When an alarm is triggered at the "Outpost" military base, soldiers take up positions and prepare for battle. It is reported that an unidentified enemy is approaching, creatures larger than humans moving at a speed of twenty kilometers per hour.
24 days before the events of the Prologue, serviceman Oleg has a date with Alena. Later they go back to his place. Suddenly the entire world, except for the area around Moscow, and parts of Belarus, Ukraine and Finland is plunged into darkness. The fate of billions is unknown. Communications are down throughout the rest of the world, and only a small number of people have survived in the area that becomes known as the Circle of Life. A defensive perimeter is established and reconnaissance groups are sent out but do not return. They find that there was an attack on Earth, leaving unknown numbers dead. To defend against the mysterious enemy, the humans mobilize an army, and outposts are built. After leaving the Circle of Life to conduct a reconnaissance operation, a squad sweeps the dead cities outside and a soldier is attacked and wounded, The other soldiers try to shoot the stranger, but he escapes.
The action goes back to the prologue. While preparing for an unknown enemy, electricity is turned off and the outpost is plunged into darkness. After being informed that creatures bigger than humans are emerging from the forest at 20 km per hour, they begin to fire, while discovering that the enemy is in fact a massive herd of brown bears. The next morning, not all soldiers had survived. Among the survivors is Oleg, whose leg was injured. In Moscow it is revealed some survivors from the edge of the Quarantine zone now have “abilities”, one of these people Sasha appears to have a psychic connection to the unknown attackers. A strange figure calling himself Eid comes to the patient Sasha and asks for his help, since Sasha’s Psychic link can locate Eid’s brother Ra, who is behind all this. Four soldiers, led by Marina, train their weapons at Eid, but the latter, with the help of supernormal abilities, turns the soldiers weapons at Marina and suggests that he explain everything to them if they save his life. During interrogation, Eid explains that he is an alien from a distant star system that has long died out. They want to move to Earth, because in their constellation the star “Sun” is still young and will live long enough, Ra is behind all this, although before that Eid thought he was the only one on Earth. He arrived on Earth another two hundred thousand years ago, which means that according to his calculations, the ship with their army will be here tomorrow. The problem is that he does not know where Ra is hiding, which controls the minds of ordinary people outside the “circle of life” but the only one who knows where to find him is Sasha. Eid penetrates Sasha’s head, and he finds out that Ra is on the roof of a skyscraper in Kirov. At that moment Ra himself looked at Sasha and realized that he had been found. Eid decided to leave Sasha at the outpost, and Ra at that time ordered people to launch a missile attack at the outpost. However, Eid with Zhenya and the rest of the soldiers, led by Mary, remain alive, as they had left the base to find Ra.
At this time, Yura joins the satellite-9 group of the outpost and in the middle of the night finds a young boy in one of the apartments. However, during while questioned by Lieutenant Maxim about what happened, the boy suddenly draws a knife from Maxim's pants and kills him; in retaliation, the boy is shot dead by the other soldiers. A whole crowd of people then begins to attack the group under the control of Ra and only Yura and Olya remain alive. They hijack one of the abandoned cars and drive back to the outpost. On the way, they meet the surviving outpost soldiers led by Marina and Major Dovlatov, from whom they learn that the outpost was destroyed by a massive missile strike. Eid explains that if Zhenya went with them, Ra would have killed them otherwise, and the outpost would have left him alone. Gathered together, they go back to Kirov, encountering a crowd of people under the control of Ra, fight through a skyscraper, climb the roof and find Ra. Eid and Ra Engage in battle and eventually Eid tears out a device from Ra’s chest, Allowing Yura to thrust a grenade into Ra’s chest, killing him. After Ra's death, Eid sends out a telepathic pulse that kills all the remaining drones, making them instantly collapse. Osmolovskaya asks Eid what they will do next. Eid replies that they will do what they were created to do; kill.
Eid continues that in the past, humans evolved to such a degree that they became a threat even to the aliens. Ra, concerned over this, then created a religion for humanity based on love, hoping that it would keep humanity in a perpetual state of love and peacefulness. Instead, humans turned religion into a reason for more conflict and violence. Eid then orders the survivors to kill the colonizers when the ship has landed.
Upset hearing all this, Zhenya asks Eid why he did not arrive sooner before the death 8 billion people, to which Eid replies that doing so would have disrupted the plan and triggered the arriving ship into defensive mode. He then reveals his plan; the survivors killing the colonizers and then restarting civilization with Eid as their god. Zhenya exclaims that Eid is not God but the Devil, to which Eid replies that he is the god they deserve.
Furious, Oleg confronts Eid, but Yura defends him, saying that Eid is their only chance of survival. Zhenya then lunges at Eid and stabs him with a knife, before realizing that he in reality mortally stabbed Osmolovskaya who Eid made appear as him by using his psychic powers. Oleg and Yura starts to fight, when Olya suddenly shoots Yura, wounding him. Oleg then shoots Eid, who responds by creating multiple illusions of himself as Oleg's father to distract him. However, Zhenya seizes the moment and lunges at the real Eid, throwing himself and Eid from the roof, killing them both.
An alien ship descends from the sky, next to a skyscraper, and a hatch opens. However, the aliens for some reason do not go out. Alena, Olya and Oleg decide to enter the alien ship while the injured Yura shouts in their backs “We will die all the same!” Entering the ship, they find out that all the aliens are still sleeping in cryocapsules and have not woken up. Countdown timers turn on at cryocapsules, and the three main characters decide to break the pipes for oxygen supply, thereby killing them in the capsules themselves, leaving them to die without oxygen. When it remains to destroy the last tube, it turns out that it delivers oxygen to the capsules with the aliens' children, and they decide not to break it. The capsule timers reach zero, the capsules open, and alien children crawl out of their capsules. They see three representatives of planet Earth in front of them. The latter voluntarily throw their weapons on the floor in front of their eyes, proving that they will not harm them.
In the infantry regiment in the Tula Oblast, where the capital lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev, inspired by advanced ideas, goes to service, a crime occurs. The soldier, who is found guilty, faces a military tribunal and execution. Kolokoltsev appeals for help to Count Tolstoy, who decides to protect the innocent.
Sasha (Filipp Avdeev) and Petya (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) live the crazy life of young musicians in modern-day Moscow: loud parties, ups and downs, the wheel of unstable relationships with others and themselves. Knowing the importance of love, family, and opportunity, but feeling lonely and disconnected, has left them both with a sense that they are corroding from the inside. Suddenly an event occurs in their lives that requires them both to take an honest look at themselves.
27-year-old Vitka Chesnok, a man who grew up in a children's home, dreams of escaping from his wife and son, who prevent him from living the life he wants. He was unloved during his childhood and developed a hardened heart. Vitya meets his father, a felon, and now also a cripple. Vitka decides to take his father to a disabled home, not knowing what adventures and dangers await them on the way.
Viktor Barinov and his team are sent to the world championship among cooks at the request of the President of Russia. He will have to help his son, whom Victor will find out on the eve of the championship.
In November 1941, just outside Moscow, Red Army Junior Lieutenant Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is driving a ramshackle truck and trailer with a young private named Vasiliy beside him. A German Panzer III tank appears over a hill and opens fire on them. Nikolay, who has been trained as an armor officer, maneuvers skillfully and they escape injured, but alive.
Nikolay is assigned to command a damaged T-34 tank whose commander was killed, with orders to delay the Germans' advance with only the single tank and a small number of supporting infantry. Nikolay and his crew lay an ambush for a platoon of German panzers commanded by Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer). Through a combination of guile and bravery, their T-34 destroys six panzers, but in a final duel with Jäger's command panzer, both tanks are disabled, and half the Russian tank crew is killed, and Nikolay and driver Stepan Vasilyonok captured.
Three years later, in 1944, Jäger, now a Standartenführer, gains permission from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and General Heinz Guderian to recruit an experienced tank crew from Soviet POWs in a concentration camp to act as opponents for training the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Nikolay has been a prisoner for three years, and has refused to give his name, but Jäger recognizes his photograph from the camp records. Jäger proposes the idea to Nikolay through the camp's interpreter, bilingual Russian prisoner Anya (Irina Starshenbaum). At first Nikolay refuses, but agrees after Jäger threatens to kill Anya.
Nikolay picks out three other tankers from the POWs – driver Vasilyonok, loader Serafim Ionov, and gunner Demyan Volchok—to crew a T-34/85 that the Germans just captured. At first, the other tankers refuse to take part, but Nikolay says he has a plan to escape.
The Germans first order the Soviet prisoners to clear out the rotting and burned bodies from inside the tank, but as they remove the bodies, they unexpectedly find a small number of remaining live shells and hand grenades. Granted permission to bury their comrades, they hide the munitions with the bodies in a cairn on the edge of the training grounds. Not trusting the Soviets, Jäger orders anti-tank mines laid around the entirety of the training grounds. Anya convinces Nikolay to let her escape with them, as only she can steal a map from Jäger's office showing a safe route out of the area, and gain a pass letting her out of the camp for a day.
Before the training exercise, Nikolay and his crew retrieve the munitions and create a smoke screen to mask their movements. Believing the T-34 is unarmed, the Germans are unprepared when the trainees' first Panther tank is knocked out, and a second shell is fired directly into the observation tower, killing most of the officers inside, except for Jäger and Guderian, who jump out at the last second. The T-34 boldly storms through the training grounds’ car park (crushing many of the officers’ staff cars) and breaks through the main gate, avoiding the minefield. The tankers pick up Anya at a bus stop outside the camp; with her map, Nikolay plots a course toward Czechoslovakia and back to the Red Army's lines. In the first town they come to, Nikolay and his hungry crew find badly needed fuel, new clothing, and fresh food. They burn their ragged prisoner clothes as they drive out of town.
At first, Nikolay suggests abandoning the tank and splitting up, believing they have a better chance of survival if they separate, but the crew insist on staying with him. Before dawn, knowing that the Germans will be hunting them, Nikolay puts Anya out of their tank and tells her to make her way east on foot through the forests. Jäger meanwhile takes to the sky in a Fieseler Storch to find Nikolay's T-34. He then takes command of four Panthers and prepares an ambush in the small town of Klingenthal.
At night, the T-34 enters the town and stumbles into the first of the four Panthers. Instead of trying to pierce its front armor, Volchok fires a shot under its hull that ricochets off the pavement and penetrates its underbelly. Nikolay realizes they are surrounded by the remaining three Panthers, including Jäger's. Knowing they need to distract the other crews, he sends out Volchok, armed only with a grenade, to disable one. Vasilyonok crashes their T-34 through building walls before unexpectedly colliding with one of the other Panthers. The Russians manually turn their damaged turret and get a shot off just as the Germans are about to fire, destroying the panzer. Meanwhile, the two other Panthers have arrived on the scene and one takes aim at Nikolay. However, Volchok manages to fire a shell out of the German tank he just captured. The third Panther is disabled, but Jäger quickly disposes of the captured Panther, badly wounding Volchok.
Both Jäger and Nikolay emerge from the cupolas of their tanks. Jäger throws down his glove, inviting Nikolay to a duel. Nikolay asks for five minutes to pick up the wounded Volchok. Both tanks then move outside the town and face off over a narrow stone bridge across the river. As the tanks charge at each other, Jäger fires several shots at the T-34, but fails to disable it, while Nikolay waits to fire their last shell directly through the driver's vision port. As in 1941, the two tanks fire simultaneously, badly damaging but not disabling each other. Out of ammunition, Nikolay orders Vasilyonok to ram Jäger's tank, pushing it to the edge of the bridge. Jäger crawls out of his Panther while Nikolay aims a stolen rifle at him. Jäger shouts for Nikolay to shoot him, but Nikolay offers his foe mercy. Jäger extends his hand and the two adversaries exchange a handshake of respect. Nikolay tries to pull Jäger to safety, but Jäger lets go, allowing himself to fall to his death as his Panther tips over the bridge and plummets into the river.
With their tank's tracks disabled, the crew reunites with Anya outside the town, carrying the wounded Volchok on a makeshift stretcher, and they make their way towards the Russian lines on foot.
The film ends with a dedication to the Red Army tank crews of the Great Patriotic War, all of whom earned the status of heroes for fighting against the invasion of their country.
"Fifty fifty" is a comedy that takes place in Tel Aviv during the early 1970s. Grossman is a bakery owner who wins the lottery, however, he holds only half of the winning ticket. The other half is in the possession of his partner Levi, who dies unexpectedly. The plot gets complicated when two crooks break and settle in Levi's apartment.
The first series of Shameless ran from 13 January to 24 February 2004, and consisted of seven episodes. It chronicled the life of the Gallagher family and their neighbours. David Threlfall was cast as an alcoholic father, Frank Gallagher, living with his children in their neighborhood. Anne-Marie Duff was cast as his eldest daughter and head of the family, Fiona. Jody Latham and Gerard Kearns played Gallagher brothers Lip Gallagher and Ian Gallagher. Twin brothers Elliott Tittensor and Luke Tittensor both took on the role of youngster Carl Gallagher, whilst Rebecca Ryan was cast as youngest daughter Debbie Gallagher.
The main storyline during the first series was the romance between Fiona and Steve. However, many other plots took centre stage throughout the series, in particular, the affair between Frank Gallagher and Karen Jackson, despite Karen dating Lip and Frank being in a relationship with Karen's mother, Sheila. The storyline ended with a violent showdown between Lip and Frank, and Karen absconding from Chatsworth. Other storylines included Ian Gallagher's homosexuality and his affair with shopkeeper Kash, Kev and Veronica's fake wedding, Sheila attempting to overcome her agoraphobia, and Frank's strained relationship with most of his kids. The series concluded with a two-part story, featuring the return of the Gallaghers' absent mother Monica, played by Annabelle Apsion, and Frank's growing debts. The series concludes with Frank faking his own death to evade bailiffs and his growing debts and the announcement that Sheila, who had overcome her agoraphobia, was pregnant by Frank.
The second series ran from 4 January to 8 March 2005. It consisted of ten regular episodes and a Christmas Special (which aired on 23 December 2004).
The third series began on 10 January and ended on 21 February 2006. The series was reduced to eight episodes.
The third series did not feature Fiona or Steve, who were both heavily featured in the previous series. This series saw Carl's character, who had a minor role in the first series, and a slightly larger role in the second, expanded. This series also saw the introduction of Nicky Evans as Shane Maguire, who only appeared in one episode, but would become main character in later series.
The series begins with a New Year's Day special where Debbie convinces everyone Liam has cancer to stop him getting expelled from school but things slowly get out of hand. Monica and Norma Starkey, played by Dystin Johnson, return for one episode this series. Kev and Veronica unsuccessfully trying for a baby through IVF, Mandy giving birth to Lip's baby and Frank and Sheila getting married are all storylines covered in the third series.
The fourth series, again consisting of eight episodes, ran between 9 January until 27 February 2007. It featured the biggest cast change in the show's nine-year run, with many characters from the first three series departing and many new characters introduced to replace them. Most notably, the series saw the introduction of the Maguire family as main characters rather than the antagonists that they were in the early series. From Series 4, the Maguires would gradually become the focus of the show during its final years. Alongside Tina Malone (Mimi), Sean Gilder (Paddy) and Samantha Siddall (Mandy), new members of the Maguire family were introduced. Firstly, Ciarán Griffiths took on the role of the homosexual yet homophobic Micky Maguire. Aaron McCusker joined the cast as murderer Jamie Maguire, the oldest of the Maguire children who had been in prison for ten years, whilst Nicky Evans, who appeared in a guest role in Series 3, returned on a regular basis as Shane Maguire. All the Gallagher family returned, with Annabelle Apsion reprising her role again as absentee mother Monica, which ultimately led to the departure of Maggie O'Neill's character Sheila Jackson. Dystin Johnson as Monica's lesbian lover, Norma Starkey, also returned as a regular cast member. With the introduction of Aaron McCusker as her new love interest, Rebecca Atkinson, who had played Karen Jackson since the first series, became a more prominent character, having been a recurring character during the second and third series. The Karib family also expanded in Series 4, with the arrivals of Kash and Yvonne's children, Chesney, played by Qasim Akhtar, and Meena, portrayed by Sarah Byrne, occurring in this series. The Chatsworth police became a more prominent focus in the series, with Michael Legge and Amanda Ryan portraying young police officers Tom O'Leary and Carrie Rogers, alongside original cast member Warren Donnelly as Stan Waterman.
The fifth series aired between 1 January 2008 to 15 April 2008. It consisted of 16 episodes, a big expansion from previous series.
The sixth series began on 27 January and concluded on 5 May 2009. Again, the series consisted of 16 episodes.
The series begins with Debbie's 16th birthday. Ian recovers from amnesia after being struck by a car, and decides he wants more from life than Chatsworth has to offer. Monica is suffering from post-natal depression after the birth of her and Frank's ninth child, Stella. Mickey enrolls in college, and discovers a talent for writing erotica. Maxine Donnelly, played by Joanna Higson, a spirited young auxiliary nurse, befriends both Carl and Debbie, and moves in with the Gallaghers. A parents' meeting at Liam's primary school affirms that Frank's youngest son is a genius. A rift develops in Jamie and Karen's marriage. Ben Batt joined the cast as villainous Joe Pritchard, the captain of the local football team, who began a relationship with Mandy which ended in him becoming abusive. Additionally, he developed an obsession with Karen, leading to an affair, and when she falls pregnant in the last episode of the series, she does not know whether the father is Joe or Jamie. Maddison gets a boyfriend as Kash Karib for a single episode towards the end of the series, with his character being killed off in a fireworks explosion at the shop as his and Yvonne's lies became apparent to their children, Chesney and Meena. Paddy is held hostage by a mystery woman who gets him addicted to heroin, but things take a sinister turn when she gets Mandy involved, ultimately resulting in tragedy. Samantha Siddall left her role as Mandy Maguire in this series after being killed off in an explosion, coinciding with her father Paddy's heroin addiction storyline. Series 6 also saw the departures of Rebecca Ryan as Debbie Gallagher, Dystin Johnson as Norma Starkey and Sarah Byrne as Meena Karib, with Annabelle Apsion, also leaving her role as Monica Gallagher, however she would return for guest stints in future series. The tone of Series 6 was noticeably darker than previous series, something which continued into Series 7.
The seventh series began on 26 January 2010 and concluded on 4 May 2010. As with series 5 and 6, the seventh series consisted of 16 episodes.
Series 7 saw the arrivals of Libby Croker, played by Pauline McLynn, the next serious love interest for Frank, and her battleaxe mother, Patty, who uses a wheelchair, with Valerie Lilley taking on the role. This series also introduced Maxine's brother Bruce, who would only appear during this series. Also to arrive in Series 7 was Billy Tutton (Michael Taylor), a new love interest for Mimi, who would return as a regular in the following series. Sean Gilder left his role as Paddy Maguire towards the end of Series 7, with Warren Donnelly, Joanna Higson, Gerard Kearns and Ben Batt also leaving their roles as Stan Waterman, Maxine Donnelly, Ian Gallagher and Joe Pritchard. Kelli Hollis also left her role as Yvonne Karib, however she would return in the final series. In the series finale, Mimi surprisingly gave birth to baby Cilla, a storyline which would continue into the eighth series. Karen's bipolar and her affair with Joe, Carl and Chesney being on the run for murder, and the wedding of Shane and Kelly are all prominent storylines to feature in the seventh series.
Unlike any previous series, the eighth series of 22 episodes was split into two halves. The first five episodes were aired consecutively during one week, from 10 to 14 January 2011, to tie in with a series-opener story-arc. After this, the series returned to its regular weekly slot, and continued for a further 7 episodes between 18 January to 8 March 2011. After a four-month break, the final 9 episodes of the eighth series began on 30 August 2011 and concluded the series on 25 October 2011. Starting with series 8 the show took a more light hearted, comedy approach, rarely taking on board the gritty realistic drama it had started out with.
Series 8 saw a variety of new characters arrive, including the Powell family, consisting of Emmanuel Ighodaro as Jackson, Karen Bryson as Jackson's wife Avril, and Kira Martin as their daughter Letitia. Also, Libby and Patty's relative, Aidan Croker, played by Robbie Conway, arrived to fill the hole left by Liam, following his departure in the early episodes of the series. Billy Tutton returned and is revealed as the father of Mimi's baby, Cilla, while Aysha Kala took on the role of Chesney's cousin, Sita Desai, however the character departed midway through the series. Annabelle Apsion reprised her role as Monica Gallagher for the early episodes of the series, to coincide with a storyline featuring Frank and Libby and the departure of Liam. Also departing this series was Libby, who left after realizing that Frank shows her no affection. Samantha Siddall returned as an apparition of her deceased character Mandy, who appeared as a vision to Mimi when she suffered from insomnia during this series. This series also saw the return of Jack Deam as Marty Fisher as a regular cast member, who left the show in Series 4. When Frank finds himself being framed for brutally mugging a pensioner, Kev Ball, who left the show in Series 4, returned to help, with Dean Lennox Kelly reprising the role for a single episode to mark ''Shameless'' s 100th episode.
The ninth series of Shameless began on 9 January 2012 and concluded on 13 March 2012. The ninth series, originally consisting of 22 episodes, was reduced to 11 episodes, with the remaining 11 being turned into the tenth series. Like 2011, the first two episodes aired on two consecutive nights.
The ninth series primarily featured the arrivals of Gloria Meak, played by Angeline Ball, and her brother, Dominic Meak, with former ''EastEnders'' actor Stephen Lord taking on this role. Gloria embarked on an affair with Jamie after having a catfight with Karen. Also in Series 9, Mimi's glamorous Scottish niece, Ruby Hepburn, portrayed by Kari Corbett, arrived. Ciarán Griffiths left his role as Micky Maguire during this series, with the character leaving after helping a woman give birth and agreeing to raise the baby when the woman dies. Also departing this series was Carl, who made numerous guest appearances before leaving. Prominent storylines for this series include Micky being the victim of a homophobic attack, and Frank, Jamie, Shane, Ruby and Aidan being trapped underground when a plan to rob lottery tickets goes dramatically wrong.
Series 10, originally planned to be the second half of the ninth series, was reduced from 11 episodes to 10. It aired between 13 September and 1 November 2012. As with the last two series, the first two episodes aired on two consecutive nights.
The final episode of the tenth series saw three prominent characters depart: Emmanuel Ighodaro left his role as Jackson Powell when he and Avril's mounting debts and fractured marriage become too much, Kari Corbett's character Ruby Hepburn was killed off when she took Mimi hostage which resulted in her falling out of a window to her death, and Valerie Lilley made her exit as Patty Croker, when she was told that she was dying and wanted Frank to take her to the beach to see Ireland one last time, however Frank left her to go to the pub, allowing the tide to take her away. Jamie continued his affair with Gloria in Series 10, however this stopped following a pregnancy scare, and eventually Karen discovers his deceit. Shane accidentally killed a man after running him over in a hit-and-run, and battled his conscience as he began helping the man's family through their grief.
The eleventh and final series of Shameless began on 26 February 2013 and concluded the show itself on 28 May 2013. An expansion from the last two series, the eleventh series consisted of 14 episodes. The show's final episode saw the return of several departed characters, mostly consisting of the Gallagher children.
During the eleventh series, all characters made their final appearances, however only certain characters made exits from Chatsworth. These include Sally Carman as Kelly Maguire, Jack Deam as Marty Fisher, Angeline Ball as Gloria Meak and Stephen Lord as Dominic Meak. A variety of new characters made their first appearances in the final series, including Jacqueline Boatswain as Avril's older sister Patreesha St. Rose and her daughter Mary-Mae, who would begin a relationship with Chesney. Also, Moya Brady – who played The Jockey's former landlady Cassie Western in Series 2 – returned playing Remona, who opened a pharmacy in Chesney's shop. A new family, the Blancos, arrived consisting of Kassi, played by Jalaal Hartley, Esther, portrayed by Isy Suttie, and their three children: Tam (Rhys Cadman), Thalia (Jade Kilduff) and Saul (Lewis Hardaker). Also, Sherilee and Derilee, played by Sarah Totty and Sue Vincent, appeared for a number of episodes as Frank's new prostitutes.
Most notably, the role of Stella Gallagher was recast, with Nikita Brownlee playing the character. The final ever episode saw numerous old cast members return, including Annabelle Apsion as Monica Gallagher, Anne-Marie Duff as Fiona McBride, Jody Latham as Lip Gallagher, Elliott Tittensor as Carl Gallagher, Dean Lennox Kelly as Kev Ball and Kelli Hollis as Yvonne Karib. Storylines covered in the final series included Jamie discovering that Paddy is not his biological father, and finding his new half-brother Kassi and his family; Frank's dalliance with prostitutes Sherilee and Derilee, with a hostage situation occurring at the Gallagher household when Derilee's husband Baxter finds out; Shane's brief relationship with a copper, Sgt. Randall (Thaila Zucchi), putting a strain on his relationship with his family; Mimi starting work at a primary school as a governor; and the breakdown of Kelly and Lillian's friendship after Kelly and Marty steal a large amount of money from her.
In the near future, climate change has caused the seas to rise and flood Miami. Extreme daytime temperatures have forced most of the population to live at night.
Nick Bannister and his friend Watts operate a business that allows people to relive memories. One day, a walk-in client, Mae, asks for their help finding her missing keys. Nick is instantly attracted to her; observing her memories of that evening, he learns she is a nightclub singer and feels a connection with her when she sings his favorite song, "Where or When". Nick and Mae begin a relationship, although Watts distrusts her.
Months later, Mae has disappeared without a word. Hoping to find a clue to her whereabouts, Nick spends hours repeatedly reliving his memories of their relationship, a dangerous practice that could forever trap him in the memory.
Prosecutor Avery Castillo hires Nick and Watts to retrieve memories from a comatose suspect who worked for a drug kingpin named Saint Joe in New Orleans. In the man's memories, Nick sees that Mae was once Saint Joe's mistress and had become addicted to "Baca," a highly addictive narcotic. The memories also reveal that Mae stole Saint Joe's stash of Baca before fleeing town. Nick is devastated to learn that Mae was an addict, something that Watts already knew.
Nick travels to New Orleans and confronts Saint Joe, who says he has heard nothing from Mae since she left him. Saint Joe has his men try to drown Nick, but Watts rescues him and kills Saint Joe and his crew. Back in Miami, Nick has Watts relive her last encounter with Mae, and discovers Mae broke into the vault where they store recordings of their clients' memories. They discover Mae stole recordings of Elsa Carine, a client who repeatedly relived her trysts with an older, wealthy lover. Nick recognizes the voice of her lover as Walter Sylvan, a wealthy "land baron" who has recently died.
Investigating, Nick learns that Elsa was recently murdered and her young son was kidnapped by a woman who matches Mae's description. While searching for Mae, Nick is attacked by Cyrus Boothe, a former henchman of Saint Joe. Realizing that Elsa's son was likely the child of Walter Sylvan and thus a potential heir to his fortune, Nick confronts Sylvan's widow, Tamara, a former client whose memory has been damaged. In a moment of lucidity, Tamara points Nick to a place where Boothe and Mae could be hiding. Nick and Boothe fight, with Boothe almost drowning before Nick can subdue him. Nick takes Boothe back to his office and hooks him up to the machine to view his memories.
Boothe's memories reveal that the basis of Mae's relationship with Nick was a lie: after Boothe enlisted her in a plan to con Nick, she researched Nick to learn how to seduce him better and staged the loss of her keys. But the memories also show that Mae came to genuinely love Nick. When Boothe murdered Elsa, Mae took Elsa's son and fled, stashing him at an unknown location. Later, Boothe found Mae and tried to force her to reveal the child's location.
Nick watches the memory as Mae delivers a speech to Boothe, which is actually meant for him. She indirectly reveals the location of Elsa's son and professes her love for Nick. Then, seeing only one way out of her situation, Mae takes a lethal dose of Baca and jumps off a balcony to her death.
Devastated, Nick forces Boothe to relive his worst memory: when Saint Joe's men burned his face as punishment for skimming profits. He confronts Sylvan's legitimate son Sebastian, who hired Boothe to eliminate Elsa and his half-brother to protect his inheritance. Sebastian almost commits suicide, but he changes his mind and is arrested.
Nick confesses to Watts that he intentionally "burned" Boothe's memories, a major crime. He is convicted and allowed to serve his sentence using his machine to relive his time with Mae, which is implied to be the rest of his life. In his memory, Nick recounts to Mae a shortened version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, ending with the lovers reunited and happy, before the story's usual conclusion.
On a stormy day, Conrad (Chase Chavarria) and Sally (Andrea Bowen) are confined inside their house while their mother is gone. The Cat in the Hat (Chris Edgerly) arrives to bring them cheer, but their next-door neighbor, Larry Quinn (Fred Tatasciore), steals the Crab Lock that seals the Cat's magical crate, causing magic to flood the house and unleash chaos that threatens the world. The Cat makes his way through different stages—household objects or rooms which have been corrupted by the magic—with the guidance of the family's fish (Nolan North), recaptures the magic, and chases Larry Quinn, who is after the magic in a quest to become immensely powerful. After cleaning the house of magic and besting Larry Quinn, the Crab Lock reattaches to the crate, sealing away the magic.
The plot of the Game Boy Advance version is largely the same, with the exception that Conrad removes the lock, as Larry Quinn is not present.
Rose-Lynn Harlan, aspiring country singer and single mother of two from Glasgow, is released after a year in prison for attempted drug smuggling after throwing a package of heroin over the wall into HM Prison Cornton Vale despite claiming that she did not know what was in the package. She has lost her longstanding job in the house band at Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry, as the manager won't employ a convicted criminal. Rose-Lynn's mother, Marion, who has been caring for Rose-Lynn's young children, encourages her to give up her music dream to focus on a steady job and taking care of her children.
Rose-Lynn takes a cleaning job at Susannah's large house. Susannah's children overhear Rose-Lynn singing while she is cleaning and tell their mother. Rose-Lynn asks Susannah for money to travel to Nashville to try to make it as a musician, but she declines. Instead, she contacts BBC Radio presenter, Bob Harris, sending him a recording of Rose-Lynn singing; he offers to meet with her if she comes to London. Rose-Lynn appears before a judge to ask him to lift her probationary 7pm to 7am curfew so she can travel, and he agrees. She travels by train to London, and sits in on a live performance by the visiting Ashley McBryde. Harris encourages her to keep performing and figure out what she has to say so she can start writing her own songs.
Susannah offers Rose-Lynn a performing gig at her upcoming house party, where she intends to ask her guests to contribute to Rose-Lynn's Nashville fund in lieu of gifts. Rose-Lynn asks Marion to watch the children in the week leading up to the party so she can rehearse, but Marion declines to cancel her holiday plans, so she is forced to shuttle her children around to various friends, who agree to watch them. The day before the performance, Susannah's husband gets Rose-Lynn alone and tells her he knows about her criminal conviction and she is to stop working for them after her performance.
Rose-Lynn's son breaks his arm while briefly left unattended at home, and the doctors at the hospital say they cannot put a cast on until after Rose-Lynn's planned performance. Marion arrives to help and Rose-Lynn begs her to stay and watch her son so she can get to the party; Marion agrees but criticises her strongly for neglecting her family. Rose-Lynn rushes to the performance but, once on stage, breaks down immediately. She confesses to Susannah her guilt for her criminal behaviour and not being there for her children, and her belief that her conviction and having children at a young age are permanent barriers to her musical dream, then leaves.
Rose-Lynn gets a job as a waitress and dedicates herself to her children. Some time later, Marion, seeing that Rose-Lynn has accepted her responsibilities, presents her with a large sum of money she has saved, enough to travel to Nashville. Rose-Lynn tries to reject it, but Marion expresses her regret about failing to accomplish her goals due to having children. Rose-Lynn travels to Nashville and finds how difficult it is to find gigs and get noticed. She sneaks on stage at the Ryman Auditorium during a backstage tour and sings an impromptu song to the empty building. A security guard approaches her afterward, offering to introduce her to a record producer, but Rose-Lynn decides to return to Glasgow, having realised that her future lies in her home town.
One year later, Rose-Lynn performs an original song at Celtic Connections titled “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”, receiving raucous applause. Bob Harris, Susannah and her children are in the audience.
Rheinhardt, an alcoholic former virtuoso clarinetist, arrives in New Orleans, where he meets Geraldine, an attractive former prostitute with a distinctive facial scar and an appealingly easygoing demeanor. Desperate for money and booze, Rheinhardt takes a job as a disc jockey and radio commentator for a new right-wing radio station called WUSA, whose unironic taglines include "The Voice of an American's America" and "The Truth Shall Make You Free." Though Rheinhardt wholeheartedly embraces his role at the station and delivers its toxic and divisive messages with gusto, his eccentric friends, general outlook, and lifestyle of drinking and smoking marijuana belie his affinity for the socially-liberal counterculture of the 1960s. Nonetheless, his affiliation with WUSA brings him into contact with a group of powerful, manipulative ultra-conservatives and race baiters who plan to use the radio station to racially divide the city and combat the civil rights movement, goals of which Rheinhardt is oblivious.
Meanwhile, Morgan Rainey, a dour former social worker, takes a job conducting site visits for City Hall's survey of welfare recipients. Though Rainey initially believes he's engaged in a noble (if last-ditch) effort to improve services for the poor, he quickly realizes that the people dubiously assisting him in his efforts are part of a cynical plot to remove blacks from the state's welfare rolls. Rainey solemnly vows to fight back against the politicians of City Hall and its enablers at WUSA. He first tries to enlist Reinhardt, his neighbor, to help, but he ultimately vows to take decisive action to derail a major public event that WUSA sees as its coming out party.
In the winter of 2013, Matt and Nicole Teague prepare to tell their daughters, Molly and Evie, that Nicole's ovarian cancer is terminal. Outside, their best friend Dane Faucheux keeps the children company.
In a flashback to 2000, Matt, a journalist, and Nicole, a theater performer, live in New Orleans. She introduces Matt to Dane, a friend from college working as a camera operator who dreams of becoming a stand-up comic. The three become close over the years. In 2008, Matt and Nicole reside in Fairhope with their daughters. Matt works as a war correspondent and spends months overseas, putting a strain on the family. Meanwhile, Dane remains in New Orleans working dead-end jobs. On Thanksgiving, Dane, unhappy with his life, decides to backpack at the Grand Canyon without telling anyone where he is going. Another backpacker recognizes his potential suicidal behavior and offers support. Her gesture of kindness, plus an unexpected voicemail from the Teague family, renews Dane's will to live. In 2010, Matt discovers that Nicole had an affair. With Dane's help, they reconcile their relationship. Dane returns home where he works as a manager at a sporting goods store and begins dating a woman named Kat.
In September 2012, Nicole receives her diagnosis and begins to undergo chemotherapy. Recognizing their need for help, Dane offers to stay with them for a few weeks. However, as Nicole's condition worsens, Dane decides to remain with them, taking on many household duties. Kat struggles to understand Dane's loyalty to the Teague family after weeks turn into months, and they break up. On Christmas, Nicole ruptures her abdomen, and Dane is left to watch over the girls. Following her surgery, the doctor reveals to Matt that Nicole's cancer has spread and gives her approximately six months to live. Nicole decides that she does not want to tell their daughters until her quality of life declines significantly.
Nicole prepares a bucket list which Matt and Dane help her accomplish; such as sitting as Grand Marshal of the Mardi Gras parade, swimming in a historic fountain with all of her friends, and writing letters to her daughters for future life events. As 2013 closes and Nicole becomes sicker, they decide to tell their daughters and Dane listens on in sorrow as the girls cry.
By the summer of 2014, Nicole becomes increasingly irritable, hallucinates, and experiences pain. Realizing that Matt is overwhelmed, Dane takes him hiking. Upon their return, Matt realizes that they are no longer equipped to care for Nicole so he calls a hospice nurse, Faith Pruett. Nicole's friends and family visit with her one last time. One night, Faith alerts them of Nicole's slowing heart rate, and they take her to the beach to watch one final sunrise. Returning home, Nicole dies with Matt and Dane at her side.
Following Nicole's funeral, Dane confines himself to his room and grieves alone. Matt writes an article called "The Friend", which he gives to Dane. Dane finally decides to go home after putting his life on hold to live with the Teague family for over fourteen months. Matt embraces Dane, expressing that simply saying "Thank you" isn't enough. In the epilogue, it is revealed that Matt's article won an award in ''Esquire'' magazine and that he and his daughters remain in Fairhope. Dane remains close to the Teague family and marries in 2019.
The vast majority of the novel is Sarah's reflection and retelling of her childhood and young adult experiences. However, the first chapter, "In France", is set in the present day. Here, Sarah is traveling with three French men in Paris, including her primary lover, Henri. A lot of the content of this chapter centers the racialized romance that Sarah—a light-skinned American black woman—and Henri—a white European man—share. For example, (put quote here about the exotic women in Brazil comment Henri makes). Another thing evident from this chapter is that Sarah purposefully escaped her life back in Philadelphia (insert paraphrase or quote here), though while there, she does express a general nostalgia for her old life: "Some chemistry of air, soil, and civilization filled me with unwilling nostalgia, and I kept a sharp lookout in London for certain types of tourists: prosperous black Americans..."
The novel consists, from this first chapter on, of Sarah's reflections on her life until the present. The second chapter, taking place in the summer of 1963—recognizable because of the Civil Rights Movement—commences the flashback. Sarah takes readers back to her childhood in "New African", so they see the life and community she misses back in France. Sarah's father, Reverend James Phillips, is the pastor of New African Baptist Church in South Philadelphia, though as Sarah points out in her narration, "there was little very new or African about [it]" The church had been around since 1813, and since then, had a membership of predominantly middle-class, light-skinned Black attendees. Sarah reveals that since she and her brother, Matthew, were children, they were "dispelling" the traditions of the church, taking a secular pride in knowing how Communion was prepared. Although their father is a pastor, this was not forbidden in their household. Sarah's parents are not strict about religion for their kids, and do not force them to be super involved in the church or the religion beyond attending services. Other family members, however, disagree with that parenting, and pressure Sarah, in particular, to get more involved and get baptized. A brief physical conflict ensues between Sarah and Aunt Bessie, in which Aunt Bessie tries to physically push Sarah to get baptized after her brother Matthew had been baptized. What surprises Sarah is that her father never brings the fight up, and does not force her to attend church either. She regards this as a nonverbal, peculiar arrangement between.
In the next chapter, "Mother", Sarah focuses more on her mother, Grace Renfrew Phillips. She describes her mother's background as having "been brought up with all the fussy little airs and graces of middle-class colored girls born around the time of World War I" and having a bit of a classical education. She goes on to talk about how her mother and other little girls she grew up around aspired to marry high-status, light-skinned men. She also shares that her mother has a bit of a strange connection to the bizarre, and gets excited by strange stories. Grace also worked as a schoolteacher. Outside of that occupation, she did a lot of housekeeping for their family, such as cooking large meals. The chapter then moves into the aftermath of Judge Barber's suicide. Judge Roland Barber was both a member of the NAACP and Sarah's father's congregation. Sarah and her mom go to Judge Barber's house to pay respects to the family, bringing food, and encounter his daughter Phyllis. There is an uncomfortable air about the entire event, and even Sarah and Grace are not really sure how to speak about it beyond an odd dialogue about loss. The chapter ends with the pair returning home, and Grace cooking.
In "Gypsies", Sarah describes her black suburban, middle-class neighborhood near Philadelphia, Franklin Place, in the summer. She plays a lot with her best friend at the time, Lynn Yancy, a girl often confused as Sarah's sister because of their similar light-skin and frizzy braided hair. One day, while the two of them are hanging out, a red truck they had never seen before pulls into their neighborhood. A man and woman get out of the truck, and the woman asked Sarah if the neighborhood was all-colored, and she seems surprised that colored people are living there. She also tells the girls that they are lucky that they get to play, because her own son has to work very hard and therefore cannot play. The couple then leaves, and later that night, Sarah relays the story to her parents, who explain that the man and woman were "gypsies" who sold furniture. This sparks a particular comment from Sarah's father, who says: "Well, everybody's got… to… feel… better… than… somebody… Most of the world despises Gypsies, but a Gypsy can always look down on a Negro. Heck, that fellow was right to spit! You can dress it up with trees and big houses and people who don't stink too bad, but a nigger neighborhood is still a nigger neighborhood!" Sarah's mother yells for him to stop, and Sarah narrates that she had never heard him speak that way before. She remains scared of the "gypsies", and they never returned to Franklin Place.
"Marching" begins with a story about Sarah, her brother Matthew, her father, and her Uncle Freddy on a trip to Harlem in 1959. Her father and Uncle Freddy have a playful exchange where they say things in a distinctive voice such as "Look at the tenements and the trash! I'm awfully glad ''I'm'' not a Negro, aren't you Frederick?" Matthew then explains to Sarah "They're joking, silly -- pretending to be white" Sarah then details her upbringing specifically in terms of their father's instructions. While Reverend Phillips tells Sarah and Matthew to "say 'Negro' with near-military briskness when we spoke of ourselves in the classrooms of our Quaker school" and also talks a lot about civil rights, he also speaks about Negroes, or "we" as people who ruin neighborhoods and communities when they move in. Later, in July, Reverend Phillips and Sarah go to D.C. in 1963 to visit some family. While in a cab on its way to Union Station, soon to head home to Philadelphia, the cab driver and Reverend Phillips strike up a conversation about the upcoming march on August 28, which the reader can infer is the March on Washington. Afterwards, Sarah tells her father that she wants to attend the march, too, and he refuses. Two months later, she and Matthew watcht the march on television while under the care of Aunt Bessie, and Sarah begins to imagine her parents and her parents' friends there. Matthew declares that the march is stupid, and this begins an argument between him and Sarah, who says that the folks marching really believe in something. This concludes the chapter.
Sarah begins attending middle school in "Servant Problems". The Prescott School for Girls where she attends is a school where the teachers and students are white but all the domestic staff are black. There is a cook whom Sarah describes as having yellowish-brown skin who waves often at her and her friend, but she never returns his greeting unlike her white friend. As the first and only black student at that school during the mid-1960s, Sarah experiences social isolation with the exception of her one friend, a student named Gretchen Manning. Gretchen and Sarah share a common isolating experience, and met after both being put in Squad Six, which Sarah defines as the group for "athletic pariahs" in the school. They thought of themselves as "revolutionaries", at the school, and thus decide to break the school rule one day by climbing to the forbidden top floor. What they see is a bed with a black woman in it, whom Sarah recognizes as one of the maids at the school. Another black figure comes into view, soon to enter the room, but before they do, Sarah and Gretchen run from the floor, with Gretchen being indignant about the "conditions of the top floor", and Sarah wishing to avoid thinking about any of the black workers due to her discomfort. At some point, the two also begin to share a love of theater, and act on this by auditioning for the school play. However, when Sarah gets cast for a role for which she did not auditio—the role of Rheba, the "very black" maid of the play—she decides to not take the role and instead laughs uncontrollably. This ability to laugh, she reflects, "seems to bring [her] closer to growing up". The chapter ends with Sarah and Gretchen again seeing the black cook, and Sarah again not waving back at him, except that this time, "[she] looked seriously at him, as if he had something to teach [her]".
By the time of the chapter "Matthew and Martha", Sarah is about fourteen. Her brother, Matthew, is a first-year at Swarthmore College, and decides to visit home for a Sunday dinner with a guest: his new girlfriend, Martha Greenfield, also a first-year at Swarthmore. Martha is white, and so the family—namely Grace and Cousin Polly—is not particularly pleased. While Reverend Phillips seeks to smooth things over, Grace and Matthew get into an argument over his having a white girlfriend. Matthew argues that his mother is being unbelievable considering she sent her kids to predominantly white schools their entire lives, and then get upset when "the inevitable happens". The argument ends with Matthew and Martha taking off in their car. Later, Sarah overhears her mother and father arguing, and Grace yells at Sarah as well in frustration from the argument with Matthew.
In "The Days of the Thunderbirds", Sarah is away at Camp Grayfeather. Her two friends at the camp are Ellen and Chen-Cheu. The three of them see their camp as an integration camp, a site for racially diverse children of middle-class professional parents. Sarah even comments that the camp looks like a UNICEF poster. As further proof of their sentiments, one of the latest "integration" moves announced by the camp directors is to have Thunderbirds be at the camp for a week. Thunderbirds are a gang of black teenagers, and the director of Camp Grayfeather lectured the campers about being ambassadors and bridging a gap that society created in having the Thunderbirds stay with them for a week. Once the students arrive, a number of conflicts ensue between the two groups of kids and also between the Thunderbirds and the workers at Camp Grayfeather. Chen-Cheu makes a loud comment about some of her clothes being stolen from her bag, and the girls in the cabin fight, for example. At some point before this, Sarah and Ellen see Marvin Jones, leader of the Thunderbirds, demonstrate the Thunderbird song with some of his fellow members. This is significant because ultimately, when the students are made to leave before their week is up due to all the conflicts that had occurred, Sarah and Ellen perform their song. After having practiced the song and taught it to other campers, Sarah and about four other students stop the bus that Thunderbirds are on, soon to leave, to show them the Thunderbird song and movements as they themselves had memorized it. The chapter ends with the Thunderbirds applauding while on the bus and then the bus pulling off after Marvin Jones says that they're "sorry to leave".
"An Old Woman" centers a home visit from Grace and Sarah to Ms. Jeller's house when Sarah is sixteen years old. Ms. Jeller used to be one of Reverend Phillips most faithful church attendees before her old age relegated her to in-home care. The chapter does start off with Sarah narrating a common argument at the time between her and her mom where Sarah would ask for particular jeans and clothes, her mother would refuse to buy them and tell her that she should not be chasing the next trend, and Sarah arguing that her mom is just trying to keep her young forever and not let her grow up. When Sarah and Grace go to Ms. Jeller's house, with pound cake to give her, she is watching television with Ms. Bryant, her residential staff worker. Their conversation turns into Ms. Jeller telling a narrative of a traumatic event in her childhood when Grace asks if the woman in a photograph in the house is Ms. Jeller's mother. Ms. Jeller's mother was not very present during her childhood because she worked for white folks elsewhere, and so while growing up in Kentucky, Ms. Jeller was raised by her uncle and aunt. Ms. Jeller was raped at the age of 12 by a man in the community, and so her guardians organized a wedding between the two of them, and once the baby arrived, they got the marriage annulled. The baby got sick and died, and so by the time Ms. Jeller was 14, she had been rid of her husband and her child. After this, Sarah reflects that her mother then let her buy whatever jeans she wanted.
"Negatives" gives a first glimpse of Sarah's life at college, specifically at Harvard University. While there, Sarah reconnects with a distant family friend, and they become best friends. Curry Daniels and Sarah are very similar in that they are both light-skin and middle class. Sarah even describes his face as similar to hers, showing an even balance between black, white and "Indian blood". These similarities lead them to joke about how they should get together or get married, but that a nice colored boy and a nice colored girl might be too boring. They both already have romantic partners, both of whom are not black, and constantly make fun of each other's partners. Curry also has a knack for photography, and has been called to take numerous photos of women, including nude photos. He often tries to convince Sarah to let him take photos of her, and one day she agrees. The experience for her was very awkward, as can be seen from the faces she was making during the photos once they're developed. Though she and Curry both agree that the photos of her are not the best, he still prompts her to keep the negatives of the photos so he has a base to work off of—she still tosses them in the trash shortly after. Curry is older than Sarah, and the chapter ends with him graduating and her beginning a summer without her close friend.
In "Fine Points", Sarah and her roommate Margaret plot to engage romantically with their professor crushes at the university. Both Margaret and Sarah have a friendship where they often talk about and make fun of their partners. At this point, Sarah is invited by her professor to coffee with him and other students. She puts a lot of care into her outfit, and the professor seems surprised upon her entrance. She begins to get bored at the conversation and lose interest in the professor, although he attempts to compliment her in relation to her work in his class. When she returns to the room and tells Margaret the story, Margaret is disappointed that Sarah did not adequately make a move at the professor. Margaret herself "succeeds" with her professor crush when he gets tipsy at a function, pulls Margaret aside, and kisses her. However, Margaret, similar to Sarah, realizes she is no longer interested in the professor and is only left with awkward tension between her and the professor during their lab sessions.
"A Funeral at New African" details the death and the aftermath of Sarah's father, Reverend Phillips. Sarah's major reflection around this time in her and her family's life is how her father, and his death, started to belong to everyone else but the immediate family.
Teenage Angela (Sofía Paz Jara) meets her three adult half-sisters (Carolina Ramírez, Lina Marcela Sánchez, María Camila Mejia) for the first time when their father dies. Fearing that Angela will end up in state care, they embark on a 900 miles journey across Colombia to leave Angela with an aunt she has never even met.
National sports games are under threat by a new sport, ''Riot.'' Sponsors are pulling the plug on funding of traditional sports and moving to this new hybrid sport.
The film tells about the veterinarian Yegor, who works at a training station for hunting dogs. The world of animals is his world, it is much easier for him to find a common language with animals than with people. Egor dreams of becoming part of the family of Nikolai Ivanovich, the owner of the station, and for this he is ready to do anything.
The female colony supervisor has the opportunity to participate in the main Russian music show. And the singer who is a prisoner of the colony will help her with this.
Jake (Andy Samberg) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) investigate the murder of a young man. Throughout the episode, Rosa gets numerous different hairstyles, given to her by her girlfriend Jocelyn. After Jake sees how devastated the victim's mother is, he promises her that he will find the killer, much to Rosa's chagrin.
Over the course of two months, Jake goes crazy trying to solve the case, which causes Rosa to worry about him. Eventually, Rosa decides to hand the case over to the Major Crimes unit, upsetting Jake. However, Jake decides to continue trying to solve the case, eventually scaring his wife Amy (Melissa Fumero). Rosa eventually gets him to stop and to admit to the victim's mother that they can't solve the case. However, after seeing that the mother feels guilty for her son's death, Rosa herself decides to reopen the case and solve it.
After reentering the crime scene, Jake and Rosa realize that there was one place which they hadn't checked: the vents. Sure enough, they find a lead, and through security footage, discover that the killer had been hiding in the vents for days before and after the murder, and had escaped using a forensic analyst disguise. With this evidence, they finally manage to catch the killer. At the end of the episode, Rosa reveals to Jake that the way he sympathized with the victim's mother had inspired her to reconcile with her own mother (Olga Merediz), who initially hadn't responded well when Rosa came out as bisexual.
The film takes place in Moscow in the summer. The city lives its own life, something happens here every day. People who are in a hurry for their important affairs, and also do not forget about the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. To do this, each person can take the necessary courses, lectures and trainings on the topic of interest. And the theme of this film is love. Characters ordinary people, lost in Moscow, each of which has its own love story.
There is a new classmate, Violet, at the school attended by eight-year-olds Jojo and Fat Louis. She is ridiculed for her big nose, and later runs away on Christmas Eve.
Seth and Nole have just lost their best friend Ally in a house fire. She was in the process of breaking up with her abusive husband, who is serving time in prison. Her estate is being looked after by her older sister Casey, who will follow Ally's will exactly as written, which means everything goes to the estranged husband. Among Ally's effects, Seth and Nole find a lottery ticket worth $30 million. If they tell Casey about the ticket, the money will go to a wife-beater whom Ally was about to abandon rather than those more deserving - themselves, but also Ally's charity. They cannot pass it off as their own ticket, as it is covered in Ally's characteristic doodles. The solution is obvious: sacrifice one life, Casey's, to save thousands: "If we give a third of the money to an African charity, it'll be like we're saving 40,000 lives just for sacrificing one." Both agree that they cannot possibly commit murder, but find it amusing to consider the possibility, and how it could be done perfectly.
Seth and Nole start to scheme, jokingly at first, but eventually they "get real," concluding that murdering Casey is, paradoxically, the "right thing". Seeking unwitting permission from Casey herself, they ask her if she would give up her life if it meant saving thousands of other lives; she answers: "In a heartbeat." Accepting that they will live with the burden of guilt for sacrifcing an innocent person, even for good reasons, for the rest of their lives, they come up with a plan so that Casey dies with little or no suffering, one of them distracting her with a story about Ally while the other moves in for the kill. As part of the plan, they invite her over regularly, entertaining and getting to know her as they did Ally. They practice and make a few aborted attempts, but each time the one who must do the deed fails to go through with it, unable to find it in himself to commit the murder. The longer it goes on, the more they get to know her, and the more difficult the task becomes.
From time to time, the pair also have to put up with Andrew, their overbearing boss, who owns a factory farm. He graphically describes the killing of terrified pigs, which upsets them, partly because they both eat meat. Later, when his farm has been the target of animal rights activists, he shares video of pigs in the slaughterhouse which horrifies them even more.
One day, Casey reveals that she is dying of ovarian cancer, so the pair think do not need to go through with the plan. But in fact, there is a time limit on turning in the lottery ticket, so it leaves them no better off. Moreover, it provides another justification as it turns the murder into a form of mercy killing: they can spare her a slow, agonizing death, killing her quickly, listening to her favourite piece of music, in the company of people who love her, her two new best friends. On the chosen night, everything having gone according to plan, at the last moment they try to give Casey (and themselves) a way out, telling her about the lottery ticket, pleading with her not to let it go to Ally's charity: "Is it possible that what is right isn't what you thought it was?" She considers, but seems unlikely to concede, her two friends and would-be murderers visibly conflicted and in emotional turmoil. , September 2011 After a fade to black, it is revealed that Seth and Nole did not commit the murder, but the lottery winnings did go to Ally's charity. But as the pair mull things over in a restaurant, the vegan meal having been paid for by Andrew, they do not celebrate the turn of events as a some kind of triumph of their own morality or ethics; rather: "We didn't do the right thing; the right thing happened to us."
May 10, 1996: On the Hillary Step of Mt. Everest, pathologist Beck Weathers lies unconscious in a snowdrift as mountaineer Rob Hall leads his group to the summit. While they enjoy the view, Weathers hallucinates being at a barbecue with his daughter Meg. Hall helps one of the group members, Doug Hansen, to reach the top as the rest of the group heads back down. As Hall takes Hansen's picture, the action flashes back to show Hall's wife Jan awaiting his return in New Zealand. Jan has climbed Everest once before, but her pregnancy prevented her from making this trip. When the flashback ends, Hansen begins to have trouble breathing. Hall tries to reach the base camp by radio to get help and oxygen.
The scene shifts back to Weathers' hallucination of his daughter Meg playing jumprope. Not recognizing his daughter, Weathers takes the jumprope from Meg and straps himself to the rope. Back to consciousness, he realizes that the rest of the group has not returned. It begins to snow and the sunset is approaching. Mike Groom, another expedition member, finds Weathers and urges him to descend just as a storm breaks out. Meanwhile, Jan realizes her husband may be in trouble and she makes contact with the base camp. Mountain guide Guy Cotter, reporting from the camp, urges Hall to leave Hansen behind and save himself.
The members of the expedition discover the confused Weathers. While Jan waits for the next call, Hall tries to bring Hansen to safety. He is too late and Hansen joins the chorus, which represents those who have died climbing Mt. Everest. Hall reports Hansen's death to the base camp via radio and asks for Cotter's help in establishing telephone contact with Jan.
At 2:00 AM on May 11, the other members of the expedition begin to leave one by one. Hall contacts his wife. They agree on the name "Sarah" for their unborn child and assure themselves of their love just before Hall dies, joining Hansen in the chorus. Weathers, still hallucinating, hears his daughter calling for him in the distance and finally reaches the base camp.
The film tells about a young man named Denis, who was left as a child by his parents, but this did not prevent him from becoming a strong person. One day he meets his mother, along with whom he goes to corrupt Moscow, where he is drawn into a risky adventure.
In 1999, during the bombing of Yugoslavia, Slatina airfield is taken over by terrorists led by an Albanian warlord, Smuk. Afterwards, an operation to capture the airfield from them is conducted by Russian intelligence agents. The terrorists engage in organ harvesting, robberies, assassinations, and ethnic cleansing.
Russian Airborne Troop and military intelligence officer Aslan-Bek Evkhoev and former paratrooper-turned-mercenary Andrey Shatalov head a small detachment tasked with the dangerous mission to stop the terrorists, recapture the airfield held from them, and hold it until a Russian Airborne Troops reinforcement stationed in Bosnia arrived ahead of NATO forces, which the team will leave beforehand, as well as rescue Shatalov's love interest Jasna Blagojević, who was captured to be harvested for organs, along with several ethnic Serb prisoners.
In the not-too-distant future, mankind has made huge advances in its explorations of the cosmos, establishing scientific stations on many planets. An international project known as Gemini has resulted in the development of a unique planet terraforming unit. But once the unit is launched, Earth loses connection with the carrier rocket transporting the unit outside the Solar System. The search leads to nowhere – the unit is lost.
Some time has passed, before one day a group of astrophysicists receive a mysterious signal from space. It seems to originate on a remote and as-yet uncharted planet. The signal creates dangerous irregularities in the Earth's environment. An expedition is made to the planet itself, in order to locate the source of the signal. A small group of people – the vanguard of humanity – sets off into the unknown. They must endure dramatic and even tragic events to save the Earth from this dire threat.
Since she left the precinct, Gina (Chelsea Peretti) started her own YouTube channel, G-Hive, where she used religious figures to create her own following, reaching 1 million subscribers. She contacts Jake (Andy Samberg) and Terry (Terry Crews) to help her at a ceremony where she needs police protection due to a possible assassin attending.
During their mission, Jake and Terry notice that Gina is being distant with them, even refusing to talk to them for a meeting. During her conference, Jake gets Gina out of danger before a giant sphere falls onto her. However, at her apartment, Jake and Terry find out that Gina lied to them about being sick and went to a party the previous night; Jake speaks to Gina in a robotic, sarcastic manner that tips her off that he's genuinely pissed at her. While Jake tells Gina that he understands she has a new life but doesn't feel like she even wants to be friends with him anymore, she gets stabbed in the back by the real perpetrator. While waiting for the ambulance, Gina and Jake reconcile and resolve to make time for each other in the future. Gina even reunites Terry with his old friend, a star in the Canadian Football League, the following evening.
Meanwhile, Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) brings Nikolaj (Antonio Raul Corbo) to the precinct where he manages to solve a problem on Holt's (Andre Braugher) board. Holt assumes Nikolaj is a genius and lambastes Boyle for not nurturing his gifts, stating that the child should be sent to an elite boarding school. Once Holt and Charles both realize Nikolaj is not brilliant after all, Holt apologizes to Charles for undermining him. Also, due to an incident, Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) is forced to use bandages for her hands, which makes her work more difficult although she refuses Amy's (Melissa Fumero) help. She then accidentally gets trapped in a closet but refuses Amy's help. After so many hours, she finally gives in and asks for her help but Amy reassures her she can do it by herself and Rosa uses her head and shoulder to exit the closet.
After new developments in rocket propulsion enable a trip to Mars to be completed in weeks instead of months, Vice-President Dan Quayle is persuaded to join the crew of the first mission — and becomes its sole survivor.
Law student Gloria Soriano is taking a final oral exam to graduate as an attorney to her teacher, Attorney Rivas. Rivas asks Soriano three things, the definition of justice, if Soriano would defend someone she considers guilty and if she would defend someone with no money. Soriano approves and in the middle of the celebration she goes through a broken elevator door and falls to the void, getting crippled. Years later, in 1983 on a rural town; two public cleaners, "Gringo" Gómez and Manfredo Doméstico are taking litter out of a bridge. Then they go to the populated local bar, where the light is cut off, moment in which they leave to have sex. The next day, Néstor Fabián, Manfredo's brother, takes him to the local police station in order to fill a complaint against "Gringo" Gómez for rape of a mentally disable person, during the walk he reveals he plans to sue him in order to take his house, since both Néstor and Manfredo are homeless, living in an intermodal container. Néstor hits Manfredo for opposing the denouncement, leaving him with a black eye. The police officer queries about Manfredo's wound, Néstor replies that the Gringo did it. The police officers takes Manfredo to the crime scene and ask him to pose in the position he was supposedly raped and took pictures of him. Later, Betty, Gómez's wife, finds out about the accusation and Gomez is taken to the police station, where he is made to sign a confession despite the fact that he is illiterate. Meanwhile, the police takes pictures of the five witnesses at the bar in the night of the crime.
Since Rivas is making lobby to make it to judge in the amidst of the Argentine transition to democracy, the case file is written by Rivas' assistant and signed by her and later sent to Soriano's desk, where it is received by Secretary Santi. When Soriano reads the file, she founds no proof at all of Manfredo's supposedly mental disabilities or evidence of a rape and is angered by the fact that the pleading only has two pages. She then asks the psychologist of the nearest town to make a new examination of Manfredo. When the psychologist arrives, she makes an examination of Manfredo using kinetic family drawing, diagnosing him as mentally impaired, since he did not completed the test, he later cries about the situation. Soriano decides to visit Gómez and makes him read the confession he signed and confesses he cannot, since he does not know how to read and that he does not even knows why he is in jail. Later, Soriano goes to a clothes store and finds out Ferrera, the judge of the case, is gay. In El Escondido, Betty is talking with the commissary about how Gringo's house actually is on a usurious mortgage with him and that, if the Gringo can not pay, the commissary keeps the house. Soriano goes to the provincial courts to talk with Rivas, only to find out she lost every bit of empathy about her job. Soriano returns to her desk and talks with Santi about her disappointment with her work and, motivated by Rivas' dessidy, decides to go to El Escondido for a last try to clean Gómez's name. She meets a silent tramp who takes her to the chief deputy, mentions Néstor's criminal record and alcoholism and then he takes her to the town. She later confronts the local psychologist on her diagnosis. Meanwhile, the chief deputy calls Rivas about the arrival of Soriano to El Escondido. She asks him to prevent a key witness who is not revealed to the audience to talk with Soriano. The chief deputy ask her if there is a chance that Manfredo's brother was actually the one who caused Manfredo's black eye. Rivas asks him to not disclose this fact with anyone. Soriano goes to interrogate with four witness of the case and finds Betty, who now is in a relationship with the chief deputy and tells her she only married Gringo because his father had two horses and her father a plough. In her office, Rivas insults her assistant for the low effort he did on the pleading. After this talk with Betty, Soriano meets Mudo, who tells her that Manfredo it's who fixes the cars for him for the chief deputy.
In a meeting between Rivas and Ferrera, they discuss the news of the case and how she will dismiss Mudo as a witness because of his criminal record regarding stealing of motor vehicles parts and because he didn't said a word on his declaration. After Ferrera implies his support for Soriano, Rivas remembers him that he only made it to judge because of her contacts on the judicial family and pretending to be his girlfriend in order to fool the homophobic officials and that losing this minor case will truly affect her chances to become a judge. Then Santi tells her that el Mudo will be dismissed and that she lost the case. In the middle of her hopelessness, she sees Manfredo in the distance and pretends to have fallen. He helps her and tells him that the Gringo will be twelve years in jail thanks to his lack of action and gives him a business card. Santi visits Gringo in the prison unit, who tells him that he's being beaten by the other inmates and that even with solitary confinement, the guards left the door open in order to allow the beatings. Santi replies that he can't respond to any of the violence or he will be charged with more years of jail. Soriano, Ferrera and Rivas have a meeting where Soriano talks about Manfredo's mechanic skills, Gringo's house issue and Betty's adultery with the chief deputy. And finally says Rivas didn't made pleading and criticizes her decision to not fire the assistant. Back in El Escondido, Néstor is attacking Manfredo with a slingshot because of his reunion with Soriano as he insults him with homophobic epithets.
Soriano returns to her office, tired and expresses her discomfort with Santi about the uselessness of the four witnesses. Santi tells her that he won the lottery by betting 5-5-5, based on the amount of witnesses mentioned in the report of El Escondido's police, despite a missing page on it. After finding it, it turns out the missing witness it's the tramp that she met at the arrival to El Escondido. She goes to the town again and speaks with him, the tramp tells him that Manfredo was laughing and that he remembered it because it was the first time in his life that remembers Manfredo laughing. Manfredo takes the same bus that left Soriano in El Escondido and travels to the tribunals in Buenos Aires, where says his brother was the responsible of the wounds. Ferrera takes this as a sign of mental stability and declares Gómez innocent. Gomez returns to the town and finds out he has been kicked out of his house and that Betty now lives with the chief deputy. Néstor Fabián dies electrocuted thanks to a water leak after kicking Manfredo out of the house. The Gringo and Manfredo reunite again and hug each other. Santi congratulates Soriano and she decides to take a day off.
A written epilogue tells us that Rivas was named national judge twenty days after the absolution of The Gringo, that Manfredo Doméstico kept working in Escondido and died of pneumonia in 2007, The Gringo left Escondido and his whereabouts are unknown and Gloria Soriano worked for 30 years, became a teacher and that she is still single.
The episode is split between a flashback to some time after Rick's apparent death and the present.
In the flashback segments, a pregnant Michonne and Daryl look for any trace of Rick for closure, but only discover his revolver. Daryl explains his choice to go live on his own; Michonne returns to Alexandria alone. In a later time at Alexandria, Michonne watches as some strangers arrive and discovers among them her old college friend, Jocelyn. Michonne vouches for her to the others and brings Jocelyn in for medical care, but Jocelyn urges them to recover the children she was protecting at a nearby building; they safely recover the children. That night, Jocelyn explains to Michonne that all of the adults of her group have died, but the children have become skillful hunters. Meanwhile, all of Jocelyn's children, including Judith and the other Alexandrian ones, enjoy a bonfire. When morning comes, the Alexandrians find that Jocelyn and the children have all fled, killing at least one Alexandrian, kidnapping Judith and the other children, and stealing much of the community's food and medical supplies before fleeing into the sewers. Daryl joins up with Michonne to track them down. Michonne laments about how she trusted Jocelyn, but Daryl convinces her that it wasn't her fault. They eventually find one of the children sneaking around a school and give chase, but they are both lured into a trap by Jocelyn and the children. Sometime later, Michonne and Daryl wake up bloodied and tied to a pipe, and realize that Jocelyn has brainwashed the children to be vicious and nearly feral. They are then painfully branded with an iron X, a sign of strength according to Jocelyn. When they are left alone, Daryl is able to help them escape and they decide to split up to look for the Alexandria children, who are forced into a trailer outside. In the hallway, one child slashes Michonne across her bloated stomach, with little regard to the infant she carries. Michonne eventually finds an exit, but is immediately beaten over and over with a wooden plank by Jocelyn. However, Michonne summons the strength to stab Jocelyn in her leg and chest, killing her. Michonne then convinces the children that they can all return to Alexandria, but Mitchell, second-in-command of Jocelyn's group, instructs the children to kill the Alexandrians. She is forced to kill Mitchell and begs the kids to stop, but they all refuse and charge towards Michonne. With no other options, Michonne is forced to kill them one by one, much to her anguish. After the massacre, Michonne and Daryl recover the children back to Alexandria. Following these events, Michonne decides to no longer allow strangers in Alexandria. As a result, relationships between Alexandria and the other communities break down.
In the present, Aaron alerts Michonne of Daryl's presence at the Alexandria gates, including Connie, Henry and Lydia. Daryl vouches for Lydia to convince Michonne to let them take shelter. They stay long enough for Henry to get the medical care he needs, but Michonne refuses to provide them an escort to the Kingdom. Later, Judith talks to Daryl, disappointed about how Michonne has been acting. That evening, Daryl, Connie, Henry and Lydia take off to return to the Kingdom, with Michonne seeing them off. In the morning, Michonne finds Judith has left on her own, having taken Rick's pistol. She accosts Negan about if he knows where Judith went, but he instead tells her that Judith is trying to follow what Carl had suggested for the communities and upset that Michonne refuses to let anyone in. Michonne then goes racing off on her own and eventually catches up with Judith as she is surrounded by walkers; the two fight off the walkers. As Michonne takes care of Judith's non-fatal wounds, Judith tells Michonne that she remembers witnessing her kill Jocelyn and her children in order to rescue her, something Michonne was not aware of and had not talked about with her. Judith then explains that she feels that Michonne no longer has love for their allies and went on her own to help them; they hug and reconcile.
Back in Alexandria, at Carl's grave, Michonne explains to Judith that they never wanted to bury another child, but after the incident with Jocelyn she decided to make Alexandria only about those within as to keep the children safe. Michonne realizes what Judith's concern has been and agrees that they should help protect their allies. They go off to catch up with Daryl's group via a horse-drawn carriage to help them arrive to the Kingdom faster. They soon arrive and enter the Kingdom, unaware that a pair of Whisperers are watching them and plan to inform Alpha.
Against the wishes of his parents (who are in the midst of a messy divorce), a young boy steals the ashes of his dead Grandfather and runs away into the wilderness with his dog. The boy is determined to fulfill his beloved Grandpa's dying wishes and spread his ashes atop a remote mountain. Along the treacherous journey, the boy and the dog are accompanied by the ghost of his Grandpa, who helps them on their journey, brings the family back together and gives the boy one last chance to say goodbye.
The game begins with Larry waking up in a dark room, unaware of where he is or what is happening. He leaves the room via an elevator that places him in front of Lefty's, where he realizes that the landscape has dramatically changed. Inside the bar Larry talks to Lefty, who tells him that he has been missing for about thirty years and that much has changed in his absence, even as Larry has seemingly not changed at all, with the exception of him being thinner. Briefly taken aback, Larry nevertheless resolves himself to chasing women.
Soon after, Larry discovers a Pi phone in Lefty's bathroom, which tells him that it is an experimental prototype and that it must be returned to Bill "BJ" Jobs at Prune headquarters. In doing so he meets and attempts to woo Faith, BJ's beautiful assistant, who states that she only dates men with a perfect score on the dating app Timber. Gaining a new Pi phone as a reward for returning the prototype, Larry sets about meeting various people via the Timber app in search of a perfect score. This task leads him to various people such as a lawyer seeking access to Prune's files and eventually results in Larry following Faith and BJ to Cancúm, where he breaks into BJ's mansion. He then discovers that Faith is the true genius behind Prune and that she hired BJ to serve as its male figurehead, as she states that the business would not have thrived if it was known a woman was behind everything. The game ends with Larry escaping capture and accidentally blowing up the mansion, resulting in Faith getting shipped out to sea. Prior to the close of the game, Larry receives more matches on Timber.
In the fictional town of Colina, California, Bridget Moretti is a shy student attending Hollybrook High. She wants to be popular by befriending rich and pretty Kelly Locke who leads the school's most prestigious group, the Bobettes. After being accepted into the group, Bridget tries to further her popularity by trying out as a cheerleader and applying for a yearbook staff position, but is devastated after being passed up for both.
Undeterred despite these setbacks, Bridget calls Kelly's mom one night, relaying information about there supposedly being a special dinner for the Bobettes, which is actually a ruse to get Kelly out of the house, under the guise of going to a college party. When Kelly rejects Bridget's overtures, it fills her with rage; after fleeing Bridget's car, Kelly gets a ride home from a nearby resident, but Bridget follows the vehicle back to Kelly's house and fatally stabs her to death immediately after she is dropped off.
After Kelly is later found dead, this attracts the attention of FBI Agent Murray, who investigates Kelly's murder; fellow student and "punk girl" Nina Miller (who also serves as the narrator) is initially a suspect, due to her having words with Kelly and having lied to her mother about going out with her boyfriend the night of Kelly's murder, but is later cleared. Eventually, consumed by guilt, Bridget writes a letter of confession to her mother and turns herself in.
The plot is narrated in flashbacks with non-chronological episodes. In a frame story, a man named Tracker recounts his tale to prison interrogators from the South Kingdom. Once Tracker has identified someone’s scent, he can follow them anywhere. As a young adult, he abandons his abusive grandfather and returns to the Ku tribe, home of his extended family. He meets a shapeshifter known as Leopard and a young Ku man named Kava, with whom Tracker begins a sexual relationship. They rescue mingi children, who are born with birth defects and/or strange powers. These children are cared for by the Sangoma, an anti-witch.
On one mission to rescue children, Tracker is caught by a flesh-eating monster named Asanbosam. He and Leopard kill the creature and escape. Kava betrays the Sangoma. She and most of the children are killed, but she is able to place a protective enchantment on Tracker before she dies. Tracker leaves the surviving mingi children with the Gangatom tribe and sets out on his own.
Years later, in the city of Malakal, Tracker is hired to find a mysterious boy. The boy was abducted from the home of Basu Fumanguru, an elder in the city of Kongor. Basu and his family were all killed, and the boy is the sole survivor. He is now being held captive by a group of monsters. His captors include an Ipundulu, a vampire who drains his victims and replaces their blood with lightning, as well as Sasabonsam, brother of Asambosam. In addition to Tracker, members of this expedition include Leopard; Leopard’s bowman and lover Fumeli; Nyka, a man who previously betrayed Tracker by selling him into slavery; Nsaka, a mercenary and Nyka’s lover; Sadogo, a giant; Bunshi, a river spirit; and Sogolon, the Moon Witch, a sorceress who is hunted by the spirits of those she has killed.
The expedition falls apart almost immediately. Nsaka and Nyka leave the group early. The remaining group members survive a trip through the Darklands, a forest where time flows abnormally. They reunite in the city of Kongor. Tracker and a city prefect named Mossi learn that the boy is the son of Lissisolo, King Kwash Dara’s sister, and thus the true heir to the throne. The boy’s captors are using the nineteen doors, magical portals, to traverse the North Kingdom. Kwash Dara and his necromancer the Aesi want to kill the child to protect their claim to the throne.
Tracker, Mossi, Sogolon, Sadogo, and Venin (a young girl rescued by Sogolon) travel to the city of Dolingo to intercept the boy and his captors. Sogolon betrays the three men by selling them into slavery. Amidst a slave rebellion, the group loses track of the boy. The boy reaches one of the nineteen doors and returns to Kongor. Venin, possessed by one of the spirits hunting Sogolon, drags her through the portal and seemingly kills her. The group returns to Kongor. Along the way, Tracker and Mossi begin a sexual relationship. They reunite with Leopard and Fumeli. Nsaka and Nyka are also in the city; Nyka has been drained by the Ipundulu. The group rescues the boy and kills the Ipundulu, but Sasabonsam escapes. Lissisolo is taken hostage by the Aesi. Bunshi, Sadogo, and the Aesi are killed. Lissisolo takes her son to the Mweru wilderness. Mossi and Tracker return for the mingi children; they raise them together in the city of Mitu.
Five years later, Sasabonsam has again captured the boy, although Tracker suspects that the boy went with the monster willingly. Sasabonsam and the boy attack the home in Mitu while Tracker is away, killing Mossi and the mingi children. Tracker finds Nyka, who has killed Nsaka and become an Ipundulu himself. The boy is now addicted to vampire blood, so Tracker plans to use Nyka to draw him out of hiding. They work with the Aesi, who has somehow survived the previous fight. Eventually, they kill Sasabonsam. They find the boy waiting with Leopard and Sogolon. Leopard tries to kill the boy, but Sogolon kills Leopard first. Nyka kills both himself and the boy with lightning. Tracker wanders to the Southern Kingdom, where he is arrested. He ends his tale by asking if his testimony matches Sogolon’s.
Scott Carlin is a 24-year-old high school dropout, living with his mother Margie and his sister Claire on Staten Island. His firefighter father Stan died fighting a fire when he was seven, a loss that continues to affect him; he also deals with numerous medical problems, including Crohn's disease and ADD, and smokes marijuana constantly. Unemployed, he spends his days hanging out with his friends, including Kelsey, whom he is sleeping with. She wants the relationship to be more serious, but Scott fears commitment and that he is not good enough for her. Claire, who is leaving for college, is concerned his neuroses may grow out of control with her gone.
Scott dreams of being a tattoo artist and practices regularly on his friends, although his work is extremely inconsistent. One day, while hanging out with them on the beach, he is approached by 9-year-old Harold. He asks Scott to give him a tattoo, but runs off after getting a single line. Later, the boy's father Ray shows up at his house.
Initially furious, as Ray is attracted to Margie he eventually asks her on a date. She has not dated since Stan's death, so agrees. As things get more serious, Margie reveals their relationship to Scott, who is disturbed that he, like Stan, is a firefighter. Ray takes Scott to a Staten Island Yankees game with his co-workers but finds it difficult to talk to Scott, who argues that firefighters should not have families because of the pain that is caused by their deaths.
Margie and Ray give Scott an ultimatum to move out, which upsets him. While visiting Claire, Scott tells her he plans to break up his mom and Ray, as the relationship is 'unhealthy'. He gets a job as a busboy, begins walking Harold and his sister Kelly to school each day, growing close with them. Meanwhile, Scott's friends plan to rob a pharmacy for oxycodone pills to sell. He's uncomfortable with the plan but agrees to be the lookout. The robbery goes awry when the pharmacist and his wife confront them. Oscar is shot and they are both arrested, but Scott flees.
Scott talks with Ray's ex-wife Gina, who tells him several negative things about Ray, painting him as a homeless gambling addict. He relays this to Margie, only to end up in a physical confrontation with Ray when he hears what Scott told her. A furious Margie kicks both men out.
With his friends in jail, Scott struggles to find a place to stay. He hopes that Kelsey will let him stay with her after they sleep together, but she is indignant when she recognizes his ulterior motives and refuses. Desperate, Scott goes to Ray's firehouse, and may stay in return for doing odd jobs. He gradually bonds with Ray and the other firefighters, who tell him stories about his father, humanizing him and helping Scott accept his death. Ray learns from Harold that Scott is a talented artist, and agrees to let him tattoo his back as practice, but within certain limits.
One day, a man shows up at the firehouse with an abdominal wound while Scott is there alone. He takes him to the hospital, where Ray arrives, using his firefighter connections to get the man the help he needs. Margie, who works as an emergency room nurse, sees Scott and Ray and reconciles with them both. Ray shows Margie his tattoos; a number of them are offensive or violate Ray's criteria, but the most prominent is one of Margie, Ray, Scott, and Claire together. Scott surprises Kelsey at the Staten Island Ferry, where she is heading into Manhattan to take a civil service exam. He rides on the ferry with her, where he confesses his love for her, and they kiss. Kelsey heads into the exam, asking him to wait for her.
Among schoolchildren there is a legend about the so-called lost place, according to which everyone who buys a movie ticket to this place is waiting for death. None of the guys believe in it, but a series of brutal murders makes young people think, as a result of which they begin their own investigation.
The novel begins when Sandor Hunyadi is twelve years old. He lives with his family on Henry Avenue in Winnipeg’s North End, a community that is primarily occupied by immigrant families. His parents immigrated to Canada from Hungary, but he is ashamed of and embarrassed by his Hungarian heritage. Sandor blames his family’s poverty on his father, Joseph Hunyadi, because he views him as too generous and idealistic. Herr Hunyadi allows a man named Mr. Laszlo to stay in their home as a boarder and eat their food at no cost, which frustrates Sandor since their family is so poor themselves. He admires Mr. Nagy, a North End businessman, as Sandor sees him as a man who is successful despite his Hungarian background, and he aspires to be like him.
Sandor often fights with the English kids at school, who he refers to as the English Gang. They make fun of him for his poverty and Hungarian heritage. Despite this, he is still envious of them, as he thinks of them as “real Canadians”. He refers to his own group of friends as the Gang, and it consists of young boys named Hank, Louis, Olaf, Willi, Buggsy, Frenchy, and Stan. Most of the boys come from families who immigrated from different parts of Europe, but they are all relatively poor and live on Henry Avenue. They protect each other against the English Gang. When Sandor helps Louis rob a local grocer, he decides to leave the gang by refusing to take stolen money from Louis.
After leaving the Gang, Sandor seeks out Mr. Crawford, the Sunday School superintendent, to help him find a job. He gets a job on the other side of town mowing lawns for rich English ladies, masquerading as Alex Humphrey to make himself seem English. He becomes friends with a boy named Eric Hamilton, the son of one of the women whose lawns he takes care of. Their friendship ends in the winter of that year, when Eric and Mrs. Hamilton run into Sandor looking for an overcoat and shoes at the church’s charity; his true identity is exposed.
That winter, Sandor’s uncle, who he calls Onkel Janos, comes from Europe to live with him and his family. After a few months, Sandor learns that his uncle has been seeing a woman named Fraulein Kleinholtz. Sandor does not approve of his uncle’s choice, as Fraulein Kleiholtz is old and detestable. Onkel Janos intends to marry her because she is rich, and he is ashamed of depending on his sister, Sandor’s mother, to keep a roof over his head. After learning this, Sandor reads a book about a boy who becomes a successful businessman by being honest and working hard, and he plans to seek out Mr. Nagy when the time is right to become just like him.
Part 2 begins with Sandor at age 24. He works as assistant manager for Mr. Nagy and has worked for the man for ten years. Sandor has rejected his Hungarian name and goes by Alex Hunter, an anglicized variation of his name. Nagy is sick, and Alex has been managing most of the real-estate business. Alex has been under the impression that he will take over the business when Nagy retires, but his plans are ruined when Nagy says that he plans to sell the business instead.
After getting the news about Nagy’s plans, Alex goes home to discover that Onkel Janos is drunk at a bar called Nick’s and needs his help to get home. Janos is depressed and has become an alcoholic because of his unhappy marriage to Fraulein Klienholtz. Alex helps his uncle get home and plans to start looking for a job with a new company the next day.
Alex is turned away from his interview as soon as the man interviewing him discovers that he is Hungarian and not English. He returns to Nagy and discovers that Mrs. Kostanuik has called asking for him. Mr. Kostanuik works as a contractor for Mr. Nagy and must answer to Alex. Alex is wary of Kostanuik because he was thrown out of the Kostanuik household during the young Mary Kostanuik’s birthday when he was a child, and he holds a grudge against them. However, the Kostanuiks are in financial trouble because of Nagy’s plans to sell the business. Mrs. Kostanuik hears that Alex has convinced his rich aunt, Fraulein Kleinholtz, to buy the business from Nagy for him and is seeking his help.
Reluctantly, Alex agrees to keep Kostanuik as a contractor when he takes over the business, and he is invited to their house to celebrate Kostanuik’s continued employment when Alex assigns him his first project. At the Kostanuik’s, Alex reconnects with his childhood friend, Mary, and the two begin seeing each other.
Eventually, Alex and Mary get married move into a house of their own. However, their plans begin to crumble when Alex starts having trouble with his business as the stock market threatens to crash. With the beginning of the Great Depression, Alex goes bankrupt and begins to rely on his family more. He starts to appreciate the relationship he has with them, and acknowledges his Hungarian heritage.
A few months after the events of the main game, the Maggia crime families are looking to fill the void in the criminal underworld left by Wilson Fisk's capture and Martin Li's defeat. While trying to stop one of the families from stealing a painting on display at the Manhattan Museum of Contemporary Art, Spider-Man encounters Felicia, who damages the painting and steals a USB drive hidden within the frame before escaping. Mary Jane later informs him that Hammerhead's family is in possession of the drive, implying Felicia is working for them. Spider-Man pursues Felicia as she steals more drives, ultimately catching her, at which point she reveals that Hammerhead is holding her son hostage. Believing himself to be the father, Spider-Man agrees to help rescue the boy.
Meanwhile, Mary Jane learns that the drives contain the Maggia families' collective fortune and that Hammerhead has recently purchased a large impregnable vault that could be used to hold Felicia's son. Spider-Man and Felicia storm the warehouse where the vault is kept, but the latter betrays and locks Spider-Man inside, revealing that she lied about having a son to persuade him into helping her break into the vault, which contains the final drive: Hammerhead's. As Spider-Man escapes, he overhears Hammerhead ordering his goons to kill Felicia for her betrayal. He attempts to warn her, but arrives too late and watches as she is seemingly killed when explosives planted in her penthouse detonate. Later, Peter tells Mary Jane that Felicia's body wasn't found among the wreckage, implying she survived and that he is relieved to not be a father, though Mary Jane reassures him that he would make a great one someday, at the right time and with the right person.
Shortly after a full-blown gang war between the Maggia families erupts, Spider-Man assists Yuri Watanabe and her police task force in a raid against Hammerhead, though it turns out to be a trap, leaving only Spider-Man and Yuri alive. The loss of her men under her watch leaves Yuri emotionally compromised, and Spider-Man asks her to take a leave of absence to grieve and recover, promising to apprehend Hammerhead on his own. Spider-Man learns that Hammerhead and his gang have been stealing Sable International's equipment and weapons to gain an advantage in the gang war. After abducting the other Maggia Dons, Hammerhead's forces attack police convoys across the city. While Spider-Man is dealing with them, Hammerhead attacks the police precinct which is holding Sable International's "Project Olympus", killing numerous police officers in the process. Frustrated by her men's deaths and Spider-Man's lack of progress, Yuri decides to go after Hammerhead and kills many Maggia henchmen.
Later, Hammerhead, powered by the Project Olympus armor, decides to execute the Maggia dons on live television to achieve his goal of terrorizing New York City into submission. Spider-Man foils Hammerhead's plan and defeats him, but before the police can apprehend him, a vengeful Yuri arrives and tries to shoot Hammerhead dead, missing and hitting him in the head only because of Spider-Man's interference. Later, while Hammerhead's body is being taken away, one of his henchmen infiltrates the ambulance and kills the police officer in it, and resuscitates Hammerhead, more powerful than ever.
Following her dismissal from the police force, Yuri has become a ruthless vigilante, tracking down and executing numerous Maggia gangsters. Meanwhile, with Sable International's advanced equipment and weaponry, Hammerhead's gang rules over the city. Learning of this, an enraged Silver Sablinova returns to take revenge on Hammerhead for stealing her supplies, which she needs for a civil war in her home country of Symkaria. Worried that Sablinova's violent methods would result in more chaos, Spider-Man tries to convince her to work together. Hammerhead, who has now upgraded himself into an advanced cyborg exoskeleton, leads Spider-Man and Sablinova into a trap and overpowers them. Felicia, who has faked her death, arrives to save Spider-Man, though Sablinova is captured by Hammerhead. Apologizing for her actions, Felicia gives Spider-Man a USB containing information on Hammerhead's weaknesses before disappearing again.
Spider-Man rescues Sablinova and they learn that the carbon steel plate inside Hammerhead's head is sensitive to heat. Sablinova takes Spider-Man to her stealth carrier on the Hudson River and they prepare a trap for Hammerhead, outfitting Sablinova's VTOL fighter jet with a heated laser array just before Hammerhead attacks them. While Spider-Man holds Hammerhead in place, Sablinova blasts his metal plate, weakening him, and crashes her jet into him. With Hammerhead subdued, Sablinova reclaims her supplies and returns to Symkaria, telling Spider-Man he inspired her to be more heroic. Meanwhile, Mary Jane also leaves for Symkaria to write a story on the war there and raise awareness, and Peter begins to train Miles on how to use his newly acquired spider-powers, preparing him to become the next Spider-Man.
''Hello Lonesome'' follows three different story lines that show the difficulties of making and maintaining human bonds.
The first story line is of Bill (played by Harry Chase), who lives alone in an apartment and is attempting to connect with his estranged daughter. The second is of Eleanor (played by Lynn Cohen), a widow who befriends Gary (played by James Urbaniak) after she loses her driver's license and needs to him to drive her places. The third is of Gordon (played by Nate Smith), who begins a relationship with Debbie (played by Sabrina Lloyd) after meeting through an online dating service.
''Most Wanted, Volume 1'' is a collection of 30 villains for the ''Villains & Vigilantes'' game.
A group of 15-year-old boys from the neighbourhood Rione Sanità in Naples, dreaming to gain power and easy money, make their way on to the city's world of crime. In the unconsciousness of their age, they live between good and evil deeds, thinking that crime can be their only chance of life.
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality.
The nine-year-old Bernadette, known as “Benni”, is considered aggressive and wayward. If anyone but her mother touches her face, she lashes out – a consequence of a childhood trauma in which, according to the social worker, nappies were pressed into her face; this prompts other children to provoke her and set off an outburst of rage. She has been repeatedly suspended from her special school and no foster family or residential group can tolerate her for long. As a so-called “system crasher” she seems likely to fall through the framework of the German support system for children and youths. Benni just yearns to live with her mother again. However, it is also too much for Bianca, who is afraid of her own daughter.[https://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.html?film_id=201913679 Profil] at berlinale.de (retrieved 31 January 2019). She is also mother to two more young children and is living with the abusive Jens, from whom she is unable to part. In one scene Benni runs away and hitch-hikes home to find her small siblings alone, unsupervised and watching horror films. Showing she can be caring, she switches over to a children’s channel against the wishes of her brother and prepares some food. When her mother returns with her current partner, whom she has for some time wanted to leave, Benni is at first overjoyed to see her but then explodes and with a vase attacks first Jens and then her mother who calls the police. Jens strikes Benni and shuts her in a wardrobe until the officers arrive.
In another effort, the dedicated Frau Bafané from youth services hires an anger-management trainer for Benni. Michael Heller, a boxing fan who has worked with male delinquents, is engaged to accompany her to school. After further violent outbursts, at his own suggestion, he takes her away to a lodge in the woods where he has previously taken the young offenders. This may be stretching “outdoor education”, but Benni goes along with him and he is able to engage with her. Benni sees him as a father figure, at one point even calling him “Papa”, which Micha will not allow, lest he lose his professional distance.
At the end of the visit, Benni clings to Micha and wants to stay with him. Micha, however, has his own family and would like to give up the case, but Frau Bafané persuades him to continue, as there are so few people on Benni’s side.
Benni’s mother tells her and the social workers that she has left her belligerent partner for good and will take Benni back home, but when she arrives at one of the few case meetings she actually attends, she goes back on her word and then just runs away from the meeting. Frau Bafané breaks down in tears as she has to tell Benni of yet another disappointment, and now the child comforts the adult. Placement with a previous foster mother also fails when Benni seriously injures a foster child already there in a fit of rage.
As a short-term measure, Benni is returned to the emergency accommodation where she had previously been. There are no specialist boarding schools for children as young as Benni and a stay abroad in Kenya is suggested as a last resort. Benni flees to Micha and his family, who are prepared to let her stay for one night. In the morning, while the parents are still sleeping, Benni goes into their bedroom and lifts the baby from his cot, takes him downstairs and carefully gives him breakfast. When the baby unwittingly touches Benni’s face, she makes no objection. On waking and coming to the kitchen, Elli, the baby’s mother, tries to take him back and Benni becomes aggressive. She refuses to let the baby go and locks herself in the bathroom. Micha breaks the door open, but Benni has fled through the window, leaving the baby unharmed. She runs in her socks and nightclothes into the nearby wood, where she collapses into confused dreams. Hours later she is found hypothermic and taken to hospital.
She is to be sent to Kenya, but at the airport she runs out of security. The last shot of the film is of Benni as she leaps into the air, smiling. The frame freezes and then cracks like broken glass.
A young woman travels to the house of Marcela in Chubut Province, Argentina. After a meal, Marcela begins to tell her story from 27 years ago.
The year was 1898. Marcela attended a Catholic school in A Coruña, where she met Elisa, an older student. The two formed a quick friendship.
The two girls spent a day frolicking on the beach, where Elisa said it was the happiest day in her life. Marcela's traditional father became increasingly suspicious of the two girls' relationships, and sent Marcela off to boarding school, in Madrid. The distance didn't stop their relationship and they wrote letters during their time apart.
Three years later both of them were teachers at Cuoso, Galicia, where they began living together. The villagers however became suspicious and attacked Elisa.
They devised an escape plan. Elisa left for a few days, and returned dressed as a man, taking the identity of her deceased cousin Mario. In the meantime, Marcela got herself impregnated by local woodcutter Andrés.
Marcela and "Mario" were married by the local priest. The villagers became increasingly violent and a mob attacked their house.
They escaped to Portugal where they worked odd jobs for a fare to Argentina. They were arrested and Marcela gave birth to a girl, Ana. The Spanish authorities wanted to extradite them, where they would face 10–20 years in jail. The governor didn't want to do that and ordered the warden to let them go. Marcela didn't want Ana to grow up facing discrimination for having gay parents, so she left Ana in the care of the warden and his wife.
Back to the present in Argentina, the young woman we now know as Ana, asked Marcela was it worth it. Marcela didn't answer, instead she went to greet Elisa who just returned home.
A postscript notes same-sex marriage was legalized in Spain in 2005.
This is the story of a monkey mother, Mo, and her three-year-old boy, Tee. Each episode is a story of how they navigate their daily life around the jungle tree. The stories are narrated by radio broadcaster Lauren Laverne in the UK and Caroly Larson in Canada.
A group of teenage girls from different backgrounds—Fatin Jadmani, Dot Campbell, Martha Blackburn, Rachel Reid, Shelby Goodkind, Nora Reid, Toni Shalifoe, and Leah Rilke—are on an airplane when it crashes into the ocean while en route to Hawaii for the Dawn of Eve program, a young women's empowerment retreat. They survive the crash and find themselves stranded on a deserted island. As the girls work to survive as castaways and learn about each other, they are unaware that they are subjects of a social experiment; the plane crash was staged and their stranding orchestrated by Gretchen Klein, the head of the Dawn of Eve program. The girls' adventures on the island are intercut with flashback scenes about their lives before the crash, and flashforward scenes to an underground bunker where two men claiming to be FBI agents, Daniel Faber and Dean Young, interview the survivors after their supposed rescue.
The second season introduces a group of teenage boys-Kirin O’Conner, Rafael Garcia, Josh Herbert, Seth Novak, Ivan Taylor, Henry Tanaka, Bo Leonard and Scotty Simms- who find themselves in Klein’s second orchestrated crash as part of the Twilight of Adam program. Flashing between their past, lives on the island and questioning by Faber and Young, the boys’ stories come to light while the girls (still being held in the bunker) begin to discover the truth behind their situation and attempt to reach the boys.
Keef Knight, creator of ''Toast & Butter'', is a black cartoonist on the verge of mainstream success. He prides himself on 'keeping it light' and shies away from taking controversial stances. After being racially profiled by overly aggressive policemen, the traumatized Keef finds that he's able to see and hear inanimate objects talking to him. Now more sensitive to racism, and the everyday microaggressions he'd tried so hard to avoid acknowledging in every situation, Keef must figure out how to maintain his relationships and a career as a 'woke' black man.
The show is live action with animated elements.
Sergei and Diana Dobrolyubov have long dreamt of having a child, but Diana simply isn't getting pregnant. Sergei, who works as a TV presenter at the Muz-TV channel, makes a wish to a falling star (“I want a child”), and his wish is fulfilled, but with a catch: instead of his wife, he, himself, becomes pregnant. Sergei's friend, Zhora, convinces him that pregnancy is not a reason to hide, but instead is an opportunity to gain fame and money. The show "The Pregnant" becomes the most popular television project, and its main character - Sergei Dobrolyubov - a star. He soon gets accosted by the media causing a lots of drama between himself and Diana. A gay couple continuously pester him on his "secret" for getting pregnant, and a sinister prosecutor believes he is a phony. In the end, in order to give birth to his child in peace, Sergei decides to inform his fans that he falsified the pregnancy. Shortly afterwards, he goes into labor and gives birth to a baby boy. A couple of years later, Sergei and Diana are happy parents when Diana decides to also make a wish on a star, but with a new catch: both Diana and Sergei are pregnant together.
Boy is an orphan who works as a goatherd on the estate of Sir Jacques. He encounters the pilgrim Secundus in the fields and guides him to the manor, where Secundus convinces the Cook to lend him Boy as his servant on his pilgrimage to the nearest large town, Saint-Peter's-Step. As they leave for their journey, Secundus ties a mysterious bundle to Boy's hunchback and threatens him with death if he should peek inside or run away with it. During their first night together, Secundus reveals his quest to Boy; he is seeking seven relics from the body of Saint Peter: "Rib tooth thumb shin dust skull tomb". Based on that list, their journey will end in Rome, at the Mother of All the Churches.
The story is set in the holy year of 1350, while the Black Death was sweeping through Europe; before the novel begins, the wife and three children of Sir Jacques have succumbed to the plague. As an orphan and deformed with a hunchback, Boy has been bullied all his life and has a deep sense of shame over his otherness, although he is able to take comfort in his strange rapport with animals.
A young political refugee flees to Winnipeg to escape Russian enemies, where his resolve is tested in the snow-capped mountains, his violin his only company. Eventually, he is rewarded for toughing it out.
The film recounts the struggle of Cioma Schönhaus, Hanni Lévy, Eugen Friede and Ruth Arndt-Gumpel to survive their persecution as Jews in Berlin from 1942 to 1945. Their individual situations are re-enacted, and in interspersed interviews, they recollect and comment on their experiences. Their survival is attributed to resilience, luck, and help from others. Their saviours come from different walks of life, including ordinary German citizens, communists, Christians, and people working within the Nazi hierarchy. The helpers put themselves at great risk should their activities be known to the Gestapo, who work with a network of spies and informants.
Cioma Schönhaus, aged 20, is spared from being sent to Auschwitz by pretending to be an employee at a munitions factory. Unfortunately, his parents are sent there and are killed soon after. Cioma pretends to be a German soldier in need of temporary lodging, as assigned by the accommodation office, and he moves from apartment to apartment. Some of the homeowners suspect or are aware of his Jewish heritage, but let him stay nonetheless.
With his education and experience in graphic design, Cioma finds work falsifying passports and other documents for Franz Kaufmann, a lawyer, who is helping people to escape the country. He works alongside Werner Scharff, who is soon caught by the Gestapo and sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto, a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto.
Cioma is spotted by a former classmate, Stella Goldschlag, who unbeknownst to him is a Jewish informant. He expresses his long-time infatuation with her and invites her to his hideout. Stella decides not to denounce him and bids him farewell, which the older Cioma believes was an act of love and mercy.
One day, Cioma accidentally leaves his bag on the train. His wallet and the passport photos of other Jews were stored within. A warrant is soon sent out for his arrest and he hides in the home of Helene Jacobs. He lives peacefully with her for some time, until she is betrayed by a friend and arrested. With nowhere else to stay, Cioma takes his forged military pass and impulsively cycles all the way from Berlin to Switzerland, hoping to cross the border.
Hanni Lévy, aged 17, is taken in by a family after her mother's death. She works in a factory, sewing parachutes for the Wehrmacht, despite having a badly injured finger. The family protecting her are soon found out and arrested. Hanni sneaks out of the apartment and is taken in by a Christian friend of her mother's.
To blend into German society, Hanni dyes her hair blond and renames herself "Hannelore Winkler". During the day, she walks around in public where there are large crowds, learning to "look and move like everyone else"; her outward confidence helps her to hide in plain sight. Hanni's helpers also provide her with medical treatments for her finger and money for future trips to the hairdresser.
Hanni becomes homeless when her helpers are informed on and arrested. She sleeps in public bathrooms and on park benches, enduring fatigue and loneliness. She also frequently attends the cinema; her repeated visits are soon noticed by a young man and his mother, who are employed there. The young man, Oskar Kolzer, asks Hanni to visit his mother, Viktoria, as he has been recently drafted into the army; his father is now elderly and he fears that his mother will be left alone. Hanni agrees.
After Oskar leaves for war, Hanni properly introduces herself to Viktoria; she reveals her Jewish heritage and asks for a place to stay. Viktoria immediately takes her in, as does her husband, Jean. The two women form a close mother-daughter relationship and Hanni is finally able to sleep safely. Jean passes away during her stay.
When the war is over, Hanni and Viktoria are terrorised in their home by a Russian soldier. Due to her disguise, Hanni is unable to convince the soldier that she is Jewish and he threatens to return that night. Not wanting to wait for the Russian troops, the two women pack their suitcases and flee.
Eugen Friede, aged 16, lives with his Jewish mother and non-Jewish stepfather. The boy is forced to wear the yellow badge in public, while his mother and stepfather are exempt due to their secular marriage. Eugen is often harassed by German officers on his commute to and from work, though occasionally, strangers secretly show their support for him by sneaking cigarettes into his pocket.
Fearing for the boy's safety, Eugen's mother and stepfather send him to live with family friends, who are communists. The friends soon voice their dislike of Eugen and their fears of being caught, so they send him away to another communist family after two weeks. He is taken in by the Horn family, who treat him well. Eugen also develops an attraction to their teenaged daughter. He remains with the Horns for some time.
One day, Mrs Horn accidentally reveals to the local butcher that she is harbouring a Jew. With the home no longer being a safe hiding place, they send Eugen to live with Hans Winkler and his family. He befriends their teenaged son, Horst, and the Winklers allow the boy to wear Horst's Hitler Youth uniform whenever he needs to leave the apartment. The parents also pretend to their eleven-year-old daughter, Ruth, that Eugen is her cousin. Later, the girl questions their relation and demands to know who he is. After some time, Mrs Winkler decides to tell her daughter the truth, despite the risk that Ruth may betray her family. Thankfully, Ruth agrees to keep Eugen safe.
Some time later, the Winklers take in Werner Scharff and his girlfriend, Fancia Grün, both of whom escaped from Theresienstadt. Through Werner's recount of his survival, Eugen learns for the first time about "what they were doing to Jews" in the concentration camps. Horrified and incensed, Eugen joins Werner and the Winklers in their newfound resistance group, ''Community for Peace and Development''. They produce leaflets that denounce the Nazi Party and state that Germany is losing the war; the leaflets are distributed into mailboxes throughout the city.
Next, Eugen stays with his parents in an attic room that Hans has found for them. Unfortunately, Hans and Werner are betrayed and arrested, and the Gestapo soon arrive to arrest the Friede family. Eugen is held in a deportation centre, awaiting a trial meant to incriminate the Winklers. Eugen's mother is sent to Theresienstadt and his stepfather commits suicide on the night of their arrest.
Eugen is later put in a dungeon along with other imprisoned Jews, spending a long, uncertain amount of time there. One day, without explanation, a German officer enters and allows him to leave. Once he steps outside, Eugen discovers that it is the 23rd of April, 1945—his 19th birthday. He hides for another couple of days until the Russian army arrives.
Ruth Arndt, aged 20, and her brother, Jochen, convince their parents to join them in hiding. They are aided by the Gehre family, who are indebted to Ruth's father, a doctor who had saved their daughter's life. The Arndt family are initially hidden in separate residences, and soon reunite at the home of another former patient, who is also hiding Jochen's girlfriend, Ellen, and another man named Bruno Gumpel, who Ruth becomes close to. Their hiding spot is later compromised when an employee from the Office for Bomb Damage enters the home to check the apartment's size, acting on an order that citizens with large residences must take in people whose homes had been destroyed by the war. The Arndt family are separated again, with Bruno now missing.
Ruth and Ellen are placed together in another home. Bored with being confined, they dress like war widows and attend the cinema. The women are noticed for their attire, but are never questioned by the public. On their way back from the cinema, Ellen is recognised by Stella, who had been a former colleague. The two women flee back to their hiding place as Ellen explains to Ruth that Stella had been blackmailed into becoming an informant; the Gestapo had promised not to deport her family in exchange for her exposing underground Jews. Unfortunately, they later break this promise and Stella's family are killed in Theresienstadt.
Later, Ruth and Ellen find jobs as live-in maids in the household of a senior Nazi officer. He is aware of their heritage and protects them, even providing them with ample food. By June 1943, Berlin is declared to be "free of Jews". The women use this information to their advantage whenever people question their appearance.
In February 1944, a bombing raid begins in Berlin. Ruth abruptly leaves her job to join her family, who are hiding in a factory. They are overjoyed when Bruno suddenly returns, having been aided by the Gehres.
As the bombings continue through to 1945, the women in the family stay in a bomb shelter with other female evacuees; the men hide in the nearby coal cellar. When it is Ruth's turn to go outside to collect water, she notices the arrival of Russian soldiers and excitedly runs back to tell everyone that the war is over. Jochen and Bruno later step outside of the coal cellar and are spotted by two vengeful Russian soldiers, who assume that they are ethnic Germans. The men protest that they are Jews, but they are not believed. One of the Russian soldiers command them to recite Shema Yisrael if they truly are Jewish, threatening to execute them if they fail. Jochen and Bruno recite the prayer perfectly, stunning the soldier. He lowers his gun and tearfully embraces the survivors, revealing that he is also Jewish. He is relieved that Hitler had not succeeded in killing all German Jews.
The epilogue states that of the 7,000 Jews hidden in Berlin, 1,500 survived. Many who helped the survivors were named the Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, an honour for those who risked their lives to save Jews. Those honoured as the "Righteous" include Anni and Max Gehre, Max and Clara Köhler, Hans and Frida Winkler, Elfriede and Grete Most, Viktoria Kolzer and Helene Jacobs.
Cioma Schönhaus successfully crossed the Swiss border by bicycle. He had four children and remained in Switzerland until his death in September 2015. Hanni Lévy was identified by a relative who brought her to Paris in 1946, where she lived until her death in 2019. She had become a great-grandmother of a large family. Eugen Friede survived the war and emigrated to Canada, but later returned to Germany. He lives happily in the north-west of Frankfurt as a great-grandfather. Ruth married Bruno Gumpel in September 1945 and emigrated to the United States. They had two children and five grandchildren before her passing in San Francisco in 2012.
Aleksandr Rubenstein (Sanya), nicknamed the Transformer, has the talent of impersonating various people. He uses this skill for criminal purposes. After another successful case, Sanya is forced to hide from his pursuers in his uncle's nursing home, posing as a grandmother. There he meets a girl, Lyuba, and falls in love, but a grandfather from the nursing home unexpectedly falls in love with him.
Liza and her son Jude survive a home invasion by two masked men, but are left traumatized by the event. Liza is plagued by nightmares while Jude develops mutism, and is left communicating through a notepad. Liza's husband, Sean, suggests they relocate to the countryside to recuperate. The family move to a manor, unaware of its dark history.
Arriving at the manor house, they explore the property and Jude finds a porcelain doll buried in the ground. Liza and Sean explore a nearby mansion. Realizing that Jude is missing, Liza searches for him and finds him in possession of the doll. Encouraged by Jude's connection to it, Liza cleans-off "Brahms," making the doll look new.
The next day, Liza and Jude take a walk around the property at Jude's request. They meet Joseph, the property caretaker, and his dog. Tensions fray when Sean urges Liza to talk about the events of the burglary, and she will not.
Back in the house, Liza and Sean overhear Jude talking in his room. They ask if he is talking to Brahms and Jude writes 'yes' in his notepad. Weird events occur around the house, and Sean and Liza discuss a change in Jude's behaviour with their therapist.
Joseph talks to Jude about his dog being missing, but no one appears to have seen the dog. Liza finds disturbing pictures, and assumes they have been drawn by Jude. Later that evening, the family has dinner and Jude writes in his notepad that Brahms' plate is missing. Liza, upset about earlier, says that Brahms does not eat because he is a doll. She and Sean argue in the kitchen and Sean leaves the room. She goes to sit with Jude at the table and tells him that he needs to stay at the table until he eats. He writes on his notepad that she is making Brahms mad. She leaves the dining room and hears a loud noise. She and Sean run into the room, finding the dining room table and chairs overturned. Jude, scared, wrote that he told Liza not to make Brahms mad. Arguing about Brahms and Jude, Sean and Liza disagree about the mysterious things that are happening.
Jude leaves for the nearby mansion with Brahms in hand, leaving a note that reads 'You should have followed the rules'. Joseph finds Sean and Liza in the mansion and tells them briefly about a family that had lived there prior. He says that a boy named Brahms had lived there; he had killed two people, and did not leave the mansion for 30 years.
Shortly after, Sean's brother and his family come to visit. Will, Jude's cousin, gets mysteriously injured during the visit. Liza becomes even more upset. Liza later hits Joseph in the head, and she begs to know where Jude is. Joseph tells her that it will be over soon and that "Brahms and Jude are gonna be one". She gets loose and goes to look for Jude in the mansion.
Sean finds Liza and Jude in the basement and hits Brahms with a croquet mallet, revealing a demonic, rotting area under his face. Joseph then starts to get scared and says that "It will never be over" and that Brahms will take out the family's failure to "follow the rules" on him. A furnace then explodes, killing Joseph but leaving the family unharmed. Jude grabs Brahms, and throws him into the fire.
Liza, Sean and Jude are soon back at their home in the city, and everything seems normal. However, when he is left alone in his room, Jude walks over to his dresser and puts on a porcelain mask. He wishes Brahms a good night, and says that everything will be fine if his family follows the rules.
The play takes place in Pastor Henry Donner's office at emerging church in present-day Los Angeles. Between sermons, Henry is visited by Alexandra Riverton, a mysterious, beautiful woman who is full of questions about the church and Henry's life. In a twist involving an old song the two wrote and shared together, it is revealed that Alexandra is Henry's ex-lover from New York City, back before he made the journey West to California to begin anew. This sparks a cat and mouse game in pursuit of what really happened to them all those years ago, and for the truth of what drove them apart on that fateful day of disembarkment.
Middle-aged couple, Eun-joo (Seo Young-hwa) and Heung-joo (Yang Heung-joo), takes a trip to Chuncheon in 30 years. After visiting Cheongpyeong Temple on an island, they are forced to return to the island when Eun-joo realizes she has left her phone behind. They retrace their footsteps and meet a young couple (Lee Sang-hee and Woo Ji-hyun) who reminder them of their younger self. As the night wears on, it soon reveals all is not well between Eun-joo and Heung-joo and their relationship is in crisis.
Minutes after the technical failure of her spacecraft, an astronaut finds herself ejected into space. She tries in vain to call for help. She is slowly running out of air. Little by little, fear grabs hold of her, and she faints. After floating adrift for several hours through the immensity of space, she awakens to find herself facing a strange and mysterious and sentient entity in the form of a nebula.
This novel's main character is Texas Ranger Rory Yates. Anne, the ex-wife of Yates, has been receiving death threats. She asks Yates to return to her home, because she is scared. Before Yates can return someone murders Anne in a brutal fashion. Yates is asked to stay away from the case, but he unofficially searches for the killer. Before Yates can find the murderer, this killer strikes again.
Protagonist Hakan Veil was genetically engineered from childhood to be a "hibernoid", a genetically enhanced and deeply augmented human essentially sold into indentured servitude at conception, when the conditioning and modification processes begin. This process and the extent of their integration is so taxing that those who undergo the treatments must spend four months of every [Earth] year asleep in order for their minds and bodies to cope with the tremendous strains that result. Bred to be a crisis commando, Veil and those like him are referred to as Overriders or "Black Hatch Men", used as a last resort measure to protect the bottom line for companies who can afford to hire them. As an Overrider, Veil is conditioned to view saving human life as a secondary concern in favor of monetary assets and commodities like spaceships or freighters and their cargo. Overriders are so fierce and so violent in the execution of their duties, they've taken on an almost mythical status in society, their exploits elevated to sensationalized "boogey man" stories worthy of being syndicated into a popular program, a tagline for which is repeated throughout the novel: "Don't wake the Overrider", as it is understood just how dangerous they are.
Veil was fired after many years of service and countless missions for a private military contractor, exiled to Mars after the "failure" of his final mission in which he not only refused to kill the daughter of a public figure, but ensured her escape and eventual return to her family. Exploiting loopholes in the decommissioning process, Veil begins his exile to Mars fully intact, retaining nearly all of his military-grade augmentations including his AI combat and analysis system. He works as muscle-for-hire to pay for his four-month hibernation, as his augmented physiology still requires him to go into stasis. Veil dislikes being marooned on Mars, but he knows all the players, and at some point or another, has done work for each of them. He would like more than anything to return to Earth, but the expense of such travel is no longer within his reach; he can barely afford to pay the mortgage on his small living space while also paying the storage fees for the cryopod he needs for his annual hibernation period.
At the novel's opening, Veil has just come out of a hibernation cycle and is "running hot", an idiom for the physical and biological state his body is in upon waking. Overriders are an emergency measure, and as such, need to be at peak performance the moment they are activated so everything from physical strength, metabolism, endorphin production, and even aggressive tendencies are amped up to extremely high levels.
Veil's first course of action after waking is to take care of unfinished business from before he was forced to go into hibernation. A stripper/prostitute client was brutally murdered by her boss for stealing, even after Veil had negotiated for her safety, made reparations, and given her assurances she would be safe. Now, freshly awake, he is anxious to settle things properly with the one responsible; a task he performs savagely and efficiently in the middle of a busy night club in front of witnesses. As a result, he is picked up by local BPD (Bradbury Police Department) law enforcement for questioning.
While in holding, Veil sees a news story saying that United Nations officials have sent investigators to Mars to look into irregularities in a local lottery system. The story makes it clear that these visits are not only unwelcome by Mars, but thoroughly disruptive for everyone on the planet regardless of which side of the law they choose to operate, due to the scrutiny. It is revealed the Veil has a loose contract with a newer branch of the Chinese triads, which is trying to establish a foothold in the area, taking over new territory and fending off attacks with Veil's assistance.
Veil, already in trouble, agrees to work with the auditors in exchange for his release, as local law enforcement does not want to spend its time "babysitting" someone from Earth who only seems to make life on Mars more difficult. His only point of contact is police captain Nikki Chakana. Veil is informed of an audit from the Colonial Oversight Initiative (COLIN for short), and Chakana is tasked with escorting a diplomat from Earth named Madison Madekwe. Too worried about the local crime and "real" issues to care about a diplomatic problem with a distant, loathed oversight body, Chakana agrees to let Veil go as long as he acts as Madekwe's bodyguard during her stay.
Veil meets Madekwe as she arrives on Mars and while the two chat, Madekwe reveals she is actually there investigating lottery fraud. The planetary lottery is a key element in the story. Life on Mars is hard, and many turn to crime to get the money for a trip back to Earth ("A Ticket Home", in the book). The lottery is a legitimate way to send people back to Earth, set up by COLIN mostly to keep the population hopeful. Madekwe reveals a lottery winner named Pablo Torres (A.K.A. Pavel Torres) has gone missing, and COLIN is worried about fraud being connected to the lottery by his killer. Veil starts the Torres investigation by contacting a few friends, including a hacker known as The Goat God, and discovers Torres is either dead or thoroughly "unpersoned" by another power he might have upset, though the only concrete lead he can acquire is the name of Torres' girlfriend, Nina Uchimara. After Veil questions Uchimara over a pipe of highly potent THC-laced narcotics, she makes it clear she is attracted to dangerous men, and they have sex. In the hazy afterglow and coming down from the drugs, Uchimara gets angry at Veil and kicks him out when he continues to press her with questions about Torres and activities he may have been involved in that could have led to his death. Veil returns to his fortified home. During the night he is assaulted by a team with military-grade equipment that would not be available to street-level gangs on Mars. Veil survives the assault easily as the assailants were unprepared for an encounter with an Overrider still "running hot" and looking for a good fight. Veil meets Chakana's response team afterwards and learns that Madekwe was abducted in the early morning from a travel terminal by a team like the one that attacked him.
Veil does the legwork on Madekwe's abduction. Captured footage shows a team that must be military- or corporate-trained. The Goat God can only tell Veil so much about the footage he has already acquired and dissected himself, although he explains that the team was using shock and terror tactics to mask their clean extraction job. During Veil's investigation, he meets with another old friend who is retired now, and married to one of the colony overseers under the main colony director, Mulholland. It is apparent to both of them that Mulholland is corrupt. While Veil is initially suspicious, he comes to the conclusion his retired friend cannot do much to hurt him. After chasing a few leads, he is attacked by a corporate clean-up squad out in Gingrich Field; they are sloppy and one of them is killed by her own team's incompetence. When he begins running out of leads, The Goat God reaches him with a name: Hidalgo.
The Goat God explains to Veil the rough history of Hidalgo as a big-shot gangster back on Earth who has been making a name for himself on Mars by outsmarting law enforcement and encroaching on the territories of rival gangs. He is the strongest suspect for Madekwe's abduction as his activities are related to the irregularities she was sent to investigate. As Veil goes to track him down, he is captured by Allauca, the wife of his retired friend, and some of her henchmen. She tells him Torres really did die and his death was simply an accident. Veil manages to escape, killing nearly all of his captors including Allauca, only to have the Marshall's service swoop in at the end. The Marshalls recover Veil, offer him aid and a safe place to recover from his injuries. Veil negotiates some upgrades to his internal systems in exchange for the promise of giving them Hidalgo and allowing the Marshall's service to take all the credit. The Marshall's service agrees to this, and to spreading false reports that Veil died at the scene.
Having recovered from his injuries and received his upgraded internal systems, Veil renews the hunt for Hidalgo, who has Madekwe. Veil returns to see Nina Uchimara because during his convalescence he remembers that she had said something that revealed she had a closer connection to Hidalgo than she had intended to let on. Uchimara confirms that she has known Hidalgo for some time. Veil convinces her that what Hidalgo has planned for Mars is in no one's best interest. She agrees to be part of a plan to draw Hidalgo, or at least some of his closer associates, out of hiding.
Veil lets word spread that Nina Uchimara is being targeted by local law enforcement for her connection to Hidalgo, counting on him taking steps to either intervene or silence her before she can talk to the authorities about what she knows. Veil, working with the Marshall's service sets up a sting operation outside the contact's apartment building ready to apprehend whomever Hidalgo sends for her with the hopes of getting even closer to him and his capture. Veil's plan works but also comes with a shock. Hidalgo sent professionals to retrieve and or kill the contact, and one of them turns out to be Madison Madekwe in full tactical gear and armed for an assault. Thinking quickly, Veil rushes in before the Marshalls can be given the order to spring their trap. Veil kills most of the retrieval team with a shotgun, leaving Madekwe the only one standing, shocked and surprised to see him still alive. The two make a quick escape from the sting operation while Veil begins to put pieces together starting with the fact that Madison Madekwe is not a simple COLIN executive sent to Mars to investigate corruption, and more importantly, was not actually kidnapped at all, but rather staged the whole incident as a means of getting in contact with her real objective, Hidalgo.
Veil realizes that Madison Madekwe and Hidalgo are both covert operatives for Navy SOC (special operations command) and were sent to Mars at different times to enact plans that would eventually lead to Earth gaining greater control over Mars, its people, and industry. It turns out that Hidalgo was part of a team sent to Mars 14 (Earth) years prior as part of a failed mission that resulted in him and his team being abandoned by the Navy to distance themselves from the fallout. Hidalgo and a handful of his surviving team used their skills and remaining resources to infiltrate as much of Mars' infrastructure as they could, including the underworld. Hidalgo's only drive during that time was to gather as many resources and intelligence as possible to make the failure of his original mission a possibility once again, to give Earth cause to impose its authority over Mars. Madekwe was sent in covertly by the Navy, under the guise of a COLIN executive to retrieve Hidalgo and what information he had to make an overthrow of Mars possible.
Veil is now at a crossroads. He can turn Madekwe over to COLIN as promised in exchange for a ride back to Earth, hindering Hidalgo's operations on Mars and effectively ending the Navy's attempted coup of the planet's established government. However, Madekwe makes a counter offer. If Veil helps her and Hidalgo complete their mission, the Navy will get Mars, and as a reward, give Veil his passage to Earth instead. He hates life on Mars and wants to go back to Earth, but the idea of the Navy instituting martial law on Mars and effectively sentencing its population into indentured servitude to Earth would make him no better than the people who used him as a disposable commodity during his years as an Overrider.
Veil has a decision to make and not much time to act. He decides that he needs to know who all the players are, and the only one he has not dealt with in person is Hidalgo himself. Veil convinces Madekwe to arrange a meeting between himself and Hidalgo to discuss exactly what plans are in store for Mars. She helps him get in touch with Hidalgo and the pieces begin to fall into place.
Hidalgo reveals that Torres' death was, in fact, an accident: a result of his being high while trying to rob a pharmaceutical office to acquire a set of faulty cosmetics. Mars-manufactured products are sold at a premium on Earth, but these tainted cosmetics were made cheaply on Earth then shipped to Mars for packaging as Mars-based products are sold at a premium markup for their "exotic" nature. Using this evidence as leverage, the Navy could blackmail the planet's government into relinquishing control to them. Exposure would lead to the distrust and eventual collapse of Mars' entire economic structure for producing counterfeit merchandise, losing all independent corporate investment and support.
Veil discovers Hidalgo has been setting the ground for a COLIN military take-over of Mars to put an end to Mulholland's corporate exploitation and corruption of the colony, and the discovery of the product scam was going to be the catalyst. Torres' value to Hidalgo was twofold. Not only did he know where to secure samples of the fake cosmetics that could be used to blackmail Mulholland, Torres and his then-girlfriend had sampled the products themselves and retained some of it in their skin. However, on the night Torres was to help Hidalgo break into the production facility to steal the products, Torres showed up high on the roof of the building and began raving about the evils of corporate greed. During his rant, Torres lost his footing, falling to his death and prompting a hasty withdrawal by Hidalgo without the cosmetics. It turns out that Torres' death was inconsequential save for the fact that the investigation it triggered brought authorities too close to Hidalgo's real plan and afforded the Navy a usable cover to insert more covert agents to assist him. In the interim, all remaining samples of the tainted cosmetics were either destroyed or removed from Hidalgo's reach, leaving him with nothing to use as leverage.
Veil entices Hidalgo into believing that his plan is still salvageable due to the fact that while samples of the incriminating pharmaceuticals no longer exist, traces of what he needs can still be found in Torres' ex-girlfriend whom Veil is happy to produce.
At a meeting where Hidalgo, Madekwe, and some local hired thugs are to be brought to Torre's girlfriend, Veil allows Hidalgo to be killed and Madekwe to be taken captive by local Mars interests from both sides of the law, as they agree that no matter what their differences, Mars belongs to the people of Mars and no one else. However, as Veil, Madekwe, and the heads of both Mars factions return to Bradbury, their vehicle is attacked by a SOC task force to retrieve Madewke and complete the mission. It turns out that Hidalgo's initial plan for the Navy is still a priority and Madekwe was not there to assist him, but rather to take it over.
Veil is captured and brought to Governor Mulholland's mansion and turned over to Captain Chakana on numerous charges of murder and crimes against the colony. The Governor is happy to let the Navy take over Mars as they have offered him a deal to escape prosecution for his corruption, in exchange for enacting protocols that hand over control to the Navy legally. However Chakana has a change of heart and discreetly frees Veil before helping him kill Mulholland, his security, Madewke, and her SOC forces in a fast and bloody shootout while in the governor's office.
Veil is seriously injured by the end of this and wakes up several days later in a hospital under Chakana's guard. He recovers and has something of a celebration with the Goat God. At the end of the novel, Veil leaves the bar and walks home in the rain, understanding that Mars, though a rough place, is where he belongs.
Purl, a humanoid pink-colored ball of yarn, begins an entry-level position at a company named B.R.O. Capital. While excited at first to work there, she soon realizes that her partners barely notice her, in spite of her attempts to fit in. After being left alone while her coworkers go out for a group lunch, Purl observes from photos of the company's capital team that it is composed entirely of white men in similar power suits and hairstyles. This inspires her to change her appearance and personality to resemble theirs. After the other employees return, Purl, now talking and acting like everyone else, is noticed by her coworkers, who invite her out for drinks. Before the group leaves, however, a yellow-colored ball of yarn named Lacy arrives at the office to begin working. When she notices the new ball of yarn is also ignored, Purl befriends Lacy and invites her to join them for drinks. After some time has passed, Purl has returned to her original appearance, and B.R.O. Capital is shown to be staffed by a more diverse combination of men and balls of yarn, who work together as a team.
Eloise "Ellie" Turner loves the music and fashion of the Swinging Sixties and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her mother, also a fashion designer, killed herself in her childhood so Ellie was raised by her maternal grandmother. She occasionally sees her mother's ghost in mirrors.
Ellie moves from her rural home near Redruth, Cornwall to London to study at the London College of Fashion, where she has trouble fitting in with her peers. Only John, another student, is sympathetic to her. Unhappy in the dormitory, she moves into a bedsit owned by the elderly Ms Collins.
That night, Ellie has a vivid dream where she is transported back to the 1960s. At the Café de Paris, she observes a confident young blonde woman, Sandie, inquire about becoming a singer at the club. Sandie begins a relationship with the charming teddy boy manager, Jack. The next morning, Ellie designs a dress inspired by Sandie and discovers a love bite on her neck.
Ellie has another dream in which Sandie successfully auditions at a Soho nightclub, arranged by Jack, before returning to the same bedsit that Ellie has rented. Inspired by these visions, Ellie dyes her hair blonde, changes her fashion style to match Sandie's, and gets a job at a pub. She is observed by a silver-haired man who recognises her similarities to Sandie. In further dreams, Ellie discovers Sandie is not living the life she had hoped for, now being pimped out by Jack to his male business associates.
In her waking life, Ellie is disturbed by increasingly menacing apparitions that resemble Jack and the men who exploited and used Sandie. After she has a vision of Jack murdering Sandie, she decides to track down the silver-haired man, who she believes is Jack. She goes to the police, but is not taken seriously so she tries to find newspaper reports about Sandie's murder. Instead, she finds stories of local men who vanished without a trace. Believing she must avenge Sandie, Ellie confronts the silver-haired man. He denies killing Sandie and leaves the pub but is struck by a taxi and killed. Ellie’s boss reveals that the man’s name was Lindsey, not Jack. Ellie recalls encountering him in her dreams; he was an undercover vice officer who tried encouraging Sandie to escape her life of prostitution.
Panicked, Ellie goes to inform Ms Collins that she is leaving London. Ms Collins then reveals that she is actually Sandie. Ellie's vision of Sandie's death was in fact a vision of Sandie killing Jack when he threatened her with a knife. Sandie then lured the men she was pimped to back to her room and killed them, hiding their bodies in the house's floorboards and walls. Ms Collins has also drugged Ellie's tea and intends to kill her to ensure her silence.
In the ensuing scuffle, a cigarette ignites a fire. John comes to Ellie's aid but Ms Collins stabs him. Ellie flees upstairs to her room, where the spirits of Sandie's victims beg Ellie to kill Ms Collins, but she refuses. Ms Collins enters Ellie's room, where she also sees the spirits and is struck by the ghost of Jack. With the police outside, she attempts to cut her own throat, but is stopped by Ellie, who tells her she understands why she killed the men and begs her to live. Ms Collins, as Sandie, tells Ellie to save herself and John. She stays in the building as it burns.
Some time later, Ellie enjoys success as her designs are showcased at her end-of-year fashion show. She is congratulated backstage by her grandmother and John, who is now her boyfriend. Ellie sees her mother's spirit in a mirror and then a vision of Sandie, who waves at her and blows her a kiss.
In 2063, space travel has become possible and commercially viable; a group of students from Caird High School departs to the nearby planet of McPa for their Planetary Camp. Soon after the group arrives on the planet, the nine children encounter a mysterious and unforeseen intelligent sphere of light; it attacks them, transporting them into the distant depths of space. Floating in orbit around an unknown planet, they discover an old abandoned spacecraft nearby. Finding it in working order, they resolve to use the ship to return home. To do so, they must cross the 5,012-light-year gulf of space separating them from home by visiting alien planets harboring life to replenish and manage their limited resources.
The long and dangerous journey home aboard their vessel, which they name ''Astra'', brings with it new character revelations, strengthening the bonds they share, and the eventual realization that the stakes of their journey are far higher than any of them could ever have realized.
A group of deadbeat teenagers, among whom are Mathematician, Blonde, Rocker, Major, Loser and Psycho, wake up after a wild party and discover that the world has suddenly become different. They understand that they overslept the beginning of the apocalypse and find themselves in a dilapidated and deserted city, where danger lurks at every turn. But now the fate of all mankind is in their hands, and the guys have no choice but to join forces in the face of imminent danger.
Each of the characters has their own specific set of skills and talents, but each of them also have their own weaknesses. Soon after awakening, the gang discovers that they are not alone in the city. A bloodthirsty and invulnerable monster starts to hunt them, as well as a whole army of unknown thugs. They try to run away, but after a while they have to stop and engage in a fierce fight in order to prove themselves as heroes.
In 1980, when she was only ten years old, Manuzita was the host of her own television program, but she is forced to start a contest to find a co-star or the show would be canceled. Brothers João and Jerônimo sneak off to the auditions and are both chosen. The trio form the group ''Patotinha Mágica'', which became a huge national success. While Manuzita and João gained attention as a couple, Jerônimo was left out by the press and develops a hatred for his brother. During a huge performance, João gets sick and faints onstage. His mother (Dira Paes) is accused of negligence and the case ends up in the main newspapers, causing the termination of advertising contracts and the group to disband. Ten years later, in 1990, Manu (Isabelle Drummond) is an actress, but has not been successful and tries to regain her fame, accepting any work to achieve it. João (Rafael Vitti) is the host of a radio program and Jerônimo (Jesuíta Barbosa) has gambling debts. When her car breaks down, Manu is reunited with João and they begin to date, causing jealousy from Jerônimo.
Also seeking fame, Jerônimo returned to Rio de Janeiro, lying that he was the son of diplomats, to win the friendship of millionaires Quinzinho (Caio Paduan), Candé (Kayky Brito) and Tobé (Bernardo Marinho), with the help of scammer Galdino (Gabriel Godoy) and lover Vanessa (Camila Queiroz). Despite his lie being discovered, Jerônimo got a high position at PopTV, as compensation when he helped free Quinzinho from jail, after he accidentally caused the death of VJ Nicole (Barbara France), setting up João to be arrested instead. Three years have passed and, in 1993, João has the chance to prove his innocence when he is released, much to the dismay of Jerônimo, who managed not only to maintain his standard of living, but also to stay with Manu. In addition, Vanessa returns from abroad to take revenge on her ex-lover after he left her in the past.
''Operation: Fastpass'' is an espionage mission in which the agent team is to attend a puzzle convention in Hungary and assist a top Soviet scientist and puzzle expert in defecting to the West.
''Operation: Orient Express'' is an adventure packet that provides a common setting for several scenarios; in this case, the European railway plays host to six missions.
Thariode, tells the story of gold mining in Thariyode, one of the most ancient cities of the Malabar region, a long, narrow coastline on the southwestern shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent. The film also charts the history of gold mining in other areas of Malabar (Thalappuzha, Devala, Nilagiri, Nilambur and Chaliyar) during the 19th century. The film analyses the impact that gold mining – still one of the dirtiest industries in the world – had on the development of the country, the local livelihoods and the environmental repercussions on nature and the territory.
Black Swans is a family-owned private military company led by American citizens William Lewis and his adult children Grace and Oliver. SAS commander George Clements hires them to clear a remote village in Georgia for a transnational Britgaz gas pipeline. When the village resists, Black Swans massacre them. Their atrocities are secretly filmed, leading to red notices and accusations of crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court demands that the UK extradite the accused, who live in North London, to the Hague to stand trial. Prime Minister Atwood secretly orders Clements to kill William on the scene instead of arresting to cover up his involvement.
SAS operator Tom Buckingham, who was involved in serving the red notice, takes his girlfriend, Dr. Sophie Hart, on a romantic train journey from London to Paris where he intends to propose to her. Sophie is unsure whether they understand each other properly, whereas Tom is unsure whether he truly loves her. The remnants led by Grace Lewis hijack their train while it is en route in the Channel Tunnel, taking all of the passengers on board hostage at gunpoint. Using his military skills, Tom escapes from the train and evades capture. When he attempts to rescue Sophie, she refuses to leave the other passengers, who may need medical assistance, and asks him to save a young girl.
Tom regularly updates his position and sends intelligence to Declan Smith, a member of the SAS Counter Insurgency Team and his friend. Declan, who has been bribed by the Black Swans, sends a rescue team into a trap. Grace asks for a $500 million ransom from Britgaz or else she will blow up the tunnel and reveal the secret Britgaz Gas Pipeline in the tunnel. After inviting Clements to negotiate, Grace records their conversation. Grace finds out via Declan that Tom's girlfriend is on the train and takes her hostage. Tom returns to the train but fails to save Sophie. Grace escapes with her through the gas pipeline, pursued by Tom. Grace's team uploads the video of Clements and tries to escape among the hostages, but SAS snipers kill them. Upon not finding Grace among the hostages, Clements realises that Declan is guilty.
Once out of the pipe, Grace blows up the pipeline, and Tom narrowly escapes. Clements and all of the SAS operatives appear to be killed in the explosion excluding Declan. Grace stabs Sophie on her thigh and runs away. Sophie says she finally understands Tom and asks him to catch Grace instead of being with her. After catching up with Grace and killing her, Tom realises that he loves Sophie. During their trip, Tom proposes to Sophie. She refuses at first, believing him incapable of love, but agrees after seeing his emotional reaction. The UK PM and Britgaz representative are questioned, and all blame is transferred to Declan, the sole surviving member of Grace's team. Tom and Sophie get married in Spain, during which Tom is briefed by his superior, Clements, who survived the explosion, to find Declan.
In Asgard, Odin is targeted by Malekith's assassins, who reveal that they have created a Dark Bifrost Bridge that will allow them to teleport to any of the ten realms. On Earth, Thor and his hellhound dog Thori are relaxing when Loki crashes in front of them and tells Thor that Malekith stabbed him. Thor agrees to Loki's terms of helping him for Malekith's location. Loki who is revealed to be Malekith, transports Thor to Jotunheim the place where Frost Giants live; they proceed to attack Thor. With Thor gone, Malekith plans to wage war on Earth/Midgard. In The Bronx, Spider-Man encounters Thor's mother Frigga fighting against Malekith's assassins. Sif and her Valkyries meet up with Frigga as most of the Asgardians now live on Earth as refugees. Valkyrie sends out a signal that Malekith is coming, which is heard by Doctor Strange, Wolverine, Daredevil, Punisher, Blade, Ghost Rider, and the Avengers. During the battle in New York, Malekith arrives with his Dark Council (consisting of Enchantress, Kurse, Ulik, Minotaur, and a Svartalheim Bog Tiger). Laufey is about to eat Frigga when the real Loki arrives, saves his adopted mother, and fights Malekith. Doctor Strange teleports Malekith away and Laufey berates Loki on his recent treachery and eats Loki. At the end of the issue, Thor is still alive and fighting against the Frost Giants.
During the evacuation of New York civilians into the Sanctum Sanctorum, Jane Foster stands outside leading people in. During the chaos, the heroes do their best to fight. It is revealed that Malekith hired a coven of War Witches which prevents Doctor Strange from using his full power. As the war wages on, Odin, who survived the attempt on his life, and his Asgardian Army arrive. Valkyrie helps Jane kill the War Witches. Doctor Strange uses all of his power to transport the remaining heroes to Avengers Mountain in the North Pole where Ghost Rider and Sif take Odin to rest while Captain America orders Carol Danvers to get as many heroes as she needs to defend Earth. Frigga appoints Jane Foster as the All Mother of Asgard, but Jane Foster is saddened at the destruction of Earth. Back on Earth, Brunnhilde is the last person fighting against the Dark Elves before she is decapitated by Malekith, leaving Jane Foster to carry on the legacy of the Valkyrie.
While resting from their battles, Frigga asks Captain America to assemble a group to rescue Thor. Meanwhile, Daredevil takes Heimdall's sword which helps fix the Bifrost Bridge and allows the group to split into four groups: Captain America and his team (consisting of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Fist and Luke Cage) will go rescue Thor; Frigga and her group (consisting of Blade, She-Hulk, Ghost Rider and Punisher impersonating members of Malekith's forces) will go to destroy the Dark Bifrost Bridge; Captain Marvel will go to Earth to deal with Malekith while recruiting her War Avengers; and Jane Foster remains with Heimdall, Daredevil, and the Destroyer armor to defend the Bifrost Bridge. Malekith lays destruction over Europe and plans to slay Black Knight, Union Jack and Spitfire with the Ebony Blade, when Captain Marvel arrives with her War Avengers (consisting of Deadpool, Weapon H, Winter Soldier, Captain Britain, Lady Sif and the Venom symbiote). As the War Avengers fight the Dark Elves, the Venom Symbiote attacks Malekith only to be absorbed into his sword. The Dark Elves launch a sneak attack on Jane Foster's group while Tony Stark and Shuri help the dwarves create new weapons and Black Panther and the Dora Milaje prepare for a Frost Giant attack on Avenger Mountain. Roz Solomon, an Agent of Wakanda, reports that Roxxon has taken over Antarctica, Namor is fighting off the Dark Elves in the ocean, and the Fantastic Four defend Manhattan. During the chaos, Daredevil grows disoriented which causes the Dark Elves to destroy the Bifrost Bridge. Frigga's group arrives at the Dark Bifrost Bridge. When Frigga realizes that the Bifrost Bridge has been destroyed, she changes plans and protects the Dark Bifrost. Captain America's group finds Thor, but realizes that Thor is in his berserker rage after destroying many Frost Giants.
Frigga grabs the sword of the Black Bifrost Bridge and barely manages to retain her humanity. She sends members of her group to the other realms to recruit more allies, in which they succeed. Frigga opens a portal to Jotunheim where Captain America's group and a weakened Thor go through. The rest of the groups arrive in the Avengers Mountain where they are attacked. Black Panther and Shuri activate the Celestial in the Avengers Mountain which destroys all of Malekith's forces. While Thor is in the infirmary, Odin wakes up and demands to know where Frigga is. Captain America tries telling Odin that he cannot fight while injured, but Iron Man reveals that he, Shuri, and Screwbeard the Dwarf created an armor that is a mixture of uru and vibranium for Odin to wear in battle. Malekith tries to tame the Symbiote by using a dagger of living abyss on the Venom symbiote to reshape it into Knull's All-Black, designed to kill Asgardians. Frigga is busy fighting off the endless hordes when Malekith throws the Venom symbiote as a spear at Frigga. Before he can kill her, Odin arrives in his new armor and allows Frigga to destroy the Black Bifrost Bridge. On Midgard, after being fully healed, Thor announces that he will lead the charge against Malekith's army.
Wakanda is attacked by evil Angels of Heven when Hildegarde, Okoye, Lady Sif, Angela, Black Panther, Punisher, and the Light Elves arrive to help. In Uruguay, the Enchantress raises the dead, but Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, and Balder ward her off. Spider-Man has allied with the Spiders of Hel to defeat the enemies, She-Hulk along with Deadpool, Luke Cage, Daredevil and Iron Fist, are fighting against Ulik the Troll and his army in Australia. Near Roxxon Headquarters, service has been restored with the helps of Broo and Gorilla-Man of Agents of Wakanda, while Blade and Ka-Zar, along with the Vanir Gods, come to their rescue. Roz Solomon and Jane Foster fight Minotaur causing Roxxon's stocks to end up in a free fall. Captain Marvel defeats Sindr in Shanghai with Wolverine, Shang-Chi, Hawkeye, and the Warriors Three helping defeat the Fire Demons. In Manhattan, Iron Man equips the Dwarves with War Machine armor and they lead the attack on Laufey with help from the Fantastic Four. In London, Captain America is helping Captain Britain fight off Dark Elves, Thori is dealing with the Dark Witches, and Volstagg controls the Destroyer Armor to defeat Kurse. Thor returns and helps turn the tide. Then Daredevil takes Thor to the sun where he reveals that when Asgard was destroyed, Thor threw a seed in the sun, which grew into Yggdrasil. Thor orders Daredevil to nail Thor onto the tree and ignore his screams until Thor can find an answer. While Thor is in the sun, it is revealed that Malekith is torturing Odin and Frigga with the Venom Symbiote in Stonehenge. In Asgard, Jane Foster meets up with Heimdall in Asgard who tells Jane to not overexert herself, but Jane counters that and notices the broken hammer of Ultimate Thor and lifts it, transforming her.
As Thor is still pinned to Yggdrasil, he gets the answer he seeks in the form of finding other versions of Thor. Mister Fantastic and Thing emerge from a time portal and King Thor arrives, having expected this day to happen. Back in the present, Thor explains the situation to King Thor as they stand in the ruins of Asgard. While recapping the fight with Gorr the God Butcher and seeing how Thor is starting to resemble him, King Thor agrees with the plan to find more Thors and recruits the younger Thor from the 6th Century. Jane Foster appears in her Thor form revealing that she is using Mjolnir from Earth-1610 and they form the Thor Corps. Back in Manhattan, the superheros are fighting Laufey, now empowered by him swallowing the Casket of Ancient Winters with his Frost Giants. Knowing that the Thor Corps is approaching, Malekith augments his acolytes with the Venom symbiote and then bonds with it. When the Thor Corps arrive, Malekith declares himself the Butcher of Thors. As Thor fights Malekith, he tries to impale Jane Foster, causing Thor to go into his berserker state and throwing himself into Malekith as the other Thors sense the God Tempest. When the God Tempest arrives on Earth, it starts to rain fire and ice. As the symbiote-possessed Acolytes are harmed by the fire, the God Tempest reconstitute itself into a restored Mjolnir which Thor manages to lift while Jane Foster throws her Mjolnir into Laufey as Loki cuts himself and the Casket of Ancient Winters free from Laufey's stomach using Hofund. Thor urges Malekith to surrender as Malekith summons the Great Hunt, but instead the Wild Hunt Hounds and the Svartlheim Bog Tiger dismember Malekith. With the War of the Realms over, peace occurs across the Ten Realms. Daredevil laments the loss of his divine powers, Punisher resumes his one-man war on crime, and the Venom symbiote regains its humanoid form claiming that Malekith's magic got rid of its mental instability as it prepares for the upcoming event involving Carnage. Jane Foster bids farewell to the Earth-1610 Mjolnir as it crumbles as its shards combine and merge into a golden vambrace that forms on her arm. As peace occurs across the Ten Realms, the younger Thor and King Thor bond over their mutual love of alcohol while Odin steps down and makes Thor the new All-Father.
After his parents are killed in a car accident, Giovanni Bernardi visits his grandfather, Count Marco Anselmi. While staying at the old man's villa, he sees a ghost-like girl named Veronique. Giovanni learns that she died in World War I but her spirit still wanders the grounds and haunts the living.
Sunanda Raut (Usha Jadhav) is a feminist divorce lawyer, fending off injustice in Indian courtrooms for women such as rape, domestic abuse, mental illness, the complexities of marriage, sex and love. On top of this, she has to deal with her own real-life trauma.
Teenage drug runner Cedric Beauville is captured and arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the Canada–United States border in possession of large quantities of illegal fentanyl pills.
Everett University research scientist Dr. Tyrone Brower is contracted by Northlight Pharmaceuticals to carry out a study in support of their newest product, Klaralon. The drug is being touted as the first non-addictive painkiller and is due to be released shortly as a replacement for Oxycodone. The study uncovers concerning results; Klaralon initially presents as non-addictive when taken daily for the first 7 days (parameters specified by Northlight), however after 7 days it becomes almost three times more addictive than Oxycodone. Realising the public health implications, Brower recommends to Northlight they delay Klaralon's release for further testing, which they object to. Board member Dr. Bill Simons tries to tempt Brower into changing his mind by offering a large research grant, but Brower refuses. With Northlight being one of the university's main donors, Brower finds himself under pressure from department head Greg Talbot to approve the study, but again is reluctant. Northlight begins leaking information to discredit his reputation, and Everett University revokes his tenure. Desperate, Brower becomes a whistleblower and contacts the FDA, being put in contact with investigator Ben Walker.
Detroit based DEA agent Jake Kelly has managed to infiltrate two large scale drug cartels running fentanyl. One is run by the Armenian Mafia who operate pill mills across the US. The other is based in Montreal, Quebec controlled by drug kingpin Claude ‘Mother’ Veroche, who operates out of a nondescript restaurant called La Marina. Kelly intends to convince the two cartels to enter into business, so both leaders can be arrested at once when they meet. Kelly has personal motivation for bringing them down, due to his younger sister suffering from crippling heroin addiction. Kelly's relationship with Mother becomes strained when news of Cedric's capture comes to light, with Mother becoming concerned there is an informant in his organisation. Due to operational funding concerns, Kelly's superior agent Garrett gives him a reduced timescale to organise the meet between the two cartels. Mother has Cedric killed in custody for his silence, and executes his second in command Guy Broussard after discovering he has been speaking with the authorities.
Architect and recovering Oxycodone addict Claire Reimann becomes concerned when her 16-year-old son David does not return home from hockey practice. He is later found dead as a result of a fentanyl overdose, shocking Claire who is convinced he never took drugs. Although the Detroit Police Department treats it as an accidental death, she hires a private investigator who determines David was forced to take the fentanyl and was murdered. Through her son's social media she tracks down one of his friends, who confesses several teenagers from the hockey team (from both Detroit and Montreal) work for Mother as drug runners, although David had only done it once. Reimann crosses the Ambassador Bridge and travels to Montreal where she hires another private investigator, who provides her with information on Mother and an untraceable ghost gun. She threatens another drug runner, Derrick Millebran, who believes that Mother is killing them to tie up loose ends after Cedric's arrest. Kelly becomes aware of Reimann's activities through investigation of Cedric's associates, and intercepts her outside La Marina. He does not arrest her, but instead unloads her gun and urges her to leave for her own good.
The meeting between the two cartels goes ahead, covertly monitored by a joint DEA-RCMP taskforce. However, an RCMP surveillance officer accidentally gives away his position, resulting in a shootout that kills Kelly's partner, Special Agent Stanley Foster. Mother also escapes, believed to have fled to Algeria. Given the seizure of the drugs at the meet, both US and Canadian agencies decide to disband the continued search for Mother and the Armenians. Outraged, Kelly goes against orders and travels to La Marina, where he threatens an employee who tells him Mother is still in Canada but is planning to escape via seaplane that evening from the Port of Montreal. Reimann is also given this information from her private investigator. Kelly arrives at the port, but has been beaten there by Reimann, who opens fire and kills Mother as he makes his way to the aircraft. His bodyguard shoots her in the arm, but is swiftly shot by Kelly. He then replaces the men's weapons with Reimann's ghost gun and his own unregistered back up gun, to make it appear they shot each other in a disagreement over money that was being carried by Mother at the time. He treats her gunshot wound, and tells her he does not intend to arrest her.
A last ditch effort by Northlight CEO Dr. Meg Holmes also fails to convince Brower to come on side, and the company is subjected to an FDA hearing. To Brower's shock, the agency does not revoke Northlight's permissions for Klaralon's release, noting that the potential benefits to the public outweigh the dangers highlighted by his study. Walker is also reassigned as a retaliatory measure. Despite the legal risk, Brower breaks his non-disclosure agreement and goes to the press, finally getting the information public. His integrity and honesty pays off, and he is later hired by the University of Michigan due to his actions, and is seen giving an introductory lecture to a crowded auditorium.
At an official reception in Vienna, there is a dispute between Baron Bagge and a young man, Farago, who forbids Bagge to speak with his sister. Bagge, Farago claims, was responsible for the suicides of two women. Bagge challenges him to a duel, but the situation can be cleared and Farago agrees to apologize. Bagge finds he has to explain himself and tells his story. Both women did indeed kill themselves, because he would marry neither of them. This was, Bagge says, because he was actually already married.
He was a cavalry officer back in 1915 and found himself with his unit on a reconnaissance mission in the buildup to the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive in Eastern Europe. His mentally unstable commanding officer, Rittmeister Semler, orders an attack on a bridge held by Imperial Russian Army. Even though cavalry normally wouldn't stand a chance against machine-guns, the charge miraculously succeeds with minimal casualties. Bagge is only hit by a small rock that is swirled up during the attack. Afterwards, the reconnaissance unit advances further into what nominally must be enemy-held territory, but finds only peace and a welcoming civilian population. At the Ukrainian town of Nagy-Mihaly (nowadays called Michalovce), Bagge meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, the daughter of a friend of his late mother's, and immediately falls in love with her. Her beauty as well as her confidence deeply impress Bagge. Rittmeister Semler tries frantically to find the enemy and orders his unit to leave the town. Bagge resolves to marry Charlotte and proposes to her. He says that he will come back as soon as possible, but she, although agreeing to marry him, tells him that she is sure that he would never return.
From there on, the cavalry unit rides on for five more days until they get to a river where they see a bridge made of pure gold. Most of the soldiers cross the bridge but Bagge refuses, finally convincing himself that this could not be real. Then he awakes. He is still at the first bridge, where the attack was catastrophic and he has actually been hit by a bullet, not just a small rock. He is transported to a field hospital and slowly recovers. He realises that the peaceful land, the town of Nagy-Mihaly and his marriage to Charlotte occurred only in a dream.
After the war, he travels back and finds the land looking strangely similar to his dream. There was even a real Charlotte in Nagy-Mihaly, but she died during the war. All those he saw in his dream were already dead, including Semler and his fellow soldiers. He even encounters the bridge from his dream, which is not made of gold but a simple wooden bridge. Bagge however, still does not dare to cross the bridge. He interprets his experiences through Norse mythology.
Laura is a 32-year-old woman working at a call centre in London who is struggling as a writer. She lives with her best friend, Tyler, an American with plenty of money who bankrolls their hard drinking lifestyle.
A year earlier Laura met Jim, a pianist, at a bar. The two quickly fell in love and were engaged, though shortly afterwards Jim decides to stop drinking, a decision Laura pretends to approve of. As their wedding draws closer Tyler begins to grow increasingly upset by Laura's marriage and Laura begins to feel torn between the two. Though she is ambivalent about having children, Jim persuades Laura to stop using contraception. Jim also begins to pressure Laura to stop drinking.
On a night out Tyler passes Laura some drugs wrapped in a flyer for a library lecture on W.B. Yeats. Laura goes to the lecture and afterwards talks and flirts with the lecturer, professor Marty Grane.
Later, on a trip to London for Tyler's nephew's christening, the two run into Marty, who went to school with Tyler. Claiming her phone is dead, Tyler has Laura exchange numbers with Marty, who later sends her a picture of his erect penis.
Trying to compromise between Tyler and Jim, Laura goes out for a night of drinking with Tyler for her 30th birthday and then the next day flies to Stockholm to visit Jim where he is touring. On her night out with Tyler, Laura and Tyler spot Marie, a drug dealer that Tyler once stole from. Though they think they have escaped detection, Laura returns from Stockholm to find that Tyler has been badly beaten as Marie followed her home and robbed her once Laura had left. The two flee for Edinburgh where they meet up with Marty. Laura takes drugs and drinks heavily, and finds herself fighting a strong attraction to Marty. When he corners her in the bathroom she realizes that Tyler has been encouraging Marty to help her cheat by revealing a specific sexual fetish of hers. Enraged she leaves for home.
Laura stays at Jim's but at one of his work events she eventually realizes that he stopped drinking because he cheated on her with Kirsten, a woman in the orchestra. Upset she flees back to Tyler's place where she finds her overdosed on drugs and alcohol. Laura nurses Tyler back to health, but when Tyler is healed she resumes her drinking, eventually confessing to Laura that she did intentionally give her the flyer so that she would end up with Marty.
Six months later Laura still drinks, though not to excess, and has finally moved out on her own. She no longer associates with Jim or Tyler.
The story follows Iruma Suzuki, a 14-year-old human boy who is sold to a demon by his lazy, selfish and neglectful parents. The demon, known as Sullivan, takes Iruma to the Demon World and officially adopts him as his grandson. He enrolls Iruma in the Babyls School for Demons where he is the headmaster and where Iruma quickly befriends the demons Alice Asmodeus and Clara Valac. However, Sullivan tells Iruma to never reveal that he is human since he will be eaten if anyone finds out. Iruma then vows to blend in during his time in the demon world, although he only stands out because of all the situations and adventures that arise. By his second year Iruma turns 15 years old.
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Confederate officer who served in the 3rd Texas Infantry, makes a meager living traveling from town to town in Texas and reading newspaper stories to local residents for an admission fee of ten cents. After departing Wichita Falls, Kidd comes across an overturned wagon on the road and finds the driver, a black freedman, had been lynched. He also finds a young white girl who calls herself Cicada and speaks Kiowa. Kidd learns from the girl's paperwork that she is Johanna Leonberger, who had been kidnapped and adopted by Kiowa six years earlier. Union Army troops discovered Johanna while dispersing a Kiowa camp and she was being taken to her living aunt and uncle by the freedman. A passing Union Army patrol instructs Kidd to take the girl to Union officials at an outpost in a town up the road. Kidd has little choice but to acquiesce.
At the town, Kidd is informed that the outpost's Bureau of Indian Affairs representative will be unavailable for three months. Kidd initially plans to leave Johanna in the care of friends Simon and Doris Boudlin, but accepts responsibility for returning the girl to her family in Castroville, some 400 miles away, after she recklessly tries to run away with a band of traveling Native Americans during a storm. In Dallas, Kidd stops at a local inn run by Ella Gannett, an old acquaintance who speaks Kiowa and learns that Johanna's adoptive Native American family was also killed, making her "an orphan twice-over." After reading the news the next night, Kidd and Johanna are accosted by three ex-Confederate soldiers who want to purchase Johanna from him. Kidd refuses and flees with the girl, but the men pursue him into the wilderness. Despite being outgunned, Kidd is able to kill the men after Johanna points out that the dimes Kidd earned from his work could be used as makeshift ammunition for his shotgun.
On the border of Erath County, Kidd and Johanna are detained by militiamen led by Farley, a racist cattle baron who took over the county and had all non-white residents violently expelled. Farley coerces Kidd into reading propaganda that glorifies him to his workers, but Kidd instead reads a story about a disaster in a Pennsylvania coal mine that whips Farley's workers into a rebellious fury. Kidd and Johanna make a run for it in the ensuing melee, but are surrounded by Farley and his men. Just as Farley is about to shoot Kidd, Johanna kills Farley with Kidd's shotgun, and John Calley, one of Farley's henchmen who was inspired by Kidd's words, deals with the other henchmen.
As the pair continue their journey, their wagon is wrecked and their last horse fatally injured when Kidd loses control on a steep road. Kidd and Johanna proceed on foot. After enduring the heat and a blinding sandstorm, they encounter a traveling group of Kiowa who give Johanna a horse. Saved by that gift, Kidd and Johanna eventually reach the Leonberger farmstead. Kidd reluctantly leaves Johanna with her aunt and uncle. He then continues to San Antonio to visit the grave of his wife Maria, who had died of cholera while he was away serving in the Army, for the first time. As he bids farewell to Maria, Kidd realizes that Johanna had become family to him, and rides back to her and apologizes for leaving her behind. Johanna's aunt and uncle permit Kidd to raise Johanna. Later, Captain Kidd enthusiastically reads the news to an animated crowd in a large hall with Johanna's assistance, and Kidd introduces her as his daughter, Johanna Kidd.
The film is about young Dr. Eric Robinson (played by Daniel Kruse), who becomes obsessed with the idea of an afterlife that leads all people to heaven. Through a series of events that leads to his own death, he finds out that hell is a very real place for those who have rejected the grace and love of Jesus Christ.
At the turn of the 21st century, a young man by the name of Conrad Arlington drives over the 101 freeway into Los Angeles, California for the first time to pursue his dream of becoming a great artist. Upon his arrival, Conrad struggles for a while as he adjusts to the city and hones his craft, then, after a few years, he meets a group of artists and writes a play that brings him his first taste of real success. Utilizing his glimpse of fame, he decides to produce his first film, which brings him to the attention of Gracie Garrison, a beautiful socialite who decides to audition for the project. Being young and in over his head financially, Conrad is forced to abandoned the project and begin anew, but his ambition is not easily forgotten by those around him.
Some time later at a bar in Hollywood, Conrad runs into Gracie and her business partner, Maxwell Price. Gracie was impressed by Conrad's script, and suggests that they should all go into business together to begin a project of their own. Enamored by Gracie's beauty and still relatively new to the Hollywood circle, Conrad easily agrees without much thought.
A few weeks later Conrad receives a phone call from Maxwell inviting him to Gracie's residence in Studio City on Friday night to discuss the project. Conrad drives his coupe up into the hills and arrives per their request, where he is greeted by a sleek, doe-eyed model named Evie Clark, who is one of Gracie's best friends. Quiet and standoffish, Evie disappears. Maxwell offers Conrad a drink and Gracie puts on music as they both avoid Conrad's attempts to address any real business. Conrad soon realizes that it wasn't a meeting they called him to, but a party, as guests begin to arrive.
Soon Conrad is surrounded by Hollywood elite as Gracie and Maxwell disappear. On the balcony, he meets a young actor by the name of Benjamin Trask who warns him about getting too close to Gracie, that she is mysterious and can not be trusted. Conrad, being fond of Gracie, doesn't much care for Benjamin or the interaction, so he floats back through the party before going home.
Conrad returns to his residence, considering the whole night a dream. Approximately two weeks later he gets a call from Gracie, who requests that he pick her up that night to accommodate her to a gallery opening. Conrad agrees and picks her up, sparking an adventurous night together. They stop at a gallery opening where they meet Bobby Finch, a flamboyant art dealer and another one of Gracie's friends. Next, they head to the Westside of Los Angeles where they stop by the cottage of Alice Button, an alcoholic, fallen film director that lives in the shadow of a giant cherry. When Conrad pushes to hard and causes Alice to break down into tears, they must leave, and Gracie takes Conrad to an exclusive nightclub on the Sunset Strip. Once inside, Conrad describes the people as ‘the Ghosts of Sunset Boulevard.’
When they leave the nightclub, two privileged brothers by the name of Harry and Alex Vanderbuilt drive up in a limousine with their beautiful and seductive cousin Gwendolyn from New York. They say they are going to a party. Conrad and Gracie have their first argument, and Gracie gets in with them. Conrad goes back into the club where he nearly has to resort to force to get the address from a drunk director.
The party is in the high-rise of what Conrad describes as a ‘new money’ complex in Hollywood. When he arrives, there are beautiful people — and more importantly — beautiful women everywhere. Harry finds Conrad and tells him that Gracie hasn't been the same since she left, and that she has hardly spoken to anyone. Conrad says that it serves her right, and at the same time notices Gwendolyn staring at him through the crowd as she dances seductively. Conrad tells Harry to have Gracie come find him as he approaches Gwendolyn. As they begin to dance, Conrad has a crisis of conscious just as Gracie approaches. They hold each other, and together they leave the party.
Exhausted from the long night, they go back to Gracie's house and fall asleep. When Conrad awakes, Gracie is gone. Conrad goes home in an ecstatic mood from the great night, believing that they are moving toward a healthy relationship and that he will hear from her shortly, but he doesn't. Months go by and Gracie doesn't call, and Conrad slips further and further down into melancholy.
Eventually, Conrad has had enough and makes it his mission to find her. He doubles back on every place they visited on that magical night they had together, where the rumors around Gracie's personage become more and more mysterious. When he's just about given up all hope, he comes across the card of Benjamin Trask, the actor he met at Gracie's party all those night ago. He calls him and they agree to meet. Conrad visits the Château Marmont where Benjamin is staying. In the lobby, Benjamin drinks heavily and spills more secrets about Gracie, including the fact that they used to be together for a short time back in the day, and that she played him. He also warns Conrad to be weary of Gracie's business partner, Maxwell Price, and that he cannot be trusted.
When the meeting is over, and Conrad is still no closer to finding Gracie, Conrad slips further and further into depression and melancholy. He goes on an alcoholic spree down into Hollywood, where he struck with disturbing and horrific visions. He passes out on the Boulevard, then wakes up in his bed the next morning without knowing how he got there. He is no longer able to write or work, and makes a resolution to end it all by throwing himself off an overpass onto the 101 freeway.
On his way to execute his final deed, Conrad runs into Evie Clark — the model he met at Gracie's — sitting outside a café. Without Gracie around, Evie is actually very pleasant, and the two of them talk and begin a relationship. Soon after they begin seeing each other frequently, but neither of them mentions Gracie. After a while Conrad can't help himself and asks about her, and the two have a vicious fight. Evie spills more dark secrets about Gracie, and Conrad says things that he can't take back, ultimately ending their relationship.
Evie leaves and Conrad spends the next two weeks holed up in his apartment, drinking heavily. Eventually he comes out and takes a walk down into Hollywood in a dream state, where he reflects upon his life. More time passes, the summer roles around, and Conrad begins to write again as he finally begins to move on. Then, one day out of the blue, he gets a call from Maxwell Price. He says that they are in the area and that they are coming to pick Conrad up for a day by the pool. Against his better judgment, Conrad can't resist the chance to see Gracie and to find out what happened to her. Within a matter of minutes they are in Maxwell's car on the way the pool. Conrad can't stop staring at Gracie, but she avoids his gaze.
The pool is located at a hotel off the Sunset Strip. They arrive and go up to the suite of William Montgomery, an attractive, wealthy film produce and businessman that takes liberties with Gracie that Conrad doesn't much care for. Gracie makes drinks, then Evie Clark appears from the upstairs bedroom. Conrad and Evie pretend that they don't know each other, then she leaves and Conrad never sees her again. He isn't sure of whether or not Gracie was aware of Evie and his previous relationship, or that she even cared.
They have lunch, then they all go down to the pool to sunbathe for the remainder of the day. As Gracie swims and plays in the water, William tells Conrad that he sees a lot of himself in him, and offers him a potential career opportunity. He also tells Conrad more about Gracie and his relationship, and that they have come to an understanding where they meet each other's needs. This makes Conrad sick to his stomach, and he lashes out at William in wrath, ending the day for them all.
On the way home, Conrad, Gracie, and Maxwell don't say a word. Rather than dropping Conrad off at home, Maxwell drives them all up to Gracie's residence in the hills of Studio City. There, Gracie retreats to her bedroom, and Conrad and Maxwell almost come to blows. Maxwell tells Conrad that he is sick and has done unforgivable things. For a moment, Conrad has sympathy for the man, then leaves him crying in the living room to go find Gracie.
Conrad enters Gracie's bedroom to find her crying on her bed. He sits down next to her, and they both sympathize over how much they tortured each other for the last year. Conrad tells Gracie that he loves her. She tells him that she knows and that his love for her caused her to run away because it was too much for her. She thought she was doing the right thing by leaving him. Conrad then kisses her, but doesn't have the passionate reaction that he was anticipating. It becomes clear that the pain they caused each other was too great for either of them to enjoy it anymore. Gracie is tired, so Conrad has her lie down and tucks her into bed. He stops in the doorway and looks back on her, and says that for the first time in a long time he finally has his answer. He then turns off the light and closes the door.
''Daredevil Adventures Vol. 2 No. 2: The Menace Beneath the Sea'' includes two scenarios, "The Secret of Tahuka Hiva" and "The Menace Beneath the Sea".
In 1856 in Schoharie County, Abigail and Dyer live an isolated life in the country working as farmers. They are both devastated by the recent loss of their young daughter Nellie.
A new similarly childless couple moves in beside them. Abigail is immediately entranced by Tallie, the wife, and the two women form a quick and deep friendship. Abigail confides to Tallie that her marriage with Dyer is based on practicality, not romance while Tallie reveals that her husband Finney can be quarrelsome and controlling.
For Abigail's birthday Tallie buys her an atlas that she had longed for. When Tallie is returning home from the birthday visit she is caught in a storm that nearly kills her. Her husband takes her away to recuperate, and when she returns it is spring and Tallie resumes her visits to Abigail.
Eventually Tallie reveals to Abigail that she only dreams of being with her. Abigail feels similarly and the two kiss. They begin a sexual affair. Dyer, who has become increasingly emotional since their child's death, is upset of the time that Abigail spends with Tallie. Tallie's husband becomes similarly jealous of the hours she is spending away from him.
Finney eventually asks Abigail and Dyer to dinner where he uncomfortably brings up their lost child and Abigail notices bruises on Tallie's neck. Finney tells a morbid story about holding his disobedient dog outside until it froze to death. Afterwards Tallie doesn't visit for a week. Abigail finally goes in search of her and finds her rented house empty with only a bloody kerchief left behind. Though she suspects mischief, she eventually receives a letter from Tallie informing her she has moved 85 miles away to the Skaneateles area of Onondaga County.
Abigail insists on going to see Tallie and Dyer reluctantly complies. However by the time they arrive Tallie is dead. Finney claims it is from diphtheria, but a flashback reveals Finney holding and dancing with Tallie until she collapsed.
Abigail returns to her life on the farm. She and Dyer continue to work together but are still emotionally estranged. To comfort herself, Abigail imagines murdering Finney one day and tries to picture Nellie and Tallie comforting themselves in the afterlife. When Dyer asks her to imagine anything she can do to ease their longing, Abigail begins to imagine Tallie in his place.
In rural Quebec, Mylia begins high school while living with her younger sister Camille and her parents, Nathalie and Henri. They live on the border of an Abenaki First Nation reserve and Camille struggles with being bullied by her peers, with Mylia being her only friend. When Mylia gets to high school, she finds her locker is next to her cousin Gab, but Gab is cold to her. Mylia is placed in a history and citizenship class. There, she meets Jacinthe. Jacinthe notices that Mylia takes notes in history class and asks for Mylia's help with the course, to avoid a failing grade. The two girls meet and collaborate on their homework; afterwards, Jacinthe invites Mylia to a party. Mylia goes, and begins drinking alcohol. Intoxicated, she leaves and vomits. She wakes up in a home on a reserve, where a local boy Jimmy lives, and Jimmy's grandmother lets her recover on her couch. When Mylia returns home, she finds her father Henri on the couch for the night, and denies she was drinking.
Mylia becomes increasingly acquainted with Jimmy as he allows Camille to use his trampoline. In history class, the students discuss their readings on the Europeans' early contact with indigenous peoples in Quebec. When students begin asking about passages about the indigenous people's depravity (from the racist perspective of the European settlers), Jimmy becomes angered and has a physical altercation with the boys in the halls. He is afterwards suspended. Jacinthe invites Mylia to a Halloween party, where she and her friends plan to dress as the Fifth Harmony. Although the party falls on Camille's birthday, Mylia agrees to join. Later, Mylia meets with Jimmy. Jimmy, who says Halloween costumes reveal one's true self, discloses he will be dressing as an "Indian". Mylia says she will be dressing with her friends as the Fifth Harmony, and is offended when Jimmy criticizes her for dressing as a "slut".
Camille is upset when she learns Mylia will not be at her birthday party and only her parents will be there. At the party, Mylia is peer-pressured by her friends to make out with a boy, Vincent, but becomes uncomfortable with the sexual nature of his advances and puts a stop to them. She leaves and meets Jimmy. At home, Nathalie and Henri sit Mylia and Camille down for a talk, where they reveal they are undergoing a separation. Mylia and Camille are upset to learn their mother is moving them out of a house. Mylia leaves the home and sees Jimmy, and tells him she loves him. After time passes, Mylia is attending a new school. She writes to Jimmy about learning about the Scramble for Africa, and about how none of her classmates believed her when she said she was from a forest and her friend is an "Abenaki warrior". Mylia writes her peers find her unusual, but concludes by saying she does not want to be like everyone else.
Set in the 1980s-1990s and based on two real-life notable Go players, the film tells the story of Cho Hun-hyun, a Go champion who discovers a gifted but untrained young boy Lee Chang-ho in an amateur contest. He takes him under his wing to turn into a professional player. Conflicts arise when the protégé later turns against his teachings.
After his mother's death Prem (Ayub Sen) thinks his step mother was responsible for her death, and who makes attempts to kill her.
Parisian girl Sarah is one of a group of children who has a mysterious 'total allergy' auto-immune syndrome that forces them to live in hermetically-sealed capsules, while her parents, scientists Mathieu and Anna, desperately search for a cure. Soon after Mathieu returns from Canada with news of a possible breakthrough. A while later, there is an apparent earthquake, followed by the release of a deadly gas which emerges from the ground and begins to spread through the streets, killing everyone who is caught in it and inhaling the toxic fumes. Fortunately, the gas proves to be heavier than air, and Mathieu and Anna find refuge above the mist in the top-floor apartment of their elderly neighbors, Lucien and Colette. Sarah is forced to remain in her bubble in the family's now fog-filled flat, which has now been only limited to battery power mode to keep her air filtration system operating.
By holding his breath, Mathieu breaks into the apartment one floor below, knowing the occupant uses an oxygen tank. He takes the oxygen tank and mask from the neighbor's body and while gathering supplies, finds that the fog has killed the elder of the neighbor's dogs, though the puppy is unharmed.
After delivering the supplies to Sarah and changing her battery, Mathieu ventures onto the corpse-strewn streets. He encounters some soldiers leading a group of survivors, all wearing gas masks and headed to Montmartre which sits above the level of the fog. Mathieu is unwilling to leave without his family so a soldier gives him two new masks and tanks before leaving. Upon returning to the apartment, Mathieu realises the fog is rising up slowly.
The next day, Mathieu and Anna witness riots breaking out among the survivors at Montmartre and decide to escape to the house of Sarah's friend Charlotte, who lives in the hills. Charlotte has the same syndrome so Sarah could share her bubble. In order to move Sarah, they travel to a laboratory to acquire a sealed suit. They are separated when Mathieu falls into the Seine after being chased by a dog but they meet again at the laboratory. After retrieving a suit, an explosion damages Mathieu's oxygen tube. Sharing Anna's oxygen, they make it to an office above the fog. Anna's oxygen is now too low for them both to return, so she returns alone with the suit while Mathieu tries to return by climbing over rooftops. He finds a camp with a large amount of supplies. He steals another oxygen mask and is forced to kill the camp's occupant when he catches him.
Anna makes it back to the apartment just as her oxygen runs out, then realises the suit was damaged in the explosion. When Sarah's battery runs out, she holds her breath to run back downstairs. Though she changes the battery successfully, she does not make it back and Mathieu returns to find her body on the stairs.
As the fog rises further and seeps into the apartment, Mathieu decides to get a hazmat suit he saw earlier in a crashed car and adapt it for Sarah, while Lucien and Colette lie on their bed and await death. Mathieu retrieves the suit and finds a scooter. While driving back to the apartment, he nearly runs into a boy walking without a mask and crashes, knocking himself out. When he awakens, he is stunned to see Sarah approaching him through the fog, unaffected, with the boy. The boy is her boyfriend Noé, who has the same condition as her and Charlotte. He realizes that the fog is not affecting them (due to the mist having no effect on people with the same disease) and reunites with Sarah. After embracing his daughter for the first time in 12 years, Mathieu passes out again.
Mathieu awakes to find himself in Sarah's medical capsule, their roles reversed, with Sarah now looking after him.
Set in the late 1800s of California, The Cisco Kid returns to the screen. The bandito, disguised with his men as an escort, ambushes a stagecoach which carries a wealthy young Frenchman named Du Bois. Du Bois is delivering a chest of silver to San Marino, and the Cisco Kid claims it is money that was stolen over many years from the impoverished people of California, and he intends to return it. The Kid's gang escape with the money, but the Cisco Kid stays behind, only to learn that Du Bois is actually a beautiful young woman, Jeanne Du Bois. Du Bois agrees to accompany the Kid back to his hideout, and the two find themselves attracted to one another even though they are on opposite sides. The bandit eventually offers to return the money to Du Bois, and she must then decide how distribute that money.
Sir Isaac Newton battles with the Royal Society to prove his universal theory of gravity.
Two female actors who attended drama school together at NIDA have different career paths. Celia is a high profile soap star earning large amounts of money and enjoying a celebrity lifestyle. Vicki is working in independent theatre. When Vicki proposes they collaborate on an ambitious new film project, it could be a big opportunity for both.
1943: Angry and bereaved by the death of his younger brother, Flight Lieutenant Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary, Spitfire ace, who survived the Battle of Britain, transfers to RAF Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies over Germany. On arriving at his new posting, he is given the unenviable task of replacing the much-loved skipper of an experienced Lancaster bomber crew, who was killed in action just days before. Struggling to bond with his new crew and obsessed with his desire to wage war at any cost, Miller must find a way to gain their trust and overcome his inner demons, to become the leader they so desperately need.
It is an adaptation of a novel by Francisco Hinojosa which tell the story of Dr. Funes, who discovers a formula to achieve eternal youth, and upon testing it on himself becomes a 12-year-old before embarking on new adventures with his friend Martín Poyo.
Pilot Nick Conlan (Kent Taylor) applies for a job in the State Air Police Force. Known as undisciplined, Nick is warned by Major Smith (Stanley Andrews), the commander, that any infraction of the rules will result in instant dismissal. Nick visits the cafe hangout of the Sky Police, where he encounters waitress Barbara Whitney (Rochelle Hudson), his estranged wife and former stewardess who ignores Nick.
Major Smith and Captain Higgins (Guy Usher) of the State Motor Police are stymied over a series of holdups in their sector. A band of clever crooks seem to have advance information on the movement of large payrolls, bank transfers and jewelry shipments. The secret of their success lies in having access to two locations: the cafe owned by Jerry Petri (Frank Puglia), who has microphones and tape recorders to record pilots, which are sent by carrier pigeon to Dr. Amos Pettingill (Lucien Littlefield), the brains behind the operation and owner of a health spa and pigeon farm.
After each holdup, the robbers, fly to Pettingill's health spa, where they pose as patients. Nick becomes suspicious of the doctor when he lands without orders, at the health spa, spotting several cans of high-test gas.
Nick is fired for disobedience and takes a job flying aircraft for a millionaire sportsman. Meanwhile, Barbara stumbles upon the secret recording room at the cafe and is taken prisoner by Petri. Nick, looking for Barbara at the cafe, discovers the pigeons. Unravelling the secret of the robberies, the major sends his crack pilot, Bill Lambert, (Regis Toomey) to intercept one of the doctor's planes. Nick follows and when Lambert is shot down, Nick calls headquarters and forces the criminal's aircraft down.
With the gang arrested, Nick is reinstated into the Sky Police, and Barbara comes back to him.
''Girl Lost'' explores underage prostitution in the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. The film brings to light the very real tragedy of sex trafficking in the United States.
''Girl Lost'' follows the life of 15-year-old, Shara. After being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend, Shara runs away with her street hustler boyfriend, Jamie. Jamie and Shara struggle to survive in Los Angeles, but ultimately, they fail. Finding herself homeless and alone, the wayward teen turns to the only option she believes she has... Selling her body and her soul. Shara begins working as a prostitute in a back-alley Russian brothel with other underage girls and her life begins to unravel.
Max works at a local factory as a welder. The salary is low, but it is enough to support him and his wife Anya. One day he learns bad news - the factory has gone bankrupt and all employees are laid off. He desperately tries to find a new place to work but this proves to be quite difficult due to the economic crisis. Fortunately, Max meets his old friend from school, Lena. After telling her about his problems, he receives an unusual offer - to do striptease.
There is a strip club in the city where new men are wanted. Max agrees to come for an interview. His fitness and physique is satisfactory and the only thing that remains is to learn a few dance moves and he is hired. While hiding his new occupation from Anya, he finds himself in all sorts of ridiculous situations. Her husband's new profession is supposed to stay a secret, but all the lies only end up complicating things.
In the Soviet Union during September 1941 there was an emergency evacuation of people from Leningrad across Lake Ladoga. By a twist of fate, a young couple, cadet-gunner Kostya Gorelov and his girlfriend Nastya Tkachyova, are on board the dilapidated barge 752, the purpose of which is the evacuation of the inhabitants of the Siege of Leningrad. The barge is badly worn out, but Nikolai Gorelov, Kostya’s father, taking responsibility, ordered it loaded with over 1,000 people, among them his son. Among the evacuees is NKVD investigator Vadim Petruchik, who led the case against Nastya's father.
The case of the repressed father Nastya was reviewed. He was released and sent to the front, to the same section of the front as the barge. The cadets, who were marching to the barge were stopped, and the cadets-gunners were sent to take back the channel.
At night, the ship gets into a storm and suffers disaster. At the site of the tragedy, the first to come are not rescuers, but enemy aircraft.
The novel is set in a remote village of undivided Bengal and thereafter Kolkata. Its theme focuses on a social structure that is based on superstition, prejudice and injustice to women. Satyabati, the housewife protagonist, rebels against the patriarchal world in which she and many of the women lived, taking an active role in standing up to the people whose behavior is one of keeping women in their traditional place of inferiority. From childhood Satya is outspoken. She points out the unfairness of the society in a very facile way.
The protagonist of the story is the handsome Ramkali Chatterjee, who, sometime towards the final decades of the 19th century, combines the functions of priest and physician of the traditional Ayurveda system of medicine in an isolated Bengali village, Five of the women of his extended family — Dinatarini, Kashiswari, Shankari, Shibjaya and Mokshada are widows. It is on them that the burden falls, from dawn to dusk, of attending to all the practical problems of running a home. They are obliged to adhere strictly to the rules governing widowhood, rules which however they reinforce by insisting other female members of the family learn to observe in a society dominated by men. Of the other women, just one, the young Satyabati, defies custom, and though her father treats her manner of bucking the system indulgently, the other women rebuke her. Ramkali takes her on as a student.
Meanwhile one of Ramkali's nephews, Rashbehari, following the obligations imposed on a kulin Brahmin, is obliged to undertake a second marriage, which his first wife, Sarada vigorously protests by threatening to kill herself. A s a result, her husband refrains from sleeping with the second wife. The other, jealous women of the house resent Sarada’s success in blackmail her spouse, and manage to persuade Rashbehari to sleep with the second wife. Things are even more complicated after one of the five widows, Shankari elopes with the man who was wooing her, Nagen, something which brings the whole family into disgrace. To top the sequence off, Ramnkali's own house is partially destroyed by fire.
On her reaching puberty, Satyabati, now married to Nabakumar, is transferred to the home of her parents-in-law where she is treated mercilessly by the mother-in-law. Her husband, who has enlightened views thanks to his teacher Bhabatosh, asks Ramkali to take her away in order to avoid her dying by torture. But, Satyabati prefers to stay on a fight for her rights, no matter how much abuse and maltreatment is handed out to her. When her husband falls ill, she manages, now the mother of two children, to have him treated by a European doctor who manages to pull him through his illness. She then manoeuvers a job for Nabakumar in Calcutta, determined by the move out of the village to secure a good modern education for her sons, while she too begins a secret life as teacher in a girls' school where she encounters Shankari and her illegitimate daughter. Shankari, working as a cook for a wealthy family, is shocked by being recognized, commits suicide, leaving her daughter Suhasini an orphan. The men of that wealthy household customarily rape their servants, being abetted in this by the other women in their group, and Satyabati manages to save her by taking her away and putting her in a school where she too develops a strong personality.
Nabakumar dislikes his wife’s philanthropic assistance to people outside their closed family, however. This outlook is shared by their sons. Now somewhat late in life, Satyabati becomes pregnant and falls seriously ill. Soudamini, a woman who had been abandoned by her husband Mukanda, is brought in to nurse her, though at the same time she speaks hostilely of Suhasini. Mukanda, meeting up with Soudamini there, desires to take her back, a proposal she accepts with alacrity. Suhasini, upset by the smears, seeks refuge with Nabakumar’s teacher Bhabatosh, and when the latter asks Satyabati, is advised to marry her, which he does. Under his care and tutelage, Suhasini becomes a teacher. Satyabati gives birth to her daughter Subarnalata who, eight years later, is sent to study at the school where Suhasini teaches, while the two sons become, respectively a doctor and a lawyer and Satyabati tries to have the eldest married to an educated woman Her husband opposes this, and has him married off in the traditional manner, while getting his own daughter Subarnalata betrothed, even while she is still a young girl. Satyabati refuses to attend the son’s marriage, abandons the village and plans to go to Ramkali to discuss important questions about what has happened.
The anthology's framing device features Michael Ironside as the sadistic Dr. Daniel Marcus who has chosen to interview some sort of previously experienced trauma causes a series of patients whose psychoses he believes. Dr. Paul Victor (Jack Plotnick) permits him to interview six patients who all match his requirements, leaving the orderlies Shane (Drew Fonteiro) and Kyle (Rane Jameson) to follow his orders.
Marcus then proceeds to trigger each patient's fears through some element of their past, causing them to panic and relate their story through the flashbacks, each of which is related through one of the segments. He dismisses each patient with sharp, cruel rebukes of what he claims are their 'fake' psychoses.
After summoning all six patients, Marcus steps into the hallway to discover Shane and Kyle dead. He is hit over the head by one of the patients he tormented and wakes up in a straitjacket, surrounded by the patients who he has been tormenting. Just as he's killed, he suddenly jerks awake, revealing that Marcus is the titular seventh patient, with Dr. Victor revealed to be his doctor. After relating a story of his own, Marcus is mocked by Victor the same way he mocked the 'patients' in his hallucination, but when Victor turns his back, Marcus attacks and breaks his neck. Picking up Victor's glasses, he says that it's "Time to make his rounds" before proceeding to go on a killing spree through the institution.
Enola Holmes is the youngest sibling in the famous Holmes family. She is extremely intelligent, observant, and insightful, defying the social norms for women of the time. Her mother, Eudoria, has taught her everything from chess to jujitsu and encouraged her to be strong-willed and to think independently.
On her sixteenth birthday, Enola wakes to find that her mother has disappeared, leaving behind only some birthday gifts. A week later, she meets her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock at a train station, although they fail to recognize her at first, not having seen her in many years. Sherlock finds her to be intelligent, whereas Mycroft finds her troublesome, and as her legal guardian intends to send her away to a finishing school run by the stern Miss Harrison.
The flower cards left by her mother reveal secret messages and lead to hidden money, which Enola uses to escape disguised as a boy. On the train, she finds the young Viscount Tewkesbury hidden in a travel bag. She thinks he is a nincompoop, but warns him that a man in a brown bowler hat (named Linthorn) is on the train searching for him. Linthorn subsequently finds and tries to kill Tewkesbury, leading to him and Enola jumping off the train to escape. Neither having any food, Tewkesbury forages for edible plants and fungi. They travel to London and part ways.
Disguised as a proper Victorian lady, Enola continues to trace Eudoria and leaves cryptic messages in the newspaper personal advertisements. Enola discovers pamphlets and a safehouse containing explosives, and learns that Eudoria is part of a radical group of suffragettes. She is attacked by Linthorn, who tortures her for information about Tewkesbury, attempting to drown her. They fight, but she ignites the explosives in the safehouse and escapes.
Enola decides to pause the search for her mother and instead find Tewkesbury again, intending to save him because she thinks him incapable of defending himself. She visits the Tewkesbury estate at Basilwether Hall to learn more. Meanwhile, Mycroft has Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard search for Enola.
Enola finds Tewkesbury selling flowers in Covent Garden and warns him of the danger. Taking him to her lodgings, she is caught by Lestrade and imprisoned in Miss Harrison's finishing school by Mycroft. Sherlock visits her and admits he is impressed by her detective work. Tewkesbury sneaks into the school, and they escape together, stealing Miss Harrison's motor car. They reach a fork in the road and, rather than returning to London, Enola decides they must go to Basilwether Hall and face Tewkesbury's uncle, who she has deduced was trying to kill him.
The estate is seemingly deserted, but Linthorn ambushes them, firing a shotgun. Enola trips him using a jujitsu move, causing a fatal head injury. Tewkesbury's grandmother is revealed as Linthorn's contractor; As a staunch traditionalist, she did not want him to take his father's place in the House of Lords and vote for the Reform Bill. She shoots her grandson in the chest, but he survives thanks to a plate of armor he had hidden under his clothes. Sherlock arrives at Scotland Yard and Lestrade asks him two questions: first, how he managed to solve the case, and second, how his sister solved it first.
Enola shares a tearful goodbye with Tewkesbury. She finds and deciphers a message in a newspaper but deduces that it was not sent by her mother. At the meeting point, Sherlock and Mycroft discuss Enola, and Sherlock suggests becoming her guardian. They decide to leave but Sherlock notices a clue, choosing not to look for Enola.
All the while Enola has been watching, disguised as a newsboy. Returning to her lodgings, Enola finds her mother waiting there. They embrace, and Eudoria explains why she had to leave, and why she must leave again, but she is impressed by what Enola has become. Enola has found her freedom and her purpose—she is a detective and a finder of lost souls.
''The Mind Masters'' is the fourth ''Gamma World'' adventure and sends a group of player characters to investigate a great store of artifacts.
''Secret of the Ancients'' is an adventure which sends the player characters on a search through the Regina subsector for signs of the long-dead race called the Ancients.
As the fair at the Kingdom begins, Alpha leads an attack on one caravan from the Hilltop going to the Kingdom. Daryl and Michonne arrive with Judith, Henry, Lydia, and Connie, reuniting with Carol and Ezekiel. Michonne brings all the leaders from the communities to apologize for Alexandria forgoing its relationships, that Alexandria will give asylum to Lydia, and to establish a mutual protection pact knowing that Alpha will likely retaliate. To affirm the pact, Ezekiel has the communities sign Michonne's charter and then starts arranging for a small combined force to travel to the Hilltop to make sure it is secure from an attack from the Whisperers. As the fair continues, Alpha has snuck into the fair, posing as one of the Alexandria fairgoers from the caravan and gathers intel. That night, as most of the fairgoers gather for the film, Lydia is saving a seat for Henry when Alpha quietly sits next to her and gestures for her to stay quiet. Outside the theater, Alpha tries to convince Lydia to come with her, but Lydia rejects her. Alpha tells her she is not strong and no longer part of her group, and departs.
Earlier that day, Daryl's small force leaves for the Hilltop and meets up with the Highwaymen en route. The Highwaymen point them to a group of Hilltop residents that were killed by Alpha. The group decides to split up to look for any survivors. That night, Daryl, Michonne, Carol, and Yumiko are attacked by walkers, and take them out one by one until the Whisperers surround them. Beta emerges from the trees and tells them to drop their weapons. "You just had to give me the girl," he growls at Daryl, telling him that deal is now off. Later, at the Whisperers' new camp, Alpha, now out of disguise, joins her people, and approaches Daryl and company, who are now tied to a tree. After announcing that her daughter is no longer a concern, Alpha takes out a shotgun and tells Daryl to come with her alone. At dawn, Alpha forces Daryl to the top of a cliff where a gargantuan horde of walkers and Whisperers walk beneath them. She tells him that his friends at the camp are fine and that she has marked off a line which is the extent of their lands, but the next time his people cross into her land she'll release the horde into theirs. Daryl asks if she killed Lydia, and Alpha tells him that she didn't kill her and doubts that Daryl can protect her. He tells her that she's wrong and leaves, and reunites with his friends. Back in her camp, Alpha, in private, begins to tear up over the loss of her daughter. However, a Whisperer accidentally witnesses her crying. In response, Alpha winds up killing the Whisperer by stabbing him in the neck, making sure no one ever sees her being weak.
As Daryl's group works their way back to the Kingdom, they find a beaten and bloody Siddiq tied to a tree. Siddiq is untied and points them to a nearby hill. To their horror, they find a line of ten decapitated heads on pikes made up of Ozzy, Alek, D.J., Frankie, Tammy Rose, Rodney, Addy, Enid, Tara, and Henry, meant to signify Alpha's territory boundary. Later, in the Kingdom, Siddiq addresses the community to deliver the tragic news. He explains how they were taken by the Whisperers, and that Alpha left him alive to tell a story of the "evil" that happened and to drive the communities apart again. Instead, Siddiq tells a very different story: Before the end, the prisoners were found by Ozzy, Alek and D.J., who gave them the chance to fight back. The prisoners fought like hell to the end, protecting each other like family even though some of them didn't even know each other, taking down several Whisperers. Though they failed in the end, they died heroes which is how Siddiq wants them to be remembered and honored. Sometime later, Daryl and Lydia return to the border. Lydia leaves the necklace Henry made for her on the ground by the pike that once held Henry's head. As the two walk away, snow flurries begin to fall.
Several months after the fair massacre, winter has arrived and the Kingdom has fallen due to burst pipes, rot, and fires, and is unable to keep up its infrastructure. Ezekiel makes the decision to abandon the Kingdom, assembling a large caravan of the remaining survivors to seek out better shelter at the Hilltop, though not before he broadcasts their situation via radio to anyone who might be listening; Daryl, Michonne, and Yumiko help to escort them. They discuss the Hilltop's issues of leadership following Tara's death, noting that Maggie has opted to stay with Georgie and her group even after sending her several requests to return. After dealing with rogue walkers, Ezekiel tells Daryl that he wants a fresh start with Carol at the Hilltop, stating "it would be easier if it was just us." Daryl asks if that is also what Carol wants. Meanwhile, Lydia wanders into the forest and finds a walker half-buried in ice. She takes off her glove while crying and offers her hand to the walker to commit suicide, but stops when Carol appears and follows her back to the group. With the storm building up and nowhere close to a waypoint, Michonne decides to take the group to the abandoned Sanctuary. The abandoned factory provides shelter from the storm, but it becomes clear that they do not have the supplies to wait it out. Reviewing maps, they recognize that if they cross the boundary to the Whisperers' land and traverse a frozen river, they can quickly reach a safe waypoint within a day.
Using the cover of the storm, the Kingdom's group passes the pikes into Alpha's territory, only finding some frozen walkers along the way, and arrive at a river that has been frozen over. Carol goes looking for Lydia, who has disappeared, while the rest deal with rising walkers buried in the snow. She eventually catches up to Lydia, who believes she's to blame for their situation and feels she can't stay with them. Lydia asks Carol to kill her, but Carol refuses Lydia's request and tells her that she is not weak. The group eventually makes it to the waypoint and soon reaches the Hilltop the next day. There, Carol tells Ezekiel that she plans to go with Daryl back to Alexandria and subsequently breaks up with him. Daryl, Michonne, Carol, Lydia, and a few others prepare to depart and continue on to Alexandria, leaving Ezekiel in charge of the Hilltop.
At Alexandria, with the approaching storm taking out their solar power, Gabriel concocts a plan to group up next to large fireplaces in the church and in Aaron's house and realizes they'll have to free Negan from his cell so he doesn't freeze; the residents take shelter in the church. Eugene later discovers that the fireplace in the church is blocked off and cannot be used, and so they decide that they need to relocate to Aaron's house. They all tie a rope around themselves and head out into the blizzard. As they cross through the windy snowfall at sub-freezing temperatures, Judith hears Dog barking in the distance and chases after him, forcing Negan to race after her, but gets injured from flying debris. He hears Dog barking and finds Judith, who is beginning to suffer from hypothermia; Negan carries Judith and leads Dog back to the group, despite his injury.
Eventually, Daryl's group reaches Alexandria as the storm subsides. Michonne is elated to see Judith and R.J.. In the infirmary, Michonne goes to talk to Negan, who is being treated for his wound; she thanks him for saving Judith. He compliments her on having the guts to cross through the Whisperers' territory. In their camp, Alpha reminds Beta that she'll need to be strong for what comes next and Beta assures her she will be. Per Alpha's request, Beta flogs her arm with a branch to make her stronger, leaving several lashes on her arm, as she used to do to Lydia. At the Hilltop, Ezekiel converses with Judith via radio to catch up and tells her that just because they left their house doesn't mean they lost their home. They finish talking and Ezekiel exits the room. Suddenly, the radio picks up a faint transmission and a woman's voice comes through asking if anybody is out there.
The game opens with Robin Hood and his friends Will Scarlet and Much the miller's son locked inside Nottingham castle. Meanwhile, The Prophecies of Gildas have prophecised that a Hooded Man will come to Sherwood forest and do the bidding of Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees. Robin Hood must escape Nottingham Castle, meet with Herne, and retrieve the "Touchstones of Rhiannon", six magical talismans.
In the previous film, Bailey reunited with his longtime owner Ethan after being reincarnated as a new dog. Now a St. Bernard/Australian Shepherd, Bailey lives happily with Ethan, Ethan's wife Hannah, Gloria (the widow of Hannah's son Henry) and her 2-year-old daughter CJ on their farm in Michigan. Gloria is an inattentive mother, hates dogs, has a strained relationship with her parents-in-law and an ambition to be a singer. Gloria's suspicious nature leads her to move out with CJ. Shortly after, Ethan discovers a tumor in Bailey's stomach. Before Bailey is euthanized, Ethan lovingly holds him and asks him to take care of CJ once he is reincarnated again. Bailey is then shown running through a grassy field towards CJ.
Nine years later, Bailey, reincarnated as a female beagle named Molly, sees a now 11-year-old CJ with her best friend Trent and his parents, who are adopting the former’s favorite brother Rocky. Remembering the promise she made to Ethan in her previous life, Molly runs outside to CJ. CJ secretly adopts Molly and keeps her hidden from Gloria for several weeks, until Gloria eventually discovers her. Gloria scolds CJ, but reluctantly allows her to keep Molly to compensate for her neglectful parenting.
CJ and Molly grow increasingly close over the years, along with Trent and Rocky. Now a teenager, CJ tells Trent she wants to drop out of high school and move to New York City with her deceased father Henry's insurance settlement to become a musician. CJ begins to date Shane, who Molly distrusts and tries to protect her from. Attending a party which gets busted by police for underage drinking, CJ is sentenced to community service where Molly learns how to detect cancer. Her grandparents try to pay her and Gloria a visit, bringing a box of Henry's belongings, but still angry and distrustful, Gloria closes the door on them. During the exchange, Molly subtly indicates to Ethan that she is the reincarnated Bailey.
Days after she had broken up with him, Shane assaults CJ, prompting Molly to bite him. While drunk, Gloria responds nonchalantly to CJ's distress and also reveals she spent all of Henry's settlement money (meant for CJ) on designer bags, her house, and car, prompting CJ to leave town with Molly. On the way out, they are stalked and tail-ended by Shane, which causes CJ’s car to flip, killing Molly. Shane flees the scene in a panic to avoid his arrest. Molly is then shown running through the same grassy field that Bailey had run through when he died.
Molly is reincarnated as a male English mastiff named Big Dog, who lives with a convenience store owner in Pennsylvania. One day, CJ visits the shop on her way to New York City and is lovingly greeted by Big Dog. He mistakenly believes that CJ recognizes him and is going to take him with her, but is heartbroken when CJ leaves the store without him.
Big Dog is reincarnated as a male Biewer Terrier named Max, who is at an adoption event in New York. Max avoids adoption by being hostile to most other humans, in hopes of encountering CJ again. He eventually spots CJ across a city block and chases her into a building, and when CJ returns Max to the adoption event, she feels compelled to adopt him when she's told that Max would otherwise be put down. While CJ is working as a dog walker and returning a client's dog, Max detects Trent's familiar scent down the hall and pulls her toward his door. While CJ and Trent greet and reconnect with each other, Max sniffs around Trent's apartment and is sad to learn that Rocky has died.
Max is eager to reunite CJ and Trent, despite each of them being in live-in relationships of their own. Max intentionally misbehaves around CJ's boyfriend, after which they break up and CJ moves out with Max. They stay with various friends of CJ's before Max spots Trent and his girlfriend on the street, and Trent offers his guest room to CJ upon learning that she's without a permanent residence. Remembering how to diagnose cancer during his life as Molly, Max signals to CJ that he detects it on Trent and CJ urges Trent to see a doctor. The doctor confirms and Trent begins chemo. His girlfriend shallowly leaves him, so CJ becomes his primary caretaker. Once Trent is cancer-free, he urges CJ to accept a meeting with Gloria, who was at the time 9 months and 13 days sober. Gloria tearfully apologizes to CJ, and gives CJ some of the things sent from Ethan and Hannah (letters from Henry that he had written while she was pregnant with CJ). They inspire CJ to write more songs and lead to her finally perform, overcoming her longstanding stage fright and beginning her musical career.
To repay CJ, Trent takes her and Max on a road trip to her grandparents’ farm, where she reunites with Ethan and Hannah for the first time since she was a toddler. Ethan recognizes Max as Bailey and tells CJ of the dog's reincarnations, proving it by having Max perform a trick with Ethan that only Bailey would know. CJ then realizes that Bailey, Molly, Big Dog, and Max are all the same dog and runs to tell Trent. CJ and Trent then confess their love for one another, kiss, and praise Max/Bailey for reuniting and protecting them.
CJ and Trent marry, and shortly after CJ releases her first music album, they have a son named Saint. Gloria reconciles with her daughter and in-laws, reuniting the entire family. Ethan dies of natural causes, surrounded by Max and the rest of his family. Max later ages and dies as well, while being comforted by CJ. The final scene shows Bailey running through the grassy field, morphing backwards through his previous incarnations, before crossing the Rainbow Bridge and reuniting with Ethan in heaven.
Vera and Nikita do not know each other, and the only thing they have in common is the fact that they chose the same place to celebrate their success in their personal lives. Vera is a successful TV presenter of her own talk show and is about to get married, her significant other is Konstantin, a famous tennis player. Nikita is a veterinarian high in demand, who made a marriage proposal to Ilona, a plastic surgeon. Everything is going well for them, they are happy, their friends support their choice, but everything changes one morning when Vera and Nikita wake up in the same bed. Deciding that this is a result of wild fun, they run away in different directions, hoping to forget everything as a bad dream.
But the next morning everything repeats, they wake up again in the same bed, in the same Dream House, although each of them knows for sure that they fell asleep at home. This continues for several more days. Some mysterious forces all the time bring them together, ruining their privacy, or perhaps indicating that they are made for each other.
In the near future, huge plains of waste cover every corner of the planet. Global warming makes the surface uninhabitable and hostile. Earth is dead. But human beings gave life to its greatest invention, Pathos, a mechanical system that protects them, controls their five senses, and gives them a perfect life for a fee. Free thought is not allowed, and only the pay-dreams provided by the system are permissible. But one day, one man dreams with the help of something different: his own mind.
In a mainly empty room with no windows and faint lighting, the man (referred to by the system with a user numerical designation) is hooked up to a machine via a tube, apparently a set of cables grafted directly on to his head. He imagines a butterfly with wings of four different patterns and colours on its wings. The system interrupts him, telling him independent cognitive activity is not permitted. On a screen there are frequent advertisements for different instant dreams, experiences which are paid for with credit cards. The man sees the advertisements and impulsively, then desperately, types the number from one of his many cards, and then another, and another, but time after time, his cards are rejected as not recognised by the system, which, as a "precaution", blocks his senses, until touch is all he has left, for one last, vain, try. Disconnected from the network, the tube is removed and the man collapses.
Fabienne Dangeville is a very famous French actress, giving an interview about work on her upcoming book. Her daughter, screenwriter Lumir, son-in-law actor Hank and granddaughter Charlotte arrive for her book launch. Lumir is surprised that the book has already been printed, as she expected to read it and approve content about her first, before publishing. Fabienne tells her that she sent her a manuscript to New York (though it's unclear if it's a lie, or it merely never delivered). Later that night, Lumir reads her mother's book and annotates it.
Next day, Lumir confronts Fabienne about some lines in the book which depict her relationship with her mother as a fairy tale fabrication. Fabienne was very rarely there for Lumir as a child. Lumir also asks why she doesn't mention Sarah once in her book (Sarah Mondavan, being Fabienne's best friend, an accomplished actress in her own right, whom Fabienne betrayed), Fabienne simply replies it's her book her choice, that nobody reading it would want to know the truth, because being a famous actress, her fans would find the truth uninteresting. Later, Luc, Fabienne's manager, tells Lumir that Fabienne accepted her current film role only because it stars Manon Lenoir, the next big actress who reminds everyone of Sarah Mondavan. The film "Memories of My Mother" is a science fiction dealing with themes of time and ageing.
Lumir goes to the film set, acting as Fabienne's assistant, and watches the film shoot. The film-within-a-film is about a mother who is dying, so she goes to live in space to arrest her aging and slow the effects of her terminal illness. She returns to Earth every seven years to visit her daughter, who gets older and older with each visit, whilst her mother remains youthful. Fabienne plays the daughter in her seventies. During a read-through rehearsal of the script, the room seems very impressed with Manon's talent, but Fabienne seems annoyed and threatened, believing Manon is being pretentious by overacting. Later, Luc tells Fabienne that Manon reminds him of Sarah Mondavan, while Lumir agrees and says they have the same sounding husky voice.
Annoyed with Fabienne, Luc informs her that he plans to retire and go live with his son's family. Fabienne is surprised to be reminded that Luc had so many grandchildren. Lumir asks him why he is leaving, and he says that Fabienne didn't mention him even once in her memoir as if he never existed. He tells Lumir that she can manage Fabienne as they would make a good team. Pierre, Lumir's father and Fabienne's ex-husband, surprises everyone by arriving at the house. Lumir quickly surmises he wants money, which he thinks he deserves for Fabienne publishing a book including him. Lumir tells him that the book's single mentions of him is he being dead.
Fabienne's current husband, Jacques, makes dinner for the whole family, including Pierre. When Pierre congratulates Hank on his acting successes, Fabienne downplays Hank's TV career, and very casually insults his acting ability while doing so as mere imitation. To get back at her mother for hurting Hank's feelings, Lumir abruptly brings up how Fabienne stole the award-winning role from Sarah by sleeping with the director, and that Sarah's suicide was Fabienne's fault. Fabienne insists that Sarah's death was an accident, in that she drowned while swimming after having drunk too much. Lumir still misses Sarah as she was kind. Fabienne says she should have been Sarah's daughter and she'd rather be a bad mother and bad friend and a good actress. Upset at her mother's insensitivity, Lumir leaves the table in tears. Hank, who had quit drinking, gets drunk with his mother-in-law.
The next day, while shooting scenes with Manon and feeling threatened, Fabienne plays the complaining diva by messing up her lines and blaming being distracted by things, like ringing cell phones. During a later take she falls down, but then pulls out a great performance from it. Fabienne wants Luc back but doesn't know what to do. Lumir tells her to apologize, and Fabienne says that she's never apologized to a man before, then asks Lumir to write an appropriate apology script for her to memorize. Later, the family has dinner with Luc and his extended family, and Fabienne tells Luc that Lumir wants him back instead of apologizing using the script Lumir had written for her.
Back on the set, Fabienne panics over Manon's youth and obvious talent, and leaves the set saying she's quitting acting and that Manon is mocking her. Lumir stops her, asks her to just admit Manon is a better actress and to quit always wimping out. Out of pride, Fabienne returns to the set. She tells Lumir that she sees Sarah sometimes and thinks she would be better at acting if Sarah were watching her. She asks her daughter to watch her instead, and finishes her scenes in the film.
Lumir compliments her mother on her performance, and later Manon stops by to thank and compliment her as well. Fabienne admits that it was the kind of thing she would have done with Sarah, whom Manon reminds her of. She ends up giving Manon Sarah's favorite dress, which fits her perfectly. Manon asks Fabienne what Sarah was like, and she tells her how talented she was. Manon says the comparison being made between them is a burden. Fabienne asks why she doesn't try to be the new Fabienne, and Manon says that would be too heavy a weight, and they all laugh.
Fabienne admits to Lumir that she was jealous of Sarah, because her stealing a mere role and award from Sarah doesn't compare with Sarah's stealing her daughter's affections. Lumir asks her why that wasn't in her book, and Fabienne says maybe she will include it in the second edition. Lumir hugs her mother, cries and tells her she must truly have magical powers because she's on the verge of forgiving her. Fabienne then suddenly gets upset that she should have played the scene with Manon like this and thinking that it was a waste to not use these emotions in scene.
Charlotte goes to Fabienne and tells her that her greatest wish is to become an actress someday. Fabienne tells her magic is unnecessary for that to manifest, as she is her granddaughter. She tells Fabienne she wants her to go into a spaceship so that she can stop aging too, so she's able to watch her grow up to become an actress, which moves Fabienne. Charlotte then goes back to Lumir, and it's revealed it's a line that Lumir wrote for her to please her grandmother. Charlotte asks whether the sentiment is therefore real or not. Lumir, taken aback and unable to answer, simply smiles uneasily.
Luc returns to work, where Fabienne has Charlotte present him with her homemade medal as a silent apology. She asks him to have a reshoot scheduled for "Memories of My Mother", since she thinks she can act the scene better now. Lumir asks Luc if he really ever intended to leave, but he doesn't say. The family heads out together as Fabienne, in an exalted mood, notes that she loves Parisian winters.
To the tune of "The Love Bug Will Bite You," a "love bug" sprays a pair of frogs, a pair of birds and Nicky's "horse hopper," Hortense, with a love potion.
A young boy, pulling a toy horse, sees a wanted poster for the Black Knight, then meets a princess. While he and the princess are picking flowers, the unnamed hero boy encounters Nicky, while the Black Knight kidnaps the princess.
King Louis, a trencherman, leaves his dinner table to rescue the princess, only to be repulsed by the Black Knight's castle.
Overnight, Louis is lamenting how to breach such a strong castle, mentioning many horsepower, a mobile fortress and great speed. Nicky then whispers to Louis, and through the remainder of the night, a Trojan horse is built.
At dawn, Louis looks out of the right eye of the Trojan horse and says, "Give up, Blackie?" only to be answered with a salvo of arrows that surrounded the eye where Louis issued his challenge. Louis replied, "Let 'em have it!"
A hatch opens in the front of the Trojan horse, and out drives the hero boy at the wheel of a 1938 Chevrolet. The wheels bounce over logs and rocks to tout their "Knee-Action" suspension, arrows go in and out of the vent windows to tout their "Draft-Free Ventilation," rocks bounce off the roof to tout their "Turret-Top" roof, and then the car bulldozed the castle walls with the sound effect of a steam locomotive blowing its whistle for a railroad crossing.
The hero boy returns in the undamaged car to the last turret standing in the castle, rushing up a spiral staircase to free the princess and to battle the Black Knight, although with a wooden toy sword. The hero boy winds up on his back, and the Black Knight picks up a battleaxe and swings it at the boy, who rolls out of the way. When the knight hits the floorboard, it acts like a catapult, hurling the knight down the spiral staircase to his doom. The Princess and the hero boy kiss.
Back at the king's castle, Louis knights the hero boy for bravery on the field of combat, and offers the hero boy one wish, pushing his daughter toward the boy. The boy looked at the Chevrolet and said, "One wish, Sire?" The boy looked again at the car and back at the king, and said, "Double or nothing, Your Majesty!" Louis gave the boy a waving, left-handed salute.
Flanked by knights on horseback singing "The Love Bug Will Bite You," the young couple drive away in the Chevrolet. Nicky and Hortense appear from behind the grille and shake hands. The End.
James Bond takes on Lacertus Alligator, head of the evil organization TOOTH (The Organization Organized to Hate). Alligator's face is the color purple. His plan for world domination includes the kidnapping the Houses of Parliament. And not just the members of Parliament, but also the buildings. Alligator ends up also kidnapping the Queen as well.
The book is written in the form of a letter from father to son; the two have fled their home in Homs, Syria due to the Syrian Civil War, and face the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
Nate and his family move to St. Peanutsburg, in a fictitious country called BBQ, after Nate's father transferred his business there. During his story arc of the main game, Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan befriend Buck, who was able to see Yo-kai because of his stone that he wears on his necklace. Meanwhile, rumors of a UFO circulated around town, as the FBY agents, Blunder and Folly, were investigating the case.
Also available for the first time in, Hailey Anne makes her debut in the main series games. Unlike Nate though, her story takes place in Springdale, with Usapyon. In her story arc during the game, she forms the Hapyon Detective Agency, or whatever the player decides to call it. Her story arc involves most of her interactions with Usapyon, and the different cases that the detective agency receives.
Later, Nate, Hailey Anne, Buck, and their befriended Yo-kai team up against a common threat, as the two soon knew what was of the UFO, from the series of events that lead them to this point.
Jake (Andy Samberg) struggles to find a new assistant for Holt (Andre Braugher) since Gina’s departure from the precinct. Eventually, Jake finds a good candidate, Gordon Lundt (Karan Soni), however Holt claims that during the interview, Gordon was flirting with him.
Eventually, Jake and Holt discover that Gordon was a mole sent by Commissioner John Kelly (Phil Reeves) to spy on the precinct. Holt distracts Gordon by taking him to a barrel museum, but the next day, Gordon approaches them and confirms their suspicions, but tells them that he has fallen in love with Holt for real. Jake suggests using Gordon as a double agent to spy on Kelly, which Holt reluctantly agrees to. However, Gordon triple-crosses them, and Kelly reveals that he plans to twist the story to ruin Holt’s career. But Holt reveals that he got Kelly’s confession on tape, and sends Kelly a list of his demands in retaliation.
Meanwhile, Amy (Melissa Fumero), tired of how cluttered the precinct is (due to Kelly moving the entire precinct to the bullpen), tries to get people to get rid of their personal belongings. She struggles to get Terry (Terry Crews) to get rid of a pair of suspenders he has grown attached to. Eventually, Terry reveals that he was planning on wearing the suspenders on his first day as a Lieutenant, but stashed them away after he failed the Lieutenant’s Exam. Amy, feeling guilty, buys him another pair and assures him that he will pass the test someday. Later, the precinct is restored to its former glory, due to Holt sending Kelly a list of his demands.
High school student Sōta Nishino (Ryusei Yokohama) visits his friend Yukihiro Nanase's (Tsuyoshi Furukawa) house and meets his younger sister Mai Nanase (Risaki Matsukaze), a somewhat naive high school student. They start a relationship after Mai overheard Nishino telling her brother "Your sister is cute." However, their relationship is threatened when Nishino's cousin, Ituski Kaga (Koudai Matsuoka), also falls in love with Mai.
A woman re-evaluates her life after her husband walks out on her following 15 years marriage.
''BeltStrike: Riches and Danger in the Bowman Belt'' is the second in the series of ''Traveller'' adventure modules sold in boxed form, and details the asteroid system of Bowman, set in District 268 of the Spinward Marches.
The isolated poetry-loving Thomas MacMillan pens a letter to his lover, telling her the story of his mother's love affair with a man named Henry and in the process telling the story of his own family and childhood.
Born in 1957 Thomas is quickly abandoned by his mother and left to be raised by his alcoholic abusive grandmother in Petrolia, Ontario. While his grandmother equips him with the bare necessities of life she keeps much of her former life shrouded in mystery. Thomas ends up learning most of his family history from his next door neighbours who are mostly welcoming and kind to him, though he does experience racism as his family is Trinidadian and he is the only black child in the mostly white community.
In 1967 he comes across his grandmother's dead body. He is sheltered by the neighbours for a few weeks until his mother arrives with her boyfriend and the two of them whisk him away. Thomas's mother, Katarina, first tells him they are going to Montreal but after a few days his mother's boyfriend abandons them by the side of the road in Manotick and they are forced to resettle in downtown Ottawa with Henry Wing, a chemist of Trinidadian and Chinese descent who is oppressively in love with Katarina.
Though Katarina tells Thomas that their stay with Henry is temporary they live in harmony with him for several years. After a few years Thomas realizes they are in love and begins stealing from his mother. When Katarina eventually discovers the theft Thomas lies and tells her he stole the clothes at the behest of Henry, something Henry eventually confirms to protect Thomas. Katarina finally moves out of their home and takes on other lovers, although Thomas spends the next decade living between their respective homes which are located close together.
When Thomas is an adult, his mother moves back to Petrolia to her mother's house. Thomas mostly avoids her and Henry. In 1996 Thomas is disturbed to find that Henry is obsessed with finding a cure for cancer, though when he questions Henry he learns that he is not ill. Thomas learns that his mother is ill and visits her in Petrolia. There he is shocked to discover she has cancer and two days later she dies. On his return trip to Ottawa, Thomas stops by Henry's home only to learn that he has arrived just after Henry's burial as he abruptly died of a blood clot a few days earlier.
Thomas decides not to live as Henry and his mother did and invites his lover, Marya, into his home for the first time.
The film opens with Stuart being fired for his excessive bourbon drinking. His friend invites the depressed Stuart to join his family on a trip to Paris. Under the Eiffel Tower, 50-something Stuart proposes to 25 year-old Rosalind. She is shocked and declines, considering Stuart to be only a friend. Greatly embarrassed Stuart decides to return home.
At the airport, Stuart meets Liam and tells him the story of what happened and Liam persuades Stuart to come and travel with him by train across France. On the train Liam, a recently divorced Scotsman, and Stuart meet Louise, a French winemaker, as she sits in the train carriage with Stuart and Liam. The three depart the train and all have dinner together. Liam offers to pay for dinner but his card is declined. Stuart gives up his engagement ring to secure the bill. The two men spend the night on park benches. That day they join a tour group that happens to tour Louise's winery. The guys meet Gerard, whom Louise cares for. Stuart cooks dinner and the guys spend the night at the winery. Louise sleeps with the younger Liam, but the next day spends all her time with Stuart.
Stuart, a salesman, calls his boss and asks for his job back if he buys the French winery. He also asks his boss to mail a case of bourbon to Max to get his engagement ring released. The guys stay for Gerard's birthday party, for which Stuart cooks a lamb dinner. That night, Louise sleeps with Stuart. Everyone sees them as a perfect match. Stuart is crushed to learn Louise and Gerard are married. Liam is betrayed, and has a fistfight with Stuart. Louise also feels betrayed by Stuart's efforts to buy the vineyard. Gerard unexpectedly dies. Stuart flies home, and Louise closes the winery.
Stuart is miserable, and Louise will not return any calls. He gets on a plane and returns to France to see the woman he loves. The winery sale to Stuart's boss is completed, and he and Louise reconcile.
As described in a film magazine, a bothersome neighbor (Stevenson) tries to palm his wife off on professor Alec Dupree (Denny), who has a reputation for being "safe and dependable," for an evening at the Hanging Gardens Cafe. He objects on the grounds that he is writing a book, but the neighbor leaves, assuming his assent. The Dean of Wyndham College, which was founded by an ancestor of Dupree, is distressed over the financial plight of the school, and goes to the young professor for aid. He tells him that Agnes Clevenger, a wealthy widow who makes annual gifts to the college, is being lured away by New York charities and that the college is in danger of being left flat. Dupree is beguiled by a gay party in the next apartment into having a few drinks and meets the widow Clevenger (Fitzgerald), who is in conference with some charitable organizations. Addressing her as Aggie, he drags her into the hall for a private chat, flatters her by calling her beautiful, and makes a date to show her the town in half an hour. His cousin Edith (Greene) tells him that a young woman from the West named Hazel (Nixon) will be arriving, but he wants nothing to do with her until he sees her. He then insists on taking her out, just as soon as he is finished with the widow. He takes the widow around the town using an airplane, and then returns home to change. While he is dressing, a childhood sweetheart who has run away from her husband comes to him for refuge. He tells her to leave his apartment, and then he is dragged to the Hanging Garden by his neighbor's wife Fran (Tashman). As soon as they are seated, he goes to the telephone and meets the widow Clevenger, who insists on being taken to the Hanging Gardens. They are seated and he orders dinner, and then leaves on some pretext, and runs into Fran and her mother, who ask him to join them. He is in love with the young woman so cannot miss this opportunity, so he orders some soup and then excuses himself to go and use the telephone. By instructing a bellboy to page him every five minutes, he is able to spend time with each of the women without letting them know of the other two. The runaway wife's husband Frank (Braham) arrives with murder in his eyes and goes stalking for Dupree. The two younger women leave him in disgust and he gets rid of the widow. He returns home to find the runaway wife Lucille in his bathtub. Angry at her, he leaves her to his apartment and goes in his pajamas to get some sleep at a neighbor's, but is called back to the phone in his apartment just as the angry husband arrives and bangs on his door. He carries Lucille to Fran's apartment and puts her into bed, and then faces the wild husband with a show of innocence. Fran comes in, sees the strange woman in her bed, and rushes to Dupree for sympathy and falls into his arms. She is followed by her husband who sees them in an embrace. To finish it, Hazel and the widow also arrive at the apartment. Faced with two outraged husbands, the professor turns into a cave man, and puts everyone into their place with an iron hand. He then drags Hazel to his apartment and orders her to kiss him. She accepts his proposal of marriage, and the widow decides to give two million dollars to the college.
Philip, a 17-year-old senior has dreams of being a musician, but his father sees his life much differently. Frank wants Philip to complete a summer internship at the family ketchup factory before attending a state college, despite the fact that Philip wants to attend New York University. One night at dinner Philip asks his mother, Laura, if he can attend the Darling Festival at the lake, since it is his final Spring Break of his high school career. Despite attending the festival with her husband almost two decades prior, she says no, much to Philip's dismay.
Philip is accepted into NYU, and Frank abruptly shuts him down, without a conversation. This greatly upsets Philip, so he decides to sneak out of the house the next day after his father has left for his long trip to Japan and his mother and sister, Lib have gone to a PETA event. Lewis picks Philip up and they head off to the lake. Although, Philip thinks they're going to be staying in a lake side cabin, they end up staying at Lewis' stoner uncle, Ross', shanty apartment.
Philip decide to head to the pool, and while Philip is busy admiring his high school crush Allison, Frank shows up to the pool. The boys scramble to hide from Frank as he walks up to and hugs the waitress. Worried, the two boys follow Frank and the waitress to a house and sneak to the backyard where Philip is shocked again. This time he hugs an older woman and then a younger man. The three people turn out to be Bonnie, Kelly and Eddie (Frank's other wife, daughter and son, respectively). Philip is devastated and he and Lewis head back to Ross' apartment. The next day Philip returns to Frank's other house and introduces himself as Richie's son, Richie is the name Frank has used to keep his wives off the trail. He is welcomed in with open arms.
Frank "returns" home from his "trip" to Japan and is shocked when he sees Philip in the wrong house. Later in the evening, Philip blackmails Frank into paying for his NYU tuition and Frank obliges, writing him a check. Philip spends the weekend with Frank's other family, even attending a party with Kelly and bonding with Eddie about their father (unbeknownst) to Eddie. Not returning home on Monday, Laura gets worried and calls Lewis' mother to inquire the whereabouts of her son and learns that they went to the lake. Laura and Lib go to the lake the next day.
Lewis warns Philip and Frank about the impending arrival of Laura and Lib, but it's too late. Frank makes up a lie about not needing to be in Japan and not telling his wife why. The family decides to rent a cabin at the lake for the festival. The morning of the Darling Festival, Frank wakes up at Bonnie's house, but also needs to be at Laura's house at the same time so he goes for a "jog" but he actually flat out runs there. Eddie volunteers to go with, but Frank says he wants to be alone, leaving Eddie feeling confused and rejected.
Frank's arrival at Laura's rental confuses her and Lib, as he is completely soaked from the sweat. Philip sends the girls to the festival, not knowing that Frank had already sent Bonnie, Kelly and Eddie down to the festival as well. Philip and Frank are dumbfounded, trying to figure out how to keep the two families from bumping into each other. Ironically, Ross appears with a power boat and gets them to the festival in a fraction of the time.
Philip and Frank arrive and split up to distract the two wives. Before Philip can reach his mother, he is cut off by Kelly, who wants to reveal her feelings for him. Kelly won't listen to Philip and leans in to kiss him, as Frank stops it before she is able to. Frank then reveals the whole truth about his affair. Thinking he can distract Laura and Bonnie from being too upset at his father, he thinks of an off-hand remark Frank said about heaving himself into oncoming traffic. Before a car strikes Philip, Frank pushes him out of the way. Doing this, though, put them in front of another car, driven by Stan and Marcy Kempler (two friends of Bonnie and Frank). Not knowing if they killed Philip and Frank they speed away.
Philip and Frank end up in the hospital. Philip is released after only sustaining bumps and bruises, but Frank is admitted having suffered broken ribs and a broken leg, with a few minor injuries. Laura leaves the hospital without seeing Frank, removing her wedding ring in the car, signifying the end of her marriage. Bonnie and all four children enter Frank's hospital room and confront him about the pain he's caused. Everyone leaves the room, with Philip trailing, having finally connected to his father in a way he always desired.
Five months, later Philip is moving into his dorm room when Kelly comes to see him, letting him know they'll be neighbors. Frank and Bonnie end up sharing an elevator, with Bonnie stating she'd rather him "take the window". Frank enters Philip's room and Kelly leaves immediately, not ready to mend her relationship with her father. Frank then presents his father's guitar to Philip, explaining that the guitar never really belonged to him. This also serves as a blessing for Philip to pursue music as a career. Philip and Frank embrace in a hug and then Frank leaves, only to linger outside the dorm room and listen to Philip play his new guitar.
Vera and Nikita have been married for three years. Their family life turns out to be not so perfect and they decide to separate. And they are so impatient to end their relationship, that they are going to the registry office to submit an application for divorce the next day. In the midst of a quarrel, they exchange categorical opinions with each other about what constitutes as a "normal husband" and "good wife."
The next day they wake up each with their ideal partner in the same bed. Now each of them has their own better half: Nikita has a busty blonde (Polina Maksimova) who cooks well, and Vera has a caring husband-businessman (Mikhail Galustyan) who buys her favorite croissants for breakfast in the morning. Vera and Nikita end up having to choose whether to live with their new families, or to get back together again. As a result, the spouses understand that, despite the quarrels, their feelings for each other are strong, and they reconcile.
Having learned from the doctors that he has only a few weeks to live, Nikita makes the courageous decision to transfer his family and work to decent hands. An employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations named Ilya becomes a candidate for a replacement, a decent man all around. Nikita makes every effort to “introduce” Ilya as soon as possible into his life and unexpectedly succeeds in this. Soon, Ilya becomes an excellent father for Nikita's children, an indispensable employee at the clinic and, most importantly, a very appealing man for Masha, Nikita's beautiful wife. However, the real test of this is only beginning, because Nikita soon realizes that the doctors were wrong, and in fact he will not die at all in the near future. Now he has to win back his place in the family and at work, and it turns out to be much more difficult than it seems at first glance.
After leaving home 10 years ago, detective Lauri Räihä is sent to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern Finnish town where he grew up. The investigation offers a way to escape couples' therapy and his failing relationship with his husband. But going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him many years previously. Together with his partner, Sanna Tervo, a carefree soul on the surface, but also someone who has their own difficult past, Lauri seeks answers to the case only to discover other truths about himself, his home town, and whether one has the power to forgive all sins.
Set in 1999, fifteen years before the story of season 1, Jussi Ritola, police officer in a small town of Varjakka in Northern Finland, starts to investigate the death of two of his wife’s colleagues. The victims had been developing a revolutionary touch screen technology in the company of a local businessman and member of the town’s conservative religious community. The whole town has got to take part in the international technology boom. As Ritola investigates the deaths of the couple, the religious community starts to protect its members. The community is also shaken by a movement led by women that has landed in the town and is preaching the dawning of a new age. The millennium is nearing its end and an obscure atmosphere of expectation hovers over everything, while Ritola’s murder investigation leads his personal life and the entire town into a crisis.
Prior to the founding of Seabrook, settlers fought off a group of werewolves for control over an energy artifact, later known as the moonstone.
At the opening of the film, the zombies have reunited with and assimilated into the rest of Seabrook. Zed plans to ask Addison to Prawn, the Seabrook equivalent of Prom, while Addison captains a group of new recruits to compete against veteran cheerleaders coached by Bucky. Soon after, though, Bucky announces his candidacy for class president which means that the cheer captaincy will go to someone else; Addison hopes to succeed Bucky.
The movie then fast-forwards to a bus carrying the cheerleaders enters the nearby forbidden forest, Addison and the cheerleaders spot werewolves, which upon report to the local government, causes the mayor to reinstate anti-monster laws. Zombies are banned from Prawn, so to combat the new laws, Zed decides to run for class president to go to Prawn with Addison.
Meanwhile, the local werewolves' power-granting moonstone necklaces are losing their power. Werewolf prophecy states that a girl with white hair known as the Great Alpha will lead them to this moonstone, so the werewolves enroll at Seabrook to contact Addison. Zed attempts to gain their vote for him by offering them advice on how to assimilate into Seabrook, which the werewolves ignore in favor of embracing their werewolf traits.
Noticing Addison's white hair, Wyatt, a high-ranking werewolf, invites her to their den, where they tell her the prophecy and give her a fully charged moonstone necklace, which they have saved for the Great Alpha. If she is truly a werewolf, wearing it will cause her to transform. The werewolves give her one day to decide, and reveal that the destruction of the power plant will cause the destruction of the moonstone buried underneath it. The next day, Addison shows Zed the necklace, but feeling jealous, Zed secretly takes it. Zed wins his presidential debate against Bucky, but when the Z-band shorts out due to the moonstone, Zed becomes a full zombie, losing the election.
The werewolves head to Seabrook Power and face off against the demolition crew. The werewolves are arrested at the demolition site, but Addison, alerted by a siren at school, arrives with the cheerleaders and zombies, who get the adults to stop the demolition. After the demolition is postponed, Zed reveals to Addison that he took the necklace from her. Angry, she puts on the necklace, but finds out that she's not a werewolf. The device controlling the demolition shorts out, and Seabrook Power is unwillingly demolished.
Prawn night arrives and Zed, as well as the rest of the non-humans, show up to crash Prawn. Zed and Addison make up, however, the ground starts shaking and splits open with a blue glow from the hole. The werewolves realize that the moonstone is not destroyed and enter the hole to find it. The humans and zombies follow to help. They find the moonstone, but a huge boulder blocks the way. Zed removes his Z-band and uses his zombie strength to lift the boulder and allow the others to bring the moonstone out safely. They return to Prawn; Zed and Addison subsequently share their first kiss.
In the final scene, a glowing blue meteor falls from the moon, waking Addison and making her hair glow, though she doesn't realize it.
Ezekiel Mannings, a wealthy businessman and notorious crime lord who is under house arrest in New York, seeks the elimination of Nick Murch, the only witness who can tie him to a murder. Murch is sequestered in a heavily guarded safe room in London in order to give evidence against Mannings over a video link to the United States. An unnamed female courier and former special ops soldier delivers a package to the safe room, unaware that the package contains a cyanide gas weapon intended to kill Nick. She rescues Nick from the attack and discovers that his protection detail has been compromised. The two are trapped in an underground parking garage full of heavily armed men who have been sent to finish the job. The assassins have an hour to find and kill Nick and the courier before police backup arrives, but she kills all of them in a brutal battle and transports a gravely wounded Nick to a hospital. He survives to testify against Mannings.
Smash and Grab, two laborer robots who live on a futuristic Mars-like planet, work in a giant train fueled by glowing rocks. Working in the train's boiler room, Smash breaks the rocks apart, and tosses them to Grab, who feeds them into the firebox. They attempt to amuse themselves by even turning their work into a game, but are sometimes hindered from moving freely about the room or seeing out the window by their power cables, which are also kept short enough that they cannot touch each other, even to high five each other, much to Smash's frustration.
One day, Smash is able to build a stack of rocks and see out the window. It learns there is a world outside the train, and that all the free robots move about unhindered thanks to spherical batteries that attach via cable to their rear power ports. Seeing that some of these batteries have been loaded onto the train, Smash cuts its power cable and uses what little power it has left to steal two batteries, attaching one to itself and the other to Grab so they can flee the boiler room together.
Security robots pursue Smash and Grab and attempt to kill them before they reach freedom. Trapped atop the train, Smash catches and throws security robots to Grab when they come through the door. Grab flings them against obstacles the train passes, noticing their batteries explode if damaged. One security robot manages to shoot Grab's arm off. Smash attempts to revive its friend and is confronted by eight security robots. Smash deliberately damages its battery and throws it at the security robots. The battery explodes, causing a chain reaction which kills the security robots and derails the train.
In the crater left by the explosion, Grab reactivates, finds a powered down but intact Smash, and connects its battery to Smash via a cable so both of them can share its power. The two high five for the first time, and set out to explore the outside world together.
The action takes place in an average Moscow school. It all starts with a joke by class leader Oleg Komarov - he persuades classmates to make fun of the young English language trainee in retaliation for a barely passing grade. At the same time, a new student appears in the class - Igor Glushko. The new kid amazes the teacher with his knowledge of English during his first lesson. He also writes songs and dreams of creating a music group. Komarov understands that his leader’s position has suffered damage, and tries to rectify the situation. After the first practical joke, the intern realizes who was the one who made it and gives Komarov a failing grade for his homework. Komarov’s father, who sponsors the school, threatens Oleg with the army and punishes him. After that, Oleg decides to arrange a second, more brutal practical joke. The practical joke is successful, but everything comes to light, and it is decided that Komarov be expelled from school. But suddenly the head teacher of the school calls everyone for mercy and offers to leave Komarov at school and that he be allowed to take exams.
''Corn & Peg'' follows the adventures of two dynamic do-gooders; a blue unicorn called Corn, and a pink Pegasus called Peg. Best friends, schoolmates, and inseparable since preschool and influenced by their favorite superhero and role model, Captain Thunderhoof, these inseparable best friends go around their community of Galloping Grove to make a better place by helping anyone they can.
In 2011, Fern loses her job after the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada shuts down; she worked there for years along with her husband, who recently died. Fern sells most of her belongings and purchases a van to live in and travel the country searching for work. She takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center through the winter.
Linda, a friend and co-worker, invites Fern to visit a desert rendezvous in Arizona organized by Bob Wells, which provides a support system and community for fellow nomads. Fern initially declines, but changes her mind as the weather turns cold and she struggles to find work in the area. There, Fern meets fellow nomads and learns basic survival and self-sufficiency skills for the road.
When Fern's van blows a tire, she visits the van of a nearby nomad, Swankie, to ask for a ride into town to buy a spare. Swankie chastises Fern for not being prepared and invites her to learn road survival skills; they become friends. Swankie tells Fern about her cancer diagnosis and shortened life expectancy and her plan to make good memories on the road rather than waste away in a hospital. They eventually part ways.
Fern takes a job as a camp host at the Cedar Pass Campgrounds in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Also working there is Dave, another nomad she met and danced with at the desert community. When he falls ill with diverticulitis, Fern visits him at the hospital where he has had emergency surgery. They take restaurant jobs at Wall Drug in South Dakota. One night, Dave's son visits the restaurant looking for him, telling him that his wife is pregnant and asking him to meet his grandchild. He is hesitant, but Fern encourages him to go. Dave suggests that she come with him, but she declines.
Fern takes a new job at a sugar beet processing plant, but her van breaks down, and she cannot afford the repairs. Unable to borrow money, she visits her sister's family at their home in California. Fern's sister lends her the money to get the van fixed. She questions why Fern was never around in their lives and why Fern stayed in Empire after her husband died, but she tells Fern she is brave to be so independent. Fern later visits Dave and his son's family, learning that Dave has decided to stay with them long-term. He admits feelings for her and invites her to stay with him permanently in a guest house, but she decides to leave after only a few days, heading to the ocean.
Fern returns to her seasonal Amazon job and later revisits the Arizona rendezvous. There, she learns that Swankie has died, and she and the other nomads pay tribute to her life by tossing stones into the campfire. Fern opens up to Bob about her loving relationship with her late husband, and he shares the story of his son's suicide. Bob espouses the view that goodbyes are not final in the nomad community as its members always promise to see each other again "down the road".
Fern returns to the nearly abandoned town of Empire to dispose of the belongings she has been keeping in a storage unit. She visits the factory and the home she shared with her husband before returning to the road.
A United States military convoy traveling from Area 51 collides with a car on the highway outside Las Vegas. The convoy's cargo, a zombie, escapes, killing and infecting several soldiers before heading into the city. There, the original and subsequent zombies infect most of the city's population. After a military intervention fails, the government quarantines the city.
Six years later, casino owner Bly Tanaka and his associate Martin approach mercenary and former Las Vegas resident Scott Ward about a job to recover $200 million from his casino vault in Las Vegas before the military deploys a tactical nuclear strike on the city. Ward agrees and recruits his former teammates Maria Cruz and Vanderohe, along with helicopter pilot Marianne Peters, German safecracker Ludwig Dieter, and Chicano sharpshooter Mikey Guzman, who brings along his associate Chambers. Martin joins the team to give them access to the casino. Ward's estranged daughter Kate, who works at a quarantine camp, directs them to Lilly, a smuggler familiar with the city, who also recruits Burt Cummings, an abusive camp security guard. When Kate learns Lilly escorted her friend Geeta into Las Vegas, Kate insists on joining the team over Ward's objections.
After an encounter with a zombified tiger upon entering Las Vegas, Lilly wounds Cummings and explains that a group of intelligent zombies known as "Alphas" will allow safe passage in exchange for a sacrifice. An Alpha female known as the Queen takes Cummings away to the Olympus casino, where the Alpha leader Zeus infects him. Lilly leads the team to a building full of hibernating, normal zombies. Ward creates a path through the zombies with glow sticks. When Chambers accuses Martin of ulterior motives, he diverts her off the path, and she wakes the zombies. After she is surrounded and bitten, Guzman shoots the gasoline canister on her back, killing her and the surrounding zombie horde.
Arriving at Bly's casino, Ward and Kate turn on the power, Peters prepares a helicopter on the roof, and Dieter works on the vault. Martin and Lilly stay outside under the pretense of keeping watch but instead lure the Queen into the open. Martin beheads her and takes her head. Zeus discovers her body and returns her to the Olympus casino, revealing that the Queen was pregnant with a zombie fetus. Enraged, Zeus directs the Alphas to the casino. A news report reveals the government has brought forward the nuclear strike, giving the team approximately 90 minutes. As Dieter opens the vault, Ward discovers Kate had left to look for Geeta. As Ward and Cruz are about to search for her, the Alphas appear and kill Cruz.
Martin traps the team in the basement, explaining that Bly cares only about the zombie head, which can create a zombie army for the government and is worth more than the money in the vault. When he steps outside, he discovers Lilly stole the Queen's head, and the tiger mauls him to death. Vanderohe attempts to fight Zeus but is easily overpowered. Dieter sacrifices himself to get Vanderohe into the vault safely. Ward, Lilly, and Guzman make it to the lobby, where zombies attack them and swarm Guzman, who detonates his grenades, killing the zombies at the cost of his own life and destroying the money he carried. Zeus confronts them on the roof. Lilly distracts him with the Queen's head as Ward and Peters escape. Zeus fatally impales Lilly, who destroys the Queen's head by dropping it off the roof.
Peters takes Ward to the Olympus casino to retrieve Kate. Inside, Kate finds Geeta and kills the infected Cummings. Zeus chases them onto Peters' helicopter, and Ward accidentally shoots Peters, causing the helicopter to fly haphazardly. Zeus overpowers Ward and bites him. As the nuke destroys Las Vegas, Zeus is distracted by the bomb flash, and Ward kills him. The nuke's shock wave causes the helicopter to crash, killing Peters and Geeta. Kate survives and finds Ward, who gives Kate money to start a new life before turning into a zombie. Kate kills him and breaks down in tears as a rescue helicopter arrives.
Having survived the blast, Vanderohe exits the vault with the remaining money and later rents a plane to take him to Mexico City. On the flight, he discovers that he has been bitten.
Set in the Kentucky mountains. The Brockton family consider Little Smoky to be their mountain, but the government declares it to be a forest and game preserve. Forest ranger Bob Hayne is in love with Anne Brockton, but when he catches her father, Ed, poaching game he tries to arrest him. The two men fight, and Brockton is believed to have died. When bloodhounds are set on Bob’s trail Anne dresses in some of his clothing in an attempt to confuse the hounds following his scent. Anne finds her father alive in the forest ranger’s cabin.
Meanwhile Gita, a gypsy girl, is attacked by a renegade Indian. Anne’s brother Tom, who suffered shell-shock during the first World War, rescues Gita. The incident brings Tom back to his senses.
Ed Brockton becomes friends with Bob, and allows him to court Anne. Tom and Gita fall in love, and both couples look forward to a happy future.
During the Vietnam War, a squad of Black US Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, Paul, Otis, Eddie, Melvin, and their squad leader Norman, who dub themselves the "Bloods," secure the site of a CIA airplane crash and recover its cargo, a locker of gold bars intended as payment for the Lahu people for their help in fighting the Viet Cong. The Bloods decide to take the gold for themselves and bury it so they can retrieve it later. However, in the ensuing Vietnamese counter-attack, Norman is killed, and the Bloods cannot locate the buried gold after a napalm strike obliterates the identifying landmarks.
In the present day, Paul, Otis, Eddie, and Melvin meet up in Ho Chi Minh City. A recent landslide had uncovered the tail of the crashed plane, and with this new information, they plan to find the gold and Norman's body. Otis reunites with his old Vietnamese girlfriend Tiên, who reveals that he is the father of her grown child. Tiên introduces the Bloods to Desroche, a French businessman who agrees to help the Bloods smuggle the gold out of Vietnam once they retrieve it. Soon thereafter, they are joined by Paul's son David, who has a tempestuous relationship with his father.
Vinh, a tour guide hired by the Bloods, leads the group out into the countryside, where a confrontation with a local merchant forces Paul to admit that he has post-traumatic stress disorder. At a hotel bar, David meets Hedy, the founder of LAMB, an organization dedicated to clearing landmines. The next day, Vinh drops off the group and tells them he will pick them up in a few days. During their first night, Paul confiscates a pistol Otis had been secretly given by Tiên and becomes suspicious of his motives. Eventually, the Bloods find the gold bars scattered across the side of a hill. They also find Norman's remains and pray over them. Eddie reveals that his excessive spending has rendered him broke but reminds the Bloods of Norman's original plan to give the gold to their black brethren in the United States.
On the hike out, Eddie steps on a landmine and is killed. David also steps on a mine but does not trigger it, just as Hedy and two other volunteers from LAMB, Simon and Seppo, show up. Paul and the others manage to pull David off the mine safely. Paul then holds the three outsiders hostage with Otis's gun, paranoid that they will report them to the authorities. During the night Seppo escapes while David and the others forcibly disarm Paul.
When the Bloods regroup with Vinh, a group of gunmen shows up demanding the gold in exchange for Seppo, whom they have captured. In the ensuing shootout, David is shot in the leg, and Seppo is killed by a landmine. All of the gunmen are killed except for one, who flees. Assuming that Desroche has crossed them, Vinh suggests retreating to a nearby abandoned temple to defend themselves from reinforcements. Unwilling to trust Vinh, Paul takes his share of the gold and heads out into the jungle alone. The remaining Bloods offer Vinh, Hedy, and Simon a share of the remaining gold for their trouble.
As he rages to himself, Paul has a vision of Norman who reminds Paul that he was the one who had accidentally killed Norman during a firefight and that he should let go of his guilt. He is subsequently located and killed by Desroche's men. Desroche, now wearing Paul's MAGA hat, arrives with the gunmen at the temple and is then ambushed by Otis, Melvin, and Vinh; all of his men are killed. Desroche wounds Otis and tries to finish him off with a hand grenade, but Melvin sacrifices himself by leaping on top of it. As Desroche prepares to execute Otis, David shoots and kills him with Otis's gun.
Vinh helps the surviving Bloods share out the gold. Melvin's widow receives his share, and Eddie's goes to a Black Lives Matter organization. Hedy and Simon donate their shares to LAMB in Seppo's name. Norman's remains are brought home to his family by the military. David reads a letter from Paul, who tells him that he will always love him. Otis visits Tiên and bonds with his daughter for the first time.
An American tourist winds up in a Turkish prison.
When the ability to travel through space was discovered, the people of Earth were split along ideological lines. Though some predicted that man's newfound ability to explore the stars will bring the world's population together for the greater good, for the most part the various factions and ideologies of Earth began to claim and settle worlds for their own purposes rather than cooperate as a cohesive group. One fateful day, however, the entire human population of the planet Albion was wiped out by an unknown force, and humanity joined forces to create a vast military government organization to seek out and defeat this mysterious aggressor. They encountered a belligerent race known as the Swarm, and reports sent from the front lines painted a picture of a successful war effort against alien aggressors.
But third-party reports - all vehemently denied by the military - told of usable alien technology being recovered from Albion, and along with the entire planet being placed under quarantine (allegedly due to radioactivity), these reports caused many to begin questioning the authenticity of the military's version of events. Some wondered if the war was truly still being fought, while others wondered if it ever was. Many who spoke loudly against the military's behavior disappeared. Eventually, the military (who would come to be known as the Imperium) granted its general Caston the title of Emperor and despite a huge public backlash, was able to quickly put down anyone who openly rebelled against them.
The player character of ''Uprising'' is a young man from the planet Caliban who successfully managed to avoid conscription by the Imperium through a combination of intellect and combat prowess. His actions eventually brought him to the attention of an anti-Imperium rebel group, who, recognizing his potential, decided to give him further training. It was precisely because of this training and instinctive competence that the player character was chosen to pilot the Wraith, a highly advanced Imperium weapon and command vehicle appropriated by the rebels. With only one Wraith known to exist, the rebels plan to use it as a spearhead in their fight against Imperium, believing that they have a technological advantage over their opponents for the first time.
The film tells the story of Abdolhamid Rigi and Faezeh Mansuri, who meet when Abdolhamid is working in a store at a bazaar in Zahedan where Faezeh and her mother are customers. Abdolhamid is the younger brother of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Jundallah (Soldiers of God) terrorist group who terrored in southeastern Iran while supported by Taliban. Abdolhamid marries Faezeh and forces her to move to Pakistan, along with her brother Shahab. Faezeh and Shahab become caught up in the activities of Jundallah.
Faezeh's family discovers she has been taken captive by Jundallah in Pakistan. The terrorist group beheads Shahab because they believe he is an Iranian agent. Abdolmalek Rigi calls Faezeh and Shahab's father, and tells him to watch a video of his son's beheading on Al-Arabiya the following night. Faezeh has a chance to escape from Pakistan but she chooses to remain there with her three children. On Abdolmalek's orders, Abdolhamid kills Faezeh while she is sleeping.
In 2010, Abdolmalek is traveling to Bishkek from Dubai on a regular Airbus plane when an Iranian intelligence officer forces the plane to land in Iran, leading to the arrest of both Rigi brothers and, after a court finds them guilty of dozens of criminal acts, their execution the same year. At the time, Iranian officials accused the U.S. and some Arab countries of funding Abdolmalek Rigi's activities. The unnamed officers who arrested the Rigi brothers tell the Iranian media that Abdolmalek had been on his way to a meeting with diplomat Richard Holbrooke near Bishkek.
The story follows a young couple named Jefri (Zul Ariffin) and Dilaila (Elizabeth Tan) who are on vacation at a bungalow house in Fraser's Hill, Pahang. During their first night in the house, Jefri is disturbed by strange events, only to find out the next day that his wife has gone missing. Jefri meets Inspector Azman (Rosyam Nor) and tells that his wife comes from a very wealthy family and the bungalow is his in-law's wedding gift to him. Jefri also explains that he is worried about his wife's disappearance since she is not a good driver, implying that she might have met with an accident. Later that night, Jefri is visited by a local Imam (Namron) who claims that Dilaila was staying with him and he has now convinced her to return to her husband. When Jefri sees Dilaila, he reveals that she is not his wife; but the girl knows details of their lives and Jefri is discredited by the evidences. Is a stranger impersonating Dilaila or is Jefri delusional?
Siobhan, a PhD student studying deep sea faunal behavioral patterns, purchases a place on the fishing trawler the Niamh Cinn Óir, crewed by a complement of six: Captain Freya and her husband/skipper Gerard, who are grieving for their daughter Niamh, ship engineer Omid Hamilton Accie, Johnny, Ciara, and Sudi Hamilton Accie. As they set off, the Irish Coast Guard alerts them that their planned destination, which is rich with fish, is in an exclusion zone. Unbeknownst to the others and despite Freya's orders, Gerard takes them into the zone anyway, as he needs a large haul of fish on this outing to keep the ship.
In the exclusion zone, the boat runs into an unknown, shoal-like object and stops. Omid discovers strange breaches in the hull that exude a blue-green slime. Gerard thinks they are barnacles. As Siobhan has diving gear onboard for her research, Gerard sends her armed with a knife to cut the boat free. Underwater, she sees the things stuck to the boat are the tentacles of an enormous bio-luminescent organism below. Hearing this, Gerard thinks it may be a newly discovered form of giant squid. The crew attempt to capture it with the net, but the creature is too heavy. While releasing the net, Johnny's sleeve is caught in the machinery. Although freed, his hand is sliced by the rope, which is contaminated by slime.
Siobhan sees another ship on the horizon. She, Gerard, and Johnny row to it, seeking help. Onboard, they find the bodies of the crew in the cabin, most of whom appear to have committed suicide and with one man appearing to have had his eyes removed. Gerard says they must have succumbed to "sea fever" and orders Siobhan and Johnny not to tell the others. After rowing back, they discover the creature has released the boat. They lower the nets and bring up a large catch of fish, lifting the crew's spirits. Siobhan and Johnny flirt and discover they are interested in each other. Johnny develops a fever, which Siobhan suspects is caused by an infection, but he refuses to let his hand be checked.
While the group celebrates that night, Johnny declares he is going for a swim and is stopped by Ciara and Siobhan. Seeing him rub his eyes, Siobhan checks Johnny's eyes with a torch and sees something moving inside. As he washes his face, Johnny goes blind. His eyeballs burst, releasing tiny organisms that slither down the drain, entering the ship's water system. He dies. Omid realizes Sudi is in the shower and tries to stop him. Thinking Omid is joking, Sudi does not turn off the water until the waterborne creatures bite him. Gerard, Siobhan, and Omid check the water filtration system and find it has been contaminated by the creatures, which have eaten through all the filters. Siobhan realizes the creatures are the larvae of the enormous sea creature, whose eggs fill the slime. Gerard steers the ship toward shore.
Siobhan experiments on a slime sample and fails to kill the larvae with UV light. She then electrifies the trawler with Omid's help, using the arc welder. This apparently sterilizes the water supply. She insists they all must self-quarantine onboard for at least 36 hours, the time it took Johnny's infection to develop. She argues if any of them are infected, they risk infecting others. The others disagree, arguing Sudi needs medical attention and that they should be hospitalized if infected. Sudi dies from the infection. Siobhan disables the boat by entangling the propeller.
Everyone checks each other's eyes for parasites. Siobhan, Omid, Freya, and Ciara appear to be clear, but Freya sees parasites in Gerard's eyes. The couple privately shares a heartfelt goodbye before Gerard kills himself. Siobhan suspects Ciara is infected and climbs up the ladder to alert the others. When Ciara tries to stop her, Siobhan knocks her off the ladder. Ciara dies.
Freya leaves alone by rowingboat in spite of Omid and Siobhan's protests. Siobhan and Omid check the water tank again and discover the sole remaining larva has grown larger and eaten through the hull to return to the ocean. As the boat begins to sink, Siobhan and Omid use white spirit to set the deck on fire. Siobhan boards an inflatable raft. Omid, who cannot swim, falls into the water and is pulled down by tentacles. Siobhan rescues him, but cuts her wrist on a tentacle. She declares she is infected, dives back into the water, and swims down toward the bioluminescent creature. Alone on the raft, Omid watches as help approaches.
Gabriela Diaz's San Francisco design firm folds the week of her break-up with her non-committed boyfriend Dean. She enters a contest to "Win an Inn" in the New Zealand countryside and actually wins it. Thousands of airline miles later, she discovers The Bellbird Valley Farm boasts a crumbling facade, a floorboard-treading goat, a meddling neighbor who covets the space, and a 1960s Land Rover.
Gabriela is visited by Charlotte, the owner of the town's only B&B, who reveals that the previous owner's great-grandson entered the house in the "Win an Inn" contest to get rid of it.
Gabriela decides to do an eco-renovation to restore the Inn, and the plot revolves around tension, friendship and courtship with the nearby town's only restoration expert, Jake Taylor, a bereaved Kiwi contractor and chief volunteer firefighter.
With Gabriela and Jake completing the project as a 50-50 partnership, the story takes an interesting turn as once the final fixtures are hung, she's hesitant to leave him, the inn, and the inviting community that nurtured her creative side.
Dean shows up unexpectedly from the US after Charlotte invites him via text using Gabriela's phone. An attractive financial offer to buy the Inn is organized by Dean with a Melbourne investment company. This shocks Charlotte who planned to buy the Bellbird Valley Farm herself, thinking that Dean's sudden appearance would push Gabriela to sell the farm and return to her city life. However, after a fire at Charlotte's B&B and Jake's near-death experience, Gabriela decides to forsake her San Francisco life and remain in the community, running the Inn with Jake. The movie ends with a drone-shot sequence over the restored property.
''Astral Chain'' is set in the year 2078, where humanity is on the brink of extinction. The remnants of the human populace have retreated to a megacity called "The Ark", which rests on a massive artificial island. The world is under attack by interdimensional lifeforms called "Chimeras", which reside in the "Astral Plane"; a vast parallel dimension composed of crystallized data that is uninhabitable to humans. The Chimeras cause destruction, drag civilians into the Astral Plane via wormholes, and spread "red matter" that corrupts living things and humans. To combat the Chimeras, the "Neuron" Police Task Force is employed. They utilize "Legions"—subservient Chimeras that have been tethered to an officer via a psychic chain, utilizing them for combat and investigation.
The player assumes the role of one of two twin police officers, who join Neuron early into the game as new recruits. The player-selected character has a custom identity, whereas their opposite-gender sibling becomes "Akira Howard". The two twins were adopted by the current Neuron Captain, Maximilian Howard. Other characters include Neuron Commander and scientific genius Yoseph Calvert; Chief Medical Officer and scientist Brenda Moreno; fellow veteran officers Alicia Lopez and Jin Wong who assist the players on the field; Neuron Dispatcher and former TV newscaster Olive Espinosa; and the Neuron Office Manager Marie Wentz. The Neuron officers are also assisted by a hacker named Harold "Hal" Clark, who pilots a modified field drone.
The Player and Akira are dispatched to respond to an aberration attack, but are quickly outmatched by Chimeras. The twins are saved by Neuron officers Max, Alicia, and Jin, who wield Legions capable of fighting them. Yoseph assigns Legions to the Player and Akira, enabling them to repel the Chimeras. Afterwards, the twins are both formally inducted into Neuron. Their first investigation mission goes awry when the Player ends up being pulled into the Astral Plane, causing the rest of the squad to pursue them into the Astral Plane to save them. Due to prolonged Astral Plane exposure having the effect of weakening humans, the Neuron officers lose control over their Legions, causing them to break free and go berserk. In the end, only the Player is successful in subduing their Legion. Max battles the remaining frenzied Legions and sacrifices himself to allow the rest of the squad to escape. Meanwhile, Neuron's Legion production facility is attacked and put out of commission, leaving the Player as the only officer with access to a Legion.
The Player is sent on further missions to respond to Chimera attacks, eventually recapturing the lost Legions in the process. During this time, the twins come into contact with Dr. Jena Anderson, a former pupil of Yoseph's who is instigating Chimera attacks and bears a grudge against UNION, the Ark's ruling government. She manages to critically wound Akira while evading capture, leaving clues to the Player to investigate Zone 09, a quarantined section of the Ark which Neuron officers are forbidden from entering. The Player goes undercover and explores Zone 09 with Hal, discovering that UNION developed a drug called Blue Evolve that could allow humans to fight Chimeras, which also carried the side effect of turning the users into Aberrations. After battling one of Jena's chimeric homonculi, they are saved by a recovered Akira, who has obtained a new Legion. As a result of entering Zone 09 without permission, the Player is jailed for insubordination, and Hal goes into hiding to avoid arrest.
After another wave of Chimera attacks occur, Neuron is forced to provisionally release the Player to combat them. Jena stages a large scale invasion of the Ark, announcing her intention to save humanity by merging Earth with the Astral Plane, which serves as a collective memory bank of humanity. The skirmish leaves Neuron's headquarters defenseless, allowing Jena to infiltrate it and take Yoseph hostage. The twins arrive to rescue Yoseph, causing Jena to power herself up with Blue Evolve before battling the Player. During the battle, the Player unwittingly ends up fully merging with their Legion and goes berserk, attacking Akira. Jena distracts the transformed Player and sacrifices herself in the process, warning them that this is the true form of their Legion's power. Yoseph then calls in the Ravens—a newly created task force of Legion users—and orders them to kill the Player, causing them to fall off an overpass.
The Player wakes up back in their human form, having been rescued by Hal and Olive, and brought into a hiding place in Zone 09. Hal explains that Yoseph has largely replaced Neuron with the Ravens and is actively hunting the Player, accusing them of treason. While carrying out a covert rescue operation to retrieve Brenda from Neuron, the crew are confronted by Akira, who tries to convince the Player to return to Neuron, but they are ambushed by the Raven unit, revealing themselves to be clones of Akira. The Ravens attack Akira, causing Akira to inadvertently merge with their Legion and go on a rampage. To stop Akira, the Player willingly merges with their own Legion and manages to knock Akira back into their human form.
Wanting to find out and stop Yoseph's plans, the twins stage an assault on his lab. After being confronted, Yoseph uses the Ravens as a catalyst to create the ultimate Legion, Noah, and merges himself with it, intending to absorb all life on Earth in order to become a god. Akira ends up being absorbed into Noah while trying to protect the Player. The Player battles Noah and weakens him enough to allow Akira to temporarily seize control of Noah's body, allowing the Player to destroy Noah, but killing Akira in the process.
Following Noah's destruction, Chimera attacks begin to decrease drastically, allowing humans to consider leaving the Ark and repopulating the Earth. Alicia and Jin put Neuron back together, with Olive as interim commander, and the task force continues to handle the few Chimera attacks that still occur on the Ark. Akira is also revealed to have survived through one of their remaining clones, having been transplanted memories by Brenda using traces found in the original's Legion.
A kitten lives in the garbage cans behind a building in San Francisco's Mission District. While foraging for food on the streets, the kitten is offered food by a passerby but runs away, and he sleeps in a cardboard box in a dilapidated building's garbage heap. One day, a pit bull is moved to a doghouse behind the building. The kitten is initially very scared of the dog but slowly begins to connect with him by playing with a bottle cap. One night, after the pit bull is taken inside the building, he ends up getting heavily injured in a fight and is thrown back outside.
The pit bull then goes to help the kitten, who gets trapped in plastic pack rings after being scared by a storm, but the frightened kitten attacks the dog upon seeing his fangs. The devastated pit bull retreats to his doghouse, where he is later joined by the regretful kitten. The next day, the two escape the backyard just before the yard's owner can find them. Some time later, the kitten and the pit bull are playing out on the street when the kitten is found by the passerby from before, who, along with her husband, adopts both of them despite the pit bull's initial hesitance. After some time, the two animals play happily on top of a hill and join their new family to see a view of the city.
''SteamWorld Quest'' is presented as a fairy tale told within the otherwise science fiction universe of ''SteamWorld Heist'' and is not directly linked story-wise to the previous games. It follows Armilly and Copernica, two friends who set out on a journey that spirals into a much larger one.
Michael Rayappan is a gangster from Chennai who works for the welfare of people in his slum. He has a comical relationship with Angel Aasirvatham, a physiotherapist Michael has a running feud with a rival gangster named Daniel. One night, Daniel attacks Michael and his close friend Kathir, who is the coach of the Tamil Nadu women's football team. Kathir suffers from injuries during the attack, due to which he in paralysed for a year. To allow the women's football team to take part in the upcoming National Championship in Delhi, Kathir requests the TNFA to replace him with his former teammate named ''Bigil'', who is actually Michael.
7 years ago, Michael was an aspiring footballer, who along with Kathir and his team contributed to victories for the Tamil Nadu football team. His father was Rayappan, a crime boss who had a feud with a rival gangster Alex, Daniel's father. Rayappan encouraged Michael's passion for football as he did not want him to end up as a gangster like him. When Michael was unable to make it to the IFT due to Rayappan's criminal record, Rayappan personally took up the matter with the AIFF president J. K. Sharma and forcefully ensured Sharma to include Michael and Kathir in the Indian team's probable list. Despite Rayappan's efforts, Michael's career was cut short as he witnessed Rayappan getting stabbed to death by Alex and Daniel, just when he was about to leave for Delhi to attend the selection trial for the Indian football team. Michael kills Alex in front of Daniel, and instead stayed back in Chennai to become the new leader of Rayappan's gang.
In the present day, Michael confronts Daniel and attempts to kill him for the earlier attack, but the police intervene to arrest Daniel and send him to prison. Michael later accepts Kathir's request to coach the women's football team and leaves for Delhi with the team. However, due to his criminal background, the girls refuse to cooperate with him, even blaming him for the team's opening loss to Manipur in the National Championship and requesting the Federation to have him removed. Dejected, Michael gives his resignation to Sharma, but soon discovers that Sharma is targeting him in revenge for the humiliation that he had faced at the hands of Rayappan to allow him into the Indian football team and was the one who sent armed assailants to attack Michael before the Manipur football match.
However, Michael convinces the girls to support him and starts training them hard with the sole focus of winning the championship. He even manages to bring back two former key players to boost the team's strength: Gayathri, a Brahmin girl who quit playing football after she was married to a conservative family; and Anitha, who is in depression and has refused to even leave her room ever since a man threw acid on her when she spurned his advances. Despite Sharma trying to rig the team's next match against Haryana so that they will be eliminated and sent home, Michael's team manage to beat Haryana and win all their remaining matches, eventually qualifying for the finals at Chennai, where they can play against Manipur again.
On the eve of the finals, Vembu is kidnapped and forcefully injected with cocaine by Daniel, who is bailed out from prison and hired by Sharma to sabotage the team's chances of winning the championship. Though she recovers, she is unable to play in the final as she would fail the dope test. The team's captain, Thendral, is also kidnapped by Daniel, who attempts to forcefully inject cocaine into her as well; Michael also gets kidnapped by Daniel and gets injected with cocaine. Michael manages to beat Daniel's men and chases Daniel to his house and proceeds to kill him, but when he sees Daniel's young son, he changes his mind and spares Daniel, as he realises he does not want the young boy's future to end up like him by killing Daniel.
The next day, The Tamil Nadu team plays the final against Manipur. The match turns out to be a thriller with Tamil Nadu winning the Championship through a penalty shootout. Michael and the team dedicate their success to Kathir, who is watching the match from the dugout in a wheelchair. Michael gets Sharma exposed for drug possession, leading to Sharma's arrest and subsequent execution in Malaysia, where he is on a holiday. A few months later, Michael takes up football coaching for children, with one of his students being Daniel's son, who have now made peace with Michael. Michael takes Daniel's son under his wing and ask him who is your favourite football player Messi or Ronaldo where he happily replies ''Bigil''.
In a flashback to shortly before they leave Walter White's meth business, Jesse Pinkman asks Mike Ehrmantraut where he would go to start over. Mike says if he were younger, he would go to Alaska, which appeals to Jesse. Jesse expresses the desire to make amends for past wrongdoing, but Mike cautions that starting over would make that impossible.
In the present, Jesse flees the Brotherhood compound in Todd Alquist's El Camino. He goes to the Albuquerque home of Skinny Pete and Badger, who hide the car and give Jesse a place to sleep. The next morning, Jesse calls Old Joe to dispose of the El Camino, but Joe leaves after discovering its LoJack. Pete devises a plan to make it appear Jesse fled after trading the El Camino for Pete's Ford Thunderbird. Pete and Badger give Jesse the money Walter gave them, and Badger drives south in the Thunderbird so it appears Jesse headed to Mexico. Pete stays with the El Camino and waits for police to respond to the LoJack. Jesse departs in Badger's Pontiac Fiero. He learns from the radio news of Walter's potentially fatal poisoning of a woman, and of Walter's death.
In a flashback to Jesse's captivity, Todd takes Jesse to Todd's apartment to help dispose of his cleaning lady, whom he killed after she discovered his hidden money. They sidestep Lou Schanzer, Todd's busybody neighbor, and bury the corpse in the Painted Desert. Jesse briefly holds the pistol Todd left unsecured, but Todd talks him into returning it.
In the present, Jesse sneaks into Todd's apartment and searches for Todd's new hiding place. Moments after Jesse finds it, policemen Neil Kandy and Casey enter and begin searching. Jesse hides, but holds Casey at gunpoint after Casey finds him. Neil disarms Jesse, who realizes they are not police but thugs also looking for Todd's money. To save himself, Jesse reveals he found the cash. Lou reports finding an old note from Todd, and Casey distracts him by feigning interest. Neil and Jesse bargain over the cash and Neil agrees to let Jesse take a third. As they depart, Jesse recognizes Neil as the welder who built the tether that held him while he was forced to cook meth for the Brotherhood.
Jesse finds Ed Galbraith, the "disappearer", who wants US$125,000 to aid Jesse, plus $125,000 for the previous occasion when Jesse hired him but failed to commit. Jesse is $1,800 short and Ed refuses to help. Knowing they are being surveilled, Jesse calls his parents and feigns willingness to surrender. After his parents and the police depart, Jesse sneaks into the Pinkman home and takes two pistols from his father's safe, a Colt Woodsman and an Iver Johnson Hammerless.
Jesse drives to Neil's shop, where Neil, Casey, and three friends celebrate with escorts and cocaine. After the escorts leave, he asks for $1,800, and Neil refuses. Seeing the Woodsman in Jesse's waistband, Neil challenges Jesse to a duel for his share of the cash. Jesse agrees, and when Neil reaches for his gun, Jesse shoots him with the Hammerless, which was concealed in his jacket pocket. Casey fires at Jesse, but Jesse kills him with Neil's gun. Jesse collects the driver's licenses of the remaining men and lets them leave after threatening to return and kill them if they tell the police. He recovers Neil's cash and departs after setting an explosion to cover his tracks.
In a flashback, Walter and Jesse have breakfast after a multi-day meth cook. Estimating they will make more than $1 million, Walter laments having waited his entire life to do something special and calls Jesse lucky since he will not have to wait.
In the present, Ed drops Jesse off at a car parked near Haines, Alaska. Jesse gives Ed a letter for Brock Cantillo and acknowledges he does not want to say goodbye to anyone else. Driving off, Jesse has a flashback to his time with Jane Margolis. He tells her he admires what she said about going wherever the universe takes her, but she dismisses it as metaphorical and encourages him to make his own decisions. Jesse drives on, smiling at the prospect of a new life.
In 1976, a young Daphne "Daffy" Ford escapes an arranged marriage in her homeland on the Tiwi Islands. While being chased by her relatives, she flees the island on a speedboat.
In the present day, Daffy's daughter, Lauren, works as a lawyer in Adelaide and has recently been promoted. Her boyfriend, Ned, proposes to her, suggesting a quick wedding; without telling her that he has just quit his job, also as a lawyer. Lauren's workaholic boss, Ms. Hampton, gives Lauren 10 days off for the wedding and honeymoon, an offer which Lauren accepts. They decide to quickly organise a wedding in Lauren's hometown of Darwin.
After arriving in Darwin, Lauren discovers that her mother has abandoned her father, Trevor, and that she is nowhere to be found. Lauren decides that she cannot marry without her mother present, and Ned takes her on a road trip to find her. Meanwhile, Lauren calls Ms. Hampton to come to Darwin and help plan the wedding in her absence.
Lauren and Ned follow traces left by Daffy but narrowly miss her at every turn. Lauren explains to Ned that her mother had always been evasive in talking about her past and has never taught her the [Tiwi language]; Lauren expresses shame and embarrassment in not knowing anything about her own heritage and culture. After meeting up with her aunt and talking to her, Lauren realises that her mother has returned to the Tiwi Islands.
While Ms. Hampton plans the wedding with Lauren's friends, she talks to Trevor, who has been depressed since Daffy has left him. He discusses his marriage with Ms. Hampton, and she in turn confides her former engagement to a man many years before. After the breakdown of that relationship, she has focused mostly on her work.
On their way to the Tiwi Islands, Lauren discovers that Ned had quit his job without telling her. This leads to an argument where they both claim that they are not being listened to. Lauren cancels the wedding and continues to the Tiwi Islands alone.
There, Lauren meets her extended family for the first time and is greeted with warmth. She finds her mother outside of a church and witnesses Daffy reuniting and reconciling with her parents; Lauren, in turn, meets her grandparents for the first time. Later, she informs Daffy of her engagement, but is afraid that she will regret her marriage just as her mother did. Conversely, Daffy tells her that she never regretted her marriage but regrets being estranged from her family. She tells Lauren that Ned is a good man and encourages her to marry him. Lauren calls Ned while he is at the airport; he initially ignores her calls, but Ms. Hampton appears and forces him to answer his phone. He and Lauren reconcile and she tells him that they must marry on the Tiwi Islands. Ned persuades Ms. Hampton to skip a day at work and come to the wedding, as he is grateful for her continuous support of Lauren and Trevor.
Ned rushes back to Trevor's house and encourages him to come to his daughter's wedding, despite his dishevelled state. Running late to the wedding, the two take the speedboat (the same one Daffy escaped on many years earlier) to the Tiwi Islands. Lauren and Ned reunite and are happily married in front of their family and friends; Ned tells Lauren that he intends to make a career change and become a chef. Trevor and Daffy reconcile and affirm their love for one another.
Laddie, son of the Stantons, an Ohio pioneer family, falls in love with Pamela Pryor, daughter of a neighboring aristocratic English family, though the Pryors adopt a condescending attitude toward the Stanton family. Through the efforts of Little Sister, who knows of Laddie's love, the two secretly communicate, and Mr. Pryor takes a liking to Laddie when he tames a wild horse for him. Meanwhile, Shelley, a Stanton girl, falls in love with city lawyer Robert Paget; when he leaves her under mysterious circumstances, she returns home heartbroken. The Pryors, disgraced because of a false accusation against their son in England, are at length forced to accept Laddie. It develops that Paget is actually the banished son of the Pryors; after a strained crisis Pryor forgives his son, and Laddie and Pamela, Robert and Shelley, and the Stantons and the Pryors are happily united.
After receiving a picture of his missing wife Tatyana and being haunted by her in his dreams, Igor decides to travel to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and sneak into the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to find answers, as both he and Tatyana used to work at the plant and Tatyana disappeared shortly before the disaster. Igor successfully breaks into the power plant and recovers a Chernobylite crystal, which he uses to power a special portal gun he had developed. However, he is then attacked by the Black Stalker and forced to flee before he can find Tatyana.
With his first intrusion a failure, Igor realizes that he will need a better plan, along with resources and allies to help him break through the NAR defenses around the plant. As he journeys around the Zone, he has the option of recruiting allies such as Olivier, Olga, Tarakhan, Sashko, and Mikhail, as well as negotiating with or killing Dr. Semonov and General Kozlov. Meanwhile, Chernobylite continues to spread around the zone, bringing more Shadows in its wake. Igor also discovers that thanks to his connection to Tatyana and Chernobylite, whenever he dies, he will be sent to an alternate timeline. In addition, while dead, he can change past decisions in order to change their outcomes.
Eventually, Igor learns that Tatyana was abducted by the KGB after she was reported by their close friend Boris, who was jealous of Igor and Tatyana's relationship. Both Tatyana and Boris were subjected to Chernobylite experiments, with Boris eventually becoming the Black Stalker while Tatyana serves as a conduit to open a portal to the source of Chernobylite. Igor also learns that Chernobylite itself is actually a living organism that has its own intelligence and will.
When all preparations are complete, Igor and his allies manage to break into the power plant once again. Igor decides to travel deeper into the plant alone, where he confronts the Black Stalker. The Black Stalker reveals that he is not actually Boris, but the real Igor who killed Boris and assumed his identity. He further reveals that Igor is in fact Tatyana's son, created as a clone of the original Igor by the Chernobylite. Concerned for Igor's safety, Tatyana had the Black Stalker break Igor out of NAR custody, though thanks to Igor's flawed mental development as a child, he has no memory of it. Igor somehow inherited the original Igor's memories, making himself believe he is Igor, and it was Dr. Semonov that originally sent the picture of Tatyana to him to lure him to the Zone. Since shutting down the portal will kill Tatyana, the Black Stalker decides to fight Igor, with Igor ultimately becoming the victor.
At this point, the Black Stalker pleads with Igor, telling him that instead of destroying the portal and killing Tatyana, he can instead enter the portal and destroy the Chernobylite at its source, which should free Tatyana. If Igor does choose to enter the portal, the Chernobylite reveals it created Igor to serve as its method of fully manifesting on Earth, intending to save Humanity by purging it and remaking it. Igor then has the option of communing with the Chernobylite to allow it to carry out its plans, or killing himself to deny the Chernobylite a foothold on Earth.
Jane Novak starred in two roles within the film: first as "Faro," queen of an Alaskan gambling hall, and second as Jane Sunderlin, a college co-ed, beloved mascot of her college's football team.
''Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful'' is composed of six interrelated stories, each set farther into the future than the last, and covering in all a time period of perhaps 150 years. The novel begins “a few years from now” with Evan and Julia Weary, semi-identical twins facing a dramatic choice about their own survival. It continues with Ludmilla, a girl who must conceal the extent to which her body has been rebuilt as prejudice against altered humans is on the rise.
Soon we meet Alexios, a boy whose genetic modifications at the embryo stage were supposed to give him super-human intelligence and open the door to a happy and successful life. Instead, his body was born deformed and his extreme intelligence has twisted in upon itself so that he spends his mental energy creating anagrams and solving useless puzzles about the world around him. Alexios has been modified with dolphin skin cells to live primarily underwater, where he oversees a flock of manatees who are growing within them human organs for transplant.
Everywhere in the world, such advances are changing the face of humanity. “As genetic manipulation accelerates beyond cosmetic enhancements and lifesaving surgeries, animal and plant genes are modified, then used to modify human beings. Limbs can be added and the mortally ill frozen until their ailments are curable. For-profit enterprises, in the U.S. especially, compete in a laissez-faire free-for-all,” according to Kirkus Reviews.
Eventually we meet Luck and Starlock, non-modified humans (known as “Protos”) who are kept on a reservation in the Colorado mountains. Humans outside their reservation have been so altered that they are, in many cases, nearly unrecognizable. When a diseases strikes these “modern” humans, the Protos must venture off the reservation and take up the reins of humanity.
In the 31st century, Mano, Tharok and Persuader of the Fatal Five attack the Legion of Super-Heroes' headquarters for their time sphere. Star Boy, Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5 try to keep them back but fail. Just as the villains activate the sphere, Star Boy leaps at them and is taken along. Arriving in the 21st century above Earth, Star Boy triggers a boobytrap Brainiac 5 programmed, trapping the villains inside the sphere in a stasis field. Star Boy comes down in Gotham City while the sphere ends up in Metropolis. Star Boy discovers his supply of medicine, needed to stabilize his mind, was destroyed in his rough landing. As his medicine doesn't exist yet, Star Boy's increasingly erratic behavior gets him apprehended by Batman and sent to Arkham. The stasis-locked time machine is picked up by Superman and brought to the Justice League's headquarters for analysis.
Ten months later, Jessica Cruz is struggling with the trauma of her near-death by a murderer who killed her friends, making her afraid to leave her apartment. Adding to her anxiety is that a Green Lantern ring chose her and that Wonder Woman keeps trying to recruit her into the Justice League. In Gotham, Miss Martian is trying to prove herself to Batman for membership in the League, but her inexperience works against her good intentions. While trying to unlock the secret of the strange sphere, Mister Terrific brings down the stasis field, freeing its occupants. Superman and Mister Terrific fight them, but Superman is wounded by Persuader's axe and the villains escape.
Star Boy's memory is jogged by a news report of the fight, and he breaks out of Arkham. The Justice League members compare notes about these mysterious assailants and discover they are time travelers; and from one of Star Boy's ravings, Batman deduces that they are after Jessica. When the three villains attack Jessica, Star Boy comes to her rescue, followed by Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Mister Terrific, and Miss Martian, who force them into flight after a hard struggle. In the aftermath, Star Boy and Jessica form a close friendship.
To find out more about their guest from the future, Batman instructs Miss Martian to telepathically link their and Jessica's minds with Star Boy's memories, thus learning about the Legion. They witness a battle between the Legion-—Chameleon, Dawnstar, Tyroc, Mon-El, Shadow Lass, and, later Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, and Star Boy-—and the Fatal Five, which ended with the capture of Mano's lover Emerald Empress and Validus; as there was no prison that could hold them in the 31st century, the Legion took them to Oa in the past. Upon their awakening, the League receives an ultimatum from Mano: surrender Jessica or all American cities will be destroyed by bombs created by Tharok. The first bombings start in Metropolis, forcing the Justice League to move out. Left behind with Star Boy in the Watchtower, Jessica is contacted by Tharok through her ring, forcing her to surrender herself to the Five and enable them entry to Oa's prison cells. Despite interference by Kilowog and Salaak, Emerald Empress and Validus are freed, and when Jessica fights back, Persuader cleaves her ring in two. Afterwards, Emerald Empress has her Emerald Eye of Ekron steal all the energy of the Central Power Battery, and the Five return to Earth to recover the time sphere.
In the meantime, Star Boy discovers Jessica's absence and informs the League. The heroes proceed to the time machine's location, a secret US military base, where the Fatal Five force them into battle. Emerald Empress subdues the Justice League and then initiates her master plan to use the Lantern's power to destroy Earth's sun, wipe out humanity, and thus prevent the formation of the Legion in their time. On Oa, Jessica recovers her faith and determination, and by reciting her oath, she reassembles her power ring. Brought back to her apartment by the ring, Jessica flies to the base and prevents the Fatal Five from escaping back to their own era by bringing the whole base down upon them, killing the supervillains.
Superman, Jessica and Star Boy race after the Eye, but are too late to prevent it from plunging into the sun. As the star cracks apart, Star Boy sacrifices himself by lowering himself into the sun's core and using his powers to reverse the fracturing. In the final scene as the Justice League members commemorate Star Boy's heroism, they are joined by the Legion who have come from the future to honor their fallen comrade. Batman also informs Miss Martian that she has been invited to join the Justice League, and she accepts the offer.
Hornet finds herself captured and taken to the unknown kingdom of Pharloom, which is said to be "haunted by Silk and Song." Hornet must climb to the top of this kingdom to reach a shining citadel in order to discover why she was brought to this strange kingdom. This contrasts with the progression of ''Hollow Knight'', which involves descending into the depths of Hallownest and trying to stop the infection plaguing the Kingdom. Along the way, Hornet faces many powerful opponents including knights, warriors, and assassins.
Jake (Andy Samberg) helps Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) in the disappearance of a patient of a known therapist, Dr. Tate (David Paymer). Tate is convinced that the patient's significant other may be involved in the case. During this, Terry (Terry Crews) is surprised to see that Jake never went to therapy to help with his multiple issues throughout the series.
After finding the body, Jake and Boyle investigate a prime suspect's apartment but Tate is also with them. After he quickly identifies a lead, Jake is convinced that Tate is the killer and inspects his office, finding a secret book about the victim. As Tate approaches his office, Jake hides himself in another office and fakes being a new patient suffering from dissociative identity disorder. After leaving the office with the book, Jake is held at gunpoint by Tate, who confesses the crime. Jake starts opening up about his problems about therapy, which is actually a distraction so Boyle can track his phone and arrest Tate. Jake then confesses to Boyle that his talk with Tate prompted him to seek more treatment and plans an appointment with a doctor.
Meanwhile, Holt (Andre Braugher) invites Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) and her new girlfriend Jocelyn to dine with him and Kevin. Rosa declines, explaining that Holt tends to be very judgmental. She eventually agrees to set up a meeting. During a meeting, Holt finds out that the person was an actress hired by Rosa and storm out. He eventually meets Jocelyn (Cameron Esposito) in the precinct where they both bond about being judgmental. Rosa confesses that she didn't want him to meet her as she feared she wouldn't like her and both reconcile. Amy (Melissa Fumero) brings stuff to Terry, which includes ''How to Please Your Wife: 100 Tips to Take Your Sex Life From Blah to Ahhhh'', a sex book. Terry maintains that he never ordered the book and even posts flyers around the bullpen to ask for the real owner. Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) shows up to pick up the book, claiming to be the owner. However, it's revealed that Terry is in fact the book owner and had Scully pretend to be so he wouldn't be embarrassed.
Jake (Andy Samberg) is joining Amy (Melissa Fumero) on her family dinner. Amy is not happy, since her brother David (Lin-Manuel Miranda) will show up at the dinner and her parents always view him as the "Golden child" of the family, upsetting her.
The dinner starts in bad mood after Jake and Amy find David and her mother (Bertila Damas) arrived an hour early and it gets worse when they find out that David passed his Lieutenant's exam. However, things change when the police arrive and arrest David for finding cocaine on his desk. Amy feels ecstatic about this, as the image of David now is tarnished. She bails him out of jail, where he reveals that he has been investigating corruption in his department which may be affiliated to the Brazilian mob. Despite Amy's objections, Jake has her assist her brother. In a club where the mob hides their money, they manage to find it in an office but they're pursued by mobsters, with Jake captured in the process. Amy stops her rivalry with her brother and has him shoot the tires of the vehicle, crashing it but saving Jake's life. They dine with her mother again and things seem to have improved, although Jake reveals to Amy that he went on a tirade against Amy's mother, prompting them to leave the dinner.
Meanwhile, Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) assigns Terry (Terry Crews) and Holt (Andre Braugher) to interrogate a criminal by posing in different roles. Holt and Terry are put in the holding room with the criminal, planning to make him think they're criminals to feel confident. However, Boyle's perfectionism and constant interruptions ruin the operation and their covers are blown. But this turns out to be part of Boyle's plan: expose them and have Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) enter the room so she could talk to the criminal, who revealed his drug supplier. He didn't tell this to Holt and Terry for fear that their lack of acting would expose the mission.
A hero loses their memory and ends up joining SEED, a group of rangers operating in the small town of Rigbarth. The hero is encouraged to tend the land and complete tasks for the townspeople, as well as battle monsters in order to maintain the peace. Players control a male or female character named Ares and Alice by default, although they are able to freely rename them.
Widowed mystery writer Marian Carstairs is a mother of three living off the sales of her books. Her children, Dinah (14), April (12), and Archie (10), inspired by reading their mother’s fictitious mystery novels, decide to take part in some amateur sleuthing when they hear shots in the house next door. Understanding detective work from the novels, they take specific notes on clues that they encounter, but they also falsify their testimonies to the cops with the end goal of crediting the solved case back to their mother for publicity purposes. In addition to their detective work, the children also attempt to romantically connect the handsome police lieutenant, Bill Smith, on the case with their mother.
Halsey and Gertrude Innes, along with Gertrude's fiancé Jack Bailey, visit their Aunt Ray who is leasing banker Paul Armstrong's home for the summer. Aunt Ray finds Arnold Armstrong, Paul's son, dead at the foot of the staircase and suspicion falls on Jack since he is Arnold's business enemy. Lousie Armstrong, who is travelling with her dad, is found hiding and dazed. The house keeper, Mrs. Watson, develops blood poisoning and falls down the stairs. Soon after, news arrives from Armstrong's bank, which was recently robbed, that Armstrong has died. Mrs. Watson confesses to shooting Arnold because he had beat her with a golf club. Aunt Ray accidentally discovers Paul Armstrong hiding in a secret room and screams, alerting the others. Detective Jamieson and the new gardener Alex pursue Armstrong. During the chase, Armstrong slips and fatally falls down the stairs. It is revealed that Alex was actually Jack in disguise trying to clear his name. Gertrude embraces him, and Louise hugs Halsey.
Nick, a Hollywood writer, and Angel, his possessed and very possessive cat live together. Nick's cat Angel behaves possessively of his owner around women, which results in some comical yet horrific situations.
Unable to make ends meet in Japan with his part-time job, 19 year old Kusonoki prepares to sell the last of his possessions. After visiting a library to sell books, the clerk tells Kusonoki of a place where he can sell his lifespan for actual money. Everything between how impactful someone is to the world and how many people you have affected is taken into consideration for your lifespan. After a complicated path towards this fabled place, he enters the store and meets a mysterious girl named Miyagi. After a couple hours for his evaluation, Kusonoki is informed his lifespan is only worth ¥300,000 (about $3000), abysmally lower than the universal average. Realizing that his future is worthless, he decides to sell it keeping only 3 months so he may enjoy the money. The next day he awakens to Miyagi knocking on his door. As a policy of the company, she was sent to watch over Kusonoki for the next 3 months until his death. What follows is an introspective journey pondering themes such as potential, true happiness, and what makes time valuable.
Two mothers and a life of lies, which one would you choose?
Benedita Almeida (Cláudia Vieira) now answers by the name Diana. She had a perfect relationship with her boyfriend André, a skipper who had just proposed to her. At the same time she finds out she is pregnant and is about to break the news to him, she discovers he is transporting women for an illegal prostitution network in Italy. Oblivious to the fact that her grandfather Albano is head of the network, she asks him for help.
He orders her death. She survives and falls into a coma, carrying on with her pregnancy, awakening on the day she goes into labor. She realizes the man who raised her is a monster, so she decides to leave her daughter at the doorsteps of a church and fake their death.
When she disappeared to those who knew her, she came up with a new identity while finding refuge in a traveling circus. She left her home town of Porto and was thought to have died, along with her newborn daughter. At the circus nobody asks questions about her past or the scar on her face and she travels the world with her new “family”.
20 years later, Diana decides to move back to Portugal, confident she has managed to escape her past, finding a job at a performing arts and circus school. Little does she know she is close to coming face to face to with she was running from.
Júlia (Soraia Chaves), who was hospitalized 20 years ago for a heart transplant. The organ she receives belonged to Albano, Diana's grandfather who was an evil man. Julia has always been a kind woman, but her personality changed, ever since she had surgery. The sweet and positive woman gave way to an increasingly bitter person. Her only concern seems to be the daughter she illegally adopted, Victoria (Madalena Almeida).
Victoria is André (Afonso Pimentel) and Diana's daughter. She becomes a girl with an open smile, but with a black soul. Julia created her in her image, turning Victoria into what Albano wanted to transform Diana.
When an evil heart changes your soul.
Doctors and nurses try to save the life of a 20-year-old. During the night the nurses have their own personal dramas.
Playboy Russell Keane crashes his sports car and is taken to the Memorial Wing of St Andrews' Hospital in Melbourne. Nurse Sinclair takes the call that there is an accident. Sister Murphy and Nurse Sparrow are also working on duty. Nurse Sinclair has five days to complete her training.
Russell Keane drinks some whiskey and needs to be operated on. His blood group is rare and Nurse Sinclair offers up her own blood. Dr Macready is romantically involved with Nurse Sparrow. Dr Clayton is a patient. Russell Keane's parents arrive.
Joon-ho (Shim Hee-Sub) first met Eun-ji (Jung Hye-sung) through a dating application and spent a night together. They later had another encounter when Joon-ho applies for a part-time photographing job at a magazine. The two developed feelings for each other, but they remained in an open relationship between friends and lovers. The term “mates” was coined because of their avoidance of commitment in the relationship.
Tom Evans (Jon Dawson) has trail-driven his heard to Yucca City, where he intends to sell the heard to Ben Crowley (Harry Woods). Crowley is the town big shot who owns most everything of value in the town. The night before driving the cattle into town to make the final sale, Evans gets caught up in a crooked card game hosted by Crowley. During the game a U.S. Marshal, "Nevada Jack" McKensey (Johnny Mack Brown) who is working undercover, manages to obtain one of the fixed deck of cards. While Evans is engaged in the game Crowley takes his gang, rustles the cattle, and kills Evans' cowhands. When Evans learns his men have been shot, and his cattle stolen, he rushes out of the saloon, only to be shot in the back by one of Crowley's thugs. McKensey rescues Evans and shutters him with the local blacksmith Jeff Lewis (Sam Flint) and his daughters Mary. They send for U.S. Marshall Sandy Hopkins, Evans' uncle, and hatch a plan to make things right. Deception and gunfire ensue, and the good guys go for the win.
Kaixiang (River Huang) lost his memory after an accident. He can barely recollect his past except for a trip he once took with an old flame, Kloudiia (Felicia Chin), from the Chinese to Russian capitals. To help restore Kaixiang's memory, his wife Xiaoqi (Jojo Goh) and his good friend Kenneth (Aloysius Pang) accompany him to retrace the journey in search for clues that could lead to Kloudiia's whereabouts.
(from a summary printed in ''The Era'')
The Hon. Vere Queckett is an impecunious member of the aristocracy whom Miss Dyott has married for his position in society, supporting him from the profits of her college. These proving insufficient to provide for Mr Queckett's extravagance, the devoted wife resolves, unknown to him, to go on the stage in a comic opera. She takes her leave of her husband, ostensibly to go to visit a friend in the provinces, but in fact to appear before the footlights that evening.
Beneath the calm surface of life at Volumnia House complications have already been brewing. One of Mrs Queckett's pupils has been privately married before the Registrar to her almost equally juvenile and absurdly jealous fiancé, Mr Reginald Paulover. This girl's name is Dinah, and she is the daughter of Rear-Admiral Archibald Rankling, an old sea-lion of the hoarsest, gruffest, and most savage sort.
The proposal of Mr Paulover for the hand of Miss Rankling has been received by the young lady's parents with the sternest refusal, and has been followed by her immediate seclusion in Volumnia College. In the absence of his wife, Queckett determines to invite a few friends to supper, and telegraphs accordingly to his old friend, Lieut. John Mallory. This telegram falls into the hands of a pupil, Peggy Hesslerigge, who uses it as a lever to induce Queckett to include her schoolfellows, Gwendoline Hawkins and Ermyntrude Johnson, in his invitation.
Queckett is reluctantly obliged to spend on the party with its unexpectedly large guest list the money left with him by his wife to pay the rent, the fire insurance, and the servants' wages. Mallory arrives, and brings with him his friend Rear-Admiral Rankling; and, as Dinah and her young husband are also present, it is fortunate that the Admiral has been too long at sea to be able to recognise his daughter. Supper is followed by a dance, which is in full swing when the servant runs in with the news that the boy in buttons has set the house on fire in playing with fireworks. The fire brigade arrive, and the escape is planted outside the windows of the class-room ; and the pupils escape by one, whilst Mrs Queckett, in the full attire of a queen of opera bouffe, enters at the other. There ensues a series of tête-à-têtes, explanations and reconciliations leading to a resolution satisfactory to all parties. :Source: ''The Era''.
It was not until 2000 that Rosa von Praunheim learned from his then 94-year-old mother that he had been adopted. Only after the death of his beloved adoptive mother did von Praunheim set out to find traces of his biological parents. The exciting research leads him to the central prison of Riga in Latvia.Zielinski, ''Rebel with a Cause'', p.43
In present day, Ruby Richman arrives home, upset about breaking up with her boyfriend that night over her plans to participate in a study program in Japan. Her mother, Julie, sits her down and recounts to Ruby her own final semester of high school.
In the early 1980s, as a teenager, Julie is a Valley girl who lives in Encino, Los Angeles, frequents shopping malls with her friends, Stacey, Karen and Loryn and dates Mickey, a popular but arrogant jock. However, she begins to feel disillusioned to her lifestyle and has second thoughts regarding her future with Mickey. She also aspires to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, rather than Cal State Northridge, as her parents and friends expect. At the beach, she comes across Randy, a Hollywood punk and lead singer of the band Safety Recall. The two flirt briefly before she abruptly leaves. That night, Julie and her friends attend a costume party at Mickey's house. Randy and his bandmates, Sticky and Jack, arrive at the venue, but are promptly thrown out. Later, Randy insists Julie leaves the party with him. Accompanied by a reluctant Stacey, Julie joins Randy and his friends to attend the band's performance at a punk nightclub. After Stacey leaves and Safety Recall perform, Julie spends the rest of the night with Randy, culminating with the two sharing a kiss.
The next morning, Julie breaks up with Mickey, which frustrates her friends. She begins spending more time with Randy and changes her fashion style, while Karen begins dating Mickey. This causes further conflict between her and her friends, while the same rift occurs between Randy and his bandmates. One day, Julie invites Randy over for dinner on behest of her parents Diana and Steve. However, he overhears them talk about his lack of discipline and leaves. Later, at Stacey's birthday party, Mickey begins to antagonize Randy, resulting in the two getting into a physical fight that gets Randy thrown out. Stacey also gets upset at Julie for bringing him and forces her to leave too. Outside, Julie breaks up with Randy after the two argue over their clashing backgrounds and her friends' attitudes toward him.
Later, Julie reluctantly agrees to be Mickey's date to the prom, who has broken up with Karen. She apologizes to Stacey, who forgives her and reveals she has been accepted to Dartmouth College. Meanwhile, Randy makes amends with his bandmates and decide to leave for New York before encouraging him to go after Julie. At the mall, Mickey reveals that Karen was not accepted to Northridge, unlike Loryn. On the night of the prom, Julie and Mickey are crowned prom king and queen. As the two dance, Julie breaks up with Mickey and begins to leave. Safety Recall arrive for a surprise performance, however, Mickey and his friends sabotage the equipment. Despite this, Julie and Randy share a duet and reunite. Later, Julie reconciles with Karen and Loryn is contacted to be a background dancer in an upcoming music video. As their friends dance, Julie and Randy leave the venue in Mickey's rented limousine.
In present day, Julie reveals that Safety Recall signed a record deal in New York as she was finishing her degree at FIT and joined them on their first tour before eventually breaking up with Randy. She tells Ruby that while she did not end up with Randy, she enjoyed their time together and is happy with the life that she chose. In the end, text appears on screen, revealing everyone's future successes, except for Mickey who received a restraining order from the producers of ''The Bachelor'' for repeatedly sending them his audition tape.
Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions. But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: his son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation for structural flaws exposed by the tremors.
Each ''Soft Focus with Jena Friedman'' special starts off with an investigative report segment focusing on a sensitive subject such as rape or online harassment, resulting in a social experiment that also functions as a prank. The second half of each special features an interview with a controversial real-life figure.
Shinya Otani and Miyako Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now college students, both live together in a small rented apartment in the city while keeping their relationship as a secret, in order to avoid unnecessary complications. However, their happy life begins to fall apart after they meet Yukiko Mizusawa, an old friend from high school. While Tachibana welcomes her with open arms, Otani is not as excited as he is, mainly because at school there used to be rumors that Tachibana and Mizusawa were dating. As time goes by, Otani can not help feeling more and more jealous of Mizusawa, especially after realizing how perfect she was and believing that she was in love with Tachibana. His jealousy only gets stronger when she gives Tachibana a perfume for his birthday called "Jealousy", which turns out to be the same one that she uses. Otani becomes hostile and unfriendly, even beginning to doubt about the feelings of his lover for him and treating him coldly. This situation continues until, due to a series of misunderstandings after another, both argue and decide to separate for a while.
Otani refuges in the apartment of Shougo Sunochi, a college friend who deals with a long-distance relationship with a young American boy named Alfred. Tachibana, meanwhile, tries to fix the things between them and sends Otani a text message citing him to talk, but he does not see it as his cell phone stops working after getting wet. Believing that Otani had ignored him, Tachibana begins to fall into depression. Mizusawa, aware that something bad was happening between the two, finds the courage to confess to Otani that it was really him and not Tachibana who had always been in love with, only to come to the shocking realization that Otani and Tachibana were in fact, a couple.
After clarifying things, Otani and Tachibana make up again. Otani, feeling sorry for his behavior, invites Mizusawa to throw fireworks with them at their university, where Mizusawa concludes that her feelings for Otani would never be reciprocated, but that was okay because she had always enjoyed seeing them together. The film ends with Otani and Tachibana being a happy couple again and enjoying their company, with Otani hoping that one day his words of devotion, having so much power, will reach Tachibana.
Noboru Fukami is a lonely and introverted college student who saves one of his classmates, Kōhei Hayase, from drowning on a lake. Hayase had never paid attention to Noboru before, but after being saved by him he begins to feel confused about his feelings towards the very mysterious Noboru. And if this was not enough, Hayase soon meets Noboru's twin brother, Ryū, who has a very different personality from his brother.
Set at Shidō Academy, a boys' boarding school, the story focuses on Takumi Hayama, a lonely and shy boy who suffers from an extreme phobia of human contact and can not bear being touched by other people. In his second year at school, Takumi is paired in a room with Giichi "Gui" Saki. Gui was brought up abroad and is the school idol with his exceptional academic performance, as well as his good looks. One day, Gui confesses to Takumi that he has been in love with him for some time. This unexpected truth of events unsettles Takumi, however, he comes to realize the true sensitivity of Gui's personality.
Three priests meet on the same date of a past event that could have taken their lives.
Personal secretary Sharon Carlin (Mala Powers) arrives at a railway station on a mission to deliver an important envelope for her boss. When she enters her compartment, a man threatens her with a gun. She sees a woman in the compartment who appears dead. The man knocks Sharon unconscious. When she comes to, she finds herself interrogated by a plainclothes policeman who accuses her of murdering the woman. When they leave the train for the police station, Sharon manages to dodge the detective and, panicked, runs in front of a car which has to swerve to avoid her, injuring a young boy who is a passenger. Sharon begs the driver, Paul Colbert (Jacques Bergerac), a divorced man who is the boy's father and is returning the boy to his mother, to help her. He reluctantly agrees. After a disagreeable scene at the wife's house, Paul drops Sharon back at her home. She has forgotten that her male friend is staying in her flat. Later he phones her and they have a coffee together at a local beat café. When she returns home, she finds her friend dead. Chased by the murderer, she dashes out of the apartment block and Paul drives her away. She eventually discloses to him that she can't go to the police as they won't believe her: she has a mental health history and was once in a sanitorium. The following day, Paul drives her to her employer's house where, inexplicably, his employer and his staff disavow any knowledge of her errand. More worryingly, her employer, Milo Seymour (John Harding) claims a large sum of money has disappeared from his safe, to which only he and she have the combination. Is Sharon the victim of an elaborate plot, or is she veering into madness?
Ten years in the past, planet-sized robots appeared out of nowhere. They began to wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, demolishing entire worlds before suddenly disappearing as quickly as they arrived. After the destruction caused by these the "harvesters", as they are nicknamed by The United Galactic Council, anti-robot fanaticism spreads throughout the council's nine-core planets, resulting in the culling of all artificial intelligence and robotic life in the galaxy. Ten years after the carnage, a young android named TIM-21 wakes up to discover that he is not only one of the last robots in existence, but also the most wanted being in the universe. Pursuing him are the inimitable Captain Telsa, daughter of the U.G.C.'s president and survivor of the harvester attacks, and Doctor Quon, the disgraced and secretive "father of robotics". Alongside his robot dog, Bandit, and a maladroit mining droid named Driller, TIM-21 embarks on a cosmic odyssey that has him facing bounty hunters and threats at every turn.
The Lupinrangers are approached by alien pop star Hoshi Minato and his manager Jerataro, who demand money from them, when the Patrangers intervene. Suddenly, Lucky of the Kyurangers falls from the sky, allowing Minato and Jerataro to kidnap the Lupinrangers while the Patrangers arrest Lucky. After confirming that their captors are unable to help them in their quest to regain the Lupin Collection, the Lupinrangers break free. However, they overhear Minato and Jerataro saying they are stranded from their universe after they were dragged into a dimensional rift and agree to help them just as the BN Thieves Balance and Naga Ray appear, claiming they want Minato's guitar and join forces to ransom the Lupinrangers for the Patrangers's equipment, the guitar, and money. During the exchange, Gangler member Rirus Lipig appears and steals the guitar, forcing the Lupinrangers to use the Patrangers's gear to transform, but fail to prevent the enemy from escaping due to their unfamiliarity with them.
Meanwhile, Space Federation President Tsurugi Ohtori appears at the Patrangers' headquarters to help Lucky get released and reveal the Kyurangers's true objective is to stop Don Arkage, a Jark Matter remnant who escaped from their universe. Concurrently, Kyuranger members Stinger, Hammie, and Spada search for Lucky, but track Minato's guitar to a warehouse, where the Lupinrangers and BN thieves learn that Lipig is working with Don Arkage, who intends to use the Hyper Planedium in Minato's guitar to become invincible. The Lupinrangers and Kyurangers confront the two and defeat Lipig, but Don Arkage takes the guitar and absorbs its Hyper Planedium. Lucky fights back, but is severely injured by Don Arkage, who vows to return the next day to claim the Earth.
While Lucky is recovering, he reveals he attacked Don Arkage to prevent him from being fully bathed in the Hyper Planedium and create a weak spot. The next day, the Patrangers, Lupinrangers, and Kyurangers join forces to confront Don Arkage. During the battle, they are suddenly and briefly joined by Misao Mondo of the Zyuohgers. Together, the heroes defeat Don Arkage, but the enemy enlarges himself, leading to the Lupinrangers and Patrangers to form the mecha Good Cool Kaiser VSX and use the Kyurangers's powers to destroy him. After the battle, the Lupinrangers and Patrangers bid farewell to the Kyurangers who return to their own universe.
The film opens at an all-black college somewhere in the Southern United States. Paul Bronson, a recent graduate, is convinced by gambler LeRoy Giles to join him in Chicago. There, Paul becomes involved with Dinah Jackson, a singer who is married to club owner Sam Brown but has been having an affair with LeRoy. Paul runs into Evelyn Martin, a beauty parlor owner, who recognizes him from college. The two have lunch together, during which LeRoy spots them and reports to Dinah that Paul is seeing someone else. Dinah arranges for LeRoy to drug and rob Paul. LeRoy also kills Sam and leaves the gun by his body. Paul finds the body; as he picks up the gun, Dinah enters and accuses Paul of killing Sam. Eventually, Dinah reports Paul to the police for the murder; she then goes on a bender and dies when her car is hit by a train. It seems that Paul will be found guilty of Sam's murder, until, at the last moment, a Chinese man named Ching Li comes forward as an eyewitness. Paul is freed and reunited with Evelyn. The two plan to travel by train to Oklahoma to start over together.
The story begins with a young man named Beto (Daniel Valdez) questioning an old man with a guitar (Luis Valdez) about going to America to seek work, as they ride in a truck for the border. The old man decides to narrate the story of Jesus Pelado Rasquachi (Felix Alvarez) in order to show the young man what America is really like. Jesus Pelado Rasquachi finds himself unable to secure employment in the fictional Mexican town of Guangoche, and desires to migrate to the United States in search of a job. Due to his inability to pay a smuggler the fee for border crossing, he comes in contact with El Diablo (Jose Delgado), a mobster who he ends up borrowing money from. Even after borrowing the money Rasquachi is unable to cross the border due to his lack of both American money with which to bribe the guards or an American sponsor. Due to his lack of legal employment, Rasquachi is forced to work low-paying and difficult jobs at the behest of the smuggler who contracts him to various ranchers on the border near Ciudad Juarez. Rasquachi continues to work around the western area of the United States, poorly paid and subjected to poor working conditions before finally ending up in an area resembling Los Angeles, where he dies an old man, having met death (Socorro Cruz). The old man finishes his story and mysteriously disappears, when Beto is accosted by a series of farm workers who demand to know the story of Jesus Pelado Rasquachi. Beto then tells the story himself, leading the crowd away as the old man wanders down the road towards America.
The story is set in the picturesque Upper Bavaria.
Theophil von Salbenstein is a rich landowner and guardian of Hermine von Meyen who has just inherited a considerable fortune managed by him. A clause of the will, however, stipulates that in order to inherit the fortune, Hermine has either to wait for three years or to marry Salbenstein immediately. But Hermine is in love with the poet Ferdinand Römer. Ferdinand, on the other hand, has just fled to the countryside, assuming his relationship with Hermine had ended. The poet dedicates his enthusiastic and romantic poetry to Lieschen, the daughter of the peasant Christian Berner. Barbara, a distant relative of Theophil, comes on the scene to resolve the imbroglio. She manages to show Theophil a written marriage agreement. At the end, everyone gets what he or she deserves.[https://www.f-v-su.de/dichter_bauer ''Dichter und Bauer''], f-v-su.de
In the good old days of Emperor Franz Joseph's Habsburg monarchy, the Hendelberg Marriage Market takes place every spring. Marriageable girls and fellow locals who love each other are married the same day in the chapel. Even the rich farmer Lugosch appears with his son Florian, because the old man plans to marry his simple-minded offspring with the proud Jelka, farmer Martin's daughter. However, Jelka is not in the least interested in Florian, and actually Florian is not into the idea, either, because his thoughts always revolve around the cute maid Julischka. However, the main point of contention between Lugosch and Martin is in reality the appropriation of the Steinerhof estate whose owner has recently passed away. While Lugosch wants to acquire the property for his son, Martin wishes that his ward Peter Werschitz, legitimate heir to the estate, become the new owner. But no one knows where Peter is and whether he still lives at all – and in three days the legal deadline ends, after which the Steinerhof gets under the hammer ... Then, to the astonishment of the folks, it is learned that Julischka not so long ago served as a maid at a Peter Werschitz in Budapest. The excited questioning of the girl produces even more incredible news: Peter Werschitz should be a poet! Martin, Jelka and Julischka set off for Budapest to bring Peter back home. But before the lost son becomes a real master of the Steinhof estate and a successful writer, all kinds of weird and grotesque obstacles have to be overcome between the peasants and the townspeople. But finally – without the marriage market – the right kind of love will find each other and on the Steinerhof a young couple of happiness blossoms.
Tom returns, but finds out that he is now wanted, since his gun was found in a murder scene. Tom gets into a fight with Munro which he suspects his the murderer and collects a bullet from him, which he matches to the bullet used in the murder, however in the trial, the bullet evidence is ignored.
In 1999, George Eberhart, a tabloid journalist, has been resuscitated from a suicide by a new scientific process, known as the "Han process". Amidst premillennial hysteria across the United States, compounded by both biblical prophecies concerning the End of Times and Ufologists reporting sightings of giant alien spacecraft.
The resurrected George leaves both his job and his wife, Lucy, and discovers in Raleigh, North Carolina a series of unusual incidents the locals believe are angelic interventions, but that George suspects are due to alien interference with the progress of humanity.
Rev Jimmy-Don Gilray is convinced that God is send a messenger to Earth on January 1, 2000.
Both men may be correct as either the messenger may be aliens or God, or even the Devil.
Pretty salesgirl of the music store Tanya Fedosova (Lyudmila Gurchenko) dreams of becoming an actress. She often sings. There are always a lot of customers around her. But they annoy the shop director (Mikhail Zharov), who is afraid of losing a valuable employee. He tries to prevent the possible career of Tanya, who has all the data to become an actress. Acquaintance of the girl with the young composer (Vladimir Gusev) helps her dream to come true.
The film stars Amber Stevens West as Maya, a young woman on a trip to South Africa. While there she enters a whirlwind romance with Mtumbie (Demetrius Grosse), but shortly before returning home she breaks off their engagement when she catches him with another woman.
To protect herself from the disapproval of her father (Keith David), she enlists Malcolm (Shamier Anderson), a Canadian pool hustler on the run from his vengeful partner in crime Tyrell (Lyriq Bent), to impersonate Mtumbie.
Over a number of days, Malcolm gets to know Maya's family and Maya herself. He shows his carpentry skills helping her dad build a small studio, and he and Maya connect while joking around with some paints on a canvas. She gets herself and family members outfitted for the wedding ceremony.
In the meantime, Tyrell sees Malcolm in town and demands he give his split of an earlier pool hustle, which he doesn't have because he returned it. Malcolm lets Tyrell think he's impersonating Mtumbie to scam the family out of money, when in reality he's planning to fake his death for Maya's sake.
At the wake, both the real Mtumbie and Malcolm show up. Maya and Malcolm declare their feelings for each other, and Maya's cousin Naomi (Nicole Lyn) flirts with Mtumbie.
Giovanni Boccaccio dreams of being led into hell, precisely into the department of "lechers". On his way, he learns the stories of some of the damned.
Two married couples agree to switch partners and enjoy the other's spouse. A friar takes advantage of a young woman whose husband is insatiable. A merchant entrusts his household to one of his nephews, including his wife, who instructs the young man in the art of sex. A married merchant has a homosexual relationship with one of his workers; his wife threatens to tell everyone if her husband's lover will not satisfy her in bed. *A husband entrusts his wife and daughter to a music teacher, underestimating him as shy and harmless.
On his way, Boccaccio also meets Nero and the majestic figure of Dante Alighieri.
Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from school together for years. However, their routine is interrupted when Chad Hilligas, a bully Marshall knows, came to fight them. Since they don’t want to escalate the situation, Marshall and Tamaya take a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Marshall and Tamaya then split up after getting lost to look for an escape route. Afterwards, Chad shows up and tries to attack Tamaya. Marshall tries to defend her, but gets caught by Chad in the process. To save Marshall, Tamaya grabs nearby mud and throws it in Chad’s face.
Meanwhile, excerpts from an investigation led by the Energy and Environment Commission of the American Senate are shown, on the topic of SunRay Farm and biolene, an environmentally-friendly alternative to petrolium, developed by Jonathan Fitzman and Dr. Mark Humbard, among others.
The following day, Tamaya wakes up to discovering a rash from exposure to the mud. At school, that day, the principal announces the disappearance of Chad Hilligas, from which Tamaya quickly concludes that the missing kid must still be in the woods. She and Marshall both independently decide to remain silent on the subject, in order to keep each other out of trouble.
On the next day, Tamaya's rash gets worse, wherefore she is taken to the nurse’s office. During her stay there, Tamaya realizes what happened to her hand should logically happen to Chad’s face. She therefore escapes from school during lunch break and goes into the woods, in the spot where she last saw him. Upon finding him, she finds out that the mud had rendered him almost completely blind. The two children then have an intimate discussion, which reveals why Chad acts mean to others.
When Marshall learns that Tamaya is missing, he also leaves to look for her in the woods. He finds Tamaya and Chad, who have become closer, and assists the group out of the woods; during which he almost immediately notices the rash, of which he has, too, become a victim. A search and rescue team finds the trio, exhausted, and takes them to a hospital.
Meantime, thanks to more excerpts from the investigation led by the Senate, it is understood that the mystery mud is in fact the result of a mutation of the micro-organisms that biolene is composed of. Seeing the effects it can have on humans, Heath Cliff (the town where all this takes place) is put under quarantine, in order to restrain the condition from spreading. The reader also notices that without Chad, Tamaya and Marshall having brought attention to the issue, the mutated micro-organisms would have spread to humans, but one or two weeks later, when it would have been far too late to prevent its spreading.
Eventually, inasmuch as the mutation does not allow the micro-organisms to survive in freezing temperatures, when winter begins, all the creatures die. As for the humans and animals already affected, a scientist by the name of Dr. Crumbly finds a cure. He finds, one day, that his pet turtle, despite exposure to the mud, does not show any symptoms. He therefore develops a vaccine composed of turtle enzymes, which proves effective and is given to more than sixty thousand humans and animals.
The world continues using biolene, manufactured only in the States of New Mexico, Idaho and Michigan, all of which have harsh winters and lack of vegetation. The entire globe is grateful for Tamaya, to the extent that the rash is named ''Dhilwaddi's blistering urticaria''.
A movie director seeks an actress to fulfill his desires for a role as Eve.
Three gold prospectors bury their gold in a secret location but greed quickly reduces their number to two.
''Chip and Potato'' is about Chip, a young pug who faces big challenges and embarks on the new stages of her life. There to help and comfort Chip whenever she needs it is her best friend Potato; a snuggly "toy" who she snuggles in her pocket. However, Potato is actually a real, living mouse who must be kept a secret.
The story is based on a mythical belief that people will live under thuththiri plants in future. The drama begins with the invasion of a group of aliens to the earth, starring Michelle Dilhara, Morin Charuni, Kavinga Perera and Jake Senaratna. It is said that they were sent to protect the earth from pollution and over consumption of poisonous materials. With their extraordinary skills they quickly learned the human behaviorism and human language in order to communicate with people. The aliens live inside a housing scheme where people tend to interact more with each other.
A white family goes to a lake with friends. Their tattoos imply the group are Neo-Nazis. Jeffrey (Jonathan Tucker) brags that his son, Troy (Jackson Robert Scott) can shoot a target with a rifle and takes bets on the challenge. Troy successfully shoots the target.
The group heads to a grocery store, where Christa (Danielle Macdonald) shops for food. In the checkout line, Troy sees an African-American man, Jaydee (Ashley Thomas), holding a toy. Troy and the man smile at each other. As Jaydee is checking out, Jeffrey notices the interaction and accuses Jaydee of messing with his boy. Jaydee denies it and Jeffrey calls him a racial slur. Jaydee leaves, telling Jeffrey that he is the problem.
Jeffrey tells his friends about the dispute and they follow Jaydee into the parking lot. Jeffrey and his friends beat Jaydee viciously while Jaydee's wife calls the police from her car nearby. Troy watches the incident from the store as Christa frets. As the group leaves, Jaydee's wife holds him in the parking lot. Troy looks out the car window and makes eye contact with Jaydee's son, Bronny (Lonnie Chavis), who is nearly the same age.
The next evening, Jeffrey and Troy are driving home and find a van blocking the road. Jeffrey walks up to the van and a group of black men abduct him. Jeffrey is taken to the garage of a home, where several black men and Bronny drug and tattoo him over several days. Jaydee is there recovering.
Some time later, Jeffrey is thrown naked onto the same road he was abducted from. He sees his reflection in a window and finds his skin tattooed completely black. Inside their home, Christa wakes up to the sound of someone outside. She loads a handgun and calls for help. Jeffrey attempts to wash his skin clean with water but fails. Christa orders Troy to hide under the bed and not come out.
Jeffrey forcefully enters the home. Christa, seeing what appears to be a naked, black man in her home, warns him to get out or she will shoot him. Jeffrey manages to communicate to Christa who he is, and she drops her weapon. A shot rings out, and Jeffrey collapses. Troy stands in the doorway behind Jeffrey holding a rifle.
Ayman, a migrant from Syria living in Lebanon is instructing his wife to drive the car that is what is left of his country in his life.
The play opens with Laurence watching ''Finding Nemo'' and begins with an intertwined pair of monologues: Tamora is giving a motivational talk at an all-girls' technology college about her heartbeat-transmitting product, the Heart to Heart, and Martin is describing an incident that occurred in a park in which Laurence attempted to bite a little girl.
The rest of the play is presented in real time over the course of an evening. Somebody has phoned social services and reported that Laurence has bruises. As a result, there has been a social services enquiry resulting in the decision to move Laurence to a residential school where he can be better cared for. A whodunnit, or who-phoned-it, theme runs throughout the play as Martin tries to discover who is responsible for the call that resulted in Laurence's departure.
The support worker, Gary, acts a conversational go-between for Martin and Tamora as they try to bring themselves to read a social story to Laurence detailing how he will be leaving home. Martin speaks to Gary about his concerns regarding residential schooling, and Tamora confides in Gary her worries and insecurities.
As the evening progresses, Martin and Tamora's relationship degrades, and they begin to argue. This comes to a head when Martin accuses Gary of making the phone call, and Tamora reveals that she was the person who called social services, acknowledging her inability to cope and feeling that Laurence would be better cared for by professionals. A furious argument triggers a meltdown from Laurence, and he bites his mother.
In the aftermath, Martin and Tamora call something of a truce, and they sit down as a family to read the social story and watch the end of ''Finding Nemo''.
Jakub Procházka is a Czech astrophysicist who agrees to an eight-month mission of exploring a cloud of dust and particles, called Chopra, in space that was created by a comet. Jakub must travel to its location (between Earth and Venus) to collect samples of the cloud so they could determine what it is, why it is making the sky purple at night, and why it is beginning to consume itself. The mission is deemed too dangerous by most countries to even attempt, so the Czech Republic decides to take the opportunity to be the first to attempt something like this. It's decided that Jakub will be sent on the mission, making him a celebrity in the public eye. He is not very passionate about becoming an astronaut, however, instead wanting redemption for his family name. His father was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia that ruled their country in the past, and a young Jakub and his grandparents were harshly punished for the now deceased father's actions by their community after a stranger revealed his secrets. Jakub feels his family name can only be redeemed by becoming a national hero.
Jakub leaves his wife, Lenka, on Earth while he goes on this eight-month mission. He continues to talk to her every day over video-call, along with his mission engineer Petr. The stress of the situation coupled with a feeling of abandonment becomes too much for Lenka, and she leaves Jakub. This adds to Jakub's feeling of extreme loneliness, making his mission almost unbearable. He begins to drink extensively and becomes depressed, and he starts to question his mental state when he hears voices. After he starts seeing a giant, talking spider walking around the space shuttle, Jakub thinks it is just his imagination or a mental breakdown, but he becomes less sure of this as he continues to see the spider. The spider, which Jakub decides to call Hanuš, reveals that he is an alien from another planet and was sent to research humans and their way of life.
Jakub passes his time with Hanuš while getting reports back from the spy he hired to follow Lenka. When he finally reaches the Chopra, the dust particles tear open his ship and he decides to spend his last moments with a dying Hanuš, who he has grown very close to. At the last moment, Jakub is rescued by a Russian shuttle, where he meets three other cosmonauts. They explain that they are from a secret Russian program and that once they land he will be imprisoned. As they are landing, Jakub escapes with the help of one of the cosmonauts who claims to have met Hanuš as well. The escape attempt causes the ship to crash, which leads to Jakub being the only survivor. He was pronounced dead to the world and decides this is better for both him and Lenka, who he believes is happier without him. He travels back to his childhood home, where he decides to live the rest of his life.
Happily married businessman and politician Robert Hilary lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him, and he kisses her. Her boyfriend finds out and blackmails him, but when the blackmailer continues to return for more money Robert decides to call in the authorities. However, this leads to severe consequences for all.
The series depicts Spider-Man telling the viewers how he helped another superhero stop a villain.
After years without contact, Ethel, an aging actress, asks her estranged daughter and granddaughter, Frankie and Clara, home for the weekend to attend an extravagant party. At 16, Clara has never met any extended family, and her grandmother’s eccentric nature is infectious. Clara is drawn deeper into her grandmother's fantasies and disillusionments, causing the rift in Clara’s relationship with her mother to widen. Meanwhile, Frankie is left to battle her own demons and face a love she left behind. These tensions culminate as Ethel’s ulterior motive for the weekend’s festivities force everyone to reconsider the roles they play in each other’s lives, and the worth of family as a whole.
While touring Powers Industrial, Barbara Gordon witnesses a power generator being stolen by the Foot Clan and also spots four mysterious and elusive creatures during the robbery that she believes are metahumans. The Foot Clan attacks Wayne Enterprises to steal an experimental cloud seeder machine, but are ambushed by Batman, who fends off the Foot and their leader, Shredder. Meanwhile, the four "metahumans" Batgirl sighted—actually the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—arrive in Gotham tracking the Shredder, who has allied with an unknown party. After defending Wayne Enterprises from the Penguin, the Turtles encounter and fight Batman, as each side believes the other is working with the Shredder. Batman is able to overpower the Turtles, who retreat.
Donatello researches Batman and his sighted locations, and uses this information to figure out the location of the Batcave. After a brief scuffle with Robin, Batman and Batgirl arrive, and the Turtles introduce themselves and explain their reason for coming to Gotham. The two groups agree to work together against their common enemies, and Robin reveals that Shredder and the Foot Clan are working with Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins. Shredder and Ra's meet and strike a bargain: Ra's will give Shredder access to the Lazarus Pit to become immortal, in exchange for Shredder building a machine that will spray a combination of TCRI mutagen and Joker venom over Gotham, transforming the citizens into insane mutants that will destroy the city. With Shredder's failure to steal the cloud seeder, Ra's hires the Penguin to intercept it, while he and Shredder go to Arkham Asylum and release the Joker. The two trade Joker TCRI mutagen for the Joker venom formula, and Joker uses the mutagen on Arkham's inmates.
The Bat-Family and the Turtles are alerted about an alarm at Arkham by Commissioner Gordon and investigate. After fighting their way through various members of Batman's rogues gallery, they confront Harley Quinn and Joker, mutated into a spotted hyena and a king cobra. Joker injects Batman with a mixture of Joker venom and mutagen, transforming him into a deranged mutant vampire bat. The heroes are able to inject Batman with an anti-mutagen and restore him, and subdue Harley and Joker. Batgirl learns about the cloud seeder's theft by Penguin, and they realize the incident at Arkham was a distraction. Aware that Shredder and Ra's will be using Joker venom, they deduce they will be at Ace Chemicals to create it.
At Ace Chemicals, the Bat-family and the Turtles fight through the Foot Clan and the League of Assassins with the Batmobile and the Turtle Van. While Batman fights Shredder and Leonardo engages Ra's, Donatello and Michelangelo sabotage the cloud seeder as it launches. Leonardo subdues Ra's, and Batman is able to defeat the Shredder with a distraction from Raphael. The cloud seeder crashes into the facility and explodes, knocking the Shredder into a vat of Joker venom and destroying Ace Chemicals. At the Batcave, the Turtles prepare to return to New York until Batman reveals a surprise pizza party to celebrate their victory.
In a post-credits scene, Shredder emerges from the rubble of Ace Chemicals, now possessing a Joker-like appearance and laughing maniacally.
The story starts when Lee Geum-hwa and her twin sister are born. Geum-hwa's sister's fetus feeds on her leg and Geum-hwa is born with a deformed leg. The sister, referred to as the thing was not expected to make it. Their mother dies shortly after and their father commits suicide soon after. Geum-hwa now lives in a remote village with her grandparents, who had recently moved there and raises dogs for a living. The sister is kept hidden from the public eye, locked up in a shed in the backyard. Her birth was never registered. Some of the locals with the help of a shaman (woman) investigate the farm because the local livestock had been acting up. When they investigate the shed, snakes crawl out of it and bite them.
Meanwhile, Pastor Park, a man who works at exposing cults, is hired to investigate a mysterious group called Dongbanggyo or "Deer Mountain." At the same time, the police also start investigating the body of a girl found buried in concrete. An individual called Gwangmok pays a visit to his friend Kim Cheol-Jin a truck driver who admits he has failed Father. He says the dead children come to visit him at night. Gwangmok tells him to go ahead and die. Autopsy on the dead girl reveals a talisman inside her mouth and the Pathologist recalls similar cases in the past. Police trace the dead girl to Kim Cheol-Jin via the construction company he works for and when the police arrive he throws himself off the roof. Gwangmok is given an information sheet on Geum-hwa by one of the Dongbanggyo members. He starts to stake out Geum-hwa. Gwangmok has nightmares about dead girls but they end with a woman consoling him with a song.
Park learns the scriptures of Dongbanggyo was written by a Kim Pungsa and finds an article about a Buddhist master Nechung Tenpa wanting to meet the founder of Dongbanggyo, Kim Je-seok. Park learns that Kim Je-seok made a significant donation to a youth detention centre about 20 years ago. He also learns that Kim Je-seok adopted four juvenile delinquents who killed their fathers. One of the boys was Kim Cheol-jin. Park reasons that three of the boys are dead based on drawings showing them as deities with halos. The remaining deity is called Gwangmok.
Gwangmok is at Guem-hwa's place and plans to strangle her. However, birds begin to fly through the window which confuses Gwangmok. He then goes to the shed where the sister is. The sister grabs his leg from under the door and Gwangmok is frightened off. Gwangmok goes to the Dongbanggyo Residence and speaks with a youthful Henchman tending the grounds. He tells Gwangmok that the girl is the snake. Gwangmok meets with his "Father" who is dying. He recalls the Father giving him the moniker Gwangmok and saying that he is one of the stars who will protect the light.
Pastor Park speaks with Nechung Tenpa, who recounts an encounter he had in 1985 with the Master or Maitreya. He tells Park that the man has attained immortality. He saw the Master's twelve fingers. He says the Master is still alive despite being born in 1899. Park asks about the Donggonggyo scriptures which speak of a "snake" who will kill "the light." Tenpa says that the snake is the natural enemy of the Master. Tenpa said he delivered an oracle to the Master that his natural enemy will be born in the place where the Master was born in one hundred years and will turn out the light. Park asks Tenpa about the numbers in the scriptures but he was not able to assist. Park deduces that the cult founder Kim Je-seok is "the light," and the four "guardians" have been killing all the young girls born in 1999 at Yeongwul, Kim Je-seok's hometown. He realizes the numbers in the scripture were actually birth registration numbers for all the girls.
Meanwhile, Gwangmok has kidnapped Guem-hwa and is preparing to kill her. She asks why she has to die. He says she is born evil but death is not the end. Guen-hwa tells Gwangmok about her sister and asks him to kill her also so she can be reborn as a human in the next life. Gwongmok finds the sister and prepares to strangle her. She has shed her hideous appearance and has taken on the pose of a Buddha. She tells him that she has been waiting for her and that she was the one who consoles him in his nightmares after he sheds blood. She sings the same song to him as in his nightmares. She tells him to look for the mark (six fingers) on the person he calls Father and to kill him.
Gwangmok returns to the Residence and tells the Henchman what happened. He goes to check his dying Father's hand but he only has five fingers. The Henchman lures Gwangmok to a barn and shoots him. He puts Gwangmok in the back seat of a car and drives to kill Guem-hwa's sister. Park also attend the residence and is confused why the old man is dying. He hides and learns that the Henchman is actually Kim Je-seok and that the old man was just a disciple.
While driving Kim Je-seok (now revealed as the Henchman) tells Gwangmok that he will soon die. He tells him the man he called Father was actually his disciple. He tells him he is the light and that Gwangmok is one of the stars that protect him. He tells him not be sad about the acts they committed. He tells him he has won the race against time and that there are things he must do for the world and offers for him to continue to serve. Gwangmok goes to strangle him and tells Kim that he is a predator who is desperate to live. The car eventually crashes. Both are pinned with fuel dripping onto them. Kim Je-seok is able to escape and starts to walk away. Gwangmok retrieves an object that the sister had given him. It turns out to be a lighter and he sets Kim Je-seok on fire killing him.
Geum-hwa who is still alive holds her sister while the sister passes away.
Holt (Andre Braugher) assigns Jake (Andy Samberg) to investigate the case of a businessman, Seth Haggerty (Jonathan Chase), who broke his penis (which inspires enthusiasm from Jake) but is also accused of committing sexual assault (which ruins Jake's childish joy over getting a case involving a broken penis). Amy (Melissa Fumero) volunteers to work with Jake on the case, saying that she's weeks ahead on her paperwork and has been granted some time to return to detective work.
Jake and Amy interrogate Haggerty, who proclaims his innocence, saying his accuser is fabricating her story. They then talk to Keri Brennan (Briga Heelan), the financial analyst who reported the sexual assault and broke his penis. Amy tells her to file charges but Keri changes her mind as the company offered a $2.5 million settlement if she signs a non-disclosure agreement against him, she also thinks her word won't be enough to change the system. Amy convinces her to let them investigate.
Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) overhears their conversation in the break room. To Amy's surprise, Rosa says Keri should take the deal, because she feels her life will be negatively affected by pressing charges, even if she wins the case against him, and it's better to walk away with money instead of nothing. They interview her co-workers but all of them state that everything is "professional". To make things worse, Haggerty's lawyer says that with no evidence and her refusal to accept the deal will result in her termination for injuring Haggerty.
Amy reveals to Jake that the case is personal for her as her mentor in the police academy once tried to kiss her after he helped her become a detective, making it clear he felt she "owed him" for his assistance, which resulted in her transfer to the 99th precinct. She never told this to anyone, out of fear that she wouldn't get any other promotion. Jake decides to continue helping her and seek evidence from a co-worker named Beefer. Beefer reveals Haggerty has a text chain with many men in the company where they talk about many sexual incidents in the office. Haggerty is charged with sexual assault but Keri quits the company, feeling that now everyone sees her as a victim or a traitor and have started to avoid her, which will end any chance of her advancing in the field. Despite this, she's glad she did the right thing. Amy feels saddened but Rosa assures her she helped a lot by showing that one of Keri's co-workers has come forward with her own story.
Meanwhile, Holt is notified that a criminal he caught years ago, Ernest Zumowski (also known as The Disco Strangler), has died during a prison transport. However, Holt is convinced that he faked his death to escape, despite the fact that the killer is over 80 years old and the medical examiner confirms his body's DNA matches with that of Zumowski. He even visits the bus driver in the hospital to accuse her of conspiracy but she reveals that the piece of evidence that Holt has is not proof, which finally convinces Holt that he is dead but also makes him feel his good old days are behind him. His instinct proves to be correct as a camera reveals Zumowski in fact faked his death and fled through the woods. Leading a team through the city, Holt manages to catch Zumowski.
Left for dead after a brutal interrogation apparently gone wrong, vice detective Anna Walker (Elisabeth Röhm) awakes in the hospital with no memory of who she is. She recognizes no-one; not her husband Tate (Neil Napier), her daughter Emily (Vivien Endicott-Douglas), nor Derek (Tygh Runyan), her partner on the police force, who tells her most of the rest of the force is occupied with solving the recent murder of the mayor, her own assault being less of a priority. On her return home Anna discovers that hers is not a happy family: her relationship with Emily was extremely strained; Anna herself was on the verge of leaving Tate. She has other problems brewing: whoever assaulted her may want to finish the job, if her memory returns. A visit from Internal Affairs suggests some on the force may think she is faking her amnesia and has something to hide.
in 2012 Not knowing whom to trust, she must find out who may still be pursuing her, before they eliminate her once and for all. Anna begins an investigation of her own immediate past and discovers she was callous and competitive enough to put her job above her family and was having an affair with Derek, who helps her with her investigation. The more she learns, the more she wants to put right whatever went wrong in her life. She and Derek were on the take. Her investigations lead to realize she had found a safe house for a witness to the mayor's murder, a young prostitute. Eventually, she works out that the only safe place for her was her father's house, and, going there, she unwittingly leads the killer's gang to the safe house, as Derek betrays her. She has no choice but to return with him and the young woman, as the gang leader has her husband and daughter hostage...
Dale is a highly skilled adventurer who has made quite a name for himself despite his youth. One day on a job deep in the forest, he comes across a little devil girl named Latina who has almost wasted away. Unable to just leave her there to die, Dale takes her home and becomes her adoptive father.
The story, set on a terraformed Mars, describes, using the present tense, an expedition climbing Olympus Mons, "the tallest mountain in the solar system". It is seen from the viewpoint of Roger Clayborne, who has recently resigned after twenty-seven years as Minister of the Interior at Government House in Burroughs. He feels his political career has been futile. He thinks the planet could have been left as it was found, not turned into another Earth and made a laboratory for new animals and plants.
All but one of the group were born on Mars. The expedition leader is Eileen Monday. People can live for several hundred years, and she and Clayborne are both now about three hundred; she has forgotten their relationship, when they were in their twenties, but Clayborne, who has an unusually complete memory, can recall it. He talks to her of his regrets about the planet; she says his efforts with the Red Mars party would never have succeeded.
The height of Olympus Mons above the base is about . There is a vertical escarpment of about , above which is the flank of the volcano crater with a gradient of about 6%. The details of mountaineering are described as the group ascends. Members take oxygen on the upper part of the ascent, and strong winds develop. During the climb, one person suffers a broken arm because of a falling rock, and is taken down by a few others; another suffers pulmonary edema because of ascending too rapidly, and is taken to a lower camp to ascend more slowly.
On the flank of the volcano, where they are above the atmosphere, they wear suits and helmets. It is about from the escarpment to the rim of the crater, and they walk a day, sleeping in a pressurized tent. By the end of the journey, Clayborne and Eileen Monday's relationship has revived, and he feels persuaded by her view of the planet.