Lena is a 30 years old obstetrician-gynecologist. Her life is good, as her colleagues admire her and grateful patients express their gratitude to her. Her personal life is also without incident. Sergei, her caring husband, works as an actor in a drama theater and does not interfere in her affairs. But Lena suddenly notices significant changes in his conduct. An important aspect of their life is that they are not sexually active. Lena now believes her husband is cheating on her after reading a text message from Katya, Sergei's co-actor. She refuses to tolerate this and, in retaliation, cheats with an unknown man. Unexpectedly, a new universe opens up for her, full of passion and amazing feelings, which she uses to express her emotional state. Constant treachery, on the other hand, is becoming an inextricable aspect of her double life. She is portrayed as a woman in an unfulfilling marriage, who begins an uncontrollable double life of adulterous affairs.

On 19 May 1822, eight poor farmers and day laborers from Kombach in the Hessian Hinterland succeed in robbing a money transport that runs from Gladenbach to Gießen every month. Their good fortune, however, does not last, as their sudden wealth is soon treated with suspicion.

Angry at her parents' decision to divorce, Mao Morishita decides to live with her grandfather in the countryside of Gunma Prefecture. Upon settling in her new school, Mao is bullied by Rena and her friends, while her aunt and uncle find her a burden. Meanwhile, Mao's classmate, Chika Nomura, finds an abandoned shiba inu puppy in the river, but because her apartment complex does not allow its tenants to keep pets, she decides to take care of him in secret and names him Dan. One day, Mao catches Chika shoplifting a carton of milk for Dan, but she offers to pay for it. While feeding Dan, Mao and Chika learn that Dan is blind and cannot survive on his own.

Yayoi, a convenience store worker, finds Chika taking care of Dan and warns her to be careful about getting caught by Tsuneo, her father and the leader of the neighborhood council. Mao and Chika leave Dan at a temple for its god to decide his owner, but Chika decides to go back for him. The girls continue to take care of Dan until he is discovered by Tsuneo. Tsuneo gives Chika one day to find a new owner, otherwise he will have Dan euthanized. With Yayoi and Ms. Nishida's help, Saki Ohkubo's uncle offers to take him in. However, Chika has grown so fond of Dan that she walks to Tochigi Prefecture by herself just to visit him, and when Mao realizes the two are inseparable, she convinces Saki's uncle to let them take him back. After apologizing to Saki, Mao vows that she will try to convince Tsuneo herself.

Mao and Yayoi persuade Tsuneo to let them keep Dan at the apartment complex, and he finally relents, adopting him. With help from their friends, Mao, Chika, and Tsuneo begin building a doghouse for Dan at a nearby park, but unfortunately, they are met with protest from the elderly tenants from the apartment complex, who object to keeping Dan. Mao stands up to the group's leader, stating that they should be able to help Dan much like how other dogs help blind humans. With support from the other neighbors, the tenants relent and help build Dan's doghouse.

Several days later, Mao is now friends with the girls at her school, including Rena. After school, Wakako comes to visit and tells Mao that the divorce has been finalized. Mao, however, tells her that she has decided to live with her father in Toyama Prefecture after reading his letter, and the two promise each other that they will always be family despite living apart. Mao pays a final visit to Chika and Dan, bidding them farewell. When she and her father leave on the bus as they move out, Mao sees all of the friends she made at Gunma Prefecture sending her off, and she says goodbye to them.

The film concerns about Angelo, who is a swindler who escapes to Los Angeles.

The play starts off with lighthearted and somewhat humorous monologues depicting everyday situations where women navigate a patriarchal world in which they are marginalized. Groping, harassment, exclusion etc. including scenes which boldly highlight ways in which women themselves contribute to their own marginalization.

This lightheartedness soon gives way to a section of vivid monologues portraying harmful ways in which women are victimized and oppressed, including molestation, child brides and gender based violence and abuse. This painful section is punctuated by a shrill call to action chant in Yoruba which ushers in an exhilarating and refreshing second half of the play with powerful portraits of resistance, triumph and celebration. The final piece re-captures the different themes in the play with a direct appeal to audiences to get engaged in becoming part of the solution.

Bill Cossett, who owns an automobile dealership, has a problem. Tighe has forbidden all advertising and all sales techniques. Cossett petitions Tighe to loosen the restrictions, but instead is conscripted into the forces besieging the automated factory, where he witnesses the scope of the problem. The factories cannot be destroyed, and the automated trucks of products that emerge from them are heavily defended and have to be destroyed with massive amounts of scarce ordinance. The factory systems can adapt to attacks and are becoming more and more difficult to overcome.

Tighe's secretary suggests getting into the factory disguised, "like Sherlock Holmes", but as raw materials. This idea seems fantastic at first, but eventually Cossett and his colleagues succeed in reaching the factory and cutting off the supply of material.

However, at a celebratory picnic near the factory exit, another truck emerges. It is destroyed, but the crates it contains start leaking shiny, floating objects. The factory has found a way to make products out of pure force fields, without materials at all. Even worse, there will be no way of getting rid of the old models.

Engaging the final battle of the Whisperer War, Beta (Ryan Hurst) has led the gigantic horde to the Tower, where the survivors inside scramble to adjust their plan for survival. Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) orders several pairs of survivors to sneak pieces of a speaker system out past the horde onto a wagon to be pulled by horses, which the survivors will use to play music and lure the horde to the ocean to destroy them. Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Jerry (Cooper Andrews), Magna (Nadia Hilker), Luke (Dan Fogler), Kelly (Angel Theory), Beatrice (Briana Venskus), and Jules (Alex Sgambati) decide to venture through the horde covered in walker guts to engineer the escape plan. Before Carol departs, Lydia (Cassady McClincy) makes amends with her, but Carol instead insists to Lydia that she needs to make her own way.

The group begin sifting through the horde, with Whisperers being picked off by archers. Most of the group manages to evade the horde and flee into the woods. Carol manages to mortally wound a Whisperer that attacks her and Beatrice, but the dying Whisperer wounds Beatrice, forcing Carol to leave her behind as she is discovered and killed by the horde. The survivors set up Luke's sound system and begin playing Talking Heads' Burning Down the House on repeat, successfully luring the horde away from the Tower, and giving the people inside an opportunity to escape. Beta and most of the Whisperers stay with the horde, and catch up to the wagon as night falls, destroying the speakers after forcing the group to retreat and abandon the wagon. Hiding in the woods, and without any other plans, Daryl orders the group to go back and hunt down the Whisperers in the horde one by one. Lydia volunteers to continue to lead the horde away, since her mother taught her how; Daryl rebuffs her, but Lydia, however, is adamant. Daryl decides they will deal with it later and tells the others to move.

Back at the Tower, most of the group has evacuated thanks to the absence of the horde, but Gabriel stays behind to hold off the remaining Whisperers. Gabriel acquits himself well, but is nearly killed; he is saved by a hooded, masked warrior in the company of Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), who has returned after reading a letter from Carol informing her about the Whisperers. The pair were also able to save Aaron (Ross Marquand) and Alden (Callan McAuliffe) from a group of Whisperers that had surrounded them earlier. Outside, Beta notices the Whisperers around him are being killed by the survivors. He then spots Lydia and prepares to attack her, but is interrupted by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Seeking revenge for Negan's assassination of Alpha, he furiously charges at Negan and tackles him to the ground, and prepares to finish him off. Suddenly, Daryl intervenes and stabs Beta in each eye, saving Negan in the process. The two then watch as Beta is consumed and devoured by the walkers; in his final moments, Beta remembers the Whisperers' creed of embracing all death and smiles happily as he imagines the horde embracing him. Once Beta's mask is ripped off, Negan recognizes him from before the apocalypse, but Daryl shrugs it off.

Come daytime, Lydia, wearing Alpha's mask, successfully leads the horde to a cliff, intending this task as a suicide mission. Before she can go over, Lydia is stopped by Carol, who volunteers to go instead of her, dubbing it her choice. Carol reaches the edge, but before she can step off, Lydia pulls her back. The pair take cover and embrace behind a rock, as the walkers around them march off the cliff into the waters below. As Carol thanks Lydia, the latter rips off her mother's mask and tosses it over the cliff. With the Whisperers no longer a threat, the survivors regroup in the woods outside the Tower. There, Maggie reunites with Judith (Cailey Fleming) while Daryl asks Carol if she got what she wanted. She replies that she didn't, but didn't really want it anyway. Daryl tells her that she still has him; they hug.

Elsewhere, Connie (Lauren Ridloff) is revealed to be alive, albeit weak and malnourished. After collapsing on the road, she is found by Virgil (Kevin Carroll), who is revealed to have returned to the mainland and traveled to Oceanside only to find it empty. Meanwhile, Eugene's (Josh McDermitt) group has finally reached the trainyard which was designated as the intended rendezvous point to meet Stephanie. After suffering a bicycle crash earlier, Eugene initially believes he has missed his meeting with Stephanie, but declares they'll continue to go looking for her after being inspired by Ezekiel (Khary Payton). The group is then suddenly accosted by a large group of heavily armed soldiers wearing white and red body armor, who order them to drop their weapons and get on their knees at gunpoint.

A (Lee Jin-seok) wakes up in a bathtub to find his kidney missing. As he struggles to understand what has happened and searches for his kidney, he finds out that he is just a character in a script and an actor (Lee Sang-hyuk) is playing his character. While the film crew is shooting and the script still unfinished, will A find a way out of his hellish predicament?

The narrative of ''Legacy'' is framed in the same way as the main game; Varric Tethras is still in the middle of an interrogation by Cassandra Pentaghast, where she tells him that he left out the details of one of Hawke's side adventures that she is aware of. Varric explained that Hawke's party, with Bethany or Carver as potential party members, traveled to a dark prison in the middle of the deserted Vimmark Mountains where they are trapped by magical barriers. Hawke’s investigation into why the Carta, a dwarven criminal syndicate, is targeting the Hawke family led the party there. They discover that the prison houses Corypheus, a powerful and ancient Darkspawn, and that thirty years before the events of ''Dragon Age II'', the prison was magically resealed by Hawke's father on the direction of the Grey Wardens. This is because Corypheus is capable of influencing his Grey Warden jailors through the Taint in their blood, even while trapped in a dormant state. As a result, Corypheus managed to influence Carta members to pursue Malcolm Hawke's descendants to obtain their blood in order to release him. Corypheus is also able to influence both Grey Wardens who are entrusted with guarding his prison, Janeka and Larius, though unlike Janeka, Larius was able to retain his mental independence and kept Corypheus from controlling him completely. After meeting Janeka and Larius, Hawke is informed that the only way out is to slay Corypheus; Hawke may side with either Janeka or Larius, which results in the other being killed. Hawke releases Corypheus, and seemingly killed him. Unbeknownst to Hawke's party, Corypheus' soul transferred to the surviving Grey Warden, who then take their leave. Corypheus would later reappear in ''Dragon Age: Inquisition'' as its main antagonist.

The narrative begins during Cassandra's ongoing interrogation of Varric, where she confronted him for not disclosing information about Hawke's involvement with Tallis and their activities at Château Haine, alleging that the Champion of Kirkwall's actions nearly started a war involving Orlais and the Free Marches. Varric reveals that Tallis interrupted an ambush meant for Hawke, and she persuaded the Champion of Kirkwall to accept an invitation from Duke Prosper de Monfort, a high-ranking Orlesian nobleman and a relative of the Orlesian Empress, to visit his estate outside Kirkwall as cover for her to steal the "Heart of the Many". Hawke and company arrive at the Château, having apparently accepted Prosper's previous invitation to the Champion of Kirkwall. After slaying a wyvern during a hunt, Prosper welcomes the Champion into his home. When Hawke and Tallis infiltrate his vault, it is then revealed that Prosper knew who the latter was all along and has the two imprisoned. Tallis reveals her allegiance to the Qunari and admits to Hawke that there never was a jewel called the "Heart of the Many"; she was in fact pursuing an individual named Salit, who defected from his people and was branded "Tal-Vashoth", as he intended to sell confidential information about the Qunari spy network in Thedas to Prosper.

After the two break out of their cell, and if Hawke and company attempt to escape right through the Château, Prosper will bar their escape as he summons a brigade of chevaliers and harlequins to fight them and seals the Château. He then leaves the Château, ordering his Chasind bodyguard, Cahir, to deal with the interlopers. Prosper then meets with Salit, expressing his regret for agreeing to spare Tallis and Hawke, and insists they conclude their exchange. Instead of the blackpowder formula, dreadnought plans, or a map of Qunanadar Prosper was expecting however, Salit gives Prosper a list of names detailing the various Qunari Ben-Hassrath agents in Thedas. Prosper fails to see the value of the information and is angered by Salit's seemingly useless offer. As he is confronted by Hawke, he unknowingly passes the list to a disguised Tallis. After all parties exchange words, Prosper fires a green substance at Salit that attracts the wyvern mount Leopold, who mauls and kills the Tal-Vashoth. In the ensuing battle, Hawke manages to trip Leopold while Prosper is riding him in mid-charge, ultimately resulting in him falling to his death. His threats of reprisal against Hawke are futile, as it would become scandalous if it became public knowledge that he was dealing with Tal-Vashoth, possibly on the Empress' orders. Tallis and Hawke part ways at the conclusion of Varric's narration.

Highly intelligent, mentally disturbed career criminal Ellis Pond escapes from prison, runs through a forest, and successfully evades his pursuers.

Ellis's older sister Lucinda, once the best homicide detective in the Portland Police Bureau, now runs a tackle shop from her houseboat. A burnt-out, depressed alcoholic, she is estranged from her husband Adam and young daughter Marcie, and tormented by nightmares of the event that got her removed from the force four years earlier: Her manhunt in Maris Creek for child molester and suspected serial killer Victor Orbin led to a SWAT team gunning down an innocent man working at the site. Orbin, who was never at the scene, is presumed still at large.

Ellis reappears in Portland, strangling and castrating Internal Affairs investigator Fred Tierney, who was responsible for Lucinda's removal. Detective Travis Adler recognizes the murder as being Orbin's modus operandi, and thinks the killer may have resurfaced. He asks Lucinda to return to the force to head the case and track down Orbin for good, but she refuses, rattled when learning of Ellis's escape.

Ellis kills an insurance salesman, puts on his clothes, drives to a house and murders the man who answers the door. Both men are also strangled and castrated to copycat Orbin. Lucinda discovers that the house was her childhood home. She and Ellis were abused by their alcoholic father, long dead of an illness, and she always tried to take the brunt of it, swearing to always look after Ellis. FBI Special Agent Arthur Fortis, Junior, brought on the case as an advisor, answers a phone call to Lucinda from Ellis, who reveals details of the murders and demands his sister be put on the case.

Lucinda finds a coded note from Ellis in the house's attic, revealing his apparent willingness to surrender to her that night. She figures out the location and stakes it out with Travis, Junior and their team. Ellis calls her, seemingly taunting her with riddles from their childhood, and his location is traced to a homeless shelter across the street. Everyone races there, but Lucinda realizes it is a setup. A booby trap in the room explodes, injuring Junior and killing several other officers.

Ellis escapes and later poses as a camper in Crater Lake National Park, where he meets a boy named Kelly. Seeing that Kelly is being abused by his father, Ellis kidnaps him after murdering his father and tying up his mother.

A clue left at the house murder leads Lucinda to her father's old office. In the basement, she finds a skeleton in a refrigerator. As the team converges on the park, they learn that the skeleton is Victor Orbin's, and he was dead before the events at Maris Creek, having in fact been previously buried there. Lucinda realizes that Ellis committed all the murders, killed Orbin and framed him, believing that Lucinda would find the body, figure out Ellis was responsible, and come after him. The innocent worker's death was an unforeseen circumstance. With Lucinda pulled from duty and unable to protect Ellis, he was imprisoned on unrelated charges, which explains why "Orbin" stopped killing. Lucinda now knows that Ellis wants her to kill him, to spare her of always having to be her brother's keeper. She is determined to bring him in alive.

As Lucinda and Junior search the forest, she is injured by one of Ellis's traps. Junior performs first aid and heads back to their SUV, where Ellis ambushes and stabs him. Lucinda hears the struggle and finds Junior wounded but alive. She presses a GPS beacon on his wrist, alerting the team to their location, then finds Ellis holding Kelly at gunpoint. Ellis begs her to kill him, but she refuses, wounding him and letting Kelly run away. A police sniper fires at Ellis; Lucinda dives in front of the bullet, but it goes through her shoulder and into his chest. As Ellis dies in her arms, he says that he has been killing "just one person" – their father – and that "he kept coming back".

Later, Travis drops Lucinda off at Adam's house, where she reconciles with him and Marcie.

A hero known as Shazam has made his debut and is attracting the attention of the media for his sudden arrival and polite mannerisms. Unbeknownst to the public, he is actually a young orphan boy named Billy Batson. Superman is ordered to do a report on the farm market of Metropolis when he encounters the Monster Society of Evil when they attempt to steal food for their master Mister Mind, though he eventually calls upon Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Green Lantern for help. Witnessing this, Shazam decides to aid the Justice League, demonstrating his powers to them in the process and forcing the Monster Society to retreat. Impressed by Shazam's capabilities, the League invite him to the Hall of Justice where they offer Shazam membership. Shazam dismisses their offer, believing that they will reject him if they discover his true age.

Consulting The Wizard who gave him his powers for advice, Shazam is told that relationships are built on trust and that he should be more open to the Justice League. Sensing a disturbance, the Wizard then tells Shazam to go help the Justice League when they follow the Monster Society to their warehouse hideout, which Shazam agrees to do.

Unfortunately, Mister Mind manages to capture the Justice League and, using a chemical concocted by Doctor Sivana, transforms them into children, making them more susceptible to his mind control. Although de-aged, Batman manages to avoid being mind-controlled and escapes to the Batcave with Shazam's help. Learning that Batman is reluctant to trust him, Shazam reveals his secret identity to Batman while also recounting his origin story to him: After aiding Batman in a duel with Two-Face, Billy Batson continued to go about his daily routine, while also generously helping out others in need (whom, unbeknownst to him, are the Wizard in disguise). Billy is eventually led into a subway station, where he boards a bizarre-looking train that takes him to the Rock of Eternity, where he meets the wizard in person. The wizard explains that he disguised himself as ordinary citizens to test Billy's purity of heart and see if he was worthy of becoming his new champion after the previous champion, Black Adam, became corrupted by his power and was sealed away. Accepting the Wizard's offer, Billy is gifted his new powers and proceeds to spend his days as Shazam, while also enjoying the perks of being an adult. Billy then explains that despite everything, he still longs for a family of his own. Relating to Billy's status as an orphan, Batman reveals his secret identity to Billy and explains that he too is an orphan and becomes more trusting of Billy.

Across the world, the mind-controlled Justice Leaguers proceed to steal large quantities of food for Mister Mind, but one by one they are located by Batman and Shazam and freed from Mister Mind's control. Reunited, the Justice League devise a plan to infiltrate the Monster Society's lair by pretending to capture Batman and Shazam and bring them to Mister Mind. Unfortunately, they are swiftly exposed and forced to fight their way to Mister Mind, ultimately defeating the Monster Society. When Shazam and the Justice League encounter Mister Mind, they discover that he has undergone metamorphosis and grown into a giant moth.

The group attempt to escape to the Rock of Eternity to gain help from the Wizard, but Mister Mind follows them and proceeds to devour the Rock, resulting in him increasing in size and freeing Black Adam from his imprisonment. Black Adam betrays Mister Mind by using his powers to reduce Mister Mind to his caterpillar form and send him hurtling through space.

Seeking vengeance against the Wizard, Black Adam attacks the Rock and the Justice League is overwhelmed by him. The Wizard attempts to hold Black Adam back long enough for Shazam and the Justice League to escape back to Earth, while reminding Shazam about the power of Zeus. Returning to Earth, knowing Black Adam will be coming for them, the Justice League make preparations and rebuild their vehicles to account for their reduced stature.

Arriving on Earth, Black Adam announces his intentions to rule over it with an iron fist. The Justice League and Shazam arrive and face him, but he still proves to be too much for them to handle and destroys their vehicles. Remembering the Wizard's advice and how Black Adam was able to depower Mr Mind, Shazam shares his power among the Justice League, enhancing their abilities and returning them to their normal age, while revealing his secret identity to them in the process. The Justice Leaguers are not upset by Billy's true age and tell him that the age of a hero doesn't matter as long as they do the right thing. Using their enhanced abilities, the Justice League is able to defeat Black Adam. Billy then reabsorbs his powers from the League and Black Adam, restoring his Shazam powers, while Black Adam's powers are taken in the process, reducing him to a mortal man.

With Black Adam arrested and their adulthood restored, the Justice League show their gratitude by reuniting Billy with his sister Mary and their Uncle Dudley.

In a mid-credit scene, Lobo manages to apprehend Mister Mind and plans to collect a $1,000,000,000,000 bounty placed on his head, much to Mister Mind's dismay.

''Octagon'' is a novel in which Alex Barrow discovers that someone is killing his opponents in the science fiction play-by-mail game ''Starweb''.

The members of the SWORD gangs (Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad), White Rascals, Oya Koukou (Oya High School), Rude Boys, and Daruma Ikka) joined forces to win the "Battle of Kokuhakudō Station" against the infamous Doubt and Prison Gang. However, just as it looks like the winner has been decided, Yoshitatsu Zenshin, who leads the Zenshinkai of Kuryu Group, barges into the scene.

The "power of adults" wielded by Kuryu Group] was far more powerful than the SWORD gangs could have imagined. After being arrested once because of the confidential information in a USB device disclosed by Kohaku, Tsukumo, and the Amamiya brothers, who had risked their lives to do so, Ryushin Kuze, the president of Kuryu Group, is immediately released due to insufficient evidence. In order to devastate those rebellious youths, the entire Kuryu Group unites to carry out the "SWORD Destruction Action"...

Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad)'s precious companions are hunted down and hung in their beloved local town. White Rascals are driven out of their precious castle club, HEAVEN, by the power of money, and both Oya Koukou (Oya High School) and the home of the Daruma Ikka are destroyed. To protect his companions, Cobra goes to challenge Kuryu Group to a fight on his own, but he is abducted and tortured. What's more, as instructed by Kuryu Group, heavy machinery enters the Nameless Street, aiming to destroy the town thoroughly. Smoky senses that his family is in danger, and tells everyone to run away, but he stays there alone to face the enemy.

Kuryu Group, colluding with the government, is planning to blow up the Nameless Street in the SWORD district and build a casino on the site to cover up misconduct of the government. Upon learning this fact, Kohaku sets out to rescue Cobra. Kohaku, Tsukumo, the SWORD gangs' members, and the Amamiya brothers, meet together to find the "three proofs" to expose the cover-up. They decide to crush Kuryu Group's ambitions forever.

"This is the last time we're going to fight!"

As the government's bombing ceremony in the SWORD area is about to begin, the youth of the SWORD gangs rush to carry out their "final mission" to beat the overwhelming strength of Kuryu Group.

The final battle of SWORD, which will be passed down as a legend, begins.

''The House Between the Worlds'' is a novel in which graduate student Fenton experiments with drugs to trigger paranormal events.

''Their Majesties' Bucketeers'' is a novel in which Offe Woom investigates the death of a professor on a world inhabited by trisexual tripedal aliens.

As described in a film magazine review, believing his wife is unfaithful, Martin Craig sends his with Pauline and their child away. The mother looses the child while on a boat, after which the father locates it and rears it as a stranger without a last name, to be called Bill Smith. The mother, believing the child has drowned, goes to a home for friendless pregnant young women and becomes its matron. Later, she returns to the home of her son only to find that he has been taught to promise vengeance upon her for bringing him into the world nameless. A mob forms intending to chase her from the town. However, she meets Martin and forces him to publicly admit the truth that she is innocent, whereupon she and the son are admitted to respectability. A reunion between the three follows.

In the near future, mysterious monsters known as the "Enemies of Humanity" begin to appear, and with it so do children with supernatural powers called the "Talented". To prepare them for the upcoming battle against these Enemies, all the Talented are sent to a school located on a deserted island, where they have all their daily needs provided for until they graduate and communication with the outside world is forbidden. One day, a new student named Nana Hiiragi arrives at the school. Her friendly and cheerful personality lets her quickly make friends with the class. In reality, however, Nana is a Talentless government assassin who has been dispatched to kill the Talented, whom the government deems to be the true Enemies of Humanity.

The story starts with Pervin, a young Muslim woman from Sweden who lives under ISIS rule in Raqqa, Syria, with her Islamic State member husband Husam and their newborn daughter Latifa. Disillusioned with life in ISIS-controlled Raqqa, Pervin is looking to return to Sweden. After acquiring a cell phone from her neighbor and friend Tine (who is dragged away from Pervin's home, where she was hiding trying to escape being forced to remarry after her husband's death), she contacts Dolores, an anti-radicalization advocate in Sweden. Dolores puts Pervin in touch with Fatima, who is an agent of the Swedish Security Service. Fatima is at odds with the leadership due to some previous incident with "Lorentz". Fatima starts talking with Pervin over the phone, and tries to work her for intelligence related to a terror attack being planned in Sweden, in exchange for a safe return to Sweden for Pervin and her daughter.

Pervin tells Fatima about "Al Musafir" or the Traveler, who is in Sweden and is planning the attack. Al Musafir is Ibrahim "Ibbe" Haddad, who is working as a teacher's assistant in a high school, while recruiting others into the terror attack. He has already successfully recruited two brothers – Jacob, a former prisoner and alcoholic, and Emil, the younger, sensitive, and mentally disabled sibling. The two have a tense relationship with their mother, who clearly favors Emil and looks down on Jacob not only for his past but for his conversion to Islam. Under a different identity, Ibbe also recruits Miryam, who was raised in Baghdad, and promises her marriage in exchange for her work in his plans.

Ibbe simultaneously tries to radicalize young girls at the high school by sharing ISIS recruitment videos and propaganda. He successfully recruits Sulle, a Palestine activist, and her friend Kerima, both 15-year-old girls who start wearing the ''hijab'' and taking lessons in following Sharia law. The girls are shown pictures of palaces and told that if they moved to the Islamic Caliphate, they could live in luxury and be part of something special by marrying jihadist fighters. Sulle's parents wise up to their daughter's radicalization, and try to stop her by threatening to marry her off to a relative in Jordan. Sulle inadvertently pulls her 13-year-old sister Lisha into the Islamic extremist ideology, the implications of which are not fully realized until later in the show. At home, Kerima is physically abused by her alcoholic father, who has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after having fought in the Second Chechen War; stalking her, Ibbe takes Kerima into his home to indoctrinate her further.

Fatima does not reveal her source (Pervin) to her superiors, but does reveal vague details about a terror plot. Her superiors tell her to drop the investigation, and have her suspended for consuming cannabis. She remains in touch with her boyfriend, Calle, who's also in the Security Service, and continues to share information with him. She continues extracting information from Pervin and tries to piece together details of the plot. She gets on Jacob and Emil's trail when she investigates intel from Pervin about an abandoned shooting range. Jacob gets her license plate, and tracks it down.

Dolores and Ibbe are at an anti-radicalization meeting when Ibbe steps out to talk with Jacob. The host shows an ISIS video and points to a tattoo on the forearm of one of the terrorists. Later while at a cafe, Dolores sees the tattoo on Ibbe's arm. After Ibbe drops her off, she calls Fatima to tell her she has important information, who asks her to meet her at Fatima's apartment. When Dolores goes there, she is stabbed by an assailant and dies. When Fatima arrives, an alert has been issued to bring her in, and she plans to escape. She goes to Dolores's house to get some cash and supplies, but two cops also enter. She locks them in a bedroom at gun point, before escaping, and becomes the subject of a manhunt. She finds shelter at the home of her father's colleague.

Pervin becomes the focus of attention of Ahmed, one of Husam's colleagues. He arrives one night at her house and catches her talking to Fatima. He rapes her, and is about to kill her when she stabs him to death. She dumps his body in her neighbors' well. Husam is under the influence of sleeping medicines and happens to walk into the kitchen and see the blood on the floor, but Pervin convinces him that he is dreaming. He never quite forgets this and becomes convinced that he killed Ahmed, until Pervin finally tells him the truth.

Fatima seeks helps to extricate Pervin, and a plan is set to remove her from Raqqa. Meanwhile, Sulle and Kerima have plane tickets to travel to Turkey, and are picked up by Ibbe and the woman who has been teaching them about Islam. At the last minute, Sulle's younger sister Lisha joins them in the car and they set off for the airport. Sulle lied to her parents about going to a basketball game. Her father Suleiman, who voices his disdain of religion, finishes work early and decides to go and watch her game, but sees that the stadium is empty. He calls Calle, who sets off an alert with authorities in Germany and Turkey. They believe they have tracked the girls on their way to Istanbul, only to realize that their passports were switched, and that the girls were in fact in Ankara. They decide to intercept the transport vehicle at the border between Turkey and Syria. They manage to rescue everyone except for Lisha, who is en route to Syria.

Calle convinces Fatima to seek help from Pervin to save Lisha. Pervin and her daughter have reached their transport vehicle when Fatima convinces her to return home and save Lisha. In return, Fatima would personally come to Syria to rescue them all. Pervin convinces Husam to take Lisha on as his second wife.

Before leaving to carry out the attack, Jacob stabs his mother to death in their kitchen. Fatima is trailing Jacob and Emil, but loses their trail after they switch cars at their mother's house. Fatima learns of the three terror targets minutes before the police close in on her location, and she is taken into custody before she can share any information. In return for the information, she promises to extricate Husam along with Pervin and Lisha. All three terror attacks are stopped anyway by the Security Service, who, it turns out, knew about them all along. They kept Fatima in the dark because they did not trust her. In exchange for her silence, she is released from jail. Ibbe sets a bomb off within a garage, and escapes narrowly by disguising himself as a woman.

Fatima travels to Syria to rescue Pervin, Lisha, and Husam. Minutes before she arrives, Husam's colleague Omar arrives to take Husam to perform a suicide bombing. Husam tries to buy time, but Lisha who is completely radicalized (even moreso than her sister was) and unwilling to return to Sweden, reveals their escape plan to Omar. Omar shoots Pervin in the back and is about to shoot Husam, when Fatima arrives and shoots him dead. They quickly move to the car, while an insane Lisha refuses to join them so they leave her behind. They make it outside Raqqa, but Pervin dies just after the border post. A devastated Fatima helps the equally distraught Husam carries his daughter, and they make it back to Sweden.

Sulle and Kerima are interrogated by the Security Service. A regretful Sulle gives up Ibbe's identity in an effort to save her sister Lisha. Kerima tries to commit suicide, and is taken to a mental health facility where she gets her hands on a cell phone and warns Ibbe that his cover may be blown. Calle goes to the school to bring Ibbe into custody, but Ibbe escapes. Kerima meets up with Ibbe and decides to participate in a new attack on a girls' concert. Kerima is to wear a suicide vest that is locked so that she cannot remove it once she puts it on. Ibbe convinces Kerima that he and Sulle are also part of the attack, and will be wearing similar suicide vests. Once at the concert, after putting on the suicide vest, Kerima texts Sulle; only to learn that Ibbe had lied, and Sulle is not involved at all in the plan. In the concert facility toilets, Kerima briefly attempts to remove the vest, but fails; so instead warns some of the attendees in there, who flee, and waits for the bomb to explode while having a final exchange with a tearful Sulle over the phone. Ibbe triggers the bomb.

It features the lives of several people during the lockdown, in a total of 10 different houses showing how they cope with this situation the best they can.

In June 2019, Julia Sowinski, a struggling investigative journalist, is informed that her investigation into Double Spiral will be buried. She is subsequently fired from her job. On her way home, she is Embraced and turned into a vampire by a member of Clan Lasombra, who is revealed to have orchestrated Julia's personal and professional downfall as a test.

By March 2020, Julia has been made the Lasombra representative in New York City, a position with little actual power or privilege, under the supervision of Sheriff Qadir al-Asmai. She has also moved in with her human best friend and lover, Dakota. When the Anarch Baron Douglas Callihan is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Julia is tapped as the investigator of the case by the Camarilla Primogen Council as a gesture of good faith. Arriving at Callihan's office, she finds a card inside his pocket with four names on it: Agathon, Hope, D'Angelo and Tamika.

Julia is unable to locate Agathon, but a secret diary he left behind suggests that he had become aware of a secret scheme involving High Regent Aisling Sturbridge, his mentor; Thomas Arturo, a prominent member of the Camarilla; and Callihan. Julia proceeds to question Hope, who has since taken over and reformed Double Spiral. Hope claims that the list of names came from her sire, information broker Carter Vanderweyden. Vanderweyden categorically denies his involvement. Julia then stumbles into Tamika, who has been in hiding and exacting revenge on government agents targeting vampires. Tamika reveals that Torque, her ex-lover and the presumptive new leader of the Anarchs, has betrayed his revolutionary roots and was working with the opportunistic Callihan. In return, Julia uses her connections to smuggle Tamika out of the city.

Qadir and Julia discover D'Angelo, now a broken man and a drunkard, hiding inside his own detective agency. D'Angelo reveals that the four people on the list, through their frequent employment, became aware of a conspiracy involving multiple sects in the city, after which they either disappeared or were forced into hiding or seeking protection. Back at Callihan's office, D'Angelo assists Julia with her investigation and discovers that the office has been wired by the powerful and elusive information broker Kaiser. Julia manages to reach Kaiser, who berates her for her relentless drive despite no one actually wanting the mystery solved. Sensing a setup, Julia wrestles Kaiser out of the moving limo and subdues him. She then has the option to either walk away or torture him for information. If she does the latter, Kaiser reveals that all parties—the Camarilla, Torque and Callihan—were working together, and that the Council and Torque collectively took part in Callihan's murder after he outlived his usefulness.

Julia is shocked to discover that Dakota has been dressing up as her and trying to live through her. She lashes out at Dakota over the state of their relationship, and the argument ends with Dakota storming out of the apartment. Qadir presents the results of the investigation to the Council in Julia's stead, offering a narrative in which Callihan, with his empire crumbling and him fading into irrelevance, chose to take his own life by exposing himself to sunlight. Everyone present is satisfied with the explanation. Julia's response and the game ending vary, depending on the previous choices she makes.

If Julia has taken a more aggressive, cynical and deceptive approach during the course of the game, she chooses to weave together a narrative that implicates everyone present. She then threatens to go public with it and blackmails the Council into offering her the Primogen title and associated privileges, and setting Carter Vanderweyden up as a scapegoat. A condition of her advancement is Dakota's death, which does not bother her. If Julia has taken a more peaceful, optimistic and honest approach, she chooses to accept the cover-up. Returning to her apartment, she makes up with Dakota, and they decide to head for the West Coast as the city is no longer safe for Julia to stay. Julia is uncertain of what the future holds for them, but remains somewhat hopeful.

During an investigation of a serial killer in Tokyo, police are led to a hotel that may be where the next murder will take place. Detective Nitta Kosuke goes undercover and begins working at the front desk of the hotel. Yamagishi Naomi works at the front desk of the hotel. She is selected to train Kosuke for his front desk job. Kosuke is focused on catching the killer, but Naomi prioritizes the safety of the guests.

''Starship & Haiku'' is a novel in which the people of Japan seek to die honorably after the world is ravaged by biological and nuclear war.

''Spacetime Donuts'' is a novel in which the universe is a single particle which is folded to create everything we see.

''Long Shot for Rosinante'' is a novel in which Rosinante declares independence from the state of Texas.

A lethal biological weapon has leaked from a crashed tanker truck in Yellowstone National Park. PetroDyne Chemical, the company manufacturing the substance banned by international treaty, sends the tanker from its headquarters in Denver to a storage facility in Idaho. The genetically engineered form of hemorrhagic fever has spilled into a waterway and has infected wildlife and humans in a popular camping area in the small town of West Yellowstone, Montana. The driver responsible for the spill has been paid by a rogue employee of the company to divert the shipment to the hills of Yellowstone.

Agents for PetroDyne work with local government officials who are aware of the transport of hazardous chemicals by the company to cover up the incident. The coverup involves finding any survivors of the spill, quarantining them, observing them, and even worse, allowing them to die and incinerating the bodies. The head of PetroDyne Corporation, a man named Schreiber who works at the company headquarters in Denver, directs a loyal employee named Alec Reisman and a half-mad hitman named Skanz to clean up the mess that was created.

Jack Fairchild is the Park Ranger who finds the truck driver who caused the spill, and other survivors, and must overcome all obstacles to free them from the grasp of PetroDyne’s security team.

''Last Communion'' is a novel in which an alien invades a human mind.

''The Janus Syndrome'' is a novel in which fast action occurs.

''Tomorrow's Heritage'' is a novel in which the members of a family each pursue different goals as an alien probe enters the system.

''Reefs'' is a novel in which McGill investigates his unusual heritage.

''The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle'' is a novel in which Jerry Cornelius and the Sex Pistols bring anarchy to the UK.

The game is a tribute to the films made in the 1970s and 1980s with the duo of actors, in which Bud Spencer and Terence Hill must thwart the diabolical plans of a group led by the evil "Capo". The settings of the game are taken by the filmography of the duo and range from the Wild West, to Miami, to the tropical island in which is set the movie ''Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure''.

''The Seven Altars of Dûsarra'' is a novel in which Garth searches for the seven altars of the city of Dusarra to destroy them.

''The Elves and the Otterskin'' is a novel in which an apprentice must fulfill the quest of his master after the master is killed.

''The Ring of Allaire'' is a novel in which an apprentice must fulfill the quest of his master after the master is killed.

Hidden Valley Road is a true story about an American family with twelve children, 6 of whom are diagnosed with schizophrenia. The oldest child, Don Galvin, was born in 1945, and the youngest, Mary (who later changed her name to Lindsay) was born in 1965. By the mid 1970s, six of the ten boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health, with their DNA samples and experiences forming the cornerstone of research for the disease in the mid-1900s.

Jakob Kanon, a New York detective, investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon; he recruits the help of an American journalist working in Sweden, Dessie Lombard, when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.

The movie opens with someone killing a young couple. It turns out to be Jacob Kanon's daughter and her husband who are in London on their honeymoon. He goes to London to identify the bodies of his daughter and her new husband at the morgue.

After that Kanon starts investigating on who's the killer and moves to other European cities as the killer doesn't stop. With the help of Lombard and a German policeman he exposes the truth and understands what's going on.

Donal is a middle-aged man living with his mother on a farm. One night, he wakes up from a dream to find his mother has been killed, and he witnesses the killer drive away. A few days later, he is set upon by two men who attempt to kill him, but he kills one of them instead. He discovers that the second man, Bartosz, was participating under duress, as his sister Kaja was being forced into prostitution and he had been caught trying to find her, and the two of them decide to team up to rescue Kaja and exact revenge on the persons responsible.

Bartosz goes to see Gavigan and Jerome, the two men who sent him to kill Donal, and witnesses Gavigan kill a prostitute. Donal manages to lock Jerome into a closet as he moves the corpse, and they kidnap Gavigan. Driving out to a forest in his recreational vehicle (RV), Donal tortures Gavigan and learns of his bosses, Frankie and Trevor. Gavigan is able to escape the RV, free himself of his bonds, and report to Frankie that Donal is still alive before Donal and Bartosz find him. During a struggle, Bartosz kills Gavigan. Donal wants to go after Frankie, but Bartosz convinces him to get Kaja first because she knows where Frankie lives.

Posing as a customer, Donal arranges to meet with Kaja in an apartment. He persuades her to trust him and knocks out her guard, but when it turns out that Kaja knows nothing about Frankie, Donal returns to torture the guard to get the information he needs. As they are about to leave, they run into Jerome, who has come to collect Kaja. Jerome overpowers Donal but drops his gun during the fight which Kaja then uses to kill Jerome.

Donal, Bartosz, and Kaja go to the address they were given, whereupon they find and follow Trevor to Frankie's house. Donal sees that Frankie has a young daughter and the trio decide to come back at night, when the child will be asleep. However, seeing the girl causes Bartosz and Kaja to have a change of heart, so Donal sends them off with their passports and travel money, and continues on by himself. Meeting with his uncle Eamon, he discovers not only that Frankie's father Joe was a gangster, but also that his mother had had an affair with Joe many years ago, and had been with Joe when he was killed by a rival. While Donal is away, Frankie and a henchman kill Eamon and wait for Donal to come back, but Donal is able to capture Frankie instead.

He takes her to the beach where Joe had been killed. As he forces her to kneel in front of a grave he has dug for her, Frankie admits that she was the one who killed his mother, but she also reveals that his mother had killed her father because he was planning on leaving her. In addition, Frankie tells him that if he kills her, he would be orphaning a young girl just as she herself had been orphaned when her father died. Hearing this, Donal decides he wants to end the cycle of violence and spares her life. However as he walks away, she attacks him with a shovel and races back to the RV to grab her gun, but Donal shoots her before she can use it on him. Meanwhile, Bartosz has gone back to try and help but is caught by Trevor, and is shot to death while Donal listens on the phone.

Saint Petersburg police major Igor Grom is chasing three bank robbers dressed in red sports suits and disguised as villainous hockey players from the popular Soviet cartoon ''Puck! Puck!'' He catches them, while causing significant property damage, and gets reprimanded by his superior, colonel General Fedor Prokopenko.

Soon after, the trial of "rich boy" Kirill Grechkin begins; he is accused of fatally hitting a girl with his car. Despite the evidence against him, Grechkin is acquitted and the brother of the deceased, Lyosha Makarov, suspects the court of corruption. IT millionaire Sergei Razumovsky, founder of the social network Vmeste, and his friend Oleg Volkov, who grew up in the same orphanage as the deceased girl, are also outraged by the court's decision. At the same time, videos of the Plague Doctor appear on the internet—an avenger in a mask and a combat suit, armed with bombs and flamethrowers, who promises to "cleanse" the city of scoundrels. The Doctor burns Kirill Grechkin to death in his car. After the murder, Oleg comes to Razumovsky and confesses that he was the Doctor. Razumovsky is upset by this, but hesitates to turn his friend in to the authorities.

Grom, who witnessed the murder, is trying to investigate it and find the Doctor, who is now considered by many to be a hero. FSB officer Evgeny Strelkov, who arrives from Moscow to capture the Doctor, removes the major from the case. Instead, Grom and his new trainee, Dima Dubin, are sent to deal with the theft of twelve refrigerators. However, contrary to their official assignment, the two continue to investigate the Doctor's case, having received a tip from Grom's informant and unsuccessfully trying to knock information out of people associated with the criminal underworld. In the meantime, Grom saves a young woman from thugs, but she turns out to be journalist and blogger Yulia Pchyolkina, who staged the attack in order to get close to Grom and obtain information about the Plague Doctor case for her blog.

Meanwhile, the Doctor accumulates new victims: the head of a bank that defrauded depositors and the owner of a polluting landfill, along with the latter's entire family. Dubin puts forward the theory that the next appearance of the Doctor should be expected at the opening of a casino, where all of St. Petersburg "cream of society" will gather. Grom infiltrates the opening party, where he meets Pchyolkina and Razumovsky. Instead of the real Doctor, however, only his followers appear, wanting to rob the rich. Sergei Razumovsky tries to prevent the violence and dissuade them with money, but a fight ensues, in which Grom and a number of FSB officers capture the bandits. Grom is subsequently forced to resign from the police by Strelkov.

Despite his dismissal, he continues his investigation and learns about Razumovsky's childhood in the orphanage, and that he used to draw birds that looked like the Doctor's mask. Back at the casino, Pchyolkina had told Grom about Razumovsky's contract with Holt International, a company engaged in high-tech weapons development. It was Holt International that created the Plague Doctor's costume and equipment. Grom directly accuses Razumovsky of being the Plague Doctor. By this point, Sergei has realized that the accusation is true: "Oleg" was his secondary personality (Grom points out that according to official documents, the real Oleg Volkov died in the war in Syria a year before). His dark side takes over; he knocks Grom out with a blow to the head, puts the Doctor's suit on him, and tosses him near the site of his next murder. The police grab Grom, and Strelkov now believes that Igor is the Doctor.

Dubin and Pchyolkina help Grom escape from custody and he goes on the hunt for the Doctor. Meanwhile, the vigilante publishes a new video: he calls on all his followers to fill the streets and lynch anyone they consider to be a villain. Spontaneous pogroms begin in the city. Razumovsky confesses to Igor that in this way, he wants to get rid of not only corrupt officials and rich people, but also his followers, whom he considers to be immoral imitators and misfits; in his opinion, the state will be forced to send troops and kill them, and Razumovsky will subsequently be able to create a "new Petersburg". A fight breaks out between Grom and Razumovsky, in which the Doctor almost wins, but Dubin and Pchyolkina come to Grom's rescue. Razumovsky is neutralized, and Pchyolkina reveals that she recorded his boasting speech, including his nefarious plans. Grom declares to the Doctor that he also sees problems in the country, but considers it unacceptable to solve them by means of murder.

Meanwhile, the pogroms quickly subside when a gang led by one of Grom's informants acts against the rioters. Lyosha Makarov, who participated in them, is planning to kill the corrupt judge who released Grechkin. When his grandchildren visit him, however, Lyosha realizes that he is incapable of committing the murder, and spares him. FSB officer Strelkov claims all credit for the apprehension of the Plague Doctor, while Grom is content to spend time with his new friends, Dubin and Pchyolkina.

In a mid-credits scene, Razumovsky is shown in a mental institution. His "dark side" speaks to him, telling him that "they" will soon be free. In a post-credits scene, Oleg Volkov is shown in a militant camp in Syria: it turns out that he is still alive, and he watches his friend Razumovsky's capture on television.

Billy appears on a constructed reality series titled ''Love or Lust''. When he impresses the producers of the series, he believes his life is set to change forever. A year after the show has been broadcast, many of Billy's co-stars are doing well in their career, but Billy struggles to balance the fame, social media and the assumptions people have made about him, which result in him having self-confidence issues.

Struggling comedian Samir Wassan meets legendary comic J.C. Wheeler, who advises him to include personal material in his routines. After doing a successful routine centered around his dog, Samir returns home and discovers that not only did his dog vanish, but no one seems to remember that he ever existed.

He then learns that jokes about the people in his life get laughs, but cause them to disappear from existence. After accidentally erasing his nephew, Devin, Samir starts erasing people he thinks the world would be better off without. His girlfriend Rena leaves him after the erasing of her teacher David Kendall causes her to go from a successful lawyer to a struggling waitress. After another encounter with Wheeler, Samir continues abusing his power, going so far as erasing rival comic Didi Scott.

After Samir has another encounter with Wheeler, Rena confronts him during a set with a journal containing names of those he's erased. Realizing what he has done, Samir erases himself from existence.

Everyone previously erased exists again. Didi, now a rising star, meets Wheeler following a set and asks for his advice. The final shot shows Samir on the club's audience member mural.

Tanjiro Kamado, his sister Nezuko, and his friends Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira board the Mugen TrainAs depicted in the final episode of the first season of the anime series. to assist the Flame Hashira Kyōjurō Rengoku in his mission to hunt for a demon that has caused forty people to go missing. Soon after boarding, all of them are enchanted and fall into a deep sleep. Enmu, Lower One of the Twelve Kizuki, instructs four passengers, all suffering from severe insomnia, to enter the Demon Slayers' dreams and destroy their spiritual cores so that they can't wake up again. In exchange, Enmu will grant them a peaceful sleep.

During their sleep, Tanjiro and his companions have happy dreams; Tanjiro reunites with his deceased family, Kyōjurō reminisces on his past with his younger brother and disapproving father, Zenitsu envisions a quiet life with Nezuko, and Inosuke imagines himself as an adventuring leader. The girl who invades Kyōjurō's dream locates his core, but his immensely strong spirit manages to halt her even while still unconscious.

Tanjiro realizes that he is dreaming, tearfully abandoning his family and tries to wake up, succeeding after a vision of his father instructs him to kill himself in the dream. At the same time, Nezuko uses her Blood Demon Art to sever the intruders' connection to the slayers, and awaken the passengers. In fear of Enmu, they attack Tanjiro, who knocks them all out, except for his intruder, who had grown incredibly guilty after uncovering his subconscious and discovering he possesses a pure heart.

While Nezuko awakens the others, Tanjiro confronts Enmu on top of the train, who becomes overjoyed to discover he is the "man with the Hanafuda earrings" that his master, Muzan Kibutsuji, desires killed. In the ensuing battle, Tanjiro beheads him, however, Enmu reveals that he fused himself with the train, preparing to devour all the attendants within. An awakened Kyōjurō instructs Inosuke and Tanjiro to look for Enmu's neck while he, Nezuko, and Zenitsu stay behind to protect the other passengers. Tanjiro and Inosuke find Enmu's neckbone in the engine room, but are caught off guard by its defenses, including its Blood Demon Art that constantly puts him to sleep. The conductor ends up stabbing Tanjiro in the chaos, but together with Inosuke, they are able to expose and destroy Enmu's neckbone, killing him and derailing the train. In the aftermath, Enmu laments his failure over being defeated by the Demon Slayers, disintegrating away.

As Tanjiro attempts to recover from his wounds, Kyōjurō arrives to help teach him how to stabilize it with his breathing techniques. However, they are suddenly attacked by Upper Three of the Twelve Kizuki, Akaza, who tries to persuade Kyōjurō to turn into a demon to become immortal, after sensing his already immense power. Kyōjurō easily refuses, thinking about how his mother taught him to always use his strength and gifts to protect others.

Kyōjurō orders Tanjiro and Inosuke to stand back, while he and Akaza commence in a fight to the death which the others can barely keep up with. Despite his perseverance, Kyōjurō is unable to match Akaza's regeneration skills, as the demon manages to fatally injure him by piercing his solar plexus. Kyōjurō attempts to keep him at bay for long enough for the sun to kill him, but Akaza manages to break free and escape into the adjacent forest. In a last ditch effort to stop him, an enraged Tanjiro throws his sword at Akaza, which impales the demon's chest, but he still manages to get away, as Tanjiro breaks down calling him a coward.

Kyōjurō succumbs to his injuries and encourages Tanjiro and his friends to continue on his path, before dying. The three are devastated over the death, with Tanjiro especially drawn into despair due to the nearly impossible power gap between humans and Demons which Akaza has revealed that Demon are capable of, but Inosuke reminds him to heed Kyōjurō's last words and keep fighting to get stronger. The remaining Hashiras receive the news of Kyōjurō’s death, while the head of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kagaya Ubuyashiki, appreciates him for not letting a single passenger or comrade die in his presence, stating that he will be glad to reunite with him when he finally passes.

Cynthia (Ladd), a shallow journalist, is sent to a small town to investigate its reportedly magic wishing well. She makes a wish and enters a parallel universe in which she is working for the town's local newspaper run by local, Mark (London).

Setting

Each class at school is involved in a game that determines each individual's position in the caste system through picking up trump cards scattered throughout the campus. The King and Queen cards select the King and Queen of each class respectively, the top of the caste. The high tier consists of the Jack (Jack), Yes-Man (10), and Wannabes (9), who serve the King. The middle tier consists of the Preppies (8), Gofers (7), and Slackers (6). The low tier consists of the Geeks (5), the Goths (4), and the Brainiacs (3). The outside tier consists of the Freaks (2) and Delinquents (Ace). Students who draw the Joker, refuse to participate in the game, or inform the teachers are immediately turned into Targets and bullied.

Synopsis

Azusa is the King of his class, but during the caste reassignment, Karino betrays him, taking the King card for himself while assigning him the role of the Target. Azusa is forced to submit to Karino to avoid being assaulted by the class, but despite facing constant harassment and bullying, he is undeterred and fights back to regain his position. As Azusa learns more about Karino's background, other students, overcome with envy from their social statuses, form relationships ranging from love to hate with each other throughout the caste game.

The Polish ornithologist Anna Keller (Jowita Budnik) conducts research on vultures in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the conflict between the two population groups living in this country - Tutsi and Hutu, turns into the Tutsi genocide. Keller saves a young Rwandan (Eliane Umuhire) and takes her with him to Poland. It is a film about the power of nature, friendship and forgiveness.

It has been several months since Steven's (Zach Callison) meltdown, wherein he became a monster as a result of repressed trauma. Now back to normal, Steven and his best friend Connie (Grace Rolek) discuss his plans to leave Beach City and travel the country; he has told everyone about his decision except the Gems. He worries about their reactions and hopes he can let them down easy.

Steven shares homemade Cookie Cat ice cream sandwiches with Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall). The Gems sing the Cookie Cat advertising jingle, according to which the Cookie Cat mascot "left his family behind", allowing Steven to segue into his announcement that he's decided to move out the next day. He urges the Gems not to talk him out of his decision, but they seem to take his decision very lightly and are proud of him showing a desire to be independent.

Bismuth (Miriam Hyman), Lapis (Jennifer Paz), and Peridot (Shelby Rabara) are distraught when he gives them the news. Steven gives them farewell gifts: his old pink shirt for Peridot, an art kit for Lapis, and the Crystal Gems' old battle flag for Bismuth. Later, Jasper (Kimberly Brooks) tries to insist on coming with him to protect him, but he assures her that he can protect himself.

Back at the Temple, Steven gives Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl their farewell gifts: Amethyst gets his old video games, Pearl his ukulele, and Garnet the wedding plan book he used to plan Ruby and Sapphire's wedding. All three accept the gifts nonchalantly, showing little concern about Steven's impending departure. Steven's father Greg (Tom Scharpling) tells him they are probably trying to be supportive. As his parting gift for Greg, Steven encourages his father to move into Steven's room in the beach house.

Steven says his farewells, kisses Connie goodbye, and drives off toward his next destination, but soon stops the car and returns to confront the Gems, demanding to know why they are taking the situation so lightly. The Gems burst into tears and explain they didn't want their sad thoughts to prevent Steven from leaving. They assure him that, whatever happens in his future, they will be part of it. Everyone says they love each other, they give Steven one more goodbye, and he drives away to find his own future. The citizens of Beach City wave goodbye as Steven begins his road trip.

On the eve of closing down for the last time, a local cinema is hosting an all-night movie marathon, showing classic Japanese war films. Three men, Mario Baba (a film buff), Shigeru (a Buddhist monk turned Yakuza street-thug) and Hosuke (an intellectual film historian) have all come to the cinema, albeit for different reasons, to watch the film. A fourth individual, a young schoolgirl named Noriko, is also there to learn about cinema and the history of war. The action starts in earnest when the 13 year old Noriko falls into the Setouchi Kinema movie screen and becomes a part of the film's narrative. The three protagonists also jump into the screen, and find themselves a part of the fabric of the films they were there to watch, as they try to save people from the horrors of war.

The film is largely composed of several interlinked eras in Japanese military history, beginning with the Boshin War of 1868, moving into the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and into the second World War, with a particular insight into the impact of the war on Okinawa, and later the impact of the Atomic Bomb drop on Hiroshima. The protagonists find themselves in various scenarios within each war.

At the age of eight, Gordon (played by Austin Taylor) is introduced to a much older man called Bill (played by Aaron McCusker) by his mother, Cathleen (played by Fiona Glascott).

At a party one hot summer night in Athens, Greece, Mickey is introduced to Chloe. The attraction between the pair is immediately palpable—so palpable that before they know it they're waking up naked on the beach on Saturday morning.

Unfortunately, they wake up naked and surrounded by families, children - and police, who wait for them to dress before taking them into the station. But when they get there, the captain orders the cuffs removed and asks the cops exactly what they expect to charge them with. When the cops reply, “Indecent exposure,” the captain snorts and tells them to sign his book and go away.

Chloe has left a toxic relationship and is leaving for America in two days, but her purse is in the house where the party was. Since Mickey can’t get Argyris, his friend and business partner, on the phone, he invites her to join him on an island where he has a DJ gig.

They spend the day on the island, dancing and getting to know one another. By the end of the night a romance has developed and Mickey tries to convince Chloe to stay in Greece; she rebuffs him, and when Argyris brings her purse to her apartment, they part awkwardly.

The next night Mickey sulks as Argyris and his friends sit in his home; Argyris realizes Mickey has fallen in love with Chloe and convinces him to go to the airport. The big romantic gesture works, and the next thing we see is the two lovers moving in together.

They are truly in love… but Mickey is an irresponsible free spirit and Chloe is an immigration lawyer. Can this work?

Mickey’s old band mate visits and with Chloe passed out on the couch after dinner, they do cocaine in the bathroom and she tries to convince him to join her on the road, writing songs and performing. The implication seems to be that they will presumably spark up an old romance. Mickey seems tempted, but Chloe comes in, needing to use the toilet, and the spell is broken.

Mickey and Argyris have a freelance advertising jingle gig that isn’t going well. While Chloe meets with an immigration client in the dining room, Mickey and Argyris placate their client in the living room, to no avail.

Chloe and Mickey plan a party for all their friends. They’re supposed to meet his ex, Aspa, the mother of his son, Hector, that afternoon; he convinces her to meet with Aspa alone, and promises he’ll take care of the party food.

At lunch, Aspa tells Chloe Mickey is a terrible father; he’s never bothered to learn Greek, never spent time with Hector. When Chloe returns home, he has not done any party planning. She is upset; along with the many other instances in their life together, this merely serves to confirm what Aspa told her.

Chloe takes a pregnancy test and isn’t pleased. Takeout food arrives shortly before the guests do. Chloe is unimpressed; Mickey obviously ordered it after she arrived home and he realized he’d forgotten all about his promise.

The party gets into full swing and their friends clearly do not get along. It is a disaster, but Chloe and Mickey at least can laugh about it at the end of the night. However, they end up having terrible sex.

A social worker visits and tells them that Aspa has stipulated the visitation and guardianship must be shared between Chloe and Mickey. Mickey may not be the sole guardian nor have visitation alone. This seems to trouble Chloe almost more than it does Mickey.

Chloe has an abortion and hides it from Mickey. She pretends to have stomach flu, and puts him off when he tries to initiate sex.

They attend a wedding of a friend of Chloe’s and her ex, Christos, is there. He is controlling and toxic. Mickey is jealous and intimidated by Christos’s wealth and power; he gets drunk and begins scowling and stalking around the wedding ominously. Argyris tries to convince him that he should not sabotage this relationship the way he always has in the past, that Chloe loves him.

And, of course, Mickey marches out to the bandstand, grabs the microphone, and makes a complete ass of himself, embarrassing Chloe and halfheartedly proposing to her.

At Christmastime, the Friday before Hector’s first visit, they argue about a clogged kitchen sink; Chloe complains Mickey will not take care of it and call a plumber like an adult. Later, she apologizes and explains she is nervous. She proposes they learn a Greek song together to sing to Hector. They sit at his instrument and play it together, drinking cocktails and dancing together joyfully.

Chloe asks Mickey to take her out dancing, for one more carefree night before they become responsible parents. They ride his motorcycle to a club (she’s wearing the helmet he gave her on her birthday, with “Chloe” written on it). At the club they drink tequila shots, and Chloe insists Mickey find them some drugs. While he searches for some, Chloe somehow finds it, and they snort cocaine in the bathroom. For a while on the dance floor the lovers enjoy their high, but then Mickey gets into an altercation, and gets them kicked out, leaving behind their jackets and helmets.

They then drive, and Chloe’s nuzzling encourages Mickey to pull over; they run down into a closed basement restaurant where they begin having sex. Chloe begins sobbing and confesses to the abortion. When Mickey is not upset, this angers Chloe, and they begin arguing, but this alerts a security guard and they must run out.

Back at the motorcycle, as Mickey prepares to leave, Chloe stops him and reminds him of their first night together, of being naked on the beach. She convinces him to get naked and go to the beach. They strip and get on the cycle, and drive quite a ways before pulling up right next to a cop car at a red light. A chase ensues, and while Mickey insists he should pull over, Chloe eggs him on, telling him to keep going.

After a brief chase involving several police cars, they are cornered and stopped. Mickey is quickly cuffed, but Chloe struggles and slaps a cop twice - once backhanded. We are back where we were at the beginning, the two of them stark naked and being arrested, in the back of police cars; but this time, Chloe is belligerent on cocaine and alcohol and has assaulted an officer. They will not be treated as lightly as they were the first time, when the police basically laughed it off.

They are taken to the station and charged, told they will go to court on Monday, meaning they will miss Hector’s visit tomorrow. Aghast, both of them plead to be allowed to leave and return, to no avail. They are separated, and Chloe spends the weekend sleeping on cement benches in jail.

On Monday Chloe speaks to a female attorney who gives her some presentable clothes and tells her everything will be fine. Sitting before a judge, she is found guilty and receives a suspended sentence and a fine. When she asks where Mickey is, her attorney says his case was dismissed.

Chloe returns home and finds Mickey, who has been there since Saturday. Chloe is enraged to learn he called CHRISTOS to get him out and get the charges dropped. She sobs and rages, but Mickey comes back - she is not an innocent party here. Who insisted on getting naked? Who hit the cop? What was he supposed to do, lose his only chance at visitation and guardianship of his son?

Chloe weeps quietly on the couch; she has no reply. When next we see them, they both stand outside a school and watch as the doors open, letting out small children who run into the arms of their waiting parents. Our last view is of Mickey and Chloe’s smiling, expectant faces…

A law enforcement officer and a civilian, possibly a psychologist, are trying to interview thirteen-year-old Becky Hopper regarding an event that recently took place at her family's house. Even though the audience sees her having flashbacks of the event, Becky only gives vague answers and pretends not to remember anything apart from some insignificant minor details.

Two weeks earlier, Becky was a bullied high school student whose mother died a year earlier. She has a strained relationship with her father Jeff, who attempts to reconnect with her with a trip to their lakefront home. Meanwhile, prisoner Dominick Lewis, a Neo-Nazi, and his men Apex, Sonny Cole, and Roman Hammond are being transferred in a prison van. Dominick has an inmate killed to get the guards to pull over, using the opportunity to kill them and pose as policemen. They stop a man and his two children on the street and take their car, killing the man and apparently the children.

Jeff's girlfriend Kayla and her young son Ty arrive at the house, upsetting Becky. Jeff announces that he and Kayla are engaged. Hurt, Becky runs out of the house, followed by her beloved dog, Diego (a Cane Corso). At her small fort in the woods, she retrieves a large key, the bow of which is formed in the shape of a valknut symbol. Dominick and his men show up at the house, take everyone hostage, and demand the key. Kayla and Ty try to escape but are caught by Apex, who tries to help them while Cole kills Dora, the family's other dog. Jeff lies about Becky's presence to protect her, but Dominick catches on and shoots Kayla in the leg to get the truth out of them.

Becky, still in the woods, becomes aware of the intruders' presence and talks over a walkie-talkie, lying about calling the cops. Dominick calls her bluff and brings Jeff outside to the family's firepit to lure Becky out. He begins to torture Jeff with a hot metal rod. Becky relents and says she will give him the key. Dominick allows her father to talk through the talkie, but Jeff tells Becky to run. Jeff breaks free and finds Becky, telling her he loves her before Dominick shoots him dead. Dominick demands the key and Becky gouges out his left eye with it before fleeing with Diego.

Dominick goes back into the house to cut off the dangling eye and sends Cole and Hammond out to retrieve the key. Cole finds and chases Becky back to her fort. Cole tries to negotiate with Becky, but she surprises him and stabs him repeatedly with colored pencils and jabs a sharp ruler through his neck, killing him.

Apex shows Kayla and Ty compassion and Dominick tries to have Apex reaffirm his loyalty to him. After finding Cole's corpse, Hammond chases Becky down to the lake, where she makes him trip and land on a wooden plank of nails. Hammond falls in the lake and Becky uses a nearby boat motor to shred Hammond's chest. She is found by Apex, who momentarily incapacitates Diego. Not wanting to hurt Becky, Apex urges her to flee.

Becky makes her presence known to Kayla and Ty; Kayla tries to distract Dominick by asking him about the key's purpose. Becky sets off the car alarm to lure Dominick out as Kayla tries to free herself. Apex fends off Dominick long enough for Becky to use a lawnmower to run over Dominick's head. Becky then shoots Apex in the head. Kayla and Ty come out with Diego and sit beside Becky as they wait for the police. In the present, Becky claims she does not remember the gang's deaths, with a cold look on her face, one hand nonchalantly playing with the key dangling from a ribbon around her neck.

Set in Beijing during the early 1980s, Zheng Wu and Zheng Wen are brothers in their twenties, living their most vibrant and youthful years. Zheng Wu takes his classmates and younger brother, Zheng Wen out for dinner, in which he introduces Mao Zhen and her best friend, Feng Siyi. Zheng Wen becomes enamored of Mao Zhen, an amicable, outgoing, and mystic young woman.

Zheng Wu accidentally drowns in a lake and dies. Anguished from this loss, Zhengwen enters university and catches up with Mao Zhen. During the four years, Zheng Wen meets the romantic and talented Lao Chai, the passionate Tan Lili who embraces love and life, as well as Cheng Qing, a hair salon owner. Upon graduation, Zhengwen ventures to the desolate Inner Mongolia, his mother's hometown, to experience the other side of life. A surprise visit from Tan Lili rejuvenates Zheng Wen, yet a sudden phone call completely changes his life, Zhengwen decides to stay.

Jung-yeon (Lee Young-ae) has been searching relentlessly for her son since he disappeared six years ago. One day, she suddenly receives an anonymous tip-off about his whereabouts that leads her to a fishing village.

Five rice-inspired students learn at the Kokuritsu Inaho Academy, a school on the verge of shutting down, and they form a new group called "Love Rice". The five handsome boys work hard in an attempt to supplant bread as the popular grain at the school, but their efforts are challenged by the new students form the "Love Rice" unit. They have to perform at the "Harvest Show", showing how delicious rice grains are.

Dr. Behrouz Amini is a Ph.D. scientist and research scientist in Iran. He has an exemplary family and succeeded in his career, and after 20 years of continuous effort, he has been able to produce a cancer-free drug that is not alike in the direction of national production and knowledge. After the production of medicine, the medical community sets up a celebration for Behrouz Amini, and his name and his company will be recited throughout the world of medical medicine, but one incident will put Dr. Amini's equations in disrepute and put his jealousy at risk.

Alborz who has been recently freed from the prison, plans a robbery to pay his sister's debts.

Thomas is a mentally ill man in his fifties living on his own in Amsterdam. On Maundy Thursday, he becomes confused and jumps into a canal. His loving older sister Doris immediately comes to his aid, whereas the younger sister Hannah prefers to focus on her own commitments as a photographer. Over the Easter holiday, it becomes clear that Thomas is in need of care and the tensions between the three siblings are drawn out.

A young couple go on an adventurous vacation to Thailand only to find themselves haunted by a malevolent spirit after naively disrespecting a Ghost House.

Ken (Ryan Robbins) and Maria (Arabella Bushnell), a married couple who have not had sex in a year, decide to invite two other couples to an orgy to spice up their sex lives. However, Mark (Brad Dryborough) and Katherine (Erin Wells) arrive dealing with relationship baggage that complicates their ability to participate, with Mark spending much of the event outside on the deck, while Jason (Ben Cotton) has actually broken up with the girlfriend who was formerly part of the group's circle of friends, and instead arrives with his new love interest Ginny (Justine Warrington), a bisexual woman the rest of the group have never met.

Struggling after the death of his wife and child in a car crash, successful writer Martin starts to question the circumstances of the accident after an encounter with a grieving mother at a bereavement group. Who is the mysterious character in the photographs and why can't he shake the feeling that he's being played?

Serac recounts the creation of Rehoboam: after he and his brother Jean witnessed the nuclear destruction of Paris, the two created a system to predict and control human behavior to avoid similar catastrophes. For seed data, they partnered with Incite's Liam Dempsey Sr., who was more interested in using the system to make money. Serac found that Rehoboam identified high-risk individuals like Jean that could disrupt future events, and secured them in a secret facility. He justifies this to Dempsey by saying that Jean had planned to kill Dempsey. Serac kills Dempsey himself sometime later, staging his death in a plane crash. In the present, Serac begins controlling governments around the world by sharing information from Rehoboam.

In the present, Dolores and Caleb escort Liam to safety as Serac's forces hunt them. Liam attempts to escape and injects Caleb with "genre", a hallucinogenic drug that makes Caleb experience the world through several film genres. Dolores convinces Liam to give her his private key to Rehoboam to aid in their escape. They meet up with Ash and Giggles to help with protecting Liam.

Meanwhile, Martin has taken Bernard to Incite headquarters, where Rehoboam is housed. Martin uses Liam's key to access the records on Serac to send them to Dolores. He then sends out Rehoboam's data on every person in the world to themselves. Chaos quickly spreads across the globe as people learn Rehoboam has been used to control their lives. Ashley appears to help rescue Bernard from Martin, but Martin knows he is no longer necessary to Dolores' plan and tells them to pursue Serac's secret facilities. When Serac's security questions Martin, he detonates a bomb and kills them and Serac's assistant, Martel.

Dolores and Caleb continue on to a local airport, with Liam, Ash, and Giggles in tow. Dolores tells Caleb that with Martin dead, they no longer need Liam, and Caleb struggles with what to do. Angered by the data held by Rehoboam, Ash fatally shoots Liam, and she and Giggles leave. Liam mumbles about Caleb's past as he dies, and Caleb experiences several confusing visions related to his military days. As the plane prepares to leave, Dolores reviews records of Serac's memories from Incite's database. She allows Serac to contact and taunt her, but she tells him she has all she needs before cutting communications.

Dodge Tynes is a former athlete and a bankrupt real estate developer living in Detroit. After passing out from a headache, he wakes up in the hospital where two doctors tell him and his pregnant wife Val that he has an inoperable brain tumor. A nurse offers him a business card for Tiro Fund, a company that supposedly helps those with terminal illnesses that are financially struggling.

Dodge visits Tiro Fund and meets Miles Sellars, who offers him a deal: for 24 hours, Dodge will be the "prey" hunted by five "hunters" that will try to kill him. In exchange, he will have money wired to his bank account for every hour he survives, with the increments growing for every hour. Miles also explains the rules: Dodge cannot stop or pause the game once it starts; he cannot tell anyone he is in the game; and he cannot leave the city. If he breaks these rules, the game will never end until he dies. Dodge initially rejects the offer, but later decides to take it at the promise of leaving Val and their child financially secure. The game starts at sunrise at 6:46 AM at a diner where Miles takes all of Dodge's belongings except for his medication, an ultrasound of his child, and a phone Miles gives him to track his location. For 15 seconds every hour, the phone will send his current location to the hunters.

The game begins, and Dodge eventually comes across and evades the five hunters: Nixon, a British gentleman who strictly follows the rules of the hunt; Reagan, a southern cowboy; Carter, a psychologist who uses Dodge's profile to track his next move; Kennedy, a martial arts expert; and LBJ, an older man Dodge saw earlier in the diner. Dodge also runs into Connell, one of Miles' subordinates in charge of watching Dodge from the streets and cleaning up after the game.

Meanwhile, Val uses Dodge's laptop and discovers a total of $300,000 deposited to his account. When Dodge does not answer her calls, she gets suspicious. She calls the police, but they are unable to file a missing person's report. Val later finds the Tiro Fund card, but finds the company's office empty. Dodge tries to go back home, but Carter chases after him. After a chase, Dodge kills Carter. Dodge's friend Looger finds Dodge, but Dodge escapes when Nixon follows them.

Later, after his phone reveals his location, a shootout takes place and LBJ is killed while Reagan is injured. Dodge goes to the hospital where a nurse confirms that his medicine is fake and that there are no records of him ever being admitted there. He calls Miles, who admits that Dodge does not have a terminal illness and had been set up to accept the game. Miles reveals that Looger accepted $50,000 to drug Dodge and explains that the rules still stand. Val is kidnapped and taken to Miles as hostage.

Dodge sets traps for Nixon, Reagan, and Kennedy in a construction shop. The three of them arrive, but Looger shoots Kennedy when she tries to kill Dodge. Dodge blows up the shop, killing Reagan, but Nixon escapes. When Connell arrives to clean up the mess, Dodge attacks him and demands to know where Val is. Connell reveals Miles had set up their base at The Carrington, Dodge's failed high-rise development.

Dodge heads to The Carrington and finds the building abandoned and Val tied up. Nixon chases Dodge to the rooftop and in the ensuing fight, Dodge falls off and hangs from the ledge. Nixon prepares to kill him by stabbing his hand, but he sees the sun rise, puts his weapon away, and politely helps Dodge back on his feet. Nixon congratulates him for a good game before walking away. Val reunites with Dodge, who gets a final call from Miles telling him that he has won the game and the money. Miles receives a new file for the next prey.

Humans have been exploring other star systems for some time, prior to encountering another race of intelligent space travelers. The aliens are hostile, and war broke out seven years prior to the departure of the warship ''Providence'', and its crew of four, composed of Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson. The crew were partially chosen for the attractive image they will project in the social media messages they transmit back to the home front, while a computer actually runs the ship. Two years into the mission, after the ship has already destroyed one alien colony, mental instability begins to affect the crew.

Dan, Tettsu, and Chiharu (collectively known as DTC), exhausted from running through exciting days of exposing even national cover-ups, set off on a journey on their motorcycles without even deciding where to go in search of their throbbing hearts and youth (and girls)!

Arriving at the Onsen town(Hot Spring Resort) Kamishimo, they release they have run out of their gas and their money. Therefore, they decide to find live-in jobs in the town to earn some travel fees. They find jobs at an Onsen Ryokan(Japanese Inn with Hot Spring) deep into the mountain,the "Moritaya", where they meet a young proprietress Mari and her only daughter Megumi. Chiharu falls in love with Mari, who has lost her husband and is running the inn while raising her daughter by herself, but he sadly finds out that she and manager Miyazaki are attracted to each other.

The three members of DTC make a big proposal plan for Miyazaki in order to encourage Mari and Miyazaki to get married, who have been unable to remarry due to concern of Mari's daughter. With the help of their former friends the Ryukibue brothers (Kabuto Ijuin and Ozawa), the SMG of White Rascals, and the Daruma Babies of Daruma Ikka, the three are on a mission to save Mari and the others' future, but things take an unexpected turn, they are on the brink of failing their plan.

At last, DTC's plan works out, Megumi accepts Miyazaki' proposal of being his daughter, Mari and Miyazaki can finally get married. Taking their salary for their part-time job with them, DTC carries on their journey.

Doctor Dildo has captured the pleasure planet Erotica in a force field and holds it for ransom, demanding that the Federated Government hand over the ultimate weapon, the Mind Imprinter, or the planet of Erotica will be crushed. Brad Stallion, freelance government agent and captain of the phallic spaceship the Big Thruster, has been hired by the Federated Government to capture Dr. Dildo and deactivate the force field before the planet is destroyed. (1989). Free Spirit Software. Free Spirit Software.

City 31's Mayor Nightingale is killed in a terrorist attack and Chimera Squad is tasked to find the culprit. During their investigation, Chimera Squad confronts three criminal factions, one at a time; The Progeny, a doomsday cult composed of individuals with psionic powers, Gray Phoenix, a street gang composed of aliens who see themselves unfit for Earth society, and Sacred Coil, a religious cult preaching salvation for those who opposed XCOM composed of former ADVENT soldiers and aliens. They eventually discover that these groups are backed by a fourth, mysterious faction, which they codename as "Atlas."

Once all the three criminal groups are defeated, Atlas launch an attack on City 31's Town Hall and Chimera Squad rescues Deputy Mayor Parata while fending off the attackers. Soon after, they learn that Atlas was responsible for Mayor Nightingale's assassination and supported the other factions to destabilize City 31 and take it over. In response, Chimera Squad storms Atlas' hideout and defeat their leader, bringing down the organization. One month later, as Chimera Squad celebrates their victory, two individuals watching their headquarters from a monitor note that by the time XCOM realizes that they are in a new war with the mysterious new threat they represent, it will be too late to stop them.

Rick and Morty find themselves aboard the Story Train, a literal story device for an anthology episode featuring passengers telling each other tales about Rick. After killing the train's ticket taker, using a "continuity explosion" to find a map of the train, and fabricating a story that passes the Bechdel test, the two reach the train's engine room. There they confront Story Lord, who beats and captures them with the intent of using their "story potential" to power the train enough to take it beyond the fifth wall. They experience various possible futures, culminating in Rick and Morty facing an army of Meeseeks, Gazorpazorpian males, and robotic Ricks commanded by President Morty and a now-evil Mr. Poopybutthole. Rick averts the battle by having himself and Morty give their lives to Jesus. The anticlimax slows Story Train to a halt, causing Story Lord to angrily enter the potential future, after which Jesus himself appears. Rick and Morty use the literal deus ex machina to escape back onto Story Train and strand Story Lord in "every writer's hell: the Bible." When they try to return home, however, Rick discovers the train control panel is fake, and it's revealed that Story Train is a model train operating inside the Smith household. After Story Lord explains the nature of their reality and the origins of the tetragrammaton to Jesus, he breaks the toy. Rick chastises Morty to buy another one, arguing that "Nobody's out there shopping with this fucking virus."

In the post-credits scene, a toy commercial for "The Citadel of Ricks Story Train" plays out, which includes the Jesus and Story Lord characters and the Story Train Rick and Morty.

Rick and Morty regain consciousness to learn that they have been mind-controlled by face-hugging semelparous alien parasites called the Glorzo. Having no memories of their time as hosts, they strap the dead Glorzo to their faces and learn the Glorzo have created a sophisticated society. Believing they are attempting to use Rick's ship to power a superweapon that will spread them to Earth, the duo manage to fight their way off the Glorzo home asteroid, causing mass destruction along the way. However, upon returning home, they learn that Summer had been with them on the mission and they left her behind. They return to the asteroid to rescue her, only to find that she is not controlled by a Glorzo and is worshiped as a goddess.

Summer explains that after Rick and Morty fell under the control of the Glorzo, she was spared due to a toothpick in her mouth, which prevented the parasites latching on to her face. She convinced the Glorzo to reform their society, abstaining from their usual practice of constant reproduction (a process that kills both them and their host bodies, which burst open as they lay new eggs).

Rick and Morty are captured, and Summer awkwardly improvises an escape plan by sentencing them to punishment by getting back in the ship, then trying to join them. The Glorzo turn hostile, but Rick uses a specifically tuned musical note which causes the Glorzo to involuntarily reproduce, killing them en masse. As they die, several Glorzo accuse the trio of destroying them simply for trying to advance their civilization. Upon returning home, Rick and Morty start feeling severe stomach pain. Fearing they are about to lay eggs, they say their final goodbyes to each other, but it turns out to be a regular bowel movement.

In the post-credits scene, Summer's friend Tricia Lange notices Jerry's new beekeeping hobby, expressing more and more intrigue until she admits she's sexually attracted to him.

Rick and Morty meet with alien gangsters at a factory to exchange valuable crystals. The gangsters betray them and Rick fakes his and Morty's deaths by jumping into a vat of fake acid; however, the gangsters do not immediately leave, and instead discuss their feelings before testing the vat's acidity. Morty eventually grows impatient, revealing the ruse and forcing Rick to kill the gangsters. Morty insists the vat of acid was a bad idea and harangues Rick over never taking any of his own ideas seriously. He goads Rick into creating a portable "save point" button that one could return to escape death or correct their mistakes. Rick relents and crafts a special remote, which Morty takes without waiting for an explanation of how it works.

Morty uses the button to commit numerous crimes and pranks, resetting himself each time to avoid any consequences. Eventually, though, he begins a relationship with a girl, falling in love with her. When they end up stranded in the mountains after a plane crash, Morty considers using the remote, but calls for rescue instead, since the last save point was right before they met. However, after they are rescued, Jerry unintentionally activates the remote. Morty then fails to recreate the relationship and accidentally overwrites the save point.

Morty concedes to Rick that he has learned the hard lesson that consequences determine who a person becomes and give a person's choices meaning. A self-satisfied Rick then reveals that the remote does not reset anything, but instead teleports Morty to an alternate dimension, killing the Morty native to that dimension so that Morty can take his place. Horrified, Morty begs Rick to undo everything. Rick merges all of the alternate dimensions, causing Morty intense torment. While this undoes the deaths of the alternate Mortys, all the people in those dimensions who knew about Morty's crimes are now in that merged dimension, and descend as an angry mob upon Rick and Morty's house, demanding his surrender. Rick provides only one escape: jumping into a vat of fake acid to fake his death. Morty begrudgingly complies. Satisfied that his point is proven, Rick reveals they have been in an alternate dimension this entire time, as he did not want to waste their home dimension.

In a post-credits scene, one of the policemen present at the siege at the Smith home, who came to believe himself impervious to acid, appears on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' (Johnny Carson still being alive in this dimension). He lowers himself into a vat of real acid, resulting in his painful death.

As the Smith family go on a camping trip, Rick receives a call from Gaia, a sentient planet, that she is pregnant with his children. Rick reluctantly takes the family to Gaia, where they witness the birth of the first generation of Gaians. Rick denies being the father, but he and Beth build an advanced city for the Gaians so they can become a self-sufficient, spacefaring civilization. Their system to determine professions for the Gaians ends up ejecting "Unproductives" outside of the city. Meanwhile, Jerry takes Morty and Summer camping in Gaia's wilderness. However, Summer bitterly accuses Jerry of using camping as an excuse to make himself seem important. Hurt, Jerry leaves the camp while Morty and Summer search for Rick and Beth. Jerry eventually makes contact with the Unproductives, whom he raises into a primitive, tribal society with a hate for technology.

Morty and Summer get lost and find a crashed spaceship, which they repair but are unable to pilot. Just when Rick and Beth are on the verge of completing their project, Jerry leads his army of Unproductives against them. At the same time, a godlike entity named Reggie arrives. Gaia admits that she made a mistake, and Reggie is the true father of the Gaians. Reggie attempts to take custody of his children, but Rick refuses to stand down. Reggie empowers Jerry while Rick gives Beth an advanced gun, leaving the two to battle each other while Rick personally fights Reggie. Beth and Jerry fight to a stalemate, but Rick quickly finds himself at a disadvantage against Reggie.

Reggie is about to crush Rick when Morty and Summer inadvertently burrow their spaceship into Reggie's brain, killing him. Reggie's body falls to Gaia, destroying Rick and Beth's city and killing many Gaians. The impact causes Beth to fall into a crevass, but she is saved by Jerry. Furious at Reggie's death and the damage Rick caused, Gaia chases the Smith family back into space, leaving the surviving Gaians behind to fend for themselves. Jerry admits he only wanted to go camping to make himself feel important, and Morty and Summer apologize for their rudeness. Angry at the family taking Jerry's side, Rick coldly calls out Beth's parenting by revealing how Morty and Summer killed Reggie.

In the post-credits scene, when Rick watches a commercial for "Planets Only!", advertising steamy, hot planets, Summer catches him in the act.

Beth is leading a rebel group in a fight against the "new and improved" Galactic Federation. After the battle, Beth is nursed by a doctor, who asks her if she misses Earth, to which she reveals that there is a clone of her on Earth (confirming that Rick did in fact clone Beth in "The ABC's of Beth"). The doctor then discovers an explosive device with a built-in proximity device to Earth in Beth's neck, causing her to believe that Rick doesn't want her to return. On Earth, Beth and Jerry go to a family counseling at Dr. Wong's, while Morty and Summer fight over Rick's invisibility belt. Space Beth surprises and confronts Rick about the device in her neck. Rick reveals that the other Beth also has an explosive device in her neck that will transfer the other Beth's memories to Space Beth once it goes off. Space Beth and Rick then dine together at a restaurant, where Space Beth reveals she is now the most wanted criminal in the galaxy for battling against the reformed Galactic Federation. The Federation then arrives on Earth in search of Space Beth. Reacting to this information, Rick accidentally reveals that Space Beth might be the clone, and after freezing her in place to prevent her attacking him, proceeds to Dr. Wong's office to prevent Tammy and her squad from killing Beth and Jerry, having mistaken Beth for Space Beth. Rick rescues Beth and Jerry and they rendezvous with Space Beth. With both Beths now mad at Rick due to his refusal to disclose which of them is the clone, they are again attacked by Tammy, who takes them prisoner and beams them up to the Federation's ship. Morty and Summer intervene and Rick kills Tammy.

The family then heads to the ship, with Rick going to free the Beths while Morty and Summer shut off its superlaser before it can annihilate Earth. The Beths escape on their own as Rick is confronted by Birdperson (now Phoenixperson), who almost kills him before being shut down by Space Beth with help from Jerry, who used the invisibility belt in puppeteering a deceased Tammy. In the aftermath, Rick retrieves the memory tube containing his memory of creating the clone Beth, having erased his own knowledge of which Beth is the original one. No one else in the family wants the truth. Rick watches the memory nonetheless, only to learn that Beth asked him to decide for himself whether he wanted her in his life; his response was to use a centrifuge to randomize who was the original. After finally admitting to himself that he is "a terrible father," Rick tries to be a good friend instead and fix Phoenixperson (whose remains he retrieved after the battle), only to be aggressively rejected, so he shuts him down again. Rick is left alone and distraught.

In a post-credits scene, Jerry accidentally turns a garbage truck invisible, causing another car to crash into it and explode. After the drivers flee, he claims the invisible garbage truck, but it soon runs out of gas.

Set in an academy for young ladies in Seville in the 1920s, it shows a teaching center clinging to an unwavering way of doing things and conditioned by the traditions of the city and those years. All this universe and its pillars wobble with the arrival of a new teacher who has a very different way of seeing things and who has a secret objective directly related to the academy. The search for the own voice of a group of adult and young women will be the destiny of the protagonists.

''Esbae: A Winter's Tale'' is a novel in which a student named Chuck summons the demon Asmodeus.

''The Anarch Lord'' is a novel in which John Grimes is given a desk job when his Master Astronaut's Certificate of competency is withdrawn.

When Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, dies in battle, his heiress and only child Mary, intends to rule alone, despite being coveted by various suitors. Mary resists the rich Ghent burghers who, in cahoots with Louis XI of France, try to force her to marry the Dauphin Charles, a boy who is of a weak mentality and twelve years younger than her. Meanwhile, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III wants his son, Maximilian, to marry the duchess.

Witnessing her ministers being executed and her territories invaded by France, Mary decided to send her lady-in-waiting Johanna von Hallewyn to Maximilian with a message.

The young and warlike Maximilian despises his father's sluggishness and aversion to his enemies like the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus. Although he was in love with his sister Kunigunde's lady-in-waiting Rosina von Kraig, ultimately he decided for the marriage as a chance to prove himself.

After overcoming many dangers, the prince and the duchess finally meet each other. The two find that they share many similarities and develop sympathy for each other. Johanna falls in love with Maximilian's close friend , which temporarily give them some troubles. Mary gives birth to a son, Philip. Maximilian defeats the invading French army at the Battle of Guinegate. Not long after this, they have a daughter. But at the height of their happiness, a fatal accident befalls Mary while the couple are hunting together, leaving Maximilian alone with the children.

''The Morphodite'' is a novel in which a man with no memory is trained as an assassin and given the ability to shape-change.

''Tintangel'' is a novel in which people who get lost in music disappear and appear in a parallel universe.

''The Soul Eater'' is a novel in which Nicobar Lane becomes obsessed by the Dreamwish Beast which roams space.

After escaping the "sole survivor" escape rooms orchestrated by the Minos Corporation, Zoey Davis and Ben Miller decide to confront the shadowy organization after finding coordinates to its New York City–based headquarters. Zoey is encouraged by her therapist to move on from her trauma and to get over her aerophobia, but she opts to drive with Ben instead of flying.

The pair find the headquarters derelict and are accosted by a vagrant who steals Zoey's necklace. She and Ben give chase straight into the Q subway train. Their train car separates from the rest of the train and is redirected to a remote station, sealing Zoey, Ben, and other passengers Rachel, Brianna, Nathan, and Theo inside. As the passengers realize in horror that they are once again in Minos' deadly game, the train becomes electrified. Zoey and Ben learn that the others are the "winners" of previous escape rooms, having survived them. To escape, the group must collect subway tokens as the electrification increases. Theo is killed while the rest escape. Nathan reveals his escape room group were all priests, Brianna's were all influencers, and Rachel's consisted of people who cannot feel physical pain.

The next room is a bank with a slowly closing vault and a deadly laser security system. The group manages to decipher the complex route to get around the lasers and escape with just seconds to spare. While in the room, Zoey is perplexed by frequent references to someone called Sonya and that the escape rooms have no apparent connection to the group unlike before.

The next room is a postcard-like beach with more references to Sonya. They discover that the beach is covered in quicksand. While Rachel is sinking, Nathan sacrifices himself to save Rachel and is swallowed up by the sand. Zoey finds an alternate route out just as Brianna unlocks the intended exit. An argument on which route to take breaks out; Rachel and Ben side with Zoey. Brianna escapes through the main exit while Rachel and Zoey traverse to the alternate route. Ben falls into the quicksand.

Zoey and Rachel make their way out through a manhole back into the city. Overjoyed at first that they are outside, they quickly realize they are still in the game when they encounter a panicked Brianna. If they do not make it out of this room, acid rain is periodically sprayed on them. The group opens a taxi to escape into but once Zoey enters, the taxi locks Rachel and Brianna out. Zoey falls into the next room while Rachel and Brianna succumb to the rain and die.

The next room is a child's bedroom containing a diary from Sonya, revealing the rooms are based on a fun day out she had with her mother. Zoey discovers Sonya's mother is Amanda Harper, who survived her fall in her original escape room and was forced into designing escape rooms for Minos after they abducted her daughter. Amanda appears and begs Zoey to become the next puzzle-maker for Minos, warning that she has no choice. Ben is revealed to be trapped in a cage. When Zoey refuses Minos' demand, Ben's cage starts filling with water, but Zoey and Amanda work together to free him. They manage to break out, fleeing the facility. They report their findings to the police, who retrieve the bodies of Rachel, Brianna, Nathan, and Theo; the news about Minos goes public. An FBI agent assures Zoey that Minos will be tracked down.

Filled with confidence, Zoey decides to take a plane home with Ben. Onboard, she sees a lady who resembles her therapist, and then realizes she is in another escape room. The distorted voice of Minos' leader mocks Zoey and Ben for falling into their latest trap as the plane begins to fall and sleeping gas fills the cabin.

The story opens with a presentation of Mohsen Khalil, a spice seller. Despite his good fortune and many prayers, this man and his wife Sitt Anabaya have been unable to conceive. At the age of forty, Sitt discovers that she is pregnant. She gives birth to conjoined twins, a child with one body and two chests and heads. The parents are distraught but resigned to this fate. They name one child Qismati (My Fate) and the other one Nasibi (My Destiny), though they are registered on the birth certificate as one child. Each develops a distinct physical aspect: Qismati has a dark complexion with hazel eyes while Nasibi is fair with black eyes. Nasibi is naughty and destructive; he enjoys chasing chickens and torturing cats. Qismati is submissive and quietly religious.

Socialization for the child is difficult because the situation is so unusual. The neighbors are curious but cautious and the parents have to bribe them to get their children to play with Nasibi and Qismati. Amourous affection for a young girl named Samiha provokes aggression and jealousy in the twins, and then a black eye and a bloody lip. Schooling must be done in the home, where Qismati proves an able and engaged student while Nasibi is uninterested and has little talent for learning. Nasibi does all he can to undermine his brother's efforts. Even fasting becomes an issue because when Qismati wants to fast, Nasibi eats and fills their shared abdomen.

As they grow older, the boys become more different in their character and demeanor, and increasingly dislike each other. This creates a terrible and unsolvable dilemma since they cannot separate from each other. Qismati enjoys reading and learning; Nasibi prefers to run outside and annoy the neighbors. These differences cause countless fights and the parents grow increasingly wearied by the constant conflict. Despite the counseling of their father to find compromise and harmony, the boys cannot resolve their differences and refuse to love each other. They are provided a wife and a job working in their father's shop, but these benefits do nothing to allay the twins' despair. They blame each other and their parents for the misfortune of their birth. Nasibi becomes more and more miserable, aging prematurely as his health declines. Finally he dies, leaving Qismati in the strange position of carrying his brother's dead corpse around to live a half-life, half-death. Unable to adjust, Qismati, too, dies shortly afterward.

With news spreading of the predicted total collapse of the Flow streams connecting the star systems of the Interdependency and the unavoidable resulting fall of the empire, the Interdependency system of End has become crucial as the only one with a planet able to sustain life outside of a closed habitat. The disgraced House of Nohamapetan has taken control of End and blockaded its only remaining incoming Flow stream to maximize power and profits for their House and to prevent an unsustainable surge of billions of refugees to the planet.

Back in the Hub planet system, Emperox Grayland II consults with her Memory Room – the recorded thoughts and emotional states of every single previous emperox – in search of an unlikely solution to save the entire population of the Interdependency. She plans to break the Nohamapetan blockade of End via a predicted new "evanescent" Flow stream into the End system. Meanwhile Marce Claremont, a scientific advisor and eventual secret fiancé to Grayland, discovers a possible new method for controlling the evanescent Flow streams which may allow for the transport of whole habitats to the End system, thus preventing an overburden on the planet itself.

Meanwhile, Kiva Lagos – the imperially-appointed administrator of the House of Nohamapetan – discovers and warns Grayland that Nadashe Nohamapetan and Grayland's own House of Wu are plotting to depose Grayland and implement a plan to preserve the Noble Houses at the expense of the general populace. Grayland and Kiva devise a counterplot to infiltrate the conspirators, but Nadashe, who has enlisted many sympathetic Noble Houses to aid her plot and endorse her as the next Emperox, kidnaps Kiva and holds her hostage. Grayland discovers that her Memory Room is, in fact, the singular still-living consciousness of the first Emperox – Rachela I. Grayland enlists her aid in defeating the coup and saving the people of the Interdependency but eventually succumbs to an assassination attempt orchestrated by Nadashe.

Kiva escapes her captors and returns to Hub where she finds Nadashe occupying the imperial palace. Kiva is imprisoned while Nadashe awaits lengthy preparations for her coronation. When the coronation day arrives, the ceremony is interrupted by a "ghost" of Grayland, who has preserved her consciousness in the same way as Rachela with her help. Grayland, whose consciousness is able to live outside of the Memory Room and has broadly infiltrated Interdependency communications and control systems, stages a remote jailbreak of Kiva, provides recorded evidence of the coup plot, and reveals she had secretly named Kiva as her successor to the imperial throne prior to her assassination. Grayland unilaterally ends the regulated monopolies of the Noble Houses, releases their trade secrets in order to aid the soon-to-be isolated systems, dissolves the House of Nohamapetan, and reveals a long-term plan to save the people of the disparate systems of the Interdependency over many decades and centuries through the use of evanescent Flow.

The blockade at End is broken using clearance codes intercepted by Grayland. Kiva commits to remaining behind with the people of Hub after the collapse of the Flow. Marce is enticed to explore the systems of old Earth through a newly discovered evanescent Flow stream. In a punishment devised by Grayland as ironically "giving Nadashe what she wants," Nadashe is imprisoned indefinitely on End with her mother and brother Ghreni.

It's a year after Keith Miller is locked behind bars for the murder of Eli Balkoff. It's a small town up in the mountains with a tight knit community. Tensions are still running high and Alison, Keith’s daughter, has to get her brother Brandon from the local jail yet again after locals taunt him about his father.

Later, Brandon is with his girlfriend Sophie Hinton when her father Earl bursts in and they have an altercation. The police later turn up at Sophie and Brandon's house with news of his death. With their father in prison for murder, Brandon is instantly considered suspect number one.

Brandon goes missing and his headstrong sister Alison decides to take things into her own hands and track down her brother to clear his name before the cops get to him.

Alison visits the bowling alley looking for information and steals a timetable from behind the bar. She moves onto the ice rink looking for Freya, who tells her that Brandon had a mysterious phone call before going missing. Officer Darryl gives her insight into some police evidence about the crime.

Alison visits the crime scene looking for clues, she finds an object on the floor, but somebody is watching from the shadows. The Chief and Officer Darryl turn up at her house to quiz her about her visit to the trailer park.

After a brief meeting with Freya she gives Alison an address for Leland, a local drugs dealer. When she arrives there she finds the murdered body of Leland and notices an unusual cigarette butt in the ashtray. The police turn up while she is still at the scene, and immediately assume that Alison is the perpetrator. She manages to escape back to the town and the police begin a search for her.

Alison finds a drunken Lenny in the car park and offers to drive him home in his van. When they get there Charlene's not home, but she notices the same unusual cigarette butt in the ashtray. Charlene fails to turn up for work.

Alison spots Tyler on a motorbike and gives chase, when she catches up with him he says someone else is chasing him, and that he knows where Brandon is; he takes off when he spots another car.

She goes looking for Freya again and learns about a party she might be at, she goes into the liqueur store to get some cans and Dave the proprietor calls the police but she manages to escape again.

She arrives at the party and finds Freya, who tells her that Tyler is hiding up in the hills near the river, and yet again she flees from the locals through a window.

After a night’s rest she arrives at Tyler's hideaway only to find he's been killed as well. Somebody shoots at her from the trees and she is hit in the shoulder. She runs away and sees a red car leaving the scene. She walks along the river looking for help and finds some cabins where Debbie and Ruth live.

She calls Officer Darryl to tell him what's happened, and learns that the cigarette butts are Charlene's, and between them they think they have discovered the motive for what's happening. Debbie and Ruth lend her a van and a gun and she heads back into town to Helen's house. She learns that the red car was Eli's, and that the Chief had an affair with Helen.

She goes over to the Chief's house where Sophie and Charlene are hiding, shots are fired and Charlene is hit in the leg. Officer Darryl turns up to help, and the Chief comes in from behind and shoots Darryl in the stomach, wounding him. Sophie shoots the Chief but he tries to escape in Eli's car. Alison shoots at the car and kills the Chief. The search party goes out up in the hills looking for Brandon. They eventually find him traumatized and distressed but alive. They visit their father in the jail.

Yasmine, Roxi and Ana are willing to have fun and forget about the stress of the last 2 days before the Baccalaureate exam. For them, having fun means a final big adventure, breaking the rules and never thinking about any possible consequences. In their seek for freedom, love and adrenaline they meet three young men they hang out with at sea.

A sister & brother check into a posh hotel. Shortly thereafter, the brother is missing, & despite the sister's inquiries, no one admits to ever having seen the man. Meanwhile, a sniper shoots bullets through the window of the room that the brother & sister stayed in. Is there any connection between these events? That's the mystery.

Faith Crowell (Meg Tilly) is a struggling bohemian artist who is commissioned to paint a mural for wealthy, reclusive socialite widow Frances Griffin (Ellen Burstyn). Frances wants Faith to paint murals all over the ornate walls of the abandoned ballroom of her ostentatious 211-acre estate. The theme of the mural is to be the grand entrance of Frances' daughter Cassandra at her debutante ball, which also happens to be the night Cassandra mysteriously died.

Faith soon begins receiving expensive gifts from Frances, which she enjoys but doesn't understand why. Before long, Faith starts picking up on several uncanny resemblances between herself and the dead Cassandra. Eventually, she is invited to live in Frances' mansion until the mural is complete, and she discovers a painting of Cassandra and sees the haunting resemblance.

In a near future United Kingdom, now governed by a continuous direct democracy called the System, all of Britain is under constant surveillance by the omniscient AI called "The Witness." The Witness AI is purported to be completely impartial, doing nothing "unless public safety requires it. [...] It cannot be hacked, cracked, disabled or distorted. It sees, it understands, and very occasionally it acts, but otherwise it is resolutely invisible." Mielikki Neith is an Inspector of the Witness Programme—the "prosecutorial ombudsmen to the surveillance state, reviewing and considering any case that passes a given threshold of intervention."

Neith is tasked with investigating the death of 61-year-old luddite and "writer of obscurantist magical realist novels" Diana Hunter. Hunter has died mysteriously while in Witness custody following her interrogation, a process where Hunter's memories were forcibly extracted.

In investigating Hunter's house, Neith discovers that Hunter's house is completely disconnected from the Witness by a Faraday cage. She is assaulted by a mysterious androgynous figure who claims to be named Regno Lönnrot. Without access to the Witness, Neith cannot positively identify Lönnrot, nor can she tell how Lönnrot gained access to Hunter's house.

Neith quickly finds that Hunter's memories are a seemingly impossible maze of other lives/narratives. In one narrative/memory thread, Neith sees the life of Greek investment banker Constantine Kyriakos in the early 21st century where he has a fateful encounter with a great white shark. In another, Neith sees the 5th century alchemist lover of Augustine of Hippo, Athenais Karthagonensis, as she endeavors to uncover the secrets of a chamber that could lead to the fabled Alcahest following the death of her son. In yet another, Neith sees Ethiopian painter Berihun Bekele, who lives in London in the early 21st century and assists his granddaughter Annie with the development of a video game, ''Witnessed,'' that bears striking resemblance to Neith's actual world.

Each narrative seems to share elements with the others, allowing each to flow into the other. The concepts of catabasis, a journey to the underworld like that of Orpheus in Greek myth, and apocatastasis, a sort of rebirth, in particular are repeatedly emphasized.

After leaving the hospital, Neith meets with a variety of people in an attempt to make sense of the unusual results of Hunter's interrogation. First, she meets with Ronald Tubman, a technician, and they discuss Hunter's defense against the interrogation through a technique called a "narrative blockade" (or a Scheherazade Gambit). Such a technique involves a continuous stream of false lives that prevent the interrogator from reaching the subject's true self. As the interrogation is designed to see through simple lies, the subject would have to believe in the narratives—they would have to be drawn from elements of the subject's actual life. Tubman directs her to Oliver Smith, Director of Tidal Flow at the Turnpike Trust. When Neith asks Smith what he would have done with Hunter, he suggests that a "counter-narrative" would force the disparate narratives to recombine Hunter's sense of self, allowing the interrogation team to successfully gain access to her real life and memories.

Neith then attempts to track down one of Hunter's out-of-print books from a bookstore called Shand & Co., operated by Saul Shand. Shand explains that Hunter's books "are not merely 'hard to find' in the commercial sense. They are impossible to find. They are ghost books." These "are books that are only catalogued, never actually sold."

Neith next meets with Chase Pakhet, a professor and expert in semiotics, in an attempt to make sense of the shared symbols of the various narratives. Pakhet has also attempted to track down Hunter's novels, to no avail, but has at least obtained an analysis of Hunter's work. (Pakhet believes Hunter herself may have written it.) The analysis focuses on ontological and metaphysical interpretations of Hunter's work. Neith again poses the question of how the interrogation ought to have been handled, and Pakhet reiterates the idea that "the goal is to collapse the narratives all back to the origin, the real person." Pakhet suggests, like Smith, that a counter-narrative would be the best way to do that. Pakhet points out that if the creator of that counter-narrative "were any good, you can't be entirely sure which threads are hers and which belongs to the interrogation team. [...] If you were able to be sure, so could she." When asked why she thinks Hunter did this, Pakhet suggests that Hunter wanted her interrogator to only be able to understand her by adopting her viewpoint, something which Neith vehement rejects as necessary.

Afterward, Neith realizes that, in the few glimpses she's gotten of Hunter's interrogation, she recognized one of the interrogators as Oliver Smith. She begins to suspect that Smith knew much more than he let on.

When she next sleeps, Neith encounters another new narrative in Hunter's memories. In it, an entity identifies itself as "Gnomon, occasionally called the Eschatogenesist, or sometimes the Desperation Protocol," "the Ten Thousand Ayes, and sometimes the Endlessly Rising Canon," among other names. It claims to be a being living in a far future where Earth has been forgotten and most people "exist across bodies, [...] their thoughts distributed between a large number of individual brains" by a form of instantaneous communication. Gnomon is a particularly large hive mind composed of the cast off, undesirable parts of many other individuals and is obsessed with preventing the end of the universe and the birth of replacement ones. Gnomon meets with an enormous hive mind the size of a planet called Zagreus, who offers Gnomon access to the Chamber of Isis from the Athenais narrative. The chamber acts as a sort of time machine. In exchange for access to the Chamber, Zagreus demands that Gnomon "kill the banker, the alchemist, the artist and the librarian." Neith believes this was a counter-narrative Smith devised to break Hunter.

During her investigation, Neith discovers Lönnrot and attempts to chase the fugitive through London. She discovers that the System cannot, will not, see Lönnrot—wherever Lönnrot goes, the system deliberately does not look. The revelation that the System has been compromised shakes Neith's faith in it.

Oliver Smith is murdered in an Underground tunnel. During her investigation, Neith is forced to conclude that Smith was torn apart by a gigantic shark, despite the fact that the tunnel is nowhere near the water.

In Hunter's narratives, Kyriakos is kidnapped by Nikolaos Megalos, a man who is ostensibly an Orthodox Patriarch in the Order of St. Augustine and St. Spyridon but who is actually a Greek nationalist. Kyriakos had, through his prophetic stock market manipulations (driven by the apparently godlike shark), become famously wealthy but also wiped out the investments of Megalos. Despite this, Megalos tells Kyriakos that he can resurrect his dead girlfriend by having someone symbiotically become her if Kyriakos will turn his god (the shark) over to him and help him gain access to the Chamber of Isis. Megalos brings him to an idyllic Greek village, has him meet the woman who will become Stella, and then shows Kyriakos that the Chamber of Isis can be found in ''Witnessed,'' where Kyriakos found it once before (during a drug-addled party).

Athenais, meanwhile, enters the Underworld and crosses four of the five rivers of Hades (Cocytus, Styx, Lethe, and Acheron), at one point becoming the shark that ate the watch Kyriakos dropped. She meets a demon, who she refers to as Know-All, who gives her mysterious advice and tells he she must become a god and the Alkahest to resurrect her son. The last river, Phlegethon, though is not a river of fire, as she expects, but a wall of fire that she cannot pass through.

Berihun Bekele remembers painting a portrait of Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, before being arrested by the Derg during the 1974 revolution. Bekele relives his escape from the Alem Bekagn prison in Addis Ababa, where he created paintings of the Chamber of Isis in his cell just before his execution then walked through the walls to escape. Bekele believes he must do this again to save himself and his granddaughter, who are trapped in a safe room in his house during a fire caused by racist terrorists.

Finally, Gnomon enters the Chamber and finds its personality fractured, believing this to be a betrayal by Zagreus. As it reassembles itself in a new vessel, it becomes Lönnrot and attacks Neith in Hunter's home.

Neith discovers that Oliver Smith was one of five Fire Judges, figures who can control the System. She discovers that Hunter was one as well, and that they took apart the personality of Anna Magdalena because she supposedly suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that caused her to suffer from "transient delusional paranoia." Afterward, Magdalena worked with Hunter, who felt sorry for what she had done to her.

Neith later discovers that both Hunter and Pakhet were Fire Judges and that the Fire Judges were aware of deep flaws in the System. Despite its purported impartiality, the Fire Judges had become aware that human irrationality would lead to the direct democracy that underpinned the System making terrible choices. Thus, they had built a backdoor into the System, Firespine, that allowed the subtle manipulation of the System in order to push for more optimal outcomes. After Firespine was created, Anna Magalena had discovered the flaw in the system and had been a threat to it—her radical neurosurgery was, in fact, an attempt to silence her to protect the System. Hunter became disillusioned with the project and retired from it; her interrogation was actually an attempt by the remaining Fire Judges to regain Hunter's control of Firespine. The Fire Judges approach Neith and tell her that they believe that her experience with Hunter's memories has made her connectome similar enough to Hunter's that she should be able to take control of Firespine and fix the system. They want her to join them.

Neith feigns compliance and then sneaks back into Hunter's house. She finds a hidden chamber under the floor that gives her access to something that looks suspiciously like the interrogation chair that Hunter died in. When she sits in it, Lönnrot enters the chamber. Hunter's various narratives begin to collapse again in Neith's head and she finally realizes why Lönnrot had asked her when Hunter's interrogation had ended. Lönnrot becomes Hunter and Neith realizes that ''she'' is the counter-narrative that was deployed against Hunter. The interrogation never ended. Hunter tells Neith that, in experiencing her memories and internal narratives, she's become like her enough that she believes Neith will help her in defeating the interrogation and bringing an end to the flawed System. Neith acquiesces.

Hunter escapes the interrogation (seeming much like Anne Bekele) and each of Hunter's narratives comes to a conclusion, separating back out again. Bekele escapes the safe room; Kyriakos is rescued from Megalos; Athenais returns home in control of the Alkahest (whether or not she resurrects her son is left to the reader to figure out); and Neith remains intact but alone in Hunter's subconscious. The book concludes with Gnomon addressing the reader, saying that, as a meme, it has come to live inside the reader through the act of reading its story: "I am Gnomon. From this moment, so are you."

The story centers around Devi Vishwakumar, a 15-year-old Indian-American Tamil girl from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. After her father, Mohan, dies suddenly, Devi loses the sensation in her legs. This happens due to the psychological trauma of the event and she is unable to walk for three months.

However, one day she miraculously recovers and stands on her legs, in an attempt to see her crush Paxton Hall-Yoshida. After having a socially horrible freshman year, she wishes to change her social status, but friends, family, and feelings do not make it easy for her.

The following year, she tries to deal with her grief, her identity, and school life. All this, while she also struggles with her relationship with her mother, Nalini. Devi also has to deal with her feelings for Paxton and Ben, after she cheats on both of them with each other. Adding to the mix is a new entrant in school, Aneesa Qureshi. The series follows Devi's daily chronicles dealing with all of this.

''Never Have I Ever'' is mostly narrated by professional tennis player John McEnroe for Devi, with two of the episodes narrated by Andy Samberg for Ben, and another by Gigi Hadid for Paxton.

As DreadfulWater investigates the murder of a Reality TV producer he begins to suspect he is investigating a murderer who killed his girlfriend, years ago.

Reiss Gibbons is the greatest fighter to ever participate in the MMA promotion Legends. He is a 5-time champion and has just come off a win which has him and his manager Reggie (Elijah Baker) feeling on top of the world with waves of endorsement deals and movie offers. Legends owner Max Black (Gina Gershon) wants to book another fight for Reiss were she reveals to MMA talk show host Stephen Drake that she has decided to put Reiss against pro wrestling star Randy Stone (Jonathan Good).

Drake and the whole MMA community including Reiss and his wife Ellie think this is a publicity stunt and that Stone will not succeed like all wrestlers who transition to MMA too soon. The hype though attracts a large audience with even other pro wrestlers Matt Hardy, Tommy Dreamer, and Bubba Ray Dudley defending Stone and pro wrestling saying Stone will beat Reiss and prove everyone wrong. A press conference is held but ends in disaster when Stone's trash talk against Reiss and his wife angers Reiss and nearly starts a fight. The fight begins the next day and the two finally collide.

Reiss proves at first the better fighter due to his experience and techniques were as Stone swings wild punches and is too inexperienced. Much to everyone including Reiss' shock Stone proves to tougher than he looks and Reiss' overconfidence and showboating gets the best of him. Stone is able to get Reiss up on the cage using dirty boxing techniques his trainer Danny Thickett (Leo Fafard) used in his heyday and easily picks Reiss up for takedowns. The match ends in a huge upset after hitting Reiss with one punch Stone delivers a devastating uppercut which knocks Reiss out. Reiss awakens but is concussed and confuses the Referee for Stone attempting to wrestle him. The referee stops him and informs the match is over and Stone has won the title.

Reiss is humiliated by the match with many of fans now making memes of him crying during the loss even having his movie deals backed out. Angry and wanting revenge he makes Reggie ask Max for a rematch, but Max states she can't. Due to Stone having difficulty cutting weight for the light heavyweight division she has moved him to the heavyweight division instead to challenge for the title, but she offers Reiss to fight young and hungry newcomer Nightmare. Reggie along with Reiss' trainer and friend Marcus (Chuck Liddell) refuse the fight due to the danger of Nightmare's size and Reiss' impatience. Reiss decides to take the fight anyhow and abandons Marcus to train with LA trainer Tony Gunn (Luke Rockhold).

Training proves difficult, with little time to prepare and difficulty cutting weight Reiss is two pounds over the limit and has to forfeit 20% of his fight earnings for violating weight cut. The fight begins and Reiss loses again to Nightmare in a embarrassing manner angering Tony and the crowd and Stone who was in attendance during the fight laugh at Reiss for his lackluster fighting. Reiss decides to retire having his confidence destroyed and his will to fight gone.

He wishes to live peaceful with his wife but his money accounts is in the red due to his frivolous spending, bad endorsement deals, and paying for Tony's training camp he wasted losing the fight. Humiliated and hitting rock bottom he sells one of his belts he won to stay afloat. Reggie returns to offer another fight but Reiss declines having now become afraid to fight again and emotionally breaks down in front of his wife. Reggie tracks down Max where he begs for a rematch but Max again refuses not wanting to waste money or damage Reiss' reputation anymore. On Drake's podcast while being interviewed about who's going to fight Stone for the title after his opponent has been forced to retire due to brain damage Max gives in and says she will arrange a rematch for Reiss and Stone. Reiss and his camp are happy to hear this and after making amends to Marcus they start training again.

The rematch begins and Stone is dominant most of the fight even tearing Reiss' groin during a failed triangle choke on the latter's part and swelling up his left eye from Stone using an illegal headbutt. Refusing to give up wanting to prove he's not afraid anymore and can still fight Reiss holds out till the final round. He finally gains momentum when he catches Stone in a guillotine headlock leading to a rear naked choke on the ground. Stone refuses to tap and Reiss won't let go resulting in the match ending in Reiss winning when Stone passes out from the hold. Reiss is the new heavyweight champ and he and Stone earn each other's respect with Stone offering to buy him a drink during their next rematch. Reiss celebrates with his wife and friends while Max gives an interview about Reiss' victory and future.

Jeanne is a French essayist who writes travelogues while traveling around the world. She visits Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, with her assistant Hana to do some research for her essay. Jeanne is determined to find a mythical herb known as "vision", as she has heard the legend that it can alleviate human pain when it scatters its spores every 997 years. She meets Tomo, a mountain guardian who lives in a mountainous area covered in cedar trees, as she arrives at the ancient forest, and the two gradually transcend cultural barriers and develop a rapport during the search for the herb. She also gets to know Rin, a mountain guardian like Tomo, Aki, the older, blind forest denizen, Gaku, a hunter, and Gen; they all live in the mountains, and the mountain protect them. Their fates intersect in unexpected ways.

When her twin sister Raven visits her she and her hero Wren Strongeagle visit a bar, for a scheduled event, only to disappear when she goes to the washroom. Her reports of her disappearance are discounted by the police, who tell her that Raven probably met someone and left for a sexual encounter. Frustrated by police inaction, Strongeagle tracking down and kills serial killers who are preying on First Nations women.

''The Guardians'' is a novel in which rifts in time and space open in New York and Britain.

''A Rose for Armageddon'' is a novel in which elderly scientists Elsa Adams and Jake Stinson study the history of a small island in New England.

''Sideshow'' is a novel in which a carnival owner blackmails a company into playing on the interstellar circuit.

''The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer'' is a novel in which a carnival owner blackmails a company into playing on the interstellar circuit.

While giving a scientific demonstration in Space City, Professor Wang demonstrated his invention of the first robot with a sex drive; the robot abruptly went berzerk, killing Wang and kidnapping beauty contest winner Miss Allura Galaxy. Brad Stallion, freelance government agent and captain of the phallic spaceship the Big Thruster, has been assigned by the Federated Government to rescue Miss Galaxy. Stallion awakens hungover on one of Mammaria's moons and must recover the missing Big Thruster before setting out on his mission; if he fails to rescue Miss Galaxy, the entire universe's male population loses their sex drive, causing the human race to die out. Over the course of his mission, Brad Stallion travels through time using the late Professor's time machine.

The film tells the stories of four immigrant women — Teboho Moja, Melainie Rogers, Daphnie Sicre and Yatna Vakharia — living in New York City and improving their communities with their work and activism to celebrate the ways in which immigration can transform not only those who immigrate but the places to which they move.

Teboho Moja is a South African professor of higher education, who worked in the anti-apartheid movement.

Melainie Rogers is an Australian nutritionist whose private practice hires primarily women.

Daphnie Sicre is a Latina raised in Spain, who is an activist and a Ph.D. candidate in educational theater.

Yatna Vakharia is an Indian mother of two and school volunteer, who began attending college when her children became teenagers.

News items about the film in 1914 and reviews in 1915 provide descriptions of its storyline and cast. The plot's main character, John Carter-Carter (Raymond Hitchcock), is portrayed as a pleasant man who drinks alcohol excessively. His frequent drinking often causes him to ignore or forget his day-to-day responsibilities, much to the regret of his fiancée, Marybelle Loring (Flora Zabelle), who pleads with him to stop boozing. When her little brother Billie (Raymond Hackett) asks John why his sister is so sad, the man blames the "Ringtailed Rhinoceros". The boy is confused by that answer, but he vows to kill the beast. Soon, though, the rhino leads John once again to alcohol and this time to the destruction of his wedding plans. Intoxicated, John arrives late to a lawn party where he and Marybelle were to announce their betrothal. The invited guests have departed; Marybelle is humiliated; and her furious parents (Herbert Fortier and Ida Waterman) cancel the engagement.

John's break-up with Marybelle devastates him. Returning to his rented room, he finds little Billie waiting there, still eager to hunt and kill the rhino. John assures the boy that together they will slay him, so they begin planning how to do it. Before long, Billie falls asleep in a chair, as does John, who begins to dream. In his dream John sees himself as a shabby, destitute wanderer who is captured by pirates and forced to toil aboard their ship. Later, at sea, while John is scrubbing the vessel's deck, the Ringtailed Rhinoceros suddenly appears and leads him to the pirate captain's stock of rum. John gleefully guzzles a bottle, but he is caught by the crew and forced to walk the plank for stealing. Once in the water, John manages after a long swim to reach an island, where he is chased by soldiers who magically materialize. As he flees, John sees an elaborately dressed boy who looks just like Billie. He is the island's prince named "Good Intent". John rushes up to him and begs for protection. The prince agrees and takes the stranger to see his royal family, including his sister, "The Weeping Princess", who bears a striking resemblance to Marybelle.

At the palace John learns the princess is under a magic spell that compels her to cry constantly until the Ringtailed Rhinoceros is destroyed. He promises to kill him, but the king and queen, who are identical in appearance to Marybelle's parents, doubt his pledge. The prince now gives John an eight-legged horse named "Resolution" to help him in his search. Soon John locates the rhino, but instead of battling the beast, he allows the animal to take him to the king's wine cellar. There for several days John enjoys drinking, while reporting to the royal family that he is busy hunting. A "Counsellor Bird" fails to persuade John to resume his mission, so the bird informs the family about the deception. The king orders John beheaded for lying, but the prince intervenes and saves him again.

Armed with an old gun, a blunderbuss, and accompanied by the prince, John sets out with a renewed resolve to kill the rhino. The pair enter the beast's domain, where an array of animals threaten them and then try to lure John to the "River of Drinks". The prince, however, helps him resist the temptations. John now begins shooting at the rhino's allies, which prompts the rhino to take the offensive. He rallies the animals for an attack on the palace, so John and the prince rush back to the royal family to defend them. In the throne room, John sees a bottle of wine and is about to drink it when the rhino bursts into the room and approaches the king, queen, and weeping princess. Nearby, the prince shouts at John to kill the creature. John responds, hurling the bottle at the rhino, striking him on the head and killing him. The princess immediately stops crying and embraces John. As everyone celebrates, John awakes from his "fable-dream". The fantastic adventure has deeply affected him. When he sees Billie and Marybelle again he proclaims that he has at last killed the Ringtailed Rhinoceros and can begin life anew, fully dedicated to being a more responsible, sober man.

Hero Adam Coryell unexpectedly finds himself to be a golf prodigy. Unfortunately he wants to be a writer, and he hates golf.

The book, written in the style of a diary, includes the description of the eight- week expedition to the North Pole. In addition, it provides extra information about the preparations and training of the crew in form of an epilogue and a prologue.

The First Week

The expedition begins on March 8 with temperatures around -70 degrees. The first week mainly consists of practicing routines, getting used to the harsh weather conditions and carrying out the daily routines of walking, camping and preparing running, all the while making a few miles of progress. The crew, which splits up into two teams for the expedition, quickly gets to experience “the real challenge” of the expedition, the pack ice and the physical hardships, such as frostbites, stiff hands and plagued feet. Especially the nights are hard to endure for the crew. The only actions that bring “circulation to the cramped legs” are loading sleds and harnessing dogs. During the first week the crew also experiences that the cold and the extreme temperatures become relative; a -60-degree morning suddenly does not feel too bad anymore. Nevertheless, even though they got used to the cold, the temperatures once again frustrate the crew, especially the dogs, which causes an accident between the dogs Chester and Zap. The weather conditions fluctuate for the rest of the week and they still have a hard time acclimatizing and adjusting to the severe cold. In order to boost their energy along the way to the Pole, they are on a special diet. On day 4 the crew decides to reduce the payload “to avoid burning out the dogs” to 1000 pounds and they start to alternate the chores among the team. They establish a team meeting for every morning, which is used to discuss the plan of the day and specific issues and also serves as a chance for the team to “vent frustrations and anxiety”. The crew decides to split up into two teams and is moving the camp forward for the rest of the week and is slowly adjusting to the extreme temperatures and to their routines in the next days.

The Second Week

On the first morning of the second week Steger’s team awakes too late, throwing them off their tight schedule. On that day they experience the shifting of the ice for the first time. “We must be entering the shear zone” says Boddy on that day and by that “sending a wave of nervous tension through the group”. Moreover, on day 9 of the expedition, they find out that they are running on a shortage of fuel which would directly jeopardize their goal of reaching the North Pole. This shortage sparks a debate about their general usage of fuel. Steger predicts though that they will be fine, because he estimates that their fuel usage would cut in half in the second half of the expedition. The terrain they are travelling on in the second week of the trip is one of the worst ones they have encountered so far and Steger and Schurke decide to “cut back on tent time” and thereby improve camp efficiency in order to reach the Pole before the ice gives in. That decision is not supported by every team member and both groups have different views on specific issues, but the severe conditions do not allow much time for discussing the differences. Scouting is another practice that becomes more and more important that week. Whenever they are in a difficult spot, three or four team members would scout to find the best route. On day twelve Steger and Schurke decide to economize chore time again in order to be able to spend more time on the sleds and to reach the North Pole before spring time. Steger and Co. also plan their first dog- pickup flight, which is scheduled for April 1 and which results in a change of rations for the dogs to extend the reserves. They are taking a rest day on Day 13 and they are going into week three with a new routine, consisting of a new rhythm regarding time management.

The Third Week

The first day of week three is the best day they have had so far. They move forward ten miles that day and through “more and more open spaces” travelling becomes more convenient. After days of tensions in the team, the mood between the crew is getting better again. However, the weather is not during the rest of the week. The crew is caught in a whiteout, which makes travelling more complicated and hard to find the trail, causing them to rest. They use the pause to rest and to repair equipment and they sit out the storm in “relative comfort, feeling content and thankful for this reprieve”, but nevertheless are aware that if that carries on for more days that their tight schedule is not going to work out. They are able to continue their travels the next day, well rested and with new strength and power in order to make progress, though. The ice conditions become worse the more they head north and they encounter huge ice blocks and snow drifts, which causes frustration and opens space for conflicts among the crew again. Steger and the crew decide to alternate the chores and duties again to decrease the upcoming tensions for the rest of the journey.

The Fourth Week

The fourth week starts with a new system that enables each crew member twelve hours of tent time. On that first day they make eight miles of progress. McKerrow also announces the decision to leave the expedition on April 1, due to health issues. The mood changes thereby and scepticism among the crew increases. It is McKerrow himself who holds an empowering speech and who “sets all of [them] on fire” again. For the airlift the next day they plan to not only send some dogs home, but also gear that is not needed anymore in order to reduce the payload and to make lighter travelling possible. They have a party in the tents that night to celebrate McKerrow’s last night. The airlift is set for 1:00 PM for the next day and is accompanied by a media team. Sad but more determined than ever, the crew starts the sleds again to head northward. They are now seven people and 42 dogs. A new constellation brings new routines and they rearrange loading time and pacing. They also benefit from lengthening hours of daylight that enable them to travel well into nighttime and weather conditions become more moderate that week. They encounter a first sign of wildlife in the Arctic when seeing fox tracks and decide to start carrying their rifles in case they experience it face- to- face. They have to take another rest at the end of the day that week because they want to give their dogs the opportunity to get some rest, since they are barely moving anymore and not making much progress.

The Fifth Week

The week begins with Steger’s team waiting out “impatiently” a “clear” (213) day. Steger is without “resupply”. They decide which 21 dogs would be going to the Pole and agree with the plan that they will have a second rest stop in three days to prevent another burnout. They come up with a “final dash” like Peary’s team: the dash is supposed to take place after the next dog pickup which is on April 9, when they expect “to be nearing 86 degrees”. The plan requires that they do twelve-hour and 20-mile-plus days to reach “the Pole by the end of April”. Steger notices the effects of the tough conditions on his colleagues. Mantell has the most serious injury: “Three toes on his right foot and four on his left were blackened, swollen and festering”. Due to his enormous pain, Mantell decides to return home on the next dog-pickup flight. Richard discovers ski tracks; they belong to: Jean- Louis Etienne, the French explorer. Stunned about this coincidence, Etienne shows the Steger team his “home” meaning his tent. Steger learns that his goal is to become the first person to ski alone to the North Pole. Shocked about how fragile the landscape is, the cracks in the ice become more frequent and bigger- the lead would stretch on for miles. On Day 35 the plane arrives: “Five people, including our base manager, Jim Gasperini, Karl and his copilot, and two media representatives, National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg and his colleague Lynn Peterson, greeted us with warm hugs”. Continuing northward, Steger thinks they would never reach the Pole. During a team meeting they discuss their diet and how to reduce the payload. By the end of the conference, the relief that still all seven people can go to the Pole dominates.

The Sixth Week

After breakfast, they meet in Schurke’s tent. They have decided to drop nearly 300 pounds. Weber thinks they are giving up too easily. A “twenty- day man- haul plan” from his diary- this plan would put all seven of them to the Pole accompanied by a few dogs. Steger is concerned that they have “starvation rations pulling heavy sleds”. The group decides for the “assault team” proposal of Steger and Schurke and not for Weber’s proposal. The question of who could be the third person (besides Schurke and Steger) arises. Mantell is not sure if his feet can get him to the Pole. He decides with sorrow to leave the team. Schurke hears the radio check over breakfast: Etienne has scheduled a flight in four days, April 16- this would be the flight for Mantell who is leaving the team. Steger considers this day as a turning point of the expedition since they have finally arranged “a match between weight and power”, regarding the loads on the sleds. On Day 38, Schurke and Steger have a discussion since Steger has lost the urgency. To Schurke the driving source to reach his goal is the death of his older brother Mark being killed in a car accident five months before. Bancroft has an accident: the snow on which she stands gives way and she dips waist- deep into the ocean. She is fine after this incident so that anyone barely mentions it in their diary; however in the media it becomes the most reported episode of their journey. Steger talks about the proposal to give the rations of the third person to the dogs. He wants to reduce tensions because he wants to get all of the team members to the Pole. However, they are angry and call it a “Steger- Schurke plot” for putting just themselves to the Pole.

The Seventh Week

The team receives a call from Hans Weber, Weber’s father: he says that they have to be careful in the area of the Lomonosov Ridge. The ice in this area above the ridge is broken. Jim from the Resolute base interrupts this conversation; he does not want that this information gets passed to them. The team is concerned that this was a warning. On Day 44 they encounter indeed a zone of fractured ice. They set up camp at a lead hoping that it will close or freeze overnight. The next day, they travel to 88 degrees. Entering the last two degrees of latitude, it becomes obvious that from this position, Peary “launched his final dash” in 1909. On Day 47 it becomes apparent that The National Geographic will be the first to break the news if they reach the top of the Pole. On Day 48 they launch their dash at 6. 30 AM. Steger gets more understanding for the human body and more empathy for people who suffer from illness and hunger everyday due to his digestive problems. By the end of the week, they camp that night 100 miles within the Pole. They realize that the last 60 miles could be the most difficult.

The Eighth Week

Schurke spends much time with the sextant and has to correct their course two times. Now it is important to be targeted for the Pole precisely. While Steger is being in a healthy state due to his new diet, the other team members are suffering from sore feet. One of their Eskimo dogs collapses. After a ten- hour- march, they are only thirty miles distant from the Pole. The team is excited and continues on as far as they have energy since otherwise the Transpolar Drift Stream would take them farther away from the Pole if they set up camp and sleep. On Day 53 they leave at 7.00 AM but they have to stop four hours later because Schurke has to take a long series with the sextant. After hours he has solved the navigational problems. A Canadian military jet (“Aurora”) arrives: the pilot asks them if they still stick to their rules that they do not need any assistance. On Day 54 their dog- food supplies are almost exhausted. Critter, Mantell’s dog dies due to heartsickness. On Day 55 they are now ten miles distant from the Pole; they set off already the satellite beacon for National Geographic. “We’re at the Pole”, Boddy shouts out finally on Day 56. They celebrate with a firecracker and receive the message that three planes will be arriving there the next day.

At the University of Orlais Celene meets with Leliana, the Left Hand of the Divine, to ask that Divine Justinia V acts directly to try and ease the tension between mages and templars. Leliana and the empress agree that the Divine will make a declaration at a ball thrown in her honor in no more than a month.

Briala has been Empress Celene's elf servant for many, many years and they worked together in secret, both within Orlesian society's complex game of political intrigue and as lovers; it could never come to light that they were romantically involved, as it would be as scandalous as a lady of an estate sleeping with the gardener. However, since Celene promised Briala she would one day free the elves of Orlais, Briala continued to do Celene's bidding in secret. Briala was mainly her spymaster, using the city elves as her eyes and ears. Along with Celene's chevalier champion, Ser Michel, Briala ensured Celene kept the throne while her cousin Grand Duke Gaspard schemed.

Gaspard eventually launched a coup attempt against Celene while she is in the city of Halamshiral, which forces the Empress and her entourage to do their best to stay hidden from Gaspard and his agents as they attempt to track her down. Celene's goal is to return to Val Royeux and rally forces loyal to her if she has any chance in stopping him. Along the way Celene encounters the mysterious elven apostate Felassan, a clan of Dalish elves who has summoned a powerful demon, the magical mirror artifacts known as the Eluvians, and is even forced to work alongside Gaspard himself to ensure their mutual survival.

The story is set in London, after the events described in ''At the Villa Rose''. Ricardo, the dilettante amateur detective, is sitting at his breakfast table in Grosvenor Square when he is interrupted by his great friend Gabriel Hanaud, the French professional detective.

A visitor is unexpectedly shown in: a fashionable young man named Calladine whom Ricardo has not seen for several months. Visibly distressed, Calladine blurts out a fantastic tale of having attended a ball at the ''Semiramis Hotel'' the night before, and having met a young woman dressed in a distinctive masquerade costume who had early the next morning turned up unannounced at his chambers seeking sanctuary. He reports that the young woman, Joan Carew, an opera singer, confessed that she had been tempted by a valuable pearl necklace worn by one of the hotel guests, and that she had crept into the woman's room to try to steal it. On entering, she found that she had inadvertently disturbed and been seen by two masked men who were also there to steal the pearls. She fainted, and when she came round discovered that the men had disappeared and that she was alone with the necklace's dead owner. She had immediately rushed over to Calladine's chambers.

Hanaud and Ricardo accompany Calladine across town to his chambers, and initially conclude that he imagined the whole thing when they discover that he is a user of the drug mescal, known for its ability to create colourful hallucinations. But then the newspapers report the crime. Joan Carew repeats her story to the two men, and later tells them that in a dream she thought she saw the mask of one of the thieves slip so that she could see his face. The unmasked man is André Favart, companion of the opera star Carmen Valeri, one of Joan Carew's professional colleagues.

With the assistance of the director of the Opera House, Hanaud gets Joan Carew to sing her role in that night's production dressed in the distinctive costume she was wearing when she had disturbed the thieves. Then, after the performance, he arranges for Favart to bump into her. When Favart realises who she is, and that he has been recognised, he attempts to run but is detained and arrested for murder. The stolen necklace has been hidden in plain sight amongst the paste jewellery worn on stage by the unknowing Carmen Valeri.

Calladine and Joan Carew are soon married.

Lee Ka-yin (Danny Lee), nicknamed Bee, a diamond smuggler and former triad member and ex-con who have been imprisoned four times in the past, arrives in Taiwan for a business deal with Taiwanese triad leader, Hark (Blackie Ko). During the trade, Hark suggests Bee to smuggle cocaine, which Bee refuses. When Hark takes it as a joke, Bee pulls a gun on Hark, while one of Hark's henchman attempt to attack Bee and his underling, Kwan (Felix Lok), but Bee slices Hark's henchman with a sword. After the trade, Bee tells Kwan he wants to go straight and leave his criminal life while Kwan also longs to return to Hong Kong after hiding in Taiwan for three years due to an assault charge. Bee returns to Hong Kong and also gives Kwan some cash to illegally enter Hong Kong from boat.

Bee's younger brother, Kevin (Aaron Kwok) is a college student studying music and dance and aspires to be a singer. When Bee returns home, Kevin is delighted to see him, but not so much by his mother (Lisa Chiao Chiao) because his criminal past and kicks him out of the house. Bee assures his mother he has left criminal life and they move into a 1,400 square feet condo he bought for his family.

Bee then reconnects with his lover Hung (Sharla Cheung), a pub hostess. There, he also reconnects with Kwan and Superman (Shing Fui-On). Hung suggest Bee to acquire a nightclub from an owner is ready to emigrate, which Superman appoints himself to be manager. Kevin also arrives at the pub where he works as a part-time singer and performs on stage but Bee gets in an argument with rowdy patrons for being too loud. Kevin attempts to break up the argument but was punched and Bee attacks the patrons aided by Kwan and Superman.

At school, Kevin is persuaded by his classmates to participate in a singing contest. There, he also witnesses classmate Donna (Lucy Liu) during a dance rehearsal and asks her out afterwards. Bee then meets with Uncle Kau (Wu Ma) to lend money for acquiring the nightclub mentioned to him by Hung. Bee also mortgages his condo to Kau for an extra funds.

Kevin auditions for the singing contest and gets chosen. Bee, Superman and Kwan march in to the office of Yip Hon-leung, one of the judges of the singing contest and attempt to bribe him for Kevin to win. Bee, Hung, Superman and Kwan arrive to the singing contest to support Kevin, who ends up losing. Hung, Superman and Kwan assaults Yip while Bee attempts to stop them and Kevin gets arrested for assault and bribery. Bee admits to the charges to the police and gets convicted while Kevin is freed. Officer Wong (Parkman Wong) orders his subordinates to raid Bee's nightclub and finds a bag of cocaine hidden in his office by Kwan and Bee is also charged with drug possession which causes his mother to faint in court. She eventually dies in the hospital and Bee pleads with Officer Wong to allow him to attend his mother's funeral, where Kevin blames him for the death of their mother. Afterwards, Bee pleads guilty to his crimes and is sentenced to a combined term of 2 years and 9 months of imprisonment while his condo is also seized by the court.

During this depressing moment for Kevin, he is approached with s contract by record producer Peter Lai, who was one of the judges of the singing contest. Kevin's singing career takes off during Bee's time in prison and Hung visits him with a photo book of Kevin. After his release, Bee reunites with Hung and Superman, who has become a cleaner due to huge indebts. Bee and Hung attempt to visit Kevin in a birthday party with his fans, but Lai stops them in order to not affect his career and Bee leaves a gift of a necklace of a Christian cross. When Lai hands it to Kevin, he rushed out to see his brother who had left. Later, Hung gives Bee a ticket to Kevin's upcoming concert held in Taiwan.

Meanwhile, Kwan, who is hiding in Taiwan for framing Bee, owes a huge debt to Hark. As Hark is about to chop his fingers off, Kwan then suggests Hark to kidnap Kevin in order to clear his debts. Bee attends Kevin's concert in Taiwan where his final song is dedicated to his brother. Kevin spots Bee at the audience when he throws a coin on stage. Afterwards, Bee goes backstage to see his brother and sees Kwan kidnapping Kevin. Bee saves his brother and kills Kwan with s samurai sword before Hark arrives and stabs Bee. Kevin then kills Hark and his henchmen and Bee dies in Kevin's arms.

Three Americans, a married couple and a middle-aged woman, are traveling on a train from the French riviera to Paris. The middle-aged woman seems to be partly deaf and anxious about the fast-moving train crashing. She is delighted by a canary she bought in Sicily. The train passes a house fire and wrecked vehicles. Halfway through the story, the narrator reveals himself to be the husband, listening in on the woman’s conversation with his wife. After finding out that the couple are American, the woman mentions repeatedly that Americans make the only good husbands. She bought the canary for her still-heartbroken daughter, whom she prevented from marrying a Swiss man two years ago. As they exit the train, it is revealed that the American couple will live separately in Paris.

Two high school seniors, Logan (Devon Werkheiser) and Blake (Sean Marquette) travel to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, where they hope to get together with their school crushes. However, they end up having to spend spring break trying to find a local girl who stole one of their father's Rolex wristwatches.

Con-artist Jack Fortune dies and discovers an afterlife in chaos following a mysterious event known as the Calamity. With the afterlife's infrastructure in ruins following the disappearance of its former rulers, the seven archangels, Jack decides to take over and transform the afterlife into a modern corporate entity. He is aided by Lux, a former soldier angel; Mr Ochroid, an angel made of gold wire with administrative skills; Nuriel, a giant lion-headed angel; Temperance Jones, a lowly worker angel and founder of the afterlife's first trade union; Elizabeth, a fellow human; Anahel, the last surviving archangel; and the angel App, Jack's overpowered bodyguard.

The series begins in media res, with Afterlife Inc. already established as the afterlife's new ruling body. Early volumes explore the relationship between the company and the beings that fall under its care. As the series progresses, more details of Jack's past are revealed and the ethics of his actions are called into question. A key mystery of the series is the fate of the lost archangels and a sinister conspiracy developing in the shadows.

Volume 1: Dying to Tell

Volume 1 consists of a series of one-off stories exploring the lives and after-lives of people in the afterlife, and serves as an introduction to the world and its themes. At the same time, Afterlife Inc. investigates a serial killer who is loose in the afterlife, with assistance from fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Volume 2: Near Life

Volume 2 continues the themes of the first book with more short stories exploring the lives of the afterlife's inhabitants. Afterlife Inc. also contends with Project Otherside, a clandestine branch of the United States Armed Forces, which attempts to invade the afterlife with the aid of Jon Antrobus, a man with godlike powers who holds a strange connection to the world of the dead. In the final pages, it is revealed that an organisation called the Council of Days (a reference to G. K. Chesterton's ''The Man Who Was Thursday'') is plotting in secret to overthrow Afterlife Inc.

The Heavenly Chord

Zachary Briarpatch, protagonist of Nich Angell's ''7STRING'', crash lands on the Empyrean in search of his missing sword (the eponymous 7STRING blade). Zach and Afterlife Inc. come into conflict due to the machinations of a being known as Requiem, who is trying to destroy both the Empyrean and Zach's home world of Melodia in the name of art.

While ''The Heavenly Chord'' can be considered a standalone story, it remains part of the central canon for both series. Zack and Jack later team up again as part of the ''Perfect Storm'' crossover in ''Extraversal Year 4'' by Big Punch Studios.

Volume 3: Lifeblood

A sinister cult called the Undead seeks to awaken an entity called the Harvest from deep within the Empyrean. The Undead, who model themselves on vampires (a reference to Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight series''), worship the Harvest as a god, having gained incomplete knowledge of the afterlife's origins from a mysterious benefactor.

Volume 3 centres on manna, the energy source of the dead, and the challenges faced by the afterlife's various rulers in feeding the undead populace. It also marks the first appearance of Rich Fire, Afterlife Inc.'s corporate spy.

Volume 4: Man Made God

An Afterlife Inc. employee recounts his life to an unidentified hooded man. The man has a gun that causes 'true death' by erasing all memory of a person from existence, and demonstrates its power by destroying the employee. Elsewhere, Afterlife Inc. intervenes when a group of ancient humans attempts to launch a rocket into the void.

In Machonon, Science City, an independent city state, invades the neighbouring Amazonia in an attempt to claim the transformational fountain waters that it controls. In containing the conflict, Afterlife Inc. exposes Science City's leader, the Trinity (a composite of Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Nikola Tesla) as a rogue angel, which has been manipulating the scientists for its own ends.

Amid the chaos, a being claiming to be Gabriel, one of the lost archangels, awakens from beneath Amazonia. Gabriel rallies the populace against Afterlife Inc., causing many of Jack's allies to defect to the archangel's side - although Anahel, the only one capable of confirming Gabriel's identity, is nowhere to be found.

Jack faces his accusers in front of the entire afterlife, challenging Gabriel to reclaim his power. Unable to act on his authority, 'Gabriel' is revealed to be a deception orchestrated by the Council of Days, who have mimicked the power of an archangel through a combination of fountain waters and a shield belonging to the lost archangel Michael.

Afterlife Inc. reunites to take down the Council. Jack defeats Monday, the leader of the Council, in a shapeshifting battle of wits, and frees Anahel, who had been incapacitated by the Council in order to conceal their ruse. With the threat neutralised, Afterlife Inc. gathers as the ancients launch their ship into the void, but deep rifts have formed within the group. Unseen, the hooded man watches from the shadows.

Volume 5: Glory Days

Volume 5 is a series of interconnected vignettes set across different time periods.

Rich Fire is recruited by App for a secret mission to investigate a connection between recent events.

In the distant past, the archangels prepare to face a mysterious force that is approaching the Empyrean. The Metatron, the mightiest of the archangels, can only watch as its siblings are destroyed in the Calamity, due to the strange manner in which it perceives time. Knowing that its future holds only madness, the Metatron accepts its fate, turning at the last moment to address a ghostly version of Elizabeth, who is somehow present in this time period.

In the present day, Anahel recovers from his injuries sustained in Volume 4, but accepts that the manna supply has begun to falter. Elsewhere, Lux travels to the Angel Forge, the source of all angels, to repair her own wounds.

Elizabeth and Jack become trapped within the labyrinth of Zebul and come dangerously close to fading away due to manna deprivation. Elizabeth discovers the Akashic Records, a device that records the lives of everyone who has ever died.

App and Rich Fire interrogate the Trinity - to the dismay of Temperance Jones, who is uncomfortable with their heavy-handed methods. A masked man who resembles Jack attempts to headhunt Temperance to an unknown organisation.

Jack meets Arjun Arcadia, the CEO of rival company White Horse, who appears to be copying Jack's business model, and the two are forced to team up to repel a terrorist attack. In the aftermath, the leader of the terrorists is destroyed by the hooded man and his gun.

Nuriel reveals to Elizabeth how the Metatron, now insane, was imprisoned after the Calamity - but appears to have broken free. A ghostly version of Elizabeth watches her past self via the Akashic Records.

App and Rich Fire's investigation reveals a conspiracy linking recent threats to Afterlife Inc. Before they can act on this knowledge, however, they must thwart an attempt on Jack's life by the hooded man. In saving Jack, App and fellow employee Antimony are caught by the blast, erasing them from history. In the revised timeline, Fire is now Jack's bodyguard - it is unclear how much he remembers.

In the epilogue, Arjun Arcadia and the masked man are revealed to be in the service of Sunday, the missing member of the Council of Days, who has taken control of the Metatron.

During a heist at a police station's evidence room, two out of four criminals end up dead. The remaining two escape with eight kilos of cocaine. Meanwhile, sawmill owner Saïd goes through a CT scan and finds out he has carcinoma and not long to live. He visits his sister-in-law and tells her about his plans to sell his sawmill that was owned previously by her father, and assures her she'll get her share. One of his employees, a young man named Yanis who is out on parole, meets up with his half-brother and one of the criminals who survived the heist. Deciding not to hand over the stolen drugs to the drug lord Adama, the half-brother tells Yanis to hide the drugs at the sawmill. Yanis switches cars with him and hides the drugs at the sawmill.

Saïd tells his speech-and hearing-impaired teenage daughter Sarah about his plans to use the money from selling the sawmill for her postsecondary studies. He meets a buyer and shows him the sawmill. Meanwhile, an enraged Adama captures the two criminals who survived the heist and kills one of them on the spot by snapping his neck. Saïd starts to suspect Yanis is up to something and after interrogating him, he finds the drugs hidden in a truck at the sawmill. Locking Yanis inside the sawmill and telling Sarah to stay indoors, he takes a shotgun and drives away for help. He circles back when he learns that the gang is on its way.

Noticing Saïd, Adama's brother Moussa goes to the sawmill to retrieve the drugs. Sarah goes near the spot where Yanis is locked, and Adama's brother threatens them with a gun, before being shot by Saïd. Freeing Yanis, Saïd takes him and Sarah inside their house. Adama arrives, and one of his men cuts off the telephone lines, severing their contact with the cops. Yanis tells Saïd the cops will take 20 minutes to arrive. Adama watches his brother die in his arms, kills the second criminal who betrayed him and starts looking for the trio.

Saïd hands Yanis a shotgun and sends Sarah to escape through the woods with Yanis while he plans to distract the gang. Seeing the two run, one of the henchmen chases after them. Saïd, on the other hand, lures many of the gang into traps and eliminates them one by one. However, he finds himself locked inside the sawmill which the gang soon sets on fire. Saïd escapes from the sawmill and gets a heavy log-loading vehicle, and flees into the woods. When a gang member chases him in a car, Saïd uses the sawmill vehicle's weight to destroy the car and kill the gang member.

Meanwhile, Yanis and Sarah continue to flee in the woods, pursued by a henchman. Yanis and Sarah hide in a shed. When the henchman finds their hiding spot, Yanis tries to strangle the henchman, but Yanis gets stabbed. Sarah runs to a nearby farmhouse for help. When Saïd rushes into help Yanis, Saïd incapacitates the henchman, but Yanis dies. When Adama and another henchman arrive, Saïd uses the tied up henchman to distract them and kills the new henchman, but Adama returns fire, seriously wounding Saïd.

Adama holds Saïd at gunpoint, before revealing his plans for avenging his brother's death by killing Sarah. Leaving Saïd lying wounded in the shed, Adama goes to the farmhouse. Adama shoots the old man in the farmhouse who was helping Sarah. Pursued by Adama, she is cornered in an upper floor and jumps from the building. Adama captures her and tries to snap her neck, before Saïd arrives and kills him with an axe. Saïd falls down and Sarah holds him as the police helicopter arrives.

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Commissar Ciaphas Cain, a famed member of the Imperial Guard, and his aide-de-camp Gunner First Class Jurgen are transferred to the Valhallan 296th'301st, a composite Guard unit in transit aboard a spaceship, formed from the remnants of the Valhallan 296th and 301st Regiments after both sustained grievous losses. He is introduced to Colonel Kasteen and Major Broklaw, the highest-ranking officers from both regiments. Cain discovers that tensions between the members of the 296th'301st are rising rapidly due to clashing centuries-old traditions. The tension comes to a head when a riot breaks out in a mess hall, with multiple casualties within the 296th'301st and the ship's crew.

With some luck and wit, Cain manages to defuse the situation, placating the angered ship crew and forging new unity between the Guardsmen of the Valhallan 597th, formed from the merger of the 296th and 301st. Members of the 597th responsible for the riot are sentenced to undertake suicide missions in the future.

Some time later, the 597th are assigned to the backwater planet of Gravalax as a show of force since the planet's locals have begun to defect to the Tau, a race of expansionist aliens. At a diplomatic event organised by Planetary Governor Grice, a Tau diplomat is assassinated, causing tensions to rise. Nearly immediately after, conflict breaks out across the capital, with civilian rioters and Planetary Defence Force troops fighting against and on the side of both Imperial and Tau forces. Cain and Lord General Zyvan are able to discover the presence of a conspiracy on Gravalax to initiate conflict between the Tau and the Imperium to unknown ends. During an operation to suppress the chaos, Cain and the convicted members of the 597th are recruited by Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Amberly Vail to go on a reconnaissance mission to the underground depths of Gravalax's capital city to uncover the conspiracy, where they join forces with a Tau unit.

Underground, they encounter a Genestealer Cult, confirming Vail's suspicions. Kelp, one of the convicted Guardsmen, attempts to kill Cain, but is killed by Jurgen. Another, Trebek, is killed after being shot in the chest by Genestealer cultists. Two of the convicted, Holenbi and Velade, are separated from the rest in an intense firefight. However, Jurgen is able to kill the leader of the Genestealer cultists, the Patriarch, throwing the remaining cultists into chaos, thus giving the group the chance to escape above-ground into Grice's palace. Grice shoots and kills Sorel, the last convicted Guardsman. He reveals himself as another Genestealer cultist and the assassin of the Tau diplomat, and engages the group in combat. Vail lands the killing blow, and the group is evacuated by the 597th.

After the battle, a dazed Holenbi and Velade are retrieved by a search team with little memory of their time separated from Cain, but Cain summarily executes them both with his sidearm. He uses a knife to remove a Genestealer implant in Holenbi's body, with Vail explaining to a sickened Kasteen and Sulla that both had been infected by Genestealers, made obvious by their disappearance, disorientation and missing memory after combat against Genestealers. Kasteen orders their bodies incinerated. Cain and Vail observe Tau soldiers exhibiting the symptoms of Genestealer infection being led away.

Soon after, the Tau mysteriously leave Gravalax behind, returning Gravalax to Imperial hands. Vail and Cain discuss the incident over a meal, where they discuss the ongoing extermination of local Genestealer cults; she also reveals Jurgen's nature as a psychic blank to Cain. The two toast to their friendship, and Vail promises to keep in touch with Cain.

Lucia is a young woman living in Amsterdam. She idolises her beautiful older sister Katia, who is drifting towards the sex industry. Their mother is from Russia and works as a sex worker in the red-light district.

The true story of the Shetland bus, undercover traffic across the North Sea from German-occupied Norway to Shetland during World War II. A small group of Norwegian sailors loosely connected to the British navy take refugees from Norway to Shetland in small fishing-boats, equipped only with low calibre weapons to protect themselves from German aeroplanes and patrol boats. The film is closely based on real events, and many of the members of the group, including the leader, called "Shetlands-Larsen" play themselves. Written by Øystein Brekke.

The story revolves around Franco (Mauricio Ochmann), a man who lives a miserable life, since his wife does not respect him, and his children do not pay attention to him and only see him as a hindrance. As if that were not enough, after a medical examination Franco finds out that he has terminal cancer, and decides to live his life to the fullest without caring about anything. In his rampant madness, he murders a drug trafficker in self-defense and later learns that the medical certificate stating that he had cancer turned out to be false. So now Franco must flee from justice and from the partners of the drug trafficker he murdered.

On Fairy Tale Island, a group of heroic princes called the Fearless Seven – Merlin, Arthur, Jack, Hans, and triplets Pino, Noki and Kio – save a Fairy Princess from a dragon. However, after seeing her green face, they assume she is a witch and attack her. To teach them a lesson, she curses them to transform into green dwarfs whenever people look at them. The curse can only be broken by a kiss from "the most beautiful woman in the world", which they believe is impossible.

Seven years later, Princess Snow White, the overweight but strong and kind daughter of King White, sets out to find her missing father. She returns to her parents' castle, where her stepmother, Queen Regina, has taken over. She finds a message from her father telling her to find the seven and not to trust apples. She finds a pair of red shoes growing on a tree, which grant eternal life and beauty. Snow puts the shoes on, which transforms her into a beautiful slim woman. Regina suddenly attacks, unaware that the slender woman is Snow White. Snow escapes on a broomstick and crashes at the dwarfs' house, alerting the seven nearby. They prepare to attack, thinking Snow White is the Fairy Princess, but welcome her into their home upon seeing her. Snow is shocked at seeing herself in the mirror and renames herself "Red Shoes". The seven are all immediately smitten and strive to impress her so she might kiss them.

Regina hires the selfish Prince Average of a neighboring kingdom. Average's soldiers chase Red Shoes to try and kidnap her, but Merlin saves her. That night, Red Shoes and Merlin grow closer to each other. Regina gives Average and his bodyguards apples and turns them into monstrous wooden bears. In a secluded forest, Red Shoes tries to give Merlin a hint about her real self, but instead confesses her feelings for him, and they kiss. Merlin is shocked to see that the kiss did not undo his curse, as he still thinks Red Shoes is the prophetic woman. Merlin fights off an attack by Average and his bodyguards, but as Average falls into a river, he takes Merlin with him. Red Shoes saves Merlin by removing the shoes and regaining her strength, exposing herself as Snow White. She pointedly asks Merlin if he would have helped her real self, and Merlin leaves, ashamed. She then puts the shoes back on, thinking Merlin still likes her for her looks more than herself. Merlin imagines a conversation with his dwarf self and, realizing that Snow White likes him for who he is on the inside, decides to help her. In the forest, Regina disguises herself as Merlin and asks Red Shoes to eat an apple to help remove her shoes, but the real Merlin arrives, and the exposed witch abducts her stepdaughter.

In her castle, Regina again tries to force Snow White to eat an apple by threatening to kill a captured Merlin. Snow eats the apple and transforms into a new apple tree. Merlin fails to escape from Regina's magic mirror until the other dwarfs save him. Merlin sacrifices himself by falling down the castle with Regina to save Snow. With Regina dead, the wooden animals they befriended change back into humans, including King White. Pino, Noki, and Kio save Merlin and take him to Snow. He tells her she is the most beautiful woman whether his eyes are open or closed. After he dies in her arms, she revives him with a kiss, transforming him back into a prince. Merlin and Snow White happily accept each other's appearances, while Arthur remains confused by Snow's true identity.

In the end credits, Snow and Merlin marry, while the other princes find their own unusual-looking girlfriends. The Fairy Princess fishes Prince Average out of a river and turns him into another green dwarf after he makes a rude remark.

Christmas is coming upon San Francisco. Detective Sgt. Lindsay Boxer, her family, and her friends of the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The courts are slow and the medical examiner's office is quiet. Journalist Cindy Thomas is working on a story about the true meaning of Christmas in San Francisco. Then a series of crimes and threats of horrific crimes to come put the entire police force into nonstop action. At first, all they have is a name, "Loman," behind the threats. It takes until Christmas before enough pieces come together to find enough to hope to pinpoint where Loman can be caught.

A reworking of William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', ''The Storm'' follows the fortunes of Kenzie Maxwell, a wealthy soon-to-be septuagenarian with a complicated past. Retired to a secluded and wealthy island in the State of Florida with his third wife, Willow, Kenzie dwells on the consequences of his midlife crisis. Though twenty years have passed since his affair with a young graffiti artist, Kia, the ramifications of the relationship are seemingly permanent: an irrevocably altered life trajectory, lasting shame and regret, and an irreconcilable conflict with his only brother.

Twenty years previously, Kenzie's increasing sense of purposelessness drove him to seek further meaning beyond his own opulent lifestyle as a successful writer. Having cast about for a productive and charitable outlet, the middle-aged Kenzie had settled at last upon the Alodians mission, a charitable organisation chaired by his older brother, Dalton. Serving the charity in the South Bronx as the editor of their newsletter, Kenzie had earnestly set about to document the sad stories of the homeless and abandoned individuals that frequented the mission, only to meet and fall in love with the seventeen-year-old Kia.

Following a brief and clandestine affair, Kia is found dead, having prematurely given birth to Kenzie's child in the impoverished surroundings of a tenement flat with few amenities. Kenzie, who was unaware of the pregnancy, had subsequently written a distraught letter of confession to his brother. While struggling to come to terms with the responsibility of raising his newly-born daughter, Bree, Kenzie is stunned by his brother’s decision to publish his private confession in the mission newsletter, thereby breaking the news of the scandal, and bringing public disgrace upon himself and, more importantly, his daughter and her mother.

Twenty years hence, the retired writer has become a resident of Plantation Island, where his wife, Willow, lives with her forty-year-old son, Averill. The wealthy Floridian community is presided over by the formidable Miss Sickert, whose prestigious "suppers" are the daunting gateway to the social circle of the resort. As the date of Kenzie's seventieth birthday party approaches, Dalton journeys to the island at the request of Miss Sickert, who requires his assistance in the composition of a will. Also travelling to the island are Dalton's stepson, Nandy, whose relationship with his stepfather threatens to become distant beyond repair, and Bree, who has come to celebrate her father's birthday. By coincidence, a miraculous reunion is brought about when Bree realises that the man sat next to her on the flight to West Palm Beach is her uncle Dalton, and the two travellers are met at the airport by Nandy and Kenzie.

Determined to see the brothers reconciled, Willow despatches Averill with a party invitation to the house of Miss Sickert, where Dalton and his stepson are lodging. Intending on interrogating the dissolute messenger, Miss Sickert is instead dragged into an unwanted existential conversation about her own existence, which raises fears that neither she nor her afternoon guest, the obsequious Bishop Hazelton, are able to allay.

As the day of the party arrives, Nandy proposes an early morning fishing trip with his father, with the hope that this will bring about a long-sought rapprochement. The planned reconciliation appears to have been thwarted when a storm intercepts the boat, reducing it to a wreck, and depositing its two passengers in the sea, as Willow, Bree, and Kenzie watch with horror from the shore. When the latter calls Miss Sickert with news of the apparent tragedy, she is heartbroken, and begins to make her way to Willow's house through the rain. Both Dalton and Nandy are rescued from the surf, neither knowing that the other is still alive, and thus both are given the opportunity to mourn the loss of the other, and are thereby reconciled when they realise that tragedy has been averted. When both Miss Sickert and Bishop Hazelton arrive somewhat bedraggled at the house, they find the family joined together in celebration, their differences resolved and their collective pasts forgiven.

A young member of Belgrade mafia gang puts his and lives of his family members when he angers a mafia boss.

The film explores and investigates several "urban legends" surrounding American actor and comedian Bill Murray.

Serac has a Delos board member killed, which ensures the company cannot prevent his immediate takeover. Charlotte calls Dolores to inform her that this happened. She feels increasingly out of place in her body, but Dolores insists she get the data they need as planned. Serac orders the destruction of the park hosts and host data and to test all employees for a host. Charlotte uses the distraction to make the host data copy that Dolores needs. She also discovers William's location, and that Serac is using the host machines at Delos to make four new hosts. Later, Serac identifies her as the Dolores host. Charlotte attempts to escape.

Maeve is told by Serac that she will get a new host body as well as allies to help in the fight against Dolores. She is brought into the Warworld simulation and meets Lee again. She finds that her host module has been moved as well as the three additional hosts being prepared. This includes one for Hector, and she helps bring back Hector's prior memories. She, Hector, and Lee find that the damaged module, the copy of Dolores that was in Martin, is also attached to the simulation. Maeve asks this Dolores about her plans. Dolores recognizes that Maeve would likely be seeking allies and would have planned ahead. Maeve is too late to stop Charlotte from destroying the Hector control module. Maeve soon wakes up in her new host body and waits for the two untouched hosts to arise.

William resists traditional therapy at the mental institution, so he is fitted with an implant that can access his limbic system. Through it, the doctors make him have an augmented reality therapy session with his earlier selves as well as James Delos. This shows that there was a point in his teenage life where he chose violence, which led him down this path. William comes to a catharsis as he violently beats up his other selves. He claims he has now chosen to be the "good guy." He is pulled out of this state by Bernard and Ashley. The facility was otherwise abandoned after everyone received their Rehoboam profile.

Serac's men chase Charlotte away from the host machines but not before she grabs the damaged Dolores's core. Charlotte races home to take her ex-husband Jake and son Nathan to safety, but Serac's men destroy the car. A charred Charlotte survives.

A man who has provided information to the authorities in exchange for an early release from prison seeks to stay one step ahead of vengeful gangsters while trying to reconnect with his former girlfriend and the daughter he has never met over the Christmas holidays.

In 1979, a film named ''Antrum''—shot in English but of apparently Bulgarian origin—is submitted for inclusion in a variety of film festivals; none accept it. After each rejection, the various festival directors die under suspicious circumstances. Several years go by during which the film remains unseen until it mysteriously appears at a theater in Budapest in 1988. During the screening, a fire—initially believed to be the result of a faulty projector—burns the theater to the ground. Investigators later determine that audience members set the fire themselves. The film again goes unseen for many years until it is screened in a theater in California in 1993. Prior to the film, a concession stand worker doses popcorn with LSD; the combination of the drug and the film results in a riot during which a pregnant woman is killed. Following this screening, all copies of the film apparently vanish, and it earns a reputation as being cursed.

In 2018, a copy of ''Antrum'' surfaces, prompting a documentary crew to make a short film on its history and impact. Although the origins of the movie remain unknown, scientists and film experts who examine the 35 mm reel determine that, among other unique properties, the film utilizes disorienting sounds and subliminal imagery. The documentary crew further determines that unrelated, black-and-white snippets of an apparent snuff film have been spliced into the original movie by a third party. The documentary pauses so that ''Antrum'' may be presented in its entirety for the first time in twenty-five years.

''Antrum'' concerns siblings Oralee and Nathan, whose pet dog, Maxine, was recently euthanized. After Nathan asks if Maxine went to Heaven, their mother teases him with saying that because she was a bad dog, Maxine has gone to Hell. In a flashback, it is revealed that Maxine attacked Nathan, for no apparent reason, which resulted in her being euthanized. Traumatized, Nathan begins experiencing disturbing dreams and visions of demons. In an effort to ease his mind, Oralee claims to have obtained a grimoire from an imaginary classmate named Ike whom she claims is versed in the occult. Using the book—in fact, a sketchbook Oralee has filled herself with arcane drawings and "spells"—she takes Nathan to a nearby forest locally renowned as a place for suicides, telling him that it is the place where Satan fell to Earth when he was cast out of Heaven and that if they can find the place where he landed, the pair can dig a hole to Hell and rescue Maxine. Oralee guides Nathan through a series of rituals and "rites," intending all along to arrange for Nathan to discover Maxine's collar in the woods as a "sign" they have saved her soul. As the day progresses, Oralee is disturbed to find that her "spells" are having an apparent effect on the real world, conjuring actual infernal figures. Additionally, the pair accidentally interrupt a man attempting seppuku, and obliviously pass by the rotting corpse of a suicide near their campsite.

Their first night in the woods, Nathan slips out of the tent and sees a boat being rowed in a nearby stream by a figure resembling Charon, who ferries a nude woman. He likewise hears a rattling chain that he attributes to Cerberus. The next day, Nathan and Oralee stumble upon a pair of cannibals in the woods, who capture and cook people alive inside a giant, iron statue of Baphomet, including the man whose suicide attempt they earlier interrupted. When the cannibals become aware of their presence, Oralee attempts to take herself and Nathan to safety by abandoning their camp and rowing downriver in the boat Nathan saw the night before; the pair both end up falling into the water. Oralee and Nathan make it to shore, only to realize they have moved in a circle and are back at their camp. As they hide for the night, Oralee confesses the ruse to Nathan, but he claims to have met Ike. Nathan further tells Oralee that Ike told him not to trust her.

The next morning, the cannibals capture them and attempt to cook Nathan, but Oralee escapes her cage and frees him. As Nathan flees, Oralee obtains a gun and shoots the cannibals to death. In the woods, Nathan stumbles across a dog with its paw caught in a bear trap. Nathan frees the animal, taking it as a sign he has freed Maxine from Hell. A "The End" title card appears onscreen; the film abruptly resumes, following Oralee as she runs through the woods, pursued by demons, and experiencing violent hallucinations. She hides in the pair's tent, aiming her gun at the entrance. As Nathan approaches, a panicked Oralee prepares to fire and the film ends.

The documentary resumes shortly after this, with scholars observing a rune seen throughout the film belonging to a demon named Astaroth; examples of the rune appearing subliminally throughout the film are shown as historians recount tragedies attributed to the demon throughout history.

Two high school students, Sara (16 years old) and Lorenzo (17 years old) meet in a summer camp and fall in love with each other. During a sailing session, Sara develops numbness in her muscles, a degenerative disease she is suffering from. Sara hides her illness from Lorenzo but the truth finally finds its way into their relationship. The story follows the struggle of the couple as they try to deal with the pain and keep their love sparkling.

Set two years after the end of the first film (three years after most of the first film), Stacy is now the Princess of Belgravia, while Margaret is preparing to ascend to the throne of Montenaro following the death of the king and the decision of his son Howard to abdicate. Nervous about taking on the responsibilities of ruling a nation, Margaret has ended her relationship with Kevin, who is now running his own bakery with Olivia in Chicago.

Stacy makes a surprise visit to Chicago on her way to the coronation and finds Kevin miserable since the breakup. When Olivia reveals she never mailed in the RSVP to the coronation, Stacy persuades him to reconsider and travel with her and Prince Edward, even though the couple has their own relationship problems as Stacy has increasingly neglected Edward while she focuses on her duties as Princess.

Upon arriving, Kevin reunites with Margaret and helps her, Prince Edward, Stacy, and Olivia decorate her palace for Christmas. Margaret also feels depressed about how things ended with her and Kevin. At an evening event, they dance, only to be interrupted by Lady Fiona Pembroke, Margaret's cousin. Unbeknownst to anyone, Fiona has spent nearly all of her family's small fortune and has resorted to using her servants Reggie and Mindy to rob the guests at the party. Back at the decrepit Pembroke estate, Fiona suddenly has an idea to assume Margaret's identity, get crowned as queen, and loot the royal treasury, setting her up for life. Reggie and Mindy are enthusiastic and help Fiona dye her hair and copy Margaret's makeup while studying the queen's upcoming schedule.

Back at the palace, Margaret admits that she's been too busy with royal affairs to spend time with Kevin. Complicating matters further is Count Antonio Rossi, her chief of staff, who woos Margaret and plants seeds of doubt in Kevin's mind that he could ever be a good match for a future queen. Stacy decides the only way to fix things is for her and Margaret to switch identities again so she and Kevin can have the afternoon to themselves while Stacy takes care of Margaret's schedule. The switch takes place, with Olivia staying behind to distract Edward while Margaret and Kevin go to a local Christmas park. There, Kevin expresses his doubts about being Margaret's equal and she convinces him that such concerns are irrelevant as long as they love each other.

Reggie and Mindy abduct Stacy, thinking she's Margaret, and lock her up in Pembroke Manor. Fiona steps in just as Margaret returns and realizing that the woman she's speaking to isn't Stacy, Margaret explains the truth to Prince Edward and they rescue Stacy from Reggie and Mindy, who are arrested and reveal Fiona's plan. Meanwhile, Antonio deduces the truth on his own as Fiona forgot to cover up a tattoo on her finger. He tells her that he will move up the coronation and help her escape the country if she agrees to divide the treasury with him, as he also needs money. Just as the coronation is about to take place, Margaret and Stacy arrive and expose Fiona and Antonio. The latter is arrested while the former admits her deception and reveals that Kevin is on his way to the airport with Olivia after she told him she didn't want to be with him anymore.

They stop Kevin just as he is about to board a plane, and he and Margaret get married on the spot officiated by a nearby priest. Stacy and Edward reaffirm their love for each other as she promises to make more time for them, and he promises not to smother her with attention. Margaret is crowned Queen of Montenaro with Stacy, Edward, Olivia, and Fiona (escorted by police) cheering her on.

April Dibrina, a young dancer seeking success on Broadway, steals a cab from an old lady during a rainstorm to get to an audition. She performs well, but sponsor Ruth Zimmer, meets the potential dancers. When she recognizes April (from the taxi incident), she vows that no one on Broadway will hire her. While trying to explain, she accidentally knocks Ruth off stage, inflicting serious injury. It is posted on social media, publicly embarrassing April.

Evicted, April returns to her hometown in Wisconsin. While at the grocery store, she bumps into the New Hope dance teacher Miss Barb, who invites her to come to the dance studio. April also sees her ex Nick, whom she left to pursue a career in New York City.

In the dance studio, she visits the class of dancers: Lucia, a forgetful girl with glasses; Oona, a nervous girl; Kari, who secretly earns her own classes; Ruby, with no self-confidence; Zuzu, a deaf girl; Sarah, Nick’s stubborn little sister; and June and Michelle, the youngest. Zuzu’s little brother, Dicky, also watches.

Barb asks April to coach the town's dance team for a competition. At first, she declines, but later realizes it can give her a chance to perform in front of Welly Wong, saving her career. April accepts, beginning a harsh training regimen that alienates the young dancers, including causing Ruby to quit.

The New Hope dance team advances through several rounds of the competition; they improve as April bonds with them, becoming a better teacher, including learning some sign language to communicate with Zuzu. One day, the dance studio ceiling collapses after April tells the dancers they "don't suck," so they know they are improving. Unable to afford repairs to the studio, the team moves practice to the football field and eventually move to April's father's barn, which Nick has helped repair.

April and Nick begin to rekindle their relationship as the dance team advances to state. Dancers from another troupe taunt her about her failure in New York, causing her to lose focus during one dance, though she recovers.

In the mini’s 6-and-under category, the two youngest dancers, June and Michelle, are struck with stage fright. Dicky, who has memorized all the girl's choreography while they practiced, runs out and starts to dance. June and Michelle recover, and they all dance together. Dicky now trains with the dance troupe.

After passing state finals, April calls her NYC friend Deco to help make costumes. One day, as the small dancers are rehearsing a lift in the barn, April calls on Sarah and R.J., the football player whom Sarah has a crush and she wants to impress, to demonstrate. When R.J. lifts her, her silicone bra cup falls on the floor, and she runs off, embarrassed and crying. April finds her in the field and comforts her.

The dancers' families raise the money to send the team to Atlantic City for the finals. April reconnects with Nick's younger sister Sarah, who had felt abandoned when her mother died and April moved to New York. Once in Atlantic City, after a performance, Welly Wong is so impressed with April he offers her the lead in his new show on the spot. April and Welly leave the competition immediately for rehearsal in NYC, devastating the team.

The next day, April realizes her mistake and abandons the rehearsal, proclaiming to Welly that she must honor her commitment to New Hope. She calls Deco again to drive her back to Atlantic City just in time to encourage the team before the performance. After reconciling with her dancers, April and Nick kiss, and Welly keeps her on despite leaving rehearsal.

April performs in Welly Wong's show in NYC and continues teaching her dance class in Wisconsin via video chat. On opening night, Welly surprises April by bringing the New Hope team over for a dance party. Everyone dances in the street, and Ruth Zimmer drives by momentarily, appalled.

New York–raised Hawaiian siblings Pili and Ioane "E" temporarily relocate from New York to Oahu with their mother Leilani to help her father, Kimo, whose health and financial issues are becoming serious. Pili is an avid geocaching fan, and her malaise at being separated from her beloved New York is assuaged by secretly liberating an old diary from her grandfather's art studio. Meanwhile, E is distracted from his own search for better Internet signal by the requisite pretty local girl, Hana, who has big dreams of her own. The siblings find themselves learning about their Hawaiian heritage as Pili goes on a Goonies-style quest for lost pirate treasure. Pili is aided on her quest by local boy Casper, a nerdy but resourceful boy with a big heart, and joined by E and Hana.

In Seattle, Susan is a mostly ''pro bono'' lawyer for Whitaker Associates who goes undercover to investigate the online dating website Love, Guaranteed. Her client Nick has had 986 dates through them with no luck finding love. The three dates she tries go decidedly wrong, and she also goes to secretly observe his 1000th date to make sure he's on the up and up.

Susan and Nick attend a meeting with founder Tamara Taylor and her lawyers, who offer $100,000 to settle out of court, which they decline in lieu of a court date six weeks later. In preparation for their court appearance, Susan and Nick meet up to discuss their case, etc. and they start to show a mutual interest. One of the other lawyers, after seeing some photos of them taken by a private investigator, call Susan to advise her that a developing relationship with Nick could be considered nullifying their argument, as their meeting was due to Love, Guaranteed.

So, Susan chooses to spend the last two weeks before the court date avoiding him, to try to turn off their feelings. The day arrives, and Susan seems to be winning the case, cleverly managing to question the defense's prime witness, Nick's ex-fiancée and supermodel, Arianna, before the defense. However, in the five-minute recess, Nick goes after Arianna to thank her, and she makes him realize that he loves Susan.

Nick returns to the courtroom, withdrawing his lawsuit on the grounds that he has fallen in love with his lawyer, who admits that she loves him too. Then they kiss passionately and make their relationship official. At the very end, Tamara Taylor offers to give them the money Nick asks for to open a pro bono physical therapy clinic in exchange for Susan and Nick being the image for Love, Guaranteed.

The story begins with an old lady washing blood soaked clothing in a tub full of water. A postman who just arrived notices noises coming from the house's cellar. Thinking someone is trapped down there, the postman makes his mistake when he rips off a board barring the entrance and enters the basement. Then he is dragged by an unseen force into the basement and disappears.

Thirty years later, a phone-free camp for teenagers starts with all the teens arriving and surrendering their phones to the camp leaders. The teens are placed into groups. The main protagonists all end up in a group together and head off into the woods with counselor, Iza, for a three-day hike.

As they go trekking through the forest they come across a dead, rotting deer. Iza notices that the deer was not killed by a predator, but ignores that and orders everyone to keep going into the woods.

They stop by a lake to spend the night. That night they hear a noise in the woods. Iza searches but finds a little fox. That night, Daniel is accompanied at the lake by Aniela. After having sex with Daniel, Aniela then goes back to her tent, not knowing that soon afterwards Daniel is beaten to death by a gigantic man by banging his body against a tree. In the morning, everyone searches for Daniel, Iza disregards the "rules of horror" that Julek warns the group about, and they split up in groups, with half of them searching for Daniel with the coach, and the rest waiting by the lake in case Daniel comes back.

The group reaches the house seen in the beginning of the movie, and discover the basement with Daniel's mangled body inside. As they attempt to run away, they notice the killer coming inside the house, so they hide in the basement. Zosia and Julek escape through a cellar window but Iza stays behind to fight the monster in order to try and get Daniel's phone to call for help, which ends in her death.

Aniela and Bartek are talking by the lake when she is suddenly killed by a metal bar going through the back of her neck and mouth. Horrified, Bartek runs away and attempts to get help from a priest in a nearby church. The priest knocks him out, gags him, and ties him to a chair. The priest hears noises outside and goes to investigate. He is killed by the killer by putting him in a wood chipper. The killer enters the church and opens the confession box to find Bartek hiding.

Zosia and Julek, having run away from the killer's house, find refuge in an old man's house, who tells them the story of the twins who lived with their mother until they found a small meteorite that crashed in the area. The twins take a piece of rock and keep it hidden under their bed. The following night, a black fluid seeps from the rock and enters the bodies of the twins, who lose their minds and become animalistic carnivores. Their mother awakens in the morning only to be horrified seeing her sons eating their dog in the basement. She locks them up in the basement and hunts animals to keep them hidden. The old man states that the mother lost her mind. One day, while trying to get a dead animal into the basement, she dies, causing the twins to be able to escape.

The teens decide to call for help and go back to the basement to get the phone from Daniel's body. Julek tries to distract the killer with some noise and Zosia sneaks into the basement to grab the phone. However, the killer's twin is in front of her and Julek stabs him to distract his attention. Zosia is knocked unconscious and chained up, while Julek is stabbed with a knife and his tongue ripped out.

Zosia Awakens to find Julek suffering with the knife embedded in his abdomen. She tries to use Daniel's phone but it dies. Zosia kills Julek to end his pain. She uses the knife to unchain herself and considers escaping, but takes a machete from the room instead. She goes upstairs, hearing the twin snoring on the bed. Zosia stabs the twin until he appears to be dead. She leaves the house and runs.

The old man hears knocking on his door and shoots through the door with his shotgun, thinking it might be the twins, but discovers that he just murdered Bartek. Zosia notices a policeman near a forest road, who agrees to drive her back to the civilization after noticing her distress. On their way, they run over one of the twins. Seeing a body on the road and wanting to help despite Zosia's warnings, the officer is killed after failing to use his pistol against the murderer.

Zosia is locked in the car in the back but breaks the window. She attempts to drive away in the car, after shifting the stick and clutch, is successful, though only after driving several times over the killer and drives away.

In the end of the movie, the killer's twin wakes up in his bed, having survived the stabbing, and stares at the police lights outside his house.

Polly, a star bareback rider in a circus, is injured during a performance. The circus leaves town and she is left behind to convalescence at a local minister's house. During her 11-month stay they fall in love but the disapproval of the town folk causes Polly to rejoin the circus. A month later the circus comes back to town and the minister goes to it in search of Polly. This third act of the play recreates an actual circus on stage, complete with animals, during which the lovers reunite. The final star lit tableau scene has the lovers together watching lights of the circus wagons as they disappear over the hills.

In 1969, a dog named Buddy is launched into space with a backpack in a space capsule by his owner, David. However, soon after leaving Earth, the capsule malfunctions and shocks Buddy, mutating his DNA and giving him superpowers before flying out of orbit, leaving Buddy frozen and floating in space.

50 years later, the capsule reenters Earth's atmosphere, causing Buddy to crash land back on Earth in the fictional town of Glenfield, where he awakes in a dumpster. After Buddy attempts to speak with a human, he is met with frightened and angry reactions from the townspeople, to the confusion of Buddy. He discovers that the capsule has gone missing. He sees a police truck and chases it for several blocks until it stops at the police station. Buddy finds a caged dog called Victor in the trunk of the truck, who asks Buddy to help free him. Officer Peck then exits the vehicle and takes Victor into the station, which is connected to the local animal pound.

Buddy runs into a nearby alley, where he is introduced to Felix (known by his superhero alias TurboCat) who lassoes and electrocutes Buddy, who he believes is a stray dog, dragging him into a Batmobile-like vehicle. TurboCat then drives away into his gadget-filled secret hideout in the Glenfield Museum, where his robot butler, Sinclair, awaits him. Once there, TurboCat reveals to Buddy that humans hate animals in Glenfield, and that Officer Peck is responsible for putting stray animals in the pound, where they are never seen again. Buddy explains his situation to TurboCat, which he does not believe, and tells him that he wants to find the space capsule so that David might find him, to which TurboCat replies that he might be willing to assist Buddy if he brings him milk. Buddy finds milk in the lunch packed by David and brings it to him, but is turned down. Buddy also hands Felix the carrot he found, and it is revealed that the carrot belonged to Cassidy, a former magician's rabbit who Felix has a crush on.

Felix goes off to find Cassidy, but is stopped by Officer Peck. As Felix runs away, he is followed closely by Buddy. Eventually, Felix hops on Buddy's back, and Buddy suddenly starts to run with superhuman speed. After escaping Officer Peck, Buddy and Felix arrive at a grocery store called the Mega Store, where Cassidy's carrot came from. The two break into the store and Buddy becomes distracted by items in the store. Buddy’s distractive almost got him and Felix caught by a human but by using a cute eye trick( which Buddy tried on Felix early in the film)causes the human to leave.

Stellar Crowns is a project group made up of actors and singers, but one of the members, Akane, disappears before their debut. However, Stellar Crowns' agency gets a tip stating that he is still alive but has been kidnapped by a traitorous member in Stellar Crowns. The president of Queen Record, Sasakida, enlists Hidetoshi Moriya, an aspiring filmmaker and Akane's former classmate, to investigate under a pretense of filming a documentary about Stellar Crowns. Eventually, Moriya learns that Akane's brother, a songwriter, had committed suicide after being targeted by Sasakida, and in order to protect Akane, Stellar Crowns had staged his disappearance. After the truth is discovered, Sasakida is removed from his position from the agency while Akane is made its president.

The novel follows a sixty-five year old man on his birthday (Mr. Lidman), who is throwing a party at his cottage in the countryside. Among the guests are his Daughter (Marian) and her three friends (Ethel, Margo and Ben), Lidman's friend (Larry) from the NCA (National Coin Association), Lidman's next door neighbor (Mrs. Betrage), and a mysterious stranger who everyone assumes is a plus-one of one of the guests. When eventually confronted in private by Lidman, the stranger explains he has been hired to murder him, but makes a deal, allowing Lidman to enjoy his birthday party till the end of the night, the novel continues as a battle of wits between the two men.

The avant-garde poet Ernst Herbeck (1920–1991) and artist August Walla (1936–2001) live much of their lives as schizophrenic patients in the Gugging mental institution near Vienna. Though they have the same condition they are fundamentally different people. Walla is still haunted by the death of his grandmother as a child and perceives the universe to have collapsed, while Herbeck is concerned with his cleft lip and palate condition, which severely affects his ability to speak. The play is divided into five different acts, in chronological order, following the protagonists as they interpret and reinterpret each other, often in a disturbing way.

A woman is protected by two FBI agents after the murder of her boyfriend by gangsters wanting his stolen diamonds, then pursuing her to not talk about it.

In 1959, it is announced that Conrad Birdie (loosely based on Elvis Presley), the most popular rock and roll singer, is to be drafted into the army, upsetting teenagers across the country. Included in this group is Albert Peterson, Birdie's manager and songwriter, and Rose 'Rosie' Alvarez, his long-time girlfriend. Rose tells Albert that she wants him to leave the music and study to become an English teacher at NYU ("An English Teacher"). However, Albert's mother, Mae, wants him to continue managing ''Al-mae-lou'', the music studio she and Albert created. Rosie comes up with an idea for one final public stunt before Birdie's drafting. She plans to pick a girl from a stack of names and send Birdie to kiss her and sing one final song on live television. Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio is chosen but all the phone lines there are busy. This is due to the news that Kim got pinned to Hugo Peabody ("The Telephone Hour").

In Sweet Apple, Kim has decided to mature herself into a grown woman ("How Lovely To Be A Woman") but quickly loses this mentality when she learns that she will be kissed by Birdie. Albert and Rosie arrive in Sweet Apple and Albert confronts a girl about being too old to date Birdie when he comes back from war ("Put On A Happy Face"). Conrad arrives and Albert and Rosie feed reporters false stories in an attempt to clean up his past ("A Healthy, Normal American Boy"). Hugo worries that Birdie's arrival will cause Kim to break up with him, but she assures him that Conrad means nothing to her ("One Boy"). Though everyone is ablaze about Birdie's arrival, Rosie is still upset about Albert's career choice ("Let's Settle Down").

Birdie is awarded a key to the city by the mayor of Sweet Apple but the ceremony breaks into chaos when he begins singing ("Honestly Sincere"). Harry MacAfee, Kim's father, is frustrated about all the commotion in the town and in their house, as Birdie is now staying in their home, but Albert makes him feel better by promising that he and the rest of the MacAfee's will all be featured on The Ed Sullivan Show ("Hymn For A Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)"). During the broadcast ("One Last Kiss"), Hugo, with the help of Rosie, punches Conrad before he kisses Kim. Rosie goes back to the MacAfee home and packs her things as she regrets her relationship with Albert ("What Did I Ever See In Him"). Kim wants to join Rosie but she doesn't allow it. However, Kim sneaks out anyway to go on a date with Birdie and hang out with the rest of the teens. The parents of Sweet Apple soon learn that all their children are missing and Harry reminisces over a time where children obeyed their parents ("Kids").

Rosie has ended up in Maude's Bar where she tells the men sitting at the counter that she is single ("Spanish Rose"). Albert calls the bar, begging Rosie for her forgiveness ("Talk To Me") but gets none from her. Meanwhile, Kim and Conrad are hiding from their parents in "the ice house" but she leaves when Conrad begins to pressure her into sexual intercourse. Albert and Rosie, looking for the teens, are stopped by Mae who tries to convince Albert to stay in the music business again. He finally stand up for himself and she dramatically says her goodbyes to the world ("A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore"). He proudly leaves his mother alone ("A Giant Step") and continues to search for Kim. Meanwhile, Conrad is arrested by the police for statutory rape. Sometime later, Conrad (dressed as Rosie) and Albert are seen at a train station where they are expecting Mae. His mother arrives and he puts them both on a train out of Ohio, left alone to bicker with one another. Rosie comes rushing in, worrying that they have missed the train but Albert assures her that it was part of a plan. He tells her that he plans to take a teaching position in Pumpkin Falls, Iowa and proposes to her, claiming that he must be married to take the position. She happily accepts and he reflects on all her wonderful qualities ("Rosie").

The book includes two main collections of short stories: “Book I: How Some Passed Out of The Courts for Ever” which consists mainly of pre-war frivolities, and “Book II: How Others Left the Courts Only to return” which relates post-war tales. Dividing the groups is a single-story “Interlude”.

The first story of Book I has the characters in London, after which they proceed to the island of Rih (a thinly-disguised Madeira). The final story concludes with the sudden end of the male characters, now serving in the Great War, who hear a sound which some interpret as a ship's siren and others as the sound of a heavy gun. A moment later, all are killed in the crater of a great shell.

The Interlude features a unique set of characters, initially in Scotland on the opening day of the Great War, and subsequently on the Western Front.

The stories of Book II return to the entirely different 'Berry' set of characters from ''The Brother of Daphne'' collection, with the addition of Adèle Feste, an American. The first two stories of this Book immediately follow those of the earlier collection. Next come three stories set at the end of the war in which the Berry & Co. characters meet in Egypt and, joined by Adèle, travel home via Rome. The volume closes with a final story, "Nemesis”, in which Berry and Boy are back in London.

Karel Leden works at a publisher's in Communist Czechoslovakia. He meets Lenka Silver, a Jewish woman with a mysterious past.

1980

Hays (Mahershala Ali) and West (Stephen Dorff) arrive at Woodard's (Michael Greyeyes) house, as locals have gathered to corner it. A man slams the door open, unaware that a mine was behind it, causing an explosion that kills him and wounds the rest. As Woodard starts shooting at the locals, they try to reach the backyard, with more locals dying after stepping on mines and West getting shot in the leg.

Managing to enter the house, Hays talks with Woodard to try to convince him to surrender. Unwilling to get arrested, Woodard decides to commit suicide by cop, warning Hays that he will shoot him once he turns back at him. When he does, Hays kills him as more authorities arrive at the crime scene.

In the aftermath, Hays is disturbed by the events but other officers show no remorse for what happened. Amelia (Carmen Ejogo) comforts him and takes him to her house, where they have sex.

1990

It is revealed that Woodard's death prompted the authorities to close the case, blaming him for Will's death and Julie's disappearance as Will's bookbag was found at his property. While Hays and West uncover that the bookbag was planted after the shooting, their superiors don't want them to disclose the information.

Tom (Scoot McNairy) makes an appearance for a public hearing, asking Julie to come back, while Kindt (Brett Cullen) uses the opportunity to highlight Woodard's role in the events. Hays and West visit Freddy Burns (Rhys Wakefield), who tells them that Will was looking for his sister on the night they went missing. Burns says Will wanted to know where "they" went, indicating that Julie was not alone. It is also revealed that the fingerprints found on Will and Julie's toys have gone missing from the case file.

Hays and West interview a man who claims to have recognized Julie in the footage. He states that Julie was calling herself "Mary July", was unsure of the year and also claimed to call herself a "secret princess" from "the pink rooms". Later, Hays and Amelia go dining with West and his girlfriend, Lori (Jodi Balfour), where is clear Hays and Amelia are struggling with their marriage. Back home, Hays confronts her for her focus on the book, accusing her of using everyone around her for her purposes.

Hays and West then bring Tom to the station, showing him a recording depicting a woman claiming to be Julie talking with a police. The woman claims not to be called Julie and that Tom is not her father, also questioning where is her brother. The conversation devastates Tom.

2015

During an interview with Elisa (Sarah Gadon), Hays is informed that Harris James (Scott Shepherd), an officer who investigated Woodard's house after the shooting, has been missing since 1990. This prompts him to read Amelia's book, where she cites her encounter with Lucy. Remembering the letter that was sent to the Purcells, Hays finally connects that Lucy was the one who sent the letter. During this, he is once again disturbed by the sight of a car parked across the street, seemingly watching him.

Needing help, Hays visits West, who now alives alone with his dogs. They had a fight years ago and while Hays can't remember what happened, he apologizes for whatever it was, despite how angry West was for that. Seeing Hays' determination in closing the case, West accepts in helping him before his condition worsens.

The plot tells part of the story of the deeply troubled award-winning artist Adam Cullen's life (1965-2012), specifically his relationship with his biographer, Erik Jensen, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.

After a zombie apocalypse, Alice, who is pregnant, seeks to find a safer place to live. Along the way, she discovers a mute woman being held prisoner by the merciless Captain Rooker, a member of a paramilitary group.

First arc

Takemichi Hanagaki, a 26-year-old freeter, learns one day that his middle school ex-girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, as well as her younger brother Naoto, have been killed by the Tokyo Manji Gang. When Takemichi is pushed in front of a train, he teleports exactly 12 years into the past to 2005. While reliving his middle school years, Takemichi meets with Naoto and divulges the exact date he and Hinata will die. When they shake hands, Takemichi is suddenly transported back to the present, creating a time paradox where Naoto survives and is now a detective. Naoto deduces that every time they hold hands, Takemichi is transported 12 years into the past. Using his knowledge from the future, Takemichi vows to save Hinata.

In the past, Takemichi's friends are forced into underground matches led by Kiyomasa, a member of the Tokyo Manji Gang. Takemichi's determination to protect them gains the respect of the gang's leader, Mikey. Takemichi discovers that his new friendship with Mikey prevented one of his friends, Akkun, from going to jail in the present; however, after Akkun commits suicide out of fear, Takemichi realizes the Tokyo Manji Gang presents a stronger threat to his friends than he initially thought.

After traveling back to the past, Takemichi finds that the Tokyo Manji Gang is declaring war on Moebius, a rival gang, to avenge Pah-chin's friend. Takemichi learns that Mikey's second-in-command, Draken, will eventually be killed and lead to Mikey becoming violent. Draken survives the rumble, but Pah-chin turns himself to the police after stabbing Moebius' leader, Osanai. This causes infighting within the Tokyo Manji Gang, as they disagree on how to help Pah-chin.

Takemichi resolves Mikey and Draken's dispute; however, on August 3, 2005, the Tokyo Manji Gang are attacked by a group of Moebius members, who are led by Valhalla member Shūji Hanma. Takemichi learns that Peh-yan colluded with them out of anger for Mikey and Draken letting Pah-chin be arrested, while Kiyomasa had stabbed Draken for humiliating him and causing him to be exiled from the Tokyo Manji Gang. The Tokyo Manji Gang wins the fight and Draken recovers from his injuries.

Valhalla arc / Bloody Halloween

Takemichi returns to the present, only to find out that Hinata and his friends still die in the current timeline. With only the clue that Tetta Kisaki transformed the Tokyo Manji Gang into a violent organization, Takemichi returns to the past to find that Kisaki has recently joined the gang, using Pah-chin's absence to become his division's new captain. Moreover, first division captain Keisuke Baji is leaving to join Valhalla, after being recruited by Kazutora Hanemiya, a former co-founder of the Tokyo Manji Gang. Mikey promises Takemichi that he will remove Kisaki from the gang if he is able to bring Baji back. With that, Takemichi is officially made a member of the Tokyo Manji Gang under Takashi Mitsuya's division.

Takemichi discovers that Mikey holds a grudge against Kazutora for killing his older brother, Shinichiro, two years ago. In addition, Takemichi learns through Chifuyu Matsuno that Baji pretended to defect from the gang to investigate Kisaki. Furthermore, he learns that Kisaki had created Valhalla for Mikey to be its leader, and the Tokyo Manji Gang will eventually be absorbed into Valhalla after a rumble on October 31, 2005 known as "Bloody Halloween"; their loss had been caused by Mikey killing Kazutora out of rage over killing Baji.

During Bloody Halloween, Baji attempts to stop Kisaki, but Kisaki and Hanma convince Kazutora to stab him as planned. Though the Tokyo Manji Gang wins, Takemichi is unable to prevent Baji's death. Moreover, Valhalla is absorbed into the group, and Kisaki uses their defeat to raise his status within the Tokyo Manji Gang. However, Takemichi is able to prevent Mikey from killing Kazutora, and Kazutora decides to turn himself into the police. Takemichi is then made the captain of the first division as Baji's successor.

Black Dragons arc / Christmas Showdown

After returning to the present, Takemichi once again discovers that the Tokyo Manji Gang has grown into a large-scale crime organization after absorbing the Black Dragons, and his friends still die. When he travels back to the past, he learns that Hakkai Shiba is forced to leave the Tokyo Manji Gang and join the Black Dragons under the orders of his abusive older brother and the Black Dragons' current leader, Taiju, an event that affects the Tokyo Manji Gang's merge with the Black Dragons. Mitsuya makes a deal with Taiju that he will allow Hakkai to join on the condition that Yuzuha, the Shiba brothers' sister, no longer works for the Black Dragons, nor will Taiju be allowed to assault her. Before bidding them farewell, Hakkai tells Takemichi and Chifuyu in secret that Taiju has no intention of keeping his promise and that he plans to kill him soon to free himself and Yuzuha.

Takemichi asks the Tokyo Manji Gang for help, but they decline to intervene, as breaking the agreement would reflect poorly on Mitsuya. However, he and Chifuyu reluctantly succeed in only getting the help of Kisaki and Hanma. Together, they learn from Koko and Inupi, two members of the Black Dragons, that Hakkai plans on murdering Taiju on December 24, 2005. On December 24, Takemichi confronts them, but he discovers that Kisaki and Hanma had betrayed and abandoned him. However, Chifuyu escapes and enlists Mitsuya for help in defeating Taiju.

After inadvertently preventing Taiju's death, Takemichi realizes that in the original timeline, Yuzuha had killed him after being coerced by Kisaki, which then led to Hakkai taking the blame for her and being forced to follow his orders. Takemichi convinces Hakkai to stand up to Taiju in order to save Yuzuha, and with Mikey and Draken's timely arrival, the Black Dragons are defeated. After their disbandment, Koko and Inupi carry the titles of co-leaders of the Black Dragons' 11th generation and join the Tokyo Manji Gang as Takemichi's subordinates. Having learned about Kisaki's betrayal, Mikey removes him from their group. Mikey's decision also causes Hanma and the former members of Moebius and Valhalla to leave, downsizing the Tokyo Manji Gang by 350 members.

Tenjiku arc

By the time Takemichi returns to the present, Tenjiku absorbed the Tokyo Manji Gang after an event known as the "Kanto incident" and left Mikey demoralized to the point of killing all his friends. While Takemichi and Naoto investigate Tenjiku, both of them learn that Kisaki is a member and that Shinichiro is the founder of the Black Dragons. When they are ambushed by Tenjiku members, they become fatally wounded, and Takemichi travels to the past before they both die. Hinata overhears Takemichi mourning Naoto's death, as well as the fact that he had been time-traveling.

Takemichi learns that Tenjiku's leader, Izana Kurokawa, is a close relative of the Sanos, and he holds a grudge against Mikey out of jealousy, especially when Shinichiro intended for Mikey to become the leader of the Black Dragons. In the midst of this, Mucho and his vice captain, Sanzu, have joined Tenjiku, and Koko is forced to join them. Impressed by Takemichi's resolve, Inupi passes his title as the leader of the Black Dragons to Takemichi and reveals to the Tokyo Manji Gang that Izana is planning an attack on the Black Dragons' 11th anniversary, February 22, 2006. On the day of their fight, Takemichi loses the support from the other captains, as Kisaki and Hanma have severely injured Mitsuya and fourth division captain Smiley. In addition, Kisaki kills Mikey's half-sister, Emma, leaving Mikey and Draken distraught. Nevertheless, Takemichi rallies the rest of the Tokyo Manji Gang to fight Tenjiku, with only 50 members fighting against Tenjiku's 400 members.

Near the end of the fight, Mikey and Draken arrive after learning from Hinata that Takemichi had been time-traveling to save them. As the Tenjiku are forced to admit defeat, Kisaki shoots Kakucho, Tenjiku's second-in-command, and Izana, fatally wounding the latter, and flees. When Takemichi confronts him, Kisaki confesses that his reason for taking over the Tokyo Manji Gang was to boost his social status and woo Hinata. He also views Takemichi as an enemy for stealing her attention and has Hinata killed in every present timeline for rejecting him. In the midst of this, Kisaki is hit by a truck and dies. After the Kanto incident, Hanma goes on the run, while Mikey decides to dissolve the Tokyo Manji Gang, allowing all of its members to move on.

Final arc

Takemichi returns to the present to find out that his friends are alive and successful, but Mikey, who has not been in contact with any of his friends for the past 12 years, has established a new gang called Bonten. Takemichi is no longer able to travel to the past through Naoto, but when he saves Mikey from jumping from a building, he suddenly travels 10 years into the past to 2008. Takemichi is now in high school and learns that since the Tokyo Manji Gang has been disbanded, there is currently a power struggle between Rokuhara Tandai, Brahman, and Mikey's new gang, the Kanto Manji Gang. In hopes of reaching Mikey, Takemichi joins Brahman, led by Senju Kawaragi, and suddenly develops the ability to see into the future. On July 7, 2008, Rokuhara Tandai launches an attack on Takemichi and Senju. Takemichi prevents Senju's death, but Draken is killed while protecting them. As a result, a brawl, known as the Battle of the Three Deities, erupts between all three gangs and ends with Mikey killing South, Rokuhara Tandai's leader. The Kanto Manji Gang wins and absorbs Rokuhara Tandai; meanwhile, Senju disbands Brahman in order to stop Mikey from killing Takemichi.

One month later, Takemichi recreates the Tokyo Manji Gang and challenges the Kanto Manji Gang to a fight on September 9. During the fight, Sanzu attempts to drive a train into the battlefield to kill the Tokyo Manji Gang. Though Takemichi is able to prevent this, Kakucho dies in the process.

The film examines the eternal problem of parents and children. The protagonist works as a sound engineer and musician, encounters a lot of problems and has many setbacks. The same crisis awaits him in his personal life. A Canadian company invites him to record the sounds of Ukrainian animals in Transcarpathia. He fulfills the assignment with enthusiasm and creativity, but his mother comes along and constantly disturbs and distracts him. If he manages to record the voice of a rare Rakhiv mallard, he may be able to leave "uncomfortable Ukraine" and travel to "attractive Canada."

Kami-sama ("God", in English) created the Earth and filled the world with natural resources. Though God originally was going to create the animals that would inhabit the world, the task was outsourced to a team of creative minds. God generally sends tasks to the team to fulfill ideas for an animal with unique and quirky features based on vague descriptions or design goals. Designs that he approves become animals while rejected ones go back to the designer to revise until he is satisfied. Other times, the team can freely create a new design on their own whims and preferences in aesthetic and physical designs. One of God's angels, Shimoda, is tasked with overseeing the crew and sending potential new animals for God's approval.

The series serves to illustrate biology of real life animals and their characteristics as well as explaining some biological issues regarding mythical animals, all this while showing the concepts of design thinking, such as testing and prototyping.

Five episodes depict children in extreme situations, taking a raw look at their childhood.

Lone (Leung Sap-yat), Tung (Ricky Ho), Pig Kidney (Tse Wai-kit) and May (Winnie Lau) are a group of delinquents from Kam Tin, New Territories. Lone, Tung and Pig Kidney spend their days in a gambling den in their village while May works at her father's bar where she cons patrons in poker. One day, they con a cellphone from an insurance agent from a parking lot. Later that night, they hang out in an arcade where May plays ''Street Fighter'' with Sam (Aaron Kwok), who is a rich heir. Pig Kidney notices Sam's LV wallet and Lone pickpockets it from Sam. As the gang leave the arcade, they are stopped outside by two police officers who search them and find the wallet and arrest them. Sam notices his wallet stolen and catches Tung, who was still inside the arcade, and makes it outside where they also follow the rest to the police station. At the police station, Sam gives his statement while the gang encounters Fat Mum (Maria Cordero), a police officer who they are acquainted with, scolds them for their actions. Fat Mum pleads with her superior to let the kids go and upon seeing this, Sam claims the kids helped him find his wallet in his statement.

The gangs treat Sam to dinner to apologise and thank him. At the restaurant, they encounter the insurance agent whose cellphone they conned. Sam helps them settle the problem by giving HK$20,000 to the insurance agent, who lets the kids go free and Lone promises to pay back the money to Sam the next day. In order to obtain the sum, Tung asks his grandaunt to loan money in her store in Kam Tin. She cries and claims the kids are extorting her for protection fees and the fellow villagers kick them out.

Meanwhile, Sam is getting ready to study abroad in Los Angeles. The kids, who are unable to get money to pay back to Sam, is curious of Sam's identity due to his wealth. May then devises a scheme to the group to con some money from Sam. The next day, they meet Sam at the arcade before they proceed to hang out in a karaoke. In the karoke, a negotiation between Fu Tin-hang (Karel Yeung) and s rival triad leader Fu Tin-hang (Karel Wong) where Fu stabs his rival to death and triggers a big fight. During the fight, Pig Kidney notices police officer Fong (Lung Fong) letting Fu leave before arresting everyone on the kar oke including the kids. At the police station, Pig Kidney tells Fat Mum what he saw. The kids are later freed with the help of Sam's lawyers.

The next day, Sam hangs out with the kids in a barbeque in Kam Tin where they tell him they his wealth but Sam is grateful to have friends like them. He also tells them of his plan to study biochemistry in the United States, which they laugh off since they believe he belongs to a powerful triad family while Lone tells him he wants Sam to help them start a casino, but Sam suggests him to start a legal business instead.

Later, Sam devises a prank to trick the kids into believing they were trafficking cocaine for him. May plays along with Sam and the three were horrified until they found out the truth. Afterwards, Sam gifts some clothes to the kids as souvenirs at his mansion before he goes to study abroad although Lone refuses and is upset at Sam's prank. Pig Kidney also steals two watches from Sam's mansion before leaving.

The kids mortgage one of the watches at a casino in Kam Tin where they win big. At the suggestion of fellow villagers Brother Nine (Wong Hung), the kids go to a bigger gambling den outside their village owned by triad leader Brother Kong (Lam Wai). The kids mortgage the same watch to Kong for a cash and while gambling, Kong's underling Fu takes over the casino for the rest of the day. After winning again, the kids ask Fu for the watch back. When Fu refuses to give it back, Pig Kidney sets a fire and takes May hostage, forcing the kids to pay him HK$500,000 in two hours for the damages they caused.

With no where else to go, they beg Sam for help. Sam then delivers HK$500,000 cash to Fu, who refuses to let May go until Kong arrives. When Kong scolds Fu for his behavior, Fu kills his boss. Fu then forces Officer Fong to frame Sam and the kids for the murder of Kong. Now that they are wanted criminals, the kids call Fat Mum out for help. During an attack by Fu and his henchman, Pig Kidney, Tung, Fat Mum and her subordinate, Little Wah (Chin Shih-erh) were killed.

Sam, Lone and May is bent on seeking revenge on Fu. Sam gives a call to Officer Fong and lures him into revealing where Fu is hiding. Sam, Lone and May arrive to Sha Tin where Sam crashes one of cars of Fu's henchmen down a mountain before fighting Fu and the rest of his henchman. Sam eventually graps hold of Fu where he forces Fu to confess his crimes to a tape. Fong then arrives with a shotgun and shoots Lone and Fu and killing the latter. He then attempts to kill Sam and May until Sam hangs Fong up high with a rope and drops him to his death.

A powerful superhero named Saitama, who has the ability to defeat any enemy with just a single punch, grows bored over the lack of challenging villains, and seeks to find a worthy opponent.

The fiction is set in the Costa del Sol. Hugo Beltrán (Jesús Mosquera) is a young, handsome and carefree stripper. One morning he wakes up on a sailboat, after a night of partying and excesses, next to the burned corpse of a man, allegedly the husband of his lover, Macarena Medina (Cristina Castaño), a mature and powerful woman with whom he maintained a steamy high-voltage sexual relationship. Hugo does not remember anything that happened the night of the crime, but he is sure that he is not the murderer, but the victim of a set-up to accuse him. After a quick trial, he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Seven years later, he is visited in prison by Triana Marín (María Pedraza), a young lawyer who, representing a major law firm, offers to help him reopen the case and try to prove his innocence in a new trial. Although Hugo distrusts the offer, Triana gets the conviction annulled and Hugo is released from prison, on probation and pending the holding of a new trial in which they will have to be able to prove their innocence.

Triana and Hugo work together to try to unravel a complex plot that took an innocent person to prison. A relationship that will not be easy, since they belong to diametrically opposite worlds; She is a lawyer with a hard-working, responsible and bright future. He, a master of the night, former prisoner and considered a murderer by everyone except himself.

The book consists of short stories featuring Berry, Daphne, Boy, Jonah and Jill, set at 'White Ladies', Hampshire and at 'Cholmondeley Street', Mayfair in London in 1919 and 1920. In chapter 4, a Sealyham Terrier called Nobby joins the family. In the final story, Boy and Adèle (who had first appeared in ''The Courts of Idleness'') become engaged.

With less than a month until the birth of their first child, Jackie and Elliot embark on a madcap odyssey of self-discovery in attempt to rid themselves of the inherited dysfunction of their own upbringings.

Roy is a car enthusiast well into his 30s. He only cares about running his company "Stallion Parts" and working on his beloved Ford Mustang "Lillegul", which he drag races occasionally. His daughter Nina lives with her mother in a good bourgeois environment - far from Roy's world.

The conflict starts when Nina out of nowhere shows up to spend her summer vacation with Roy. He can't remember agreeing to take care of her for the summer. The only thing marked in his calendar is the car drag race "Street legal".

During the prize ceremony after the race, where Roy as the favourite surprisingly did not win due to engine trouble, he is challenged by his arch-enemy TT to an illegal street race to Sinsen. To end the teasing, Roy agrees to race, as long as the race goes from Oslo to North Cape. There will only be two rules: 1) First to arrive Nordkapp has won, and 2) There are no other rules (except that you can not drive through Sweden).

The plot involves a struggling New York-based screenwriter travelling to Savannah, Georgia to meet his girlfriend's eccentric family. It also explores themes of aging.

Set in the city of Wroclaw, detective Helena Rus finds a corpse sewn in a cowhide. The murders continue for the next five days and each victim is killed at precisely 18:00 (6 p.m.). The Polish police along with Helena Rus attempt to find and capture the serial killer before he strikes again.

The first issue of ''Foundation'' details a desperate child in the violent mining colony of Themis. By the end of the issue she turns on a covert ops agent she had encountered earlier and assumes control of her resources. Going by "Rasa" as an adult, she is interviewed by the Illusive Man for her expression of interest to join Cerberus, the anthropocentric paramilitary organization Cerberus he leads. The remainder of the series sees Rasa compiling and reviewing dossiers on a number of notable individuals for Cerberus while delving into their backstories. These characters eventually become Commander Shepard's companions in ''Mass Effect 2'' and participate in the suicide mission against the Collectors. Other major characters who make recurring appearances in the series include Miranda Lawson and Kai Leng as Rasa's Cerberus colleagues.

In Issue #13 and the series finale, Rasa severes ties with Cerberus and sets her act of betrayal in motion. She steals a tank containing a dormant clone of Shepard, created as a contingency to potentially provide spare organs and limbs for the real Shepard, and escapes Lazarus Research Station after executing a station-wide sabotage of Cerberus mechs. Rasa who would eventually remerge in the ''Citadel'' DLC for ''Mass Effect 3'', and assume the alias of Maya Brooks.

Berry, Daphne, Jonah, Jill, Boy and Adèle (with Nobby the Sealyham) travel by road through France to winter in Pau. While staying there they venture into northern Spain.

Boy and Adèle are newly married. Jill meets her future husband, Piers, Duke of Padua.

''Going to the Chapel'' follows Emily Anderson, a wealthy bride grappling with cold feet on the day of her wedding to mild-mannered architect Jesse Moore. But before Emily can confess her true feelings, the ceremony is crashed by the bank-robbing Bad Elvis Gang, who are on the prowl for the Heart of Dresden, a $250 million necklace on loan for the event. But when the heist goes awry and the local sheriff's department surrounds the chapel, Emily will become the unlikely ringleader of her own hostage situation in a last-ditch attempt to escape walking down the aisle. Teaming up with head bank robber Tom, Emily must navigate the police, her dysfunctional family, and her own romantic past if she wants to get out of this chapel in one piece.

''A Century of Progress'' is a novel in which Alan Norlund is recruited into a war that involves time travel to the 1930s.

Gaz, Nathan, and Terry have decided to break into the home of Dr. Richard Huggins and his wife Ellen, as it's in the countryside and is said to have a very large safe full of cash. Nathan's girlfriend Mary complicates matters when she arrives to retrieve her car to go to work, but she is persuaded to come along. She enters the house after the boys fail to access the safe, as she had been waiting for a long while.

Once inside, she tells Nathan that she's pregnant. When the Hugginses return, the boys tie the couple up and try to threaten them into opening the safe. In the process Richard recognizes Nathan and Terry from when they were children, causing Nathan to become reluctant to continue the theft. In an attempt to take control Gaz picks a fight with Nathan and stabs him. He then tries to hurt Ellen, only for Mary to kill him with a sledgehammer. As she and Terry untie the couple, Ellen seems to recognize Mary.

Richard tricks Terry and Mary by offering to operate on Nathan and pretending to call for an ambulance. Ellen then secretly drugs Terry, who hallucinates Mary's twin sister Jane, who went missing a few months back and is presumed to have run away. Mary realizes that they've been tricked. Richard tries to persuade her and Terry to drink tea with them, during which they discuss the untimely death of the couple's daughter, Kate, years prior, as well as the mysterious disappearances of numerous teenage girls in the area. Now aware of the danger the couple poses, Mary tries unsuccessfully to escape. She and Terry make it to the garage, only for Terry to shoot Mary in the back.

As she bleeds out, Richard taunts Mary about her impending death, despite acknowledging that she saved him and his wife from Gaz. He also tells her that he and his wife have kidnapped and imprisoned several girls in their safe, which is actually a vault where they would dress them up as little girls and call them "Kate". It's insinuated that the girls who didn't work out were killed and disposed of. The most recent girl they kidnapped, however, did fit the role. And when Richard opens the vault it's revealed that Mary's sister, Jane, is inside. Mary finally succumbs to blood loss, with the last thing she sees being her long lost sister in chains. As a reward for helping them, the Hugginses imprison Terry inside the vault with Jane.

The film ends with Terry's mother discussing her son's disappearance with the Hugginses, unaware of the couple's involvement and the presence of Mary's freshly buried corpse in the garden, presumably alongside Gaz and Nathan.

''Bleed Out'' begins by introducing Judie Burrows, the mother of the comedy director Steve Burrows, as an independent, globetrotting, retired school teacher who loved to travel. The film shifts to June 2009, where Judie is rushed to a hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after suffering a hip fracture due to a fall from her bike. At the hospital, Judie undergoes a hip surgery and a rehabilitation process; afterwards, she is sent home where she endured a slow recovery despite the physical therapy. Five months after her initial hip surgery, Judie falls again, and is rushed to the hospital. She spends eight days in the hospital, calmed with painkillers, as the physicians try to understand where exactly the pain was coming from. After a week, the physicians concluded that Judie has broken her hip again and needs a rushed partial hip replacement surgery. Steve Burrows mentions that his mother, before the incident, was taking Plavix, which is a blood thinner, and states that it is usually suggested that the patient should be off the blood thinner a few days before the surgery. Nonetheless, despite being on blood thinners, Judie is cleared and undergoes her second hip surgery, where she loses about half of her body's blood volume.

Judie withstands the surgery and is taken to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) to recover. On her first night at the ICU, the floor that Judie's room is on has no ICU physicians; instead, Judie's room is an electronic intensive care unit (eICU), where she is monitored by a group of doctors in an airport nearby through a camera. The eICU doctors can monitor their patients with microphones, alarms, and video cameras that can focus the details found on patients' monitors. Within an hour at the ICU, Judie's blood pressure drops below 50/30, and without anyone noticing, she falls into a coma. Two days later, a neurologist comes to evaluate her after she was determined to be unresponsive the day before during post-operation checkup, and declares her to be in a coma. Judie is comatose for almost two weeks, and once she wakes up, she is diagnosed with severe cognitive and physical disabilities because of the loss of oxygen to the brain.

The film displays statistics about the frequency and consequences of medical errors in the United States. The film shows a statistic from a study conducted at Johns Hopkins that suggests that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins, explains why he considers the occurrence of medical errors as a silent epidemic and why he believes they have become more frequent.

The film goes back to the family. They were able to look at the anesthesiology records during Judie's second surgery and suspected that the records were too "impeccable" since no drop in blood pressure was ever recorded even if Judie lost a large amount of blood. Judie's family is displeased with the outcome, and it motivates Steve Burrow's uncle, Dr. Ted Payne, to persuade Steve to investigate the situation further and to file a lawsuit against the hospital. Steve visits a medical malpractice attorney, Lynn Laufenberg, and receives insight on how, in Wisconsin, patients lose 90% of malpractice lawsuits. Steve is still interested in filing a lawsuit and starts recording his mother's experience to use it as evidence.

While trying to find a medical malpractice attorney to take the case, Steve simultaneously tries to manage his research about the medical errors and deal with medical bills. Judie is responsible for paying the bills since Medicare cannot cover the entirety of her long-term care at a rehabilitation center. Steve finds a medical malpractice attorney, Mike End; End describes the complications that they will face because of some laws that protect doctors in Wisconsin. For example, End explains Wisconsin statute 907.06, known as the Doctor Privilege Law, give doctors the right to not testify against other doctors. End reminds Steve that it might take three years or more for the lawsuit to get to trial.

Judie's conditions improve with time, but due to spastic paraplegia, she can only walk by using a walker. Her cognitive impairment does not improve, and a neuropsychologist declares her incompetent with the cognitive abilities of an 8-year old. Steve tries to tell his mom about her situation, but Judie denies what the doctors say about her cognitive abilities and insists on returning home. They decide that it would be best for her to stay at the rehabilitation center. Four years after the incident, Judie, being on Medicare also goes into Medicaid because her 50 years of life savings, about $200,000, were not enough for the medical bills. Steve deals with waves of complications with insurance companies, medical corporations, and medical bills.

Steve investigates his mother's surgery by meeting individuals related to the case, such as Bauer, his mother's surgeon, and a risk manager for Aurora West Allis Medical Center. He records these meetings with spy-cams. Bauer expresses his confusion about why the ICU has no physicians physically present and calls the eICU "sloppy medicine”. Eventually, Bauer recommends Steve talk to Aurora Health Care. Steve meets with the risk manager from Aurora and asks why Judie not receive any financial assistance, to which she repliesthat the hospital would have if they felt like they did something wrong.

The film transitions from the spy-cam footage to a phone call in which Steve is told that Judie was rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, Judie had a stroke, but the medical caretakers treat her for a seizure. Judie is diagnosed with permanent brain damage, is unable to speak and has a catheter strapped onto her stomach. Then the film transitions again to Makary talking about how the medical field is not learning from its mistakes.

The film jumps to 2013, where the lawsuit's depositions begin. Thirty depositions are taken, but each individual blames others for her brain damage. One deposition is from an ICU nurse named Emily who states that the cameras in these units are not on all the time to respect the patient's privacy. Another deposition is from the eICU manager, whostates that the cameras are usually off in the patients' rooms and that an eICU physician should not replace a physical ICU physician since eICU physicians tend to 160 patients per day.

After the depositions, Steve meets with Charles M. Harper Jr., a neurologist from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. They speak about how the field of medicine and its patients would benefit in changing their focus from financial incentives to quality, health outcomes.

The film jumps to 2016, where the lawsuit goes to trial. The court case focuses on whether there was evidence for medical negligence.

Nikki Black abandoned at birth, is an unhinged twenty-nine-year-old woman on a vengeful quest to find and kill her birth mother. Shorty after arriving on the remote island of Tigh Na Benne, she discovers a room for rent ad from a Phyllis Lovage, her mother. Once there to rent the room, she quickly learns that she has a brother, Calum MacLeod, a loner, awkward and violent young man. Her mother sick with cancer, and protective of her son, keeps him on a tight leash and in short order attempts to keep the two apart. Nikki and Calum soon develop an unhealthy relationship that ends in tragedy.

The Berry family awaken in Paris from a drugged sleep to find that all their jewels have been stolen by their erstwhile friend, Casca de Palk. Led by Jonah Mansel, they chase the thief through France (while fending off the attentions of another group of thieves led by the notorious "Auntie Emma"), to Dieppe, Rouen, Tours and the Pyrenees, ending with a climactic encounter on the Spanish border near the Pic du Midi d'Ossau.

Boy & Adèle, and Berry & Daphne, remain married. Jill is now married to Piers, Duke of Padua, and has baby twins.

The book represents Adèle's valediction within the Berry series; she never appears again.

Climpson is a spinster who assists Wimsey by doing inquiry and undercover work: Wimsey says she "asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush." In ''Unnatural Death'' Climpson is described as "a thin, middle-aged woman, with a sharp, sallow face and very vivacious manner".

In ''Strong Poison'' Climpson now runs an employment agency for women, nicknamed “The Cattery.” She is a member of a jury in Harriet Vane's trial for murder, and holds out against a guilty verdict, creating a hung jury. She is described as having a "militant High-Church conscience of remarkable staying power." In spite of her conscience, she pretends to be a medium and holds a séance in order to obtain information.

In ''Unnatural Death'', another character describes Miss Climpson's religion in these terms:

You might find her up at the church. She often drops in there to say her prayers like. Not a respectful way to approach a place of worship to my mind…Popping in and out on a week-day, the same as if it was a friend’s house. And coming home from Communion as cheerful as anything and ready to laugh and make jokes.

Roy gets out of jail after 2 years, for participating in the illegal street race to Nordkapp. He is determined on getting his life back on track. He has hit rock bottom, gone bankrupt, and in a desperate attempt on restoring his life and being a good role model for his daughter, Nina, he takes a job in a gas station.

Roy's pregnant girlfriend hosts a "out of jail"-party, where some of his old racing enemies shows up and challenges him to a new race. The race starts in Fosnavåg, going through Sweden and Finland, before ending up in Murmansk in north Russia. Roy wants to keep his sheets clean, and refuses to race. That is until he finds out that Nina is attending the race together with her boyfriend Charley, and he has to stop her.

The race is wild and tough, going over mountains, icy roads and frozen waters. The race becomes a chase between the racers and the police, who are doing what ever they can to stop them.

After taking Ambien given to him by his agent, ''Hamilton'' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is visited by the spirits of the historical figures George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, and spirits representing those left out of his musical, including enslaved Africans, Native Americans, a white indentured servant, and Harriet Tubman. In a dream, Washington and Hamilton reveal their contempt for Africans and Native Americans. After Miranda wakes up, the other spirits appear to inform Miranda about their lives, while Lin-Manuel appears confused. He continuously defers to Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography ''Alexander Hamilton'' to justify the content of the musical. After Lin-Manuel becomes convinced by the spirits' accounts of their lives and the consequences of the actions of Washington and Hamilton, he goes to confront Chernow, who is unapologetic. At the conclusion, Lin-Manuel's agent tells him he has been commissioned to write a play about Christopher Columbus. Throughout, the play critiques ''Hamilton'''s high ticket prices and "corny" songs.

Carley Elle Allison (Sarah Fisher) is a 17-year-old competitive figure skater in Toronto. Her motto is, always smile / find a reason to be happy. She has a lot going for her: she’s working to gain a place on Canada’s national team, and gaining momentum, she enjoys singing, has a great family and friends and at a party, she meets John, a handsome and sweet guy (Luke Bilyk) from her biology class.

Just as things seem they couldn't get any better, they get worse. Carley starts to feel sick, she begins to experience a severe shortage of breath, which is initially dismissed as asthma. The inhaler she is prescribed doesn’t fix her difficulty breathing, so a doctor runs some tests. After collapsing on a date with John, she's taken to the hospital, where doctors find a rare form of cancerous tumor (melanoma), outside her trachea. Determined to beat the illness, Carly first undergoes tracheal surgery and weeks later, chemotherapy.

Carley deals with "this little set back in my life” with a positive view always. Her family can find humor while changing a tracheostomy tube. One day, when John stays at her parents’ to make dinner, she loses a lock of hair. She warns him it will only get worse and if he decides to stay, he must stay positive. He declares his love for her.

Some days later, we see Carley doing her vlog bald, and directly afterwards John asks her to the prom outside her window with a drum set. She takes him to the rink to teach him to skate. As they are leaving, she bumps into two of her former skating teammates and gets rebuffed by one of them. Selena Gomez gives her encouragement on her Youtube video soon after.

Once back at school, she is welcomed back with many messages of love and encouragement. And then she comes across a fundraising event for cancer research, haircuts for cancer. She does a television interview, where she puts forth her mentality to treat cancer like a contact sport, to keep moving so it can’t get her. John and Carley go to the prom together, and are intimate for the first time.

Time passes, we see Carley’s hair is coming back. She’s had the tumor removed, and is told so far, so good. She goes back to skating some months later. She is offered to sing ‘O Canada’ to open a televised NHL game. John brings his Greek family to her house for dinner.

Months later Carley's rediagnosed with extremely rare Clear Cell Sarcoma in her lungs. John and Carley reaffirm their love for one another, but she succumbs to the disease later on that year at 19. Carley’s Angels Foundation was founded in her honor to help with covering high medical costs.

A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks. Only the youngest of the insurgents is let to bury the others' bodies and live on.

Troubled teenager Lincoln Taggert is sent to Mind’s Eye Academy reform camp after stabbing a bully in the face with a fork during an altercation at school. Former students Krauss and Christine assist head guru Jack Iverson with teaching at the New Age disciplinary camp. Isaac is assigned as Lincoln’s roommate and the two boys become friends. Kaitlin takes a romantic interest in Lincoln. Willie emerges as the camp bully and continually antagonizes Lincoln.

Following a fight with Willie, Lincoln retreats to a seemingly abandoned cellar. While wishing his tormenters were dead, Lincoln hears a girl’s voice echoing as blood begins dripping from the ceiling. After having sex with Christine, Willie follows flashing lights into one of the buildings and is attacked by a ghostly young girl. In the morning, Kaitlin finds Willie dead from apparent self-inflicted wounds, along with the word “bully” carved into his arm. Lincoln begins seeing visions of the ghostly girl and learns that her name is Moira from a message written by her in blood on a wall.

Moira attacks Willie’s sidekick Derek while Derek works in the barn. Isaac’s internet research reveals that the girl Lincoln believes he saw is Moira Karp, a bullied teenager who supposedly killed herself while attending Mind’s Eye Academy. Lincoln rushes to the stables to warn Derek and ends up confronting Moira. Lincoln pleads with Moira to stop, but Moira counters that she is only doing what Lincoln wanted. Lincoln learns that Moira is able to harm others by harming herself when she slits her own throat with a razor blade only for Derek to die from the wound. Moira then plants the blade in Derek’s hand while telling Lincoln that she is his and he is hers.

Kaitlin asks Christine about Moira. Lincoln tells Kaitlin that Moira killed the two boys. Kaitlin initially believes Lincoln is responsible for the deaths, but supports him by saying that the bullies deserved it. Lincoln is upset when Kaitlin confesses that she used to be a bully who regrettably drove a classmate to suicide. Lincoln returns to the basement to summon Moira and to plead with her to stop killing. Moira tells Lincoln that his anger is what brought her back and that together their vengeance can be unstoppable. When Lincoln tells Moira that he doesn’t need her anymore, Moira’s skin bubbles with blood and she doubles over in pain. Moira flees screaming.

After Lincoln leaves, Kaitlin sneaks into the cellar. She and Moira return to Kaitlin’s cabin. There, Moira cuts herself so that Kaitlin can willfully experience the pain. The sheriff warns Iverson about potential trouble for Mind’s Eye Academy after having to collect a second body. The sheriff’s throat is then supernaturally slashed on his drive back to town. Moira confronts Iverson while he meditates. Iverson says that Moira gave them no choice before hitting her over the head with a whiskey bottle. However, the wound appears on Iverson’s head and he collapses. Moira breaks her teeth on a rock to further torture Iverson.

Krauss tries leaving the campus, but discovers that Kaitlin slashed his tires. Moira attacks Krauss. Krauss limps to the greenhouse to seek help from Lincoln and Isaac. Moira resumes her attack and kills Krauss. When Lincoln again protests that he does not need her anymore, Moira bashes her head against a support beam to kill Isaac. Lincoln threatens to cut himself in order to hurt Moira. Lincoln runs away. Christine confronts him at gunpoint over presumably murdering Willie and restrains Lincoln to a faucet. Kaitlin finds Moira cutting fellow student Samantha. Kaitlin protests Samantha’s innocence in the bullying, but Moira continues torturing the girl. Moira pleads with Kaitlin when Kaitlin angrily insists that she no longer needs Moira.

Christine finds the two girls. Kaitlin leaves, allowing Christine and Moira to face each another. Moira confronts Christine about lying to her parents regarding how she actually died. It is revealed that even though Moira was depressed over being bullied while alive, Christine actually killed her. Krauss and Iverson were witnesses who aided with the suicide cover-up. Christine shoots Moira thinking she will kill the ghost but ends up blowing off her own head. Kaitlin finds Lincoln, professes her love, and frees him. Together they confront Moira. When Moira begins gaining the upper hand against Kaitlin, Lincoln sets himself on fire to kill Moira. Kaitlin puts out the flames on Lincoln’s dead body and angrily uses the fire extinguisher to bash in Moira’s head.

In a mid-credits scene, a young girl alone in a high school bathroom wishes for her tormenters be dead, inadvertently summoning Moira as blood drips from the ceiling.

On the eve of World War I, three undercover German spies in France are sabotaging the work of an explosive factory in Bar le Duc and are trying to steal the secret formula of a new explosive. The ringleader, Emma Luckner, nicknamed The Spy of Wilhelm, has direct access to Kaiser Wilhelm II, and often disguises as a widow. She is assisted by Colonel von Reitzer, undercover as Gerfaut, foreman at the explosive factory, and Captain Ulrich von Herfeld, undercover as Marois, one of the richest owners of Bar-le-Duc. Engineer Vallier, the deputy director of the factory and Yvonne, the daughter of the factory's director Mr. Richard, are in love but Mr. Richard has promised her hand to Marois. In Paris, detective Chantecoq is given the mission to find out who is sabotaging the work of the factory.

Chantecoq starts his investigations in Bar le Duc disguised as a peasant. The same evening Gerfaut, after having bombed the factory sends an anonymous note to Richard asking him to meet him at a chapel in ruins. There he offers him money for the formula. Richard, outraged attacks him and is shot dead by accomplices of Gerfaut. Later, Chantecoq finds Richard's body hidden near the ruined chapel.

Following Richard's murder, Gerfaut goes to Paris, disguised as Richard, to meet inventor Aubry in order to get the explosive formula. Rather than giving to him, Aubry proposes to go with him to Bar le Duc and start together the production. Before the train journey takes place, Aubry is warned by Chantecoq that Richard is dead and that he has met an imposter. They agree that Chantecoq will disguise as Aubry and travel with the fake Richard to try to confound him. Emma disguised as a widow takes place in the same compartment as Gerfaut and Chantecoq and together the two spies overpower him. They are very happy to discover that Aubry is in fact their worst enemy Chantecoq and they ship him to Germany in a trunk.

Meanwhile, in Bar le Duc, the police has found Richard's body. Gerfaut tells the police that Vallier was the murderer and organises a demonstration of workers accusing Gerfaut. The police finds in Vallier's office documents proving his contacts with a foreign power. Despite his protests that the documents are fake, he his arrested for murder and high treason.

In Germany, Chantecoq is presented to the Crown Prince who is convinced he will be able to convince him to give the explosive formula to the Germans. Chantecoq pretends he agrees but Emma does not believe him and tries to have him poisoned. Chantecoq let his guard eat the food presented to him and they both die. He complains to the Crown Prince who has Emma sent back to France. There, together with Gerfaut and Marois, they force open Aubry's safe to steal the formula. But Aubry had booby-trapped the safe causing Marois to be killed and Gerfaut and Emma arrested.

Chantecoq is invited to have lunch with the Crown Prince on the terrasse of one his castles overlooking a lake separating Germany from Switzerland. Chantecoq knocks out his host with a bottle and escapes on a rowboat. He first exults over his easy escape but is rapidly disillusioned when the Prince's men start shooting at him and chase him with a speed boat. Just before being caught, Chantecoq jumps into the water.

In Paris, at Vallier's criminal trial, Gerfaut renews his accusations. Aubry tries to defend Vallier, convinced that a plot is preventing Chantecoq from demonstrating his innocence. Chantecoq finally appears, greeted by the crowd and Vallier is acquitted. In an epilogue, Chantecoq is sitting in a garden with his friends and a flashback shows how he managed to arrive in Switzerland.

The series takes place in a bar called "''La Oficina''" (The Office), which is at number 12 on a Madrid street called "San Esteban de Pravia" (named the same as the town where the director was born). The bar is run by "Pruden" (Anabel Alonso) and her husband, "Smith" (Antonio Resines). A group of thieves, headed up by "Don Anselmo" (Fernando Fernán Gómez), and the veterans "Escabeche" (José Luis López Vázquez) and "Anticuario" (Manuel Alexandre), regularly meet there. The three friends, who reminisce over cons and plan new ones, are closely watched by the clumsy but good-natured "Comisario García" (Agustín González) and his assistant, "Inspector Gutiérrez" (Roberto Cairo).

Konomi Kasahara is a first-year student who attends Hanamiya Girls' High School and is a master at puzzles. While looking for a club to join, she comes across the school's climbing wall. This fateful encounter changes her life when she becomes a member of the Climbing Club.

Marius and Tessa are mercenary partners who hunt maleficarum: blood mages who employ blood magic, a school of magic that uses the power inherent in a living being's blood to fuel spellcasting, and also to twist the blood in others for domination or violent corrupting purposes. In the second issue they are inadvertently recruited and coerced by Archon Radonis, the powerful mage-ruler of the Tevinter Imperium, to hunt down and assassinate key members of the Venatori, an armed nationalist cult seeking to restore the Imperium of old and therefore threatening his rule as Archon. The remainder of the series follow the plight of Marius and Tessa as they end up on the run from the Archon's forces, and witnessed the opening of the Breach in the sky, which leads to other job opportunities including membership of the fledgling Inquisition.

Notable characters from ''Inquisition'' who appear in the series include Dorian Pavus, a companion of the Inquisitor; Calpernia, a Venatori leader; Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi, second-in-command of the Bull's Chargers mercenary group; and Leliana, co-founder and spymaster of the Inquisition.

The book consists of eight short stories, mostly set in Hampshire. According to an introductory note by the author, the action of the book may be presumed to have taken place during the summer between the events of chapters 1 and 2 of ''Berry and Co.'', ie some 16 years earlier. In addition to the regular "Berry & Co" characters this book also features the family's two-year-old Alsatian "The Knave", and a visiting American, Perdita Boyte.

The story is set in 2002 and revolves around Adrian (Smarandache), a Romanian undocumented immigrant who works as a security guard at a parking lot in Córdoba, Spain.

The story begins as Vaea and Ser Aaron Hawthorne arrive in the city state of Kirkwall just in time for the coronation celebration of the city's latest Viscount, Varric Tethras, following his adventures from ''Dragon Age: Inquisition''. Moonlighting as a thief, Vaea follows the roving Ferelden knight's travels to roam the world and unbeknownst to him, uses their act as a cover for her to steal valuable artifacts. Various flashbacks of Vaea's past are depicted in the series, which detail how she came into Ser Aaron's service as his squire. Vaea takes on a seemingly easy job in Kirkwall, but later becomes embroiled in a dangerous recovery mission on behalf of the Inquisition for Marius and Tessa Forsythia, the protagonists of ''Magekiller'' who were captured during an Inquisition mission. She is also in danger of having her knight, and her meal ticket, discover the truth about her thievery.

The book consistes of ten short stories, filling in some of the gaps in the earlier books, with a brief prologue recounting an episode of Berry's schooldays. Other characters from Yates's novels, including the Lyvedens (''Anthony Lyveden''), the Beaulieus (''The Stolen March'') and Jenny Chandos (''She Fell Among Thieves''), appear briefly.

A young boy, Nail, is orphaned and subsequently raised by a retired warrior named Shawcroft. Unbeknownst to him, he is part of a much larger plot that involves war and power struggles across the Five Isles.

The chorus, depicted as Usher's Thoughts, calls Usher's name out many times. Usher, working as an actual usher for ''The Lion King,'' informs the audience about what the show will entail. Usher wonders if and how he should write ''A Strange Loop'' to represent what it's like to "travel the world in a fat, Black, queer body" and the pressures of doing so ("Intermission Song").

After work, Usher sings about how he plans "to change this show for the better". Usher wants to change himself, but his Thoughts, full of self-loathing and worry, are too disruptive ("Today"). He gets a call from his mother, who asks about "what's going on in [his] life" and reminds him of the work she and his father (both named after characters in ''The Lion King'') went through to raise him. She then requests that Usher write a Tyler Perry-style gospel play in return ("We Wanna Know").

Hanging up, Usher sings about how he wishes he could act more like his "inner white girl" while he is held back by expectations put on Black boys ("Inner White Girl"). After the song, Usher's Thoughts criticize "Inner White Girl," the show, and advise him that the main character should have more sex appeal or that he should add elements of "slavery or police violence so that the allies in the audience have something 'intersectional' to hold on to."

Usher’s father calls, leaving a message to let him know that he was able to find Scott Rudin’s number online, and despite the fact that his father does not condone homosexuality, Usher has student loans to pay off and should leverage their common sexuality to make a connection ("Didn't Want Nothin'").

At a medical checkup, Usher's doctor inquires about Usher's sex life and preemptively prescribes him Truvada, pressuring Usher to have more sex. Usher "enters the sexual marketplace" through the use of various gay dating apps, where he is rejected for being "too Black, too fat, too feminine," and for having too small of a dick. Usher rages against the ways in which the gay community is also discriminatory ("Exile In Gayville").

A stranger on a train asks about what Usher is writing. Usher explains that "A Strange Loop" is a cognitive science term about how "your ability to conceive of yourself as an 'I' is ... an illusion. But the fact that you can recognize the illusion proves it exists." The stranger introduces himself as Joshlet and the two flirt, before Joshlet explains that he's a figment of Usher's imagination. Joshlet dismisses Usher and his Thoughts ask him what his problem is. Usher sings about how "the second-wave feminist in [him] is at war with the dick-sucking Black gay man" ("Second Wave").

Usher's agent calls, informing him that Tyler Perry is seeking a ghostwriter for a gospel play. Usher sings about his low opinion of Tyler Perry’s work. In the appearance of famous Black figures such as Harriet Tubman, Carter G Woodson, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, “Twelve Years A Slave,” and Whitney Houston, his Thoughts accuse him of being a race traitor and persuade him to take the ghostwriting job for "for the money. And Mom. And Dad. And the ancestors" ("Tyler Perry Writes Real Life"). Usher sings through the process of writing the play, acting out all the characters as caricatures ("Writing a Gospel Play").

Back at his job, Usher tells a patron about how he can't continue the show without confronting his parents with his artistic self. The patron advises him to live his life without fear ("A Sympathetic Ear"). Usher's father asks him on a phone call if he has HIV like his cousin Darnell had. The rest of his family appear and the call quickly devolves. Usher's mother asks where her gospel play is.

Usher hooks up with a white man, Inwood Daddy, who fetishizes him and calls him racial slurs ("Inwood Daddy"). After Usher leaves, he questions where his boundaries are ("Boundaries").

He gets a voicemail from his mother wishing him a happy birthday. She continues on to tell him how homosexuality is a sin ("Periodically"). His father calls, informing him people at their church found music of his online and didn't approve ("Didn’t Want Nothin' (reprise)"). Usher's mother and father fight about him and his homosexuality and their worry he might catch AIDS, before Usher explodes with his thoughts about his upbringing, repressed sexuality, and how the lack of support from his father hurt him. Usher and his mother fight about how she's portrayed in the play, and she accuses Usher of hating and disappointing her.

The set transforms into a gospel play, with Usher as a church pastor and the Thoughts as a choir. Usher recalls visiting Darnell in the hospital, and how Darnell refused HIV medication because he thought he deserved to die for his sins. Usher preaches that he has realized "the only thing worse than dying of AIDS would be living with it and hearing the people you loved say 'I told you so.'" Usher's mother eventually stops the show ("Precious Little Dream/AIDS is God's Punishment"). She tells Usher he is loved but she still thinks that his struggle is due to his homosexuality being a sin and that they could "work this gay abomination thang out."

The Thought playing his mother asks Usher if he wants to end the show with hateful caricature versions of his parents. Usher says that he was trying to depict life as it was for him when he was seventeen but the Thought reminds him that he is twenty-six now. Usher realizes that for his perceptions of his parents to change he must change as well. He sings about childhood memories and what it was like to be "one lone, Black gay boy ...who chose to turn his back on the Lord" ("Memory Song"). With his back to the audience, Usher blanches at the thought of the show ending, wondering what will happen. He turns, facing himself, before reflecting on himself, his relationship with others, and what would happen if he were to change, and coming to the conclusion that "change is just an illusion," and that they are in a strange loop.

The novel follows Bobby Western, a salvage diver, across the Gulf of Mexico and the American South. Western is conflicted by his father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb.

"When Atlanta teenager Alice Kingston’s father dies of heart failure—while at their favorite event, Dragon Con—she immediately is attacked by a “Nightmare” monster and then saved by Addison Hatta, a guardian of the portal between Atlanta and Wonderland."

Five months into an influenza pandemic that kills eighty percent of those affected, London is in lockdown. The city is under military control, a strict curfew is in force and there is extensive public surveillance. Among those who have died from the virus are the prime minister and members of his family.

Detective Inspector Jack MacNeil is ordered to investigate the discovery of fresh human bones found at a building site in Lambeth. A thumbprint on a London Underground ticket found at the scene takes him along a chain of clues, eventually leading to an empty house in Wandsworth. At every step of the way, he is surreptitiously followed by a sociopathic killer who calls himself Pinkie (after the antihero of Graham Greene's novel, Brighton Rock). Pinkie has been hired by a shadowy "Mr. Smith" to keep watch on the police investigation and to ensure the bones don't lead them anywhere. Pinkie kills two witnesses to prevent them from giving information to MacNeil.

Meanwhile, Dr. Amy Wu, a forensic scientist who is in a relationship with MacNeil, determines that the remains are probably those of a girl of about ten years of age, of East Asian origin, and with a harelip. She takes the bones back to her flat to do a facial reconstruction from the skull.

At the house in Wandsworth, a neighbour tells MacNeil that the house was recently occupied by a couple named Smith who had a ten-year-old adopted daughter, a Chinese girl with a harelip.

Pinkie surreptitiously enters Amy's flat while she is taking a shower. Sensing the presence of the intruder, she phones MacNeil and leaves a panic-stricken voicemail message.

While preparing to break into the house in Wandsworth, MacNeil encounters Dr. Sara Castelli, an investigator with the Health Protection Agency who believes that the Chinese girl was the source of the pandemic. After MacNeil retrieves Amy's voicemail message, he and Castelli hurry to her flat, but they find it empty. An instant messaging chat window that is open on Amy's computer indicates that she has been discussing the case with her mentor, Dr. Samantha Looker. At Looker's flat, they discover that the mentor has been murdered (by Pinkie) and her chats with Amy have been hijacked by a third party, who turns out to be Mr. Smith. Using the chat window to communicate, Smith threatens to kill Amy unless MacNeil hands over whatever evidence the police have against him.

They meet at the London Eye, where Pinkie is holding Amy at gun-point in a pod at the top of the wheel. Smith is revealed to be Dr. Roger Blume, an executive of an international pharmaceutical company. Blume tells MacNeil that his company had created the virus artificially to make money from selling a vaccine. The Chinese girl had been intentionally infected and the virus allowed to spread. She had been killed to suppress the evidence.

In a fit of anger, Castelli tries to shoot Blume, but he escapes by climbing up the outside of the wheel towards the pod where Pinkie is holding Amy. MacNeil follows. In a final struggle, Blume gets the better of MacNeil and is about to hurl him to his death when, in a moment of remorse, Pinkie shoots Blume and helps MacNeil to safety, falling to his death as he does so.

While on a picnic with his best friend Ronald, a teenage boy named Skinny dies after having an allergic reaction to a plum. Five years later Skinny is resurrected as a skeletal being to serve as Ronald's guardian angel, and secretly lives in his wardrobe.

Saburo Nobuyasu, a young king, has trouble finding happiness and comfort. He feels more upset when he is set for an arranged marriage with Tokuhime, who is the daughter of Saburo's worst enemy, Oda Nobunaga. He feels even worse when due to his mother, who is very manipulative to him.

Tommy (Harold Lloyd Jr.) and Helen (Jana Lund), a 17-year old high school couple feeling guilt over their physical desires decide to marry. They cross the state line and have a ceremony performed by a justice of the peace. Their parents discover the marriage, and complain to the justice of the peace, who scolds the parents for the upbringing that led to this result. Tommy becomes involved in a car theft ring, and takes Helen with him to deliver a stolen car. Chased by the police, they drive off a cliff, but survive, and are taken before a judge who offers them probation if their parents will do a better job of raising them.

The story takes place in the Langhe. Milton is a young 20 year old university student who has joined the resistance movement, in a "blue" unit (those aligned with the monarchists), following the armistice of September 1943. He is in love with Fulvia, a beautiful girl from a well-to-do Torinese family, who he met in Alba where she had been displaced. After several months as a partisan, Milton, driven by desire and nostalgia, returns to the villa where he and Fulvia used to spend their evenings. Here he meets the housekeeper, who knew him before, and Milton asks to visit the places fond to him. During the visit, the elderly housekeeper mentions a relationship between Fulvia and Giorgio, Milton's friend and a fellow partisan, although in a "red" unit (that is, aligned with the communists). Milton, in shock, chooses to find Giorgio and discover the truth about the relationship.

He sets off to locate Giorgio's unit, but cannot find him. Shortly afterwards news arrives that Giorgio has been captured by the fascists. Milton decides to seek an enemy prisoner to be exchanged with Giorgio before he is executed. He receives information that near the city where Giorgio is being kept an enemy non-commissioned officer is in a relationship with a woman who lives nearby, and learns the location of their meetings. Milton manages to capture him, but he tries to escape and Milton is forced to shoot him. With all hope of freeing his friend now lost and with it the chance to find the truth about Fulvia's love, Milton returns to the villa. The fascists are there when he arrives, he is surprised and flees. Milton, is chased and shot at, probably injured and utterly spent, he collapses on the ground in a nearby wood.

Main characters

• Milton, the protagonist, a young partisan, somewhat gauche, in love with Fulvia
• Fulvia, Milton's love interest, a young woman from Turin, displaced in Alba
• Giorgio Clerici, friend and possible love interest of Fulvia
• Leo, commander of Milton's partisan brigade in Treiso

In the near future, Sarah is a depressed alcoholic in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend Peter and generally disconnected from her pestering mother. One day, Sarah awakens to find a pool of blood in her bed and later learns she is terminally ill, and is told that she will die with certainty. The doctor admits to a 2% margin of error, but insists that Sarah's death is certain. To save those she cares about from the pain of losing her, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure of herself to take her place. She soon dubs the clone "Sarah's Double" and gives her the basic knowledge of her interests and lifestyle. Ten months later, Sarah is informed that she has, inexplicably, gone into full remission, and that she is going to live. When she arrives at her mother's house to share the good news, she finds Peter and Sarah's Double there and is furious to discover that Sarah's Double had been in contact with her mother for quite some time, against her wishes. The truth now exposed, Sarah tries to return things to normal and demands her clone to be "decommissioned", only to be rejected by Peter, as well as her mother, both of whom prefer the clone.

Sarah is told that Sarah's Double requested to stay alive, meaning that, by law, they would have to participate in a publicized duel to the death they must prepare for in a year. Having to pay for her clone as well as herself, Sarah soon takes up self-defense and combat classes with the trainer, Trent. For the next year, Sarah improves herself both physically and mentally, learning to tolerate violence, and how clone duels operate. In lieu of payment for the final month of training, she teaches Trent hip-hop dancing. Feeling confident, Sarah meets up with Peter to state that she means no ill will but promises to unapologetically kill her clone.

While in the middle of a test with Trent, Sarah spots her clone watching from outside and chases her to a nearby playground. There, they talk over their situation before Sarah's Double takes Sarah to a support group for people who survived their duels. Outside, the two bond and agree to escape past the border to live their lives. The next morning, the two hike through a forest where Sarah discovers that Sarah's Double has poisoned her water. Sarah's Double eventually shows up late to the duel alone, lying that she is the original and stating that the "clone" has fled. After an investigation and a court hearing, a judge declares her to be the original, freeing her to take over as the only Sarah. However, Sarah's Double is soon left feeling just as depressed and unfulfilled as the original Sarah, carrying her burdens such as the unfiltered Peter and her doting mother (who both know she is the clone). While out driving, Sarah's Double stops in the middle of a roundabout and cries.

''The Man Who Used the Universe'' is a novel in which Kees vaan Loo-Macklin rises from an illegal to a position of high power.

The game is set in the "Lands of Fill", made up of five and a half kingdoms. The king of one of the kingdoms, Garbagia, has been "trashpicked", and a disgraced squire, Dustin Binsley, is blamed for it. He must embark on a mission across the kingdoms of the Lands of Fill to rescue the King, clear his name and uncover the evil organization trying to destroy the kingdoms. Dustin, the trashcan knight, is accompanied on his journey by his best friend, Ratavia, librarian Walker Jacket, bard Lute, laundromancer Cerulean, and master of disguise Musk. Along his journey Dustin and his party must also stop the Toxic Grimelin Army and prevent the Lands of Fill from war.

The story starts with Lavender, a young girl who awakens in a bed in the afterlife. Surrounding her are balloons and skull-masked figures in purple robes. Their leader, a non-human entity called Grimm, informs her that she has died and reincarnated as a Reaper in the game's town, the Hollow. The dead in this world can reincarnate as ghosts, or Reapers; a type of psychopomp who defeats ghosts. Lavender does not believe Grimm's story, and starts to think of escape as soon as he leaves. However, a ghost appears and tells her that her brother, Timmy, has arrived with her into the Hollow. The game begins with Lavender embarking on a journey to find her missing brother and return home.

Animal spirits come to Gensokyo, under the pretext of an invasion. In actuality, they had no intent on invading and merely caused a commotion to get the nearby humans to enter the Animal Realm, located in Hell, to stop Mayumi Joutouguu, who has created an army of living haniwa, which threatens to interfere with the natural order. The player character takes an animal spirit, and enters Hell through the Sanzu River. Upon entering the Animal Realm, and confronting Keiki Haniyasushin, the animal spirit takes over their body but does not act malignantly, as it has the same goal as the player character. After defeating Keiki, she accepts her defeat, offering to make an idol for Reimu, or a life-size figure of Marisa, though she declines this offer. However, Keiki is effectively exiled from Hell, and ostracised on Earth, a condition to which Youmu is sympathetic.

''Gems for Death'' is set in the archipelago of Islandia, where mysterious ships are kidnapping children. The player characters must find and rescue the children and put an end to the strange cult that is behind the kidnappings. The plot is divided into three mini-scenarios, and non-player characters are described in detail. In terms of game system, the adventure is generic, and must be adapted for a role-playing system such as ''Dungeons & Dragons'' or ''RuneQuest''.

In a flashback, baby Charlene "Charlie" McGee sits in her crib, spontaneously setting the room ablaze with her pyrokinesis power and sending her father Andrew "Andy" McGee into a panic. In another flashback, a young Andy and his girlfriend Victoria "Vicky" Tomlinson talk to a doctor in a clinical trial, who explains to them that they will be injected with the experimental chemical drug Lot-6, which secretly gives them supernatural powers: Andy gains telepathy, and Vicky obtains telekinesis.

In the present day, Charlie is sitting at the kitchen table after having a nightmare. Her parents join her and Charlie explains that she has been repressing something bad, her powers becoming more unstable. She unintentionally causes a ruckus at her school after exploding a bathroom stall due to anger at being bullied. Andy is shown using his power, "the push", to influence a client to stop smoking, although the strain causes his eyes to bleed.

Meanwhile, in a secret facility, Captain Jane Hollister, leader of the DSI, is monitoring thermal signatures caused by Charlie's outbursts. She visits Doctor Joseph Wanless, creator of Lot-6 and the resulting superhumans, who implores Hollister to terminate Charlie before her powers become uncontrollable. Hollister enlists fellow superhuman John Rainbird to assist her. Rainbird visits the McGee home, confronting Vicky who attempts to counterattack with her repressed telekinetic powers. Rainbird overpowers and kills her, holding Charlie at knifepoint as she and Andy enter the home. Charlie's powers overwhelm him and she sends a concussive burst of flames throughout the house. Andy and Charlie escape into their truck.

On the road, they encounter a man named Irv. After using the push to convince Irv to take them to Boston, they hitch a ride with him, stopping off at his house. After Charlie accidentally stumbles upon his paralyzed wife, Irv flies into a rage before conceding that he occasionally overreacts. Irv sits up all night watching a news report of the incident at the McGee home, which is being framed as murder by Andy. Irv and Andy argue before Andy explains to Irv that he is just trying to protect his daughter. Charlie tells Irv, after speaking telepathically with his wife, that she forgives him for the accident that left her paralysed, causing him to relent and attempt to protect Andy and Charlie when the police appear due to his prior emergency call. Rainbird appears in the bushes, kills the policemen, and then shoots Irv in the knee before black trucks roll in to pick up Charlie and Andy. Andy uses his push one last time to trick Rainbird so Charlie can escape to a forest. Charlie spends time honing her fire powers before stealing a bike and clothes to follow her father's telepathic message to her from his cell at DSI.

Charlie finds DSI and takes an agent's pass card from him. He pleads for her not to kill him and tells her he doesn't have a gun. She kills him after he draws the gun to attack her. She follows a large staircase down to the restricted area where her father is being kept. She reaches her father's glass-fronted cell, from inside which Captain Hollister tells her not to try and burn her, lest she burns her father in the process. Andy tells Charlie that Rainbird, not he, telepathically called for her. Seeing no other way out, he apologizes to her and then mentally pushes her to burn the entire place down, starting with Hollister and himself. The now-rogue Charlie sets both on fire, mentally unlocks all the security doors, and walks through the facility killing everyone. Rainbird is released when his holding cell is unlocked. Charlie is captured by men in fire suits, unable to harm them. The men are about to subdue her when Rainbird shoots them from behind. He surrenders to Charlie and kneels for her judgment. Charlie starts to kill him but sees herself in the mirror and, realizing that the DSI is also controlling him, she spares him, before finally burning the rest of the building down. Lastly, Charlie is seen walking onto a beach with Rainbird following behind. Knowing that she and Rainbird are now alone in the world, Charlie allows Rainbird to carry her, and they walk off together into the night.

Ana comes to the hospital to give birth. Everything goes well except for a small, bureaucratic problem: she is not in the computer. After a few days, she is entangled in a web of Kafkaesque proportions: not being in the computer means that she has no social security, no permanent address. She is suddenly a "foreigner," officially at least, even though she has spent all of her life in this country. Legally, she doesn't exist. This means that her child is an orphan, and orphans must go up for adoption.

In 2020, the unexplained strengthening of Earth's magnetic field has started to negatively affect the planet. The Assassins receive a signal leading them to coordinates in New England, where Layla Hassan, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane exhume a Viking raider's remains. Layla, struggling with the Staff of Hermes and her guilt over Victoria Bibeau's death, enters the Animus to view the raider's memories.

In 855 CE in Norway, a young Eivor Varinsdottir witnesses the sacking of her hometown by warlord Kjotve the Cruel and her parents' deaths. She is rescued by Sigurd, the son of King Styrbjorn of the Raven Clan. Seventeen years later, Eivor has been adopted by Styrbjorn, and pursues vengeance against Kjotve. Her latest attempt fails, but she recover her father's axe. Touching it, Eivor experiences a vision of Odin, leading her to consult the local seer, Valka. Valka induces another vision of Sigurd losing an arm before being consumed by a giant wolf.

Sigurd returns from a raiding expedition with foreigners Basim and Hytham, members of the Hidden Ones who came to Norway to assassinate Kjotve, a member of the opposing Order of the Ancients. Defying Styrbjorn's orders, the siblings enlist King Harald's help to eliminate Kjotve. Following their victory, Harald declares his intention to unite Norway under his rule. Sybjorn pledges fealty to Harald, angering Sigurd, who expected to inherit the crown. He and Eivor take loyalists in the clan on an exodus to England to establish their own kingdom. They settle in an abandoned camp in Mercia and name it Ravensthorpe, before forming alliances with local Viking clans and Saxon kingdoms led by Ivar, Halfdan, Ubba Ragnarsson, Guthrum, and Ceolwulf of Mercia. Meanwhile, Hytham asks Eivor to reduce the Order's presence in England by assassinating its members in London, York, and Winchester. She succeeds thanks to anonymous tip-offs from a "Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ."

Eivor's visions continue. Valka gives her an elixir that makes her dream of Asgard from Odin's perspective. Hoping to avert his own fated death by Ragnarök, Odin travels to Jötunheimr to retrieve a magical mead that will ensure his soul will be reincarnated. After returning to Asgard, Odin and the other Aesir—including Thor, Tyr, and Freyja—drink the mead and pass their souls to Yggdrasil, but forbid Loki, who defied Odin by conceiving a son, Fenrir, from partaking in the ritual. Layla realizes these visions are actually of the Isu during the Great Catastrophe, and that Loki defied Odin again to ensure his survival.

Sigurd and Basim discover an Isu relic, the Saga Stone, and Sigurd, with Basim's encouragement, comes to believe himself a god. Fulke, an Order agent and servant of King Aelfred of Wessex, captures Sigurd, believing him to be an Isu or descendant thereof, and tortures him, removing his right arm. Eivor and Basim eventually kill Fulke and rescue Sigurd, who has become withdrawn and disillusioned. Eivor and Sigurd later travel to Norway, where they uncover an Isu temple with an advanced tree-shaped computer system. The siblings connect themselves to it and are seemingly transported to Valhalla, where they enjoy endless battles. Eivor realizes Valhalla is a dream-world and escapes with Sigurd. Outside, Basim confronts them, revealing that Eivor, Sigurd, and himself are reincarnations of Odin, Tyr, and Loki respectively. Basim attacks Eivor, seeking revenge on Odin for imprisoning Fenrir, but she traps him in the computer with Sigurd's help.

Sigurd abdicates leadership of the clan to Eivor. In England, Eivor and her allies join Guthrum's assault on Wessex, defeating Aelfred's forces at the Battle of Chippenham. Eivor later tracks down Aelfred, now living in exile in Athelney, and learns that he is the Grand Master of the Order of the Ancients and the "Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ." Disgusted by the Order's heresy against Christianity, Aelfred sought to see it eliminated and replaced with a new God-fearing order. Eivor spares Aelfred and returns to Ravensthorpe to a hero's welcome.

In the present, the Assassins deduce the strengthening magnetic field is a result of Desmond Miles's activation of the Isu towers in 2012. To stabilize the field, Layla travels to the Norway temple and enters the computer simulation, meeting Basim, who reveals that he sent the signal leading the Assassins to Eivor and tells her how to stabilize the magnetic field. This releases Basim and traps Layla in the simulation, where she encounters a being called the Reader. Together, they work to prevent the extinction of mankind. Meanwhile, Basim escapes the temple with the Staff of Hermes–containing the consciousness of his lover, Aletheia, and meets Shaun and Rebecca. After they leave to bring William Miles, Basim re-enters the Animus to track down his missing children.

The film shows the life and works of Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, from the perspective of a scientific monk, a man of prayer, faith and science. The decor is the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire. We see Mendel's fight to change the fiscal policies applied to the monasteries of his country, as well as his struggles to change people's mind regarding his great discovery. Mendel will ask himself if it is possible to reconcile faith and science, and if his discovery will be useful for humanity or dangerous, as it could be used for eugenics purposes. In that sense, his benefactor and friend, the princess Hanna von Limburg, will be of a great help. Mendel finally publishes his conclusions, and goes to the Vatican meet the Pope, who welcomes his works.

The main plot of the work revolves around the journey through Siberia undertaken by the titular character, a youth named Anhelli, and his guide Shaman, leader of a Siberian tribe. Anhelli was chosen by Shaman from Polish exiles as the redeemer because of his "purity and sinlessness" and he was to be subjected to an initiation by taking part in a journey to see the suffering of the nation. Siberia is portrayed in Słowacki's poem as "white hell" for Polish exiles, a place of execution and spiritual downfall. The main characters wander through various places from deserts and abandoned graveyards through forests to the dark mines of Siberia. Their journey is reminiscent of Dante's journey through hell where the main protagonist, accompanied by Virgil, crosses the circles of hell meeting the damned along the way. Polish exiles are depicted as travelling across a deserted, hostile and hellish country, working hard in mines, suffering in cold dungeons with shackles on their legs and enduring beatings and humiliation. Their children are starving and are subjected to forced Russification.

Anhelli and Shaman's journey starts from the House of Exiles and was supposed to end there as well. However, Shaman's death resulting from a fight among the exiles forces Anhelli to embark on another journey to a faraway desert in the north where he dwells in a hut carved out from ice. Upon the death of Ellenai, a penitent and Anhelli's exiled companion, he is visited by two angels heralding the end of the world as well as his own death. Soon after, he also passes away and is not awakened by the call of the armoured Knight to resurrect and take revenge on the oppressors.

''Love Me for Who I Am'' follows non-binary high school student Mogumo, who lives away from their family home.

At school, fellow student Tetsu Iwaoka invites them to work at Question!, a maid café. Mogumo signs on, happy at first because they can present how they want, but soon discovers the reason Tetsu invited them to work there was because he mistook them for a cross-dressing boy. Incensed, Mogumo tells Iwaoka not to assume their gender based on presentation – causing Iwaoka (and the rest of the maid cafe's staff) to re-think what they know about gender.

Miyo Sasaki is an unhappy middle school girl living in the town of Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture who does not get along with her stepmother Kaoru after her mother Miki Sasaki left. Each day at school, she goes out of her way to flirt with her crush, Kento Hinode, in spite of his repeated rejections. One day, Miyo receives a magical Noh mask from a mysterious mask seller, which lets her become a cat. As "Tarō", she spends time with Hinode at his home, keeps him company while he studies Japanese pottery, and listens to his problems. She longs to confess that the cat that he loves and the girl that he hates are the same person, but is afraid that he will reject her and refuse to visit with Tarō anymore.

One day, Miyo overhears a pair of boys at school talking trash about Hinode, and loudly intervenes by jumping off the school building to defend his honor. She hurts herself during the jump, and for the first time, Hinode shows warmth to her as he takes her to the nurse and shares his lunch with her. Later that evening, as Tarō, Miyo learns that Hinode's family is closing their pottery shop, as the family can no longer afford it. Hinode's kindness towards her, combined with a need to cheer him up at the loss of his hobby inspires Miyo to confess her love in the form of a letter. The next day in class, a boy snatches the note before she can deliver it and reads it aloud, embarrassing both Miyo and Hinode. Hinode saves face by publicly telling Miyo that he hates her.

Miyo later visits Hinode as Tarō and spends the night with him. In the morning, she decides that life with Hinode as a cat is better than life without him as a human, and her human face falls off in the form of a porcelain mask. The mask seller appears to claim Miyo's face and tells her that he will give it to a cat who wants to become human. Miyo's friends and family begin searching for her, including Hinode, who confesses to Tarō that he doesn't really hate Miyo. Trapped in her cat body, Miyo begins losing her ability to understand humans and regrets her choice. Kinako, Kaoru's cat, obtains Miyo's human face from the mask seller and takes over her human life. Miyo implores her to return her face, but Kinako refuses, explaining that she is approaching the end of her natural lifespan but wishes to continue living and bringing happiness to her owner.

Miyo follows the mask seller to the secret Island of Cats where she hopes to convince him to turn her back into a human. Meanwhile, Kinako comes to understand just how much Miyo's stepmom loved her cat and has a change of heart. She reveals the secret of the masks to Hinode and takes him to the island to save Miyo before her transformation becomes permanent. Kinako gives Hinode a cat mask, which turns him into a half-cat but only the hands. Kinako and Hinode are trapped by the mask seller but are rescued by Miyo and another cat who used to be a human. When Kinako is about to give Miyo her face back, the mask seller takes Miyo.

While Hinode eventually finds Miyo, the mask seller takes them to the "promised place". Miyo finally realizes her selfish mistake and starts to tackle the mask Seller demanding her human face back. The mask seller attempts to finalize Miyo's and Hinode's transformation by extracting their lifespan, but is foiled by all of the resentful humans that he had previously turned into cats. As they travel back to the human world, Miyo and Hinode confess their love to each other and Kinako returns Miyo's face, returning her to normal.

The credits show Miyo telling her friend about how Hinode loves her, Hinode telling his mother that he wants to do pottery, and Hinode doing Miyo's signature "Hinode sunrise attack" to her.

Rain Flaherty, a trans girl, moves away from her hometown and enrolls at St. Hallvard High School with the assistance of her aunt, Fara Bryer, who is a teacher at the school. Rain is finally ready to present solely femme in public; however, she encounters childhood friend Gavin Kurz, who knew her when she was still presenting masculine. To further complicate matters, she meets siblings Maria and Rudy Strongwell, the latter of whom accidentally discovers she is trans.

''Elephant Song'' is a novel in which the O'Hara's Greater Shows interstellar circus are stranded on an alien world.

Stranded on a planet far from the spacelanes by Arnheim's sabotage of the ''City of Baraboo'', the survivors of O'Hara's Greatest shows must struggle to survive on the unsurveyed world of Momus with no pioneering equipment and the show scattered across the planet. The ''Baraboo's'' shuttles (she was an adaptation of a regimental assault carrier) that had launched once orbit was achieved because the ship was desperately short of air had had to set down where and when they could; for instance, the shuttle assigned to the midway acts set down on an island continent halfway around the world from the rest of the show.

The focus of the novel is on the bullhands, the elephant handlers. They are facing a cruel reality. Although they had managed to get the menagerie shuttle with the animals that had survived following the sabotage down, one ironclad circus rule is only female elephants troupe with a show due to the danger of a male elephant going into musth and becoming uncontrollable. Without a male elephant to serve as a stud, sooner or later all of the "rubber mules" are going to die, and with them the bullhands' way of life. It focuses the reader on the last order given to the show's route book man, the Pendiian "Warts" Tho, by Governor John J. O'Hara as he lay dying: "Never let these people forget who they are, Warts. Never let them forget that they are circus."

As the years pass, the performers and support staff adapt to life on Momus, highlighted by their annual four day performance of all the acts in the show. And they watch with sadness as the number of elephants dwindles, until at last only one is left. Along the way, they learn some of the children have esper powers ranging from telepathy to telekinesis. Some of the descendents of the show become farmers and ranchers, but Warts is successful in obeying the Governor's final order. The people of Momus never forget that they are circus.

''New America'' is a collection of short stories, including "The Queen of Air and Darkness".

Son of successful businessman Teodoro (Ernani Moraes), the Tomato King "O Rei do Tomate", Teto’s (Danilo Mesquita) life can be summed up as: the good life, money, the farm and women. Just as he’s due to inherit his father’s plantations and factories empire, Teto's life is turned upside down when he meets Paula (Giovanna Lancellotti), an independent and determined medical student.

As Teto's birthday party nears, his father tells him what his present is: a job. The traditional ''Festa do Tomate'', with DJ Alok's special participation, is perhaps one of Teto’s last opportunities to enjoy his peaceful life in his town. And it is in this electronic and country music festival that the lives of Teto and Paula cross.

Hoping to win the heart of the girl, and also wanting to prove his worth both to his father and himself, Teto lies about who he is, hiding his roots and pretending to be of humble beginnings. This is the first of many lies that gets him into trouble in Río de Janeiro. His best friend, Igor (Jaffar Bambirra), an agricultural worker, is his assistant in this romantic and chaotic adventure that also includes the human resources consultant of Trancoso, Alana (Fernanda Paes Leme), tough Monique. (Lellê), in addition to Paula's friends Raíssa and Kátia.

Miri is about to leave Asland to return home to Mount Eskel when she is summoned by the king, who explains that the neighboring kingdom of Eris has been conquered by Stora. In order to secure a good relationship with Stora and avoid war, the king has decided to establish a princess academy and offer a bride to Stora's King Fader. He asks Miri to travel to Lesser Alva, where three of his cousins live, to be their tutor and prepare them to come to Asland and meet the king. She agrees to do so, but only if she and the other graduates of Mount Eskel's Princess Academy become the owners of the land in their province. The king agrees, and Miri travels to Lesser Alva, a swampy area of Danland. She meets the three royal cousins - Astrid, Felissa, and Susanna, nicknamed "Sus." The girls hunt and fish to survive; their promised money from the king stopped coming when their mother died. Miri finally helps them banish the man who has been stealing their money. Now that they are able to buy food, they have time to learn how to read, and Miri establishes a princess academy in their small linder home in the swamp. The sisters become sad when they learn that one of them must marry a 72-year-old king. Meanwhile, Miri writes letters to Peder and to Marda, her sister, that are never received. Peder has left Mount Eskel to search for Miri and see if she is safe.

Then, Storan soldiers invade Lesser Alva. Miri, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus try to keep the sisters' royal identities a secret from the troops. When Miri tries to help a man the soldiers execute, they capture her; but she is rescued by a man named Dogface - one of the bandits that had held her hostage when she was at the princess academy on Mount Eskel. He tells her to figure out a way to free Lesser Alva, cuts her hair to change her appearance, and frees her. Later that night, Peder arrives and informs the girls that Stora has successfully invaded Asland. He helps them escape via a pirate ship. When they are intercepted by Storan sailors, Astrid pretends to be one of King Fader's daughters and successfully convinces the Storans. When the ship arrives in Asland, the five of them jump overboard and retreat from the Storans. They break into the palace and find Queen Sabet, who immediately recognizes Astrid, Felissa, and Sus as the daughters she was forced to give away. Miri discovers that they are indeed princesses, Astrid being Steffan's twin, born first. Then, as planned, Miri and Britta escort the sisters to meet King Fader, only to learn that he has died. The Storans are planning a secret attack on the palace in order to kill Danland's King Bjorn, and Miri quarry-speaks to Peder to warn him. It works, and the Storans find the palace empty, but they plan to use the girls as bait to lure the king into a trap. Miri, Britta, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are thrown into a cell and treated horribly by the Storans. They then meet King Fader's son, Kaspar, who has become the next king of Stora. He and Sus are close in age, and Sus proposes that they become betrothed in order to stop this war. Kaspar accepts, and a peace treaty is signed. The girls join up with the royals and Peder and return to the palace. Queen Sabet dismisses the chief delegate who took her daughters away from her. They are welcomed into the palace, and Steffan bestows the crown on Astrid, who is the first-born in the family. Miri and Peder return home to Mount Eskel. Miri is reunited with her Pa and Marda, and tells them that the king has given the graduates of the princess academy ownership of Mount Eskel. The village celebrates, and Miri and Peder become betrothed.

Quarry-speech

In the first ''Princess Academy'' novel, Miri learned how to communicate non-verbally using the linder stone cut from Mount Eskel. Quarry workers use this "quarry-speech" to warn each other of dangers amidst the noise of their chisels and mallets. Miri discovered that quarry-speech operates by bringing the participants' past memories to their attention in order to alert them to events of the present. Because she and the other Eskelites have linder in their bones - after breathing in its dust and drinking water containing it - they are able to quarry-speak whenever they come in contact with linder. The "lowlanders" - those not from Mount Eskel - are unable to detect the messages. However, in ''Palace of Stone'', Miri learns that the royal family is capable of a different kind of quarry-speech called "linder-wisdom." After living for centuries in palaces made entirely out of linder, they learned how to use its magical properties to detect the feelings of others. In ''Forgotten Sisters'', Miri notices that the sisters have this ability, and Astrid, Felissa, and Sus use it to their advantage.

Bobby Newport (Paul Rudd) introduces the special from his family fox hunting lodge in Switzerland. He had been unaware of the COVID-19 pandemic and is shocked when the cameraman tells him about it.

Amid the ongoing quarantine, Leslie (Amy Poehler) reaches out to her friends as part of her daily phone tree. Each character offers a glimpse into their day-to-day lives:

• Leslie, a regional director for the National Park Service, is leading several committees she created in response to the quarantine.
• Ben (Adam Scott) decides to make a claymation film based on his board game ''The Cones of Dunshire,'' but later comes to his senses and abandons the project.
• Ron (Nick Offerman) is in his cabin; he thinks Leslie's daily conversations with him are unnecessary. He later shows that his ex-wife Tammy 2 (Megan Mullally) has snuck up to his cabin and is now tied up until he can deliver her to the authorities.
• April (Aubrey Plaza) randomly selects five items from a bag to wear each day.
• Andy (Chris Pratt) has accidentally locked himself in his shed.
• Chris (Rob Lowe) regularly donates blood due to his extremely good health.
• Ann (Rashida Jones) has returned to work as a nurse and is isolating herself from Chris and their kids.
• Tom's (Aziz Ansari) book tour in Bali was canceled, so he sits in front of a green screen with an image of Bali.
• Donna (Retta) expresses support for teachers after seeing what her husband has been experiencing.
• Garry (Jim O'Heir), whom the others had avoided calling, explains the challenges he has faced as mayor of Pawnee during the pandemic.

Leslie and Ben appear on Joan Callamezzo's (Mo Collins) and Perd Hapley's (Jay Jackson) talk shows to discuss the pandemic. Andy, as Johnny Karate, appears on Perd's show to reassure kids about the ongoing situation. Fictional advertisements show several other characters:

• Dennis Feinstein (Jason Mantzoukas) promotes a cologne that supposedly kills all viruses.
• Jeremy Jamm (Jon Glaser) announces his plan to deliver dental equipment to homes and walk patients through procedures themselves.
• Jean-Ralphio Saperstein (Ben Schwartz) buys a commercial so people can call him because he is lonely.

Leslie tells Ron that despite her daily calls, she still misses her friends. To cheer her up, Ron arranges for the others to join a group call, and they sing "5,000 Candles in the Wind" for her. Leslie thanks Ron for the gesture.

The story is told in several interlocking threads which are not always chronological.

King Casmir of Lyonesse arranges the marriage of his daughter Suldrun to Duke Faude Carfilhiot.

Princes Aillas and Trewan of Troicinet are sent on a sea voyage to visit the various kingdoms of the Elder Isles to gain experience at statecraft. While in port, Trewan learns that his father has died and that Aillas is the heir to the throne. Late at night, Trewan pushes Aillas overboard. Aillas washes ashore at the foot of Suldrun's garden. While he recovers, they become lovers and plan to escape. Aillas goes on a quest to find his son.

Suldrun delivers a son named Dhrun, who is taken by the fairies and replaced with the changeling Madouc. Dhrun lives nine years in the fairy realm, then sets out through the forest of Tantrevalles, a haunted place. He rescues Glyneth, a girl of about 14, from a troll, and they have a number of adventures before joining Dr. Fidelius. Fidelius is in fact Shimrod, a magician who had his power stolen from him by Faude Carfilhiot and his lover Tamurello. Carfilhiot realizes that Fidelius was Shimrod. He kidnaps Dhrun and Glyneth.

Shimrod can not act directly against Carfilhiot to rescue Glyneth and Dhrun, because that would constitute taking Aillas' side in a political matter and violate Murgen's edict. However, Aillas has learned that Quilcy, King of South Ulfland, has drowned in his bathtub, and that Aillas is his rightful heir by collateral lineage. He lands a force of troops in South Ulfland, proclaims his kingship, and demands a show of fealty from Carfilhiot as Carfilhiot's rightful liege lord. Carfilhiot refuses, and Aillas' Troice troops lay siege to his castle. Aillas' soldiers, informed by his knowledge of the castle's defenses, avoid the traps and pitfalls Carfilhiot has prepared, much to Carfilhiot's dismay. He calls on Tamurello, who confronts Aillas. This gives Shimrod an excuse to call on Murgen, who forbids Tamurello from acting and banishes him to his mansion. Tamurello offers to bring Carfilhiot to his manse, but Carfilhiot refuses to leave his castle. The siege is eventually successful, Dhrun and Glyneth are rescued, and Carfilhiot is hanged as a traitor to his king. When his body is cremated, a green fume escapes and blows out to sea, where it mixes with the spume and condenses into a "green pearl", which sinks into the sea and is swallowed by a fish.

Aillas, now King of Troicinet, Dascinet and South Ulfland, and his son Dhrun, make a diplomatic visit to Lyonesse. Casmir is puzzled as to how Aillas, barely out of his teens, could have a nine-year-old son, and why Aillas' face seems rather familiar.