by Seg, whom he believed to be dead and who is now a member of the Imperial Guard of bowmen of Loh. Seg takes Dray Prescot out of the palace and explains to him that he and Thelda are now married and have a son called Dray. Dray Prescot makes a full recovery and returns to the imperial palace, now as the Strom of Valka, positively impressing the emperor. Delia initially disbelieves him that he is the strom as she is unaware of the time loop that allowed Prescot to liberate Valka while being somewhere else on Kregen at the same time.

Prescot is approached by a representative of the Ractor party who wishes to gain his support for their candidate to wed Delia, Vomanus. Prescot is taken by surprise by this turn and wonders why Vomanus would be interested in Delia after knowing how much Prescot loved her. Prescot starts to plan to run away with Delia, either to Zenicce or the Eye of the World. Instead however, Prescot is summoned to follow the emperor and Delia to Vindelka. On the way he is delayed by storms and upon arrival finds out that the Emperor's party had been attacked. He accidentally runs into Inch, who has been captured and enslaved by a Vallians ship, and Prescot frees him. Warned by Vomanus, the emperor and Delia have escaped to a place called the Dragon's Bones, and Prescot follows them while sending Inch to the Blue Mountains to organise help.

Upon arriving at the Dragon's Bones, Prescot initially lands in the camp of the rebels, who believe him to have come in their support. When the leader of the uprising, Kov Naghan Furtway, arrives, Prescot's true identity is discovered and he escapes to the emperor's party. There he learns that Delia is not present. The emperor and his guard of bowmen are hard pressed and eventually, when the situation becomes desperate, Prescot decides to try to break out to save the emperor's life. The breakout fails, and just when the small group is making their last stand, Delia arrives with airboats from Zenicce, where she went to organise help from. The combined force of Clansmen, the allied houses of Zenicce, and men from the Blue Mountains, defeat the uprising. The leaders however escape.

The emperor learns of Prescot's true identity, but, having during the battle promised Delia's hand to him if he can save him, is forced to let the two wed and makes Prescot the Prince Majister of Vallia, the equivalent of crown prince. Prescot also learns that the Vomanus is Delia's half brother, a son of her mother from a previous marriage, but is told that this is to be kept secret.

The appendix section of the book contains a hand-drawn map of Kregen for the first time, attributed to Dray Prescot as well as a glossary.

Recalling the stories of his late grandfather, a young man deliberates over the sale of a homebuilt replica of a S.E.5 fighter aircraft they had built together. His grandfather's voice comes back to him, relating his experiences, beginning with his enlistment in 1914 as a soldier in Canada. After a time in the trenches on the Western Front as an officer in the infantry, he applies to become an aviator and is assigned to a balloon corps as an air observer.

Spotting for gunners is his first task, but the job is dangerous, as balloons draw the attention of anti-aircraft batteries (called "archie") and enemy aircraft. A parachute saves him when his balloon is shot down. His second transfer request to an aircraft squadron is quickly approved, mainly because there is a pressing need for replacements during the "Fokker Scourge" in 1915–1916, when Allied flyers were being shot down in large numbers by superior German Fokker aircraft.

Flying aerial reconnaissance missions in a B.E.2C reconnaissance/bomber aircraft is just as harrowing. Although the air observers are armed and able to fight back, the crews call themselves "Fokker fodder". With the development of more capable Allied fighters, air superiority is slowly won back. On the ground, armies are no longer able to move without being observed from the air, leading to a blood-stained stalemate.

In the air, German ascendency in fighters reasserts itself, leading to "Bloody April", 1917. Until new Allied designs appear, the skies over the Western Front are ruled by German aces such as Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". After being wounded, a final application to become a pilot is approved. The air war is still considered the realm of "knights of the air" by not only Canadians but also Americans signing up, even before their country enters the war. At the completion of his training in 1918, despite his background as an air observer, grandfather is a neophyte assigned to a fighter squadron at the front. Flying the new S.E.5, he takes part in air combat against seasoned German aces.

With his prospects grim, he beats "the odds" when the Armistice ends the conflict. The Canadian contribution to the air war has been remarkable: 10,000 aviators, including "Billy" Bishop and Raymond Collishaw, among the top aces in the war.

His grandson resolves to keep the replica S.E.5 as a tribute to his grandfather and all the others who fought in the first air war.

''Dima Nikitin'', a Russian plumber, is a municipal repair-crew chief and is studying building engineering in an unnamed Russian town. He is a dauntless young man surrounded by the adverse effects of his pessimistic family and harshly uncaring community. He lives with his hasty mother, apathetic father, and wife and son. He faces financial struggles while studying and attempting to complete engineering school while working as a plumber. When Dima discovers a leaky pipe in a building, he stresses the importance of urgent action. When Dima goes outside to inspect the manner, he notices the entire building is tilting.

His compassionate and good-hearted character cannot rest with the knowledge that the inevitable destruction of the building will occur within the next 24 hours. Dima goes out of his way to alert the necessary authorities about the matter at hand. When he tries to warn the Mayor Nina Galaganova, he passes the inspector of public housing, Fedotov. While attempting to inform the officials, it is apparent that they are too intoxicated to understand the severity. They joke around with the validity of Dima's claim, saying he’s probably sleeping with some girl whom he offered a new apartment. They only become concerned once they realize what others will think of them and how they will lose everything after the destruction. They are hit with the guilt of taking out money for themselves and letting the accidents pile on top of each other until they are faced with the catastrophe of abruptly trying to relocate 800 residents who are slowly killing themselves.

Galaganova sends Fedotov and Matugin to assess the damage with Nikitin. The officials soon accept that the building will indeed fall, and return to report this to the Mayor. They all realize that an evacuation of this scale would cause a financial review and reveal years of embezzlement.

Galaganova and Bogachyov decide to pin the expected building collapse on Fedotov and Matugin. Together with Nikitin, Fedotov and Matugin are instructed by Sayapin, the police chief, that arrangements are being made for evacuation. The trio are put into a police van and taken allegedly to meet Galaganova, but instead, they are driven to a remote location on the city outskirts. It becomes clear to them that Galaganova is covering her tracks by eliminating them, to pin the eventual collapse of the building on them. Fedotov pleads with the policemen to release Nikitin and they reluctantly agree, instructing him to leave the city with his family immediately. Matugin and Fedotov are executed.

Despite Dima's efforts, no one is evacuating the building. Dima takes matters into his own hands, going banging from door to door urging residents to leave before the building collapses. '''''“We live like animals and we die like animals because we are nobodies to each other”''''', Dima stresses to his wife Masha when she refuses to care about the wellbeing of others. Despite his bravery, he gets attacked for disrupting the entire building, as no one believes him or supports his efforts.

The final scene is Dima laying in a fetal position after getting punched by arrogant and annoyed residents. The fate of the residents is left in the arms of the viewer's imagination.

Carson Morris (Lara Vosburgh) is a former straight-A student who has been using drugs for the past year, having begun shortly after she enrolled in a prestigious Catholic high school. She has agreed, albeit reluctantly, to allow a film crew to monitor her for an ''Intervention''-esque documentary show as she checks into a rehab clinic. Carson is quickly made a target of ridicule by the other patients, as she has been taking drugs because she believes that she has been demonically possessed. Jason (Morgan McClellan), a production assistant for the film crew, is sympathetic and quickly bonds with Carson - even going so far as to believe her claims after her behavior turns increasingly erratic. During all of this Carson also has several displays of supernatural behavior that is captured on camera but only when she is alone. There are suggestions of bringing in an exorcist, however the clinic's physician Dean Pretiss (Richard Wilkinson) thinks that this would be detrimental to Carson's mental well being. When Carson attacks Jason the show's producer Suzanne (Kate Whitney) begins to push Pretiss for an exorcist, only for him to state that he wants to transfer Carson to a mental institution.

The following day Pretiss gives a much calmer Carson a physical exam and discovers that Jason gave her heroin while she was unconscious, as he now fully believes that the drugs will keep the demons at bay. As a result, Carson is expelled from the clinic and her family withdraws their consent to have her filmed. Not deterred, Jason follows Carson home and continually tries to get in touch with her family, but is repeatedly sent away by her parents, Beth and Steve (Colleen McGrann and Christopher Parker). It's only when he investigates her "friends" that he discovers that she was being bullied at her new school by her new acquaintances. They decided to prank her by forcing her to take part in a Satanic ritual, which is when she got possessed. Jason returns to the Morris family home with the rest of the film crew and breaks into the house demanding to see Carson. Her parents are initially hostile, but grow fearful after they hear Carson screaming upstairs. With no other options, Jason tries to exorcise Carson himself but is unsuccessful and the demon causes the house's power to go out. Carson, now fully possessed, then picks off the house's occupants one by one, including her own mother after she tearfully admits that Carson is a victim of physical abuse. Jason tries to appeal to Carson one last time and is seemingly successful. However their joy is short lived, as Carson's father enters the room and shoots Carson in the head and then kills himself, believing that she is still possessed. A horrified Suzanne is then murdered by Jason, who then turns off the camera currently filming, and it is revealed that his eyes are now pure black, as were Carson's earlier in the film.

Mohanpur is an ancient village, not unlike many such villages of our country, still deprived of the basic amenities of modern times. There is a local health centre minus a permanent doctor (Azad Abul Kalam) as no one is willing to work and live in a village. There is also a primary school with no more than a handful of pupils and the few who do go to school hardly ever attend college afterward. The population of the village is just average, neither too dense nor too sparse. One it was a predominantly Hindu locality, but in a course of time, the proportion of Hindus has declined to the level of Muslims and is continuing to decline further. However, any conflict or clash between the adherents of the two faiths is yet unheard of in this village. All villagers live in an atmosphere of friendly tolerance. Everything has been going well for ages, but at one point an ancient banyan tree becomes the focal point of dispute between the two sections of the village community. Situated on public land, this tree has been witness to the passage of time. It is said that once this plot of land used to be the property of a Hindu zamindar, but at present it belongs to the government.

The villagers do not have many possessions, except for a few things. The Muslims have a mosque, the Hindus a temple. There are one community health centre and an ancient railway station. One day the Hindus suddenly began to think: "Wish we could have another temple!" The Muslims also thought: "If we could not have another mosque, why not an Eidgah at least?" And both sides wanted their temple or mosque to be erected on the empty public land. But the tree on the plot stood in the way.

The only resident doctor in the village, elderly homoeopath Araj Ali (Azad Abul Kalam), had been applying to the authorities for the last five years for a good doctor for the health centre. Finally, his application bore fruit, a qualified doctor was sent from the district town, and on the same day the village carpenter Tulsi's(Intekhab Dinar) goat died on the public land. Hindus and Muslims were shocked by the incident, they suspected the tree on the plot was cursed. Rumour was rife in the village that the old banyan tree was the cause of the animal's death. To prevent the recurrence of such incidents the vicinity of the tree was declared inaccessible to all human beings, their cattle, and other domestic pets. But at one time children used to play hide-and-seek around that banyan tree on the public land, on scorching hot days cowherds dozed in its soothing shade, peasants working in the fields cooled their perspiring bodies under its leafy branches while eating the lunch brought by their wives or daughters. But in a few days time, the cursed tree claimed its second victim, the carpenter Tulsi's old mother (Dilara Zaman) who went gathering dry leaves under it. Tulsi's wife Durgarani (Sohana Saba) told everyone that tree was indeed the killer of her mother-in-law.

The newly qualified doctor Abir Ahmed at the village health centre examined the dead woman and said that she had died of a heart attack. The Hindus refused to accept his verdict. Overnight the tree turned into a deity. Illiterate and superstitious Hindus began to worship the tree from a safe distance, the over-zealous among them even dared to decorate the trunk and branches of the tree with red pennants. The Brahmins began to proclaim that the tree deity could only be appeased by performing puja under it and offering human sacrifice.

The time of Durga Puja, the biggest Hindu festival, drew near. Muslims too prepared to rejoice in the festivities of their Hindu neighbours. The image of goddess Durga was being constructed in the temple. Arati – ritualistic worship with oil lamps and burning sense accompanied by the loud ringing of bells and beating of gongs – was performed every evening in the temple till late, although worshippers were careful not to begin it until the Muslims had ended their namaz. This was a familiar daily scenario in Mohanpur.

Mohanpur has a small marketplace consisting of only a handful of shops. Protul Nag is the night watchman, appointed by Gour Biswas, the head of the temple committee. It is said that he had murdered his wife. Protul patrols the market area every night, shouting "Beware, all honest people!" although his own honesty is subject to question. One night a thief broke into a shop and tried to escape carrying a sackful of rice. But he ran into Protul and dropping the sack ran off to hide under the banyan tree on the public land. There were heavy rains and thunderstorm that night and the next morning the thief was found lying stone dead under the tree. After examining the corpse the qualified doctor Abir Ahmed said the man had been murdered.

The Hindus refused to accept the doctor's opinion. They said: "The deity is demanding human sacrifice. Such incidents will not stop until the deity’s demand is met." The veteran homoeopath Araj Ali asked: "If the man has indeed been killed by that tree, why is there a vicious bruise on his head?" But no one paid any heed to his question.

Tulsi was dumbfounded with grief at his mother's death. He had the lurking suspicion that the members of the temple committee might have persuaded his wife Durga to poison the goat. Were they responsible for his mother's death as well? His mother and Durga had never been on very good terms with each other, so he could not help suspecting his wife. So he withdrew into a shell and simply stopped talking. Meanwhile, a clandestine relationship developed between Durga and the new doctor Abir. This gave rise to covert whisperings in the village.

The homoeopath Araj Ali repeatedly sent applications to the district town praying for the interference of the authorities to resolve this situation. One day a Police Inspector arrived to make inquiries into the questions involving the banyan tree. Both Hindus and Muslims gathered at the spot. The Inspector carefully examined the tree. Araj Ali's letters had already appraised the Inspector of the dirty politics behind the incidents taking place in the village. An elderly Hindu villager came forward and said: "Inspector Sir, this tree is not a mere tree, it’s a deity. It’s demanding more blood." The Inspector replied: "So you’re advocating human sacrifice here! You want a temple where you can worship. But was there ever a temple at this spot?" An old Muslim gentleman shouted: "There has never been a temple here. Why is it necessary to preserve this tree? Let’s cut it down!" These heated arguments created considerable excitement among the crowd and led to skirmishes. Finally, the police managed to disperse the crowd by wielding sticks and the Inspector even had to fire a few rounds. The police force left without taking a decision.

The next day a bagful of money reached the Inspector. The authorities shook their hands off the matter. And the mosque committee discovered that their agitation was about to fizzle out since their community had suffered no loss of life or property. Meanwhile, the temple committee arranged to guard the tree lest someone tried to destroy it. In spite of that one night, some men wearing caps managed to tear off the red ribbons hung from its branches. Coming to know of this Araj Ali rushed there and re-fastened the red ribbons, two village communities.

The same night the dead body of Araj Ali was found at the bottom of the tree. The fingers of one of his lifeless hands were clutching a cap. The mosque committee placed the blame of Araj Ali's death squarely on the temple committee while the latter accused the former of the same crime. The two sides began taking out processions, in turn, protesting against this heinous act and demanding justice.

Apprehending that the situation was quickly going out of control, the doctor Abir Ahmed petitioned the higher authorities. The government responded with strict orders that neither side was to erect any kind of structure in the vicinity of the disputed tree. Hindus and Muslims then joined hands to drive the Doctor Abir out of the village. They chose Tulsi's beautiful wife Durga as the instrument for making their plan work.

Their plan was successful. Answering the coquettish call of Durga, the doctor came to see her behind her house in the dead of night. He was caught red-handed by vigilant villagers. The same night both Hindus and Muslims gathered in the courtyard of Haji Sahib where the doctor was put on trial. Their verdict was that Doctor Abir must leave the village by the first light of dawn. Progressive ideology was thus defeated by dirty politics.

But will this politics of religious dogmatism, of vested interests ever come to an end? Or is it to continue as long as the human race lasts? But that banyan tree is still standing on that same public land, and politics is still being played around it.

"O Brihonnola Tree, may you survive forever because you too have the right to live."

It tells the story of Mateusz Rosiński who has cerebral palsy in Poland and his life from the 1980s to 2000s. It is inspired by true events.

An opera singer (Zero Mostel), dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance.

After journalist Eastman (Georgina Sutcliffe) returns home after a disastrous assignment in the Middle East, she finds a new job at a local newspaper to be closer to her friend, Joe Forbes (T.J. Herbert), an air traffic controller. Following a near mid-air collision involving JASP Airlines Flight 313, Joe has been suspended. He contends that the pilot was being slow to obey the orders of the tower.

This incident does not appear in the press, which intrigues Helen. She convinces her new boss, Nick Robertson (Paul Antony-Barber), that a cover-up has taken place. Natasha Stevens (Rita Ramnani) joins Helen in the investigation of the air safety issues involved. They soon learn the JASP Airlines company officer, David Morris (Stephen Tompkinson), has died, but his wife, a flight attendant, discovers that he has been investigating the same concerns about air safety for years.

The new director of JASP Air, Ben Tyrell (Mark Dymond), discovers that the incident of Flight 313 is not the first and begins to ask his own questions. When the chief engineer of the company tells him that the pressurization of the aircraft has a design problem, letting vaporized oils pass into the cabin air'

Ultimately, the dark side of the aviation industry is exposed with incidents of contaminated air as far back as the 1950s. The pervasive industry denial campaign is supported by the owners of the JASP airline company, Charles (Nicholas Day) and Maggie Jasper (Marina Sirtis). Ben has to deal with a moral issue: corporate profit or public safety?

Meanwhile, Helen and Natasha understand that the flight crew, but also the passengers, are at risk. They would like to make a scoop, but their opponent, the aviation industry, is a major opponent, not hesitating to buy the silence of its detractors.

At an aviation conference, however, the director of JASP Air indicates that the company's aircraft will begin to be modified so that the air in their cabin is of good quality.

"Ahas"

Troy's wife Julie (Solenn Heusaff) was locked at Alegria Mall's department store dressing room and is killed after a snake man killed her. Troy (JC de Vera) suddenly wakes up after a bad dream about the death of his wife.

Fashion designer Iggy Moda (John Lapus) is planning to organize an event culminating Alegria Mall's Silver Anniversary. To make the mall's anniversary very special, Iggy conceptualizes fashion collection and mall's new logo, but at the same time, thinks of reviving the rumors about Alegria Mall's alleged half-human half-snake lurking somewhere deep in the mall which has been the reason of the disappearances of some shoppers. Sarah (Erich Gonzales), the half-human half snake, looks out in the vent and sees Troy, in whom she fall in love and becomes obsessed. Along with the mall's 25th anniversary is Sandra Alegria's (Erich Gonzales) 25th birthday. Coming back from the United States, she welcomes the new members as part of the mall company's board of officers and as the head of the company. Sandra also denies the rumors circulating between her and her alleged twin snake sister.

A shoplifter (Melai Cantiveros) plans to steal some clothes and items from the mall's department store by wearing multiple shirts. A saleswoman picks up on her behavior and takes her to a dressing room, which she secretly locks her in. After she finishes putting them on in the dressing room, she hears trembling sounds and feels movement, and discovers a chamber. She is then killed by Sarah. After she kills the shoplifter, she tells her evil self that she met someone named Troy, but her evil self insists that she will never be loved by someone because of her appearance as a snake. Troy strolls around the mall while still grieving and finding answers to his wife's disappearance, until he finds himself in front of the department store where he last saw his wife. He tries to open the dressing room door where his wife last went to, but is stopped by the same saleslady who had locked the shoplifter inside.

Meanwhile, security guards and staff members check the premises as the mall closes. Janitor Mang Banjo (Lou Veloso) takes his cleaning rounds to Sarah's chamber and nervously cleans the mess carefully and silently. Sarah calls him as he tries to retreat to the elevator. Mang Banjo carefully communicates with Sarah to avoid angering her, but Sarah becomes furious when she notices that he continues to avoid eye contact. Sarah turns the janitor around in front of her to make him face her, and he rushes to the lift. However, Sarah escapes with him, and the old man realizes that it was a trick. Mang Banjo immediately calls the twins' father, Alberto (Ariel Rivera), for help, who then prepares a handgun to meet Sarah. Meanwhile, Jake (Jason Francisco) sees Sarah in the dark in the department store wearing a dress, and recognizes her at first as Sandra. He runs away as he sees Sarah transform into a snake with arms, and is killed when Sarah catches up to him.

Alberto talks to Sandra about Sarah's escape from her chamber. Then he later tells her that he just wanted to have good luck; an old witch doctor had handed him a vial containing medicine which could bring good luck to his mall business. He tricks their mother, Lourdes (Alice Dixson), into drinking the medicine concealed in wine, which results in her giving birth to Sarah and Sandra. Lourdes believes Sarah to be a curse and wishes her killed, but Alberto keeps Sarah under the mall's basement, due to his belief that she can bring good luck to the family and the business. Sarah was fed at first with animals, until she tasted human blood when a construction worker falls from an accident down into the chamber. Sandra remembers visiting Sarah ever since their childhood until they said their goodbyes to each other. Alberto then plans to kill Sarah once and for all. Meanwhile, Troy returns to his house and gets a knife, plotting revenge to kill Sarah before returning to the mall.

Back at the mall, Iggy officially unveils his masterpiece, a statue resembling the alleged half-human half-snake as part of the anniversary. Alberto arrives and orders Iggy to remove the image, for it ruins the mall's reputation. Alberto, Sandra, and Mang Banjo hurriedly return to the chamber, hoping to stop Sarah from her evil plans. Sarah shows up and is glad, believing that Alberto returned to introduce her to everyone, especially Troy. Meanwhile, Troy independently enters the secret dressing room and finds the secret chamber. Meanwhile, Alberto argues with Sarah and that he despises her, and then Sandra steps into Sarah's view and the two briefly reunite. Alberto and Sandra continue to argue with her, telling her that she had caused chaos and that she needs to stop. Sarah becomes enraged when she realizes that she is not planned to be a part of their mall's anniversary celebration, and claims that Alberto became greedy. Alberto draws his gun and inaccurately shoots at Sarah as she transforms fully into a snake, and is captured when Sarah binds him by her tail. He is killed when Sarah throws him so that he hits his head on a bathtub rim.

Taking advantage of the chance, Troy stabs Sarah in the back of her lower snake body, enraging her. Sandra, Troy, and Mang Banjo hurriedly escape the chamber; the trio then warns Iggy and the board members to leave the mall before they seek shelter in a hardware store to find more weapons. At the store, Sandra learns from Troy that Sarah killed his wife. They return to the mall and Sandra goes alone to find Sarah, and tries to bargain with her to figure out a new life together. Troy attempts to sneak-attack Sarah with his knife, but she knocks him down and then swallows him whole. While in her snake stomach, Troy kills Sarah from inside and then cuts his way out using his knife, leaving Sandra heartbroken and guilty.

"Ulam"

Cold couple, Aimee and Henry moves to their Ama Choleng's mansion after she dies. They meet the caretaker of the house, Aling Lina. Aimee and Henry are fed by Lina, food. While eating, Aimee accidentally chews a lizard's tail while eating the food. Disgusted by this, they all dismissed one another and proceeds to their bedroom. Each time they eat every meal Lina serves, they are being transformed from normal human beings, to animals (based on their Zodiac sign) and sets a full wage war in their household.

"Flight 666"

Dave (Matteo Guidicelli) boards Manila Air Flight 666, traveling from Manila to Zamboanga. On board are two vloggers and members of a famous band Eli (Yael Yuzon) and Gino (Khalil Ramos) flying home to do a gig in the province and their fans, friends Adam (IC Mendoza) and Lovely (Kiray Celis) who coincidentally boarded the flight with Gino, her idolized celebrity, celebrity vlogger and television show host Tim (Kim Atienza), socialite father and son Macoy (Bentong) and Macky (Betong Sumaya), fired baggage handling supervisor Carlos, and Jane (Ria Garcia), who is pregnant, along with her grandmother Lola Juling (Lui Manansala). Also on the flight are socialite Connie (Joy Viado) and married couple Brandon (John Spainhour) and Miranda (Arlene Muhlach), all of whom are seated at the first class cabin. Passengers are welcomed by flight attendant Bryan (Daniel Matsunaga) and are accommodated by co-flight attendants Pamela (Nathalie Hart) and Karen (Lovi Poe). Karen suddenly bumps into Dave, who was her ex-boyfriend, apologizes to Dave of what happened to both of them in the past, but Dave ignores her apology.

While the plane takes off, Lola Juling insists Jane to pretend that she fell in love with a foreigner volunteer as soon as they get their way home, which later turned out that she fell in love with a creature and is the father of their baby "tiyanak". After the plane reached its cruising altitude, Carlos instigates a hijacking, interrogating the crew in the flight deck on the reason of the airline company laying off some employees as part of the company's cost-cutting strategy and demands the airline to wire money to an account to form compensation for the airline's laid off employees. Connie overhears the chaos and hides in one of the lavatories only to find the couple doing a mile high club, whom she urges to calm down and stop their acts out of fear of being killed. Meanwhile, Jane gives birth to her baby creature and suddenly passes out along with the baby. The plane suddenly went into a short turbulence and faints almost everyone on board, except for Lola Juling, who dies in the process. Unknown to them, the creature lurks out and scratches some of the passengers. Karen later overhears a conversation between Carlos and Pamela, which she realizes Pamela helps in making Carlos' plans succeed.

In the lavatory, Miranda fights with Connie until the tiyanak comes out of nowhere and kills Brandon, Connie and Miranda in the process and soon attacks the rest of the passengers on board one by one, including Pamela, Eli, Macoy and Macky and another passenger (Sue Prado). The remaining passengers seek safety, except for Adam. Capt. Robert Francisco (Rolando Inocencio) tasked Bryan and Officer Charlie (Ken Alfonso) to check on the situation on board. Meanwhile, Adam is killed and hanged by the creature's umbilical cord while Carlos fights himself with the creature with a gun and is killed by the baby creature. The creature attacks the flight deck and strangles the pilot. Karen, Bryan, Dave and the remaining passengers make a plan to safety as Tim and Bryan fly the plane after losing the pilots. Gino and Lovely discovers a bomb underneath the seats which is ready to detonate. On the contrary, Karen finds the child on the floor and picks it up, while Dave throws it away from her before it transforms again into a tiyanak. Karen, Dave, Gino and Lovely runs out to safety, but the creature traps Karen and Dave. Coincidentally, Iggy wakes up and is attacked by the creature.

After the flight lands safely, the creature attacks again and kills Lovely. Karen, Dave, Gino, Tim and Bryan escapes the plane as the bomb planted by the hijacker explodes, killing the creature. As the survivors tell the tale to the authorities, Karen and Dave walk away together as the father of the creature vengefully appears behind them in the distance. After the credits, Iggy is shown to have survived the explosion.

In the tale, the people of the town of Canillo decide to hire a piper for a festival, but as night begins to fall the piper still has not arrived. It turns out the piper had been walking on his way to the festival, but was surprised by a pack of wolves on Casamanya mountain. The piper turned to flee, and just managed to climb a tree to escape the pack, but the wolves remained at the base of the tree waiting for him to come down. In fear, the piper clutched his bagpipes, causing the pipes to blare out their sound. This sound startled the wolves, who then ran away.

Depending on the version of the legend, the piper was either found the next day by a search party, still playing his pipes to keep the wolves away, or else arrived at the party late, having walked the rest of the way to Canillo playing his pipes all along the way.

In the Russian countryside, Mikhail is hunting when he encounters Andrey, a criminal who is running from three men who are trying to kill him. They are compelled to try to escape together, first in Mikhail's car, then on foot, while tension builds between them.

When 21-year-old Melissa Collins (Eileen Elton) commits suicide, her guardian, the domineering American newspaper publisher William T. Marshall (Dennis O'Keefe), searches (in flashback) for a reason. He finds it in a letter he receives from Melissa, after her death. In this, she asks Marshall to take revenge on her lover, philandering musician Larry Shaw (Vernon Greeves), who caused her such pain he made life not worth living. Marshall hires criminal mastermind, Karnak (Anton Diffring), an avid philatelist. He promises him a rare stamp in exchange for planning the torturous murder of Larry Shaw. Meanwhile, Marshall's loyal secretary, Katie Whiteside (Ann Sears), attempts to calm her boss's obsessive desires for vengeance. Matters become additionally complicated however, when Karnak targets the wrong man.

Hopalong Cassidy and his sidekicks California Carlson and Lin Bradley leave their Bar 20 ranch for a cattle buy from the Stevens spread. Along the way, they encounter Mrs. Stevens, her daughter Marie and ranch hand Mark Jackson, whose stagecoach has been robbed by the Quirt Rankin gang.

Marie's stolen jewels are held for ransom and her sweetheart Richard Adams intends to raise the money. Jackson, secretly the boss of Quirt's gang, tries to swindle Richard out of his land and lends him cash that was Hoppy's cattle money before the robbery. He also kills Quirt.

Hoppy mistakenly believes Richard to be the thief and takes back the money. The honest Richard forms a posse that places Hoppy, California and Lin under arrest. A scheme to trap Jackson pays off, however, and once he's apprehended, all is well.

A Bar 20 cowboy is killed soon after inheriting a ranch. Hopalong Cassidy goes to look over the land and help the murdered man’s sister. Hoppy discovers that a crooked banker is out to steal the ranch.

Texas Ranger Tim Mason (Richard Crane) is killed on the Mexican border for refusing to allow a wagonload of stolen goods to cross his land. Ranger Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) is accused of the murder, and goes undercover to help Tim’s sister Sue (Frances Woodward), who is unaware that her barn is being used to store stolen goods.

Luke Vaughn is a man working in a Southern casino ("The Swan") run by Francis "The Pope" Silva. Vaughn has a sick daughter in a hospital, with medical bills he fails to pay and further needs about $300,000 for a necessary surgery. He approaches "Pope" who refuses his plea for a loan; when Vaughn is insistent, Pope fires him which leads to him being beaten by the boss's right-hand man, Derrick "The Dog" Prince.

Security guard Cox tells Vaughn he observed regular massive losses by an individual on one night of the week and the next night another one wins big, which leads him to suspect that the casino is laundering for the mob. Initially Vaughn, who has the codes to gain access to the vault where the money is counted and wrapped, says stealing from "Pope" would be suicidal. However after Pope fires him, he agrees to join Cox and steal the money.

After the heist, the masked thieves are intercepted by Dog's henchmen. A gun battle ensues, wounding one of the thieves and, once their getaway driver escapes in terror, the rest are forced to hijack a city bus, number 657 at 4 am. Police officer, Kris Bajos, whose car is parked a half block from the location of the bus hijacking, hears the gunshots and pursues the bus signalling for the driver to pull over. When Cox shoots through a window at Kris in the police car, she falls back and calls for reinforcements to join the chase and when the bus turn off towards the highway, the police setup a road block.

Vaughn writes a passenger's phone number on a bus window, to enable Kris to contact him. He warns her that Cox will kill passengers if the police are not instructed to clear the road blocks. Kris follows through on the instructions and Vaughn orders Bernie, the bus driver, to ram the road block allowing the bus to enter the interstate highway.

Dog informs Pope that Vaughn has stolen $3 million and Pope orders Dog to retrieve the money. As the sun rises, the bus is being pursued by police on the highway. Passengers' mobile phones are thrown from the bus and as the wounded thief is dying, Vaughn asks one of the passengers, a veterinarian student, to take care of him. Cox makes a call to Jono, an old man who aided them in planning the robbery, informing Jono that they have the money and are on the way. Cox then orders Bernie to head to Galveston, Texas; unfortunately, the bus is running low on fuel, so Vaughn calls for a fuel tanker.

Detective Marconi joins forces with Kris when she is about to be relieved from duty and instructs her to drive the fuel tanker. Marconi briefs SWAT and monitors the bus via a police helicopter. As Kris prepares to refuel the bus, Vaughn allows Pauline and a young boy to leave the bus. During refueling, Vaughn allows Kris to board the bus to check on the hostages. After Kris suggests that the wounded thief be let off the bus for medical treatment, Cox objects and she has an altercation with Cox, during which she takes his gun from his waist. Vaughn defuses the situation and escorts Kris off the bus. As she wraps up refueling, Vaughn asks her to let him know how 'the girl' (Pauline) is. At the police station the boy is reunited with his mom and Kris interviews Pauline to gain information, then lets her leave. Meanwhile Dog learns the location of Jono through a police radio scanner.

With the wounded thief suffering blood loss Vaughn calls Marconi, who boards the bus from a SWAT truck with a medical emergency kit. He hands the vet student a syringe with 'pain meds' and the wounded thief dies. Marconi gets a call from Pope and tosses the phone to Vaughn, revealing Marconi's affiliation with Pope. Shortly thereafter, Marconi is thrown from the bus and a SWAT team attacks the bus, popping a tire, causing it to crash to a stop near a bridge. Most of the passengers receive minor injuries.

With police surrounding the bus, Cox holds Bernie hostage in front of the cops and on live TV, it appears Bernie is shot dead by Cox, but it is revealed that Vaughn shot Cox instead, saving Bernie. Vaughn receives a call from his daughter in hospital saying that she is ok and Kris tells him she knows about the hospital bills. Vaughn negotiates with Marconi the release of all the hostages except one and, once the tire is repaired, the bus departs. The police authorities follow the bus, but find out Vaughn has escaped and only Bernie is inside. In a flashback, Vaughn is seen leaving the bus with a large bag and driving away in a police car.

Vaughn arrives at Jono's, but finds him shot dead. From the shadows, Dog knocks him out with a shot of rock salt from a shotgun, taking Vaughn captive. Back on the bus, they are joined by Pope and Marconi, though Pope soon kills Marconi as Dog pours gasoline over Vaughn. Pope gloats over the fact that Vaughn didn't make it to the hospital by 7pm with the money and Vaughn explains that Pauline was not a pregnant passenger.

At the hospital Kris overhears Pauline tell the nurse that she is Vaughn's daughter's aunt (she is his sister, who hid $300,000 in her false "tummy") as she pays the hospital bill. Kris deduces what Pauline is doing and does not stop her.

While on the bus Dog hears of Vaughn's 'slight of hand' with the money. An infuriated Dog pours gasoline on Vaughn and is about to burn him alive. He threatens to go after Vaughn's daughter next, but Pope shoots Dog dead. Pope loosens Vaughn's ropes and tells him his mother had a saying about people on their death bed speaking of their regrets; "Regrets in death meant you lived your life wrong. Don't live life wrong, Frank." He hands a grateful Vaughn the keys to his Rolls Royce car parked outside so he can go visit his daughter. Pope waits on the bus and showing disgust with an e-cigarette, lights a cigarette as the police arrive.

The story opens in the town of Guanajuato in the year 1810, two years after the events of la Nahuala. Strict but kindly foreman Don Gaspar leads a crew of miners in a newly excavated silver mine, where they are close to reaching the silver deposit. The miners discover a sinister shrine, prompting Gaspar to call company owner Gustav Rousseau: the Frenchman seems unsurprised at the discovery and orders the mine closed despite Gaspar's objections about how badly his men need the jobs. That night, despite his young daughter Valentina's misgivings, Gaspar and the miner Rosendo decide to speak to Rousseau and demand the mine's reopening.

Gaspar and Rosendo witness Rousseau taking a human-shaped bundle down into the mines. They follow him to the shrine discovered earlier in the day, where Rousseau sets up two crystals and initiates a ritual that will allow his fiancé Denise (who he says was taken from him by a disease) to return to life. Greed overpowers Rosendo's caution and leads him to jump into the shrine mid-ritual, intent on stealing the god Mictlantecuhtli's offerings of jewelry. The sacrilege angers the god, who makes Rosendo vanish. Gaspar seizes the opportunity to steal one of the crystals and disrupt the ritual, as he believes the dead should not be returned. He manages to hide the crystal before a furious Rousseau catches up to him. Rousseau performs a temporary life-draining spell upon Gaspar and abandons him beside a pile of lit explosives. Gaspar's last thoughts are for his daughter, Valentina. Back on the surface the explosion draws the miners and the gendarmes, who assume Gaspar has turned rogue and set the explosion on purpose.

Later, Leo San Juan’s group is seen fleeing from mummified corpses through the deserted streets of Guanajuato. They are saved by a robed boy who claims to be "Luis", who tells them to take refuge in the market. There, the locals are wary of the group for being outsiders while a shadowy figure stalks Leo. He runs into Luis again and together they attempts to save a woman from mummies, after which the boy reluctantly agrees to team up with Leo. They realize that the mummies are harmless, intent on getting back to the lives they lived (an old teacher lumbers back to school and performs role call, a father returns home to his family). Back at the market, Don Andrés falls for Gloria, a woman who owns a stand of love spells. While to Don Andrés she looks very beautiful, Gloria is in fact quite homely. Alebrije meets another alebrije named Evaristo, who claims he can help them find Xochitl. The group becomes involved in a brawl when Alebrije calls Gloria ugly in front of her father, and the gendarmes takes them to the local judge for disturbing the peace and stealing three tangerines. The judge orders them put in a holding cell.

Gloria visits Don Andrés in the holding cell. When he still considers her beautiful after Alebrije removes the 'magic' bracelet, her father becomes convinced of his sincerity and takes them to meet a powerful wizard who can tell them what has happened. The powerful wizard turns out to be Gloria's father. When he drinks, he turns into an old and powerful alebrije wizard named Sulik. Sulik tells them that Xochitl is being held captive in the mines by Rousseau, who used her as bait to lure his true intended victim: Leo. As a soul tempered by encounters with the supernatural, Leo is the sacrifice Rousseau needs to return his fiancé to life. After Gloria's father turns back into a human, he drops charges against the group and allows them to go free (but only once the judge marries Gloria and Don Andrés).

Out on the streets, Luis and Leo run into the mummies of twelve convicts who died in a fire and were left unclaimed: unlike the other mummies, these are hell bent on harm and destruction. Luis's hood gets ripped off during the fight, revealing 'he' is in fact Valentina. She decided to hide her identity to escape the gendarmes and clear her father's name. They make it to the mines, where they are captured by Rousseau and taken back to the shrine. Despite an intervention from an undead Gaspar and the timely arrival of Teodora and the rest, Rousseau takes Valentina hostage and forces Leo enter the shrine. With Leo's soul as the conduit, Denise returns to life. Though Denise is glad to see Rousseau, she quickly realizes the havoc he has caused and insists that the dead have no place among the living. Despite Rousseau's selfish insistences, Denise vanishes. When a distraught Rousseau dives into Mictlantecuhtli's shrine after her, the angered god takes his life. Xochitl releases Leo from the shrine.

The undead Gaspar reappears, carrying the toy raccoon that Valentina used to send with the basket when she lowered supplies into the mine. He also gives her a note where he promises he'll be with her in her heart and memories, then hands her the altar's missing stone. Leo uses the stone to close the portal: the loosed mummies briefly return to their human form before returning to the afterlife.

With the natural order of life restored, Valentina is taken to her aunt and uncle in Morelia. The newly married Don Andrés and Alebrije decide they will stay in Guanajuato, while Leo announces it is time for him to return home to his grandmother in Puebla. Friar Godofredo appears to tell the group they have one last mission: to participate in the party that Gloria has organized for them. They are later seen seeing Leo off as he rides away in a cart. A post-credits seen shows Leo waking up alone in the cart, where he backs into a black-clad stranger with red eyes who claims he's been waiting for him.

Baek Nam-bong is a handsome, thirty-four year old professor of psychology by day and bartender by night, and he is nicknamed "Dr. Frost" because of his prematurely white hair. He sustained a frontal lobe injury in his childhood, which heightened his reasoning centers to genius-level, but left him unable to feel empathy, love, sorrow and other emotional responses.

Nam-bong also volunteers at the university's counseling center, where he meets the cheerful and meddlesome Yoon Sung-ah, who's on the fast track to graduate early and becomes his teaching assistant. Nam-bong has a love-hate relationship with his colleague Song Sun, a professor with a cold personality who was also his classmate in university. His mentor is Chun Sang-won, the head of the department of psychology. Given his excellent deductive skills, Nam-bong officially (and unofficially) assists veteran detective Nam Tae-bong in solving crime.

Retired Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster is found dead in his pickup truck, after years of self-mutilation and homelessness. Before his death, Justin Strzelczyk, also a former fellow football player, confides in Webster that he is suffering from memory loss, is saying odd things to his children, and nearly threw his wife against the wall. A disoriented Webster brushes his worries off, deliriously telling him the most important thing "is to finish the game," reciting what he said in his Hall of Fame speech.

Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), a forensic pathologist with the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania coroner's office, handles Webster's autopsy. Wondering how an otherwise healthy man could have degenerated so quickly, he makes a point of figuring out why he died of a heart attack at only fifty years of age. Dr. Omalu closely examines microscope slides of Webster's brain, seeing evidence of severe neurotrauma. He concludes that Webster died as a result of the long-term effects of repeated blows to the head, a disorder he terms chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

With the help of former Steelers team doctor Julian Bailes, fellow neurologist Dr. Steven DeKosky and county coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht, Dr. Omalu publishes his findings in ''Neurosurgery'', which are dismissed by the NFL. Soon after, Strzelczyk dies in a car accident.

Over several years, Dr. Omalu discovers that Strzelczyk (2004) and two other deceased NFL players, Terry Long (2005), and Andre Waters (2006), exhibited symptoms very similar to Webster's. He persuades newly appointed NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to allow him to present his findings before a player safety committee. However, the NFL does not take him seriously, and he is barred from the committee meeting, forcing the former NFL employee Bailes to give the presentation in his place.

However, the meeting is a set up, where the NFL claims that the players' head trauma is unrelated to football, but rather, due to past injuries. As he leaves the meeting, former NFL Players Association executive Dave Duerson angrily confronts Dr. Omalu and tells him to "go back to Africa."

Dr. Omalu is subjected to considerable pressure to back down from his efforts, as football is a widely beloved sport in Pittsburgh, providing jobs and allowing men to go to college. Wecht is subjected to a politically motivated prosecution on corruption charges, and Dr. Omalu is forced to leave Pittsburgh soon after, lest he be deported, or sent to prison on petty charges as punishment for tarnishing the NFL's image.

Before leaving, Dr. Omalu urges the NFL to tell the truth. His wife, Prema, suffers a miscarriage after being followed in her car. The Omalus are forced to leave their dream home outside Pittsburgh, relocating to Lodi, California where he takes a job with the San Joaquin County coroner's office.

Three years later, Dr. Omalu is vindicated when Duerson commits suicide due to an increasing inability to cope with worsening cognitive function. In his suicide note, he acknowledges Dr. Omalu was right, and offers his brain for future research. The doctor is invited to address an NFLPA conference on concussions and CTE. He says that he once wished he had never known Mike Webster, but by knowing him, he has the responsibility to inform NFL players of the true risks they take by playing. He says that he holds no resentment for the NFL and tells them to forgive themselves and be at peace.

Amid growing scrutiny from Congress, the NFL is forced to take the concussion issue more seriously, and in 2011, NFL players sue the league for not properly informing them of the risk of CTE. Dr. Omalu is offered the job of Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia, but Omalu turned the offer down to remain with his family in Lodi, becoming naturalized as a U.S. citizen in February 2015. A final montage includes reports of Junior Seau's suicide in 2012 and subsequent lawsuits brought against the NFL by thousands of former players.

Three men – Deacon, a skeptical religious brother, Gray Parker, an English layman and technology expert, and the stringent Father Mark Amidon – are sent by the Vatican to investigate reports of supernatural activity in an old, recently reopened, thirteenth century church located in the Devon countryside.

Upon their first visit to the church, local priest Father Crellick tells them a miracle has taken place, while Gray sets up recording equipment. Crellick shows them footage of objects on the altar mysteriously moving but Deacon remains skeptical. The next day, Mark discovers a hidden side panel but he is disturbed by an unseen force before he can enter. A multi-mic radio setup detects the sound of deep growls and whispers, followed by the sound of an infant crying. Mark pursues a despondent Crellick up the bell tower to the roof; Crellick questions whether he has witnessed a miracle or something far worse – he leaps to his death before a horrified Mark.

The inhabitants of the village start to behave with hostility toward the team. Local youths burn a sheep to death outside the men's cottage. The local pub landlord evicts Deacon and Gray from his premises after overhearing the two men discussing local folklore and the credibility of the tenets of old pagan religions versus those of Christianity. Deacon continues to investigate and traces whispers and creaks to a hidden door, inscribed with a pagan sigil he has seen in the diaries of the last minister to serve at the church until it was closed in the 1880s. Behind the door, a set of stairs leads down into darkness and Deacon is assailed by the sounds of a baby crying and Crellick screaming.

Deacon brings in his elderly mentor from the Vatican, exorcist Father Calvino, in an attempt to purify the church grounds. Calvino explains that during the founding of Christianity in England, priests built churches upon the sites of pagan temples. He has evidence that the church is situated on a site – still visible in aerial photographs – of human sacrifices to an unnamed pagan deity.

That night, during the exorcism, violent and invisible forces shake the church. Mark is apparently killed and Calvino's eyes bleed before their bodies mysteriously vanish. Deacon traces distant cries to the hidden staircase. As Gray and Deacon descend into a subterranean labyrinth, they find evidence of child sacrifice and realize that the former minister had converted to worshipping the pagan deity. Seemingly spotting Mark, who walks into the darkness heedless of their calls, the pair find Calvino's ornamental crucifix on the floor of one of the tunnels. Following the sound of Mark's voice, they crawl through a narrow, foul-smelling passageway whose exits suddenly contract via a membranous material before the tunnel itself begins to move. The walls start to secrete a powerful digestive enzyme that begins to dissolve the two men. As their lights go out, Gray screams in agony and terror while a tormented Deacon recites the Lord's Prayer.

In 1919, Bat Masterson, now a newspaperman in New York City, reflects back on the previous century and his experiences in the American West.

Traveling to Dodge City, Kansas to look up Inky, an old friend, Bat becomes actively involved after the town's sheriff gets shot. He takes over as lawman, his major concern the ruthless rancher King Kennedy's band of rowdy cowboys.

Dora Hand's singing of a hymn in church leads to Bat becoming infatuated with her. He and the Rev. Small are surprised to discover that Dora works in the saloon, which is owned by "Dog" Kelley, who is also Dodge City's mayor. The reverend finds this inappropriate, but Bat writes a newspaper article condemning prejudice of any kind.

Dora has a good heart. She takes care of a sick child, impressing others in town. She also wants Bat to give up his dangerous life, so she asks her uncle in Kansas City to hire Bat for his newspaper there. The uncle is appalled by Dora's line of work and consents with one stipulation, that she never set foot in Kansas City again.

Back in Dodge, she declines Bat's marriage proposal, knowing she can't join him at the new job. She begins seeing King socially instead. But when a fight breaks out, King's errant gunshots hit Dora by mistake. After her funeral, Bat buries his guns and leaves town.