''The Light Ages'' takes place in an industrializing England that relies on the mining of aether, a magical fifth element. Society is structured by a rigid labor caste system of guilds. The narrator and protagonist of the novel, Robert Borrows, belongs to a lowly guild in a Yorkshire mining village. He eventually journeys to London, where he joins a group of thieves, pickpockets, and revolutionaries who seek to overthrow the caste system.

Publication history

• 2003, UK, Earthlight (a former imprint of Simon & Schuster) , Pub date May 2003, Hardback
• 2003, US, Ace Books , Pub date May 2003, Hardback
• 2004, UK, Simon & Schuster , Pub date 5 April 2004, Paperback
• 2004, US, Ace Trade, , Pub date 6 April 2004, Paperback

Xar, a 12-year-old wizard prince who struggles with his magical abilities, meets Wish, a wizard princess who has an illegal magical object on an adventure in a mysterious witch’s wildwoods.

Members of the Barone family, including Ray, Debra, Robert, and Marie, are turned off by grandfather Frank's poor ethics as a driver, which is executed via him driving in police officer Robert's patrol car and cutting off a funeral procession while driving to an arcade named The Happy Zone. Ray and Debra are considering not have Frank drive their kids. Frank then, proudly, reveals he didn't renew his license because he didn't "want to wait in those long lines." Ray, with this realization, takes Frank's car keys out of his hand, which he then gives to Marie where she puts them in her bra.

Frank then goes to the DMV to take his driving test, and (as part of a rule where a licensed driver has to ride with a student) his son Raymond goes along with him. Despite encompassing the same driving habits that have turned off his other relatives, he passes the test and gets another license. Although Debra reacts negatively, Ray feels a "little proud" for Frank because it shows that he's "really not that old." This gives both Ray and Debra the realization that they have to be the real "parents" of Frank.

Part I: ''Thine Eyes Did See My Substance''

The book opens in World War II era Germany in the fictional town of Kükenstadt, which translates to “chick city”. Jósef Loewe claims the story of his conception begins here, explaining how Kükenstadt is home to a small chick statue erected in its name and an ex-brothel inn called Gasthof Vrieslander. One day, the owners of the inn are forced to take in and nurse a Jewish refugee, Leo Loewe, back to health. Leo, having just escaped a concentration camp, is nearly dead and only managed to keep one possession: a hatbox of unknown contents. Marie-Sophie, a young maid working at Gasthof Vrieslander, is assigned to care for him in the secret “priest’s room,” which was originally used for high status customers when it was still a brothel. Karl Maus, Marie-Sophie’s boyfriend, discovers that she is caring for a Jew, accuses her of cheating on him, and rapes her in a fit of anger. Distraught, she leaves Gasthof Vrieslander and walks around Kükenstadt to clear her mind. When she returns, Marie-Sophie discovers that Leo was not really unconscious the entire time she cared for him. Leo unveils the contents of his hatbox to Marie-Sophie: living clay. Together, they mold a baby from it.

Part II: ''Iceland's Thousand Years''

Leo leaves Marie-Sophie in Kükenstadt and flees Germany to Iceland with the inanimate clay baby. On the boat to Iceland, Leo's gold ring, which is a vital component to bringing the clay baby to life, is stolen. In Iceland, Leo becomes acquainted with stamp dealer Hrafn W. Karlsson and is convinced by him to gain Icelandic citizenship to remain in the country and avoid severe punishment for illegal stamp dealing as a foreigner. At a meeting with Hrafn, Leo realizes that the capping on his wisdom tooth is made from the gold of his stolen ring. Leo is granted citizenship but is mistakenly given the Icelandic name Skallagrímur Kveldúlfsson, which means “evening wolf” in Icelandic. The court votes to change his name to Jón Jónsson instead. Leo gathers two of his acquaintances, Anthony Brown and Mikhail Pushkin, and explains his plans and reasons for retrieving his stolen gold. After seeing the clay baby, Pushkin and Anthony are convinced to find Hrafn and his brother Már and aid Leo in taking back the gold. Pushkin finds the whereabouts of the Karlsson brothers. The three first stop at an AA meeting and tranquilize Már as he exits the building, putting him into their car before heading to the Freemason’s Temple. At the temple, they restrain Hrafn and find the tooth is not made from Leo’s gold, but low grade orthodontist gold instead. After putting the brothers in their car, Már transforms into a werewolf and shows his tooth made with Leo’s gold, revealing that the tooth the men pulled previously was actually Már’s, and that the two brothers had switched appearances. No longer disguised, Hrafn runs away, and Leo, Pushkin and Anthony follow him and retrieve the gold tooth. Leo molds the gold into a ring and presses it into the clay baby, finally bringing him to life in the year 1962.

Part III: ''I'm a Sleeping Door''

This part begins with a series of nuclear explosions that genetically mutate all the children born in Iceland in 1962. A genomics biotech company called CoDex starts to interview people who were affected by this event. CoDex also gains access to all of Iceland’s medical records in order to create a database of Icelandic genetic information to accelerate developments in medicine. The story alternates between a now adult Jósef Loewe telling his life story, other adults born in 1962 telling their stories, and updated lists of the death days of every Icelandic person born in 1962. Jósef, born in 1962, is one of the many subjects being interviewed; he suffers from Stone Man Syndrome, a disease that turns his soft tissue into bone. He also has the ability to recount vivid memories from the exact date and time they occurred in the past. Through these interviews, Jósef’s true coming to being is revealed. Long after Jósef's interview is completed, CoDex begins a new project to decipher the minds and languages of animals to better understand humanity’s impact on the environment. This results in the creation of a super software called Andria(S) that communicates directly with animals. Eventually, they become self aware. Teaming up with the animals, the software Andria(S) uses humanity’s own methods of war to eliminate the human race. The earth reverts to a pre-human state. Most human records have been destroyed, but the story of Jósef Loewe remains intact.

In Chicago, the young X-Men rescue a pair of mutant children from a mob of violent anti-mutant protestors and take them to the X-Mansion where they are checked over by Cecilia Reyes. Marvel Girl tells Kitty Pryde that the children's minds had been wiped by someone so skilled that even she was unable to use her telepathy to piece together what happened to them. During a date with Bloodstorm, young Cyclops expresses his fears of the two becoming serious if he is destined to have to go back to his own time but Bloodstorm encourages him to focus on the time they do have together. Suddenly, the restaurant is attacked by a mysterious mutant and his minions and, although they try to fight them off, Bloodstorm is killed when the mutant impales her through the heart with his spear which causes Cyclops to unleash an optic blast so powerful that it forces the attacker to flee. Hearing Cyclops' grief, Marvel Girl summons the rest of the team but, while en route, young Iceman is attacked. Cable arrives and tells Iceman he needs to get away but he refuses and insists he stay and fight alongside him. The attacker incapacitates Iceman and kills Cable. The time-displaced X-Men rendezvous at the mansion where Cyclops explains to Prestige that the minions of the man that killed Bloodstorm had the same markings on their face as she does. Prestige realises that the attacker is Ahab, the man who tortured her and forced her to hunt down other mutants. Beast then notes that Iceman is missing and Marvel Girl uses Cerebro to try and locate him but she explains that his mind has seemingly disappeared. She then feels the psychic ructions of Cable's death and the team find his body but no sign of Iceman. Prestige is convinced that Ahab is not behind Cable's murder and theorises that he is working with someone else. In a secret underground lab, the attacker reveals himself to be a younger version of Cable who locks Iceman inside a tube and resolves to find the other four original X-Men.

Kitty holds a meeting with all of the X-Men and proposes that they split into four teams, each tasked with protecting one of the younger time-displaced X-Men so that Ahab and his accomplice are unable to find them. Cyclops storms out of the meeting and is followed by his teammates. He is frustrated that the present day X-Men want to babysit them and keep them out of the fight against Ahab. An argument ensues but it is interrupted by sniper fire which incapacitates Angel and Beast. Cylops chases down the shooter and discovers that it is a younger version of Cable, who is able to teleport away with Angel before the other X-Men arrive. Beast takes his younger self to his lab to tend to his wounds and, while younger Beast believes Cable is brazen by attacking them at the mansion, the older Beast retorts that it is an attack born out of desperation. Ahab invades the mansion and an enraged Prestige charges at him but he easily bests her and uses the two mutant children to enable him to take control of Old Man Logan.

Young Cyclops is frustrated at having been taken to Atlantis by Nightcrawler, X-23 and the adult Jean Grey but she refuses to allow him to take the fight to Ahab and promises to protect him in their underwater base. Marvel Girl reveals to Domino that she chose to go along with her, Warpath, Cannonball, Boom Boom and Shatterstar because she scanned their minds and determined that they were planning to go after the young Cable. Back at the mansion, Beast, Storm, Hellion, Armor, Rockslide, Kitty and the adult Angel and Iceman hold off Ahab and Logan while the time-displaced Beast escapes but he is confronted with young Cable, who captures him. Ahab uses the children again to take control of Nightcrawler and Shatterstar but Jean and Cannonball manage to save the young Cyclops and Marvel Girl from their attacks. Domino tells Marvel Girl that she and her team intend to kill young Cable and she uses her telepathy to guide them to his location.

Cannonball brings Shatterstar back to the mansion where Cecelia tries to free him of Ahab's mind control while the rest of the X-Men plan to attack his base in order to free Logan, Prestige and Nightcrawler. Marvel Girl confronts young Cable who explains that he killed his older self because he had failed his mission to keep the timeline safe by allowing the young X-Men to stay in the present day. He then reveals that Ahab is trying to kill them so that they will never be able to go back to their original time, therefore drastically changing the future to one where mutants have all been wiped out. Boom Boom states that the young Cable is a monster by experimenting on Iceman and Angel but Cable explains that they must be the same as they were when they originally left their time and that he has cut off Angel's fire wings and replaced them with those of /Mimic so that history will not be changed. Ahab attacks Atlantis and Jean's team desperately try to protect Cyclops while they wait for the rest of the X-Men to arrive and, although young Cable, who teleports in with the young Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman and the others arrive to help, Ahab manages to kill young Cyclops with a spear.

It is revealed that Mimic had taken Cyclops' place and died instead of him. Jean orders young Cable to take the time-displaced X-Men away as they are being overrun by Ahab's forces but they refuse and resolve to fight, just at Kitty and her X-Men arrive to provide support. As Ahab uses the children to take over even more X-Men, Cable convinces the young X-Men that they need to return to their original timeline. Young Iceman breaks down to his older self, admitting he doesn't want to be forced back into the closet but the present day Bobby tells him that his younger self finally allowed him to accept that he was gay and promises that he will be finally be able to truly be himself when he grows up. Cable teleports them five years into the past, where Marvel Girl tracks down the mutant children and learns how to undo their brain washing. Cable then sends the young X-Men back to their original time while he and Ahab return to the present day where Cable informs Jean that everything will go back to normal once the young X-Men close the time loop. In the past, the young X-Men change into their original clothes and Marvel Girl performs a mind wipe so that they won't remember their time in the present day although she informs them that she is able to lock their memories away so that, once the loop is closed, their older selves will regain those memories. Back in modern day, the founding X-Men inherit the memories of their younger selves, allowing Jean to defeat the young mutants and free everyone from their control with the exception of Prestige, who teleports away with Ahab, closely pursued by young Cable. The X-Men mourn the deaths of Bloodstorm, Cable and Mimic before Jean, Beast, Iceman and Angel meet alone in a diner and reminisce, proposing a toast to Cyclops (who died during the Death of X storyline) and to friends both past and present. In his lab, young Cable announces that he has completed his mission and tells his father, a resurrected Cyclops, that it is time for him to make his return.

An armed conflict forces Pedro and Alma Madrigal, a young married couple, to flee their home village in Colombia with their infant triplets Julieta, Pepa, and Bruno. The attackers kill Pedro, but the candle of Alma magically repels the attackers and creates Casita, a sentient house for the family located in ''Encanto'', a magical realm, bordered by high mountains.

Fifty years later, a new village thrives under the candle's protection, and its magic grants "gifts" to each Madrigal descendant at the age of five which they use to serve the villagers. However, Bruno, vilified and scapegoated for his gift of seeing the future, disappeared ten years earlier, while Julieta's youngest daughter, 15-year-old Mirabel, had mysteriously received no gift.

On the evening when 5-year-old Antonio gains the ability to communicate with animals, Mirabel suddenly sees Casita cracking and the candle's flame flickering, but her warnings go unheeded when Casita appears undamaged to the others. After overhearing Alma praying, Mirabel resolves to save the miracle's magic. The next day, she talks to her super-strong older sister Luisa, who confesses to feeling overwhelmed by her near-constant obligations then suggests that Bruno's room, in a forbidden tower in Casita, may explain the phenomenon.

There, Mirabel discovers a cave and barely escapes it with some pieces of a slab of opaque emerald glass in hand. Outside, Luisa discovers that her gift is weakening. After her family reminds her why Bruno is vilified, Mirabel reassembles the glass and sees a picture of Casita cracking behind her.

Later that evening, Mirabel's oldest sister Isabela, who can make plants and flowers grow at will, is scheduled to become engaged to neighbor Mariano Guzmán. Amidst Mariano's proposal and an awkward dinner, Dolores, who possesses superhuman hearing, reveals Mirabel's discovery to everyone, causing Casita to crack again, ruining the night and Mariano's proposal when the weather-controlling Pepa inadvertently conjures a downpour.

Amidst the chaos, Mirabel follows a group of rats and discovers a secret passage behind a portrait where she finds Bruno is hiding. Bruno reveals he never left the house, and that the vision changes between Mirabel saving and cracking the Casita, making him believe that she is the key to the Casita magic; refusing to let Mirabel get hurt, he broke the vision and disappeared. In Antonio's room, Bruno reluctantly conjures another vision that resembles the previous one, along with Mirabel embracing Isabela and strengthening the candle.

Mirabel reluctantly apologizes to Isabela, who abruptly confesses that she does not want to marry Mariano and is burdened by her image of perfection. Mirabel helps Isabela develop her powers and the two embrace, but Alma sees the pair and accuses Mirabel of causing the family's misfortunes out of spite for not having a gift. Mirabel finally snaps at Alma for deeming her not good enough for the family, blaming her overbearing nature for weakening the family's magic. This argument creates a fissure that splits the nearby mountain and demolishes Casita as the candle extinguishes, leaving the Madrigals powerless. A devastated Mirabel runs away from the family, who scramble to find her.

Several hours later, Alma finds a tearful Mirabel back at the river where Pedro died and explains her tragic backstory and how, determined to preserve the magic, she ignored how her expectations were harming the family and finally accepts responsibility for what happened. Mirabel and Alma reconcile and the two, with Bruno in tow, assemble the Madrigals to rebuild Casita with the townsfolk joining in. Mirabel installs a new doorknob to the main door, restoring the family's gifts and reviving Casita. She and Bruno join the family for another photo.

The film takes place in Afghanistan in 1919. The film tells about the struggle of the mission in Kabul with representatives of the West for signing a cooperation agreement.

In 2030, Japan, a virus known as "Gibia" has infected humans throughout the world and turns them into different forms of monsters based on their age, sex, and race. A samurai, a ninja and a monk from the early Edo period travel through time and arrive in a ruined Japan. They aid a professor working on a cure for the virus and face ceaseless attacks from Gibias. They start the dangerous journey to find other survivors and must not only deal with monsters, but also outlaws that attack travelers for food.

Jack Ballentine, young and irresponsible, discovers that in order to inherit his uncle's fortune, he must prove to Mrs. Walton, his guardian, that he is a competent businessman. Jack, totally devoid of any business acumen, doesn't hit one. Escaped to the West, he saves a girl and her father from a gang of robbers, while Mrs. Walton freezes his bank accounts, leaving him penniless. The young man proves brave, however, when he saves Jane, the girl, from being kidnapped by her father's former secretary, thus finally winning the approval of Mrs. Walton.

Jonah, an unlucky, down and out twenty-something, is best friends with wealthy but violently unstable Richard. One morning Richard ambushes and brutally beats the unsuspecting Jonah, because he suspects that Jonah has slept with his girlfriend, Sasha. Sasha arrives and pulls Richard away, explaining that suspicious texts Richard found on her phone were actually her and Jonah planning to buy him a speargun for his birthday. Richard feels guilty and, to apologize, takes the two for a day trip on his yacht. With the tension apparently broken, the three begin relaxing on the boat. However, as Richard and Sasha talk, he realizes that she actually has been sleeping with Jonah. Richard, irate, aims his new speargun at Jonah, but Sasha hits him from behind. In the ensuing wild scuffle, Jonah's hand is shot with the speargun, the ship's radio is broken, and Jonah knocks out Richard.

At Jonah's suggestion, he and Sasha roll Richard off the boat, intending to make his death seem like an accident. Richard regains consciousness when he hits the water, and he explains that he has the keys to the yacht in his pocket. Richard agrees to come back on board after Jonah and Sasha throw all possible weapons overboard. Back on board, Richard tries to start the engine but discovers it is dead. In the ensuing panic-filled argument, Sasha says that Richard had an affair a year earlier that resulted in a pregnancy, with the woman being murdered shortly thereafter (the implication being that Richard killed her, which he denies).

The three discover they have very few supplies. Sasha, a nurse, explains that they will die in seven days from dehydration without water. As the days pass, Jonah's hand injury becomes severely infected. Sasha and Richard botch an attempt to amputate the arm, only managing to cut his bicep before stopping. The trio, desperately hungry and thirsty, agree that one of them must be sacrificed (cannibalized) for the others to survive. Richard argues it should be Jonah, since he will die from his infection anyway. Jonah retorts that he knows Richard has continued having affairs despite his promises to Sasha. Richard angrily reveals that Jonah was the one who murdered the pregnant girl, not Richard. Sasha sits in horror and disbelief as Jonah confesses that he committed the murder to keep the three of them together.

The trio draw straws to determine who will be sacrificed. Sasha draws the shortest straw, but she is unable to kill herself, so Jonah and Richard draw straws again to determine who will have to kill her. Jonah draws the short straw this time. However, he lunges at Richard and tears out his throat with a broken bottle.

Jonah reveals to the horrified Sasha that, when they were throwing weapons overboard at Richard's behest, Jonah also removed a fuse from the yacht's fuse box, causing the boat to be stranded. He has also hidden away food. Jonah explains that he did this to ensure that they could explain to authorities that they killed Richard to survive. Jonah feverishly suggests they run away together. Fearing for her life, Sasha acquiesces. Jonah, appeased, puts the fuse back, returning the boat to working order.

Later, as Jonah stands at the ship's stern, the enraged Sasha knocks him overboard, and he is chopped apart by the boat's propellers. Only Jonah's severed and infected arm is left floating on the sea.

Sasha goes to the wheel and pushes the throttle, but the force of acceleration throws her off the side of the boat. She curses as she sees the pilot-less boat race away, leaving her stranded in the ocean.

The story of three families living on different floors of the same middle-class apartment building.

The film tells about a boy named Petya, who enjoys a happy life in Baku. But suddenly the war broke out and his father went to the front, but before that he told Petya that he should always be kind and sympathetic. Father died in the war, but his father's words became his principles.

Thirty-year-old Galina is smart, charming and beautiful. She works as a restorer in the workshop of the Leningrad Catherine Palace and, it would seem, was created for love. But there is no real feeling and no.

A dose of LSD is given to a DAMU theatre student, Petr Oliva, by the Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. Special effects convey the subjective experience of the experimental subject. The film's central premise is the search for ‘toxin x’, which is supposed to be at the root of all mental disorders. The medics believe that LSD will help them locate it.Kaczorowski, Aleksander (trans. Figiel, Joanna) (05.12.2018). [https://przekroj.pl/en/society/a-communist-lsd-trip-aleksander-kaczorowski A Communist LSD Trip: The Story of Czechoslovak Acid]. przekroj.pl

The novel delves into the world of murderers, their victims and the family context of both. The story begins when ETA definitively abandons its armed struggle. A widow, Bittori, goes to the cemetery to visit the grave of her husband who had been killed by ETA. Given the new situation, she decides to return to the house and the town where they had lived before the attack.

In the years following Drago and Gareth's bonding, the seven dragons they raised left to different lands; one of them, a female named Siveth, traveled to Wallachia. The kingdom and its ruler, King Razvan, initially welcomed Siveth; however, after he is wounded in battle, Siveth refused to share her heart with him, so the king exiled her. Twenty or thirty years after, Lukas, a young farmer, sees savage raiders: The Bear, The Wolf, The Snake, and The Scorpion, kill his family. After losing his parents and house to them, Lukas leaves on a quest for revenge. Lukas goes to the city where King Razvan rules, begging for help, only to get turned down. Later, a swashbuckling mercenary, Darius, approaches Lukas, offering his service to hunt the murderers. A brawl breaks out between Darius and another mercenary group, forcing Lukas to flee. He learns from a blacksmith he meets that Siveth might help him.

Lukas travels deep into the countryside to find Siveth, offering her a bag of crop seed as payment. Realizing that Lukas wants vengeance instead of justice, Siveth refuses to help, so Lukas leaves. He soon finds a horse with a saddle and supplies to aid him in his journey. Darius, who followed him, teaches Lukas how to fight. Pursuing The Bear first, Darius and Lukas follow his trail and discover that Siveth has traveled with them, disguised as Lukas's horse. Darius leaves after a heated argument with Siveth, causing her and Lukas to face The Bear and his band of raiders. While trying to kill Lukas during the fight, The Bear falls to his death, pleasing Lukas much to Siveth's dismay.

They later subdue The Wolf. Lukas threatens to kill him, but Siveth says The Wolf is more valuable alive, so they take him captive when he agrees to lead them to The Snake and Scorpion. The Wolf keeps his word but, as Darius blunders into the ambush, he escapes, losing an arm to Siveth's ice breath. Despite this, they capture The Snake, and Lukas learns Siveth and Darius are bonded. Questioning what to do with their prisoner, Siveth tells Lukas to spare her and take her back to town to face justice, while Darius says to kill the raider; to dissuade Darius, Siveth explains why she shared her heart with him. When Darius was a child, the king started a war to bolster his popularity and distract people from his corrupt dealings; the king got wounded in battle while Siveth tried to prove his corruption. The king had his cart driver run Darius's parents off the road during his return home, killing them. Siveth then shared her heart with Darius to save him, leading to her refusal to help Razvan and her banishment. She kept the truth from Darius to protect him. Darius reluctantly agrees to spare the Snake, having discovered the raiders were receiving messages.

After imprisoning The Snake, Darius learns King Razvan is behind the raiders' attacks, ordering them to kill his subjects to prevent starvation because he did not prepare for food shortages. Meanwhile, Lukas, with Siveth's help, flirts with Oana, the town healer, after meeting her earlier. The Scorpion returns for The Snake and frees her, poisoning Oana's father, the town's jailer, and setting his house ablaze to cover their escape; Siveth uses her ice breath to douse the flames and regroups with Darius and Lukas. Darius tells them his discovery, so Siveth tries to retrieve the raiders' orders from the king's guards who took them. As Siveth uses her shapeshifting to try and reclaim the evidence, Lukas and Darius pursue The Snake and Scorpion, wandering into an ambush. During the fight, The Scorpion poisons Lukas, and The Snake further wounds him in battle. Darius also gets injured, and Siveth abandons her mission to save Lukas and Darius after seeing them in trouble through their bond. Darius kills The Scorpion, and Siveth kills The Snake. Lukas apologizes for letting revenge darken his heart. Darius and Siveth also reconcile, and he begs her to save Lukas. Siveth takes Lukas to the monastery that raised Darius. Weeks pass, and Lukas recovers with Oana's help. Razvan and a crowd of townsfolk confront Lukas and Siveth shortly after; the king orders Lukas to be surrendered for crimes he did not commit and orders Siveth to resume her exile. However, Siveth refuses and calls Razvan out for his treason. Then Darius and the recaptured Wolf appear, with The Wolf confessing about Razvan's crimes. Siveth offers her protection to anyone else willing to speak up; more people come forward from the king's guards and council to confess to Razvan's corruption, leading to his and The Wolf's imprisonment.

In the time that follows, Siveth is welcomed back into society and shares the crop seed she saved to end Razvan's famines. Lukas rebuilds his home, beginning a relationship with Oana. Now recognized by the kingdom as bonded with Siveth, Darius lives a happy life among the people. Darius reflects on Siveth's teachings, acknowledging that she showed him and Lukas the path to happiness, friendship, and love.

A team of geologists collaborate with the New Zealand Coast Guard in fighting against two kaiju in battle with one another: a giant starfish dubbed Tengu that spawns dragon-like offspring, and the golem-like Walking Mountain.

Ranger Tim Strong resigns after finding out that his brother is gang member and broke a member of a gang from jail, later the gang robs the town bank and Tim goes after them, he finds his brother with the loot, but takes the blame for his brother. After being released he and his reformed brother go after the gang leader Blackie Miller.

The novel opens in 1960's Nigeria, following the tale of Ijeoma, a young girl who lives in a small town called Ojoto with her mother, Adaora, and father, Uzo, in the middle of the Nigerian Civil War.

Following an air raid at the start of the novel, Ijeoma and her mother Adaora escape unharmed but her father is killed. This leaves Ijeoma under Adaora's care. The death of Uzo has a profound effect on Adaora's mental health, sending her into a trance-like state. Eventually, Adaora soon decides to send Ijeoma away to the far away town of Nwewi, to live with family friends, under the idea that it's safer and the right thing to do although Ijeoma is reluctant to move due to the strong bond she has to her mother as well her young age.

Ijeoma is taken in by a School Teacher, where she soon meets Amina, who becomes the object of her affection. The illicitness of the relationship and hesitation stemming from homophobic views from society puts strain on their relationship. Adaora, through frequently visiting Ijeoma, slowly begins to realise the affection that Ijeoma and Amina have for each other and expresses utter disapproval, quoting the bible and making Ijeoma swear allegiance to God and ultimately, to end the relationship and stop having 'wrong' feelings for each other. Eventually, Ijeoma is sent back to Ojoto to live with Adaora again while Amina remains with the school teacher. Ijeoma's relationship with Amina slowly fizzles out thereafter.

Back home in Ojoto, Adaora makes it her goal to turn Ijeoma straight and preach (from the Bible) that homosexuality is wrong and that she must change (become heterosexual) to make it right. Adaora preaches that no lesbian relationship is right and that Ijeoma will feel the full force of God's wrath if she doesn't change her ways and end this lifestyle. Ijeoma is initially resistant to the strong influence exerted by her mother but eventually succumbs to the power of the Bible and tries to change and live a heterosexual life.

Having succumbed to the bible preaching, Ijeoma then takes a new, heteronormative outlook on life, marrying a man, with the objective to appear 'normal' in Nigerian society. She however eventually meets another female, Ndidi, whom she falls in love with. Adaora eventually realises the affection between the two and once again repeatedly bellows her disapproval and objection to her daughters love for Ndidi. Ijeoma soon afterwards finds a man named Chibundu, and ultimately in order make her mother happy and fit in with heteronormative standards, she marries him. Not too long afterwards, the two eventually have a child together.

Ijeoma's marriage and relationship altogether with Chibundu eventually takes a turn for the worse when he finds some love letters Ijeoma had intended to send to Ndidi, and confronts her over this. The two end up fighting, Ijeoma eventually realises, through critically reinterpreting the very Bible that Adaora has used to preach homophobia, that if God truly loves everyone, then that includes people of any sexual orientation, such as herself as well. Ijeoma then decides to leave the marriage with a man she ultimately never loved or was attracted to. The novel ends on a hopeful and more positive note, with Adaora also being able to critically reinterpret the very same Bible that preached homosexuality was wrong, and ultimately concludes that God accepts Ijeoma for who she is, ending the tension that plagued the mother-daughter relationship throughout the novel.

William Tell is a gambler who taught himself how to count cards during an eight-year stint in military prison. Seeking to avoid attention – either fame or casino bouncers – Tell's gambling philosophy is to bet small and win modestly. Despite gambling nearly every day, he never stays in a casino hotel. He lives out of two small suitcases and stays in motels, where he removes any decor and covers all the furniture in plain sheets secured with twine. At a casino, Tell encounters La Linda, an acquaintance from the gambling world. She runs a stable, a group of investors who back gamblers for a portion of their winnings. She offers to stake William but he refuses, unwilling to be burdened by the responsibility.

In Atlantic City, a security-industry convention is being held in the same building as the casino. Tell slips into a seminar held by retired Major John Gordo, but decides to leave almost immediately. On the way out, he is recognized and confronted by a young man, Cirk Baufort, who slips him his name and number. After a nightmare about torture in a prison camp, Tell calls the young man and agrees to meet. Cirk informs Tell he knows who he really is: PFC William Tillich, a soldier who was tried and convicted for his role in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. Cirk explains that his father, Roger Baufort, was also at Abu Ghraib; like Tell, he was dishonorably discharged and served time, but the experience led him to drug addiction and made him violently abusive. Cirk's mother left the family, and Roger eventually killed himself. Gordo was the superior of Tillich and the elder Baufort and trained them in "enhanced interrogation techniques" but as he was involved as a "civilian consultant" avoided facing any charges or culpability. Cirk holds Gordo responsible for what happened to his family and is planning to capture, torture and kill him for revenge and seeks Tell's help. Tell refuses but offers to take Cirk along as he gambles in an attempt to help the young man avoid a violent life.

At their next stop, Tell informs La Linda that he is interested in making an arrangement. He reveals to her his desire to go on the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tour in order to win enough money to help Cirk cover his debts and start a new life, after which Tell will retire. After early WSOP matches, Tell makes money but loses to Mr. USA, an obnoxious Ukrainian player who has taken on a jingoistic American persona. He bonds with Cirk and feels a growing attraction to La Linda but avoids getting too close as he continues making money gambling.

At a qualifying round in Panama City, Cirk shares that he still plans to kill Gordo. Tell takes Cirk back to his motel, confronting the younger man with a harsh interrogator persona. He presents Cirk with $150,000 from his gambling winnings, enough for Cirk to pay off his and his mother's debts and return to college. He insists Cirk return to his mother in Oregon and forget about Gordo, threatening violence if he does not comply; Cirk leaves with the money. Tell, who has begun a relationship with La Linda, advances to the final table of the WSOP. While on a break he receives a message from Cirk, revealing that rather than returning home he went to Gordo's house to kill him. Tell is unsettled during the resumed match and abruptly walks off the casino floor. A news report shows that Gordo had killed an armed home intruder – Cirk.

Tell drives through the night to get to Gordo's house, covering the furniture as he does in his motel rooms. Gordo returns home and Tell holds him at gunpoint, revealing who he is and why he is there. Rather than shooting him, Tell takes Gordo into another room for a "dramatic reenactment" of their time in Abu Ghraib. Both men are heard screaming in agony and eventually Tell emerges from the room severely wounded and covered in blood. He calls the police to report a homicide. Tell is incarcerated in the same military prison as before, accepting the routine and ascetic setting as he feels it is what he deserves. La Linda arrives for a visit and the two reach out to each other, each placing a single finger on the glass separating them.

Carrie (Claire Danes) is escorted to Bagram Airfield where she is welcomed by Saul (Mandy Patinkin), and then President Warner (Beau Bridges). Warner thanks Carrie for her sacrifice in Moscow, and informs her that he is taking her advice and visiting a military base in Afghanistan where, along with Afghan President Daoud (Christopher Maleki), he will announce the end of the war. Warner and Daoud depart on helicopter "Chalk Two" accompanied by escort helicopter "Chalk One".

Carrie gets a frantic call from Samira (Sitara Attaie) asking for help—Samira's brother-in-law Bilal (Omar Farahmand) is attempting to kidnap her and force her into marriage. Carrie and her team disable Bilal's car and hold the Taliban men at gunpoint when they try to leave, extricating Samira from the situation.

While returning from the military base, Chalk Two disappears from radar. Chalk One surveys the area and sees the wreckage of a downed helicopter. While looking for a place to land nearby, Chalk One spots Taliban soldiers on the ground. Fire is exchanged briefly before Chalk One is shot down by an RPG blast.

The troops from Combat Outpost Steedley are the first to arrive at the helicopter crash sites. They confirm that everyone on board, including President Warner and President Daoud, were killed. A Taliban squadron storms the scene and a gunfight ensues. The American troops are outnumbered and struggle to hold their position.

While reviewing the flight manifests, Carrie (Claire Danes) learns that President Warner's helicopter was switched to a different one at the last minute, though it is unclear if it was merely a routine swap due to mechanical issues with the helicopter, as Chief Mechanic Worley (Michael Rabe) claims. Carrie speculates that the crash may have simply been an accident rather than foul play.

Having inherited the presidency, G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri) declines to coordinate with Ambassador Gaeto (Tracy Shayne) on a joint statement. In his speech, he blames Haqqani (Numan Acar) for killing the presidents, and declares martial law in Afghanistan until Haqqani is apprehended. On advice from Saul (Mandy Patinkin), Haqqani tries to flee Kabul, but hits a checkpoint and has to turn back.

With the Taliban about to take control of the crash site, U.S. officials react to the possibility of the Taliban possessing President Warner's body. Following the recommendation of his chief of staff (Linus Roache), acting president Ben Hayes (Sam Trammell) reluctantly gives the order to bomb the site and destroy everything. Carrie contacts Max (Maury Sterling) and urges him to retrieve the black box from the helicopter before it is destroyed. Max does acquire it, but his squad is picked off by Taliban as they retreat. The last survivor, he hides at the other helicopter's crash site but is found by a lone Taliban soldier who holds him at gunpoint.

Recalling what she heard on the flight recorder, Carrie (Claire Danes) touches base with Chief Mechanic Worley (Michael Rabe), who confirms that the pilots' verbiage indicates a mechanical failure in the helicopter, upon which they were forced to attempt a landing on mountainous terrain. Carrie reports this to Saul (Mandy Patinkin), along with the fact that the Russian government is now in possession of the flight recorder. Saul makes inquiries via the Russian ambassador Victor Makarov (Elya Baskin) as to what is Russia's price to give back the recorder. Saul infers from the ambassador's cryptic responses that they have the recorder but are not interested in trading it.

A disastrous meeting between President Hayes (Sam Trammell) and Ambassador Rashad (Samrat Chakrabarti) from Pakistan only increases the likelihood of nuclear conflict between the countries. Wellington (Linus Roache) takes Rashad aside and, in order to de-escalate the situation, suggests that Pakistan release the U.S. special ops team that was arrested in Kohat.

Jalal (Elham Ehsas) plots an attack on the United States, against the advice of his second-in-command Balach (Seear Kohi). Jalal orders that a car be filled with explosives which will be driven into the target. Not satisfied with Balach's loyalty, Jalal commands that Balach himself will drive the car and die a martyr, or else his family will be killed.

Carrie is accosted by Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) after searching his now-empty apartment. Yevgeny makes her an offer: the only thing more valuable to Russia than the flight recorder is the identity of a double agent that Saul has placed very highly inside the Kremlin. Carrie then goes to the CIA station in Kabul and turns herself in. After a brief interrogation, Carrie demands a lawyer. She is immediately arrested and put on a plane to be extradited to the United States.

Jenna (Andrea Deck) travels to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to greet the special ops team when they are released. Balach, sitting in the car loaded with explosives, records a final message to his family on his phone. He drives at high speed towards his target, which is the bus containing Parker (Alex Brock) and the special ops soldiers. Border guards open fire on the car, attempting to stop him, but he crashes into the bus, triggering an explosion.

After initially suspecting Saul (Mandy Patinkin), Haqqani (Numan Acar) becomes convinced that the ISI was responsible for the ambush on his convoy. Saul states that there had to have been a traitor in Haqqani's camp in order for the ISI to have known about the meeting. Haqqani's suspicions turn to his last living son, Jalal (Elham Ehsas), who has been adamantly opposed to the peace talks. Those suspicions are confirmed when Jalal places a call to Tasneem (Nimrat Kaur) on an open line while Haqqani is monitoring his communications.

Carrie (Claire Danes) agrees to a meeting with Yevgeny (Costa Ronin). Still questioning Carrie's allegiance, Mike (Cliff Chamberlain) and Jenna (Andrea Deck) attempt to eavesdrop from nearby but are unsuccessful as Yevgeny has arranged to meet outside a mosque precisely when prayers are being broadcast over loudspeaker. Yevgeny alludes to a meaningful relationship the two shared in Moscow. Carrie has no memory of it and challenges Yevgeny to prove it by telling her something private. She is disquieted when Yevgeny reveals his knowledge that Carrie once considered drowning her daughter Franny. Back at the station, Carrie lies to Mike about her conversation, framing it as Yevgeny potentially being recruited as a CIA asset.

Haqqani confronts Jalal who remains defiant and refuses to confess outright to his treachery. Haqqani spares Jalal's life, but exiles him from the family. Saul and Haqqani begin negotiations and eventually agree to terms on a peace deal which includes an immediate ceasefire. Jalal wanders the streets until he is found and picked up by Tasneem.

Carrie (Claire Danes) finds a note on her desk that says "Samira Noori". After investigating her background, Carrie discovers that Samira's husband died in a car bombing, likely intended for Samira herself who was investigating Vice President G'ulom in a corruption probe at the time. Jenna (Andrea Deck) stages a fake job interview with Samira while Carrie searches her apartment. Carrie finds evidence that Samira acquired which proves that G'ulom misappropriated a massive amount of funds earmarked for a military base. With this leverage, she is able to compel G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri) to reverse his stance and release the prisoners in accordance with the peace negotiations.

Tasneem (Nimrat Kaur) visits her stepfather Bunran Latif (Art Malik) and relates her suspicions about Saul's actions. They deduce Saul's plan to negotiate directly with Haqqani. Latif implores Tasneem to do everything in her power to disrupt the negotiations.

Saul (Mandy Patinkin) gets a message delivered to Haqqani (Numan Acar), asking him to meet in Peshawar. While Saul waits at the rendezvous, Max (Maury Sterling) alerts him from intercepted communications that the ISI are rapidly converging on Saul's location. Saul realizes that their target is Haqqani's convoy, which is struck by an RPG. In the aftermath, Saul is captured and delivered to Haqqani who was not in the convoy, but had sent it as a decoy. Haqqani then strikes Saul with the butt of his rifle.

At a bar after hours, Carrie is greeted by Yevgeny (Costa Ronin), who reveals that he was the one who left the note on her desk.

Carrie admits to Saul the deal she made: to give up Saul's Russian asset in exchange for the flight recorder. Carrie makes a plea to Saul for the asset's identity, but Saul refuses on the grounds that the United States' crucial intelligence capabilities in Russia would be eliminated. Carrie administers a paralytic agent to Saul, and signals two GRU operatives to come inside. The operatives place a helpless Saul on the bed and prepare to kill him via lethal injection. Carrie asks Saul for the asset's name one last time. Saul replies "go fuck yourself". With that, Carrie gives up the bluff. Saul is spared, but kept captive while Carrie flies to Israel.

In Israel, Carrie tells Saul's sister Dorit that Saul has died of a stroke. It is a ruse, with the aim of enacting Saul's 'legacy plan', in which his valued asset is passed on to Carrie in the event of his death. Indeed, Dorit has an envelope intended for Carrie which contains a USB drive. On the drive is a video in which Saul reveals to Carrie his asset, Anna Pomerantseva (Tatyana Mukha). Carrie shows the video to Yevgeny, who notifies GRU Director Mirov, who is at the U.N. summit with Anna. Saul is able to get a warning to Anna, who kills herself moments before the Russians arrive to take her into custody.

Having received the identity of the asset, Russia fulfills its end of the deal. Mirov makes a televised address in which he plays the cockpit recording, proving that President Warner's helicopter was not shot down. He publicly pressures the United States to stand down in Pakistan. President Hayes complies, and nuclear war is averted. Carrie flees to Russia with Yevgeny.

Two years later

Carrie and Yevgeny, now living together in Moscow, attend a jazz concert to celebrate the completion of Carrie's new book: ''Tyranny of Secrets: Why I Had to Betray My Country''. During a bathroom break, Carrie discreetly swaps purses with another woman.

Saul receives a package addressed to "Professor Rabinow", the same alias via which Anna sent him information. Inside he finds an advance copy of Carrie's book. Recalling Anna's tradecraft, he looks inside the book's binding to find a note: "Greetings from Moscow, Professor. The Russian S-400 missile defense system sold to Iran and Turkey has a backdoor. It can be defeated. Specs to follow. Stay tuned." Saul smiles as he realizes that Carrie has become his new Russian asset.

Carrie (Claire Danes), now facing almost a dozen federal charges, is released on bond into Saul's (Mandy Patinkin) custody. Carrie asks Saul if he has a Russian asset in the Kremlin, but stops short of revealing the offer from Yevgeny. Saul denies the existence of the asset. Carrie is not satisfied and investigates on her own. She asks Jenna (Andrea Deck) to retrieve CIA documentation on an exfiltration mission in Berlin in 1987 that was orchestrated by Saul. This leads her to the man who was exfiltrated, Andrei Kuznetsov (Sergey Nasibov), who is now in witness protection. Carrie visits him to probe for information. Among other things, she learns Saul's method of communication with Andrei: a red leather book, moved in a bookstore to indicate when they would meet.

Flashback scenes reveal how Anna Pomerantseva (Tatyana Mukha) met Saul and volunteered to be an asset. An English teacher at the time, her entire class was executed because their classmate, Kuznetsov, defected.

In the present, Anna is at a United Nations summit in New York, working as a translator for Russian officials. Saul flies to New York and storms in as the meeting concludes, confronting Ambassador Makarov (Elya Baskin) and loudly demanding Russia's asking price for the flight recorder. Saul is quickly escorted out, but accomplishes his true objective: the Russian congregation discusses Yevgeny's dealings while Anna eavesdrops. Later, Saul receives a communique from Anna which reads, "The price has already been asked. It's Yevgeny Gromov's play."

Meanwhile, Carrie explores Saul's bookcase filled with red leather books. She discovers their method of communication (notes tucked in the bindings) and constructs a timeline of American intelligence coups from the collection of books. She arranges a call with Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) to report her findings, but not having yet nailed down the asset's identity, Carrie is unable to make a deal for the recorder. Yevgeny demands that his price must be met one way or another: by unveiling the asset’s identity or by eliminating the conduit by which the information is passed to the United States, which is Saul.

President Hayes (Sam Trammell) receives word that Jalal (Elham Ehsas) will execute Max (Maury Sterling) if Haqqani's (Numan Acar) death sentence is carried out. Hayes convinces G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri) to grant a stay of execution while a rescue mission is conducted, but he abandons that plan on advice from John Zabel (Hugh Dancy), his brash new foreign policy advisor. Haqqani is eventually killed by firing squad. Jalal and his men subsequently kill Max and leave the scene. Carrie (Claire Danes) calls Saul (Mandy Patinkin) to report what happened to Max. She opts to wait with Max's body and return with Saul when he arrives. Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) stays with her as she mourns Max.

Wellington (Linus Roache) and Zabel are tasked to draft a speech for Hayes: a non-aggressive one that Zabel is displeased with. In Kabul, Jalal seizes control of the Taliban with a speech in which he claims to have shot down both of the helicopters. A video of Jalal's speech is acquired by Claudette Fletcher (Hilary Jardine), a friend of Zabel. Armed with the video, Zabel is able to pivot Hayes away from the original speech. In a national address, Hayes announces that Jalal was responsible for killing the president, and that Pakistan must turn him over immediately, or face an attack from the United States.

Saul arrives with a special ops team to retrieve Max's body and tells Carrie about the impending war with Pakistan. Carrie replies that Max gave her the location of the flight recorder, which could clarify whether Jalal is truly culpable for the attack on the helicopters. As they are leaving, the soldiers accompanying Saul begin to place Carrie under arrest, contrary to Saul's orders. Carrie pulls her own gun, leading to a standoff. Yevgeny alerts the Americans to his presence by firing his weapon into the air; Carrie is able to retreat back to his car, and they drive away.

Max (Maury Sterling) is taken prisoner by a Taliban soldier and handcuffed to a bed. His captor takes Max's backpack to a traveling salesman and sells everything inside, including the flight recorder from the President's helicopter.

Carrie (Claire Danes) asks Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) to use his connections in the Taliban to find out if they are holding Max. Yevgeny agrees to do so, under the condition that Carrie finds a way to suspend the CIA's surveillance in that region while he makes a call. Carrie pulls it off by intentionally jamming the printer at the Kabul station and using this to distract Lonnie (Austin Basis) who was manning the surveillance computer.

President G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri) threatens to execute 300 Taliban prisoners if Haqqani (Numan Acar) doesn't turn himself in. President Hayes (Sam Trammell) makes a call to G'ulom, ostensibly to discourage him, but the inexperienced Hayes is instead manipulated by G'ulom into being sympathetic to this course of action. Haqqani decides to turn himself in, but into the United States' custody, in hopes of getting a fair trial.

Mike (Cliff Chamberlain) informs Saul (Mandy Patinkin) that Carrie's conversation with Yevgeny was recorded, and that Carrie subsequently lied in her reports about the relationship. Saul confronts Carrie, noting that her knowledge of the President's whereabouts while having regular contact with a Russian intelligence agent is extremely problematic given what happened. Carrie is escorted to a plane to be shipped back to Germany, but rather than boarding, she runs on to the tarmac where she is promptly picked up by Yevgeny.

While rehabilitating at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Carrie (Claire Danes) is interviewed by counterintelligence agent Jim Turrow (David Hunt). Turrow informs Carrie that she failed a polygraph test, and calls into question whether Carrie betrayed her loyalty during the months in captivity that she has no memory of.

Saul (Mandy Patinkin), having been retained as National Security Advisor by new president Warner, is leading the U.S. effort to end the war in Afghanistan. Negotiations fall apart when Afghanistan's Vice President, Abdul Qadir G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri), announces he will refuse to honor the proposed terms. Saul recruits Carrie to join him in Kabul to help salvage the peace talks, despite warnings from Carrie's caretakers at the hospital that she's not ready.

Max (Maury Sterling) joins a platoon of soldiers in Korangal Valley with the aim of repairing a listening device near the Pakistan border which intercepts Taliban communications. Their unit comes under fire, but Max is able to service the device, and confirms it is operational back at the base.

In Afghanistan, Carrie reunites with former colleague Mike Dunne (Cliff Chamberlain), now the station chief in Kabul, who assigns young agent Jenna Bragg (Andrea Deck) to shadow Carrie. Carrie visits the home of one of her former assets, but learns he was branded a traitor by the Taliban and publicly executed. Growing more concerned about what information she may have revealed while in captivity, she asks Mike whether Russia shares information with the Taliban; he confirms that they do. Carrie is further disturbed the next day when, while waiting to meet with G'ulom, she sees her Russian captor Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin) coming out of G'ulom's office.

Yevgeny (Costa Ronin) takes Carrie (Claire Danes) to the location where Max (Maury Sterling) is being held. Carrie briefly speaks with Max, who tells her what happened to the flight recorder. Yevgeny tries to negotiate Max's release, but instead Max is abruptly taken to a new location. Yevgeny and Carrie follow the group.

A date for Haqqani's (Numan Acar) trial is set. The United States has the recording of Haqqani's conversation with his son about wanting to end the war. Saul (Mandy Patinkin) wishes to formally enter the recording as evidence, but is forbidden by President Hayes (Sam Trammell). Saul and Tasneem (Nimrat Kaur) successfully appeal to one of the judges (Zineb Triki) to grant a continuation. However, on the day of the trial, it becomes apparent that G'ulom (Mohammad Bakri) swapped judges at the last minute. With the new presiding judge (Nasser Memarzia), there is no pretense of a trial. Haqqani is immediately found guilty and sentenced to death. Saul calls Wellington (Linus Roache) and asks him to convince Hayes to intervene. Wellington replies with skepticism, explaining that Hayes just had a private conversation with G'ulom, and that his own influence on Hayes is slipping.

Observing the new hideout from afar, Carrie and Yevgeny see Jalal Haqqani (Elham Ehsas) arrive on the scene. Carrie calls Mike (Cliff Chamberlain) to request a special ops team be deployed to extract Max. Jalal asks Max if he knows who shot down the helicopter. Carrie sneaks closer to see if Max is still alive. She watches as Max is forced into an orange jumpsuit and being readied to be videotaped.

After some time, the afterlife system designed by Michael (Ted Danson) and the four humans is working smoothly. Jason (Manny Jacinto) is the first group member to realize he's ready to move on from the Good Place after he plays a perfect ''Madden NFL'' game in a simulation of TIAA Bank Field with his father Donkey Doug. He throws a going-away party and makes a necklace for Janet (D'Arcy Carden) to remember him. Janet leads Jason to a door in the woods; walking through will allow him to leave. Jason loses the necklace and apologizes for it, but Janet forgives him and leaves Jason to walk through on his own.

Tahani (Jameela Jamil) completes her afterlife goals when her parents arrive and apologize for mistreating her and her sister Kamilah (Rebecca Hazlewood) as children, allowing them to spend more time together. After a while she realizes she is ready to move on. However, she does not want to pass through the door and instead asks to become an architect. Although it is unprecedented for humans to become architects, Michael arranges for her to work her way through the ranks and earn her place.

Eleanor (Kristen Bell) suspects that Chidi (William Jackson Harper) is ready to leave and panics. To get him to stay, she takes him to the Acropolis of Athens and Paris, which both have significance to him. Chidi realizes what Eleanor is doing; Eleanor confesses she's afraid of being abandoned, and Chidi agrees to stay. However, at dinner, Eleanor recalls ''What We Owe to Each Other'' and realizes she is creating selfish, unjustifiable "rules" to keep Chidi there. She allows him to leave. After one last night with Eleanor, Chidi follows Janet to the door and walks through. Jason suddenly appears, having found the necklace in his pocket. He explains he waited for almost a thousand infinities for Janet to return by living peacefully in the woods, almost like a monk. After giving Janet the necklace, Jason walks through the door.

Without the rest of the group Michael and Eleanor struggle to find fulfillment. Eleanor visits Mindy St. Claire (Maribeth Monroe) and convinces her to enter the new afterlife system under Tahani's oversight. However, despite this, she is still not ready to walk through the door. Michael tries to use the door, but since he is immortal it does not work. Eleanor persuades the Judge (Maya Rudolph) to make Michael human, allowing him to live on Earth and eventually enter the afterlife system.

As "Michael Realman" begins a normal life on Earth, Eleanor is finally ready to leave. She walks through the door and becomes a series of sparks in the sky. One spark drifts down to a man on Earth (Kurt Braunohler), who decides to return a wrongly delivered letter to Michael. Michael thanks the man and tells him to "take it sleazy".

The game begins with a spirit (Kazuhiko Inoue) flying over the scene of a traffic collision. The spirit is looking for a body to possess and decides on a boy named Akito (Kensuke Nishi) who was rendered unconscious from the incident. Akito wakes up still in control of his body except for his right hand which is under control of the spirit. Soon after a terrifying fog rolls in turning anyone caught in it into a spirit. Akito is spared thanks to the spirit possessing him. A man in a Hannya mask (known only as Hannya (Shunsuke Sakuya)) shows up on screens near the area and uses a spell to summon evil entities and seal the spirits away in cages all across Shibuya. Akito is told by the spirit he needs to hunt Hannya down to stop him but Akito convinces the spirit to let him go to the local hospital to check on his sister, Mari. (Asami Seto)

The spirit grants Akito spirit based powers to help him combat the evil entities summoned by Hannya. When the two reach Mari's room at the hospital they find that Hannya beat them there and wants to use Mari for some sort of ritual due to her unique condition of being in a Coma. When Akito tries to interfere, Allies of Hannya chain him up as Hannya himself stabs Akito through the chest before taking Mari away. A flashback plays showing that Mari was caught in a house fire that put her into her comatose state. Akito talks to the spirit (who tells Akito to call him KK) and agrees to help him stop Hannya. KK saves Akito's life and tells him to go to a safe house KK has set up.

At the safe house KK reveals he was part of a team of investigators who tried to stop Hannya but failed. KK tells Akito to go to the Kagerie Observation tower to scan the town for clues, locating one of Hannya's allies going into an underground train station. The two follow and find an underground shrine where Hannya and his allies are preparing for their ritual. KK reveals that Hannya plans to steal enough souls so he can destroy the barrier between the world of the living and the dead so Hannya can be with his wife and daughter forever in his twisted version of paradise. The one Akito followed stays behind to fight as Hannya and the others escape. The enemy's mask gets blown off revealing it is actually a puppet made of KK's human body. Distracted by this the puppet uses its powers to separate KK from Akito and seal him away, leaving Akito powerless.

Akito wakes back up and manages to escape to the surface and heads back to KK's safe house to figure out how to find KK. There he meets one of KK's old partners Rinko who gives him KK's commuter pass case containing a picture of KK's wife and son. Rinko also tells Akito that he's still connected to KK and uses their connection to find and reunite with him. Just as the two reunite a pillar of light appears showing that Hannya has started his ritual. The two pursue after Hannya and confront him as he starts the ritual. The other two enemy allies confront the two revealing themselves as puppets made from Hannya's wife and daughter. The daughter fights them but is defeated and KK has Akito extract the charm used to make the puppet. They are too late though as Hannya unleashes a giant spirit monster upon the town and travels deep into the toxic fog.

Hannya takes Mari away for the final steps of the ritual. Unable to follow on foot KK reveals that Rinko made a custom made motorcycle capable of passing through the fog. After collecting additional parts to complete it, the two take off into the fog. Along the way they are attacked by the KK puppet and the bike is destroyed but not before the two are able to cross. At the entrance of Tokyo Tower the two are attacked by the mother puppet but they able to defeat and free her. When they get to the top Hannya takes Mari and jumps into the mouth of giant spirit monster. The two are attacked by the KK puppet again but together they defeat and free it as well.

The two jump into the giant spirit monsters mouth to stop Hannya once and for all. Inside they pass through a series of doors showing both Akito and Mari's memories. Revealing that Akito was an emotionally closed off person, even more so after his parents' deaths. With the loss of her parents and Akito's coldness towards her, this drove Mari into an almost suicidal depression. The two heroes catch up to Hannya as he opens a direct gate to the underworld. Before he can finish the ritual though, Mari's spirit stops it and blast Hannya into the gate. As her spirit starts to fade she tells Akito that her accident wasn't his fault. She reveals that she had a chance to escape the fire but went back to grab their parents' wedding rings as they were the only thing they had left of them. As Mari dies, Hannya climbs back out and fuses himself with his daughter and wife's spirits becoming a monstrous amalgamation. The two heroes finish him off for good, freeing all the souls Hannya captured. The spirits of Akito's parents arrive to escort Mari to the afterlife as Akito promises her that he'll lead a good life from then on. As the crisis is averted Akito returns to the living world as KK's spirit leaves his body.

The plot revolves around Javier Muñoz (Javier Gutiérrez), a former executive who is forced to sell his apartment because of unemployment. He becomes obsessed with the new occupants, and begins infiltrating their lives.

Cowboy Jim Reid and his friends go investigate the murder of Jim's father, however while doing that they find a vein of gold. The killer also finds about the vein and comes back to take it.

Sean Hitcher, a United States soldier, has recently returned home from Iraq due to being wounded in the Iraq War. Attempting to buy more pain medication at the pharmacy, he learns that his old love interest, Hannah, is the town's pharmacist. Hannah is unable to fill Sean's prescription until after he has met with the VA's psychiatrist. Sean leaves and buys alcohol instead.

On the way home, Sean is approached by a dog. Sean stands his ground and the dog backs down. The dog's owner then tries to sell drugs to Sean, who refuses. The drug dealer is angry at Sean, as he thinks Sean has done something to the dog, who is acting strange. Later, after Sean is home, he has a nightmare of being in a cave in Iraq when something bad happens; this is not communicated to the reader. The drug dealer goes to check on his dog and finds that it has been savagely killed.

Sean's life begins to spiral downward; he begins using drugs and having illicit sex in alleyways with random women. His nightmares have not gone away; he dreams of fangs. A visit from Hannah leads to her and Sean spending the day together. They go and watch her son playing soccer where her ex-husband, Eric, is also present. Later, at the bar, Sean turns down a woman he has previously been involved with. He is then attacked by, Eric, who thinks Sean is trying to rekindle his relationship with Hannah.

On Sean's walk home, he is attacked by the drug dealer in retaliation for his dog's death. Sean runs into the forest and is followed. Sean dispatches each of the drug dealer's friends in quick succession, leaving them for dead. Sean attempts to commit suicide at home, but cannot bring himself to pull the trigger. He goes to see Hannah at the pharmacy and tells her of the horrors of war while she drives to her house.

Sean and Hannah are attacked by Eric, who ties Sean to a chair. When Eric threatens Sean with a shotgun, Sean begins to transform into a werewolf. Sean kills Eric by ripping out his throat. Hannah leaves town afterwards, apparently keeping Sean's secret. A flashback shows that Sean found writings on a cave wall in Iraq and was attacked by a werewolf. In the present, Sean wakes up and looks out of the window and it is revealed that he has reenlisted and has returned to Iraq.

David finds the author Alex Henderson living alone on a Greek island. David tells him the story of his novel which interweaves the story of his own life. Nothing is made very clear as the film switches back and forth from the conversation to the plot of the novel and the parallels to David's life.

A woman, Jessie, and her brother, Dwight, care for their chronically ill younger sibling, Thomas, who is unable to venture outdoors during the day and must regularly drink blood to survive. Dwight and Jessie provide blood for Thomas by routinely murdering strangers, mainly homeless people and drifters. Jessie works as a waitress in a local diner, while Dwight spends his days pawning items he finds around town and visiting a prostitute who he pays extra for a few minutes conversation after their liaisons.

After a particularly grisly murder, Dwight begs Jessie to get real medical help for Thomas. She refuses and instead orders Dwight to procure a new victim. He lures a Spanish-speaking migrant named Eduardo into his car, but Eduardo escapes and wounds Dwight with a screwdriver when Dwight attempts to strangle him. Dwight subdues Eduardo after a fight in the forest, but the latter's desperate pleas for mercy convince Dwight to spare him. He restrains Eduardo in a shed in his backyard.

Jessie hunts and kills the prostitute that Dwight had befriended, leaving him distraught. That night, Thomas complains of loneliness at the dinner table and implores Jessie to let him socialize with the local children he hears outside his window. When she refuses, he overturns his bowl of blood, infuriating his sister. In an attempt to make contact with the outside world, Thomas writes a note on a paper airplane and opens the front door to hurl it at a group of passing teenagers. Dwight appears behind him and quickly covers him with a blanket, but not before Thomas sustains severe burns on his arm. That night, Eduardo escapes the shed and attempts to kill Dwight, but he fights back and kills Eduardo in front of Thomas.

Later, one of the teenage boys who found Thomas' note comes to the house while Jessie is away looking for a fresh body. Thomas invites him in and tries to connect with the boy by offering him blood to drink and playing a game that involves guessing the release year of songs Thomas plays on the piano. When Dwight enters the kitchen and discovers the boy, Dwight threatens him but is unable to kill him. Hearing Jessie return with a new victim, Dwight shoves the boy into a closet and orders him to be quiet. When Jessie finds him within the closet the boy stabs her with a kitchen knife and flees. Although bleeding heavily, Jessie orders Dwight to pursue and kill the boy.

Dwight finds the boy but spares him. He returns home to find Jessie dead in the bathtub and Thomas consuming her blood. Dwight forces Thomas out of the bathroom and locks him in a room with the dead man Jessie had brought back earlier. Dwight then buries Jessie in an outdoor grave.

In the morning, Dwight packs his things and tells Thomas he is leaving and never coming back. Soon he has a change of heart after seeing a happy family at the diner. Back at home, Thomas apologizes for his role in Jessie's death and the two brothers embrace and cry together. Thomas then asks Dwight to remove the cardboard covering the window. Dwight does so, and Thomas is killed.

Alone, Dwight drives across the country and finally arrives at a beach, where he stands on the rocks above the water and smiles.

Upset that her revolutionary technology will be misused for military purposes, Eva Chalmers approaches an extremist known as the Pardoner, who promises to help her use it to save the world. When she balks at his terrorist plans, he takes her hostage and attempts to coerce her father, Donovan, into revealing the code to activate it. Donovan hires a team of mercenaries led by Derek Miller to rescue Eva and recover the tech.

A woman buys cookies from two Girl Scouts and makes one of the girls uncomfortable. Later that night a noise awakens the other house's occupant, who quickly grabs a robe, slippers and a gun before going downstairs where it appears someone is stealing from them. The intruder attempts to flee from a window, but he is shot and killed. The next morning, the body is gone.

A young man with cuts and blood on his face, Buddy (Luke Benward), is in police custody, handcuffed, and being questioned by Detective Jones (Kelsey Grammer) about a murder and the events beforehand.

In a local diner the day before, Buddy is seen trying to entice an uninterested investor. Buddy walks over to the booth with his wife, Lisa (Emily Marie Palmer), who has their 6-month-old baby in a stroller. They discuss their financial and sexual concerns. He tells her he was requested by name to fix someone's fence and that he will try to get an advance. She declines his proposition for sex, and he reluctantly agrees to give her more time.

Buddy drives over to the house from the beginning of the movie, which is owned by Walter (Nicolas Cage), a disheveled veteran. His wife, Fancy (KaDee Strickland) was the woman who bought the cookies earlier. Tension is high between the two of them for several reasons, one being that Walter forgot that that day is their 15-year anniversary. Both are physically and verbally abusive towards one another.

Fancy watches as Buddy fixes the fence, holding a handmade doll while the local news reports on a missing 16-year-old boy. She goes out to flirt with Buddy on multiple occasions. Walter observes Fancy's advances. Jealous, he fires several shots at Buddy, pretending to practice his shooting skills. The tension only grows when Walter refuses to pay Buddy as much as previously agreed upon. Fancy invites Buddy for dinner while Walter sullenly looks on. Buddy declines, unknowingly setting up a way for Fancy to insult Walter in front of him. Unable to start or fix his truck, he turns to go inside.

As he reaches for the doorknob, the scene shifts to Buddy being questioned by Detective Jones, who recounts Buddy's juvenile record while a woman, Detective Newton (Zulay Henao), looks on. Jones asks if he is the kind of guy who secretly likes to hurt people, to which Buddy says he is not.

Buddy asks to use Walter's car, while leaving his equipment and truck, to check on his family. Buddy calls Lisa, who becomes upset with him. Fancy stirs something in a pot, seemingly in a trance. After a distinctly awkward dinner, Fancy gives Buddy a tour of the house while Walter is seemingly passed out drunk. The local news is on about the fourth teenage boy missing. They pass a door with many locks that Buddy queries Fancy about. She jokes with him and then claims it's storage.

In Fancy and Walter's bedroom, her favorite room, she changes behind a cloth screen and bids Buddy to sit on the bed. Buddy observes VooDoo figures on a mantel. Fancy confides that she has always wanted children, but says she is medically unable to. She begins to seduce Buddy with a series of questions about affairs and fantasies only to share one of her "young boy" fantasies with Buddy. Buddy becomes uncomfortable and tries to leave but inadvertently trips and falls, awakening Walter.

Upon hearing the noise, Walter noisily makes his way upstairs while Buddy remains supine on the ground. Not seeming to notice or care about Walter's approach, Fancy calmly walks over and places her golden heeled foot on Buddy's chest, moving it down his stomach. Walter makes his way to the bedroom, and Fancy uses her shoe's high heel to flick off the button on Buddy's jeans. The button lands just under the door. Walter leans his ear against the door, listening only to walk away without opening the door. Buddy quietly tells Fancy she is crazy.

Coming downstairs, Buddy views the local news on a TV, which states that the governor has declared a state of emergency and the National Guard is being called in. Buddy lies down on a couch. Later, Buddy awakens in a start, seeing Walter seated nearby, brandishing a revolver. Walter invites Buddy into the attic for a drink.

In the attic, the two men drink alcohol and exchange stories about their time in the military. Walter shares about his brief time as a Marine in 1970, seemingly overcome with survivor's guilt. Buddy is haunted by a memory in which he let a soldier die. Walter begins a tirade about the government exploiting young people to make money. He shows Buddy a small duffel bag full of cash, telling him to kill Fancy. Walter then gives Buddy some cyanide, explaining that Fancy is terminally ill and that she should be killed in an act of mercy. Buddy seems unsure but goes off to find Fancy. He finds her singing blues songs in the bathtub. She invites him in and they speak of their childhoods. She pulls him in for a kiss which he returns.

Detective Jones questions Buddy's story and morals. Buddy replied he had been feeling sexually frustrated before and that his emotional vulnerability and Fancy's appeal were to blame. Detective Jones implores Buddy to confess, but he refuses.

Buddy and Fancy have sex in the bathroom, after which Buddy hurriedly dresses and Fancy finds the cyanide. He says Walter had told him she was dying and had asked Buddy to kill her. Fancy thanks him for telling her and says that she won't tell him Buddy told her.

Walter is boarding up the windows from the inside of what Fancy says is his favorite room when he sees her walk by. She brings him a drink and says they should work on their resentment for one another with forgiveness. She then stabs him in the hand. Walter knocks her out and then points a gun at Buddy and blames him. Walter tells him to finish it with the cyanide. Buddy attacks Walter and ties him to the staircase railing. As Fancy asks Buddy to take her with him and run away with her, Walter tells Buddy how sadistic Fancy is. She tries to convince Buddy to have sex with her in front of Walter. Walter, who seems unconcerned, laughs and threatens Buddy and his family. As Fancy and Buddy leave, Walter tells Buddy to look in the basement while laughing. Buddy tries to open the door, but Fancy tries to convince him not to go down. As he takes a lock off Fancy begins shooting at him to Walter's delight. Buddy escapes to another room, where he finds a drugged boy imprisoned by the couple who asks for help. The boy warns Buddy that there are other prisoners. In the meantime, Fancy frees Walter, and together, they chase Buddy. Walter and Buddy fight, and as Buddy struggles with the front door, Fancy knocks him unconscious. The pair leaves Buddy bound in his truck, along with the now-dead boy. Buddy wakes as the police find him.

Detective Jones doesn't believe Buddy's story. Lisa comes to see him and is shown into the interrogation room. Detective Newton tells Jones she remembers a missing girl was seen wearing a dress of the same material Buddy saw a boy holding at the house. Led by Detective Newton, the police execute a search warrant on the house. They find several hostages and arrest Fancy, but Walter escapes. The police release Buddy to Lisa, who is heartbroken to learn of his infidelity with Fancy. She leaves him and moves in with her sister.

Sometime later, Buddy is enjoying breakfast in a diner when Walter, now clean-shaven and wearing a military dress uniform, arrives outside. He is holding Lisa hostage. Buddy admits that he let his friend in the military die, and Walter calls him a coward. Buddy switches places with his wife as the police arrive to negotiate since Walter wants Fancy's release. Walter releases Buddy and proceeds to deliver a speech, claiming his actions represent a sacrifice against the government for its poor treatment of veterans. During the ensuing shootout, Walter is shot and Buddy is wounded.

As Buddy recovers in the hospital, his wife forgives him for his actions and he holds his daughter. The couple resolves to repair their relationship.

A news reporter states that Walter and Fancy were holding teenage hostages in their basement and forcing them to have babies. The two Girl Scouts from earlier are found there as well, in an emaciated state. The film ends with a scene in Buddy's house, now ransacked and apparently the scene of a crime. A reporter on the television states that no one can really know their neighbors.

Radha is a playwright and teacher nearing her 40th birthday and living under the burden of the unfulfilled promise of a 30 under 30 award she won nearly a decade ago. Archie, her agent and friend, gives her latest play ''Harlem Ave'' to J. Whitman, a wealthy white producer, who suggests her work needs to focus more on Black suffering. After he offers her a job writing for a Harriet Tubman musical, Radha throttles him. At a loss over what to do with her career, she hears rap music blasting outside her apartment and is inspired to start writing raps, following a passion she developed and abandoned in high school. Tracking down D, a music producer, she invents the name RadhaMUSprime. Her agent believes she is going through a breakdown.

D is initially distant towards her, but after they create a track together, Radha is shocked to find him willing to record a mixtape with her. D also invites Radha to perform at a showcase for up-and-coming rappers. Before the showcase Radha gets high and forgets her lyrics, leading her to humiliate herself in front of a crowd of her students.

Archie uses the recent death of Radha's mother to smooth things over with Whitman, who agrees to produce ''Harlem Ave''. However, he tells her to add a white character to her play. As the play progresses to the workshop stage, Radha increasingly feels uncomfortable with the compromises she is making to appeal to white audiences.

Despite witnessing her bombing on stage, D encourages Radha to continue rapping. After taking her to an all-woman rap battle in the Bronx, the two spend the night together and open up about their lives as struggling artists and the way they are coping with the recent loss of their mothers. However, Radha brushes him off the next morning, telling him she needs to work on her play.

Radha continues to struggle with the compromises she makes to have the play produced. Cleaning out her mother's apartment with her brother, she reflects on her mother's career as a struggling artist. She is surprised and encouraged to see that her brother views their mother as a talented Renaissance woman rather than as a failure.

On her play's opening night, Radha appears during the curtain call and denounces her work, rapping about the need for an artist to stay true to their artistic vision. She fires Archie at the same time he quits and then heads to D's apartment to reunite with him. The film ends with the two walking together, him beatboxing and her rapping, as the shot slowly changes from black and white to color.

The story is set in the scenic North Downs of Surrey, on the ridge known as the Hog's Back, at the time of the building of the A31 bypass. Three school-friends, Julia Earle, her sister Marjorie Lawes, and Ursula Stone gather at Julia and Dr. James Earle's secluded cottage, St. Kilda, to share light-hearted reminiscences of their school-days. Ursula discovers that not only is Julia having an affair with her neighbour Reggie Slade, but that Dr. Earle has been seen in London with a mysterious woman, dressed in grey. As tensions mount, Dr. Earle disappears from his study in extraordinary circumstances: one minute he is sitting in his living room, comfortably settled with newspaper and slippers, and the next he has vanished. Despite the best efforts of the inhabitants of St. Kilda and The Red Cottage, home of Dr. Earle's former partner Dr. Campion, to find some sign of Dr. Earle, no trace is found.

The police are called in. At first, they suppose Dr. Earle has gone to his inamorata, the woman in grey. However, their investigation uncovers further discrepancies such as his not taking any money or personal belongings. The local police finally turn to Inspector French of Scotland Yard to help solve the mystery. The case soon takes a more complex turn; other people vanish mysteriously, including one of Dr. Earle's house guests. As the situation becomes more perplexing, French finds himself investigating no fewer than four murders.

About a mother who can do everything for her beloved son. Mia (Julia Montes) is a security officer in Jacinto Pharmaceuticals and a single mother raising her son Xavier. One epidemic, a hybrid of dengue and malaria are spreading, where casualties are high and vaccines to cure it are not given by the company, for a certain reason. She tries desperately to beg her boss a dose, but declined. She stole a case full, but costed her life when Franco killed her in a market. The medicine works, but she died nonetheless. her son was cured, and became a poster boy for his mother's deed, and became a scientist and an inventor in 2045, creating a holographic stick.

The time rewound back to 2020 where Mia saw news clips about her death in the mysterious stick. She decides to change the fate, by doing the same thing, but this time, she was more careful. She now tries to find clues about the epidemic, and tries to save as many victims as she could.

The film tells about the famous football player Lavrov, who decides to leave the sport. He spends his last match in an unfamiliar city and meets there a woman with whom he was in love.

While serving in the military as a conscript, ''Yefreytor'' Kostya (Konstantin) Zbruev excels at shooting, which lands him on the cover page of the (fictitious) ''Skillful Warrior'' magazine. Women from all over the Soviet Union start writing letters to him. Zbruev chose seven most promising letters, and, once demobilized, went in search of his future wife.

The first bride is lost when he misses his train stop while a female train attendant teaches him modern dancing. Not thinking twice of that, Zbruev continues on his journey.

The second bride lives in a worker's dormitory in a fictitious city of Krasnopryadsk (obviously modeled on Ivanovo, a center of textile industry famous as "the city of brides"). She is childish, awkward, and shy, so after spending several hours with her, Zbruev decides to move on.

The third bride is a famous actress who lives in Moscow and is constantly swarmed by crowds of fans. Zbruev quickly realizes that her turbulent lifestyle is too much for him, and moves on to the next variant.

The bride #4 lives in a small town near Moscow and works as a nurse. She has meticulously planned her future life with Kostya, including the job of an ambulance driver that he should take, their future apartment, and the kids. Appalled by her excessive prudence, Kostya bids farewell and leaves.

On the way to the next destination by train, Kostya meets a young Orthodox priest who also happens to be in search of a wife. Out of boredom, Kostya recounts his story and even shows the photos of the girls. The priest seems to recognize the bride #7, but Kostya brushes it off as a coincidence. He, however, makes the priest a gift by giving him the letter of the bride #4, because he believes they will make a perfect match.

The bride #5, Galina Listopad, is a Komsomol leader and works on a huge construction site in a new town in Siberia. She is charming, merry, energetic, and seems the best variant so far, until it is revealed that she is already married. It transpires that she has signed the letter as a part of her many Komsomol duties, possibly without even realizing what it says.

Kostya comes to visit the bride #6, Valentina Olenyova, who lives in a small village in Siberia. She is nice, industrious, and self-dependent. They take an instant liking and spend a night together, but then Kostya offends her by a careless remark and is thrown out.

The address of the bride #7 is a remote outpost in the Far East. On arrival, Kostya is greeted by a burly fellow who introduces himself as a director of a fur hunting factory. He guiltily admits that the girl #7 never existed. He wrote the letter himself, and the photo is a retouched image from a famous icon (which is why the priest recognized it). Kostya is needed as a hunter due to his superb marksmanship. Despondent and with nowhere else to go, Kostya decides to stay.

The final scene reveals that in due time Kostya made peace with Valentina and eventually married her.

The film tells about the young Moscow actress Galina, who at the beginning of the war goes to the Karelian Front. The commander of an aviation regiment colonel Polynin watched her performance, and they fell in love with each other. Soon he was transferred to serve near Moscow, and the actress asked him to put her letter in a mailbox there. She explained that the letter was about her work. Actually, it was addressed to her lover, a prominent theater director. Polynin decided not to put the letter to the mailbox, but to bring it to the addressee himself.

The film is characterized by the deep psychological insight into the feelings and emotions of the personages, which is typical of Simonov's works. Superb acting of Russian film stars Vertinskaya and Efremov makes the film a masterpiece devoted to World War II.

The film tells the history of the development of sports, showing the stadiums of Moscow, Philadelphia, Stockholm and Mexico City in the past and future.

Soviet counterintelligence agents do not stop "playing" with the enemy using the spy Tulyev.

The story of the lovers of one another, the count's hairdresser Arkady and the serf actress Lyuba unfolds in an environment that fancifully combines dense wildness with an external gloss, barbarism - with the appearance of enlightenment. Young people manage to escape, but their happiness is not destined to come true.

The film tells about a large Russian timber merchant Yegor Bulychov, who is experiencing an internal conflict and a conflict with the surrounding unfair world.

The film tells about the relationship of a girl from an intelligent family and a working boy who become participants in the civil war. The girl offers Lena to live with her.

The elderly pirate Billy Bones settles in a tavern. Jim Hawkins finds in his chest a map of Treasure Island, collects a team and sets off on a journey.

After the disappearance of George Boulangé (Matthew Marsden) from his sailboat, Detective Park must sort through everyone's stories to ascertain if there was foul play, or if George simply left for greener pastures.

The film tells about a schoolgirl Nastya, who constantly invents and tells something, as a result of which she quarrels with a teacher, classmates and sister.

The film is set in the Karadag coast of the Crimea at the turn of the 20th century. It tells about the engineer Bogomolov, who is so passionate about his work that he does not notice how his wife cheats on him and his friends betray him.

The film tells about the soldier Nikolay, who returns from the front and learns that his wife is no longer alive. But, despite this, he continues to live and work on.

Luna (Lisa Vicari) is an intelligent and carefree teenager who is spending the summer with her family in the mountains. Suddenly, her entire family is killed by foreign agents, and Luna just barely manages to escape. She is forced to confront the fact that her whole life has been a lie: her father Jakob (Benjamin Sadler) was a Russian agent living in Germany for 20 years, while her family was just the cover. When he was finally exposed by the BND, she found herself in the crosshairs of the Russian secret service. Luna teams up with the secretive agent Hamid (Carlo Ljubek) in order to find justice for her family. Eventually she exposes Victor (Branko Tomovic) as the murderer, and several arrests are made.

Jeff Peters and Tom Killer Dane are look-alike half brothers, Tom decides to kill one of Jeff's friends and then make a raid while impersonating Jeff which leads to Jeff's arrest.

Ruth Slater is released from prison after serving twenty years for murdering a sheriff who came to evict her and her six-year-old sister, Katie. Upon her release, she gets two jobs, and begins to search for her estranged younger sister.

Katie, having been raised by an adoptive family, does not consciously remember Ruth, although she has brief memories of trauma. On the day of Ruth's release, Katie is involved in a car accident, and returns to her adoptive parents’ home to recover. Katie's parents worry that the accident was due to her memories, and that she may somehow be aware that Ruth has been released. They agree that they were right to hide the truth from Katie, for her own good.

Meanwhile, Keith, the eldest son of the sheriff Ruth killed, has learned of Ruth's release and begins stalking her, learning where she lives and where she works. He plots revenge, but is unable to get his younger brother Steve on board, who constantly tells Keith to "leave it alone".

One day, Ruth returns to her former home to see it fully renovated. She meets the new occupants, John and Liz Ingram. John invites Ruth inside to see the renovations. As Ruth leaves, John, feeling sympathetic, offers her a ride to the bus stop. Ruth learns that John is a corporate lawyer, and she tells him about her search for Katie. John decides to help her, but soon after, he learns the truth about Ruth's past. Ruth apologizes for lying, and John agrees to take on her case.

While Ruth is working on a construction site, Steve briefly talks to Ruth, who is unaware of who Steve is. Steve mentions her parents and Ruth states that they are dead. Steve apologizes to which Ruth responds "life goes on". After Ruth leaves, Steve goes through Ruth's belongings, discovering a photograph of Katie.

John determines where Katie and her family live. He reaches out to the parents, who reluctantly agree to meet with Ruth anonymously. During the meeting, Ruth finds out that they have deliberately not told Katie about her, and have withheld all the letters that she wrote to Katie during her years in prison. They admonish Ruth that Katie does not know of or remember her at all, and it is best for her if it stays that way. When Ruth suffers an outburst of emotion, Katie's parents angrily storm out of the room.

Emily, the younger adopted sister of Katie, overhears her parents talking about Ruth and discovers the letters. As she reads them, Emily is moved by Ruth's words, and is reduced to tears. Emily takes it upon herself to contact Ruth and arrange a meeting. At the end of their meeting, Emily informs Ruth that Katie will have a rehearsal at a local auditorium later that day. As Emily returns home, Steve stalks her, discovering where she lives.

Ruth returns to the Ingrams’ home to speak with John about approaching Katie. He is not home, though, and Ruth is approached by a furious Liz who tells her to leave. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that it was the five-year-old Katie who had actually fired the shot that killed the sheriff, but Ruth took the blame, to protect her. Learning the truth, Liz feels sympathetic towards Ruth and drives her to the recital.

After learning about Katie, Steve becomes more insistent on the idea of revenge; however, he catches his brother Keith in bed with his wife and beats him in anger. Motivated by anger, he kidnaps Emily, thinking she is Katie. As Ruth arrives at the recital, she receives a phone call from Steve who demands that Ruth come to where they are. Liz drives her to the location and, becoming aware of the situation, calls the authorities as Ruth goes inside. Steve declares his intent to kill the girl, but when Ruth expresses remorse for all that has happened, he cannot go through with it. Ruth helps Emily out of the room, then gives herself up to the police and Steve is arrested. Her parole officer arrives at the scene, and Ruth is released. As Ruth begins to walk away, she notices that Emily's parents and Katie have come to pick up Emily, and Ruth and Katie finally meet and embrace each other.

The film tells about the boys who are looking for Katya Inozemtseva to give her an important telegram and they learn about her exploits.

The film tells about the confrontation between a smart and kind scientist with his shadow.

The film tells about two doctors who have not completed their work. One of them realized that he had done wrong and decided to change his life.

The film talks about the conflict between two racing drivers: an aging master of sports and his ambitious student.

The film tells about the emotional chess player Sergey Khlebnikov, who does not play for the sake of victory. And suddenly he becomes the winner of the international match of applicants.

The film tells about a woman who leaves her husband, having left for the city in search of the meaning of life. She meets a policeman whom she has fallen in love with and suddenly her husband returns.

The film is about an architect who is passionate about his work and who has not experienced a feeling of love for 35 years of his life. And so he falls in love and begins to live with a woman. And he begins to understand that love brings not only happiness, but also drama.

The young thief Tomi wants to thank the man who paid the ransom for him to the bandits and for this goes to the palace. On the way, he meets Prince Edward, who looks just like him, and they decide to swap roles.

The film tells about a schoolboy who no one takes seriously until a new student appears in the classroom.

The film tells about the fun and witty Efrem Nikolayevich Solomatin, who wants to open a music school in which he will cultivate in his students a love not only for music, but also for life and the world around him.

Semyon Bobrov goes to work at the plant and works there for three years, after which he returns to his native village, where he offers his candidacy for the post of chairman of the collective farm.

The film tells about an American journalist who has to make a difficult choice: to publicize the plans of supporters of the war, having lost all his life's benefits or to retreat.

The schoolboy Borya becomes a first-class counselor and is gradually imbued with an interest in work.

Cleo works for a tourist office in Berlin and has lived a lonely, isolated life since her father died when Cleo was ten years old. Cleo blames herself for her father's death and has been hoping since childhood that a magical watch hidden in the Sass brothers' lost treasure will help her to turn back time and save her father. When she meets the young adventurer Paul one day, who has found a map that should lead to the treasure, she joins him, and Cleo begins a journey through Berlin's history, back to the beginning of time.

The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after being seriously wounded. They want to expel Antonina Kashirina from the party, accusing that during the war the Don Cossack woman lived in the territory occupied by the Germans. They do not believe her that she hid and left the wounded Soviet officer.

Unable to withstand offensive suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artilleryman battalion commander Nikitin, covered him and treated him, how she fell in love.

The film tells about sudden illnesses and the people who treat them.

The film tells about the life of an ordinary merchant family Vanyushins, whose members are very different from each other.

The film tells about pilots and designers who, after the war, tried out new jet technology.

''Little Hope'' is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it.

In the present day, a bus driver is taking four students, Andrew (Will Poulter), Angela (Ellen David), Taylor (Caitlyn Sponheimer), and Daniel (Kyle Bailey), and their professor, John (Alex Ivanovici), on a class trip, before crashing after being forced to take a detour through the ghost town of Little Hope. The story then jumps back to a prologue set in 1972 regarding the Clark family: the parents, Anne (David) and James (Ivanovici), and their four adopted children, Anthony (Poulter), Tanya (Sponheimer), Dennis (Bailey), and Megan (Skye Burkett). Megan places her doll onto a stove lit by Anthony, starting a house fire where each of the family members die except for Anthony, who runs back into the burning house as the prologue ends.

Back in the present, the group set off into Little Hope to search for help as the bus driver goes missing. They enter a bar to use a phone and encounter Vince (Kevin Hanchard), Tanya's boyfriend at the time of the house fire, who reveals that there is no power. On the way up the road, Andrew and Angela find a doll and are dragged backwards in time by a ghostly figure named Mary (Burkett). The group all begin to collide with Mary and see flashbacks where Reverend Carver (David Smith) is blackmailing Mary into helping him frame residents of Little Hope (doppelgängers of the present-day group) for witchcraft. Each member of the group except for Andrew witnesses their doppelgänger be executed before being attacked by a demonic version of them and either successfully fleeing or dying based on player choice. Ultimately, the group ends up at the Clark family household and witness one final flashback where Carver has betrayed Mary and has her framed for witchcraft. Andrew can instruct his doppelgänger to either blame Carver and have him taken away, have Mary's doll burned, or blame Mary and have her executed.

Returning to the present, Andrew is revealed to have actually been the bus driver, Anthony, who hallucinated the present-day group and the residents from the flashbacks as figures from his past, including his family, after being forced to return to Little Hope. Depending on his treatment towards Vince, who he ultimately blamed, and whether he has a gun, Anthony will either be arrested, commit suicide, continue to blame himself for his family's deaths, or accept that the house fire was not his fault.

The series follows a new group of Bayside High students from both "overprivileged" and working-class families, with the latter group having been transferred to the school as part of a plan by now-California Governor Zack Morris—whose administration experiences controversy for closing too many low-income high schools—to send lower-income students to the highest-performing schools in the state.

17-year-old Rain Burroughs (Madison Iseman) suffers from early on-set schizophrenia and is admitted to hospital following a psychotic episode. She later reveals to her therapist that she has not been taking her medication as it interferes with her ability to paint.

Her mother Michelle (Katherine Heigl) and father John (Harry Connick Jr) are both very supportive, but when Rain returns to school, she is disowned by her friends who make fun of her mental illness. However, a new boy, Caleb (Israel Broussard), notices her and they begin hanging out.

One night while having a bad dream, Rain sees a vision of her teacher Ms McConnell (also her next-door neighbour) dancing with a small child. She wakes up and looks through her bedroom window into Ms McConnell’s attic window, and sees the girl quickly snatched from view. The next morning, Rain and John visit Ms McConnell's and she allows them to search the attic. They find nothing but dolls and mannequins that Ms McConnell claims belonged to her late grandmother. Rain tells Caleb what she saw and he believes her. They later break into her home to find the girl, but they are unsuccessful.

Rain and Caleb search for missing children online and find a missing girl called Malia who Rain says looks just like the girl she saw in the attic. Caleb later learns of Rain's illness and she opens up to him. Michelle starts to question if Caleb is real, or if he is a figment of Rain's imagination. Rain and Caleb attempt to search Ms McConnell's home again but she hears them break a window and calls the police. John gets angry and confronts Rain, insisting she take a dose of her meds. She taunts him by shoving several of her pills in her mouth. John tries to force her to spit them out, when she bites his finger, he slaps her.

The following evening, Rain and Caleb kiss for the first time in her living room. Michelle surprises them, confirming to Rain that Caleb is real, but then he leaves abruptly. The next day at school, Rain sees Caleb is absent and believes she actually invented him in her mind. She goes to see her therapist but she is not there. Rain returns home where she suffers a mental breakdown. Michelle tries to comfort her but Rain lashes out. John then reveals Michelle died three years ago and her presence has been Rain's imagination the whole time.

Hysterical, Rain breaks into Ms McConnell’s home again and makes a further investigation of the attic. She has a vision of her mother and converses with her spirit. Ms McConnell arrives home and sits down to dinner. As Rain tries to sneak out, she sees that the basement door is now locked, but she is able to steal the keys and unlock the door. Rain finds Malia locked in a cage in the basement. When they hear Ms McConnell come down to investigate, Rain hides in the cage with Malia. Ms McConnell tells Rain she wants to help her and will not report her to the police, and that Malia is not real. Rain does not know what to believe, but at that moment, Caleb appears and subdues Ms McConnell, giving Rain and Malia a chance to escape.

John arrives and confirms to Rain that Malia is real, and that she was right all along. Caleb then emerges from the garage and is also confirmed to be real.

Weeks later, Rain is recovering; new medication is working and she has stopped having as many hallucinations. She and John visit Michelle's grave. Later, as Rain is falling asleep in her room, a vision of Michelle sleeps beside her, reassuring her that her mother is forever with her in her memory.

The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world where Humanity is defended from Earless attacks by the Players, the latter earning fame and fortune along the way. Echo Rec dreams of joining the Players and piloting a mecha of his own, but has no prospects of doing so, until he encounters μ - an enigmatic girl who's lost her memory and has an auxiliary port on her body. An auxiliary port signifies a Player; together, μ and Echo work together towards fame and fortune.

Melissa's parents move their family and Emmy Lee to the mansion - called Old Court - in Pembrokeshire. The mansion - formerly a courthouse - passed to Melissa's parents upon the death of Aunt Lucia. Everyone is delighted except Judith, the artist, who wants to remain in London. Briony finds the slim wooden doll with the word 'DIDO' carved down her back, and soon her behavior changes. After Judith discovers it though, it suddenly disappears. The odd behavior changes in Briony that Melissa observed when she had Dido soon went away after she 'lost' her, and Briony returned to her usual self. Judith draws farther away from the family, becoming even more moody and difficult than usual. She stay mostly in London, secretive and detached.

Melissa and Carew develop a romantic attachment, but when Carew meets Judith, and says of her 'she has the brilliance of a diamond, and no heart. She fascinates and terrifies me. She has great magnetism and I feel she might compel me to do something against my will, something devilish, something ''she'' wanted.' Melissa and Carew continued their relationship, planning to marry when they became of age. Everything changes when Melissa feels compelled to go by the sea after heavy rains, and the ground gives way. Her injuries heal, but the shock and the strange pains she has in her legs keep her paralyzed. Carew is determined to remain faithful to her, but after time passes, when he finishes his studies, Judith sweeps in and the two run off to London together to marry. Melissa, remains in Newcove with Miss Emmy as Part I concludes.

Part two is told by Dilys starting when she is six and realizes her mother doesn't love her. She lives at Old Court in Newcove, with Aunt Liss (Melissa), and Emmy, and sometimes her mother Judith is there but she acts strangely much of the time and pushes everyone away. As she grows up, she learns about what happened between her mother, Judith, and Aunt Liss; she also briefly comes in to contact with Dido and is repulsed by her. She and Aunt Liss talk of Dido one day, and Dilys learns how powerful she is. Dilys meets Bron, a Polish man staying in the area. They fall in love and Part II ends after they commit to each other, in 1938.

Part three is told from the point of view of Melissa again, and starts with a letter arriving from Dilys seven months after it was sent from Poland, in early 1940. Shortly after a friend of Bron's arrives, and lets them know that Bron (and Dilys) has joined the Polish underground resistance movement. After Judith dies of pneumonia, Melissa and Emmy Lee search everywhere for Dido in order to destroy her, but they can't find it. World War II ends, and Melissa searches endlessly for Dilys, but cannot find her. It occurs to her that perhaps Dilys and Jan had a child. Days later, Melissa has her first vision of a child in the room with her. She starts to see the child regularly, and this gives her new hope. After time she sees the child becoming older. One day during an appearance of the child, the child is actually looking at her. To keep the dog from starting, Melissa nudges the dog with her foot. Suddenly she realizes the child is Dilys daughter, and also that has some chance of movement despite the paralysis. She determined to learn to walk again, so that she could visit every orphanage in Europe if need be to find Dilys daughter.

Part four is told by twelve-year-old Nina, Dilys daughter, who has been in an orphanage for two years since her mother - Dilys - had died. Dilys had been not right in her mind after the war, she couldn't go back to Wales, so they had lived in refugee camps after Bron died. Now Aunt Liss has finally come to get her. Nina is dazed at first, walks through the Old Court again in her imagination as she has many times before from her mother's stories of it. Nina and Aunt Liss travel back to the Old Court, and establish new patterns.

Nina has her choice of rooms in the house, and chooses Judith's old room in the attic, despite the hostile presence there. Nina feels uncomfortably alienated from Aunt Liss and Miss Emmy at times because of her past, but also tougher than them because of all she had endured. In time she finds Dido, hidden deep within a series of cubby holes, with the herb Santolina/Lavender Cotton packed around her. Nina enters into a relationship with Dido, which the reader experiences for the first time.

Nina sees different expressions on Dido's face, and Nina is very aware of Dido's effect on her actions. She tries to resist, but keeps being drawn in to her power. She realizes that it was Dido that made Judith the way she was. When Dido finally threatens Melissa, Nina makes up her mind. She builds a bonfire on the sandy beach and flings Dido in to the center of it. She wins out over the evil in that doll.

Mickey Mouse, Horace Horsecollar and a team of animal firefighters are sleeping in the firehouse when the alarm bell rings. Everyone gets dressed and heads out to a burning apartment building, where Minnie Mouse is trapped on the upper floor. Mickey heroically saves her using the clothesline when she passed out. Minnie starts regaining consciousness by the time they reached the ground and sees who her savor is. The mice couple sing out each other’s name, kissing each other lip to lip then hug each other as the film irises out.

The film is based on true stories about separation and meetings, about the search for loved ones, which continued many years after the Second World War.

One plane crashes over the Atlantic, but several passengers survived, including the famous scientist Martin Evens, working to extend the life of a person. He becomes the chosen one of the aliens who came into contact with earthlings.

A boy named Vitya lives with his parents in a military town in which the military unit of the Marine Corps is located. He is friends with the Marines, who show him what honor, courage and masculine character are.

The film takes place during the formation of Soviet power. The rich farmer Fedor marries his girlfriend. But it is difficult for her to get used to the farm life and she decides to return to her native village.

The film tells about a woman who works as a director of a weaving factory near Moscow and meets a man who she is trying to escape from love for.

The film tells the dramatic story of an actress who has to make a difficult choice.

After the events of "The View from Halfway Down", BoJack is rescued from drowning by the occupants of his former house. BoJack is convicted of breaking and entering and is sentenced to 14 months in a maximum security prison.

A year later, BoJack is granted furlough and is picked up by Mr. Peanutbutter en route to Princess Carolyn and Judah's wedding; they head off to buy BoJack a suit for the event and BoJack admits that his prison sentence was "kind of for everything" he'd done over the years. Mr. Peanutbutter takes BoJack to the Griffith Observatory, where he officially gives back the 'D' to the Hollywoo sign in a celebration of the success of his show "Birthday Dad". Due to a misunderstanding, he commissioned a 'B' instead, so that "Hollywoo" is renamed to "Hollywoob".

At the wedding, Todd finds BoJack and asks him for help to go to the beach, saying he wants to sit on BoJack's shoulders to get a better view and adding that he saw BoJack looked overwhelmed at the ceremony and thought a walk would help. The two watch the fireworks for Princess Carolyn and Judah. BoJack tells Todd that he is comfortable being in jail; he stays out of trouble and is beating his sobriety record. Todd convinces him that once he completes his sentence, he just has to set a new record every day. BoJack is amused by his uncertainty over whether Todd is being stupid or smart and Todd cheerfully says "I never know!", before saying his brief moment of metaphorical intelligence was nice while it lasted, with Bojack agreeing it was.

Later, BoJack meets with Princess Carolyn and congratulates her on the wedding reception. Princess Carolyn tells BoJack that Hollywoob is waiting for his comeback with "The Horny Unicorn", and assures him people may give him another chance. BoJack asks Princess Carolyn to dance, and he tells her he fantasized about convincing her to go through with the wedding. Princess Carolyn assures him she does not need that, and she is happy with the decision she made. BoJack tells her that she deserves to be happy, and asks for representation should he decide to re-enter the business. Princess Carolyn smiles, instead offering to 'recommend some excellent people'. BoJack returns a smile as they continue to dance.

Later, BoJack climbs onto the roof and finds Diane smoking. BoJack tells her he misses her, and she reminds him of the voicemail he left when he broke into his old house and nearly drowned. She reveals to him she thought he was dead for seven hours, and how she hates herself for feeling guilty about not taking care of him. BoJack apologizes. Diane reveals that she is happily married to her husband Guy, and they have moved to Houston together. She advises him that there are people who help you become who you are, but they are not meant to stay in your life forever. Diane implies she will be cutting ties with BoJack, but after he tells her "You don't owe me anything" she doesn't make it explicit. When she gets up to leave, BoJack convinces her to stay and let him tell her a "funny" story from prison about how BoJack's efforts to stop the annoying Film Night picks of the jail's gang leader led to that leader picking an even worse movie which they now watch every week. Diane is amused and says it is a nice night, and BoJack agrees. The two stare at the sky in silence.

Mickey and Minnie are in the back of a long car packed with animals, singing "A-Hunting We Will Go" as they travel to the big Barn Dance. Horace picks up Clarabelle in his rickety motorcycle, and she rides in the wheelbarrow used as a sidecar.

At the dance, Mickey and Minnie play "Turkey in the Straw" on piano and violin for an appreciative crowd of farm animals. The audience applauds, and the mice play "Pop Goes the Weasel". Mickey imaginatively uses a pail, a washtub and even Minnie's tail to play the song, but she does not appreciate his creativity and slaps his hand away. He then plays "Old Folks at Home" on harmonica, and tap dances. Minnie continues the song on piano, and Clarabelle does an energetic solo dance. Mickey dances with Clarabelle, a dachsund, and Patricia Pigg. At the end of the number, Patricia jumps and lands on Mickey, accidentally squashing him flat.

The film takes place during the war. The film tells about four Soviet boys who go to the Solovetsky Islands to the Jung school, which became for them a real school of growing up and a school of life.

Two friends (jack of all trades and violinist) love one girl. She reciprocates both of them, and her brother Kuzya wants to get a lot of cats and make them a monkey.

The head of the trust was able to eliminate the accident that occurred in one area. But this victory was a defeat for him.

In Japan, Shirai Ryu grandmaster Hanzo Hasashi and his young son Satoshi are ambushed on their way home by several assassins from the rival Lin Kuei clan. Hasashi kills them after discovering that the Lin Kuei have slaughtered the rest of the Shirai Ryu, including his wife, Harumi. The Lin Kuei's Grandmaster Sub-Zero appears, uses his freezing abilities to restrain Hanzo in ice, and then slaughters Satoshi by crushing his neck. He then impales Hanzo through the neck with an icicle, killing him. Deep below in the depths of the Netherrealm, Hasashi is mysteriously resurrected and meets with the sorcerer Quan Chi, who persuades Hanzo to fight for him in the Mortal Kombat tournament so that he can exact his revenge on Sub-Zero. Hanzo agrees, dubbing himself Scorpion.

Meanwhile, the thunder god Raiden and the Shaolin monk Liu Kang make preparations to defend Earthrealm by participating in the Mortal Kombat tournament, hosted by the aging warlock Shang Tsung. The tournament's victor will battle Goro to decide the fate of Earthrealm. The pair are accompanied by out-of-work Hollywood actor Johnny Cage and Special Forces agent Sonya Blade, with both having their reasons for participating: Sonya is in pursuit of Black Dragon crime syndicate leader Kano, while Cage believes that he is participating in a film project.

Upon arrival on Shang Tsung's island, Scorpion attempts to steal Shinnok's amulet on Quan Chi's orders, but Raiden persuades him not to follow through on the deal. Meanwhile, Cage, Sonya, and Liu Kang witness Sonya's partner Jackson "Jax" Briggs having his arms ripped off by Goro until Raiden intervenes, and cauterizes Jax's arms. During the course of the tournament, Cage barely claims victory over a Tarkatan and realizes he is in an actual fighting tournament, not an action film. Sonya successfully garrotes Reptile, and Kang fights Kitana, emerging as the winner when she yields. In an attempt to stop the Earthrealm heroes, Kano has his assassins infiltrate the island to kill them, but they are all killed by Scorpion. While attempting to fight Kano, Sub-Zero appears and helps deal with the assassins, but a vengeful Scorpion attacks him and tackles him off a bridge into a spike pit, impaling them both and killing Sub-Zero. Cage and Sonya pursue Kano to rescue Jax while Kang rushes to Shang Tsung's throne room to face Goro.

Quan Chi appears before Scorpion and reveals that he was directly responsible for the slaughter of the Shirai Ryu, having disguised himself as Sub-Zero and manipulated the Lin Kuei into doing his bidding and that the real Sub-Zero had no part in the massacre. Enraged, Scorpion removes himself from the spike to exact revenge. At the climax of the tournament, Shang Tsung is revealed to have already known of Quan Chi's true intentions from the beginning and captures him. Liu Kang is almost killed during his match with Goro but is saved when Scorpion kills Goro with his kunai, while Cage, Sonya, and Jax successfully kill Kano. Shang Tsung attempts to have Scorpion fight Kang, but the spectre outsmarts the sorcerer and attacks him instead, forcing him to give him the amulet and willingly forfeit his status as a fighter, in turn securing Kang's position as the victor of the tournament. Tsung warns that Shao Kahn will have his revenge as he retreats to Outworld. The island begins to collapse, forcing the Earthrealm heroes to evacuate by a nearby boat. At the same time, Scorpion succeeds in killing Quan Chi in kombat before joining his family and clan in the afterlife. Later on the ship, Raiden tells Liu Kang that it was not his destiny to defeat Goro but to defeat Shao Kahn himself.

In the aftermath, Shang Tsung is tortured by Shao Kahn for his failure before being ordered to prepare for Earthrealm's invasion.

The film tells about a girl who grew up in an orphanage, not knowing her own mother. And suddenly she receives an old letter that her mother wrote many years ago, and she decides to go to Moscow to meet her mother.

The film tells about a girl who went to the factory and worked there all her life.

The film takes place on the Black Sea in a pioneer camp. Suddenly the pioneer horn disappears and all the pioneers go in search of it, during which they quarrel, make peace and experience various adventures.

The film tells about the love, complex relationships and human generosity that everyone needs.

Set in 1944 Spain, the plot features a guerrilla fighter (''maquis'') who becomes deaf and has to survive a manhunt.

A group of undocumented workers hired by a wealthy American couple are held against their will at the couple’s secluded mansion, and must fight to prove they are not expendable and cannot be discarded so easily.

Benny, a freelance chauffeur driving in place of his brother Jay, is hired by friends Blaire and Zoe to drive them to several popular Los Angeles nightclubs. Unbeknownst to him, the girls are both vampires.

The movie then reveals that vampires have co-existed peacefully with humans for centuries, feeding only by consent. Victor, a wealthy vampire lord who has grown bored and discontented with his life, is planning to subvert the system by kidnapping Jay's girlfriend, breaking the truce with Boyle Heights; unbeknownst to Benny, Jay is secretly part of the human council charged with maintaining the peace between vampires and humans. As Jay and his allies begin hunting down all of the vampires in LA, Victor executes a plan to wipe out his fellow lords and seize power for himself while tasking Blaire and Zoe with creating as much chaos in the city as they can to distract the vampire hunters and peacekeepers.

When Benny drops the girls off at a hotel, he discovers that the hotel is actually a feeding ground for vampires and realizes what Blaire and Zoe are using him for. The girls threaten his life, but spare him so they can get to Jay. During a visit to one of their targets, the girls are trapped by vampire hunters, but Benny decides to help them escape and lets them hide at his home. Benny then learns that Victor has his brother, who lost to the vampire in hand-to-hand combat while trying to slay him.

Benny drops the girls off at the last location on their list and discovers that the home belongs to Victor. Blaire urges him to leave, but Benny refuses to abandon his brother. Inside the house, Benny find several human prisoners being kept by the lord as "blood bags" for him to feed on, including Jay, but is captured by Victor while trying to free him. Victor and Zoe then threaten to kill him, leading Blaire to turn against Victor and Zoe, after realizing that she has feelings for Benny. In the struggle that follows, Zoe stabs Blaire and in retaliation, Benny remotely activates his brother's car, smashing a window and exposing sunlight which kills Zoe. Victor then attacks Benny using Jay as bait, and manages to bite Benny before Jay tackles him into sunlight, killing him. Benny soon transforms into a vampire and the brothers go their separate ways after Jay decides to start training as a professional vampire hunter and tells Benny that he expects him to fight by his side when the city plunges into chaos. Later that night, Benny meets Blaire for an evening out.

A young Beatrice Horseman (Wendie Malick) welcomes her son BoJack (Will Arnett) and a child-aged Sarah Lynn (Kristen Schaal) to a dinner party. Also in attendance are Herb Kazzaz (Stanley Tucci), Crackerjack Sugarman (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Corduroy Jackson-Jackson (Brandon T. Jackson), and Zach Braff (as himself), all of whom are dead. Over dinner, the guests take turns discussing their lives, while a mysterious black liquid drips from the ceiling. Towards the end of the dinner, BoJack vomits the liquid onto the table. The guests are eventually joined by BoJack's father Butterscotch (also voiced by Arnett), in the body of BoJack's childhood idol Secretariat.

Beatrice invites the guests to an after-dinner show, which BoJack says is the point at which he always awakes from this recurring dream. This time, however, he goes into the theatre next door, where Herb hosts a talent show. Each guest performs a routine before disappearing through a white door placed center-stage. Following older Sarah Lynn's musical performance (a reprise of "Don't Stop Dancing") and Corduroy's aerial silks act, Butterscotch invites his son out for a cigarette on a nearby bridge. There, BoJack sees the outline of his body floating face down in a swimming pool.

Back in the theatre, as Zach Braff performs a roller skating routine, BoJack begins to remember details of his bender from the previous episode, realizing that at some point he called Diane. Butterscotch performs a poem titled "The View from Halfway Down", in which he (as Secretariat) expresses regret over his suicide, while the door moves incrementally closer. BoJack is unable to leave the theatre, and Herb suggests that this "dream" is actually him processing his own death. After Beatrice performs a ribbon dance, with Crackerjack accompanying on trumpet, only BoJack and Herb remain. As the tar subsumes Herb, he tells BoJack that there is no "other side".

BoJack flees the tar and finds a landline phone in the kitchen. He calls Diane, who responds that she lives in Chicago now and cannot help him. BoJack remembers that the call he made in real life went to voicemail, and he went back in the pool, where he presumably drowned. Diane agrees to stay on the phone until the tar envelops BoJack.

Instead of the usual end-credit music, the episode ends with the sound of a flatlining heart monitor. After the credits, however, the monitor begins beeping normally.

While on a business trip to California, Ellery and Nikki get involved with a man who was presumed dead, but is now suspected in embezzlement, money laundering, and murder. They manage to keep one step ahead of both the crooks and the law.

In Babylon at the time of King Belshazzar, writing on the wall warns the prophet Daniel about the destruction that will accompany the arrival of Darius, leader of the Medes and the Persians. The counsellor turns King Darius against Daniel.

Stephanie is married to architect Mike. They live in a house on Sydney's north with their two children. Stephanie hears gossip that an old school friend of hers, Rosemary, has been having an affair, leading to the end of her marriage. Over the course of the day, Stephanie realises that the man Rosemary has been seeing is Mike.

According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' is was "the story of an unusual murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst." James Peebles has befriended John Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that.

Julius Steger plays a wealthy old piano maker named Joseph who is blindly devoted to his trouble-making adult son.

The year is 1860. The United States is inexorably heading towards civil war. Gold fever excites prospectors with wild dreams. Pioneers are pushing the western frontier further. Against these events, is the story of two rugged frontiersmen. They are friends - Trevor Kingman is a rancher who lusts for power and Jed Richardson is a modest man who hopes to carve decency into the western wilds.

Kingman's pursuit of political fame and fortune eventually splits the friends. The only link between them is the love that developed between Richardson's son, Jimmy D., and Kingman's daughter, Rose of Sharon.

When a feud develops between the two families, Bovey (Kingman's son) - in a moment of anger - murders Jed. Jimmy D., despite his love for Rose, decides to avenge his father's death. He sets out after Bovey, racing through the wilderness plains across Native American-held country. By a chanceful opportunity Jimmy D. joins the Pony Express mail rider service. It is through the Pony Express that he is able to ride across hostile territory in his vengeance mission. Eventually, in uncharted territory, Jimmy D. gets his revenge.

In 1884, after freeing a convict from a prison work detail, a family of outlaws take refuge with a Quaker family consisting of two parents, an eleven year old son, Joel, and a slightly older daughter. After killing the parents and daughter, Joel sets out on his own to seek revenge against the outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.

The film covers the life of Kanang, who is an Iban, an ethnic warrior tribe living in the interior of Sarawak, Borneo Island. Ibans believe was that their children grew up to be warriors, Kanang was taught by his grandfather about the ins and outs of the jungle. Kanang became a great hunter and tracker, until he could read the direction of wind, hearing the tiger and lion's breath, and hearing the heartbeat of a tree.

In 1965, it was the culmination of communist uprisings in Malaysia and Sarawak also exposed to the threat of communist brutality. The British Army knew about Kanang's expertise and power in the jungle and tried to persuade him to serve and help against communist militants.

Kanang's career in the military began when he joined the Sarawak Rangers Regiment as an Iban Tracker, until he became a Sergeant Major in the 8th Ranger Regiment in the Malaysian Armed Forces. Kanang and his platoon had fought to eliminate communist militants throughout the country from 1948 to 1983. The fierce battle between communist terrorists and security forces continued to reach the Korbu Forest and Tanah Hitam in Perak. During a battle at Tanah Hitam, Kanang was shot until he was seriously injured, but he continued to fight hard to defeat the communist terrorists.

Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called ''Boy's Club,'' is one of four twentysomething postcollegiate slacker friends who live together. In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his housemates with his pants around his ankles, urinating. Asked why, he replies, "Feels good man". The image becomes a viral Internet meme and is co-opted by the alt-right.

Too late, Furie attempts to take Pepe back from the alt-right who have turned him from a cartoon character into a symbol for hate. The film deals with the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed. The coda of the film alludes to Pepe's appropriation by pro-democracy demonstrators during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.

Davian is a young man studying at Caladel, a school under the supervision of the Tol Athian council. Davian learns that he is actually an Augur. He is given a Vessel, an Augur artifact, and is told that the Boundary, an ancient border north of Andarra, is failing. Behind it lie monsters led by immortal Augur Aarkein Devaed. Devaed is planning an invasion of Andarra. Davian and his best friend Wirr escape. That night, almost every remaining resident is murdered. The only survivor is their friend Asha, another young Gifted. Asha becomes Tol Athian's Representative to the Northwarden Elocian Andras, brother of the king and leader of the Administrators. Elocian tells Asha that he is secretly rescuing Augurs and regrets the creation of the Tenets.

Davian's Vessel, the Portal Box, leads them to rescue a Gifted man named Caeden. Caeden has been accused of massacring an entire village, but has lost his memories. Davian is transported to the past. He meets a shapeshifting Augur named Malshash, who trains Davian to use Augur abilities before sending him back to his own time.

The Northwarden's Augurs have a vision of Ilin Illan, the capital city, being overrun by invaders known as the Blind. Asha, Davian, and Wirr (who is actually Elocian's son) reunite in the city. Davian discovers that Devaed's master plan involves restoring Caeden's memories. Elocian is killed by the blind; Wirr then changes the Tenets to allow the Gifted to fight.

Caeden meets a man named Garadis, guardian of the sword Licanius. The sword may only be given to one who is not seeking it. Caeden, in his past lives has been trying to take the sword for centuries; he eventually erased his own memories and planned a pathway to lead him to Licanius. Caeden uses Licanius to kill the entire army of the Blind. Davian leaves Ilin Illan to join Tol Shen, where he will work with other Augurs to repair the Boundary. Caeden uses the Portal Stone to meet a man who can restore his memories. He requests to see the memory of the day he was accused of the village massacre, believing it will prove his innocence. He learns that he is guilty, and also that he is both Malshash and Aarkein Devaed. Caeden collapses in grief.

Jimmie, the Brownsville Bugle's office boy, and Millie, niece of editor Henshaw, turn amateur detectives in order to help a friend who is accused of murder. With more zeal than direction, they pick the owner of a gas station as the killer, and when he turns out to be innocent, Henshaw fires Jimmie. The two go on searching and next suspect Lawyer Cy Burton but have no conclusive evidence and are about to give up when Millie finds a clue that leads to the hidden fortune of the murdered Mrs. Blake.

Henry Cole is an acclaimed classical pianist at the twilight of his career. He returns to the stage after a long absence following the death of his wife only to discover that his performance is marred by stage fright and overall mental instability. He barely escapes catastrophe as he suffers an anxiety attack on stage, running outside after finishing a number and smoking a cigarette.

At a post-recital press conference, he meets Helen Morrison, a music critic for ''The New Yorker''. She wants to write a story about him and unsuccessfully asks for an interview. They meet again a few days later at Steinway Hall, where Henry suffers another episode while attempting to perform. Helen rescues him in extremis and earns his trust. Henry finally agrees to the interview.

Meanwhile, despite his agent Paul’s best efforts, Henry’s mental condition declines steadily. His recitals become more and more perilous, thus jeopardizing his comeback tour and his much anticipated and publicized final concert in London.

Henry is urged by Helen to travel to Sils Maria in the Swiss Alps in order to hear another pianist she once knew, famous for the therapeutic effect of his interpretation of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas. Once there, Henry’s symptoms at first worsen, but he gradually finds solace through walks in nature, curious but empathetic encounters with strangers, spirited chess matches with Felix, the owner of the inn, and the music of Beethoven.

''Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard'' begins with Frog Detective receiving a call from the Supervisor. He informs Frog Detective that a new resident has moved into the town of Warlock Woods. The residents of the town decided to greet the newcomer with a welcoming parade. However, someone destroyed the parade decorations and no one knows who did it. Right before the Detective leaves, the Supervisor informs him that the new resident is actually a invisible wizard; which means no one knows what she looks like, and people are excited to find out, and the reason they were planning a parade was because they were hoping to coerce her into becoming visible.

Mary tries to extort Frog Detective, in exchange for the phone number of someone she claims to have seen who committed the crime. After doing various tasks, Frog Detective earns the money and gives it to Mary. She reveals it is the phone number of the postman, who may have seen the crime. Frog Detective calls the number and learns that the parcel the mailman was delivering at the time was for someone named Lola, who does not seem to live in the town. He saw someone drop something at the entrance to the town. Once Frog Detective goes to the entrance of the town, they find a pair of glasses, with the name "The Invisible Wizard" engraved on them. Frog Detective decides to return the glasses to the Wizard. Frog Detective returns the glasses to the Wizard, who reveals that they are Lola. The Wizard reveals that they were the one who destroyed the parade because they didn't have their glasses, causing them to stumble around, not being able to see anything. The Detective then has the choice to lie, and say "Evil guy" did it, or the truth that Lola did. Either way, the townsfolk have a party. Frog Detective then gets a call from the Supervisor, who thanks him on finishing the case. If Frog Detective had lied, he tells the Supervisor that "Evil guy" is not real, and the Wizard was the true culprit. Either way, the Supervisor reveals that he has a new crime, that he wants Frog Detective to solve with Lobster Cop, and then tells Frog Detective to head to the train station. After Frog Detective leaves, a mysterious figure steals his notebook. Frog Detective gets on the train, which leads to Cowboy County.

Aragorn, visiting Rivendell, sings the ''Lay of Lúthien'', an immortal Elf-maiden in the First Age who marries a man, Beren, thereby choosing a mortal life. As he does so, "Lúthien walked before his eyes": he sees Arwen in the woods, and calls out to her "Tinúviel! Tinúviel!" as Beren had done; she reveals that although she seems no older than he, she is of great age, having "the [immortal] life of the Eldar". He falls in love with her. Arwen's father, Elrond the Half-elven, sees without being told what has happened, and tells Aragorn that a "great doom awaits" him, either to be the greatest of his line since Elendil, or to fall into darkness; and that he "shall neither have wife, nor bind any woman to you in troth" until he is found worthy. In reply, with "the foresight of his kindred", Aragorn prophesies that Elrond's time in Middle-earth is coming to an end, and that Arwen will have to choose between her father and staying in Middle-earth.

Aragorn and Arwen meet again in Lothlórien, nearly thirty years later. Galadriel dresses Aragorn in "silver and white, with a cloak of elven-grey and a bright gem on his brow", so that he seems to be an elf-lord. Arwen sees him and makes her choice. They climb the hill of Cerin Amroth, from where they can see the Shadow (Mordor) in the East, and the Twilight (the fading of the Elves) in the West, and they "plighted their troth". Elrond tells Aragorn that they may marry only when he is King of both Gondor and Arnor, the ancient southern and northern Kingdoms of Middle-earth.

Some years later, Aragorn helps the Fellowship and the forces of the West to victory in the War of the Ring against the forces of Mordor. At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, he unfurls the standard made by Arwen and is hailed as King by the people of Gondor. The One Ring is destroyed, taking the power of the three Elven-rings, including Elrond's, with it. Aragorn becomes King of Gondor and Arnor, and at midsummer he and Arwen are married in Minas Tirith. The Third Age ends as Elrond departs Middle-earth never to return, and he and Arwen are "sundered by the Sea and by a doom beyond the end of the world".

Aragorn and Arwen live together as King and Queen of Gondor and Arnor for "six-score [120] years in great glory and bliss". Then, aged 210 and feeling the onset of old age, Aragorn chooses to lay down his life before he falls from his "high seat unmanned and witless". In the scenes that follow, Aragorn and a grief-stricken Arwen converse on the nature of death and the consequences of the choice she had made. Aragorn lies down in "the House of the Kings in the Silent Street" and, giving the crown of Gondor and the sceptre of Arnor to his son Eldarion, he says his final farewell to Arwen and dies, his body remaining "in glory undimmed". Arwen was "not yet weary of her days and thus tasted the bitterness of the mortality that she had taken upon her". The elf-light in her eyes goes out, and she leaves Gondor for Lorien, itself now dimmed as the elf-rulers Galadriel and Celeborn and their people had left Middle-earth. She wanders under the mallorn trees, their leaves falling, and becomes the only living Elf in Middle-earth since Lúthien to die of old age.

12-year-old Jordan Banks is a black boy who lives in Washington Heights. Jordan loves art and wishes to go to art school. Instead, his mother makes him go to Riverdale Academy Day (RAD) School, which she calls "one of the best schools in the state". However, RAD is not a very diverse school, having only a few students of color.

During his first day at Riverdale, Jordan is overwhelmed. He is helped by Liam Landers, a fellow student assigned to be Jordan's guide, and whose family has attended RAD for 3 generations. The two become friends. Jordan meets a variety of other students at the school, including Drew Ellis, who is one of the few African American students at his school; Andy Peterson, an rude obnoxious jock; and Alexandra, who always wears a sock puppet on her hand.

Jordan has some difficulties adjusting to RAD. These include sitting at the wrong table at lunch and not knowing how to act when a friend from the neighborhood sees him with Liam. Further challenges occur when his advisor discusses students on financial aid and calls Drew by the name of DeAndre. Jordan discovers that this kind of misnaming happens to other black students and faculty at the school, even a black teacher who has been at the school for fourteen years.

Things start to slowly improve for Jordan. Forced to pick a team sport to play, Jordan chooses soccer and struggles with the rules and the cold, but scores an accidental goal in his first game. He also is able to have honest conversations with Drew about what it's like to be one of the few African Americans at RAD and become friends with him. His friendship with Liam also deepens over video games. After a discussion with his grandfather, Jordan successfully mixes both his school friends through video games. However, after Jordan corrects his neighborhood friends' grammar they give him the nickname "Private School".

There continue to be ups and downs for Jordan at school academically and socially. At first, Jordan dislikes his art teacher because she is teaching modern art, though later he comes to understand that modern art isn't that bad and that his teacher can paint normal art too. While waiting to be picked up one day, Jordan learns that Alexandra wears a sock puppet because she doesn't want anyone to see the burns on her hand, although the burns aren't that bad; through a bit of trickery, Jordan gets the information about Alexandra's burn out which causes her to become more accepted by her peers. After ongoing tension between Drew and Andy, starting from when Drew beat Andy for a position on the football team, Andy dares Drew to join the baseball team, which he does, and ends up being benched all season because he doesn't really know how to play baseball. When Drew and Andy get into an argument in the cafeteria, Andy slips on an apple and falls, but Drew is initially accused of pushing him. However, Jordan and several other classmates stick up for Drew, stopping him from being suspended for two weeks.

As the school year draws to a close, Jordan's modern art illustration is picked for the cover of the yearbook. Drew, Liam, and Jordan have become good friends and on the last day of school Jordan even dresses like Liam as a joke. Drew remains unsure if he'll return to RAD, almost having been suspended for the argument with Andy despite making the honor roll each semester. The book ends with Jordan with his neighborhood friends as they start their summer vacation.

The series shows a little girl named Clarilú who solves several mysteries that happen in her garden, along with her best friend Lápiz, a pencil dog.

The series follows a strict formula, where Clarilú receives an anonymous letter at the beginning of the episode, which encourages her to find a lost object and find out who sent the letter.

Councilman Bosworth is shot while giving a conference and the precinct is assigned to conduct the manhunt for the shooter. Cooperating with Jake (Andy Samberg) in his position as the lead of the investigation is former Captain-demoted-to-patrolman Holt (Andre Braugher), whose enthusiasm for duty leads him to break with proper procedure, which annoys his fellow patrol officer, Debbie Fogle (Vanessa Bayer).

The investigation causes friction between Jake and Holt when Holt starts taking the lead on the case, even acting as the police spokesperson on TV. Jake then gives Holt a fake lead to get him out of the way so Jake can pursue the true lead himself. Jake and Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) manage to find the shooter and arrest him. Holt, who had seen through Jake's ruse, deduces that Jake arrested the wrong suspect and that an eyewitness who had given them a statement is the real shooter. Angered at being upstaged again, Jake takes Holt off the case but he convinces Debbie to pursue the suspect anyway; they track him down but he gets the drop on them and takes them hostage. Jake and Boyle discover they can track Holt and Debbie through one of the apps on her phone.

Meanwhile, during the operation, Amy (Melissa Fumero) confides in Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) that despite planning to wait a year, she may be pregnant. Terry (Terry Crews), sees them talking and gets upset because he thinks everyone is badmouthing him behind his back. Rosa suggests that Amy take a pregnancy test, and she drinks water non-stop in an attempt to force herself to urinate. No sooner does she finally get the urge then Jake and Boyle call for the squad to rescue Holt and Debbie. Amy, desperate now to urinate, physically subdues the suspect to bring the standoff to a close.

Both Jake and Holt apologize to each other, showing their mutual respect. Amy's pregnancy test is negative, and her and Jake's disappointment makes them decide to start trying to have children right away.

The squad welcomes their new captain, Julie Kim (Nicole Bilderback), who appears to be kind and selfless, finding ways to connect with each member of the squad, such as discussing binders with Amy (Melissa Fumero) or offering Jake (Andy Samberg) a position as a FBI liaison agent. Jake is convinced that this is all an act and sets out to prove that she is actually part of Madeleine Wuntch's vendetta against former-Captain Holt (Andre Braugher).

In order to further get to know her squad, Kim invites them to a dinner party at her house. While she impresses most of the detectives with the number of influential people she knows, Jake and Holt attend only in order to search for evidence to support Jake's theory. Their attempts to get information are constantly thwarted by Amy, who wants to make a good impression on Kim. Meanwhile, Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) has begun wearing a leather jacket given him by Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz), which give him confidence. At the party, he flirts with a woman who turns out to be in a relationship, with a man who calls Boyle out. When the man starts crying and feeling hopeless, Boyle gives him the jacket, abandoning his cool persona. One of the catering staff, who are all former convicts getting a second chance in life, reveals that Terry (Terry Crews) is the one who put him in prison, and he's been looking forward to meeting him again. Terry interprets this as a threat.

Jake and Holt discover a locked bedroom on the second floor and that Kim has the only key in her pocket. After Jake pans Holt's attempts to put on a drunken display as a distraction, Holt throws himself down the stairs, which allows Jake to get the key to the room. He finds an e-mail from Wuntch on Kim's computer but he accidentally lets her dog out, a recent rescue whom she'd been keeping safe and quiet away from the party. The dog has an anxiety attack when exposed to the noise and strangers and causes severe damage to Kim's furniture.

Kim has the email read out loud, revealing that Kim had specifically requested the captain's position at the Nine-Nine because she looked up to Holt as a trailblazer for minorities in the NYPD despite Wuntch's unsuccessful attempts to dissuade her. Terry also finds out that the waiter he was suspicious of meant no harm to him. The squad is notified the following day that Kim has obtained a transfer to a different precinct, feeling that the events of the party has ruined any chance of a successful working relationship with the Nine-Nine.

Terry (Terry Crews) and Amy (Melissa Fumero) prepare to attend a voluntary meeting and leave Jake (Andy Samberg) in charge of the precinct. However, one of Terry's remarks hit Jake with the idea that due to his new commitment to having children, Jake is more responsible. This prompts Jake to continue with "The Jimmy Jab Games" to prove he is still fun. Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) gives up his spot to become the host and enlists Debbie (Vanessa Bayer) to take his place.

Before the game, Jake makes a bet with Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker): if Jake wins, Hitchcock will make his paperwork for a year; and if Hitchcock wins, he will get Jake's new car, to the shock of Amy and forcing her to stay. The first competition is a meat-throwing challenge, in which Debbie is eliminated due to her allergy to turkey. In the second and third games, which involve Hide-and-seek and a bomb suit race, Scully and Amy are respectively eliminated. Meanwhile, Holt (Andre Braugher) deduces Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) wants to propose to her girlfriend, but Rosa reveals that she and her girlfriend have actually broken up.

The fourth game has the squad untangle a lamp's cord and plug it. Jake wins and secures his spot in the final round, but Holt and Rosa reconcile and decide to quit, ensuring Hitchcock advances to the next round. The final game involves a race throughout the precinct and both Jake and Hitchcock are struggling to multiple injuries and pill abuse. Jake is about to win, but he is too physically weak, so Amy injects him with an EpiPen, which fills him with adrenaline and allows win the competition. After the games, Boyle consoles Debbie, telling her she can do anything. Boyle's talk motivates Debbie to sneak into the evidence room, where she steals drugs and guns and walks away.

''Prime Suspects: Anatomy of Integers and Permutations'' is a unique graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between pure visual art, deep mathematics, film noir and police procedurals whilst exploring the nature of scientific research, the role of women in mathematics and paying homage to the titans of mathematical history.

The film follows 15-year-old Michelle (Circe Lethem), her best friend Danielle (Joelle Marlier), and the army deserter Paul (Julien Rassam) in Brussels, April 1968. After dropping out of school one day, Michelle meets Paul at the cinema, and they kiss. Afterwards, they wander the streets, discussing love, sexuality, politics and philosophy. Michelle reveals to Paul that she kissed him to tell someone else about it, and make them "suffer." Later, she leaves Paul to meet with her friend Danielle, to whom she tells the story of kissing him. Danielle remarks that Michelle is in a strange mood. They make plans to go to a party together that night, and Michelle returns to Paul. They resume their wandering around Brussels. Having originally claimed to be in Brussels to meet a lover, Paul eventually reveals that he has deserted the army. He and Michelle have her first sexual encounter after dancing together to Suzanne in her cousin's empty apartment.

By the end of their day together, Michelle has decided that Paul would be a better match for Danielle. They make plans to meet later in the evening, after Danielle and Michelle attend the party. At the party, Michelle and Danielle dance together in the middle of a dance circle to La Bamba. Danielle moves to the outside of the circle, and Michelle is supposed to choose a new partner to bring inside the ring. Instead, she chooses Danielle again. When the song changes and the circle breaks apart, Danielle dances closely with a boy, and Michelle watches with an expression of yearning. She leaves the party, and Danielle follows her outside. The film ends with Danielle and Michelle walking away from the party holding hands, presumably to meet with Paul.

When a businessman is found dead with a bullet in his head and his wife vanishes, the masseur she was having an affair with becomes a murder suspect. The masseur is former baseball player Marion Pooley (Jack Coleman), who was offered $50,000 by the dead businessman, to sleep with the woman who has disappeared.

The movie follows story of a country girl Tonka who lives in Prague and works as a prostitute unbeknownst to her family. One day a convicted murderer Prokůpek requests to spend a night with a girl before his execution. Policemen ask many prostitutes if they're willing to do this job, but all of them refuse except Tonka. As a result, none of her customers wants to visit her again and other prostitutes shun her.

The film tells about two schoolchildren, whom classmates call Twobriefcases because of their small stature, and a puppy named Goaway, who needs protection and education.

In 1923, the Japanese government creates a new unit ("Code Zero") within the army to counter the rising threat of vampires, as well as their artificial blood source. Code Zero offers all vampires the same choice: surrender and receive benefits such as blood and formal registration, or face eradication.

The vampires themselves defy classification, exhibiting a great deal of variation among their ranks and little loyalty towards each other. Though all were once human, most people who are bitten die immediately. Those who become common vamps are simply staggering, mindless predators, while "noble" vampires are far more intelligent and refined (though no less cruel). Still others are able to hold on to their human natures and long for a sense of belonging in an increasingly hostile world.

As the members of Code Zero carry out their mission, they encounter strange vampires, humans, and phenomena that force them to question their own identities and purpose.

Confronted by a loan shark who is collecting what he is owed, Simon is faced with one option only: he has to repay his family's debts. Ripped from his comfortable rural lifestyle, he travels far away to the big city, hoping to work off the debts. But from the moment he sets foot in the city, everything seems to be against Simon.

A years-long drought causes most people to leave the affected area. Those too poor to leave are left to fend for themselves amid the rising barbarism. After one of his sons dies in an ambush by former family friend Jeb Turner, Duke orders three of his sons – Ned, Kyle, and Parker – to kill the entire Turner family. His youngest son, Billy, stays behind to guard their farm. Turner says their brother's death was an accident while kidnapping his girlfriend, Shelly, to sell to human traffickers. After killing Turner and his family, the brothers find a small cache of money and a map they believe will lead them to more. Duke is enraged to find that Billy has left the farm to visit his girlfriend, Kayla, and has wasted most of their remaining gas. To reinforce his duties to the family, Duke brands Billy. His brothers do nothing to prevent this, furthering Billy's desire to leave with Kayla.

Duke sends all four to get gas from a nearby meth dealer. The dealer manically insists they play Russian roulette, killing himself accidentally. Billy kills the dealer's girlfriend when she comes to investigate with a shotgun. Although Billy is shaken, his brothers treat the situation more matter-of-factly. With enough gas to now travel to one of the locations on Turner's map, they rob a store that operates as a front for the human traffickers. They set free several female slaves but do not find Shelly. As they are leaving with the money, more traffickers arrive and shoot Billy. Ned lies to Kyle and Parker, saying that Billy has died, and they leave him there. Parker dies in a later shootout. Long, a trafficker, sees Billy's brand and realizes he comes from Duke's farm. Long kills Duke and, learning about Kayla, kidnaps her.

Before the traffickers can kill Billy, a man named Van saves him. After performing first aid on Billy, Van questions him, hinting that he may help further if Billy can pay him. Billy reluctantly reveals that his brothers left him for dead and likely have a large sum of money. He offers to give it all to Van in return for helping him to hunt them down. Van agrees but also accepts a bounty on the brothers from the traffickers. After hiding Billy at his house, Van investigates Kayla's kidnapping. Using his connections with the traffickers, Van finds and frees her but is captured shortly afterward by the traffickers' boss, Win. At the same time, Ned buys a sports car, upsetting Kyle, who believes such an extravagant purchase will bring too much attention. Kyle buries the rest of the money as a bargaining chip for his life. Unperturbed, Ned goes in search of prostitutes, finding Shelly forced into sexual slavery. Ned panics and kills her when she causes a scene in her excitement at a potential rescue.

Fleeing from the traffickers, Ned returns to Kyle's hotel room, where Billy has recently arrived. Upon learning that Kyle intends to give the money back to the traffickers, Ned kills him and forces Billy to take him to where Kyle hid it. Billy retrieves a pistol from the hiding spot and kills Ned. Tired of Van's excuses, Long and Win prepare to kill him. Billy kills both traffickers as Van is stabbed. Van denies working for the traffickers and points out that he has rescued Kayla. Although skeptical, Billy agrees to accompany him to her hiding spot. As Billy is reunited with Kayla, Van dies from his wounds and the first rainfall in years occurs.

The book follows seven fox kits in search of scary stories. Their mother tells them about an old storyteller but prohibits them from adventuring there. Despite the warnings, they go there to listen to the old vixen's tales. The first one is focused on Mia, who is being taught survival skills alongside the rest of the litter. During their class, their teacher, Miss Vix, suffering from rabies, becomes aggressive and attacks the fox kits. In the aftermath, only Mia and her mother are not infected, and so they flee from their den. The elder then tells Uly's story, a fox born with a malformed front leg and ostracized by his six sisters, who mock him whenever possible. One day, Uly's father, Wynn, returns to the den and tries to force Uly's mother to kill him. She refuses and Uly runs away and disappears into the forest.

Meanwhile, lost in the forest, Mia's mother steps on a steel trap and is almost captured, but Mia saves her and is captured instead. Mia is brought by the hunter, Beatrix Potter, to her house, where she remains caged for several days. After attempting to escape, Mia is strung on a rope and is soon found by Uly, who had felt the smell of food from nearby. Uly helps Mia escape and they run away. The two kits become friends and decide to go after Mia's mother. They first go through a swamp where Uly is attacked by an alligator. He manages to free himself but loses his malformed limb in the process.

The two foxes are forced to go through the domain of Uly's father, where his mother was as well. After faking his death, Uly and Mia trick Wynn into believing he is being haunted, and so he disappears. They continue on their journey to find Mia's mother, while Uly's mother returns to their den. Winter arrives and the pair finds a litter of fox kits without a mother. While taking care of them, they are attacked by Mia's brother, who is suffering from rabies, and Wynn. Mia's brother is killed by Wynn, who in turn is thrown into the river by Uly.

At the end of each tale told by the old vixen, a fox gets scared and goes back to their den. In the end, only one kit remains, and she explains it was due to her name also being Mia. The fox kit explains that every new generation a fox receives that name to honor a fox called Mia, who saved one of her ancestors from a trap many years ago.

Genesis Anderson is a thirteen-year-old girl that lives in Detroit. Her father is alcoholic who also suffers of gambling addiction. While the two of them have dark skin color, Genesis' mother has a lighter skin. Genesis is constantly bullied by her schoolmates due the color of her skin, and she also blames herself for the troubles at home, to the point she keeps a list of all the things she thinks is wrong about her.

One day, Genesis manages to spend some time with some of the more popular girls of her school, and decides to invite them to her house. When they get there, the furniture had been thrown outside; her family had once again been evicted from their home due to her father not paying the rent. Genesis and her mother go stay with her grandmother and she begins attending a new school. While at home her grandmother repeats colorist ideologies, such as the use of the "paper bag test" to know if someone has a light enough skin to pass as not black, at school Genesis is no longer bullied, she meets Troy, the love interest, and joins the chorus after finding out she has a talent for singing.

Genesis is encouraged to participate in the school's talent show, which her father goes to watch. Despite being drunk, he tells Genesis the reason why he became an alcoholic, and tells her he's been going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

In the Bennet house, Mrs Bennet wishes for her two sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, to be married. Mr Collins, a clergyman, arrives seeking a bride. Lady Catherine de Bourgh hints at future happiness for Elizabeth. Elizabeth rejects Mr Collins' proposal.

After learning about Walters inheritance, Bill Larson kills him and steals his identity, Larson and his men then try to kill Walter's niece but Jack Lane stops them, now it is showdown time.

This film is about a young teen drummer nicknamed "The Fly", who constantly lives in the shadow of his brother, a famous basketball player. The Fly's neighbors try to take away his drumkit, but it is saved by his neighbor violinist. Eventually, another neighbor manages to throw his drumkit out the window and break it, but The Fly recovers again and forms his own band. The Fly is also in love with a girl named Ira. They are friends, but get into arguments frequently. Ira lends The Fly a pebble talisman. One day, Ira lets slip that she only became interested in The Fly because of his brother, and they get into a fight. Soon after that, Ira's father gets a new posting, and she has to move with him to another city. However, before she leaves, she has a friend deliver a letter to The Fly apologizing for what said. The Fly rushes to the train station to give Ira back the talisman and say goodbye, but it's too late. The movie ends with The Fly running after the train.

Two couples—Bill and Diana, and Dan and Jamie—travel into the rural mountains of North Carolina on a motorcycling trip. They intend to search the region for a number of antique Civil War rifles, which Diana has a familial connection to, having ancestors from the region. The rifles are believed to be concealed in a cave on Whiskey Mountain. While stopping at a general store nestled in the mountains, the group are harassed by a group of backwoods locals who are marijuana growers.

While camping overnight, the four are unknowingly watched by an unseen figure. In the morning, they are awoken to find brush near their campsite engulfed in flames. After a series of other mishaps, the group become frightened in the woods and decide to abort their trip. While attempting to leave, they find a cabin in the woods and are met by a deranged old man. The four press on, eventually locating the cave they believe contains the antique guns. When Bill and Dan enter the cave, they are met by the men they encountered earlier at the store—Rudy, Jack, Homer, and Bowzer—who have a marijuana growing operation inside the cave.

Fearing their drug operation will be uncovered, the men incapacitate Bill and Dan, leaving them bound inside the cave, and bringing Diana and Jamie to their ramshackle cabin. There, they discuss their plans to murder the travelers and bury them on the mountain. The four men proceed to take turns raping Diana and Jamie while photographing the assaults with a Polaroid camera. Jamie becomes catatonic following the rape.

Meanwhile, the elderly mountain man the group encountered earlier frees Bill and Dan inside the cave. They manage to retrieve their stolen motorcycles and attempt to report the kidnappings to police, but the sheriff disbelieves them. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, Bill and Dan steal guns from a local store and return to the woods to fight the men themselves. Bill and Dan ambush the men at the cabin, saving Diana and Jamie from them only moments before they were preparing to escort the women over the mountain to their deaths. Bill and Dan manage to kill all three attackers, but Dan is fatally wounded in the shootout.

As Bill, Diana, and Jamie emerge from the cabin, a helicopter appears over the bordering lake, descending toward the property. The three appear relieved, presuming that safety has finally found them. They are unaware that in the helicopter is the local sheriff, armed and about to shoot them.

The film tells about a man and a woman who were in love with each other in their youth, then broke up and started new families, but did not become happy. And suddenly they meet each other again...

This lost film's storyline was set in the Western region of the United States in the late nineteenth century. Production reports and reviews published in trade publications and newspapers in the final weeks of 1914 and during 1915, describe it portraying the schemes of a "get-rich-quick" confidence man named James Ewing (Peter Lang). He, assisted by two promoters, poses as a real estate broker who circulates false reports of rich gold deposits in a barren, deserted valley. To enhance his lies, Ewing places small amounts of gold on the land that he and his associates had purchased, "salting" some rocks on the property with flecks of the precious metal. He then lures people to buy parcels of the worthless land at inflated prices. Many men and women are duped by Ewing's sales pitches, and a "boomtown" rises in the valley as more speculators and gold prospectors rush into the area, along with saloonkeepers, gamblers, grocers, and other merchants who hope to profit off the outbreak of gold fever.

Ewing's son Bob (B. K. Roberts), just out of college, now arrives and soon falls in love with Dora (Mildred Gregory), unaware that she is married but separated from her frequently drunk and abusive husband, Dick Flint (Robin Williamson). Dora is also the sister of Roland Royce (Romaine Fielding), the town's influential pastor. After working briefly in his father's real-estate "business", Bob discovers its true purpose. Horrified, he vows to return the money to all the victims of the fraud. The miners and other town residents also learn about the swindle, and they converge on the elder Ewing's private train as it prepares to leave for the East. Meanwhile, Dora's husband Flint and two of his cronies take advantage of the temporary absence of most of the town's population and rob the safe in the gambling hall. Despite the presence of the angry mob, Ewing's train manages to depart and speed away from town. A freight train, however, is rapidly approaching on the same track and minutes later crashes head-on into the escaping passenger train, killing Ewing and his accomplices.

Back in town, Flint flees after the gambling-hall robbery is discovered while his fellow thieves are killed. Flint, desperate to get away, creates a diversion by igniting a huge charge of dynamite on the top of the nearby mountain. The ensuing landslide destroys most of the town, covering it under tons of rocks and dirt. Despite the massive explosion, Pastor Royce finds Flint in the cellar of a cabin and kills him in self-defense. Bob now returns with the swindled money he retrieved from the wrecked train and gives it to the miners and others who survived the landslide. Now a widow, Dora agrees to marry Bob. The happy couple, accompanied by Pastor Royce and Bob's newly "adopted" mother, old "Ma" Dean (Minnie Pearson), leave the valley in a "prairie schooner" (covered wagon) to start new lives elsewhere.Solomon, Irene Page (1915). [http://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew112unse#page/n1375/mode/2up "The Valley of Lost Hope"], ''Motion Picture News'' (New York, N.Y.), June 26, 1915, p. 85. Retrieved February 5, 2020.

The Doctor takes Graham, Ryan and Yaz to Lake Geneva in 1816 to witness Mary Shelley gain the inspiration to write ''Frankenstein'', though she warns them about revealing this to her. Meanwhile Mary, her infant William, along with John Polidori, Claire Clairmont and Lord Byron are staying at the Villa Diodati. Mary's fiancé Percy Bysshe Shelley, is inexplicably missing. Because of the inclement weather, Byron suggests each write a ghost story to scare the others. Later, the Doctor and her fam arrive, only to discover that the expected ghost story sharing has been abandoned, and that Percy isn't there, although he should have been.

Strange events occur in the villa, such as the repeated rearrangement of its layout, objects moving of their own accord, and skeletal hands crawling around the halls. Byron suggests it is a ghost that haunts the villa but the Doctor suspects something else is occurring; the events are part of a security system designed to hide something. The group sees an apparition which the Doctor recognises as a being moving through time; the apparition resolves into a half-converted Cyberman.

Graham, Ryan and Yaz remind the Doctor of Jack Harkness's warning of the "lone Cyberman" and giving it what it wants but she angrily orders them not to follow her and tells them to protect Mary and the others, before heading off to confront the Cyberman. The Cyberman, named Ashad, was sent back in time to look for the "Cyberium", a liquid metal with the collective knowledge of the Cybermen. Ashad had tracked it to the villa but then his power had been sapped. As the Doctor tries to lure Ashad away from the villa, he is struck by lightning, recharging his power core and he prepares to attack the villa again. Meanwhile, the Doctor discovers Percy's room, the walls of which are covered in strange gibberish in his handwriting.

The Doctor races to warn the others but instead finds Percy hiding in the cellar with a crazed look. She discovers he is possessed by the Cyberium, having found it a few days prior and the Cyberium had created the supernatural events to prevent discovery. She brings Percy to Ashad and to stop Ashad from killing him, tricks the Cyberium into leaving Percy's body and entering hers. Ashad threatens to destroy the planet, forcing the Doctor to turn the Cyberium over to him, despite Harkness's warning.

The Doctor and her companions depart, making plans to follow Ashad to the future using coordinates from Percy's Cyberman-based writings.

Continuity

Jack Harkness had asked Graham, Ryan and Yaz to warn the Doctor of the "lone Cyberman" in the episode "Fugitive of the Judoon". The Doctor, in warning her companions away from the Cyberman, is implied to allude to Bill Potts, a former companion of the Twelfth Doctor who was cyberconverted during the events of "World Enough and Time".

A series of ''Doctor Who'' Big Finish audioplays involve the Eighth Doctor meeting Mary Shelley around 1816, upon which she had joined him briefly as a companion. One 2011 audioplay, ''The Silver Turk'', involves the two meeting a damaged Cyberman, which became an inspiration for Shelley to write ''Frankenstein''.

Lord Byron was the father of Ada Lovelace, whom the Doctor and her companions had met in 1834 in this series' two-part premiere "Spyfall".

In rural Ireland during the early 20th century, a young couple find and adopt an abandoned baby, Brendan, who grows up to be a police officer. On an early assignment, he is shot and falls off a cliff during a confrontation with a criminal, but miraculously survives unscathed. Years later, he retires but is confronted by his adoptive father and mentor, both of whom haven't aged, and they wipe his memory.

In the far future, the last of humanity is hiding from the last of the Cybermen, who have hunted them almost to extinction. As a pair of Cybershuttles arrive overhead, the Doctor and her companions arrive and attempt but fail to protect them, and some of the humans are killed. The Doctor orders her companions to leave with the remaining humans on their ship, and get to safety, but Ryan and another human named Ethan are separated by the Cybermen's only partially cyberconverted leader, Ashad. Ryan and Ethan escape to assist the Doctor in hijacking one of the Cybershuttles, but the Cybermen pursue in another Cybershuttle.

In deep space, Yaz, Graham, and the other three humans Yedlarmi, Ravio and Bescot discover they are traveling through a battlefield surrounded by dead Cybermen. They board an abandoned Cybercarrier, a large Cyberman ship, which they believe can take them to "Ko Sharmus", a haven which is supposedly home to the Boundary, a portal that sends humans to the other side of the universe where they cannot be reliably followed by the Cybermen. Graham and Ravio investigate and discover the Cybercarrier holds thousands of fresh Cybermen warriors in stasis just as Ashad and his crew dock their shuttle.

The Doctor, Ryan, and Ethan arrive on the planet where Ko Sharmus is. They discover Ko Sharmus is a person who helped other humans through the Boundary but remained behind as a ferryman in case others had survived. He takes them to the Boundary, and a portal opens. Ashad and the Cybermen begin drilling into the warriors and resurrecting them, while Graham and Ravio return to the control deck. Ashad leads the warriors to the control deck as Yaz manages to contact the Doctor, warning her that the ship is almost there, but it is carrying numerous warriors.

The Doctor watches in horror, as the other side of the portal reveals the ruined Gallifrey, much to everyone's confusion. The Master leaps through, exclaiming that the Doctor should be afraid because everything is about to change forever.

The Master persuades the Doctor to join him on Gallifrey, where he forces her to enter the Matrix. He shows her the secret history of Gallifrey and its native Shobogans. Tecteun, a space explorer, found a "timeless child" with the capacity to regenerate. She adopted the child and studied her, successfully grafting her regeneration capacity into the Shobogans, transforming them into Time Lords; they chose to limit a Time Lord's regenerations to twelve. The Master reveals that the Doctor is the "timeless child". Tecteun and the child were inducted into a clandestine organisation called the Division, the details of which were redacted from the Matrix. The Doctor's memories were subsequently erased, prior to the childhood she remembers; only snippets remain, masked as the story of the Irish Garda Brendan.

With the Doctor trapped in the Matrix, the Master lures Ashad to Gallifrey and shrinks him with his tissue compression eliminator, taking the Cyberium. With its knowledge and the bodies of the Time Lords he had killed on his arrival to Gallifrey, the Master creates a race of regenerating Cybermen, aiming to use them to take over the universe. In the Matrix, a vision of the previously unseen Doctor restores the Doctor’s belief in herself. The Doctor escapes by overloading the Matrix with all of her memories from her past incarnations.

On board the Cyber-carrier, Bescot is killed, while Yaz and Graham successfully hide from the invading Cybermen in empty Cyber-armor. They subsequently save the lives of Ryan, Ethan, and Ko Sharmus from Cybermen forces sent to the planet by Ashad. The group gather and agree to go through the portal to Gallifrey.

The Doctor regroups with her companions, and discovers Ashad's miniaturized body contains a "Death Particle" capable of destroying all organic life on a planet. The Doctor and her friends blow up the Cyber-carrier, destroying Ashad's army in the process and foiling his plot to rebuild the Cyber-Empire. Finding unused TARDISes, she programs one to take her allies home. The Doctor takes one of Ko Sharmus' explosives to set off the particle. She is unable to trigger it when goaded by the Master, but Ko Sharmus appears and takes it, as penance for failing to suitably hide the Cyberium. The Doctor escapes in another TARDIS as the explosion consumes Gallifrey.

The Doctor's allies arrive on contemporary Earth in their TARDIS. The Doctor lands the other TARDIS near her own, but as she prepares to take off, she is arrested by the Judoon and teleported to a prison located inside an asteroid.

Continuity

As the Doctor broadcasts her memories to escape the Matrix, the show uses numerous scenes from both the new series and the old, featuring each Doctor, several companions, and villains. Notably the flashback includes images from ''The Brain of Morbius'', a Fourth Doctor serial. In that story, while the Doctor and Morbius are hooked to a machine during a battle of wits, the machine briefly flashed up the former regenerations of the Doctor and several additional faces, implied to be incarnations that precede the First Doctor. This scene from ''The Brain of Morbius'' is shown during the Doctor's flashback in this episode, identifying these figures as incarnations of the Timeless Child.

Melody Smith arrives in town to find his uncle's killer and at the same time Du Mont also arrives in search of her father's murderer, the two have suspicious of Harry Skelton, but he has the Sheriff on his side and manages to arrest Melody.

Robbo arrives from Australia with his fiancée Jan. They meet his cousin Col, who introduces them to Liz.

Eckbert lives an idyllic life, secluded in a castle deep within a forest in the Harz Mountains, with his wife Bertha. The two find happiness in their refuge away from the corrupting influences of society. They have no children but enjoy life together. Phillip Walther, Eckbert's one contact with society, shatters this harmony during a visit at the outset of the story. Walther had become a close friend of Eckbert over the years as the two frequently rode about Eckbert's demesne. Eckbert feels compelled to share his secret with Walther as his only confidant. He invites Walther to stay the night and enjoy ''familiarities'' and dine with Bertha. She reveals the secret of her childhood and begins the frame story.

Bertha escaped from a life of hunger, poverty and abuse at a young age. She found herself at the center of fights between her mother and father. She ran away from their pastoral home, begged on the streets, and made her way into the woods. An old woman took Bertha to a cabin and taught her to weave, spin, and read as they live together with the old woman's animals—a dog and a magical bird. The anthropomorphic bird sings a variety of songs encased by the concept of Waldeinsamkeit, or the feeling of being alone in the forest, and the bird lays a precious stone each day. The birds songs always begin and end with ''Waldeinsamkeit''. For instance:

Bertha and the old woman find this arrangement pleasing, but Bertha yearns to meet a knight from the stories she has read. After six years of living with the old woman, Bertha steals a bag of precious stones and departs the home, taking the bird with her. As she runs away, she realises that the old woman and the dog won't be able to survive without her. She regrets her decision and wants to head back, but then she comes across her childhood village. She finds out about her parents deaths, and decides to head to the city instead of back to the old woman. She rents a house and gets a housekeeper, but she feels threatened by the fact that the bird keeps singing louder, about how he misses the forest. The bird terrifies her and she strangles it as she leaves and marries Eckbert. Walther listens to this story, reassures her that he can imagine the bird, and the dog "Strohmian". Walther and Bertha retire to bed while Eckbert worries whether his familiarity with Walther and the story will compromise him.

Bertha becomes ill and lies dying a short time after confessing her sins to Walther. Eckbert suspects Walther may be to blame For Bertha's condition. He believes Walther may have been secretly planning for the death of Bertha. His paranoia and suspicions grow more intense after he realized that Walther revealed the name of Bertha's dog, Strohmian, when she never mentioned it during the story. Eckbert encounters Walther in the woods while on a ride and shoots his friend. Eckbert returns home to find his wife as she dies from a guilty conscience.

After the death of his wife and friend, Eckbert finds solace in frequent excursions from his home and befriends a knight named Hugo. Eckbert suffers from a guilty conscience after witnessing his wife's death and murdering his friend. He becomes paranoid and increasingly finds it difficult to disentangle the perception of reality with his imagination. Hugo appears to be his murdered friend Walter and he suspects that Hugo may not be his friend and reveals the secret of Walther's murder. Eckbert fearfully flees into the forest and stumbles upon the place where the old woman found Bertha as a little girl and led her through the forest. He hears a dog barking. He recognizes the sound of the wondrous bird singing. Eventually he meets the old woman who immediately recognizes him. She curses him for Bertha's theft and abrupt departure. The old woman tells Eckbert that she was Walther and Hugo, at the same time, and that he and Bertha are half-siblings from the same noble father. Bertha had been sent away from home to live with a shepherd. This news of his incestuous relationship deeply affects Eckbert's already weakened constitution. He quickly descends into paranoia, delusion, and madness shrieking in agony before he dies.

Mxyzptlk approaches Kara Danvers to make amends for past transgressions and to give her a proposition: travel back in time and tell Lena Luthor she is Supergirl before Lex Luthor can, and ensure their friendship turns out differently; the changes will be cemented if Kara likes the outcome. He also explains that his previous appearance was a form that he took to impress her. Kara takes the offer after Alex Danvers and J'onn J'onzz give their approval.

Kara first travels to the time before Kryptonite was released into the atmosphere and tells Lena, but this results in a timeline where Kara dies once the Kryptonite is released as Lena was not around to help cure her. This reality is undone.

Kara next tells Lena when she told her to come clean about creating Kryptonite, but this results in a timeline where Reign survives longer than she originally did and kills Mon-El and Lena.

Next, Kara tells Lena soon after the latter moved to National City. Everything goes well until Ben Lockwood and the Children of Liberty blackmail Kara into revealing herself as Supergirl to the world by kidnapping Lena before killing Kara's friends and family. This was done in retaliation to his family trying to put themselves in danger so that Supergirl would rescue them.

Following this, Mxyzptlk shows Kara a reality in which she and Lena did not meet, but his powers stop working, leaving them stranded. Nia Nal saves them from a Hope-Bot and brings them to Alex, J'onn, Winn Schott, Mon-El and Kelly Olsen.

In this reality, Lena fought off Lex's assassination attempt on her and took him out at the cost of half of National City. She started using the Fifth Dimension to harness power for her Hope-Bots while getting Reign and a reprogrammed Brainiac 5 on her side. While her allies fight Reign and Brainiac 5, Supergirl confronts Lena while Mxyzptlk goes to look for a hat that was taken from him by Hat. Once he gets it, he undoes the reality.

Unable to change the timeline without adverse consequences, Kara decides to confront Lena as Mxyzptlk takes his leave while leaving a video about the day Lena and Lex started working together. Kara tells Lena that if she decides to forgive her, then she will be there for her. However, she will be forced to take action against Lena like any other villain if she continues to help in furthering Lex's plot.

The family of ex-naval officer Tokizo Maeda lives in a small urban concrete block apartment, always quick at hiding their belongings when the situation asks for a humble appearance. While daughter Tomoko, mistress (at her father's instruction) of a famous bestselling writer, won't stop borrowing money from her patron for the family, son Minoru, signed to a music talent agency, constantly embezzles the company's assets. Father and son both have their very own plans for the money: Tokizo invests in one military project after another, Minoru, to his father's consternation, spends it on his lover Yukie, none other than his agency's bookkeeper. When Yukie quits her job, using the occasion to end the liaison with Minoru, it turns out that she also had affairs with the company boss and the tax officer in charge, using the donations she received to finance her own hotel.

In post-war Japan a middle aged family man connects with a woman from his past. He has two children, an arrogant son who is torn between his mistress and a new lover, and a disabled daughter who gets mixed up in the affair.

Orphan girl Nina lives in the mountain region with her foster father innkeeper Rezek. She falls in love with an escaped prisoner Ivan Holar.

Mickey and Minnie lead a caravan of covered wagons heading west through the desert, playing the banjo and singing "Oh! Susanna". Mickey boasts to Minnie that he is not scared of Indians, but his confidence will be tested—a tribe of wolf-like Indians have spotted the settlers, and they plan for war, wearing feathered headdresses and wielding tomahawks as they dance around their campfire. Meanwhile, Mickey and the other settlers have circled their wagons for the evening, where they sing and dance, including an old goat performing a tearful rendition of "Darling Nelly Gray".

The Indian tribe arrives, and Mickey sounds the alarm that the Indians are attacking. The settlers shoot guns at the Indians, and the attackers shoot arrows—hitting Mickey in the rear end at several points, to no lasting harm. Mickey scares away some Indians by shooting them with quills from a porcupine. Minnie is kidnapped and tied up by one Indian, and Mickey runs to her rescue. While Mickey and the Indian are fighting, Minnie settles things by dropping a hot coal down the Indian's pants. The mice return to the wagon train pretending to be a line of reinforcements; the Indians are routed and the settlers celebrate.

As described in various film magazine reviews, Phyllis King (Minter) is at lunch in a café one day when her brother Cuthbert (Howard) comes in, and begs her to lend him her money and jewellery to pay a gambling debt. He promises that he will make it up to her with a gift, and as he leaves he accidentally takes an overcoat belonging to Grayson Blair (Forrest), which contains a valuable jade necklace in the pocket. When Phyllis is unable to pay for her lunch as Cuthbert has taken all her money, Blair comes to her rescue.

Sometime later, at her aunt's country house, Phyllis and her friends are dressing up in boys' clothes for a lark. Phyllis finds the jade necklace in her brother's coat and, believing it to be the gift her promised her, she puts it on. She then sneaks into a neighbour's boathouse with the intention of borrowing their motorboat, but is caught by Blair. In the ensuing struggle Phyllis escapes but loses both her hat - causing Blair to recognise her as the girl from the café - and the necklace, which Blair retrieves.

Phyllis is approached by Rhi (Ferguson), Blair's discharged Hindu manservant, who is trying to reclaim the jade necklace and return it to the temple whence it came. He offers to help Phyllis retrieve the necklace. When Phyllis gets home, she sees a newspaper article with a picture of the necklace, declaring that it has been stolen. Thinking that her brother has stolen it to pay his gambling debts, Phyllis decides that she needs to return it to its rightful owner before her brother can be accused of theft.

With the help of Rhi, Phyllis sneaks into Blair's house and tries to take the necklace, but he catches her. However, before he can have her arrested, Rhi enters and attacks Blair. Phyllis and Blair together manage to overpower him, and when Cuthbert enters looking for his sister, Blair recognises his overcoat on Cuthbert, and understands how the necklace had, quite innocently, come to be in Phyllis' possession. The film ends with the promise of romance as Blair places the bit of jade around Phyllis' neck.

The June 1918 issue of Photoplay features a detailed fiction adaptation of the film, complete with several stills from the picture.

The movie follows story of a washerwoman, her lazy husband and her daughter.

A young woman, 16-year-old Melisande marries Sir Hugh de Hervey - 6 years older than her - with reluctance, as she does not know him and wishes to continue her carefree youth at home in Southern France. Her father - wounded in the last of King Louis' Crusades against the Saracens - is feeble and weak, but wishes her to go through with this union. Yusef - who made the lamp for Melisande - has facial features similar to her father, and is very dear to her. She is disturbed in the months leading up to the marriage because her father has banished Yusef from their household, and won't tell her why. After marrying de Hervey, they go on the monthlong journey by horseback to the coast of France, Wissant and sail to Dover, and from there to their own home - Littleperry Manor - within his family's estate, Greatperry Hall, in Gloucester, England.

As Melisande settles in, she frequently conflicts with The Lady Constance and dame Anne Peckham, who were united in their disapproval of her for being French and of a less wealthy background. Soon Melisande is expecting a child, and when the packmen arrive with goods for sale as well as mail delivery, she receives a letter from Tristan stating that Yusef has died, apparently committed suicide the day after her departure. Melisande's grief takes everyone's efforts to overcome. When Joscelin is born, everyone is happy and even Lady Constance seems to finally accept Melisande. Five years later, a terrible wet spring after a vicious winter results in the death of Hugo, only after disease murrain sickened the sheep. In time, the children marry, and Melisande starts to plan to visit her parents for the first time - when King Edward III declares war on France. With close family members in both the English and French armies, Melisande is alone with her despair. She has a vision of a young child dressed very unusually - very simply - with hair short, in a chair with wheels. When she learns of pending grandchildren, she starts to hope that the young girl in her vision belongs to the future of Littleperry. Part I ends with Melisande hanging a red cross on a white sheet at the manor walls, to warn anyone coming by that the Plague had struck.

Part II begins as Alys turns 12, and leaves her grandmother's house to become part of the staff at Littleperry where she becomes good friends with Cicely, the Squire's daughter. After suffering a mysterious stigma by the behaviour of everyone in the household, eventually she compels her grandmother to tell her the truth - that Squire Edwin loved her mother and fathered her, but since he never married her mother, she had no social position. As she becomes increasing bitter, she hatches a plan to accomplish several goals: to marry Perkin, free Cicely from an unwanted marriage the Squire arranged, and take revenge on her father's betrayal. As Alys, Cicely and Perkin arrive in London with the saracen lamp at Alder's Gate, they locate Amy and settle in. Alys sells the saracen lamp for less than its worth, to have funds for the rest of her plan and free herself of the guilt of taking it. However the destructiveness of her plans has unintended effects. In the end she returns alone to Littleperry, and tries to undo as much damage as she can.

Part III narrated by Perdita is set in the present day. Perdita's parents are devoted missionaries who minister in Africa, and her grandmother is the last remaining Harvey still living in Littleperry. Just before her thirteenth birthday, plans are made for her to remain in England and attend a boarding school near Littleperry, however she develops an ailment and lives at Littleperry instead, with the vicar's wife coming in to give her short lessons. As she struggles with her illness, she becomes haunted by the ghost of Alys, who wants her to remain weak and unhappy. With the help of others in the family and an outsider, she becomes strong again. And a copy of the saracen lamp comes to rest again in its place at Littleperry.

Early in 1986 Charley Partanna, now in his 40s, is the Boss of the Prizzi family, secondary in authority only to Don Carraro himself, ''capo di tutti capi''. As is his wont, he meets and falls instantly in love with an aspiring ballerina named Clair Coolidge. Clair runs one of the Prizzi's profitable new orgy rooms that are being franchised across the United States but sexually is extremely "straight" herself. Charley's dalliance with Clair, however, is sidetracked when Maerose Prizzi, the relentlessly ambitious granddaughter of the old Don finally coerces Charley into marrying her as the single most important step in her long-term plans to eventually succeed the Don and become the first female capo of a Mafia family. Charley and other members of the family carry out their usual murderous activities while Maerose puts into place the next step of her plans: the apparent death of Charley Partanna, ''vindicatore'' of the Prizza family, and his subsequence appearance on the world economic stage a year or so later as a supremely WASPish Charles Macy Barton. Barton takes over running the family's multi-tentacled financial affairs, generating new billions through Maerose's strategies that she wheedles the now-ancient Don into implementing. By the end of the book Charley, or Charles, has put key members of the family into positions of great political power and has himself become chief of staff to the reelected President of the United States.

An NSA agent (David Schwimmer) is assigned to act as liaison to the cyber crimes unit in the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, quickly antagonising the unit's chief with his brash style and tendency to try to take over.

Willow Penelope Forrester is the only child of a sheep farming family, who discovers a talent for piano playing as she matures. Her music teacher finds a program in Germany that would be a perfect fit. Miss Carpenter gives her a new piece of music to start to learn - Ravel's ''Pavane for a Dead Infanta'' but her fingers were clumsy with chilblains. The tune is rooted in her mind though. Just as she is starting to deal with her parents antipathy towards music as a career path for her, she comes down with the flu at school. As she and another girl one day have a long-running spat, the other girl hurls at her the fact that she is adopted. Willow's illness takes longer to heal from as she is thrown into confusion and depression.

To facilitate her recovery, her mother brings her to a private hotel called Penliss in Cornwall by the sea. The oldest part of Penliss (the kitchen and two rooms above) date back to the Elizabethan Era, the rest of the building at that time burned. In its place is a newer building, added on to the original part. Willow discovers the Velasquez portrait of Isabel, finely dressed wearing a unique pendant necklace, in the room with the piano. She plays ''Pavane'' and tells the portrait - "that was for you -Isabel." When she asks Rosamund about Isabel, she explains that Isabel was brought from Spain and adopted by the Tresilian family, but died young. This only whets Willow's curiosity, and she becomes obsessed with learning more. Willow finds Isabel's memorial stone in the family chapel, which states that Isabel died of "supposed drowning" at age 17, in 1602.

Outside one day, she discovers a sunken area in the garden, and learns from Rosamund and Amelie that it was called the 'Spanish' Garden. She feels it has a connection to Isabel. She is allowed to clean it up and look after it, and buried within it she discovers the exact pendant Isabel is wearing in the portrait. She keeps it a secret, especially from Amelie: whose intensity makes her uncomfortable. She's happy to be in Amelie's good graces though, after restoring Isabel's garden. Amelie gives her a posset as she is going to sleep and tells her to ""sleep happily," and that night she has her first vivid dream as 4-year-old Isabel living happily in her family's castle in Spain. Her second dream as Isabel takes place 4 years later in her time, and she is restrained and captive, on a boat leaving shore, her family's castle in flames. Some time passes, and there is a pitched battle on deck. She goes up to find out what has happened, and there are Englishmen on the boat. The landed near Penliss, and that became her home. In Willows third dream of Isabel, less than a year has passed since she arrived at Penliss. Uncle Cornelius does all her can to help her adjust to her new home, including having a 'Spanish' Garden put in, with a fountain. But she's in deep grief at the loss of her family, her home and her country, and many of the people around Penliss are mean to her as she is Spanish. She is determined to return to Spain some day.

As the dreams continue, Willow almost feels like she is living Isabel's life with her: enjoying the sea and visiting Uncle Cornelius' tin mines, where she meets Richard. Back in the present day, Willow continues to try to reconstruct her relationship with her parents, comparing the gratitude she 'owes' her parents to the situation of Isabel and Cornelius. Rosamund takes her to visit Land's End, and continues to be supportive and warm towards her. Willow learns that Cornelius died accidentally, right at a time when tensions were rising between England and Spain again - suddenly Isabel's life was in danger. She and Richard tried to escape via ship, but a violent storm prevented their safe passage. During Willow's last week with Rosamund, the two of them and Caspar go to visit the Scilly Isles, where Willow finally learns the rest of Isabel's story, and is able to carry out her final wishes. Then Willow returns home with her parents, renewed with a positive perspective on her place in her family.

In addition to being readily available to view, the plot of the film is summarised and reviewed in various film magazine articles.

Rhoda Eldridge Sayles (Minter) is left a penniless orphan in Paris when her father (Periolat) dies and the shipping company in which he invested his money goes bust. She finds passage to America with a family looking for a nursemaid, but when they arrive in New York there is no place in their household for Rhoda, who finds herself alone with only seventeen dollars to her name.

She takes up residence in the New York boarding house of Mrs. Sullivan (Price). After two weeks’ futile search for work, and down to her last ten cents, Rhoda finds a letter in a park, addressed to Rosy Taylor, and containing two dollars and the instruction to clean the mansion of Mrs. du Vivier every week. Rhoda tries to return the letter, but when she learns that Rosy Taylor is dead, she decides to take on the cleaning job herself.

All goes well until Mrs. Du Vivier’s brother, Jacques Le Clerc (Forrest) catches Rhoda in the act of cleaning the family silver. Believing that she is stealing the silver, he refers her to a reformatory, whose patron is Joseph Sayles (Periolat in a dual role). After being forced to stay and work at the reformatory by Mrs. Watkins (Schaefer) who believes she is a thief, Rhoda escapes and, although afraid of another encounter with Jacques, returns to Rosy Taylor’s job as she needs the money.

When she returns to the Du Vivier mansion, Rhoda finds a letter from Mrs. Du Vivier, saying that she is pleased with the work, and some of her cast-off dresses for Rosy Taylor to wear. While wearing the dress, she is found by Jacques, who initially mistakes her for his sister. While Rhoda is explaining herself to Jacques, Mrs. Du Vivier (Howard) meets her friend Mrs. Herriman-Smith (Kluge) and thanks her for her recommendation of Rosy Taylor. Mrs. Herriman-Smith tells her that Taylor has been dead for weeks. Wondering who has been cleaning the house all this time, the women race back to the Du Vivier mansion to investigate.

Jacques, meanwhile, when Rhoda shows him a letter of her father's with her full name, asks her to remain while he makes some enquiries. It is at this point what Mrs. Du Vivier and Mrs. Herriman-Smith arrive at the house, and mistake Rhoda cleaning with windows with a long mop as a ghostly apparition. They telephone the police, who arrive at the same moment as a worker from the reformatory seeking their escaped inmate, and Rhoda is taken into custody before Jacques can return.

After everyone comes together at the offices of the reformatory, Jacques and Rhoda are able to prove to Joseph Sayles, with the aid of her father’s letter, that Rhoda is his niece. Jacques introduces Rhoda to his sister as the ghost of Rosy Taylor, who, he says, will haunt him for the rest of his life.

The story begins with an excerpt of lyrics from "The Girl from Ipanema", which leads the unnamed narrator to reminisce, in the first-person perspective, about the Girl from Ipanema. He states that she has not aged, and that the lyrics capture exactly how she was back in 1963, and in present 1982. He entertains the thought of how she would have aged, but asserts that naturally, she has not aged in his record of the song, where she is bathed in the sound of Stan Getz's tenor sax.

The song evokes memories of a dark, quiet corridor in his high school. The narrator cannot discern as to why the two are connected, given his perceived absence of any connection. Equally perplexing, is his subsequent association between the corridor and salad (naming various vegetables and Thousand Island dressing). And attached to salad, is the memory of a girl the narrator used to know, which does not surprise him, as the girl only ever ate Salads.

His reminiscence of this girl is interjected by a quote from a philosopher: “[Long long ago,] there was a time when matter and memory were separated by a metaphysical abyss". The narrator then finds himself in the landscape evoked by the song - a windless beach with searing sun - watching the girl from Ipanema walk by.

The narrator initiates a conversation with the Girl from Ipanema, offering her a can of beer. Since she is weary from the walk, she agrees, and the two drink beneath the narrator's beach umbrella. He ventures to tell her that they met in 1963 at the same place and time, to which she downs half a can in one go, and stares at its opening- something about the way she stares at the beer can opening makes the narrator aware of its metaphysical significance.

He proceeds to tell her that she has not aged in the least bit, to which she replies, "Of course not. I’m a metaphysical girl". He offers her another beer, which she politely declines, saying that she has to keep walking indefinitely. The narrator asks whether the soles of her feet get hot from walking, to which she replies that they do not, as they are "completely metaphysical". She offers her foot to the narrator and he acknowledges this.

He decides to admit to her that whenever he thinks of her, he associates her with the corridor in his high school. She replies, "the human essence lies in complexity … Live! Live! Live! … the most important thing is to go on living". To which, the author departs the metaphysical world of the song.

The ending takes place in the real world, where the narrator notes that he sometimes recognises the girl from Ipanema on the subway – though not often. Despite not having conversed since their meeting on the beach, he intuits a connection linking their hearts. The narrator imagines how the connection is "probably in a strange place in a far-off world". He ends his contemplation with the conviction that such a strange place must exist "somewhere in the world".

The plot tells the story of a hitman named Gölge (transl: Shadow) who is trying to find his identity. Gölge works for a man named Servet Nadir and wants to know what happened to his parents. Servet knows the truth, but refuses to tell Gölge as it was Servet who killed Gölge's parents. Servet tries his best to keep the truth hidden but is unable to stop Gölge, who has found a source claiming to know his family. Servet hires an assassin to kill Gölge, but Gölge manages to fight the assassin off. A bystander is shot in the crossfire.

Gölge then stumbles on a tailor shop whose owner died. He pretends to be Adem Yilmaz, the son of the tailor, Adil, who has just recently died, in order to keep himself hidden from Servet. He meets new people along the way and states that he is the deceased tailor's son as a cover. A man named Yakup grows suspicious of Adem and begins to poke into his history despite being told by everyone that he is Adil's son.

Servet continues to search for Gölge. Gölge begins to have visions of what happened and at first he believes that he murdered his own parents. The next night he begins to remember more of his past. He slowly remembers that Servet had a part in his parents' death. He helps the people when Servet tries to steal their houses in a suspicious land deal. He finally helps them regain their houses and drives the mob presence away.

Yakup, on the other hand, comes across a woman who knows Adem and he brings her to the tailor shop. She realizes right away that it is not Adem and they have a conversation. Gölge tells her that Adem is safe when in reality he was the bystander shot dead during the crossfire at the house.

Yakup drops the search into Gölge's life after he is saved from a mystery assassin that attacked him. Gölge then confronts Servet in his penthouse and they share a drink. Gölge soon feels dizzy as the drink was laced; he holds his gun, threatening Servet to tell the truth, and Servet also holds a gun to Gölge. The show cuts to black as a gunshot is heard. It is unclear who fired first.

The wealthy Mexican-American Arista family hires a new white handyman, Don (Jackson Rathbone). Don, mentored by veteran groundskeeper Mike (Xander Berkeley), labors at the ranch for months and comes to learn that something unusual is going on there, something having to do with the Arista's well; the water level keeps going down even when it rains. Meanwhile, Don has become enamored with the daughters of the family, Ximena (Carmela Zumbado) and Tania (Marisol Sacramento), especially Tania.

One night, Don and the patriarch Henry (Esai Morales) chase a group of thieves away from the well. Don becomes aware there may be something unusual about the water itself. Henry orders Mike and Don to hire a crew and build a giant wall around the ranch to thwart future thieves. This action leads to an altercation between the nearby mostly white town and the Mexican-American family. It also leads Don to insatiable curiosity about the well and to actions with major consequences.

Mark and Harris watch the live coverage of the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary for Mark's school assignment, prompting the rest of the family to chime in with their own political opinions and stress the importance of voting. Mark resents assumptions that he supports Pete Buttigieg because he is gay. The family throws an impromptu going-away party for Louise, believing it will compel Dan to ask her to stay. Their plan backfires, forcing Dan to admit that he and Louise have broken up. Dan consults a priest about his inability to move past Roseanne's death, then determines he will when he is ready. Mark's anger over Harris leaving home comes out, leading her to take time to discuss his and Austin's renewed, though troubled, relationship.

''Run Me to Earth'' is divided into six stories that extend over the course of six decades, primarily between 1969–1977. The novel begins in 1969 but later jumps to 1974 and 1977, before moving back to 1969 and then finally jumping forward to 1994 and 2018. It takes place mostly in Laos but also in New York, Spain and rural France. The novel employs a third-person omniscient narrative, alternating its focus between the different characters. Stream of consciousness is often used to reveal the characters' inner thoughts.

Alisak (1969)

In 1969 in Laos during the Laotian Civil War, Alisak and brother and sister Prany and Noi are homeless teenage orphans who have been friends since childhood. The three orphans are spotted sleeping by a river by a nurse who recruits them to work for a hospital overlooking the Plain of Jars. It is a makeshift field hospital housed in an abandoned farmhouse that was formerly ran as a tobacco plantation owned by a French tycoon known as the Tobacco Captain, who has since gone missing. The three orphans work as orderlies in the hospital and couriers, delivering medical supplies on motorbikes left by the Tobacco Captain. They driver over hazardous terrain into the town of Phonsavan, risking the threat of aerial bombings and unexploded cluster bombs. They form a friendship with Vang, the French doctor who runs the hospital. They wonder where they will go once the hospital is evacuated, speculating either Thailand or France. The brother of the Tobacco Captain, a country doctor, offers to sponsor the three orphans into France. Vang later announces the return of American planes and the hospital is evacuated. While riding on their motorbikes toward the helicopter, they are separated. Alisak is sent to Perpignan in Southern France. He is driven by a Thai women named Karawek. They arrive at "the Vineyard" where Alisak is greeted by the Tobacco Captain's brother, who he learns is named Yves. He later meets a woman named Marta, who works at "the Vineyard".

Auntie (1974)

Auntie last saw Prany and Vang four years prior in a camp before it was raided and burned. Auntie and Vang were childhood friends growing up in Vientiane, Laos. Prany and Vang were captured by the Pathet Lao four years ago. Touby tells Auntie that Prany and Vang are in a prison in the northeast close to Vietnam, where they share a cell and are tortured by "the interrogator" and two other men. Prany has lost the use of one of his hands. When Vang and Prany came to her camp, they rarely spoke to each other. Auntie remembers when Vang told her that despite pleas from the helicopter, Prany had turned and went back for them. When Vang tried to speak of Noi, he began to weep.

Prany (1977)

Prany and Vang are released after seven years in the reeducation center. When they are released, Prany and Vang plot revenge on "the interrogator" and kill him. Prany later meets Khit, and together they travel to the old farmhouse hospital. Prany takes a doctor's coat and puts it on, finding an old piece of paper with a circle written on it. He puts it back in the pocket, knowing it "belonged only there, in a private memory." He is met by Auntie, who he tells to bring Khit to Thailand instead of himself. Prany gives his envelope of money to Auntie, who believes Prany will be caught for his actions but agrees to take Khit. Prany makes Khit promise to remember the name "Alisak". He takes off the doctor's coat and puts it on Khit. He later realizes he left the piece of paper in the pocket of the coat.

Noi (1969)

Noi remembers working for "the Frenchman"–the Tobacco Captain–in his kitchen and cleaning up after parties in his house. Vang tells Noi that they are leaving that night for France. The four of them–Alisak, Prany, Vang and Noi–ride towards the helicopters on motorbike, with a nurse traveling with Noi on her bike. Noi swerves hard and goes over a bump while riding fast. She searches for Alisak then finds him looking back at her with an expression which Noi views as "the greatest gift, like something wonderful and old, as though, like some unrecognized promise, they had been given a chance, all of them together, to become old." Noi lets go of the handlebars and the nurse leans into her, screaming. For Noi, "it was, just then, in all that sudden, immense quiet, enough."

Khit (1994)

Khit travels to Perpignan, where she meets Marta. She tells Marta that she spent two years in Thailand at Auntie's camp. Auntie convinced a couple to pretend that Khit was their daughter, and they moved to Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City before moving to Poughkeepsie, New York. Khit learns that Prany and Vang were charged with the murder of the interrogator and executed. Marta tells Khit that Alisak may be in Sa Tuna, Spain. Khit travels to Spain, where she meets Isabel. With a seventeen-year-old piece of paper in her pocket, she walks to Alisak's shop and ring's the bell by the door.

Sa Tuna, Spain (2018)

Alisak thinks of Prany and Noi and the hilltop where they built their first successful fire. Alisak, sixty-six years old, is working at a bicycle and moped shop in northeastern Spain. He is going to a birthday party for the father of Isabel, whose uncle Alisak used to work with. He thinks of Khit, who came to his shop years ago and gave him a piece of paper she believed belonged to Prany. As Alisak arrives at the party and looks along the bright seaside towns, he is reminded once again of the hilltop, the sound of animals, the river moving below and the "three children fighting sleep so that they can catch the last moments of a small pocket of fire."

In November 1942 in the Africa desert two Allied pilots are sent to blow up a minefield in separate planes. They come across a German tank captained by an officer. The tank shoots down one of the Allied planes forcing the pilot, McMillan, to bail out. The other pilot, Culpepper, lands to rescue him just in time. Culpepper's plane is damaged. The tank continues in pursuit.

The book is split up into four parts.

'''Part one''' opens at the eldest daughter, Hadia’s wedding in Northern California. Rather than accepting an arranged marriage, Hadia decides to build her life with a man of her choice, Tariq, whom she met in medical school. Hadia decides to invite their estranged brother, Amar, who returns after 3 years of no communication with his family. He is confronted with the familiarity of the faces from his past life when greeting the guests, including his first love Amira Ali. His family watches him from a distance, careful not to say anything to upset him. Their mother, Layla, is frantically running around, attending to guests, and making sure that her daughter’s event flows smoothly. She searches for her husband, Rafiq, in the crowd to look at him and share a moment to appreciate where they came to in life.

'''Part two''' of the book gives readers glimpses of the past that offer insight into how everything led up to the wedding. It opens with a memory of the Fourth of July, the first one Hadia recalls celebrating. The three young siblings begged their father to take them to see the fireworks. Hadia and her sister Huda sit together cross-legged, eyes lighting up in awe from the fireworks. A young Amar. meanwhile, is leaning against his mother, eyes wide in wonder.

The scene jumps to a young Layla in India, talking to her younger sister Sara about a potential proposal from a man named Rafiq in America. She wonders about the houses and the roads there and if she will follow Rafiq to America.

As young kids, Hadia worries about Amar, who lies to protect her and Huda, further upsetting their father. She thinks about what her understanding of jealousy is by listening to her mother’s comments about other women. She also thinks about how she feels about other girls talking about Abbas Ali, her childhood crush.

Rafiq comes home one night with the news that Abbas has died in a car accident. Both Hadia and Amar join Rafiq in the car to stop by the Ali house to grieve with the family. Amar stops by Amira’s (Abbas's younger sister) room, both of them finding the slightest comfort in each other’s presence.

Layla travels back home to Hyderabad, India without the rest of her family. She seeks comfort in her prayers and love for God. Amar gets into a fight at school when three boys corner him in the locker rooms and tell him to go back to his country. They tell him that Rafiq looks like a terrorist, and Amar throws the first punch at one of the boys. When Rafiq is called by the school nurse to come get him, Amar wished his mother was there to get him instead.  

During a wedding of someone from their community, Amira and Amar meet to go on a private walk on the seventieth floor. Amar recalls a guy named Simon, who survived the car accident that Abbas was in. He follows him to party and drinks beer for the first time. He debates telling Amira but does not want to impact the way she thinks of him.

Months before Hadia’s graduation, she takes her younger siblings to an ice cream shop. Amar confides in his sisters; he tells them that he feels as if he no longer belongs at school due to being a Muslim. At the masjid, he struggles to listen in on religious lectures. He recalls the time him and Abbas discussed religious stories and how they would someday leave and create a life for themselves.

Layla finds a box in Amar’s room containing a photo of Amira, she panics and thinks that Amira will be a distraction for Amar. This results in her going to the Ali house to talk to Amira’s mom to expose their children’s relationship. Amira’s parents force her to end things with Amar, due to his bad reputation.

At a family dinner, the last one before Hadia leaves for medical school, Hadia asks anyone if they have seen her watch, which results in Rafiq accusing Amar. Amar goes silent and feels as if he is watching his life from someone else’s perspective. He worries that his heart is too stained by sins and that he cannot recover. He confides in pills to deal with the loss of Abbas, Amira and what he thinks is the loss of love of his parents.

'''Part three''' opens back up at Hadia’s wedding. The parents notice Amira and Amar talking. Amar is surprised that Amira asked to speak to him in private. He actively puts in effort to pretend as if he no longer loves her. He knows that even if he finds another woman, he will always care for Amira. He shows her the scars from his needles and asks her not to tell anyone. Amar confides in her and tells her that he struggled after they broke up. Amira tells him that it was his mother who came to her house to tell her mother about their relationship. Amar begins to spiral and starts drinking at a nearby bar. He sits outside the venue trying to recover so he can go back for his sister. Rafiq is sent out by Layla to find Amar for the family photo. Amar realises that he is exhausted at being angry and cries into his father’s arms.

'''Part four''' is from Rafiq's perspective, he is speaking to Amar as if he was there with beside him. When Rafiq is older he is being admitted into the hospital where Hadia is working. This is the first time he is able to witness her working. Hadia is now a respected doctor and a mother of two children. Rafiq talks to Amar about his grandchildren, Abbas and Tahira, that he is much more calmer and loving now. He finds himself throwing out Amar’s old exams, only to take it back out of the trash and place it in his desk drawer. Rafiq recalls on his mistakes and where he went wrong with Amar, admitting that he believed it was his fault that Amar left.

The 24th is based on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. The film features an African-American military regiment that is called the 24th in Houston, Texas. Despite their military service, the African-American soldiers are subjected to racial discrimination by the all white police force in Houston as well as from the local white people in Houston. The constant racial discrimination leads to a riot and seizure of military weapons by the African-American military unit against the police force and the white locals. The riot and resulting violence ended with multiple soldiers from the 24th being arrested and ultimately executed for mutiny.

Reichau is a one time army captain who served three years in prison for belonging to the OAS during the Algerian War. He arrives in France, unsure what to do with his life. He decides to take part in a heist organized by Pierre, the man who sent him to prison. The heist consists of stealing a bag containing 500 million francs during a plane flight.

Andryusha and his fifth-grade classmates found poorly bound typewritten pages with the words 'Attack' in a pile of scrap materials. The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next block. The man is not young and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest resources, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life.

Tsarevich Prosh lives in one kingdom. Suddenly he had a wonderful dream and Prosh did not want to tell this dream to his father. The tsar did not like this, and he drove Prosh out of the kingdom.

The film tells the story of a young and very talented Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, who was called ''Long-Haired Wonder''.

The film tells about a good and decent taxi driver who meets new people every day. Some people bring him joy, others bring problems.

The film tells about the school director, who oversees the daily life of the school, tries to understand the problems of education and conflicts with the head teacher of the school, who is also devoted to her work.

The film tells about a guy named Volodya, who was tired of his relatives and decided to run away from them. On the way, he meets different people, gets a job at a construction site and falls in love.

Jake Cahill enforces the law in a Western town.

John Braun, healthy and athletic model for his fitness enterprise, gets fatally ill and on the next day changes his will, leaving everything to his company. John locks himself up in his study, but Nikki goes to talk with him. She waits in the anteroom, but finds herself locked in and when they finally manage to open the door, they find Braun sitting at his desk, stabbed, and both the will and the murder weapon missing.

The prologue is from Navani's perspective, in which she recalls Gavilar's death and his involvement with strange spheres of light. The book begins with Kaladin traveling to his hometown of Hearthstone, to rescue the citizens and pick up a famous Herdazian general, The Mink. Navani, Dalinar, and many Radiants arrive on a flying machine to assist Kaladin in evacuating the city. While the evacuation begins, the Radiants get into a battle with the Fused, which ends with no conclusive winner. Meanwhile, Kaladin is baited into a fight with his former friend Moash, who somehow induces Kaladin to have visions of traumatic experiences. Kaladin escapes to the flying machine and they fly away with the townspeople on board. While returning, Navani is contacted by a mysterious stranger, who tells her that creating magic devices called fabrials is unethical and wrong. Fabrials are created by imprisoning a in a gemstone. After returning to Narak, Dalinar relieves Kaladin of duty due to his battleshock and increasing depression. Kaladin searches for a way to continue serving those around him without fighting and starts assisting his father in the infirmary, eventually finding greater purpose in helping those with mental issues through group therapy and more progressive treatments.

Meanwhile, Shallan and her split personalities infiltrate the Sons of Honor to curry favor with Mraize and the Ghostbloods, a clandestine organization that hints at secrets beyond the world of Roshar. During the mission, Shallan discovers a hidden notebook mentioning mysterious terms (referring to other worlds in the Cosmere universe) and considers breaking free of the Ghostbloods. Mraize sends her on one final mission, promising her full Ghostblood membership and knowledge after she finds and kills Restares in Lasting Integrity, the base in Shadesmar. Listening to the Mink's advice, Shallan, Adolin, and a few Radiants head to Shadesmar as diplomatic envoys to encourage more to bond with humans, while Dalinar and Jasnah set off to fight on the Emul battlefront in a strategic maneuver and leave Navani and Kaladin behind at their home base of Urithiru to manage matters. Taravangian supports the Emul battlefront, plotting for his troops to betray the rest of the human army on Odium's orders, though Dalinar foresees and plans ahead for this betrayal. After the battle, Taravangian is captured as a traitor and begins to see ways to thwart Odium through Nightblood, the black sword.

Led by Raboniel, who claims to have found a way to end the war permanently, the Fused invade and take control of Urithiru by corrupting the Sibling, the tower , which causes all the Radiants in the tower except Kaladin and Lift to fall unconscious. Navani and the Sibling manage to activate a shield before the Sibling is fully corrupted, powered by four hidden nodes. Navani surrenders and is enlisted by Raboniel to aid in her research. Together, they discover that Voidlight and Stormlight can be mixed into Warlight. They also find anti- types of light, something that can permanently kill and Fused: a discovery that can end the cycle of war. Aided by Navani, the Sibling, and Dabbid, Kaladin escapes with an unconscious Teft to a hidden room in the upper levels of Urithiru. Kaladin's depression grows increasingly worse, with Moash and Odium sending him visions to drive him to suicide, but keeps busy by defending the nodes under the instruction of Navani and the Sibling. Venli, Rlain, and Dabbid help to take care of Teft and free Lift from the Fused, who can wake the unconscious Radiants with her healing powers.

Increasingly suspicious, Dalinar looks at Urithiru through the Stormfather and realizes the tower has been occupied by the enemy. He decides to seek out another Bondsmith, Ishar the Herald, to increase his powers and fight back. However, Ishar has been driven insane through the centuries and attacks Dalinar. He is defeated by Szeth and temporarily sane, tells Dalinar to meet him in Shinovar for further instruction. Dalinar discovers that Ishar has been experimenting with in the Physical Realm. Meanwhile, Shallan and Adolin travel through Shadesmar. Adolin undertakes a legal battle in Lasting Integrity to convince the that humans are worth bonding again. Shallan realizes that Restares is actually Kalak, a Herald, and judge of the trial. She attempts to assassinate him but in doing so, releases her repressed memory of killing her first Testament. Adolin's dead Shardblade, Mayalaran, speaks at the trial, revealing that the ancient chose to sacrifice themselves with the Knights Radiant. Shallan ends her association with the Ghostbloods and sets herself firmly against them.

Navani, Kaladin, Teft, and Lift fight to wake the Radiants and liberate Urithiru. Teft and Lift infiltrate the infirmary while Kaladin provides a distraction by fighting one of the Fused outside. However, Moash is waiting and kills Teft, then throws his corpse to Kaladin. Kaladin's father is thrown off the tower by another Fused. Consumed by grief, Kaladin jumps off the tower into the highstorm, where he is saved by Dalinar and the Stormfather. He states the Fourth Ideal and saves his father, then returns to reclaim the tower. Dalinar later recruits Kaladin to join him in Shinovar to help treat Ishar's mental issues. Navani encounters Moash during her escape attempt. He tries to kill Navani but she bonds with the Sibling, becoming a Bondsmith; she repels Moash and reverses the corruption of the tower through anti-Voidlight. Blinded, Moash flees Urithiru and is later reclaimed by Odium. The remaining Fused attack the infirmary; Venli teams up with Rlain, Leshwi, and the humans to protect the unconscious Radiants, showing that the singers and humans can live in harmony. She eventually reunites with an escaped group of listeners who are eager to bond with , redeeming herself and her past role in bringing about Odium. Dalinar meets with Odium in a vision, where Odium, shaken by the loss of Urithiru and the failure of so many of his plans, agrees to a contest of champions. Dalinar is able to manipulate Odium into swearing that whoever wins, Odium will enforce an end to the war and withdraw his influence from Roshar entirely. Szeth leaves Dalinar to pursue his next Ideal and visits Taravangian in his cell, intending to kill him once and for all. Before he can do so, Odium pulls Taravangian (and unintentionally Nightblood) into a vision, where Taravangian stabs Odium and kills his Vessel (the person who serves as the mind directing Odium's power), taking its place. The newly born Odium (who is still bound by the old Odium's agreements) tricks Wit, leaving him unaware of Odium's new identity.

Set in 1928, the plot revolves around two Russian biologists who travel to the Gobi Desert in search of a rare animal, that they are planning to protect from a fascist politician who was overthrown, who plans on sending it to the biggest animal smuggling ring in European history.

''Sound of Freedom'' tells the story of Tim Ballard, a former operative, who quits his job as a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to save children from cartels and human traffickers. It takes a look into the child trafficking in Latin American countries, especially Mexico. Ballard calls himself a modern day abolitionist and in addition to saving these children he wants to get rid of the problem at the root. He says that America is the biggest consumer of this evil. The story will show how Ballard went to Colombia to rescue 127 children from sexual abuse and misery.

Skipper Murphy helps train his brother Red for a championship fight. However, a gang of gamblers tries to blackmail Red into losing by kidnapping his fiancée Ruth Lane.

On a plane flight, passenger George Spencer is forced to take controls when the crew fall ill with food poisoning.

A middle aged couple, Arthur and Edna are appearing in a stage production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' in a small town. They meet a woman who claims to be Arthur's daughter from his first marriage.

They realise they are too young to play star crossed lovers.

Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is sentenced to death by Creon, King of Thebes, for defying his orders and burying the body of her dead brother.

Topaze is a school master sacked for being too honest who, subsequently, becomes involved with thieves.

"The Bear" - a woman, although desperate for a husband, fights with her only suitor.
"The Proposal" - a widow is challenged to a duel by a rough farmer

''Heaven Burns Red'' takes place in a world where the Earth is being attacked by mysterious extraterrestrial life forms called "Cancer." Cancer are immune to any kind of weapon and have been forcing humanity to abandon most of the Earth's surface. Left with little time before they face extinction, humanity successfully created a weapon to take on Cancer known as "Seraph." Humanity gathered those who had mastered the art of manipulating Seraphs and established "Seraph Corps" as their last hope. Those who could manipulate Seraphs have one thing in common: they are all girls. One of them is Ruka Kayamori, who finds herself thrown into the war against Cancer.

The film tells about the creation of a football team and her preparation for the World Cup.

A woman who loves is ready to sacrifice for the salvation of her beloved with all her fortune. How will Vadim Dulchin, a handsome man and a player, answer this? And how far can a woman who loves him go.

On the eve of Halloween, young Tommy Drindle is visited by his pumpkin-farming grandfather, who gives him a wrapped gift and a pumpkin. Tommy begins carving the pumpkin but cuts himself, sucking the wound and telling his mother, Amanda, that he likes the taste and that Grandpa said blood was good for him. That night, Amanda's husband, Bill, confronts Grandpa in a remote farmhouse, where Grandpa is participating in a Satanic ritual. Bill threatens him but is bludgeoned and immolated by one of the Satanists. At home, Tommy unwraps the gift to find a medallion on a chain.

Thirteen years later, we see an adult Tommy swinging the same medallion, which has a pentagram on it. Grandpa visits him and says that tonight's Halloween will be special because Tommy will finally learn the extent of his own powers. A flashback reveals that Grandpa raped Amanda on her wedding night, insinuating that Grandpa is Tommy's biological father.

Tommy's brother Roger, a rookie deputy assigned to the town's Halloween party, is instructed by the sergeant to keep tabs on the local cemetery following a string of grave robberies there. Meanwhile, back at home, Tommy has a daydream in which he performs in a heavy metal band and is stabbed and decapitated by a demonic woman.

Tommy and his girlfriend Nora are picking up beer for the party when he is visited by Grandpa, who reminds Tommy that he must remain pure for tonight's ceremony. Amanda tells Roger that she's worried about his sister Vera finding love, since the family needs to stay together. Tommy shows Roger a Satanic shrine he's built in his basement. Nora, who has been swimming alone, is confronted by a cloaked, masked figure, which she assumes is Tommy in costume playing a prank. When she disrobes for him, he stabs her in the head with a pitchfork, killing her.

Grandpa arrives at the party location, where townsfolk are decorating, and Vera believes he's only there to keep tabs on Tommy. As Grandpa attempts to embrace Vera, he's confronted by her boyfriend, Brian, but Vera clarifies that the man is her grandfather.

After Tommy discovers Vera and Brian making out in her bedroom, he throws Brian out of the house. Tommy heads off to the ritual while Brian walks home through a cemetery and is pursued by the same mysterious figure who killed Nora. As Brian is retreating, he falls into an open grave and is bludgeoned with a shovel by the figure, killing him. Amanda enters her home disheveled and Vera tells her that Tommy assaulted Brian.

Meanwhile, Grandpa participates in another ritual at the farmhouse, in which he ordains a new female member into the coven. Roger, who is surveilling the cemetery with Vera's friend Beth, hears a disturbance but only finds a group of young trick-or-treaters. After the children are sent away, he and Beth have sex on a gravesite, after which he drops Beth off at Vera's house.

On the way to the Halloween party, Beth takes Vera to the cemetery to show her where she and Roger had sex and they find a hand protruding from the grave. Thinking it's a Halloween prank, Vera uncovers the grave to find Brian's corpse and assumes Tommy has killed him. Vera leads Beth to Grandpa's farmhouse to confront him and interrupts the ritual. Grandpa tells Vera she has "intruded upon the ceremony of blood" and says she must now be sacrificed, binding her arms and imploring Tommy to murder her. As Tommy raises a dagger to her, he instead cuts the ropes, freeing her, and she and Beth leave to find Roger.

The cloaked killer arrives at the party, just before Vera and Beth arrive and tell Roger about Brian's murder. One of the partygoers, Carrie, is followed into the restroom by the killer and suffocated to death. When Vera and Beth find Carrie's corpse, they laugh it off, thinking she's drunk. As Beth heads to the closet to hang up her coat, the killer emerges and strangles her to death, then hangs her in the closet.

Another cloaked figure arrives. Vera, thinking it's Tommy in costume, rushes to them and says the killer is at the party, but they remove their mask, revealing Grandpa. The killer emerges from the restroom and gets into a fight with Grandpa, ending with the killer knocking Grandpa off a staircase. Vera and Roger rush to Grandpa, who anoints Roger's forehead with a devil sign then dies. The killer attempts to escape the party and is shot in the back by Roger upon exiting. Hobbling to the orchard, the killer collapses and removes their mask, revealing Amanda. After she limps to Bill's gravesite, Tommy finds her and she tells him, "I only wanted to keep my family", before dying.

In the farmhouse, we see another Satanic ritual and find that Roger has now become the new leader of the coven.

The film takes place in 1918. The expedition, consisting of two people engaged in the search for gold deposits, goes to Siberia. Soon local residents join them. Some really want to help them, others pursue selfish goals.

The film tells about a strong woman, Yelizaveta Uvarova, who becomes the chairman of the city executive committee of Zlatograd.

At a girls school one of the girls is secretly married to a young man her parents have forbidden her to see.

Kate Sanders is a newly arrived student at a prestigious ballet academy in Paris. The students at the school are all competing for "the prize"; a contract with a ballet company which will be awarded to the best male and female dancers. On her first day, she makes a comment about Ollie, a renowned former student who committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. This causes Ollie's sister, Marine Durand, to attack her. The altercation leaves Marine disheveled, resulting in criticism from the academy's exacting headmistress, Madame Brunelle. That night, Kate finds that she has been assigned to live in the same room as Marine. Marine suggests that the two go to The Jungle, a botanical themed dance club where they do drugs. Marine challenges Kate to a dance contest where the first one to stop dancing will be forced to drop out. After an extended time of dancing, Kate suggests to an exhausted Marine that they both stop at the same time so that neither has to drop out. When Kate abides by her promise to stop dancing, she earns Marine's respect and friendship.

Marine and Kate grow closer over the ensuing weeks. As they prepare for the dance which will determine the winner of the prize, they, along with most of the other female students, hope to be paired with Felipe, who is widely regarded as the best male dancer at the academy. Marine and Kate begin to confide more in each other. Kate reveals that she is from a working class background and is attending the academy on a scholarship. Marine, who has lived in Paris for years, is the daughter of the US Ambassador to France. Marine must attend a party at the embassy, where it is revealed that Kate's scholarship is funded by Marine's family. Her mother, seeing Kate as potential competition, threatens to revoke the scholarship, but Marine defends Kate. Marine performs an impromptu dance sequence which ends with her knocking over a tray of drinks and injuring her feet on the broken glass. She is comforted by Jamal, a drummer from the band working the party. The two of them begin a sexual relationship. Meanwhile, fellow dancer Jean Paul offers to supply Kate with drugs, an offer which she rebuffs. Kate encounters financial difficulty paying for new shoes and is helped out by fellow dancer Gigi. Becoming more stressed out by practice, she turns to Jean Paul for drugs and has sex with Felipe. Marine and Kate have dinner with Marine's mother, who verbally undermines Marine's dance skills. Kate defends her. At the academy, the two of them make a pact that they will work together to jointly win the prize. They have a threesome with Felipe. Marine breaks up with Jamal, having become emotionally involved with Kate.

Marine reveals to Kate that she blames herself for Ollie's death. They two of them had been dancing passionately at their home and their mother mistakenly believed they were having sex. Afterwards, Ollie began using drugs. On the night he killed himself, Marine ignored his phone calls. Kate comforts Marine, insisting that it wasn't her fault. As the day of the prize draws nearer, Kate rises in the class rankings, while Marine often struggles. The students learn of another opportunity: dancer and choreographer Benjamin Mouton is going to offer one of them the job as understudy to his principal ballerina. Kate quickly becomes frontrunner for the position. Kate learns that her scholarship has been cancelled and that her father has to sell their house to pay for her tuition. Benjamin tells her how a donor once forced him to pick a ballerina by threatening to cut off funds. An enraged Kate accuses Marine of having her parents withdraw the scholarship. The next day, Marine learns that Kate has told the other students that Marine and Ollie were having sex. Marine is comforted by Madame Brunelle, who recounts her own difficulties as a ballerina. She leaves Marine with a motto: "Blessed is she who falls. Blessed is she who rises again." Marine, who has been paired with Felipe, offers to dance solo at the final contest and Felipe is reassigned to Kate. At the contest, Marine dances an avant garde routine of her own design, before storming out. Fellow dancer Luc, compliments her as a great choreographer and says he will be honored to dance for her one day. Kate wins the prize.

Three years later, Kate is a wildly successful ballerina, headlining her own show. After a show she is approached by Marine. Marine says that she still dances, mainly at The Jungle. She thanks Kate, saying that her one time friend's actions forced her to move out of her comfort zone and that she is truly happy for the first time in her life. Kate drives away, but returns and yells at Marine that she should hate Kate for how she betrayed her. Marine responds with Madame Brunelle's motto: "Blessed is she who falls. Blessed is she who rises again." At The Jungle, Kate dances a routine choreographed by Marine and rises into the air.

The new candidate for a political party sees a UFO. He is compelled to discuss it, even though this may see him lose his party's nomination.

Lara Jean Covey, accompanied by her sisters, Kitty and Margot; her father, Dan; and her neighbor Trina Rothschild, visits Seoul for spring break. She reconnects with the memory of her mother by searching for a lock her mother had left on a bridge to memorialize her love for Dan, and finally manages to read her accompanying message, which says "for the rest of my life." Returning home, she mentions to her boyfriend, Peter Kavinsky, that the two of them never had a meet-cute, meeting Peter's disbelief because he remembers their first meeting quite well. She nervously waits for the result of her Stanford University application so she can attend college with Peter. As Dan's relationship with Trina becomes more serious and the family begins to plan their upcoming wedding, Lara Jean is accepted to her safety schools, the University of California, Berkeley and New York University, but disappointed when she is rejected from Stanford.

Initially leaning towards Berkeley to live closer to Peter, Lara Jean enjoys New York City during a school trip and decides on NYU. She explains her decision to Peter, but his disappointment at her decision is palpable, and he decides to break up with her on prom night to save himself what he sees as the inevitable breakdown of a long-distance relationship. Respecting Lara Jean's wishes, Peter skips Dan and Trina's wedding; he also meets with his formerly absentee father for a meal and chooses to try and reconnect despite the years of his absence. After the wedding festivities, Kitty conspires with Peter to set up a meeting between him and Lara Jean under the wedding tent. Lara Jean finds a letter in her yearbook from Peter containing his account of their first meeting in sixth grade and a proposed contract to always love each other despite the between Stanford and NYU. Peter walks in and asks her to sign on, to which she joyfully assents. The film ends with Lara Jean's reflection on wanting what she has with Peter, regardless of what films say and what stereotypes say about long-distance relationships. She remains optimistic that the distance will offer them the opportunity to keep writing love letters to one another.

During World War Two, Chester, an American soldier on leave in Australia meets an Australian girl.

In the future, in Boston Massachusetts, wearing a robot suit, you are a gladiator who fights in the arena to acquire badges and some email messages.

The prophet Zangezi lives among wildlife, mountains, birds, trees, grasses, gods. Zangezi speaks significant words, but human beings are ignorant to understand him:

Sara is at an island bar and is getting ready to head home. She is with a boyfriend and he asks her for one more drink before she goes. He orders, then heads out of the bar (presumably to the bathroom), and she leaves, as she has stated that she "hates goodbyes."

Fast forward one year later in London, Sara takes a cab to the airport to leave for a wedding.

Visiting Mauritius for her friend's wedding, Sara hooks up with ex-boyfriend Jackson, misses the last boat to the wedding venue on Rodrigues, and hitches a ride on a small plane piloted by her friend, Freddy Wyman, who is also going to the wedding. She is surprised when it turns out that Jackson has also arranged to fly with Freddy to the wedding.

Freddy invites Sara to the co-pilot seat while Jackson sleeps. During the flight Freddy has a heart attack and passes away, sending the plane into freefall. Sara and Jackson recover, but the autopilot is damaged, and they are faced with the fact that Sara, who Freddy has taught some basics, will need to fly the plane to get them to safety.

They manage to contact Samuel, a local air traffic controller, on the shortwave radio, and he attempts to guide them to safety, but they have to fly through a storm first. They manage to get through the storm but not before they damage their compass. The plane is also starting to lose fuel at an alarming rate. Jackson volunteers to climb out of the plane to try to patch a fuel line. While successful, he badly breaks his arm. The pair decides to shed weight, including the lifeless body of Freddy, to save fuel. Sara realizes they have several bottles of rum that they can use as extra fuel, and she attempts to manually refuel the plane by climbing out the window.

Sara manages the temporary refueling and climbs back into the plane. They try to raise Samuel, but the radio is silent. As the plane runs out of fuel, they spot a small island and attempt to glide the stricken plane to the island. The plane crashes into the sea and flips. Sara rescues Jackson, who got stuck at the wing of the submerged plane, and both barely escape and swim to the barren island.

They make it to the island only to discover that it is just a sandbar that will shortly disappear as the tide rises. As the sandbar disappears, they stay afloat, but Jackson, sensing he is sure to die, offers Sara his life vest. Sara declines, telling him they are a team. Jackson professes his love for Sara as they sense the end is near, but just then a fishing vessel that heard their radio transmission arrives to rescue them.

The novel is structured in chapters alternately focusing on a realist depiction Isaac's travels in contemporary Europe and a fantastical representation of his grandparents' lives in their rural World War II era village in Greece.

''Dead Europe'' opens with a flashback of protagonist Isaac Raftis' childhood, when his mother first told him about "the Jews" and how every year, at Christmas they "drank the blood of the sacrificed child."

The novel then transitions to an account of Isaac's grandmother Lucia's childhood, and her abuse at the hands of her father before she is given to Isaac's grandfather Michaelis as a bride. The chapter ends with Michaelis agreeing to shelter Elia, the son of a Jewish acquaintance, from the Nazis in return for a box of jewellery.

Isaac is staying in Athens, where he is holding a mostly unsuccessful and frustrating exhibition of his photographic work. While in Athens he assists a young immigrant boy who has been bashed and meets his family who live in squalor in the ghettos of the city.

In WW2 era rural Greece, Lucia is distraught at her inability to bear a child for Michaelis and has become bitter towards her family and community. She visits Elia, who is hiding in a basement under an abandoned church, to bring him food and they have sex.

Next, Isaac meets up with his cousin Giulia and her boyfriend Andreas, together they make the journey to visit his grandparents' village. There he takes photographs of the deteriorating village and eventually discovers from a local that his "mother's family is cursed."

The next chapter follows Michaelis, as he is convinced by Lucia that, due to the village's wartime famine, they can no longer look after Elia and instead must "murder that fiend we have been protecting." Michaelis complies with Lucia's wishes and stabs Elia to death in the mountains.

Issac's travels have taken him to Venice, where he develops the photos he took of his grandparents' village. To his surprise, in the background of all the photos he took there is a boy "face haggard and lean" who had not been there when the photos were taken. Later he meets a mute Jewish man who takes him on a tour through the ghettos of Venice and urges him to document the antisemitic graffiti they find there.

Back in the Greek village, Lucia and Michaelis now have two children, a son Christaki and a daughter Reveka. Since the birth of their son no other boy born in the village "had reached the age of four." Maritha, Michaelis' mother knows this is due to a demon feeding on the other children in the village and in an attempt to lift the curse, smothers Christaki before dying herself.

Next Isaac visits Prague where he reconnects with old friend Sal Mineo, who has abandoned his photographic art to become a pornographer working for Syd "the King Kike of Prague", a pimp and a pedophile. While there he meets Sal's employer Syd, visits a porn shoot and watches a depraved performance at a sex club. He begins to suffer from a strange sickness, an inability to eat and a craving for blood that he associates with the presence of the phantom child from his photographs.

Lucia, driven mad by the murder of her son by her mother in law now informs on rebel activity in the village to the local Colonel of the Greek Army. At the end of the chapter she is murdered by rebels for her betrayal.

In Paris Isaac meets with Gerry, an old friend of his father's who has become a people smuggler. He tries to convince Isaac to help him smuggle a young immigrant woman, Sula into Australia but Isaac refuses. Isaac has a tense dinner with Gerry and his wife Anika which ends with Gerry brutally attacking his wife. For a reason unbeknownst to him Isaac feels compelled to drink Anika's blood, and when he does he feels his sickness dissipate.

Following the murder of Lucia, Michaelis has relocated him and daughter Reveka to Australia. At school Reveka is brutally bullied for being a "dirty wog" but is protected by her imaginary friend Angelo. After a particularly brutal incident of bullying Reveka wishes that "they were all dead" and the bullies begin to die one by one, much like the children in the village. Following this Michaelis takes her to Dora, a local mystic, who performs an exorcism on her and reveals Angelo to be the cursed spirit of Elia.

In London Isaac reconnects with an old teacher of his, Sam and stays at his home. By this stage the curse is starting to overpower him and he feels a constant sickness that can only be allayed by drinking blood. He prowls through the streets of London searching for victims, eventually murdering and feeding on an American tourist, before being joined by the spectral boy who lays alongside him.

In the novel's final chapter, Isaac's mother Reveka and boyfriend Colin are informed that Isaac is deathly sick in a London hospital. Together they fly to England to join him and Reveka recognizes that her son's affliction is caused by the curse and feeds him her blood to sustain him before taking him home to Melbourne. Back home Reveka prays to God, promising that if her son is saved, "the Devil can take my soul." Isaac recovers from his sickness but in return the curse is passed back to Reveka who now understands that she will be haunted by the spectre "for all of time, for all of eternity."

The action of ''Possession'' begins around the year 1949, and continues through the 1950s and early 1960s. An Englishwoman, Lady Caroline Bell, discovers Valmiki, a teenage goatherd who has been painting in local caves, in a village in South India. Snatching Valmiki from the protection of an elderly local swami, she brings him back to London as an exotic pet artist. Jealously guarding Valmiki's attachment to her, Lady Bell cannot stop him eventually returning to India after the suicide of Ellie, a concentration camp survivor whom Valmiki paints and makes pregnant. She follows him back to India, to find him spiritually reattached to the swami and once again painting in the caves around his village.

The 'possession' of the book's title refers both to the woman's desire to own the man, and to his state of being 'possessed' by a foreign identity and values.

Eric Redford (Jesse Metcalfe) is a popular writer and bachelor, writing books on living single. When he is left in charge of his niece and nephew for the Christmas season, he turns to neighbour April Stewart (Fiona Gubelmann), who loves the holiday season, for help. As the result, he slowly starts to reassess his attitude to Christmas, life and love.

While on holiday in Greece, middle-aged college professor and noted translator, Leda Caruso, meets Nina, a young mother, after Nina's three-year-old daughter Elena goes momentarily missing on the beach. Leda finds Elena and returns her to Nina, who expresses her growing exhaustion and unhappiness. Elena is upset after she loses her favorite doll, which Leda has secretly taken. In flashbacks, it is revealed that young Leda also struggled with being a young mother to her two daughters, Bianca and Martha, often losing her patience and becoming withdrawn from her family.

One evening, Leda has dinner with Lyle, her holiday apartment's caretaker, who sees that she has the doll but doesn't comment on it, nor does he tell Nina. Leda later discovers Nina is having an affair with Will, who works at the beach bar, and Nina explains that her husband Toni is very controlling. The search for Elena's doll continues, with Nina even putting up flyers offering a reward for its return.

At a market, Leda buys Nina a hatpin to help hold her sunhat in place. When Nina asks Leda about her daughters, Leda becomes emotional; she reveals that she had abandoned them for three years after she became too overwhelmed, leaving them with her now ex-husband, during which time she had an affair with a fellow professor. She admits that being away from her daughters felt "amazing," and she only went back to them when she genuinely missed them. Nina learns that Leda knows about her and Will, and Will later asks Leda if they can borrow her apartment to have sex.

The next day when Nina arrives at Leda's to get the apartment keys, Leda admits to being a selfish and "unnatural" mother and warns Nina that her depression will never go. Leda also gives her Elena's doll, confessing that she took it and that she was "just playing." Nina reacts angrily and stabs Leda in the stomach with the hatpin before leaving. That night, Leda packs her bags and leaves the resort, but drives her car off the road due to the pain from her wound. She stumbles down the beach and collapses on the shoreline.

The next morning, Leda awakens on the beach and calls Bianca, who happens to be with Martha. They express their relief to hear from their mother, from whom they had not heard in several days. Leda says she is fine and then looks down to discover an orange in her hands; she peels the orange skin off "like a snake," the way she had done for her daughters when they were little.