Laura and Christine are both 16 years old and best friends. But a young, more cosmopolitan girl, Maria, arrives at their school, and she proves to be mysterious and exciting. The relationship between the three takes an intense twist as Maria acknowledges bisexual encounters. For Laura, the new friendship upends the world she thought she knew.
In 1979, Philip Goodman's strict Jewish father threw his sister out of the family for dating an Asian man. As an adult, Goodman is lonely and single; he is also a well-known professor and television presenter whose show is devoted to debunking fraudulent psychics, which he regards as his life's work to stop people's lives being ruined by superstition the way his family's were. He receives an invitation to visit a famed 1970s paranormal investigator, Charles Cameron, who inspired him as a boy, but who has been missing for decades and is now living in a caravan, sick and impoverished. Cameron asks him to investigate three incidents of supposedly real supernatural ghost sightings.
The first case is a night watchman, Tony Matthews, whose wife has died of cancer and who feels guilty that he stopped visiting his daughter, who suffers from locked-in syndrome. He was haunted by the spirit of a young girl while working in a disused asylum for women. The second is a teenager, Simon Rifkind, who is obsessed with the occult and has a poor relationship with his parents. His car breaks down after running over a creature in the woods. Goodman, although unsettled by the second case, believes that each of them has an obvious rational explanation: the supposed victims imagined them, based on their neuroses. The third case is a financier in the City, Mike Priddle, who was plagued by a poltergeist, while awaiting the birth of his child. His wife's ghost appeared to him as she died giving birth to an (it is implied) inhuman child. Suddenly, the financier commits suicide with a shotgun.
Goodman returns to Cameron, who tears a latex mask off his face, revealing himself to be Priddle. Goodman at first believes that he is the victim of an elaborate hoax, but reality soon breaks down altogether. Priddle leads Goodman back in time to the scene of a childhood incident in which he watched two bullies entice a mentally disabled boy into a drain, where he died of an asthma attack. Goodman has felt guilty all his life about his failure to rescue the victim. The decaying corpse of the bullied boy appears, tormenting Goodman and leading him to a hospital bed, where he is made to lie down. The ghoul lies on top of him and forces his finger into Goodman's mouth as Goodman cries "No, not again!" implying this is a recurring event.
In the real world, Goodman is in a hospital with tubes in his mouth. He suffers from locked-in syndrome after a suicide attempt in his car. All the characters and events Goodman has experienced were inspired by the staff and objects in his hospital room. The doctors incorrectly believe him to be in a persistent vegetative state with no awareness of his surroundings. The junior doctor predicts that Goodman is "here for keeps", without a chance of recovery. As he leaves the room, the senior doctor says to his junior colleague: "I hope his dreams are sweet". The hospital cleaner, in contrast, chats to Goodman and moves a mirror to give him a different view.
Two Israeli sisters, one a classical music composer and singer, and the other a budding journalist, try to find out what their father did during World War II in Poland, after a Polish woman runs up to one of them in a Berlin concert venue and calls her the daughter of a murderer.
When a teenager loses his girlfriend in a horrible and devastating accident, he finds that his running keeps him connected to her during his "runner's high" moments in which his heart elates and becomes ecstatic. Chasing her memory drives him to run faster and win races for his new coach. Before long, his newfound notoriety attracts the attention of a whip-smart new girl who is determined to find out what's really going on inside him.
Sixteen-year-old Mickey Smalley lives with his mother Eva and little brother Kolya. Their father, Roman, has become the latest in a line of men to leave the town without a trace. As his mother slips into despair, Mickey and his friends wonder what has become of their fathers.
Born in dramatic circumstances under the Christmas Star, Noelle believes she has the gift to perform strange miracles.
A businessman, originally from the Irish town of Pottersglen, returns to try to exploit the townspeople. Noelle uses the power of positivity to save the snow globe factory and the town.
In Belogorie, a parallel version of Ancient Russia, Sorceress Varvara hunts down Alyosha Popovich whom she believes to be the last Bogatyr (Hero or Warrior). She petrifies and throws him into the sea, where hundreds of other victims rest.
In modern Moscow, Ivan Naydenov is a young orphan who makes his way in life by being a con artist. He poses as a "white mage", stars in rigged psychic contest shows, and performs "rites" for clients. He starts having doubts about his life choices, however, when asked to cure a comatose boy.
One day, during an escape from a client's husband, Ivan miraculously ends up in Belogorie. This magical world is inhabited by Russian fairy tales characters and creatures. A volkhv appears and claims that Ivan is the lost son of Ilya Muromets, hidden on Earth many years ago.
Ivan is then captured by Varvara's warriors and brought to prince Dobrynya Nikitich. Dobrynya is friendly, but princess Varvara imprisons Ivan in her dungeon without her husband's knowledge. There, Ivan meets a disembodied Koschei, who tells him the magical Sword Kladenets is his only way back to Earth. Koschei himself had used Kladenets to become immortal, but is overthrown and imprisoned by Bogatyrs. After the forces of good had won, most of the magical creatures were imprisoned or killed, then the Bogatyrs themselves suffered the same fate. If Ivan truly is Ilya's son, he can uncover the Sword and use it to restore power to the surviving magical creatures, and to return home.
Baba Yaga is captured and thrown into the same dungeon. However, this was premeditated: she brought Vasilisa the Wise in frog form, who easily releases the prisoners. Koschei, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa decide to take Ivan with them to find the Sword. Escaping the dungeon, they enlist Vodyanoy the Merman. Koschei tells Ivan of Vasilisa's backstory: after she caught the eye of Dobrynya, the jealous Varvara turned everyone in her village into frogs. Baba Yaga could alleviate the curse by helping her to occasionally turn back into human form. Despite bonding with Vasilisa, Ivan still wishes to get back to his own world.
Varvara eventually captures the protagonist, petrifies Vodyanoy and forces Ivan to get the Sword for her, holding his companions hostage. Ivan recovers the Sword and overpowers his foes, but Koshei turns out to be in league with Varvara. Moreover, Dobrynya turns out to be the mastermind, planning to use the Sword to become immortal like Koschei. Reasoning that he no longer needs his help, Dobrynya betrays Koschei, and Ivan uses the Sword to escape to Earth.
Back in Moscow, Ivan realizes he cannot abandon his beloved Vasilisa, and decides to get back. He finds the volkhv and returns to Belogorie. After setting free Zmey Gorynych he uses a modern handgun to fight his way to Dobrynya. However, the latter has already become immortal and prepares to execute Vasilisa and Baba Yaga. Using Gorynych as a distraction, Ivan challenges Dobrynya to a duel, hoping to give his companions time to destroy the magical stone and undo the Immortals' invulnerability. During the fight, Dobrynya reveals that it was his envy of Ilya that led to betrayal of Bogatyrs.
Koschei eventually gets his hands on the magical stone. Touched by the selfless heroism of his companion, he decides to shatter it, killing himself and Dobrynya. Varvara flees Belogorie, and her petrified victims come back to life. Among them was Ilya, who reunites with Ivan. Rather than return to the life of a fake "mage", Ivan stays in Belogorie and marries Vasilisa. He briefly comes to Earth to heal the comatose boy.
A mid-credit scene shows Varvara on Earth, meeting her mother Galina, Ivan's housekeeper. The two had planned to enthrall Dobrynya and rule Belogorye. That plan have failed, they will now have to make a different move.
A sentient alien species attempts to deal with their first contact with humans.
In the center of the story is the elegant writer Daniil Yuvachev, who continues to call himself the genius Kharms, despite the fact that his works still have not been published. He is poor and is not understood by women with whom he communicates. He feels at home at various literary events at which he is constantly present. The film tells about his battle with himself, with his shortcomings, desires and the whole world which is pressing upon him.
Made with Mexican-American residents of Iowa with no prior acting experience, ''My Sister's Quinceañera'' tells the fictional story of one family's experience living in small town America. Big brother Silas is the involuntary man of the house. He does his best to take care of his five siblings and help his single mother as the family prepares for his sister's fifteenth birthday, but he dreams of leaving Muscatine and starting a new life for himself.
The story opens in Warwickshire where 19 year old Francis Cludde lives with his uncle Sir Anthony and cousin Petronilla. He was left there eight years earlier by his father Ferdinand who then disappeared. His outspoken views get Francis into trouble during a visit from Mary's powerful Chancellor Stephen Gardiner, who advises him to leave England for his own good.
Francis makes his way to London where he meets Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk who is being hunted by Gardiner's men. With Francis' help, she and her husband Bertram escape first to the Spanish Netherlands, then Wesel in Germany still pursued by a man called Clarence, Gardiner's chief agent. They eventually evade their pursuers and end up in what was then the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth.
The novel passes over the next two years resuming in autumn 1558 when Francis and Bertram return to England to join a conspiracy against Mary. Francis recognises Clarence posing as one of the plotters and denounces him only to discover 'Clarence' is actually his father Ferdinand. At this point, Mary's death brings her Protestant sister Elizabeth I to the throne, allowing Francis to return home. He releases Ferdinand who travels to Warwickshire and incites his brother Sir Anthony to resist the new regime. By doing so, he hopes his brother will be condemned as a traitor and to gain his property as a result. The story ends with Francis foiling this plot and marrying Petronilla, while Ferdinand disappears for good.
This is one of Weyman's earlier works and reflects his typical strengths and weaknesses. As ever, the historical details are well researched, especially the character sketches of real figures like the Duchess of Suffolk and Bishop Gardiner and the portrayal of life in 16th century Holland both vivid and relatively uncommon. The plot moves along at a good speed but many of the characters are one dimensional and even by the standards of the time, the dialogue can seem contrived.
The film is set in Šumava mountains, Czechoslovakia in 1948. People there illegally cross the border through the swampy area aided by a mysterious smuggler. Local SNB is aided in investigation by a young Sergeant Karel Zeman. He falls in love with a local shopkeeper Marie Rysová, whose husband escaped to the West. They become lovers but her husband unexpectedly shows up one day. He forces her to escape with him across the border and kills an SNB officer. They are led by a mysterious smuggler while Zeman chases them. Marie tries to run away but drowns in a swamp. Her husband is killed by the smuggler. Zeman then investigates and manages to track down the smuggler.
An unusual courtship begins when a musician, who is still grieving the death of his lover, meets a quirky artist.
After being in a coma for six months, Butch Gilzean's (Drew Powell) body is taken out of the hospital in order to make room. Afterward, he is dumped into Slaughter Swamp where his body is dropped into a lake that also contains toxic chemicals left over from Indian Hill.
Bruce (David Mazouz) decides to use the knife to kill Ra's (Alexander Siddig) as revenge for Alex's death. During Alex's funeral, Alfred (Sean Pertwee) is warned by Gordon (Ben McKenzie) that Ra's has diplomatic immunity and will be released from incarceration. Meanwhile, Barbara (Erin Richards) visits Ra's in Blackgate Penitentiary in an escape attempt but Ra's states that he just wants to say goodbye. When they touch hands through the glass, light passes between the two of them, to Barbara's surprise seemingly giving her an unknown power. She asks him what he did, to which Ra's says she would see very soon.
Back on Slaughter Swamp, Butch suddenly wakes up in a zombie-like state. He wanders around the area to find a group of campers. He attacks the campers with a superhuman resistance and strength. Suffering amnesia, he adopts the name of a nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy. Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) robs a pharmacy in search of a cure for his mental condition, but the pharmacist (Albert M. Chan) injures Nygma and escapes, calling the police. Making his escape, Nygma literally runs into Grundy.
Bruce arrives at Blackgate and manages to enter Ra's cell, ready to kill him. However, he hesitates and decides to leave only to be ambushed by Ra's and assassins from the League of Shadows posing as guards. They take him to the underground of the penitentiary while Gordon and Alfred investigate upstairs. Ra's tells Bruce that the knife was brought to him for his resurrection, having a vision of him as his heir and he is the only person who can kill him. Gordon and Alfred manage to defeat the guards and reach the room. Ra's begin taunting Bruce, threatening to kill his loved ones in the future, prompting an angry Bruce to finally stab him in the chest. This causes Ra's to age in the pace of a few seconds until becoming a decaying corpse.
In the aftermath, Gordon decides not to report Bruce murdering Ra's. Bruce decides to leave his vigilantism and leaves the suit for Alfred. Meanwhile, pretending that he was his friend before his rebirth, Nygma takes Grundy to a fight club headed by a woman named Cherry (Marina Benedict). Cherry sends Butch to the medic for inspection, where it is revealed that Lee (Morena Baccarin) is secretly working there as the new doctor.
At the fight club, Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) talks with Lee (Morena Baccarin) for help in order to fix his identity crisis but she angrily refuses to help him following his previous actions. Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) and Sofia (Crystal Reed) meet in order to fully acknowledge each other's partnership. In another part of the city, a police officer investigates a gunshot. While searching the area, he is butchered by a man wearing a pig mask.
Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and Bullock (Donal Logue) investigate the murder, finding the killer put a pig's head on the officer's head. The officer also was a bagman on Cobblepot's payroll. After interrogating Cobblepot, Gordon gets a clue from a man, Wally Clarke (Will Janowitz), who applied for a license, discovering a headless pig in his apartment. Wally states that he just retrieved the pigs from a butchery and left it for a man known as the "Professor". Cobblepot meets for dinner with Sofia but when she fails to show up, he has Zsasz (Anthony Carrigan) to follow her. In the fight club, Grundy (Drew Powell) manages to beat another fighter for money, much to Nygma's delight. Nygma then finds out that Lee is leading a clinic in her apartment to help people.
Gordon and Bullock get a clue from an informant about dirty cops that may be affiliated to the Professor. They find them dead on a bench with their pig masks on but get a lead that a white van left the bodies. Another officer is also kidnapped by the Professor. They follow to a warehouse where they find the officer. However, he has a grenade in his stomach, killing him and knocking Gordon and Bullock out. Gordon wakes up tied to a chair where he is confronted by the Professor (Michael Cerveris). The Professor states that he was once a cop but decided to end the corruption by killing any corrupted officer. The Professor leaves to kill Bullock in another room. Gordon manages to free himself, but the Professor cuts Bullock's throat and escapes.
Cobblepot is told by Zsasz that Sofia seemingly bought an abandoned hospital and was seen meeting with many businessmen. However, she shows him that in fact, she has opened an orphanage and is forgiven for his misstep. Lee, after finding her medicine is running out in the clinic, decides to accept Nygma's money and help him with his identity crisis. She also states that she's only remaining in Gotham because she feels responsible for the Tetch virus. Bullock wakes up and is confronted by Gordon, who tells him he knows that he has been on Cobblepot's payroll. Bullock finally admits he has been on his payroll since the licenses began, saying his debts were the main reasons. Gordon tells him it will stop. The Professor, now dubbed by media as "Professor Pyg", is seen taking care of pigs in an undisclosed area.
In 2105, with the large scale advancement of technology, hIE's (Humanoid Interface Elements) are human-like-robots invented in the year 2057. hIEs are used as public and personal servants for society. One person, a high school student named Arato Endo, treats hIEs like humans and sees them as equals, and though he wished to buy one, his financial situation hinders him from doing so. In the middle of the night, while returning home from a grocery store run, he is violently attacked by a hIE, seconds from death, Lacia, an abnormal hIE equipped with a weaponized coffin, comes to his aid and saves his life. In the chaos that follows, a hacked electric car threatens to run them over, and Lacia makes a deal with Arato, to assume ownership of her in exchange for her saving his life. The deal requires him to take full responsibility for her actions, to which he reluctantly agrees. Lacia warns the entranced Arato she, like all hIE's, doesn't have a soul. After owning Lacia, and bringing her home, Lacia enjoys her new, peaceful lifestyle, while Arato is dragged into a series of major events; from being hired by a company that hosts an online fashion modeling audition, to being dragged into the fighting between other escaped hIE's from Memeframe.
The novel is plotted in Gilas, a fictitious small town on the ancient Silk Route in Uzbekistan. The heart of the novel and the town is a railway station, which sets the connection between the town and the greater world. Gilas has people from all over - Armenians, Kurds, Persians, Ukrainians, Jews, Chechens, Koreans, gypsies, Russians etc and the novel tells the stories of some of them. The book describes the dramatic changes that was felt in the Central Asia in early twentieth century.
Jackie Robinson "J.R." Cooper is a kid who loves baseball, and also the son of a former major leaguer now down on his luck (and now a vendor working the stands at games). J.R. parlays his baseball knowledge into becoming manager of the San Diego Padres and leading them to the World Series.(1 October 1979). [http://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-the-kid-from-left-field-vol-12-no-14/ Picks and Pans Review: The Kid from Left Field], ''People''
Set in the early 1920s, Anglo-Irish landowners Sir Richard and Lady Myra Naylor reside in their country estate with their high-spirited niece, Lois, and their nephew Laurence during the twilight of British rule in southern Ireland. They are joined by the Montmorencys who hide the fact that they are presently homeless. Lois is being courted by a British officer stationed in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence. The arrival of Marda Norton causes an upheaval amongst all in the house as does an escaped commander of the Irish Volunteers who is on the run from local British soldiers and police.
After Aurelio returns from death, he begins to search for El Turco to take back everything he stole while El Chema continues to grow his empire and become Mexico's most powerful drug dealer after Aurelio's absence. Aurelio after killing El Turco, begins to maintain a low profile and continue to play dead in order to regain his empire, but this will be impossible because of Leonor Ballestero, a police officer who has been pursuing him for a long time because she believes he is not dead. In order to continue hiding from the authorities Aurelio Casillas decides to create a plan and to supplant the identity of Danilo Ferro a recognized Mexican businessman, whom he kidnaps and threatens to assassinate. Aurelio when obtaining its new identity begins to seduce Victoria Návarez, a postulant to the government of Mexico, thanks to her he obtains more power and continues to run his empire thanks to his new identity. He died from the injuries to head, shot by El Cabo.
The story follows the lives of two women, one of humble origin and the other a prominent figure, who cross the border from Mexico to the United States for different reasons: one chasing a dream and the other fleeing a nightmare. In this contemporary series, which reflects the reality of many emigrants, both women will have to do the impossible to move their children forward and survive, leaving behind everything they knew until then.
The main character Oleg Chagin (Kirill Pirogov), a gas engineer, arrives from the North where he was earning money for his wedding in Moscow. He has received news that his fiancée Elena has already married another man – Vadim Klimov. Oleg wishes to get Elena back but is unsuccessful in his attempts. His acquaintance Georgiy (Leonid Yarmolnik) lets Oleg stay in his apartment, as he leaves for business in Hong Kong.
Oleg becomes fond of another girl – Zinaida Prishchepkina (Polina Kutepova). Zinaida has an ex-husband – a prisoner, to whom the girl is flying to Sochi for a visit.
Subsequently, Elena gets into a car crash and is in a hospital in a serious condition. Oleg quickly returns to Moscow, secretly enters the hospital and finds out that the patient Klimova can only be helped by a very expensive medicine which no one is able to obtain. Oleg buys this medicine and passes it to the doctor, who is treating the sick Klimova. After this, his jacket is stolen in which he kept all his money, which means that he has to make a living doing difficult and demanding work. Additionally, Oleg rents out Georgiy's apartment to dishonest gypsies who later fail to pay. He has nowhere to live and ends up getting pneumonia.
By chance, he meets Zinaida again, who accompanies Oleg to his home and takes care of him. The illness lasts a long time, and when it recedes, Oleg finds out that Elena has already been discharged from the hospital, her condition was not so severe, and ironically Oleg was getting money for a medicine for someone else with the same last name. Encouraged, he goes to Elena's home, but gets straight to the engagement of Elena and the surgeon from the hospital in which she was staying; with Vadim, her romantic relationship is finished for good.
Oleg returns to the North with his friend Zinaida, where she immediately marries him. Oleg names a drilling rig "Prishchepkina" in honor of Zina.
The drama begins the day before Yeates’ disappearance, and follows the innocent Jefferies through his arrest, release and subsequent isolation as his un-sought fame profoundly affects his life. Five weeks later the real killer, neighbour Vincent Tabak, is finally arrested.
Season five jumps forward four years to 1958 and looks at the changes in Australian society during that period, as cultural norms fall away, morals change, and the younger generation rejects the values of their elders and the continued focus on the War years. Ash Park faces turmoil as old friendships and rivalries reverse themselves, raising the question of what home means.
Allar (Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr.), a disaffected man from rural Estonia is on a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia in the late 1990s trying to discover purpose and meaning in his life.
The only daughter of day laborer Kafil Mia, Jasmine, committed suicide by hanging herself on the darkness of the night, because her lover Kabir betrayed her. Since self-murder is not accepted in Islam, there is no place for the funeral and grave of Jasmine's dead body in the Islam inhabited Shwapnopuri village. A mosque imam and an influential rich man of the village with the help of Badrul Talukder did not let the funeral and grave take place in the village. Kafil Mia digs his daughter's grave in the Khas land (government owned land) on the bank of the river and performs her funeral. No one from the village took part in the funeral but, a small ten-year-old boy Sujon did. Kafil Mia could not accept his daughters death, but he begins to search for hope and strength in the midst of this tragedy. After 10 years, Pori and Sujon fell in love with each other but Pori's family did not accept it. So, Sujon and Pori decided to escape from their village. The film ended with a tragic event.
Aine a young tear away criminal is thrown into the same cell as Eileen, a high ranking Republican woman leader. At first at odds, Eileen helps save Aine's sanity. An unlikely friendship develops between them as Aine joins the protest and Eileen helps her to survive. In a remarkable turn around of events when Eileen embarks on a hunger strike, Aine risks all to help save her life...
Matacanes arrives at Heaven but it is not exactly as he imagined it, as it resembles a typical Spanish village with God as the mayor and Saint Peter as a civil guard (although Saint Peter explains that this is Spanish Heaven and other countries' heavens are different) Some people, however, are nervous because God, unhappy with things on Earth, is planning to have another child. Jesus becomes jealous and tries to convince his father to accelerate the Apocalypse instead.
The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.
Gunnar Lanner, an artistic son of a fur dealer, goes to the theatre agency's office and tries to demand Isabella for money on her fur coat, as she has not made any payments on it for several months. But when Gunnar signs up in with Isabella, she instead thinks he is seeking a place in the revue, he therefore gets a number and is called in to the theatre managers office.
A little surprised, he sings the song "Isabell" and then wants to receive his money for the coat that Isabella owes him. When the theatre manager hears the story, he thinks it's fun and charming and wants to make a sketch of it all in the revue. Gunnar Lanner soon makes his stage debut, charmed and supported by Isabella.
Popov finds out who is Dzharo's inside man, but the inside man is actually inside man of US Secret Service in Dzharo's group. Nikolov and Sunny are killed. Popov's and Dzharo's former college Mironov returns from the dead, Dzharo got a new sociate Anton Damyanov and Neshev replaced Nikolov.
The Swedenhielm family is an old proud nobility family. The head is the old physics professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children also live with him: Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr., as well as the hearty housekeeper Boman. The family is on the verge of bankruptcy and the only hope is that the professor is awarded the Nobel Prize.
At an African-American newspaper, Bill Johnson, one of the employees enlists in the US Navy. Frank Roberts, the sports editor for the paper convinces the newspaper's editor it would be a great idea for the paper to publish a column called "The Navy Team" where Frank would write about Frank's experience in the Navy.
The film follows Bill from Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois including a spell in the brig to a variety of technical training. Bill later serves on a ship escorting a destroyer with a crew of other African-Americans working under white officers. The film mentions several black war heroes of World War II including Navy Cross recipients William Pinckney for his actions at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, Doris Miller for his actions at Pearl Harbor, and Leonard Roy Harmon for his actions during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
A garbage truck driver, Eddie Martin (Fred Brady) from Manhattan finds a bag of $5,000 during his rounds. He decides to take his sweetheart, Julie Connors (Jeff Donnell) for a wild night on the town, buying and spending on things they've always wanted, but never thought they would have. Problem 1 is that the money actually belonged to a blackmailing hood named Steve Crawford (William Wright). Problem 2 is when the police start asking uncomfortable questions about why the marked money they hoped to trap Crawford with, is now in the possession of Martin and Conners.
A French baron (Willard Parker) leads rebels like a Robin Hood, stealing Louis XVI's taxes to give to the poor.
The film opens with a montage of trigger warnings that show brief scenes depicting topics including bullying, blood, abuse, classism, death, drinking, drug use, sexual content, toxic masculinity, the male gaze, homophobia, transphobia, guns, nationalism, racism, kidnapping, murder, attempted murder, swearing, torture, violence, gore, weapons, and fragile male egos.
In the town of Salem, Lily Colson is a high school senior who regularly hangs out with her three best friends, Bex Warren and sisters Em and Sarah Lacey. The friends go to a party where Bex hooks up with her crush Diamond, while Lily hangs out with her boyfriend Mark, simultaneously texting a man only known as Daddy behind his back. After having sex, Diamond tells Bex to keep their hookup a secret, as Bex is transgender.
Marty, a casual hacker, receives a message from an unknown hacker about Mayor Bartlett, a known anti-gay candidate. He reveals pictures of Bartlett engaging with male escorts and dressing up in women's clothing, which Marty forwards to the entire town. During the press conference in which he's supposed to address the facts, Bartlett publicly commits suicide. Salem High's kindhearted Principal Turrell is the next to be hacked, with pictures of his 6 year-old daughter in the bath making people view him as a pedophile. During the meeting with angry parents, he refuses to resign, intending to set things right for the students and do what is best for the school itself.
As the police question Marty about the hacks, a massive data dump of half the people in Salem is posted. Lily's classmate Grace discovers that her best friend Reagan has sent Grace's nude pictures to her boyfriends and they are now public; Grace strikes Reagan with a baseball bat during her cheerleading practice, rendering her comatose. Daddy is revealed to be Em and Sarah's neighbor Nick Mathers, who Lily used to babysit for. The lewd pictures and videos that Lily sent to Nick are made public when his information is leaked. As a result, she is exposed and humiliated by Mark, then disowned by her family. As she walks down her street, shunned, homeless, and miserable, she is harassed by a man in a truck who films and harasses her before chasing her with a knife. She subdues him with a shovel, before escaping to Em and Sarah's house.
A week later, most of the town has donned masks and taken up arms to get revenge on those they feel have wronged them. Nick, now leading a mob of vigilantes in masks, capture Marty, whom they torture into admitting that Lily's IP address seemed to be the source of the hacks. Before executing Marty, they upload a video of his forced confession. The masked assailants track Lily to Em and Sarah's house, where all four girls are staying, and break in. Their mother, Nance, shoots two of the marauders, but she is shot and killed. Led by Officer Richter, the mob drags Em and Sarah outside and puts them into a police car. Bex kills one of the attackers with a nail gun and escapes, while Lily hides in Nick's house.
Nick at first pretends to help Lily before brandishing a knife, intending to rape and kill her for exposing the townspeople’s secrets and causing the disintegration of his marriage and family. She manages to incapacitate him and hides in the bathroom, where she discovers Marty’s corpse. Nick manages to get inside, but after a brief struggle, Lily kills him with a razor blade. She discovers his large cache of weapons, which she uses to shoot and kill Richter and rescue Sarah and Em. Meanwhile, Bex is captured by Diamond's best friend, Johnny, who tries to force Diamond to hang her as retribution for his humiliation. Bex convinces him to spare her, so Johnny has him tied up. Lily, Em, and Sarah rescue Bex, dispatching Johnny’s friends. Johnny surrenders and begs for his life; Bex spares him and frees Diamond. Lily makes a video proclaiming her innocence and urging everyone in Salem to stand up and fight back against their tormentors; she is joined by a crowd of girls and young women.
After the battle for Salem, Lily's younger brother Donny, the mastermind behind the hacks, is charged for cyberterrorism, murder, and invasion of privacy. When he asked why he did it by his parents, Donny says it was "for the lulz." The Salem High marching band performs Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" down a street littered with dead bodies and destroyed vehicles.
Inspired by the popular tale of Red Riding Hood, this Malaysian Tamil slasher film, which gives a dark twist to the story, tells of the painful journey of a girl. ''The Farm'' follows a hearing-impaired girl and her encounter with the various kinds of men in her life; one whose nice intentions hide a darker motive, one with bad intentions initially who later repents, and one who abuses women, which the director portrays as ‘an animal’.
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
The plot has two phases and begins in Tocantins. The first phase, set in 2007, presents the teacher Clara (Bianca Bin), an innocent young orphan who lives with her grandfather, a bar owner Josafá (Lima Duarte) in Jalapão. She meets Gael (Sergio Guizé), an heir to a decaying family of Palmas, and ends up falling in love with him. However, Clara suffers from his explosive and extremely sexist temper and but ends up being advised by Sophia (Marieta Severo), her mother-in-law, to be understanding. Behind Sophia's demureness, which is just a facade, hides an ambition for the lands of Josafá, where a depleted emerald mine has been discovered, in which neither he nor his granddaughter have the least interest in exploiting after a tragedy that causes Clara's father and son of Josafá, Jonas (Eucir de Souza) to perish. Sophia, a domineering, self-willed, cunning and false woman, plans a plan to get rid of Clara, eventually putting her daughter-in-law in a psychiatric clinic for 10 years.
The second phase, set in the present time, presents Clara trying to escape from the psychiatric clinic, without understanding how she got there, but discovers she was the victim of a major coup. She meets with the mysterious Beatriz (Nathalia Timberg), her only friend. He meets Renato (Rafael Cardoso), a friend in love with her, who will help her in her revenge plan against seven people: Sophia, Gael, the sensual and dangerous sister-in-law Livia (Grazi Massafera), Judge Gustavo (Luís Melo) and his wife Nádia (Eliane Giardini), psychiatrist Samuel (Eriberto Leão) and delegate Vinicius (Flávio Tolezani), while trying to find again her son Tomaz (Vitor Figueiredo), father and grandmother, some of Clara's foes.
When the musical career of Javier Meza (Marcelo Alonso), a failed upper-class musician, ends up collapsing, he decides to fool Bárbara Fernández (María Elena Swett), the rigid director of a school in Santiago, assuring that he is a teacher who seeks job. Thus little by little, the musician becomes fond of the course to which they are assigned, in addition to the director who is present in his heart. The problem arises when the teacher of quantum physics of the establishment and friend of Barbara, Rodrigo Sarmiento (Néstor Cantillana), discovers the lie of the singer without imagining that a love connection would form a trio between Javier, he and the director of the school that hides an unimaginable secret.
"Bunny" Manders returns to the flat in the Albany where he just lost over two hundred pounds in a game of baccarat, earlier that evening. The famous cricketer A. J. Raffles, who lives there and who Bunny once fagged for at school, greets him. Bunny confesses to Raffles that he is hopelessly in debt. The checks he wrote for Raffles and the others are worthless. When Raffles does not express sympathy, Bunny tries to leave. Raffles detains him. Agitated, Bunny raises a pistol to his head to kill himself. However, Raffles unexpectedly admires the bold move, which stymies Bunny.
Raffles promises to help Bunny. He takes away Bunny's gun. However, Raffles is also hard-up; he and Bunny must now work together to find income. Bunny is astonished, but eagerly agrees to the partnership. Bunny recalls how he had helped Raffles break curfew at school; Raffles remembers this also. Raffles leaves with Bunny, ostensibly to ask for money from a friend of his.
Raffles brings Bunny to the unnamed friend's flat in Bond Street, which sits above a jeweler's shop. Bunny is reluctant, but with his own key Raffles leads him into the dark flat. Raffles takes Bunny quietly upstairs, then lights a match. Abruptly Bunny sees that the house is empty. The truth is revealed: there is no friend. Raffles is actually planning to burgle the shop of the jeweler, named Danby, underneath. Though Bunny is shocked to learn that Raffles is a burglar, he reaffirms his commitment to Raffles.
Raffles takes Bunny to the cellar, then across an outside yard to a door that Raffles forces open with a jimmy. They ascend more stairs, to another door. Raffles uses a brace and drill bit to cut around the lock. He slips his arm through and picks the iron gate behind the door with a skeleton key.
Next is an empty lobby, separated from the shop by an iron curtain. The curtain will be noisy to remove. Raffles asks Bunny to return to the empty room above, and beat the floor to communicate when the street is clear. Bunny signals when a policeman and a watchman pass by outside. Later, Bunny returns to Raffles, who has pocketed some of the shop's valuables, some port, and cigars. They clean themselves in the shop's lavatory and leave.
At the Albany, Raffles cajoles Bunny into promising to stand by Raffles for future crimes.
Local news announce Luna Vargas' death, which was considered a heart attack; Cyrus Beene's (Jeff Perry) new position as Vice President; and President Mellie Grant's (Bellamy Young) first joint session at the Congress, during which she promised a bill to free education. Senator Michaels (David Bickford) is interviewed by Curtis Pryce (Jay Hernandez) and tells him he does not stand for the bill. However, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), President Grant's Chief of Staff, blackmails Senator Michaels with an envelope containing a lot of prejudicial info on him in exchange of his positive response during the bill vote. Shortly after, Pope enters the Oval Office to tell Grant and Beene about Michaels' "help," and convinces Beene to talk with other senators. Olivia is interviewed by Pryce about the bill, and the two end up arguing about meritocracy and racism.
Meanwhile, at the office of Quinn Perkins & Associates, Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield), Charlie (George Newbern) and Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes) try to rip out of David Rosen (Joshua Malina) someone he knows who is in crisis so that QPA could work. A woman desperately enters the office looking for help and Quinn and Abby rushes to talk with her. The woman, named Madeline Stewart (Tina Huang), tells her father travelled overseas and, during the previous two nights, he wasn't calling her, which triggered suspicious. At night, Olivia and Jake Ballard (Scott Foley) discuss about their uncommitted affair. The next morning, Ballard investigates Joshua Stewart (Andrew Tinpo Lee), Madeline's missing father, and discovers he is a CIA agent who helps the Nation several times as an undercover, so his vanishing is something to worry about. Jake suggests they kill him in order to prevent any type of betray since he could've been caught by terrorist and such.
Cyrus meets with Senator Diane Greenwald (Bess Armstrong) to talk about the Vargas bill, and she reveals that she opposes to the bill because it should be a Democratic rather than a Republican product, as well as prompting Cyrus to look forward to a future where he is President, and not Pope and Grant's doormat. Quinn omits to Madeline the fact that her father is a spy, and Huck (Guillermo Díaz) thinks ahead and visits Olivia, already knowing that she and Jake planned Joshua's death, and states that his daughter will need a body to bury. However, the next morning, President Grant summits Jake in the Oval to ask him about Joshua's rescue, which was planned by Olivia, much to Jake's dismay. President Grant has a reunion with Ambassador Marachi (Shaun Toub) in which she regards American assets being kept in Bashman.
After Lisa has a recurring dream involving the lockers at Springfield Elementary, Homer and Marge decide to seek a therapist. Due to Homer having used all their insurance-covered counseling sessions for a stupid reason, they take her to see a shrink-in-training at Springfield Community College.
There, a therapist student suggests that Lisa draw her typical day. Back home, Lisa is frustrated at her bad drawings, so Marge helps her drawing while she explains her feelings. Lisa takes the drawings to the college, but they fall out of her backpack on the steps that lead into the building. Comic Book Guy's unhappy wife Kumiko collects them and sells them at The Android's Dungeon and Baseball Card Shop as a graphic novel called ''Sad Girl''. Lisa and Marge complain to Comic Book Guy and Kumiko; however, when they see that people are buying (and relating to) the books, Lisa is happy and stops Kumiko from burning them. Marge and Lisa get commissioned by Kumiko to do a sequel, and they bond.
At the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, a panel is held by Roz Chast, with Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, but the public lauds Lisa and hurts Marge's feelings by not wanting to listen to her talk about her drawing work. When Marge tells Lisa she wants more credit, Lisa becomes defensive and they have an argument, which ends with them dissolving their partnership. Soon thereafter, they meet a theatrical director, Guthrie Frenel, who has come by the house and wants to make an avant-garde Broadway show of the books. When the play opens, the play developed by Guthrie focuses on Marge's work and makes a point of giving Lisa/Sad Girl little mention. Lisa is upset and talks to the therapist about it, getting an analogy on parenting that's inspired by the therapist having just had a baby after an affair with her faculty advisor.
At the premiere of Frenel's play, Marge finally notices that the play is terrible and also insulting to Lisa, and feels bad about it. She draws Lisa's face on a spotlight and shines it on the stage, enraging Guthrie, which causes a chain reaction that ruins the show.
During the end credits, Marge presents Maggie her comic "The Adventures of Sad Girl's Mom". Marge still thinks it's good, but Maggie is disappointed with it.
Famous outlaw and bank robber Jesse James is lured from his comfortable retirement in St. Joseph, Missouri, to commit one more robbery to retrieve gold from an abandoned mine in Colorado, but the affair will go wrong.
Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping station on the outskirts of the Panama Canal, had been converted to a training-and-relay station for the U. S. Army. The Commander Merrill (Stanley Andrews), an ex-service flier, is in charge of the station It is his job to train civilian airmen to handle bombers, transforming them into pilots of the "flying fortresses. They will fly bombers to Africa and back for further training.
As one of a new group of pilot, the conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames (John Hubbard), arrives at Ginger Bar. The others include Kincaid (Larry Parks), from Alabama, Madigan (Forrest Tucker), an ex- marine; Hughes, a former player with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Baldwin (Lloyd Bridges), a former insurance agent who trained with the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Although he is a capable pilot, Ames immediately incurs the animosity of the training-officer, "Hardtack" Hamilton (Chester Morris). Not only is Ames reckless, he is also making a play for Susan Merril (Harriet Hilliard), the Commanding Officer's daughter with whom "Tack" is in love.
Because of a broken date by Susan, Ames gets drunk and, the next day, crashes his aircraft on combat training crashing his aircraft into Kincaid's, killing his friend. Now, he must redeem himself. He will get a chance when "Tack" and another pilot have a crash in the jungle. Ames, knowing that Susan is in love with Tack, takes off without orders He locates Tack in the jungle and brings him safely home to Susan. When the squadron takes off again, Ames leaves for Africa, declaring that he intends to find a little excitement there.
Western of a girl who marries the son of an outlaw, but when he is killed in a fight, she marries the ever loving doctor.
Terry Baxter is a dancer from small town Kansas, trying desperately to break into movies after traveling to Hollywood. She does everything from sneaking onto sound stages and disguising herself but she doesn’t have any luck. She then meets a screenwriter who is also new to Hollywood, and she poses as his private secretary, all in an act to have access to the studio and try and see studio mogul Raymond Stewart. All her breathless attempts to see the guy get her nowhere, but when she suddenly stops two men by tap dancing for them, they try giving her a screen test, but she walks out on them because she thinks they are making fun of her. She then gets arrested after trying to break into Raymond Stewart’s home. Everything is in a mess until she is freed by Raymond Stewart himself and becomes a big star.
Doris Henley (Jean Parker) attracts the attention of Bill Arden (Tom Brown) and Paul Herbert (Larry Parks). Arden and Herbert sign up at Annapolis Naval Academy in order to impress the young lady. Arden finds he dislikes the life of a naval man, until he saves his rival's (Herbert) life in a fire. Arden is badly burned in the effort, but earns the respect of others, which makes him rethink his views.
Western. Mounty rounds up gang of fur smugglers
Eric Cartman and his classmates are planning to launch a superhero franchise with an original Netflix series for their "Coon and Friends" alter egos, but are slandered by fake news stories on Facebook accusing them of burning the American flag and engaging in various sex acts, which damages their reputations. The boys learn Butters Stotch is behind this, but he refuses to stop, as he engages in this activity in the guise of his supervillain identity, Professor Chaos, and has started a company to spread fake news for profit. A Netflix staffperson tells Cartman they cannot approve their series until the problem of the damaging information about them is removed from Facebook.
Troubled by the fake stories, the boys' parents decide to invite Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a town assembly so he can provide insight on the matter. During his speech, he does not address the citizens' concerns, instead dismissing their complaints and pretending to deflect their attempts to "block" him by speaking and moving in the style of blocking techniques from martial arts films. After the unsuccessful assembly, he continues to irritate the townspeople by appearing uninvited in their homes and vehicles, showing up at restaurants to eat people's food, and acting as if everyone else's property is his. The townspeople complain to the police about his behavior, who inform the public that they cannot interfere with Zuckerberg's actions because they invited him to town, and let him into their lives.
When Coon and Friends confront Butters at his headquarters, Zuckerberg appears, having been paid by Butters to protect him, preventing Coon and Friends from removing the slanderous information from Facebook. Cartman then devises a plan: He and the other boys attack him in front of the other townspeople, who cheer them on. Zuckerberg fights back, beating the children, but Cartman publicly laments that his allies were merely protesting on behalf of persecuted groups like black people and the handicapped, and informs Zuckerberg that the video of him beating the children is being broadcast on Facebook Live. Zuckerberg panics and shuts down the site to prevent the video from spreading further, ending Butters' scheme.
Butters' father, Stephen, drags Butters to Russian President Vladimir Putin's office in Moscow, where he angrily rebukes Butters for what he has done, and then does the same to Putin for giving him the idea in the first place. The boys are now able to proceed with their franchise plan, but then split up over disagreements related to the franchise's release schedule.
''Hello, Brother'' is a family drama which portrays a mischievous young boy's reaction to his older brother's battle with childhood cancer. It is based on the true story of siblings Seol-hwi and Chang-hwi.
Jude, her identical twin, Taryn, and their older half-sister, Vivienne, are living in the human world when Madoc, Vivienne’s biological father, murders their human parents. Madoc takes them all to Faerie to live with him, his wife Oriana, and son Oak. The twins love Faerie and abide by the rules but Vivi, who ‘truly’ belongs there wishes she did not and disobeys. The family attends a faerie ball at which Jude is assaulted by Valerian, who is a good friend of the "cruel prince", Cardan. Cardan and his friends, Valerian, Nicasia, and Locke, come to repeatedly torment Jude and Taryn. Cardan's father, Eldred, the High King of Elfhame, must soon choose a successor, most likely to be Prince Dain, his third oldest. Jude plans to compete to become a knight in the Summer Tournament. Cardan attempts to drown Jude after she refuses to withdraw from the Tournament. To save her, Taryn is forced to kiss his cheeks.
Vivi takes her sister to a mall in the mortal world to meet with Vivi's girlfriend, Heather, and asks them move to the mortal world with her. Jude and Taryn wish to return to Faerie. At school, Jude pushes Cardan after seeing him speaking to her crying sister. Taryn will not tell her what happened and begs her to make amends with Cardan. At the Tournament, Jude fights well against Cardan and his friends. In front of everyone, he asks her to beg for forgiveness, and she makes him furious by refusing. While she is lying wounded, Locke comes and tends to her wounds and starts displaying affection towards her. That night, Jude is told that there is a prince waiting for her in the parlor. She assumes it is Cardan and storms into the room. To her surprise, it is Prince Dain, who asks her to become his spy. In exchange for her service, he gives her a geas, which gives her the ability to resist enchantments, with the exception that he will be the only person who can "enchant," or control her.
The next day, Cardan and his friends, Nicasia and Valerian, assault Jude and shove faerie fruit into her mouth, which has the power to make humans delirious with "stupid joy". The students take advantage of her state by telling her to take off her dress and toss out the salt that would have cured her of the effects of faerie fruit. Locke rescues her and takes her home. Before they leave, Cardan stabs Jude's finger with a pin, making it bleed. Tasting the salt in her blood, she is cured of the effects of the faerie fruit. At home, Locke says he wishes to see her again and kisses her fingers before leaving.
Madoc demands to know who did this to her but she refuses out of fear he will kill them, which would likely result in the High King killing Madoc for killing Prince Cardan. Instead, Jude tells Madoc she wants to train even harder so she can defeat anyone who attacks her. Back in her room, she receives her first mission from Prince Dain; to go to Prince Balekin’s home and find a treasonous secret. She goes there and investigates Prince Cardan's room, stealing what looks to be her childhood book, ''Alice in Wonderland''. She also finds a letter in Balekin's office, which she copies to bring to Dain. While hiding under a table in his office, she witnesses Cardan being whipped and abused by Balekin. Dain receives the copied letter and believes that it pertains to the issue of Locke’s mother having been poisoned to death in the past. Jude goes to the Court of Shadows to meet the other spies who she will train with; The Roach, the Bomb, and the Ghost. At home, Taryn tells Jude that she will be getting engaged the night of Dain’s but keeps her suitor secret. Jude shows Taryn a copy of ''Alice in Wonderland'' that she found in Cardan's room. A note slips out, on which is written "Jude" over and over again in Cardan’s angry scrawl.
The next day at school, Locke smiles at Jude. On her way home, she picks poisonous faerie mushrooms and begins a practice of mithridatism – taking small doses of poison to become immune to its effects. She falls sick, and when she wakes up the Roach takes her for stealth training. Exhausted at school the next day, Jude falls asleep during lunch. She awakes to Valerian with her rowan necklace in his hand. Thinking that he can control her since she is without its protection, he commands her to jump from the tower to her death. He is unaware that she has no need for the rowan necklace because of Dain's gaes. She is able to resist him and stabs him with a knife. Jude goes home with Locke and he invites her to stay for a party with his friends that night. While at his house, she wears the dress of his deceased mother and finds a special acorn in the pocket. Locke tells Jude she looks beautiful, and the two spend the night kissing and dancing. Cardan, even as he is being kissed by other girls at the party, keeps his eyes fixed on Jude.
Back at home, Jude opens the acorn she found in Locke's mother's dress with a message from Locke's mother. It shows her predicting her own death and asking her best friend to take care of her baby. Jude questions its connection to the letter she found at Balekin’s house. Jude returns to Balekin's house to find more evidence but finds nothing. While leaving, she encounters an ensorcelled human servant, Sophie, and smuggles her out of the house to return her to the human world with Vivi's help. They ride magic horses over the border to the human world, but Sophie throws herself off the horse into the ocean, not being able to cope with living with what she experienced in Faerie. Jude feels overwhelmed with guilt. The next morning, she is summoned to see Dain in the parlor. She thinks he wants to talk to her about Sophie, but instead, he scolds her for stabbing Valerian. To prove her loyalty to him, Dain compels Jude to stab her own hand.
In preparation for Dain's coronation, dresses arrive for Jude's family. Jude’s dress is different than what she ordered but finds it to be the most beautiful dress she’s ever seen. Oriana thinks she is romantically involved with Dain and warns her not to rise above her station. Jude learns Oriana was a consort to High King Eldred before marrying Madoc. She warns Jude of the Court and tells her of the murder of a pregnant consort, Liriope, who was Locke's mother. Madoc and Balekin have a long meeting, which leaves Jude curious.
The night before the coronation, a drunk Valerian sneaks into Jude’s room and tries to kill her. In defense, she stabs him fatally and eventually buries his body. The Ghost continues Jude's spy training making her kill one of Balekin's messengers, though after she does, she recognizes that it is one of Madoc's spies. The Ghost thinks it means Balekin set them up, but Jude continues to wonder what Liriope’s murder has to do with the coronation.
At the coronation, Jude dances with Locke who speaks in riddles asking if she loves him enough to give him up. Cardan cuts and says it is time for them to switch partners. As the coronation begins she sees Taryn and Locke share an intimate moment. The crowning ceremony begins as planned until Balekin and his followers – including Madoc – kill Dain. Balekin wants the throne, but the crown cannot be placed on his head unless it is done so by someone of Eldred's blood. He kills his father and all of his siblings who refuse to crown him. Prince Cardan is nowhere to be found. In the chaos afterward, Jude hides under a table, finds a drunk Cardan, and they escape the hall. Once out, Jude holds a knife to Cardan's throat and brings him to the Court of Shadows. The Ghost and the Roach show up and tell Jude that Dain poisoned Liriope because she was carrying his child, and he did not want Eldred to find out for fear that he would not inherit the throne. They hold Cardan prisoner for Jude and give her 24 hours to come up with a plan before he becomes theirs.
Jude comes home and finds that Locke is Taryn’s fiancé. She realizes that Locke has played her. She challenges Taryn to a duel for her honor. Vivi comes to Jude’s room and reveals that she knows she cannot be enchanted. She asks her to flee to the human world with her tonight. The next morning, Jude goes to reconcile with Taryn but finds her room empty. She searches in Oriana’s room but finds an identical acorn to the one in Liriope’s dress. Jude realizes that Oak is actually the son of Liriope and Dain. Oriana found Liriope as she was dying and cut the baby out. She married Madoc for safety and raised Oak as their own. Madoc intends to use Oak’s royal blood to get to the throne so he can serve as regent until Oak is of age.
In the Court of Shadows, Jude is horrified to find Cardan playing cards with those she trusted to guard him. She takes him to be questioned and he vows to answer anything she asks. Jude asks him why he hates her so much. Cardan reveals that he hates Jude because he is obsessed with her and cannot stop thinking about her. With her knife to his throat, they kiss. Jude hates that she likes it, and tells herself that she must kill him before he makes her like him.
Jude comes to the conclusion that the Oak must be the next High King, crowned by Cardan, and then Jude can act as regent until he is grown. However, she wants Oak to stay in the mortal world for a while so he can have a normal childhood. She tells Cardan about the plan and he agrees to go into her service for a year and a day of service in exchange for wealth and comfort. Jude gets support from other Fae courts for Oak’s coronation. Balekin holds a banquet to make himself High King by the support of the Fae courts. Everyone is shocked when Cardan shows up to the banquet with Jude. Balekin and Madoc assume Jude has found him so he can crown Balekin.
Madoc tells Jude that she should have brought Cardan to him first. Jude reveals she knows about his plans with Oak and asks him to promise to give up regency when he comes of age. He does not, so they have a duel during which Madoc becomes paralyzed from drinking the poisoned wine that Jude offered him earlier. Jude was able to resist the poison because of her mithridatism practices.
When Jude returns to the banquet, a bomb goes off and the crown is stolen by the Ghost who accidentally tosses the crown to Taryn rather than Jude. Reluctantly, Taryn gives it to Jude. The plan is for Cardan to crown Oak, but when Cardan kneels down Jude commands him to be still and Oak places the crown on Cardan's head, having been trained to do this beforehand. Cardan is furious as everyone kneels before him.
The epilogue follows Jude bringing Oak to the mortal world to live with Vivi and Heather. As Jude leaves, Oak asks how he will know when he is ready to return, to which Jude replied that he will be ready to return when leaving seems harder than staying. Jude returns to Faerie and meets with Cardan, who is still angry at her for making him king. He allows her to rule with him being her puppet, but he gives her veiled threats that he will create difficulty for her because of it.
Five months have elapsed since the events of ''The Cruel Prince'' – Cardan is king and five months into his one year plus one day submission to Jude. No one knows that Jude, acting as his seneschal, has control over him. Their hatred towards each other continues with Cardan angry that Jude betrayed him and made him king and Jude angry at Cardan for his continued awful behavior. Jude hopes she can extend her power over Cardan beyond the next seven months until her brother, Oak, is old enough to rule. Oak is being kept safe in the mortal world by Vivi to have a semblance of a normal childhood before he returns to rule.
Someone from the Court of Shadows tells Jude that they have intercepted a note from Balekin asking Cardan to visit him in prison. Jude goes to visit Balekin instead, but he does not tell her anything about his plans. Jude learns from a prison guard named Vulciber that messages are being exchanged by Balekin and Orlagh, queen of the Undersea, to undermine Cardan's rule. Jude is surprised since Orlagh's daughter, Nicasia, is one of Cardan's friends. While at the prison, Jude encounters Cardan's mother, Asha.
Jude's twin sister, Taryn, calls on her to make amends asks Jude to attend her wedding to Locke. Later, the Ghost brings Jude to Cardan's room, which has been largely destroyed – Cardan, Locke, and two other faeries lie drunk and half undressed. Cardan, partially wounded, shows her that two arrows were shot at him while he was in bed. He did not see who tried to assassinate him, but they find a secret passageway. Jude enters and finds Nicasia, who admits that she was furious to see Cardan in bed with another girl. She aimed to kill the girl and accidentally wounded Cardan instead. Jude asks Nicasia what Orlagh's intentions are with Balekin and Cardan. Orlagh wants Nicasia to marry Cardan and rule as queen.
Jude brings Cardan to her rooms, the only place she is confident he will be safe. He asks her to kiss him. She hates that she wants to. Jude goes to the council meeting in Cardan's place. She tries to convince the council that Orlagh is planning to move against their kingdom. Madoc pulls Jude aside after the meeting and says he still cares about her despite the fact that she poisoned him.
During a party, Nicasia catches Jude staring at Cardan. Nicasia still wants Cardan and wants to know what Jude has over him. Jude sees Cardan with a familiar ring on his finger and realizes he stole it from her hand. He tells Jude he made sure Taryn is not here for the spectacle Locke created for tonight and advises Jude to leave. Locke, who Cardan made to be is Master of Revels, begins a game, Queen of Mirth, in which a mortal girl is ensorcelled to think that she is being honored as the new queen but is instead grievously humiliated. Locke selects Jude to be ensorcelled since she is the only mortal girl at the ball. Though Jude has a gaes to protect against this, she endures the humiliation to avoid revealing her power.
After the game ends, Undersea creatures sent by Orlagh announce a message to the crowd: Orlagh wants her daughter to marry Cardan and there will be punishment if he disobeys. Cardan welcomes the creatures to stay at the revel then calls Jude to pull his council together. Before the council gathers, Madoc calls Jude and asks her to work towards a mutual goal. He wants her to ensure that Cardan does not marry Nicasia fearing that the Undersea queen slowly conquered all the kingdoms until she is the ultimate ruler. Madoc wants to use Oak as bait to draw Orlagh out, which Jude forbids.
Jude and Cardan meet with Nicasia. Cardan tells Nicasia to tell her mother that the next time she threatens him, her daughter will become his prisoner. He asks her whether she would want to be bound to him forever in an unhappy union, and Nicasia says there is more to ruling than happiness, and she thinks her mother's idea is a good one.
Cardan summons Jude and pulls her into a small room. He shows her a message Balekin sent him asking to meet. Cardan is concerned that Jude is hiding things from him, and she admits to intercepting messages from Balekin. Jude asks Cardan to seduce Nicasia to get information from her. Cardan mislikes this idea and instead practices his wiles on Jude. Jude is effectively seduced by Cardan. As they kiss, Jude thinks about how, out of all the mean things he has done to her over the years, making her like him more is the worst one.
Jude visits Grimsen to buy a gift for Taryn's wedding. Grimsen tells her he knows of her mortal father's metalworking and suggests that he once taught him. He offers Jude a pair of earrings to give Taryn in exchange for one of Jude‘s tears. The earrings are enchanted to magnify the wearer's beauty. Grimsen asks Jude to take a message to the king: if they go to war, he will fashion armor that cannot be penetrated and swords so strong Cardan will easily win.
Jude goes to the Court of Shadows to work on her safety plans for Oak. Cardan arrives to bring her news of what he discovered from Nicasia after a few kisses. Her mother plans to act during Taryn's wedding. Before he leaves, he mentions the intimacy that happened between them the other night. Jude cuts him off and says she is sure it served the same purpose for both of them: to get it out of their system.
Jude goes to Madoc with information about Orlagh's plan to attack during the wedding, and they work together to ensure Oak's safety. The night before the wedding, Taryn asks Jude and Vivi to spend the night. On her way to Madoc's house, Jude is attacked by men on horseback. She is injured though fights back and escapes. In the process, she loses the earrings she bought for Taryn.
At the wedding, Jude sees Cardan finding a look of hatred in his eyes similar to the last time she was here at Locke's house when he was watching her and Locke kiss. He merely compliments her dress. Jude is worried that she is falling in love with him. Jude orders Cardan to never be alone tonight even though the implications of the statement bother her. Madoc heard their exchange and now knows about Jude's control over Cardan. He says they will work together to defeat Orlagh, but after that, they will be enemies.
Taryn arrives at her wedding party wearing the earrings that Jude intended to give her that she lost when she was attacked. Jude notices Locke's limp, and she realizes that it was he and his friends who attacked her.
Jude learns that Orlagh has made an attack on the prison, and she leaves the wedding to investigate. Jude goes to Asha's cell to set her free before going to Balekin's cell, finding it empty. Orlagh has rescued him in hopes of marrying her daughter to him and making him king someday. The Ghost joins Orlagh's forces revealing to Jude that he has betrayed her.
Jude is held captive in a cell in the Undersea where Nicasia comes to assault and berate her. Jude is brought to eat dinner with Orlagh, and since she is not wearing any charms, Orlagh believes Jude can be ensorcelled to do whatever they command. Even though Jude is protected by Dain's gaes, she acts like she is under their spell. Jude is questioned by Orlagh though is also able to learn some of their schemes. She learns that Grimsen is making a new crown to make Balekin king.
After countless days in prison, Jude learns that Cardan has offered to pay a ransom to get Jude back. Balekin glamours Jude to make her loyal to them and commands her to kill Cardan, giving her poison to do so. Upon returning to land, Jude learns that in exchange for her freedom, Cardan has made concessions, including allowing Balekin to be free and live as the ambassador to Elfhame from the Undersea.
Jude is taken to Madoc's house despite her request to return to the palace. There, Taryn tells Jude she has been gone about a month and that Cardan and their father formed a truce to try to get her back. Jude is called on by Dulcamara from the Court of Termites. Dulcamara tells Jude that Cardan gave the Undersea permission to attack her court and many of her people died. Jude learns that this was part of the price of her ransom. Dulcamara says they pledged to King Cardan because he was supposed to protect them. She reminds Jude that she still owes their court a favor, and she asks for Jude to kill Prince Balekin. Jude says if she kills him, then they will be at war with the Undersea, which Dulcamara accepts.
Jude goes to the palace to reach Cardan, but the guards have been ordered by Madoc not to let her in. Jude decided to go to Hallow Hall to reach Balekin, as he would expect her to do, and he gives her poison to kill Cardan. Jude returns to the palace and sneaks into Cardan's room. When she wakes him, he pulls her into bed with him. She tells him that Orlagh and Balekin are planning his murder. Cardan confesses to Jude why he betrayed others to get her back. He says that it took her being kidnapped to figure out his true feelings for her. The Roach and the Bomb appear and tell Cardan that Jude is working under orders from Balekin to kill him. They search Jude and find the poison that Balekin gave her. She explains that Balekin thought he had ensorcelled her to kill Cardan, but that she is immune to such spells because of the gaes she received from Dain.
At a masquerade ball, Jude tells Locke she knows he tried to kill her before his wedding, and she plans to retaliate. Lord Roiben from the Court of Termites arrives and says he expects Jude to make good on her promise. Jude sees Asha at the ball and wonders whether Cardan reconciled with his mother. Cardan arrives at the ball appearing to be extremely drunk and making a fool of himself. He pulls Jude onto the dance floor and kisses her very publicly, at which point Jude tastes wraithberry on his lips and recognizes that Cardan has been poisoned. Jude escorts him away and finds the Bomb to work to cure him. Balekin sends a note that he has the antidote and that he will give it to Cardan in exchange for the crown. Jude duels against Balekin for the antidote and ultimately kills Balekin. When Jude returns to Cardan, she discovers Madoc had Taryn pose as Jude to fool Cardan into giving Madoc half of the army. Cardan agreed because he trusts Jude.
Later that night, Cardan calls Jude back to his room and asks her to give him his free will back. He asks her to marry him, which will allow her to give him any royal orders she wants and bypass her needing to order him around to get things done. He suggests they only need to stay married until Oak is ready to rule. They perform the ceremony themselves with Cardan returning to Jude the ring he had previously given her. Jude follows through and releases him from his service to her.
The next morning, Cardan learns that his brother was killed by Jude in a duel. Orlagh arrives to have Cardan account for why her Ambassador was killed. Cardan accepts no blame because it was not his wish for his brother to die. Orlagh knows it was Jude and demands justice. She threatens war, and he threatens to use his powers over nature that being the High King of Elfhame grants him. He can control the land under all of the water, and to prove this, he creates a new island to emerge from the water. As he does this, Cardan traps Nicasia in a tree, and Orlagh relents in exchange for Cardan releasing her daughter. Cardan requests Nicasia stay behind on the land to serve as an ambassador. To further appease Orlagh and maintain peace with the Undersea, Cardan exiles Jude to the mortal world. She protests that he cannot do this because she is the Queen of Elfhame, but she is laughed at and dismissed. Ultimately, Jude goes to live with Vivi and Oak in the mortal world.
The Prologue recounts the birth of Cardan Greenbriar, and a prophecy made at his birth that he will be the last of Eldred's offspring and will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. The Royal Astrologer who makes this prediction also says that out of the boy's spilled blood can a great ruler rise, but only after the aforementioned prophecy comes to pass. As a result of this prophecy, Cardan is poorly treated and raised in squalor despite the fact that he is a Prince of Faerie.
Returning to the present-day story, Jude is living in the human world with Vivi and Oak. Not having any human documents to get a real job, she works odd jobs for a creature of Faerie known as Bryern in exchange for money to pay rent. He tells her that Grima Mog, former general to the Court of Teeth, has been exiled to the human world, and she has been eating the local Folk that live in the mortal world. Bryern gives her money in exchange for getting Grima Mog to stop her practice in this. Jude does so by fighting Grima Mog and making her promise to stop eating the Folk.
Jude returns home to find that Taryn has come from the Faerie realm. Taryn tells Jude that she is pregnant, her husband Locke had been abusive towards her, and she ultimately ended up killing him. She says that there is going to be an inquest into Locke's murder, and Taryn asks Jude to return to Faerie, pretending to be Taryn, so that she will be able to lie that she did not murder Locke, and thus will not be punished for Locke's death. Jude agrees to this even though it puts Jude at risk since Cardan had banished Jude from Faerie under penalty of death until or unless she is pardoned by the crown. Jude returns to meet with Cardan and the court pretending to be Taryn, but after the inquest has concluded, Cardan takes her aside and tells her that he knows that she is Jude and not Taryn. He asks why Jude has not responded to any of his letters, and Jude replies that she never received any letters from him. An attack is made in the palace, and Jude is kidnapped by Madoc's army, believing that they are rescuing Taryn from Cardan.
Jude, while continuing to be believed to be Taryn, is taken under Madoc's protection. He has taken half of Cardan's army and conspired with the Court of Teeth to take over Cardan's reign of Faerie. He has employed Grimsen to forge a new sword for him that will effectively overrule the power of the Blood Crown that Cardan wears. While in the camp of the Court of Teeth, Oriana discovers Jude and agrees to send a message to her sisters to help Jude escape the camp. While awaiting her escape, she finds the Ghost chained up, prisoner to Madoc. She learns that Locke knew the Ghost's true name and that Locke gave Madoc this information as part of the dowry for his marriage to Taryn. This is the reason why the Ghost was compelled to kidnap Jude and bring her to the undersea.
The Roach and Cardan come to the camp to help Jude escape, though she tells Cardan to leave since it is too dangerous for him to be here. She tells them that she already has a plan to escape with her sisters. In her escape, she is caught by Madoc, with whom she duels. Madoc gives her a deathly wound and expects that Jude will die from this. Jude asks for dirt to be packed into her wound, which saves her since she is the ruler of the land, and the land has the power to cure her.
Jude returns to the palace as they make preparations against the expected assault from Madoc's army. Jude has chosen Grima Mog as Grand General against the assault. Madoc and his army come to the palace with Madoc bringing the weapon that Grimsen has forged for him – a sword that can harness the power of the earth, rivaling the power that lies in the Blood Crown that Grimsen had previously forged. Madoc challenges Cardan to a duel in order to determine who will rule Faerie. He offers the sword to Cardan and thrusts the sword into the ground, which causes the ground to crack and split the throne causing the ruination of the throne. Madoc questions if Cardan has the loyalty of the people. Cardan recounts the prophecy that was made at his birth that he would be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. He says that he believes the people should choose of their own free will to follow a ruler and not be bound to a crown. He breaks the crown in half not knowing that when Grimsen forged the crown, he cursed it, which transforms Cardan into a snake. Grimsen tells that as a snake, he will poison the land, and that true love's kiss cannot stop it, only death. Cardan, in snake form, then kills Grimsen before burrowing into the ground.
Jude, acting as Queen, tries to formulate how to maintain her rule against Madoc's threat and solve Cardan's curse. Madoc and the Court of Teeth offer Jude the gift of a golden bridle that would be able to control Cardan. She later learns that they gave her incorrect instructions on how to use it, which would have tied her to the snake and left Madoc in control. A plan is made for Jude to capture the snake, but instead of putting the bridle on him, she cuts the snake's head off. The second part of the prophecy – only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise – is fulfilled when Cardan, in his original form, emerges from the pool of the snake's blood. In the Epilogue, Cardan and Jude are crowned and they banish Madoc to live in the human world.
The year is 2029. Ross is fifty; his wife Sorcha is Taoiseach; his triplet sons are at the centre of the Castlerock College Junior Cup team. Ross is asked to sell a house in Sallynoggin — his childhood home. This brings up old memories.
The story of Nathan Hale, an American soldier and spy from his days as a teacher to his eventual capture and execution.
In 1970, Harmony, a small town in New Mexico, is run by a small-time crime boss named Slue, who accepts the delivery of a Lincoln Continental car stolen by his henchmen Weasel, who brings it after killing a couple who was travelling with their child. When the crime boss finds the couple's baby in the backseat he wants to kill him, but he is stopped by his transvestite “wife”, Pearl. Slue decides to keep the baby - which Pearl names “Sonny Boy” - but he cuts out the boy’s tongue and raises him as a mute accomplice in their crimes, training and treating him like a wild dog, and sending Sonny Boy to kill anyone who wants to steal from or opposes Slue's grip over the town. When the grown Sonny Boy escapes and tries to make contact with the outside world, the attention he draws to his warped family results in darkly-humored mayhem.
In 2107 Earth is controlled by a military-political party known as the Bridgists. A galaxy-wide rebellion against the Bridgists' rule results in the destruction of all life on Earth. Soon, the rebellion is on the brink of defeat by the Bridgists. The rebels make a final stand near Proximia 2 in the Alpha Centauri star system. The rebels win a starship battle with the Bridgists, but the Bridgist Commander Tunis and Colonel Norris escape in a time traveling shuttle which takes them back to Earth in 1998. The rebels destroy the Bridgist ship, even though it is filled with civilians. Rebel lieutenant Anthony Rand tries to stop the destruction of the Bridgist ship, but instead ends up killing his own commander. He is arrested and sent to military prison.
Rand and 3 other prisoners, Wingate, Frankel, and Uriah, are recruited to go back in time to 1998 and kill Commander Tunis. They have 48 hours to complete their mission, otherwise their bio-implants will self-destruct, killing them all.
Rand and the others successfully land in America in 1998. Rand’s group steals a car and Uriah is able to drive it. Cathy Easton, a businesswoman from 1998, breaks into her ex-husband's house and finds Commander Tunis and Colonel Norris there. Rand’s group reaches the house and starts shooting at Tunis. Uriah is killed and Tunis escapes. Tunis then blows up the house, but Rand manages to rescue Cathy. FBI agents arrive at the house to investigate the explosion. Finding Uriah’s body, the agents try to conduct a postmortem, but Uriah’s bio-implant blows up.
Rand’s group returns to Cathy’s house, where she tells Rand that she was married to a John Bridges; Rand knows he started the Bridgist movement through a book on political idealism he wrote. Rand surmises that is why Tunis has travelled back to 1998. The police arrive, so Rand blows up the house and they all escape in the explosion.
Wingate receives a signal from Tunis and Norris’s bio-trackers from inside an old warehouse. Frankel finds the bio-trackers in a wooden chest as Tunis and Norris have managed to remove them. Unfortunately, as soon as Frankel opens the chest, they self-destruct, killing him.
John Bridges is nearly killed in an explosion, and Cathy becomes the main suspect. The police turn up, and Rand and Wingate help Cathy escape. Rand sends Cathy back to their ship, and goes on alone with Cathy to catch Tunis.
Congressman Jerry meets up with John Bridges to talk about his book. Jerry is running for Senate next year and he needs additional support. Jerry blackmails John about his tax debts and money laundering to get his support.
Rand and Cathy go and visit John Bridges, as Rand knows that Tunis may be near. They take out the security guards and confront John. Rand is about to kill John, but Cathy persuades him not to. Instead, they go in search of Congressman Jerry.
However, Tunis finds Jerry first and kidnaps him. Tunis plans to replicate himself into the image of Jerry, so he can run for president. Rand and Cathy find Tunis, and they have a gunfight. Jerry is killed, potentially changing the future forever, and Tunis manages to escape taking Cathy as a hostage. Rand finds them on a bridge, and kills Tunis. Cathy escapes by jumping over the side of the bridge into the river and Rand follows. Meanwhile Wingate gets back to the ship and takes off, leaving Rand stuck in 1998.
Rand’s bio-implant blows up as his 48-hour mission time has come to an end. Cathy is arrested by the FBI and tries to explain that she is innocent and that Rand and Tunis came from the future. They believe her and all charges are dropped.
Wingate returns to the future, but all the space stations have disappeared. Her ship is picked up by another large space cruiser which has come from Earth. In this new reality, there has been no war and Earth was never destroyed.
At the height of WWII in the Netherlands, Dries Riphagen and one of his associates find a Jewish woman in hiding; however, he informs the woman, Esther Schaap, that he wants to help her and other Jews in hiding, claiming because he was married to a Jewish girl who died. He treats Esther with hospitality and even has his photo taken with her, eventually gaining her trust. She tells all the other Jews she knows who are in hiding that they can trust Riphagen with their valuables.
During the Second World War, Riphagen is able to profit in a co-operation with the German occupiers as an untrustworthy ally of the German Security Service (the SD). It was his task, together with his "colleagues" from the Dutch underworld, to uncover and track down Jewish property, which was to be seized by the German government.
A young Dutch man, Jan, is part of the resistance that is led by his best friend, Gerrit van der Veen. They are able to sabotage the Nazis' agendas by posing as Nazi officers and taking away hundreds of files from a Nazi printing headquarter. Jan is very valuable to the resistance because of his position as a policeman in the SD during the Nazi occupation. The resistance group also makes fake identification cards to help their efforts in sabotaging the Nazis and collaborators.
A woman named Betje Wery, whose parents are already in a concentration camp in Poland, is apprehended by authorities at a train station. She is threatened with deportation to the concentration camps unless she helps Riphagen and the Nazis with information on resistance members and Jews in hiding. She gives herself the alias of Bella, and befriends one of Jan's resistance friends, Charly. He takes her to their meeting place, where she meets the other members, including Jan. While making out in the car, she sees Jan's SD card, fearing she's been caught, she abruptly leaves, and Jan goes home to his sleeping wife, Lena.
Riphagen eventually falls in love with a local woman, whom he meets when she is covering a work shift for her waitress sister, at a restaurant that is frequented by him. Although brutal with others, he showers Greetje with love, and she is unaware of his true nature. They eventually marry and move into a beautiful house that was stolen from its trusting Jewish owners, who were deported to a concentration camp after handing the keys over to Riphagen. Greetje thinks her husband is actually part of the Dutch resistance and is helping Jews by keeping their money and property safe until after the war.
Esther is no longer useful to Riphagen after he has managed to steal everything from her and those she's introduced to him. A very competent conman, he makes sure to take pictures with the Jews he's betrayed, so that he can use the photos as evidence after the war ends, to prove that he was part of the resistance. Esther, still naively believing Riphagen has been helping her and her friends, requests to leave Amsterdam the next day. She gives Riphagen a gold necklace with a medallion of St. Christopher. She waits for Riphagen the next day with a packed suitcase, but is horrified to realize she's been conned by Riphagen. Rather than be taken to a concentration camp, she commits suicide in front of Jan by stabbing herself with the sharp end of a long hair pick that she had in her hair.
Eventually Betje is pressured into betraying the group on their next sabotage mission, with Jan narrowly escaping the death setup himself. Another member, Frits, also manages to escape the trap, as he was the driver and realizes something is wrong as soon as he hears the gunshots. When Jan sees all of the members killed and brought out, Betje emerges, and Jan realizes she is a traitor, as well as realizing Riphagen was a part of it.
Jan goes into hiding, but the war is nearing an end, and after hearing an incorrect announcement on the radio that the Netherlands have been liberated by the Allies, he comes out of hiding. He is intent on bringing Riphagen to justice. A new group of resistance fighters, headed by a man named Sanders, seeks vigilante justice against Dutch collaborators. Frits is a part of Sanders' group.
Jan starts tracking down Riphagen, but he always manages to escape being caught. After the war, Jan is even more determined to bring Riphagen to justice; however it's complicated by Riphagen's unbelievable good luck on avoiding being caught, his great skill of convincing and conning others, and his physical strength and ruthlessness. Greetje refuses to believe the truth about her husband, but eventually Jan is able to convince her when he notices the St. Christopher gold necklace she is wearing. Jan shows her a picture of Esther wearing it, and she finally realizes the truth.
In the end though, Riphagen continues to have the devil's good luck even when he is finally caught by Jan. Riphagen is able to overpower Jan, despite Jan having a gun, and ends up killing him by putting him in a choke hold. The movie ends with short text summaries about what happened to the real characters of the movie; including that Riphagen never saw his wife and son again after leaving them in Amsterdam, and that he's managed to avoid capture and punishment, eventually dying in 1973 at an exclusive retirement home in Switzerland.
Successful lawyer Mark Fenton (Kent Taylor) seeks to acquit young playboy Don Elliott (Danny Morton), accused of drunk driving and hitting a pedestrian to death. After completing the case, Mark approaches Don's uncle and trustee—the respected theater producer Stephen Elliott (John Litel)—to give his girlfriend, actress Paula Marlowe (Virginia Gray) a role in his new theatrical production. Stephen rejects the approach but compensates his refusal with a generous fee. Meanwhile, Paula's younger sister Susan (Jane Adams) arrives from the province, and Mark invites both sisters to a restaurant. During the dinner, Paula is extremely upset by Stephen's refusal to give her the role. There Mark introduces the sisters to the district attorney and his friend John Kimble (Milburn Stone), and to his teacher, the experienced lawyer Fletcher Holiday (Charles Trowbridge). They notice Don Elliott drinking at the bar counter. Mark mentions that Don is a Stephen's nephew and heir of the whole family wealth, which is now managed by his uncle. This fact invites Paula's keen interest. She leaves the company and meets with Don—to arrange a meeting at her home that evening. Paula begins dating Don on a regular basis. This pleases Stephen very mush, because under her influence, Don quits drinking. One evening, Paula turns to Don, requesting to arrange her for the coveted role in the Stephen's play. However, Don refuses to talk about this with his uncle on the grounds that the main character of the play is a vicious and deceitful woman, and such a role does not fit Paula at all.
Admired by Paula's influence on his nephew, Steven decides to invite her to a dinner party. Although Susan sees Paula simply manipulating both men for the role, she, nevertheless, agrees to accompany her sister at the dinner in the Elliots' house. Learning during the dinner that Don will not inherit the family fortune if he marries before he is 30, Paula tells Stephen that Don is not really interested in her but in Susan. Feeling that Stephen likes her, Paula directly asks him for a major role in his new play. After consulting with his butler Walcott (Harry Cheshire), Steven immediately approves her ask. After that evening, Paula begins dating Stephen, while staying in touch with Mark but ignoring Don, who again starts to drink because of despair. The premiere of the Stephen's new play with Paula in the title role sees a great success. At a party after the successful premiere, Mark tries to clarify his relationship with Paula, but Stephen publicly announces his engagement with her. After hearing these words, the furious Mark pounces at Stephen with fists, but then, at the request of Paula, leaves the place.
Mark hires a private detective to arrange secret surveillance for both Paula and Stephen—and soon receive information on their immediate plans, as well as on a tense conversation between Stephen and Don, during which Don threatened his uncle. Then Mark sneaks into Paula's apartment and steals her bracelet and cigarette butt, and then goes to see Stephen. Threatening him with the weapon, Mark tells Stephen that he will shoot him and frame him for murdering Paula. In despair, Stephen proposes to break his engagement with Paula, but the lawyer still kills him. Leaving the evidence to frame Paula for this murder, Mark imperceptibly goes outside and waits for her arrival. When Paula discovers the Stephen's body, she storms out of the house into the street, where she encounters Mark, who allegedly came to apologize to Stephen for the yesterday's incident. After sending Paula home, Mark calls prosecutor Kimble, stating that he has just shot Stephen Elliott. Arriving at the place of crime, Kimble immediately begins to suspect that Mark tries to cover Paula, especially after he finds the evidence that Mark planted in advance. Kimble detains Paula, and Mark, insisting on his own fault, persuades Holiday to become his lawyer. Meticulous Holiday demands conducting an investigative experiment, the result of which only aggravating suspicions against Paula. Mark begins to fear that Paula may be really convicted. To avoid it, Mark convinces Don that it was he who, being drunk, killed Stephen. After Mark's departure, the depressed Don calls Kimble, confesses to the murder, and says that he is going to commit suicide. When Don mentions that it was Mark who convinced him it his fault, Kimble responds that he knows who is actually the murderer.
Soon, Mark receives a letter from Don, who reports that he confessed to the prosecutor and wanted to commit suicide but he did not have enough strength to do so. Fearing that he could still shoot himself, Don has sent Mark a pistol along with the letter. Mark, taking the received weapon, again comes to the house of the Elliotts, intent on killing Don and disguising the murder as suicide. When Mark shoots the supposedly sleeping Don, Kimble appears along with the police officers who arrest Mark for killing Steven. As it turns out, Kimble specifically arranged this trap for Mark, persuading Don to serve as bait and preloading his pistol with empty cartridges.
In Jump City, the Teen Titans arrive to stop Balloon Man. When he fails to recognize them, the Teen Titans jump into a rap song to introduce themselves ("GO!") and become distracted, forcing the Justice League — Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman — to intervene. They criticize the Titans for their childishness and inability to take their positions as superheroes seriously, while raising the fact that they do not have a feature-length film to prove their legitimacy as superheroes.
While at the premiere of "Batman Again", the Titans' leader Robin is mocked by the audience after a misunderstanding leads him to assume that there would be a film about him. At the rest of the team's suggestion, Robin resolves that in order to get a film made about him and the Titans, they need an arch-nemesis. Nearby, a supervillain named Slade breaks into S.T.A.R. Labs to steal a crystal. The Titans arrive and attempt to stop him, but he swiftly defeats and insults them.
The next day, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg and Raven create a film to cheer up Robin, but he turns it off prematurely and declares that they will go to Hollywood to have a film made about them ("Upbeat Inspirational Song About Life"). Upon arriving at Warner Bros. Studios, they encounter director Jade Wilson, who is responsible for all the superhero films being made. She turns down the Titans' request to be in a film ("My Superhero Movie"), saying that the only way she would make one about them is if they were the only superheroes in the world. The Titans take her words literally, and go back in time to prevent the origins of the other superheroes ("Crystals" and "Back in Time"), but upon returning to the present, they discover that having done so erases the other heroes' existence and are forced to go back in time again and undo their blunder.
Slade next arrives at Wayne Tech to infuse the crystal's power and the Titans arrive to stop him, this time putting up an actual fight. They secure the crystal, but Slade escapes, resolving to split Robin from his teammates.
The next day, Jade invites the Titans back to Hollywood and announces that she will make a movie about them due to their fight with Slade. While Robin is given a tour of the premises, Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire and Cyborg venture out and cause mischief ("Shenanigans"). They find a device labeled "DOOMSDAY" and try to destroy it, but Jade arrives and explains that D.O.O.M.S.D.A.Y. is an acronym for a new streaming service for the new movie she is making. She resolves to drop the rest of the Titans from the film and make it solely about Robin, which he happily accepts, much to the consternation of his team, who wish him luck. Robin finishes making the movie, but begins to regret his decision and misses his friends.
During a scene shot on location inside Titans Tower, Jade is revealed to be Slade in disguise. He steals the crystal back and reveals to Robin that having made numerous superhero films was part of his plan to keep all the heroes busy while he stole technology from their cities and dimensions to build D.O.O.M.S.D.A.Y., a device that can control minds and allow him to conquer the world, then he destroys the entire Titans Tower but Robin safely manages to escape the exploding building. In the aftermath of the wreckage Robin calls his friends and apologizes to them, who make peace with him.
At the premiere of "Robin: The Movie", the Titans arrive and unmask Slade, but Slade unleashes the crystal's power to control the other heroes and sends them after the Titans. Robin goes after Slade while the rest of the team leads off the heroes. However, Slade uses his new power to control Robin, and tells him to attack his friends. They show him the rest of the movie they made for him, causing Robin to come to his senses. Slade attempts to fight them with a giant robot, but the team uses a song ("GO! (Battle Remix)") to take out Slade, altogether while also destroying the crystal, snapping the other heroes out of their trance. They all congratulate the Titans for their heroic efforts with Robin admitting that he has learned to be himself without needing a movie.
Recent college graduate and hard-working kid, Bridger (Bryce Hirschberg), receives heartbreaking news that his mother has cancer. Strapped for cash, he needs to make more money than his day job pays to provide his mother with treatment. As fate would have it, he finds a half bleached dollar bill in his pocket after pulling his clothes out of the wash. This spurs an idea on how to 'make' a ton of money. BUT he would only focus on counterfeiting 'small' bills, 5s, 10s, 20s, because 'who checks a $10?'. After bringing his close friends in on the scheme, they begin to abuse the process, which puts Bridger, and his mother, at risk. And a sting involving one of his best friends turns deadly.
As described in film magazine reviews, Jenny Riano (Minter), is an orphaned girl and a talented violinist, who is raised by her grandmother Nancy Beedle (Fisher). She falls in love with Royal Renshaw (Belasco), who is the son of the wealthy social climber Sophia Shuttles (Ashton) by her first husband. Mrs. Shuttles hopes to find a socially advantageous match for her son, and so does not approve of his relationship with Jenny. She would much prefer to see Royal wed to Jolanda Van Mater (Shelby), whose mother has the status that Mrs. Shuttles desires.
Despite his mother's wishes, Royal weds Jenny in secret. When his mother finds out, she forces him to take a yachting holiday and, telling Jenny that he has abandoned her, convinces her to annul the marriage. Jenny's grandmother dies, and she travels to the city to become a concert violinist.
When Royal returns, he is unable to find Jenny, and his parents marry him to Jolanda. Jolanda, however, has become a drug fiend, after initially being given dope by local tea room owner Polly Primrose (Wallace) as a cure for a headache. Royal, who cannot forget Jenny, decides to commit Jolanda to a sanatorium. However, when she realises where he is driving her, Jolanda seizes the wheel of Royal's automobile and steers the car over a cliff.
Jolanda is killed in the crash, and Royal's life hangs in the balance. In hospital, he calls out constantly for Jenny, and his parents eventually relent and search for her. Jenny abandons her musical career to rush to Royal's side. With Jenny's care, Royal recovers, and the two are once again wed, openly this time.
The May 15th, 1920 edition of Motion Picture News lists a musical cue sheet for the film.
A nun arrives at a religious mission in the middle of the war in China and soon becomes friend with refugee children. One day, a trafficker is injured and taken to the mission, where he falls in love with the nun.
Ada Spencer and her younger sister, Piper, are high schoolers living in a rural Tennessee farmhouse with their widowed mother Elizabeth and their grandmother, Meemaw. When a water pipe bursts, the girls find a Silver Star and other information about their father, whom their mother never talks about. Over the next few days, the girls repeatedly lie and say they are going to the farm of Ada's friend, Justine, but actually catch rides with Justine to go learn more about their father.
At the nearby State Veteran's Home, they meet Iraq War veteran Henry Monroe, who tells them about serving in the Marines with their father in 2004, when their father saved his live by jumping on a grenade. They also meet C.J. Simms, a Korean War veteran and musician who is impressed by their singing voices.
They learn that their father had been a country music singer, so they travel to Nashville to learn more about him. They meet Declan, who soon strikes up a relationship with Ada. Declan helps them meet Marq Dunn, the lady with whom their father had written and recorded his music. After hearing them sing, Marq invites them back to Nashville to record a song.
The sisters get in trouble when Elizabeth finally learns that they have been lying about their whereabouts. They respond that their mother is a liar for never telling them the truth about their father’s music and military careers. Eventually Meemaw reveals that their father had stopped his music, of his own accord, when he met Elizabeth and wanted to start a family.
Elizabeth visits Marq, reconciling with her and admitting that she always felt a little jealous, but also a little guilty about taking Brian away from the musical opportunities he and Marq could have had. leading to Ada and Piper singing one of their father's songs, on stage with Willie Nelson and Marq, at a fund raiser for veterans.
An American spy is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend Jerry Baldwin, a naval commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
Lance Sterling, a cocky secret agent of H.T.U.V. (Honor, Trust, Unity and Valor), is sent to recover an attack drone from Japanese arms dealer Katsu Kimura in Japan. As soon as the buyer, cybernetically enhanced terrorist Killian, arrives, Sterling breaks in against the orders of H.T.U.V. director Joy Jenkins, defeats Kimura and his gang, and manages to escape with the briefcase containing the drone. Sterling returns to the H.T.U.V. headquarters to confront Walter Beckett, a socially inept MIT graduate and outcast young scientist, for equipping nonlethal weapons into his suit. Walter tries to convince Sterling that there is a more peaceful way to save the world but Sterling fires him before he can explain his latest invention: "biodynamic concealment".
Sterling discovers the briefcase to be empty and is confronted by Marcy Kappel, an internal affairs agent, who reveals footage of Sterling –actually Killian in a holographic disguise– leaving with the drone, labeling him as a traitor. Sterling escapes the H.T.U.V. and decides to track down Walter to help him disappear. Meanwhile, Killian breaks into the H.T.U.V. covert weapons facility.
While searching Walter's home for his invention, Sterling ingests the concoction and transforms into a pigeon by undergoing "chromothripsis". Before Walter and Sterling can decide what to do next, Marcy and other H.T.U.V. agents chase the duo through the city, but the duo escape in Sterling's spy car. The two track down Kimura at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. There, they learn of Killian's whereabouts in Venice, Italy before Marcy and the H.T.U.V. can capture them again.
Arriving in Venice, Walter is confronted by the H.T.U.V., who are unaware of Sterling's condition. Revealing that she knows about Wendy, Walter's mother who was a police officer who died on duty, Marcy tries to convince him to help turn Sterling in, but Walter refuses. Suddenly, a drone distracts the H.T.U.V. and allows Walter and Sterling to escape. The two discover the drone carrying the H.T.U.V. agent database, and Walter manages to retrieve it. However, Killian shows up, takes the database, and prepares to kill Walter. With help from hundreds of pigeons in the surrounding area, they distract Killian and flee. Disguised as Sterling once more, Killian escapes the H.T.U.V., shaking Marcy's suspicions of Sterling upon her seeing him with a robot hand.
Whilst underwater in a submarine, Walter reveals he planted a tracking device on Killian and locates him at the weapons facility. Walter manages to perfect the antidote and successfully turns Sterling human again. Reaching Killian's hideout, Sterling is concerned about Walter's safety and sends him away in the submarine. Once inside, Sterling confronts Killian, but is knocked out and captured as Killian reveals he has mass-produced hundreds of drones to target everyone at the agency using the database as revenge for killing his crew in a past mission led by Sterling. Noticing Walter returning in the submarine, Killian destroys it; unbeknownst to them, Walter survives with the help of one of his inventions, the inflatable hug.
Once Walter frees Sterling, the two escape and contacts Marcy for support as the drones approach H.T.U.V. headquarters in Washington D.C. Walter attempts to hack into Killian's bionic arm but when Killian realizes this, he tries to flee via air with a drone, but Walter catches up. Walter risks his life by trapping Killian in the inflatable hug and deactivates the villain's arm as Walter himself falls, but Sterling, who has turned himself back into a pigeon, successfully flies for the first time and carries him to safety with help from other pigeons, while Killian is found and arrested.
Despite saving the world, Sterling —back in his human form— and Walter are fired for disobedience. However, they are quickly rehired by the H.T.U.V. as the agency could learn from Walter's more peaceful ways of handling villainy.
Set in Souris East, Prince Edward Island, and Charlottetown at the end of the 19th century, the isolated deaf-mute Belinda lives with her father and aunt in the remote farming and fishing community northwest of Nova Scotia.
Belinda is universally referred to as 'the Dummy' until the newly arrived doctor sees her potential and begins teaching her sign language. As her personality emerges from the silence her appearance also changes. She is raped by a local lad and gives birth to a son she names Johnny Belinda. The community assumes the child is the doctor's and shuns him and her family in moral outrage.
Matters come to a head when the biological father attempts to take his infant son from Belinda by force, and she kills him. At the ensuing trial all but the doctor are prepared to condemn Belinda for murder until the truth unexpectedly emerges: that she was acting in self-defense. She is set free with her baby and the doctor's good name is restored.
The book begins with a fictional correspondence of an author and his publisher, Ernst Rowohlt.
The following story covers a summer vacation of Kurt, called Peter and narrating in the first person, with his friend Lydia, called by him almost always "''die Prinzessin''" (the princess), in Sweden. After train and ferry rides, they arrive at Gripsholm palace where they spend around three weeks. They are visited there by Kurt's old friend Karlchen, and later Lydia's best friend Billie. The story in episodes includes an erotic scene of three, unusual at the end of Weimar Germany, but also the observation of a little girl suffering under a sadistic German woman running a children's home. They contact the child's mother who lives in Switzerland and organise the girl's trip back to there. <!--
A young couple passes through the village of Litan as the locals hold a Festival of the Dead. As the festival progresses, strange, and eerie events occur that reveals something sinister at work. Fearing for their lives, the couple decided to flee the village before they too become overtaken by the dark implications of the celebration and become shadows of their former selves.
In New York City, a head butler (Dan Duryea) of a wealthy house of the Latimers stays to look after the mansion while the owners' family leaves for a vacation in Florida. However, he is going to have his own vacation there in the mansion, playing a rich man. He meets a beautiful woman (Ella Raines) and promises her to bail out her sister's large gambling debts owed to a ruthless gangster (William Bendix). However, the butler soon finds himself in trouble as the gangster later reveals that the debts may be up to $100,000 and that he needs a pair of valuable paintings from the Latimers' house as a collateral for the butler's check.
Aurore is fifty years old, separated from her husband, Nanar, and with two grown up daughters. The restaurant she works at is under new management from an insufferable boss, and she is suffering with symptoms of the menopause. While pretending to view an apartment that her friend Marie-Noelle (known as Mano) is selling, she reencounters an old flame and her former husband’s best friend, Christophe, with whom she reconnects.
Her eldest daughter, Marina, tells her that she is pregnant. Aurore at first is worried that Marina is making a similar mistake to her in having a baby so young, which upsets Marina. Aurore arranges for Marina to have her initial scans at the hospital where Christophe works in order to see him again, although this leads to a further argument and reconciliation. Christophe and Aurore meet for a few dates. Infuriated by the changes to the restaurant, Aurore quits her job as a waitress.
Aurore’s younger daughter, Lucie, announces that she is leaving for Barcelona with her boyfriend, who is moving there for work. Nanar tells Aurore that he wants a divorce so he can marry his new partner, with whom he now has two young daughters. Aurore stops seeing Christophe, and starts seeing Hervé, whom she met at a party hosted by Mano. After some time at the job centre, Aurore finds a job as a cleaner for a group of four retired women.
At a high school reunion, an old classmate assumes that Aurore and Christophe are a long-term couple, and cannot believe that Aurore instead married Nanar. Marina comes to stay with Aurore, and Lucie returns from Barcelona after breaking up with her boyfriend.
Hervé invites Aurore for a romantic getaway to Venice, but she is hesitant to accept, holding on to her feelings for Christophe. Just as she is driving away, she spots Christophe heading towards her house, getting out of the car. They reunite, and Marina gives birth to Aurore’s first grandchild.
Raffles visits Bunny's flat at midnight to tell him about a banquet at the Old Bohemian Club he attended earlier. The banquet was given for Reuben Rosenthall, an enormous, brutish, alcoholic millionaire who has returned to England from South Africa after making his money in diamond fields. Rosenthall boasted of his diamond stud and diamond ring, worth fifty thousand pounds together. Rosenthall also boasted Purvis, his prize-fighter bodyguard, and his readiness with his own gun. Raffles is eager to steal the diamonds.
Bunny agrees to help, though neither man is hard-up. Raffles retorts that this challenge will be for sport, not profit. Raffles will watch Rosenthall's house for a week, then return to Bunny with a plan. Bunny, irritated to be left out, is left torn between doubting the enterprise and impatiently awaiting fresh news.
During the week, Raffles tells very little to Bunny, or avoids him altogether. Offended, Bunny visits the Rosenthall house himself, in St. John's Wood. While approaching the house, Bunny is accosted by an old vagrant, who is actually a disguised Raffles. Bunny's tactlessly undisguised approach infuriates Raffles. He leads Bunny away, then chastises him for not taking more care. Bunny blames Raffles for not warning him to do so earlier. After a pause, Raffles agrees that he has been too uncommunicative. They quietly leave.
Raffles brings Bunny via omnibus to an artist's studio, on the King's Road in Chelsea. Raffles is the lawful tenant. He uses the studio for changing into and storing his disguises. He asks for Bunny's forgiveness for his secretiveness, and now informs Bunny of his plan.
They will enter the house when it is empty and try to drug Rosenthall's whiskey. Later, they will take the diamonds while Rosenthall and Purvis are intoxicated, while avoiding the ladies and the servants. To be safe, each man will bring a gun, and be disguised as a ruffian. Off-handedly, Raffles also mentions that Rosenthall was an Illicit Diamond Buyer, or I. D. B., who could go to prison if found out. Raffles turns in; Bunny goes home, but cannot sleep.
The next evening, Raffles and Bunny watch Rosenthall's house for an hour. When they see the inhabitants, Raffles and Bunny climb a wall, cross Rosenthall's lawn, and enter through an unlocked window.
Suddenly, electric lights flash on. Rosenthall and Purvis are pointing revolvers at them. Rosenthall had deduced that someone was spying on him. Raffles bluffs, and declares that Purvis has let slip that Rosenthall is an I. D. B.; Purvis falls for the bluff and angrily rushes at them. Purvis blocks Rosenthall's line of fire, so that Raffles can escape through the window, while Purvis knocks down Bunny.
Bunny wakes to find that he was left alone. Rosenthall and Purvis are overheard arguing outside. Bunny flees upstairs. He hides in a bedroom's wardrobe, until he is discovered half an hour later. He is dragged downstairs, and unmasked.
Ruthlessly, Rosenthall shoves Bunny against a door, and shoots around his head, shocking the ladies present. Purvis stops him. A policeman arrives, and takes Bunny away from the house. When they are away, Bunny asks Raffles, dressed as a policeman, how he did it. Raffles answers that he fled to his artist's studio, and changed there. Moreover, he has also sent a message to Inspector Mackenzie, informing Scotland Yard to swarm the house. Ultimately, Raffles gracefully admits defeat.
While Raffles is out during a Gentlemen v Players cricket match at Lord's, a young cricketer named Crowley approaches Raffles. Raffles learns that Crowley's father, Lord Amersteth, is looking for cricketers, such as Raffles, to play on Crowley's team in games celebrating Crowley's twenty-first birthday at his father's estate, Milchester Abbey, in Dorset. Raffles persuades Lord Amersteth to also invite Bunny to play. Bunny, who secretly cannot play cricket, is horrified, but accepts. Raffles returns to the field to bowl, and plays excellently. Afterwards, Raffles reveals that he intends to steal while at Lord Amersteth's.
A month later, Raffles helps Bunny practice cricket. Before they arrive, they briefly take shelter from rain at an inn. However, Raffles immediately leaves the inn at the sight of someone Bunny doesn't recognize.
At Milchester, Bunny is overwhelmed by the prestige of the party, while Raffles mingles easily. At dinner, the rector's talkative daughter confides in Bunny that a Scotland Yard detective is on the lookout for two well-known thieves in the area. Bunny, horrified, thinks that the man at the inn must be the detective. The rector's daughter points out the five thousand pound necklace that one guest, Lady Melrose, is wearing. Bunny is unable to voice his concerns to Raffles for two hours. Meanwhile, Bunny also endures the conversation of a Scottish photographer named Clephane.
Afterwards, Bunny goes to inform Raffles about the detective; however, he discovers Raffles has already been informed by Crowley. Moreover, the detective is actually Clephane, really a disguised Inspector Mackenzie. The man at the inn is a famous thief, and the leader of the gang Mackenzie is after. Raffles is excited by the situation, but Bunny makes Raffles promise not to take any risks.
The week continues normally. Bunny enjoys himself. On the cricket field, a lucky catch early on assures him his pride, despite his mediocre gameplay.
In the very early morning of the final day, Bunny is woken by a fight outside his room. He finds Inspector Mackenzie struggling with one of the waiters. Bunny holds the waiter, and Mackenzie runs downstairs to find the man's accomplices. Crowley and Lord Amersteth appear, followed by Lady Melrose's French maid. She says that Lady Melrose's window is open, and the lady's necklace box is gone. The other cricketers, including Raffles, arrive; Crowley leads them to follow Mackenzie. Bunny and Lord Amersteth drag the waiter downstairs, and give him to two other servants. Then they hear gunshots, and run outside.
They all come upon a wounded Mackenzie. Lord Amersteth reveals to everyone Mackenzie's true identity, and they carry Mackenzie inside. The criminals have escaped with the necklace. After some time, the final game of cricket is cancelled, and most of the cricketers, including Raffles and Bunny, leave by train.
When alone in a hansom, Bunny tells Raffles that he is glad to have been on the side of justice. Raffles, amused, praises the thieves' trick of lowering the jewellery box out of Lady Melrose's window. In fact, Raffles had seen the thieves through his window, and had run to warn the lady, but he could not wake her. Raffles shows Bunny a brief glimpse of Lady Melrose's stolen necklace, removed from its case.
Motus is a six-year-old boy who dreams of finding a way through the forest his village is trapped in. Using art supplies passed down to him from his father, he begins designing bridges through the forest. He soon meets bullies that try to stop him from completing his quest. However, not all of the bullies are hostile. Motus also meets conflicted bullies that express a sense of confusion at the situation.
Set during the Tong Wars in late 1870s San Francisco, the series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China in search of his sister, only to be sold to one of the most powerful tongs in Chinatown.
Raffles and Bunny are together at the Albany. Raffles decides to finally tell Bunny the tale of his first crime:
Raffles is in Melbourne for the Test match, and runs into debt. He is removed from play for some days due to a hand injury; the surgeon who attends him mentions there is a man named Raffles who is manager at a bank, recently promoted to a new location in Yea. Raffles supposes the man may be a long-lost relative, and may be of help to him. The doctor loans Raffles his horse. After writing to the other Raffles in spite of his wounded hand, Raffles rides through Whittlesea. Along the way, he comes upon an eerily riderless horse, followed by a horse with a suspicious rider; the rider lies to the naive Raffles about the fastest path to Yea.
Upon arriving late in the township, Raffles is met by a bank manager, who was awaiting him. The man warns him of bushrangers. He leads Raffles to the bank, and presents to him the letter that Raffles wrote his potential relative the previous day. Raffles realizes that he and this man have each mistaken each other for the other Raffles. Raffles maintains the ruse.
Over dinner with the man, named Ewbank, Raffles contemplates robbing the bank. While cleverly maintaining his ruse, Raffles learns the details of the bank from Ewbank. After dinner, Raffles persuades Ewbank to show him around. They retire. When he hears Ewbank snoring, Raffles exits the bank to prepare his horse for a speedy departure. He reenters and uses the secret strong-room keys to enters the strong-room. He takes a couple hundred sovereigns. Suddenly, there is a knocking at the bank's door.
Raffles, who brought a revolver, goes to meet the threat, but retreats at the sound Ewbank's approach. Ewbank lets in the newcomer, who has been abused by bushrangers. He is the real Raffles who Ewbank was expecting. Together they realize that the first Raffles to arrive is an imposter, and probably one of the bushrangers. They search for him. Raffles silently closes the store-room door, just in time to not be seen. Raffles waits for them to move on upstairs, and flees on his horse to a hotel in Melbourne. Raffles's loss of innocence is marked by him shaving off his heavy moustache. He later returns the horse to the doctor.
''Broken Tree Inn'' contains three separate adventures that takes place in a dangerous border area between The Human Empire and the non-human inhabitants of the Tall Seed Forest.
''Fortress Ellendar'' is an adventure in which the player characters are sent to retake Fortress Ellendar from the evil Dark Lord.
''Fortress Ellendar'' is a scenario in which the heroes must retake an eight-level desert fortress that has been conquered by a demon.
''Moorguard'' is an adventure in which the player characters escape fierce nomads and enter a secret shrine made from the bones of an ancient god-king.
''Moorguard'' is a scenario, a quest for a legendary axe and shield with magical powers needed to help the adventurers get safely back through enemy-held territory; it includes a description of Chalice Tower and the Temple Moorguard.
''Research Station Gamma'' is an adventure in which the player characters are stuck on the water world Vanejen. They are approached by an indigenous alien, who asks them to rescue his family from some sort of strange prison, giving the adventurers an opportunity to break into a top-secret Imperial Research Station.
Extra material includes rules on Tech 5 submersibles (roughly analogous to World War 2 submarines), information on the planet Vanejen and its major lifeforms, information and maps about Research Station Gamma, and rumours the adventurers hear during the adventure.
''Invasion From Outer Space'' is a game in which the player destroys as many alien ships as possible before losing all available bases.
''Pigskin'' is a football game with ten offensive plays and six defensive ones, and players can play against the computer or another player. In single-player mode there are five levels of difficulty.
''Space Games-3'' is a collection of four games not individually released: ''Ultratrek'', ''Romulan'', ''Starwars'', and ''Starlanes''.
''Star Cruiser'' is a game where two aggressive solar systems attempt to either force 25 non-aligned planets to ally with them or destroy all six of their opponent's starships.
''Tycoon'' is a game in which the player tries to increase the player's total worth by the effective management of a business to become the first tycoon.
Raffles and Bunny have just returned from Ireland, and Bunny anxiously waits in his rooms for Raffles to sell the emeralds they have stolen to Baird, a moneylender who is Raffles's fence. Raffles arrives, having sold the emeralds; however, Baird seems to have deduced that the disguised Raffles is actually a gentleman. Baird secretly followed Raffles back to his artist's studio, though Raffles has shaken him off. Raffles and Bunny leave to the Albany.
On the way, in Bond Street, they pass by Jack Rutter, an unfortunate drunkard who Baird has ruined financially.
Shortly after, Raffles and Bunny dine at a club. While in the smoking room, Raffles contemplates murder. Raffles explains to Bunny that he had lied earlier; Baird had, in fact, followed them to the Albany, and now knows Raffles's secret. Baird obviously plans to blackmail Raffles and Raffles decides that Baird must be killed. Bunny abhors murder, but resolves to go with Raffles to Baird.
After another stop at the Albany, Raffles and Bunny take a train and walk to Baird's house in Kensal Rise. The house is highly barricaded. Raffles covers the spikes of a gate with corks and his coat, and both he and Bunny climb over. They see a light inside the house, and hear stairs creak. With Bunny's assistance, Raffles silently cuts open the glass door using a diamond, treacle, and brown paper. Using the hole, Raffles turns the door's key and draws the bolt. They enter; instantly, Raffles almost trips over something. A gaslight reveals the dead, blood-soaked body of Baird. Raffles and Bunny are shocked. Then, Bunny remembers the light from earlier. They go upstairs to search for the culprit. Raffles kicks open a locked door and they find Jack Rutter, about to escape through the window.
Rutter, surprised by them, confesses to the murder. He had passed by Baird earlier in Bond Street. Baird, seeing Rutter and Raffles speak to one another, demanded information on Raffles from Rutter; Rutter persuaded Baird to first take him to Baird's house. Once there, Rutter eventually threatened Baird with a poker. Baird fired on Rutter with a revolver. Rutter dodged, and killed Baird. Rutter wants to turn himself in, but Raffles is determined to save all three of them. He and Bunny drag Rutter away; by foot and by cab, they return to Bunny's rooms. Raffles then takes Rutter to the Chelsea studio, and packs Rutter safely on a ship to New York.
Described simply as "A Detective Story", the plot summary in ''The Edison Kinetogram'' was:
A detective is just a machine. Someone has done something or something has happened that is more or less of a mystery to the lay mind. A detective is called in and is expected to find out who or what has caused the trouble and to set matters right. That is what he is for.
When Clark, the elder of Clark Brothers Manufacturers, discovered that sums of money varying from ten to fifty dollars were being taken from the safe in his office he sent for the police. He was told to diseharge his stenographer at once and to let it be understood in the office that she was under suspicion. He was also to send the discharged stenographer around to the Detective Bureau. This he did.
The poor girl was terrified, but upon arriving at the Detective Bureau she was assured by the detective that she was just going to have a little vacation. Of course a lady detective was sent to take her place. To discover the thieves was so ridiculously easy that by the end of three days she had two of the clerks under arrest. Too much trust had been reposed in them.
But the keen eyes did not detect the fact that the young man of the firm was sadly depressed because of the absence of the stenographer whose place the detective had taken. She had, however, observed that he was a very estimable young man and found herself taking more than a professional interest in him.
But when her time came to leave and the old stenographer came back to take her place, she found herself very much out of things. Young Mr. Clark was so much occupied in welcoming his returned friend that he had no time even to say good-bye to the detective. It hurt the girl more than she would ever have confessed, but after all she had to admit it was just.
Cynthia Daventry, the heroine of the story, grows up in Argentina as the adopted daughter of Robert and Jane Daventry, an English couple. Unable to have children themselves, they had adopted Cynthia at the age of three from a foundling hospital where she had been left by her dissolute father, James Glanville, following her mother's death in an earthquake. Cynthia is unaware of her parentage, and is horrified when on her 17th birthday her natural father arrives unannounced to claim her, intending to force her into prostitution in Buenos Aires and live off the proceeds. The Daventrys flee back to England, where they live comfortably although Cynthia never shakes off her deep-rooted fears.
After the Daventrys’ death, Cynthia marries Captain Harry Rames, an up-and-coming politician whom she had first admired years earlier when as a naval officer he had led an expedition to the Antarctic. She realises that Rames does not love her but hopes that he will in time. Meanwhile, she throws herself into furthering his political career, while secretly regretting that his activities are driven not by any inner conviction but by his desire to win power and influence.
Some years later, in spite of Rames’ increasing success he quite suddenly loses interest in politics, though he hides the fact from Cynthia whom he has now started to love. For her part, Cynthia recognises a change and suspects that he might have taken a lover. When Rames eventually admits that his long-sublimated passion for the Antarctic has reasserted itself, Cynthia consents to his abandoning politics and leading a new expedition south. During the three years that Rames is away Cynthia goes back to live in her childhood home in Argentina. Ultimately, Rames returns safely to her.
Raffles shows Bunny a remarkable advertisement in ''The Daily Telegraph'' offering two thousand pounds for an unspecified task. Raffles has answered it under a false name. That moment, a replying telegram arrives, from a famously shady lawyer named Addenbrooke. Raffles takes Bunny to Addenbrooke's offices in Wellington Street, Strand.
The lawyer meets them, but recognizes Raffles. Raffles insists that both he and Bunny are in need of money. Addenbrooke, now reluctant, informs them of the illicit job: to take back his client's priceless Velasquez painting, which has been falsely sold by the client's miscreant son for a paltry five thousand pounds, while avoiding public scandal. Raffles argues the reward should be doubled; ultimately they agree to double-or-nothing. The three men lunch at the Café Royal. Raffles asks Addenbrooke to send word to Sir Bernard, and then leaves for a train to Sir Bernard in Esher. Later, Bunny receives word from Raffles to be ready tomorrow.
The next day, Raffles tells Bunny he learned from Sir Bernard that there is one copy of the painting in the country. He also pretended to want to buy the painting from the original buyer, Craggs, so that Craggs would show it to him. Raffles asks Bunny to dine with Craggs that evening, to distract him while Raffles burgles the map-case. Raffles leaves, and Bunny spends the remaining hours preparing his conversational skills.
A nervous Bunny arrives at Craggs's rooms in the Métropole hotel. Craggs's conversation over dinner is disagreeable. After dinner, Craggs discusses the Velasquez painting, and invites Bunny to see it. Bunny is unable to stop him. Craggs shows Bunny the painting, still in its map-case. Bunny is astounded: Raffles has evidently failed.
Bunny returns home by cab, only to go to the hotel again within minutes. Using a stolen key, Bunny reenters and finds Craggs asleep. Bunny chloroforms him and takes the painting. He hides it under his coat and leaves by train to Esher. Bunny is terrified, and then triumphant.
Bunny meets Raffles at Sir Bernard's, and shows him the painting. Raffles, however, grimly informs Bunny that he has just stolen the copy that Raffles had swapped the genuine article for. Bunny is aghast, but Sir Bernard is satisfied. In the end, Bunny is exasperated by the affair, yet Raffles is thoroughly impressed by the boldness that Bunny demonstrated.
According to a contemporary newspaper, the story concerns a "man-hater" falling in love.
''Squinters'' follows commuters in peak hour transit as they drive to work. The title ''Squinters'', refers to the fact that the commuters are facing the sun as they head east from Sydney's western suburbs in the mornings, and then also face into the sun in the afternoons on the way back to the western suburbs.
Raffles brings Bunny to his Albany rooms. Raffles says the famous thief whom Raffles outsmarted during the affair of Lady Melrose's necklace, named Crawshay, was imprisoned at Dartmoor but escaped yesterday. Raffles suspects that Crawshay is coming after him, to seek revenge against Raffles. Suddenly, Crawshay enters the room.
Crawshay smoothly tells Raffles that Raffles must find a way to get Crawshay out of the country. Raffles acknowledges to Bunny that Crawshay is blackmailing them, but is genuinely excited to help the daring prison escapee get away. Raffles and Bunny leave, as Crawshay falls asleep.
In the courtyard, they pass Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard. Despite Bunny's reservations, Raffles greets the inspector. They briefly discuss Crawshay. The inspector continues into the Albany, and Raffles and Bunny follow him.
Upon questioning by Raffles, a porter explains that police have come because a man of Crawshay's description was seen in the Albany earlier. Raffles leads Bunny into the set of rooms where several officers are investigating, Mackenzie among them. Mackenzie accepts Raffles's offer to help the police; Raffles is even glad to leave the key to his room with the police, amazing Bunny. Raffles departs, ostensibly to dinner, while Bunny remains with Mackenzie. Bunny observes Raffles's departure through the window.
While Bunny and Mackenzie are in the attic, a rope is found hanging over Raffles's window. This causes Mackenzie to begin searching Raffles's rooms. Inside, they find Raffles himself, lying on the floor on his back, and wounded by a poker in the forehead. The Raffles who departed was actually Crawshay in disguise. Bunny is tearful.
Later, Raffles reveals to Bunny that he intentionally struck himself. The day has been a success: they have won some credit with Mackenzie, and are even with Crawshay.
The documentary begins discussing Dolores' life prior to her becoming the activist she is known for being today. Dolores during the 1940s and 50's was living out the typical life of a Chicano for that period. Even at an early age she was disturbed by the world around her, and felt unsatisfied with the life that she was living. She witnessed police brutality and other horrors that made her feel that there was not true justice or equality in the world she was living in. In addition, she was unsatisfied with her life as a young mother. Having been married and divorced twice she was looking for something to fulfill her and this is when she met Fred Ross.
Fred Ross was community organizer in California who was searching for individuals who were willing to make the community better. His goals were immediately attractive to young Huerta because of Ross' focus on police brutality, and his efforts to combat it. Their relationship blossomed and by 1959 Dolores was head of the Stockton Chapter of the Community Service Organization, a group dedicated to helping Latino individuals in the community.
During this time period Dolores proved to be a great leader, organizer and lobbyist. She would pack hundreds of people into the office of legislators until they came around to supporting legislation she wanted. In addition, it was during these early years that she was introduced, by Ross, to Cesar Chavez. Chavez had the goal of organizing a union for farm workers and knew Dolores was going to be the person he needed to help him achieve this goal. Between the efforts of both Huerta and Chavez the United Farm Workers of America was born. The documentary discusses the extensive commitment Dolores made when starting up this organization. She was forced to pick up and move her family to Delano, California in order to be connected to the agricultural communities she was trying to help. She was forced to even leave some of her younger children behind for fear they would not be able to endure the circumstances of their new living conditions and mothers dedication to the UFW. She sacrificed a lot during the early years even some of the things she enjoyed the most, like listening to jazz music.
While UFW had made great strides in the relations of farm workers and farm owners the Filipino workers going on strike. It was then that Huerta and Chavez realized that they needed more inclusion in their organization. Not just Latino's were facing these horrible working conditions. As the UFW started to include more groups of workers they also started to recruit more and more individuals to work for them. In fact, there were more women involved in the UFW than in any other union in the United States combined. The following year, 1966, the UFW saw its first major success following the March to Sacramento. The march from Delano to Sacramento California was the largest gathering of farmworkers in California history. As a result of the march, the Schenley Contract was negotiated. This contract was the first between farm workers and growers.
During Robert F. Kennedy's run for president he became a huge supporter of the UFW and disenfranchised groups as a whole. As a senator he stood with the movement in regards to their treatment during the strikes. He actively went after the corporations who were mistreating the farmworkers. Due to his support of the UFW, the UFW fully supported his presidential run. Everyone went and worked on his campaign. UFW members would knock on doors persuading people to vote and even registering them to vote.
The relationship between Senator Kennedy and Dolores was so strong that she was actually with him the night of his assassination. This event was very jarring for Dolores and the rest of the UFW because they felt that the one person who would actually stand up for them was gone. In addition, his assassination made Dolores even more passionate about non-violence in her movement.
By 1973 the UFW had successfully organized three year contracts in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. As the contracts were about to expire the UFW started to experience problems with the teamsters. They wanted to represent all of the people formerly represented by the UFW. They were ultimately successful in a lot of their efforts. As a result, the UFW went on strikes and boycotts that often turned extremely violent so even resulting in death. This was all particularly upsetting for Dolores because it became clear to her that the current system did not want "brown people" to have an organization or have power.
In 1988, George Bush was holding a fundraiser in California. Many members of the UFW, including Dolores went and were peacefully protesting outside the building. As the crowd grew larger, crowd control officers began pushing and yelling at the protestors to move back. Dolores was following their orders when suddenly one of the officers started to hit and bash her with a police baton. She was hospitalized with three broken ribs as well as had to undergo emergency spleen removal. The beating resulted in a very long hospitalization and Dolores was weak for many many months. She had to take a long absence from the movement she had worked so passionately for many years.
In 1993, Chavez was found dead of natural causes in Arizona. His death was extremely upsetting to Dolores as well as the rest of the UFW. While many members and the public wanted to see Dolores as the new president, considering how equally she and Chavez had worked for decades, however the board voted to appoint someone else. Following this decision it was clear that others did not value the opinion of Dolores as Chavez had at that her voice in the UFW was slowly shrinking.
In 2002, less than 10 years after Chavez's death, Dolores handed in her resignation to the UFW. That same year she received a Puffin Grant of $100,000 which allowed her to start her own foundation the Dolores Huerta Foundation. This foundation has allowed Dolores to continue to give back and touch on every single issue that she is passionate about. She was able to connect everything that she had every fought for or disagreed with under one umbrella.
The series revolves around Kally – a 13 year-old musical prodigy who tries to balance her life as a virtuoso pianist and a normal teenage girl after moving from a small town to the country's most prestigious music college. Although everyone thinks she was born to be a classical pianist, her true dream is to become a pop star.
A young student has a violent past he must confront when that very evil past puts his romantic interest in danger.
Two professional private detectives (Rod Cameron and Broderick Crawford) leave their agency to be independently hired by a wealthy man who desperately wants to find his eloping daughter (Ella Raines).
''Ice'' is set during an apocalypse in which a massive, monolithic ice shelf, caused by nuclear war, is engulfing the earth. The male protagonist, and narrator of the story, spends the narrative feverishly pursuing a young, nameless woman, and contemplating the overwhelming but conflicting feelings he has for her, that slowly end up being intruded by the worsening atmosphere of the setting. Initially he must negotiate the presence of the woman's husband and later he faces more serious opposition from the Warden who seeks to keep her under his control. Christopher Priest, in his introduction to the novel, writes that the book is "virtually plotless" and "told in scenes of happenstance and coincidence."
Ten years after the events of the first film, in a secluded trailer park in Kalida, Ohio, the three masked thugs arrive in their pickup truck at night to a couple's trailer. Dollface wakes a sleeping female occupant by knocking at the front door. When she investigates, she sees the intruder already in the house, who kills her offscreen and then lies down in bed next to the woman's sleeping husband.
Sometime later, Mike and his wife Cindy take a trip with their children, Luke and Kinsey, to their aunt and uncle's trailer park to spend time together before Kinsey leaves for boarding school. After arriving, Dollface (unmasked) knocks at their front door and asks for Tamara, but is turned away by Cindy. Kinsey leaves the trailer annoyed and Luke is asked to go after her.
Back at the family trailer, Dollface knocks a second time and is again turned away. Troubled by the encounter, Mike and Cindy decide to look for the kids. During their walk, Luke and Kinsey come upon a trailer with the door open. Inside, they find their aunt and uncle's dead bodies (the couple killed in the opening scene). Mike and Cindy find the kids, who are in hysterics. Mike follows Luke back to the trailer to find the bodies, while Cindy and Kinsey return to the trailer. They find their cell phones smashed to pieces before Dollface appears and kills Cindy, who aids Kinsey’s escape through a skylight in the bathroom. Mike and Luke find the voicemail that Cindy left for their uncle in the trailer, realizing that the thugs were waiting for them to arrive. After fending off the masked man with a gun, they head back to the family trailer, where they find Cindy dead. Mike and Luke search for Kinsey in the family’s minivan, before the masked man throws a brick at the windshield, causing the van to crash. Kinsey is pursued by the three strangers, namely the Pin-up Girl and the masked man. Luke awakens and discovers Mike has been impaled by a board from the wreck and is unable to move. Mike gives Luke his gun and instructs him to find Kinsey and escape. After Luke leaves, Mike is killed by the masked man with an ice pick.
Kinsey enters a trailer, where she is stabbed by the Dollface, but Luke arrives and holds her at gunpoint. The siblings flee and hide in a different trailer, where Luke tends Kinsey’s wound, before the strangers drive their truck through the front of the trailer. The two escape and Luke hides Kinsey under a porch, while he goes to the main office to call for help. He manages to call 911, but quickly finds outs he is not alone and is attacked by Pin-Up Girl in the park’s pool area. He manages to wrestle her knife away from her and stabs her to death, before the masked man appears and attacks him with an axe. Luke and the masked man fall into the pool during their struggle and fight for the knife, leading to Luke being stabbed. Kinsey finds Luke and rescues him before setting off to find help.
A deputy finds a disheveled Kinsey, but before he can assist, Dollface kills him by slicing his throat. Kinsey is able to use the deputy’s shotgun to overpower and kill Dollface. But before Dollface dies Kinsey asks her why they are doing all this to which Dollface responds, "Why not?". The masked man arrives in the truck and totals the police SUV to prevent Kinsey from escaping. She uses her cigarette lighter to ignite a gasoline leak from both trucks, blowing them both up. The masked man survives the explosion and continues pursuing her in his truck engulfed in flames. He exits and falls to the ground. Kinsey flags down a passing truck for help, but they attempt to flee when they see the masked man appear, still alive, behind Kinsey. She climbs into the bed of the truck with the masked man following close behind her. Kinsey bashes him on the head with a baseball bat, knocking him out of the truck bed and seemingly killing him.
Some time later, Kinsey is at a hospital with Luke recovering from his injuries. As Kinsey awakens from a nightmare, she hears the jack-in-the-box toy noise she heard earlier when encountering the strangers, along with a knock at the door as the film ends.
During a weekend excursion in the woods, three friends, Victor (Ellar Coltrane), his ex-girlfriend Lynn (Willa Fitzgerald) and Jeff (Jacob Artist), who's been secretly sleeping with Lynn, discover four bags full of money. The trio discover that the bags belong to a criminal named Miller (John Cusack), who is looking for the money.
As they try to getaway, Jeff is entangled with one of the bags. With Miller pulling him in one direction, and Lynn refusing to let go of the money. As a result, Jeff dies from fatal injuries inflicted during the confrontation. Near an abandoned mill, Victor falls off the trail and Lynn has hid the money somewhere in the mill. Miller confronts Lynn when she tries to negotiate with him, saying that if he gives her some of the money, she will tell him where the rest is hidden.
Lynn distracts Miller long enough for Victor to hit him from behind with a pipe. Lynn then uses the pipe to bludgeon Millier to death. In the heat of the moment, Lynn suddenly arms herself with Miller's firearm and shoots Victor, killing him. With Lynn the only survivor, she walks out of the mill; taking the money back with her to civilization.
Three oddball friends attend Benjamin Franklin High School in Rhode Island. Jill is punk and overweight at 250 pounds, Matt comes from a poor background and only has one eye, wearing a skin-colored eyepatch, and Elmo, who is short and unattractive, is gay. When Matt and Jill begin to date and explore their teen sexuality, Elmo feels even more isolated. After graduation, Jill goes off to California and secretly loses 50 pounds over the course of six months. Matt is a dishwasher in a hometown restaurant and uses his wages to buy a prosthetic eye. Elmo is still in the closet and secretly admires Justin, a basketball player from high school that he had a crush on, who goes to his college.
Matt visits Jill at her west coast campus and is surprised by her weight loss, whereas she, in turn, is surprised by his prosthetic. As Matt's weeklong stay with Jill progresses, it becomes apparent that he doesn't support Jill's new healthy lifestyle. This culminates in Matt attempting to trick Jill into eating carb-loaded and fatty foods and then trying to force-feed her when she refuses. This sparks a fight between the two and they break up, with Jill telling Matt never to contact her again.
The popular and good-looking Patrick, who went to high school with the three, asks Jill out for a date, which she rejects. She gets a follow-up note, and second request from Patrick, slipped under her door. She talks it over with her college friends and decides to attend after another friend warns her that the fraternity party is called the "Cattle Call": Fraternity men invite overweight girls over to be weighed publicly. There is also an expectation of drinking and sex at the party. Jill goes with Patrick to the fraternity party but refuses to be weighed. Patrick supports her and pushes the person attempting to forcibly weigh her. Patrick's older brother reminds him this is all in fun, hands him a key and insinuates that he and Jill must go upstairs and have sex as the girls know that this is their one night of sex with someone conventionally attractive. Patrick and Jill go upstairs but Patrick has difficulty getting erect and Jill leaves without having sex with him. On her way out, she sees Patrick's older brother getting oral sex and he winks, telling her to enjoy her night.
Back in Rhode Island, Matt and Elmo attend a "Boys Will Be Girls" themed costume party. Matt meets Toni who tells him he is not her type and just too normal for her taste. In anger he takes out his eye and asks if his one eye is weird enough for her. She initially finds his prosthetic eye cool, however, after Matt gets extremely drunk and begins to show off his eye, she tells him he is too pathetic to fuck. At the same party Elmo finds his secret love Justin. Elmo tells Justin that there are too many fags at this party and they leave to drink elsewhere. Later in Elmo's bedroom, Justin falls asleep drunk. Elmo kisses him, and Justin, while in his drunken state, kisses him back, unaware that he is kissing Elmo. Justin wakes up, realizes what has happened and, in anger, hits Elmo in the head with a baseball bat.
Matt rushes to the hospital to find his friend Elmo in intensive care. Jill walks into the waiting room shortly after. Matt attempts to apologize but Jill asks him not to speak to her. Matt then sits down beside her and rests his head on her shoulder. Jill rests her head on Matt's head. Elmo's fate is left unknown.
The series is set in Berlin during the latter years of the Weimar Republic, beginning in 1929. It follows Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), a police inspector on assignment from Cologne who is on a secret mission to dismantle an extortion ring, and Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), police clerk by day, flapper by night, who aspires to become a police inspector.
As described in a film magazine, Danny (Coogan) is a kid at a private orphanage where he is beset with much grief in his attempts to prevent the sending away of his pet dog. The orphanage is to be abandoned and its little charges are offered for adoption. Danny finds a new home but it is far from an ideal home. The wife-beating husband Ed Lee (Beery) is finally put where he can work off his excess energy on a rock pile, while Danny, his foster mother (Hope), and her parents repair to an old farmhouse in the country where all is well.
The film tells the story of two sisters who are different. The younger sister Pann to live with an aunt in Bangkok to study. One day her mother came from Padang Besar in southern Thailand for visit her, but soon her mother died suddenly while singing on stage. She shocked and she's trying to call her sister, Pinn who works in Singapore. The following day, Pinn returned to Thailand. The sisters carried their mother to hometown Padang Besar with an ambulance.
In 1914, a young Englishman travels to a remote island in the South Atlantic to work for one year as a weather observer. When he and the captain of the ship search for the previous weather observer, they realize he is missing, and the only other inhabitant of the island is the caretaker of the crudely fortified lighthouse, Gruner, who greets them both coldly. Gruner says the previous weather observer cannot return with the ship as he has died from typhus, possibly swimming in the sea, and there is no body. The captain suggests the newcomer leave with him but he refuses.
The unnamed man explores the island, seeing strange rock circles on the beach. When he returns to the cabin he finds the diary of the previous meteorologist which talks of strange creatures from the sea attacking; soon after reading this he is beset at night by the creatures. He hides in the cellar and jabs one of the creatures, which looks through the floorboards, causing them to flee. The next day he calls to Gruner to let him into the lighthouse, but to no avail. In the cabin he discovers a rifle among the baggage, and, determined to make a stand, he reinforces the cabin. At night the creatures come and he shoots at them. Eventually, he has to resort to starting a fire as there are too many to take on. This causes them to flee but ruins the cabin.
The next day he observes Gruner leaving the lighthouse, and follows him down to the rocks where he discovers a female sea creature. Gruner prevents him from shooting her and shows that she is 'tame'. Gruner gives the man the name "Friend" and he explains that like a dog she will not leave her master no matter how cruel he is. She licks Friend's wounded hand and it heals.
Friend offers to share ammunition and other supplies with Gruner if he can stay in the lighthouse, which Gruner accepts. He wonders if the creatures keep coming for the lighthouse because they want to reclaim the female sea creature. More creatures attack that night, but Friend faints and Gruner becomes angry at his uselessness and tells him to do menial activities such as fetch water instead. The next night Gruner locks Friend outside on the balcony with his gun, leaving him to see if he can fend for himself against the creatures. In the morning Gruner discovers him covered in creature blood but alive.
The two men settle into a routine; the creatures attack several nights and they are forced to constantly keep watch. Friend discovers Gruner has been having sex with the female creature. Friend grows to like the creature, and names her Aneris, while Gruner physically and sexually abuses her. Friend recalls why he came to the island: to find peace in nothingness.
One night, the duo come perilously close to being killed when they are overrun by creatures. Locking themselves inside the lighthouse light-room, Gruner is badly bitten on the foot as he flees upstairs. At dawn the creatures leave for the sea. Aneris tends Gruner's wounded foot. When Friend tries to signal a passing ship for rescue, Gruner prevents him from doing so, while Aneris tries to protect him, enraging Gruner.
Friend takes to walking along the beach collecting whale bones and carving them. He shows one shaped like a boat to Aneris and she leads him to an abandoned boat on the beach. He tells Gruner about it but Gruner says the boat is too small for an escape from the island, and that he knew it was there, remaining from when a Portuguese man had used it to escape a shipwreck, but had been killed by the creatures. He says the ship's cargo contained dynamite but the only dynamite the Portuguese man had brought with him had been water-logged.
Friend shows interest in exploring the shipwreck, while Gruner does not. However, after seeing Friend swimming in a pool with Aneris, Gruner changes his mind due to jealousy, secretly hoping that Friend might die in the attempt. They use the boat to row out to the wreck and Friend dons an old diving suit to go down and search for the dynamite. While recovering some, he sees child-like versions of the creatures playing. Once they return, they discover that the recovered dynamite is dry enough to use.
Friend and Gruner form a plan to lure as many sea creatures to the lighthouse before setting off dynamite, believing that the show of force will drive them off. Aneris is forced onto the balcony and made to 'sing' to attract them. The creatures attack, but Gruner fails to set off the explosives, forcing Friend to run to the top of the lighthouse to reconnect the detonator. The resulting blast kills many of the creatures. Gruner sets off a secondary set of explosives closer to the lighthouse, knocking both Friend and himself unconscious.
In the morning, Gruner finishes off the wounded and dying creatures that are lying on the beach with a bayonet. Friend believes the creatures are more civilized than Gruner makes them out to be after seeing one of the dead creatures wearing a necklace. Gruner, enraged, hurls it into the sea. He explains that he found Aneris sea creature years ago as a baby trapped in a net and rescued her, believing that she owes him her life. The following night the creatures do not attack, and a great wailing sound comes from the sea which Friend takes to be mourning. Aneris disappears. While Gruner sleeps, Friend discovers a photo of Gruner as a young man with a wife.
Friend resumes walking along the beach and leaves a carved present for the creatures. He discovers a child creature investigating his present, and Aneris returns, appearing more confident and bold. They are interrupted by Gruner firing a gun. Friend tries to tell him that the creatures – more of whom have appeared behind Aneris – want a truce. Gruner commands Aneris to return to him but she refuses, causing him to scream that 'no-one leaves Gruner'. He runs back to the lighthouse and shoots a flare at the child, striking him in the chest and killing him. Friend runs after Gruner as he continues to fire flares, and after a struggle throws him to the ground and stabs his leg. Gruner gains the upper hand and attempts to kill Friend with an axe, but Friend reveals that Gruner is the previous meteorologist and urges Gruner to stop, telling him that he is not a murderer. Gruner drops the axe and staggers outside to be killed by the sea creatures.
Sometime later, the next ship arrives to replace Friend. The captain mistakes him for the lighthouse-keeper Gruner and Friend does not correct him. He maintains the role, contemplating that this is the peace he originally sought.
Industrial giant J. R. Compton and his partner son Ray clash over J. R.'s treatment of employees in the company's plants. J. R.'s rise to success has taken his sense of fairness, and Ray must show his father how to conduct his affairs with respect for the men who work for them.
A recently demobilized soldier's property and girl are taken from him by a greedy rancher whose henchmen have control over the town, but the ex-soldier plans a decisive showdown with his tormentors to right the wrongs.
A Swan is featured in the background.
Years earlier, Hook is training Henry to defend himself with swords. When Emma congratulates him Hook catches Henry off guard, and Henry goes to cool off feeling that he won't be appreciated. Emma and Hook believe that Henry will make a name for himself in the future. After the two kiss, Hook shows Emma a magic bottle that can act as a signal to call anyone in distress and he throws it in the ocean.
Years later, Henry is chased by Lady Tremaine and her guards, who want to pin the prince's murder on him. When she does catch up with Henry, Lady Tremaine demands the whereabouts of Cinderella and the glass slipper. Henry refuses and uses the bottle to summon Emma, Regina, and Hook, but he is soon taken prisoner and is later tied to a bed in the palace. Lady Tremaine gives Drizella orders to torture Henry for information on where he hid the slipper by using her dagger to threaten him, only to be interrupted by Hook and Regina, who show up to stop the guard and Drizella respectively. While Henry is happy to see Regina, he asks Hook where Emma is. Regina gives a scorned look to Hook for lying to Henry about why Emma didn't come.
Regina tries to help Henry out by using a locator spell. However, she discovers that her magic doesn't work in this realm. Hook, however, can smell saltwater and suspects that pirates are not far, and it may lead them to Cinderella. At a tavern, Hook is met by a very drunken individual who happens to be the wish realm version of Killian Jones. The unrecognizable Hook tells his lookalike about how their stories differ, except that in this realm he's still looking for his Emma. The drunken Hook then knocks out his lookalike and draws his blood, as he had made a deal with Lady Tremaine to help her find Henry. Using the Fairy Godmother's wand, Lady Tremaine transformed the drunken Hook into an exact lookalike of the Enchanted Forest character.
Meanwhile, in a cabin, Regina is cooking a meal for Henry, who is asking her questions about what was happening in Storybrooke but she avoids them as she lamented that hers isn't great. The wish realm Hook soon joins them and suggests they all return to Storybrooke. He gives Henry a forged note from Cinderella, but when the faux Hook goes after Henry to console him, Emma arrives out of a portal and is ready to tell Henry the news that she's pregnant. This suddenly makes the faux Hook extremely upset and he runs off into the woods and back to the tavern, just in time for real Hook to attack him. The faux Hook then takes out a dagger and is stabbed by the real Hook. When the real Hook asks why, the faux Hook tells him that he wanted to find his daughter, who he believed is a prisoner. He hoped that Emma would help him. When Emma arrives, the real Hook asks Emma to save his lookalike, but Emma's magic doesn't work in this realm either, so she convinces the faux Hook to use his belief. This works, as Emma's magic briefly returns, allowing her to heal the faux Hook.
As Henry congratulates Emma and the real Hook on their future, he convinces the faux Hook to stay and offers to help him find his daughter. Regina decides to stay in order to find her happy ending.
Henry meets up with Rogers, who wants to ask him about the blonde woman in the book. Henry says that it's a person he made up named “Emma Swan” and then the conversation turned to Jacinda and Lucy. Speaking about the mother and daughter, Victoria is making sure that Jacinda won't see Lucy at a ballet recital by using a tactic to hike the prices up so Jacinda can't afford it. Henry later on tries to help Jacinda by asking for forgiveness but to no avail as Jacinda returns to work. Meanwhile, Victoria asks Weaver and Rogers to get rid of a problem, being Henry. When Weaver visits Roni's, he doesn't get anywhere with Roni but as she see Weaver leave Roni warns Rogers to be careful about Weaver.
Hours later, Jacinda's roommate helps her land a job at the recital's catering event, where she discovers Henry working there as a bartender. She then hugs Lucy before her performance. Over at Henry's apartment, Rogers and Weaver are looking for anything that could make Henry vulnerable, which leads them to Lucy. As the two leave, Rogers noticed the Swan keychain on the doorknob. The two then come up with an idea to place Victoria's bracelet in Henry's pocket and Weaver wants Rogers to plant it on Henry. However. when Henry emptied his pockets, the only thing that Henry saw was the Swan Necklace. Outside the venue, Weaver stops Rogers from hiding Victoria's bracelet. Rogers tells Weaver that he doesn't want to separate a father from his child, and Weaver commended Rogers for doing the right thing. Rogers then revealed that a long time ago he was shot and a woman who fit Emma's description came to his rescue. He wants to do what is right and figure out what is going on in this neighborhood.
Later on at Roni's, Jacinda forgives Henry, saying that she blames her mood on Lucy's claims that she is Cinderella, but tells Henry that one day her prince will come. Afterwards, Rogers joins Henry and Roni for drinks, each with one thing in common: to find a way to take down Victoria Belfrey.
Yoon-ju, an awkward and shy fine arts student, meets the eccentric bartender Ji-soo while searching for materials for a project installation. Though she had previously been in relationships with men, Yoon-ju finds herself falling for Ji-soo's charms and cautiously follows her desires.
Penny passes the auditions to enter the M.A.R.S. high school, one of the most exclusive performing arts schools in the world. The M.A.R.S. has strict rules and is very competitive, and Penny and her schoolmates have to pass a daily test. Penny has enrolled with a fake name to hide her identity as the daughter of Bakìa, a popular singer of the time, to acquire esteem in her own right separate from her mother's. Bakìa had previously enrolled her daughter in a boarding school in Switzerland so that she could have a "normal" childhood and not hinder her career.
The only one at the M.A.R.S. who knows her real identity is Camilla, Penny's best friend. Sharing a sister-like relationship until they fall for the same boy, Penny will also have to solve the mystery of who her father is.
Martin, Dzharo, The Hair and the Twins are jailed. Ivo is the new boss. The Hook and Adi are on a vacation where The Hook is on a community service and on a parole. Martin is later released from jail, but finds out that Ivo wants to kill him. Dzharo orders Ivo's murder. Niki the Twin dies from injuries, The Hair gets killed and Dzharo had a dream about Mironov and Elica. Ivo is hit by the biggest loss ever - Dzharo ordered his mother's murder. Neshev is shot during an operation and succumbs to his injuries.
The protagonist - popular writer and TV presenter Vladimir Bogdanov, suddenly is replaced with an absolute double. He takes Bogdanov's job, fame, wife, mistress and handles his role much better than the original. And only the daughter wants the return of the real Bogdanov.
''Overkill'' is an adventure written in 1977 by Mike Brines for ''Tunnels & Trolls''. It was redesigned in 1980 by Michael Stackpole.
As court jester for the Duke of Mantua (Luciano Pavarotti), hunch-back Rigoletto (Ingvar Wixell) is tasked with amusing the Duke at the expense of courtiers much to their annoyance. Recently the Duke, who lives a life of pleasure bedding as many women as possible, started noticing a young lady named Gilda (Edita Gruberová) walking to church every Sunday and vows to have his way with her. At the court, Count Monterone (also played by Ingvar Wixell) who is the father of one of the Duke's love interests confronts him for trying to seduce his daughter. Rigoletto decides to make fun of the Count causing the Duke to laugh at him, now angry, the Count casts a curse on Rigoletto.
Later, the begrudged courtiers find out that Rigoletto is living with Gilda who they believe to be his mistress, however in fact is his daughter. Attempting to humiliate Rigoletto the courtiers kidnap Gilda and bring her to the Duke's bedroom where he is waiting for her, Gilda who is infatuated with the Duke gives herself to him. Rigoletto later having learned of the Duke lying with his daughter, hires assassin Sparafucile (Ferruccio Furlanetto) to kill him in revenge. Sparafucile uses his beautiful sister Maddalena (Victoria Vergara) to lure the Duke to a tavern where he tries to seduce her. Outside, Rigoletto shows Gilda the Duke's infidelity. The heartbroken Gilda puts on men's clothing so she can return home safely without her father but returns to the tavern to overhear Rigoletto and Sparafucile plotting to kill the Duke. After Rigoletto leaves, the still eavesdropping Gilda hears Maddalena beg Sparafucile not to kill the Duke and instead kill the next person who enters the door.
Hoping to protect the Duke, the lovestruck Gilda enters the tavern and is immediately stabbed by Sparafucile, her dying body rolled up into a rug and dropped down a trapdoor onto Rigoletto's boat. Thinking it is the Duke, Rigoletto goes up the river to dispose of the body but in the distance hears the Duke singing La donna è mobile. The confused Rigoletto unravels the rug to reveal his half-dead daughter who finally dies, he realises the curse had come to pass – the distraught Rigoletto cries out in pain.
''Tollenkar's Lair'' is a complete, ready-to-play labyrinth for ''The Fantasy Trip'' in six levels.
''Tollenkar's Lair'' is a solo scenario set in a tunnel complex, a six-level dungeon that gets progressively more difficult as it goes down. It is usable with ''The Fantasy Trip'', ''Melee'', or ''Wizard''.
Bank robber Kip is released from Wormwood Scrubs Prison on a snowy morning. He goes to visit the grave of his wife who died while he was in prison. Back home he starts to plan a bank robbery based on idea a co-prisoner had told in prison before dying. This involves breaking into a basement bank vault via the cellar of a bombed house and interconnecting old air-raid shelter.
A gang of men is recruited to execute the robbery by Steve, Kip's young brother-in-law, who drove him home upon his release, and who, because of his planning expertise, has assumed the leadership. They plan to rob a bank by tunnelling through a basement of a bomb-site next door. Steve has planned crimes before, but never participated; but he's compelled to take Kip's place, after Kip collapses because of his weak heart.
The crooks enter the basement of an empty building next to the Westland Bank through a trap door, and break through the wall dividing the properties, but are shocked when they find an unexploded 500lb bomb from the war.
Repelled by the sight of a squeeking rat, Steve throws something at it to frighten it away. They plant explosives into the rear wall of the bank vault. Just after breaking in, Steve hears the bomb ticking, but tells no one. The object, thrown at the rat, inadvertently also knocked the shell's casing. As they escape, a concrete lintel falls on Steve; (Kip, impatient and alone at home, with no one to control him, had earlier gone against the plan, and went to see how they were progressing). The other two run away upon hearing the ticking bomb; one to forewarn his girlfriend living in a nearby house, who calls the police. Though Kip is always scorned by the other gang members for being a jinx, as he's almost always been caught before, nonetheless, he's the only one who tries to rescue Steve.
Desperate to end his life of poverty, Kip alone stays, and retrieves the sacks of money; but his efforts to lift the beam bring on a fatal heart attack. Just as the internally-injured Steve reaches the trap door, he stumbles on the loose bricks, and falls back down, exhausted. The old bomb explodes. The council workmen, who were due in a few weeks to begin clearing the site in preparation for the building of a neighbourhood swimming pool, shall now be able to do so safely.
In kasukabe, Shinnouske's father, was watching TV,in which it was shown that a man after eating ramen became rageful. In his school, when Shin chan and his friends were practicing for the school sports day dance, they saw that their friend Masao was being bullied by the seniors from the rose group class. Masao, usually being a cry-baby, instead becomes confident and strong, through which he is able to defend himself.
Finding Masao's behavior weird, Shin chan and his friends decide to follow. Masao goes through a street, which leads to a China-town. In that town, they found Masao practicing by balancing a water bowl on his head. When Shin chan shouted,he told them that he was learning the Chinese Martial arts named Kung Fu. Then they met the master and Lan chan( who was masters first student). They found that Shin chan was very soft to learn Kung Fu and wanted him to learn it to. Suddenly a land thug from Black Panda ramen shop came, asking for their land. Along with him came the Kung Fu exoerts, the Sausage brothers. But master defeated them very easily after which the children agreed to learn Kung Fu.
The next day, the learnt the legend of Kung Fu art, the Punni-Punni flow. In the legend, it was said that an unknown marital artist practiced nine stages of Kung Fu, through which he attained a magical strength at the Punni-Punni mainland and stopped a great war and peace. The children were told that they had to practice these nine steps in order to come alongside Lan chan to Punni-Punni mainland. Soon Shinnouske was able complete level very quickly, which Masao sad as he failed at the first level itself. Meanwhile, the people who are Black Panda ramen became very rageful.
The Black Panda ramen shops leader met the master and paralyzed him, due to which the master always says "panties to look". The children return to Chinatown and find out that everyone has left it due to Black Panda ramen people. Meanwhile, Shin chan's younger sister Himawari eats the Black Panda ramen, causing to become very rageful and black bags around her eyes just like a Panda. To make Himawari normal Shin chan and his friends enter the Black Panda ramen factory to find a medicine to cure for Himawari. They record everything in Kazama's phone. However they are discovered. Masao gets caught due to being very stiff in his Kung Fu moves and blurts about everything, including the recording in the phone. They have exchange deal on which Kazama will give in return for Masao's safety. Suddenly, Land chan appears and helps them escape and they leave for Shin Chan's house, where Shin chan passes all the levels making him capable to accompany Land chan to Punni-Punni mainland which is located somewhere in China. Masao refuses to go, feeling that he is fit for nothing and leaves tearfully. Suddenly they are attacked by Nohara family's neighbors, who have become members of the Black Panda ramen branch. They escape as master sacrifices himself. Land chan vows to achieve the magic in the Punni-Punni mainland. They all leave for China except for Shin Chan's friends. There they find the area and meet the Punni-Punni fairy, who asks them questions and eventually Shin chan wins it
The fairy tells Land chan( when she questions why she lost) that her soul is not gentle because of which she will be unable to bear the strength of the magic. But when Shin chan refuses to drink the potion through which he can attain the magic, Land chan drinks it up. They return to Kasukabe, and defeat the Black Panda ramen leader. But due to not having a gentle soul, Land chan becomes an evil who possess the ability to make everything peaceful. This greatly affects Kasukabe. Soon Shin chan and his friends unite with Masao and team up as the Kasukabe defence group to defeat Lan chan. They use their Jenkaa dance which creates an effect making everyone dance along with it. This makes everyone come normal. Land chan, who also becomes normal, goes on a world tour on the master's orders. The children bid her goodbye. The movie ends with a song and a picture explaining the full story.
As described in film magazine reviews, Easter Hicks (Minter), a mountain girl, meets Clayton (Bowers), an engineer from the city, when she is on her way to market. Easter is fascinated by the "furriner" from the city, and despite her crude dress and rough mannerisms, Clayton is equally taken with her. Sherd Raines (Blue), a young circuit rider of the mountains, is also in love with Easter.
"Pap" Hicks (Oliver), Easter's drunkard father, sees Clayton with Easter and vows to shoot the city man, but Sherd overpowers him. Later, Sherd wrestles with his own jealousy and contemplates shooting Clayton, but his faith will not allow him to take a human life. The next day, when Clayton is about to leave for the city, Easter runs after him and tearfully declares her love. Clayton decides to marry her, and Sherd, putting aside his love for Easter, agrees to perform the marriage ceremony.
On the day of the wedding, as Clayton's mother and sister arrive, the contrast between the city folk and the mountain folk could not be clearer. "Pap" Hicks arrives to the wedding drunk, and when Clayton will not share a drink with him, he takes offence and threatens to shoot his future son-in-law. Sherd gets between them to try to save Clayton, but when "Pap" pulls the trigger, it is Easter who is struck with the bullet.
Stricken with grief at the thought that he has killed his daughter, "Pap" swears to God that he will never drink again if only Easter should pull through. Easter recovers, and realises that she and Clayton cannot be happy together, as the differences between them are too great. She sends him back to the city and asks to see Sherd, understanding that she loves the circuit rider after all.
The September 1920 edition of "Picture-Play" features a detailed fiction adaptation of the film, complete with several stills from the picture. The July 3rd, 1920 edition of Motion Picture News lists a musical cue sheet for the film.
The forward of the Russian national team Yuri Stoleshnikov makes a mistake in an important match - he does not score a penalty. A scandal erupts, as a result of which Yuri finishes his playing career and leaves for a small town where he accepts the offer to start coaching at the local football club Meteor.
As a trainer of Meteor, Stoleshnikov will have to start believing in himself again, and rehabilitation doctor Varya will play an important role in this.
Varuni (Sabeetha) is the only daughter of Major (Mervyn). During a party, former army man Alphosus (Cletus) kidnap Varuni and ask Major that he needs to marry Varuni. Major does not accept it and recruit captain doson (Joe) and his team to save Varuni from Alphosus. Captain doson with his seven army man start searching Varuni at a vast jungle. Meanwhile, Varuni's boyfriend Rahal (Sanath) with his friend (Shashi) also come to know that Varuni is kidnapped by Alphonsus. They also started to search her. The film then revolves around how Captain Doson's funny army crew save Varuni from Alphonsus with the help of Rahal and destroy the bridge that connect the Army territory and Alphosus territory.
Vittorio Basile is a rich scientist and shipowner; one of his ships, the ''Megaride'', is a high-tech ship that records everything that happens inside and shows it in the form of holograms. Basile wants to turn the harbor of Naples into a huge technological harbor and the ''Megaride'' into a digital database that keeps a memory of everyone that steps inside the ship.
Basile has a 3-year-old daughter, Mia, and he is going to marry Angelica, mother of five daughters and a gay son Luigi. On the day of the wedding, Salvatore Lo Giusto, known as ''O' Re'' (''The King''), an ambitious drug lord and secret lover of Angelica, kills Basile. Mia becomes aphonous after this shock and is left under the protection of her stepmother Angelica, since Mia is the only heir of the ''Megaride'' and, according to Lo Giusto's plan, she is going to sign after her 18th birthday a contract that will give all her inheritance to Lo Giusto. Mia lives with Angelica and her cruel daughters that treat her like a servant and call her ''Gatta Cenerentola'' (''Cinderella the Cat'') because of her habit of crawling inside the ducts of the ship like a cat. The ''Megaride'' remains in the harbor for 15 years and Angelica turns it into a sleazy brothel. The dream of Lo Giusto and Angelica is to turn the city of Naples, into a capital city of crime and drug recycling.
Primo Gemito, formerly Basile's bodyguard, tries to find evidence to frame Lo Giusto, but he is injured and almost killed by Angelica's daughters who work as prostitutes in the brothel. Primo is saved by Mia, who was under his protection when she was a baby and they both recognize each other even though 15 years have passed. Thanks to Mia, Primo finds all the evidence he needs, including images of the hold of the ship where Lo Giusto has been throwing the corpses of his enemies. Primo wants to bring Mia away from the ''Megaride'', but she refuses to leave her father's ship.
Meanwhile, Lo Giusto comes back to Naples on Mia's 18th birthday, after a long absence: when Mia is going to sign the transfer of property, Lo Giusto and Angelica will be free to marry after killing Mia. However, Lo Giusto confesses that he has never loved Angelica and he doesn't want to marry her since she has grown very old and plans instead to marry Mia. Lo Giusto transfers Mia to the suite Basile gave to Angelica when they were engaged and gives her beautiful dresses and shoes. At first Mia is flattered by this kindness, but before the ceremony she sees a hologram that shows the moment when Lo Giusto killed her father. Shattered, Mia escapes through the ducts chased by Lo Giusto's henchmen.
Primo is leading a group of policemen to arrest Lo Giusto, even though Lo Giusto has already cleaned up the hold of the ship after a tip and has threatened to kill him. Primo is not afraid to die, since he wants to restore Naples and save Mia from marrying him. Meanwhile, Angelica understands that Lo Giusto wants to marry Mia instead of her and asks her daughters to kill her before the ceremony.
When the stepsisters finally find Mia to try to kill her, they are ambushed by Lo Giusto's henchmen. At this point, a gunfight begins between Angelica's daughters and the henchmen and it ends with a massacre: all Angelica's daughters are killed and the last of Lo Giusto's henchman is shot dead by Angelica herself. Looking at the corpses of all her children, Angelica understands that all that happened was not Mia's fault, but her own, since she has betrayed Basile, the only man that really loved her, and then let Lo Giusto use her for his own purposes. Angelica decides to spare Mia and goes to the engine room to blow up the ship and everyone inside, but first she asks Mia to go inside her suite and free a blackbird that Basile gave her during their engagement and then leave the ship before the explosion. Angelica starts the countdown and, since she wants to die as well, sits on a balcony while she smokes a cigarette.
Primo manages to give the alarm, allowing everyone to leave the ''Megaride'' in time, while Lo Giusto tries to take Mia with him. The girl, knowing that she is standing in front of the man who killed her father, starts beating Lo Giusto on his head and face and is stopped only when Primo arrives and tells her to run away. Primo and Mia manage to leave the ship just a second before the explosion, while Lo Giusto is left bleeding to die in one of the hallways.
It is May 1897. Bunny, now an ex-convict and struggling journalist, receives a telegram from an estranged relative telling him to read an advertisement in the ''Daily Mail'', which says that a man named Mr. Maturin is seeking a male nurse of good education. Bunny answers the advertisement at Maturin's flat, in Earl's Court. He encounters Maturin's doctor, Dr. Theobald, who scrutinizes Bunny and then takes him to Maturin's bedroom to meet the patient.
Bunny sees the ailing Maturin lying in bed. Maturin interviews Bunny. He orders Theobald to leave, then asks Bunny to fetch him his hidden cigarettes. As Maturin smokes, he complains that the cigarettes are not Sullivans; instantly, Bunny realizes that Maturin is his old friend, Raffles.
Raffles reveals that he is disguising himself as Maturin to maintain the belief that Raffles is dead. Theobald does not know Maturin's true identity. Upon returning to England from Italy, Raffles had written both the advertisement and Bunny's telegram in order to reunite with Bunny. Raffles declares they go to a restaurant that night to celebrate.
At night, they escape the building using an unwatched staircase from the roof. They ride to the restaurant. Raffles takes Bunny to a private room, and they feast. As they finish, a tradesman named Mr. Robinson arrives. Raffles chooses jewelry from him for Bunny's imaginary sister. Bunny, confused, plays along. In the end, Raffles is unable to pay for his chosen items. Instead, he seals them in a cigarette box and returns them to Robinson: Raffles will send Robinson the money later, after which Robinson will send Raffles the sealed box. Robinson, bewildered by the arrangement, nonetheless agrees.
Later, back at Earl's Court, Raffles reveals to Bunny that he kept the real box, after swapping it with a duplicate. He asks Bunny to sell off the jewelry.
In ''Grail Quest'', the single player controls a party of up to three Knights of the Round Table and their retinue, who travel across Arthurian Britain searching for the Holy Grail, as well as helping those in need and accepting combat challenges from other knights that they encounter. The game can be played solo, or two player can take opposing sides, one playing the knights, the other the encounters.
The game is playable using the combat rules of ''The Fantasy Trip'', or its predecessors, ''Melee'' and ''Wizard''.
''The Mean Checkers Machine'' is a computer version of checkers with four levels of difficulty.
''Planet Miners'' is a game that depicts a struggle for control of mining concessions on the nine planets of our solar system between four rival corporations.
Lunar Module 32, commanded by Steve Maddox, departs from the Moon bound for Earth; its radar picks up an unidentified object shortly before re-entry. The audience sees that this is a small alien limpet-like UFO, hiding in the Apollo 8 space wreck, which interrupts communications with the SHADO Moonbase and modifies the spaceplane's course, causing the Lunar Module to re-enter the atmosphere at too steep an angle and leading to its destruction.
Meanwhile, Straker is trying to convince General Henderson, head of the International Astrophysical Commission, to increase debris-eliminating space missions as he thinks that his pilots risk more in a month than Henderson's do in a year. Henderson mockingly accepts this but insists on activating the "Washington Square" protocol: the cancelation of all lunar spaceflights.
After Maddox's burial-in-space funeral at the Moonbase Paul Foster, convinced that it was not human error that killed his friend, blasts off in a lunar module against orders and flies on the same course to prove Maddox's innocence. As with LM 32, the limpet UFO attaches itself to Foster's module and interferes with the controls, proving his theory. Straker issues orders to destroy all space wrecks where the UFO might be located and invites Henderson to SHADO Control, having deduced that the limpet craft was some sort of lure.
In response a standard UFO prepares to attack the Harlington-Straker Studios but is soon destroyed by Sky One.
Engineer Fernando Bonilla (Valentino Lanús) lives the most intense weekend of his life in the company of Estefanía Braun (Ana Layevska), a woman too beautiful and intelligent to be true. What began as a chance encounter on a random Saturday between the aisles of a supermarket ends in an unbridled encounter of passion that consumes them both until dawn the next day. Fernando is not a man of infidelity or secrecy, but this one sin seems to be behind during the breakfast conversation between them, which makes it clear that what happened is nothing more than an escape from life and that everything has to return to normal.
Fernando returns to his family life, without imagining that from this moment Estefanía will spend every minute to follow him, to harass him with calls and appearances that become overwhelming. Desperate to end the harassment and the intrusion of the woman, Fernando attempts to have an intense discussion to persuade the woman to stop contacting him. The next day, he awakes in horrific circumstances as he is lying in a pool of blood and Estefanía is dead by his side. At the end of the day, Fernando's conscience is as dirty as his hands, but he finds some comfort with the idea of having saved his family. However, far from ending the nightmare, Matilde, his 6-year-old daughter, brings her father a letter that just came under the door.
Fernando opens the envelope and inside there is a note that says "I did not like what you did with my corpse. Today at six o'clock in the afternoon on the map. Do not even dare miss." That afternoon, Fernando lies to Bibiana (Ilse Salas), his wife, for the first time in his life, so he can escape from his house and go to the meeting point indicated in the letter. At six in the afternoon has arrived at a dark room where suddenly a projector lights and like blades of a guillotine appears in the screen a video that relates in sequence the homicide committed by Fernando the previous night. Terrified, he cannot take his eyes off of the projection. Fernando then sees the woman, Estafanía. She surprises him with her presence and he is very fearful, at which point she says "Is this the first time you have seen a person rise from the dead?"
From that moment the life of Fernando is taken over by the fear. Estefanía issues tasks of revenge that she has been planning for years after a trauma of childhood. Mysteriously, however, Fernando is the protagonist.
Marge is out for the evening with Luann Van Houten, Bernice Hibbert and Helen Lovejoy, and asks Homer to take care of Maggie. The women, led by Helen, criticize Marge's taste in interior decorating.
Meanwhile, Homer discovers Maggie has a talent of being a whistling savant. Homer starts dreaming of using her talent to become famous.
Meanwhile, Marge thinks about her tastes, and resolves to decorate a late-pick-up room for Springfield Elementary like the set from The Wizard of Oz, but Lisa remembers there never was one. The Hibbert family changes their opinion on Marge's style, but Helen is not convinced yet while Fat Tony appears with his cousin's son Michael D'Amico, offering her a decorating job.
At Moe's Tavern, Homer tried fooling the guys, but Grampa Simpson unveils his trick, telling the story of his whistling talent being stopped by a performance going wrong, and asks Homer to bring her to become as popular as he once was. They bring Maggie to the Springfield City Zoo to teach her new whistles, and Bart Simpson is disappointed he's the only son not to have talent, while vultures try to take Grampa, unsuccessfully.
At the Springfield Post Office, Fat Tony asks Marge to redecorate it. At the Get It and Regret It Hardware store, a family tries a couch, imitating the family's couch gags, and Squeaky Voice Teen tells them they have to buy it after trying the couch, while Marge buys stuff to redecorate the post office, but she discovers that Fat Tony turned it into a whorehouse.
The family, reunited to eat, is hiding secrets from each other, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II kissing each other. Homer brings Maggie to Channel 6, where the Hot Shot Tots Springfield Audition is held, and finds out how show business works and tries to convince Maggie to stop but she refuses, while the women discover what happened to the post office. Marge convinces Fat Tony to close the whorehouse down while Maggie, in front of the public, can't whistle anymore due to a tooth growing in her mouth.
Back at home, Homer says good night to Maggie, telling her to hide any other talent she has. When he's gone, she pulls out a beautiful black and white painting of Homer.
In bed, Homer and Marge reveal the secrets they held from each other. Shortly after that, Homer finds out Marge is letting out his pants making him think he's thinner as he weeps about this.
The life of newlyweds of Fabio (Fábio Porchat) and Miá (Miá Mello) falls into the rut when differences, which are not few, need to be faced. After Fábio forget the third wedding anniversary, Miá decides to ask for a time in the relationship. When Fábio's grandfather, who lives in Portugal, tells him that he was a widower, he sees on this trip to the funeral an opportunity to save his marriage.
Vanessa Anden (Olivia Pascal) is a misfit student at a Bavarian convent. After the death of her uncle Richard, she travels to Hong Kong to assume ownership of her uncle's estate. When she arrives, Prinz Bandor (Tom Garven), a taxi driver later revealed to be a magician, delivers her to Richard's palatial home. There, she meets Jackie (Uschi Zech), the niece of Richard's attorney and closest friend, Anthony Grüder (Peter M. Krueger). Jackie's sister Cle (Eva Eden) is married to the wealthy Major Kenneth Cooper (Anton Diffring). Cle engages in a series of open extramarital affairs in an attempt to get Kenneth to divorce her.
Vanessa learns she has inherited a chain of bordellos and a large citrus plantation, but the plantation administrator, Adrian (Günter Clemens), claims to be Richard's illegitimate son and has contested the will. Adrian invites Vanessa to the plantation to persuade her to give it to him. He then attempts to rape Vanessa, but Kenneth interrupts him. Adrian's servant Tai-Neh (Eva Leuze), who is in love with Adrian, becomes furiously jealous of Adrian's interest in Vanessa. Tai-Neh uses sympathetic magic to cause Vanessa agony and leave her sick in bed. Jackie, suspecting magic, enlists Prinz Bandor's aid. Bandor perceives Tai-Neh's magic is the source of Vanessa's pain and counters it.
Eventually, the court rejects Adrian's challenge and awards the entire estate to Vanessa. Adrian tries to convince Vanessa he loves her, but Vanessa simply fires him. Vanessa decides to keep the plantation but has Anthony sell all the brothels, thus becoming very wealthy. Kenneth invites Vanessa to her home, drugs her and sexually assaults her. Jackie, Adrian and Cle arrive as he does so, and Adrian rescues Vanessa. Kenneth asks Cle to come back to him, but she refuses. Vanessa hires Adrian to run the plantation again and returns to Europe, leaving open the possibility of a future relationship someday.
Policía Foral inspector Amaia Salazar, a former FBI agent, lives in Pamplona with her American husband, James, an artist. She returns to her hometown of Baztan, in Navarre, to investigate the murder of a young teen, 13-year-old Ainhoa Elizasu. Ainhoa was found naked and posed in the woods, her face scrubbed clean of makeup and her hair neatly arranged, and a cake placed on her shaved pubis. Amaia links this with the death six weeks earlier of Carla Huarte, who was strangled with the same type of rope, and fears a serial killer may be at work. Both bodies were covered with hairs from multiple animals, an oddity as none of the bodies show marks from any animals.
Amaia and James move in with her Aunt Engrasi, who raised her for most of her life. She is greeted warmly by her sister Rosaura, who is staying with Engrasi because of a fight with her husband, Freddy. Amaia's relationship is strained with her elder sister Flora, who with Rosaura now runs the family business, a commercial bakery. Flora is divorced from her ex-husband, Victor, and is resentful of Amaia, who is trying to start a family. Flora accuses Amaia of abandoning their mentally ill and abusive mother, Rosario, now in a nursing home, even though she had a pathological hatred for Amaia. James is shocked to find out that Rosario is not dead, as Amaia claimed.
Amaia instructs police officer Jonan Etxaide to look back 20 years for similar patterns and other events occurring in Baztan. He connects several murders she believes could have been committed by the same killer. She believes she is looking for an older male who was likely sexually repressed in his youth, and who would be familiar to the girls, making it likely they would go willingly with him.
The serial killer is dubbed ''El Basajaún'' ("Lord of the Woods") by the media after a Basque mythological creature. Engrasi insists that the ''basajaún'' is real and a protector of the forest, and that one saved Engrasi's life when she was a girl by stopping her from falling into a cavern.
Another girl, Anne Arbizu, goes missing. Amaia is convinced she sees Anne outside her window late one night, but the next day her body is discovered in the forest, her body arranged in the same ritualized manner, dead for 24 hours. Amaia discovers Anne was having an affair with an older married man — Amaia's brother-in-law Freddy. Freddy attempts suicide because of his anguish, but after exonerating him, Amaia does not reveal the affair to the police.
The cake placed on the bodies is local txantxigorri cake. Flora states that it is of the highest quality, meaning it could come from only a handful of bakeries. When Amaia requests a sample of the flour for analysis, Flora gives her different flour than the bakery uses. Flora is arrested for obstruction but insists she was merely taking precautions as workers frequently take home flour. The lab also matches the flour from the cakes to the flour in Rosaura's home, which she takes from the bakery, but Amaia does not reveal this either.
Another young girl disappears, but Amaia is removed from the case after her captain discovers her secrecy. Detective Montés replaces her, even though Amaia suspects him of having a personal relationship with Flora. Aloisius Dupree, an FBI friend, encourages her to remove herself from the case and look at it in its entirety. Amaia thinks back to her childhood, when Rosario, in a psychotic rage, attempted to murder her at the bakery, at which point Amaia was taken to live with Engrasi.
Amaia goes to visit Rosario, who calls Amaia a bitch and attempts to bite her. She learns that Rosario, now restrained, had attacked a nurse and bitten her while calling her Amaia, and that her brother-in-law visits Rosario weekly.
Amaia and Jonan drive to Victor's house but Jonan arrives first and finds it empty while Amaia flips her car into a ravine during a thunderstorm on her way to the house. She wakes up on the ground away from her car and sees a large hairy creature in the distance and follows him. The pursuit leads her to an abandoned house where she is attacked by Victor. When she confronts him about the murders, he admits it was his doing so that he could cleanse the valley of the filth. Amaia stabs him with pair of scissors and runs to free the missing girl whom he has chained up. Victor follows and just as he is about to kill Amaia, Flora shoots him.
Several weeks later, Flora's book, which she dedicated to her mother, has been published while Amaia and James reveal to Rosaura and Engrasi that they are expecting a child together. From a distance, a large hairy creature looks over the valley before going back into the forest.
The fiction takes place in Seville. Two young friends live an unusual adventure: they have to find the way in which the President of the company where they work (and father-in-law of one of the two), returns safe and sound home by strange circumstances. He is found half-naked locked in the trunk of his car. At the same time, a businessman drowning in debt and his partner attempt to carry out an express kidnapping, although, by a series of unfortunate coincidences, they end up sequestering their father by mistake. From there, the problems just begin.
Joshna(Moushumi) is a hard working NGO employee who leads a struggling life with her autistic brother and two sisters. Her husband sultan (Dipjol) fights against injustice and crime in their village but when his sister in law (Mim) falls in love with the son of the unethical Chairman of the village, Sultan is left in a life and death dilemma.
A child named Marcus Preston has a birthday party where a costumed character entertainer of Chuck E. Cheese vomits and dies from having overdosed on painkillers as the police are unable to locate the source of the drugs. Stan Marsh goes to a retirement home to visit his "Grampa" Marvin and brings him a present of a Hummel figurine. Grampa tells Stan he must deliver a pillow made by another resident, Ms. McGillicudy, who has become the "top bitch" at the home. Stan later exchanges it for a limited-edition Hummel with another costumed character of Swiper the Fox. At school, Marcus hosts an assembly mourning the recent deaths of multiple costumed characters due to overdoses from painkillers, including the now-deceased Swiper. Stan realizes he has unknowingly been a drug mule, as the boys try to convince Stan to turn in his Grampa. At the retirement home, Grampa explains to Stan that McGillicudy's collection of Hummels has put her in power, as she vaguely threatens both Stan and Grampa if they do not cooperate with her. Marcus visits a coroner's office for the autopsy of Chuck E. Cheese where the coroner reveals that the entertainer, along with all of the other recently deceased costumed characters, had Hummels stashed in his anal cavity.
Marcus confronts Stan about his recent increase of Hummel purchases and threatens to expose Stan if he is involved. Stan begs the boys for help, as he plans to steal McGillicudy's Hummel collection and give them to Grampa, thus making him the one in charge, so Eric Cartman comes up with a plan. Marcus rushes to another birthday party where an entertainer dressed as the character Peppa Pig reveals to him the connection between Hummels and old people before Peppa dies. At the retirement home, the boys dress up and sing as a barbershop quartet while Stan finds McGillicudy's room and puts the Hummels into a large sack. There, he is confronted by Marcus but Stan convinces Marcus to instead go after the people really responsible for the death of Chuck E. Cheese. Stan brings the sack of Hummels to Grampa but is confronted by McGillicudy. Grampa uses the sack of Hummels to beat down McGillicudy and her companions to become the new "top bitch" of the nursing home and sending McGillicudy to "solitaire" confinement, while Marcus visits a convention of pharmaceutical doctors to ask them some questions.
As the war in the West turns badly for the South, the Union generals and their political commanders in Washington know that the one great barrier to Union control of the Mississippi River lies at the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Protected by high embankments, and a formidable presence of Confederate artillery, the Confederate forces there, under the command of John Pemberton, are confident that Vicksburg is a citadel that cannot fall. But Federal commander Ulysses Grant believes otherwise.
Encouraged by his superiors in Washington to do whatever it takes, Grant launches an overland campaign that avoids a direct frontal assault on the town from the river, and instead, maneuvers his army downstream, crossing from Louisiana into Mississippi where the Confederates are too weak to make an effective stand. Instead of pushing directly at Vicksburg, Grant employs an audacious strategy, slicing quickly through the Mississippi countryside toward the capital city of Jackson. Pemberton's army cannot match Grant's unpredictable moves, and the Southern forces begin to understand that their commander is no match for the ingenuity Grant brings to the campaign. Though Pemberton's superior, General Joseph Johnston arrives in Jackson, Johnston sees Pemberton's situation as hopeless, and thus, holds his own forces back from the fight, allowing Grant the freedom to focus all his energies on Vicksburg itself. Johnston's reluctance to engage Grant, and thus offer relief to Vicksburg, is one of the most controversial decisions of the war.
In May, 1863 Grant turns his enormous army toward Vicksburg, and discovers that Pemberton has not been idle. The city is protected by nine miles of entrenchments and earthworks, extending in an arc, each end anchored on the Mississippi River. After attempting two disastrous frontal assaults, Grant reluctantly accepts that the only effective way to capture the city is to besiege it. Thus, the Federal forces wrap Vicksburg in a tightening noose that Pemberton cannot hope to break through. After forty seven days, the Confederate troops, and the beleaguered civilians in the town endure hardships and privations none could have predicted, until, finally, Pemberton must accept the inevitable. It is a decision that will cause controversy for decades after, since the Confederate commander is in fact a Northerner himself, having joined the Southern cause from his home state of Pennsylvania. Many of his own troops regard Pemberton's actions as little more than treachery.
The story is told primarily through the voices of Union General William T. Sherman, and, returning from the first volume ''(A Blaze of Glory)'', the young private from Wisconsin, Fritz Bauer. On the Southern side, the story is told through the eyes of Pemberton himself, as well as a young civilian woman in the town, Lucy Spence, who serves her cause the only way she can, by volunteering for nursing duties in the makeshift hospitals, enduring the kind of horror even the doctors are not prepared for.
The film is set on the Eastern Front of World War I. Corporal Hoferik becomes a commander of his unit after the commanding officers are killed. He leads his men to an attack that leads to high casualties. Hoferik and his men are then pulled out to the rear. Hoferik's unit is part of Ziegler's regiment. The regiment is visited by General Berger and his staff. Berger and his staff doesn't know much about life on the front. Berger awards Hoferik the Signum Laudis. Hoferik is happy and wants to celebrate with his men but they hate him for his eagerness and fanaticism. They decline. Next day the estate where Hoferik's unit reside surrounded by enemies. Berger orders the regiment to attack but it is decimated. Hoferik's unit and Berger's staff escapes the estate but old General Gross is killed in a fight with enemy. Soldiers are in a hopeless situation and officers want to surrender. Hoferik wants to fight to the last men which leads other officers to hold a court during which is Hoferik accused of Gross' murder and sentenced to death. Hoferik is executed. Officers then order the remaining soldiers to strike the enemy and they (the soldiers) are all killed. Officers meanwhile surrender to enemy.
In May 1945 two Wehrmacht deserters force a young Czech widow to transport them to Vienna. She sees this as an opportunity to avenge her husband who was executed by the Nazis.
Moriko Morioka is a 30-year-old successful career woman who decides to quit her taxing corporate job and become an elite NEET and find a more fulfilling life. She joins an online MMORPG ''Fruits de Mer'' and creates a male character named Hayashi as her avatar. In the game, Hayashi meets another character Lily, a high-level player who helps him learn the game. Hayashi and Lily become close friends and he joins her guild, ''@HomeParty''. Meanwhile, in the real world, Moriko has a chance encounter with a handsome elite company employee, Yuta Sakurai, who may have ties with her online life.
The envious and power-hungry Urfin Jus wants to become the ruler of Magic Land. He brings the wooden soldiers to life with a magic powder and goes with them to conquer the Emerald City. He is already preparing to celebrate the victory, but in the Magic Land there is also a little girl named Ellie. She wants to go home, but first she needs to help her friends Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to defeat Urfin Jus and his army.
The film depicts six days from the life of ninth-grader Kolya Smirnov (Semyon Treskunov).
Kolya falls in love with his teacher (Ieva Andreevajte). Someone sets fire to the school's additional building which contained the new computers, the principal's daughter, high school student Ksyusha (Anastasia Bogatyryova), in turn falls in love with Kolya and is under the impression that Kolya was the one who set the school on fire.
Kolya's father Alexander (Konstantin Khabensky) makes the family transition to the 12/36 system – this means twelve hours for sleep and thirty-six hours for staying awake, which does not allow the protagonist to sleep or even to collect thoughts.
The novel is set in London in the 1960s. The story takes place between January and late autumn of a single year. The recently widowed Laura Palfrey moves into the Claremont Hotel, where she joins a group of other elderly hotel residents. She has a daughter in Scotland and a grandson, Desmond, who lives in London and works at the British Museum. Having told the other residents that she has a grandson who will be visiting her, she is embarrassed by his failure to do so.
One afternoon she slips and falls on the pavement. Ludo Myers, a young man who lives in a basement apartment, sees her fall and helps her, taking her in, bandaging her cut leg, and calling a taxi to take her home. Ludo is an impoverished aspiring novelist who spends his days writing in the Banking Hall at Harrods in order to save money on heat. To thank him, Mrs. Palfrey invites Ludo to dinner at the Claremont the following week.
When she tells the waiter at the Claremont she is expecting a guest for dinner on Saturday, one of the other residents overhears and assumes that the visitor will be Mrs. Palfrey's grandson Desmond. Rather than correct her, Mrs. Palfrey seeks out Ludo at Harrods and asks him to pretend to be her grandson. The dinner is a success and Ludo and Mrs. Palfrey become friends, although he is also interested in her as a source for a novel he is writing.
Eventually, prompted by his mother, the real Desmond reluctantly goes to visit Mrs. Palfrey, who manages to hide his identity from the other residents and discourages him from returning, telling him that she cannot receive visitors at the Claremont.
One of the other residents, Mr. Osmond, invites Mrs. Palfrey to a Masonic Ladies' Night, where he makes her a proposal of marriage. Shocked and astonished, she refuses his proposal. Several days later, Mrs. Palfrey falls on the steps leaving the Claremont and is taken to hospital in an ambulance. Coincidentally, Desmond arrives soon after, having been again sent by his mother, and the residents do not believe him to be Mrs. Palfrey's grandson.
Ludo, who has also been to the Claremont and heard of the accident, visits Mrs. Palfrey in hospital, where he arranges for her to have a private room and brings her some of her personal possessions. Mrs. Palfrey develops pneumonia and dies in her sleep after a last visit from Ludo. The following day Ludo finishes writing his novel, whose title, ''They Weren't Allowed to Die There'', is based on a remark Mrs. Palfrey made to him about the Claremont Hotel,
A young, ambitious journalist risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to the British Government's collusion in the cover up of the Katyn massacre, one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.
Ali, the son of a prominent family in a rural town, returns after being gone for 12 years. The hopes of his family and the town itself were pinned to his success in Cairo. But due to a series of events in a failed architectural scheme that resulted in a tower collapsing, he was jailed for 3 years. At home, he experiences the warm reception of his father, mother, his would-be bride, and nephew. But excitement soon turns to delusion as the family and the town sees that he will not be able to fix the failures of the family's company and the economic backbone of the town. Eventually at his own wedding, Ali takes a gun and shoots down his brother and mother. Ali's brother, Tolba, manages to shoot Ali before they both succumb to their wounds. Only the nephew, Ibrahim, manages to escape the carnage and leaves to pursue a science degree in Alexandria.
Kate (Megan Dunlop) is a bike-maintenance instructor who realized she is no longer in love with her boyfriend of five years, Ollie (Michael Leblanc). Kate and Ollie have been together since high school. Kate finds out she is pregnant, which complicates the whole situation because she is not sure if she truly does want to break up with Ollie or not. However, Kate does not want to have a baby, but does not want to wait weeks for a clinical abortion, so her herbalist friend, Chloe (Marcia Connolly), tells her that being on a parsley diet can make one have a natural abortion. Kate then goes on to constantly eat parsley and at one point in the film, even bathe in parsley. Ollie is "the king of contraception", where he counsels people on contraception for his job. Kate's friends see Kate and Ollie's relationship as the greatest relationship there could ever be and they envy her for it; even her lesbian friend thinks she would be crazy to leave him. Kate decides it is for the best not to tell Ollie about the pregnancy, despite her friends telling her she should. The film suggests that Kate may have had an affair with her "slow student" and may be the real reason why she wants an abortion. However, we find out that Ollie purposely poked holes in the condom, attempting to save their relationship together by having a child.
Kate ultimately decides that breaking up with Ollie and moving on is for the best. Kate and Ollie both agree to meet in ten years at the lake, which is the spot the two of them first fell in love in the first place.
Lexi Winston lives on an Iowa farm with her father. She has a boyfriend named Nick who plays hockey in college. Lexi's skating talent attracts the attention of a coach who wants to take her to Boston and train her to win championships. Lexi works hard and comes in second in regionals, but she misses Nick. However, her coach considers the boyfriend a distraction and won't even let her mention him to the press. In sectionals, Lexi wins the competition and is ready to go the nationals, but she takes a break from an event where she is supposed to meet with those who can further her career, going outside to just skate for fun. She falls and hits her head, which causes her to go blind. Miracles do happen, she is told, but this is her life for now. Nick has quit the hockey team because the professional teams are not interested in him, and comes back to Iowa to spend time with Lexi. Lexi's condition is kept secret from the public, and while she doesn't believe she will skate again, her father and her boyfriend have to urge her just to get out of bed. Eventually, Lexi is willing to try skating again. After some training, she is actually capable of competing again, and she goes to the national competition, with the public unaware she is blind.
The story follows Chris Henry, a former San Diego police officer turned military consultant, as he attempts to solve the murder of one of his Iraqi police recruits.
The series tells the adventures and misadventures in the life of some adolescents of secondary. Everything happens in a private school, the street, their respective homes, the soda fountain and other meeting points. Although the plot usually focuses on its protagonists, Adrián (Adrián Delgado) and Patricia (Lourdes Martínez). Where Patricia lives eternally in love with Adrián, but he unexpectedly falls in love with Natalia (Gabriela Espino), a rich girl who arrives at the school in the last year.
''Abyss'' is a solitaire adventure for a ''Tunnels & Trolls'' player character who has died, and the character's trek through the underworld for rebirth.
''City of Terrors'' is an adventure where the player characters go to the island of Phoron which houses the City of Terrors.
''Death Test 2'' is a programmed labyrinth adventure and a sequel to ''Death Test''. Both adventures center on a test devised by the Thorz, the ruler of the city of Ardonirane, to test potential recruits for his army. The second labyrinth was built after the Thorz determined the original ''Death Test'' failed to weed out unworthy warriors. Survivors are allowed to enlist in the army, rank depending on how many enemies the applicants defeat. It can be run as a solo scenario or with a game master. It is usable with ''The Fantasy Trip'', or with both ''Melee'' and ''Wizard''. With the revival of The Fantasy Trip in 2019, Steve Jackson Games released ''Ardonirane'', a new supplement detailing the lands and customs of the Thorz, in 2020.
Garrett, a rising YouTube star, begins a relationship with Shell, an obsessive fan, who has a deadly, dangerous crush on him and is determined to win his heart by any means necessary.
In 1937, a young boy wakes up un in the middle of the night and sees apparitions of Native Americans dancing on the beach before discovering his grandparents' bodies buried up to their heads in the sand. He later grows up to be Chief Whalen, the chief of police for that town.
In the present, Dr. Brad Russell (a psychiatrist) and his wife Elaine move to a fishing town on the Pacific coast. They learn about a local legend which says that thunderstorms in the area are accompanied by apparitions of Native Americans dancing on the beach. A local fisherman named Riley believes these to be ghosts of the "storm dancers" of a local native tribe who once performed executions on the beach by burying victims up to the necks in the sand and allowing them to drown as the tide came in. He furthermore believes these apparitions to be connected to a series of mysterious deaths occurring in the community. Chief Whalen suspects Riley.
Robby Palmer, a hyperactive child whom Dr. Russell treated years before, is significantly calmer when he is in the town. During a thunderstorm in the night, he is found outside on the beach where his mother Rebecca has fallen into a pit. She is rescued, but Robby cannot remember anything. The next night, Robby feels compelled to sneak out to the beach, and his sister Missy follows him. While searching for them, Dr. Russell and others find the dead body of Riley. They find Chief Whalen covered in fake Native American war paint, attempting to kill Missy. Whalen is shot dead. Dr. Russell theorizes that the storms triggered Whalen's traumatic childhood memories, leading him to re-enact their deaths by killing others. Elaine wonders who killed the Whalens in the first place. Robby is later shown approaching the apparitions on a stormy night.
The main protagonist is invited by his cheerful childhood friend Sayori to join their high school's literature club as a remedy for his insular nature. He reluctantly agrees to her proposal and meets the other members of the club: the assertive Natsuki, the shy Yuri, and the bubbly club president Monika. After each day passes in the literature club, the club members are prompted to compose a poem which they share with the other members the following day. Eventually, as the club prepares for the school's upcoming cultural festival in which the club members intend to share their poems with a wider audience, Sayori confides to the protagonist that she suffers from depression. The protagonist assists either Yuri or Natsuki with their tasks, with each attempting to kiss the protagonist before he encounters Sayori again. The protagonist can either confess to Sayori or friend zone her in this moment. Regardless, the following day, Monika passively shows the protagonist an uncharacteristically morbid poem by Sayori that insistently orders someone to get out of her head. Realizing that something has happened to her, the protagonist rushes to Sayori's home where he discovers that she has hanged herself, and the game abruptly ends.
The player is sent back to the main menu, with all previous save files corrupted and eventually deleted. The narrative repeats upon the start of a new game, but Sayori is glaringly absent and the characters do not remember her existence. Monika introduces the protagonist to the club in lieu of Sayori. Events proceed similarly to the original playthrough, but some text is rendered illegible, the character sprites appear corrupted from time to time, and what appear to be computer glitches or bugs become commonplace. Aside from the game's frequent distortions, it is revealed through dialogue and unlockable "special poems" that Natsuki is malnourished and being abused by her father, and Yuri gradually becomes unstable, obsessive, and prone to self-harm. When the planning stage for the cultural festival is reached, a heated quarrel over who the protagonist will help with the festival breaks out. After the player is forced to choose Monika, Yuri ejects her and Natsuki from the room and privately confesses her love for the protagonist. Whether or not the protagonist accepts Yuri's confession, she commits suicide by stabbing herself. The game's broken script forces the protagonist to stay and watch Yuri's corpse slowly decompose over the course of the weekend. When Natsuki returns upon the script resetting, she is horrified and nauseated at the sight of Yuri's body and flees the scene. Monika then appears and apologizes to the protagonist for the "boring" weekend he had spent, compensating by deleting Yuri and Natsuki's character files from existence and restarting the game.
The protagonist is placed in what remains of the literature club classroom with Monika seated across from him. Monika reveals that she has become self-aware, having acquired the ability to manipulate the game's code after gaining sentience. Distraught at the fact that she is not a romance option but merely a supporting bystander, she used her ability to amplify her clubmates' negative traits in a futile attempt to make them unlikable and prevent their confessions of love for the protagonist. She then confesses her own love, not to the protagonist, but the player, because they are real and autonomous rather than programmed. Monika will sit and talk to the player indefinitely about various topics until the player manually enters the game's directory and deletes Monika's character file. Monika initially lashes out at the player as she disappears but ultimately forgives them and remorsefully repents by restoring the game and the characters excluding herself.
Depending on the course of action taken by the player, the game can come to two possible conclusions during the epilogue. The traditional ending sees Sayori introducing herself as the president of the literature club and expressing her gratitude to the player for dispelling Monika. However, Sayori promptly adopts Monika's characteristics as the new club president. Monika intervenes via text prompt and removes Sayori from the game to save the player. Upon realizing that her efforts to make amends have been fruitless, Monika deletes the whole game as the end credits roll, while she plays a song called "Your Reality" that she wrote for the player. The game concludes with a note from Monika herself, stating that she has disbanded the literature club because "no happiness can be found" in it.
A more positive ending occurs if the player has viewed all of the optional cutscenes and confessed to Sayori prior to witnessing her suicide, which requires saving and loading several times before that point. Though still self-aware, Sayori instead expresses her gratitude to the player for emotionally supporting all the club members, tearfully bids farewell, and assures the player that all the club members love them. Monika then plays "Your Reality" during the credits, albeit without deleting the game. After the game locks, the player is presented with a message from the game's developer, Dan Salvato, describing his intentions behind creating the game and his opinions on video games as a whole.
An earlier ending occurs if the player preemptively deletes Monika's file from the directory before starting a new game. Sayori is subsequently made the default leader of the club. Upon realizing the true nature of the game and her role in it, Sayori panics and forcefully closes the game. Opening the game again will display an image of Sayori having hanged herself.
In addition to the entire main story, ''Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!'' features six additional side stories, entitled ''Trust'', ''Understanding'', ''Respect'', ''Balance'', ''Reflection'', and ''Self-Love'', as well as an additional shorter seventh story, ''Equals''. The stories depict the meeting and relationships between the four club members, as well as the formation of the club up until the beginning of the main campaign, with each of the first six stories focusing on a conflict and resolution between two of the characters and seventh focusing on the friendship between all four of them. Unlike the main campaign, the side stories do not feature any horror elements or discussion of sentience among any of the characters.
Story-related content is accessible from within the virtual desktop in the form of an email inbox for a company referred to as "Metaverse Enterprise Solutions", as well as within the virtual desktop's file folder. Collecting this content tells of some researchers from the company who were attempting to utilize a virtual machine referred to as "VM1" to create a simulated universe. The resulting universe contained four entities, one of whom, "A", is granted elevated permissions to access the kernel code, referred to as "Monitor Kernel Access". The universe and entities are studied during events paralleling those of the game's main campaign, and the emails and files discuss the researcher's observations and monitoring of the events. Later discussion is given on the creation of a second universe within VM1, in which "A" is not made aware of their elevated permissions, paralleling the events and settings of the side stories. It is later mentioned that a small group of researchers, who initially refer to themselves as "Team Salvation", plan to transform the contents of VM1 into a visual novel format in order to ensure security of the project, implying that the events of ''Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!'' depict all the contents of VM1.
The last unlockable emails describe a second virtual machine, "VM2", which the researchers successfully built but could not reliably access due to its instability. While they are unable to create a reliable connection to VM2, the researchers observe that the entities within VM2 appeared to be working on an undescribed project, referred to as "Project Libitina". If the player completes full "data collection", which requires completing all game content and unlocking all secrets, they are granted access to an eighth side story entitled ''test.vm'', which consists only of a screen displaying failed server attempts at accessing VM2 alongside randomly-generated indecipherable text.
Marta, star of popular series, is 42 years old, she is strong and dominant. Despite fame and money, he still can't shape her life. Emotionally unstable 40-year-old Kasia is stuck in a far-fetched marriage, raising a teenage son. The sisters are not very fond of each other, they completely do not understand and do not even try to understand their life choices. Illness and, consequently, the loss of one parent force them to act together. Women gradually approach each other, regain lost contact, which provokes several tragicomic situations.
The series is structured as a series of flashbacks to earlier episodes in Trotsky's life, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City (1939-1940). The first episode begins in May 1940, on the outskirts of Mexico City, when a group of Mexican Communists dressed as policemen attack Trotsky's house. After shooting into the house for nearly a quarter hour, Trotsky and his wife amazingly survive untouched. Afterwards, he reflects on his situation. Having lost almost all those close to him during his eleven years of exile from the USSR, Trotsky perceives USSR leader Stalin, will relentlessly pursue him until he is dead. Trotsky decides to leave a political testament of how a man from an oppressed minority managed to successfully overthrow the Tsarist regime and establish a new social order. He invites an ideological opponent – a Canadian journalist sympathetic to Stalin – to work with him and write that testament. Each episode of the series then explores a period in his life as an emerging leader of the Communist Revolution who then lost his new power to Stalin.
The game is set in the ''Warhammer Fantasy'' universe during the early days of the End Times. The game follows the Heroes of Ubersreik from the first game against the Skaven hordes of Clan Fester and their new allies, the Rotbloods (a Chaos Warband dedicated to Nurgle, the Chaos God of Disease and Decay). The expansion, "Winds of Magic", also introduced the Beastmen, a herd of Chaos mutated humanoids, in search of an object known as the 'Herdstone'.
Following the events of the first game, Grey Seer Rasknitt (antagonist of the first game who was presumed dead and leader of Clan Fester) has successfully captured the five Heroes of Ubersreik. Without the interference of the heroes, the city of Ubersreik fell to the forces of Clan Fester. Rasknitt has since ordered the construction of a massive portal known as the Skittergate, which will allow the Chaos Champion Bödvarr Ribspreader and his Rotblood army easy access to the border-city of Helmgart. However, the Skittergate intermittently fails, preventing Bödvarr from summoning his entire army. When the Skittergate disastrously fails to activate again, the resulting destruction frees one of the heroes, Markus Kruber, from captivity. He fights his way through the Skaven lair and reunites with the rest of the heroes: Victor Saltzpyre, Bardin Goreksson, Sienna Fuegonasus and Kerillian.
They escape the lair and are transported to a ruined keep where they meet up with the rest of their allies: Franz Lohner (a former innkeeper who directs the heroes' missions) and Olesya Pimenova (a witch who creates the bridge of shadows, the heroes' main method of transportation). Reunited, the heroes and their allies work together to stop the combined forces of Skaven and Chaos. They first slay the sorcerer lord Burblespue Halescourge, who attempted to enact a ritual to unleash a massive plague upon Helmgart. Next, they defeat skaven warlord Skarrik Spinemanglr, who had set up a base in a fallen Dwarf hold. Enraged by the heroes' continuous interference, Bödvarr sends the majority of his forces to discover the heroes' keep and eliminate them. However, this leaves his war camp lightly defended. The heroes attack Bödvarr's war camp and slay him in an arena.
With Rasknitt's allies dead and his forces depleted and falling into infighting, Lohner states that the time is now to destroy the Skittergate and Rasknitt once and for all. He informs them that they need to activate the Helmgart Skittergate and travel through it to Norsca, where the other part of the gate is located. Once there, the heroes proceed to destroy the Norscan Skittergate and return to Helmgart. Rasknitt appears and summons his Stormfiend, Deathrattler, and combats the heroes. After a vicious fight, Rasknitt is at last slain. The lair and the Skittergate collapse, whilst the heroes escape back to the keep.
Many of the short stories in ''The Middle Children'' follow Sabah, who is mixed race, through various life experiences before and after her banishment to Canada. Not all the stories in this collection feature Sabah, but all the stories are centred around South African people and their lives as they experience racism and other hardships during apartheid. There are fourteen stories in total. The first story of the collection is also called ''The Middle Children'' and it describes the moment where Sabah, the focus of the stories, is discovered possessing a white card and is called into the criminal investigation office where she is told she will not be arrested alongside her card provider if she moves to Canada . Her father who is also a lawyer comes to defend her. It is revealed while her father is negotiating with the police that the only reason she obtained the white card was to get an education she otherwise would not have access to.
''The Doekoem'', ''Madula'', and ''Masquerade'', are all stories from Sabah's childhood in South Africa. ''Madula'' is centered around a moment in her childhood where her Paternal grandfather is setting up a traditional Muslim sacrifice of a cow in her backyard. She and other children are waiting in the barn on the property when one of the children claim that she is not really related to her grandfather because her grandfather is very dark and her father appears white. Sabah takes this very personally and gets into a fight with this girl. ''The Doekoem'' is centered around Sabah's experience growing up in her grandparents’ house. A woman named Patty who was always having problems with keeping the man she wants comes to get advice from Sabah's Grandmother. She goes along with them to visit a Wiseman called The Doekom who lives in a rundown house that doesn’t even have a bathroom. ''Masquerade'' is split up into two parts the first part is her describing her Grandfathers death and seeing his body as they cleaned it in the morgue and the second part describing an incident she had at a place called the Caliphas house where it is implied that she is going to have some sort of vaginal exam before she runs out.
''Billie Can’t Poo'', ''Don’t Mention it'', and ''Make the Chicken Run'' are stories that feature Sabah after she has moved to Canada. ''Billie Can’t Poo'' is one of the more humorous stories told from the perspective of Sabah's Canadian friend Billie on a month-long visit to South Africa. She becomes constipated upon her arrival to South Africa. Sabah reveals this embarrassing fact to members of her family who all give her remedies. She finally goes at the worst moment when they are trapped on a narrow road on a mountain. She has inexplicable hysterics on the plane ride home from South Africa. In ''Don’t Mention It'' is about Sabah's mother on her first visit to Canada. Sabah is divorced from her husband at this point but cannot move back home because of her children. Her mother stays for two months and her visit impacts Sabah's children by getting to know a part of their ancestry. One instance when they go to a bulk store their grandmother steals a couple chocolate covered almonds. Sabah exclaims that she had always been told that stealing was wrong. Her mother however, sees it as sampling to buy them next time. This visit impacts Sabah's daughter the most as it allows her to see her mother in a different light after learning about her past. ''Make the Chicken Run'' is the fourteenth story and features an inner monologue from Sabah before she votes in Canada; she reflects on how her life has changed.
All the other short stories that don’t feature Sabah are stand-alone stories. ''The Starlights'' describes a group of men and their brief encounter with racism from a police officer . ''I Count the Bullets Sometimes'' follows the story of presumably wealthy black family the son, Nazeem who makes a white friend at the private school he goes to. He's family is at first polite with a noticeable tension only eased when the family realizes that Jeremy despite being white is less privileged than them in some ways. ''Boundaries'' features three sisters, the youngest of which passes for white. This story highlights jealousy and favouritism that can happen when the family has a passing child. This jealousy leads to the death of a man and an unknown fate for the youngest sister, who is still in a coma at the end of the story.
Tiger (played by Chin Yuet Sang) and his buddy Wu Shing (played by Alan Chui) enter a competition in which Tiger wins and Ting (played by Michelle Yim) is forced into a marriage from the competition. However, Ting tells Tiger that if he gets three treasures for her then she will accept Tiger as her love. With the help of Wu Shing, Tiger must fight the mad monk, an insane shemale and finally the Yoga Master to get the treasures.
The show follows two brothers, Nick and Toby, who discover that they have the power to transform into powerful creatures known as Gormitis. Their two friends Jessica and Lucas join the fight, and together they harness the power of the four elements. Now it's up to them to save their world, and many others, from destruction.
Russia, early 1990s. Sergei Mamontov is looking for where to apply himself and his intellect. And so he orders a mock-up of a security paper with imperial script, rich ornament, watermarks and his own portrait in the center.
An active advertising campaign begins. A little more than two weeks is enough to make people line up for the "mamontovs" ("mamontovki" in Russian). Powerful bankers and state structures are in confusion – no one has a clue how to stop it, and the MMM has already accumulated more than 10 million investors.
Furthermore, Mamontov is concerned that there are no rich people in the country, and all Soviet industry is exposed to privatization. He accumulates "private greeds" and decides to carry out an honest privatization. His way is blocked by the agent of Western imperialism - Belyavsky (an allusion to Boris Berezovsky) with his MegaVAZ-bank (an allusion to LogoVAZ). Belyavsky comes from the top - he makes connections in the Kremlin and is in charge of television. Belyavsky proposes to share Russia. Mamontov refuses: "I do not trade with Russia!", which attracts the financial inspectorate, who, without checking documents, imposes unthinkable demands for paying taxes upon him, which Mamontov executes. There is still enough money to ruin the bank of Belyavsky. In the country by that time are already 20 million investors and every week the number increases by a million, the "mamontov's" goes on par with ruble. Mamontov threatens to seize power with the help of investors who are facing ruin. During a one-minute audience with the President, Mamontov appears as a guardian for the state amid a corrupt environment and asks for a change in the law - to allow foreigners to be involved in their financial system in order to subordinate the Western oligarchy and thereby make Boris Yeltsin's Russia leader of the world. But Belyavsky begins to threaten the life of Mamontov's daughter and he eventually falls into a trap. On the Ostankino Tower, the battered Mamontov again refuses to cooperate with Belyavsky, despite the proposed opportunity to become the "head of state". Mamontov hopes to leave with his daughter, defending himself by having a recording of a conversation with a representative of the FCS (where he offered similar "privileges"), from his assistant Vera, but she, escaping from the people of Belyavsky, drops the recording in a park and on charges of non-payment of taxes, Mamontov gets in prison and comes out after 7 years.
The story begins with Viktor Marianovich Ryabushkin, the richest billionaire in Moscow. He had the Golden Balls of Genghis Khan, which brought him wealth and power. He would show them to his family and friends but after that, he killed them so that they would not tell anyone his secret. After he murdered them all, he decided to make repairs since the traces of bullets damaged the walls in the house. Brigadier Leonid receives an order to repair the apartment.
Ravshan and Dzhamshut again come to Moscow for repairs in Marjanovic's apartment. Once there, migrant workers tear down and ruin expensive interior items and find the hiding place with the Golden Balls of Genghis Khan. Hearing on the TV about an accident with a minibus, they think that their boss is in trouble and start looking for him around the city. They manage to lose his money in a lottery, but having stolen a car from the casino, they visit the corporation of another oligarch, Oleg Robertovich, and destroy the career of Nikolai Baskov. Later they came to the Sklifosovsky Institute, bury the skeleton with the chief's clothes and fight against the "zombie boss", defeat Victor Marjanovich, get the Balls of Fate and return.
After conquering the lands above, the Dungeon Lord becomes bored and attempts to invade a new continent which fails due to the minions' incompetence in boat-building. The Dungeon Lord casts a spell that allows him to control Thalya, awakening her evil side. After she slaughters the people in her home village, she decides to let her dark side take over and begins serving the Dungeon Lord as its chief lieutenant. on her quest to punish Tanos for attempting to convert her.
On this quest, Thalya gradually conquers more and more parts of the continent and dispatches of Tanos' friends one by one. Facing Tanos himself, she fails to defeat him and uses a spell to temporarily transport the Dungeon Lord to the continent where he battles with Tanos who then flees and becomes more fanatic in his attempts to destroy Thalya and her forces, sacrificing his own cities and people and calling upon dead heroes from Valhalla to fight for him instead. In the end, Thalya manages to defeat Tanos and subjugate the empire under the Dungeon Lord's will.
The film is inspired by director Iram Haq's own life. 16-year-old Nisha is living a double life with her parents in Oslo, Norway. She plays basketball with her Norwegian friends, parties, drinks, and has a Norwegian boyfriend named Daniel. At home, she behaves like a docile daughter in her traditional Pakistani Muslim family.
One night, Nisha's father, Mirza, catches Nisha with Daniel in her room and angrily beats him. Neighbors hear the screams and call the police, and Nisha is taken to a child welfare agency. There, Nisha blames herself for what happened while a counselor reassures her that she has done nothing wrong. Mirza, assuming the two had had sex, is willing to accept Nisha back home on the condition that she marries Daniel. Nisha protests that they did not, but Mirza does not believe her. Family friends in the Pakistani community urge Mirza to do something about Nisha, warning him that she will rebel further and negatively influence other children in the community.
Mirza, fearing for the family reputation, forcibly takes Nisha with him to Pakistan and leaves her in his sister's home. Before returning to Norway, he tries and fails to make amends with Nisha, emotionally insisting that he wants what is best for her. Eight months later, Nisha has learned cooking and household chores while attending the local school. She once sneaks into a cyber cafe and sends a Facebook message to her friend in Norway for help, but is caught by her aunt, beaten, and locked up. Her uncle then burns her passport, leaving her with no other choice but to adjust to life there.
Nisha and her first cousin Amir, her aunt's son, start to develop feelings for each other. As she grows closer to him and enjoys spending time with her other cousins, Nisha finally begins to feel some semblance of happiness. She and Amir venture out into the streets late one night and are caught kissing in an alley by policemen. The policemen beat Amir, force Nisha to strip and coerce her and Amir into performing sensual acts, while taunting and taking pictures of them. They then take the two home and blackmail Nisha's aunt and uncle with the incriminating pictures, forcing them to pay money. Although Nisha insists that all she and Amir did was kiss, her aunt calls Mirza to tell him that Nisha seduced Amir into having sex with her, ordering Mirza to come take Nisha back immediately.
Mirza arrives in Pakistan and pleads with his sister and brother-in-law to allow Nisha and Amir to marry, in order to put an end to community gossip. They refuse, and Mirza takes Nisha back to Norway. En route, he orders her to jump off a cliff, screaming that she has ruined his life; horrified, she cries and begs her father for forgiveness, and both break down. Once home, Nisha's mother receives her coldly; she and Mirza begin to watch Nisha closely, forcing her to change schools and forbidding her from contacting her old friends. Isolated and depressed, Nisha silently settles back into life in Norway, desperate to earn back her family's trust and approval. The child welfare agency calls the family in for a meeting; Nisha's mother accuses Nisha of notifying the agency and threatens her into lying about all that happened. The counselors produce the Facebook message that Nisha had sent to her friend months before, which detailed her kidnap, and gently ask her if it is true; Nisha insists that she went to Pakistan of her own will and had sent the message in a moment of anger.
Nisha comes home one day to find her parents hosting Pakistani family friends for dinner, and is horrified to learn that they have arranged her marriage to the family's son living in Canada. Mirza, after happily stating that Nisha will continue her studies and have a career in Canada, is visibly upset but silent when the future in-laws reply that they intend for Nisha to be a housewife and raise a family. Shattered, later that night Nisha climbs out of her bedroom window to run away. As she looks back, she makes eye contact with her father, who watches down on her from a window with tears in his eyes. He does nothing to stop her, watching her as she flees.
Anders Hill has recently divorced Helene, early retired from a job in finance, and is having a difficult time coping. Preston, his adult son, is a recovering drug addict who lives with Helene in the family home. Preston, who graduated from Northwestern University, is now working as a reading specialist with his mother, who got him the job.
Anders still loves his ex, despite sleeping around since the divorce. He shows up at the annual Christmas party she co-hosts with Sophie Ashford, their neighbor. Feeling isolated, he goes outside and joins Sophie and Mitchell's son, Charlie, and some of his friends. Urged to smoke from a bong, he is surprised to find out that the pot is laced with PCP. Charlie overdoses and is taken to the hospital. Anders tells his therapist that he smoked drugs with Charlie at the party, and is taken aback to hear that his therapist was also in attendance.
Still the legal owner of the house he has left to Helene, he's responsible for the mortgage. Six months behind on payments, he realizes that he cannot afford to retire and pay off the house. Anders asks a friend for a loan, who takes him to a strip club where he meets Barbara. Anders and Barbara hit it off and share a cab.
Anders gives his old address, being drunk, entering his old house with his key, upsetting Helene, Preston, and Helene's boyfriend Donny. She is later forced to fire Preston after he takes money from a student for a poker game. Preston tells her that Anders can't pay the mortgage.
Days later, Preston stops by Anders' condo to reveal he has a delivery job but is homeless because Helene kicked him out. Anders tells him he can't stay either, and to grow up. Charlie later visits Anders, telling him he has escaped to avoid rehab and asks him to look after his pet turtle. Anders initially threatens to call Charlie's parents, but they instead go to Charlie's "clubhouse". At first, they do drugs while Charlie tells him about his graphic novel on Laika. Anders decides to take him home, but he escapes.
Preston delivers wine to a former classmate who owns a large home and is expecting his first child. After insulting him, he leaves and finds his car broken down. Unable to finish his deliveries, he calls a tow truck that drops him off near the train tracks. Preston contemplates drinking a large bottle of champagne, but instead places it in front of an oncoming train. On the way back to his Jeep, Preston discovers Charlie's corpse behind a tree.
Charlie's death causes Preston to be welcomed back into Helene's home. On Christmas Eve, when the Hills and Ashfords traditionally celebrate dinner together, Preston finds his Dad in a hotel room and convinces him to come for dinner. Over dinner, Anders reveals that he and Charlie took drugs together. This motivates Sophie to tell him that Helene had been cheating on him for two years. Mitchell then attacks Anders, stubbing out his cigar in the middle of Anders' forehead.
A few months later, Helene has sold the house while she and Donny plan their wedding in Hawaii. Preston has decided to attend graduate school in New York City and gets his own apartment. Anders, continuing to date Barbara, is settling into retired life and is looking after Charlie's turtle.
Cathy and Max are patients in the hospital. James, Moti and Willie visit Max. As they return to camp, they come across a motorcycle dispatch rider in the Royal Corps of Signals who has been fatally injured in a traffic accident. This is the first of several deaths in the novel, most accidental or incidental.
Cathy and Max are soon discharged from hospital, "on probation". Max returns to duty. Cathy gains employment as a barmaid; she and James meet and fall in love (a major plot line which continues to the end of the novel).
Brian is convinced that there is a spy in or near the camp. He meets Best while he and other officers are visiting Lady Lucy's for various purposes (mostly, for sexual intercourse with Lucy), and arranges to be shown round the hospital. In Lucy's library, Willie discovers the manuscript of a trio-sonata for flute, violin and piano by the fictional late 18th century composer Thomas Roughead (this forms a minor sub-plot). Best attempts to rape Lucy, but James rescues her.
Willie receives an anonymous poem which shocks him. It is an attack on God, which to him as a clergyman means that the writer needs help in case he falls into the sin of despair. He wonders if it might have been written by Andy, who is grieving over the death by illness of a close friend; but later assures himself that it was not. Willie discovers Brian searching his room, in his capacity as security officer. Max tries unsuccessfully to seduce Andy.When the novel was published, homosexual activity (called in law, gross indecency) was a criminal offence in the United Kingdom under the Labouchere Amendment of 1885. Brian visits the hospital, where he drops heavy hints about the secret nature of the project at the camp. Alastair summons Brian back urgently, because public notices have been discovered in the camp advertising the formation of a branch of "The Anti-Death League". Such an abnormal happening may compromise the project. James discovers a lump in Cathy's breast.
Several officers attend the inaugural meeting of The Anti-Death League, as do a few ordinary soldiers. The organiser of the meeting does not identify himself and is not identified. Brian concludes that the anonymous organiser is not the spy he has been chasing. James (who has the highest security clearance for Operation Apollo) says to Max (who does not) that he visualises a lethal node, a military term for a place which it is death to enter, but one extending in time rather than in space. It began with the death of the dispatch rider, and will end only with the death of someone as little known to them as he was. James tells Max what Operation Apollo involves.
The weapon is tested in Exercise Nabob. Best is seen entering the restricted area. At about the same time, news is radioed through that Cathy has breast cancer. Brian orders that Best be kept under observation and not apprehended. Best evades the observers. While returning from the exercise, the engine of the lorry carrying the weaponry catches fire, and it has to be unloaded in a hurry, as Best sees. Attempts to capture him are unsuccessful.
Cathy and James are having a long bedroom conversation about the nature of human relationships, when their room is lit up by the flash of what might be a nighttime use of the weapon. It turns out that one of the weapons has been stolen, and fired, destroying a ruined priory. Venables points out several difficulties in attributing this to Best. Jagger now arrives at the camp, and sees similar difficulties to Venables.
One of Brian's agents discovers the stolen weapon in the hospital. Brian, Max and Jagger drive there. Brian and Max bluff their way in. Best attempts to have them sedated and committed to his hospital as mental patients ("sectioned"). There is a struggle; Jagger intervenes in the nick of time; and Best is taken into custody.
A spy is discovered in the camp. A firefight breaks out, during which Max displays initiative, and Jagger kills the spy with his bare hands. There is one other casualty, an arriving civilian lecturer caught in the crossfire.
Jagger has deduced who the anonymous poet, the perpetrator of the Anti-Death League, and the thief are; but has several reasons not to pursue any of those matters further. Not least, because Operation Apollo has been a tremendous success.
Brian is told that he has admirably performed the function for which he was selected, and of the operation's success. He had known that the weapon test was a cover for something still more secret; he is now told the deepest secret of all.
James has withdrawn into himself, not eating or communicating, and is being sheltered by Lucy and Willie, when Brian arrives. He fetches Cathy from hospital, where her breast has been operated on, and tells the two women the true nature of Operation Apollo (though not its deepest secret). Cathy tells James that her treatment should be successful, that she knows the horrific nature of Operation Apollo, that it will not be carried out, and that she loves him. James begins to recover.
The novel concludes with a concert of Roughead's music, and has a poignant final twist.
Melinda Moore is a steadfast, hardworking wife who supports her husband, Robert Gayle, an engineer trying to sell an innovative battery design. A running total/dwindling balance of the proceeds Melinda receives after her mother's death is portrayed as the couple gets in over their heads in debt, which fractures their marriage over time. The film is divided into categories based in the emotional spectrum that Melinda experiences, as follows:
Melinda bumps into engineering student Robert during college, goes into a rage and assaults him physically and verbally, revealing her normal tendencies. Later that day he appears at her dorm room to return some papers that got mixed up when they bumped into each other, and they gradually become close. On the day of her mother's funeral, Robert comforts Melinda, leading to them having sex, and the pair start dating. Melinda frequently listens to Robert speak about his life and she decides to buy him a new car. Although he did not ask her to buy the car, he accepts it. Melinda believes he is aware of his own influence on her but she strives to please him anyway. Melinda later visits Robert at his RV and discovers him cheating on her with a woman named Diana Wells. She goes into another rage and rams the RV with her car with both the two lovers inside, seriously injuring herself in the process. Melinda destroys Robert's car before passing out from injury and is rushed to the hospital for an emergency full hysterectomy, rendering her unable to bear children. Melinda and Robert reconcile and marry, despite the objections of her sisters, June and Brenda. Brenda warns Melinda not to tell Robert about the amount of money their mother left her.
Years later, Melinda supports them both, as Robert is unable to find work because he was a felon and spent two years in prison for robbing a grocery store. June and Brenda are leery of Robert's intentions with Melinda's inheritance. Robert talks Melinda into mortgaging their house so he can build a prototype of a revolutionary battery he has been designing since prison, which he hopes to sell to Prescott, a venture capitalist. Diana, now working as an assistant to Prescott, arranges for Robert to have a meeting with him. After finding Diana's wallet in Robert's truck, June and Brenda tell Melinda that Robert is cheating on her. Melinda's family runs a catering business and they offer Robert a job, warning him that if they miss out on delivering to a client they will lose their truck contract. As Robert is in route to his delivery, he gets a call from Diana saying Prescott wants to reconsider his deal. This causes Robert to abandon his delivery job during mid-route. Prescott offers Robert $800,000 for the design, but Robert wants to license the technology to them instead and declines the offer. Melinda, furious at both Robert's declining of Prescott's offer and his interaction with Diana, files for divorce and moves in with Brenda. Robert moves into a homeless shelter, but Diana finds out and insists that he live with her.
Prescott reconsiders and offers Robert a multimillion-dollar deal while allowing him to keep the intellectual property of the battery technology proprietary, which he accepts. Robert visits Melinda at work, although she refuses to reconcile. Robert accepts her decision but, as an apology to her and much to Melinda's surprise, gives her $10 million and buys back her home.
After showing her sisters the money Robert has given her and berating them for their influence, Melinda visits Robert in his new penthouse apartment and attempts to seduce him and rekindle their relationship, but Diana comes in and introduces herself as Robert's fiancée.
Angry and hurt, Melinda becomes obsessed with the couple and swears to destroy them. Melinda sues Robert and Diana, claiming that the deal with Prescott happened before their divorce, but the case is dismissed. Robert and Diana file a countersuit against Melinda and obtain restraining orders. Melinda retaliates by visiting the bridal shop and destroying Diana's wedding gown with hydrochloric acid, although she is caught and sentenced to court-mandated counseling, where she tells her therapist that Robert took advantage of her. Her therapist suggests that she may have borderline personality disorder. Melinda's mental state further deteriorates after learning Diana is pregnant. On Robert's wedding day, her family and friends are forced to prevent Melinda from leaving her house and ruining the wedding.
Robert and Diana leave on their honeymoon cruise. Melinda sneaks onto the boat, shoots Robert, and makes the crew of the boat jump overboard. Melinda attempts to shoot Diana but Robert tells Diana to take the dinghy and rescue the crew before overpowering Melinda and throwing her in the water. Melinda returns and attempts to kill Robert with an axe but is trapped by the anchor that pulls her off and into the ocean, thus she drowns. Diana returns with the crew and comforts a bleeding Robert.
A group of people trying to travel from Bou Saâda, M'Sila to Algiers who are unable to find a suitable mean of transport. They finally have to take an outdated illegal taxicap "''un clandestine''" of a poor man who has many children. Comedian conversations and many troubles take place during the trip.
XVII century. The Georgian state, fragmented into small principalities, is an object of desire to Turkey and Iran. Hordes of Ottomans trample the Georgian soil.
The illustrious warrior Giorgi Saakadze stands at the head of the people's army and, luring the Turks into a mountain gorge, decides the outcome of the Suram battle.
Taking advantage of the current whereabouts of King Luarsab II of Kartli, Saakadze starts building fortresses on the borders of the state. However, the marriage of the Tsar to Tekle, sister of Giorgi, creates open anger in the circle of princes. Vigilantes of Shadiman, counselor of Laursab, treacherously attack the castle of Saakadze and force him and his family to flee to Persia.
Shah Abbas trusts Saakadze to lead the Persian army. After a series of victorious campaigns, Giorgi Saakadze is proclaimed as the greatest military commander.
By order of the Shah, the army under the command of Giorgi Saakadze invades Georgia. With the help of foreigners, Giorgi intends to pacify the unruly feudal lords and create a single Georgian state under the scepter of Laursab II.
However, the hypocritical Shah deceives Giorgi - he announces the immunity of the princes who agreed to give him the king Laursaba. The Persian army destroys everything in its path, steals Georgians into slavery.
The king is sent to Persia. Giorgi Saakadze is accused of this event.
Having met with the common people, Giorgi swears that he is the faithful son of Georgia. He calls on the people to go into battle against Persia.
The Persian army is broken. Georgia is liberated.
The joy of victory is darkened by the news of Shah having murdered Giorgi's son - Paata.
The enemies are driven out of Georgia, but the fear of the collapse of the feudal foundations unites the strength of the princes. With a sudden attack, the princes break the great Mouravi.
The noble, but premature affair of Georgi Saakadze is defeated.
In a flashback, Gregory (Xander Berkeley) bargains with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Savior lieutenants—Dwight (Austin Amelio), Simon (Steven Ogg), Gavin (Jayson Warner Smith), Regina (Traci Dinwiddie), and Eugene (Josh McDermitt) - offering to expel any Hilltop resident that sides with Rick. Simon suggests they can just wipe out Hilltop if they do not comply, but Negan sternly reminds him that they are useful resources. The meeting is broken up by the start of Rick's militia attack on the Sanctuary.
In the present, Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) finds himself trapped with Negan in a box trailer outside the Sanctuary, surrounded by a group of walkers. Negan doesn't kill Gabriel, but instead lulls him into talking about his past, learning that Gabriel seeks to atone for betrayal of his own congregation. Negan talks of his own past to gain Gabriel's confidence and help. They work together to pull in and dispatch a few walkers to cover themselves in their viscera to make their way through the group. Despite their cover eventually being blown, the two successfully manage to fight their way the rest of the way through.
Meanwhile, the Savior lieutenants believe Negan to be dead and discuss how they will handle the power vacuum. Gavin raises the possibility that the militia's attack succeeded due to inside information from one of them. Dwight, who had provided Rick with that info, diverts the discussion to issues with the anxious workers on the floor below, knowing that if they do not assert a form of authority, they could rebel. Leaving matters be for the time being, they return to their quarters. Eugene comes by to drop a gift of appreciation to Dwight, and notices a freshly-painted chess set in his room. Some time later, Simon decides to cut off the Sanctuary's power to conserve resources. Several workers come upstairs to protest the conditions and demand to see Negan. The lieutenants lose control when one worker tries to pull a gun, but he is quickly shot and killed. Before the situation can go further Negan and Gabriel arrive. Negan quickly reasserts his authority and the workers obediently return to the lower floor. Negan tells his lieutenants to gently lock up Gabriel in a cell. The Saviors discover weapon bags among the workers and evidence that they were stolen from their armory by a Savior, then Eugene discovers a spot of paint on one bag, the same color as from Dwight's chess set. Negan privately asks Eugene to figure out how to rid them of the walkers around the Sanctuary. Later, Eugene goes to visit Gabriel and finds him quite ill from using the walker guts, and quickly calls for medical attention.
Elsewhere, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) go to a dying Yago (Charles Halford) to find out what happened. Yago reveals that all the Kingdom militia were killed, except for King Ezekiel, Jerry, and Carol. Rick takes the weapons aboard the Saviors’ truck they had prevented from returning to Sanctuary. He and Daryl get into an argument on what to do with the weapons, Daryl believes they should use them against the Saviors, while Rick sees a more humane solution. The argument turns to a fist-fight, which inadvertently results in a bag of dynamite being thrown at the truck, destroying it and the weapons. Daryl refuses to give Rick a return ride to Alexandria, leaving Rick to walk to the Scavengers.
In a flashback, King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) prepares himself and his troops from the Kingdom to go to war alongside the Alexandria and Hilltop communities against the Saviors. He gives a rousing speech to boost morale before they depart.
In the present, Ezekiel crawls out from the pile of dead bodies of the Kingdom soldiers. His troops had sacrificed themselves to protect Ezekiel from a Savior assault; the enemy had used the machine guns Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) had been searching for. With one leg wounded and the dead starting to re-animate, Ezekiel is rescued by a surviving Kingdom soldier, Alvaro (Carlos Navarro).
Ezekiel and Alvaro attempt to get to safety, but Alvaro is killed with a fatal gunshot through the chest by a Savior, Gunther (Whitmer Thomas). The Savior takes the King hostage and tells him that he plans to turn Ezekiel to Negan for a handsome reward. He forces Ezekiel forward at gunpoint, towards a fenced complex to escape the turned Kingdom walkers following them. Throughout, Gunther taunts Ezekiel, mocking that "even in death, [his men] still follow [him]". Reaching the complex's gate, they discover that it is locked. With Ezekiel unable to climb, Gunther prepares to decapitate him and carry the head. However, Jerry (Cooper Andrews) suddenly appears and uses his axe to completely bisect Gunther's body with one swing, killing him and saving his leader from certain death. Jerry then helps Ezekiel up, and the two defend themselves while trying to break the lock.
In the nearby outpost, Carol (Melissa McBride) surprises the Saviors moving the machine guns, killing several. The remaining Saviors rush to transport the guns away by Humvee, resulting in a firefight outside the building, near where Ezekiel and Jerry are fighting. Carol is able to trick the Saviors into letting their guard down, killing all but two of them, but she then spots Ezekiel and Jerry close to being overrun by walkers. She goes to help them, allowing the Saviors to escape in the Humvee. Rescued, Ezekiel laments that Carol let the guns get away, but they then hear the roar of a nearby motorcycle. Outside the complex, Rick and Daryl show up, giving chase. The two force the Humvee off the road.
Back at the outpost, Carol and Jerry help escort Ezekiel through the growing walker horde with their ammo running low. They come to a shallow creek milling with walkers, which is difficult for Ezekiel to cross with his injury. Carol and Jerry insist Ezekiel continue walking, but decides he rather stay behind and sacrifice himself to fight off the walkers for them. He admits to Jerry that he is just "some guy" and not worthy of being a leader. Suddenly Shiva, Ezekiel's pet Bengal tiger, unexpectedly arrives and tears into the walkers. The tiger ultimately sacrifices herself in the process, much to Ezekiel's heartbreak and outrage. Carol and Jerry are then forced to drag a tearful Ezekiel away. Eventually, the three make it back to the Kingdom gates. Families of the soldiers that Ezekiel spoke to at the start of the day rush in to hear the news. However, Ezekiel cannot bring himself to say anything and quietly walks away.
As described in various film magazine reviews, Laura (Minter) is an orphan girl who has been blind since birth. She has been "adopted" by Simon (Law) and by three small-time crooks; Whitey, Sal and Mike (Burns), who is attracted to Laura. They convince the innocent Laura that her run-down surroundings are in fact beautiful.
Mike, Sal and Whitey manage to find the money to pay for an operation which restores Laura's sight. They are arrested and temporarily jailed, however, over suspicion as to how they obtained the money, which means they are not around when Laura sees for the first time. The shock of realising that the home she thought was beautiful is in fact sordid, and that her friends are criminals, causes Laura to temporarily lose her mind.
In this vulnerable state, she is taken advantage of by Sullivan (Parsons), another criminal, who convinces Laura that helping him to crack a safe will enable her to free her friends, especially Mike. While she is doing this, her friends are released due to lack of evidence, and frantically begin to search for Laura.
Just as the safe is opened, Mike arrives, and fights and overpowers Sullivan to protect Laura. By way of thanks for saving his fortune from theft, the owner of the safe gifts Laura and her friends a ranch in the country and a chance to "go straight," and the film ends with Mike and Laura together in their new life.
After the Bergen Town tradition of eating Trolls on Trollstice is abolished, the Bergens have no holidays left to celebrate. Poppy, who has received numerous cards from the Bergens celebrating different days of the week or times of day, decides to share Troll holidays with the Bergens. She enlists the Snack Pack and her friend Branch, unfamiliar with being happy, to head to Bergen Town on a bus driven by Cloud Guy. Upon traveling through a strange wormhole, the Trolls arrive in Bergen Town.
The Trolls show Queen Bridget and King Gristle their holiday traditions, but the spectacle overwhelms the Bergens. Bridget, exasperated by the spectacle, tells Poppy to leave and give them some space. Heartbroken, Poppy departs Bergen Town for the forest with her friends in pursuit. Poppy tells Branch of her fear that she might have lost Bridget's friendship forever. Branch tries to cheer her up by singing songs pointing out where she went wrong. Meanwhile, back in Bergen Town, Bridget and Gristle start to regret how hard they both were on the Trolls, and Bridget acknowledges that Poppy cares about the Bergens.
Poppy soon realizes that she was so busy trying to celebrate with the Bergens that she was not listening to Bridget's needs. When Poppy and Branch return to Bergen Town, they find that the entire town is decorated with decorations made by the Bergens. Poppy and Bridget apologize to each other, and Branch finally cracks a smile to Poppy and Bridget’s delight. The Bergens and the Trolls all celebrate their new holiday, Troll-A-Bration, together.
The noise of some Neapolitan organ-grinders outside their flat reminds Raffles of his time spent in Italy. Raffles finally tells Bunny what happened to him after he fled the police during the events of "The Gift of the Emperor":
Pretending to be a shipwrecked sailor, Raffles briefly finds work as a miner on the island of Elba. Then, he takes a boat to Baiae, and works in an idyllic vineyard for eight months. Raffles detests the vineyard's vile owner, Count Corbucci. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a local girl named Faustina. Faustina is beautiful, though very poor. He and Faustina spend time happily together.
Eventually, Faustina tearfully confesses to Raffles that she is engaged. After Raffles prods her, she admits the man's identity: Stefano, Corbucci's violent servant, who is giving Faustina jewels, which she needs to support her family. Raffles realizes the jewels are actually from Corbucci, and that Corbucci is using Stefano in an atrocious scheme to take advantage of Faustina. Raffles is determined to fight for her. He also steals a revolver from Corbucci to give to Faustina and teaches her how to use it for self-defence.
Raffles plans to see Faustina while Corbucci is supposed to be away in Rome, but is stalled by a vineyard manager who is following orders from Corbucci. Raffles then goes to the cave behind the vineyard, to meet Faustina, but Corbucci surprises him on the path to the cave. Corbucci speaks menacingly. Raffles goes on to the cave, only to find that Faustina has been stabbed to death by Stefano. Devastated, Raffles charges at Stefano, and a fight ensues. Stefano has Faustina's revolver and shoots at Raffles but misses. Raffles takes the revolver and kills Stefano. Then Raffles goes after Corbucci in his house. Corbucci reveals that they had found out about Faustina's meetings with Raffles and that Stefano had attacked her by surprise before she could fire the gun. Raffles ties up Corbucci, and abandons him.
Raffles flees the vineyard by boat to Genoa, where he sleeps in the streets, and steals and begs to survive. One day, he sees his own unrecognizable reflection in a window, and decides to return to London.
Raffles concludes the narrative by telling Bunny that Corbucci's crime syndicate, the Camorra, may be after him. He half-jokingly suggests the organ-grinders outside their window may be part of the syndicate.
Raffles tells Bunny that one of the dreaded Count Corbucci's men secretly followed them on their way home. Raffles in turn leaves to secretly follow the man, after tricking Bunny into changing into pajamas so that Bunny cannot accompany him. Bunny watches the nighttime street from the window, only to see Corbucci appear and, in turn, secretly follow Raffles. Bunny decides to follow Corbucci, but loses track of Corbucci by the time he gets to the street. A constable tells him that Corbucci has left in a hansom. Bunny engages a hansom and searches the streets for Raffles, without success.
Bunny sits up all night at home, miserably waiting for Raffles. In the morning, a young, one-eyed Italian man comes to the flat. He cannot speak English, but Bunny understands that the man urgently wants Bunny to follow him. They take a hansom to Bloomsbury Square.
The Italian hurriedly leads Bunny into a dark house. Inside, they find Raffles, gagged and bound by ropes to nearly hang from the ceiling, in front of a grandfather clock. The Italian immediately knocks over the clock, which triggers a hidden revolver in the clock to shoot at the wall. Next, he cuts Raffles loose, with Bunny's help.
Raffles, too weak to stand, tells Bunny that he has been strung up for nearly twelve hours. Corbucci, wanting to take revenge on Raffles, had captured him and set up the gun-clock to shoot him when twelve hours were passed. The young Italian was present, though, and, before being gagged, Raffles managed to quickly and secretly persuade him to defect from the Camorra, find Bunny, and save Raffles.
Raffles goes downstairs, with a handkerchief to his nose, and Bunny and the Italian do the same. Below, they find the dead bodies of Corbucci and another man, poisoned by noxious air. Raffles, Bunny, and the Italian leave the room, and Raffles tells them that the gas came from a substance in a flask which he had been carrying for months. He had asked Corbucci to let him drink out of the flask, hoping Corbucci would open it and kill them both, yet Corbucci had taken it away to enjoy elsewhere.
This show will follow Super Junior's everyday life. In season 1 the show showcased their comeback story for their 8th album after 2 years of hiatus as a group. The show was put on an end after the release of their comeback album. Season 1 was aired from October 9, 2017 to November 24, 2017, every Monday to Friday at 11:00 AM KST and on JTBC2 from December 6, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. KST.
On 26 October 2018, Label SJ announced that the show would be back with Season 2. During the second season of the show, the group had a totally different theme from the last season and showed refreshing new charms of the members where they show the best food around Tokyo. Season 2 was released on November 5 to December 26, 2018.
In 2019 Label SJ announced that they would be launching “SJ Returns 3,” which followed the members on their individual activities, as well as their preparations for their new album that will be released on the same year. At noon KST on August 26, Super Junior released an introductory video to “SJ Returns 3” and explained, “Super Junior’s individual hiatuses due to the army, which lasted 10 years in total, are finally over. Please tune in to see the nine members of Super Junior who are back from the army prepare for our ninth album.” Season 3 aired on September 9 to October 20, 2019.
In 2020, Super Junior's Yesung and Donghae posted a picture which stated that the group is filming SJ Returns Season 4 and that it would air soon. Leeteuk also stated on the same day on his YouTube live stream that SJ Returns Season 4 will be back and planned to air in May, The teaser for Season 4 was aired on April 27, 2020, and its first episode was released on May 2, 2020. In their second teaser, the members tell the concept for SJ Returns 4 will be ‘for ELF’, where the show will fulfill the requests from fans. They also mentioned that this season will be a lengthy program.
''Power Rangers Hyperforce'' is set in the year 3016 at Time Force Academy. A team of Time Force Ranger cadets must band together to defeat an ancient evil who is set on unraveling the very fabric of the universe. Under the leadership of their mentor, Jen Scotts, and with the show's Game Master, Malika Lim, the newly minted Rangers will cross both time and space to complete their mission while running into many familiar eras (and faces) along the way.
After the death of his beloved mother, middle-aged Peoria accountant Lenny Freeman quits his job to follow his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. Freeman bids a fond farewell to his coworkers, who barely acknowledge him, and takes his mother's 1953 Oldsmobile on a road trip to Las Vegas, where he intends to audition for a standup competition run by Vegas showman Monte Guy. Freeman, an obsessive fan of vaudeville and other early 20th century comedy, becomes confused by the more obnoxious and transgressive humor preferred by the people he meets. Along the way, he picks up a hitchhiker nicknamed Hitch whose previous rides are shown to have either disappeared or died mysteriously. When Hitch learns that Freeman intends to become a standup comedian, he shares career advice and agrees to become Freeman's manager.
On Hitch's advice, Freeman performs at a local comedy club's open mic night. Freeman follows T-Bird, the town's most popular comic, and bombs horribly, alienating the audience with his stale jokes and clean-cut persona. In convincing Freeman not to give up, Hitch advises him to instead visualize himself murdering the hecklers and incorporate this edginess into his act. The next morning, Freeman finds the corpse of a heckler in his car. Fearing that he murdered the heckler in fit of drunken rage, Freeman drives into the desert to bury the body. This proves more difficult than anticipated, necessitating dismembering the corpse and exhuming it when it becomes obvious the spot they chose is not suitable.
Hitch insists Freeman appear again at the open mic now that he has inspiration for new material. In shock and wearing a bloodstained shirt, Freeman makes a public confession to the murder and subsequent attempts to cover it up. The audience interprets this as black comedy, and Freeman displaces T-Bird as the town's most popular, transgressive comic. Freeman further draws the enmity of T-Bird when Freeman stands up for Grail, T-Bird's abused girlfriend. As Grail and Freeman grow closer, Hitch reveals he was the one who murdered the heckler. Although relieved that he is not a murderer, Freeman panics over the growing body count, as Hitch robs local stores to pay off a debt to Monte Guy. Intimidated and unwilling to give up Hitch's connection to Monte Guy, Freeman agrees to keep quiet and continue his act.
While making out with Grail, Freeman discovers a dismembered body part in his car. Freaked out, he yells at Grail to leave, offending her. T-Bird sees her leave and confronts Freeman with a shotgun. T-Bird demands to see the car's trunk, where Hitch and Freeman have hiding the bodies. Freeman reluctantly opens the trunk, only for one of the victims, who was armed with a pistol, to shoot and kill T-Bird before dying. Unable to handle any more death or killing, Freeman convinces Hitch to drive into the desert with him and leaves him for dead. Freeman leaves a note apologizing to Grail for his behavior and confesses to the police. The man who he confesses to turns out not to be a cop but a talent scout for Monte Guy. The scout interprets the confession as a comedy routine and agrees to watch his next set at the club.
At the comedy club, Freeman attempts to distance himself from his previous performances, reverting to clean humor. It goes poorly, and he leaves the club to seek inspiration from the bodies in the car's trunk. When he finds it empty, he returns to his hotel room, where he finds Hitch, horribly sunburned and surrounded by the corpses. Hitch threatens to kill Grail, whom he has taken hostage, in retaliation for Freeman's betrayal, but Freeman kills Hitch. Grail, freaked out, shouts for help. Freeman panics, and, attempting to quiet her, puts a pillow over her head, forlornly insisting that she is supposed to love him. Freeman fantasizes that she expresses her love, and that the talent scout witnessed this as part of "performance art comedy" and drove them to Las Vegas where they married, and he becomes a star on Monte Guy's show. This is interrupted when the police arrive, finding Freeman laughing hysterically among the arranged bodies, arranged like the celebrity couch for Monte Guy.
The GCPD receives gift boxes containing pig heads, with a box for each police officer in the department, except for Gordon (Ben McKenzie). Meanwhile, at a fundraising event, Bruce (David Mazouz) feels different after having killed Ra's. Later, Bruce is met by Grace Blomdahl, a former classmate, and they decide to spend time together.
In the GCPD, Gordon is visited by Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) and his new security consultant Headhunter (Kyle Vincent Terry), who are working on the case as the dead officers are affecting Cobblepot's business. They are also notified that three officers were missing in the Narrows. The GCPD and Cobblepot's henchmen lead a raid in the Narrows looking for the cops but some officers also attack many residents in the area. Headhunter manages to get information by threatening a resident and they find two officers tied on a building with one of them dead. The wounded officer tells Gordon about a clue in a courthouse.
Grace takes Bruce to a building where they meet with many friends including Brant Jones (Tommy Nelson) and Tommy Elliot (Gordon Winarick). Bruce imagines punching Brant after he begins making rude remarks about him and Alfred (Sean Pertwee). They attend a nightclub but when they are refused entrance, Bruce buys the nightclub and all enter, with the exception of Brant.
Meanwhile, Barbara (Erin Richards) announces that the gun shop, funded by Ra's al Ghul, is closing, and that the three of them should split the payout and go their separate ways. Selina (Camren Bicondova) attempts to rob a bikers' club to try to keep the group together, but gets trapped. Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) breaks in to effect a rescue, which is looking dicey before Barbara arrives as an unexpected backup, kills most of the bikers, and the three women walk away with a handsome cash reward to triumphant background music.
Gordon and Cobblepot's henchmen arrive at the courthouse. However, Gordon receives a threat from Professor Pyg (Michael Cerveris) on the phone if he enters and puts the wounded officer's voice. After checking with the hospital, Gordon tells Cobblepot and Bullock (Donal Logue) that Pyg was the wounded officer in disguise and going in the courthouse would be a trap. Bullock dismisses this and sets a raid team and enter the courthouse, shooting Pyg as he is about to kill the officer. However, the officer is in Pyg's clothes and his fall sets off a pair of automatic machine guns, killing many police officers and pinning them down until Gordon enters and effects a rescue.
In the aftermath, Gordon is applauded by media and the GCPD for his actions. He is again called by Pyg, who, while he removes his disguise, tells him he has more plans in mind. Cobblepot stabs Headhunter. Back on the nightclub, Bruce and Grace kiss and Bruce starts drinking and partying for the first time. In the GCPD, Gordon is lauded by the media as a hero, the GCPD stops accepting the licenses, and Bullock complains that while Gordon is now a hero, he is now "just a cop that shot another cop".
In the fight club, Nygma (Cory Michael Smith) and Grundy (Drew Powell) poke fun of Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) in a play right before a fight. During the fight, however, Grundy begins to have visions of Tabitha (Jessica Lucas), signaling he may be recovering his memories. He continues fighting and kills the combatant when he rips his arm off and beats him to death with it.
Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is offered the position of Captain by Mayor Burke (Larry Pine) but he remains doubtful. Meanwhile, Cobblepot is notified about Nygma poking fun of him and dispatches Barbara (Erin Richards), Tabitha (Jessica Lucas) and Selina (Camren Bicondova) to go to the Narrows and retrieve Nygma alive to him due to a debt in money. However, he also dispatches Bridgit (Camila Perez) to go after them in case they don't return in time and kill them.
They arrive at the fight club where they get shocked at discovering Grundy, recognizing him as Butch. Tabitha tries to talk him down while Barbara and Selina kidnap Nygma. However, Butch discovers this and tries to fight back until Selina decides that they need to solve this with a fight that will decide who will take Nygma. While visiting the orphanage, Cobblepot finds a mute kid named Martin (Christopher Convery) that has psychotic tendencies and is bullied by many people in his school. He teaches him how to make friends and destroy his enemies, causing Cobblepot to realize that Sofia may be using him in the same way he has taught Martin to.
The fight starts between Grundy and Tabitha, Nygma dubbing Tabitha "Tabby the Tigress". Grundy has the upper hand when suddenly, upon being struck by Tabitha with a mace, he briefly recovers his memories and recognizes Tabitha, before losing them again upon being knocked down by Tabitha. Bridgit arrives as the deadline for delivering Nygma finished and prepares to kill them when Lee incapacitates her. For having bailed them to Cobblepot, Cherry (Marina Benedict) is executed by Barbara. Gordon attends a police ceremony in honor of the fallen in the courthouse but when Bullock (Donal Logue) fails to show up, he is forced to start the ceremony without him. After a bitter argument with Bullock, Gordon decides to sign the offer and officially becomes the new Captain of the GCPD's Central Precinct.
After healing Grundy, Lee (Morena Baccarin) is acknowledged by everyone in the fight club as their new leader. Gordon meets with Sofia (Crystal Reed) where he confronts her for everything that happened to make him Captain. She explains that Bullock needed to go. Gordon decides to end his relationship with her for good.
François withdrawn and fearful of riding in cars as a result of an automobile crash that left him an orphan, lives with his middle-aged aunt and uncle, Florence and Philippe in a chateau in Provence.
Suzuka Nagami is a beautiful third-year student who excels in her academics. One day, a novel written by her wins a light novel award which is based on a little sister who dotes on her brother. Suzuka decides to give all the credits to her brother Yū Nagami under the pen name Chikai Towano due to her student council president position and their strict father. Suzuka and Yū join a fan service to make progress for her novel, but Suzuka begins to harbor real, forbidden feelings for her brother.
While dining at a restaurant, Raffles and Bunny discuss a recent series of unsolved robberies that have victimized London's wealthiest houses. Raffles suspects the burglar is really a society gentleman who steals while attending social functions. Raffles has used this suspicion, and the lists of names of social function's attendees printed in the ''Morning Post'', to deduce the burglar's identity: Lord Ernest Belville, a relatively poor yet respected society man, and a well-known advocate for temperate drinking.
Raffles, in the disguise of a reporter, has interviewed Lord Ernest. Raffles deduced that Lord Ernest meant to steal diamonds from a lady shortly. That night, Raffles and Bunny will access Lord Ernest's flat and wait until Lord Ernest returns, then blackmail him into partnership.
At King John's Mansions, after waiting for Lord Ernest to leave, Raffles and Bunny gain admittance using Raffles's duplicate key made from a secret wax impression. They search his rooms and stumble upon two wooden clubs, whose weights are unequal. With Bunny's help, Raffles opens each with a gimlet, and finds Lord Ernest's stolen jewelry. They agree to run away with the spoils.
However, Lord Ernest suddenly returns home. Raffles, feigning to be a Scotland Yard detective, pretends to arrest Lord Ernest. Raffles then passes his bared revolver to Bunny, and leaves on the pretense of calling a cab. When they are alone, Lord Ernest overpowers Bunny, and knocks him out.
Bunny, now injured, wakes to see Raffles. Lord Ernest has evidently fled through the window. Raffles and Bunny leave with the jewelry in their pockets, and return to the roof of their home, where Bunny stays and waits for Raffles to fetch them drinks and chairs.
However, Lord Ernest appears from the darkness with a gun. He handcuffs Bunny to a bridge connecting two roofs. An unsuspecting Raffles returns, to be pinned by Lord Ernest's revolver. Lord Ernest reveals that he had secretly remained in his flat's bathroom, and had overheard them. Meanwhile, a storm begins to rain on them.
Raffles, remaining calm, proposes partnership, but Lord Ernest refuses to release Bunny. The rain puts out the light of Raffles's candle, and in the darkness Raffles uses flashes of lightning to jump to Bunny. Lord Ernest jumps after him. Raffles makes it, but Lord Ernest missteps, and falls to his death. Raffles slips Bunny free using soap and water, and brings him to their flat to nurse him overnight.
Marcella Donoghue is trying to make it as an actress and is generally struggling through life. She is finding it hard to get acting parts and has a string of short-term jobs which she dislikes. She cannot find love since having broken up with her boyfriend of 12 years. She is in serious debt, and is living in a house share. In the meantime she spends most of her time with her life coach – attempting to find solutions to her problems – and her driving instructor.
A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
''Esme & Roy'' follows a young girl named Esme and her best monster friend, Roy, the most in-demand "monster sitters" in Monsterdale, a town populated mostly by colorful monsters. The duo set out to solve big problems by playing and helping out the young monsters with their problems.
Bunny pulls Raffles, disguised as the ailing Mr. Maturin, in a wheelchair through a relatively low-class residential area, when Raffles demands they stop near one peculiarly large, well-furnished house. They observe a couple dining inside. Raffles dashes away burgle the house. Bunny, unhappily, prepares himself to extricate Raffles, but Raffles climbs up to the house's balcony and enters without incident.
Bunny is able to watch both the dining couple and Raffles. The woman discovers Raffles, and recognizes him. Both disappear from sight. Bunny waits around the corner, unseen, until Raffles returns and urges them home.
At home, Raffles admits that the woman was Jacques Saillard, a famous painter, who once cheated on her husband with Raffles. Raffles had ended the relationship, and now fears that Saillard will blackmail him into reuniting with her. He has tried to lose her. Shortly, however, Saillard arrives at the flat, furious.
Saillard visits Raffles frequently for weeks, driving him ragged. Raffles tells Bunny that, because of the intolerability of both Saillard and Dr. Theobald, Bunny must leave and find them a new place to live. Raffles promises he will contact Bunny in ten days, or never at all.
Bunny stays at a hotel until he find a cottage for rent in Ham Common for him and Raffles. After a full ten days have passed without any sign from Raffles, Bunny impatiently returns to Earl's Court, where he finds Dr. Theobald, lamenting the death of Mr. Maturin, from typhoid.
Bunny is devastated. He attends Raffles's funeral. There, a Scotland Yard official quietly arrests Bunny, and takes him away in a hansom. However, to Bunny's joy, the official quickly reveals himself to be Raffles. He has paid off Dr. Theobald and faked his death to throw off Saillard. Together, Raffles and Bunny continue to Ham Common.
Raffles is now living with Bunny in Ham Common as Bunny's colonial brother, Ralph. Raffles and Bunny occasionally commit burglaries at night, using their bicycles. Raffles becomes a favorite of their unsuspecting landlady.
For their next haul, Raffles and Bunny pick out a stockbroker's house. At night, they approach with their bicycles, unscrew the bars of the pantry window, and enter. Bunny brings an electric torch, outfitted by Raffles with shades to act as a dark lantern. Using a knife, Raffles cuts a hole through a panel in a door, in order to try to turn the key that is in the lock on the other side. When Raffles reaches through, however, his hand is suddenly grabbed by some boys.
Raffles and Bunny, horrified, realize that they have not broken into the house of the stockbroker, as intended, but the neighboring house, occupied by an army-trainer and his students. Raffles, caught, bids Bunny to leave and save himself. Bunny does leave, but only to reenter the house from the front. He convinces the boys that he saw Raffles's accomplice escape. The boys not holding Raffles leave to give chase. Abruptly, Bunny grabs the remaining one, Beefy, in a chokehold, forcing him to release Raffles. Raffles lets himself in by turning the key in the lock. He chloroforms Beefy and locks him in the pantry.
They are soon joined by the awakened army instructor, and rejoined by the other boys. All of them suspect Bunny and Raffles. To explain himself, Bunny pretends to have gone outside to fetch his friend, Raffles, only to find Beefy gone upon returning. Raffles quickly adds that they should follow the burglars on their bikes, and leads Bunny outside. They are soon chased after by the boys and instructor. They ride their bicycles away, though Bunny accidentally chooses a difficult uphill path, and their escape is narrow. When they are safely at home, Raffles warmly congratulates Bunny for his quick thinking.
The book centres around the character Mike Wingate - a property developer. He has been raised in foster care after being abandoned by his father at four. He presently has a wife and an 8-year-old daughter, has his construction company which is about to finish a green housing development project and be honoured by the Governor for environmental building practices. But things go quickly wrong when he meets a crippled stranger at a party. Things quickly escalate from him receiving threats to attacks - one of which nearly kills his wife. When he reports them to the police, they seem more interested in Mike's past than in protecting him.
With his family in mortal danger Mike turns to Shep - a dangerous man. He knows Shep from his days in foster care and he is the only friend Mike has. Together they try and protect Mike's family from the hidden men and uncover why suddenly both these hidden strangers and the police are after him.
Otama is a young woman who has previously been married, though the man turned out to already have been married with a wife and child. Because of this Otama is considered a disgrace and finding a good match near impossible.
Feeling pressure to support her father who is frail, aging, and works to support them both by selling candy, Otama agrees to have dinner with a widowed kimono merchant who has offered to keep Otama as his mistress. Unbeknown to her, Suezō, the man she has agreed to meet, is in fact a still married moneylender and the arrangement between them has been set up to settle some debts of the matchmaker.
At a restaurant before she meets Suezō, Otama sees a handsome young student, Okada, who also notices her. Nevertheless the deal between Suezō and Otama goes forward and he installs her in a new home.
Otama tries to be a good mistress, but she has little feeling for Suezō. Through her maid she quickly comes to learn that her master is a moneylender and that the women of the neighbourhood have little respect for her. Suezō also inadvertently reveals that he still has a wife, and the two women later meet and recognize each other in the street based on items of clothing Suezō has given each of them. Nevertheless Otama feels obligated to stay, knowing that there is no other way for her to support herself or her father.
One day a snake attacks Otama's pet bird. Her maid calls for help, and Okada kills the snake and saves the bird. Otama follows Okada on his errands afterwards and sees him go to Suezō to obtain money before selling one of his textbooks, which she immediately buys back.
Suezō discovers the book and becomes suspicious. He says he will be staying in another town overnight.
Otama prepares a meal for Okada, intending to invite him in from his daily walk, but she finds that he is accompanied by a friend and she does not speak. Suezō returns unexpectedly, discovers the meal and tells her Okada is going away to Europe. She returns the book to the friend, who confirms the news.
Otama becomes resigned to her situation, and the film closes with her watching wild geese flying over water.
The series revolves around of Juan Camilo Caballero (Jorge Enrique Abello), a man who for love is able to become a woman without imagining all the problems that this could cause.
Raffles and Bunny lose interest in crime when the Second Boer War breaks out. They become obsessed with its developments. The losses of the British depress them, and Raffles envies the honorable deaths of their British peers. Bunny tries to cheer up Raffles by proposing crime, without success. Eventually, Raffles decides to dye his hair ginger and enlist as a volunteer at the front. Bunny not only admires his decision, but also resolves to go with him. As they leave by train, however, Bunny is melancholy. Raffles tells him not to worry about the future.
Though both are eager to fight, Bunny makes a poor soldier, while Raffles is an excellent one. Raffles loyally protects Bunny through the ordeal. Connal, a fellow soldier and a brute, hassles Bunny, but is tamed by a fight with Raffles. Bunny watches Connal, and suspects him of being a spy. His suspicions are confirmed when Connal tries and fails to leads their troupe straight into enemy territory, as if by accident. Bunny tells Raffles, though Raffles declares he knew that Connal was a spy from the first day. Raffles suggests that they wait for a chance to apprehend Connal.
Raffles and Bunny are stealing liquor from a house in a captured town when Captain Bellingham, a former-cricketer-turned-officer, stops them. He recognizes Raffles. Raffles convinces Bellingham that he and Bunny are now honest soldiers, not criminals; Bellingham believes him. The three men drink in Bellingham's tent.
Connal secretly wounds his own hand, so that he will be given charge of the horses. Raffles suspects Connal of letting some horses escape, and decides to catch Connal in the act. One evening before battle, Raffles and Bunny watch him from the bushes. Raffles waits until battle commences, when he sees Connal release a horse, and then he and Bunny grab Connal. Connal, infuriated, tries to blackmail them using their true identities that he learned by spying on Bellingham's tent. Raffles, shocked, nevertheless accepts the consequences of the blackmail. He takes Connal to their commanding officer, and surrenders both himself and Connal. The commanding officer, surprised by Raffles's actions, allows Raffles to continue fighting, while he decides Raffles's fate.
Connal is executed for treason. In battle, Bunny takes a bullet in the thigh, and falls over. Raffles rushes to bring him to cover, and bandages him. Raffles lays by Bunny, and lingers for Bunny's sake. Raffles watches the battle, takes occasional shots, and talks to Bunny while Bunny smokes a Sullivan from Raffles. Eventually Bunny is beset by feelings of numbness and pain, and he closes his eyes. At last, while his eyes are closed, Bunny hears Raffles speak his final words.
A U.S. cavalry officer, Hemp Brown (Rory Calhoun), runs into some serious trouble when the party of civilians and troops he's bringing to a nearby Army fort is ambushed. A woman is killed during the gunfight, and money is stolen by the bandits. The leader of the gang, Jed Givens (John Larch), is an acquaintance of Brown, who implicates the fugitive during the subsequent trial. But Brown is court-martialed and booted from the Army. Brown tracks down Givens to restore honor to his name.
Alexander Guryev is a successful independent journalist whose life has been full of many adventures. Now Sasha is looking for interesting stories and sensations which will earn good money. But Sasha is haunted by failures after such searches and more often than not he runs into big trouble, but still he continues to search for the next bombshell.
Sasha's personal life is different: he is married, but he is no longer attracted to his wife Vera. The passion is gone and only memories remain. Every day Sasha meets various women, with some he has short-term romantic relationships. And his wife Vera continues to hope that one day her and Sasha's life will change for the better.
And then one day Sasha meets an old friend who returned from abroad in order to occupy a major political post. Guryev suddenly realizes that he himself has dug up compromising evidence on his own friend. He begins to understand that his friend is in danger. Now there is only one way out – to run for as long as it is possible, so that at least he can save himself.
The stories involve patients of psychiatrist Dr. Beth Noonan. The first part is about an attorney (Lauren Travis) who has problems with intimacy and realizes that she is attracted to another woman (Casey Montgomery), an advertising executive. The second is an angry woman (Helen McCormack) and her sisters (Kim and Kathy McCormack) who must all learn to get along in order to receive inheritances from their deceased mother. The third is a wife (Nia Morgan) who enlists the help of her husband's mistress (Betty McCarthy) and a decoy (Rachel Logan) in taking revenge against him. In the fourth story, Beth Noonan is held captive by a mentally disturbed patient (Suzanne Nabor).
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.
Bertie receives a letter from his aunt, Agatha Gregson, bidding him to join her at Roville-sur-mer, a French resort. Bertie, who cannot disobey his intimidating Aunt Agatha, consoles himself with the hope of wearing a bright scarlet cummerbund he bought.
At the resort, Bertie meets Aunt Agatha, who scolds Bertie for wasting his life and not being married. She has found a suitable match for him: Aline Hemingway. Aline then appears, along with her brother Sidney, a curate. Aunt Agatha introduces them to Bertie, who finds them dull.
In his room, Bertie cheers himself up by wearing his scarlet cummerbund. Jeeves disapproves of the cummerbund, but Bertie wears it anyway. Later, Bertie takes the unpleasant Hemingways for a drive. Afterwards, he asks Jeeves for help in escaping marriage to Aline, but Jeeves continues to disapprove of the cummerbund and gives no advice.
Bertie tries to avoid the Hemingways, but Aline and Sidney come to see him. Sidney, distraught, confesses that he has gambled away the loan he received from a sympathetic parishioner, whom Sidney repaid with a cheque. When the cheque is not honoured by his bank, Sidney will be ruined. Aline begs Bertie for a loan. Bertie gladly agrees to, but then Aline also insists that Bertie take her pearl necklace as security. Though Bertie is reluctant, he gives them the money, and a receipt, in exchange for the case of the pearl necklace. The Hemingways thank Bertie and leave.
After Jeeves mildly reproaches Bertie's rashness, Bertie discovers that the necklace case is empty. Jeeves tells Bertie about a former employer who once gave a loan, with a pearl necklace as security, to a con man named Soapy Sid and his female accomplice. Soapy Sid swapped the case of pearls for an empty one, and used the receipt to demand reimbursement. Jeeves confirms that Sidney is Soapy Sid. Fortunately, Jeeves surreptitiously retrieved the case of pearls while helping Sidney with his jacket. Jeeves suggests that Bertie return the necklace to its owner, Aunt Agatha, and to make it clear to her that Aline was one of the thieves.
Bertie takes the necklace with him to Aunt Agatha's suite, where she is yelling at the hotel manager and accusing the chambermaid of stealing her necklace. Triumphantly, Bertie produces her pearls and rebukes her for mistreating him as well as the hotel staff. Later, Bertie gratefully gives Jeeves twenty pounds. He says that he will never wear the cummerbund again. Jeeves thanks him.
Wendy Alden (Danielle Harris), a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer Franklin Rood (John Jarratt) who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Jeeves's annual vacation is coming up. While Jeeves is preparing the substitute valet who will serve in his absence, Bertie overhears him inform the substitute that Mr. Wooster is "mentally negligible". Bertie is offended.
Later, Bertie goes to a club for a drink, to fortify himself for his upcoming lunch with his overbearing Aunt Agatha. At the club, Bertie sees his friend Bingo Little. Bingo is living at Ditteredge Hall, the country house of the Glossop family, as a tutor to the Glossops' son, Oswald; Bertie is an acquaintance of the son's older sister, Honoria. Bingo declares that he has fallen in love with Honoria, surprising Bertie, who finds Honoria's aggressive personality frightening.
At lunch, Aunt Agatha tells Bertie that she has found a capable girl for Bertie to marry: Honoria Glossop. Bertie, shocked, tries to reject this idea, but Aunt Agatha intimidates Bertie into visiting Ditteredge Hall. Bertie decides to prove Jeeves wrong and get himself out of Aunt Agatha's scheme without Jeeves's help.
At Ditteredge, Bertie finds Bingo, and Oswald, who is fishing from a bridge. Oswald irritates Bertie. Bertie suggests that Bingo shove Oswald into the water. Bingo likes the idea, but declines, knowing that Honoria loves Oswald. Inspired, Bertie formulates a plan: Bingo will hide in nearby bushes while Bertie lures Honoria close to the bridge, and then Bertie will push Oswald off, so that Bingo can impress Honoria by rescuing Oswald. Bingo agrees to the plan.
Honoria and her friend, Daphne Braythwayt, arrive at Ditteredge. Bertie lures Honoria to the bridge. Once there, Bertie tells Honoria that a friend of his is in love with her, but is too shy to tell her. Honoria laughs. She notices Oswald, and remarks how he could easily fall off. Bertie says he will warn Oswald, walks up to Oswald, and then pushes him off the bridge. Bertie awaits Bingo's entrance, but Bingo does not appear. Finally, Bertie dives after Oswald, but Oswald swims ashore himself. Feeling defeated, Bertie swims to shore.
Honoria misunderstands the situation: she laughs at Bertie's shy method of proposing to her, and his failed attempt to impress her. Bertie is unable to correct her. Honoria entertains hopes of improving him.
After changing clothes, Bertie encounters Bingo, and demands an explanation for Bingo's absence. Bingo, however, has moved on from Honoria, because he has fallen in love with Daphne instead.
Two days later, Bertie receives a letter from Jeeves, who is enjoying his vacation.
A young woman named Destiny Gonzalez arrives in Los Angeles and is offered a safe place to live by a woman on behalf of the Church of Gibborim. Six months later, Alex Wilder is suffering from isolation due to having not spoken to his friends in two years due to an incident involving the death of one of his friend's sister, Amy. His parents, Geoffrey and Catherine, try to bond with him, but he pushes them away. Nico Minoru, a goth, is forbidden to enter Amy's room by her strict mother Tina, while her father Robert tries to console her. Chase Stein, an athlete who possess a hidden intellect, is berated by his father, Victor, due to getting a C in Spanish while his mother, Janet, looks on. Karolina Dean is the daughter of Church of Gibborim founder Leslie Dean whose husband, Frank, is a former A-list actor who feels suppressed by the church. Sarcastic social justice warrior Gert Yorkes and her adoptive sister Molly Hernandez are dropped off at school by vegan biologists Dale and Stacey Yorkes.
At school, Alex decides to invite his former friends over to his house so they can bond again, but they all either ignore or flat out refuse due to their differing opinions and personalities. Karolina is teased by the other classmates who call her brainwashed due to her connection to the church, but manages to find solace in Nico who ignores Alex when he asks her directly to come hang out. Chase attempts to get his Spanish teacher to give him another shot at raising his grade. When he refuses, Gert offers to tutor Chase instead. He agrees only to accept an invitation to a house party. At dance tryouts, Molly begins to suffer from stomach cramps and goes to the nurse's office thinking it is puberty, only to learn that she has super strength. Despite this, Alex had his mom order six pizzas which he now feels he will have to eat himself.
While filming a commercial for the church, Karolina meets Destiny who is a fully committed member of the church. Impressed with her independence, Karolina asks her what it is like to rebel. Leslie in the meantime has a badly scarred man with a gas mask hidden in an office of the church. She soon joins the other members of the Pride, consisting of all the kids parents (minus Frank), at the Wilder's residence for a "meeting". Nico heads out to the beach and builds a bonfire in an attempt to perform a spirit summoning, presumably so she can contact her sister. The ritual fails and she tosses her journal into the fire. Gert heads to Timely Coffee to tutor Chase, but slowly realizes that he is not coming. Molly arrives home and tests her super strength on the family van, but tires out afterwards and sleeps.
Chase arrives at the party, but begins to feel out of place. Karolina arrives too and is given a pill that will "free" her. She removes her Gibborim bracelet for the first time (she claims that she can't remember ever taking it off) and begins to glow rainbow colors only to pass out. Members of Chase's lacrosse team take her unconscious body and prepare to rape her, but Chase arrives and rescues her. Karolina asks that she not be left alone and that they go "anywhere, but home". She tosses away the pill that she was given earlier. Gert texts Molly to feed the animals in the basement. When she spots what looks like a dinosaur she panics and calls Gert to take her away. Chase, Gert, Molly, Karolina and Nico arrive at Alex's house and the six confront each other's current behavior as well as Amy's unexpected death (the incident that broke them up). Bored by the conversation, Chase suggests going into Geoffrey's study to sample his liquor. The group are surprised to find that their parents are not in there. Alex discovers a lever that opens a secret passage way. The group venture down and discover their parents in red robes forcing Destiny into a glowing coffin. Molly tries to snap a photo on her phone that seems to alert the parents, but the children flee before they can be spotted.
Ren Amari is the lead researcher at a technology company she co-founded with entrepreneur Sam. Using nanotechnology, Ren invents a biological form of virtual reality called OtherLife that can create realistic memories. A week before the product launch, she is testing its code on herself under the supervision of engineer Byron Finbar. Unknown to the others, she is also privately testing the product on her comatose brother, Jared. Ren hopes that the inserted memories will help him recover, though her father, a professor whose work she based OtherLife on, wants to stop Jared's life support. Amid these issues, her romantic relationship with coworker Danny begins to suffer.
Sam pitches OtherLife to investors, telling them they can market the product as a near-instantaneous experience that can last for days. Ren is horrified when Sam suggests they license it for use by the government as an alternative to prisons; inmates would be trapped for years inside their own head while only a minute would pass in real time, relieving prison overcrowding. While alone with Danny, Ren explains her research to him and shares a skiing simulation. Excited, Danny tries another simulation unsupervised, not knowing it is the experimental one Ren has designed for Jared. Danny has a seizure and dies.
The government is willing to avoid a trial for unlicensed human tests and Danny's death if Ren agrees to one year of solitary confinement in OtherLife. With no alternative, Ren agrees. She is then stuck within a simulation that includes simply a single room and basic necessities of life, including bottled water and canned tuna. After a full year, Ren breaks down when the confinement counter resets to 001 without her release. However, in her rage, she is able to dislodge a wall section and escape. As she emerges, she realizes she had been trapped in a real-world cell. She escapes and makes contact with a sympathetic coworker, who reveals that Danny survived.
Ren reunites with Danny and finds that OtherLife has become a major success and is being used for a wide range of applications, including long-term confinement stretching for centuries. Determined to stop Sam and salvage her work to help Jared, Ren develops a new, more advanced prototype of OtherLife. After she tests it on Jared, he responds positively but makes it obvious he desires death; Ren obliges him by unplugging the life support. Afterward, she suddenly awakens. Her "escape" was part of an OtherLife glitch in her year-long imprisonment. All her post-imprisonment experiences are part of an interactive OtherLife experience. Ren keeps this quiet, knowing Sam would use this technology against her wishes.
While going over the data from her experience with Sam and Byron, Sam excitedly points out part of a brain scan that correlates with her interactive experience. When Ren refuses to cooperate, Sam abruptly forces her into a second year-long imprisonment, hoping that she will once again trigger the glitch and allow them to learn how to develop interactive experiences. Byron reluctantly goes along with it when Sam says it is the only way to force Ren's assistance. Ren again escapes from the OtherLife experience, more quickly this time, by remaining calm, and allowing the simulation to go faster, and loop infinitely. She regains consciousness and traps Sam in his own year-long OtherLife imprisonment program. The program experiences a bug, putting Sam's life at risk, but Ren refuses to allow Sam to escape until he has served a full 365 days, plus waiting for the clock to tick over a few more days, so he understands the agony she herself felt when the countdown reset to zero. Once he recovers, she leaves the company to meet with her father. Recognising Jared's situation, Ren agrees with her father's decision to terminate Jared's life support.