Nassim, a 16-year-old boy who is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There's no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
The play is performed in one act without intermission. Its two characters are nameless, identified as the Client and the Dealer. The author's instructions do not mention the location and time of day.
The exchanges between the two characters are crafted to avoid specifics and the audience remains unaware of the subject of their negotiations, though it is clear that the stakes are high. They appear to encounter one another by chance when the Dealer approaches the Client with an offer: "Tell me what you want that I can supply, and I will supply it." In the exchanges that follow they at times argumentative, even threatening, and often deliver lengthy monologues to one another. The conversation is intense, includes "animal imagery and oblique, hostile warnings", and has been described as "high-octane, sexually charged".
The audience, in the words of one critic, is invited to consider: "Who are these characters with their talk of light and darkness, life and death, goodness and evil, peace and war? Are they individuals, social classes, races, nations? Is the deal life itself and the Client's walk life's journey? Is the Dealer's offer not sex or illicit substances but the promise and peril of human existence, a transaction that carries with it an inescapable conclusion?"
A group of employees, on a winter vacation, rather than skiing, spend their time in an attempt to impress the beautiful Angela and a sexy servant girl.
Buck Jones plays Roderick Norton, a sheriff on a crusade to find and apprehend the man who murdered his father. Unable to restore order in the mining town where he is appointed, he loses favor with the townspeople. The villain, revealed to be Jim Garson (Claude Payton) and his gang make life miserable for Norton, culminating with the abduction of his girlfriend, frontier doctor Dorothy Page (played by Fritzi Brunette), by Garson's henchmen the Rickard brothers, in order to entrap the hero. Roderick is successful in rescuing Dorothy, but in the process he suffers a head injury which changes his personality, turning him into a thief whom his friends are unable to trust. He is brought back to his old self through the medical ministrations of Dorothy, and is able to obtain a confession regarding the murder of his father from the Rickards, allowing the capture and arrest of Garson.
As described in a film magazine, in a small town lives Dr. Harvey Nesbit (Burton), who knows of the scandals of the community. His daughter Laura (Thurman) loves Grant Adams (Kirkwood), the editor of the local newspaper. Margaret Muller (Nilsson) arrives in town to teach at the school and takes lodging at Grant's mother's house. She desires to dethrone Laura as a social leader, and decides to use Grant to obtain her desire. Laura, to arouse Grant's jealousy, flirts with another man, and they quarrel. Laura returns to her boarding school, and when she returns after her term she discovers Margaret as the mother of Grant's illegitimate child. Grant's mother, to shield Margaret's reputation, assumes the parentage of the child. As Dr. Nesbit knows differently, this places a barrier between him and his daughter. Grant's mother dies and with Margaret, in pursuit of Henry Fenn (Crane), a young lawyer, refuses to mother her child. Fenn's partner Tom VanDorn (McCullough) marries Laura, and Fenn marries Margaret. Eventually Laura's husband succumbs to Margaret's wiles, their affair leading to the divorce of Fenn and Laura from the guilty couple. Grant quits his paper to become foreman at a coal mine. A terrific explosion happens and, while attempting to rescue his men, Grant is badly injured. He is taken to Dr. Nesbit's home and Laura, tired of VanDorn, arrives at the same time. She nurses him back to health and the fires of love are rekindled. They decide to work to better the condition of the miners, but the issue of Grant's parentage remains a barrier between them. A strike is called and "Hog Tight" Sands, the owner of the mine, engages a horde of strike breakers to run Grant out of town. In the melee VanDorn holds up Grant's little son as a threat to make Grant give himself up, and the child is shot. Margaret then hates VanDorn and kills him, and then goes insane. On the deathbed of the child Grant confesses to Laura that the child is his, admitting this was a barrier between them. They come to an understanding and happiness.
In 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is kidnapped along with her son Garth and granddaughter Robin by three men: David Waters, Gary Karr and Danny Fry. The three abductees recognize Waters.
The scene shifts to the early 1960s. Madalyn has become a single mother of two sons, Garth and the older William J. "Billy Boy" Murray, Jr., and is a proud atheist, which outrages her Christian parents. Madalyn is outraged to learn that Billy is being forced to recite the Lord's Prayer in school, so she launches a campaign to ban school prayer, ultimately resulting in a Supreme Court ruling making mandatory prayer in schools illegal. She quickly becomes labeled one of the most hated figures in America.
She forms the atheist advocacy group American Atheists, recruiting Garth and Billy. Billy's devotion to his mother destroys his relationship with his wife, and he becomes a bitter alcoholic after she divorces him. He eventually quits drinking and becomes a born-again Christian, causing a deep rift with Madalyn.
Madalyn begins profiting from spirited debates with a local pastor, putting the money in offshore accounts. She hires Waters to manage the American Atheists branch; he becomes her trusted ally, especially after he confides in her about having murdered someone as a young man. Eventually, Waters has a falling out with Madalyn and is fired from American Atheists. In 1995, he demands one million dollars from Madalyn, which she refuses. Waters devises the kidnapping as a way to get the money he feels she owes him.
Reporter Jack Ferguson begins covering the kidnapping and questions Billy. He gets a sketch artist to draw a picture of Fry. Ferguson joins forces with Madalyn's assistant and they slowly unravel the plot.
Back at the safe house, Karr kills Robin after she refuses his sexual advances. Panicked, Waters and Karr then kill Garth and Madalyn. Finally, Karr kills Fry after forcing him to dismember the bodies.
Ferguson finally catches Waters and gets him to confess to the triple murder. Waters and Karr are both arrested and tried.
Closing text reports that Karr received a life sentence; Waters received 68 years but died in prison in 2003. Billy now chairs the Religious Freedom Coalition and works to return prayer to public schools, and the American Atheists continues to exist.
''The Greenlanders'' describes the daily affairs of Nordic settlers living in medieval southern Greenland, including marriages, births, deaths, famines, epidemics, trials at the Thing, church affairs, land feuds, seal hunts, military invasions, and encounters with Greenland's aboriginal inhabitants.
In particular, the book follows the lives of Gunnar Asgeirsson, an unlucky, violent, litigious man, and his sister, Margret Asgeirsdottir, a quiet, solitary, melancholic woman on their homestead in the Vatnahverfi district. Though the novel also follows the lives of many other Greenlanders, Gunnar and Margret function as the novel's protagonists. The novel also features several historically documented individuals and events in Greenland and elsewhere, including the spread of Islam into southern Europe, assaults on Greenlanders' settlements by English raiders, and the witchcraft trial of Kolgrim.
As described in a film magazine, Lieutenant John Tabor (Crane) returns from World War I and calls on Palma May (Castle), the sister of his buddy who died just before the signing of the Armistice. He finds that, with the death of her brother, she is now alone in the world and offers to help her. Palma is grateful but declines his offer and seeks work in New York City as a dancer. After many attempts she gets a position in a cabaret chorus and quickly rises to prominence. She meets John again and they become fast friends. Jarvis Tabor, Johns's father, a wealthy lumberman, is opposed to his son's marriage to a dancer even though he has never met Palma. Coming back home after a quiet wedding to the father's house, the couple find a letter ordering John to come at once to the lumber camp to assist in quelling some labor troubles. His dancing butterfly wife agrees to accompany him. At the lumber camp the two live in a shack under trying conditions. Palma is entirely out of place in the rough lumber camp but valiantly struggles to make good for her husband's sake. She is tempted to return to her old life by her former manager and is on the verge of leaving when she discovers that John is being attacked by a gang of lumberjacks. Unmindful of the danger, she plunges into the midst of the fight to save him. She is reinforced by Jarvis and some other men and together they beat back the rebellious workmen. Meeting his son's bride under such unusual conditions, the prior prejudice of the father is readily overcome when he witnesses her finer qualities.
An interracial family struggles to adjust when they move from Brooklyn, New York to a small town in Washington State.
It is the summer of 1983. Elio, a 17-year-old Jewish Italo-French young man, lives with his parents in rural Northern Italy. Elio's father, a professor of archaeology, invites a 24-year-old American graduate student, Oliver, who is also Jewish, to live with the family over the summer and help with his academic paperwork. Elio, an introspective bibliophile and a talented musician, initially thinks he has little in common with Oliver, who appears confident and carefree. Elio spends much of the summer reading, playing piano, and hanging out with his childhood friends, Chiara and Marzia. During a volleyball match, Oliver touches Elio's back as a sign of interest but Elio brushes it off. However, Elio later finds himself jealous upon seeing Oliver pursue Chiara.
Elio and Oliver spend more time together, going for long walks into town, and accompanying Elio's father on an archaeological trip. Elio is increasingly drawn to Oliver, even sneaking to Oliver's room to smell his clothing. Elio eventually confesses his feelings to Oliver, who is awestruck and tells him they cannot discuss such things. Later, in a secluded spot, the two kiss for the first time. Oliver is reluctant to take things further and they do not speak for several days.
Elio goes on a date with Marzia and the two have sex. Elio leaves a note for Oliver to end their silence. Oliver writes back, asking Elio to meet him at midnight. Elio agrees and they sleep together for the first time. In the immediate aftermath, Oliver says to Elio, "Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine." The morning after, Elio cries about how little time he and Oliver have left together. Marzia confronts Elio after not hearing from him for three days. He offers a cold response, leaving her heartbroken.
As the end of Oliver's stay approaches, he and Elio both find themselves overcome by uncertainty and longing. Elio's parents, who are privately aware of the bond between the two but do not address it openly, recommend he and Oliver visit Bergamo together before Oliver returns home to the U.S. They spend three romantic days together. Elio, heartbroken after Oliver's departure, calls his mother and asks her to pick him up from the train station and take him home. Marzia is sympathetic to Elio's feelings and says she wants to remain friends. Elio's father, observing his deep sadness, tells him he was aware of his relationship with Oliver and confesses to almost having had a similar relationship in his own youth. He urges Elio to learn from his grief and grow, instead of just moving on too quickly.
During Hanukkah, Oliver calls Elio's family to tell them he is engaged to be married to a woman he has been seeing for a few years. An upset Elio calls Oliver by his name and Oliver responds with his; he also mentions that he remembers everything. After the call, Elio sits down by the fireplace and stares into the flames, tearfully reminiscing, as his parents and the house staff prepare a holiday dinner.
Charles (Francis Ng) and James (Daniel Chan) are two brothers who lived with their grandmother during childhood. When Charles was eight years old, he committed an unexpected and unforgivable mistake, where he took HK$50,000 of cash from his grandmother's home and disappeared afterwards. James has held the grudge on his elder brother for his departure, not only for the fact that he took their grandmother's money, but mainly due to fact that his brother abandoned him without notice.
As the years go by, James has grown up and has met a good girlfriend, Jess (Pace Wu), while on the other hand, James became a member of a triad gang in Thailand, and is dating his triad brother, York's (Dave Wang) sister, Snow (Gigi Leung). After his grandmother dies, James finally have the opportunity to face down his past demon and he travels to Thailand with Jess to look for his brother.
The Entity, a supernatural being hailing from the ancient Bloodweb, is awakened from its slumber and summoned by actions of great violence and malice. The killers, mostly serial murderers or victims of terrible tragedy, are pulled out of reality by the Entity and convinced or forced to do its bidding. In order to maintain its existence, the Entity requires sacrifices and demands that they hunt and kill the survivors so it can feed off their hope and steal a piece of their souls upon death. In order to continue this hunt, the Entity blocks off the gateways of death and puts the dead into a dreamlike state that leads the survivors back to the Entity's purgatory-like world to get hunted again.
The survivors are pulled into the Entity's constructed world when they wander too close to the places the killers were taken from, disappearing from the real world without a trace. They end up at a campfire in the woods, where they rest between trials, until a killer pursues them again. Each trial takes place in a series of realms constructed by the Entity of areas related to each killer's history. Escaping from the grounds always takes the survivors back to the campfire, and offerings can be created to be burnt at it and appeal to the Entity. Since the Entity feeds off the hope of the survivors to escape, it helps them just as much as the killers, acting as an impartial observer of the hunt and stepping in only to claim those hung on its hooks.
Feyikogbon was a Yoruba series that used a Storytelling format similar to another popular Nigerian TV show, Tales by Moonlight and ends with an ethical advice to the audience. Each episode of Feyikogbon consist of a realistic story and play that draws the attention of the TV audience who will like to know the outcome and moral of the play. The beginning of the show usually starts at the home of Ayo Mogaji, the head of Feyikongbon village. The mogaji is seated in his compound and begins to tell the villagers stories imbibed with Yoruba proverbs which are intended to teach a lesson on how to ethically navigate through life. At the end of the show, there is usually a moral message for the audience then followed by the character of Ayo Mogaji entertaining the audience by dancing to traditional Yoruba beats.
Thessaly, overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, sends King Jason and his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back home, his scheming cohort is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom and the queen.
The engineer Pietro Vanzelli is accused of killing Renato Salvi, his collaborator and suitor of his wife Clara who has always rejected him. During the trial no evidence arises in his defense and he is therefore convicted. After many years he gets out of jail and sets out in search of his family, he then learns that his wife had moved to Livorno with his daughter Luisa and on the train he accidentally runs into Renato who, when cornered, confesses to him the truth: after having stolen a lot of money from the company and after being rejected again by Clara he decided to disappear but at the same time blame Pietro for revenge. Renato also reveals to him that his wife is now dead while his daughter works as a governess for a wealthy family in Livorno, the Soldani. Luisa has formed a sincere bond with Stefano, the eldest of the children, but the family opposes this relationship and after having convinced her son to study in London they force Luisa to resign. The girl tries several times to find a job but without success, the pension owner reminds her that there are other ways to make money and that she should take advantage of them. One evening he meets Pietro who is chased from a bar where a fight had started and takes him to his room, the man suspects that the girl has acted for money and humiliates her but then speaking of the doll to which the girl is very attached he discovers in her the daughter believed lost. At this point everything seems to be going well, Pietro has found his daughter and the girl can also crown her dream of love with Stefano, since even the Soldani family has repented of how they acted. Unfortunately Renato reappears, he wants money so as not to bring back the old story and ruin Luisa's marriage, Pietro does not want to give in and is about to call the police when he is wounded with a knife by Renato, a fight ensues in which it is Renato himself to have the worst. Not knowing what to do, Pietro loads the body into the car and brings it back into the river, in the same spot where it was said he had been thrown years before but then, after having witnessed his daughter's wedding, he constitutes himself to the police. The trial is short, although he is condemned for the murder, he is recognized as legitimate defense and can return free alongside his beloved daughter.
Ikuleel (Ali Seezan) and his girlfriend Fathimath (Sujeetha Abdulla) engage in premarital sex in an abandoned house. Fathimath notices a change in Ikuleel's behavior when she meets him at different times of the day. He refuses to acknowledge any conversation they have in the midnight. Things get worse when Fathimath discovers that she is pregnant to the child of a spirit in disguise of Ikuleel.
Twenty-seven years after its initial defeat, Pennywise returns to Derry, Maine in 2016, and kills a man named Adrian Mellon by biting his heart out after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted in a hate crime by locals after visiting a carnival.
Mike Hanlon, the only member of the Losers Club who remained in Derry, calls the other members, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris to honor the promise they made 27 years earlier to kill Pennywise if he came back. All of them return to Derry, except for Stanley, who kills himself out of fear of the creature. At a Chinese restaurant, Mike refreshes the Losers' memories before Pennywise itself reveals the news of Stanley's suicide to them. Richie and Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals that she has had psychic visions of their deaths should they fail to fulfil their oath. Meanwhile, It kills a young girl named Victoria at a baseball game after luring her into a trap.
Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Native American "Ritual of Chüd" can stop It for good. Mike explains that the ritual requires items from their past to be sacrificed. Bill goes to the storm drain where Georgie was killed and recovers his paper sailboat. Beverly retrieves Ben’s love letter from her childhood home before being attacked by It in the form of a demonic elderly woman named Mrs. Kersh. Richie goes to an abandoned arcade where he finds a game token and encounters Pennywise, who confronts him on his hidden homosexuality. Ben returns to the town’s high school and recovers his old yearbook page, which Beverly was the only person to sign, while Eddie recovers an inhaler from a pharmacy and is attacked by the Leper. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers, who was arrested for killing his father, is freed from a mental hospital by It. Bowers viciously attacks Eddie at the Losers’ hotel, before attacking Mike at the library; Henry nearly kills Mike, but Richie kills him before he has the chance. The Losers then rejoin Bill-who just failed to save a young boy named Dean from being eaten by It-at the Neibolt House, and talk him out of facing It alone.
With their memories now fully restored, the group descend into a cavern beneath the sewers, with Mike providing a rock from the Losers' fight with the Bowers Gang as they perform the ritual in the remains of the meteor that brought It to Earth. The ritual traps the Deadlights, It's true form, in a sealing jar, but a giant red balloon emerges from the jar, and explodes, revealing It as a Pennywise-spider hybrid. The creature pressures Mike into revealing that It killed the Natives originally performing the ritual because their fears overtook them, a fact Mike had hidden from the Losers. It attacks the Losers and places Bill, Ben, and Beverly in individual traps, which they escape once Bill releases his guilt over being indirectly responsible for Georgie’s death, and when Beverly realizes Ben was the one who wrote the love letter to her. Mike stands up to the creature, only to almost get eaten, but Richie manages to distract It, getting caught in It's Deadlights in the process. Eddie saves him, but is fatally impaled. After Eddie explains how he made It feel small earlier, the Losers confront Pennywise on how they’ve overcome their fears, and are no longer scared of the entity, causing It to shrink. Mike rips out It's heart, which he and the Losers crush with their bare hands, finally killing It. Richie and the others rush to see Eddie but find out he has died from his injuries. The Losers are forced to leave Eddie's body, while It's cavern implodes, destroying the Neibolt House.
The remaining Losers return to their old swimming area and wash off from their confrontation with It, and join hands to comfort Richie as he mourns for Eddie. It's demise has also caused the scars on their hands to disappear. After the Losers part ways, Ben and Beverly get married, Richie returns to the kissing bridge where he had once carved his and Eddie's initials, Mike decides to move out of Derry and start a new life, and Bill begins writing his new story before receiving a call from Mike as he leaves Derry, learning that Stanley sent them all posthumous letters. The letters reveal that Stanley was too scared to face It, and that his suicide was intended to strengthen his friends against It. He asks the remaining Losers to "live life to the fullest potential."
This comic follows life through the eyes of a middle schooler named Stephie who alternately makes light of, and chafes under the realities of growing up a transgender child in a cisgender world.
In 1954 London, fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock creates dresses for members of high society, even royalty. His clients view him as a genius whose creations enable them to become their best selves; but his creativity and charm are matched by his obsessive and controlling personality. Cyril, his sister, manages the day-to-day operations of his fashion house and tries to protect him from anything that might distract him from his work. The superstitious Reynolds is haunted by the death of their mother, and often stitches hidden messages into the linings of the dresses he makes.
After designing a new gown for a revered client, Lady Harding, Reynolds visits a restaurant near his country house and meets a foreign waitress, Alma Elson. She accepts his invitation to dinner. Their relationship blossoms, and she moves in with him, becoming his model, muse, and lover. Cyril initially distrusts Alma but comes to respect her willfulness and determination.
At first, Alma enjoys being a part of Reynolds’s work, but he proves aloof, hard to please, and finicky; as a result, they start to bicker. When Alma tries to show her love for Reynolds by preparing a romantic dinner, he lashes out, saying he will not tolerate deviations from the routines he has worked hard to perfect. Alma retaliates by poisoning Reynolds’s tea with wild mushrooms gathered outside the country house. As he readies a wedding gown for a Belgian princess, Reynolds collapses, damaging the dress and forcing his staff to work all night to repair it. He becomes gravely ill and has hallucinations of his mother. Alma stays by his side, tirelessly nursing him back to health.
After Reynolds recovers, he tells Alma that a house that does not change "is a dead house," and asks her to marry him. Taken aback, she hesitates but then accepts. Following a pleasant honeymoon in Switzerland, however, Reynolds and Alma start bickering again as Reynolds's domineering personality reasserts itself. Cyril reveals to Reynolds that Lady Harding is now a client at a rival fashion house, and suggests that his classic, conservative designs may be going out of style. Reynolds blames Alma for being more a distraction than an inspiration, and Alma overhears him tell Cyril that it may be time to end the marriage.
At the country house, Alma makes Reynolds an omelette poisoned with the same mushrooms as before. As he chews his first bite, she informs him that she wants him weak and vulnerable so that he has to depend on her to take care of him. Reynolds willingly swallows the bite and tells her to kiss him before he is sick. As Reynolds lies ill once again, Alma imagines their future with children, a rich social life, and with a bigger role for her in the dressmaking business. She acknowledges that while there may be challenges ahead, their love and their complementary needs can overcome them.
Though never stated in the game, the protagonist of the game is Colin. Colin is an only child, whose parents are almost never home due to working long hours away. His parents are never seen, communicating with Colin mostly through written notes, but still care deeply for him. Nevertheless, Colin is very lonely, as he has no friends and is frequently chided by his teacher for never paying attention in class. One day, Colin finds a bird with an injured wing being attacked by a badger. Colin chases off the badger. The bird later winds up hiding in Colin's backpack, and Colin eventually takes it to the vet. After the vet bandages up the broken wing, Colin sneaks the bird away while the vet is looking for a bird cage. Colin spends the next several days taking care of the bird on his balcony and playing with it in the woods, dodging both the vet and the landlord, who forbids pets within the apartment complex where Colin's family lives, to maintain custody over the bird.
As Colin's relationship with the bird deepens, Colin becomes less introverted and begins to connect more with his classmates. After several days, Colin becomes aware that his time with his bird are coming to an end. As he continues to play in the woods and hills with the bird, he daydreams of creating a massive paper plane using pages from his green book that he can summon at will. After a few fantasy flights, Colin returns home and takes off the bird's bandages. The bird, now fully recovered, flies off with a new mate. Though saddened, Colin is grateful to have had a friend for the first time. The experience would come to define Colin for the rest of his life, as depicted in ''Finding Paradise''.
An aging actress, a widow called Maxine, is haunted by the memory of a son who drowned. Her stepson wants her property. She has a younger lover, Mark.
To satisfy a need for freedom, the French media-director Teddy decides to leave the noise of the world, and settles alone in a cabin on the frozen shores of Lake Baikal. One night, lost in the blizzard, he is rescued by Aleksei, a Russian murderer on the run, who has been hiding in the Siberian forest for several years. Between these two men, who are opposed to each other, friendship will be born as sudden as essential.
In the backstory, Persephone Brimstone was once part of the supervillain organization L.E.G.I.O.N and part of their plans for world conquest, as well as married to the Minister of Envy. Persephone learned that L.E.G.I.O.N's leader, the Morningstar plotted to harvest the power of Dark Matter to alter reality and ascend into godhood. Persephone put a stop to those plans and took off with an airship called the ARK, and in retaliation, L.E.G.I.O.N. and her husband launched an attack on her home city of Paris. Having turned against L.E.G.I.O.N completely, Persephone used whatever recourses she could get her hands on to form M.A.Y.H.E.M and take revenge on L.E.G.I.O.N.
L.E.G.I.O.N would later reveal themselves to the public with a worldwide attack to topple the world's governments. This event would later be called "Devil's Night" and would play into the backstories of many of M.A.Y.H.E.M's agents, such as the Franchise Force, consisting of Rod "Hollywood" Stone, a former actor turned self proclaimed "face" of M.A.Y.H.E.M; Marina "Fortune" Santos, a sky pirate who was recruited when Persephone was impressed with her thieving skills; and Ishmael "Hardtrack" Funderburke, a former Navy officer whose ship was destroyed by L.E.G.I.O.N. Other agents include Janel Braddock, a former drill sergeant and girlfriend to Persephone's right-hand woman Friday; Piper "Daisy" Andrews, an ill-tempered derby girl and Hollywood's on again off again girlfriend; Cosima "Joule" Bellini, a fashion model and brilliant engineer; Masamune "Oni" Senichi, a Yakuza assassin who turned against his crime family when he learned they were working for L.E.G.I.O.N; Pranati "Rama" Malhotra, an immunologist who seeks to find a cure for a plague L.E.G.I.O.N set loose upon India; Ingo "Red Card" Rotkapp, a crazed soccer fan who incited a riot to fight off a L.E.G.I.O.N attack; and an enigmatic assassin that goes by Scheherazade. This game also features ''Saints Row'' characters as playable agents, such as Pierce Washington, who has become the kingpin of Stillwater, and united the gangs to fight off a L.E.G.I.O.N attack; and Ji-hoon “Johnny” Gat, who has become a police lieutenant with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. The events of Devil's Night put Johnny in a coma. When he woke up, he found that he was the sole survivor of the SMPA, which has been replaced by robot cops.
At the start of the game, Persephone sets up M.A.Y.H.E.M in Seoul, South Korea where they track down Dr. Babylon, the ambitious leader of the Ministry of Pride for L.E.G.I.O.N. who plans on harvesting a giant dark matter crystal from a comet. The Franchise Force is sent to kill him but fail. To distract M.A.Y.H.E.M, Babylon uses his lieutenant Hammersmith to cause destruction around Seoul to distract M.A.Y.H.E.M before Hammersmith is defeated by the agents. Babylon then uses August Gaunt, a young singer and another one of his lieutenants to brainwash his fans and attempt to turn the city of Seoul against M.A.Y.H.E.M, but the agents confront him at his concert and shut down his technology, exposing Gaunt as a fraud.
M.A.Y.H.E.M then plans to retrieve a sentient computer program called AISHA, a virtual female idol group that L.E.G.I.O.N is using as a virus, but one of Babylon's cybernetic lieutenants by the name of Steeltoe falls in love with AISHA and starts a relationship with her. Steeltoe and AISHA intend to merge their AI's, but Steeltoe is killed by M.A.Y.H.E.M'S agents at their "wedding". A vengeful AISHA, led by their red avatar, begin a smear campaign against M.A.Y.H.E.M, eventually taking to creating a musical single that would kill its listeners, before eventually starting an attack on the ARK'S computer programs. The other AISHA's realize how unstable Red Aisha is, but most of them are killed leaving only the Red and Purple AISHA. The Purple AISHA willingly defects to M.A.Y.H.E.M as their agents destroy the Red AISHA.
Getting desperate, Babylon sends in Ariadne, the brilliant daughter of a scientist Babylon killed before trying to brainwash her with a microchip. Ariadne overcomes the microchip, but the effort drove her insane and she plots revenge on Babylon. Ariadne launches robot attacks on Seoul, and abducts multiple people, including M.A.Y.H.E.M's technological engineer Katy "Gremlin" Fox. The agents go on to rescue Gremlin, but while they are successful, Ariadne manages to escape before cutting the microchip out of her head.
Finally, M.A.Y.H.E.M seek to find Babylon's giant robot called Project Damocles, but when they eventually uncover it, Babylon launches a citywide attack, and even an attack on the ARK before commandeering Damocles and extracting the dark matter crystal. It's then revealed that Ariadne had placed her microchip in Damocles to drive Babylon insane as revenge. This backfires, when Babylon realizes he now has the ultimate power in L.E.G.I.O.N and goes on a bid to usurp the Morningstar and remake reality in his image. Babylon uses Damocles to go on a rampage and the power of the dark matter crystal to begin to rewrite reality where he rules the world. The agents enter the rift to battle Babylon and his recreated minions, and eventually destroy the dark matter crystal. With the crystal destroyed, reality goes back to normal as the Damocles crashes to the Earth. Babylon and the agents survive the crash, but Babylon is taken and presumably killed by L.E.G.I.O.N enforcer Marcus Longinus as punishment for his failure, while Persephone has M.A.Y.H.E.M pull out of Seoul.
The story revolves around 2 individuals with different ideologies. Ziyadh wants to enjoy his life and don't want any kids. Nathasha on the other hand, is a hardworking teacher who loves kids and wants have one too.
Problem arise when Natha become pregnant. Ziya's behaviour towards Natha changed after her pregnancy. Natha decided to separate from Ziya due to his lack of co-operation, and lives with her friend Inaya. Ziya realised the importance of Natha and his baby and wants Natha back in him, but Natha doesn't wanna go back to him. Ziya does everything Natha expected him to do so he can win her back. Natha accept Ziya's apology. After getting along Natha gets labour pain and gets admitted. During the delivery Ziya was with Natha in the Labour ward despite it not being allowed. Ziya happily carries his and realise the importance of a child in marriage.
Four years later, Natha and Ziya lives a happy life with their son. Natha reveals that she is pregnant again to which Ziya reacts in a negative way.
The film starts with introduction of all candidates during Czech Television debate prior the first round. Candidates included Jan Fischer (former caretaker Prime Minister), Miloš Zeman (former Prime Minister), Karel Schwarzenberg (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Jiří Dienstbier Jr. (Social democratic Senator), Vladimír Franz (University professor), Přemysl Sobotka (Senator), Jana Bobošíková (Journalist and leader of Sovereignty - Jana Bobošíková Bloc), Zuzana Roithová (Christian democratic MEP) and Táňa Fischerová (leader of leader of anthroposofic Key Movement). The film then returns to the beginning of the campaign. It shows Independent candidates, like Zeman, Fischer or Franz gathering signatures by citizens that are required to be candidate. Fischer is leading the polls while Zeman is second and Schwarzenberg third but film shows political scientists as they debate that Fischer could easily lose in the first round. As the election approaches, the gap between Zeman and Fischer is reduced and Zeman eventually takes the lead when both candidates duel in debate. On the election day, Zeman wins and qualifies for the second round but Fischer is surprisingly defeated by Schwarzenberg who becomes Zeman´s rival. The second round becomes more aggressive when Schwarzenberg says that Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš would be judged in The Hague for Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia if it happened today. This statement angers Zeman who starts more aggressive campaign against Schwarzenberg while Václav Klaus then expresses his concerns towards Schwarzenberg. Zeman eventually beats Schwarzenberg on election day and becomes new president.
Ada Smith is a ten-year-old girl who has never left her apartment in London. Her physically abusive, widowed mother is too embarrassed to let her go outside because of her clubfoot, even though she claims Ada is mentally disabled instead. As a regular punishment, Ada gets put in a damp cabinet under the sink where cockroaches live. She is used as a servant, cooks and takes care of her six-year-old brother Jamie and her mother. She is also quite protective of him.
In September 1939, the British government begins to evacuate children in urban areas of England during World War II to escape, sending them to the countryside. Ada’s mother refuses to send Ada saying nobody will want to take care of her. Meanwhile, Ada has spent all summer teaching herself how to walk and decides to leave with Jamie without their mother knowing. They are evacuated by train to Kent to finally get away from the arising conditions yet to come because of the war.
Susan Smith, an unrelated woman who lives in a coastal village in Kent, is forced to take Ada and Jamie in, despite her aversion to caring for children. Away from her mother, Ada is allowed to freely move about by Susan despite her clubfoot, and as such befriends Susan and other villagers. She learns to read, write, ride a horse, and is introduced by Susan to many terms and concepts she has never experienced before. Susan overcomes her reluctance to take care of the children, reading to them, making them clothes, obtaining crutches for Ada, and allowing Jamie to keep a cat she intensely dislikes. Ada helps British troops evacuate across the English Channel from Dunkirk, and identifies an enemy spy, who is then detained.
Susan has discovered that it is possible for an operation to be conducted on Ada to correct her clubfoot, but it requires money and permission from Ada's mother. After months of not responding to Susan's letters regarding Ada's operation, Ada's mother comes to the village. She complains about the government's 'forcing' her to spend money on her children, and sharply criticizes Susan and Ada's 'posh' behavior. Ada is able to stay with Susan, but to continue caring for her brother she decides to move back to London with her mother, who believes that the capital will not be bombed anytime soon. The Smiths move into a new - albeit little better - flat, and Ada's crutches are taken away by her mother. She believes her mother never wanted to have children in the first place and only took Ada and Jamie back for the lowered expenses: suspicions confirmed by their mother. One day, she leaves to go to work and Ada and Jamie escape to an air raid shelter just before a bomb damages the flat. Susan comes and finds the Smith children, bringing them back to the village, only to find that a bomb has destroyed her house. Ada's horse and Jamie's cat have survived; Ada decides that by being picked up in London by Susan rather than the latter staying at home and getting killed sufficiently repays her debt to Susan for being rescued from life with her mother.
''Starry Messenger'', written and illustrated by Peter Sís, documents the life of the acclaimed scientist Galileo Galilei. Told from third person point of view and dating back to his birth, Sís walks the reader through the events that shape the life of the recognized scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and physicist, Galileo Galilei. The book opens with a prelude, with careful illustrations, Peter Sís sets the stage for the story by laying the groundwork of what the world was like during Galileo's era; scientifically, and religiously. He introduces the reader to the then accepted ideology of the Ptolemaic system, which stated that the Earth was the center of the Solar System. Sís describes Galileo as a boy "born with stars in his eyes", this metaphor will run throughout the length of the story connecting prominent events that occur within Galileo's life, including life as a child, a scholar, and later a scientist. Inter sped with Sís's original illustrations are excerpts of Galileo's actual drawings and excerpts of his ''Starry Messenger'' which documents Galileo's astronomical discoveries and observations especially the Copernican theory which got him in trouble with the Vatican Church. From being celebrated for his other astronomical discoveries to the controversial Copernican theory, Peter Sís documents these events with intricate illustrations that vividly resemble Galileo's own, adding depth to the story. The peak of the story occurs when Galileo's Copernican Theory reaches the Pope, and Galileo is viewed in negative light and criticism. Upon Galileo's summoning to the Vatican Church, he was forced to retract his earlier statements that contradicted with the ideologies of the Vatican Church regarding the placement of the Earth, or risk death. Galileo chose to retract his statements and was confined to house arrest for eight years before his death in 1642. The book ends on a positive note when Sís writes about the Pardon that was issued to Galileo more than three hundred years later in October 1992.
Starting with the old adage "Once there was a little girl..." you come across a little girl and her parents, all wearing crowns. The little girl is wide awake claiming she is not tired. Her parents take this almost as a regular occurrence and require that she at least put on her pajamas, wash her face, brush her teeth. The little girl keeps repeating that she is not tired but climbs into bed and under the sheets since that is where she is the most comfortable. She then proceeds to ask her parents if everything thing goes to sleep. The parents then proceed to go through a list of animals and their habits of sleeping. They discuss the family dog, the cat, bats, snails, bears, and whales. The little girl proclaims that she knows an animal that sleeps a lot. We then finally come across the tiger in the jungle, where the little girl tells her parents that he sleeps to stay strong. The parents agree that sleep is good to stay strong then say goodnight even though the little girl claims she is still not sleepy. Her parents know what will happen and agree that she can stay awake all night long. After the long discussion, the little girl goes through all the processes that the animals go through and ends up fast asleep.
Ugolino della Gherardesca, a gentleman of character but also inclined to sentimental adventures, is disliked by the other powerful Pisan families. Cardinal Ruggieri, who pretends to be his friend, plots a plot against him: held responsible for the defeat of the Meloria against the Republic of Genoa, Ugolino is walled up alive with his sons. Despite being able to unmask the plot, the daughter is unable to avoid the gruesome fate of her relatives.
Fred is a successful advertising to search for the woman of your dreams. One day he meets Denise, who after some time together, accepts only be sought in marriage after meeting Fred's relatives, which is ashamed to present his eccentric Italian family. No choice, he makes a date in their work, but Denise confuses the actors of an advertisement by Fred 's family, who hires them to represent them . But he did not expect the new family would be worse to deal with than his real family.
Commissioner Nardelli is charged with capturing the dangerous bandit Mazzarò, who in Sicily killed a notary and kidnapped a girl. The key to the criminal organization is a young woman, Maria, who is the lover of a local baron and, at the same time, of the wanted bandit. Nardelli will succeed in the enterprise thanks to the police dog Dox. Once the mission is over, the two are transferred to Rome, where they solve the case of a model killed in the context of drug trafficking.
Atmo and Suryo promised each other that when their respective wives gave birth, they would betroth their children to each other. Suryo has a son and names him Romeo, while Atmo has a daughter and names her Juminten. Romeo and Juminten grow up together in the village of Ngawi, where they spend their youth as friends, until one day Suryo receives a scholarship to a school in London. Being a devoted friend, Atmo volunteers to sell his land to help pay for Suryo and his family to make the move to London. The decision to go to London weighs heavily on Suryo, and he wonders if Romeo and Juminten will be given the chance to marry.
The episode depicts the show's central character, Vicar and parish council member Geraldine Granger (Dawn French), spending her second Christmas in the village of Dibley. Firstly she needs to produce a sermon for the festive season that is more interesting than last year's as it will be the keynote speech at a party conference and members are due to defect to Satanism if the sermon is not received well. She produces several drafts which she either rejects herself or reads to her villagers who quickly lose interest. After a long struggle for ideas she successfully writes one in time for the Christmas church service using a Spice Girls biography book given to her by her friend and verger Alice Tinker (Emma Chambers) as a Christmas present.
The vicar is also invited to attend four Christmas lunches, the first she happily accepts and reluctantly accepts the next three as she does not want to disappoint or offend those offering who are relying on her attendance. The first one is with two of her fellow parish council members Frank Pickle (John Bluthal) and Jim Trott (Trevor Peacock). The next one is with David Horton (Gary Waldhorn) and his son Hugo (James Fleet). The third is with Alice, her mother (Carol MacReady) and her more dim-witted sister Mary (Mel Giedroyc). The fourth is offered to her after she's attended the other three by the remaining parish council member Owen Newitt (Roger Lloyd-Pack), he initially told the vicar he was not going to invite her much to her relief but he mistakes her joy as a subtle way of asking to join him for lunch.
Granger realises that she will need to ask for small portions at the first meal to preserve her appetite, despite asking she is presented with turkey slices and sixteen types of vegetables. She finishes this and is presented with a whole Christmas pudding to eat which she initially thinks is for the three to share. Now starting to feel full up she goes to the second where David is using recipes from a Delia Smith book. He presents her with a large plate of pasta, then a whole fish and finally the turkey. After initially declining David's offer of more Brussels sprouts she reluctantly accepts as it's a competition between him and Hugo as to who eats more sprouts, David or the guest (representing Hugo), she gives Hugo his first win against his father in any competition. Now completely full up she crawls to Alice's house and tries to get Alice and her family to offer her just a cup of tea by telling a fictionalised version of the events she's been through. This however fails, when Alice - who seems to know what Granger is trying to do - replies that if the vicar from the "story" had already eaten after Alice had cooked her a meal, she would be traumatised. Mrs Tinker serves her balls of stuffing as a starter and then a main course. After the third meal the vicar gets a cab home (which is just opposite Alice's). Newitt then arrives offering her the fourth lunch and she reluctantly goes with him where he serves a large selection of food including tripe, all of which is offered to her as Newitt has a stomach upset. The vicar is finally given a lift home in the bucket of his tractor.
Whilst at home resting from all the food she has consumed Tristian Campbell (Peter Capaldi), the producer who did ''Songs of Praise'' in Dibley knocks at Granger's door. He asks her "will you marry me?" which she mistakes as a marriage proposal and says yes, he leaves with both of them happy but he returns with his fiancée Aoife (Orla Brady) and Granger realises Campbell meant he wanted her to conduct the ceremony and not be the bride. A while later the villagers she had lunches with – apart from Mrs and Mary Tinker – arrive at the vicarage to play charades. Hugo gives a speech culminating in a toast to the vicar who is suffering with indigestion in her toilet.
The novel is based on the monologue of Timodemo, who was born in Nauplia (Greece). When he was a child, he was abandoned by his mother and given to a slave trader called Musodoro. He was educated by Quinzione and he was taken to Naples where he was bought by Virgil as his secretary. He started living with the writer, who had to write a poem celebrating the origins of Rome.
The Etruscan Mecenate, who was responsible for culture and the artists in the capital city, suggested Virgil should go on a journey to the Rasna's country to discover the past of this civilization and to find out why they didn't have a written tradition. The travellers are Mecenate, Virgilio, Timodemo, Tanai, Sarmento and the dancers Tecmessa and Ninfa.
After a long time, these travellers reached the towns of Surina and Arezzo, where Mecenate settled his accounts with two administrators who had taken advantage of his property during his absence.
Finally they arrived in Sacni, the holy town of Rasna, and while they were waiting for meeting the high priest of the god Velthune, they visited the temples dedicated to Velthune, the god life, Northia, personification of time, and Mantus, god of death and the underworld.
When the sky is favourable to their visit, they lived a fantastic adventure in the Mantus' temple: they went on an incredible journey in the past, and they could live in first person the “infinite number” of past lives and they could experience the mysteries concerning the birth of Rome, the Rasna's relationship with history, memory and writing.
After escaping from Troy, Eneas and the Lidi disembarked on the Lazio's shores, where they massacred the local population ... and the real history of the origin of Rome is shown. They killed all men and they exploited women and their land.
Certainly the Eneas' figure is highlighted, which is very different from the classic one, transmitted during the centuries: he was a fat, cruel, dirty and smelly man.
Some days after the reawakening, Mecenate, Virgilio and Timodemo met Aisna, the high priest of the temple of Velthune, and they discussed the reasons why a very developed civilization, whose citizens were able to write, hadn't a written tradition. Aisna claimed that the writing is like death, the words are a death's signal and only who hasn't a name will be immortal.
Aisna decided to show the deathly power of the writing and he wrote his name, his mother's one and his daughter's one: within the day after this people would die. As the high priest had announced, that day was the end of the Rasna's era: the last nail was placed on the wall of the Nurthia's temple, the calendar of that civilization.
When the journey was finished, Virgil was constantly subjected to Octavius' pressing requests for the realization of the Aeneid, whose draft was constantly modified.
In the last months of his life, Virgil went to Athens where he met the prince: the piece was still incomplete and the intention of the author was to not publish it, because the Rome and the heroes presented were not the real ones.
After the death of the poet, Timodemo and the slave Marittimo tried to escape with the manuscripts of the Aeneid, but they were discovered: Marittimo was captured and crucified and the piece was disclosed, even if Virgil's wanted to destroy it.
The publishing of the Aeneid, wanted by Lucio Vario Rufo and Plozio Tucca, facilitated the diffusion of a falsified figure of Eneas that firstly was a women and children slaughterer, but he has become the model of the perfect Roman citizen.
Timodemo could only escape from the death sentence decided by August. He moved to Apulia, he changed his identity and he continued being passionate about reading.
Italy, 13th century. Two families have just restored peace thanks to the marriage of Gianciotto Malatesta with the beautiful Francesca. Before the wedding, Malatesta sends his brother Paolo to his bride, who inevitably falls in love with Francesca. Theirs is a doomed love because it is immediately discovered by Malatesta, who kills the two lovers out of jealousy.
Accused of madness and jailed, AL-Hassan Ibn-Al Haitham (AL HAZEN) battles to adapt to his captivity till he makes an unexpected discovery that will change the course of human history.
Governor Bronson (Charles Trowbridge), who raised Bob Wayne (Robert Wilcox) from childhood after the death of his parents, is killed at the hands of mad scientist Doctor Satan (Edward Ciannelli). Before he dies, Bronson confides to Wayne a secret about his father who had been an outlaw in the Old West, who fought injustice while wearing a chainmail cowl and leaving small coiled copper snakes as his calling card.
Following his guardian's death, Wayne decides to adopt his father's thirst for justice and wear his Copperhead mask. Doctor Satan, meanwhile, requires only a remote control device invented by Professor Scott (C. Montague Shaw) to complete his army of killer robots and gain all the power and riches he desires. Knowing that he has an enemy, Satan uses the threat of killing the Professor's daughter, Lois (Ella Neal) to keep the Cooperhead from disrupting his plans.
The Copperhead attempts to protect the Professor and his daughter and stymies the efforts of Doctor Satan and his gang. In his fight with the criminal mastermind, the Copperhead uses the doctor's own diabolical device to defeat Doctor Satan.
Each episode brings together multiple pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their acting craft and work.
The Rose and Crown is a London pub. Five regulars are confronted one evening by an unusual request from a stranger, the personification of death.
Italy, mid-1970s. Eager to protect and unmentionable amusements, three unmarried aunts subtract, with the help of a priest and the police, the young Libero in the care of a friendly grandfather, an anarchist and eater. And if they enjoy it.
In the forest lives a magnificent deer with golden antlers, who protects the poor and the weak, but prefers to avoid the evil. In the village near the forest lives the widow Yevdokia (Raisa Ryazanova) with her twins Maschenka (Ira Tchigrinova) and Daschenka (Lena Tchigrinova), their big brother Kiryushka (Volodya Belov) and the ancient grandfather. One day, while mushrooming, the twins see the stag as it is being hunted down by robbers. A short time later, despite their mother's prohibition, they decide to go deeper into the forest (to the birch grove at the swamp) to find even more mushrooms. Forest spirits lure them even deeper into the forest until they find the "king's mushroom" that they simply want to take along. The witch Baba Yaga (Georgiy Millyar) finds them and is angry about their behavior — she transforms them into deer fawns with a magic spell.
The worried widow goes with her dog in search of her daughters. On the way she meets the "deer with the golden antlers" and rescues him from the robbers by sending them in the wrong direction. In gratitude, the deer gives her a magic ring and recommends her to go to the "Red Sun" to find her daughters. In the meanwhile, Kiryushka decides to seek his sisters on his own with the cat Vaska. When the mother comes to the "Red Sun", it sends her to its little brother, the "Clear Moon", but even this one can not help her and sends her to the "Wind", who sees everything and knows everything. Meanwhile, the gang of robbers enjoys a hearty celebration. It turns out that the "Wind" knows where her daughters are — in the realm of the witch Baba Yaga. The witch sees Yevdokia come from afar and starts a forest fire, but the ring protects the mother. At night, Baba Yaga, disguised by a cloak of invisibility, goes hunting with her walking "witch's house on chicken legs". She meets Kiryushka, whom she turns into a goat, but the cat Vaska manages to escape and finds Yevdokia whom he leads to the witch. When the widow finally meets Baba Yaga, the fight between "good" and "evil" takes place. Yevdokiya gets a little "Russian soil" out of a sack that was given to her and transforms into a Valkyrie with the words "Homeland, save us!", and starts her fight against Satan's devotee Baba Yaga. She wins the battle, breaks the witch's spell and frees her children. The inhabitants of the forest, redeemed by the witch, drive away the robbers and poor Baba Yaga is thrown into the swamp together with her witch's house.
The novel is set in Novara, a small town surrounded by snowy mountains, where many wars occurred, for example the one against Crucchi. This story shows us the difficult period of the economic progress by describing the huge house and its owner's life. The main character of the novel is the majestic building, which was done up by the well-known architect Antonelli. The owner was lord Pignatelli, a Neapolitan gentleman, who came to Novara to join the royal army. The property was passed on to the heirs, until the family couldn't afford the house anymore, so the family was made to rent out some of the house's rooms. Day by day the residence became battered and its owners left it. Today the building offers refuge to vagabonds.
Firstly he talks about his childhood, especially about his father whom he had a complicated relationship with, and about the aunts that reluctantly looked after him after his parents’ divorce. Then the story deals with war and his experiences about it, such as when he was present at an execution of men suspected of being partisans and at a conversation where someone was talking about a certain Redimisto Fabbri, whose rebellion of his factory workers wasn’t expected. After that he talks about his school life, saying how he loved literature and nature, and mentioned his university professor who considered his graduation thesis very convincing although with a completely incorrect form. More generally, he defined himself as a lousy student but also as an impressive reader.
He tells about his life with his wife (that will only be addressed as L) that will later die of a serious illness, and with their adopted son. He expresses then his opinions on religion and God, asserting that the former is not necessary unlike the latter. He says he was born as a writer when his book La notte della cometa was published, also telling about the birth of the word. He affirms that the art of writing isn’t only telling stories but also of telling one’s self. He narrates about the fact that a book of his (“Tempo di Massacro”) he didn’t mean to do anything with was published by Italo Calvino because of how much he had liked it.
He admits having some faith in literature, even though quantity is searched more than quality, and in poetry in particular, which will return and its light will never go out. For him, the art of telling stories will always exist despite its growing uselessness. Lastly he talks about the recurring themes in his books: death, vanitas and ashes. He expresses his opinions especially on the first, taking the chance of using the interview as a sort of last will and testament, in which he says how he wants his funeral to be and he wishes for his ashes to be spread in his home where he will live his last years of his life.
Antonio is a basketball player in a high school team, a rising star, but it doesn't make him popular in his school, which is in a small northern Italian town. He is a closeted kid, spending most of the time silent and grieving over his older brother's death. Most of his teammates consider him dumb. Blu is a sharp and smart girl, who, after being discovered to have had sex with her boyfriend and three of his friends at the same time, is fighting with graffiti that is sprayed on the school walls, which calls her a slut. The new kid, Lorenzo, is openly gay. He has just been adopted from an orphanage in Turin and guards himself with extravagant behaviour and an extreme sense of fashion. The three teenagers start an unusual, but good friendship, fighting against bullying schoolmates with immense success. But, then, one single kiss changes their future, leading to a great tragedy.
In 1849, 13-year old Eli McCullough's family is attacked by the Comanches. The attack results in the rape and murder of his sister and mother. Eli and his older brother are kidnapped. While Eli's brother Martin is eventually killed, Eli is adopted by the Kotsoteka Comanches and given the name Tiehteti. Initially treated as a slave, he eventually comes to earn the respect of his captors and is adopted by Toshaway, the man who kidnapped him. A series of misfortunes eventually hits the tribe, including an outbreak of disease which kills Toshaway and the rest of Eli's Comanche family. In order to provide for the survivors, Eli allows himself to be sold back into white society.
Eli has a miserable time integrating back into white society. After fighting for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, he steals a bag of gold which he uses to buy land and amass a fortune. When his neighbour, Arturo Garcia, steals some of his cattle, he murders him and bears a grudge against his nephew, Pedro Garcia, who comes to take his place. He marries Madeleine Black, the daughter of a judge. She and their eldest son are eventually killed by a band of Lipan Apaches who Eli tracks down and murders in the 1880s.
In 1915, Peter McCullough witnesses his father stir up anti-Mexican sentiment to murder the Garcias, a wealthy family friendly with the McCulloughs who have lived on the land since before America was a country. The resulting slaughter leads to multi-day riots where the remaining Spanish families in the surrounding area are murdered or forced to flee. Eli buys up the Garcia's land afterwards. Peter is haunted by his actions and becomes estranged from his wife, who sees nothing wrong with the incidents, and his sons who participated in the slaughter. Two years after the murders, the sole survivor, Maria Garcia, returns to the land. Peter shelters her and the two fall in love despite her knowledge of the McCulloughs efforts to exterminate her family. After a month, Peter's father, his brother Phineas and his wife Sally offer Maria $10,000 to disappear. She flees to Mexico and Peter spends his fortune tracking her down, eventually finding her and having two children with her.
In 2012, J.A., a wealthy woman due to the oil found on the family land, collapses alone in her home. With no one to help her she reflects on her life on the ranch where she was partially raised by her great-grandfather Eli who had already become a legend.
Though she has older brothers, J.A. always knows that she is the only one who will care for the ranch. When her three older brothers go to fight in World War II, she is told by her great-uncle Phineas that her father is a weak man who is playing at being a cattle rancher while losing hundred of thousands of dollars. Shortly after, her father dies and she inherits all the McCullough land. J.A. becomes a multi-millionaire by 19. Her great-uncle Phineas sets her up with Henry Boudreaux, a man hired to help tap the oil on the land. She eventually marries Henry though, to his disappointment, she does not take to motherhood and after her third child she returns to work. Henry later dies in a hunting accident and she lives out the rest of her life amassing money and lovers and feeling her children are failures. Several times she is contacted by Mexicans claiming to be related to her whom she dismisses. In her 90s, a young man called Ulises Garcia comes to work for her. He eventually is able to prove that Peter is his great-grandfather, but despite knowing that he is speaking the truth, she calls the police on him, only to fall and hit her head.
Knowing that he will be blamed for what happened to J.A., Ulises leaves in a panic but not before setting her house on fire.
In Texas, a drifter faces the death penalty in just a few days. His only hope is that his lawyers can persuade the serial killer Richard Ramirez to confess to the crime instead. His legal team includes Kit, who is tasked with traveling to California, and visiting Ramirez in San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to persuade him to confess. She stays in a budget hotel and spends time in a bar during her time off.
The murder in Texas took place before Ramirez's first known killing. Kit initially speaks with Ramirez by phone through glass; he refuses to reveal anything until they meet in a visitation room. There, he demands she remove her gold jewelry; he says that he is a Satanist, and gold is offensive to Satan because it is God's metal. He remains uncooperative because guards are in the room, but suggests that they can have privacy if she says she's his lawyer. Even then he remains uncooperative and insulting, demanding that she reveal personal details about herself to make herself interesting enough that she deserves to know more about him. As a child, she lived in the same neighborhood as one of Ramirez's notorious crimes, and she was obsessed with his crime spree, which was one of her inspirations to become a lawyer.
A 60-year-old Giacomo Casanova moves in the castle of Dux, a little bohemian town, under the field of the count of Joseph-Charles Emmanuel of Waldestein. Here he spends his last years alternating the composition of his novels and the fights with the other convivials of the castle: like the butler Feltkircher, the admin Stelzl, the courier Wiederholt and the beautiful Carolina.
This last great battle is fought within the walls of the castle, especially in the dining room, where his inability of speaking German prevent him to communicate with the others, making him feeling alone and left out. Besides Wiederholt and Feltkircher, his worst enemies, made fun of him by disfiguring his portrait. They use them as toilet paper and exposing them in the toilets of the castle.
Offended Casanova decides to write to the mother-countess Marie Anna Therese of Waldstein, who writes him nice and supportive things making him believe that she his friend but only because she needs his help in convincing his son, the count, to marry Marie Josepha Lobkowitz and to leave” the b.” Carolina. But when the countess meets him in person, during the imperial coronation of Leopold II, she is let down by his appearance and thinks that she should have never written to him in such a kindly and familiar way. At the end of the ceremony she decides to restore the order in the castle of his son.
As years pass by the situation for the old Casanova gets better. He finds a way to express his anger arguing with anyone: he writes 21 letters to his enemies in which he tells them everything he thinks about them.
On 4 June 1798 he dies finally in peace.
A brokenhearted lesbian woman (Nili Tserruya) grapples with her lonely existence as a singleton. She decides to walk on a different path than the majority. Tired by the constant struggle to fit in a perfectly happy society, she chooses to explore herself and teach herself how to embrace solitude and transgress the mundane world.
An elderly shepherd, Pacifico Pieruccioni, is forced by the economic crisis to give up his house and land in the Italian mountains, where his parents had fought in the Resistance against the German Army during World War II. Oddly enough, the prospective buyer is a young German. The two of them start a conversation about history and present-day Italy.
'''Director''': Michael Lindsay-Hogg '''Written by''': Robert Heverley *'''Cast''': Vera Miles (June Wiley), Leon Lissek (Andros Matakitas), Gay Hamilton (Sylvia Ann), Lyn Pinkney (Tracy), Dermot Walsh (Ken), John Junkin (Robert)
June Wiley is a criminologist doing research on a dead 1920s mad serial killer named Andros Matakitas who finds herself alone and trapped inside a deserted library where, 41 years earlier, he killed the librarian.
'''Director''': Don Chaffey '''Written by''': Alfred Shaughnessy *'''Cast''': Patty Duke (Barbara King), Kay Walsh (Mrs. Walker), Geoffrey Bayldon (Mr. Plimmer), Joan Newell (Mrs. Plimmer), Blake Butler (Butler), John Bailey (Mitchell), Michael Craze (Fred), Sally James (Peggy)
A young woman on holiday at a seaside resort hotel is stalked by a mysterious prowler which Mrs. Walker (Kay Walsh), the proprietress of the resort, informs her is her estranged, psychotic husband.
Daenerys, Tyrion, Missandei, and Grey Worm meet with the Masters, who offer terms of surrender. Daenerys counters that the meeting was called to discuss the masters' surrender, and proceeds to ride Drogon into Slaver's Bay with Rhaegal and Viserion to burn their fleet. Grey Worm kills two of the masters, but Yezzan is spared; Tyrion tells him to warn the other masters of Daenerys' power. Meanwhile, Daario leads the Dothraki to slaughter the Sons of the Harpy, who are massacring freedmen outside the city.
Theon and Yara arrive in Meereen and form an alliance with Daenerys, offering their fleet, and the Ironborn's renouncing their reaver lifestyle, in exchange for help in overthrowing Euron and recognizing Yara's claim to the Iron Islands.
Jon, Sansa, Tormund and Davos meet with Ramsay and his bannermen. Jon refuses Ramsay's offer of returning Sansa to him in exchange for a pardon, while Ramsay declines Jon's offer to settle their dispute with single combat. Ramsay also gloats that he has been starving his hounds in anticipation of feeding Jon and his advisors to them. Sansa assures Ramsay that he will die the next day.
At camp, Sansa insists that the Starks' army is not big enough and warns Jon not to underestimate Ramsay. Davos and Tormund discuss their time serving Stannis and Mance and acknowledge that they may have served the wrong men in the past. Davos discovers the pyre where Shireen was burned and finds the wooden stag he carved for her, leading him to realize that she was killed by Melisandre.
The armies gather outside Winterfell the next morning. Ramsay releases Rickon and has him run to Jon while shooting arrows at him. Jon rushes to intercept Rickon, but Rickon is killed just as Jon reaches him. Enraged, Jon charges at Ramsay, who orders the Bolton archers to fire and his cavalry to charge, and Davos orders the Stark force out of position to shield Jon. The ensuing battle leaves hundreds of Bolton and Stark soldiers dead, creating a wall of corpses and allowing the Bolton infantry to encircle the Stark forces while Smalljon's men prevent the Stark army escaping over the wall of bodies. Although Jon survives being trampled by the Wildlings, the Stark forces appear doomed when suddenly a horn sounds in the distance. Littlefinger and Sansa arrive with the Knights of the Vale, who easily smash the remainder of the Bolton army; Tormund kills Smalljon Umber in the chaos.
Ramsay retreats to Winterfell, but Wun Wun breaks down Winterfell's gates, and the Stark loyalists overwhelm the remnants of the Bolton garrison. A mortally wounded Wun Wun is finished off by Ramsay, who tells Jon that he has reconsidered the offer of single combat, and unsuccessfully fires arrows at him. Jon overpowers Ramsay and begins to beat him to death, but stops when he sees Sansa and orders him imprisoned instead, leaving Winterfell once more in the hands of House Stark.
At night, Sansa visits Ramsay, who has been imprisoned in the kennels with his hounds. Sansa tells Ramsay that, with the Starks back in control of Winterfell, House Bolton will die with him. Ramsay insists that his hounds will not turn on him, but Sansa reminds him that he had purposefully starved them for the previous seven days. The hounds then proceed to devour Ramsay alive as he screams in agony. Sansa walks away, smirking in satisfaction over her tormentor's demise.
Arya Stark gets revenge on Walder Frey by killing his sons and baking them into a meat pie. Disguised as a servant girl, she serves him the pie before slitting his throat.
Qyburn summons Grand Maester Pycelle to his laboratory, where his child spies stab Pycelle to death.
Ser Loras confesses to his crimes and atones by giving up his name and title, and joining the Faith Militant. After Cersei fails to appear, Lancel finds a wildfire cache about to explode. The wildfire destroys the Great Sept, killing everyone inside, including Margaery, Loras, Mace, Kevan, Lancel and the High Sparrow. Tommen witnesses the explosion from the Red Keep. After being informed of Margaery's death, he commits suicide by jumping out of a window. With her last child dead, Cersei is crowned Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
Samwell and Gilly report to the Citadel, and Sam is scheduled to meet the Archmaester. In the meantime, he is granted access to the library.
An enraged Ser Davos confronts Melisandre about her role in Shireen's death; she admits to burning her alive, but declares that she did it for the Lord of Light. Jon banishes Melisandre from the North and he and Davos threaten to execute her if she ever returns. Jon and Sansa discuss who will lead the united Stark forces, with each deferring to the other.
Littlefinger reveals to Sansa that his ultimate goal is to sit on the Iron Throne with her at his side. Sansa rejects his offer.
Jon gathers the various Northern lords, the Knights of the Vale, and the Wildlings to plan for the fight against the White Walkers. After Lyanna Mormont shames the Northern lords that did not come to Jon's aid, all lords present declare a reluctant Jon the new King in the North.
Olenna Tyrell meets with Ellaria and the Sand Snakes concerning the possibility of an alliance against Cersei. Ellaria presents Varys, who offers Olenna vengeance by allying with Daenerys.
Bran re-enters the vision of Ned Stark at the Tower of Joy. Ned finds Lyanna covered in blood from childbirth. With her dying breath, Lyanna pleads with Ned to protect her son, who is revealed to be Jon Snow.
Daenerys informs Daario that he will not accompany her to Westeros, as she needs him to keep order in Meereen while she invades Westeros. Daenerys proclaims Tyrion the Hand of the Queen, and the two of them, along with their extensive forces, depart for Westeros.
The game begins with Kara Zor-El's and an infant Kal-El's escape from Krypton during Brainiac's attack on the planet. Aided by Kara's mother, they manage to escape aboard pods headed to Earth, but Kara's ship is knocked off course. Years later, prior to the events of the first game, Batman and his son Robin attempt to stop Superman's Regime from executing Arkham Asylum inmates. Failing to dissuade Superman, Batman fights him, but is attacked by Robin, who prefers Superman's methods. Batman defeats Robin, but the latter leaves with Superman to join the Regime anyway after executing Victor Zsasz.
In the present, two years after the Regime's fall, Batman and his Insurgency are attempting to rebuild society. They learn of a new faction, the Society, composed of villains spearheaded by Gorilla Grodd, who seeks global domination. Black Canary, a parallel universe version of Green Arrow, and a reformed Harley Quinn, are tasked by Batman with stopping the Society, and track them down to Slaughter Swamp, where they form an alliance with Swamp Thing. Following the villains to Gorilla City, the heroes are warned by Doctor Fate of an incoming threat. Black Canary and Green Arrow are abducted by Brainiac, the mastermind behind the Society, who intends to add Earth to his collection of shrunken planets. After Brainiac takes over Batman's communications hub, Brother Eye, Batman searches for allies to defeat him.
While Catwoman, a double agent for Batman in the Society, rescues Harley, the reformed Flash and Green Lantern join Batman to take down Brainiac. Green Lantern is sent to recruit Aquaman, who agrees to help after Brainiac attacks Atlantis. Meanwhile, Black Adam, Wonder Woman, and Kara (who was rescued by Adam years prior and adopted the Supergirl alias) break Robin and Cyborg out of prison in an attempt to re-establish the Regime and defeat Brainiac. They are defeated by Blue Beetle and Firestorm before Batman arrives. Batman frees Superman and forms a reluctant alliance with the Regime members on the condition that no one is killed in the upcoming battles.
Cyborg, Catwoman, and Harley go to the Batcave to free Brother Eye from Brainiac's control, and defeat Society members sent to stop them. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman and Supergirl fight the remaining Society members in New Metropolis; when the former almost kills Cheetah, Harley interferes, causing Wonder Woman to attack her. Supergirl goes to the Fortress of Solitude to confront Superman over the incident, and learns of his tyranny. As Brainiac prepares to destroy Earth after collecting enough cities, the Insurgency and the Regime attack his ship, but fail to get through its shields, and seemingly lose Superman. The group decides to weaken the shields by using Aquaman's trident as a conduit for the magic of the Rock of Eternity, which Aquaman and Black Adam go retrieve. They are followed by Grodd, who has brainwashed Black Canary, Green Arrow, and Blue Beetle, but they defeat them, and Aquaman executes Grodd.
Aquaman and Black Adam weaken Brainiac's shields enough for Batman and Supergirl to board his ship. They are captured, but a still-living Superman rescues them and helps Batman defeat the brainwashed Firestorm and Swamp Thing. Doctor Fate, ordered by the Lords of Order to help Brainiac, fights them, but he is defeated and freed from the Lords' control, before Brainiac kills him. After defeating Brainiac, Superman takes control of the ship to restore the stolen cities, but inadvertently destroys New Metropolis and Coast City. As the others join them, they become divided over Brainiac's fate: the Insurgents and Supergirl want to keep him alive so they can learn how to restore the cities, while the Regime and Aquaman want him dead. The tension between them escalates into a fight, prompting the player to choose whether to fight as Superman or Batman.
Depending on the outcome of the battle, the story ends in one of the following: * If Superman wins, he reinstates the Regime, restores Earth's cities and kills Brainiac. He visits an imprisoned Supergirl and tells her that he wants her to co-lead an army he is forming out of aliens in Brainiac's collection. When she refuses, Superman reveals that he has brainwashed Batman using Brainiac's technology, and threatens to do the same to her. Or worse, he will erase earth with a push of a button for the bombs he set up. * If Batman wins, he depowers Superman with Gold Kryptonite, traps him in the Phantom Zone, and offers Supergirl a membership in the new Justice League, which she accepts.
In the town of Whoville, the human-like people called Whos are filled with excitement about celebrating Christmas. However, the only one who is not amused is the grumpy, cantankerous and green-furred Grinch, born with a heart being "two-sizes too small". He lives in his cave with his dog, Max, and only goes into Whoville to buy groceries and play pranks on the citizens.
Meanwhile, 6-year-old Cindy Lou Who notices that her mother Donna is overworked trying to take care of herself and her twin infant brothers, Buster and Bean. Cindy initially decides to send a letter to Santa Claus to help her mother, but after an encounter with the Grinch —who sarcastically tells her that, if the matter is so urgent, she'll have to talk to Santa face-to-face about it— she decides to go to the North Pole to talk to Santa himself. When Donna tells her that a round trip to the North Pole would take a month, she instead decides to try trapping Santa with the help of her friends.
With Christmas approaching, a bungled attempt by the Grinch to ruin a tree-lighting ceremony results in him having a flashback about his disjointed childhood spent alone and unwanted in an orphanage. The Grinch soon decides that he will steal Christmas from Whoville to assuage his distress. He and Max acquire a fat reindeer, whom the Grinch calls Fred, and steal a sleigh from his friendly neighbor Bricklebaum. After a test run, the Grinch and Max discover that Fred has a family, and the Grinch emotionally agrees to let Fred go home with them.
On Christmas Eve, after making a Santa disguise and crafting dozens of gadgets to help him with his plan, the Grinch and Max, who pulls the sleigh in Fred's place, go down to Whoville to steal the decorations and presents. He soon encounters Cindy Lou after falling into her trap. Her request to help lighten her mother's workload and her kind advice about listening to the Whos' singing to alleviate his sadness touches the Grinch's heart. Despite this, the Grinch continues his mission, unable to let go of the loneliness Christmas brought him.
After stealing every Christmas present and decoration, the Grinch and Max head back to Mount Crumpit to dispose of them. The Whos wake up and are shocked and disappointed to see that the presents and decorations are gone. Cindy Lou believes that she's to blame because of her trap, but Donna tells her that Christmas is not centered on presents and that Cindy's the best thing that ever happened to her. The Whos join together to sing "Welcome Christmas", rendering the Grinch puzzled to see that they are celebrating Christmas despite his thefts. Seeing Cindy and remembering her guidance, he immerses himself in their singing, causing his shrunken heart to blissfully triple in size.
Afterwards, the sleigh begins to fall off Mount Crumpit, and the Grinch attempts to save it. He succeeds at this when Fred and his family come to his aid. After securing the sleigh, the Grinch and Max slide down back to Whoville in order to return the stolen items, and the remorseful Grinch admits his crimes and apologizes to the Whos before returning to his cave.
Feeling sorry for the Grinch, Cindy later invites him and Max to celebrate Christmas at her house which he awkwardly attends. When seated for dinner, he realizes that it wasn't really Christmas he despised, but being alone and his bitterness over being neglected. With this, the Grinch finally accepts the Whos' friendship and enjoys Christmas with them giving a toast "To kindness and love, the things we need most."
One night Bjorn Thonen, an antique dealer from Paris, Shmaris, is robbed after coming home drunk. A certain stone tablet was stolen and Bjorn is forced to conduct his own investigation. He gets help from his neighbor Sandra and her daughter Caroline. They travel to the fictional country of Nogo where they learn more about the tablet and the ancient legends about King Demetrios. They have to find all stone tablets in order to save the world.
The novel begins in the dead of winter in Glory, West Virginia, in the midst of a mining strike. Cal Dunne, his mother Roseanna, and his wife Jessie, are holed up in their house waiting for the arrival of the union organizer, whom James P. Shaloo, the strikebreaker, is determined to kill. Into this rides a farming couple who have recently lost everything not in their wagon, Jack and Jean Farjeon, who are expecting a baby at any moment. Cal and Mother Dunne are prepared to go out with rifles at any time, and along with Tom Turley, who has voted to end the strike but is still not scabbing, get in a fray with Shaloo's man, in an army coat. Jean is shocked into labor and shot, giving birth to a dead child. Cal is also killed, and Mother Dunne is arrested, charged with the murder of a striking miner named Joseph Tzack, who speaks almost no English and shouted "extra!" repeatedly at the time of his dead because he recognized it from newsboy's cried of the end of World War I. Farjeon is determined to bury his dead wife and child, but they are taken by the authorities, and in a fever caused by the cold, he goes into delirium and believes that Jessie, who is terrified of the prospect of her two apparent choices—prostitution or begging barefoot in the street—is Jean, and she happily seduces him.
Farjeon sets out to kill the five men he deems responsible for the death of Jean and their child—the man in the army coat, J.P. Shaloo, the foreman, Bob Kitto; the supervisor, George W. Paul; and a nebulous fifth person, the owner of the mine, simply known as "the Company"—president unknown. Going to Wheeling to obtain a gun, he visits a soup kitchen, where he meets a man who tells him he has just refused to take scab work when he was approached to do so by a man in an army coat, so he goes to the diner the man spoke of and tries to look desperate, even though he has $200 with him. Eventually he is approached by the man in the army coat, whom readers met briefly at Toby's bar in a part of Glory called Mexico, where many scabs, many of whom—such as Toby—are black, live. Cotter offers him the job, but Farjeon refuses. He can tell that Cotter is a morning drinker, and suspects that he would know a place to obtain a gun without leaving a record, and he tells him that Sophie Worcik, a Romanian widow with a large white scar on her face, may have one, but that she also might make him gamble for it. She does indeed, placing a revolver with five bullets into a claw crane and giving him a free play, followed by a $10 bill as she inserts each dime. After seven tries, the gun is his.
Farjeon goes back to Cotter, but restrains the urge to shoot him, believing that he can lead him to Shaloo. He accepts a job beating strikers with a stick, even though it goes against his beliefs, while Cotter insists they are beating evil, un-American communists. The strikers fight back and nearly kill Cotter, and Farjeon is surprised at his near tenderness at his apparent loss of Cotter before he is ready, but this builds Cotter's faith in him, so Cotter takes Farjeon to meet Shaloo.
Almost immediately after Farjeon meets Shaloo, a group of men with rifles bring down him and Cotter before Farjeon, who still has much of the Southern gentlemen about him, can bring himself to do it. Among the men with rifles are Tom Turley and Jim Telligrew from the earlier shootout, and another man name Steve. Believing Farjeon to be a genuine scab, they chase him down. He uses his first two bullets, shooting Telligrew in the head and grazing Turley in the shoulder.
Roseanna Dunne returns home only to learn it is soon to be seized if further payments cannot be made. Jessie informs her that she has heard on the radio that Jim Telligrew has killed Jim Shaloo.
Category:1971 American novels Category:Novels set in West Virginia Category:Novels set in the 1930s
''Blood Drive'' is set in the dystopian "distant future" of alternate 1999, after the "Great Fracking Quakes" have literally split the United States apart, with a giant ravine called "the Scar" being formed roughly along the route of the Mississippi River. A megacorporation, Heart Enterprises, exploits strange discoveries from the bottom of the Scar to become ubiquitous across American politics, society, and the economy. Meanwhile, as a result of environmental decline, water has become scarce and gasoline prohibitively expensive.
The series features Los Angeles Police Department officer Arthur Bailey (Alan Ritchson), a.k.a. "Barbie", who is forced to partner up with Grace D'Argento (Christina Ochoa), a dangerous femme fatale who has an agenda of her own, as they take part in a death race in which the cars run on human blood – the titular Blood Drive, whose master of ceremonies, Julian Slink (Colin Cunningham), is secretly a Heart employee. As they make their way through the Blood Drive, Arthur and Grace realize that Heart has been involved in their own pasts as well.
Arthur and his wife F1 Morven Digby (Eleanor Fanyinka) announce their decision to go travelling. They want to spend the time Arthur has left visiting historic sites. His best friend CT1 doctor Dominic Copeland (David Ames) is upset and thinks that Arthur is being selfish. Consultant general surgeon Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie) tries to make Dom realise that it is Arthur's choice. He decides to distract himself by attending to patient Alison Jones (Elizabeth Cadwallader). Dom realises that he has been unfair to Arthur and they have a discussion. Dom hands Arthur war medals that were stolen from their flat months earlier. Arthur realises that he wants to stay in Holby City and live out his final days with friends.
Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel) sets CT1 doctor Zosia March (Camilla Arfwedson) a series of surgical tasks to prove her worth. Zosia rises to the challenge but becomes tired of Jac's demands. Jac tells Zosia she is selfish and uncaring towards Arthur. She accuses her of giving Arthur a stent operation to advance her own career. Zosia confronts Jac and accuses her of being "cold", this does not phase Jac who ignores her. Zosia ex-boyfriend, Specialist registrar Oliver Valentine (James Anderson) and Staff nurse Cara Martinez (Niamh Walsh) apologise to her for sharing a kiss. Cara gives Oliver a picture of his dead wife Tara Lo (Jing Lusi) and Zosia spots him with it. Staff nurse Essie Harrison (Kaye Wragg) rallies staff to get ready to perform a song and dance surprise for Arthur. They perform a dance routine and are joined by Ethan Hardy (George Rainsford). Antoine Malick (Jimmy Akingbola) makes a video call to Arthur to wish him well.
Arthur goes to visit CEO Henrik Hanssen (Guy Henry) and he tells him that he has finally realised what he wants from life. Arthur's stent bursts and he collapses on the floor. Hanssen calls a crash team and tries to comfort Arthur. Consultant Sacha Levy (Bob Barrett) and Ric try to operate on Arthur. Sacha announces that the cancer is too advanced and nothing more can be done and Ric agrees. Hanssen goes to AAU to inform Morven who is in theatre with Serena Campbell (Catherine Russell). Arthur is taken into a side room where Morven tells him that she loves him. Arthur is unconscious and has visions of Morven, Dom, Zosia and his old friend Chantelle Lane (Lauren Drummond). Arthur responds to Morven holding his hand but then dies surrounded by his friends and colleagues. Zosia breaks down on Darwin ward and Jac rushes to console her.
The game is broken up into three episodes: "Marooned on Mars", "The Earth Explodes", and "Keen Must Die!". In the first episode, eight-year-old child genius Billy Blaze builds a spaceship and puts on his older brother's football helmet to become Commander Keen. One night while his parents are out of the house, he flies to Mars to explore, but while away from the ship the Vorticons steal four vital components and hide them in Martian cities. Keen journeys through Martian cities and outposts to find the components, despite the efforts of Martians and robots to stop him. After securing the final component, which is guarded by a Vorticon, Keen returns to Earth—discovering a Vorticon mothership in orbit—and beats his parents home, who discover that he now has a pet Yorp.
In the second episode, the Vorticon mothership has locked its X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons on eight of Earth's landmarks, and Keen journeys to the ship to find and deactivate each of the cannons. Keen does so by fighting more varied enemies and hazards and a Vorticon at each cannon's control. At the end of the episode, he discovers that the Vorticons are being mind-controlled by the mysterious Grand Intellect, who is actually behind the attack on Earth.
In the third episode, Keen journeys to the Vorticon homeworld of Vorticon VI to find the Grand Intellect. He travels through Vorticon cities and outposts to gain access to the Grand Intellect's lair, fighting mostly against the Vorticons themselves. Upon reaching the lair, he discovers that the Grand Intellect is actually his school rival Mortimer McMire, whose IQ is "a single point higher" than Keen's. Keen defeats Mortimer and his "Mangling Machine" and frees the Vorticons from mind-control; the Vorticon king and "the other Vorticons you haven't slaughtered" then award him a medal for saving them.
The ''Hybrid Chronicles'' books are set in an alternate universe society in which at birth every body possesses two 'souls', or human identities. One of these identities is supposed to fade away with age. Those who retain both souls are labelled 'hybrids' and are ostracized from normal society. The series' protagonists, Addie and Eva, inhabit the same body. The girls hide the presence of Eva, the recessive soul, for fear of what might happen if they were ever discovered. Over the course of the trilogy, the girls are at first institutionalized for their hybrid nature, then join a resistance force for hybrid rights.
In 1881, a cowboy (Graham McTavish) leaves his home, searching for medicine for his sick daughter. Along the way, he encounters some travelers from St. Louis, who believe the American frontier was a paradise. The patriarch of the family asks "Do you agree," to the cowboy, "That this is paradise?" The mystery cowboy turns toward his host: "It ain't." The next day, he rides past a hanging tree, dead Native Americans hanging scalped from the branches. He rides his horse straight into Ratwater.
In the present day, Jesse (Dominic Cooper) baptizes his congregants, with DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef) and Fiore (Tom Brooke) watching from a distance. Tulip (Ruth Negga) asks for her sins to be washed away and is begrudgingly baptized by Jesse. Tulip, once again, asks Jesse for help with that "job". After the baptisms, the congregants head into the church. Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) asks Emily (Lucy Griffiths) for an advance for "fixing" the air conditioner, which she denies him. Soon after, Emily tells Jesse that Cassidy drank a cask of communion wine and tells him to drop by and visit Tracy Loach (Gianna Lepera). As the Roots are leaving, a parishioner yells out, "Murderer!". Sheriff Hugo Root (W. Earl Brown) confronts them, but his son tells him to let it go. Meanwhile, Linus (Ptolemy Slocum) confesses to Jesse that he has urges to "do stuff" to a girl he drives on his school bus. Jesse tells Linus that though his urges are wrong, he has not acted upon them and shouldn't. Jesse finishes by telling Linus that he must stop sinning.
Odin Quincannon (Jackie Earle Haley) and his employees arrive at an unnamed couple's home. Odin purchases their land and immediately has his men tear their house down. As Quincannon's men leave, Donnie Schenck (Derek Wilson) breaks Clive's nose against the steering wheel for usurping his position as Quincannon's right-hand man during the visit to the couple's home.
Jesse and Emily solicit suggestions at a local grocery store. During this time, Jesse watches as Linus drives by in his school bus. When Jesse returns to his truck, he finds his steering wheel is missing. Tulip then drives by and mocks Jesse for choosing a dull life. Jesse eventually makes his way back to his church, where he's greeted by Cassidy. Jesse learns from Cassidy that the latter is a vampire. When Cassidy takes a sip from his flask, Jesse asks what it is, and Cassidy states that it is too potent for a human, listing its improbable ingredients. Doubting that Cassidy is a vampire and the potency of the drink, Jesse drains the flask and passes out instantly.
At a hotel, DeBlanc and Fiore leave with a large trunk. During this time, Cassidy takes a cruise in Jesse's truck. DeBlanc and Fiore arrive at All Saints Congregational church, standing over Jesse. The two attempt a mysterious ritual to remove the Genesis with a lullaby, but fail. The two then attempt to release Genesis, revving up a chainsaw to cut Jesse open. Before the two can dismember Jesse, Cassidy returns and calls them out, believing they are vampire-hunters searching for him. Cassidy is shot by DeBlanc, bites into DeBlanc's leg and in the ensuing struggle, bludgeons DeBlanc to death with a large bible. Cassidy then fights Fiore for the chainsaw managing to cut off Fiore's right arm, using Fiore's chainsaw wielding left arm. The chainsaw, with Fiore's right arm still attached, proceeds to move toward an unconscious Jesse, but Cassidy manages to stop it in time.
Meanwhile, at Toadvine Whorehouse, Tulip beats a group of Quincannon Meat & Power employees in a game of poker. After defeating the men, she receives a call from a man called "Danny", telling him she will see him soon. Back at All Saints Congregational, Cassidy cleans up the blood and has DeBlanc and Fiore stuffed in their large trunk. As Cassidy brings them outside to bury them, he's upset as the sun had already risen.
Jesse wakes up shortly after, and Emily brings him a casserole to deliver to Terri Loach when he visits Terri (Bonita Friedericy) and her comatose daughter. As he tries to comfort Terri, she tells Jesse that his words can't heal Tracy. Upon leaving the Loach residence, Jesse sees Linus drive by again. Later while driving at night, Jesse stops to investigate a car seat in the middle of the road, and is stealthily tasered. He awakens to find himself bound in chains, in a room at Toadvine. Soon after, Tulip, revealing herself as Jesse's captor, tells him she won't take the job without him and that she'll keep nagging him until he agrees. Tulip then tells Jesse he will eventually revert to his old ways. When Jesse asks to be released, Tulip comments that there is nothing keeping him there.
Jesse returns to his church to cut the chains off with a saw. He's interrupted by a guilt-ridden Eugene (Ian Colletti), asking to be baptized again. However, Jesse tells him it is too late. Eugene believes that no matter how hard he tries, he will always be the same. Inspired by Eugene's words, Jesse goes to Linus' home, enters uninvited and searches for Linus. Finding him in the bathroom, Jesse confronts Linus quietly, preparing the tub as a baptismal and neatly hanging up his jacket and rolling up his sleeve. All the while, Linus rants penitently. Using the Word of God while "baptizing" Linus again, Jesse commands Linus to "Forget the Girl." Linus' memory of the girl is wiped clean and he's seemingly left confused as to why Jesse's there in the first place.
Cassidy buries the trunk of body parts on a hilltop that features the same tree seen outside of Ratwater in the flashback. The next day, however, the mystery men are back in their motel room being interrogated by Sheriff Root. When asked by the Sheriff who they are, they merely answer, "We’re from the Government".
The following day, after witnessing his new powers in action, Jesse visits the Loach residence and tells Tracy that he's going to try something new and tells her to open her eyes.
The setting is inspired by Norse mythology; the setting is divided up into nine worlds, including Midgard and Asgard. The story takes place before the plot of the original ''Valkyrie Profile''. The protagonist is Lenneth Valkyrie, who is preparing for Ragnarok. Lord of the gods Odin commands Lenneth to choose human souls to be Einherjar, and so before they die, heroes are made to fight in the final war between the gods. But Lenneth is unsure if the world should end, and as she grows fond of them, she may help stop the final battle.
In 1975, Seyolo Zantoko graduates from medical school in Lille; he was the only African man in his class and circle of friends. He turns down a job in Zaire as the personal physician of President Joseph-Desiré Mobutu, as he wants to avoid the corruption associated with his country. Instead, he is hired by the mayor of Marly-Gomont, a small village in northern France. He calls his family and informs them that he got a job in France; in their excitement, his wife Anne and their two children, Sivi and Kamini, assume that they will move to Paris. They are soon disappointed to learn that they are living in a rural village. Seyolo's decision to live in France is primarily motivated by providing a better education for his children; he also hopes to apply for French citizenship.
The Zantoko family struggle to adapt to their new life in Marly-Gomont. The locals have never seen black people before and initially treat them with fear and distrust; Sivi and Kamini are bullied at school and Seyolo's practice struggles to thrive as the locals prefer to go to the French doctor in the neighbouring village. Seyolo and Anne have a heated argument in front of visiting relatives, during which Seyolo reluctantly promises that they will eventually move to Brussels, where the aforementioned relatives live. However, Seyolo and his family end up gaining the trust of the villagers after he successfully delivers the baby of a local farmer. More people visit his practice which becomes a success.
Seyolo, Sivi and Kamini begin to feel more at home in Marly-Gomont, though Anne still wishes to move to Brussels. Seyolo tells the mayor that he wishes to stay in the village for the long term. That same evening, the mayor and his wife have dinner at the Zantokos' house, and the mayor mentions his happiness that Seyolo will remain as the village's doctor. Anne is angered by this revelation as Seyolo had not told her about accepting the mayor's request to stay in Marly-Gomont. Anne leaves to stay in Brussels with her family and the couple's relationship is in jeopardy.
Some time later, Seyolo is arrested by the French police for immigration irregularities, days before his French citizenship application is approved. The only hope for Seyolo to continue his practice is that the current mayor will be re-elected, although his opponent, Lavigne, is leading the polls and is determined to hire a doctor of French origin. Meanwhile, Sivi demonstrates her talent in soccer and wins the hearts of the community, helping to defeat the opposing team in the local soccer league. Seyolo and his children devise a plan to show the villagers that if Lavigne wins the election, the Zantokos will have to move. The locals, realizing that they will lose the doctor and their best soccer player, agree to vote for the incumbent mayor.
Anne returns to Marly-Gomont and joins her husband in watching a school play that their children are performing in. They discover that the play is a re-enactment of the arrival and eventual acceptance of the Zantoko family. They realize that they are loved by the entire community (except Lavigne, who leaves before the end of the show). The mayor is re-elected, Seyolo's office reopens and Anne is hired as his secretary. They remain happily married until 2009 when Seyolo passes away in a car accident. His funeral is attended by the entire village.
In the epilogue, it states that Seyolo had received the medal of merit in 2008 for service to Picardy. After his death, Anne moved to Brussels to join her cousins. Sivi and Kamini both graduated with nursing degrees; the former practices in Brussels while the latter became a comedian. In 2006, Kamini made his village famous with his hit song 'Marly-Gomont', which is played in the closing credits.
The young nobleman Don Ricardo Villaverde lives in Mexico, which is ruled by Emperor Maximilian and led by Governor Leblanche as his very enjoyable representative Son of Zorro, a fighter for the poor peons and rebels suffering under the governor and thus for the revolution. When a load of weapons is on its way to the Alcalde of the town of San Ramon, Don Herrera Coser, the transport is attacked by the rebel Garincha and Herrera is killed; his daughter Donna Conchita escapes with the help of the son of Zoro and is hidden by him. They both fall in love. Meanwhile, the weapons become the property of the rebels who equip the peons with them and the revolution begins, causing the governor and his wife to flee. The son of Zorro, who made all these happenings possible and supported, goes to the house of the unhappily married Conchita and reveals himself to her.
The story takes place in Maiami City, where the Leo Corporation developed Solid Vision which became an inseparable part of daily life due to its ability to give physical mass to data. Its application to Duel Monsters created an interactive experience that gave rise to challenging Action Duels where duelists traverse environments to locate Action Cards to help them in a pinch.
The story follows Yuya Sakaki, a mysterious Entertainment Duelist with the ability to Pendulum Summon and little memory of his past. Nicknamed ''Phantom'', he is on the run from the Leo Corporation after hacking into their system to freely manipulate Solid Vision technology for his own use. He has three other personalities within him: the collected Xyz Duelist Yuto, the sadistic Fusion Duelist Yuri, and the overconfident Synchro Duelist Yugo. While escaping from Leo Corp agents, Yuya meets Yuzu Hiragi who tricks him into signing a teaching contract at her father's Yu Sho Duel School in exchange for her assistance.
Yuya is later revealed to originate from Miami City two decades in the future, sent to the current timeline by his father Yusho to find a Duel Monster card of omnipotent power called "Genesis Omega Dragon" (G.O.D) that gives one the power manipulate reality itself. But Yuya finds opposition in Leo Corp's president Reiji Akaba, who is also from the future and blames Yusho for destroying their era when he stole the G.O.D. card from his father Leo Akaba. Furthermore, altering his memories unbeknownst to him so to burden him with who they really are, Yuya's alternate personalities were actually the spirits of his older brothers who merged into Yuya's body after they died protecting him during the calamity. The two parties ultimately join forces when Yuya and Reiji find themselves targeted by a third faction led by a mysterious woman called EVE, who needs the Adam Factor energy that Yuya and Reiji possess to restore G.O.D's true power so she and her followers can create an ideal reality for themselves.
After series of duels, Yuya and his brothers finally confronts EVE and G.O.D, with Yuya recovering his memories in the process. When Yuya was close to give in to G.O.D's temptation of having his whole family back, his three brothers sacrificed themselves to give their remaining powers to strengthen the Adam Factor inside Yuya, granting Yuya the card God-Eyes Phantom Dragon that eventually defeats G.O.D. The spirit of Adam than manifests and reunites with EVE, leaving together with her. However, before Yuya can destroy G.O.D, Reiji interrupts as he wishes to have G.O.D to continue his father's legacy, leading to another duel between the two. Yuya emerges victorious and destroy G.O.D, opening a path that leads to another dimension where G.O.D's creator is. Yuya, Reiji, Ren, and Isaac decides to confront the creator of G.O.D while Sora stays with Shun and Shingo. Before leaving, Yuya assures Yuzu that they are destined to meet again and gives his ace monster to her. Days after the battle, Yuzu meets the young Yusho, indicating that she'll meet Yuya again in the future like he had told her.
A young American couple moves to New England and learns that everyone in their new neighborhood belongs to a cult which has chosen them as sacrifices. Based upon a story by Charles Beaumont.
'''Director''': Peter Sasdy '''Written by''': Oscar Millard *'''Cast''': Robert Reed (Hank Prentiss), Jennifer Hilary (Anne Prentiss), Patrick Allen (Luther Ames)
A set of quadruplets are telepathically connected as they feel one another's pain and share skills and talents. Based upon a story by L.P. Davies.
'''Director''': James Hill '''Written by''': John Gould *'''Cast''': Michael Tolan (Craig Miller), Nanette Newman (Jill Collins), Barnaby and Roderick Shaw (Richard and Rodney)
Clint Morgan (Mark Schneider) goes to The Invitational Freak-Out for custom van enthusiasts intending to enter his van, The Sea Witch, in a contest. In saving a runaway, Karen (Kate Saylor), from rapist bikers, Clint loses his van. He goes to his friend Bosley (Tom Kindle), a rebel designer, who lets Clint and Karen enter his solar-powered laser-firing custom van, Vandora, in place of The Sea Witch.
A couple known only by their alias 'Dancer' and 'Scuzz' are a married pair of drifters who make a living by employing a trio of loose young women, known as the C.B. Hustlers. They travel up and down the I-5 expressway in southern California in two separate vans where the young women pick up truck drivers and other travelers at rest stop areas and truck depots where they charge them $25 each for sexual favors, with Dancer and Scuzz receiving 40% of the Hustlers profits. They communicate with each other and their clients on their C.B. short wave radios by code talk to make appointments with their trucker clients and always stay one step ahead of the law when the truckers radio advance warnings of "smokies" (police) in the area. In public, Dancer and Scuzz go by their real names of "Mr. and Mrs. Turner" and always introduce the three young women as their daughters to avoid any unwanted attention.
Small town sheriff Elrod P. Ramsey cannot seem to catch the Hustler's work in the act, so he employs two men, Boots Clayborn and Mountain Dean, who own and operate the local newspaper to investigate and hope to catch the Hustlers in the act. While Mountain sees this as a potential story for his newspaper to advance his career, Boots meets and soon becomes enamored with one of the young Hustlers and even tries to help them stay one step ahead of the law.
Set in an alternate Earth on the eve of the Second World War, the story follows Izetta, the last surviving member of a clan of witches that possesses the ability to magically manipulate any object that they touch. Izetta pledges to help protect Princess Finé and the tiny Alpine country of Eylstadt from invasion by the imperialistic forces of Germania.
A ''Star Wars''-style text crawl explains how a resistance force led by Princess Serina has stolen vital radio transmissions from an evil Galactic Alliance. The Darth Vader-like villain, Lord Buckethead (named only in the closing credits), pursues Serina, but, due to an error in navigation, instead lands on Earth.
Lord Buckethead then leads his Jawa-like minions into the nearby suburban town while none the wiser of his blunder. He immediately mistakes town folk such as Chester, the local baker, for a galactic hero called Captain Starfighter; and again later Karen, an employee at a local transmission repair shop, for Princess Serina, promptly abducting her for interrogation.
Max, a timid exterminator with sights on passing an upcoming exam and being promoted to an executive, unintentionally arrives on the scene and helps Karen escape. The two flee into the woods, but are soon captured and taken back to the aliens' ship.
While there, the minions eventually discover they are on the wrong planet. But due to Lord Buckethead's arrogance, any attempt to inform him is viewed as insubordination and dealt with harshly by execution.
Max and Karen soon escape again and, after a run around in a Super Store, finally arrive just in time for him to take his big exam. Lord Buckethead then arrives, takes Karen captive and demands the radio transmissions he still seeks be handed over. Otherwise the town will be destroyed.
The military arrives but is easily pushed back by the spaceship's superior defenses. Max meanwhile takes the opportunity to sneak aboard and rescue Karen. The two make it off just as the ship is preparing for lift-off. Lord Buckethead's minions meanwhile have had all they can take from his arrogance and bullying abuse, and literally kick him off the ship as he stands on the main boarding ramp, marooning him on Earth.
He then pursues and corners Max and Karen, but is killed by Chester, who appears in a Superman style outfit, revealing that he actually is Captain Starfighter. The film finally ends with the alien spaceship flying away from Earth.
Jessie Walters (Denise Miller) is a buoyant 13-year-old girl who goes to the Eddie Nova Guitar Institute and is stunned to discover that her guitar instructor is Michael Skye (Rex Smith), a 17-year-old aspiring musician she has just seen play with his rock band (The Skye Band) at the local shopping mall in upstate New York and with whom she is instantly smitten.
Through the grace of make-up, Jessie enters the world of a 16-year-old, and she tells Michael that's her age when he gives her a ride home from class one week. They start to flirt. When Michael invites her to a band rehearsal, they kiss for the first time; when he invites her to a drive-in movie, things start moving just a little too fast, and Jessie has to quickly decide whether or not to confess.
The story begins in 1935 as some recent arrivals occupy a new house on the outskirts of Moscow. The occupants' lives throughout the events of the Second World War are chronicled.
Albert is dominated by his mother. He is goaded at work by the accountant Gidney. He is driven to an act of violence and attempts to assert his individuality. He tries to be a "real man" with a girl who picks him up. Mr King holds the party that is the night out for everyone.
On Christmas Eve in French Guiana, Felix and Emillie Ducotel struggle to maintain a small shop and the arrival of Felix's unpleasant cousin, Henri (Owen Weingott). They have a daughter, Marie-Louise (Anna Volksa).
Three convicts (Gordon Chater, Richard Davies, Murray Rose), decide that, as a Christmas gift to the family, they will set everyone's problems to rights.
Conflict emerges between a minister, Reverend Stephen Millcote, and race promoter Peter Lambert. Millcote is trying to conduct marriage services on Saturday afternoons while Lambert is running race meetings, complete with loudspeaker commentaries, from close by. Matters are complicated by the fact that Millcote's daughter is in love with Lambert's son.
Angus "Mac" MacGyver is a US government agent of a secret, privately funded US government intelligence agency (cloaked as a think tank) called the Phoenix Foundation, where he uses his extraordinary talent for problem solving and his extensive knowledge of science to save lives. "With skills that are only limited by his creativity, Mac saves the day using paper clips instead of pistols, birthday candles instead of bombs, and gum instead of guns."
The episodes make frequent use of second-person narrative in the form of voice-overs provided by Lucas Till as Angus MacGyver. The commentary usually provides instructions or "tricks of the trade", as if for a training or orientation film.
Johnny (Stefano Madia) and Jessica (Blanca Marsillach) are two young lovers embroiled in the throes of wild passion. Johnny is a musician obsessed with sex and carries the protesting but breathless Jessica along with his erotic charm. The film opens at a recording studio where Johnny calls Jessica into the booth after taking a break playing his saxophone and sexually fondles her before other techs arrive and Jessica is forced to leave.
Meanwhile, Dr. Wendell Simpson (Brett Halsey) is a surgeon with marital problems. He never makes love to his unhappy wife Carol (Corinne Clery) and is obsessed with his work at the hospital. Carol has recently discovered that Simpson makes regular visits to prostitutes during and after work. He visits a call girl named Anna at a local hotel, where after fondling her and having quick but unsatisfying sex, he forces her to leave after paying her.
The next day, Johnny continues his torrid affair with Jessica by forcing her to fondle him while riding his motorcycle. Afterward, at their house, while Johnny fools around by riding around on his motorcycle, he falls and hits his head on a stone plate. At first, he appears fine, but later in the recording studio, he collapses into a coma brought on by an apparent subdural hematoma.
That evening, Carol demands a divorce from Dr. Simpson when he is called to the hospital in the operating room to perform emergency brain surgery on an injured musician. Carol follows Simpson right to the O.R. and springs the divorce plans she has for him again. Simpson's mind wanders during the operation, and Johnny dies on the operating table. Driving away from the hospital, Simpson is chased by the grief-stricken Jessica, who swears revenge on her boyfriend's "killer".
Jessica starts sending threatening notes and making harassing phone calls to Simpson at his office. At a private golf club, Simpson and Carol are playing on the links when they decide to make one final attempt to patch up their marriage. Carol entices her husband to bed. Just as things start to happen as Simpson begins having sex with Carol, the telephone rings. After more than a dozen or more rings, Simpson feels compelled to answer despite the urgency of his wife's needs. He rolls off her to pick up the phone, but the phone rings off before he can answer. However, the damage is done. Carol gets up, dresses, and walks out on him for good. Seconds later, the telephone rings again. When Simpson picks it up right away, he hears Jessica's voice again saying, "Why did you let him die?"
Jessica becomes steadily more deranged with grief, spending hours watching home videos of Johnny. The next day she pulls a gun on Simpson as he gets into his car to go to the hospital. Forcing him to drive to her house, she chloroforms him when they arrive and ties him up. Simpson regains consciousness to find an Alsatian dog barking furiously at him, tied up just inches away. Outside, Jessica is smashing his car with an axe. She then informs her captive that she intends to kill him but only when ready. Jessica then humiliate her captive by forcing him to eat dog food and having him lick her bare abdomen smeared with his own blood from a wound she inflicts on him. Simpson finds himself strangely and perversely attracted to his tormentor. Jessica's sadistic games go further when she forces Simpson at gunpoint to down to the beach outside the house. While dragging him on a leash, she says she intends to drown him and almost does by holding him under the water of the surf. But then she suddenly changes her mind and, in a panic, pulls Simpson out of the water and revives him.
In a series of flashbacks, Jessica's memories are shown of her dead lover, which become more ambivalent as she recalls some of the cruelties and excesses Johnny was capable of. A baby she'd been carrying from her affair with Johnny miscarried at an early stage, and her periods resume. In the present, her pet dog dies as well, and Jessica buries him on the beach. Growing ever more melancholic, she engages in further sex games with the submissive Simpson, who listens with compassion to Jessica's ramblings about her life with Johnny, until she recalls a final recollection that changes her mind about Johnny.
Several months earlier, during a vacation getaway to Venice, Italy, Johnny bought Jessica an expensive bracelet from a local vendor (an uncredited Lucio Fulci) to symbolize their love for one another. Johnny and Jessica went to a local cinema with one of Johnny's friends, Nicky (Bernard Seray), a musical associate. The two lovers embraced in a passionate kiss during the movie, but Jessica was horrified to discover that Johnny was simultaneously letting Nicky go down on him. The memory of this kinky ménage-a-trois was the last straw.
Back in the present, Jessica, finally seeing the self-destructive person Johnny was, walks to the ocean and throws the "mystical bracelet" Johnny bought for her into the water. Jessica returns to the house where she unties Simpson and tells him that he is free to go. Jessica goes upstairs to her bedroom, strips off all her clothes, lies down on her bed, and puts the pistol to her head, intending to kill herself. Seconds later, the besotted Simpson walks willingly into her bedroom and stops her from committing suicide by having sex with her as both of them are now drawn into a torrid passion of their own making. The film ends with Simpson and Jessica lying side by side in bed when Simpson recites a poem to Jessica that he said earlier in the movie: "When you have spent your life like a fortune that never seemed to end. A second chance will come like a long lost friend. Great joy will fill you and flush you hot. No more will you ever be cool for she is the Devil's honey pot. And you'll drown in her you fool."
When the Rev. Simon Cherry (Hugh Moxey) sets off for a much needed holiday, his car breaks down and he is forced to stay overnight in a manor house belonging to Lady Harling (Courtney Hope). The following morning, the body of Lady Harling's invalid daughter (Zena Marshall) is discovered, apparently murdered, and the Rev. Simon Cherry must bring his crime solving skills to the case.
In a lonely house in the suburbs, three middle-aged sisters are repressed by their mother.
Domino is an attractive and enigmatic woman of thirty, video director, who is empty without love in her life. When a mysterious caller provocatively stimulates her deepest yearnings she change her life style to transform her most intimate dreams and desires into an erotic reality.
In 2257 AD, the colonists of the planet New World, all men, have been afflicted with a condition called the Noise, which causes everyone to see and hear each other's thoughts. The colonists were involved in a bitter war with the native humanoid species referred to as The Spackle, a war that ostensibly killed all female colonists, while half the men survived. Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown with his adoptive fathers, Ben Moore and Cillian Boyd. Other residents include the preacher Aaron, the town's mayor David Prentiss, and his son Davy. Prentiss has learned to control his Noise, making his thoughts difficult to see and hear. A spaceship that lost contact with the First Colony approaches New World and a scout ship is sent to investigate the planet, but it crashes. One day, Todd discovers someone stealing something and chases the thief, only to come upon the crash site.
Todd returns to the town and tries to keep quiet, but the other men hear and see his thoughts about the crashed ship. They head to investigate the crash scene and scavenge some parts of the ship, but find no survivors. While Todd is alone, he meets Viola, the crash's only survivor. He is shocked to see a girl, as he has never seen one before. The men from Prentisstown capture Viola and she is brought to the mayor's home, where she is questioned about where she came from. Prentiss explains to her what the Noise is and what has happened on their planet. While he leaves to go speak to the men, Davy is charged with keeping an eye on her. Davy unwittingly toys with one of Viola's gadgets, which causes it to shoot large holes in the walls, helping Viola escape.
During Viola's escape, she overhears Prentiss talking about preventing Viola from contacting her colony's mothership, intercepting their landing, killing them while they are still under cryosleep, and scavenging the ship. Viola hides in Todd's family's barn, where Todd eventually finds her. Todd tries to hide Viola, when one of Prentiss' men arrives looking for her. Ben tells Todd about another settlement called Farbranch and says Viola will be safe there.
Viola escapes on a motorcycle while Todd chases after her on one of the horses. Prentiss and the men arrive at the farm, demanding Viola back as they believe she is a spy. Davy kills Cillian, and Ben is forced to join them. Meanwhile, Todd catches up to Viola and the two begin a journey to Farbranch, accompanied by Todd's dog, Manchee. During the journey, Viola reveals to Todd that she is from a large Colony Ship carrying over four thousand passengers and that her parents died during the 64 year-long journey from Earth to New World. Todd reveals he never knew his real parents. When they encounter a Spackle, Todd attempts to kill it in self-defense, but Viola stops him because it does not appear to be dangerous. They arrive at Farbranch, a town inhabited by men, women and children, some of whom are displeased with Todd's presence, because he is from Prentisstown.
Todd discovers his mother's diary, but Viola reads it to him because he cannot. The diary reveals that the women were not killed by the native aliens, but rather by Prentiss and the men of Prentisstown. The men could not stand not knowing the thoughts of the women, when they could hear theirs, which drove them crazy. Angered, Todd realizes that everything he had been told was a lie. Prentiss and his men arrive, again demanding Viola. Ben tries to get Todd to surrender Viola, but Todd is angry with him for lying. Ben uses an image of Viola to distract Prentiss and his men, while Todd and Viola escape. Aaron chases them. They come upon a boat, and, as they escape, Aaron kills Manchee, further enraging Todd.
The next day, Viola and Todd arrive at the ruins of the first colony ship. They enter it and try to send a signal to the colony ship, but the antenna is damaged, so Todd attempts to repair it. When Prentiss and his men arrive, Todd surrenders himself, as Prentiss is holding Ben hostage. Aaron goes inside to kill Viola, but she immolates him with one of her gadgets. Todd appears, but Prentiss shoots Ben. Todd goes to him and, unknown to Prentiss, Ben gives him a knife. Todd engages Prentiss, but he uses illusions of himself to distract Todd and shoots him. As he is about to kill Todd, Todd uses illusions of his mother and other women, calling Prentiss a coward. Viola pushes Prentiss off from the cliff ledge to his death. The colony ship appears in the sky, causing Davy and the remaining Prentisstown men to flee.
Todd wakes up in the colony ship's medical room, almost fully healed. Viola takes him to meet other colonists.
Usnavi de la Vega tells a group of children a story of Washington Heights. Ten years earlier, Usnavi is the owner of a bodega in the neighborhood. After chasing off street artist "Graffiti Pete", he introduces: Claudia, the neighborhood matriarch who raised him; Kevin Rosario, who runs a taxi company; Benny, Kevin's employee and Usnavi’s best friend; the beauty salon ladies Daniela, Carla, and Cuca; Sonny, Usnavi’s teenage cousin; and Vanessa, on whom Usnavi has a crush ("In The Heights").
Alejandro, an attorney and family friend, informs Usnavi that his late father's business in the Dominican Republic, which he dreams of reviving, is for sale. Kevin's daughter Nina returns from Stanford University. After seeing Benny ("Benny's Dispatch"), she tells her father she cannot afford tuition, but he brushes her off, telling her not to worry ("Breathe").
Nina visits Daniela's salon, which is moving to the Bronx due to rising rents in Manhattan, and reconnects with the ladies but reveals she has dropped out of Stanford (" "). Vanessa submits a rental application downtown, where she dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but is rejected ("It Won't Be Long Now"). She heads to the bodega, where Sonny asks her out for Usnavi.
Sonny learns a lottery ticket the bodega sold has won $96,000. At the public pool, everybody in the neighborhood fantasizes about what they would do with the money ("96,000"), while the local laments losing business to a Mister Softee truck (" "). Reminiscing about their childhood, Benny reassures Nina she is destined for greatness ("When You're Home"). Usnavi talks to Sonny's father about letting Sonny come with him to the Dominican Republic, but Sonny's father implies he and Sonny are illegal immigrants and cannot leave.
Kevin reveals he has sold his business to pay for Nina's tuition, but she refuses the money, revealing the real reason she dropped out was the racism she experienced. Usnavi and Vanessa head to the salsa club for their date, but he is too nervous to dance with her. After multiple men dance with Vanessa, Usnavi tries to make her jealous by dancing with another woman ("The Club"). The power goes out, and Sonny and Graffiti Pete illuminate the neighborhood with fireworks. Vanessa and Usnavi argue, and she rejects him ("Blackout").
reminisces about her childhood in Cuba and coming to , enduring hardships to be where she is today (" "). She dies peacefully, and the neighborhood comes together to mourn (" "). At a protest for DACA, Sonny learns that he cannot go to college as an undocumented immigrant. Nina resolves to return to Stanford to find a pathway in life for undocumented children.
Finding Vanessa's rental application in the trash, Usnavi asks Daniela to co-sign. Disappointed with the block's negativity over the power outage and 's death, Daniela rouses the neighborhood into a celebration (" "), as the power outage ends. Vanessa and Usnavi reconcile.
A month later, Nina is returning to Stanford. Benny promises to join her in Palo Alto, and they kiss ("When the Sun Goes Down"). As Usnavi prepares to leave for the Dominican Republic, he discovers that held the winning lottery ticket, and has left it to him. Vanessa arrives with champagne, having learned about Usnavi’s help with her new lease. She suggests Usnavi stay but he refuses, and she kisses him, lamenting that she was too late in realizing her feelings for him ("Champagne").
Usnavi gives Alejandro the lottery ticket to use for Sonny's DACA fees. The next morning, Vanessa takes Usnavi to the bodega and shows him a fashion line she created the previous night inspired by Graffiti Pete's work. Seeing Pete's murals celebrating Abuela, Usnavi decides to stay. The story returns to the present day, revealing that Usnavi is telling his story in the remodeled bodega to his and Vanessa's daughter, Iris. Everyone sings and dances in the street, while Usnavi expresses his elation at being in Washington Heights, where he has always belonged (“Finale”).
Will Armer (Caudell) is a high-school athlete, who during his senior year, must deal with his girlfriend (Dusenberry) and parents (Adams and Windom) and make a difficult decision between the certainty of college or the possibility of a glamorous baseball career. Everyone associated with Will has a different opinion, making the final decision all the more dramatic.
An alien crash lands and then enters the body of the elderly and near death Max Page (Robert Sampson). Page dies during his 73rd birthday party, but later revives on the autopsy table.
Page's health returns to him and he begins to get younger. but he soon finds that he has a thirst for the estrogen-laced blood of ovulating women. Page begins murdering the women for their blood.
Page hopes for a normal relationship with his nurse as he is now younger, but he finds that his need to murder another woman every 48 hours prevents this.
Thirteen weeks later, FBI Agent John Mills (John Saxon) arrives to track the new serial killer. He shows the photo of the suspect to Max's son, who is stunned to see his now much younger father.
Mills and Max's son deduce that the alien has taken over Page and has been killing the women.
Harwood based the play on his experiences as dresser to English Shakespearean actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, who is the model for the character "Sir" in the play.
'''Artificial breathing''' is a TV miniseries that is about a young doctor named Shotiko who has had a difficult time raising his 11-year-old daughter Melano, after the tragic death of his wife.
The protagonist, Shotiko, is a paramedic with an 11-year-old daughter, Melano. Melano is a seventh-grader whose mother died when she was young. Tamuna, a journalist with dreams of writing, enters Shotiko's and Melano's lives and disturbs their peaceful existence.
In September 2021, Frank West, a former photojournalist now working as a college professor, is approached by one of his students, Vicky "Vick" Chu, who convinces him to help her investigate a military compound, situated on the outskirts of Willamette, Colorado — the site of the first zombie outbreak. Once inside, they find out the compound is being used for zombie research, but are discovered and forced to flee, with Frank labelled a fugitive after he is falsely accused by the government.
Four months later in 2022, after Christmas, Frank is found by Brad Park, an agent of the ZDC, who convinces him to help investigate a new zombie outbreak in Willamette during the Black Friday sales, in exchange for the means to clear his name and having exclusive rights to the story, revealing Vick has already left to investigate the matter herself.
Just as they arrive at Willamette, Frank and Brad's helicopter is hit by a missile, forcing them to make a crash landing in the middle of the shopping mall. Upon confronting the zombies, they are discovered to be infected with a new, more aggressive strain of the parasite that previous treatments like Zombrex are ineffective against. Frank eventually discovers an elusive organization called "Obscuris" is in the city looking for a monstrous creature called "Calder", and reunites with Vick on a few occasions, but their opposing views prevent them from working together.
Frank manages to approach an Obscuris truck carrying Calder, but it drives off, leaving him to confront an Obscuris lieutenant. Upon investigating the laboratory of Dr. Russell Barnaby, the main scientist behind the zombie outbreak in Santa Cabeza, Central America, Frank learns that during his last days, Barnaby was developing ways to make zombies with their human intelligence intact before Carlito lured him to the Willamette Parkview Mall, resulting in his death. Calder was once a human Obscuris soldier enhanced with a military exoskeleton transformed by accident into an intelligent but violently psychotic zombie-like mutant, who downloaded Barnaby's data on a disk he always carries on his person. Frank finds himself having to confront Calder in order to retrieve it.
Frank later invades the base of Obscuris and faces the leader of the organization, Fontana - and the one responsible for bringing down the helicopter carrying him and Brad. Fontana reveals their group was not responsible for the outbreak. Instead they were hired by an unknown client to obtain Calder's data, seeking to use the research on intelligent zombies to make cheap labor for factories and plantations in developing countries. Their confrontation is interrupted by Calder, who kills Fontana. After rescuing several survivors from a group of psychotic survivalists, Frank pursues Calder down to the sewers, where he steals the disk and transfers the data to his camera. Vick appears with a gun, forces Frank to give her his camera, and flees after destroying the disk. Frank runs after her all the way to the shopping mall where they are intercepted by Calder, who destroys the camera, and the two work together to kill him.
After the battle, Vick reveals to Frank she took the camera's SD card, containing all of the disk's data, and they reconcile, agreeing to share the credit for the story. Frank, Vick and Brad leave for the rooftop to be extracted via helicopter, but a massive horde of zombies pursue them on the way there. Brad and Vick make it to the helicopter, but Frank is grabbed as he is boarding and, unable to break free from their grip, sacrifices himself so Vick and Brad can escape.
In this downloadable content released in April 2017, Frank, after falling from the helicopter, is half eaten by the zombies, but suddenly after all the zombies have gone away, the experimental wasps infect Frank, converting him into an evo zombie. This gives him new abilities like acid spit, pouncing, and roaring. After gaining all these new abilities, Frank begins eating humans as well as zombies. In the Willamette Mall, Frank is shot and taken to Barnaby's lab where he is given control of his body back, but loses all of his powers. Dr. Blackburne, the Obscuris scientist who treats Frank, tells him that the military plans to firebomb Willamette. The only way to survive is to get on the evacuation helicopter which would arrive shortly.
Blackburne also tells Frank he could regain all his powers by absorbing the wasps present in evo zombies. Frank asks about a cure, which Blackburne agrees to help him with if he gathers supplies for her. Blackburne later double crosses Frank, but he threatens her into continuing to cooperate. Blackburne explains she needs to get into Barnaby's lab but cannot due to high levels of radiation. Frank is eventually successfully cured back to a human and is able to escape with Blackburne in the evacuation helicopter.
If Frank does not collect all special wasps during the game, Frank escapes alone with Blackburne and retires from journalism, spending the rest of life in fear of becoming a zombie again. If he does, Hammond and her team escape with them and Frank becomes famous again, writing a book about his experience as a zombie that becomes a bestseller, and exposes the government's involvement with Obscuris with Vick's help. If the player runs out of time during 'The Cases', the story ends in a failed rescue due to bombardment commanded by the United States Government to prevent the zombie outbreak from spreading throughout the state.
At midnight in a closed antiquarian bookshop, three figures --- Death, the Devil and the Harlot --- step out of paintings and read five macabre stories. The first story is ''The Apparition'', about a man (Veidt) and a woman (Berber) who check into a hotel. When the woman vanishes, everyone there denies she ever existed. It is later revealed that she died of the plague and the hotel management wanted to cover it up. The second story is called ''The Hand'', about two men (Veidt and Schunzel) who compete over a woman they desire. The loser kills his opponent, which leads to the victim's ghostly hand avenging itself on his murderer. The third story is ''The Black Cat'', about a drunk (Schunzel) who murders his wife (Berber) and walls up her body in his cellar. The family cat reveals his murderous secret to the police. The fourth story is ''The Suicide Club'', about a detective who discovers a secret society only to be chosen as their next victim via a card game. The final story called ''The Spectre'' is about a braggart baron (Veidt) who encourages his wife (Berber) to have an affair with a total stranger. With the completion of the fifth tale, the clock in the shop strikes one and the three ghostly storytellers retreat back into their paintings.
The story of ''Prey 2'' had been narratively tied to the first game. In ''Prey'', an alien spacecraft called the Sphere appears over the southwestern portion of the United States and starts abducting humans and other objects as part of its cycle to sustain its resource supply and its organic crew. One of those abducted is Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi who, in part due his spirit guide from his Native American background, is able to navigate the Sphere, defeat hostile alien forces, and succeed in freeing captive humans and other lifeforms from the intelligence that controls it, before returning to earth.
''Prey 2'' was to focus on U.S. Marshal Killian Samuels, who starts the game on a passenger flight which suddenly crashes onto the Sphere, shown during the events of ''Prey''. At the end of a short battle with some aliens he is knocked unconscious, after which the plot jumps forward several years. Samuels is now a bounty hunter on the alien world Exodus. Though he is aware of his profession and has retained his skills, he has no memory of what happened in the time that passed since his abduction. He initially believes himself to be the only human on Exodus until he runs into Tommy, whom he has apparently met in the period he no longer remembers. Killian then resumes his bounty hunter activities while recovering his memory. Some of the game's audio logs, published by the Museum of Play, suggested that Tommy and Killian team up to fight common foes, some which are enemies that Tommy had made from within the first ''Prey''.
Chokkanathan is a greed and money obsessed man. He dislikes Rangan as he supports farmers. Marudhi is Rangan's sister. Her marriage gets stopped and Rangan goes to jail because of Chokkanathan. The rest of the story is how Rangan achieves his revenge against Chokkanathan.
While spending a night out in Paris an American airline pilot gets entangled with a beautiful nightclub performer and soon finds himself under suspicion of murder.
A man, who is down on his luck, attempts to win a celebrity death pool by trying to kill David Hasselhoff. The prize is half a million dollars, which he can use to pay off a loan shark and get his life back on track.
The series follows a group of teenage 7th graders, including best friends Nick Birch and Andrew Glouberman, as they navigate their way through puberty with struggles like masturbation and sexual arousal all in the Westchester County suburbs of New York. Acting as over-sexualized shoulder angels are the hormone monsters: Maurice (who pesters Andrew and Matthew and occasionally Nick), Connie—the hormone monstress (who pesters Jessi and Nick and occasionally Missy) and Mona (who mainly pesters Missy). Throughout the series, the kids interact with people and objects who are often personified and offer helpful, yet confusing, advice in their puberty-filled lives including the ghost of Duke Ellington, a French-accented Statue of Liberty, a pillow capable of getting pregnant, a bar of Adderall, and even Jessi's own vulva. They seek out their destiny as puberty challenges them mentally and physically.
Indonesians Diana and Dika, the latter of whom has a characteristically lazy personality, live at a Kuala Lumpur apartment. Bored of constantly staying home, "Bossman", Dika's friend whom he first met when studying in California, offers Diana a job as an administrator. On the day of the interview, Diana is surprised by how many people dislike Bossman, and she later comes to dislike him too. Bossman is widely seen as gibberish, entitled, weird, and irritating. Though rich, Bossman refuses to manage the office's crippling structure and broken air conditioner.
As Bossman's stupidity worsens in her eyes, Diana contemplates resigning and even murdering him with a Molotov bomb. Dika constantly reassures her "Dia memang begitu", meaning "That's the way he is", further irritating Diana. To take revenge on him, Diana and the four main workers (Norah Sikin, Mr. Kho, Azhari, and Adrian) disturb Bossman in a variety of ways, from calling him while he is asleep, to calling in the landlord. In the latter, as Bossman flees via a secret door, all employees dance in freedom.
However the joy only lasts for short, and Diana's contemplation become more robust. Dika encourages her to declare resignation respectfully. As she is about to, however, Bossman brings her on a ride to an orphanage. Bossman explains that one day, he saw a boy who brought his laptop to him when he forgot. He secretly follows the boy, who is a member of the orphanage, helping a blind peer walk to the decaying building. He expresses willingness to upgrade the orphanage to a more lively one. Bossman's kindness reminds Diana and the workers that there is good in everyone.
As Bossman's birthday arrives, he decides to treat everyone for lunch. However, as afternoon strikes and everyone reminds him of it, Bossman denies and commands everyone to work, raging them.
In 1825, on the eve of the Black War, Irish convict Clare Carroll works as a servant for a Colonial force detachment commanded by Lieutenant Hawkins. The unit is visited by an officer to see if Hawkins is fit for promotion. Clare, nicknamed "Nightingale", sings and serves drinks for the men. After work, Clare visits Hawkins to make an inquiry, and he forces her to sing a special song for him. Hawkins makes unwanted advances on her and Clare rebuffs them. She asks about the letter of recommendation that would free her, her husband Aidan, and their infant daughter Bridget, but Hawkins rapes her for her perceived insolence. Aidan suspects that Clare has been hurt but remains calm when he confronts Hawkins about the letter, but he fails to sway him.
That night, Aidan engages in a brawl with Hawkins, his second-in-command Sergeant Ruse, and Ensign Jago. The visiting officer witnesses the incident and decides that he is unfit for promotion. Hawkins commands Ruse and Jago to gather supplies for a journey through the bush to the town of Launceston, Tasmania, in hopes of negotiating with the officer. Before departing, the soldiers intercept the Carroll family, attempting to flee. Hawkins rapes Clare and bids Ruse to do so as well, which he does. Hawkins shoots and kills Aidan, and commands Jago to quiet Clare's crying baby, resulting in Jago swinging the infant against the wall and killing her. Instructed to kill Clare and "finish things," a hesitant Jago hits her in the head with his rifle butt.
The following morning, Clare awakes. She then reports the incident to a RMP official, but realizes that he's of no help, so decides to seek revenge herself, with the help of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy. Clare presents the mission to Billy as her desire to rendezvous with her husband on his journey. At first, Clare is domineering and racist toward Billy while he sees her as being no different to the English who murdered his male family members, but their mutual hostility dissipates during their time together and they gradually bond as they learn about each other's tragic upbringings, with both gaining an increased appreciation for each other's culture. Billy tells Clare that his actual name is Mangana, Palawa kani for “blackbird”, the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, and that he wishes to go north to reunite with the still-living female members of his people. Meanwhile, the officers recruit three white convicts and an Aboriginal man, Charlie for their journey. Hawkins takes a liking to one of the convicts, a child named Eddie, and Ruse kidnaps a woman named Lowanna to be used as a sex slave. Aboriginal men kill one of the convicts and injure Jago in an unsuccessful rescue mission. Hawkins holds Lowanna hostage, then kills her distracting the men. He, Ruse, and the convicts flee, leaving Jago behind. Later, Clare and Mangana stumble upon Jago, whom Mangana assumes is her husband. Clare corners Jago, stabbing and beating him to death (an event that haunts her later nightmares). Mangana considers abandoning Clare, but after he learns the true story behind her desire to get revenge, he decides to stay.
Charlie, as revenge for the soldiers' actions towards the natives, diverts the journey to a dead end on the summit of a mountain. Ruse kills him, but Hawkins chastises Ruse, as Charlie was the only one who could have led them out of the bush, and forces him to be their guide as humiliation on the way back down. After Clare and Mangana find Charlie's body, Mangana performs burial rites and informs Clare that now he too, seeks vengeance. The two approach the group of four men, but Clare freezes when she sees Hawkins, allowing him to graze her with a musket shot, forcing Clare and Mangana to split up. Mangana is found and forced to be the new guide. He brings the soldiers back to the main path to Launceston, and Hawkins orders Eddie to kill Mangana, but Eddie hesitates, allowing Mangana to escape. Hawkins tries to abandon Eddie, but when Eddie begs for a second chance, Hawkins shoots and kills him. Clare also finds her way back onto the main path and reunites with Mangana. They encounter a chain gang of Aboriginal men, one of whom informs Mangana that he is now the last of his people. When the prisoner yells at his captors about their treatment of indigenous people, they shoot him and the others dead before proceeding to take their heads as trophies. Later on, while eating dinner with a sympathetic couple, Mangana weeps openly, lamenting the loss of his people and home.
In Launceston, Clare confronts a newly promoted Hawkins about his war crimes in the presence of his fellow officers, while Mangana watches in hiding. The two then flee town, but Mangana dons war paint, and makes back for the town despite Clare's pleas that he'll be murdered. She follows as Mangana enters the hostel where Hawkins and Ruse are lodged, and proceeds to kill them both, but not before Ruse shoots and deeply wounds him. Clare and Mangana flee and arrive at a beach where Mangana sings and dances, declaring himself a free man, while Clare sings a panegyric Gaelic folk song as the two watch the sun rise.
After seeing several patients, Travis, a troubled psychiatrist, is contacted at home by a patient, Rachel. Travis invites her into his apartment, though he acknowledges this is unorthodox. As they talk, Rachel sees Travis take several pills, which he explains are to help him deal with the mounting stresses in his life. After they kiss, Rachel offers to help him, and Travis laughs derisively. Hurt, Rachel leaves his apartment and goes to the top of the apartment building, where she phones him. When he realises she means to commit suicide, he races upstairs, only to see her leap to her death. After one of his patients taunts him over this rumor, Travis reacts violently and is put on leave, though he angrily quits instead.
Grace, a young woman, hands out pamphlets on a train and invites Travis to a support group. Though dismissive, Travis takes one of her pamphlets. After drinking heavily and becoming depressed over his life, Travis attends the meeting. Travis is disgusted when the group's leader, Father Jay, a military veteran and former drug addict, forces a young member, Marcus, to confront difficult personal issues in public. As Travis leaves, Grace urges him to seek the group's support. After a suicide attempt in which he overdoses on pills, Travis calls the group before slipping into unconsciousness. Father Jay, Grace, and another member, Tom, arrive and induce vomiting, saving his life.
Travis wakes in a wilderness retreat, where Father Jay forces him to go through involuntary drug detoxification. Travis escapes his cabin, only to be recaptured and taken back after he collapses. Travis explains to Grace that he abuses prescription drugs and alcohol to avoid feeling anything, and she reveals her parents abandoned her, leaving her with no family but Father Jay. Though skeptical of Father Jay and his methods, Travis nonetheless agrees to continue his treatment. Travis changes his mind when Father Jay provokes an emotional reaction in Travis by nearly drowning him. Father Jay allows him to leave the compound, but Travis finds he cannot do so and instead begs Father Jay to help him.
Travis makes a breakthrough when Father Jay urges him to confront himself. Travis admits to self-loathing and blames himself for Rachel's death. A flashback to the day of her suicide reveals that Rachel called him on the phone before she jumped, but Travis did not attempt to save her by running upstairs. The other members all hug Travis and tell him that they love him. Travis' faith is shaken when he stumbles on Father Jay as he has sex with Marcus. Later, at a celebration, Grace kisses Travis, but his doubts only grow. Believing Father Jay to have forced himself on the vulnerable Marcus, Travis publicly confronts Father Jay and attempts to get Marcus to leave with him. Father Jay condemns Travis as a lying sociopath who has become jealous of Marcus' recovery, and Travis is banished from the group after being beaten.
As Tom drives him out of the compound, Grace calls for them to wait and joins them. Marcus emerges from the compound with a pistol and fires several shots at the vehicle. When Father Jay tries to talk down Marcus, Marcus shoots Father Jay, then kills himself. Travis attempts to aid Father Jay, but the others will not let him. Before Father Jay dies of blood loss, he advises his followers to avoid the inevitable police persecution. Tom leads Travis into the woods with a rifle but allows Travis to flee. After Tom kills himself, Travis instead returns to the compound, where he finds everyone but Grace has died by suicide. Travis follows her back to the city, where she takes a subway car hostage with a pistol. Travis convinces her to let the people go and takes the pistol from her. When the police storm the subway car, they shoot Travis. Later, Grace tells her story to a psychiatrist.
Three siblings, teenager Sadie (Isabela Moner) and her kid brothers Noah (Colin Critchley) and Dudley (Jet Jurgensmeyer), are vacationing in Mexico with their parents, who allow them to visit the Hidden Temple theme park on their own where Kirk Fogg now works as a tour guide. Noah, being fascinated by the legends of the Hidden Temple, which he believes are real, wishes he could explore it on the inside, but Fogg reveals the Temple was closed to the public following an incident years earlier. Impressed by Noah's knowledge about the Temple, Fogg gives him a map he found inside. Much to Sadie's annoyance, Noah and Dudley sneak into the restricted area where the secret entrance is believed to be. Sadie tries to stop them, but accidentally steps on the trapdoor that sends them into the temple.
The kids are welcomed inside the temple by none other than Olmec (Dee Bradley Baker), who was once a king. He recalls of a moment in his life, then tells them what he remembers. He planned to decree his good son, Prince Zuma, as a successor to the kingdom, when suddenly his evil son Thak and his army of Temple Guards appeared and attempted to kill Zuma and insediate Thak as king. So Olmec had no choice but to turn the entire civilization to stone. Noah believes that he, Sadie and Dudley are the only ones who can restore the kingdom back to its former glory. Olmec instructs them to find both half-pendants of life in the Room of the Ancient Warriors and the Treasure Room, but warns them of the dangers that might lurk around the temple. Once both half-pendants are found, they must be combined to unlock the Temple and then exit within three minutes, otherwise the three siblings will risk being trapped inside the Temple forever.
Hesham (Mahmoud Yassin) is a professional theatrical actor living in Cairo. The theater he works in was preparing to open the season with an Arabic version of the play written by Shakespeare, Hamlet. The movie transitions from the present day to flashback narrated by Hesham of how he arrived to his current stance. After asking for Afaf's hand in marriage, Hesham gets rejected by her father, causing the young couple to escape to the country side, where they would supposedly get married.
Meanwhile, Hesham suffers from a psychological disorder that we find out was the reason behind his attempt to suffocate his acting accomplice that was playing his mother in Hamlet. The disorder was based on Hesham's dedication in portraying and playing his character as he occasionally cannot snap out of his role. Afaf's father's reason for rejecting Hesham was based upon the fact that he had another groom in mind for his daughter which initiated the idea of escaping and caused Hesham to travel to Alexandria for a few days.
In Alexandria, Hesham was being offered a role in the movie Nawal, his acting accomplice, was in. He gets called upon Nawal to join her in her apartment where he continues to cheat on Afaf. He then goes to the country side where he would meet Afaf. Afaf continues to run away to the country side to be with him, accompanied by Yasser (the doctor). Upon her arrival, she finds out about Hesham's disorder. As Yasser leaves them alone, Hesham automatically snaps into a character, and sexually harassed Afaf but she escaped from his violent embrace.
As she is running away, she falls, hitting her head which causes a concussion. Whilst being found and taken to the hospital by a stranger, her dad calls the police and makes a claim that Hesham had kidnapped his daughter. Hesham precedes into seeing a psychiatrist to find out how to cure his condition. We find out from his confessions to the doctor that he had, at a young age, witnessed the rape of his mother by his uncle and could neither do something about it nor tell anyone as it would tarnish his mother's honor. The doctor then pays a visit to the theatre Hesham works in and continues to explain to the director that Hesham is slowly being cured and is no longer incapable of controlling his character, he is of no danger to anyone. Hesham them gets his job back and asks for Afaf's hand in marriage a second time in which her father accepts to prevent his daughter from running away again and to ensure her happiness.
A virus has decimated the globe, turning a large portion of humanity into violent zombie-like creatures called Freakers. In near-future Oregon, outlaw bikers Deacon St. John (Sam Witwer) and William "Boozer" Gray (Jim Pirri), alongside Deacon's wife Sarah Whitaker (Courtnee Draper), attempt to flee to safety. They find a NERO helicopter that has room for two more occupants. While Sarah boards the helicopter, Boozer is injured and Deacon stays behind to help him after promising to reunite with his wife.
Two years later, Deacon and Boozer are working in the Pacific Northwest as mercenaries. Sarah is assumed dead because the NERO refugee camp she was believed to have been staying in was overrun by Freakers. The two men plan to head north in search of a better life but they are attacked by a gang of cultists, the Rippers. Boozer's arm is seriously burned in the attack and Deacon searches for medical supplies to help him recover. Later, the two men learn that the Rippers have placed a bounty on their heads. Deacon sees a NERO helicopter and follows it, eventually meeting James O'Brian (Bernardo de Paula), the researcher who evacuated Sarah two years earlier. O'Brian reveals that Sarah's helicopter was diverted to a different camp mid-flight, leaving the possibility that she is still alive.
Boozer's health continues to decline and Deacon takes him to the Lost Lake camp, which is led by "Iron" Mike Wilcox (Eric Allan Kramer) and Raymond "Skizzo" Sarkozi (Jason Spisak). As a doctor amputates Boozer's gangrenous arm, O'Brian contacts Deacon and offers to help him find Sarah if Deacon aids in NERO's ongoing research project. Meanwhile, Skizzo is distrustful of the Rippers' uneasy alliance with Lost Lake; he makes his own deal and turns Deacon over to the cult. Deacon learns the Rippers' leader "Carlos" is actually Jessie Williamson (Scott Whyte), an enemy from his motorcycle-club days. Deacon escapes from the Rippers' camp and returns to Lost Lake where it is under attack by the Rippers. Deacon exposes Skizzo to Iron Mike, and Iron Mike talks down Jesse, ending the attack. Skizzo is arrested. Later on, Deacon, with Boozer's help, uses explosives to destroy the dam above the Rippers camp, flooding the compound and drowning most of the Rippers while Deacon kills Jessie in single combat. After Deacon returns, Iron Mike reveals he released Skizzo to spare his life.
Deacon realizes that Sarah, a government researcher with federal security clearance, would have been prioritized during a camp evacuation, and O'Brian confirms that she was moved to a military outpost at Crater Lake, which is now controlled by the Deschutes County Militia. He warns Deacon that the Freakers are evolving rapidly and becoming more dangerous. Deacon wins over the militia's leader, Colonel Matthew Garret (Daniel Riordan) and reunites with Sarah, who is working to create a bio-weapon to destroy the Freakers. Deacon and Sarah decide to obtain a DNA sequencer at her old lab, where they discover that her research was used to develop the Freaker virus.
At the lab, Sarah reveals that she is working to cure the Freakers rather than destroy them. Deacon suggests they finish the cure at her new lab, but an increasingly paranoid Garret puts Sarah into protective custody. Garret, shown over time to be a religious fanatic, reveals that he believes other human factions are a bigger danger than the Freakers, and declares a holy war against all other camps. Deacon attempts to save Sarah but is foiled and arrested by Skizzo, who has joined the militia. A sympathetic officer Derrick Kouri (Phil Morris) defects from the militia and frees Deacon, who returns to Lost Lake. Lost Lake camp successfully defends against the militia attack, but Iron Mike is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Deacon rallies the remaining members of the Lost Lake camp together with the members of Copeland’s and Tuck/Alki’s camp to retaliate against the militia by attacking their headquarters with a truck bomb. Deacon kills Skizzo and Sarah poisons Garret, ending the militia.
Deacon, Sarah, Boozer and their friends settle at Lost Lake. O'Brian contacts Deacon and reveals that NERO always knew about the virus's mutagenic effects, and that he himself is a mutated Freaker. He warns Deacon that NERO is coming and that nothing will stop them.
Freelance haphephobic courier Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus) is transporting cargo to Central Knot City but is interrupted by Timefall and takes shelter. He receives assistance from Fragile (Léa Seydoux) in evading a BT. Sam arrives at his destination, where a citizen has committed suicide, with the corpse on the verge of necrosis. Due to being both a repatriate and having DOOMS, Sam is given an emergency assignment to accompany the disposal team to an incinerator to dispose of the corpse. However, an encounter with BTs causes a voidout that destroys Central Knot City.
Sam revives in Capital Knot City and meets Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti), a doctor from BRIDGES who has Sam deliver morphine to the dying President of the UCA: Sam's adoptive mother, Bridget Strand (Lindsay Wagner/Emily O'Brien). Bridget pleads with Sam to rejoin BRIDGES and help realize her dream of "reforming America" before succumbing to her illness. Sam takes her body for incineration but refuses to incinerate BB-28, a Bridge Baby involved in the Central Knot City voidout. With BB-28's assistance, Sam evades a horde of BTs. He decides to take BB-28 as his own Bridge Baby; against UCA instructions to treat Bridge Babies as pieces of equipment, Sam gradually forms an emotional bond with BB-28 and nicknames it "Lou."
Upon his return to Capital Knot City, Sam receives a message from his estranged sister Amelie Strand (also Wagner/O'Brien). She tells him that over the past three years, she led an expedition across what is left of the continental United States, making contact with isolated cities and settlements and setting up terminals that would connect them to the Chiral Network: a system that facilitates instant communication and data transfer across vast distances through the Beach. However, upon reaching the last city on the West Coast (Edge Knot City), Amelie was captured by a terrorist group, the Homo Demens, to guarantee Edge Knot City's independence. She pleads for Sam to follow her expedition and complete the Chiral Network, thus "reforming America." As this pilgrimage ends at Edge Knot City, Sam can then rescue Amelie, and she can take Bridget's place as the President of the UCA. Sam reluctantly accepts the mission.
Following the instructions of Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), Bridget's personal aide and Director of BRIDGES, Sam begins his journey from the east to the west coast of North America. Along the way, he delivers valuable cargo to various Knot Cities and settlements; helps research the Death Stranding with BRIDGES staff such as Mama and her twin sister Lockne (Margaret Qualley), Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs); and thwarts deadly plots by the Homo Demens and their leader, Higgs Monaghan (Troy Baker). While connected to Lou, he experiences memories depicting Clifford Unger (Mads Mikkelsen) and his hospitalized wife and BB child. Sam is infrequently pulled into Clifford's Beach; there, he fights a BT manifestation of Clifford, who seeks his lost BB.
After reaching Edge Knot City, Sam fights and defeats Higgs at Amelie's Beach. Higgs reveals that Amelie is an Extinction Entity: a godlike being manifested by the universe to trigger mass extinction events. Amelie is revealed as the true leader of Homo Demens, having conceived the Chiral Network to enable the Last Stranding, the end of life on Earth. It is also revealed that Amelie and Bridget are the same person; Bridget's soul separated from her body during early experiments into the Beaches and used the alias "Amelie" as a cover. However, Amelie is conflicted over her cosmological duties, finding the Last Stranding more humane than perpetual cycles of growth and extinction.
With the help of allies made on his journey, Sam reaches Amelie and convinces her to delay the Last Stranding. Moved, she accepts but must separate herself and her Beach from the world forever. Sam is rescued by his BRIDGES allies, returning to the living. Die-Hardman becomes President of the UCA, and Fragile resolves to rebuild her company. However, Sam is told that Lou is dying. Although UCA law demands dying BBs are incinerated, Sam follows Deadman's advice and removes Lou from its pod in hopes of saving its life. In doing so, Sam connects with Lou one last time and discovers the memories he has viewed are his own: he is Clifford Unger's son, who Bridget Strand had transformed into one of the first BBs, accidentally killed alongside Clifford during a botched escape attempt, and resurrected by Amelie (which triggered the Death Stranding). The spirits of deceased BBs help save Lou's life, and Sam destroys his UCA cufflinks, going "off the grid" to live a peaceful life raising "Louise."
Through the lives of Zhou Fada (Shaun Chen), Ye Xiaoying (Chen Hanwei) and Zhang Weixiong (Jesseca Liu), three ordinary characters who grew up in Dakota Crescent, a series of interesting, exciting and personal stories will unfold…
Zhou Fada, also known as Big Brother, is a man with a strong sense of justice, loyalty and compassion. He always like to help neighbor handle the problem in need. But because of his overzealous and reckless character, his good intentions often turn out to cause more trouble than help.
Ye Xiaoying is Fada's uncle, who always dreams of achieving phenomenal success in life, but he never did live up to his dreams as he is essentially just a slacker. He is very good at keeping out of trouble, by tactically avoiding tricky situations. His motto in life is: A man's greatest power is not his fists, but his tongue. He believes that being good with words can help one sail through career and relationships smoothly, but the fact is, his career and love affairs are almost always on the rocks.
Zhang Weixiong is a manly name, but the owner of the name is actually a cute girl. When her mother was pregnant with her, the ultrasound scan showed that it was a baby boy, so her father went to the fortune teller and got her this dashing manly name. Who would have expected that it was a baby girl! But they went along with the name “Wei Xiong” after all. Weixiong is just like her name; she has great ambitions and a gusty character, and people in the neighborhood see her as the future elite. Unfortunately, that is just her pretense. She is actually very timid and cowardly, but she believes that in order to survive in this dog-eat-dog world, you will have to “never say die”. So even though she is crumbling from fear inside, she would always put up a strong front, and her strong-headedness always gets her into trouble. If not for the help of Big Brother Fada, with this personality, she might have much consequences to suffer.
This three characters, together known as “The Great Hero”, are the three musketeers of the neighborhood, and from them, we will get to know many other members of Dakota Crescent, and also their inspiring, interesting and heart-warming stories.
Bruce Wayne is woken by an alarm clock from a nightmare about the night of his parents' murder. He is informed by his butler Alfred that there is an urgent situation that requires his attention. Activating a secret entrance to the Batcave beneath his manor, Wayne puts on his Batsuit and gadgets to become Batman. In the Batcave, Alfred informs Batman both Robin and Nightwing have disappeared, and he has been unable to contact them. Batman activates Nightwing's tracker for it reveal he is in Central Gotham. Heading out in the Batmobile, Batman arrives to find Grayson beaten to death in an alleyway. His investigation reveals an unknown assailant easily overpowered his first Robin; breaking his jaw, arm, and ribs. Severely wounded, Nightwing ended up with his neck fatally snapped. The investigation also reveals one of Penguin's henchmen had witnessed the murder and fled in terror with the assailant chasing after him.
Batman travels in the Batwing to confront the Penguin in his Iceberg lounge club. Penguin reveals that henchman was killed in an explosion which destroyed half of his Iceberg Lounge before he could reveal the identity of who killed Nightwing; implied to be the same assailant. Batman infiltrates the Gotham morgue to examine the victims and is able to piece together shrapnel from the explosive. It had belonged to a demolitions company working on a sewer project beneath Founders Island. By focusing his search in this area, Batman is able to make radio contact with Robin. Tim warns he is being held to lure Batman into a trap.
As Batman moves through the sewers, he hears intercom announcements from the deceased Joker. Batman finds Robin in a cage, but while attempting to free him, he is also captured. Robin notes Joker-styled graffiti on the cage and assumes their captor is emulating the Joker. Batman and Robin are interfered from escaping by Killer Croc, using the electrified cages to temporarily stave off his attacks. Unfortunately, Robin is violently crushed and eaten by Croc after getting out of his own cell.
Batman's cage suddenly transforms into an elevator descending into the depths of Arkham Asylum. Batman interacts with a few prison cells. before the last reveals a captive Joker. Batman soon locked alone in a cell himself. The room begins to change; displaying scrawled and bloody accusations of "killer" and "HA" on the walls. It is finally revealed BATMAN was the one who murdered Nightwing, blew up the witness, and lured Robin into the sewers. Joker had temporarily seized control of Batman's mind and body through a transfusion of his infected blood. Left utterly horrified at this discovery, Batman looks into his cell's mirror to see Joker as his reflection. The Clown Prince of Crime announces the "dynamic duo" are together at last before laughing maniacally followed by the lights going out.
Throughout the game, there are several indicators to point out the events depicted are simply a nightmare or hallucination likely caused by the Joker's infected blood in Batman's system. The sound of an alarm clock can be heard on multiple occasions as can Alfred trying to wake Bruce up. This is further confirmed by the game taking place before the events of ''Batman: Arkham Knight'', where both Nightwing and Robin are alive. Batman is also dealing with the effects of the Joker's infected blood, which include severe and constant hallucinations.
The film opens when Ahmed Fazeel/Mohamed Saleem (Mohamed Manik) wakes up to an unfamiliar environment. Everything he sees seems to be queer and unrecognizable. When he starts looking and discovering things around him, he is amazed by seeing a baby monitor. A while later, he hears a baby crying. The sound is transmitted from the monitor, followed by a women's lullaby. He is further astonished, when he realizes that he is wearing a wedding ring on his finger. As a result he gets confused concerning his identity.
After a few minutes, Aminath Shifa/Nisha (Aishath Rishmy) enters the room and behaves like his wife. She tried to convince him that he is Fazeel. She reveals that he met with an accident, and can only remember things that happened recently. She medicates him in order for him to recover. However, since no change has been identified, he loses control and get furious. In return she had to hurt him in order to save their baby.
She struggles enough to save their wedding and their baby. His past and present is revealed in bits, before the truth is finally revealed.
Julien Villandrit is the owner of the estate of Les Basses-Bruyères and its textile factory, where the manager is his childhood friend Corradin. Julien marries his neighbour Régine, unaware that Corradin also loves her. Julien is sent to gaol for a murder actually committed by Corradin. The only witness to the truth is the woodsman Rudeberg and Corradin buys his silence by paying for the education of his son Pascal. Julien's struggle to clear his name and to rescue Régine and their daughter Christiane from Corradin's scheming extends over many years and faces many setbacks.
In St Andrews, Scotland in 1866, 15-year-old Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden) is an avid golfer like his legendary and pioneering father, Tom Morris (Peter Mullan). "Old Tom" is greens-keeper for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, as well as the town's club- and ball-maker. He is the two-time winner of the first major golf tournament, The Open Championship, which was founded in 1860 by James Ogilvie Fairlie, Tom's mentor. He also established golf's standard of 18 holes per round. But young Tommy is beginning to chafe at his father's dictates, especially in the rapidly changing world they live in.
Tommy soon outshines his father, winning The Open three times in a row while still in his teens. The "dashing young man of golf", he draws flocks of spectators to the sport and becomes its first touring professional.
Father and son repeatedly clash over the unwritten rules of social class, and this culminates when Tommy marries his sweetheart Meg (Ophelia Lovibond), a woman of lower standing with a shameful secret in her past. As the story concludes, Old Tom makes a fatal misjudgement that strips Tommy of everything he holds dear. Following the results of that fateful choice, Old Tom takes on a personal mission that carries him through the final decades of his life: that of honouring his son Tommy.
Joyce Chan Ching-yee (Kathy Chow), a 28-year-old superintendent of the Homicide Bureau. While investigating a horrific rape-murder, she immediately recognises the killer's modus operandi — it's the same one used by the man who murdered her mother 23 years before. Chan's investigation leads to the capture of Lee Chun-min (Sam Lee), who confesses to the murder of Chan's mother and several other women. Lee was arrested years before, but was released without a trial. As Lee is only 23, Chan is convinced an older serial killer is still on the loose, but the investigation come to an abrupt halt when Lee kills himself.
A confused young girl (Siu Siu), whom psychiatrists believe has been imprisoned, is unable to tell anyone who she is. However, she has a photo of Chan, who doesn't recognise her. Chan receives a phone call from the girl's captor and realises he has intentionally released the girl. The serial killer then arrives at Chan's apartment, kills three detectives, and captures and taunts Chan, but does not kill her. Despite not having seen his face, Chan is convinced from the encounter he works in the police department. Soon, Officer Cheung Chi-chuen (Chan Wing-fai) is arrested, and the girl identifies him in a lineup. Before trial, Cheung is stabbed to death by the father of one of the victims.
The case is now closed, and the girl, having been identified as Cheung Sze-mei, reunites with her parents who lost her 12 years ago. Officer Wong Wing-nin (Tse Kwan-ho) of the Public Relation Bureau arrives at Chan's apartment to celebrate. Chan and Wong make love after a few drinks. While Wong is in the shower, Chan accidentally picks up his phone, and hears the voice of "Cheung Sze-mei". At the same time, Chan's assistant (Cheung Tat-ming) discovers it was Wong who many years ago secured Lee's release - and realizes that Wong is the killer.
In New Mexico in 1892, settler Rosalee Quaid and her family are attacked by a Comanche war group who kill her husband and three children. Rosalee escapes by hiding under a rock outcrop.
At Fort Berringer, soon-to-retire U.S. Army captain Joseph Blocker is ordered by President Harrison to escort the cancer-stricken Cheyenne war chief Yellow Hawk and four members of his family back to their tribal lands in Montana. Blocker initially refuses as he and Yellow Hawk are old enemies, but accepts under the threat of court-martial and loss of his pension. Blocker sets out for Montana accompanied by his old friend first sergeant Thomas Metz, long-time aide corporal Woodson, West Point newcomer lieutenant Kidder, and a young private named Dejardin.
Blocker challenges Yellow Hawk to a knife fight, but he refuses. The group soon comes across the Quaid house and Rosalee's dead husband. Inside the house, they find a traumatized Rosalee and her deceased children. After some convincing, Rosalee agrees to join the company until their next stop-over in Fort Winslow, Colorado. They are soon ambushed by the Comanche who kill Dejardin and seriously injure Woodson before being forced to retreat. After the attack, Yellow Hawk convinces Blocker to unchain him and his family so they can help with future attacks. The following day, three dead Comanches are discovered, and Blocker correctly deduces that Yellow Hawk and his son Black Hawk snuck out of camp and killed them overnight.
At Fort Winslow, the group drops off the wounded Woodson and Blocker arranges for Rosalee to stay with the fort's commander, but she chooses to remain with the group. Blocker is ordered to bring disgraced sergeant Philip Wills to be hanged for murdering a Native family. Two members of the fort, corporal Thomas and sergeant Malloy, join Blocker's company to oversee Wills, who chastises Blocker and the Natives.
Near camp, the chief's daughter Living Woman and Rosalee are abducted and raped by three fur traders. The group hunts down and kills the rapists. Malloy is killed in the fight. The next night, Metz walks into a downpour and begins to express guilt for his past actions against the Natives, leaving Blocker concerned. Meanwhile, Wills feigns illness allowing him to kill Kidder and escape. Metz chases after him against Blocker's orders. The next day, the group finds their bodies with Metz still clutching a gun in his hand following his own apparent suicide. A devastated Blocker is consoled by Rosalee. They travel farther north as Yellow Hawk's condition continues to deteriorate. Blocker makes peace with the chief for the hardships they have inflicted upon one another over the years.
Yellow Hawk dies just as the group arrives at the tribal lands in Montana, where he is buried. As Blocker and others prepare to leave, a white man and his three ranch hands ride up, declare that they own the land, and order Blocker and the rest of the group to leave with the chief's body. Blocker informs them of the president's orders, only to be threatened at gunpoint. Blocker refuses, and a brutal shootout ensues. Black Hawk, Living Woman, Elk Woman and Corporal Thomas are killed and buried next to the chief.
Rosalee decides to take Black Hawk's orphan son, Little Bear, with her to Chicago. At the train station, the pair thank and bid an emotional farewell to Blocker. He hands Little Bear a gift: a book about Julius Caesar. As the train departs, Blocker decides to jump aboard.
Many years after defeating the Olympian gods, Kratos now lives with his son Atreus in the realm of Midgard. After cremating the body of his second wife, Faye, Kratos is confronted by a stranger with godly powers and strength. The two battle and Kratos seemingly kills the stranger, after which Kratos and Atreus begin their journey to honor Faye's last wish: to scatter her ashes at the highest peak in the nine realms. Along the way, they encounter the kindly Witch of the Woods, who recognises Kratos as a god.
Reaching the Lake of the Nine, the pair encounter the friendly World Serpent, Jörmungandr, the last remaining Giant. Continuing on their journey, they find their path blocked by impenetrable black mist; the Witch of the Woods appears and instructs them to use the Bifröst to travel to Alfheim and secure its Light to extinguish the mist. Successful, they reach Midgard's peak and overhear a conversation between the stranger who had previously attacked them—revealed to be Baldur, son of Odin—and the imprisoned Mímir. After they leave, Kratos and Atreus confront Mímir, who reveals that the highest peak is in Jötunheim, but the Giants have blocked travel there to keep out Odin and Thor. Knowing of another passage, Mímir instructs Kratos to behead him and have his head revived by the Witch of the Woods, whom upon resurrection, he reveals to be the goddess Freya. Kratos' longstanding hatred of gods causes him to immediately distrust her, but both Freya and Mímir warn him that he must tell Atreus about his true nature.
In search of components to open Jötunheim's portal, Kratos, Atreus, and Mímir are attacked by Baldur's nephews, Magni and Modi. After Kratos kills Magni, Modi flees but later ambushes the trio. Kratos fends him off, but Atreus collapses, overcome by illness, due to the contradiction of a god believing himself to be mortal. Freya offers to help Atreus and instructs Kratos to retrieve the heart of a specific troll in Helheim; however, his frost-based Leviathan Axe is useless in the icy realm. Kratos returns home to unearth his old weapons, the fiery Blades of Chaos, and is haunted by Athena's spirit. After retrieving the heart, he has a haunting vision of Zeus, and Mímir pieces together Kratos' bloody past. Freya revives Atreus and Kratos tells him that they are gods. Atreus becomes increasingly arrogant and, against Kratos' orders, murders a weakened Modi, who was beaten by his father Thor for leaving his brother Magni to die. At Midgard's peak, Kratos and Atreus are ambushed by Baldur, resulting in Jötunheim's portal being destroyed and the group falling into Helheim.
Atreus makes amends with Kratos, and they learn of Freya and Baldur's familial relationship as well as the immortality spell that she cast on him. Returning to Midgard, Mímir realizes there is another way to reach Jötunheim, but he needs his missing eye. After obtaining it from Jörmungandr's belly–who had inadvertently eaten it along with a statue of Thor—they are attacked by Baldur once more, but Freya intervenes. During the fight, Baldur is pierced by Atreus's mistletoe arrow, breaking Freya's spell. Baldur is finally defeated; despite being given an opportunity to retreat, he attempts to strangle Freya and forces Kratos to kill him. A grieving Freya swears vengeance on Kratos. Kratos finally tells Atreus about his own past and how he killed his own father, the god Zeus. Atreus laments this cycle of violence, and Kratos tells him that they should learn from their experiences and not repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. A silent Freya leaves with Baldur's corpse, and Mímir hopefully suggests that she will eventually move on and realize that Kratos did the right thing.
In Jötunheim, they find a temple with a mural depicting their adventures, showing that the Giants, renowned for their gift of prophecy, had foretold the entire journey. Furthermore, they discover that Faye was a Giant who had decided to stay behind in Midgard, meaning that Atreus is half Giant, one-quarter god, and one-quarter mortal. Their fight with Baldur is shown, revealing that he was after Faye the whole time, and that Atreus was referred to as Loki by his mother and the Giants. Kratos sees a covered mural depicting what appears to be Atreus cradling a dying Kratos, but chooses to ignore it. Kratos and Atreus fulfill their promise and spread her ashes at the peak, overlooking a valley of Giant corpses. Afterward, Kratos reveals to Atreus that his given name was that of a compassionate Spartan comrade. Returning to Midgard, Mímir warns them that Freya came to see him in hopes of locating her Valkyrie wings and regaining her warrior spirit to avenge Baldur's death. He also warns them that the three-year-long Fimbulwinter has begun, meaning Ragnarök is soon to follow.
Eventually Kratos, Atreus, and Mímir return home and slumber. Atreus has a vision that Thor will arrive at the end of Fimbulwinter to confront them.
Jodelet holds from Nise, the maid he loves, love secrets of several suitors and their beauties and since "the language of a valet is worse than a trumpet", but the secrets are soon disclosed.
The unfortunate Nise is ruthlessly hunted by her mistress, but Jodelet has more than one trick in his bag and saves the day: he says he is an astrologer and claims to hold from the revelation of the stars everything Nise told him.
The comedy becomes a satire against astrologers and soothsayers who retailed their nonsense to Parisian onlookers.
Lin Zixiong (Zheng Geping) dies after being hit by a car, and the only witness seems to be his stepson "Popiah" (Deng Mao Hui), a quiet young boy with no friends besides a gigantic tree. Police investigator Jiang Liangxing (Phyllis Quek) becomes convinced the driver was Lin's wife Guo Meifeng (Zoe Tay), whose first husband Xie Wenguang (Tse Kwan-ho) disappeared 5 years ago. Meanwhile, Jiang's boyfriend and pathologist Wu Chongzhe (Francis Ng) discovers a mysterious fungus in Lin's heart. He also befriends Popiah and learns that Lin had sexually abused him. Perhaps the answer to everything lies in the gigantic tree...
Edgar is a man in an extreme existential crisis. He is thrown into a hopeless abyss of frequent nightmares, isolation and increasing paranoia following the suicide of his wife. Edgar moves from one fresh hell into another in this tale of a man facing the darkest side of his shadow self.
In Superior, Nebraska, Sam (Jared Padalecki) captures an infected man as a way to find a cure for the virus. Meanwhile, Dean (Jensen Ackles) takes Jenna (Laci J. Mailey) and the baby to Cedar Rapids, Iowa at her grandmother's (Christine Willes) house. When her grandmother puts her on her bed, Amara shows signs of telekinesis.
When they discover this, Jenna's religious grandmother decides to call a preacher as she believes she's possessed. Dean is called by Jenna and is surprised when he discovers the preacher is none other than Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard). While Jenna tends to Amara, Amara consumes her soul, making her killing her grandmother.
In the hospital, Sam is visited by Billie (Lisa Berry), a reaper. She explains that after the Death's death, the reapers decided to stop reviving Sam and Dean and instead of sending them to Heaven or Hell when they die, they will be tossed into "the empty", where no one returns. Sam decides to pray to God for help in finding the cure and begins to receive clues from his memories in Lucifer's Cage.
Sam's condition begins worsening and in a last attempt to find a cure, finds a passage in the bible about the holy oil. He pours holy oil over his black veins, healing them. He then attracts the infected people to a ring of fire surrounded by holy oil, curing them. Dean and Crowley find Amara in the crib and realizing she has the Mark of Cain, discovers she's the Darkness. They then find Jenna, who tries to kill Dean and Crowley is forced to kill her. Crowley intends to use Amara for his purposes and when Dean goes to check on the baby, Amara and Crowley are gone.
Meanwhile, Castiel (Misha Collins) is being tortured by the angels Efram and Jonah to reveal Metatron's whereabouts. He is finally rescued by Hannah, who's currently in a male vessel (Lee Majdoub). However, Castiel correctly deduces that Hannah set everything from his torture to his rescue so she could get information from him. When Efram and Jonah return with a plan to break into his brain, Castiel (still in the rabid dog spell) kills Efram and Jonah but Hannah is stabbed and killed after protesting that they went too far.
Sam and Dean return to the bunker where they discover an injured Castiel, asking for help. Meanwhile, Amara is now in the form of a young girl (Gracyn Shinyei). She's found by Crowley, who offers her people to feed.
Geralt takes up a contract sent out by a noble named Olgierd von Everec, who tasks him with eliminating a giant toad monster in the sewers of Oxenfurt. While hunting the monster, Geralt runs into Shani, a medic and an old acquaintance of his, whom he has the option of romancing. Geralt then kills the toad monster, only to find it was actually a cursed Ofieri prince. The prince's guards capture Geralt with the intention of executing him. While awaiting his execution en route to Ofier, Geralt is approached by the mysterious Gaunter O'Dimm. O'Dimm helps Geralt escape, but in return, Geralt must help O'Dimm recover a debt from von Everec, who had set up Geralt knowing the toad monster was an Ofieri prince. O'Dimm brands Geralt and tells him that according to terms of his contract with von Everec, he must fulfill three of von Everec's wishes. O'Dimm disappears and a strong storm gets the boat to crash. While being handcuffed and taken as a prisoner by the Offieri, Geralt manages to escape. Geralt confronts von Everec and discovers that von Everec had obtained immortality at the cost of his emotions, giving him a "Heart of Stone". He admits to cursing the Ofieri prince since he was arranged to marry his true love, Iris, and that he wished for immortality in order to be with her. He then tells Geralt his three wishes: to entertain his brother Vlodimir for one night, to get revenge on the Borsodi family by obtaining Maximilian Borsodi's house, and to obtain the violet rose he had given to Iris. O'Dimm tells Geralt that the three tasks are meant to be impossible, as Maximilian Borsodi's house is kept in a highly secure vault, and both Vlodimir and Iris have been dead for years, but despite that, he agrees to assist Geralt.
With O'Dimm's help, Geralt allows Vlodimir's spirit to possess his body for one night, allowing him to attend a wedding party and fulfilling the first wish. O'Dimm banishes Vlodimir when the task is done, implying that he has powerful magic. Geralt then participates in a heist to steal Maximilian Borsodi's house from its vault and finds that it contains a will that would grant the entire Borsodi fortune to charity, fulfilling von Everec's revenge and second wish. To obtain Iris' rose, Geralt enlists the help of two demonic entities that resemble a cat and a dog to gain access to a supernatural realm where he witnesses von Everec and Iris' past. There, he learns that due to his "Heart of Stone," von Everec could not genuinely love Iris, and she died neglected and unhappy. Geralt, based on the player's choice, can either obtain the rose from Iris' spirit in order to free her from being "pinned" into the world or let the rose remain with her. Either way, Geralt fulfills von Everec's last wish and goes to meet with him. Along the way, he learns that O'Dimm is, in fact, an ancient entity of pure evil that relishes tricking people into trading away their souls in return for granting wishes that, unknown to the recipients, contain harmful side effects. When Geralt meets with von Everec, the three wishes are fulfilled, and O'Dimm arrives to collect von Everec's soul.
At this point, Geralt has the option of allowing O'Dimm to take von Everec's soul or intervening to save von Everec. If Geralt does nothing, O'Dimm kills von Everec, takes his soul, and rewards Geralt with one wish. If Geralt intervenes, he challenges O'Dimm by wagering his own soul to save von Everec. After Geralt solves O'Dimm's riddle, O'Dimm is forced to release both Geralt and von Everec from their pacts. Von Everec, now mortal again, regains his emotions and immediately feels regret for his past actions and mistakes. He gives Geralt his family sword and promises to start a new life free from O'Dimm's control.
Set after the events of the base game, Geralt is offered a contract by Duchess Anna Henrietta, the ruler of Toussaint, a vassal duchy under the Nilfgaardian Empire. Two knights of Toussaint have been murdered in strange circumstances, and Geralt is tasked with finding and killing the monster responsible.
When Geralt arrives in Toussaint, a third knight dies. All the men seem to be killed for violating the five virtues that all knights of Toussaint swear to uphold. He later sees a fourth knight get killed by the Beast, a higher vampire. He battles him until Regis, another higher vampire and friend of Geralt, interrupts the fight and convinces the Beast to leave. Regis explains that the Beast is named Dettlaff. Regis is bonded to Dettlaff, by whom he is recovered, by vampire code.
Geralt and Regis join forces to investigate and find out that someone kidnapped Dettlaff's former lover Rhenawedd to force him to murder the knights. Clues left by the kidnapper lead them to the ducal winery, where the wine keeper admits to selling to a mysterious buyer, known as the Cintrian.
The Cintrian later gets killed while trying to steal a jewel that Henrietta identifies as a family heirloom lost many years ago. She speculates that her long lost sister Syanna, who was exiled for supposedly being afflicted by a curse, may be involved.
Geralt, Regis and Detlaff team-up to investigate and discover that Syanna and Rhenawedd are the same person. She faked her own kidnapping and orchestrated the attempted theft of the jewel. Dettlaff feels betrayed and threatens to destroy the capital city of Toussaint, unless Syanna agrees to meet him for an explanation within three days. Henrietta demands Geralt to kill Dettlaff after learning he is the Beast.
Three days later, lesser vampires begin attacking the city. Geralt has two choices: free Syanna so she can talk to Dettlaff, or find the Unseen Elder and make him summon Dettlaff. If Geralt chooses to free Syanna, he goes to the Land of a Thousand Fables, a world within an enchanted fairy tale book where the sisters used to play as children, and locates her. While in there, he has the option to retrieve a magical ribbon for her. She explains that she killed the knights because they exiled her, and some of them even abused her. If Geralt opts to find the Unseen Elder, he persuades him to recall Dettlaff.
At this point, several endings are possible. If Geralt opts to release Syanna from the book's world, she, Geralt and Regis meet Dettlaff in Tesham Mutna. If Geralt retrieves the ribbon, then it saves Syanna from Dettlaff's killing blow. Then a fight starts, Regis reluctantly kills Dettlaff and Geralt is awarded Toussaint's highest honor. Before going to the ceremony, he can choose to uncover the identity of Syanna's would-be fifth victim. It turns out to be Henrietta, whose death would have fulfilled the last virtue, compassion. Geralt can then opt to confront Syanna in her cell about it. Regardless, he attends the ceremony where the duchess judges Syanna for her crimes. If he chooses not to look into the fifth victim, or if he investigates it and then talks to Syanna in an admonishing manner, she kills Henrietta and then de la Tour shoots her. With no living heirs to the dukedom, Toussaint falls into a state of chaos. If Geralt asks Syanna to consider forgiving her sister, which is only possible if he previously read a governess' diary, the two sisters resolve their differences, and Toussaint celebrates.
If Geralt did not retrieve Syanna's ribbon, Dettlaff confronts her and kills her. Geralt can choose to let him go or kill him with the help of Regis. Whichever his decision, he is thrown into prison for failing to save Syanna. Geralt's friend Dandelion convinced Henrietta to release him. Geralt then meets with Regis and can choose to look into the fifth victim. After finding out it is the duchess, he goes with Dandelion to the ducal crypt where she is grieving. She refuses to believe Geralt and forbids him from seeing her ever again.
If Geralt opts for the Unseen Elder path, the elder vampire forces Dettlaff to appear in Tesham Mutna. A fight starts and Dettlaff dies. Later at the ceremony, Syanna kills Anna and gets killed in turn.
Either way, if Dettlaff was killed, Regis is attacked by vampires who label him a traitor. Geralt returns home to the vineyard estate that formed part of his payment to find a surprise visitor. Depending on the choices and endings from the base game, the visitor may be either Yennefer or Triss (if Geralt romanced either of them in the base game), Ciri (if Geralt romances neither) or Dandelion (if Geralt romances neither and Ciri does not survive the base game).
The game is broken up into two episodes: "Secret of the Oracle" and "The Armageddon Machine". In the first episode, having defeated the Grand Intellect in ''Invasion of the Vorticons'' and saved the Earth, eight-year-old child genius Billy Blaze is building a faster-than-light communications radio. Upon completing it, he hears a transmission announcing that a race of aliens known as the Shikadi are planning to destroy the galaxy. Donning his helmet as Commander Keen, he takes off in his spaceship—first stunning his parents with his neural stunner gun as they call him in to dinner—for the planet of Gnosticus IV, home of the Oracle and the Gnosticenes that tend it, to find out who the Shikadi are and how they plan to destroy the galaxy. Upon arriving, he is met by a Council Page, who tells him that the council of immortal Gnosticenes have been kidnapped by the Shikadi and taken "to the Shadowlands far to the west", leaving monsters and traps to guard them. Keen journeys through the outposts and temples of the Shadowlands, rescuing all of the Gnosticenes, and afterwards they turn on the Oracle machine. The Oracle tells Keen that the Shikadi are "shadow beings from the far side of the galaxy" who are building an Armageddon Machine at Korath III to blow up the galaxy and rebuild it as they wish afterwards. As the episode ends, Keen sets off to stop them.
In "The Armageddon Machine", Keen journeys through the giant Armageddon Machine space station, destroying the subsystems of the machine located in each level. Along the way, he learns that the Shikadi are being led by the "Gannalech". After Keen reaches the final level and destroys the Quantum Explosion Dynamo, the Shikadi flee the station, and either leave Korath III via their getaway ship or are left stranded, depending on whether Keen destroys a fuse in the secret level. Keen looks in the control room to find out why the Shikadi wanted to destroy the galaxy; there, he finds a note, written in the series' Standard Galactic Alphabet cypher, from the final boss of the ''Vorticons'' trilogy: his school rival Mortimer McMire, whose IQ is "a single point higher" than Keen's. The note tells Keen that the McMire killed in the previous game was an android replica, that the "Gannalech" is a mispronunciation of "Grand Intellect", his title from the first trilogy, and that the Armageddon Machine was itself a distraction, as McMire plans on destroying the universe instead. As Keen leaves the command center, the game screen focuses on an abandoned football helmet in the room like Keen's, with two Ms on it.
In Los Angeles, a team of ex-MARSOC Marines led by Ray Merrimen hijack an armored truck. The ensuing shootout with police leaves several dead, including one of Merrimen's crew, as the hijackers escape with the empty truck. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Nick “Big Nick” O'Brien and his team, the Major Crimes Unit, investigates the robbery, making the recently paroled Merrimen his prime suspect. Nick's team kidnap Donnie Wilson, a bartender who confesses to acting as the thieves' unarmed getaway driver. He describes a large sum of cash stolen from a stadium by the crew, but denies knowing their future plans and is released.
Merrimen and his crew prepare to rob the heavily guarded Federal Reserve: with approximately $30 million in old bills removed from circulation each day, they plan to steal the untraceable money before it is shredded. Nick's team tails Donnie, who is hired as a Chinese food delivery driver, allowing him to deliver inside the Federal Reserve. A confrontation with Nick leads Merrimen's crew to suspect Donnie is an informant. Interrogated at gunpoint, he admits he was questioned by Nick; to his surprise, Merrimen orders him to tell Nick when the heist is taking place. Donnie informs Nick but denies knowing the location. Nick sleeps with Merrimen's girlfriend, who – acting on Merrimen's instructions – reveals the crew will be robbing a bank in Pico Rivera.
On the day of the heist, as Nick’s team waits nearby running surveillance, Merrimen's crew takes the Pico Rivera Savings & Loan bank hostage, demanding a ransom and a helicopter. When the FBI attempt to negotiate, the crew appears to execute a female hostage. The thieves access the vault and detonate explosives inside, leading Nick to realize this is not their usual M.O. He impatiently storms the bank himself to find the hostages alive, bound and hooded while the thieves have blown their way into the sewers and escaped.
Merrimen and his right-hand man Levi infiltrate the Federal Reserve, using the stolen armored truck and stadium money to pose as security guards dropping off cash. Donnie, hidden inside a cart of cash, is wheeled inside a counting room as the thieves disrupt the room's power, making it seem like a common brownout. The employees are briefly sent away, and Donnie triggers an electromagnetic pulse to disable the room's cameras as he sends the bills earmarked for shredding safely down the trash chute. Crawling through an air duct to the restroom, he leaves the building in his delivery uniform as Merrimen and Levi depart.
A garbage truck picks up the trash containing the money and is intercepted by the thieves. Nick's team capture Donnie and beat him into revealing Merrimen's escape route. Stuck in traffic, Merrimen's crew spot Nick’s team approaching and exchange fire; Deputy "Borracho" and thief Bosco are killed. Fleeing on foot with Nick in close pursuit, Levi is killed and Merrimen is severely wounded. Cornered, Merrimen raises his empty gun, forcing Nick to fatally shoot him. Instead of the money, only bags of shredded paper are found in Merrimen's vehicle, and the FBI inform Nick that all currency is accounted for at the Federal Reserve, while Donnie has escaped.
Nick revisits Donnie's bar only to learn he has quit. Noticing the bar is frequented by Federal Reserve employees, and spotting a picture of Donnie and his friends, Nick realizes Donnie is the heist's true mastermind: gathering information from bar patrons, he was able to plan the entire robbery, and recruited his friends to intercept the money and double-cross Merrimen's crew. Having shipped the money offshore to Panama and escaped to London with his accomplices, Donnie is working at another bar across from a diamond exchange – his next target.
The game takes place several decades after the events of ''Master of Shadows''. The most communities in the world are suffering from goblin infestations. Goblins in general are stupid creatures and most people consider them to be vermin ("rakash"). Styx is an exceptional goblin who has human-like intelligence and can talk, and he doesn't care much for his fellow goblins either. Styx works as a thief and assassin for hire.
Styx plies his trade in the slum town of Thoben, which is infested with goblins. There, a goblin hunter named Helledryn hires Styx to steal a magical scepter from an ambassador to the dark elves, with the promise of amber as payment. Styx breaks into the ambassador's airship, but before he can grab the scepter, a shapeshifting dark elf takes it first. He attaches a large crystal to the staff and uses it to paralyze Styx. He then shapeshifts into a human and raises the alarm, forcing Styx the flee empty-handed.
Helledryn wanted the scepter so that she could gain entry into the dark elf mountain fortress of Korrangar and spy on a diplomatic summit. She asks Styx to help her infiltrate the fortress, which he agrees to for a hefty payment in amber. Styx also wants to get revenge on the shapeshifting elf and investigate his scepter.
Korrangar is ruled by a priestess named Lyssril. A routine practice of her devotees is to consumed daily doses of amber, and occasionally they sacrifice themselves to a monster they call Laxima. Styx overhears some dark elves talking about an outcast named Djarak, who was the elf Styx encountered in Thoben.
Styx obtains a dark elf disguise for Helledryn to infiltrate the diplomatic summit, and learns that Djarak has disguised himself as a human diplomat. At the meeting, Lyssril demonstrates a magical crystal called Quartz that can paralyze goblins at a distance. With these Quartz scepters, the humans and dwarves will be able to remove the goblin infestations from their communities. Furthermore, Lyssril offers to pay the humans and dwarves if they deliver live goblins to Korrangar, though she refuses to explain for what purpose. As the meeting draws to a close, Helledryn spots the disguised Djarak and tries to lure him out. Djarak senses the ruse and tries to assassinate Lyssril, and fails.
Styx discovers that Laxima, the creature the elves have been sacrificing some of their warriors too, is a Roabie Queen. In exchange for the sacrifices, Laxima uses her supernatural power to refine the Quartz that the dark elves have been digging out of their mountain. Styx kills the Roabie Queen, but he is spotted by a dark elf guard, and Korrangar launches a manhunt for a "talking goblin". Styx and Helledryn flee to Thoben.
In Thoben, Styx helps Helledryn dispose of some colleagues who backstabbed her. When Styx returns to his hideout, he is captured in a trap by the dark elves. The dark elves take Styx back to Korrangar and prepare to ritually sacrifice him, but he escapes with the aid of Djarak.
Djarak explains to Styx that the amber that Lyssril gives her followers is addictive, and also connects them telepathically, eroding their sense of individuality. It reminds Styx of how the humans back in Akenash became addicted to the amber of the World Tree (see ''Styx: Master of Shadows''). Djarak wants to free his people of their thralldom by destroying Lyssril's amber reserves. He asks Styx to help him, warning Styx that he'll never be safe so long as Lyssril is in power, because Lyssril can sense Styx's location through the amber in his blood, which is how she was able to find his hideout in Thoben. Styx cannot attack Lyssril directly because of this, so Djarak suggests an indirect way: they will instigate a war between the dark elves and the dwarves by murdering the dwarven ambassador and framing Lyssril. Styx murders the dwarven ambassador and plants a dagger belonging to Lyssril on his body.
Styx found a diagram on the dwarven ambassador that describes some sort of amber-making machine they designed for the dark elves, and they decide they must destroy it, so they return to Korrangar with explosives. In Korrangar, the dark elves are in disarray as Lyssril has fled the fortress. Styx discovers that the elves' amber machine extracts amber from the bodies of slaughtered goblins. Styx and Djarak destroy the slaughterhouse and the amber reservoirs.
With their mission complete, Styx and Djarak try to flee Korrangar, but are blocked by a giant golem. The golem was a gift from the dwarves to the dark elves, which suggests that the dwarves had always planned to attack the dark elves and the golem is a trojan horse. Djarak is seemingly killed by falling rubble, so Styx is forced to fight the golem alone. After defeating the golem, he jumps on Helledryn's ship as it leaves Korrangar, and he finds Djarak at the helm. Styx is furious that Djarak abandoned him, and the game ends with Styx pointing his crossbow at Djarak.
''Ever Oasis'' tells the story of Tethu/Tethi, a young Seedling, who with the help of a Water Spirit named Esna creates an oasis after Tethu/Tethi's brother, Nour, gets kidnapped and the Oasis falls to Chaos. As the player journeys to find more residents, they fight the creatures that have been taken over by Chaos. On the adventure, the player discover several villages belonging to other races, such as the Drauk, the Serkah and the Lagora. Together with new allies, the player must work together with them to create the perfect Oasis as Tethu/Tethi continues to uncover the mystery of what happened to his/her brother.
Charlie Parish, a Hollywood screenwriter suffering from PTSD, is fronting for his blacklisted best friend, Gil. When Charlie wakes from a blackout in the same room as a murdered starlet, he and Gil set out to bring her killer to justice. As they follow leads trying to piece together the night leading up to the murder, cooperative witnesses are punished by the studio's fixer. Charlie is prepared to quit when Gil tries to blackmail the head of the studio by anonymously claiming he "knows what happened" with the starlet. Misunderstanding the threat, the studio head tries to destroy evidence that he had sexually abused her when she was a child actor. Charlie and Gil are able to retrieve a folder of photographs and decide to keep fighting for justice. They plan to kidnap the other studio co-founder, who is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease and will freely admit to the past sins. They arrive at the co-founder's mansion at the same time the fixers are murdering him to prevent him from talking. As the two friends are escaping from the fixers, Gil is shot and killed. When Charlie resigns himself to working in the corrupt culture, the fixer reveals the actress was murdered by an undercover FBI agent who was looking for communists in Hollywood.
The story follows two timelines: Maluquinho's life at 5 and 10 years, while being narrated by his 30-year old version. They teach important lessons about art, consumerism, value of money, time, friendship, school and other aspects of life.
Sometimes, the characters give their opinion about a current event or foreshadow some event that will eventually take place in the episode, speaking to the cameras, in front of a white wall.
The dying Siegland reaches the house of the dwarf Mime, begging him to raise her baby, called Sigfried, and giving him in custody the sword of Sigfried's father.
Years later, the grown up Siegfried leaves in search of the , and kills a dragon thanks to his invincible sword. Bathing in its blood, the resulting almost invulnerability makes him the bravest fighter of his time. He discovers a magic ring and obtains Alberich's magic hat, which can make him invisible. He then goes to the court of the King Gunther of Burgund, where he wins the tournament for the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild, but finds an implacable opponent in Hagen von Tronje, who was defeated by him in a duel.
Thanks to his magic hat, Siegfried helps Gunther to subjugate the beautiful Brunhild, the queen of Iceland, and to make her Gunther's wife. However, after she learns of his tricks, Brunhild rejects Gunther and swears revenge against Siegfried. Hagen, meanwhile on Brunhild's side, discovers Siegfried's secret from Kriemhild: he has a vulnerable spot on his shoulder. He manages to kill Siegfried during a hunting trip, but he perishes as well in the collapsing grotto, while trying to get hold of the treasure. Upon learning of her involuntary role in Siegfried's death, Brunhild commits suicide.
Pompeii. Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad company including jealous Roberto. Edvige wants to meet Giorgio with the intention of telling him that Maria is a foundling therefore not worthy to be by his side but later has a clash with Roberto who hits her and kills her. There would be a witness but Roberto, threatening him with death, succeeds in obtaining his silence, the blame therefore falls on Maria, who arrived shortly after the crime attracted by the noises with the intention of bringing help. During the trial Guglielmo, the public prosecutor, lashes out with fury against the girl, a clear example that evil (a father who has abandoned her can only be a criminal) can only give birth to other evil. Fortunately, an old servant of the magistrate remembers what happened years before, Maria is the natural daughter of Guglielmo, forced by the family to leave the birth in an orphanage in Pompeii. Shocked by the news, the magistrate begins to use calmer and less violent tones but the witness arrives at the very end to clarify the truth about the crime and Maria can finally marry her beloved Giorgio.
In the first half of the nineteenth century the young Leila left Paris, where she was educated, to go to Cairo to collect the inheritance of her late grandfather, a rich Egyptian pasha. Cousin Ibrahim, who administers the land properties in a dishonest manner with the complicity of his trusted Yusuf, gives the banker Micropulos the research rights in sapphire deposits located in the territory of the Beni Amer Bedouins, making them and Leila believe that they are drilling artesian wells, thus obtaining the approval of Rachid, the young sheikh of the Beni Amer. He, who went to Cairo to renew the pact that allows his people to live on the lands granted them, meets Leila and falls in love with her. Releases land administration to Ibrahim and Yusuf; these, after having commanded the delivery of the weapons, provoke the Beni Amer with the intent to drive them from their land and set them against Rachid. He, informed of the betrayal, goes to the place but is attacked by his people, believed to be the author of the general malaise. In an attempt to capture, he falls into a cliff and is believed dead. Some time later, Leila goes to the Bedouins to ascertain the situation, but a gang led by Ibrahim tries to kill her. A mysterious man, with a covered face, who calls himself Lo Sparrowhawk, runs to save her. Ibrahim, fearing to be discovered, joins Leila in the fortress where he takes refuge, forcing her to marry him in order to inherit his possessions and prevent her from accusing him of the attempted murder. Pretending to be mentally ill following the accident, Rachid is led by Yusuf to the location where the wedding is about to take place, exposed as a mockery. But just before the fateful yes, he reveals himself, he saves Leila and after a dramatic duel he kills Yusuf and Ibrahim. The two young people, finally reunited, can start a life of happiness together.
Karen, Kristel and Josje make the wishes of the kids come true. In every episode they fill three wishes, one by Karen, one by Kristel and one by Josje. Mostly it is something with adventure like a helicopter flight or training dogs, but sometimes it's an easy wish like being famous for one day.
A politician abandons his family for social climbing. During a violent argument the man accidentally kills his wife. His political career will be destroyed.
After being sentenced on false charges, Kyousuke Kamiya enrolls in a school for juvenile convicts.
Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city. Despite the disappointment, he becomes interested in the beautiful Katarina. He decides to lead the group of rebels after a close friend of his is killed under torture for having hatched a plot to eliminate the doge.
An engineer accompanies Mariù Pascoli from Bologna to San Mauro, a young woman he had been with for some time. During the journey they get engaged, but the spell is interrupted by the revelation that the young man makes to the girl: he is the son of a captain accused of being responsible for the death of Ruggero Pascoli, Mariù's father.
Ruggero, many years back, was an administrator of the estate of a prince and the captain was employed by him: discovered an embezzlement of the latter, he ran to report him. In the evening, while he was returning home with the gig and holding two dolls to give as gifts to the two girls, someone shot him treacherously; that someone, according to the police, was the captain. The girl's gaze becomes dark and she suddenly pushes him away asking him never to look for her again. Once back home, she is greeted by her aunt who, to distract her, proposes an engagement to a young man from the village who had been waiting for that moment for some time. On the other hand, the engineer, when he returns to his father's house, finds Adalgisa, the attractive housekeeper, engaged in flirting with a mature boy. He does not know that that affair was artfully concocted to hide the truth: Dalgisa is actually the captain's lover and that the latter was really Ruggero's killer, and Dalgisa had lied during the interrogation to the police to make sure that the crime remained without guilty.
Sandro continually searches for Mariù to try to understand the reason for his refusal, even his father remains vague and only Matilda, the girl's aunt, exasperated by his insistence, reveals to him that the family and the whole town consider Baroni the killer of Ruggero despite not having no evidence.
Meanwhile, Baroni is preparing to escape with his son and quarrels with Dalgisa who feels betrayed by the man for whom she lied and from whom she got nothing in return.
Sandro and Mariù meet again, while the girl cannot forget the suffering experienced by the family, the boy convinced of his father's innocence accuses her of having instilled in him the doubt right now that he is about to be recognized and acquire his surname. The boy would be willing to forget everything and marry Mariù, after all if the father was really guilty there would be a sign.
Suddenly they hear screams, Baroni's stable has caught fire and in an attempt to save the animals Baroni is blocked by Dalgisa, responsible for the fire and they both die. When the attendant shouts "the hand of God" the young people realize the truth and separate, this time forever.
Juan Gallardo, son of a bullfighter died who in enclosure for bullfighting, decides to follow the steps of his father. With the opposition of his family he goes against it and begins bullfighting and ends up abandoning them altogether. He is later faced with a love triangle with two women: Pillar, a simple young woman who always loved him, and Doña Sol, an aristocrat who is educated and cultured.
The episode begins with Steven (Zach Callison) waking up in the body of a Watermelon Steven, one of the sentient watermelons shaped like himself that he created in the first-season episode "Watermelon Steven". Steven sees that the Watermelon Stevens have created their own society on Mask Island, complete with homes, jobs and rituals. Steven's watermelon body is selected for one such ritual and led to the top of a cliff. Suddenly, Malachite (Kimberly Brooks and Jennifer Paz) rises up from the ocean and devours him whole.
Steven wakes up at his family's barn in his own body and tells Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall) that Malachite is active. They tell Steven to stay put with Peridot (Shelby Rabara) while they go to the island to fight Malachite. Steven astral-projects into another Watermelon Steven to help them.
On Mask Island, the Crystal Gems fuse into Alexandrite (Rita Rani Ahuja), and she and Malachite engage in battle. During the fight, Alexandrite accidentally destroys the warp pad the Crystal Gems used to teleport to the island.
As Malachite gains the advantage, Steven rallies the frightened Watermelon Stevens, who have taken refuge in a cave. The Watermelon Stevens arm themselves and march into battle.
Malachite immobilizes Alexandrite in a block of ice. Before she can finish her off, the Watermelon Stevens begin their assault, managing to down and distract Malachite for long enough for Alexandrite to free herself. As Malachite begins smashing the Watermelon Stevens, Alexandrite reengages in the battle. She soon gains the upper hand and defeats Malachite, who de-fuses into her component Gems, Lapis Lazuli and Jasper, both unconscious.
Alexandrite defuses herself back into an exhausted Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. They thank Steven and the Watermelon Stevens for their bravery and enjoy a brief moment of celebration; but suddenly, the island begins to tremble and a giant fissure forms across the beach. Amethyst manages to catch Lapis, but Jasper falls in. Garnet realizes that the earthquake portends the emergence of the Cluster, an underground geo-weapon that threatens to destroy the Earth, and tells Steven that he must drill to the Earth's core with Peridot to destroy the Cluster. As he begins to regain consciousness, the Gems remind Steven that they love him.
''Les Créatures'' opens with Mylène and Edgar Piccoli driving down an empty road. Mylène expresses concern over how quickly Edgar is driving, but he refuses to slow down. Edgar defends his driving speed, stating that when he goes fast, his ideas also go fast. He describes how happy the two will be while living in a seaside house and going on long walks. Mylène agrees with Edgar, but asks him once more to slow down. Edgar does not, and shortly thereafter crashes into a tree.
We see that Edgar has survived the crash and is passing time watching the tide come in as he stands on an elevated platform located on an isolated beach. A man drives past and offers Edgar a ride, saying that he will have to wait eight hours to leave otherwise. Edgar passes the ride up and instead watches the tide from the platform.
Edgar is seen beginning to write a book in scenes that are interspersed with his travels around his new town. In these travels, he passes by a house with a stone tower on property that is marked "off limits." There is a solitary figure standing atop the tower, though the two do not interact. Edgar visits a store run by a woman and her daughter. Once Edgar leaves, the daughter remarks that he scared her, but the mother defends him, describing him as quiet but polite. While Edgar is in the outdoor market, Max and Pierre, two linen vendors, take particular note of him
As Edgar drives home, Max and Pierre, who have blocked the road, stop him. The two proceed to fake a fight, and when Edgar intervenes, they cover him with a sheet rigged to rip. When it does, Max and Pierre insist that Edgar pays 50 francs for it. In the following scene, the vendors are seen talking to the shopkeeper and explaining that they feel something is amiss with Edgar.
Max and Pierre then harass Edgar at his home, while he is attempting to enjoy time with his pregnant wife Mylène, who has been rendered mute by the wreck. Edgar is able to drive the two off, but the next time he leaves the house, he finds a pile of sheets next to a dead cat.
He tries to find the owner of the dead cat, but it's not the shopkeeper's. He tries the local hotel, where he is accused of killing the cat. The film turns red, he accuses the hotel cook of killing the cat, as they serve cat when they're out of rabbit. He then beats those who accused him of killing the cat with its corpse. The manager of the hotel comes out to intervene and reassure Edgar that her cat is still alive. When Edgar goes to bury the cat, he discovers a strange metallic disc attached to it.
It is revealed that everything strange and out of the ordinary that has been transpiring recently is actually a story that Edgar is writing told through his eyes, though it is unclear exactly where the fiction of Edgar's story begins and the reality of his life as a writer ends. Edgar explains that a man who is more of an evil spirit than any kind of man or animal can control others through a remote device, though the batteries only last one hour. In Edgar's story, those who are being controlled are forced into actions that ruin their personal relationships. Each of the characters in Edgar's story are the residents of the town in which he and Mylène currently reside.
In his story Edgar becomes suspicious of his neighbor in the tower marked as off limits: Mr. Ducasse. Edgar enlists the linen vendors' help to break into Mr. Ducasse's house and investigate. Once inside, Edgar confronts Mr. Ducasse and forces him to explain the events that have been happening. Mr. Ducasse demonstrates that he can control people remotely, and does so by forcing one of the vendors, Pierre, to nearly jump out of a nearby window. At this point, Pierre decides he has seen enough and leaves. Mr. Ducasse tells Edgar that he will give him all the answers that he wants as long as Edgar can best him in a game that resembles a twisted version of chess. Edgar agrees to this plan.
In the game, miniature versions of the residents of the town are placed on a chessboard and driven to interact with one another. A nearby monitor displays a video of all the interactions the residents are having. Edgar must keep the relationships between the characters healthy while Mr. Ducasse attempts to drive them apart by controlling their minds for one minute at a time, during which time the screen turns red. The game proceeds with some relationships surviving and others breaking apart.
Edgar has seen enough, however, when Mr. Ducasse attempts to have the old man who owns the local hotel rape the shopkeeper's daughter, Suzon. Edgar proceeds to smash all the equipment and fight Mr. Ducasse. The fight proceeds to the top of the tower in the house, where Edgar forces Mr. Ducasse off the ledge to his death.
Thus ends the fictional story that Edgar has been writing. When Edgar next goes to town in an effort to call the local doctor to help Mylène through labor, though, he finds out that the real Mr. Ducasse had committed suicide by jumping from his tower's balcony and dying in the same manner as in Edgar's story.
Throughout the film, the line between what is fictional and what is really occurring to Edgar Piccoli is blurred. One is never quite sure when the film has stopped following Edgar the writer and begun following Edgar the subject of the novel. One thing that does become clear by the end of the film is that the metal discs are used to control the minds of the residents in the town, which is indicated by the film turning red. In these particular instances, the viewer knows that the scenes being watched are part of the novel, and not Piccoli's life as a writer.
The miniseries tells a story in each day of the week, in which a search for justice takes place.
Elisa (Débora Bloch) can't overcome the death of her daughter, Isabela (Marina Ruy Barbosa), murdered in 2009 by her own fiancée Vicente (Jesuíta Barbosa) when he caught her cheating on him with an ex-boyfriend. After being released from prison in current time, he seeks forgiveness by his mother-in-law as he starts a new life with Regina (Camila Márdila) and their daughter.
Fátima (Adriana Esteves), a maid at Elisa's house, killed a dog belonging to police sergeant Douglas (Enrique Díaz) in 2009 after it hurt her son. She is subsequently incriminated for drug trafficking after Douglas plants some cocaine at her house. Seven years later, when she is released, she wants to reunite with her family, but her husband Waldir (Ângelo Antônio) died, her son Jesus (Bernardo Berruezo/Tobias Carrieres) is homeless and her daughter Mayara (Letícia Braga/Julia Dalavia) became a prostitute.
Rose (Jéssica Ellen) and Débora (Luisa Arraes) are friends. In 2009, the former is arrested with drugs which actually belonged to some other friends, while the second is spared. Afterwards, Débora is raped. Seven years later, when Rose is released from prison and reunites with her friend, they search for the man who violated her.
In 2009, Mauricio (Cauã Reymond) was arrested for killing his wife Beatriz (Marjorie Estiano) at her own request after a hit and run leaves her quadriplegic. The accident was caused by Antenor (Antonio Calloni), who was making a runaway with money he stole from his business partner (Euclydes Menezes (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos), Vicente's father). Seven years later, when Mauricio is released from prison, he befriends Vânia (Drica Moraes), the troubled wife of Antenor, who now runs for governor of Pernambuco.
Despite being the sixth episode in the series, ''Aliens'' is not clearly stated to take place after the events of the pair of episodes in ''Galaxy''. In the game's introduction, eight-year-old child genius Billy Blaze is working on his wrist computer in his backyard clubhouse when his babysitter, Molly McMire, calls him in for dinner. Upon hearing a loud noise he rushes out, only to discover her missing and a note burnt into the grass stating that the Bloogs of Fribbulus Xax have taken Molly and plan to eat her; donning his helmet as Commander Keen, Billy rushes off to save her before his parents get home. During the game, Keen journeys through the various outposts, factories, and installations of the alien Bloogs on the planet of Fribbulus Xax as well as a space station above it.
After Keen finds Molly tied up at the back of the Bloog Control Center on the space station, she explains to him that she was kidnapped on the orders of her younger brother, who Keen knows to be his nemesis Mortimer McMire. Mortimer convinced the Bloogs to kidnap her by offering them the Stupendous Sandwich of Chungella IV. Keen is surprised, as he thought Mortimer was dead (he was apparently killed at the end of the ''Vorticon'' trilogy), and is dismayed to find out that Mortimer plans to blow up the entire universe. This conclusion is also revealed in an encoded note at the end of the ''Galaxy''. The game ends by asking the player to play the next installment, where Keen would again fight Mortimer.
Emma (Emma Gruttadauria) is a financially strapped B&B owner on a small island off of Cape Cod. She is a romance writer whose books are not selling because they are not erotic enough. Besides the threat of losing the B&B to foreclosure, there is more aggravation in her life when she hires a handyman, David (Josh Koopman) to fix her plumbing and he breaks two things for everything he fixes. David is a traumatized vet living out of his derelict van. Despite his inept plumbing skills and her sharp tongue about his faults, David stirs Emma’s desires and she begins to fantasize about him, putting her sexual fantasies into the story she’s writing. The two become trapped in the B&B when a strange storm suddenly hits. The storm from Hell stirs awake the dead who rise naked in salt marshes by the house. While the dead are awakening, Jack (Carl Back), a crooked real estate developer, arrives at the B&B to foreclose. Among the newly awakened deceased is Veronica (Alexandra Creteau), a young runaway with dreams of being a Hollywood star. Veronica arrives nude at the B&B. On her heels also awakened in the marshes comes Coby (Nick Apostolides) a twisted killer. Coby arrives in a police uniform with blood on him and in pursuit of Veronica. They both appear to be normal human beings but Emma soon begins to realize that the strangers have come with secrets. The realization that there is something a bit strange about her guests turns to a sense of horror as she realizes that they are the living dead . . . and that sometimes the dead have unfinished business.
Berty the middle aged bachelor’s life changes when he meets Sanda a nursery school teacher, who hails from a very rich family. Falls madly in love with her, Berty’s attempt to actualise this one sided love is the plot to the play.
Berty’s best friend Norty is married to Matilda. Being a father of 9 children, Norty always attempts to make easy money and when Berty confides his secret love the latter advices him to get rich to win the girls heart and invites him to join him in the journey of making quick and easy money.
Berty and Norty in their journey to make easy money brings fits of laughter during the incidents they encounters.
Gara (Maine Mendoza) is an OFW who works very hard in Italy and believes in destiny and true love. On the other hand, Andrew (Alden Richards) is a medical student who was brokenhearted and is very pragmatic and not enthusiastic about accepting fate. As they cross paths in Italy, their personal beliefs help them recognize each other and view love in an unusual way.
Circumstances in her family led to Gara's departure from the Philippines and work in various jobs in Italy. One of her job involves pet sitting the dog of Clarissa (Jasmine Curtis-Smith). One day in a park, Gara sees Andrew who seems sad and heartbroken. Suddenly, a thief grabs Andrew's bag and then goes after the snatcher. Gara also pursues the thief and gets the bag from the thief but Andrew is nowhere in sight. She peruses Andrew's smartphone to find contacts and inform them about the whereabouts of Andrew's belongings.
Aside from being a pet sitter, Gara also works as a household helper for Terry (Irma Adlawan) who turns out to be the stepmother of Andrew. Gara and Andrew have not met personally and Andrew sees Gara in their living room while browsing his smartphone. Andrew confronts Gara saying that she is connivance with the thief. After arguing, they accidentally fall and hug in the couch. Terry comes into the scene and ends their feud. Gara eventually returns Andrew's bag and their romantic relationship starts.
Andrew reveals that he has to move on with his life after proposing to her ex-girlfriend Isay who left him without any reason. In a flashback scene, Andrew is seen giving a heart-shaped glass to Isay but it fell and broke. He was in the park hoping that Isay would come back and explain everything about their breakup. He leaves pieces of the broken heart-shaped glass on all of the places that they have been. Gara finds one of the pieces of the glass in front of Clarissa's house. She concludes that Isay and Clarissa are the same person and indeed they are. Isay broke up with Andrew because she has leukemia.
Gara arranges the meet up between Andrew and Isay so that they can finally meet and talk. Meanwhile, Gara decides to return in the Philippines. In their meeting, Isay tells Andrew that he is happier with Gara and he must go after her. Gara did not make it in the airport due to an accident. In the hospital, Andrew prays that he would not lose Gara because he loves her so much. The film concludes with a scene in Verona where Gara and Andrew are seen happy together and the story ends with a kissing scene between Andrew and Gara.
François Manéri is a private detective in charge of the whereabouts of a young missing woman, Rachel Siprien. Six months have passed since the disappearance. At the request of the mother of the latter, François took over the business. The multifaceted personality of the young woman draws a complex web between her best friend, Clarisse, her ex-boyfriend, her stepfather, neighbors and those who knew her from near and far.
For the smallest weekly payment, Miranda Vane can buy peace, truth and status, only to discover the hard sell stems from husband and salesman alike.
Melody Munro (MyAnna Buring) is a corporate spy and professional identity thief who is subsidising her lavish lifestyle by embezzling from her employer. When she is caught and fired by her employer, she finds herself facing eviction, but calls upon her spy skills to defend her home.
Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield), is "a Vietnam veteran wounded both physically and psychologically." Released from a VA hospital, walking with a cane, Lloyd can’t find work and can’t seem to fit in. Lloyd's mother ([https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908847/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t6 Royce Wallace]), has saved up all the money that Lloyd sent her from his Army pay, plus what she earned as a cleaning woman, to enable him go to college and get a degree. Instead, Lloyd decides to return to Saigon to search for a Vietnamese woman, Em Thuy ([https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705165/?ref_=tt_cl_t4 Victoria Racimo]) with whom he fathered a child he has never seen. The only thing he knows about his child, thanks to a single letter from Em Thuy, is that it’s a boy with green eyes".
While in Vietnam, Lloyd meets an orphan named Trung ([https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501283/?ref_=tt_cl_t5 Lemi]) who informs Lloyd that he is his son and that he has been looking for him, pointing out the resemblance in their skin color, but then tricks Lloyd and steals some of his money and his jacket. However, Trung later helps Lloyd in searching for his child by re-connecting him with an old army buddy, Noel Cousins ([https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326091/?ref_=tt_cl_t3 Jonathan Goldsmith (as Jonathan Lippe)]) who has faked his death to desert the Army and is living the good life in Vietnam. Cousins advises Lloyd in the best way to go about searching for Em Thuy.
Lloyd befriends a woman named Margaret Sheen (Rita Tushingham) who runs a "reception center" for orphans who are lucky enough to have been adopted. Margaret informs Lloyd that there's little hope for finding his child, saying that mixed-race children and their mothers are shunned in Vietnamese society, and that eventually many of the children are abandoned and die. She tells Lloyd that his search for his own child is pointless, saying, "If you want a child, reach out. They're all yours, all of them." Going through several orphanages in Saigon and seeing thousands of Vietnam street children, Lloyd devotes his time and the rest of his money to helping the orphaned children, befriending Margaret in the process.
During the search for Em Thuy and his child, Trung accompanies Lloyd, telling the people they meet that Lloyd is his father. Cousins eventually informs Lloyd of the whereabouts of Em Thuy. Trung accompanies Lloyd to the shantytown where she lives, saying he'll wait for him. Lloyd learns that his son with Em Thuy is dead, and Em Thuy has a baby from another American serviceman. Lloyd emerges from Em Thuy's hut to find Trung gone. In despair and out of money, Lloyd decides to return home alone, thinking that Trung can take care of himself. On his way to the airport, however, he realizes his attachment to Trung and goes searching for him. Lloyd finds the boy, who says he saw green eyes when looking in the mirror.
The epilogue says Trung was one of the last orphans allowed to leave Saigon.
A team of trained operatives are sent to a prison facility to investigate the disappearance of another covert operational unit. Soon after arriving they discover the bodies of their men and then find themselves trapped inside after a full lock-down. They watch the surveillance footage of the soldiers being killed by unseen assailants, and soon after they begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they attempt to uncover what is killing them!
The building is a highly evolved AI named Temple which is in effect a huge lie detector. The team who have been killed and the team sent to rescue them had previously been on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Whilst in Afghanistan they were questioning a village elder and things got out of hand and they massacred the village; they have been covering this up and this is what Temple wants to expose and why they are being punished.
In the past, the ancients used powerful Mind Magic to conjure and create anything they could think of. However, one of the Ancients, known as Brain, tried to use Mind Magic to brainwash all of Skylands, so the ancients sealed him away, and sealed away the power of Mind Magic so evil could not use it.
Following the events of the last game, there has been an era of peace. However, a mysterious being soon steals a book from the Skylanders Academy, and is soon revealed to work for Kaos, who seeks to use the power of Mind Magic to create an army of Doomlanders to conquer Skylands. However, his constructs prove feeble and erratic, leading him to seek the aid of Brain, the last remaining Ancient. With this, he becomes more capable, but still remains unable to defeat the player, so they instead decide to brainwash all of Skylands and protect their fortress with an impenetrable force field, leaving only Spyro immune because of his dragon body. They are able to free the Skylands from the brainwash, and trick Kaos into letting them in. In the final battle, Kaos powers into a more powerful form summoning various Doomlanders to aid him but Brain, frustrated at Kaos' low intelligence and insults, betrays him and fights alongside the player. When Kaos is defeated, Brain tries to run, but works alongside the Skylanders under the threat of being sealed away, and shrinks Kaos and Glumshanks, with the game ending before he starts to tell a tale.
In modern-day Russia, beautiful Dominika Egorova is a famous ballerina who supports her ill mother. Following a career-ending injury, Dominika is approached by her uncle Ivan, the deputy director of the SVR. She is tasked with seducing Dimitry Ustinov, a Russian gangster, in exchange for her mother's continued medical care. Meeting at a bar, the two go to her private room, where he rapes her. During this act, he is killed by Sergei Matorin, an SVR operative authorized by Ivan. Ivan offers Dominika a choice: become an SVR operative, or be executed for witnessing Ustinov's assassination.
Nate Nash is a CIA operative working in Moscow. While meeting with an asset in Gorky Park, they are confronted by the police. Nash creates a diversion to ensure his asset, a mole in Russian ranks code-named Marble, escapes unidentified. Nash is reassigned back to the U.S. but insists he is the only person with whom Marble will work. Since he cannot return to Russia, he is assigned to Budapest to reestablish contact with Marble, which the SVR also deduce.
Dominika is sent to State School 4, a brutal specialist training school for "Sparrows"—SVR operatives capable of seducing their targets with sexpionage. Dominika excels in her training, despite some friction with her trainer, known only as the Matron. Against the Matron's recommendation, Ivan and General Korchnoi decide that Dominika is ready for an assignment in Budapest—to gain Nash's trust and expose Marble's identity.
In Budapest, Dominika lives with another sparrow named Marta Yelenova, and is supervised by SVR station chief Maxim Volontov. Dominika makes contact with Nash, who quickly determines she is a Russian intelligence operative and attempts to convince her to defect.
Dominika inspects Marta's room and realizes that Marta has been assigned to buy classified intelligence from Stephanie Boucher, the chief of staff to a U.S. Senator. When Ivan pressures Dominika about her slow progress with Nash, Dominika claims to be helping Marta with Boucher as well. Marta is brutally killed by the SVR for apparently sharing her classified mission with Dominika and warning Dominika what will happen to her if she fails. Dominika contacts Nash, agrees to become a double agent in exchange for protection for her and her mother, and has sex with him. Under Russian orders, Dominika travels to London with Volontov to meet Boucher and complete the trade, but covertly switches out the intelligence Boucher supplies with CIA-supplied disinformation.
When she leaves the meeting, Boucher realizes that she is being observed by American intelligence agents; she panics, backs into traffic, and is struck and killed. Russian agents observing Boucher realize their mission has been compromised. Suspected of tipping off the Americans, Dominika and Volontov are recalled to Moscow where they are tortured and interrogated for days. Volontov is executed, but Dominika's claims of innocence are eventually believed by Ivan, and she is allowed to return to Budapest to continue her original mission of extracting Marble's identity from Nash. Instead, she convinces Nash to relocate her and her mother to America.
After spending the night with Nash, Dominika awakes to find him being tortured by Matorin for Marble's identity. She initially assists Matorin with torturing Nash until Matorin lowers his guard and she kills him, but is badly injured while doing so. She wakes in a hospital where General Vladimir Korchnoi, a high-ranking official working with Ivan, reveals himself as Marble. He explains that he was initially patriotic, but became disillusioned by Russia's corruption when a bureaucrat he had once offended refused to allow an American doctor to operate on his sick wife. He fears he will be caught soon and, instead of dying in vain, instructs Dominika to expose his identity to Ivan. Doing so would make her a national hero, and allow her to replace him as a mole passing critical intelligence to the CIA. But when Dominika contacts her superiors, she frames Ivan as the mole instead, using evidence she had been fabricating since she first arrived in Hungary, and blaming him for the botched exchange in London. Ivan is killed and Dominika is honored in a Russian military ceremony attended by Korchnoi.
Back in Russia, Dominika lives with her mother, and receives a phone call from an unknown person who plays Grieg's piano concerto, which she previously had told Nash was the piece to which she danced her first solo performance.
Maru Marasigan (Darwin Yu), a sixteen-year old incoming freshman from the province, leaves his hometown to study in one of the prestigious universities in Manila. He is accompanied by his mother Precy (Lotlot de Leon) as he goes to his dormitory.
But Precy cannot help but get emotional when she is about to leave him. Maru feels sad seeing his mother cry. This escalates after Maru spent his first night at the dorm feeling alone and very lonely. Maru then decides to pack his things and go back home. Precy is very shocked to see him in their kitchen early in the morning the following day.
Down on his knees, Maru pleads to Precy to allow him to study in a nearby college for he cannot afford to live miles away from his family. But Precy rejects Maru's request and tells him to go back to Manila instead. As Maru insists his decision and disobeys Precy, his relationship with his mother starts to fall apart.
When the young daughter of police captain Richard Malinowski is raped and murdered, his colleagues hastily find a suspect called Daniel Eckman. Despite there being no witnesses and no forensic evidence, he is sentenced to 30 years. From jail he starts writing to the policeman, expressing his deep regret for the death of the daughter and proclaiming his innocence. Doubts begin to surface in the mind of the policeman, who begins his own private enquiry. He finds that Salinas, a known serial killer of children, was in the area at the time of the killing.
As well as letters to the father, the prisoner has also been writing to Christine, a female sympathiser. He has a letter smuggled out to her, asking her to give false evidence on his behalf. A retrial is held and Eckman is freed, with compensation. Meeting Christine, he asks her to come away with him to a new life together, but she begins to have doubts about his honesty. He then rings Malinowski to ask if he can call round to thank him personally. Malinowski agrees, and gives him a whiskey full of sedative. When he comes to, he is bound in duct tape beside an open grave at the spot where the girl's body was found. Explaining that he always knew Eckman was his daughter's real killer, Malinowski buries him alive.
Valentine's Detective Agency receives a request for help from Kenji and Rei Nakano, a husband and wife living in a remote corner of the Commonwealth: their daughter, Kasumi, has vanished without a trace or explanation. The Sole Survivor is sent to investigate, discovers Kasumi had been in contact with Acadia and borrows Kenji's boat to follow her.
Arriving in the town of Far Harbor, the Sole Survivor finds The Island locked in a tense stalemate between the local residents and the Children of Atom. With the aid of a local hunter and one of the Harbormen named Old Longfellow, the Sole Survivor finds Kasumi living in Acadia. Kasumi has come to believe that she is a synth, and has sought refuge in Acadia, even though she has started to doubt the intentions of DiMA. At Kasumi's behest, the Sole Survivor switches focus to investigating DiMA, and gradually learns he has consciously chosen to store some of his memories on hard drives outside of his body. He has hidden them inside a computer simulation in the Children of Atom's base, the Nucleus, but has grown increasingly concerned that if the Children access the memories, they will have the means to destroy Far Harbor.
The Sole Survivor approaches the Children of Atom to recover DiMA's memories and learns that he put in place a series of fail-safes to protect Acadia, and to preserve the balance of power between Far Harbor and the Children of Atom. These are the access codes to a nuclear warhead, stored within the Nucleus, and the means to sabotage the fog condensers protecting Far Harbor. The Sole Survivor also discovers that DiMA murdered Captain Avery and replaced her with a synth to maintain peace between Far Harbor and Acadia.
There are eight possible endings. The Sole Survivor is faced with a choice: to destroy Far Harbor, to destroy the Children of Atom, or to inform the people of Far Harbor of DiMA's crime and trigger a feud between the Harbormen and Acadia.
Should the player choose to detonate the warhead, the Harbormen will take control of the island, while if the player destroys the fog condensers, the Children will become dominant. In both scenarios Acadia will be spared, though DiMA will disapprove of the player's actions. Alternatively, if the player confronts DiMA over Avery's murder, Acadia may become hostile.
The Sole Survivor is able to establish a more permanent peace between all parties by assassinating or chasing away High Confessor Tektus, and allowing DiMA to replace him with a synth who will adopt a more moderate stance towards the Harbormen.
Additionally, the Sole Survivor can choose to make the main factions aware of Acadia's existence. If so, The Institute, a scientific organization that made the synths, will send agents to reclaim the synths, while the Brotherhood of Steel, a quasi-religious organization rooted in the United States Armed Forces, will launch an expedition to exterminate them. The Railroad, a group opposed to the existence of The Institute with the aim of freeing sentient synths, will send an operative to make contact with Acadia, though the latter will reject their help.
In the aftermath, the Sole Survivor returns to the Nakano family back in the Commonwealth. Kasumi, depending on the player's choices, may return with the player character or stay in Acadia.
Hanna is a poor girl abandoned to herself and forced to prostitute on the streets to obtain her drug fix from unscrupulous people like Miguel. But one day she meets Alex, who falls for her and helps her return to a normal life.
Lieutenant Johnson, a U.S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a few secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alaska native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
Jung Hye-in (Kim Ah-joong) is a top actress in Korea who reigns over dramas, movies, and commercials. The drama begins when Jung Hye-in's son is kidnapped on the day she announces her retirement. With the help of PD Shin Dong-wook (Uhm Tae-woong) and police detective Cha Seung-in (Ji Hyun-woo), she ends up participating in a live reality show where she follows the kidnapper's orders, and in the process uncovers clues towards catching the culprit and finding her son.
Abdul Karim, a young prison clerk from British India, is instructed to travel to Britain for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 to present her with a mohur, a gold coin that has been minted as a token of appreciation from British-ruled India. Abdul is from a Muslim, Urdu-speaking family in Agra, India.
The Queen, lonely and tired of her fawning courtiers, develops an interest in and then a friendship with Abdul. She spends time with him alone and gives him a bejewelled locket with her photograph. She promotes him to be her Munshi and asks him to teach her Urdu and the Quran. She in fact learns Urdu for 13 years. When Victoria discovers he is married, she has him bring his wife to England. His wife and his mother-in-law both wear black burqas, much to the consternation of the household—and the fascination of Victoria.
As Victoria's interest in India grows, she has the Durbar Room built at her Isle of Wight home of Osborne House for state functions. It is elaborately and intricately decorated, with a carpet from Agra, formal portraits of renowned Indians, a replica of the Peacock Throne and carvings by Bhai Ram Singh.
While Victoria treats Abdul as a son, his preferment is resented by her household and inner circle, including her son, Bertie, and the prime minister, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil. The household plots to undermine their relationship, hoping that Abdul will be sent home. When Victoria embarrasses herself by recounting Abdul's one-sided account of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to the court, Victoria's faith and trust in him are shaken. She decides he must return to India, but soon changes her mind and asks him to stay.
The prime minister is adamant that the royal household must be rid of Abdul. They research his family background in India and present Victoria with a dossier showing that his family is more ordinary and poor than Abdul claimed. When Victoria insists that her doctor examine Abdul to learn why his wife has not become pregnant, he discovers that Abdul has gonorrhea. He expects the Queen will dismiss Abdul in disgust, but Victoria remains loyal to him and admonishes her courtiers for plotting against him. She announces her intention to give Abdul a knighthood.
Eventually, the household decides that Victoria must break with Abdul. If not, they all will resign and certify Victoria as insane. When Victoria is told, she angrily summons the entire household and demands that anyone who wants to resign step forward. When no-one does, she says she has decided against making Abdul a knight. She will instead include him in her next honours list as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
When Victoria falls ill, she urges Abdul to return to India while she can still protect him and warns him that the court will turn on him after her death. Abdul insists that he will stay until her death. In 1901, Victoria dies, and her son, Bertie, now Edward VII, rejects Abdul, burning all the gifts and papers from the Queen, and sending him and his family back to India. Abdul's wife saves the locket Victoria gave him.
It is revealed that Abdul lived in India until his death eight years later in 1909. The film ends with Abdul kneeling at a large statue of Queen Victoria close to the Taj Mahal, talking to it and kissing its feet in respect.
Tulip (Ruth Negga) meets a woman named Dany (Julie Dretzin) in Houston, Texas and hands over the stolen map. In return, Dany gives her a slip of paper with an address. In a flashback, a car zooms past Tulip in an alleyway as an alarm blares nearby. Back in the present, Tulip tells Dany that was the day she lost everything — including her relationship with Jesse. Afterwards, Dany sits behind a mysterious Man in White in a pop-up movie theater and hands him the map. He dismisses her. The Man in White leaves the theater.
At the Sundowner Motel, Sheriff Root interrogates Fiore (Tom Brooke) and DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef). They explain that "something" got loose and ended up in Annville. When Sheriff Root (W. Earl Brown) asks if they’re talking about an escaped prisoner, they say yes. Sheriff Root bemoans the state of humanity. After Sheriff Root leaves, Fiore suggests they try using the can again on Jesse, revealing an assortment of guns. At the Loach residence, Mrs. Loach (Bonita Friedericy) tells Emily that Tracy's (Gianna Lepera) eyes opened after Jesse prayed with her.
Donnie (Derek Wilson) walks his son, Chris (Thomas Barbusca), to the bus stop and tells Chris not to worry about noises coming from his parents' bedroom. Donnie adds that adults' relationships can be "complicated." Chris apologizes for ratting out Donnie to Jesse and says he attacked a boy who mocked Donnie for getting beat up by Jesse. Linus (Ptolemy Slocum) picks up a line of kids in his school bus. He smiles at the young girl he once desired and asks her name—his memory of the girl having been wiped out by Jesse. The kids on the bus erupt in squeals when they see Donnie, mimicking the sound Donnie made when Jesse beat him up. Donnie hollers at them.
At church, Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) answers a knock at the front door and finds a coffin with the body of Ted. Emily (Lucy Griffiths) tells Cassidy to handle the body. Cassidy grabs the van keys and sees Jesse (Dominic Cooper) sitting in the common room. Jesse tries out his new power on Cassidy and barks out a list of commands. Cassidy's excited about Jesse’s new power.
A cop pulls Tulip over for speeding and asks her to step out of the car. The officer catches sight of a ring Tulip's slipped onto her finger, prompting him to ask where she served. He lightens up as she lies about her time in the military. Tulip explains she was speeding because she’s desperate to help a friend who's been making bad life decisions. The cop lets her go.
At Quincannon Meat & Power, Ms. Oatlash, the receptionist, leaves an envelope on Odin Quincannon's desk. At church, Cassidy brainstorms explanations for Jesse's superpower and asks what it feels like. Jesse describes it as "all of God’s creation inside of me." At the motel, Fiore and DeBlanc are outfitted in helmets and bulletproof vests, ready to deal with Jesse. In Quincannon's office, Donnie reads a letter from the owner of a company called Green Acre. Donnie offers to beat up the owner. Quincannon (Jackie Earle Haley) does not reply but tells Donnie to clear his lunch tray. Donnie struggles to pick up the tray with his one good arm. "A right-hand man with no right hand," Quincannon says.
Cassidy cremates Ted's body. As he returns with Ted's ashes, he sees Fiore and DeBlanc. Jesse drives down the road, with Tulip pulling up next to him, showing Jesse the address that Dany gave her. In a flashback, Jesse stands over a dead security guard whom he's shot in the head, as an alarm sounds in the background. Tulip screams at the getaway car as it speeds away. In the present, Tulip proposes they kill Carlos. Jesse and Tulip drive off together.
At night, Fiore and DeBlanc walk toward the church, armed with guns. Cassidy runs them over with the van, killing them. Cassidy looks at the bodies and recognizes them as the men he killed in the chainsaw fight. Believing them to be clones, he heads back to the church to find clean-up supplies. Inside, Cassidy runs into Fiore and DeBlanc. Before he can kill them again, they explain that they have come for Jesse, not him.
Tulip fills up at a gas station. Jesse wanders off to the bathroom. In the bathroom, Donnie sneaks up on Jesse with a gun, but Jesse tests his power on Donnie, who obeys his every command. On Jesse’s orders, Donnie puts the gun in his mouth and pulls back the hammer. Jesse now understands how his power works. He tells Donnie to leave. Back at the car, Jesse tells Tulip he changed his mind. Despite her protests, he walks away leaving her at the gas station.
At the church, DeBlanc tells Cassidy that people will die if they do not retrieve what is inside Jesse. Cassidy asks what they want to do with it, and DeBlanc says they do not want to do anything with it, as it must never be used. Cassidy asks what branch of government they are from, and Fiore replies that they are from heaven. Outside, Cassidy tells Fiore and DeBlanc that he will talk to Jesse about their mission and convince Jesse to come to them. At Sheriff Root's house, Eugene (Ian Colletti) tells his father about Tracy opening her eyes and suggests they pay a visit to the Loach house. Sheriff Root warns Eugene to stay away.
The next day, Jesse recites his eulogy for Ted to only Emily in the church graveyard. In a nearby field, the lid on a vent flies open, emitting a gas, before it closes shut again.
In an opening narrative, the filmmaker explains that many of man's pleasures (such as beer and cigarettes) have been made safer and more enjoyable through technology, but that no such improvement has been made for women. The film thus strives to teach women how to please their husbands in the bedroom.
The film is shot through the eyes of a peeping Tom paparazzo, who leeringly takes lurid shots of celebrities in the privacy of their own homes. Two examples of his work are given: Elaine Barrymore, who serves as the example of how to undress properly, and Trixie Friganza, vaudeville and opera star in one of her later starring roles, as the example of how not to undress, as each comes home from a party. Elaine demonstrates natural seduction skills and grace in her slow, methodical undress, which the narrator surmises is how she landed her husband John, the "world's greatest lover." Trixie, on the other hand, is shown as irritated and slovenly as she tersely yanks off her garments and throws them on the ground.
At the end of the film, as the paparazzo develops his pictures, his wife angrily calls her husband to dinner.
As described in a film magazine, Jennie Malone (Talmadge), daughter of prominent underworld figure Black Jerry Malone (Sheridan), is arrested for forgery. A friend of her father's pays her bail, and she is sent to boarding school, jumping the bail. There she is educated and becomes a lady. At the home of her friend Sue Harrison (Lee), a daughter of wealth, she meets and falls in love with Kenneth Harrison (Cosby), and they become engaged. Then Harry Edwards (Rooney), an acquaintance and would be sweetheart of her former world, appears and urges her to return to his element. Slim Jackson (Shea), a dancer, to shield whom Jennie had shouldered the charge of forgery, seeks to collect money from her on threat of exposure. Her father thrashes the young man and bids him to leave her alone. A detective is murdered and Harry Edwards is convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Jennie alone can save him by telling the truth that he was with her when the shot was fired. She confesses the truth to the Harrisons and saves Edwards, and then returns to her father's house to live. It is at this point the happy ending comes with the Harrisons reaching through the social barrier between them.
As described in a film magazine, artist Inga Sonderson (Talmadge) and her betrothed sculptor Robert Milton (Lowe) owe their success to Daniel Garford (Halliday), who is popularly acclaimed a genius. When Daniel discovers that his wife (Stewart) has been unfaithful, he abandons his career and drowns his sorrow in drink. Inga exerts every effort to save him from himself, much to her fiance's strenuous objections. She follows Daniel to an opium den and where he comes to a realization of his error. Robert breaks with Inga over her interest in Daniel. Daniel reclaims his popularity, and it is popularly assumed that he is to marry Inga, at the last minute she surprises everyone and marries Robert.
As described in a film magazine, Ginger (Talmadge), a young Jamaican woman, secures a position as a housekeeper for Englishman Clifford Standish (Ford), a wealthy plantation owner, when Captain Bill Hennessey (Barnes), with whom she had lived for several years, sails away for England. Clifford struggles as he is addicted to drink. Ginger saves Clifford from being robbed by some locals, and then by reforming him she induces him to give up drink and take an interest in running the plantation. Clifford falls in love with her and, on the day they are married, his brother John (Cliffe) arrives from England. He brings news that Clifford has inherited a vast estate. They return to England where his mother (Waterman) and former sweetheart meet Ginger with carefully rehearsed hauteur. During a card game Ginger discovers one player is cheating with marked cards and the Englishman is exposed. Cliff and his bride Ginger return to the West Indies to get away from the pretense and hypocrisy of the society she had been thrust into.
Following the capture of Wilson Fisk by Spider-Man, a masked gang known as the Inner Demons begin seizing Fisk's illicit assets. Mary Jane and Spider-Man learn that the Demons are seeking something called Devil's Breath. With the aid of Officer Jefferson Davis, Spider-Man thwarts a Demon attack. Davis is lauded for his heroism at a re-election event for Mayor Norman Osborn. The Demons attack the event, killing Davis and many other attendees. Peter witnesses Martin Li transforming into their leader, Mister Negative, but is knocked unconscious before he can intervene. Following the attack, Osborn hires Silver Sablinova and Sable International to supplant the police. Peter befriends Davis' son Miles and persuades him to volunteer at F.E.A.S.T.
Peter and Otto Octavius continue their research into advanced prosthetic limbs, but Osborn withdraws their funding in an attempt to force Octavius to work for his mega-corporation Oscorp. While searching for Li, Spider-Man discovers that Devil's Breath is a lethal, virulent bioweapon inadvertently created by Oscorp while developing a cure for genetic diseases. Li locates and steals the only sample of Devil's Breath and threatens to release it unless Osborn surrenders to him. Li is foiled by Mary Jane and Spider-Man and subsequently incarcerated at a nearby maximum-security prison called the Raft, while the Devil's Breath is secured.
Meanwhile, Octavius obsesses over creating enhanced limbs that exceed the limitations of the human body, creating four mechanical tentacles operated from his back and mentally controlled via a neural interface. He reveals to Peter that he is suffering from a neuromuscular disease that will inevitably immobilize him, and that enhanced limbs will allow him to continue his work when his body fails. Peter warns Octavius that the interface could impact his mind and personality. Octavius continues its use in secret, overcome with anger at Osborn. While investigating a breakout at the Raft, Spider-Man learns that some of his greatest enemies—Li, Electro, Vulture, Rhino, and Scorpion—have escaped. They subdue Spider-Man and present him to Octavius, now "Doctor Octopus," who warns the beaten Spider-Man not to interfere before retaking the Devil's Breath and releasing it in Times Square, causing a mass outbreak that infects numerous people, including Aunt May. New York descends into chaos while Octavius' team attacks the city. Osborn declares martial law and blames Spider-Man for the incident, branding him a fugitive.
Spider-Man gradually takes back the city, defeating Electro, Vulture, Rhino, and Scorpion. Mary Jane infiltrates Osborn's penthouse and learns that Devil's Breath was developed to cure Osborn's terminally ill son Harry. As a child, Li was a test subject for the cure, gaining his abilities in an explosion of energy that also killed his parents and caused his hatred for Osborn. She also learns that an antidote for Devil's Breath exists and that Li has stolen it. Spider-Man tracks down and defeats Li, but Octavius arrives, brutalizes Spider-Man, and escapes with the antidote and Osborn. While Spider-Man recovers, Miles is bitten by an Oscorp genetically modified spider that Mary Jane unknowingly carried from Osborn's penthouse.
Wounded, Peter builds himself an armored suit and confronts Octavius atop Oscorp Tower, rescuing Osborn. Octavius reveals that he knows Peter's secret identity and a battle ensues. Spider-Man retrieves the antidote and defeats Octavius, leaving him to be arrested. Peter is forced to choose between using the limited cure to save May from her imminent death or synthesize a vaccine for the infected masses; he chooses to save everyone. Before she dies, May reveals that she knows he is Spider-Man, and that she is proud of him.
Three months later, New York has returned to normal and Peter and Mary Jane rekindle their relationship. Miles reveals to Peter that he has gained spider-like powers, prompting Peter to reveal his own. Osborn, having resigned as mayor in disgrace, enters a secret laboratory where Harry is kept in stasis with a black, web-like substance. As Osborn places his hand on the tank, the substance reacts and copies him.
The series is a biography about the life of the Greek poet Kostas Karyotakis. The series follows his life from his childhood to his death. It focuses in his artistic and political action as well as in his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through to Karyotakis' life the series presents the turbulent period of the interwar Greek history.
Evelyn Walsh Warren is named Teacher of the Year and her photo is on the cover of ''Time'' magazine, but she is dissatisfied with her uneventful life. That changes when she goes to Reno and inadvertently loses $7000 at the roulette table, mistaking $100 chips for $1 ones. Casino owner Matt Braddock offers her a deal: He will tear up her IOU if she finds out what is wrong with his nine-year-old daughter Diane, who is moping around, not eating and having nightmares. When Evelyn refuses, he suggests they cut cards for the debt. She gets a king, but he tops her with an ace (by cheating). Defeated, she accompanies him to his home in Carmel, California.
Frustrated at her predicament, Evelyn is initially cold to Diane, but after overhearing the child's telephone conversation with her father, Evelyn becomes ashamed of herself and quickly becomes fast friends with her young charge. Soon, Diane is happy, much to Matt's delight. In fact, she is so taken with her new private teacher that she begins maneuvering to set Evelyn up with her father.
Diane becomes frustrated when Kay Stoddard, Matt's old flame, shows up. Undaunted, the young girl manages to steer Kay into some poison oak to get her out of the way. Evelyn is hostile to Matt at first, but gradually warms to him. When they go out fishing on a boat, she secretly disables the motor to spend more time with him. Matt, however, flags down a commercial fishing boat owned by Manuel to take them aboard. Evelyn gets drunk on a seasickness remedy and admits to Matt that she has fallen for him; they become engaged.
Matt sells his casino so his future wife will not be ashamed of him, but he gets a shock when Evelyn tells him that it was all an act. She goes home.
There, she receives a telephone call from Marie, Matt's housekeeper. Diane has run away. Frantic, Evelyn flies to Carmel, where she and Matt blame each other. However, it turns out that Diane (with Marie's encouragement) was just hiding. The little girl gets the two to realize they really do love each other.
A group of four petty criminals, hoping to collect some money as a donation, masquerade as refugees monks from Hungary, however, they end up in a convent where they experience fasting and penance.
The film starts with a group of students from Byakudan Senior High School who just performed the "Sachiko Ever After" charm. Arriving in Tenjin Elementary School, Mitsuki is murdered by Sachiko Shinozaki, terrifying the other students.
Meanwhile, Naomi Nakashima has been hospitalized for half a year due to the traumatic deaths of her friends. Ayumi Shinozaki explains that her sister, Hinoe, has been researching a way to redeem things. Ayumi bites a bone that belonged to Sachiko, sending Naomi back in time to the haunted school. Naomi is delighted to see her best friend Seiko alive again. Ayumi is unable to save Yui and Mayu from their fate and Seiko and Naomi discover Sakutaro's headless body. Hinoe finds the missing bone and realizes Ayumi is making a mistake. There are two things needed to avoid a repeated death: the forbidden Book of Shadows and an entity called "Sachi".
Satoshi finds his little sister Yuka along with Ayumi and Yoshiki, but Sachiko attacks them. Naomi repels Sachiko with Sachiko's mother's necklace. Byakudan students Kensuke and Tohko are hiding till Yuuya arrives. The surviving Kisaragi students rediscover Sachiko's corpse just like last time, and Yuka dies. Naomi places the necklace on Sachiko, restoring her sanity. They encounter the Byakudan students and race to return home. Nothing happens when they do the reverse charm and an argument arises. Seiko is then decapitated by "Sachiko" and Sachi emerges from her body before murdering Tohko.
Naomi, Kensuke and Yuuya find a video camera and watch another Byakudan student, Emi Urabe, crying as Yuuya stabs her to death. Stunned, Kensuke demands an explanation but Yuuya stabs him too, revealing that he is insane and responsible for Ryosuke Katayama and Sakutaro's deaths. Hineo saves Ayumi, Yoshiki and Satoshi from the evil spirits and clarifies that Sachi is Sachiko's resentful twin sister. Sachiko ascending caused her to awaken. Yuuya lures them to a science room but Satoshi sees through his deception and fights him. Yoshiki dies and a dying Satoshi hits Yuuya's face with a bottle of sulfuric acid, disfiguring him.
Hinoe reveals the Book of Shadows' existence but a horrifically-scarred Yuuya kills her and gives chase until Sachi finishes Yuuya off for good. Ayumi grabs Sachi and drags them both down. Naomi follows Sachiko's voice to where the book lies and a white Sachiko appears. Naomi finds herself back in the real world. Opening the book, she recites "Please let everyone live!" The room shakes and the voices of her friends are heard when a disgusting creature composed of her dead friends, including Sachiko, crawls into the room, terrifying her. The book tears, leaving her fate unknown.
Young Riccardo Molteni, who sees himself as an intellectual writer, does work he despises preparing scripts for distasteful film productions. All this to support his new wife Emilia, the new flat he has taken, the new car he has bought, the maid who cooks and cleans for them and the secretary who comes in to type for him. He believes, even if his work is menial and his income shaky, that he is secure in his wife's love. While he is well educated, able to recite Dante at length, her impoverished family could not afford to educate her and she had to work as a typist.
But the spark has gone out of their marriage and two small incidents trigger its dissolution. First, Emilia catches Riccardo kissing the secretary, a lapse he shrugs off as meaningless. Then the brash producer Battista asks the two of them to his house in Rome. As he has a two-seater car, he takes Emilia, leaving Riccardo to follow by taxi. The taxi breaks down, leaving Emilia alone with Battista. She interprets this as Riccardo rejecting her, offering her to Battista in order to further his career, so she tells him that she now despises him and will sleep alone.
The two are invited to Battista's villa on Capri, where Riccardo will work on the script for a production of ''The Odyssey''. There he sees Battista rip Emilia's dress and kiss her body, while in ''The Odyssey'' he sees disturbing parallels to his own unhappy life. In a mood close to suicide, he has a vision by the sea of the loving Emilia he first knew who has come back to be reconciled. Regaining his equilibrium, he returns to the villa to discover that she has been killed in an accident in Battista's car.
After killing his abusive father as a teenager, Byeong-soo (Sol Kyung-gu) began to believe there were people who deserved to die. During his killing spree, he buried his victims in a bamboo grove that he bought. After killing a woman, he got into a car accident and injured his head, resulting in degenerative Alzheimer's disease. He stopped killing, resumed his job as a veterinarian, and continued taking care of his daughter Eun-hee (Kim Seol-hyun).
Over the years, Byeong-soo's condition worsens. Large chunks of memories are lost at increasing frequencies. After multiple visits to the local police station (as he forgot where he lives), Byeong-soo strikes up an unlikely friendship with local policeman Byeong-man (Oh Dal-su). At Eun-hee's behest, Byeong-soo uses a recorder to maintain his routines. He types out everything he can remember into a memoir and saves it in his laptop. He also goes to a poetry class, where his poetic depictions of murders impresses his instructor and classmates, who believe they are metaphors. His classmate, Jo Yeon-joo (Hwang Seok-jeong), develops a crush on him, much to his annoyance.
The small town is shaken by the murders of two young women. Byeong-soo himself is confused and wondered if he did the killing.
On the way back from the bamboo grove (to check for new burials), he hit another car, popping its trunk open. Noticing a bloody bag in the trunk, he surreptitiously collects some blood on his handkerchief. The car's driver claims it is a deer's corpse and drives away without exchanging contact information.
After ascertaining the blood sample is human, Byeong-soo calls the police anonymously, describing the encounter and the car's make and license plate. However, the tip is regarded as a prank, as the car's driver is a local policeman, Min Tae-joo (Kim Nam-gil). Byeong-soo also asks Byeong-man to run the license plate separately. Instinctively realizing Tae-joo is a serial killer like himself, Byeong-soo deduces where he was taking the body to. He finds the body and tips the police, catching Tae-joo's attention.
Tae-joo goes to Byeong-soo's clinic, where he meets Eun-hee. After a short while, the two begin dating. Byeong-soo sees the pair but does not recognize Tae-joo. After Byeong-man tells him about the license plate's owner, Byeong-soo realizes Tae-joo is the killer, and is approaching his daughter to taunt and threaten him. He gives Byeong-man the handkerchief with the blood, telling him it's from Tae-joo's car.
Byeong-soo tries to tell Eun-hee about his misgivings with Tae-joo, but realizes that Tae-joo had preemptively discussed with her about Byeong-soo's suspicious activities around the bamboo grove. Byeong-man calls him back with the lab's result claiming the blood sample is from a deer.
Suppressing his self-doubts, Byeong-soo is determined to kill Tae-joo, but his failing mind and body betrays him. He starts experiencing hallucinations and a whole week's worth of memory is completely erased.
Byeong-soo wakes up finding himself tied up in his bedroom, with Tae-joo reading and liberally editing his memoir. Tae-joo admits to being the killer and having swapped the handkerchief with the blood sample. Byeong-soo tries to grab his bag for a weapon but fails and spills its contents onto the floor. Tae-joo threatens to kill Eun-hee unless Byeong-soo takes the blame for his crimes, then tranquilizes him. Byeong-soo wakes up and only vaguely remembers what happened.
Fearing for Eun-hee's safety, Byeong-soo orders her to stay with his sister Maria (Gil Hae-yeon) in her convent. He follows Tae-joo to an abandoned house and finds footage of Yeon-joo being held hostage. When he presents this evidence to the police, they suspect Byeong-soo himself is responsible. Upon trying to call Maria to prove Eun-hee's safety, Byeong-soo recalls Maria committed suicide shortly after Byeong-soo killed their father. He flees, and the police begin digging up the bamboo grove, finding the bodies of Byeong-soo's past victims, as well as Yeon-joo.
At home, Byeong-soo recalls who his final victim was - his adulterous wife. Before killing her, he learned that Eun-hee was not his biological daughter. Arriving home after the car crash, Byeong-soo almost killed Eun-hee, but his injury caused him to forget the events surrounding his last kill. He comforted the terrified Eun-hee and continued caring for her. Recalling the recent incident in which he nearly strangled Eun-hee, mistaking her for his wife, Byeong-soo becomes convinced that he might have killed his daughter in a fit of insanity.
The guilt-ridden Byeong-soo prepares to kill himself as he listens to Eun-hee's voice on his recorder. However, he then hears Tae-joo confessing his crimes. During their earlier confrontation, he accidentally hit the "Record" button. He then realizes that he sent Eun-hee away in Tae-joo's car, not a taxi as he remembered.
Renewed with vigor, Byeong-soo calls Byeong-man and plays the recording, convincing him that Tae-joo is the killer. Byeong-man follows Tae-joo to a cabin in the woods. Tae-joo strangles him and ties up Eun-hee after she sees the body. As Byeong-soo drives to the cabin, he speaks to the recorder, reminding himself to save Eun-hee, and puts Tae-joo's picture inside his locket to remember his face. Back at the cabin, while Tae-joo is monologuing about his life, he reveals a scar that relates to his and Byeong-soo's past. Eun-hee sneaks out of the room prompting Tae-joo to go outside in his car and look for her. Arriving at the cabin Byeong-soo sees him and crashes his car into Tae-joo's car.
After entering the cabin, Byeong-soo's condition triggers again, completely blanking out his memory. Tae-joo, laughing with disbelief, begins to strangle Byeong-soo. Eun-hee calls to her father, bringing back his memory, and he begins fighting back. With Eun-hee's help, he eventually overpowers and kills Tae-joo. Eun-hee, having learned from Tae-joo earlier that her mother's body was found in the bamboo grove, is terrified of her father. Byeong-soo admits to his crimes and assures Eun-hee that she is not a murderer's daughter, as they are not blood related. Byeong-soo is subsequently incarcerated and processed into an internment facility.
Listening to Byeong-soo's last recording, Eun-hee learns that he keeps himself alive only for her. Deciding to forgive him, Eun-hee visits Byeong-soo, whose memory has deteriorated to the point that he mistakes her for Maria. She cuts his hair and gift him a new pair of white shoes. Byeong-soo, realizing that Eun-hee is the only reason that makes him want to live, decides to kill himself before wanting to live more and remember what he is, a murderer. Before he could commit suicide, his symptoms manifest again.
Byeong-soo stands outside a train tunnel. He holds up his daughter's locket with the photo of Tae-joo inside. He sees Tae-joo smirking at him and thinks to himself: "Do not trust your memory. Min Tae-Joo is still alive".
The story begins with Dey (Alessandra De Rossi) and Lala (Yam Concepcion), who promised each other that they will face all the obstacles in life and be bestfriends forever. They started being friends since they were young. They had a shoe business, got married, and later on became mothers. They both named their children "Princess".
A big challenge will ruin their friendship when Ian (Patrick Garcia), Lala's husband, stole Lala and Dey's shares on the company to pay his loans. This becomes more challenging when Dey was hospitalized because of cardiac arrest, so Joey (Jason Abalos), Dey's husband, needs money for Dey's operation and has no choice but to ask Dey's shares from Lala. However, Lala can't provide anything since the money was stolen by Ian, which led to Dey's death. This soon led to Joey's hatred towards Lala.
Ian left the country to stay away from Lala after stealing the money. Meanwhile, Joey, together with Lolo Pogi (Boboy Garovillo), Jun-Jun (Jairus Aquino), and baby Esang (Yesha Camile), moved on and started a new life without Dey.
Years after, Esang (Yesha Camile) and Princess (Xia Vigor) grew up; Esang, Dey and Joey's child, grew up with a loving and caring family even if they are not rich; Princess, Lala and Ian's child, grew up in a wealthy family that has no time for each other.
Esang and Princess became schoolmates. They started as enemies but ended up as bestfriends when Esang took care of Princess' dog, Pencil, but Esang named it "Yoyo".
In post-World War I England, impoverished Captain Stephen Sorrell, M.C. (Richard Pasco) must raise his son Kit (Paul Critchley) by himself, after his wife walks out on him. Captain Sorrell's years of devotion and sacrifice for his son come to fruition years in the future.
Young truck driver Dick Benson (Jimmy Hanley) and friend Alf Higgins (Wally Patch) set up their own haulage company with the financial backing of Tony Spinelli (Julian Vedey), an Italian restaurant owner. However, their former boss Arthur Wilson (Frank Petley), concerned about the competition, uses underhand methods to try and sabotage the enterprise. Wilson sends his attractive daughter Ruth (Elizabeth Kent) to seduce Dick, and a group of thugs to work over their trucks. Wilson very nearly succeeds, but Dick and the truckers make a success of themselves by rescuing miners trapped in a flooded mine.
When young Heiress Hermione Blakiston discovers that the count she was engaged to is a fortune-hunting imposter, she runs away. Concussion to the head during a street brawl leaves Hermione with amnesia, but she is rescued and taken in by street vendors Flatiron and Mario. When the count appears on the scene once more and tricks Hermione into going to Paris with him, her new friends follow and rescue her again.
A whale flies over Springdale and makes a whale noise that engulfs the city in a rainbow light, suddenly turning everything, including Nate and his Yo-kai, live-action. While trying to solve this weird mystery, it is later revealed to be the work of a Yo-kai Nate decides to call "Koalanyan".
Reporter Peter Bradfield (Basil Langton) is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman (Julien Mitchell). Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknown to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George (George Astley) for the crime.
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by Margie (Marjorie Sandford), the jealous star actress of the local pierrot troupe. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
Gianni is a middle-aged man with sexual problems. His doctor, seeing that medicines are useless, advised him to try to have relationships with several women. Only a beautiful psychologist will be able to solve her problem.
Xiao Nai is a gaming expert, who is also the most popular student on campus. One day, he comes across the campus goddess Bei Wei Wei and it was love at first sight. However, it was not Wei Wei's looks that he noticed, but her skill mastery of the online role-playing game that they both play. Now, Xiao Nai must use his skills both in real life and online to capture Wei Wei's heart. But does their love have the experience points to succeed, or will this relationship never Level Up to the next stage?
Sheikh Hosni, the film's main character and protagonist, lives with his son Youssef and his old mother following his wife's death. His son dreams of leaving Egypt to find work in Europe – and he plans to achieve this by convincing his father to sell the house – and he has an affair with a recently divorced woman named Fatima, who also lives in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Sheikh Hosni refuses to accept his blindness as a setback, and dreams of riding a motorcycle one day like any person would. To his son's dismay, he had already sold the house to a drug dealer. He spends most of his nights trying to forget his miserable reality with other residents of the Kit Kat neighborhood smoking hashish. He knows all the gossip of the neighborhood and its residents’ secrets. Ultimately, Sheikh Hosni is shown to be riding a Vespa in a crowded neighborhood.
It all starts one night when a girl named Pearl (Emily Meade) is invited to the house of a girl (Emma Rigby). She turns out to be a Nightwalker, a type of vampire that can not be harmed in daylight in their human form. After Pearl is bitten and stabs the girl in the heart, she starts to transform into a Nightwalker as the Nightwalker Queen (Zoe Sidel) and her minions give her a captive human as her first meal.
Sometime later, a college girl named Leah (Leila George) is working on a play run by its director (James Franco) and befriends Pearl and falls in love with her much to the dismay of her mother Julie (Tori Spelling). Leah learns that Pearl is a Nightwalker. Pearl's Nightwalker group that preys on abusive men and forcibly inducts women into their group by biting and then not eating them. The Nightwalker Queen has her sights set on Leah as the next member and wants Pearl to bite her, threatening to bite her herself if Pearl doesn't comply. There is a sexual component to biting, as is discussed in a thematic English class' discussion of vampire novels ''Dracula'' and ''Twilight'', characterizing the threat as one of rape.
Julie tries to get Leah interested in dating a man named Bob Segal (Nick Eversman) who she knows to be attracted to Leah. Bob feels entitled to Leah as a long-time friend and is upset when Leah indicates contrary interest in women as a lesbian. He conspires with Julie to expose Pearl as a bad person to win Leah's heart. When this is ineffective, he spikes her drink with a date rape drug and attempts to rape her. The Nightwalkers attack him and start to eat him, but are interrupted allowing him to transform into a Nightwalker.
Now given enhanced abilities, Bob leads the Nightwalkers in an assault of Leah which disrupts the play she is in. Julie follows them to the graveyard and is killed by Bob when trying to rescue her. Leah takes vengeance by bludgeoning Bob to apparent death. Pearl apparently kills the other Nightwalkers by ripping the throat of one of them and blinding the other. After getting far away, Pearl states that she can protect Leah. A mourning Leah doesn't want that and asks her to turn her into a Nightwalker so that they can be together for eternity. Pearl does so and Leah becomes a Nightwalker.
One year later, the Nightwalker gang is still active and heavily scarred where they are now influenced by Bob as they enter a Halloween party.
Fudo Nomura is a young man who was recently expelled from his old high school as a result of a massive, violent brawl. He wants a normal life, but the new school he transferred to is Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy, where the female students have been violently oppressing their male classmates out of misguided paranoia ever since the school became co-ed. A five-member vigilante group called the "Supreme Five Swords" led by Rin Onigawara holds Nomura at sword-point to concede to the rules or leave the school. At this point, Nomura challenges the Supreme Five Swords for his own right and prove true morality despite the brutal force.
Ibrahim is a young radical leader who lost his brother during a student demonstration that turned out to be very violent when the police decided to get involved and started to shoot anyone in their way. Unfortunately, Ibrahim's brother, a young smart boy, was shot to death in front of Ibrahim. When Ibrahim sees this, he plans to murder the prime minister as revenge, and he succeeds. After murdering the Prime Minister, Ibrahim seeks to hide in his friend's house, as he had no other choice whatsoever because the authorities were pursuing him. His presence in the house endangered the whole family because none of them had any criminal record nor any political activities. They were a simple middle-class family trying to stay away from such problems. Although his friend's parents were very peaceful and wanted to stay away from problems, they couldn’t resist helping Ibrahim. When Ibrahim entered the house and explained to his friend's family what had happened, they accepted to hide him in their house till a solution could be found. The film then wanders through much hand wringing because both men blame themselves for jeopardizing the companion's parents, sisters, and a detested cousin. A sentiment between Ibrahim and the younger sister turns into a noteworthy sub-plot. As days pass by Ibrahim falls in love with her and decides to stay in Egypt instead of running away to Europe. This caused them a lot of problems for two reasons: The first one is that they were both from Muslim families and thus it was not easy for them to show their love openly. Second, Ibrahim was conflicted between love and militancy. Eventually, he chooses to be among the resistance fighters and ends by blowing up an ammunition cache and himself in the process.
The young Adriano Lari, perhaps due to congestion, finds himself in a state of catalepsy and is pronounced dead. The night before the funeral he wakes and despite the opposition of his wife decides to pretend to be dead so his wife can collect the insurance premium.
The story revolves around Isha, a simple girl full of life and Adi, the spoilt brat of an influential politician. Isha having lost her parents in the childhood grew up with her brothers Prabal and Pratik who dote on her. She is a die hard romantic and spends her time with her two best friends Pooja and Neha.
Pooja starts chatting with a mystery man on the Internet who turns out to be Adi. They plan to meet during the opening of a night club. Things however get out of hand and Pooja dies due to drug overdose while Isha is saved by Adi. The only witness to Pooja's death is Prabal who considers Adi responsible for it. Isha however trusts Adi completely and saves him from accusations. Prabal becomes uncomfortable with Isha's growing relationship with Adi and warns him to stay away from his sister and insults him in the process.
Adi vows revenge and plans to manipulate Isha by promising to marry her. Unaware of Adi's evils ploys Isha continues to fall for him and ends up marrying him. Adi however lifts the blindfold of trust from Isha's eyes and declares that it was all but a game for him that he did not consider the marriage to be anything serious. Isha then decides to leave Adi forever but is stopped by Adi's father who believes that only Isha could save Adi from the path of self-destruction he was on.
Isha decides to stay and give her relationship another chance as she believes in the basic goodness of Adi's heart.
Khoka, an innocent wrestler from Kusumpur, falls in love with Tori, a spoilt brat from Kolkata. Khoka is very innocent with having moral values. He obeys his mother Koushalya very much and loves his family. On other side Tori, a spoilt brat, is totally opposite in nature of Khoka. But Tori has a good heart. Tori's marriage is fixed with Preet and the engagement is also done. Coincidentally one day Khoka and Tori meet and get into a heated argument. Khoka keeps himself away from Tori because he is a Baal Brahmachaari and Tori too dislikes him...
The first segment is directed by Boris Sagal with the opening narration by Serling:
''Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collector's item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare. Our initial offering: a small gothic item in blacks and grays, a piece of the past known as the family crypt. This one we call, simply, "The Cemetery." Offered to you now, six feet of earth and all that it contains. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Night Gallery...''
Jeremy Evans is a despicable selfish young man who murders his wealthy uncle in order to inherit his estate, both much to the detriment of his uncle's loyal butler, Osmond Portifoy. Shortly afterwards, Jeremy notices that a painting of the family graveyard has changed – a fresh, empty grave appears in it and soon after a coffin standing upright appears in the grave. Little by little, the painting depicts the return of his uncle from his burial site, moving closer and closer – or so it seems to Jeremy. Eventually, as someone pounds on the door, he goes mad, grabs the painting of his uncle as he protests that "You're dead!" and tumbles down the stairs to his death. The door opens to reveal Osmond, who - as is later revealed - orchestrated the whole thing. An artist friend of his created all the paintings. Osmond also reveals that a clause in his employer's will states that if there are no living heirs, he gets everything. Finally, as he looks at the painting of his boss and tells him to "rest in peace" he notices the same painting of the family cemetery. Just as before, a fresh grave appears, then a coffin, then Jeremy is seen in it, and finally comes the same pounding to the door. As he collapses in fear on the floor, the door swings open, and the screen fades to black.
;Cast Roddy McDowall as Jeremy Evans Ossie Davis as Osmond Portifoy George Macready as William Hendricks Barry Atwater as Mr. Carson
The second segment is directed by Steven Spielberg with the opening narration:
''Objet d'art number two: a portrait. Its subject, Miss Claudia Menlo, a blind queen who reigns in a carpeted penthouse on Fifth Avenue—an imperious, predatory dowager who will soon find a darkness blacker than blindness. This is her story...''
Claudia Menlo is a heartless wealthy blind woman who desperately wants to be able to see. A hapless gambler owing money to loan sharks agrees to donate his eyes to her for the grand sum of $9,000 (approximately $64,700 in 2022 dollars). Her doctor, whom she blackmails into performing the illegal surgery, warns her that her vision will only last for about eleven hours. After the surgery, Claudia sits in her penthouse apartment with all her art and special possessions gathered around her so she can see them the moment her sight is restored. She removes the bandages from her eyes, and by a quirk of fate, there is a blackout seconds later. Thinking Dr. Heatherton has betrayed her, she stumbles down the long flights of stairs to the ground floor, cursing him with every step, and then collapses in an alley. The camera swings above a fence to show people on a nearby street, and a cop explains about the power failure. She awakens the next day, somehow back in her apartment, and sees the sunrise, but panics when her sight quickly begins to fade. Beating on the window, the glass cracks, and the scene cuts to black.
;Cast Joan Crawford as Claudia Menlo Barry Sullivan as Dr. Frank Heatherton Tom Bosley as Sidney Resnick Byron Morrow as George Packer
The third and final segment is directed by Barry Shear with the opening narration:
''And now, the final painting. The last of our exhibit has to do with one Joseph Strobe, a Nazi war criminal hiding in South America—a monster who wanted to be a fisherman. This is his story...''
Joseph Strobe is a Nazi fugitive (former SS-Gruppenführer) constantly on the run from the authorities and his nightmares about the past. One day, while fleeing from imaginary pursuers, he finds himself in a museum where he meets Bleum, a survivor of the same concentration camp where Strobe made the decisions about who would live or die. Bleum does not initially recognize him, but points out a painting that depicts a man being crucified in a concentration camp and states that a friend of his died that way. Strobe turns away; he is drawn to a painting of a fisherman, and imagines himself in the painting. He finds happiness and peace there, fishing and gently drifting along the river. When Strobe returns to the art gallery the next day, Bleum recognizes him as a Nazi, and later, Strobe kills him to ensure his own anonymity. Once again, Strobe must hide from authorities. When caught, he tries to bargain for his freedom by offering knowledge on other war criminals (namely Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller). He manages to break free of the police, and in a state of desperation he returns to the museum and prays to be allowed into the painting. The corner where the painting hangs is dark, he hears chanting and cries out in fear, and disappears. The police arrive and search, but can't find him. One steps up to the corner with a man from the museum and asks about the fisherman painting. The man explains that it was taken down that day and replaced with the one they're looking at: the crucified man! They move away, yet hear moans of pain, but can't figure out where they're coming from. Joseph has received his final judgment.
;Cast Richard Kiley as Joseph Strobe Sam Jaffe as Bleum Norma Crane as Gretchen George Murdock as The First Israeli Agent
Jealous of his girlfriend, the lawyer Alberto Moretti is convinced that she spent a couple of days in a high mountain refuge in the company of the engineer Paolo Ravelli, a friend of the lawyer. However, it is only a misunderstanding and therefore, to clarify his position and restore the truth, the engineer proposes to his friend and his girlfriend to find the girl who in the shelter had passed herself off as the lawyer's girlfriend. However, an intrusive and bizarre aunt joins the party who, by meddling in everything, causes further misunderstandings and misunderstandings to no end. However, the group manages to discover that the mysterious girl was not the lawyer's girlfriend at all. The two slandered youths managed to re-establish the truth but, by dating, they also fell in love with each other. So in the end, it is also the lawyer, jealous and suspicious, who suffers the damage.
The two sisters Zoe and Selina lead wildly different lives. Zoe has an independent theatre school on their family estate in Greece which desperately needs attending to in several regards. Due to a lack of pupils, Zoe is in high debts and has not been able to pay her bills for some time. Her younger sister Selina has chosen a career in finances and works in London. She finally comes to visit Zoe in Greece together with Alex, a friend of Selina's who works with hedgefunds in the City of London. Alex and Selina have made plans for a lucrative use of the Greek family estate and they trick Zoe into signing a contract. In her relief of having found a solution to all her financial problems, Zoe signs without thoroughly reading the contents. Later she finds out that Selina and Alex have planned to build a hotel where the grandmother's olive trees are now and turn her avantgarde theatre into a tourist attraction. She stands up against the two in a political and philosophical finale.
The play does not have one single plot. Each reader may determine for themselves how the scenes are connected or whether they are in the first place. The first scene in Act One is a woman and a man talking about sex. The woman takes up a dominant way of expressing herself which leaves the man almost speechless and unsure how to react. In the second scene in Act One, a couple is arguing about person A having proposed to person B. Person B feels offended and objectified by person A's choice of words ('I want...') and doubts the motifs behind marriage. The third scene of Act One is a dialogue between an employer and an employee, referred to as a woman, who wants to work less in order to have more free time. The employer automatically assumes she is pregnant or wants to become pregnant and draws a line between mothers and career girls. The fourth and last scene of Act One is set in a supermarket where a woman had been lying on the floor with her dress over her head, exposing her naked, and apparently not very model-like, body together with different kinds of groceries. The two supermarket employees talking to her, seem to care most about the fact that the body she was presenting was imperfect. The woman defends her action by claiming that being constantly available and open is the only way to prevent being raped: "They Cannot Invade if you Want It."
Act Two deals with the topic of motherhood. It is the only scene in which the characters are given names. There is grandma, who is visited by her daughter Dinah and Dinah's daughter Agnes. Dinah was left by her mother when she was young and tries to find out why. She says, grandma denies having a daughter, because Dinah is the result of a brutal and abusive relationship. However, the readership cannot know whether this actually is the truth or whether it is just Dinah's explanation of something she cannot understand.
In Act Three numerous scenes of different length and topic overlap each other. There is a teacher telling a mother about her 4-year-old son who mirrors the mother's body image and mentions a thigh gap as his greatest wish. One scene is about a rapist of a disabled girl doing community service as punishment. The victim of a robbery and rape has to proof they were not actually the robber and rapist themselves. A perverted, commercialised view of sex is displayed as well as an arranged child marriage and a debate about who is feminist. Also, there is a trespassing scene showing the absurdity of the landowner having to apologise to the trespasser for not having put up a bigger sign. There are scenes about trivialising rape jokes and explanatory stories about rape among animals. Up to three scenes takes place simultaneously before culminating in a monologue about the difficulty of transferring a thought into action.
The last act, Act Four, is a short conversation between four women demonstrating a male fear of a man-eating kind of feminism and at the same time feminism's failure to find a common ground to start its revolution from.
Tommy's funeral is the second one that his sister Ruth, freshly emigrated to Dubai with her husband, and father David have had to organise. Mother Marie's did not attract as many guests as her son's, but this is explained by Ruth by the fact that Tommy was still young and died suddenly in a car crash. His girlfriend survived and now wants to start a teaching course in another town. But first, she wants to try to contact her dead boyfriend by help of her friend Ellie.
Ruth and David are rather sceptical about Ellie's methods, but when Tommy suddenly walks into the living room as if nothing ever happened, Ruth who is unsure about wanting to be a mother or not, thinks of the possibility to contact her dead mother Marie and maybe even to bring her back as well. Ruth does not understand why she cannot replace Tommy in the father and son football game, but for Tommy and David, this is nothing worth discussing: Ruth should not be playing football but rather make the sandwiches. When she insists on playing, she gets sent off for being too aggressive. Tommy wants to re-establish a status quo of before Marie's death: Ruth taking over Marie's role, cooking and running the house, Sandra staying at home as well, as now Tommy is back to support them together with David.
Finally, everybody except Tommy agree on trying to contact Marie. However, they fail to gather important items that remind them of her and David and Ellie are the only ones who see Marie's answer: She does not want to come back to live with them.
Nora is in her 40s and a journalist for a women's magazine. She currently suffers an identity crisis and is trying to find herself. Her caring mother, who fought for women's rights in her youth and cannot understand today's lack of political interest, wants to help her become happy like she was as a child. At the same time, the life coach and career woman Gulch and the new media teenager Ripley do theirs in order to bring Nora back on track. Whether all this happens inside Nora's mind only, or in the real world, is impossible to determine.
Based on the late Egyptian writer Yehia Azmi Tahir Abdallah's two literary classics, the film follows three women in three generations of an upper Egyptian family after the 1952 revolution. It is emphasized that President Gamal Abdel Nasser has not improved the economy, and the revolution changed nothing. Hzeena and Fahima, a mother and daughter, must deal with the man of the house (Hzeena's husband and Fahima's father) having fallen ill and barely able to move. They find themselves stuck in a situation where the only person who can help them, cannot, as he - Hzeena's brother and Fahima's uncle - moved to Palestine, years earlier. As their circumstances continue to worsen, Fahima is eventually forcefully wed to a welder who ends up doing nothing to help, leaving Hzeena and Fahima hungry.
Despite the marriage failing, as the welder is impotent, Fahima gives birth to a baby girl, before dying. She is named Farhana, and she takes her mother's place, as she grows older, even literally, as Hzeena, now a grandmother, sees her as her daughter rather than rightfully her granddaughter. Farhana secretly and accidentally becomes pregnant out of wedlock, and Hzeena's brother returns at last, from Palestine. Farhana is brutally murdered as a punishment, by her cousin, Saad, once her secret is revealed. The punishment is ordered by her grandmother, as she becomes the executioner in an Egyptian world that is ruled by patriarchal law in which everyone, even women, must force.
The film proves that it is not the people who are good or evil, but rather the immoral social norms/traditions and horrible economy are what drives horrible outcomes like this.
The book starts with Illidan being released from his 10,000-year captivity by Tyrande and his first encounter with Malfurion since he was sealed away. He never wants to be imprisoned again. The book travels into the future, specifically the point where Illidan defeats Magtheridon and is ordered to destroy the Frozen Throne, where Ner'zhul, the current Lich King, and Arthas, the next one defeat him. Afterwards, the story skips ahead again to about six months before he is slain by the ''WoW'' player characters.
This book introduces the process of which a Night Elf or Blood Elf becomes a Demon Hunter, by introducing Vandel, a Night Elf who joins Illidan in his quest to annihilate the Burning Legion and their master Sargeras. Later, Illidan and his hunters invade Nathreza, homeworld of the nathrezim, or dreadlords, such as Tichondrius and Varimathras, and it is the world where the Legion's knowledge is stored. Illidan obtains the Seal of Argus and destroys the remaining records. After leaving, Illidan destroys the portal to Nathreza in such a manner, that, more or less like Draenor, Nathreza was blown up.
Illidan reveals to his lieutenants that the demons of the Twisting Nether cannot be slain permanently, unless they either die within the Twisting Nether itself, or an area corrupted by its energies, such as Nathreza. Illidan also reveals that he intends to lead his armies, using the Seal Of Argus, to Argus, the Eredar homeworld, where they can annihilate nearly the entire command structure of the Burning Legion since the Eredar control the Legion for Sargeras.
Before his death, Illidan uses a large portion of his power to visit Argus. In a vision while on Argus, he meets an elder naaru who informs him that he will be instrumental in fighting both the Legion, Sargeras, and a threat even greater, the Void, the dark corruption that created the Old Gods, and also is, after a fashion, responsible for the creation of the Burning Legion. The naaru also informs Illidan that he will transcend death. It is assumed that this is a reference to the fact that Demon Hunters, much like the Burning Legion's demons, do not die when they are slain but their soul is returned to the Twisting Nether and then the soul can regenerate inside a body. Or, unlike demons, if Demon Hunters find their original body and return to it, it heals their wounds so that they can live again.
In the last days of Illidan, Maiev Shadowsong, Akama and the player characters siege the Black Temple. Before the raid reaches him, Illidan sends all his Demon Hunters through a portal to attack the Legion; this is the beginning of the Demon Hunter specific questline in ''Legion''. Illidan calmly awaits the raid at the top of the temple and fights back but ultimately is slain. Vandel, who was killed by Maiev earlier, reawakens, to find the Black Temple under the control of the Wardens and Illidan dead. Preparing to fight them, Vandel hears Illidan psychically speak to him, telling him that he must be prepared. Vandel leaves, intending to rebuild the Demon Hunter forces.
A mysterious serial killer murders the wife of a police officer, and the officer is suspected of the murder. Anna, a criminologist who is investigating the case of the legendary "Midnight Ripper" (a sex maniac who died years earlier) believes the policeman is innocent and suspects that the Ripper is still alive.
Hana Hasegawa is a discreet student in second year of high school, who is working in a shop after school. One evening, Hinako Emori, a gyaru and regular customer asks to meet the manager about a job offer. Later, Hana discovers that Hina has actually just entered her school as a first year student. The story follows the development of their relationship after school, which starts with friendship and later evolves in a romantic way.
The opening scenes starts with soldiers in a war torn city of a country neighbouring Nigeria. A bomb blows up after some rebels attack the soldiers.
Major Egan (Tope Tedela) sneaks out of his matrimonial bed to dress up for a military mission. Unbeknownst to him, his wife, Lebari (Adesua Etomi) was awake. After a confrontational session and later intervention of Col. Bello (Chukwuma Aligwekwe), a godfather to Lebari and an instructor to Major Egan. In a rebel camp, Bossman (Daniel K Daniel) kills two of his men for what he perceives was a "rat"-like behavior. During a search for abandoned useful materials, Regina and Angela finds a seemingly dead soldier move. Regina resorts to taking him to her house for further examination to the distaste of Angela. After some weeks of treatment and gaining consciousness, the soldier is revealed to be Major Egan but now suffering from amnesia. Bossman threatens to make Regina's brother as one of his fighters if Regina continues to advise him to change his ways. Regina and Major Egan become closer to the jealously of Angela. After a fight duel with Bossman, Major Egan recollects all the events from his previous life. After the realization that he was married, Major Egan leaves Regina for Nigeria. On arriving Lagos, he discovers his former residence is being occupied by some other persons. Afterwards, he is taken by some colleagues to Col. Bello's office, who told him that his wife was away in Abuja for a job interview. It was later revealed that Col. Bello was responsible for his proposed death on military assignment because of his intention to marry Lebari.
Angela seeks forgiveness from Regina after the revelation that she disclosed information to Bossman due to the pain she felt when Major Egan rejected her advances. She advises Regina to go to Nigeria to meet Major Egan if she's truly in love with him. In Nigeria, Col. Bello sends soldiers to assassinate Major Egan and make it appear as suicide. A gas cylinder was opened by the assassinator who revealed the death wish of Major Egan and told him Col. Bello was responsible. As the sergeant was leaving the house, stating on phone, "I have sent him to hell this time" with a bomb timer in his hands, Regina surfaced to save Major Egan for the second time saying, why do you always get yourself in death situations?.
Ibiso (Hilda Dokubo) is responsible for delivery of babies in her community. She is married to an alcoholic and womanizer, Smart (Soibifa Dokubo). Ibiso's daughter, Vanessa (Jackie Appiah) continues to refuse the advances of Ebiye (Daniel Braid) towards her because she doesn't want to make the marital mistakes of her mother. Ebiye continues to woo Vanessa, sharing his allowances with her, with the hope that she will reciprocate his care towards her one day. Due to her mum's persistent failing health, A youth corper, Dr. Jide (Emeka Ike) advises Vanessa to bring her mum to the clinic after the herbal medicine administered by the traditional doctor proved ineffective. Ebiye perceives his relationship with Vanessa is at risk due to her closeness to Dr. Jide.
At the clinic, a counselling session on HIV is held with Vanessa before the test. It was later revealed to her that her mum was infected with the AIDS virus. She recollects how her mum used same equipment for different pregnant women for years. As Ibiso's health worsens, Counselor Edet (Francis Duru) reveals that the HIV virus was left untreated for years hence the complications to her health. Ibiso died shortly afterwards. Dr. Jide travels to Port Harcourt after the completion of his service year. Vanessa is also revealed to have contacted HIV after a blood contact with an infected equipment used by her Ibiso.
As the news of the presence of HIV in Ibiso's family spreads across the village, there is a wide level of discrimination against Vanessa and her two siblings. Ebiye break ties with Vanessa. Unable to withstand the stigmatization, Vanessa attempts to commit suicide by hanging. But was unsuccessful after the rope got torn. Dr. Jide and Counselor Edet makes provision to meet Vanessa in Port Harcourt. In Port Harcourt, Vanessa is introduced to Pastor Jude (Clem Ohameze) by Dr. Jide, who also registers her in an interactive social group for people living with AIDS. Vanessa wins a United Nations writing award for people living with HIV. Dr. Jide asks Vanessa to marry him. On the wedding day, it is revealed that Ebiye was actually the groom. After some reluctance, Vanessa later agreed to forgive and marry Ebiye.
The show follows Danny Douglas, a 13-year-old boy who, after inventing a time machine lunch box, sends it back in time. However, it was knocked out into the future as future scientists discover it. Because of its small size, the scientists use a worm and transform it into Future-Worm, a worm with a Photo Receptor Visor, Titanium Reinforced Abs and a Bullet-Proof Beard. He travels back to Danny's timeline as the boy meets the worm, and agrees to befriend him. Danny's life eventually changes forever as he has the coolest adventures, head into the past, present and future, meet new recruits, and seek the help of their friend Bug.
Ethan, an emo, gets expelled from his private-school after attempting to hang himself in the school courtyard. On his first day at his new school – the dilapidated Seymour High - he meets Trinity, a beautiful (but totally naïve) Catholic girl who is desperate to convert him to Jesus. But joining the Catholic Christians is the last thing on Ethan's mind. What he really wants is to join the school alternative rock band, ‘Worst Day Ever’ and to be part of the Emo clique, led by the enigmatic and dangerous Bradley who has a rivalry with Isaac, the leader of the Christian clique and band. After a successful audition, Ethan is welcomed into the Emo world and embraces his image – complete with black eyeliner and a violently possessive girlfriend, Roz. After being assigned to write a love song for class together, Trinity and Ethan meet up at Ethan's house. There, Trinity asks Ethan why he is an emo and he says that everyone pretends to be happy all the time and he would just rather be depressed. They then bond for a moment while listening to folk music before Trinity leaves. At school, having not done their assignment, Trinity sings a love song she made up at the last minute that seems to be about Ethan. Embarrassed, Ethan walks out of the classroom with Trinity following. Trinity kisses Ethan and Ethan kisses her back before they have to go to their next class. They meet again in the library and agree to hang out that night at Trinity's house. At Trinity's, Ethan tells her about his attempted suicide at his previous school, and then admits it wasn't real and he had done it six times before. He was just lonely and thought that was what emos did and he couldn't actually do it. Trinity promises not to tell anyone. Before Ethan leaves, Trinity gives him her copy of the Bible from her parents. Looking for something to smoke during P.E., Jay, another member of 'Worst Day Ever', finds Trinity's Bible in Ethan's bag and shows it to Bradley who then realizes that Ethan and Trinity are together. Later, while on a movie date with Roz, Ethan breaks up with her and is confronted by Bradley with the Bible. Ethan defends himself by saying he was going to burn it and then does so in the theater parking lot. Bradley then forces Ethan to break up with Trinity and show her the remains of her bible. At a support group Trinity talks about Ethan and says that maybe Jesus doesn't mind if we are different or if we make mistakes and maybe even Jesus himself was an emo. Isaac, angry about Trinity's relationship with Ethan, gets information about Ethan from students at his previous school and puts flyers up around school calling him a 'faker'. Then, in order to insure they win the upcoming school music competition, Bradley, Ethan, Roz, and Jay sneak into the chapel at school and destroy the Christians instruments. They attempt to burn the instruments too but the fire gets out of hand and the whole room burns down. The school then bans the expression of suicide, depression and violence in the lyrics of bands entering the competition and the Christians instruments are quickly replaced threatening the emos. While in the gym, Roz catches Peter, the Christians' guitarist, having a moment with another male student named Josh. Roz takes a picture of the two and sends it to Bradley, who tells Isaac. The rest of the band sneak into the gym to watch Josh and Peter and they kiss until Isaac catches them and tells Peter he has to send him back to conversion therapy. Ethan confronts Isaac and Peter but Bradley pulls him back and says that if Peter leaves, the Christians have no guitarist and 'Worst Day Ever' has a better chance of winning the competition. Ethan therefore, quits the band and Peter is taken away by Isaac. Ethan then attempts suicide at home by dropping a toaster into his bathtub but it doesn't work. The next day, Ethan joins the Christian band at the last minute and plays onstage at the competition with Trinity and earns applause from the audience by adding electric guitar into the song. 'Worst Day Ever' is up next to play but before they can, Isaac goes to Mrs. Doyle with evidence proving 'Worst Day Ever' were the ones who burned down the chapel and the band is disqualified. In a rage, Bradley holds a knife to Isaac's throat and threatens to cut him if they don't get to play. Ethan stands up and says that it was his fault the chapel burnt down and that he got to play so Bradley should too. 'Worst Day Ever' plays and Trinity and Ethan join in, adding in lyrics from other songs previously sung in the movie. Afterwards, Bradley and Ethan shake hands before Bradley is dragged away by police. Ethan and Trinity kiss and the movie ends with them walking down the street, discussing movies to watch while the credits roll.
Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run off with Guy Dupree, her ex-husband – in Ray's Ford Torino. From reading credit card receipts, Ray learns the couple are in Mexico. He packs up a Colt Cobra and goes after them, determined to get back his car (and his wife, maybe).
Jack Wilkie, bail bondsman, is also after Dupree. Ray does not tell Jack about Mexico, because Ray wants to get his car back alone. Jack figures out this deception and follows Ray out of town. Ray is able to ditch Jack when Jack gets drunk in Laredo and again when Jack's car breaks down in Mexico.
In Laredo, Ray is inspired to ditch drunken Jack, when an old clown gives Ray a card that says, “Kwitcherbellyachin”. At the Mexican border, he is relieved of his Colt Cobra. The receipts lead him to the Hotel Mogador in San Miguel. Norma and Dupree are not there. He figures they have gone to Dupree's farm in Belize.
In San Miguel, Ray meets Dr. Reo Symes, who needs a ride to Belize, after his bus - "Dog of the South" - breaks down. Dr. Symes' mother lives there, and Symes wishes to ask for the zoning rights to an island she owns. Ray and Symes travel together to Belize. They have an entertaining, if at times, fractious relationship - mostly due to Dr. Symes' eccentricities.
In Belize, Ray finds Dupree's farm with the help of a kid named Webster Spooner. Ray confronts Dupree, which mostly consists of harsh words from both sides. Norma is no longer with Dupree and Dupree has sold Ray's car. Ray finds his car scrapped in an auto-parts store, but he decides the trip was never about the car, anyway.
A hurricane hits Honduras. After the chaos, Ray is in a hospital, where he finally finds Norma. She is sick, and Ray nurses her back to health. The two return to Texas together. A few months later, Norma leaves again. This time, Ray does not go after her.
Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter), and Luke (Nolan Gould) are bummed when Phil (Ty Burrell) announces to them that Claire (Julie Bowen) is making them declutter their rooms before she takes on her responsibilities at Jay's company as its new boss. Phil and Luke disagree with Claire’s obsession to throw out their old things and try without success to save them. Claire has a change of heart when she hears that an old stuffed toy is still working after she threw it in the donation chute. She soon regrets her decision to rid the house of tangible memories, but Phil comforts her when he brings the family to a storage lot full of their old possessions, proving that he didn't dispose them over the years. He also gets back the stuffed toy from the donation chute, but it soon gets on the family's nerves and he is forced to shut it up with a rock.
While Alex is cleaning her room, she finds an old sweater which belongs to her ex-boyfriend, Sanjay. Haley fails to convince her to cut up the sweater, so the sisters go to Sanjay's house to return his sweater and get closure for Alex, who is still mad after their break-up. But when Sanjay apologizes to Alex and asks to continue their relationship, Haley coaxes her younger sister to give him a second chance, believing him to be sincere.
Elsewhere, Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria (Sofía Vergara) are celebrating the start of Jay’s retirement. But Jay, who does not want to stay inactive, decides to take a flying lesson without Gloria’s knowledge. Gloria's nightmare about Jay falling to his death prompts Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) to follow Jay to his flying lesson. As the two of them are in the plane with the instructor, a series of mishaps involving the meddling Cam results in Jay accidentally knocking the instructor out, but he soon regains consciousness just in time as the pair fear for their lives.
Gloria searches for a new hobby, and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) suggests she find a common interest she could share with Jay. She asks him to teach her everything he knows about golf. Mitchell proves to be a terrible coach and is very disappointed when both Gloria and Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons), to whom he has been giving flute lessons, fire him as their coach and replace him. Gloria studies under an actual golf instructor and Manny (Rico Rodriguez) becomes Lily's personal flute coach. When Jay comes home, he tells Gloria that he does not want her to go golfing with him, while Gloria is adamant that she will not board any plane that he is flying. In the end, both Jay and Gloria admit that they tried a different hobby in order to be close to the other, proving their love for each other.
In 2159, DSMO ''Marion'' is in orbit above LV-178 while its crews mine for trimonite beneath the planet's surface. Two days after ''Marion'' loses contact with the mine complex, the ship's transport shuttles, ''Samson'' and ''Delilah'', launch from the planet and head for ''Marion'' at full speed; contact with their crews reveal alien creatures that are slaughtering the shuttles' occupants. The ''Delilah'' ploughs into the ''Marion'', severely damaging the ship and killing its captain and security officer. ''Samson'' docks successfully, but the survivors aboard the ''Marion'', now led by Chief Engineer Chris "Hoop" Hooper, seal it off to contain the four Aliens on board. The impact has knocked ''Marion'' out of orbit, meaning the ship will soon burn up when it hits LV-178's atmosphere. Worse still, the long-range antenna has been destroyed, forcing the survivors to transmit a localized distress call.
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With time running out before the ''Marion'' enters LV-178's atmosphere, the survivors hatch a desperate plan — to flee in the ''Narcissus'', taking it in turns to use the shuttle's single stasis pod for six months at a time, hoping to reach inhabited space before they die of old age. However, they must replace the shuttle's spent fuel cell, and the only ones available are stored in the mine on LV-178. Worse still, the only ship capable of taking them there is the ''Samson'', still docked and sealed with four Aliens on board. With no alternative, the crew open the ''Samson'' and take on the Aliens using mining tools. Engineers Welford and Powell are killed, along with medic Garcia, while one of the Aliens survives and escapes onto the ''Marion''.
Leaving the Alien on board the ''Marion'', the remaining survivors — Hoop, Ripley, Sneddon, Baxter, Kasyanov and Lachance — fly below to LV-178 in the ''Samson'' and enter the mine. As they descend into the complex, Ash — having now infected the ''Marion'''s computers — sabotages the elevator and sends them plunging to the very lowest level of the mine, where the Aliens were discovered. The elevator is smashed beyond repair, and the survivors are forced to trek through the complex to reach a second elevator at the far side. They soon stumble upon an Alien hive, as well as a massive derelict spacecraft buried underground. With the Aliens pursuing them, they have no choice but to head inside the ship.
The survivors soon discover they have been herded inside because the ship is full of Alien eggs, which were apparently being nurtured by the ship's long-dead creators, a mysterious race of dog-like aliens. The survivors desperately fend off multiple Alien attacks and the repeated assaults begin to take their toll — Baxter breaks an ankle, Sneddon is subdued by a Facehugger, Kasyanov is sprayed with acid and loses the use of one arm, and Ripley is badly wounded. Despite their injuries, the survivors escape the ship and reach the second elevator, although Baxter is bisected when an Alien pulls him partially out of the cage as it is ascending. The survivors finally recover a replacement fuel cell, setting a second to overload and destroy the mine before returning to ''Marion''. Once on board, they witness the explosion on the planet's surface.
As the group heads to the medical bay, they are attacked by the remaining Alien and Lachance is killed. A revived Sneddon chases after the creature, eventually cornering it in a hold where she blows herself up as the Chestburster inside her begins to hatch, killing the adult Alien as well. With time running out before ''Marion'' breaks up, Hoop and Kasyanov place Ripley in the ship's med pod to treat her wounds. Tormented by recurring nightmares of her daughter Amanda being attacked by the Aliens, Ripley also begs to have her memories of recent events wiped, and Hoop reluctantly complies. Kasyanov also enters the med pod to heal her own injuries, but Ash takes over and has the machine kill her.
Hoop carries an unconscious Ripley to the ''Narcissus'' and puts her into stasis with Jones, who had remained safely locked aboard the shuttle all along. Hoop then wipes Ash from the shuttle's computer with a powerful virus program, finally destroying him, but discovers that the rogue AI, in a final act of defiance, has sabotaged the shuttle's automatic docking release. With no alternative, Hoop bids farewell to Ripley and steps back onto ''Marion'' to launch the shuttle. He tearfully watches her leave, knowing that she won't even remember him when she wakes up. Awaiting the ''Marion'''s disintegration, Hoop fetches all the supplies he can and boards the ''Samson''. Watching the ''Marion'' break up in LV-178's atmosphere, looking down on the obliterated mining complex, Hoop helps himself to a bottle of bourbon and records a distress call, declaring himself as the last survivor of the ''Marion''.
Jonah is a young bunny whose life is torn apart when his beloved mother dies and is taken away by the Feather King to the afterlife after she develops a bad cough. Unwilling to accept that his mother is gone, Jonah plots to travel to the other side and bring her back. He finally gains his chance when an old dog gives Jonah his ticket to the afterlife.
"Jim" is a man who has undergone a procedure known as "Total Prosthesis", or "TP", after his body was almost destroyed in an accident. The expense of the TP project is causing politicians to consider shutting it down. He has begun to behave strangely, insisting on wearing a metal mask at all times. All efforts to provide him with a natural environment have been rejected. He prefers a sterile, artificial environment with no plants, and no access to outside air. He considers efforts to make his prosthetic body more natural-looking to be a waste of time. Visitors, and the people who share the living space with him, wear surgical masks, ostensibly to guard against infections. Jim is hostile most of the time, even to those who live with him to provide him with human company. Much effort is made to offer him social and psychological support, but he professes not to need such things. The married couple who share his space have a pet puppy, which he abhors.
He is visited by other members of the project, and as they talk to him about his condition he notices all the tiny blemishes and minor infections on their skin, and their personal tics and mannerisms. He tells them that he is designing a vehicle into which his brain can be moved, so he can explore the Moon and other planets.
After they leave the puppy enters the room, through a door that had been left open. The man picks up a metal draftsman's square and uses it to kill the puppy. It becomes apparent that he is repelled by organic life and yearns to become a machine himself. Wearing a mask means he does not have to see his own face in the mirror.
In the Monk and Survivor campaigns, the story is mostly identical. When a group of slugcats cross a river during the rain, the Survivor slips off a pipe and falls into the water, becoming separated from the others. The Monk is the Survivor's sibling. Regardless of which character is chosen, the slugcat wakes up alone and explores the desolate, post-industrial world.
Eventually it reaches Five Pebbles, a massive decaying supercomputer, and meets the AI's robotic avatar. Five Pebbles gives the slugcat a Mark of Communication, allowing it to understand him. He explains that like all creatures, the slugcat is trapped in an stagnant cycle of death and rebirth. He then raises the slugcat's karma threshold and directs it to a place where it can free itself from the cycle. Following his guidance, the slugcat descends into an underground chasm, passing through ancient temples with the aid of its raised karma before entering a sea of golden "Void Fluid", which helps it ascend.
More information about the world can be obtained by bringing pearls to a damaged robotic avatar named Looks to the Moon, who speaks to the slugcat if it has the Mark of Communication. She explains that the technologically advanced civilization that once lived in this world sought to escape the eternal cycle and succeeded, collectively ascending from existence. She and Five Pebbles are beings called iterators, created by the ancient civilization to calculate a way to ascend every living organism. Iterators use vast quantities of water, causing the devastating rains.
The iterators decay over time, but since the 'Great Cycle' exists, they will live infinitely and the ancients expected them to eventually find a solution. Five Pebbles rejected this purpose and tried to overwrite a self-destruction taboo with excess intake of water, which damaged Looks to the Moon to the point of nonfunctionality. Moon's emergency communication with Five Pebbles sabotaged his attempt to overwrite the taboo, and the two live on in a state of agony.
The Hunter campaign chronologically takes place before the Survivor and Monk campaigns. As Hunter, the player starts with a green artifact containing "slag reset keys" and a data pearl with a message from a third iterator. The Hunter delivers the slag reset keys to Looks to the Moon, partially revitalizing her after the harm caused by Five Pebbles.
Castiel and Hannah continue their journey towards the bunker with Castiel growing weaker all the time. At a gas station, they are attacked by a vengeful Adina and a weakened Castiel is left near-death. Before Adina can kill the two angels, Crowley, having problems with ruling Hell due to his time with Dean, kills Adina and steals her grace. Crowley gives a reluctant Castiel Adina's grace, restoring him to full strength. In return, Crowley asks Castiel to deal with Dean. Having captured Dean, Sam begins the process of curing him using the ritual they discovered a year and a half before. As the ritual goes on, Dean taunts Sam over his desperate attempts to find him, including tricking a man into selling his soul so he could interrogate a crossroads demon. Unknown to Sam, the ritual makes Dean human enough that he is able to escape and he stalks Sam throughout the bunker. However, Castiel finally arrives and subdues Dean. They are able to successfully complete the ritual and Dean is returned to being human, but retains the Mark of Cain. Castiel suggests that a guilty-feeling Dean take some time off as things are quiet, however, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mysterious red-haired woman sits in a hotel room under two men staked to the ceiling.
Kristel has plans to stay at a beauty farm for the weekend. Karen and Josje are helping Bas at an kennel/animal hotel, but Kristel doesn't know this. Because of a GPS mix-up, the girls arrive at the wrong place. Karen knows this, but Josje doesn't. So Karen wants her to think the beauty farm is a kennel. When they find out the kennel may be torn down the girls come together to save it.