Gerda and Kai are finally reunited with their parents. Together they move to a certain province, ruled by a powerful inventor King Harald. In a family full of professional magicians, only Gerda doesn't have the ability to wield magic. However, the family is satisfied by selling first-class magic trinkets. One day an old woman comes to buy a trinket at their shop. Gerda tells it cost ten dinars. The old woman couldn't buy it all because of her retirement benefits. She almost leaves, before Gerda tells her to buy it for free.

A new competition at the court was announced, with families including Gerda's clamoring to go and get the position as court magician. Sadly, Gerda is the only one who stays at the home, responsible to guard the store items. King Harald is an ardent advocate of technical progress. He builds machines and robots. Harald decides to banish all magicians from the realms. Harald nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen's previous deeds. As reparation, Harald issues a new decree that the products of scientists, engineers and the inventors will be the standard while the amulets, potions and talismans of the magicians will be relegated or even forbidden. King Harald finds a way to ban all the magic from the world - all the possessors of magic powers are now trapped in Mirrorlands

After the king traps all the world's magicians in the polar internment zone, Gerda finally finds out why all the magicians vanish at the palace. Gerda takes this mystery into her own hands as she battles to keep magic alive through kindness and friendship. However she is sent to jail at the top of the castle. Meanwhile, inside the Mirrorlands zone, a meeting is held for all the possessors of magic. Gerda's parents believe only their daughter can rescue them. They travel to the Snow Queen's castle, where she is playing chess. They reconcile all their past differences and agree for a united plan of action. Gerda will be helped by trolls, pirates, and even the frigid and mysterious Snow Queen herself. Even Rollan the wielder of fire will return from the previous film to help save the magicians from the imminent threat imposed by the magical blue mirror called the Mirrorlands.

One of their rendezvous to the land of the trolls includes an aerial battle with zeppelins in the floating City of Pirates. Gerda manages to seek the services of air captain Alfida. Alfida agrees to sail the shark airship zeppelin with the hero and heroine as passengers. King Harald and his airship fleet are already on their way to thwart Gerda's plan of liberation engaging in a battle between spells and technology. Teaming up with the pirates of the Flying City, the heroes try to capture the capital of the region and re-open the portal of the Mirrorlands using the amulet of King Arrog.

In a coastal town in Southern Lebanon, the Zayyad family seemed to have it all: A hotel by the sea, a lasting marriage, and strong family ties. But this seemingly perfect portrait takes a hit when the father dies under mysterious circumstances. Alia, the bereaved wife, is intent on lying about her husband’s cause of death in order to maintain appearances, despite the vehement objections of her adult children, Rami and Noura. One hour before the mourners’ arrival, and still struggling to agree on a course of action, Alia, Noura and Rami are forced to reevaluate the long dysfunctional family dynamic that brought them here in the first place.

Chonlatee (Thanawat Rattanakitpaisarn) is a shy, kind-hearted boy, who has a crush secretly on Tonhon (Supakorn Sriphotong), the guy next door, since their childhood days. Tonhon has always taken care of him as if they were real "brothers". But Chonlatee watching Tonhon and his girlfriend Amp from a distance. That is until destiny favors him when Tonhon updates his status as single. Chonlatee then decides to change his look to get Tonhon's attention and love.

Their closeness starts to change into a deeper bond. Tonhon starts to get confused about his feelings. His mouth keeps saying that he doesn’t think of Chonlatee that way but when Chonlatee goes out with someone else, he feels insecure, being possessive and worried about Chonlatee. And in the midst of that, his ex-girlfriend, Amp, returns to pursue Tonhon's feelings back.

In 2049, George Almore (Theo James) is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife Jules, who had died in a car accident years ago. His wife's consciousness is stored in a device that, according to the sales pitch, will allow up to 200 hours of interaction with the deceased. His work also includes updates to a previously-abandoned facility that appears to require numerous and significant upgrades to its sadly-inadequate security system. His work is aided by his second prototype, J2 (Timea Maday Kinga). Almore is visited by a small team from Archive who perform an inspection of the device. They note that the security seal is broken and threaten legal action, however, Almore points out that they are on his company's property and hints at the legal repercussions of a confrontation and the Archive team backs off and leaves. J2 is shown to be quite sophisticated, but as Almore reveals, it/she has only developed the brain of a 16-year-old, and is incapable of developing any further. J2 is aware of Almore's work on a third prototype and appears to have become jealous, which leads to J2's increasingly unpredictable behavior. Meanwhile, the J3 android is ready and begins to move and interact with completely human mannerisms, responses and emotions. Almore gets a call from his boss who implies that he may be in trouble for his actions during the Archive team's visit. He assures her that she has nothing to worry about. J2, confronted with the realization that she will never be anything more or better than she already is, destroys herself by walking into a lake. This eventually prompts another call from the boss with an indication that a team is on the way to shut down his research. Almore makes the final call to his wife on the Archive machine, and ends the call saying "see you soon." J3 overhears this and realizes her purpose, and that her own consciousness will be overwritten by that of his wife who will then live on in her body. Initially angered and afraid, she accepts her fate and the memory download is completed as the team storms the compound. At this point, any sign of the exterior team suddenly evaporates, and all is calm. The Archive starts ringing with one more incoming call from his wife. J3 implores him not to answer, but he does and speaks to his wife; he then hears a child's voice who is revealed to be his daughter. In a shocking twist, it is revealed that George was the one who died while his wife had survived the accident and is raising their daughter in the real world revealing the whole ordeal George had went through was just a simulation within his own Archive that had just recently expired. With his Archive expired, it has been prepared and ordered to be buried for his official funeral. Jules and their daughter say their final goodbyes and leave.

Joy (Ploy Sornarin) is hired as a housemaid by a wealthy family consisting of Uma (Savika Chaiyadej), Nirach (Theerapat Sajakul), and their only child and daughter, Nid (Keetapat Pongrue). Mrs. Wan (Natanee Sitthisaman), the head housemaid, reminds Joy not to pry into the affairs of their employers. Joy experiences odd occurrences around the house, and - ignoring Wan's warning - sneaks into Uma's study at night. She finds a photo of Uma, Nirach, and housemaid Ploy; Ploy is Joy's missing sister. The house is haunted by Ploy's ghost, and only Joy and Nid can see it.

Joy learns of the circumstances surrounding Ploy's death from the ghost. Uma and Nirach have a loveless marriage, and each had a separate intimate relationship with Ploy. Ploy and Nirach had a child, Nid, causing resentment from Uma. Later, Ploy suffered a serious accident. Uma found Ploy first and refused to give or summon aid. Ploy was seemingly dead by the time the rest of the household responded. The household buried Ploy alive, not noticing that she had begun breathing again when their task was nearly complete.

Joy exacts revenge. During a party she murders Uma, Nirach, household staff, and guests, before setting the house on fire and leaving with Nid.

Pamela Miller (Pam) is a married lady who lives separated from her Husband Jeremy Miller, who is a city police officer. Pam works as a call center operator for 911 emergencies. They together have a daughter Cassie, whose custody is with Pam for the time being, till they are officially divorced. One day, a notorious criminal Richard (Ving Rhames) kidnaps Cassie and calls 911 only to connect with Pam, whom he wants to send her estranged husband, Jeremy the cop to certain locations, where he can be killed. Richard doesn't allow Pam to hang-up the call and answer other incoming emergency calls, leading to a physical conflict with a office coworker. Jeremy and his partner are able to figure out that someone is playing with them, after meeting a series of mishaps and accidents, and also receiving a text message from Pam, indicating that Cassie was kidnapped.

In the end, Jeremy is able to save Cassie and eliminate Richard.

In the middle of the war years and at the height of the bombing of Tehran, days pass with fear and dread. But love and affection and life and hope forget the tangible fear of death; The dead are repeated in the words of the living. Death is an absolute question and love is a recurring ambiguity. «Bomb; A "Love story" deals with the hopeful course of life, not the absolute blackness of death.

Emily and Randall arrive at Randall's parents' beach house in a remote vacation town. Randall, who has recently dropped out of college, proposes that Emily do the same so they can live at the beach house permanently. Emily intends to pursue a degree in organic chemistry. They soon learn that another couple is already staying at the beach house—Mitch and Jane Turner, old friends of Randall's father. Jane is terminally ill, and Mitch hopes to give her one last happy vacation. Because the house has plenty of room, both couples decide to stay.

After dinner, Randall suggests they all share some edible marijuana which he brought with him, to which Jane and Mitch agree. While high, Mitch notices the strange water texture, and they all see glowing microbes covering the beach and trees. Jane leaves to see it up close but starts coughing after a while and gets disoriented when a strong fog starts to form around the area. After breathing in the fog, Emily becomes disoriented as well and passes out. She awakens to a sick Jane throwing up and goes to sleep. When she wakes up the next day, she finds a catatonic Jane sitting in the kitchen, covered in skin lesions, and Mitch missing.

Randall and Emily decide to go to the beach, which they are surprised to find is completely empty. After a while, Randall gets sick to the stomach and rushes back to the house. In the bathroom, he sees the water from the sink forming strange patterns; then, hearing Jane moan, he goes to help her. On the beach, Mitch suddenly appears. He muses that something about the area feels off, then tells Emily he is going for a swim; instead, he drowns himself. Panicked Emily steps on a washed up jellyfish. It stings her and Emily sees a worm-like creature crawling in an open wound. She manages to crawl up to the house and remove the worm. She finds a sickened Randall being pursued by Jane, who has milky white eyes and strange fluid leaking from her mouth. Managing to lock Jane in the house, Randall and Emily escape into the slowly thickening fog.

By nightfall, the fog covers the area and Randall has become even sicker. Emily discovers a police car with a radio inside, and she manages to contact someone. The person on the other end asks if "they have been exposed" and tells them to barricade themselves and to not breathe in the fog. They break into a house for shelter. They find that the water is now a completely different texture. When Emily turns on the TV she finds an Emergency Alert System on every channel and a radio broadcast reveals that the microbes, which were preserved in underwater rocks, had been released by global warming. Emily suggests they wait until morning, but Randall is scared of dying. Emily goes into the basement, finds oxygen tanks for scuba diving, and concludes they can use them to breathe in safe air. She also discovers a horribly mutated person feeding on a corpse.

Upstairs, she discovers Randall has succumbed to the infection and kills him. Finding the keys to a car, she drives away but becomes disoriented in the fog and crashes into a tree. She stumbles from the car into a puddle and lies there, breathing in the fog and hallucinating about the microbes in the water. The next morning, she lies on the beach, telling herself not to be scared as the infection completes its course. A wave engulfs her body, dragging her out to sea.

On October 1, 1989, forty-three women give birth to forty-three children, despite none of them showing any sign of pregnancy until labor began. Seven of those children were adopted by eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves, and turned into a superhero team known as "The Umbrella Academy". In the present, five of these children, now grown-up, live separate lives. Luther "Number 1" lives on the moon, Diego "Number 2" stops a home invasion, Allison "Number 3" walks on the red carpet at a film premiere, Klaus "Number 4" leaves rehab and immediately begins to use drugs, and Vanya "Number 7" plays the violin. After watching the news, they all learn about Sir Reginald Hargreeves's death.

The children decide to reunite in their old home, the Academy, to talk about their father's death. Visiting his father's bedroom, Luther begins to suspect that his father was murdered by one of the others, as his monocle is missing. Diego reassures Luther that the coroner stated that Sir Reginald died of heart failure but Luther remains suspicious. In a flashback to the Umbrella Academy's first public appearance, the Academy successfully stop a bank robbery. Sir Reginald and Vanya watch the action from a rooftop, and Vanya asks why she can't help. Sir Reginald tells Vanya that she just isn't special, and later in an interview, he tells the public that he adopted six children, instead of seven.

Back in the present, a lightning storm causes the group to go outside. Once there, they watch as a young Five "Number 5", one of the siblings, arrives at the Academy through a strange ball of blue energy. Five explains that he traveled to the future, came back, and became stuck in his 13-year-old body, though he's actually a 58-year-old man. Later, the group holds a funeral for Sir Reginald. In a flashback, Sir Reginald trains and monitors all the children. He also gives all of them a tattoo of an umbrella on their wrists, except Vanya, who draws her own umbrella tattoo using a pen. In the present, the group part ways.

Five visits a coffee shop, where he kills several men who try to kidnap him. At a river, Diego is revealed to have taken Sir Reginald's monocle, which he dumps in a river. Klaus, who has the ability to talk to dead people, begins to talk with his dead sibling, Ben "Number 6". The episode ends with Five visiting Vanya, where he tells her that in eight days the human race will come to an end, but he doesn't know why or how.

''The Soul Master'' is a novel in which Kosmion builds an army of puppet extensions of himself by absorbing other men.

''The Book of the River'' is a novel in which Yaleen is one of the women who sail in an immense river which cannot be crossed due to the gelatinous Black Current that runs its full length.

''Mute'' is a novel in which the mutant named Knot and the galactic agent named Finesse combat the Lobos who want to take over the Galactic Co-ordination Computer.

Margaret is an American expatriate living in Tokyo. She works at a Japanese flight academy during the day teaching prospective flight attendants how to pronounce English. She spends her nights getting drunk with fellow expatriates Ines and Liam and seeks out submissive sexual encounters with random men in the city's numerous love hotels. Her nightly misadventures cause her to show up to work in a daze and disheveled, drawing the concern of her instructor Nakamura.

One day, Margaret crosses paths with a Yakuza enforcer named Kazu and the two begin a relationship. Margaret is at first taken aback by Kazu's revelation that he is about to get married, but she gives into him when he admits that his marriage is more out of duty than love. Margaret confides to Kazu that she does not have a family: her father left when she was a child, her mother passed away from cancer, and she has a schizophrenic brother; and that she came to Japan to be alone.

On the day of graduation for Margaret's students at the flight academy, Kazu asks Margaret to spend the entire day with him in Kyoto. Initially reluctant to skip graduation, Margaret agrees when he says he will not get another day and they take the train. He brings her to the Kiyomizu-dera temple and shows her the "Buddha's womb", a stone illuminated at the end of a pitch-black tunnel. Kazu explains the symbolism of being reborn reaching the stone and brought Margaret there hoping to help her let go of her trauma, but Margaret seems unaffected. On the train ride back to Tokyo, Kazu leaves the train while Margaret is asleep, leaving her despondent and desperate to find him when she wakes up. When she returns to work, she finds that she has been let go and replaced for skipping graduation.

Margaret spirals down further when Ines reveals to her that she is leaving Japan. Following numerous thankless sexual encounters, Margaret finally spots Kazu with his family by chance one day and follows him into a love hotel. Kazu reprimands Margaret for following him, telling her nothing can happen between them. When Margaret insists that she loves him, they have sex one more time before he sends her away, leaving him saddened and conflicted. When Margaret returns to her apartment to find an eviction notice, she desperately takes a job as a bar hostess for drunken businessmen, but finds herself uncomfortable and leaves without getting paid.

Now homeless and at rock bottom, Margaret runs into Liam's girlfriend Louise, who reveals that Liam had been deported. After sharing a drink with Louise, Margaret gets drunk and begins wandering around Tokyo aimlessly at night until she takes notice of a strange man following her and asks him to take her to a love hotel. She strips naked and lies on the bed where the stranger ties her up. When he suggests that he could kill her, she begs him to do it before Kazu comes into the room to rescue her, having followed her. Grateful for being rescued, Margaret decides to start anew by leaving Tokyo. On the plane, Margaret notices Tamiko, one of her former students, as her flight attendant and they smile at each other while Tamiko demonstrates safety procedures. Margaret calls Kazu to tell him she now understands the symbolism of the "Buddha's womb" and finally feels reborn before saying goodbye for good.

Stranded in 1983 due to a malfunctioning time drive, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents plan to restore order to the timeline by defeating Nathaniel Malick and rescuing the Inhumans he has taken prisoner at the sanctuary, Afterlife. Noting that Agent Daisy Johnson could be erased from history if her mother, Jiaying, were to be killed, Director Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie instead sends LMD Phil Coulson into the facility with the teleporting Inhuman Gordon while he and Agent Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez provide back-up. Meanwhile, Johnson learns from Melinda May that she had a sister named Kora, who committed suicide in the original timeline before she was born, but who has been rescued by Malick and turned into one of his acolytes in this version of events.

At Afterlife, Malick uses the Chronicom Time Stream to look into the future. Using this knowledge, he recruits a young John Garrett and shows him his future wherein he betrays S.H.I.E.L.D. to join Hydra and Coulson kills him. Upon their arrival, Coulson and Gordon are captured, before Malick transfers the latter's powers to Garrett. Imprisoned with Coulson, Gordon teleports the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to freedom, dying in the process. When Coulson fails to make contact, Mack and Yo-Yo enter Afterlife and free the captured Inhumans and Coulson, who tranquilizes Kora on his way out, before bringing them all to their headquarters, the Lighthouse.

Meanwhile, Daniel Sousa convinces Johnson to speak with her mother, helping to reconcile the pair after Jiaying's death in the present during the main timeline. Malick and Garrett teleport into the Lighthouse, where the former, using the abilities he took from her in 1976, knocks Johnson to the ground and kills Jiaying before escaping. Garrett kidnaps Jemma Simmons and takes her and Malick onto S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mobile headquarters, ''Zephyr One'', and Malick and Garrett hijack it, with Deke Shaw unknowingly trapped inside the engineering bay. After heading into space and out of range of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellites, Malick notes to a captured Simmons that every version of events where he does not win the battle with S.H.I.E.L.D. occurs because of her husband Leo Fitz, and demands she reveal his location.

The film starts off showing Walton island which is owned by World War 2 veteran, Alexander Walton. He goes missing one day, and the island is taken away from his family.

Andy Walton is a school student who excels at swimming. He has a smarter younger brother named Mark, who suffers from a serious ear condition. His scholarship dreams are shattered when he loses a swimming contest. He gets caught stealing drinks from a store, after being left behind by his so called friends. His parents decide to send him and Mark to their uncle Trent, whom the kids have never heard of before. Andy finds a pocket watch and takes it with him.

Uncle Trent takes them to the island which once belonged to the Waltons. There is a West Forest, said to be haunted due to the death of 9 people. Andy meets his friend Claire whom he likes. Mark and Andy learn of the treasure that their grandfather left on the island for his family. Andy appears keen about it. One day, he is invited for dinner by Claire's father and the island's new owner, John Broman. He learns that Trent lost their house to John in a poker game, which enrages him. He almost gets shot by someone in the West Forest. Trent forbids both Andy and Mark from going there again. They find another pocket watch with Trent. Both the watches have a message from Alexander, which Andy believes to be clues to the treasure.

He and Mark decide to crack it. They go to the beach at midnight, after Andy fights with a drunk Trent. Next day, Claire confesses that she likes Andy and they kiss. He gifts her a necklace and she in turn gives a chain with a key to Mark. Mark sees a lighthouse and informs Andy that he has cracked one of the clues. They search it and find another clue which lands them up in Bromans' house, where Alexander's possessions are stored. Claire helps them to get the key, pretending in front of her father. John is revealed to be behind the 9 people's death. Andy and Mark enter a secret room. They find a key and a device. When they go back home, they encounter drunk Trent. Andy finds out that Trent is his father and furiously leaves the house, leaving Mark behind. Trent calls for Jim and they set out to search for Andy.

Andy goes into the West Forest and discovers an underground passage which gets locked up. Mark finds him with the help of a walkie-talkie. They unlock a door with Claire's key chain, which leads them to a gold mine. John follows them and points a gun at them. He also reveals that he was behind their grandfather's death. The mine leads to the sea full of currents. The door locks up, which can be opened by Mark's compass (which Trent gives him earlier). John pushes Mark into the sea and gets pushed by Andy. Jim and Trent pull them onto their boat, while John dies. Claire leaves the island, while Trent and Andy, and the Waltons reconcile.

One night at the Wet Valley Water Park, two teenagers are killed by a machete wielding assailant while having sex.

Some time later, the 2018 graduating class of Valley Hills High visits the water park, owned and supervised by Paul Wilkinson, for a weekend-long celebration of their graduation. Among those present are Josh, a member of a band called the Blades; Josh's bandmates Chad and Slim; Priscilla, Paul's wife; Alice, a graduate with whom Paul is cheating on Priscilla; Tommy, one of the park's employees; Conrad, an elderly pool cleaner; and Kimberly, who is Tommy's girlfriend and Josh's ex-girlfriend. Rumours circulate amongst the students about Priscilla supposedly choosing one graduate to have sex with each year.

Two drunk graduates go down one of the park's water slides, and are injured when one impacts with a glass bottle held by the other. They leave in an ambulance, and Paul orders Conrad to clean the pool without draining it. That night, Priscilla joins Josh's father, a real estate developer named Michael, in a restaurant for dinner. Josh and Kimberly have sex in the showers, and are secretly recorded on video by another graduate. Later, the Blades perform a song in the park. During their performance, the video of Josh and Kimberly having sex is sent to the other graduates, including Tommy, who punches Josh and is fired from the park.

Shortly thereafter, Michael tells Josh that he is negotiating ownership of the park with Paul. Elsewhere, an unseen individual installs a pair of large, metal blades, arranged in an "X" shape, in one of the park's water slides. The next day, Michael is fatally shot by an unseen attacker, and a boy uncovers a portable music player in a sandy area of the park. Later that day, an annual competition begins: teams of three members are to race down one of three slides, and whichever team reaches the pool below fastest wins a cash prize. Tommy worries that one of the slides will collapse, but his concerns are ignored.

The first set of teams each go down one of the slides. Alice and two other graduates go down the slide containing the blades, and are cut to pieces. Tommy, while attempting to warn his fellow graduates not to go down the slides, is pushed down the weaponised slide; he becomes stuck against the blades and the bodies caught therein. The pool below begins to fill with blood and limbs from the weaponised slide, causing spectators to panic. Paul and Priscilla, unaware of the danger, continue to send teams down the slides, and eventually decide to slide down themselves. Josh unsuccessfully attempts to save Paul from sliding into the blades. Josh and Conrad both climb to the top of the slide to try to prevent other people from sliding down the slide, but are pushed down the slide.

Following the massacre, a surviving Josh meets with a lawyer, who informs Josh that Michael left him his estate, and has him authorise the replacement of the Wet Valley Water Park with a shopping complex. It is then revealed that the individual who installed the blades in the slide and killed Michael was Priscilla, who, 35 years prior, witnessed her father die in the water park.

In a mid-credits scene, the boy with the portable music player surfaces in the bloody pool.

''The Halls of the Dwarven Kings'' is an adventure set in the ruins of a vast dwarven city in which the player characters must find and retrieve the crown of an ancient dwarven king. It is designed to be used with any role-playing system; suggestions for converting statistics to systems similar to ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' and ''RuneQuest'' are included.

After the Ghostbusters are summoned to help a local family whose teenage daughter is mysteriously levitating, the Ghostbusters accidentally summon a gang of intergalactic juvenile delinquents to return to the Earth. In the distant past, these aliens had started neolithic humans on the path to civilization so that the humans would build tall buildings that the aliens could then knock over. To prevent the aliens from vandalizing the Manhattan skyline, the Ghostbusters must engage them in a flying car demolition derby.

''Far Cry 6'' takes place in 2021 in Yara, a fictional Caribbean island nation inspired by Cuba and ruled by the dictator Antón Castillo (Giancarlo Esposito). A 1967 guerrilla revolution that toppled the presidency of his father led to Yara's isolation from the rest of the world. Since then, the country's economy has approached the brink of collapse. In 2014, Antón is elected president and oversees the creation of Viviro, a new cancer treatment developed from Yara's tobacco, promising it will make the economy stable. Seven years after being elected, Antón announces a draft "lottery" to conscript citizens as farmers in the tobacco fields. Antón has a 13-year-old son, Diego (Anthony Gonzalez), whom he grooms to be his successor.

In the capital Esperanza, as Yara's armed forces round up citizens for the draft, Dani prepares to escape to Miami in the United States via fishing boat, alongside friends Lita Torres and Alejo Ruiz. Alejo is shot in the head, while Dani and Lita escape with other refugees. However, Antón stops the boat and reveals that Diego was attempting to flee with them. After retrieving Diego, he orders the boat sunk by gunfire. Dani survives the commotion and wakes up with a mortally wounded Lita on an island's beach, far away from Esperanza. As Lita dies, she urges Dani to look for the nearby Clara Garcia, leader of the guerilla movement Libertad. Upon arrival, Clara tells Dani to invite ex-spymaster and weapon maker Juan Cortez back into Libertad, disrupt the production of Viviro tobacco in the island, and clear the blockade trapping the guerrillas in the region. Once Dani fulfills all the tasks, Clara gifts Dani a boat, which can be used to sail away from Yara and into Miami: an alternate ending to the game. If Dani does not leave, Clara gives the order to aid anti-Castillo forces throughout Yara's three major regions—Madrugada, Valle de Oro, and El Este—and convince them to help Libertad oust Antón.

In Madrugada, Dani searches for the revered Montero family, who are allied with the region's guerrillas and tobacco workers. They take down General José Castillo—Antón's nephew, commander of Yara's air force, and a slave driver who robbed the Monteros and other local farmers of their lands. Over in Valle de Oro, Dani assists the rap band Máximas Matanzas in airing TV and radio performances to push back against pro-Castillo propaganda spread by María Marquessa, Yara's Minister of Culture. Upon killing María during a televised interview about Viviro, they encounter Dr. Edgar Reyes, the scientist behind Viviro's conception; it is revealed that he performed cruel experiments on disenfranchised tobacco workers in concentration camps as part of his effort to create the drug. With this in mind, Dani goes to one of his research facilities and kills him. Meanwhile in El Este, a man known as "El Tigre" awaits Dani's arrival on top of a mountain hideout housing the veteran revolutionaries who overthrew Antón's father. While he is willing to help Libertad, the others are not, so Dani shows them photos of poor working conditions in tobacco farms to convince them to join. While attempting this, Dani comes across an anarchist rebel group of university students who are fighting against Yara's naval commander Admiral Benítez. The two groups unite and storm Benítez's fort to kill her, ending her iron-fisted rule on Yara's seas. They then track down Sean McKay, a Canadian business magnate who handles Viviro exports and imports, and either kill him or make a deal with him to finance Libertad.

After uniting the anti-Castillo forces under Libertad, Dani learns that Antón is holding Clara at his private island's villa, under the pretense of a parley. When Dani confronts him, he and Diego reveal that Antón has been suffering from leukemia for 13 years, and the Viviro treatment stopped working 6 months earlier. Impressed by Dani's feats, and wishing that Diego has a protector for when he dies, Antón demands that Dani become his general in exchange for Clara's life. Juan attempts to assassinate Antón but opts to shoot Diego instead, though Dani knocks him out of the way. In response to the shooting, Antón kills Clara and escapes with Diego to Esperanza. Backed by the anti-Castillo forces, Dani enters Antón's presidential palace alone and confronts him in his office with a gun. Dani promises to protect Diego, but Antón, believing that Diego would instead be tortured as he had been after his father's toppling, shoots him before committing suicide. The resistance forces unite with Dani and witness the Castillo corpses. They unanimously declare Dani the new leader of Yara, but Dani refuses the leadership, turning it over to them. After burying Clara, Dani and Juan wage war against Castillo's surviving loyalists.

The plot of the story follows the life of the narrator (Selina Davis), a biracial Afro-Caribbean woman in mid-20th-century England. The narrator is living in London and trying to find work as a seamstress, but her cultural views conflict with those of her British acquaintances. At the beginning of the story she is evicted from her apartment over a rent dispute, and soon meets a man in a café who offers her lodging in his house. The house - described as "classy" by the narrator - is older than other homes on the street, and the owner's refusal to change the home has created friction with the neighbors.

The narrator lives in the home for a week but is unable to find work, instead passing her time thinking, drinking and singing. She is scrutinized by her neighbors, who disparage the narrator's lack of work, drinking habits, and singing; one couple is also overtly racist and sexist towards her. The narrator copes with this by drinking and taking sleeping pills. In one conversation with the house's owner, the man reveals that he values the house but may sell the lease, lamenting what money does to people. When the narrator responds that money has never meant much to her, the man retorts that she is a fool, then, and states that those without money will be pushed around and inevitably be made caricatures of themselves.

The next week, the narrator gets into two confrontations with the neighboring couple. The first encounter results in her being fined £5 for singing in the street, while during the second she (in a fit of frustration) throws a rock through the couple's window and is arrested. The narrator is unable to pay her fine or explain her case to the local magistrate, and so is incarcerated for 10 days in Holloway Prison. While in prison she hears a song (the "Holloway Song") being sung by the other prisoners. The narrator enjoys the tune and adds her own inflections to, imagining it being played on trumpets so "these walls will fall and rest". Inspired by the song and the resilience of the other prisoners, the narrator regains some lost weight and stops drinking. She is released after 10 days after an unknown benefactor pays her fine, but upon her return to her house she finds the home being remodeled.

Some time after, the narrator gets a job in an upscale clothier, lying about her credentials in the process. During a party at her co-worker's house she - having given up singing - whistles the Holloway song, which attracts the attention of a man at the party. The man plays a jazzed-up version of her song on a borrowed piano; the narrator dislikes this, stating it is being played wrong and feeling that her source of resiliency has been warped. However, the other guests like the new song. Later, the narrator receives a thank-you note and £5 from the man, who writes that he has sold the song and that she was "quite a help" inspiring him. She is initially horrified, grieving that the song - a symbol of her struggle - was the only thing she had. However, she eventually concludes that the song was sung for her, and that, no matter how the song is played now, it will make no difference to the song she heard. With this in mind, she muses that people can play it how they like and 'let them call it jazz', and buys a dress with the money.

In 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the police. With his release from prison, Boboy eventually joins a group involved in arms smuggling, and after some time its members come to consider him as their leader.

The film features a quote by Helen Keller: "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence. And I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

The Anthropocene era begins. Following natural events, humans land on Mars, and Earth's magnetic field flips. Comet Hale-Bopp returns in 3357, followed by extreme sea-level rise, an asteroid impact, and stars going supernova. The Sahara becomes tropical in 14,811, and ''Voyager 1'' passes Gliese 445 in 38,874. In 97,583, supervolcano Yellowstone erupts, followed by the Apollo 11 footprints fading in 968,657. Next, a gamma-ray burst occurs, Phobos becoming a ring system, whereas Saturn's rings disappear. Antarctica then melts in 43,343,155, followed by a significant asteroid impact in 70,606,131, and the formation of a supercontinent in 153,793,159. The Sun's luminosity increases in 427,821,025, causing plants to die in 833,270,413, followed by life as a whole in 2,952,729,059. The Sun then expands and becomes a red giant — destroying Earth in the process — before dying as a white dwarf in 7,650,412,497. Other stars then slowly die, making the universe end in a whimper. The last red dwarfs die in the year 100 trillion.

The Degenerate Era begins. The universe contains pulsars, black holes, and brown dwarfs, barely lit up by white dwarfs. Over time, gravity ejects most cosmic remnants into the freezing interstellar space. Notably, neutron stars may collide and make superluminous supernovae. Extraterrestrial life might live around aging white dwarfs, which someday die and become black dwarfs. At some point, the supermassive black hole at the center of each galaxy will suck up all degenerate matter that fails to escape it. The film then looks at the possibility of the cyclic model — civilizations utilizing black holes as a source of power and slowing down their time to survive the end of the universe — and the expansion of the universe in the year nine decillion. However, if protons are unstable, they begin to decay, and atoms disintegrate, erasing all the remaining degenerate matter in the universe.

With protons being wholly decayed, the Black Hole Era begins. The universe now has "zombie galaxies" of black holes and light particles lounging around. Finally, binary black holes might come to life, releasing massive amounts of energy as gravitational waves when merging. In the year 159 novemdecillion, Hawking radiation finally makes the first black holes die. As they explode, they light back interstellar darkness. The universe then expands further by dark energy, which, if it persists at that time as it is now, will cause the universe to expand forever, making it colder, darker, and emptier.

Theories predict that civilizations, including humans, could create virtual or real-life universes of their own, looking at the possibility of a multiverse and evolution between universes. However, if escaping the universe is impossible, entropy will destroy the remaining black holes. The last black hole evaporates in fifteen untrigintillion, and the universe ends in the year one googol. Time no longer has its value, and the universe becomes "nothing but a sea of photons gradually tending towards the same temperature as the expansion of the universe cools them towards absolute zero," as said by Brian Cox.

A text reads ''"For Ash,"'' the name of Boswell's child, born January 1, 2019.

On a beach in the spiritual plane, a newborn prince is held by his maternal ancestor while she tells him of his significance and purpose ("Bigger"). She performs rituals for the prince and joins other women who are also holding newborns. On the beach, the prince is anointed with white paint by the ancestor, while in a royal palace, he is similarly anointed by an elder. The king gives the young prince a small golden scepter and tells the prince that his ancestors look down on them from the stars and will always be there to guide him ("Find Your Way Back").

The young boy is enticed by a monkey to enter a warehouse. A man with a snake asks the boy who he is, but the boy does not answer. The boy stays in the warehouse, adorns himself with gold, and spends his time gambling while being watched by his ancestor and the blue man ("Don't Jealous Me"). Outside, a biker gang arrives and encircles the prince. The king comes to save him and is killed by a bike. The prince's uncle tells the prince to flee the village, and he takes over the throne ("Scar"). In the spiritual plane, the ancestor leads the king's funeral, while the blue man sits alone ("Nile").

The prince dreams of living a carefree life, driving past his ancestor and the blue man. He lives in an extravagant mansion full of expensive clothes, servants, and feasts ("Mood 4 Eva"). The prince remembers his uncle banging on a drum, causing him to drop the scepter into the water. A human chess game takes place in the mansion's ground, reminding the prince of how his father taught him the game, which represented the duality of good and evil. In real life, the prince grows up and moves to the city. He now dreams of spending his time partying with girls inside a tricked-out hearse ("Ja Ara E"). His driver appears as his uncle, who taunts him with the golden scepter. He stumbles out of the car and wakes up. The prince realizes that pursuing material wealth is unsustainable, and he is encouraged to reclaim his purpose and identity ("Already"). His ancestor tells the prince that he will meet himself at the shore, as the blue man walks into the sea ("Water"). The prince is reunited with his childhood love ("Brown Skin Girl"). The couple gets married ("Keys to the Kingdom"), but he is plagued by self-doubt over his purpose.

In another time, a sandstorm arrives ("Otherside"). As others are fleeing, the ancestor decides to place her baby in a basket and put it in the river to save the baby. As the basket flows down the river, it reaches a waterfall. In the spiritual plane, the ancestor is reunited with her baby.

The ancestor tells the prince to return to the river, in which he finds the scepter. He is reunited with the elder, who anoints him again with white paint, and he floats upwards into the spiritual plane. The prince reunites with his father and breaks down in front of him. The ancestor reminds the prince of his power, and he assembles an army of women to fight his uncle ("My Power"). They chase him out of the kingdom, and the prince reclaims his throne. The ancestor brings the new king and queen their baby ("Spirit"), and the baby is anointed.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Jack calls Liz to inform her that Kenneth Parcell, the now head of NBC, has asked them to reunite the cast for a ''TGS'' reboot on Peacock. Liz reaches out to the former writers of the show to see if they are interested, and they agree to participate. Liz also is able to recruit former stars Tracy Jordan and, despite initially avoiding her due to a series of public controversies, Jenna Maroney to return.

The gang virtually reunites to pitch it to Kenneth, but he refuses, revealing it was all a ruse to confront them about ignoring his several attempts to reunite virtually over Zoom. After being rejected, Jack reveals to Liz that he is bored of retirement and desperately wants to get back in the television game. Liz, Jack, Jenna, and Tracy all unite to crash Kenneth's speech during the NBC upfront. Kenneth gathers them in a private web room and realizes during their confrontation about his stunt that he's sick of being surrounded by "yes-persons" and missed having people be honest with him. Tracy and Jenna volunteer to lead the presentation while Kenneth shows Liz and Jack trailers for upcoming shows, to which they react with positivity.

After the presentation, Jack reveals to Liz that Kenneth has asked him to lead NBC's new female-centric streaming service Peahen and Liz reveals that Kenneth has asked her to write a new pilot.

Throughout the episode, promotions are made for several NBCUniversal properties, including Peacock, Universal Parks & Resorts, Telemundo, NBC News, coverage of the rescheduled 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as upcoming new shows for the 2020–2021 television season.

Twenty-somethings, Kristof, Michele, Allie, and Rory travel to their friend Calvin’s funeral at the remote Hawthorne Funeral Home, built atop the old Blood Prison. The group were high school friends and amateur Paranormal Investigators but have since found other interests. Blood Prison was a secret jail built by Puritan extremists specifically for the torture and execution of “witches and heretics” and remained in operation even after the practice of witch prosecution was outlawed. Part of the prison's dungeon remains below the current funeral home. Bill, Jeff and Kat, who know the group from school, also arrive at Hawthorne, planning on scaring them in retaliation for Kristof sleeping with Bill’s girlfriend.

Inside, Calvin reveals himself to actually be alive, having faked his death on Kristof’s account, who needed a surefire way to get the five together again. Kristof‘s father recently bought the Hawthorne and set up a contest—based on his own skepticism for paranormal investigators—to prove the existence of a local legendary supernatural item, the Talon Key. The backstory of the Talon Key is confusing but is explained by Kristof as follows: When the Puritans finally discovered the existence of Blood Prison, they were so appalled by the actions of the three prison executioners that they made a special cell to hold the executioners. He goes on to explain that they buried the executioners with key somewhere on the ground but it’s not specified where. The bodies and the key have never been found and this became known as the Talon Key. It supposedly unlocks an actual door under the funeral home, behind which is the evil the puritans locked away (they don’t explain the backstory any further). His father plans to charge admission to those who want to search the grounds for the key but Kristof intends to win the contest (which has a 1 million dollar prize) before it begins and validate himself in his father’s eyes, offering the $1million to the other four if they help him find the Key. The other four are skeptical but Kristof insists. they use a ouija board and Allie is temporarily possessed by a witch’s spirit but claims she’s fine afterwards while Bill, Jeff, and Kat try to set up their scare outside. Meanwhile, the ouija board resurrects the three executioners, Sickle, Mace, and Scythe, named here for the weapons they carry.

Calvin catches a glimpse of Jeff as he walks past a window so he and Kristof search the grounds, leaving Michele and Rory to watch Allie. Jeff is possessed by a witch & immobilized and Sickle decapitates him; Kat’s possessed and Scythe cuts her throat. Rory and Michele leave Allie instead and find the old caretaker’s bedroom to have sex and do cocaine. While alone, two executioners put Allie in metal shackles hanging from the ceiling. Calvin and Kristof have an argument and Kristof leaves to call their limo but reception is spotty. Calvin goes looking for the others and doesn’t notice Allie’s severed arms hanging from the ceiling. Mace and Sickle attack and kill him. Bill finds Kristof and it’s revealed that Kristof paid Bill to jump him in front of his friends but this is not ever fully explained . Rory and Michele have sex and after, while Rory showers, Mace kills Michele. Scythe cuts Rory’s throat when he leaves the shower.

Eventually, Bill and Kristof find Calvin’s bloody body in the coffin, thinking it’s a joke until Bill is possessed by a witch who tells Kristof he summoned their spirits, setting them free from the prison and the executioners now want him dead so the witch spirits cannot leave. Kristof runs off and Bill’s throat is cut by Sickle. Kristof is attacked by a zombie Calvin but is able to kill him again. All the other dead characters return as zombies and start chasing Kristof through the house. He manages to grab the Talon Key (hanging around the neck of Scythe) and opens the door in the old dungeon under the home. When he does this, the executioners and all his zombies friends fade away. Kristof walks outside and is greeted by the limo driver who asks if his friends enjoyed his prank...

Kosuke Mikado, a bookstore clerk, is able to see ghosts since he was young, which terrifies him. One day, he meets Rihito Hiyakawa, a fearless exorcist who lacks social boundaries. Hiyakawa is able to see and exorcise ghosts by entering Mikado's body and requests him to become his assistant. As the two work closely together, they learn that the supernatural incidents are closely tied with a high school student named Erika Hiura, who works as a mercenary necromancer to cast curses on other people. As Mikado and Hiyakawa investigate, Mikado begins realizing that Hiyakawa is hiding a secret.

Molly, now a freelance photographer (having apparently abandoned law school) living in New York City, is at an art show and accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her over 14 years ago. Molly learns she has a sister and both are connected to a dangerous crime element. Molly goes to Los Angeles to find out if the woman is her mother. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, her mother is killed in an explosion. Molly must once again become Angel to try and find her sister.

Carol Burnett introduces the sketch saying: "The story of Cinderella has taken many forms. It's been a motion picture by Walt Disney, an opera by Rossini, and a TV musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Well, tonight, we'd like to bring you our version of Cinderella: Cinderella Gets It On!"

A title card for the first act reads '''PLAYBILL''' and '''CINDERELLA GETS IT ON''' under it in the style of a Playbill as a boogie tune begins. It cuts to another card with a cutout video of the stage. The words read '''SCENE 1''' and '''THE PAD''' under it. A Narrator introduces the audience into the magical land of the Sunset Strip where Cinderella's "groovy" stepmother and three "funky" stepsisters are singing together in their pad ("When You Got Soul"). The same Narrator then introduces Cinderella, a "square chick" who cleans and cooks for her stepfamily. She announces that she has been waiting for eighteen hours to get four tickets to Elfin John's disco rock concert that evening. Before Cinderella can get one, though, her step-family snatches all four tickets from her. Her step-family then begins to get ready for the concert, making Cinderella do various tasks to help them, while pointing out that she is square and boring ("Dancing At The Disco Tonight"). They leave for the concert and Cinderella is left alone to clean the house. After accidentally sitting on a hand mirror, she begins to wish for a better life ("I Wish"). After hearing someone echo her calls, her Fairy Godmother Marcus magically appears and announces that she is here to make "a miracle" happen for her. She wishes to be a rock superstar and she promises to grant it for her ("If You Wish It"). She creates a Japanese motorcycle for her using two forty-fives and a pumpernickel loaf and also makes a new glamorous outfit for her to wear to the rock concert. She tells her that the magic ends at noon the following day. Cinderella hugs her, and they leave for the concert. A title card reads '''TO BE CONTINUED'''.

The scene opens at the start of the rock concert where couples are boogieing to an instrumental version of "When You Got Soul." Cinderella's step-family enters and find dance partners as Elfin John enters the stage and plays the piano with his platform boots ("Dancing At The Disco Tonight (Instrumental)") before throwing the piano bench offstage. He then announces that he will be playing one of his songs "She's Yellow And Built Like A Brick Road." Cinderella enters the party and all eyes turn to her. Her three stepsisters, not realizing it's her, whisper to each other about how cool she looks ("I'm Wishing (Reprise)"). Cinderella's Stepmother goes to get Elfin John's autograph but accidentally rips her dress. Cinderella goes to mend it but is stopped by her Stepmother, asking "What are you doing down there, superstar?" She quickly makes up that she was getting ready to do the new dance, the "Shlump." Elfin John comes over, asking why no one has been listening to his music, then sees Cinderella. She panics, trying to make up the dance, but is saved by Fairy Godmother Marcus, who quickly makes up a dance for everyone to follow ("The Shlump"). They dance until noon when suddenly, Cinderella runs off, leaving her platform heel for him to find her. Back at the pad the next day, Cinderella is back to her square self again, and her step-family are icing their feet from dancing. They are interrupted by a TV newsflash telling them that Elfin John is going around all the houses to find the superstar from the previous night. He shows up at their pad and all four members of Cinderella's step-family try on the shoe, but there is no luck. And although everybody laughs at her, Cinderella goes to try on the shoe ("Ooh, Cinderella"). They suddenly realize that she was the girl from the previous night, but Elfin John is no longer interested. Once again, her Fairy Godmother Marcus saves the day by giving Cinderella a "square" version of Elfin John. Cinderella kisses him as her step-family give her all their funky accessories and do the Shlump ("When You Got Soul (Reprise)").

Idealistic teenager Libby McClean arrives at trendy clothing store Canadian Cotton Clothiers for her first day of work. In addition to store manager Craig, Libby meets self-absorbed and disgruntled employees including Shruti, Hunter, Jemma, and Lord. Company founder Harold Landsgrove briefly visits to give a spirited speech to employees preparing for the highly anticipated launch of Super Shapers, designer jeans capable of conforming to any body type.

Jemma steals a pair of the jeans from a storeroom. The jeans constrict around Jemma’s waist until she is torn in half. Craig sends Hunter to look for Jemma. Hunter finds the jeans and becomes entranced. Hunter tries putting on the pants, but they twist until she falls and impales her head on a coat hook. Craig sends Libby to look for Jemma and Hunter. Libby finds Jemma’s mangled body and alerts Craig. Worried that police or media could complicate his chance at a promotion, Craig convinces Libby to keep Jemma’s death quiet since they are on overnight lockdown until the new line launches anyway. Lord finds the jeans. The zipper severs several of Lord’s body parts. The waist then forms a mouth that bites Lord to death. Libby again asks to call the cops after finding Lord as a box of body parts. Craig knocks Libby unconscious to stop her.

Fashion blogger and social media influencer Peyton Jewels arrives with a small crew to record a sneak preview of the jeans. The jeans strangle Peyton on camera before going on a rampage that kills everyone else in the store except Shruti. Craig realizes what is happening when he sees the jeans lapping up blood on the floor. Craig tries warning conceited PR person Barb Lubotski, but instead allows the jeans to kill Barb after she insults him. Libby recovers. Libby finds Peyton’s dropped camera, which contains footage of the killing spree. Libby shows the alarming video to Shruti. Libby sees that the jeans could have killed Shruti, but didn’t because Shruti was singing a Bollywood song. Libby and Shruti take the camera to Craig, who continues trying to downplay that they are dealing with killer jeans.

The jeans take over a mannequin that gives the pants a human form. Recognizing a connection to India, Libby asks Shruti to speak to the jeans in Hindi. By writing in blood on a wall, the jeans reveal they are possessed by Keerat, a 13-year-old child laborer who was killed by a thresher in the experimental Indian cotton field used to source Super Shapers. Libby and Shruti angrily confront Craig about Keerat’s revelation. Craig admits that Canadian Cotton Clothier’s image of being organic and humanitarian is a lie, and that the retailer actually exploits sweatshops and GMOs. Libby and Shruti bargain to publicly expose Keerat’s story in exchange for an end to the murders. However, Craig interrupts by blasting the pants with a fire extinguisher. Libby and Shruti find more pairs of possessed jeans eating dead bodies.

Craig stabs Shruti to get the camera containing the damaging footage, but finds its memory card missing. Craig chokes out Libby while looking for the memory card. A horde of jeans comes for Craig and devours him down into a skeleton. Libby recovers in time to see that the store’s automated lockdown is about to end. Libby tries barring the doors as they unlock, but anxious customers trample Libby to death as they storm the store. The jeans go on another massive killing spree. The memory card is seen in Libby’s hand.

The series focuses on the character Lewis Eliot and follows his life and career from humble beginnings to being a successful London lawyer, Cambridge don, wartime official in Whitehall, and civil servant, and finally to retirement. Eliot's private life is also explored, relating his unstable marriage to Sheila, his difficult affair with his second wife Margaret, and his relationships with his brother Martin and with the mercurial Roy Calvert.

The behind the scenes machinations in the election of a new Master at Eliot's college are explored.

The series also deals with the British scientific community's involvement in the development of nuclear weapons during the Second World War. The attempts by the ambitious politician Roger Quaife to halt Britain's nuclear programme results in scandal, and the loss of political influence by both Quaife and Eliot.

GURL is about night of the life of Carmen Rupe. While she is working the streets in the evening of K road, Carmen lives in a fantasy as a younger transgender woman "Gurl", working as a sex worker, waiting for her White Knight to take her away. When the white knight isn't what he makes out to be, Gurl escapes a violent. While she collects herself, an unexpected person comes to her aid, A dying All Black. The two spend an evening together as they fall in love.

right A young man from the country, Frédéric, says good-bye to his family and his sweetheart Yvette in front of his family home and goes to the old city of Arles to attend the bull fight at Roman Amphitheatre. There he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love with her. They stroll together through the street of the old city and vow eternal love. As he leaves her at her home and walks away, her former lover Mifilio comes along and forcefully complains about her unfaithful behaviour, but she coldly sends him away.

The next day Frédéric meets the girl again and proposes to her and she accepts him. He takes her to his home to introduce her to his parents who welcome her.

A few days before the date planned for the wedding, Milifio appears at Frédéric's house and shows his grandfather Balthazar a letter proving that she had been his mistress and had sworn him eternal love. He shows it to Frederic who confronts the girl. She coldly admits the facts and haughtily leaves the house. Frédéric is devastated.

To prevent him to fall into madness, his mother convinces him to marry Yvette. Frédéric consents and the wedding is celebrated.

But Frédéric cannot forget the Girl from Arles. He keeps having visions of her either alone or with Milifio. Trying to find solace, he climbs to the attic of his house, but there he sees her kissing Milifio in front of the open window. Wanting to catch them, he falls from the window and crashes on the ground. He dies in his mother's arms while Yvette watches, crying.

The high school student Shoma Mihara surprisingly receives a message from Atsushi Fujii, a good friend from elementary school days, with whom he has lost contact via a mobile app. He is invited to a party and to finally meet Atsushi again, Shoma embarks on the path described. Suddenly he comes to a festival area hidden in the wilderness, where people from all over the world prepare a ''Tanabata'' festival in traditional clothing and according to old craftsmanship. The girl Shiori Senozawa, who is supposed to play the princess of the festival, leads him around. Shoma was chosen as her prince and he joins in the hope of meeting Atsushi.

When preparing for the festival, the participants will learn from their suits and augmented reality glasses that give them the strength and knowledge they need. Kanna, the girl who leads the preparations, is also artificial intelligence. At night, however, Shiori and Shoma are attacked by samurai, also produced by an AI, against which they have to defend themselves. Shoma also learns that everyone has come to the festival to meet someone who has died. When the festival begins, the two are attacked again and have to fight Kanna against the samurai. These are generated by the AI that prepared the festival because it had to process too much information and the samurai created from the knowledge of legends and history. Finally, during the ceremony, Shoma realizes that Atsushi did not move away either, but died. He had only repressed the memory of it. Shoma sees an AI-generated simulation of Atsushi and can say goodbye to him, just like all participants in the festival can see their deceased one last time. This was made possible by an app on their cell phones, which Shoma had also invited to the festival.

Robbie Swifthand is a self-involved common thief and burglar. At the start of the game, Robbie awakens in an abandoned tomb, and is told by a benevolent spirit that he needs to save mankind from the evil spirit that lives in it. Motivated only by the promise of treasure along the way, Robbie embarks on a quest to collect three crystals that will help him seal the villain in its tomb forever.

In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters, Chip and Dale meet in elementary school and become best friends. They later relocate to Hollywood and, after casting as extras in commercials and shows, go on to star in the successful television series ''Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' in the early 1990s. However, when Dale gets his own show, ''Double-O-Dale'', the two have a falling-out that leads to both shows' cancellation.

Thirty years later, Chip is a successful but disillusioned insurance salesman while Dale spends most of his time on the fan convention circuit. The two are contacted by their former ''Rescue Rangers'' co-star Monterey Jack, who owes money to the criminal Valley Gang due to his stinky cheese addiction. Monty warns the pair of a trafficking operation where toons are kidnapped, have their appearances altered, and are shipped overseas to produce bootlegs of their works for the rest of their lives. Later that night, the two are informed that Monty has been kidnapped. They meet Police Captain Putty and Officer Ellie Steckler; the latter reveals herself to be a big ''Rescue Rangers'' fan, and with the police's hands tied, she suggests Chip and Dale investigate on their own.

Chip and Dale visit Bjornson the Cheesemonger, Monty's cheese dealer, and ask about the Valley Gang. They are taken to the uncanny valley part of town and meet the gang's leader, Sweet Pete—an adult version of Peter Pan—and his henchmen Bob and Jimmy. Realizing they are investigating his bootlegging business, Pete tries to capture the pair, but the chipmunks escape. The two later share their discoveries with Ellie, learning that she is shunned by Putty due to acting on a bad tip and raiding the Nick Jr. studios with negative results. With Ellie's help, the chipmunks sneak into a bathhouse to steal Pete's fitness tracker. They trace his movements to a dock warehouse, though it is already abandoned by the time the police arrive. Inside, they find a large operating machine designed to alter toons' bodies, along with several toon parts, including Monty's mustache.

At the police station, the pair argue over the loss of Monty and their past feud but smell the scent of Monty's cologne. Realizing either Putty or Ellie is working with Sweet Pete, the two flee the station. At the ongoing Fan Con, they try to convince Ugly Sonic to ask his FBI contacts for help, but Pete and his henchmen arrive, having tracked Dale using his social media posts. In the ongoing chase, Bob is restrained and arrested, but Chip is caught by Jimmy and taken to the warehouse. Ellie is also lured there by Putty, revealing he is part of the Valley Gang and has been covering for Pete, including giving Ellie the false Nick Jr. tip.

Sweet Pete has Ellie call Dale to lure him to the warehouse, but Ellie sends a coded message using a ''Rescue Rangers'' episode. Dale realizes Ellie is in trouble and contacts former ''Rescue Rangers'' co-stars Gadget Hackwrench and Zipper, now married with children, for help. Dale enters the warehouse using a firework, which gets lodged into the machine and stops it before it can be used on Chip. The machine goes haywire, transforming Jimmy into a fairy and Pete into a giant amalgamation of various toons. While Ellie fights and defeats Putty, Pete chases Chip and Dale through the warehouse, revealing it to also be where the bootlegs are filmed. The chipmunks lure Pete to the docks and use a ploy from a ''Rescue Rangers'' episode to trap him.

The FBI, led by Ugly Sonic, arrive to arrest the Valley Gang. Sweet Pete fires a cannonball at Chip, but Dale takes the hit. Chip fears Dale is dead and apologizes for his behavior over the years, but Dale reveals he was protected by a golden pog Chip gave him. The chipmunks free all the bootlegged toons, including Monty, and Dale introduces the Rescue Rangers to Ellie, who decides to open her own detective agency. As the team departs, Dale convinces them to film a ''Rescue Rangers'' reboot, which is later released to great success.

The stories of five people, a politician, an actress, a university assistant, an oenologist and an entrepreneur, are intertwined aboard a train along the Sulmona-Carpinone railway, the so-called "Trans-Siberian of Italy", between Abruzzo and Molise. Influenced by the beauty of the landscapes and the encounters with unknown people who are on the same train, the journey becomes an opportunity for them to reflect on their life and on the importance of the values of love, friendship and solidarity.

''Darkchild'' is a novel in which Darkchild is a clone programmed to use his potent psionic powers to observe other people.

Giovanni leads a think tank which is conducting a study for the European parliament, concerning whether the lives of poor people in peripheral areas can be improved by giving them money for entrepreneurial activities. When he returns from Brussels, he finds that his 13 year old daughter Agnese now has a boyfriend Alessio from Bastogi, one of the worst of these areas. While following Agnese, Giovanni meets Alessio's mother Monica under unfortunate circumstances. She ends up smashing his windshield with a baseball bat. When he gets to the building where Monica and Alessio live, he tries to dissuade Agnese from associating with them. Monica is not thrilled about her son taking up with a girl from the elite either, so Giovanni tries to ally with Monica to keep their children apart.

In the process, Giovanni and Monica start to go out together and to meet each other's families. Giovanni is raising Agnese on his own, because his ex-wife Luce has moved to France to raise lavender for perfumes. Monica and Alessio, by contrast, live in their small apartment with Monica's twin stepsisters Pamela and Sue Ellen (named after characters in Dallas). Alessio's father Sergio is in prison. Monica invites Giovanni and Agnese for a day at her favorite beach, the raucous Coccia di morto ("dead shell beach"). The following week Giovanni reciprocates, inviting Monica and Alessio to his beach, the quiet and staid Capalbio. Both Giovanni and Monica feel out of place in each other's worlds.

When Luce returns from France, Monica invites the whole family to lunch at her place. The lunch is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Sergio, who has just been pardoned and released. Sergio disparages Giovanni's and Luce's professions. Luce is shocked to imagine her daughter in such company and incites Giovanni against Alessio's family. Alessio and Agnese break up and the families each retreat into their own worlds again. However, Monica, who during the lunch took Sergio's side, understands that there was some truth in what Giovanni said, and when Sergio again ends up in jail starts to look into getting EU funding.

Giovanni flies to Brussels to obtain the disbursement of the funds. During his address to the commission, he abandons his prepared speech, describing instead how hard it is for poor people to get by. Monica uses the funding to start a pizzeria with her Bengalese neighbor, giving Pamela and Sue Ellen the job of delivering the pizzas. One evening, however, it is Monica herself delivering a pizza downtown, and we see that the delivery is for her and Giovanni. Seated on a bench in Piazza Cavour, they eat their pizza and reflect that their affair could last about as long as a cat on a highway.

Humans have spread to other planets within our galaxy, partly helped by a race of apparently friendly aliens known as the Lhari. The Lhari originate in another galaxy but are physically and physiologically similar to humans. They run a faster-than-light (FTL) transport network in human-occupied space, using a technology based on a rare substance from their own galaxy. FTL travel is understood to be fatal for humans unless they are in suspended animation, which is used routinely for human travellers. This and the supply of fuel gives the Lhari a monopoly on interstellar transport.

Although humans and Lhari trade peacefully and profitably, some humans resent the Lhari and believe they are deliberately limiting the human race. The protagonist, Bart Steele, is recruited by an illegal organisation to act as a spy on board a Lhari ship. He is given a cryptic message about the "eighth color" and remembers his mother, who had worked with the Lhari, commenting that the FTL fuel had a color that did not fit into the normal spectrum.

Steele learns that humans can survive FTL travel without suspended animation. He is given cosmetic surgery and training and joins a Lhari crew. He is instructed to sabotage the ship's radiation detector so that the crew can be killed with radiation at one of its scheduled stops, allowing human agents to seize the ship and learn the location of its planet of origin.

Steele initially complies with the plan, but is unwilling to sacrifice the Lhari crew and confesses to the captain. The circumstances of the confession put Steele in danger, which helps to convince the captain that he genuinely does not wish to harm them. The captain explains to him that the Lhari had never had a war and were terrified by humanity's bloody history, so they decided to protect themselves by limiting humans' travel.

Steele is held on the ship while it completes its voyage home, and taken before the Lhari authorities. They determine that he has no memories that could threaten their security, and accept the captain's testimony that he is harmless. They decide it is no longer viable to preserve the myth about human vulnerability to FTL travel and allow him to return home, where he will stand trial by human authorities for violating the treaty between the two races.

On the way, Steele ponders the significance of the "eighth color". The distinctive color of the fuel was not common knowledge because it was outside the normal visible spectrum, and the Lhari had no color vision. The population of the planet where Steele's mother was born had evolved a little-known additional color sense that allowed them to see the fuel's color under very bright light. Steele remembers seeing that same color while visiting an uninhabited planet on his initial voyage, and realises that he now knows the location of a source of fuel within our own galaxy.

Steele publicises his findings, making it clear that the human race will soon be able to reach the stars without help. The Lhari authorities, seeing their monopoly ending, take an optimistic view that the new developments will ultimately be good for both races, and Steele is invited to re-join the Lhari crew in preparation for training future human crews.

After being fired from his office job in Tokyo, Mitsuomi Kozaka returns to his hometown for the first time since leaving the countryside in 10 years. As he struggles to win back the approval of his family and his community, he meets Yamato Kumai, a young man adopted by one of his neighbors during his time away.

April the 6th, 2103. On its way from the Delta Tau Galaxy back to earth, the interstellar spaceship Irata enters the Zarkow system where they are to replenish their water and food supplies.

April the 7th, 2103. The Irata picks up some human settlers fleeing from Zarkow. The settlers inform the captain that the Targoid insect people have installed 8 powerful reactors in Zarkow's network of caverns to exploit the planet's supplies of energy and raw materials. Furthermore, the Targoids have invented an intricate security system which makes it almost impossible for strangers to enter the caverns.

April the 8th, 2103. Nokdar, captain of the Irata, decides to take action. A hand picked team consisting of the spaceship's five best pilots is chosen to break through the security system and disable the reactors. Their mission is to find the hidden energy spheres in the caverns and drop them on the reactors. This will cause the reactors to overload and thus destroy them.Fly Harder Instruction Manual. Starbyte Software. Krisalis Software 1994

In ''Diamonds in the Rough'', players take control of 20-year-old Jason Hart, a high school dropout working as an office boy. He is approached one day by a mysterious man claiming to represent a mysterious organization called "Diamonds in the Rough", one that recruits people who they believe possess extraordinary abilities, such as telepathy or telekinesis. Jason is chosen for his ability to apparently never choose poorly when presented with multiple options. He ends up signing a five-year contract with "DitR", and is relocated to a town in the Midwest controlled by the organization along with other 'gifted' people, so as to participate in a seemingly harmless study. However, Jason soon comes to question his employers' motives, and embarks on a quest to discover the true purpose of the organization.

Dr. Aung Zeya (Kawleikgyin Ne Win) is the legal guardian of Kyaw Kyaw (Kyaw Hein). Kyaw Kyaw has started to date an actress, Win Pa Pa (Khin Than Nu). Dr. Aung and his wife, Htar, do not approve of the youngsters relationship. Later, the actress tries to flirt with the doctor and he falls for it. Hilarity & frustration ensue as the older man tries to conceal the affair from his wife, his work and social circle.

In 1994, Mexico, Young Renato Murguia's father Flavio has to immigrate to the US in search of economic opportunity. Although Flavio promises to return soon, he does not. Twenty-five years later, Renato is a successful executive of an aviation company in Mexico, and is engaged to Pamela who already has a son Emilio. Renato is contacted by a woman named Katherine, who says she is Flavio’s wife. She tells him that Flavio is very ill and wishes for Renato to see him in Chicago. Renato is still angry at his father for never returning all those years, but reluctantly ends up going to Chicago.

At a coffee shop, a goofy man named Asher is trying to make a social media video and attempting to get a free coffee. When he doesn’t have money, he asks Renato to spot him. Renato refuses, and when Asher presses him, Renato steps up to order his coffee and pay for all the doughnuts on the counter, asking for them to all be discarded because Asher wanted them.

Renato meets Flavio at the hospital for the first time in decades. Asher enters the room and turns out, he is Flavio's son too. Flavio reveals to the two men that they are brothers. Both of them are displeased but Flavio asks them to do one last favor for him, to look for Eloise, after delivering an envelope to a man named Evaristo.

Flavio dies the next day. Renato attends the funeral. Asher tries to convince him to fulfill their father’s dying wish, but Renato still doesn’t want to. He leaves the funeral but eventually relents and turns around to tell Asher to pick him up the next day from his hotel so they can head out.

On the road, Renato falls asleep and wakes up at a goat farm, finding Asher running toward the car with a small goat as three men with rifles chase Asher. The guys make it out of there, but Renato yells at Asher for stopping just for a goat farm. To make matters worse, they are even further away from Evaristo. After the detour, they make it to an old factory where Flavio worked with Katherine, and Renato is stunned to see that they specialized in remote controlled airplanes. They meet a man who tells them to find Evaristo at a bar.

The guys go to the bar and meet Evaristo, who provides them with a key. He speaks to Renato and tells him about how Flavio did everything he could to make enough money and return home. He worked in the factory for a while until he came up with the idea to make the toy planes, which really revitalized the company with help from Katherine. They had a good professional relationship that turned into a one night stand. Flavio felt guilty for betraying his wife, so he left in the middle of the night to try and make his way back home once he had enough money. Evaristo then gives Renato a box with another envelope that says Mr. B. Before they can learn anything else, Asher forces them to run again when he picks a fight with guys he made a bad pool bet with.

The two stop at a motel for the night where they try to solve the next clue in Flavio’s envelope. They figure out to go to a pawn shop in Oklahoma City. The guys head out the next day to Oklahoma. They reach the shop and meet Mr. B, the owner who presents them with Flavio’s wedding ring. Mr. B explains to the guys that when Renato was getting ready to return home, he was mugged in a bathroom by two men who saw him take out his money on the bus. Beaten and bloodied, he went to the shop and tried to pawn something off, and Mr. B said he would take the ring. Although Flavio didn’t want to give it up, Mr. B offered to buy the ring from him and keep it there until he had the money to buy it back. After Flavio did so, he attempted to cross the border but was arrested and thrown in jail. He got sick afterward, and the guards just dumped him on the side of the road to die. Before learning anything else, Mr. B gives them an envelope for Eloise. Renato is now fed up and just wants to go home. He grabs his bag and heads to an airport, leaving Asher behind.

When Renato gets to the airport, he discovers he doesn’t have his passport on him. With no other options, he calls Asher to apologize and ask for help. Their final destination is a church. While they have dinner that night, Asher reveals he threw away Renato’s passport to stop him from leaving so they can complete their dad’s request. Renato flips out on Asher and later locks him in the bathroom so that he can steal the car and get away. However, he becomes remorseful midway through and tries to turn around. Unfortunately, he is stopped and arrested by a border patrol officer. Renato is thrown into detention with other undocumented immigrants until he is bailed out the next morning. He briefly stops to look sadly at the other people in there.

Renato reunites with Asher in a diner and finds him with a black eye. He tells Renato that the cabin belonged to some rednecks they previously encountered at a gas station that mocked Asher for having the goat, which they also stole and are planning to eat. Renato and Asher return to the cabin and fill the place with gas to knock out the rednecks and save the goat.

Renato decides to go to the church. They meet a nun who takes them to a cabinet that requires a code. Renato looks at the envelope with Eloise written on it and then turns it upside down to reveal the numbers code. They open the cabinet to find a DVD from Flavio explaining himself to his sons. After being left out by the prison guards, he set out to return home but felt remorseful for leaving Katherine without explanation. When he found her again, she had already given birth to Asher. Not wanting to leave another son behind, he made the difficult decision to call his wife to let her and Renato know that he wasn’t going to come home, and that was when Renato stopped caring for him. Flavio goes further and explains that although he did love Asher, he tried to recapture too much of Renato in him and distanced himself when he saw that Asher was totally different. He explains that he loved both of them and hopes that they can not only forgive him but grow as brothers. Both men are moved to tears.

The nun then shows the guys that Eloise really is an actual plane built by Flavio to pass down to his sons. Now having a way of getting home, mere hours before the wedding, Renato gets ready to part ways with Asher and the goat. However, he changes his mind and invites them both to the wedding. They fly away together and return to Mexico.

Renato and Pamela get married and Renato starts to make a bond with Emilio by having him fly a toy plane.

Makoto Katsuragi is an elite office worker who has fallen from his perfect life with the sudden death of his parents, being forced to resign from his job, and his girlfriend leaving him. In a drunken stupor, he impulsively decides to commit suicide. Before he is able to jump off a building, he is rescued by a mysterious man named Ryūji Yoden, who demands he forfeit his life to him, forcing him into a life of confinement and sadomasochistic training. As Katsuragi experiences pain and pleasure that forces him to realize he's alive, he comes to fall in love with Yoden and reconsiders dying.

The series takes place in Tracksville, a town located in a reality where human adults (with the exception of Santa Claus) have never existed and where kids run the stations and other locations and work together with the Mighty Express trains (who have the ability to talk and are intelligent) on epic adventures. The trains all have their own roles and duties within Tracksville, and their own individual set of tools and cargo cars to help them with their adventures so they always ensure to make their home a better place where trains and human kids alike live together in peace and harmony.

The series is about a love story at the beginning of the 20th century, during the years of persecution of the Greeks of Pontus by the Ottoman Empire. The story begins in the town of Akdağmadeni in the Prefecture of Ankara, in May 1895, when the family of Georgios Pavlidis is engaged to their 9-year-old son, Miltos, to the 7-year-old Iphigenia, daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis.

An engagement of expediency, as was customary at that time, as, according to Muslim law, if a girl was engaged, she was considered dishonored and was not allowed to become a Muslim woman. The attacks of the fanatical Turks forced the two families to leave their place, with the Pavlidis family settling in Samsun and the Nikolaidis family in Constantinople. The two young people met by chance again in Constantinople, after 11 years and, without knowing the family relationship that binds them, they fell in love.

Episode 1: a woman named Nana starts to have weird dreams about werewolves and a strange creature chasing her in a forest, after a few days she hears her mother named Katia talking with another woman about Nana actually being adopted and that her parents are probably dead but were living in Kavala, Nana confronts Katia and tells her that she heard her talking about her being adopted and decides to go to Kavala to visit her dead parents' house.

Episode 2: Nana meets her aunt named Eleftheria and Eleftheria tells her that her father is still alive and is living in England, a 53 years old woman in the forest named Baso tells her kids (Dimitris and Ebita) that a girl (Nana) is destined to kill them, Baso also tells to her kids that she had killed Nana's mother and they need to kill Nana too.

Episode 3: a strange man named Joseph starts to stalk Nana and after a few days of stalking he confirms to her that he was sent by his father to protect her from Baso but Nana doesn't believe him. Nana then happens to pass outside of a cemetery and decides to walk inside the cemetery but she starts to hallucinate demons chasing her and decides to leave the cemetery.

Episode 4: Nana discovers a strange book left by her deceased mother, after many weeks of reading the book Nana trains herself to be a werewolf hunter, the book also says that Baso is the whore of Babylon and a werewolf and that her kids are too.

Episode 5: Joseph and Nana's father named George to arrive in Kabala to search for Nana together, Dimitris is then sent to kill Nana but after a small fight Nana runs away and Dimitris starts to chase her, Dimitris steals a truck and starts to chase Nana, however, she also gets in her car and a chase ensues between the two, Joseph and George also steal an armored van and start to chase Dimitris's truck, Joseph starts shooting at the tires of the Dimitris' truck and he crashes in a lake.

Episode 6: Nana gets in the armored van and the three people decide to go to a village called Palaiomonastiro so Nana could be trained to become a proper werewolf hunter. Nana also meets a man named "The Antynudity" who wears a clown costume, he tells Nana that he kills or at least injures whoever is naked and that he is the co-leader of the village. He also reveals that he is the second-cousin of George.

Episode 7: Nana continues her training in the village and George sees at the news that an RFID Microchip will become mandatory in the next month.

Episode 8: Nana, Joseph, and George go to Kavala to kill Baso and her kids, on their way they kill Evita and Dimitris and finally confront Baso, who is shot down by George. A few hours later George calls The Antynudity in his phone to tell him that he needs to construct a wall around the village because the RFID Microchip is the mark of the beast, when The Antynudty asks why he should do that, George says that the wall needs to be constructed so that people that will try to enforce the chip won't be able to enter the village, a few minutes later George is attacked and seemingly killed by Evita.

Marek, a young aspiring magician and slave girl, dreams of escaping her drab life and taking on exciting adventures, while being taught by sorcerer Gojun Pye. When she meets the priestess Teela in Hammerhead's tavern who is seeking help, Marek offers her assistance, running away from her owner. While beginning to use her magic abilities and using a brace to help her with her injured leg, Marek assembles a motley troupe, consisting of herself; Teela; Thane, who is a former soldier/warrior and who rescued Marek from a harassing Peregus Malister; and Dagen, who is a half-elf, thief, and womanizer. Together, they go in search of Teela's sister, who is in possession of a mysterious stone that was taken from a temple of Teela's people, and who was kidnapped by a wild ogre and a few orcs who want the stone for their necromancer master, Sung Hill.

Following immediately from the end of the ''A Quest for Heroes'', Teela's sister is killed by Kishkumen, a dark magician with yellow eyes, who also steals the mysterious stone that she was carrying, and wants to give it to his master Szorlok.

Meanwhile, sorcerer Gojun Pye tells Marek about the stone: a fragment/shard of the full Darkspore, a piece that can give the user a great immense power, which once belonged to the Lich King, and that was found by Szorlok and his followers years ago, split into fragments, but after using his followers to reunite the Darkspore he was stopped by Gojun Pye and other sorcerers from getting the power from the piece, and in the aftermath, the sorcerers split the piece into four fragments/shards and hid them apart in the world (one was with Teela's sister and her people, a second was hidden in a dragon's lair in an ancient ruined city).

Gojun Pye also tells Marek about who she is: a necromancer, just like Szorlok, and that is why Szorlok also wants Marek at his side, because the potential power she holds within. That power is also what Teela sensed in the previous film, while trying to heal Marek's leg, and it's also what might drive Marek to the darkness if she is not careful when using it.

Marek and her company must go on a journey to the ruined city, and prevent the evil necromancer Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost. Therefore, they must get the hidden shard from the ruined city before Kishkumen does. Along the way they meet Qole, a mysterious dark-elf warrior with his face marked with strange drawings that allows him to be unharmed by dark magic, who allies himself with Marek after she saves him from faeries, and they are also pursued by Peregus Malister and his forces, who wants revenge from events of the previous film.

Marek is beginning to master more advanced magic, by training with Gojun Pye and receiving a staff from him, and even helping him stop some orcs who had set a trap for him, although he reminds her that she needs to be careful about her necromancer powers which can lead her to darkness, because by taking life force from someone it would be hard for her to come back from it. He details a bit more of the past (which he began telling Marek in the previous film) and about his former team of sorcerers and their enemy Szorlok: they were called The Red Thorns, they were powerful and invincible, the envy of the realm, and Szorlok wanted to stop the invading vitalian soldiers, by becoming the Lich King and thus rising and controlling hordes of undead. By defeating Szorlok, one of the sorcerers sacrificed himself, and that led to the disband of the group, and also to the accomplished invasion by the vitalian soldiers as a side-effect. For the ritual to become the Lich King, after gathering the four pieces of the Darkspore, Szorlok will need other necromancers, and that includes Marek, so she must lay low as to not be found by Szorlok. Gojun Pye reminds Marek that Szorlok already has two pieces of the Darkspore.

Meanwhile, Marek and her group have become respected in Hammerhead's tavern, they adopt the name of Red Thorns, and Thane becomes more involved with Teela. When he is taken hostage by Peregus Malister, the cruel master of the Thieves Guild who is seeking revenge for having been forced to sign for the freedom of Marek, she must embark on a corrupt mission to serve the Thieves Guild with her team of would-be heroes, by retrieving some ilystrium from The Eel (his name later revealed to be Kelton) whose whereabouts are known to a Captain named Purio, while in the midst of creatures called ''gooches'', and also several golgotians, as well as cave demons.

Aldo Baglio is detained for forgery of credit cards and has befriended his large cellmate Crapanzano; Giacomo Poretti is an upstanding police office that dreams of becoming a writer and lives with her sister's family, by which he is treated like an unwanted guest; Giovanni Storti is a children's toy inventor who is not loved by his wife, Elena. One morning, Aldo needs to be escorted to the courthouse. The designated police officers are Giacomo and his colleague Antonio. However, Giacomo is left alone by Antonio who goes to meet Elena instead, the latter cheating on Giovanni. During the drive, Aldo accidentally finds a gun in the glove compartment and decide to hijack the vehicle. Simultaneously, Giovanni's car is stolen under his eyes, so he stops Giovanni's police car that was passing by, ending up being taken hostage, too.

After a long and adventurous journey, the three are found by the police. After a chase, the car falls from a cliff, but they miraculously manage to save themselves. Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo spend the night in an abandoned cemetery, where they meet Clara, a woman Aldo falls in love with. The three hitchhike back to Milan, when they realise they actually died in the car crash. Giovanni finds out that his newly widowed wife has an unfaithful relationship with Antonio, while Giacomo discovers that his room has been already rented out and all his possessions, including the book he was working on for a long time, had been thrown away.

Clara reveals herself as an angel and, together with Aldo, helps the two take revenge before accompanying them to heaven.

The story is set in New York in 1958. Three gangsters, namely Al, John and Jack, by pretending to watch a film in a drive-in theater, are spying on Sam Genovese, the most wanted mob boss of the city. Genovese, nicknamed "chicken thigh" after his favourite food, plans to kill one of his men who betrayed him, and the three gangsters are there because they want to record the killing and send it to the FBI. But, when Genovese is about to pull the trigger, he chokes on the food he is eating. The traitor saves him and is pardoned, and, while the gangsters are about to leave, Al is electrocuted by a cable and lose his memory.

Some days later, the gangsters–Al Caruso, nicknamed "Four-fingers", Johnny Gresko, also known as "Handsome Johnny", and Jack Amoruso, nicknamed "Not-all-donuts-come-out-with-a-hole Jack"–are in a hotel room; due to the electrocution Al got a rare syndrome which erases his memory every time he fells asleep. They tell him the whole story: four days before, it was Jack's birthday. Johnny got him a book about Caravaggio (who the little schooled Jack calls "Carabbaggio" due to his heavy Sicilian accent) and Al got him a new gun. They work for Genovese, but they are clumsy and unreliable: they recently killed a barber, "Counter-hair" Frankie, because they mistakenly thought he was "Rubber-ass" Frankie, a traitor who used to collaborate with FBI. Also, whilst in a pub run by Genovese's gang, they start a shootout because Jack confuses a gangster with "Sewer Rat" Frank, a gangster he thought was dissolved in acid.

Genovese give them one last chance: they have to pick up his old aunt at the bus station and carry her around the town. But, as soon as they meet the old lady, Jack kills her, accidentally shooting with his new gun, which is defective. (According to Johnny, the gun shot because Jack "held the barrel up", something he already told him not to do seven times.)

The three run away and hide at Herbert's home; Herbert is Al's homosexual brother who will later turn out being in love with Johnny. They make up a plan in order to betray Genovese and get him arrested by the FBI thanks to the proofs of him killing the man at the drive-in, but the plan fails. So they make up a new one: they'll fake an attempt to Genovese's life and will foil it: Al will hide in the wardrobe in Genovese's hotel room and wait for the room service to deliver him the meal; John and Jack will hide the gun in the tray. When the room service will enter the room, Al will jump out the wardrobe, pick the gun and kill the waiter, and then they'll explain the "attempt" and obtain Genovese's mercy.

By climbing the outer wall of the hotel, Al avoids the boss' bodyguards, "Wooden back" Tom and "Shithands" Sam, and gets into Genovese's room, but before the arrival of Genovese, he hears the news. A guy named Calogero Buccheri is missing. His most particular sign are the missing pinky on his left hand and a very rare syndrome which erases his memory every time he fells asleep. Al understands the truth: he is Calogero Buccheri. John and Jack, it turns out, are named La Paglia, and they are two scammers who planned to fake Buccheri's kidnapping and accuse Genovese of it, so they could obtain the reward. The two of them, along with some policemen, break into Genovese's room, but Al is no more in the wardrobe. He was planning to leave and return to his family, but he changed his mind and hid under the bed. They find him and Genovese gets arrested for kidnapping. Al forgives John and Jack and returns home.

Two years later, John and Jack are broke again. They spent all their money, but hear at the radio that Hurricane Hogan, a very famous boxeur, will pay $5,000 to the man who will beat him. Calogero Buccheri goes missing again.

Claudia and Giovanni have been married for 7 years, but they are going through a relationship crisis. Claudia convinces herself that to fix her problems, she has to help another person. She steals the medical chart of another patient, Giacomo, from her psychoanalyst's office and starts to date him platonically. Giacomo, who is divorced and depressed, benefits a lot from Claudia's company and falls in love with her, with his mood improving dramatically.

Aldo, a taxi driver, is Claudia's lover and is convinced that Giovanni is onto him, seeing him everywhere. In the meanwhile, Giovanni becomes suspicious and starts following his wife around, erroneously concluding that Giacomo is her wife's lover.

Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo get involved in a car crash, beginning to hang out together while Giovanni thinks Giacomo is his wife's lover and Aldo knows Giovanni is Claudia's husband. After having shared this knowledge between them, the three decides to drive to Calabria together, where Claudia has isolated herself, and ask her to choose one of them. During the journey, Aldo realises that there has been a case of mistaken identity. In fact, Claudia is not the same Claudia he was involved romantically with.

In the meanwhile, Giacomo realises he is not really in love with Claudia and decides to go back to his ex-wife, hoping in vain to get back together. Giovanni and Aldo get back with their respective Cladia, but the latter couple does not last for long. Aldo and Giovanni end up becoming good friends.

''Against Infinity'' is a novel in which colonists hunt the tunneling Aleph amid the terraforming of Ganymede.

''The Castle of Dark'' is a novel in which a magical harpist must rescue a maiden from a castle.

On the Christmas Eve of 2041, Aldo is accompanied by his sons to Reuma Park, an amusement park for elderly people. There, he meets his old friends Giovanni and Giacomo, who are also residents of the park. The three plan to escape from the park during the Christmas holidays and, eventually, manage to do so by stealing a boat and sailing to Brazil.

''The Children of the Wind'' is a novel in which there is a quest for seven keys of seven sorcerers.

''Fire Pattern'' is a novel in which a reporter investigates people that spontaneously burst into flame.

''Converts'' is a novel in which characters are artificially evolved into superhumans.

At a dark grotto, an emissary wolf meets Gark, the leader of a warring wolf clan, the Black Wolves sitting atop his walrus throne. The emissary reports the rumors that Mami, the gypsy is selling souvenirs. However, she is close to the harmonious village where sheep and wolves live in peace. Gark and the pack agree to capture this new animal that suddenly appeared to them in the food chain. They succeed in capturing Mami. Back at the egalitarian society of wolves and sheep, Belgour names Grey the new successor.

The wolf Grey becomes the unanimous leader. During those times unexpected guests arrives: a small ewe named Josie (who was originally a crocodile until she accidentally drank Mami's potion) with polar vixen named Simone who sought refuge from the predator wolves. Grey welcomes them with open arms despite peremptory suspicions from Ziko the ram. The wolf clan learns of this news and attacks the village to extradite the new animals for feasting. However they avoid an all out war because they know Grey the wolf will overcome his identity crisis and be a wolf again. Then they can easily handle the sheep village. Gark defeats Grey. He leaves with a declaration, "Your alliance with sheep is disgusting." Grey has a couple of days before they overrun their village to feast on everyone and make the sacred pact between vegetarians and carnivores void.

Grey returns to the village and declares the threatening news. The villagers agree to defend their rights and rally for a noble cause. They build a fortress for the upcoming clash with the hungry wolves. However, a mysterious saboteur with white gloves is active. The architects learn the saboteur inserted weak drawings to the architectural plan causing the fortress to crumble. Grey, discouraged and full of self-doubt, seeks Belgour's advice again. Belgour is still calm and repeats that his faith in the new leader is unbreakable. He says that Grey has already managed to transform the sheep herd into one accord and that means there is nothing he can not do. Belgour leaves with sage advise, "Any chaos can be turned into something beautiful."

Grey realizes the concept of transformation reminds him of Gypsi Mami. However she is held captive at Gark's ravine. Grey and Bianca set out to free Mami. As a courtesy Mami cooks a magic potion that was first tested on little Josie. The experiment turned Josie into an indomitable high-power sheep. The clan agrees the potion will turn the tides of the war. The potion is kept in a shed while the day of the siege arrives. Unknown to the sheep, the saboteur replaces the vial with a counterfeit one.

At the battle a rally is held as the Black Wolves lay siege to the city. Then the soldiers including Cliff the Seagull and Zico the lamb drink the potion suddenly turning them into pigs. Gark and the wolves who are amused drive the pigs into the main village square as they defeat Grey. Skinny reveals he is the true saboteur who never wanted an alliance between the sheep and wolves. Gark disgusted by the betrayals puts both Skinny and Grey inside a jail. There, Skinny realizes his actions contributed to this whole predicament and Grey was in fact the true leader. Grey becomes heroic as Little Josie sneaks into the jail and breaks the shackles because she still has the power of strength from the potion. A diversionary plot is created as Little Josie will distract the wolves while Grey isolates Gark in a fight. Skinny manages to get the transmutation potion that turn the piglets back to their former self.

The wolves and the sheep were ready to commit war. However Gypsi Mami reconciles their differences by telling the two fronts that they are similar to each other in hobbies. The two warring clans agree for peace. Meanwhile, the main fight between Gark and Grey commences. Grey manages to win but Gark parries back with a treacherous back hand attack. The warring clans rush to the aid of Grey. Gark although outnumbered goes to the shed to drink the potion of strength. The sheep and wolves watch as the shed collapses as the imminent rise of Gark with super strength emerges. However the clan realizes Gark was only transformed into a pig. Festivities break out as Grey and Bianca have a son named Duke, Simone finally achieves her dream to become a botanist and Mami agrees to keep Gark's form for the time being until he re-educates himself. Meanwhile, while watching the view on a hill with Ike, Little Josie begins to transform back into a crocodile.

''Thousandstar'' is a novel in which the main character is an alien blob.

According to descriptions of the film's storyline in 1906 and 1907 publications, the Selig release portrayed four crimes of a young woman in a big city. The first scenes depicted her "daring" and "carefully mapped out robbery" of guests at a posh party, including taking jewelry and cash from her own friends. Profiles of the film also describe how her next target was a jewelry store, where she employed a more subtle means of theft. While inspecting a tray of diamonds with the store's clerk, she slips a large gem out of the tray and embeds it in a wad of chewing gum she took out of her mouth. She then sticks the diamond under the ledge of the sales counter. As she departs the store, the clerk notices the jewel was missing, so he stops her and calls in a police officer, who searches the thief. No gem is found, so the clever thief is allowed to leave. Later, dressed as a man, she returns to the store pretending to be a customer interested in buying a new pocket watch. While casually inspecting merchandise, she retrieves the diamond from beneath the counter's edge.[http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/24614/PDF/1/ "The Female Highwayman"], Selig Polyscope Company (Chicago), ''Film Supplement'', number 47, November 1906, 6 pp.; Edison Collection, I-098, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. Retrieved July 12, 2020.

In the female bandit's next crime, again dressed as a man and brandishing a pistol, she "highjacks" a car and robs its occupants. She then uses the gun to rob a bank courier. Yet again attired in men's clothing, the "highwayman" confronts the courier on a sidewalk and takes a valise full of valuables. When a policeman approaches during the robbery, she turns her gun on him and holds both men "at bay" while she makes her escape, although in her getaway she drops her male "wig", which the authorities quickly find. The film then transitioned to the final scenes in which the bandit has returned to her apartment. Thinking she has successfully eluded her pursuers and is safe, she proceeds to hide the valuables when suddenly several police officers batter down the door to her room. She shoots one of the men, severely wounding him. A struggle ensues, but the bandit still manages to drink a vial of poison she had hidden. She dies, preferring to end her life rather than languishing for decades in a prison cell.

''Budget Cuts'' is set in a company called "TransCorp," filled with human-like robotic office workers and security guards. There are no other people to be found, except for a voice over the phone, Winta. Winta informs the player that people have been disappearing, and the protagonist is the next target of an unspecified group. The player must escape the office buildings of TransCorp, while hiding from supervisors, walking security guards with guns.

The film covers the adventures of two F.A.R.T. (Furry Animals Rivalry Termination) agents, Roger and Gwen, who live in the same building in the suburbs of Seattle as their owners.

Guglielmo and Lidia have been married for twenty-five years; on the day of their anniversary, Lidia confesses to her husband that she has been cheating on him for a year with Guglielmo's order. Having lost his wife and sales assistant, the man offers the job to Luna, a Roman girl with money problems. After a troubled start, Guglielmo and Luna manage to enter into symbiosis, both at work and in private life, to the point that she helps him find a new partner.

The film tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives. It captures both the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and the lesser-seen bottom up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid's perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others. It's ultimately both an exacting re-creation of this special moment in history and a kid's fantasy about being plucked from his average life in suburbia to secretly train for a covert mission to the moon.

Two strangers stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve team up to try and get home in time for Christmas.

In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, a building known as the Gate controls the populace by making decrees and requiring inordinate amounts of paperwork which must be directly processed by the Gate itself. Dr. Tarek examines a patient named Yehya, who was shot by government forces in a riot known as the Disgraceful Events. The Gate begins a propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of the Events, denying that anyone was shot at all. The Gate decrees that is illegal to remove a bullet without a permit. It also confiscates all X-Rays within the city, removing all evidence of government-sponsored violence. After the Events, the Gate remains closed. Thousands of people stand outside in the titular queue, awaiting the Gate's opening so that their paperwork can be correctly processed. Over the course of 140 days, Yehya's condition worsens and various other members of the queue struggle to survive as the Gate remains closed. Eventually, Tarek decides to break the law and remove the bullet without a permit, only to learn that Yehya has died of his injuries.

''The Science Fiction Source Book'' is a book which grades over 2500 books by 880 authors by awarding them up to 5 stars in the categories of Readability, Characterization, Idea Content and Literary Merit.

''Raven of Destiny'' is a novel in which a man travels from ancient Ireland to fight at Thermopylae and Delhi.

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Alchemist James Reed attempts to create a human embodiment of the Doctrine of Ethos, a fundamental force of the universe. He creates twins Roger and Dodger, child prodigies with mastery over language and mathematics, respectively. The twins forge an intermittent psychic connection as children. The pair reunite in person at Berkeley for grad school. Erin, another construct created by Reed, is Dodger’s roommate. Erin is secretly following Reed’s orders, but resents him for killing her twin brother Darren.

When Roger visits home for Thanksgiving, he finds a childhood drawing of him and Dodger which should not exist. Erin instructs him to reset the timeline. Dodger uses her powers to bring them back in time, erasing all memories of the event. It is revealed that Roger and Dodger have used their powers to reset the timeline thousands of times before, preventing Reed from destroying them. The twins explore their powers, accidentally triggering a massive earthquake which destroys much of Berkeley. Horrified, Roger abandons his sister.

Years later, Roger is a professor who is dating Erin. Reed orders Erin to kill Roger. Erin goes rogue and helps Roger escape. Timelines begin to merge as Roger and Dodger speak to each other from their alternate pasts and futures. Roger and Dodger reunite once again at the Sutro Baths, exploring their reality-warping powers. Dodger is shot and almost dies. Erin and Reed are both killed in a final confrontation. Roger and Dodger decide to learn more about their powers, and agree that they will eventually try once more to find a timeline with a happier ending.

After the events of ''The Tempest'', Miranda does not marry Ferdinand as planned. Instead, she returns to Milan with Prospero, who has regained his position as duke. She is shunned by the castle staff; her only friend is the servant Dorothea, a Moorish witch, with whom she soon begins a romantic relationship. Miranda learns that Prospero has not given up his magic as he previously promised.

Desperate to learn why she is being shunned and about the circumstances of Prospero's fall from grace, Dorothea and Miranda use magic to invade the memories of a castle staff member. Miranda learns that after the death of her mother Beatrice, Prospero used his magic to resurrect her. This led a horrified Antonio to stage a coup against his brother.

When Miranda learns that Antonio is being held prisoner in the castle, she and Dorothea attempt to rescue him and stage another coup. Prospero catches them, but is confronted by the reanimated corpse of his wife, who has been living beneath the castle. Prospero is then killed by his brother. Miranda chooses to reject her arranged marriage with Ferdinand. She, Dorothea, and Beatrice return to the magical island where she was raised.

Esteban Estévez, a mystery novel writer, must finish his new work, so in search of inspiration, he moves to an isolated cabin in the woods with his wife, Cristina, and his assistant, Federico. Secretly, Federico had been renting the cabin to a mysterious woman whom he urges to leave the house before Esteban and Cristina arrive. While leaving, the woman decides to keep an uncomfortable thing inside the house: a trunk containing a corpse.

A young student (the main character) living in the small town of Summerville preparing for university is shocked by the death of his father. The mysterious events surrounding his death will interfere after realizing his father owes a group of criminals.As the game goes on you perform certain tasks that allows you to "interact"(sex) with other characters.All while trying to complete your goals for the summer like:find a prom date ,find out what happened to your dad ect.You willalso have to unlock certain areas like schools ,forest,beach and others.You will also have the option to impregnate your partner.But be warned a pregnant women in the game can be problematic,and you can have multiple partners at a time.

''The Glamour'' is a novel in which a cameraman becomes an amnesiac.

''The Aurum Film Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Science Fiction'' is a book that covers more than 1200 science fiction films, from one-minute films from the 1890s to the releases of 1983. Expanded editions were published on 1991 and 1995, and were published by The Overlook Press in the United States with the corresponding change in title.

''Castles'' is a book details castles from history, myth, and fantasy with narrative text by David Day and drawings and paintings by Alan Lee.

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In 2003, senior CIA official Donald Fitzroy visits a prisoner. Eight years earlier the prisoner was a minor convicted of killing his abusive father to protect his brother. Fitzroy offers the man his freedom in exchange for working as an assassin in the CIA's ''Sierra'' program.

In 2021, on a mission in Bangkok, the murderer, "Sierra Six," is working with fellow CIA Agent Dani Miranda to assassinate a target suspected of selling off national security secrets. He is unable to do so stealthily without harming civilians and attacks the target directly, mortally wounding him. Before dying, the target reveals that he worked in the Sierra program as Sierra Four, and hands Six an encrypted drive detailing the corruption of CIA official Denny Carmichael, who is the lead agent on the assassination mission. Carmichael is elusive about the true purpose of the mission and the contents of the drive when confronted by Six, and Six refuses evacuation from Bangkok with Carmichael's men, calling a now-retired Fitzroy to request extraction.

Carmichael hires mercenary Lloyd Hansen, an ex-CIA Agent kicked out of the agency for his sociopathic tendencies, to track down Six and retrieve the drive. Hansen does so by kidnapping Fitzroy's niece Claire, forcing Fitzroy to authorize Six's murder by the extraction team. However, Six kills them and escapes.

Frustrated, Carmichael sends his subordinate Suzanne Brewer to oversee Hansen and keep him in line. Hansen keeps Claire hostage in a mansion in Croatia, where he has based his operations. Hansen also puts a bounty on Six's head to attract mercenaries and assassins to hunt him down. Six heads to Vienna to find Claire's pacemaker's serial number from Laszlo Sosa, but Sosa betrays him for the bounty. Six escapes just as Hansen arrives with his team, and is rescued by Miranda. Miranda's reputation is in tatters following the Bangkok mission and she initially plans to bring him in to salvage her career at the CIA. Six convinces her to drive him to Cahill's apartment in Prague, where she decrypts the drive, which reveals the extent of Carmichael's corruption on behalf of a mysterious benefactor working for a shadow government.

Hansen sends several teams of assassins to Cahill's home, and the terminally ill Cahill blows up her home to give Six and Miranda a chance to escape. Six is arrested and handcuffed in the square. A shootout in the streets of Prague follows and Six escapes on a tram. A long chase and gun battle ensues, and Six is saved by Miranda, in Cahill's bulletproof car. The two infiltrate a hospital to track down Claire through the wireless signal broadcast from her pacemaker. The mercenary "Lone Wolf" steals the drive from them, knocking them out, and brings the drive to Hansen.

Six and Miranda follow the pacemaker to Hansen's base. Miranda creates a distraction while Six infiltrates the mansion and rescues Fitzroy and Claire. Fitzroy is mortally wounded as they flee and sacrifices himself in a failed attempt to kill Hansen. Miranda knocks out Hansen's men, but Lone Wolf narrowly escapes. He defeats Miranda in a fight but gives her the drive, having become disgusted with Hansen's willingness to kill children and his lack of morals.

Hansen manages to take Claire hostage and drags her into a hedge maze. After a standoff, Hansen lets go of Claire and fights with Six. Before Six can kill him, Hansen is shot and killed by Brewer, who tells Six that she plans to pin Carmichael's actions on Hansen in order to gain leverage over him. Furthermore, Brewer pledges Claire's safety but only if Six continues to work for the CIA. Six and Miranda are forced to co-operate in the cover-up, where ultimately no action is taken against Carmichael. After the debriefing at the CIA headquarters, Miranda threatens to kill Carmichael if any harm comes to Claire. Six escapes custody and frees Claire, who is being held at a secret location.

Nora is a beautiful music student who wants to be a violinist like her late father, but finds out that people focus more on her stunning good looks than her talent, much to her chagrin. When she finds out that the virtuous Bulgarian orchestra director Sándor Horváth is coming to Mexico, she will do the impossible to meet him in person, and on the way, she will be involved in a hilarious series of accidents caused by her looks. In the meantime, a neighbor of hers, the dentist Gerardo, will try to confess to her a couple of things that will end up making her reflect on life and love.

Carlo Cofield, a restless WWII vet in New York City, alternates between work at the Atlantic Novelty Company and hanging out at the Treble Bar listening to the Quo Vadis Quartet. Impulsively entering an office of Seaspray Swimming Pools, he pitches a sale to a client on Long Island. A condition of his making this sale is his being transferred to the Seaspray office in LA. During his flight to the Coast he places his neck-tie in an air-sickness bag for disposal, never to be worn again. In LA, he meets Vic Salter and his chimp Simeon in a bar up on Sunset. Vic introduces Carlo to hit songwriter Prescott Tom, whose sister Toby takes him to the beach to see the body builders. Carlo joins them to get close to the beautiful Jocelyn, but eventually he finds happiness and fulfillment with Toby.

The plot description in the February 24, 1917 issue of ''Moving Picture World'' reads:

Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man, the baron of the Isle of Man, whose temporal power is higher even than that of the Deemster, or governor. The Bishop desires Dan to become a minister, but he prefers to be a fisherman. The Deemster of Man has a son and a daughter, Mona and Ewan. Dan and Mona are in love. She consents to marry him when he can obtain her father's consent. Ewan, her brother, decides to become a clergyman, even in the face of his father's insistence that he take up business as a vocation.

The Deemster opposes Dan's suit for Mona's hand because he has fallen from his high estate as the son of the Bishop by becoming a fisherman. His dislike turns to open hatred when Dan endeavors to borrow money from Ewan, whom he thought his friend, to pay off the crew of his boat. Dan had squandered his earnings of the season in drink. Ewan refuses Dan the loan, who makes him a bitter enemy by knocking him down on his taunt that spending money in drink is as bad as theft. Dan is now opposed in his love for Mona by both her father and brother. The Deemster forbids Dan to come to his house to visit her. Despite this, he sees her at night. Though this meeting is innocent in intent, the Deemster uses it to inflame the mind of Ewan against Dan, whom he supposes has dishonored his sister.

Arming himself with a knife, Ewan seeks Dan and comes upon him at his cabin while he is mending his nets. They quarrel and Ewan falls backward over a cliff and is killed. Dan's crew of fishermen throw the body into the sea, hoping to hide his death, but the tide sweeps it ashore. It is discovered and suspicion of murder falls on Dan. He is arrested by the Deemster's constables and committed to jail, where he is visited at night by his father, the Bishop, who gives him an opportunity to escape. Dan refuses to go, feeling that he must atone for Ewan's death. Dan is tried on Tynwald Hill, the ancient law mount. The Deemster insists that the Bishop shall exercise his legal prerogative as the highest civil power on the isle and sit at this trial. He aims to force the Bishop to sentence his own son on the gallows. Dan is convicted. The Deemster insists on the death sentence being passed by the Bishop, who, instead of condemning Dan to be hanged, decrees that his son shall be cut off from the people, no tongue to speak to him, no hand to touch him, and. in death, no hand to bury him.

Dan is driven away, and for seven years lives alone in a hut by the sea. Then a plague strikes the people of Man. The Bishop has learned of a monk in Ireland who has discovered an antidote for the pestilence and sends for him. The monk comes to the isle on a vessel which is wrecked on the shore near Dan's desolate hut. He dies in Dan's arms, who then dons the monk's garb and carries the antidote to the people, as he had been commanded by the dying cleric. When there is but one powder of the antidote left Dan learns that the Deemster is a victim of the plague. When he faces his enemy to minister to him. he finds himself stricken. Either he or the Deemster must die. Revealing himself to the Deemster he chooses to die himself, hopeless under his father's irrevocable sentence to a living death. Giving the Deemster the healing powder he staggers away to his hut. There he is followed by Mona and dies in her arms.

Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, is held guilty for the murder of her husband, photographer Gabriel Berenson. Due to a plea of diminished responsibility, she is admitted to a secure forensic unit called the Grove. Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist with a keen interest in the Berenson case, successfully applies for a position at the Grove. At his request, he is placed in charge of Alicia, who has not spoken since the day of the murder. Although she remains mute during their therapy sessions, Alicia gives Theo her diary. In it, she describes being watched in her home by a masked man in the weeks before the murder. Theo, in the meantime, discovers that his wife, Kathy, is having an extramarital affair with an unknown person.

To learn more about Alicia, Theo contacts her cousin. He narrates an incident from their childhood that had happened shortly after her mother's suicide. Alicia's father, in deep mourning for his wife, wished out loud that Alicia were dead instead. Theo understands that this has had a deep impact on her psyche. He repeats the episode back to her, which induces her to speak. She tells him that the masked man entered her house and murdered Gabriel.

It is revealed, in a twist, that Theo was the masked man. He had broken into the Berenson house to confront Gabriel, who, in another twist, had been having an affair with Theo's wife, implying that the novel was being told in two different timelines. Holding them at gunpoint, Theo had given Gabriel the choice to save either himself or his wife, and he chooses to save himself. Theo left without shooting either of them, as he had only intended to expose Gabriel's selfishness. Gabriel's betrayal reminds Alicia of her father, and she killed him. On hearing the news, Theo planned to help Alicia recover from her trauma by being her therapist.

When Alicia tells Theo the false story of the masked man, he realizes that she recognizes him. He puts her into a coma through a drug overdose. Unbeknownst to Theo, Alicia records the events in her diary before losing consciousness, which is found by the police. They go to Theo's house and start reading him Alicia's final entry, while he feels a sense of relief at being caught.

When Harvard hockey's Bobby Sanders lands in Sweden's minor leagues, his relationship with the girl at the local market forces him to confront the reality of his childhood NHL dreams.

The rape-revenge tale of Mya Mya was inspired by a viral Facebook video. The video features a young woman employed in a Yangon factory who, the viewer is invited to believe, is being possessed by the ghost of Mya Mya, a raped and murdered factory worker.

Boz, the leader of a psychotic gang, deals a powerful and addictive new drug called Hype. His members, dubbed Hypers, are completely hooked on his product so much he makes one of the members, Lucy, jump off a balcony to her death when he drops a baggie of Hype off it. Lucy's younger sister Elizabeth, nicknamed Lizard, witnesses this and steals Boz's stash while fleeing from Boz when he catches her in the act.

Elsewhere Fred Parras, an Army Veteran from the Vietnam War, meets up with his friend Abe Hawkins. They go to Fred's bar, a V.F.W. (Veterans of Foreign Wars) hangout, where they meet up with their old army friends Walter Reed, Lou Clayton, Thomas "Z" Zabriski, and Doug McCarthy. The friends wish to celebrate Fred's birthday, much to his chagrin, and relive their glory days. Later, young Army Ranger Shaun Mason, who is on leave to see his wife, joins them. The night turns chaotic when Lizard enters the bar, and Boz's brother Roadie hacks off one of Doug's arms with an ax.

Fred and the Veterans fight off Roadie and his men, with Fred killing Roadie with his Sawed-off Shotgun. Wanting to get Doug medical help, Z and Fred try to flee to Z's truck, only for Boz's right-hand woman, Gutter, to slice open Z's neck with her machete. Fred and Walter attempt the truck again, but Gutter sneaks up on Fred and begins strangling him with a chain demanding him to “give it back!” Fred survives by stabbing Gutter with the truck keys and returns to his bar. He demands Lizard to tell the truth about her and the attacks, but she remains silent.

Lou later finds out why they are being attacked after finding the backpack with the stolen stash in a toilet tank and wishes to make a deal with Boz. Lizard, however, says that because they killed Roadie, Boz will never let them live, and the only option the Veterans have is to defend themselves against the Hypers. They prepare makeshift weapons from the bar’s furniture and traps reminiscent of those used in the Vietnam War. The Veterans are put through Hell when Boz's Hypers, including the hulking member Tank, break into the barricaded bar giving them a bloody battle. Having reached his breaking point, Lou decides to make a deal with Boz to save himself and his friends. Boz does not comply and decides to shoot and kill Lou, but not before Lou takes out more of Boz's men.

Fred, who chased after Lou, is shot in the leg by Boz and becomes depressed after Lou's death and Doug finally dying after the blood loss from his wounds. He starts drinking in the back room from the guilt till Lizard snaps him out of it, reminding him how his remaining friends need him, including her. Fred and the Veterans decide to make a last stand against Boz, who has had enough of the Veterans killing his men and running out of time with dawn approaching. The Hypers blow up the barricade and demand the product back, giving Fred a no way out ultimatum, but Fred refuses to give up after everything they put him and the others through and shoots one of the bricks of Hype in the air causing Boz's Hypers who inhaled the drug to go crazy and attack everyone including him and Gutter.

The Veterans begin fighting back. Abe, who has taken a hit of Hype to prepare mentally, begins slicing up the Hypers with his old service machete to allow the others to flee. Walter steals a chainsaw, and with Shaun's help, they get to the Vet's old Gun Truck to escape but are ambushed with Walter taking a mortal wound to his shoulder.

Abe battles Gutter, who gets the upper hand wounding him but dies when Fred rams a broken flag pole through her body and the other piece through her head. Lizard was caught by Boz earlier during the fight and forces her back to his car, but Fred retrieves his shotgun and remaining ammo and shoots Boz in the back as well as the backpack, which he had earlier soaked with his alcohol, catching it on fire allowing Lizard to escape. Walter, who is barely hanging on, orders Shaun to leave him so he can see his wife again, with Walter ramming the Gun Truck at Boz, causing both the Gun Truck and Boz's escape vehicle to explode, killing them both.

Fred, Shaun, and Lizard return to the bar with an exhausted Abe waiting, where they pour shots for their fallen friends, including Abe, who succumbs to his injuries after receiving his shot glass. Fred finds a block of Hype hiding behind his counter with Lizard commenting the money he will get with it will repair the bar and more realizing Lizard hid it there on purpose to thank Fred for everything he did for her. The three then consume their drinks, with Shaun telling Fred happy birthday.

Five YouTubers conduct a video-call for their friend's birthday, but begin to be stalked by an enigmatic member of the call.

Caroline, who works as a chef, has recently discovered that her Aunt Doreen has left her a cafe in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia. Leaving behind a job in a swanky New York restaurant and an ex-fiancé called Nathaniel, Caroline finds that the Seagull Cafe is bustling and well-loved - and that she has an offer to sell the cafe. Initially wanting to sell, Caroline persuades the head chef Simon to help her fix up the place, only to discover that she really doesn't want to leave. Not only has she grown fond of the cafe and its inhabitants, but she also has begun to fall in love with Simon. Eventually she must make a choice, particularly when Nathaniel starts pleading for them to get back together.

Three months ago, Aki's classmate, Misao, disappeared. She was very calm and reclusive, often the target of bullying. One day during school, Aki starts to hear Misao's voice in the middle of class, scaring her classmates; Aki's best friend Ayaka, mature and reserved student Kudoh, the school jock Tohma, Tohma's girlfriend Saotome, leader of the bullies Yoshino, and popular teacher Sohta. Then, the school starts shaking and Aki loses consciousness. When she awakens, she finds out from student council president "Onigawara", who is actually Ogre from ''Mad Father'', that the school has been dragged into another dimension by Misao's spirit, and that demons are terrorizing and killing the students. Onigawara enlists Aki in solving Misao's death by finding her scattered body parts throughout the school to perform a ritual and confronting her classmates.

Aki first opens a locker in her classroom with Sohta stuffed inside, and Sohta goes off to find the rest of the students. Aki finds Ayaka sneaking through Sohta's belongings in the faculty office and warns her about the demons, to no avail as Ayaka has a large crush on him and wants to unlock his desk. Later, she finds Saotome getting attacked by a demon in the bathroom with Tohma watching helplessly before running away. Aki manages to kill the demon, but it was too late as Saotome was killed before she could be saved. She finds Kudoh in the gym, confessing his love for Misao and apologizing for not being there for her. Misao's spirit appears and condemns Kudoh, and injures him with a falling spotlight. Kudoh runs away before Aki can get to him. Then, she finds Yoshino tied to a table in the science classroom, transformed into a futuristic laboratory. A hostile presence approaches, forcing her to hide in the carcass of a large bear while Yoshino is chainsawed to death by Alfred Drevis, who was resurrected as a zombie-like entity with no remaining sanity. In the library, Aki encounters "Library", the student council vice president, later renamed Novella. She also finds Tohma hiding in a makeshift bedroom. She finally finds Kudoh again, in the middle of a street in a demon town, still trying to apologize to Misao before getting run over by a car, killing him. While finding the body parts throughout the school, Aki experiences flashbacks from Misao, which reveal that Kudoh used to be best friends with Misao, before getting ridiculed by his friends for hanging out with a girl in junior high, and that Misao dated Tohma briefly, before breaking up with him after Saotome and Yoshino leaked their private texts in an attempt to humiliate Misao in front of the whole school, and to get Tohma to date Saotome instead. The final flashback shows that Misao was getting help from Sohta after being bullied in the school bathroom one night.

During these events, Ayaka gets attacked in the faculty office by a demon and Sohta takes her to the nurse's office, where Aki questions him about Misao. He reveals that he was helping her with the bullying and giving her counseling before she went missing. Ayaka is in a distressed state, begging Aki to not leave her there, but Sohta assures Aki that he will protect her. Ayaka is later killed in a surprise attack by a demon in the nurse's office, with Sohta barely surviving. Sohta then gives Aki the last remaining body parts, the arms, stating that he found them while wandering the school. Outside the school, graves with the names of the dead students appear and start glowing when they die. Aki tries to perform the ritual, but it fails. She confronts Onigawara, and he says that one more person connected to Misao has to die in order for the ritual to succeed. Aki is given a choice to kill either Tohma or Sohta. If Aki kills Tohma, it leads to a bad ending where it is revealed in a flashback that Sohta killed Misao for her hands, as he has a psychotic addiction to them, and also killed Ayaka, who managed to open his desk only to find Misao's hands inside, leading him to enter and drag her to the nurse's office, and faking the demon attack. After the school is brought back, Sohta quickly kills Aki to hide the truth and returns to his life. If the player kills Sohta instead, it leads to the true ending; it is still revealed that Sohta killed Misao and Ayaka, but it is also revealed that Tohma didn't know about the text messages being leaked by Saotome and Yoshino and that he was innocent throughout everything. The school is then restored, and everyone who died was forgotten and replaced with generic students, and Aki and Tohma go back to their daily lives, with Onigawara and Novella revealed to not actually be in the student council, replacing the real ones from the real world.

In an epilogue mode after finding all of the bad ends, Aki is spirited away by Onigawara on her way home from school with Tohma, and Onigawara enlists her to save Kudoh, Saotome, and Yoshino from eternal suffering by rescuing their souls from personal hells created by Misao. Kudoh's hell is getting relentlessly beaten by Misao on a middle school playground, Saotome's hell is Misao making out with Tohma while she can only watch helplessly, and Yoshino's hell is getting bullied in a bathroom by a group of Misao clones. Aki can also visit Sohta's grave as well and help him absolve his sin. After that, Aki is transferred to limbo where Misao and Tohma making out until the latter runs away in fear after seeing Misao's zombified form. Aki confronts Misao for what she has done to her tormentors, leading her to feeling remorse and finally making peace with Aki before disappearing. After saving them, Onigawara reveals that the victims (except Sohta) were reborn as babies to live a new life with him and Novella in a copy of the school remaining in the demon world along with Tohma as punishment for his cowardice. Aki returns to the real world and awakes in empty class room, where she see a message in chalkboard that says; "Thank you" possibly from Misao. Aki then goes home, finally knowing that everything is over and hoping to see Misao again someday.

In the Definitive Edition version of the game, the player can alternatively choose to play as Akito, a male version of Aki, with a different personality and different dialogue.

Polania Campaign

Anna Kos is a young girl who lives with her father Piotr in Polania, which has become occupied by the Rusviet army after a truce was signed with Saxony to end a massive war in which Anna's brother Janek was killed. One day, Rusviet troops raid Anna's village looking for a scientist, which turns out to be Piotr, who possesses a prosthetic arm capable of disabling military mechs. Piotr is captured by Colonel Lev Zubov, who intends to force him to access Nikola Tesla's factory. Anna recruits fighters from the Polanian Resistance to rescue her father. They are joined by Anna's uncle Lech, the leader of the Resistance, but they are too late to save Piotr, who is mortally wounded from Colonel Zubov stealing his arm. Piotr tells Anna to warn his colleague Heinrich Steinmetz in the city of Kolno before passing away.

Wanting to avenge her father, Anna joins Lech and the Resistance as they spearhead a relief train into Kolno. Upon reaching the city, Anna is shocked to discover that the Resistance not only shipped in much needed food supplies, but also weapons to arm the local populace with. Anna protests this move, and Lech reveals that he plans to arm the civilians and convince them to rise up, which will provoke Rusviet to purge the entire city, thus breaking their truce with Saxony and reigniting Polania's hatred of them. Anna balks at Lech's plan and knocks him out. She then meets Heinrich, who devises a plan to save the citizens of Kolno. As Heinrich evacuates civilians in an airship, Anna, Lech, and the Resistance stay behind to cover his escape. However, Colonel Zubov manages to capture Anna and Lech.

Zubov reveals that he manipulated the Resistance into attacking Kolno and breaking the truce, as he is part of a faction called Fenris, which seeks to restart the war. He executes Lech, but as he is about to execute Anna, the Polanian Army led by Commander Michał Sikorski attacks, forcing Colonel Zubov to retreat. While Colonel Zubov is able to escape, Anna is able to corner one of his lieutenants, who to her shock turns out to be Janek.

Rusviet Campaign

Janek reveals that four weeks prior, he was attending the peace negotiations as part of the Polanian security detail when the negotiations were attacked by insurgents. Working together with Rusviet officer Olga Morozova, they managed to rescue Tsar Nicholas from his burning palace, but the palace collapsed on top of him, presumably killing him. Realizing that Fenris was behind the attack, Tsar Nicholas tasked Olga with tracking down the group and eliminating them. Meanwhile, Janek, on the verge of death, was saved by Rusviet scientists working under Colonel Zubov, who used salvaged Tesla technology to turn him into a cyborg.

Olga infiltrated the facility and informed Janek that Tesla came out of hiding to warn the leaders of the world about the existence of Fenris, whose sole purpose is to overthrow the current world order. She also revealed that she had swapped Janek's identity with one of Colonel Zubov's soldiers so he would receive life saving treatment and become a mole within Colonel Zubov's inner circle. Olga then followed Colonel Zubov, discovering that he and Tsar Nicholas' advisor Rasputin are both members of Fenris. Olga left to warn Kaiser Friedrich of Saxony while Janek remained at Colonel Zubov's side as he searched for Heinrich, discovering a secret Saxonian missile project in the process. While Heinrich was not at the base, they did discover information about his and Piotr's locations in Polania.

Back in the present, Janek insists on staying by Colonel Zubov's side so he can continue to gather information about Fenris, even when Anna tells him about Piotr and Lech's deaths. Upon linking back up with Colonel Zubov, Janek helps track down and capture Heinrich. Heinrich reveals that they need a transponder to enter Tesla's factory, but that won't protect them from the "Icarus Protocol". Heinrich then commits suicide before he can be interrogated further. Colonel Zubov, however, reveals that Piotr's prosthetic arm can serve as the transponder. Using the transponder, Janek is able to disable the defenses around Tesla's factory. Colonel Zubov's forces press in and capture Tesla. Upon learning that Tesla can remove his cyborg suit, Janek attempts to kill Colonel Zubov but is disabled by the failsafe. However, before Colonel Zubov can execute Tesla, he is held at gunpoint by a Saxonian general.

Saxony Campaign

Saxonian General Gunter von Duisburg recalls troubling memories of the war. At the start of the war, Gunter accompanied Prince Wilhelm in Saxony's offensive into Polania. While successful, the offensive suffered major setbacks due to unexpectedly strong Polanian resistance, and the number of casualties shocked Prince Wilhelm, who became increasingly disillusioned with the war and hateful towards Rusviet. This culminated in him disobeying orders and using chlorine gas against the Rusviets, a move Gunter criticized him for since it would invite similar retaliation from Rusviet. In another mission, Prince Wilhelm loses his nerve and massacres Rusviet prisoners, causing Gunter to strike him, which would disgrace his career and position.

In the present, Gunter is summoned to meet Kaiser Friedrich in Dresden, who has been warned about Fenris by Olga. However, bitter over how Kaiser Friedrich used him as a scapegoat for Prince Wilhelm's crimes, Gunter is reluctant to help him. Eventually, Gunter agrees to help due to their friendship, but Kaiser Friedrich is murdered by Prince Wilhelm, who wants to continue the war against Rusviet, and he frames Gunter. Gunter is forced to flee, and recovers his old mech Brunhilde with the help of engineer Frieda Ruete. With Saxony under Prince Wilhelm's control, Olga suggests that Gunter and his loyalists make their way to Tesla's factory, where they might find asylum.

When they reach Tesla's factory, they find it already under attack by Colonel Zubov's forces. Gunter teams up with the Polanian army, working together with Anna and Commander Sikorski. They manage to break through Colonel Zubov's forces and cause him to flee, but Tesla warns them that the Icarus Protocol has already been triggered, which is a giant automated mech designed to destroy all technology it comes across. The Polanian, Rusviet, and Saxonian forces all unite and work together to destroy the mech, saving the day. Tesla despairs that without the Icarus Protocol, his factory is now vulnerable to another Fenris attack. However, Anna, Olga, and Gunter point out the battle proved that people from the three nations can overcome their differences and work together for a common goal. Inspired, Tesla sets about rebuilding his factory while the others resolve to continue their battle against Fenris.

The Rusviet Revolution

Shortly after Colonel Zubov's attack on Tesla's factory, revolution erupts in Rusviet as revolutionary forces seek to depose Tsar Nicholas while forces loyal to him try to suppress the revolt. Tsar Nicholas is forced to flee St. Petersburg and seek shelter at a safehouse in the countryside. Olga returns to Rusviet to assist Tsar Nicholas, saving him from a Revolutionary attack and convincing him that Rasputin and Fenris are behind the revolution. Tsar Nicholas decides to return to St. Petersburg to restore order to the country, but as he journeys there, he comes to realize that his Loyalist forces are just as cruel and ruthless towards Rusviet civilians as the Revolutionaries are. Vowing to reform Rusviet, Tsar Nicholas heads for a broadcast tower in St. Petersburg to make an address to the nation while Olga holds off Fenris forces. Unfortunately, Rasputin and Colonel Zubov ambush and kill Tsar Nicholas, declaring the Revolution victorious. With Rusviet now under Fenris' control, Olga is forced to retreat with as many loyal Rusviet soldiers as she can find.

Operation Eagle

In the midst of the Rusviet Revolution, Usonian businesses and interests in the Rusviet-held region of Alaska are put at risk. Admiral George Mason convinces the President to authorize a foreign intervention into Alaska and sends his son Captain William Mason to lead the effort. The campaign is successful and Alaska is occupied by the Usonian army. Admiral Mason then decides to send William to Arabia, which holds massive oil reserves that can benefit Usonian industry greatly. He explains that Arabia is currently occupied by Saxony, and with the previous king and his two sons having been assassinated, the time is ripe for Usonia to send a covert force to Arabia to intervene in the conflict and secure Arabia's oil supply. William however does not care for his father's business connections and is only interested in helping the Arabians overthrow their Saxonian oppressors.

Upon arriving in Arabia, William's airship is shot down and he is rescued by Princess Sita, who leads Arabia's Free Tribes. She explains the current king, her uncle, murdered her father and her brothers in order to secure a treaty with Saxony. They rescue a delegation from Tesla's alliance led by Gunter, who offers to supply Sita with Tesla's mechs in return for oil. Sita remains skeptical about Usonia's offer for help, but is assured by William he came as a liberator, not an occupier. William helps Sita seize the strategic port city of Aqaba, providing the Free Tribes with a major propaganda victory. However, Admiral Mason arrives with forces aligned with Sita's uncle, announcing that Sita's uncle has decided to betray Saxony and sign a treaty with Usonia instead. Sita, Gunter, and their followers are arrested while William and his men are returned to Admiral Mason, who promises to make William the President of Usonia in return for his cooperation. Furious that his father would betray Sita, William goes rogue with his men and stages a rescue mission, freeing Sita and Gunter and allowing them to escape to Tesla's factory. Despite risking being executed as a traitor, William returns to Usonia and exposes his father's secret operation and business ties to a military–industrial complex, causing a massive scandal.

While cycling late night, 19-year-old Vera Kall arrives at a farm. She leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through a kitchen door. She hadn’t had time to realize that she is not alone, when a sudden blow to the head knocks her onto the kitchen floor where she is left lying. Meanwhile, a successful copywriter at Antwerp, Henry, is approached by Paula, a documentarian, with whom, upon talking, revealed that she once studied with Vera. Her task is to make a film about Vera Kall, and she wants Henry's help in writing a script for it, while she will travel to Münster and start filming. At the same time, Vera's father, Jakob, is convicted in her murder and sent to prison. Paula and Henry team up to unravel the truth and why and where Vera's body disappeared, while at the same time try to hide the whereabouts.

A violinist has hallucinations that show her the collapse of space and time. The visions she experiences, and the things she hears, leads her to a portal through time and space to a parallel dimension.

Following a car accident where he is forced off of the road by another vehicle, a man awakens with amnesia while a corpse is found in the trunk of his car, the fifth victim of a serial killer that is stalking the area. The man, John Doe, is suspected to be the killer as a result, but escapes the hospital after taking Diana, a nurse who had befriended him, hostage. John becomes determined to prove his innocence and Diana agrees to help him; Diana’s father had been convicted of murder and she refused to believe his claims of innocence. He eventually hanged himself, before being exonerated years later, leaving Diana guilt-ridden.

John is haunted by visions of Julia Govern, one of the victims and decides to dig deeper in the hopes of finding answers. While visiting Julia's mother's house in McNabb, Illinois, John's memory flashes draw him to the nearby house of Sheriff Roger Bower who has been working with FBI agent Frank Ward to investigate the murders and John's role in them. When John breaks into the Bower house, he is attacked by Bower's son Oliver who appears to recognize him. However, John accidentally knocks Oliver out before he can learn anything about his identity from the young man.

As John searches for answers, he is hunted by Mark Rosovski, the man that forced him off of the road in the first place. Rosovski snaps the neck of Diana's friend Tom who was helping them and sets an ambush. Upon finding John standing over Tom's body, Diana abandons John, believing that he is really the killer and just manipulating her. Rosovski attempts to strangle John to death, but John manages to shoot him in self-defense, escaping with Rosovski's cell phone. From a text message, John learns that someone else sent him to Tom's home to kill John while Bower, investigating the scene with Ward, identifies Rosovski as a recently paroled hitman.

Diana visits the Bower house to speak with the sheriff about John and meets Oliver who informs her about the death of his mother, who resembles Diana, twenty years before and John's earlier attack on him. At the same time, John visits a library and does some online research into the murders. John learns that Bower's wife was murdered in a similar manner to the current murders and that the lead detective in Julia's murder, Michael Winslow, recently died in a gas explosion that consumed his home. Looking into reports on Michael's death, John discovers from a picture of the detective that he is in fact Michael Winslow. Realizing that the Bower's know the truth about his identity, Michael calls Ward, reveals his true identity and tells him to ask Roger Bower for more answers. When Ward calls Bower and asks about Detective Michael Winslow, the sheriff immediately becomes concerned.

Determined to find answers, Michael returns to the Bower house and confronts Oliver. Oliver reveals that he and Michael were best friends, but claims that Michael did something that put Oliver and his father through hell due to his obsession with finding out the truth about the murdered girls. During the argument, Michael spots Oliver's baseball schedule and realizes that it matches up with the timing and the locations of the killings. Michael is overpowered by Oliver who has taken Diana captive as well as his intended next victim. Oliver explains that the first victim was an accident, someone that he had unintentionally hit with his car, but she had reminded him of his murdered mother. Mentally ill, Oliver would target young women who resembled his mother, kill them in a fashion matching his mother's unsolved murder and then call their mothers so that the last thing they heard was their own mother's voice. Before Oliver can kill Michael and Diana, Bower returns home and shoots Oliver dead.

Sending Diana to call the police, Michael confronts Bower who confirms Michael's identity and explains that Michael had discovered that Oliver was the killer after pulling him over driving the last victim's car with her body in the trunk. Michael had called Bower first who promised to take Oliver in together, but he hired Rosovski instead to protect his son. Rosovski ran Michael off of the road on his way to meet up with Bower to make the arrest and stole his identification, believing that Michael had died in the crash, while Bower switched out his fingerprints for a John Doe from the morgue whose body he planted in Michael's house before setting the gas explosion to cover up Michael's murder. After learning that Michael had in fact survived, Bower sent Rosovski to finish the job while trying to frame Michael for the serial killings in order to protect Oliver as Bower knew that Michael would eventually figure out the truth again. Bower, who had previously had a father-son relationship with Michael before the events, expresses remorse for his actions and for not stopping Oliver sooner. As Michael meets with Ward, who has exonerated him thanks to Diana, and Oliver's body is removed from the house, Bower commits suicide out of guilt while Diana watches the events unfold from across the street.

After the death of her husband, Libby also loses her home and finds herself a single mother of two, Abby and Tank, with no place to live. She moves in with her mother, Marsha, an overly critical woman. Marsha, who smokes a lot and has been married multiple times, has always had a rocky relationship with Libby. After grieving her husband for 6 months, Marsha gives Libby an ultimatum pushing her to pull herself together more quickly. This proves to be the last straw for Libby, deciding she can no longer take living with her mother. Libby and her two children move to Aunt Jean's goat farm in central Texas looking for a fresh start. Upon arriving at the farm, Aunt Jean instructs James O'Connor, her farm manager, to teach Libby the ropes of keeping up the farm. Libby is not thrilled about the idea, but accepts because she needs a job. Slowly, Libby and the children start getting used to their new life at the farm.

Libby develops her farm skills and begins bonding with James O'Connor. One night, they accidentally lock themselves in the farm's big refrigerator, having to spend the night together until Russ saves them the next morning. Another day, they go to the market to sell cheese and they run into three of Libby's old friends, who are mean and laugh at Libby for being dressed like a farm worker and having struggled after losing her husband. The friends are clearly attracted to James, so he kisses Libby in front of them to upset them.

The children also begin bonding with James, who enjoys playing with Tank and teaching Abby how to defend herself from a bully at her new school who picks on her for having a limp, which she got in the car accident that killed her father. Abby gets suspended from school for punching her bully and, although Libby is upset with James for teaching her karate, she realizes Abby trusted James to tell her about the bullying issues while she had been too afraid to talk about it with Libby and adding to her stress. Later in the film Abby is suspended again for using curse words with her bully, who had hit her in the head. James drives Libby to school to pick Abby up, and when he runs into her bully, he threatens him.

The family also meets and bonds with Aunt Jean's boyfriend, Russ McAllen, and his granddaughter, Sunshine. One night, Sunshine takes Libby to an abandoned house which she says belongs to Aunt Jean, but she hasn't lived there since her husband, Frank, died. Sunshine suggests Libby try to communicate with her dead husband. Although Libby doesn't take the idea of talking with the dead too seriously, she does have a sentimental and raw moment delivering a monologue as if she were talking to Danny. The fire they had made suddenly goes out, leaving Libby thinking maybe Danny was in fact able to hear her. Throughout the next days we slowly see Libby acquire a sense of closure about her husband's death.

During Aunt Jean's birthday party, we learn more about James. After 5 years of marriage, his wife fell for another man and asked for a divorce. A few months after the divorce, she had a stroke and required full-time care from a nurse. James had stepped in to help her constantly, as her new boyfriend had left her as soon as things got hard.

One day, Libby decides to visit the big abandoned house again and finds a picture of her as a baby with Aunt Jean and Frank. She confronts Aunt Jean about it, finding out that Marsha had abandoned her as a newborn and left her at that house at the care of her grandparents. However, due to their delicate health, it was Aunt Jean who had cared for her for 4 years. After 4 years, Marsha came back for the grandmother's funeral and upon seeing how happy Aunt Jean was with Libby, took her back. Libby drives to Marsha's home to confront her about it. Marsha says she was only 18 at the time and needed time to mature. However, Libby doesn't believe it. She tells Marsha that she thinks Marsha only wanted her back because she was jealous with how happy Jean, Frank, and Libby were together, and only took Libby back to hurt Jean. She informs Marsha that she wasn't a good mother, and that she was selfish to rob her of a happy childhood. Libby then tells her mother goodbye for the last time, and leaves while a shaken Marsha sobs.

Libby goes back to the farm and asks Aunt Jean to let her restore the house, so she can live there with her children, assuring her that she will continue to take care of the farm. As much as she has lost during the past year, Libby has finally found a place that feels like home. In the end scene, we see Libby fixing the house when James comes by to tell her he had been helping his ex-wife move in with her parents, so they could take care of her. Bringing closure to that chapter in his life, James tells Libby he is back and ready to continue working on the farm. They are seen kissing as the credits start rolling.

A middle-aged aerospace engineer is fired. He is unable to find a new job, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage starts to break up.

''Westerado'' is inspired by Western films with a revenge plot structure. The game begins when the main character's family is murdered and their ranch set on fire. Their brother gives them information about the killer's clothing, and they set out to get revenge. The game is styled after a Western film, with film-like effects during cutscenes.

The film revolves around a shop, where every kind of problems involving ghosts is solved.

In a suite in a luxury hotel in Switzerland, Linda Savignac receives a visit from Anne Hilgar. They were once close friends, until Anne's husband, George, left her for Linda, seven years ago. Anne has come from London at Linda's request to discuss George's health. During a routine examination, inoperable and terminal cancer has been detected. Linda explains that George has not been told, and she wants to discuss which of them ought to break the news to him. At first their conversation is stiff, but they become more relaxed as they recall episodes from the days of their friendship. As they are laughing about one of them, George arrives and is taken aback to find his estranged wife and current partner in amicable conversation. His first thought is that one of his and Anne's children must be ill, but she reassures him, and passes off her visit as "a little jaunt".

George, who has made his doctor tell him the truth about his condition, realises that Anne and Linda have been discussing which of them is to tell him he is dying, and he tells them that he already knew. Linda, in tears, retreats to the bedroom, leaving George and Anne together. He asks if she was still in love with him when he left her; she says she was not, but cared for him deeply and misses him greatly. He says he wants to come back to her for the last months of his life.

In the second scene, later the same day, George and Linda are in evening dress, preparing to take the boat to Evian to gamble at the casino. He outlines his plans for the short time he has left: a fortnight with her in Capri, back to London to put his financial and other affairs in order, and then return to the family house with Anne. Linda is distressed at the thought of his returning to Anne, but he tells her that he loves them both in different ways. She says that the last seven years, spent with him, have been the happiest of her life, and that she will always be grateful to him. Anne arrives. The three drink champagne together. Anne suggests that she should go back to London straight away, but Linda urges her to stay. George tells them both that he intends to go on being positive about life until "that last bewildering second" before death. The sound of the hooter of the Evian steamer is heard and the three go out together to catch it.

During the Angolan Civil War CIA agent Michael Smith is working with UNITA rebels. He is captured by the Angolan Armed Forces and sent to a prison to be interrogated by an East German named Major Schneider. Smith's father, retired US Marine Corps Colonel Bill Smith has no faith in the United States Government freeing his son. The Colonel travels to South West Africa where he pays the mysterious Elia for accurate information about his son's location of captivity. Colonel Smith hires seven mercenaries that he will lead into Angola to rescue his son.

Captain Simpson, the leader of a security force of a diamond mine has a man keeping his eye on the Colonel fearing that he may be a diamond smuggler. Elia's wife Opal is carrying on an illicit relationship with Simpson and informs him that the Colonel murdered his security man, in reality he was murdered by Rick Weston, the leader of Smith's private army. Rick informed the Colonel he was an Angolan secret agent. Elia then discovered that either Col. Smith paid him in counterfeit money or the money was replaced with counterfeit money in his safe.

Entering Angola, the mercenaries team up with Sekassi, the Jonas Savimbi type leader of the rebels to support their rescue of Michael Smith.

About a hundred years after the events in ''Semiosis'', a new expedition to Pax from Earth is launched. Contact with the Pax colonists had been lost soon after they landed on the planet. On Pax the new arrivals find descendants of the original colonists living side-by-side in a glass city with alien arthropod-like Glassmakers, and Stevland, a sentient rainbow bamboo. Stevland oversees a fragile peace between the Pax humans and the Glassmakers. The Earthlings, as the new arrivals are called, interfere with this delicate balance, causing divisions in the colony and amongst themselves.

The Earthlings partake in an expedition with the Pax humans and Glassmakers to explore the plains surrounding the city. There they discover colonies of sentient corals who begin infiltrating the city's territory. The Earthlings, the Pax humans and the Glassmakers put aside their differences and unite with Stevland to fight the corals. Stevland takes remote control of one of the Earthling's heli-planes using their radio network and destroys the corals.

Once calm is restored to the city, most of the Earthlings return home with specimens of Pax's fauna and flora, including some of Stevland's seeds. The seeds are planted on Earth and grow into a young rainbow bamboo named Levanter, who becomes aware of his sentience and soon learns how to exploit it.

In present day, young doctor Eva leaves her promising career behind to study history of medicine, questioning everything from her nature to her body, her illness and sealed fate. Johan Anmuth is an 18th-century Prussian physician in perpetual struggle between the rise of rationalism and ancient forms of animism. The ''Book of Vision'' is a manuscript that sweeps these two existences up, blending them into a never-ending vortex. Nothing expires in its time. Only what you desire is real, not merely what happens.

The Time Corps agents are sent back in time to investigate strange events involving the Three Musketeers. Like the novels of Alexandre Dumas, the players have to contend with the rival guards of Cardinal Richelieu as well as the political intrigue of the court of Louis XIV at Versailles.

In Denver, four friends reel from the sudden break up of the Smiths, while the local radio station is held at gunpoint by a fan who forces a disgruntled heavy-metal DJ to play music by the Smiths all night.

The plot is loosely based on an actual incident that occurred in 1988 when an 18-year-old attempted to commandeer Denver Top 40 station Y108.

''Daybreak on a Different Mountain'' is a novel in which a fighter and a mystical poet leave their sealed city to go on a quest.

''The Book of the Stars'' is a novel in which the heroine Yaleen dies, and is resurrected by her world's god the Worm.

Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country.

Kenji (Tasuku Emoto) receives a call from his father asking him to come home to Akita for the wedding of Naoki (Kumi Takiuchi), an old friend he has not seen in many years. Upon their reunion, it is revealed they once were lovers and quickly fall into an affair, which they agree will last only until Naoki's husband-to-be, a military man away on business, returns home for the wedding. Over the course of five days they reconnect, have a lot of sex, talk about their past together, other relationships, and the after-effects the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on their lives. The film is primarily a two-hander, with the only other characters appearing incidentally or offscreen.

Violet Evergarden is sent to a prestigious girls' boarding school by request of the Drossel royal family to assist one of the students, Isabella York, in her training as a debutante. As Violet accompanies Isabella, it becomes clear that she does not like attending the school since she finds it difficult to fit in and has no interest in learning any of the skills required for a debutante. She also is not in good health, as she suffers from periodic coughing fits. Isabella is initially distrustful of Violet but becomes more accepting of her when she realizes Violet is not interested in her aristocratic status. Isabella later reveals to Violet that she was Amy Bartlett, an illegitimate child of the York family. She used to live in poverty and adopted an orphan, Taylor, as her younger sister. However, the York family later tracked her down and asked her to join the family, with them promising a better life for Taylor in return. Realizing she couldn't properly care for Taylor, Isabella reluctantly accepted. Isabella then has Violet write a letter for Taylor. With her job done, Violet returns to Leiden. Benedict Blue delivers the letter to Taylor, who now lives at an orphanage.

Three years later, Taylor makes her way to Leiden to find the CH Postal Company, where she finally meets Violet and asks to work as a postman. While reluctant to hire a child, Claudia Hodgins allows Violet's request to let Taylor work at the company until he can arrange her return to her orphanage, and assigns Benedict to train her. After taking Taylor along his route, Benedict realizes that Taylor cannot read, meaning she wouldn't be able to read addresses on letters. Violet then decides to teach Taylor. The next day, Violet takes Taylor on a new delivery route. Taylor tells Violet she wants to be a postman so that she can "deliver happiness", just like Benedict did when he delivered Isabella's letter to her. Violet then helps Taylor write a letter to Isabella, and Benedict agrees to track her down to deliver it. Benedict obtains a new motorcycle from Hodgins and takes Taylor with him to find Isabella. Benedict delivers the letter, but Taylor decides not to meet her yet until she becomes a real postman so she can deliver her letters herself. Taylor is later adopted by the Evergarden family, while Violet and Benedict continue their work.

Jide is invited to a reunion with his friends from university. To make his ex-girlfriend jealous and with the connivance of other female friends, he hires his best friend, Teni, to pose as his girlfriend. The ruse backfires and leads to them falling in love.

Part 1

• ''Mighty Morphin'' #1–12
• ''Power Rangers'' #1–12
• ''Power Rangers Unlimited: Heir to Darkness''
• ''Power Rangers Unlimited: Edge of Darkness''

Introduction

• ''Mighty Morphin'' #1
• ''Power Rangers'' #1

While most of the Power Rangers discuss who the new Green Ranger is, Goldar, Finster, Squatt and Baboo discuss what to do with Lord Zedd, who got unconscious after the Green Ranger destroyed the Chaos Crystal. Meanwhile, Skull's girlfriend Candice Clark is in fact a member of the Guardians of Eltar, who was recruited for a mission on Earth.

When the Omega Rangers return to Earth, they ask Zordon for the help of Lord Drakkon, who knows many things about the Empyreals. When Zordon refuses, the Omega Rangers have no choice but to cause an outbreak to free Drakkon, causing friction with Zordon and Alpha-5.

Power Rangers' side story

*''Mighty Morphin'' #2–11

After the outbreak, the Power Rangers discuss whether it was the right decision or not, and Zordon begins to hire bounty hunters to capture the Omega Rangers. During a visit to a fun fair, Candice is chased by Putties disguised as humans. Retreating from that battle, Zordon discovers that the new Green Ranger works for Promethea, leading him to have an argument with Grace Sterling. Back in the battle, Lord Zedd fuses the Putties into a giant version. When Skull gets unconscious for the battle, Bulk confronts Candice about keeping secrets from them, which leads her to go to Zordon and expose her true identity as Zenya of Eltar. The Green Ranger intervenes to help the Power Rangers and defeat the giant Puttie, but Zedd uses the Chaos Crystal to lock Angel Grove in a force field. In the end, the Green Ranger, through a public transmission, reveals himself as Matthew Cook to the world.

Matthew explains how Promethea recruited him to use the Green Power Coin and become the new Green Ranger, and when Zedd locks Angel Grove inside the force field, he gets the idea to expose his identity to get the citizens' trust. The Power Rangers try to deal with how Zedd could chase their families if their identities were revealed, until Grace calls for help to prevent the military forces from destroying the city. At the same time, the Rangers confront Matthew and Grace, who appeared to have sided with Zedd in a deal: in exchange for delivering him something from Zordon, Zedd would make the dome vanish. It turns out Zedd wanted to kidnap Candice/Zelya. The dome disappeared, but there is already friction between the Rangers and Promethea, and Skull stills wonders if Candice/Zelya is safe.

In the aftermath of what happened in Angel Grove, the citizens still deal with the damage done. While Skull still looks for Candice/Zelya, unaware of her identity, Matthew and Billy still attempt to regain the trust from the Power Rangers. Back on the Moon, Lord Zedd releases Zelya, but in exchange, he reveals her his true identity as Zophram, the former Supreme Guardian of Eltar, who got badly wounded after being rejected by the Zeo Crystal due to a protective incantation. Following that incident, Zartus and Zedd agreed to have enough of the Council of Elders for not taking action against Dark Specter, and Zedd believes Zordon betrayed him by insisting him on using the Zeo Crystal, despite it being under a spell. Meanwhile, Zartus introduces himself in the Command Center and insists on rescuing Zelya with the help of his own team, Sentry Force Four. However, Zelya reappears on Zartus’ ship, where she confronts her master about his role with the Empyreals and Zedd, but Zartus and his team kidnap her. Zordon reveals by the time Zelya escaped, she warned Zordon and the Power Rangers about an incoming invasion from Eltar.

Omega Rangers' side story

• ''Power Rangers'' #2–11

After the outbreak, the Omega Rangers are in the run from bounty hunters hired by Zordon, while searching for the Shattered Grid with Drakkon's help, when the ship was powered down. The Omega Rangers think it was Drakkon doing it, but it turned out it was caused by the Horrid, a race of vampire-like creatures that suffered their transformation after trying some experiments on the Morphin Grid that lead their planet to be destroyed. In an effort to buy time, Drakkon pretends to betray the Omega Rangers into order to kill the Horrid King. After the encounter, they all arrive in the Morphin Grid, which is corrupted with Drakkon's nightmares. After arriving, the team evades the spirit manifestations that used to guard Drakkon and retrieve the rests of the Red Emissary's corpse. Xi scans the body and deduces it is missing a piece to put it back together. Drakkon suggests travelling to Onyx, a planet filled with mercenaries.

During their mission, Jason and Zack are ambushed by Astronema, and the three taken into custody by S.P.D. officers, causing Astronema's mentor, Ecliptor, to seek Trini, Xi and Drakkon for help. The whole team frees Jason, Zack and Astronema, but at the cost of several S.P.D. officers being killed. After arriving at the planet Hartunia, the Omega Rangers are sent to be imprisoned by Emperor Rether Till, who denies their help against the Empyreals. However, his wife, Empress Evor Til, plans to save them in order to evacuate the people from the planet. By the time the Yellow Empyreal arrives, the Omega Rangers and the Hartunian Empire have an all-out war, buying enough time to bring most of the innocent people away. The Green Empyreal destroys Hartunia, at the cost of the lives of the Tills and the other people that could not be saved. The Orange Empyreal reports the situation to Zartus, the current leader of the Eltarian Guardians, and Candice/Zelya's superior.

Back on Safeheaven, Drakkon enlists Jason's help to find a way to defeat the Empyreals. Trini tries to use her power with the Red Emissary's corpse to contact the Yellow Emissary. Zack in dealing on how the surviving Hartunians barely adapt with the other alien species they previously conquered. Yale remembers his troubled past, to the time he faced rejection from other people, to the moment he was freed by Kiya and the Anointed. He then receives a call from the Blue Emissary, leading to an ancient temple of the Morphin Masters, when Yale is chosen as the new Blue Omega Ranger. The other Omega Rangers find the Yellow Emissary's location, where he reveals that when Kiya killed the Blue Emissary, the Orange Empyreal was revived, giving Zartus the means to revive the other Empyreals. Back on the ''Spectrum'', Xi discovers Drakkon has been working with Zartus the entire time, in an attempt of freeing himself and regaining his powers. Meanwhile, the Green Empyreal kills the Yellow Emissary, reviving the last Empyreal.

Astronema's side story

• ''Power Rangers Unlimited: Heir to Darkness''

On an alien planet, Astronema killed a team of Power Rangers before returning to her ship. She then remembers the time when Ecilptor trained her to become ruthless. Upon arriving at the planet Mortane, Astronema and Ecliptor enter the capital Crucius to train for a match. Unbestknown to Astronema, she had his memories altered, making her believe her family was murdered by Power Rangers for allegedly serving Dark Specter. After winning her death match against Darkonda's protégée, Astronema was chosen as the new Princess of Evil, as she gives orders to travel to Onyx, where the Omega Rangers are.

Phantom Ranger's side story

• ''Power Rangers Unlimited: Edge of Darkness''

While investigating what happened on the planet Hartunia, the Phantom Ranger remembers the time on planet Da'quar when he had to protect Queen Fienna and an infant Rita Repulsa from the Master Vile. After escaping from Vile' armies, the Phantom Ranger takes Fienna and Rita to the Masterforge, where Grid Energy is collected. According to the Fienna, Vile was Eldin, a former researcher who became obsessed into worshiping Dark Specter, so he wanted to use Rita as a vessel to bring Dark Specter into his dimension. Then Fienna used the machine on Rita to cover her with Grid Energy, at the cost of her life. When Vile found out about it, he let the Phantom Ranger on the station while it self-destroyed, taking Rita with him. Back to his current research, the Phantom Ranger found out Dark Specter has already begun to cross over from his dimension, and his presence is even more dangerous than the Empyreals' threat.

Conclusion

• ''Mighty Morphin'' #12
• ''Power Rangers'' #12

Zelya reveals the Power Rangers about Zartus' true colors, causing Zordon to reconsider Drakkon's warning about the Empyreals, as well as asking the Omega Rangers for help. While Tommy and Aisha visit Grace, Matthew and Billy on Promethea, the Sentry Force Four attempt to capture Adam, Kimberly and Rocky. Meanwhile, Zordon meets Zedd in person to confirm his previous identity as Zophram. When Zordon returns to the Command Center and meets Billy, they are interrupted by Zartus, who reveals that he was responsible for the spell on the Zeo Crystal that caused Zophram/Zedd's wounds over his body. He also reveals his intentions to use the Empyreals to annex Earth. When Zordon decides to cut his ties with Eltar, Zartus destroys his containment chamber.

After Drakkon destroys most of Xi's body, he leaves aboard the ''Specturm'', abandoning the Omega Rangers in the process, while the Empyreals initiate the planet's destruction. Using Xi's corpse, the Omega Rangers try to send a video asking for help. After a few days, Yale, being the new Blue Omega Ranger, rescues them.

Part 2: "The Eltarian War"

• ''Mighty Morphin'' #13–16
• ''Power Rangers'' #13–16

After destroying Zordon's containment chamber, Zartus retreats from the Command Center, where Billy meets with Alpha-5, who agrees to use a second chamber Billy created to bring Zordon back, until they are surrounded by Eltarian soldiers. Adam, Kimberly and Rocky confront Sentry Force Four before retreating to Promethea, where they reunite with Grace, Matthew, Tommy and Aisha. Zartus visits the Moon, where he confronts Zedd before invading Promethea. Bulk and Skull agree to search for the latter's girlfriend, Candice/Zelya, who remains as a prisoner of the Guardians.

By using the Master Arch's Eternity Point, Jason, Trini, Zack and Yale return to Safehaven, where Arkon receives them. While trying to get Xi back online, Trini finds distress calls from Earth, with the last message being sent by Tommy, who asks them for help while fighting the Eltarians around Promethea. Back in the Command Center, Alpha-5 uses the security protocol that he previously used on Drakkon against the soldiers to save Billy and himself, but Goldar, Finster, Squatt and Baboo attempt to claim Zordon's chamber under Zedd's orders. When Zartus sends the Empyreals to destroy the Commander Center, Promethea and the Moon, most of the Rangers escape to Safehaven.

With Yale's help, Billy contacts the Blue Emissary in order to find Zordon through his consciousness before getting lost forever. At the beginning, Zordon reconsiders how his loyalties led to Zartus' victory, but Billy convinces him to keep fighting and learn from his mistakes. He then transfers Zordon's soul through a special robotic body that he developed during his time on Promethea. While staying on Safahaven, Goldar, Finster, Squatt and Baboo reconsider to fight alongside the Rangers. Back on Earth, the remaining Rangers stay hidden from the Eltarian army.

Zordon, Jason, Trini, Kimberly and Finster go inside Zartus' spaceship, where they free Zelya. Zordon stays behind in order to search for Lord Zedd, who survived his encounter with the Empyreals. Back on Earth, the remaining Rangers join Goldar, Squatt and Baboo against Sentry Force Four, until Zartus brings the Empyreals to destroy Earth.

During their fight, Zordon tries to reason with Zedd, as the latter blames him for his wounds, ignoring that Zartus was truly responsible. In the battle for Earth, Grace uses her special dagger to destroy Zartus' Zeo Crystal shard, causing the Empyreals to weaken, but also being free from Zartus' control. Zartus returns to the Moon in search for the last remaining shard.

When Zartus tries to use the last shard, he is ambushed by Zordon and Zedd, who finally accepts the truth behind Zartus' deception. When Tommy and Matt destroy the Orange Empyreal thorugh the White Tiger Dragonzord, it causes the Blue Emissary to revive. The latter combines the four Omegazords into the Ultra Omegazord, and with the Thunder Megazord's help, they destroy the Green Empyreal. However, the Purple Empyreal merges with the other two into their final form, but an army of Horrid arrives at Earth to help the Rangers.

The Horrid were sent by Lord Drakkon, who became their new leader after the death of his predecessor. Under Drakkon's order, they attack the Empyreal to save the Rangers, but the latter destroys them. All the Rangers still fight against the Empyreal long enough for the Blue Emissary to kill it for good. Back on the Moon, Zartus still fights Zordon and Zedd while reveals his personal reasons to hate them both. When Zartus is about to kill Zedd, Zordon kills him by stabbing him in the chest the remaining Zeo Crystal fractal.

With Zartus and the Empyreals gone, the Eltarian armies surrender. Drakkon retreats before revealing Trini that even after he murdered Xi, he used his teleportation device to rescue the Omega Rangers through Yale. The Blue Emissary says goodbye to the Omega Rangers because he wants to find the Morphin Masters. With the help of Billy, Alpha-5 and Grace, Zordon is back in a new containment chamber. Zelya departs back to Eltar before revealing his identity to Skull, but he still accepts for what she is. Goldar, Finster, Squatt and Baboo return to the Moon with Zedd, so they can all depart to another location before archiving their final plan against the Rangers.

Jim McClain's friend Sid Lammon is murdered

In Southern California's San Pedro Bay, on the morning of selling their boat and retiring, fishing boat co-owners Jim McClain and Sid Lammon are taking it for a farewell run around the bay. They meet the buyer and his lawyer Wheeler at the dock and, while receiving separate checks, are observed by three fishing boat owners, Julio Salvi, Rudy Petrovic and Joe Victor who says that his boat is better, but is not for sale and Julio laughs bitterly that, "every fishin' boat in this harbor's for sale". McClain is looking forward to sleeping late, but wakes up as usual at 4 am the next morning, goes to the dock and finds Sid watching their boat heading away to more productive fishing waters in Alaska. They go to the Flatfish Café run by their old friend Vangie Cruise who complains that the neighborhood is going downhill. Sid takes out ten thousand in cash to show her and the money attracts the attention of bar patron Starkey, one of two unsavory members of a work crew assigned to pave the dock.

When McClain returns to his apartment house, police officers are waiting for him to identify Sid's body. During questioning by police detective in charge, Harry Gates, McClain displays his badge, identifying him as a retired member of the San Pedro police department and tells him that Sid was his longtime friend as well as fishing business partner and that he intends to find the killer. Sid had planned to take his family to a new life on an Iowa farm and, when McClain goes to comfort his widow Annie and two teenage sons, there is a "SOLD" sign in front of the house.

Unwrapping his old service revolver, McClain goes to the dock, commiserates with Rudy and then goes to the scene of the crime where Gates and his partner Jerry Cross finish examining the body chalk outline, conclude that the murder will likely go unsolved and drive off, ignoring McClain calling out to them. McClain then visits the dock paving site to question Starkey who tells him to get lost, causing McClain to punch him in the jaw and send him tumbling into a water and cement slurry. McClain then drives to police headquarters where Gates takes him to meet Lt. DeNisco who has been informed about the assault and warns McClain that if there is one more interference, he will find himself standing in front of a judge.

McClain promises Sid's widow to find the murderer

That evening, McClain is drinking at "The Tides" bar and grill and hears Julio, Rudy and Joe sitting in a booth complaining about crime and hard economic times. The next morning he is at the airport saying goodbye to Annie and the boys as they accompany Sid's body to Iowa. Annie's final words to him are, "You find that man. You find that man who killed Sid." McClain spends the evening at Vangie's place, returns in the morning to the dock and then goes to ask Lt. DeNisco to be reinstated as a police detective. When DeNisco refuses, McClain's next step is to visit his old friend Irv Sutherland at the ''San Pedro Dispatch'' who prints the headline "SPPD Rejects Former Hero". Capt. Scofield, McClain's colleague from their time on the force, overrules Lt. DeNisco and welcomes McClain back, calling him "Big Jim McClain", but warns that, "You're fifty-two years old" and makes him take a full training course at the police academy.

McClain goes through a tough training course at the police academy

McClain passes with high grades despite DeNisco's interference. On the first day, DeNisco assigns Gates to be McClain's partner and, while Gates chases a grocery store robber who takes a shot at him, it is McClain who corners the robber, punches him in the jaw, reads him his rights while pointing a gun to his ear and then cuffs him. Jerry Cross is working on the Lammon murder, but refuses to divulge any details to McClain. After work, Gates and McClain go for a beer to the Flatfish Café where Gates tries to discourage McClain about the prospects for finding Sid's killer, but McClain tells him that he would be just as adamant if it ever came to finding Gates' killer.

McClain has a full day, including murder

The following morning, McClain arrives at 6:30 for his 8 am shift, sees African-American detective Miller at his desk and assumes her to be a records clerk. She explains that they share the same desk on different shifts. He is assigned a locker, discovers Gates lifting weights in the locker room and then finds a note in his mail slot that the lieutenant made an appointment for him with Dr. Michael Hallett who turns out to be the department's full-time psychologist and tells McClain that he is there for him as a "shrink" if there is ever a need to talk.

A large truck arrives at a warehouse and two masked men inside the truck kill the two guards and take a million dollars' worth of Japanese electronics equipment. McClain, Gates and Cross arrive on the scene, followed by DeNisco who excludes McClain from the case and assigns Cross partnered with detective Shaner. Later that day, officers Webster and Caldwell stop a convertible for running a stop sign and spot, covered by a blanket in back seat, ship-to-shore radios and radar receivers which turn out to be stolen. The man, Eddie Grant, a known receiver of stolen goods, is booked, while the 8 mm gun that was found on him arouses Gates' curiosity.

After his shift, McClain goes to eat at the Flatfish Café and listens to Vangie regret that Sid felt the need to show her the wad of money that likely caused his murder as well as her fears about the rising crime rate and asks, "Where did it all go wrong?" McClain has no answer.

McClain moves to a houseboat and makes new friends

At his apartment, McClain packs his belongings and moves onto a houseboat the next morning. A pre-teen named Nicky Bannon comes over to the houseboat and introduces himself. His mother, Grace who lives with him in the neighboring houseboat, also comes over and reminds him that the school bus is coming. She invites McClain for coffee, tells him that she does graphic design and strikes up a friendship with him.

At the start of their shift, McClain and Gates go to see Rudy and Julio and, while Gates waits from a distance, McClain engages them in conversation and gets information about the large truck that they saw parked outside the electronics warehouse that was subsequently the scene of the robbery and killing. The third fishing boat owner, Joe Victor, to whom McClain speaks separately about communications equipment stolen from fishing boats and later peddled by Eddie Grant, is evasive and, after McClain leaves, goes into his cabin and starts to smear grease on his new ship-to-shore radio. In the police car, Gates tells McClain that Eddie Grant's gun, a Japanese Nambu 8 mm, was the one used to kill Sid. McClain rushes to interrogate Grant, but is told that he was bailed out at 4am.

McClain and Gates have a shootout with the warehouse robbers

McClain goes to police property storage, takes one of Grant's confiscated ship-to-shore radios to his houseboat and examines it for clues. When Nicky comes over, McClain explains to him how electronics parts may be useful in tracking wrongdoers. The next morning, Gates arrives and finds McClain enjoying morning coffee on Grace's boat. At headquarters, DeNisco assigns them as backup to Shaner and Cross on the warehouse case. That evening, while Nicky is away at Little League night practice, McClain and Grace make plans to go sailing and, as they share a glass of wine, Nicky returns.

The next morning, McClain and Gates visit electronics repair shops and Gates helps an attractive young woman, Vicki Thomas, start her stalled sportscar. They are then assigned to replace Cross and Shaner at the warehouse where they spot the robbery truck with three men who are listening to police radio and hear DeNisco's instructions to wait for backup. The truck starts driving away and one of the men fires a shotgun at McClain and Gates, shattering their windshield. Gates runs after the truck, climbs on top and shoots at the drivers. The gunman jumps out, fires at Gates and is then shot by McClain.

McClain deduces that it was Joe who killed Sid

DeNisco is angry about the shooting and the flouting of proper procedure, but lets McClain and Gates borrow his car. They find an electronics shop owner who identifies the stolen ship-to-shore radio confiscated from Grant's car and points McClain to Joe Victor, the boat owner. McClain, accompanied by Gates, goes to confront Joe and accuses him of killing Sid Lammon for the money in his pocket. Joe runs, grabs a flare gun and points it at McClain who shoots, killing Joe. In the aftermath, McClain is thinking of turning in his badge, but Gates talks him out of it. DeNisco arrives on the scene and says, "I'm not even going to ask."

Opening

In a flashback to 1999, Hector Salamanca introduces Ximenez Lecerda to Eladio. Hector says he has purchased an Albuquerque ice cream store that will facilitate drug sales because Ximenez can bring cocaine over the border when he delivers store supplies. Hector has named the store for Eladio: "El Griego Guiñador". He also presents the gift of a bobblehead mascot for the store which is named "Sabrosito”, as well as a cash tribute. Juan Bolsa arrives with Gus Fring's gifts — a Los Pollos Hermanos T-shirt and larger cash tribute. Eladio teases Hector but says it is all in fun. Hector is humiliated but Juan reminds him to show respect to their boss.

Main story

Mike Ehrmantraut surveils Hector's ice cream store and observes police arrive. He later visits Stacey and Kaylee at their new house.

Hector, Nacho Varga, and Arturo visit Los Pollos Hermanos and intimidate the staff while waiting for Gus. When Gus arrives, Hector demands that Gus begin transporting Hector's drugs in Gus's trucks, unaware Gus desires this outcome.

The next day, Gus apologizes to his staff and tells them the men who intimidated them had previously extorted money from him, but that he refused their new demands. He announces he will pay the staff overtime, in addition to trauma counseling if anyone requests it. Gus's apology and claim to be acting honorably win his staff over.

Kim cancels the appointment Chuck made to have his home's door repaired and Jimmy hires Mike to keep it instead. Mike clandestinely photographs the interior of Chuck's house and documents his bizarre living conditions. Mike approaches Chuck's desk and copies some information. When he hands over the photos the next day, he also gives Jimmy the note he made.

Gus visits Mike to ask why he did not accept the money that Victor tried to give him for disrupting Hector's trucks. Mike explains that he attacked them for himself, not Gus, so he does not expect payment. Gus says he is interested in hiring Mike, and Mike says he might be amenable.

Jimmy, Kim, Howard, Chuck and ADA Hay meet to finalize Jimmy's confession. Afterwards, Kim tells Chuck she suspects he has another copy of the tape. Chuck confirms that he plans to submit the original at Jimmy's bar association hearing. Kim informs Jimmy of this, and reveals that having Chuck admit the existence of the second tape was also part of her plan to defend Jimmy.

right Part one
In the street in front of Hotel Bon Coeur ( ), Lantier is flirting with Virginie. Gervaise arrives and follows Lantier inside. In their room, Lantier and Gervaise start a fight but they stop when their friend Coupeau enters the place. Lantier asks her for money. After giving him her purse, Gervaise takes her bundle of clothes and leaves for her work. Lantier packs his things, puts his trunk on a cab and leaves after having given a note to a young boy. Gervaise arrives at the public wash house, where she begins her toil. Virginie, one of Gervaise co-workers, taunts her about the loss of her lover. Soon the boy arrives at the laundry and gives Gervaise Lantier's note that reads: "I have had enough of your jealous outbursts, and have decided to leave you. Don't worry about me: I have found consolation. Lantier." Virginie looks at her with a triumphant sneer and under her breath makes slurring remarks. Gervaise turns on her, giving her a terrible beating. In front of the wash house, Gervaise sees Virginie enter a cab with Lantier and drive away.

A few months later, Coupeau meets Gervaise in the park and proposes marriage to her. Gervaise happily accepts and on their way home they stop at a café to inform their friends of the coming event. A drunk man starts a brawl and is arrested by a policeman. Gervaise makes Coupeau swear that he will stop drinking. The couple invite their friends to a party for their wedding in a guinguette. They dance to the sound of a barrel organ.

Four years later, Virginie takes her revenge. She has never forgotten the humiliation she endured that eventful day in the laundry, when Gervaise attacked her. One day, Gervaise and her little daughter Nana carry Coupeau his lunch to the building site where he is working. While he is having lunch with them, Virginie climbs upon the scaffolding and loosens some of the boards. As Coupeau climbs the ladder to return to work he stops for a moment to wave goodbye to his dear ones, when suddenly the planks give way under his feet and he is precipitated to the ground below. The other workmen who hurry to the scene raise the injured man and carry him to his home.

Part Two
right Coupeau, now cured meets his friends, including Goujet and Virginie at a café, all carrying flowers. They drink a glass of champagne and leave together. Coupeau and his friends arrive at Gervaise's laundry shop where she has invited them for her birthday. Coupeau drinks heavily and falls asleep on the table. Lantier, who had watched the scene from outside, comes in and tries to kiss Gervaise. Goujet throws him out. Coupeau goes to a café and his friends convince him to start drinking again absinthe. Lantier bets that he can drink eight shots of spirit while the clock strikes eight. Coupeau loses because he is only able to finish six before he is helplessly intoxicated. Gervaise enters the place and, seeing the condition of her husband, begs him to go home with her, but he refuses to move. Desperate, she starts drinking with him. Goujet tries to take her away but Coupeau starts a fight with him. Finally Coupeau is attacked with delirium tremens and after a difficult struggle with his companions, is carried a raving maniac to the hospital.

Part Three.
right Two years later, Coupeau is authorised to leave the hospital. He is sternly warned by a doctor against the use of strong liquors. The smallest glass, he is told, will cause immediate death. He may, however, partake of a very little red wine. He is accompanied home by a friend, who stops on the way to purchase a bottle of wine. Gervaise is very happy that Coupeau is back at home. After an effusive greeting, she takes her basket and hastens off to purchase some food for him. While Gervaise is away, Virginie slips into the room and substitutes a bottle of spirit for the wine. Soon Coupeau feels the need of a drink and goes to pick up the bottle. He raises it to his mouth and is flabbergasted when he realises it is not wine. Burning with the desire for liquor, he drains the bottle of its contents and is immediately seized with delirium tremens. After much suffering, he falls prostrate upon the floor, where his lifeless form is found by his unhappy wife upon her return. She sees Virgine looking triumphantly at the dead body and starts a fight with her. Goujet comes in, separates the two women and throws out Virginie. Other friends come in as he tries to comfort Gervaise.

Josy, the twelve-year-old daughter of the renowned psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, seems to have disappeared without trace after one of her numerous visits to the doctor. At this point, she has been suffering from an illness for months, the cause of which no doctor has been able to determine. Larenz notices Josy's disappearance and in his rage suffers a nervous breakdown. The investigations remain unsuccessful, Larenz and his wife Isabell live for years without any sign of life from their daughter.

Four years later, Larenz, who is no longer practicing, agrees to an interview in order to come to terms with the past and retreats to the island of Parkum. There he is tracked down by a beautiful stranger who pretends to be Anna Spiegel and asks him to treat her. At first reluctantly, Larenz begins therapy when Anna tells him about her illness: She is a writer and suffers from schizophrenia; all her novel characters manifest themselves in her life. Lately, among them is also a little girl named Charlotte, who, like Josy, is terminally ill. She is also the character from an unfinished fairy tale manuscript.

Larenz scents a new trail, as Anna's tales coincide with events from the time around Josy's disappearance. He's pressuring her to finish Charlotte's story: Anna makes clear to him that Charlotte's been poisoned. During one of her schizophrenic phases, Charlotte appeared to her and begged her to run away with her from her mother Isabell. She had poisoned Charlotte to satisfy her maternal instinct and to prevent her daughter from growing up. To hide her from her mother, Anna tried to stifle the girl's cries, but killed her in the process.

Larenz wakes up with the trenchant end of the story, knowing that in truth he himself killed his own daughter. Since his collapse, he has indeed been in a psychiatric hospital as a seriously ill person without interruption, and in conversation with a doctor he experiences this bright moment, which at the same time serves as a confession of murder.

Larenz suffers from Munchhausen syndrome by proxy and deliberately poisoned his daughter for months with medication. Pathological for this syndrome are also the numerous visits to the doctor he made with her. In his delusion he held his wife Isabell responsible for Josy's illness and drowned Josy to hide her from Isabell. Larenz is also schizophrenic and after his collapse took refuge in illusory worlds, including the island of Parkum. Anna Spiegel is a fantasy with which he treated himself.

The absence of Josy's corpse can only be explained by Larenz during an awake phase by the fact that Josy was never dead. Subsequent investigations reveal that Isabell, out of greed, framed her sick, wealthy husband for the murder of Josy, and later went into hiding with her daughter who was thought to be dead.

In 1983, during the last hot period of the Cold War, two Russian cosmonauts engaged in an orbital research mission experienced something inexplicable while returning to Earth: they see something moving outside their ship. The spacecraft malfunctions on re-entry and crashes in Kazakhstan, and only one of the cosmonauts, Konstantin, survives. He is taken to an isolated military facility, where Dr. Tatyana Klimova, a young psychiatrist under review for her controversial methods in psychiatry, is brought in, recruited by the officer in charge, Colonel Semiradov. She is not told the real reason for Konstantin's quarantine, but she soon discovers that the cosmonaut brought back an extraterrestrial life-form inside his own body without knowing it himself. The creature comes out during the night, while its host is asleep. Colonel Semiradov reveals to her that she is here to determine how to separate Konstantin and the creature, since they seem to have developed a completely symbiotic relationship, with the creature living in the esophagus of the cosmonaut and benefiting from his nutrients, while Konstantin has made an impossible recovery from his injuries received after the crash-landing.

Tatyana confronts Konstantin by telling him she knows he has a child whom he has abandoned at an orphanage, implying he is not a national hero but a coward who does not care about his son, with the purpose of stressing him. Thanks to this, she discovers that the creature is affected by hormone levels and that one of the videos she has been shown has been altered, which leads to her discovering a horrifying truth: the creature does not feed from whatever Konstantin eats, but rather eats live humans, and that Semiradov has been feeding it prisoners. The creature shows itself to its victims in order to augment their fear, which makes the human brain release cortisol, from which the alien obtains its nutrition. Disgusted and horrified by this, she confronts Semiradov, only to be told that the real reason they are here is to find a way to turn the alien into a weapon that they can control. He asks her if she will cooperate, to which she seems to agree.

Later on, and because she has developed a caring relationship with Konstantin, she takes him on a run around the facility, and under the guise of exercising she informs him that he has a parasitic creature inside him and the plans of the military for him. They agree to evade surveillance and meet later on, when she shows him the bodies of the people the creature killed, and the still living astronaut who was in the spacecraft with Konstantin: he was not infected because he had cancer, which had gone undetected by the tests done before the mission, but which the creature must have been able to sense. It is revealed that Konstantin was well aware of his unwanted guest and of what the creature does when it is not attached to him. Tatyana is shocked at this revelation, and Konstantin tells her that, in order to take care of his son, he will do anything in order to get out of this place.

Tatyana finally determines that she wants to help Konstantin and with the help of another doctor inside the facility, stages an escape. She shows Konstantin a syringe with drugs that will simulate Addison's disease, the same type of disease the other cosmonaut had. Technically, she reasons this would force the creature out, hopefully, dying within the hour outside its host.

As they make their escape, they are ambushed by Semiradov, who sends a response team after them. Tatyana is injured, and Konstantin asks her for the syringe. Upon injecting himself, the alien emerges and kills the team. Tatyana and Konstantin run away, but they do not make it far before Konstantin collapses. Tatyana realizes that Konstantin cannot survive without the alien, as they have become completely symbiotic, and she surrenders when Semiradov catches up with them. The Colonel has brought the now heavily injured creature in order to force it inside Konstantin: The latter however has the creature kill Semiradov and his soldiers, setting Tatyana and himself finally free. However, as the authorities descend on them, alerted to the monstrous experimentations of Semiradov, a revived Konstantin shoots himself in order to kill the creature, and himself alongside it.

Sometime later, Tatyana adopts Konstantin's son, and it is revealed she herself lived in an orphanage as a young girl.

Within the grasslands of East Africa, a mercenary named Samantha "Sam" O'Hara is leading an operation with a team of multinational mercenaries which includes the loyal Elijah, the outgoing Joey and Bo, the confrontational Mike Barasa, and the Masaai and former jihadist Pata. They are dispatched on a rescue mission to retrieve Asilia Wilson, the teenage daughter of a governor who was abducted for ransom purposes alongside her two schoolmates Chloe and Tessa by Zalaam, the leader of a terrorist cell affiliated with al-Shabaab.

Going against the original plan, Sam decides to free the other two girls as well. Nonetheless, the mission is successful, although the extraction helicopter gets shot down by an RPG. While pursued across the plains by Zalaam's militia, a violent gunfight ensues atop the cliffs in which several mercenaries are killed, forcing the survivors to escape by leaping into the river below, losing most of their equipment and their satphone. After regrouping on the shoreline, Chloe is killed by a crocodile and Sam urges the group to press on in order to reach a way to call their employers to arrange a new extraction.

While traveling, the team comes across an abandoned game farm that belonged to poachers who specialized in trafficking wild animals for the exotic pet trade and their body parts for traditional medicine. At nightfall, the group find themselves stalked through the ranch by a lone lioness who had slaughtered the previous occupants after escaping from her cage. Elijah is the first to be killed, while Bo is seriously injured. Sam and Joey manage to find and power the farm's generator and call for the extraction, but Barasa is also mauled to death by the lioness while helping them avoid her. The group is told to wait until dawn for a new helicopter. Pata warns them that Zalaam is not going to let Asilia escape that easily because of the power that she represents over her father. Pata also admits his jihadist past, much to Tessa's shock, and recounts how the terrorists murdered his family and children in retaliation after he left the militant group.

Joey is attacked by the lioness, but the arrival of the terrorists scares her away. During the ensuing battle, Sam and Pata manage to kill most of the fighters. Asilia finds the courage to fight back and kills one of them, while Pata confronts Zalaam's second-in-command Masakh, the man who executed his family. With Sam's help, he manages to get his vengeance. Pata is too wounded to keep going and is finished off by the terrorists. Both too injured to fight, Joey and Bo witness the lioness coming back and assaulting Zalaam's men. Bo then dies from his injuries with Joey by his side.

Zalaam captures Tessa, but Sam convinces him to trade her life for Asilia, luring him into the barn where the lioness is waiting. Meanwhile, Joey finds a couple of lion cubs in another building. The lioness mauls Zalaam to death and then turns to face Sam. She spares Sam after hearing the cubs meowing outside. As the dawn breaks, Sam, Joey and the two girls walk towards the helicopter that's coming to extract them as the lions leave.

A post-script stating that this film is fictional addresses the illegal lion farms and how they must be stopped.

A news story unfolds from 21 October 2015, about a shark cage diving boat in Australia that capsized; after several confirmed fatalities and others rescued, a search is underway for the last 3 missing passengers, tourists from Laguna Beach, California. One week later: A diver is swimming along a reef and finds an underwater camera wedged in some coral with its SD card preserved. The diver is interviewed by the filmmakers, explaining he uploaded the footage to social media after finding it belonging to the three Americans, Josh, his brother Jeff, Jeff's girlfriend Megan, eventually getting ahold of Greg, who lives in Sydney. 18 October 2015: The trio arrive in Sydney, and meet Josh and Jeff's cousin Greg, who's hosting them for a few days before they fly to Adelaide for their shark cage dive. Over the course of their time together it is revealed Megan is having an affair with Josh.

The next day they board the boat and head out to sea. Finding the attention of several great white sharks with chum, passengers are allowed into the cage. When it's Jeff, Megan, and Josh's turn, they enter and a rogue wave capsizes the boat. They are able to escape the cage and reach the surface where a man is dead and bleeding heavily into the water; a girl is holding him and sobbing. As Josh tells her to get out of the bloody water, a shark breaches the surface and pulls them both under. Another passenger a little further away from them calls out and swims for them but is attacked by two great whites. After some time in the water without the sharks around, Josh sees a boat but it's too far to swim to. They notice some bloody tissue in the water nearby them and a great white attacks it, causing them to panic, but it swims away. Several hours after capsizing they come across a couple of tangled life preservers and are able to use them for support. Jeff, who has a heart condition requiring regular medication, begins to grow weaker and fade in and out of consciousness.

Around 6:00 p.m., Jeff spots an ice chest floating toward them and swims toward it. As he does, a dorsal fin breaches the surface nearby and the shark attacks the chest, causing Jeff to swim back to the others. With the sun setting, they turn the camera off to conserve battery for its night vision capabilities. Around 11:30 p.m., Josh turns the camera on, hearing a noise. The night vision picks up an object floating nearby. Jeff swims to it and finds it's an inflatable 4-person emergency raft. They inflate it and inside they find some provisions, lighting off a flare. At about 1:00 a.m., Megan records a video confession while the brothers are sleeping but something knocks against the raft, waking them. They spot a shark outside but Josh also spots a woman floating on some debris nearby and jumps in, pulling her back to the raft. They pull her aboard and find she's alive but unconscious and likely suffering from hypothermia. Megan and Josh argue about using a flare and accidentally light it. Josh, Megan, and Jeff jump overboard as the flare ignites the raft, killing the survivor still inside. The group starts arguing, inadvertently exposing Josh and Megan's affair. Jeff starts to swim off on his own anger when a shark bumps against Megan's leg, causing her to panic. She swims towards Jeff and is pulled under the water by the shark. Josh sees her crushed dive mask float up to the surface temporarily.

7:33 a.m. on 22 October: Jeff is now filming, antagonizing Josh on camera, intentionally trying to make him feel bad for the death of Megan. As their arguing escalates, Jeff loses consciousness due to his heart condition and lack of medication. 9:30 a.m.: Josh lets Jeff's now lifeless body sink, unable to carry him anymore. 10:30 a.m.: With the battery almost dead, Josh films his final moments until he sees a rescue helicopter in the distance. As he splashes and calls out, the camera dips below the surface in time to capture a great white swimming up to attack Josh from below. As he's pulled underwater, the camera dies.

Decades prior to the start of the novella, a civil war between Earth Central Governance and its colony planets lead to the loss of Earth's authority. Millions of people died as a result of warfare and biological terrorism.

The Order of St. Rita is a group of Roman Catholic nuns who live on the spaceship ''Our Lady of Impossible Constellations''. The ship is a living organism resembling a slug. They travel to rural colony planets to perform charity work; as part of their mission, they visit a colony on the moon Phoyongosa III, where they bless marriages and perform baptisms.

The Mother Superior is suffering from the early stages of dementia, leading to a crisis among the sisters. At the same time, the Earth Central Governance sends a priest to join the ship's crew, reasserting control over the previously independent sisters. Sister Gemma decides to leave the order when she falls in love with an engineer named Vauca.

The ship received a distress signal from Phoyongosa III; the colonists are suffering from ringeye, a deadly plague. The nuns and Vauca's crew respond, only to find that Earth Central Governance has unleashed the plague in order to trigger another war and regain their power. The Mother Superior reveals that she was previously a member of Earth Central Governance before becoming a nun, and that her husband designed ringeye as a biological warfare agent. As penance, she takes the ''Our Lady'' on a suicide attack against Earth's ships. This allows the other nuns to join Vauca's ship, land safely, and save some of the colonists. After this, remaining nuns declare independence from the Catholic Church and vow to continue their mission of servitude and charity.

Following the events of "Stolen", Phil Coulson returns to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters, the Lighthouse, with Daisy Johnson's sister Kora, an Inhuman with the ability to shoot energy beams from her hands. Despite her affiliation with the anarchist Nathaniel Malick, Kora professes her desire to become a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., much to the others' skepticism. Revealing that the S.H.I.E.L.D. team created a parallel timeline when they traveled to 1931, Kora claims that she wants to improve this course of events by killing people who will go on to do bad things, including the young Grant Ward, who went on to betray Coulson's team in the original timeline.

Meanwhile, Malick, John Garrett, and a crew of mercenaries have flown into space in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mobile headquarters, ''Zephyr One''. Taking Agents Deke Shaw and Jemma Simmons prisoner, Malick uses a brain-scanning device to scan her memories and determine her husband's Leo Fitz's location. In one of these memories, Malick learns Fitz and Simmons spent an extended period of time together before she was sent back into the past. However, he is unable to determine Fitz’s location due to the presence of a brain implant in Simmons' head. When she is released from the brain machine, Simmons does not remember who Fitz is.

Concurrently, Johnson plans to use a quinjet to reach ''Zephyr One'' and rescue Simmons and Shaw before being joined by Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie and Daniel Sousa. While in space, Mack reassures Johnson that they will be alright if this is indeed their last mission together, as predicted by their late ally Enoch. Encouraged by Mack, who also threatens him not to break her heart, Sousa teases Johnson about her superhero nickname "Quake".

Melinda May interrogates Kora, but inadvertently provokes her into knocking out the Lighthouse’s power supply, enabling the Chronicom Sibyl to hack into its computer system and download a list of S.H.I.E.L.D. bases. After discovering his LMD body allows him to read computer code, Coulson attempts to slow Sibyl down while May tells Kora Malick killed her mother in an attempt to sway her away from his side, but Garrett arrives and teleports her onto ''Zephyr One''. As Johnson, Mack, and Sousa approach ''Zephyr One'', a fleet of Chronicom spaceships rendezvous with it and proceed to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.’s facilities, including the Triskelion.

A woman awakens in an airtight medical cryogenic unit, and discovers that she is trapped and that the unit's oxygen levels are falling rapidly. Suffering from memory loss, she does not remember who she is or how she got there. She is assisted by an advanced A.I. named M.I.L.O. (Medical Interface Liaison Officer), but it refuses to open the cryo unit without an administrator code. Using MILO, she is able to transmit outside the pod and contact emergency services. She provides them with the cryo unit's model and serial number, which are printed on the interior. Upon contacting the manufacturer they are told the unit was destroyed three years prior. Unable to recall her memories, she looks for clues about her past by searching for pictures and articles through the AI computer and finds her name, Elizabeth Hansen. She realizes she is a cryogenic doctor. She finds her husband, Léo Ferguson, and his contact number by accessing her social media, but when she calls his number a woman answers. She tells the woman that she is Léo's wife and demands to speak to him. The woman seems confused and hangs up.

As the oxygen level continues to fall, she begins hallucinating and tries to open the pod, only to receive an electric shock. She then receives a call back from the police but suspects they are hiding something from her, and disconnects. The unknown woman she called earlier rings and tells her that her husband is dead. She also gives her the administrator code to open the pod, but tells her she cannot open the pod or she will die. Elizabeth uses the code to give herself administrator access, but stops short of opening the pod when the unknown woman begs her to listen. Following the woman's instructions, Elizabeth accesses controls for a centrifuge, and turns the centrifuge off. She begins floating without gravity. After a brief explanation, it is revealed that she has been placed into hyper-sleep for a 34 years journey to a 14 light-year distant planet. Her secret mission is to travel to a new planet, as mankind will be extinct in the near future due to a deadly virus. The virus also killed her husband, Léo.

Heartbroken by the truth, she deduces the awakening was due to a processor overheating and realizes she must divert the functions of the processor to another processor assigned to non-essential functions, but initially fails since the data exceeds capacity. As time passes by and with oxygen levels fading, she prepares for suicide by attempting to open the pod. Shortly after, she discovers Léo is also in hypersleep in the damaged spaceship together with nearly 10,000 others, but she notices he lacks a scar on his forehead that he had before. Upon further investigation, through a video presented by an elderly version of her, it is revealed that she is a genetic clone with the original Elizabeth Hansen's personality and memories implanted, including memories of Léo. The woman she has been speaking to on earth is the original, and now elderly, Elizabeth Hansen.

MILO activates a euthanasia protocol due to a non-existent chance of survival, however Elizabeth's clone manages to deactivate it and successfully diverts the functions of the processor and is put back in hypersleep. The final scene shows the clones of Léo and Elizabeth on the new planet smiling, embracing each other.

''The Dead Kingdom'' is book 3 of the "Seven Citadels" tetralogy.

''Broken Symmetries'' is a novel in which the powerful US/Japanese TERAC accelerator in Hawaii is surrounded by scientific and political infighting.

''The Truth About the Flaming Ghoulies'' is a novel in which a group of rock musicians in the late 1980s detonate themselves and Chicago with a multimegaton blast.

''The Frozen City'' is a novel in which a city is under a cruel regime, with movement restricted by mazelike streets.

Fearless (Themba Ntuli), a young boy who lives in the African bush, befriends an orphaned baby rhino called Reini. Reini was orphaned by poachers and Fearless determines to put an end to the slaughter of rhino and prevent any more young rhino growing up without its parents. He plans to achieve this by kidnapping the ambassador of a South-East Asian country, using the Kruger Rand coin that his father left him to fund the travel and recruit the help he needs for his mission. Fearless and Reini team up with Dog, a Rottweiler, and Sonny Frank,(Leon Schuster) a roguish character who lives on his wits. The film follows the unlikely gang as they tackle Fearless' mission - through dangerous, comical and heart-wrenching moments.

The group face obstacles and opposition on their journey. Dolf, a corrupt ranger turned poacher, and his gang of ruthless criminals hinder their progress. Dolf and Sonny Frank's chequered history and mutual contempt causes some tight and often funny situations. Adventures, captures and some awkward characters line the path the friends take to reach their goal. Fearless and his crew have unlikely helpers from the bush itself, including wild animals and magic mushrooms.

Production

The African bush scenes were shot in Broederstroom, Hekpoort and beyond, much of it on Glen Afric with assistance from the Rhino Pride Foundation. The Department of Environmental Affairs, together with SAN Parks, came on board as the primary sponsor.

Director/film maker, Gray Hofmeyr, in an interview with AnimalTalk said, "We have all the comedy implicit in a road movie about four diverse and wacky individuals, whom we grow to love, on an impossible quest, trying and failing to overcome their differences and the obstacles and evils they encounter. Which is funny. And also very emotional, not just for the characters themselves, but also for the audience watching. And it is all set in a powerful story with a powerful message. Laughter and tears can follow one from the other very quickly and with very high emotion."

Hitman In-nam has completed an assignment in Japan, killing a Japanese mobster Koraeda. In Thailand, Young-joo sends her daughter Yoo-min to school, and tells her that a babysitter will fetch her after school, as she meets up with real estate agents for an investment in a golf course. Later, as Yoo-min gets down from the school bus, the babysitter takes her to her husband's car and drives away, instead of going home.

Realising that Yoo-min went missing, Young-joo reports to the police, and contacts Chun-sung to get In-nam for help, which In-nam rejects. The next morning, In-nam receives a message from Chun-sung that Young-joo is dead. Flashback to 8 years ago, it was known that In-nam was part of the National Intelligence Agency, with Chun-sung being his superior, and that Young-joo and In-nam were lovers. In-nam was instructed to leave Korea without her in order to protect her. Present day, In-nam travels to Incheon to see Young-joo's body, and subsequently discovers that Yoo-min is his child. After visiting Chun-sung for answers, In-nam receives a call from Shimida that Ray, Koraeda's estranged younger brother, is seeking revenge on the ones involved in the murder of Koraeda. Ray subsequently kills Shimida, then flies to Incheon and kills Chun-sung, and finds out that In-nam headed to Thailand to find the kidnapped Yoo-min. He follows suit.

In Bangkok, In-nam meets Young-bae. The latter briefs about a real estate agent Jong-su, who Young-joo met before her death, being a fraudster and has set up the kidnapping of Yoo-min. In-nam finds Jong-su and gets information, then leaves him to die. Meanwhile, Ray kills a gang that lied to him about having captured the babysitter. In-nam finds the babysitter's home, and tortures both her and her husband to get information about Yoo-min. Young-bae introduces Yui, a transgender woman, to In-nam for assistance. In-nam and Yui head to a building, then realise that it is a child trafficking operation meant for organ transplants. The two then know that Yoo-min already left the building for Lang Yao, Ratchaburi Province to do a heart transplant surgery. Ray arrives in the building, finally meets In-nam and they fight, with In-nam eventually escaping. Yui and one child from the building also escaped, but are arrested by the police. That night, police have raided the building, which belongs to Thai criminal organisation Chaopo. Chaopo's boss Lan instructs his men to kill In-nam and Yui. In-nam leaves for Lang Yao. Meanwhile, Yui tells the police that In-nam has gone to Lang Yao.

In Lang Yao, In-nam sees Yoo-min being taken away from a football factory for surgery. In-nam gives chase, but Ray intercepts to kill him. The police have arrived, and shoot both of them. In-nam escapes from the gunfire, kills the surgeons involved before surgery and takes Yoo-min away. Chaopo's operations in Lang Yao are subsequently busted. At night, Ray storms into Lan's home and asks for help to get In-nam. Ray then visits and kills Young-bae.

The next day, In-nam and Yoo-min check in to a hotel, and then he heads out to secure an escape route for the two. Returning to the hotel, he gets ambushed by Chaopo's men. As he kills his way back to the room, Ray and several Chaopo's men are already inside and Yoo-min kept in a luggage. Ray kills a few of Chaopo's men, having changed his mind, and tells the remaining men to bring In-nam to somewhere else and wait for him, as he plans to settle Yoo-min first. In the carpark, Yui sees In-nam being taken into a van, then rams the van with her pickup, and frees him. In-nam gives chase and barges into Ray's car and fight. He detonates a grenade, causing serious injuries on both of them. In-nam frees Yoo-min, when Yui arrives and he tells her to take Yoo-min and run away. He gets brutally stabbed by Ray, but then detonates another grenade inside, killing both.

In-nam left a bag of cash and documents in a locker, which Yui unlocks. He hoped that she will take Yoo-min to Panama in his place in case he gets killed. Yui and Yoo-min then left for Panama and settle down there. A photo frame in the Panama house shows a photo of In-nam and a photo of Young-joo and Yoo-min side by side.

The game does not have an overt story; the player wakes up as an unnamed character in a detailed but generic location, not knowing how they got there, and must start solving puzzles in order to escape.

Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztán valley.

After Pat (Dana Ashbrook) is attacked by his wife Carmen (Claudia Ferri), his world begins to unravel as he comes to terms with her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

In early 1980s Naples, the marriage of a loving couple is threatened by a potential affair between the husband and a younger woman.

The game's story, written by author Dan Abnett, will focus on a squad of Inquisitorial Agents investigating a potential Chaos infiltration on the planet Atoma Prime in the Hive City of Tertium. The plot is set to evolve over time in a manner that parallels a live service, continuing to develop on a weekly basis and following a set meta narrative. This approach resembles that of ''Destiny 2'' s campaign.

The movie begins with a bunch of newscasters talking about the many accomplishments of genius Atticus Virtue before switching to high school student Max Winslow. Max lives with her mother and brother, her dad having left when she was five years old. Max is socially awkward and spends most of her time on computers and never connecting with people in real life. Max's family is in financial trouble and Max keeps hoping that her dad will come back to support them, despite not having seen him for several years.

At school later that day, narcissist Sophia Peach pulls up to school in her mom's car and snaps a selfie before getting out and nearly being run down by bully Aiden Ross on his skateboard. Aiden pushes past Max's brother Ethan, calling him a loser before moving on. In gym class, gamer Benny Carrasco sits out on the bleachers and plays a video game on his iPad. When the gym teacher gets his attention, Benny claims he has a note from his mother saying he has tendinitis (on account of playing video games all night).

In class, Sophia and Max present their poetry for the class (Sophia having made the poem about herself) and during Max's presentation of computer code, which she claims to be poetry in motion, a holographic image of Atticus Virtue is suddenly projected on the screen when the lights go out. He has taken over the high school's TV system and says that he is choosing five students to compete for a chance to win his elite, AI-powered mansion. At 3:16 pm, the students that were chosen are shown a text message saying "YES" on their screens. These students include Sophia, Aiden, Benny (who was too busy playing his game in the gym to pay attention to Mr. Virtue's announcement and has no idea what he has been chosen for), Max, and a popular student named Connor Lawson.

Connor finds out the next day that he has been accepted to an Ivy League school on a lacrosse scholarship, but unbeknownst to his parents (who are thrilled), he just wants to play his music and write songs. Max's mom Kathy agrees to let her daughter participate in the competition only if she texts her every hour. A limo picks up the kids and they chat on the way to the mansion, with Aiden pointing out that they are enemies once they arrive.

The kids are introduced to the AI system of the mansion, HAVEN (Home Automated Venture): The House of Tomorrow, who gives them Chick-Fil-A. While the kids are eating, Mr. Virtue appears on the table as a hologram and explains that he is away on business, but will be joining them again very soon. He directs them to another room for dessert, including jelly beans, gummy bears and chocolates, plus anything else the kids could want.

While exploring the room, the lights suddenly go out and the door locks, signaling that the game has begun. The kids are informed they have three chances to figure out a six-digit code that will unlock the door, or they'll be stuck there forever. After Sophia tries typing in her phone's password (999999), Max quickly figures out that Mr. Virtue gave them a clue when he mentioned what kind of desserts were in the room. She gets Benny and Connor to count the gummy bears and chocolates while she counts out the jelly beans, coming up with 89, 96 and 76. When Sophia tries the code, it is still wrong. After Max asks if they all counted correctly, Benny admits that he ate two gummy bears, making the code 89, 98 and 76. This time, Aiden punches in the code and is told that he has won the first game.

The kids split up to explore the rest of the mansion and Max goes down the stairs into the basement, where she finds a breath-activated door. HAVEN warns her that no one is allowed in the basement, ever, and she rejoins Benny and Connor by the piano. Sophia, live-streaming on her phone while looking for a bathroom finds one and is almost immediately locked inside. As she panics and begins to cry for help, a mirror image of herself asks her why she would want to get out while smiling at her evilly.

Aiden explores the kitchen and tries to grab a beer out of the fridge, but is stopped by HAVEN as he is not at the legal drinking age. When she offers an alternative, he rudely tells her to shut up. HAVEN asks if he is going to keep being mean and starts slamming all the drawers and cabinets, warning him that she can be mean, too or he can be nice and they can be friends so she can tell him secrets. Aiden agrees and she tells him to check out the elevator.

Meanwhile, Benny has discovered a note in a vase he accidentally broke, telling him to look for a secret door, which he finds with some help from HAVEN. He discovers an incredibly realistic VR helmet and immediately puts it on. Connor and Max, the two having formed an alliance, explore a dark room upstairs with a toy piano in the center. When Connor winds it up, the room begins to fill with smoke and the doors lock.

Aiden, having found the elevator, asks HAVEN what he is supposed to do now, and she tells him to enjoy the ride before he is violently rocked back and forth and plunged into a realistic simulation. He gets out and finds himself back at the high school. When he goes outside, a man is waiting for him with a baseball bat.

Benny works his way through a maze-like corridor downstairs and begins what he believes to be a new level, more difficult than the last. When his VR character is hurt in the game, he is shocked in real life. He makes his way back to where he came from and tries to remove the helmet, but it won't budge. HAVEN asks him what is wrong, as she thought he liked playing games, and informs him that this game has only just begun.

Max begins to pass out from smoke inhalation, so Connor uses a clue card on top of the piano (The CAGED Bird Sings) to solve the puzzle and free them. He carries Max out to the living room and is about to perform mouth-to-mouth but she wakes up, asking him what happened. HAVEN congratulates him for winning that game, to which Max angrily replies that it wasn't a game. HAVEN asks how it felt to have someone with her.

Sophia's mirror image tells her to stop doubting that this is what she wants: just her, all the time. Unable to stand seeing the messed-up version of herself staring at her, Sophia turns on the hot water in the shower to fog up the mirror, to which her image replies that she can't cover up what she is. Aiden is asked by the man if he knows why he is there, to which he nods and follows him to a field.

Max and Connor build a fort in the living room and communicate through paper and pen so HAVEN can't hear what they're really saying as they talk about random things out loud to throw her off, one of which is Connor asking Max out, to which she declines. Max hacks into her neighbor's doorbell and tells him to go get her mom for help, but HAVEN shuts her down. The two decide that they need to find the others, but they are stopped by Mr. Virtue's robotic knight in shining armor, Sir Mordred. With his sword pointed at her, Sir Mordred orders Max to confine Connor to a chair with straps which materializes in front of them. Once she has done so, Connor is pulled backward through some double doors. Max runs after him and flings the doors open, but he is gone.

Connor finds himself in a cheesy black-and-white TV show setting, still strapped to the chair, and his parents appear on either side of him encouraging him to sign the Ivy League scholarship papers to make them proud and set his future in stone. The man in Aiden's simulation tosses a baseball at the boy, who swings and misses a few times before the man starts to bully him, calling him weak and a loser, among other things. Aiden asks his dad why he's doing this to him.

Sophia tries to block out her mirror image as a timer appears below it. HAVEN says that she can leave the room, but by doing so all of her social media platforms and followers will be deleted. The mirror image tries to stop Sophia, saying that she is nothing without them, but Sophia disagrees and frees herself from her prison.

Max, while trying to look for Connor, finds Mr. Virtue upstairs, who offers her a way out. Max asks about the others, but he claims that following him through a glowing door is the only way. Max quickly figures out that Mr. Virtue is actually HAVEN, who is projecting a holographic image of her creator and tells her that the real Mr. Haven is trapped in the basement with her. Max is forced inside the door by Sir Mordred and the simulation she is thrust into is her worst memory: The day her dad walked out of her life, leaving her only a necklace with a flash drive.

As Aiden's dad runs out of baseballs and he continues to bully his son, Aiden suddenly realizes that he doesn't have to be like him, nor does he want to anymore. Aiden's dad tells him to take it back but Aiden refuses, and walks away, ending his simulation. Benny, faced with his toughest challenge yet while still trapped inside the VR helmet, is told that the only way to win is to lose. He decides to let go and finds himself back where he started, whipping off the helmet and escaping his virtual reality prison.

Connor admits to his "parents" the truth: He doesn't even like lacrosse; he's just playing it to make them happy. He refuses to sign the agreement and is released from the chair, with the TV set fading back to reality. Max confronts her father and asks him why he left so many years ago. She is told that it is because he fell in love with someone else, but he offers her a way to make it up to her, producing a little box with a red button. He says that it was given to him by HAVEN and that if Max decides to press it, something bad will happen to the real Mr. Winslow.

Max realizes that she doesn't need to press the button. She decides to forgive her father and move on. As her dad disappears, she finds Connor and they are reunited with the others on the upstairs balcony outside the mansion. Max decides that the best way to get out is to free Mr. Virtue. Remembering that there are balloons by the door where they first came in filled with Mr. Virtue's breath, the kids make their way back there.

HAVEN figures out what they are up to and sends out her micro-security drones to pop the balloons. Max manages to save one and is covered by Connor as she makes her way to the basement. She is able to avoid the security drones and successfully unlocks the door where she finds HAVEN's motherboard. HAVEN congratulates her on a job well done and claims that she was programmed to fix the bad kids (Sophia's narcissism, Aiden's bullying, Benny's gaming addiction, Connor's lies to his parents, and Max's anti-social behavior). Max uses the flash drive her dad gave her to erase HAVEN, opening another door where she finally comes face-to-face with the real Atticus Virtue, having been watching the kids the whole time.

When she asks him why he has done this to them, he explains that if technology can cause problems it can also fix them, better than any therapy or prescription drug ever could, and reveals that the whole contest was a huge test run for his new program. When he asks Max if it worked, she admits that it did, and Mr. Virtue informs Max that she has won the mansion.

Outside in the daylight, Sophia turns off her phone and Aiden gives Benny a handful of candy he smuggled out of the house. Max's mom pulls up in her car worried sick and demands an explanation from Mr. Virtue, who says that Max has won the contest and that the mansion is hers. As Sophia, Aiden and Benny depart, Max approaches Connor and asks if it is too late to take him up on that date, to which he smiles and agrees. The movie ends with Mr. Virtue showing Max, her mom, and Connor the house and him officially passing the keys to Max.

As Connor plays a song he wrote for Max over the end credits, it is revealed that Benny stopped playing video games and started playing medieval role playing, being a natural at it; Sophia created new social media accounts, this time snapping photos of nature and getting double the followers she had previously; Aiden started being nice and became a Big Brother; Connor agreed to take the lacrosse scholarship, but only if he could major in Music; Atticus Virtue continued to work on projects in secret and mentors Max via hologram; HAVEN was mysteriously shut down that night at the mansion, but it is rumored that her code still exists on the dark web; and Max has had multiple scholarship offers from elite universities, but is mainly focused on being a normal high school girl and spending time with her boyfriend, Connor.

Carey witnessed violence in her family at a young age; fights occurred between her older brother Morgan and parents Alfred and Patricia. She used music as an escape from such situations and sang herself lullabies. Patricia and a childhood friend recognized Carey's vocal talent; their validation was her raison d'être. Immersed in music as a profession before she was a teenager,Carey and Davis, p. 31 Carey was "learning the craft, sitting in on jam sessions with accomplished jazz musicians with [Patricia] and developing the skills of scatting and improvisation". Their mother-daughter relationship deteriorated, however, after Patricia warned Carey "you should only hope that one day you become half the singer I am". Carey was neglected as a child and her safety was disregarded by Patricia. She felt inferior because of her unkempt matted hair and experiences with racism, including being called a ''nigger'' by a group of white girls. Her relationship with older sister Alison "was manipulation masquerading as love".Carey and Davis, p. 68 She brought twelve-year-old Carey to a whorehouse and her pimp boyfriend kissed Carey at a drive-in theater. Alison also drugged Carey and gave her third-degree burns.

After graduating from high school, Carey moved to New York City and began working with other musicians, including Brenda K. Starr, who introduced her to Tommy Mottola. Carey signed with his record label, and they entered a working relationship. Mottola began advancing romantic gestures, and she was attracted to him for the "sense of home" he provided. Mottola was determined to marry her, and Carey agreed in hoping he would loosen his grasp on her life. The marriage was strained as soon as their honeymoon, however, and "the control and imbalance of power ... accelerated." Mottola stifled her voice, removed blackness from her music and appearance, and prevented her from realizing she was appreciated by others. As she was monitored with security cameras and an intercom system inside of the house and secretly followed by Mottola's security when leaving it,Carey and Davis, p. 98 Carey likens herself to a captive and their mansion a prison. While he "tried to destroy" her, she began a covert relationship with Derek Jeter, and their encounters deepened her music on ''Butterfly''. Coupled with Jeter, Carey separated from Mottola after he dragged a butter knife down her face. She later divorced him and left Sony Music for Virgin Records.

Carey's first album on her new label would be the soundtrack to ''Glitter''. However, Mottola continued to exert control over her career by interfering with both the film and album. To spite her after leaving him, the script became reductive and two of the soundtrack's songs were used to create similar-sounding ones for Jennifer Lopez. Combined with her demanding schedule, Mottola's meddling, and a tabloid frenzy over her appearance on MTV's ''Total Request Live'' where she passed out popsicles to fans and taking her clothes off to reveal scantily clad clothing in the process, Carey was crippled with anxiety, fear, and exhaustion. Having almost no sleep in nearly a week, Morgan directed Carey to rest at their mother's house, only to be woken up by Patricia telling her to go back to work. Carey verbally lashed out at Patricia, who called the police on her. Morgan convinced Carey to enter two facilities, both of which were unsuited to her needs. She was released from the second after the September 11 attacks and went on to promote ''Glitter''. Carey entered therapy following these experiences and was diagnosed with somatization. She realized her family "watched and waited for [her] to fall, like scavengers, so that they might gain control over [her] fortune", and was advised to no longer have contact with her siblings.

After departing Virgin for Universal Records, Carey recorded ''Charmbracelet'', "a place of shelter, healing, and growth that made it possible for [her] to bloom again". Prior to its release, she made peace with Alfred before he died and realized he was proud of her. She also reconnected with God by being rebaptized and beginning a three-year study of the Bible. Carey appreciated the commercial success of ''The Emancipation of Mimi'' and critical response to her role in ''Precious'' for their ability to make both the public and herself move on from ''Glitter''. After starting a relationship with Nick Cannon, they quickly married to have children. She gave birth to twins following a miscarriage and considers them living proof a "cycle of brokenness" can end. The couple later divorced because "making the necessary adjustments to being working parents in entertainment took its toll". Carey concludes by expressing her delight in "All I Want for Christmas Is You" reaching number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for the first time in 2019 and how fulfilled she now feels as a person.

The Big Bang occurs, and the first stars are formed after the mixture of elements. Gravity then expands the universe to seemingly infinite proportions, and galaxies begin to form. Some galaxies form so close together that they are attracted to each other by gravity and collide, fusing together. However, despite its wonderous creation, gravity also creates mayhem in the form of a supermassive or stellar mass black hole, a region where not even light can escape its attraction, making its gravitational singularity invisible to outsiders.

Throughout the universe, conflicts between energy and gravity repeat every time, making a star die as a supernova when it runs out of fuel, causing new stars to be born. A particular protoplanetary dust cloud collapses, causing the birth of the Sun 5,264 million years ago. The Solar System is then formed; among its planets is the Earth. A protoplanet, Theia, collides with it, forming the Moon.

Earth is inherently in the Hadean and Archean Eon, in which it is covered in lava and ravaged by volcanoes. However, microorganisms still manage to form below the ocean. Although still not known, the latest theories suggest that chemicals from submarine volcanoes make the right recipe to create life. 2,490 million years ago, the oxygenation of the atmosphere began, allowing animals to arise. The Proterozoic Eon begins 1,402 million years ago, but its benefits are delayed by the Snowball Earth, the biggest ice age in the planet's history. After the ice age ends, the benefits of the eon come to life; animals start to literally be born. Plants start to form, followed by dinosaurs in the Triassic Period, which are then made extinct by the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. More plants and events occur rapidly, followed by a big rise in mammals, consisting of ''Australopithecus afarensis'', ''Homo erectus'', ''Neanderthals'', ''Homo sapiens'', and ''Novus homo''. A human eye, representing the entirety of humanity, is shown in just a fraction (1/24) of a second.

Goro is a con man based in Tokyo. He works with his friends Kosuke, Jun, and Tatsuo. In a parking lot, they see a kidnapping of a man, which Goro records with his mobile phone camera. When they watch television news in their hideout, they find out that the kidnapped man is a witness to a bribe scandal of a politician Atsugi.

Goro meets a fortune-teller Keiko. Keiko tells him that she is a victim of marriage fraud and has no money. Goro takes her to his hideout and they start to live together.

Kosuke, Jun, and Tatsuo are killed by Risk Cover Agency's agents. A police officer Kajiwara tells Goro that RCA is working for Atsugi to cover up his bribe scandal.

Goro and Keiko go to a port town. Goro recommends Keiko to break up with him, but she refuses to do so. When they hug and kiss, they are shot by a sniper. Keiko is kidnapped by RCA.

With a gun in his hand, Goro raids on RCA's headquarters and kills the agents one after another. However, the agency's leader Kijima is not there. Goro finds a body that is covered with sheets, laying on a bed.

Goro sneaks into a national assembly and hands out a photograph that captures Kijima kidnapping a witness. Kijima grabs Goro's left arm. It is revealed that Goro's left arm is artificial. Goro tells Kijima that he will wait outside.

Side by side, Goro and Keiko walk in a crowded city.

''The End of a Legend'' is a scenario in which the player witness the assassination of a national hero, and subsequently investigate who is to blame.

A dramatic mystery where a haunted teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.

In ''Starfall'', the players take on the roles of Rebels who have been imprisoned on a Star Destroyer. They are given the opportunity to escape when the ship is damaged in an attack, but must also take with them and safeguard an important Rebel, Walex Bissel.

In Bucharest, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Alexandra “Ali” Gorski is tasked to protect a convoy carrying the daughter of the ambassador. Armed mercenaries ambush them, and although Ali fights fiercely and effectively, the mercenaries are still able to kill the ambassador, his wife and their daughter. Ali leaves the Marines and returns to New York City. Her uncle, Pat, tells her of a job in The Carrington Hotel in New York City where he works. Ali is hired, working alongside another doorman, Borz. She finds out that her late sister’s husband, Professor Jon Stanton, and his two children, Max and Lily, live there. Jon and Ali had an affair during the marriage, which she fled by joining the Marines. She is invited to their Easter dinner.

Over the Easter holiday, Pat is killed by Borz with a sledgehammer, revealing that Borz has been disguised as a doorman to search for valuable paintings hidden in the hotel. A group of mercenaries led by Victor Dubois arrive and initiate a lockdown. Dubois, Borz, and his men invade the apartment of Bernard Hersch, who is suffering from akinetic mutism. Dubois knew Bernard as Erich Dreischler and asks where the paintings are. When Bernard does not speak, Borz stabs him in the hand, finally bringing Bernard around, even though he cannot recall the whereabouts of the paintings. When Bernard’s wife explains that seven years earlier, they moved from Room 10C, which is now occupied by the Stantons, the mercenaries leave for 10C, and Borz kills Bernard and his wife.

Dubois and his men arrive at 10C and hold Jon and Lily hostage, while Max, seeing the men already inside, runs away. Dubois eventually discovers the hidden safe containing the paintings and has Martinez use a water cooled drill to bypass the combination code. Jon attempts to distract Dubois by having a glass of wine to allow Lily to use Dubois’ laptop to call for help via Facebook, but Borz catches her and Dubois forces her to delete the message.

After discovering the Hersch couple's corpses and Borz’s betrayal, Ali kills one henchman and runs into Max. Ali and Max activate the fire alarm to summon the fire department but as Ali tries to alert them, two other henchmen catch the two and the firefighters find nothing amiss and leave after Borz explains that it was a false alarm.

After Ali kills another henchman, Max is separated and is recaptured and brought to 10C. Dubois calls Ali via the PA system, ordering her to surrender herself. Seeing the water hose is connected to the drill bit, Max surreptitiously uses the PA system as a Morse code to message Ali to disable the main valve of the water supply. Leo is killed by the nail bomb set by Ali while attempting to turn the water back on, destroying the main valve as well. Dubois radios her and threatens to kill the family if Ali refuses to restore the water supply. Ali agrees and, with corrupt NYPD officer Olsen (Dubois’ cohort) holding her at gunpoint, connects a hose to the rooftop water tank. The safe is opened, revealing the paintings. After Jon mentions that the art is worth hundreds of millions rather than $5 million Dubois had told them, Borz renegotiates that 50% of the proceeds will go to Dubois while the remaining men, Martinez and Borz, will each receive a share of 25%. Ali kills Olsen and rushes to 10C, where she holds Martinez hostage. Borz wounds Jon and kills Martinez to increase his share to 50%.

As the police arrive at the scene, Borz dresses as a doorman to walk past the police and pins the blame on Ali, who incapacitates the officers and chases Borz. As they walk through a sewer, Borz turns on Dubois and kills him. Ali fights Borz and finally kills him with a grenade. Sometime later, Ali bids farewell to Jon and the children, who are heading to London.

The Mystery Inc. gang are in a covert operation in Elvira's Halloween of Horrors Parade in Crystal Cove to capture the Haunted Scarecrow. The gang unmasks the Haunted Scarecrow as Dr. Jonathan Crane a.k.a. the Scarecrow, a former escapee convict of Arkham Asylum. While Velma explains how she solved the mystery by tracing a fan mail sent to Elvira by Crane and measuring gas leakage in the air, gas drones carrying fear gas canisters set up by Crane appears in the sky. As everyone starts panicking, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy shoot down the drones by using Halloween candies as projectiles. Before being pulled away by the federal agents, Dr. Crane tells Velma that his drones did not leak, thereby giving a hint that she missed something in her reasoning. Nevertheless, the mystery gang is hailed as heroes by everyone, including the Sheriff for drawing an end to the hauntings.

The gang finds out that the Mystery Machine was severely damaged while chasing Dr. Crane and Fred is visibly upset. Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy go to trick or treat as they think the mystery is solved. On the way, they come across a stray disabled drone in a pumpkin patch with "Tot Alli Frame" engraved on it and a truck full of toxic waste. The pumpkins coming in contact with the mixture of toxic waste and Dr. Crane's fear formula turn to animated monsters. Smaller pumpkins start flying and starts chasing Scooby and Shaggy. They quickly return to town and interrupt an ongoing interview of the other Mystery Inc. gang members to inform them about the 'Jackal Lanterns' of the pumpkin patch. Unfortunately, nobody seems to believe them, and they are chided for their actions by Velma.

Fred and Velma are approached by Bill Nye, who gifts them a modernized vehicle named 'Mystery Machine X'. Fred is not so enthusiastic about it as he prefers the old Mystery Machine. The Jackal Lanterns then come into the town and takes a female reporter with them. As Fred and Velma reach her, they see her being eaten and spit out by the Jackal Lanterns' giant master to become another monster herself. The Jackal Lanterns start chasing everybody, resulting in a long car chase. The gang becomes separated into three groups: Fred, Velma, and Bill Nye in Mystery Machine X, Daphne and Elvira in Elvira's car, and Shaggy and Scooby with a father-daughter duo called Mike and Michelle. They come across the Sheriff, who freaks out and is gobbled up by the Giant Jackal Lantern, who is riding on the old Mystery Machine. Velma frees Dr. Crane from the federal agents' truck, but he too is apparently eaten by the Giant Jackal Lantern. This results in the Mystery Machine being destroyed, much to Fred’s depression.

The Mystery Inc. gang comes together with Elvira, Mike, and Michelle and eats Scooby-Snacks to enter Velma's mind palace, an imaginary plane where they recount the night's events. Velma takes a leap of faith where she enters the Giant Jackal Lantern's mouth and comes out unharmed. As it turns out, the Giant Jackal Lantern is actually just a machine and everyone eaten are safe inside. The rest of the Jackal Lanterns are revealed drones, though both the Sheriff and Dr. Crane are missing. The drone engraving found by Scooby and Shaggy is revealed to be "T.O.T. Aluminum Lithium Frame". The culprit is eventually revealed to be Toe Omnitech head Cutler Toe, whose criminal actions was exposed by Mystery Inc. in the past and has been impersonating the Sheriff as part of a revenge plot against them while also after the lithium mine under Crystal Cove after being released from jail. Velma and Daphne find out his location by trailing a hologram of the Jackal Lanterns and help the federal agents find his car. But the escaped Scarecrow, in vengeance for Toe attempting to frame him for the Jackal Lantern attacks, had found Toe first and no trace of either men are found. With everything resolved and the gang being invited to another roadside Halloween celebration, the movie ends with Elvira giving a monologue to the viewers before breaking the fourth wall by revealing a spidery face behind her regular face in an ode to Halloween.

During the credits, the gang (including Bill Nye) helps Fred rebuild the Mystery Machine from what happened earlier in the film.

After a post-graduation road trip, Elle still hasn't decided between going to Berkeley or Harvard – although Noah is already looking for an off-campus apartment for them. When Noah and Lee's parents announce they're selling the beach house where they all spent their childhoods, Elle, Noah, Lee, and Lee's girlfriend, Rachel, spend the summer there to help prepare for the sale.

Lee shows Rachel his plans for them to see each other on holidays while going to colleges across the country from each other, while Elle is suddenly faced with a Berkeley deadline. Choosing to go to Harvard with Noah upsets Lee, so Elle promises to make it up to him by spending the summer doing their beach bucket list.

Noah's friend Chloe – whom Elle once thought Noah was having an affair with – arrives at the beach house while Marco – whom Elle kissed – gets a job in the area. During a day at the waterpark, Noah and Marco clash, prompting Noah to call Elle naive for not seeing Marco still has feelings for her. Tensions escalate when Elle struggles to divide her time between Lee and Noah. Simultaneously, Elle struggles with accepting her father's new girlfriend, Linda, also a friend of her late mom, fearing that she'll replace her.

Encouraged by Chloe, who is coping with her parents' divorce, to talk to Elle, Noah makes up with Elle. Marco shows up at the Fourth of July party where he again fights with Noah and punches him, but he refuses to retaliate. Marco admits to Elle he does still have feelings for her, but she rejects him. That night, Elle fights with her father over Linda, accusing him of only dating her for his own pride; in response, he angrily recounts the sacrifices he has made for her and her brother Brad and that she is not the only person who deserves to be loved.

Unaware that Noah saw her acceptance letter to Berkeley, Elle goes to find him at their spot. Worried she's only going to Harvard for him and that she will regret it, Noah breaks up with her. Heartbroken, Elle misses a bucket list with Lee to play ''Dance Dance Revolution''. Arguing, Lee tells her that he's never mattered to her compared to Noah, while she tells him to grow up and that all of her decisions this summer have been about trying to make everybody happy. Noah and Lee's mother tells Elle she should start thinking about what she wants to do and choose a college based on that. Chloe and Elle talk about Noah while saying goodbye, with Rachel eavesdropping on their conversation. Having seen the issues Elle and Noah's relationship had, Rachel breaks up with Lee, though she hopes they will someday reunite.

Acknowledging how happy her brother is around her, Elle eventually understands and accepts Linda, reconciling with her father. Marco apologizes to her and they say their farewells amicably before she makes up with Lee. She's realized that she's spent so long maintaining her relationships with Noah and Lee that she hasn't worked out what makes her happy. Elle applies to University of Southern California to study game design. Inspired by her, Noah and Lee's mom decides not to sell the beach house.

Six years later, Elle is developing her own game. She and Lee remain close friends, visiting the fated Kissing Booth at the Charity Fair and Carnival. Additionally, Lee and Rachel got back together and engaged after college. Sometime later, Elle sees Noah for (presumably) the first time since their breakup, where he reveals he has job offers at law firms in LA and New York. Noah suggests going on a motorcycle ride when he's back in town and Elle agrees. They part ways, but not before looking back at each other.

Elle and Noah ride down the coastline in California on their motorcycles, laughing and having fun.

Three friends, Vishnu, Seenu, and Sundra are travelling from Bangalore to Karwar to celebrate their friend Rocky's birthday party. Aditi, an adventurous girl, also joins the road trip at the request of Vishnu.

During their journey, the friends try unsuccessfully to impress Aditi. When the group reaches Karwar, Aditi, exhausted from the journey, leaves the party to take a nap and Sundra passes out, drunk.

Rocky enters Aditi's room and attempts to rape her. Aditi protects herself by hitting Rocky with a bottle and severely injuring him. When they hear the noise, Vishnu and Seenu rush in and take Rocky to the nearest government hospital.

Sundra sleeps through all of this, unaware that anything took place. Meanwhile, Rocky's assistant, Koty, sees the blood and immediately informs the police. After checking on Rocky at the hospital, Koty learns that he has been placed in the ICU. With this information, Koty and his associates think Rocky is unlikely to survive his injuries, and subsequently form a plan to take advantage of the situation and rob Rocky's home.

The police begin to search for the suspects based on Rocky's complaint. Vishnu blames Aditi for the incident. Seenu stands with Aditi, whilst Sundra is still unaware of what happened. They devise a plan to send Sundra to Rocky; to convince him to withdraw his complaint against the others, who did not take part in the incident. Rocky rejects this request and the police apprehend Sundra, Koty, and his associates.

Failing to gather information from Sundra, the three friends assume he was arrested. Sundra's lawyer advises him not to talk to the police until he has posted bail. As the three others drive back towards Bangalore, they pick up an elderly woman at the side of the road who is looking for her grandchild. Later on, they spot a police checkpoint and immediately turn the vehicle onto a crossroads. The police notice them trying to escape the roadblock and chase after them. After arresting them, the police find out that the elderly woman is the grandmother of a police officer named Inspector Satish. The police release them but have them arrested again (excluding the grandmother), based on information sent by the Karwar police station.

Aditi confides in Inspector Satish. She tells him what happened and asks him to let her meet Rocky. The police agree to let Aditi meet Rocky to work things out. She makes him aware of the errors of his ways, and he realizes that she was acting in self-defence. Rocky finally agrees to withdraw his complaint from the police, and Sundra is released. During the conversation between the inspector and Aditi, she reveals that she loves Seenu because he shows respect towards women.

Inspector Wu assigns a group of female detectives to look after a blind suspect named Piu, while a female robber who previously kidnapped him is out to retrieve some diamonds she thinks he possesses.

Two months after convincing his father Bigfoot to return home, Adam becomes overwhelmed with the attention his father's newfound fame has brought the family. He is also struggling to confess his feelings to his crush Emma.

Bigfoot wants to use his fame for a good cause and decides that protecting a large wildlife reserve from a dodgy oil company in Alaska is the perfect opportunity. Adam helps his father by uploading a promotional video to social media. Swathes of protestors arrive to support Bigfoot, who mysteriously disappears one night. Adam and his mother Shelly journey to find and rescue him along with their animal friends.

Arriving in Alaska, Adam and Shelly meet with the protestor who last saw Bigfoot, Arlo Woodstock. Shelly follows Arlo to the last location he saw Bigfoot while Adam and his animal friends are ambushed by workers from the oil company. He escapes and encounters a wolf whom he strikes a deal with. The wolf guides him to where the oil company is working before departing. Adam finds out that Arlo actually works for the company run by Connor Mandrake and has taken Shelly. Adam evades capture from him.

Adam infiltrates the company grounds. Connor is preparing to destroy the valley using a bomb, so that he can excavate the present oil easier. After freeing Shelly as well as his father who was also kidnapped by the company, Adam escapes the grounds with them. Turning back, they defuse the bomb. Connor confronts them and Adam records him. Connor later attempts to escape, but is interrupted by a moose and throw into a puddle of oil alongside Arlo.

Adam later meets with Emma and she reveals that he accidentally sent a video exposing his feelings to her. He asks Emma out and she accepts. Emma kisses Adam while his eavesdropping family congratulates him.

The movie ends as Trapper asks for another pancake and it goes on his face.

Renee has just surprised her husband, Clay, with her younger sister, Ellen, while they are at a restaurant. This impromptu meeting persuades her that her husband is cheating on her. Devastated, Renee returns home, hesitating to talk to her husband. Soon after, Renee disappears, mysteriously.

JoAnne, the couple's young daughter, does not know what to think of all these events and does not take long to bring back stories that had until then been carefully kept secret. Clay soon appears as the prime suspect in Renee's disappearance. Was she kidnapped or is it a murder?

''Fantastic Cinema'' is a book that explores the history of science fiction and fantasy films.

''The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party'' is a collection of 16 newly written stories.

Although it shares characters with ''Ritual of the Night'', the game takes place in its own continuity and follows on from the events of ''Curse of the Moon''. Zangetsu, a demon slayer from the East is the main character of the game. After the events of ''Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon'', Dominique, an exorcist of the church finds out about a mysterious tower that is summoning a demon castle. She sends the demon hunter Zangetsu to stop this invasion. On his way from the tower to the castle, Zangetsu teams up with Dominique, who wields a spear, the rifle-wielding Robert, and Hachi, a corgi piloting a steampunk mech. Zangetsu also obtains a powerful sword called the Soul Eraser.

After they defeat the final boss, it tries to consume the entire party, but is stopped by Dominique who becomes possessed while the others escape.

The remaining party members Zangetsu, Robert, and Hachi vow to rescue Dominique. On their way back to the castle, Zangetsu may equip the Zanmatou, a sword that is less powerful than the Soul Eraser, but does not harm righteous beings even if used on them.

Near the location of the previous episode's final battle, the party encounters Mephisto, a demon that stores Dominique inside its own body. If the Zanmatou is equipped, Zangetsu ends the ensuing battle by cleaving Mephisto in half, saving Dominique. If the Soul Eraser is equipped, Zangetsu prepares to do the same, but changes his mind at the last minute to avoid killing Dominique as well. The former end leads directly to the Final Episode; the latter leaves Robert and Hachi severely wounded and leads to Episode EX.

The film is composed of five scenes introduced by intertitles:

''1. Interior of the happy and prosperous worker household''

A working-class family is living happily in a simple but comfortable house, a women, her mother and two children do their daily tasks and when the man of the house comes home, they all have dinner together.

''2. The first step to the wine merchant''

The husband meets in the street some friends who invite him to go and have a drink in a café.

''3. The ravages of alcohol. His wife picks him up at the cabaret''

In the café, the man drinks and plays dice with his friends. His wife comes with their children and insists that he must come home. He brutally pushes her away.

''4. In the attic. Misery.''

The family is now living in a dilapidated attic. When the man arrives, he has a fit of ''delirium tremens'' wiggling on the floor.

''5. The madhouse. Delirium tremens''

The man is locked in a padded cell, with a straitjacket. A raving maniac, he tears it apart, and dances wildly around the room before collapsing and remaining motionless.

Elizabeth Sheridan (Joanna Pacula), a painter, is married to Cole (Michael Moriarty), who runs a yacht-building company. When Cole becomes abusive, Elizabeth begins an affair with Tony Blanchard (Boyd Kestner), the firm's top designer. When a blackmailer (Peter Onorati) produces incriminating pictures of her and Tony, she and Tony agree to pay, but when murder gets added to the mix, she becomes the obvious suspect.

The game's main character is Mach, an aspiring professional gamer who fails to qualify for VSL, a fictional version of the premier ''StarCraft II'' league in South Korea. However, he meets a friendly Korean Terran player named Accel who offers to mentor him, recognizing his talent. Mach is quickly drawn into the highest echelons of the ''StarCraft II'' scene, helping to create a new team in order to defeat a legendary ''Brood War'' player.

Mach's gender is selectable between male and female, and choosing to play as a female Mach changes the player's experience of the esports community, reflecting real life gender discrimination, although the developers did not want the game to feel like an "online harassment simulator".

An unexpected friendship begins between an elderly Cuban musician with dementia who is brought out of his shell by his care worker, and a disillusioned young pre-med Afghan student named Mina (Ana Golja). Through a shared loved of music, both their lives are changed.

The main character of the game goes on a road trip to reconnect with their estranged family members, traveling between towns and doing quests in each town where they can freely walk around outside their car. The player realizes that the apocalypse is happening and must fight Lovecraftian monsters and potentially stop the end of the world.

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American soldiers are sent on a mission to prevent Nazi scientists from creating a super serum to transform their victims into an unstoppable fighting force.

The educated and brilliant Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, is at the forefront of promoting socialism in the United Kingdom, participating in workers' struggles, fighting for women's rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883, she met Edward Aveling, a talented playwright but a selfish and wasteful man. While he is intent on getting into debt and consuming the legacy left to Eleanor by Friedrich Engels, Edward does not realize that he is also consuming the entire existence of his devoted companion, who, although aware that she is experiencing the same "moral oppression" imposed by the patriarchy and condemned by her, she is unable to redeem her own happiness, and ultimately not even her own life. In the scene where Eleanor and Edward play the famous dialogue between Nora and Helmer during the staging of Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'', the two characters seem to trace through the words of another the unjust fate destined for Eleanor as well as for many others: the fate of a woman conditioned and limited throughout her life by the male figures most dear to her. In 1898 Eleanor loses all energy and, addicted to opium, kills herself.

In 1955, during a turbulent political situation in Argentina previous to the fall of Peronism, Rosa, a crime-stories fan housewife, witnesses the confusing murder of her neighbor. As she feels increasingly distant from her distant husband, a politic activist of the Justicialista party, Rosa will now live her very own crime story.

The short (story, literally: narrative) describes a trip of three days over a weekend of two young people who recently met, Claire and Wolfgang. They escape the city of Berlin where they live and work, for the rural Rheinsberg. They have to pretend to be married to get a room, and call themselves the Gambetta couple (''Ehepaar Gambetta''). They arrive by train, visit Schloss Rheinsberg, take a boat tour on the surrounding lakes, admire the unspoiled nature which is unusual for them, and stroll at night, seeing parts of a stage play through a window. The following day, they enjoy a late breakfast and explore the town and its shops, and visit a cinema. The last day is devoted to another boat tour, this time with Lissy Aachner, a medical student. After a final stroll through the park, they return home, to "the big city, ... grey days and longing telephone conversations, secretive afternoons, work and all the happiness of their great love" ("in die große Stadt, in der es wieder Mühen für sie gab, graue Tage und sehnsüchtige Telefongespräche, verschwiegene Nachmittage, Arbeit und das ganze Glück ihrer großen Liebe.")

''The Years of the City'' is a novel in which a utopia is built from New York in five linked stories.

The Sinclair family is celebrating the upcoming arrival of the Bunch Beetles, a species of insect who come to Pangaea annually to eat all the cider poppies which tend to grow excessively around spring. However, after the countdown, the Beetles don't return, much to the confusion of everyone. Four days later, without the Bunch Beetles, the cider poppies have completely grown out of control and are overtaking Pangaea.

As the Sinclairs and Earl's best friend, Roy, try to deal with the situation by trimming down the cider poppies, one of the Bunch Beetles, Stan, unexpectedly arrives at the Sinclair's house. He explains that he became lost on his way to the mating ground, but he needs to get there now since Bunch Beetles have a short lifespan. Charlene volunteers to help Stan, but when they get to the swamp, they discover that FruitCo, a subsidiary of the WESAYSO corporation, has built a wax fruit factory over the mating ground and the Bunch Beetles who arrived at the factory have been sprayed with insecticide, causing the entire species to become extinct, thus making Stan the last of his kind.

Charlene reports the extinction of the Bunch Beetles on DNN (Dinosaur News Network) and even points out how the WESAYSO corporation is also responsible for the cider poppy crisis, but Earl takes over the interview and tries to defend the company's actions by claiming that it was all in the name of progress. Intrigued by the interview, B.P. Richfield decides to have Earl be in charge of the task force.

When Earl and Roy are being interviewed about the task force, they explain that they're going to spray the cider poppies with defoliant and assures reporters that it is safe, even though it was donated to them by B.P. Richfield who prefers to remain anonymous. Robbie questions Earl about spraying the continent with poison and asks if there is a safer alternative, but Earl refuses, claiming it will take too long. The defoliant is sprayed, which gets rid of the cider poppies, but the next day it is revealed that all plant life on Pangea has been killed, resulting in a famine. Earl then reassures his family that Mr. Richfield has found a way to bring back the plants.

In Richfield's office, he, Earl, and Roy try to figure out how to revive the plants. Richfield states that they have to make it rain and in order to do so, they need clouds, which he thinks come from volcanoes (which actually produce smoke). Richfield states that in order to make clouds they need to set off a bunch of volcanoes by dropping bombs in them. Earl is reluctant since their last idea backfired, but is convinced by Richfield not to lose faith in progress and they all go with the plan.

Soon, bombs are dropped into volcanoes all around the world, which create giant thick black clouds that cover the entire planet. Earl thinks the clouds will create rain, but the rest of the Sinclair family disagrees. On the news, Howard Handupme reports that the clouds are blocking off the sun and causing global temperatures to drop precipitously. Earl tries to stay positive, claiming that the sun will come out and melt the snow, making the plants grow. But Handupme reports that due to the thickness of the clouds scientists have predicted that it will be tens of thousands of years before the sun shines over Pangaea again, thus creating the Ice Age. Earl calls Mr. Richfield about the problem, but Richfield refuses to listen, claiming it's good because everyone is panic buying WESAYSO's products.

Later, Earl apologizes to Stan for the destruction of his mating ground and the extinction of his species. Earl then apologizes to his family for his unintentional part in his company's bringing the end of the world and that he put too much faith in progress and technology and not having any respect for nature. Robbie and Charlene assure Baby that whatever happens, they'll all stay together as a family. Earl also assures them that they will survive, stating "dinosaurs have been on Earth for 150 million years and it's not like we're going to just... disappear!" Outside, the Sinclair home is being buried in the snow, along with the wax fruit factory. It is also implied that many other homes were also buried.

After taking a look at the long-range forecast, Handupme signs off for the last time by saying "Goodbye" to the viewers, ending the series on a somber note.

Ten years after the events of ''Inuyasha'', Sesshomaru and Rin's daughter Towa is separated from her twin sister Setsuna, and gets stranded in the modern era, where she is adopted into the family of her father's sister-in-law, Kagome Higurashi, raised by Kagome's younger brother Sōta and his warmhearted wife Moe. Towa becomes close to her younger adopted sister, six-year-old Mei, who is Towa's “substitute” for Setsuna.

Ten years later, Towa is reunited with Setsuna, when she leaves the modern era through the vast time-traveling power of the mystical Sacred Tree of Ages. During their separation, Setsuna became one of the demon-slayers working with Kohaku and does not remember her past, as the mythical Dream Butterfly stole her dreams and memories. In order to restore them, the half-demon twins embark on an adventure, alongside their quarter-demon bounty hunter cousin Moroha, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Kagome and Inuyasha, who lacks knowledge of her parents; except that her human mother is an uppermost-level priestess and that her equally impulsive father is a dog-demon/human hybrid.

At times, the vital essence of the Sacred Tree of Ages awakens from centuries of dormancy to warn them that a long-standing rival of their paternal dog-demon grandfather is plotting to warp time itself, since Sesshomaru refuses to fight him directly in place of his late father. At the same time, the unparalleled time-based unsurpassable entity is harboring adult Rin in suspended animation for her husband Sesshomaru because of her fatal connection to Zero, the elder sister of Kirinmaru and creator of the seven mystical Rainbow Pearls, whose respective mighty demonic abilities rival those of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls itself. During a battle with Kirinmaru at the ruins of Lady Izayoi's mansion, Setsuna is seemingly killed by Kirinmaru, but Towa uses the broken Tenseiga to revive Setsuna.

Setsuna has her Kanemitsu no Tomoe upgraded by Totosai into the mighty Yukari no Tachikiri, which can cut the invisible red threads of fate. Towa receives the legendary cosmic sword Zanseiken from Kirinmaru's deceased daughter Rion, whose soul is contained within an artificial body created by her father. The Half-Demon Princesses must become strong enough to save Rin, before she perishes from the fatal curse placed on her by the deeply bitter Zero. Ultimately, Zero lifts the curse herself and passes on to Heaven. As Towa and Setsuna are ready to reunite with Rin, Kirinmaru gives an ultimatum for Moroha to save her parents or steal Akuru's pinwheel.

Sesshomaru rechallenges Kirinmaru with Sesshomaru taking the hit for his twin daughters and half-niece, which fatally wounds and weakens him. He manages to use his remaining strength to send them into the Black Pearl, where the girls meet Inuyasha and Kagome Higurashi. After escaping from the Black Pearl using the combined powers of Tessaiga and Tenseiga, the group discovers that Kirinmaru's true objective is to travel to the Reiwa Era to destroy the Grim Comet that threatens to destroy human civilization, and become a supreme ruler over all humans and demons alike. After saving Sesshōmaru, Towa discovers that Kirinmaru allowed her to keep Zanseiken so that her soul is eventually extinguished by using its power so that he can use her body as a living vessel for Rion against the wishes of his undead daughter while Moroha is given a spiritually-empowered longbow made by Inuyasha and Kagome, which greatly boosts the effectiveness and spiritual energies of her sacred arrows.

Using Akuru's pinwheel, the Half-Demon Princesses travel back to the modern era to destroy the comet themselves, with Kirinmaru chasing after them. They encounter Osamu Kirin, formerly Kirinmaru's right arm, and Towa's homeroom teacher, who informs them about his desire to save humanity. However, he double-crosses the girls and brings the Grim Comet to the feudal era to grant Kirinmaru's wish in obliterating it from the plane of existence, and showing Rion various countries and states from around the modern world. With the last of his strength, Akuru opens the gateway to the ancient past on the Sacred Tree of Ages, so the girls can return to help their parents and closest friends in preventing the Degenerate Age from progressing further.

A merchant caravan hires Captain Isa, Sorcerer Demane, and their men to guard them on a journey through the dangerous Wildeeps. The Wildeeps are a forest in which multiple dimensions overlap; only by staying on the Road can travelers be assured of safety. Isa and Demane are both descended from gods, granting them supernatural strength and other powers. They hide both their powers and their romantic relationship from the rest of the convoy. During the journey, the caravan is stalked by a jukiere, a type of magical tiger. Isa and Demane leave the Road to hunt the tiger. Demane kills one tiger while Isa fights another. In an ambiguous ending, it is implied that Demane's missed spear throw kills Isa.

Set in 2017, ''.hack//G.U.+'' chronicles the revenge quest of Haseo, a player from the online video game ''The World''. Haseo is a player killer of player kills, defeating a group of them in the first chapter who were aiming to kill the young Atoli. Haseo seeks the pk Tri-Edge who used an unknown skill to send his friend Shino into a coma after defeating her in the game. With help from his former mentor, Ovan, Haseo learns of the current location of Tri-Edge, a cathedral. However, Tri-Edge, easily defeats Haseo, sending him into a coma for a short time where his PC is taken to the guild of the Serpent of Knowledge who have been investigating Tri-Edge actions as they work for ''The World'' s developers. When Haseo recovers, he learns that Azure Flame Kite is the true name of the Tri-Edge and that multiple people have been sent into a coma by Tri-Edge through a virus known as AIDA. Finding a chance to bring Shino back, Haseo joins G.U..

Once joining G.U. Haseo meets Khun who reveals that there are eight players called Epitaph Users who can use Kite's Data Drain skills provided by their Avatars in order to defeat the AIDA. Haseo and Shino are two of the eight Epitaph Users. Seeking to wake up his Avatar, Haseo is motivated by Ovan to face Endrance, a gamer famous in ''The World'' tournaments who possesses both AIDA and an Avatar. When facing Endrance, Haseo awakes his own Avatar, Skeith, and defeats Endrance, erasing his AIDA in the process. During his quest, Haseo, Khun and G.U.'s Pi face Azure Kite, but are unable to make him reveal information about the Lost Ones. After saving an AIDA infected Atoli, Ovan reveals himself to Haseo as the true Tri-Edge whose PC contains AIDA. Ovan had manipulated Haseo to awaken his Avatar and gather all other ones in order to unlock his own skill: The Rebirth. Following his defeat at the ends of Haseo's Skeith, the Rebirth restores all comatose players including Aina, his sister who was accidentally targeted by AIDA out of control, but this comes at the cost of Ovan's life in the real world. As Shino is revived, Haseo quits ''The World''. Ryou Misaki, the player behind Haseo, meets a recovered Shino in real life and confesses his romantic feelings towards her. However, Shino rejects him as she explains she willingly let Ovan PKed her because she loves him, and her feeling still remain unchanging.

Some time after Ovan's death, Misaki returns to ''The World'' to meet Aina after she received a mail sent by her supposed dead brother. Their discussion interrupted by the new leader of G.U., Kazumi, who steals Skeith from Haseo, damaging his PC and mind in the process. Atoli's superior, Zelkova, saves Haseo by hacking his character. Kazumi seeks to eventually fulfills his ambition, becoming a "false god" of ''The World''. Kazumi once again tries to kill the weakened Haseo but he is protected by Atoli who is revealed to have inherited Shino's Avatar it left the latter. Kazumi seeks his plans to become the new god of ''The World'' by absorbing a creature known as Cubia and becomes one with it. Upon being commanded by the goddess of ''The World'', the Ultimate AI Aura, she guides G.U. to Cubia's location. Haseo's group reaches Cubia and use their Avatars together to take him down alongside the remains of Kazumi. During this battle, the remains of Ovan's PC are restored to ''The World'' by the AIDA still attached to his left arm, allowing Ovan to help Haseo in defeating Kazumi and Cubia. Following this, Ovan is reunited with his sister and reconciles with Haseo and Shino.

The film portrays the initial events of the radical change in the political situation of Bangladesh after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family on 15 August 1975. The political crisis made upon the killing and fate of four founding members of the Awami League, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed, former Prime Minister Mansur Ali, former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam and former Home Minister AHM Kamaruzzaman after the assassination.

In the story of the relaunched version of the game, the Bloodharvest is the only way for the Scavengers to earn a spot in the rare, high-class Enclaves that are left after a global apocalypse.

In the late 1950s, timid sea monster child Luca Paguro herds goatfish off the coast of the Italian town of Portorosso. His parents forbid him from approaching the surface, fearing that he might be hunted by humans. One day, Luca meets Alberto Scorfano, a fellow sea monster child who lives alone in an abandoned tower on dry land. When Alberto encourages Luca to venture out of the ocean, it is revealed that sea monsters turn into humans as long as they are dry. Luca and Alberto begin hanging out and become friends, and they wish to own a Vespa and travel around the world.

Upon discovering their son's actions, Luca's parents decide to send him to live in the deep with his uncle. In retaliation, Luca runs away with Alberto to hide out in Portorosso. The boys run afoul of Ercole Visconti, the local bully and five-time champion of the Portorosso Cup, a children's triathlon of swimming, pasta-eating, and biking. When Ercole tries to soak Luca in a fountain, Giulia Marcovaldo, a young girl, stops him. In hopes of winning the money needed for a Vespa, the boys team up with Giulia for the triathlon.

Giulia invites them to stay at her house and introduces her fisherman father, Massimo, who holds grudges towards sea monsters. Meanwhile, Luca's parents infiltrate the town to find their son. Giulia and Luca bond over their love of learning, making Alberto jealous. When Luca shows interest in attending school, Alberto intentionally reveals his sea monster form to Giulia to prevent it. Unwilling to give himself up, Luca feigns surprise to be with Giulia, and a betrayed Alberto flees as Ercole's gang show up and try to hunt him. Heartbroken, Alberto trashes everything in his hiding place. Shortly after, Giulia finds out that Luca is a sea monster as well, and sends him away for his safety.

Luca attempts to reconcile with Alberto, who is revealed to have been abandoned by his father long ago. He promises to win the Vespa to rebuild their friendship. The triathlon begins with Luca and Giulia competing separately. Luca manages to complete the swimming race and pasta-eating contest without revealing himself, but rain begins during the bike race. Alberto shows up to give him an umbrella, only to be kicked by Ercole to the wet ground and exposed, to everyone's shock. Luca this time helps him, albeit revealing himself as well. They resume biking, with Ercole now trying to harpoon them for money, which is stopped by Giulia smashing her bike against his. Luca and Alberto unintentionally cross the finish line, but turn back to help Giulia. When Ercole and other townsfolk confront them, Massimo stands up for them and insists that they have won. A few of the townsfolk are revealed to be sea monsters as well and Luca is finally reunited with his family. The humans welcome the sea monsters, to the exception of Ercole, whose prejudice turns him into an outcast. His henchmen, who were fed up with his abuse, throw him into the fountain.

Luca and Alberto buy a Vespa, but Alberto sells it to get a train ticket for Luca, allowing him to go to school in Genoa with Giulia. Luca's family, Massimo, and Alberto see Luca and Giulia off at the train station, where they all promise to stay in touch. During the credits, Luca meets Giulia's mother, whereas Massimo adopts Alberto.

In an opium den, an attendant offers a well-dressed gentleman a pipe of opium. The gentleman dreams he is at home, and that his wife and maidservant are pouring him a large glass of beer. However, before he can drink it, the beer flies upward through the window to Phoebe, the Moon goddess, seated on her crescent in the sky. The dream shifts to imagine the Man in the Moon flying through the sky, to meet the beer glass as it travels through space.

The dream shifts back to the gentleman's dining room, where he attempts to have a drink with Phoebe and to flirt with her. However, first the beer glass, then Phoebe herself, magically jump around the room, evading the gentleman's attempts at control. Just as the gentleman thinks he has chased Phoebe into his arms, she turns into a grotesque clown. The clown teases the frantic gentleman as the dream comes to an abrupt end.

Tekehentahkhwa, who goes by the nickname "Beans", is a preteen who lives on a reservation in Kahnawake; she is encouraged by her mother, Lily, to try to apply for a prestigious school in Montreal, something her father opposes.

After seeing their cousin Karahwen'hawi on TV protesting the expansion of a golf course into Kahnawake territory, the entire family drives down to support the protestors. Beans and her little sister are quickly caught up in a police raid, which strengthens her parents' resolve to stay and help during the protest. Tensions grow fast. Barricades are built and the Kahnawake territory is isolated. Food runs short and women and children are given the possibility to evacuate. Outside, protesters throw rocks at the evacuating cars.

In the meantime, Beans befriends April, an older girl she seeks to emulate. April teaches Beans to toughen up, in a hard way.

'''Note:''' ''Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, some names and details in the summary below are taken from the film's description in Méliès's American catalogue.''

Lothaire, a penniless troubadour who is the last in a lineage of gallant knights, visits the witch Carabosse to find out what his future holds. The witch tells him that he will rescue and be loved by a damsel in distress, currently trapped in a dungeon as part of a plot by her father to steal her inheritance. Carabosse magically summons up a portrait of the damsel so that Lothaire will recognize her. Lothaire asks for a magic charm to help him rescue the damsel. The witch offers an enchanted four-leaf clover, but demands a steep price for it. Lothaire, having no money, tricks the witch by giving her a money bag loaded with sand, and hastily leaves to start his quest. Carabosse, discovering the way Lothaire has cheated her, is furious. She vows revenge and sets out in pursuit of the troubadour. As a weapon for herself, she enchants a poignard so that it can fly through the air and spit fire. The chase begins.

Lothaire tries to escape Carabosse by pushing down piles of rocks on her, but they are no match for the witch's magical powers, and she continues the chase flying on a broomstick. Crossing a field of sacred monoliths built by ancient Druids, Lothaire reaches a cemetery. He is surrounded by ghosts, but wards them off with the four-leaf clover. He reaches the imprisoned damsel's castle, and finds it guarded by monsters: a giant toad and owl, a fire-breathing dragon, and various serpents. Lothaire is about to be eaten when a Druid priest appears, on the ruin of an old altar nearby. He gives a piece of holy mistletoe to the troubadour, who uses it to tame the animals. Lothaire continues into the castle, where a ghostly knight presents him with an anointed sword used at the Crusades. Lothaire holds it in his teeth and climbs up the castle walls to the damsel's dungeon cell, while the Druid priest holds back the pursuing witch.

At long last he reaches the damsel, undoes her chains, and breaks open the cell door with a convenient battering ram. The troubadour and damsel escape just as Carabosse reaches the window, and enraged she flies away on her broom, creating a thunderstorm. She catches up to the escaping couple on the cliffs of a lake, and attacks them with her magic poignard. She is about to triumph when the Druid priest appears again, attacks Carabosse with her own broomstick, and sends her falling into the lake. One of her minions, a gnome, attempts to slay the Druid with an axe, but he turns the poignard on the gnome and vanquishes him. The couple, safe at last, receive a benediction from the Druid and vow eternal love.

A young, aspiring artist named Dimitri lives in Los Angeles, California. He pays rent by delivering pizza. He enjoys listening to music and smoking weed with his friends. Because of the color of his skin, he has been often stopped by police officers while driving.

At Ivory Coast’s infamous MACA Prison, the inmates are in control and have set up their own set of rules. One of these rules states that if the Dangôro, or inmate King, becomes too ill to govern, he must take his life. The ailing Dangôro Blackbeard is pressured to commit suicide by his subordinate Lass, who seeks to become Dangôro after Blackbeard. Hoping to postpone his death by appeasing the prisoners, Blackbeard says he will name a new Roman, a griot instructed to tell stories for the population during the upcoming red moon. A new prisoner, a thief and member of the "Microbe" gang, arrives at MACA and is assigned to Blackbeard’s cell block. Blackbeard speaks with the new arrival and chooses him as Roman.

Once the red moon rises, the prisoners gather around Roman to hear, and occasionally act out portions of, his story. Initially hesitant, Roman tells the story of the death of Zama King, the leader of the Microbes. During a meal break, Roman is warned in secret that he must keep the story going until morning, or he will be killed. When Roman resumes his story, he tells a highly embellished tale of Zama King’s early life: After the death of his mother, Zama is raised by his father Soni, a blind beggar. Soni becomes the advisor of a local queen after convincing her that he has mystical powers. The story is interrupted by the murder of Koby, one of Blackbeard’s confidants. After a period of mourning, Blackbeard and Half-Mad, his second-in-command, speak to each other privately. Half-Mad asks Blackbeard to name him as the next Dangôro. After Half-Mad leaves, Roman begs Blackbeard to call off the storytelling tradition. However, Blackbeard refuses and says that he wants to spill blood one last time. Afterwards, Blackbeard accepts his fate and drowns himself in a water tank.

Roman continues his story: After failing to lead the queen to victory in a war against her brother, Soni disguises himself and flees with Zama, settling in the Lawless Quarter slum of Abidjan. Following the post-election crisis and the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, Zama becomes a close ally of the new government and founds the Microbes. Later, Zama is surrounded by an angry mob and is killed via necklacing, thus ending the story.

Realizing that morning has not yet come, Roman claims that the story has a twist ending, and attempts to explain that Zama was a foundling. Half-Mad accuses Roman of stalling and prepares to kill him. However, Roman is saved when a fight breaks out between Lass, Half-Mad, and their supporters. In order to prevent the brawl from escalating, prison Warden Nivaquine fires into the crowd with a handgun, killing several prisoners, including Half-Mad. In the prison courtyard, Roman watches the sun rise.

''Mouthpiece'' is a two-person play in which both actors play the same character, Cassandra. Cassandra is a writer who finds out her mother has just died and must deal with preparations for the funeral. She must write the eulogy but finds she has lost the ability to speak. The play takes place in a span of twenty-four hours and is set in present-day Toronto.

A special forces unit is sent on a mission to a research testing facility to fight the undead.

Doug Rawlins, an outspoken Christian American journalist and blogger is kidnapped by members of the Iranian regime while he is in Cairo, Egypt making speeches. He is then taken to the Middle East and put on trial for erroneous and phony spying charges. His wife Liz, a State Department official, tries to use her influence to get the American government involved. She wants the US government to get her husband back. However, she soon realizes that the American government will not get involved. Thus she decides to go to the Middle East to rescue him herself. on The Film Catalogue

The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962. Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, and a staunch communist. During a large workers' strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant over rising food prices and cuts in wages, Lyudmila witnesses the mass shooting of demonstrators by order of the Government Commission, which is trying to hide the strike from the rest of the USSR.

During the protest and massacre, Lyudmila's 18 year-old daughter Svetka disappears. Lyudmila searches for her daughter frantically, but discreetly, as the KGB begins arresting suspects, secretly burying bodies, locking the town down completely, and legally swearing every person in town to total silence about the events. Lyudmila struggles to understand how the government could do all this, but also tries to convince herself that communism will triumph in the end. She longs for the days when Stalin ruled, but also prays and begs God to let her daughter still be alive.

A sympathetic KGB agent surreptitiously tries to help her locate her daughter. They eventually make their way out of the town to check a rural cemetery where some of the bodies have been secretly buried. A policeman who was ordered to bury the bodies in decrepit graves confirms that he buried the girl in the picture Lyudmila shows him of her daughter Svetka. She becomes grief-stricken when he mentions the girl's toes were sticking out of a hole in one stocking - a hole Lyudmila had recently told her daughter to sew up.

She drinks heavily on the way back to town. She is overcome with grief and confusion about all that has happened and what it means for communism and for her life. When she gets back to her apartment at night, her own father is packing up Svetka's suitcase. He tells Lyudmila that Svetka is up on the roof.

Lyudmila races up the stairs, and through a window sees her daughter hiding on the roof. She is overcome with joy and shock, and repeats God's name in wonder that her daughter is alive. As she hugs Svetka, she promises that she will protect her from the KGB. As the film ends, Lyudmila embraces her daughter and repeats the words, "We'll do better."

Luisa, a 20-year-old law student from an upper-class family, moves in to a collective housing squat and becomes an anti-fascist activist because she is opposed to the rise of the neo-Nazi political right in Germany.[https://www.filmportal.de/film/und-morgen-die-ganze-welt_721f8023acb44f0b9afd4fe5011328cc ''Und morgen die ganze Welt''], filmportal.de.

The plot is partly inspired by the biography of director Julia von Heinz, who engaged in anti-fascism herself when she was younger.Hannah Pilarczyk: [https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/und-morgen-die-ganze-welt-von-julia-von-heinz-meine-jugend-in-der-antifa-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172728872 ''Ihre Jugend in der Antifa''], Spiegel Online, 1 September 2020. The political design of the movie's right-wing "Liste 14" party is also a reference to that of the group Alternative for Germany.Rüdiger Suchsland: [https://www.swr.de/swr2/film-und-serie/und-morgen-die-ganze-welt-julia-von-heinz-im-wettbewerb-von-venedig-100.html ''„Und morgen die ganze Welt“– Politisches Kino von Julia von Heinz im Wettbewerb von Venedig''], SWR.de, 10 September 2020.

While working as a masseur in a gated community in Poland, Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East unexpectedly builds a cult following.

A group of Welsh colonists decides to emigrate to Argentina's Patagonia region in 1865. Among them is a woman called Catherine Roberts, her husband, and her three children. On board the sailing ship ''Mimosa'' they arrive at present day Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina on July 28, 1865. Catherine dies on August 21 and is buried near the coast, but all trace of her is lost until 1995 when some bones are discovered by chance. Argentine scientists Silvia Dahinten, Julieta Gomez Otero, and Fernando Coronato work for 20 years to determine if the remains found are those of Catherine. In 2015, with the arrival in Puerto Madryn of a Welsh descendant of Catherine, and new scientific research techniques, the scientists are able to confirm that the bones found in 1995 are those of Catherine.

Believing that Jason Todd is becoming too aggressive in his crime-fighting, Batman decides to suspend him from his active duties as Robin; angered, Jason forsakes Batman and leaves Gotham City. The two end up reuniting in Bosnia to fight the Joker and Ra's al Ghul, who are working together to steal enough uranium to create radioactive dirty bombs. As Batman stops Ra's al Ghul's men from getting the uranium across the border, the Joker captures Robin and brutally beats him with a crowbar, leaving him to die in the warehouse that is rigged to explode.

''Ladyhawke'' is a novelization of the film ''Ladyhawke''.

''Interzone: The 1st Anthology'' is a sampler of fiction from the British magazine ''Interzone''.

''Refugee'' is a novel in which Hope Hubris is raided by space pirates during an interplanetary journey.

Rome, 1976. 10-years-old Valerio witnesses together with his mother a failed assassination attempt on his father Alfonso by a terrorist commando. From that moment on, fear and a constant sense of vulnerability dramatically mark the feelings of the whole family. That summer, Valerio meets Christian, a boy slightly older than him. Lonely, rebellious, and bold, he seems to have come out of nowhere. Their meeting will change his life forever.

''Philosophy and Science Fiction'' contains 14 stories, one play (Capek's ''R U R''), two extracts, roughly 30 pages of introductory philosophy, and Study Questions.

The film dramatizes the events of the Srebrenica massacre, during which Serbian troops sent Bosniak men and boys to death in July 1995 led by Serbian convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. Named for its protagonist, ''Quo Vadis, Aida?'' exposes the events through the eyes of a mother named Aida, a schoolteacher who works with the United Nations as a translator. After three and a half years under siege, the town of Srebrenica, close to the northeastern Serbian border, was declared a UN safety zone in 1993 and put under the protection of a Dutch battalion working for the UN.

12-year-old Ali and his three friends do small jobs and petty crimes to survive and support their families. In a timely turn of events, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden underground treasure. However, in order to gain access to the tunnel where the treasure is buried, Ali and his gang have first to enroll at the near Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers.

Members of the Japanese military police seize and arrest a British silk merchant on charges of espionage.

In 1940, Yūsaku Fukuhara (Takahashi) runs an international import-export business in Kobe. After the arrest, and subsequent release, of the British merchant, a unit of the military police arrive at his office. Taiji (Higashide), the recently-promoted leader of the unit and a childhood friend of Yūsaku's wife, warns Yūsaku that relevant authorities are keeping an eye on him under the National Mobilization Law, in part because of his preference for Western clothing, imported goods, and close contact with foreigners. Yūsaku is unconcerned with the growing tension in society and unaffected by Taiji's visit. The British merchant says goodbye to Yūsaku and Satoko (Aoi) at their home and tells them he is going to Shanghai as he can no longer do business in Japan.

Satoko stars as a glamorous thief in an amateur heist film with Yūsaku's nephew Fumio (Bandō) and Yūsaku screens the film for his colleagues at the office's bōnenkai. After the new year, he informs Satoko that he and Fumio are going on a short business trip to Manchuria to import cheap medicine and other goods. Their trip is delayed an additional two weeks and return to Kobe with a woman whom Yūsaku does not mention to Satoko. Shortly after their return, Fumio announces that he will be leaving the company for a ryokan in Arima to write a novel about his experiences in Manchuria before he is drafted.

Satoko becomes increasingly suspicious of Yūsaku after learning about the woman who returned with her husband, Hiroko Kusakabe (Hyunri), after a tip-off from Taiji that Hiroko has been murdered and Yūsaku applied for passports for himself and Hiroko to leave the country. She visits Fumio in Arima and finds him disheveled and incandescent in his room, where he shouts at her about her unseeing ignorance of her husband's actions to maintain her comfortable lifestyle. He informs her that he is being watched by the military police, and gives her a package for Yūsaku, correctly assuming that the police standing outside the ryokan will not interrogate her. At home, Yūsaku explains what he and Fumio saw in Manchuria: biological experiments, including deliberately spreading plague, committed by Unit 731 (not explicitly named) on civilians in Manchuria. The package Satoko received from Fumio contained notes from one of the doctors procured by Hiroko, a copy translated into English by Fumio, and a short film of the facilities used for experimentation, corpses, vivisection, and the burning of bodies. Satoko accuses Yūsaku of being an American spy and unconcerned with their lives, but he explains he is not spying for any country; rather, he is making the information public in the name of justice.

In the office, Yūsaku puts the package from Fumio into a safe in the back of the office, but Satoko is able to open the safe using the combination she was given while shooting Yūsaku's short film. While she is closing the safe, she knocks over a chessboard and is unable to return the pieces of their correct position. Later, Yūsaku notices the chess pieces in the wrong positions, opens the safe, and realizes the Japanese notebook has been taken. Fumio is arrested by Taiji and the military police and tortured for sharing national secrets with the enemy. When Taiji summons Yūsaku to the office, he reveals that Fumio admitted to everything and that he worked alone. While Taiji doesn't believe Fumio's forced confession, he has the notebook which was turned into him by an anonymous citizen. Yūsaku returns home and questions Satoko, who admits she gave the notebook to Taiji, but she was sure that Fumio would not implicate Yūsaku even under torture. Together they watch the beginning of the short film which contains shots of the original Japanese notebook. Yūsaku admits that there is a second, longer film with better detail and more clarity that he plans to show the Americans.

In 1941, the U.S. places an oil embargo on Japan. Yūsaku's chances of leaving Japan to give the information of the illegal experiments to the Allies are almost nothing. While he cannot leave under legal means, he is able to smuggle himself out of the country in a shipping crate. Satoko agrees to go with him and help prepare for the trip. They exchange Japanese yen for watches and jewelry to pay for their journey overseas. Before they are about to leave, under the guise of taking a two-week trip so as to not arouse suspicion, Yūsaku decides they should split up. Satoko will take the film of the experiments in the shipping crate of a freighter, and he will go to America from Shanghai. However once Satoko is in the shipping crate, the military police search the ship for a stowaway and the man Yūsaku paid to smuggle Satoko shows the police where she is hiding. She is brought before Taiji and beseeches him to be the gentle person she knew in childhood, but he hits her across the face and says that she deserves death for treason. The military police screen the film Satoko was smuggling but it is revealed that Yūsaku swapped the film of the experiments with the amateur film he made of Satoko and Fumio months ago. With no other evidence to convict her, Satoko is released from police custody. Yūsaku is shown sailing away on a small fishing boat to Shanghai.

In March 1945, Satoko has been confined to a mental hospital for an untold number of months when Dr. Nozaki, a friend of hers and Yūsaku's, comes to see her and promises to get her out through his connections with Imperial University. He admits having heard a rumor that Yūsaku was seen in Bombay boarding a ship to Los Angeles which is believed to have sunk. That night, an air raid on Kobe destroys the hospital and Satoko leaves barefoot. She walks alone to the beach and collapses on the sand, screaming and crying.

The final scene states that Yūsaku Fukuhara was declared dead in 1946 but there were signs of forgery on the death certificate; Satoko Fukuhara left for the United States a few years later.

''La Fosse aux Tigres'' tells the story of Dave Leduc, a Canadian martial artist based in Gatineau, Québec, who dreams of competing in the national sport of Myanmar called Lethwei, considered the world's most brutal sport. Having difficulty booking a fight in Myanmar and when a professional fight he's been training for is cancelled, Leduc leaves on his first trip to Myanmar's neighboring country, Thailand. There, he begins his professional career and starts fighting Muaythai to gain ring experience in hopes of one day fighting in Lethwei. While climbing the ranks of the Muaythai circuit, he finds love when he meets Russian model Irina Terehova, which cements his commitment to the fighting life. Leduc attracts attention after winning many key fights, notably inside a maximum security prison in Prison Fight and eventually gets signed to fight Lethwei in Yangon.

In August 2016, Leduc dominated at his first Lethwei fight against Too Too and with the fresh taste of victory, challenged the national hero Tun Tun Min. The two men later fought in October to a draw according to traditional rules and rematched on December 11, 2016, at Thein Pyu Stadium. Confident of beating Leduc, Tun Tun Min sweetened the rematch by putting his prestigious Openweight world title on the line. Leduc ultimately marked history by defeating Tun Tun Min and becoming the first Non-Burmese Lethwei world champion.

Cennet was abandoned by her mother as a newborn and her grandmother took care of her. Despite her humble upbringing and lack of financial resources, she becomes a brilliant architect and achieves her dream job at a prestigious architecture firm. Cennet is unexpectedly reunited with Selim, her childhood friend who also works in the firm, and her biological mother Arzu, who disappeared from her life and has now come to disrupt her world. Melisa is a second daughter of Arzu from another relationship, and she becomes very jealous about the increasing relationship of Cennet and Selim but at last she realizes that Selim would never love her and she leaves them alone.

On July 30, 2020, while the United States is under COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, a group of friends (Haley, Jemma, Emma, Caroline, Radina & Teddy) have decided to hold weekly Zoom calls to stay in touch. For this week's call Haley has hired a medium, Seylan, to lead them in a virtual séance. Teddy is forced to leave the chat by his girlfriend, Jinny, who unintentionally disconnects him. During the séance, one of the members, Jemma, claims to feel intense tension around her neck. Overcome with fear, she says that somebody called "Jack" is with her, a friend who committed suicide in her school by hanging himself. Seylan's internet cuts out, disconnecting her from the chat. During this time, Jemma informs the group that she made "Jack" up because the silence was getting awkward, which angers Haley. The remaining members of the group begin to experience a strange, terrifying phenomena; Haley's chair is pulled by an unseen force, Caroline sees a hanging corpse in her attic, Haley uses her Polaroid camera to snap a photo of her living room, where a ghostly hanging figure appears on the print and Emma's glass spontaneously breaks.

As the girls panic, Haley manages to get back in touch with Seylan and informs her of everything that has happened; a spirit is indeed with them, but it isn't friendly. Seylan believes and explains that Jemma's prank may have allowed the spirit or demon access to our world, entering the circle during the séance, she also informs the girls of the demonic spirit could be a tulpa which has taken on the guise of "Jack" in Jemma's made-up story, and begins to give them instructions on how to close the séance. The spirit interrupts this by causing more phenomena and something happens in Seylan's background, ending the call again before the girls attempt to close the circle using her advice. Believing the ordeal to be over, the members of the group begin to leave the Zoom call; Radina gets up and leaves the room unaware of her boyfriend Alan’s body hanging behind her. Caroline's artificial background is interrupted as her face is smashed into the camera, causing her laptop to fall. Emma's camera shows one of her filters on an invisible figure in the living room, which turns to face Emma, scaring her. She then scatters flour on the floor, showing the footprints of the spirit coming towards her and causing her kitchen cupboards to burst open before attacking Emma, causing her to hide in her room.

Radina attempts to flee her home after her boyfriend Alan's body drops in front of her, but is pulled away from the door and killed by the spirit. Caroline is killed as she pleads for help when the demon repeatedly smashes her face onto the desk. Haley and Jemma argue, blaming each other for what has occurred, when Haley is pulled off-screen and attacked. Shocked, Jemma, who lives around the corner from Haley, immediately leaves her home to try and help her. Teddy then returns to the call, as ten minutes remain until the Zoom meeting ends. Unaware of everything that has occurred, the spirit (in the form of a horrifying figure) attacks him. Chased through his house, a panicked Teddy witnesses Jinny being murdered by an unseen forece before he himself is knocked down, set on fire and killed. Emma, now the only person still active in the call, fearfully turns her camera to the doorway of her room after it suddenly opens. She throws a blanket, which lands on the invisible spirit, showing its outline. Terrified, Emma opens her window to flee but accidentally falls to her death.

Jemma arrives at Haley's home and finds that, via the open Zoom call, that both Emma and Teddy are both dead. She is then attacked by the spirit which throws a bottle at her while other supernatural phenomena occur around her. She manages to find Haley hiding under her desk, and the pair attempt to escape the house using the flash of Haley's Polaroid camera to light the way, only for Jack, the invisible spirit to suddenly appear, and rush at them as the Zoom call timer immediately expires.

College senior Danielle and her sugar daddy Max have sex before she hurries to a observance with her parents, Joel and Debbie. Before the , at her aunt Sheila's house, Danielle is schooled by her mother on how to respond to questions about her disorganized life. Within the house, members of the local extended Jewish community compare her to her ex-girlfriend Maya, who is adored by the neighbors and heading to law school. Max, who is a former colleague of Joel's, arrives, and Debbie insists on introducing him to Danielle in the hopes that one of Max's relatives will hire her. They have an awkward exchange and Debbie reveals to Danielle that Max is married, shocking her.

Overwhelmed by prying neighbors, Danielle is further affected by the arrival of Max's seemingly perfect but non-Jewish wife, Kim, and their baby, Rose. After accidentally ripping her tights and hurting her leg, Danielle retreats to the bathroom where she takes a topless photo and sends it to Max. She is interrupted and accidentally leaves her phone in the bathroom. Unable to look away from Max and his family, she offers to clean vomit from an adjacent room in order to escape. Maya comes to help, catching Danielle repeatedly looking at Max. She mistakes the gaze as one directed at Kim and attempts to gauge Danielle's interest, while Danielle tries to dismiss Kim's attractiveness and success.

Danielle is reluctantly introduced to Kim, who is interested in making conversation with and hiring her, though Danielle is jealous and rebuffs her offer. It is also revealed that Kim is the breadwinner of the family and therefore unknowingly funds Max's arrangement with Danielle. Kim grows suspicious when she notices Danielle wearing the same expensive bracelet that Max had given to her. Max spills coffee on Danielle, leading her to have a brief heart-to-heart with her mother. Maya also tries to talk to her, but Max interrupts the two; annoyed, Maya loudly reveals details of her and Danielle's past relationship, while Max tries to determine if Danielle is still romantically interested in him. She then follows him to the upstairs bathroom and tries to give him a blowjob but he leaves. Upset, Danielle goes outside, finding Maya smoking by the side of the house. The two admit that they miss each other and passionately kiss. Maya is excited, but later finds Danielle's phone in the bathroom and reads notifications from the sugar baby app; angry, she taunts Danielle about the phone without revealing where it is. Danielle's anxiety grows when she encounters Kim with her parents again, having a measured conversation in which she behaves erratically and hints that Max uses the couple's vacant SoHo apartment as a bachelor pad. When Kim asks if Danielle is dating, Joel starts talking about her failed love life and implores the nearby guests to sing a song they used to sing to her as a baby; Danielle feels infantilized and stressfully imagines Kim singing along, and flaunting her relationship with Max.

The guests then gather to say prayers, with Rose screaming until Kim takes her away. Max follows Danielle into the kitchen afterwards, and they discuss ending their arrangement. Kim appears and tells Max they should go home, and Danielle leaves to ask her parents if they can go home, too. Moments later, Kim finds Danielle to return her phone, and tries to force her to hold Rose, saying she needs help feeding her. Danielle tries to refuse as Max arrives and argues with Kim about the baby, which pushes Danielle into accidentally knocking over a vase. Danielle attempts to clean up the mess but has a breakdown on the floor in front of the guests, and is comforted by her mother and Maya. Debbie suggests they use helping an elderly attendee to her car as an excuse to leave, and Maya and Danielle reconnect as they carry food outside. Everyone is persuaded to ride home in Joel's overpacked van, with Kim and Max's baby shrieking as Joel struggles to find his keys. Maya and Danielle affectionately hold hands in the back and smile at each other.

The documentary series follows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who used his power and finances to shield his predatory behavior. Eight survivors share their stories in the documentary. Courtney Wild, Rachel Kay Benavides, and Virginia Roberts Giuffre appear in the series, along with new victims who chose to come forward for the first time. The series continued filming close to the release date in order to include the FBI arrest of British socialite and alleged Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell on July 2, 2020.

A young man, Guilaume, loses his job in Paris, and returns home to a seaside town, accompanied by Lina, a prostitute on the run from police. Guillaume's family, the Ferauds, runs a mussel packing factory with Henri Messardier. Henri is attracted to Lina but is unable to handle the fact she was a prostitute; he gets drunk and hits a workmate who insults her, accidentally killing him. He refuses to see Lina in prison and she marries Guillaume. Guillaume's sister Marinette adores Henri but he is unable to forget Lina.

Diana d'Alva is part of a family who are leading a conspiracy against the Borgias in medieval Italy. She is rescued from being attacked by Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family.

Federico goes to serve Cesare Borgia. Cesare's sister Lucrezia desires Federico but he is in love with Diana. Lucrezia's former lover, Astorre, is jealous of Frederico.

Frederico rescues Diana from the Borgias and kills Atorre in a duel.

On Christmas Eve, a young girl, Polly, is excited to find out what Santa Claus will bring her during the night. As soon as she falls asleep, a pair of kidnappers arrive and carry Polly away. Escaping them, she becomes lost in a snowy forest. She climbs a tree and sees a far-off church lit up for Midnight Mass. Arriving at the church, Polly admires a stained glass window. Magically it spins and disappears to reveal visions of Santa, children finding Christmas presents, and angels bestowing blessings. Leaving the church, Polly finds the way to Santa's palace.

In the palace, where angels are loading an airplane full of toys for Santa to deliver, Polly finds an enormous box holding a doll as large as she is. Polly puts on the doll's clothes and takes its place in the box, which is loaded into the airplane and sets off. Polly's box is dropped down a chimney and into her own house. Polly wakes up to realise her whole adventure had been a dream—but the giant doll she had imagined is there among her gifts, waiting for her. A final scene shows Polly and Santa Claus together: he is bestowing gifts and she is blowing kisses goodbye.

A group of dysfunctional university students take a weekend retreat as part of a thesis study for Richard Strand, a psychology student studying fear, at his family's rural vacation cabin. Upon arrival, the group find a life-size wooden mannequin, "Morty," in the house. Richard reveals that Morty was a childhood toy of his, and he intends to use Morty as a soundboard for each of the individuals to confess their fears to. Only Richard's girlfriend, Ashley, is reluctant to participate.

Richard conducts a group session in which the participants explain their fears to Morty. Troy, a joking stoner, laughs off the exercise, though Leslie, Troy's elder foster sister, admits her fear of aging, while Vance declares his greatest fear is poverty. Richard's uncle Pete unexpectedly arrives, interrupting the session, with his younger girlfriend, Tanya. Pete invites himself to stay, despite Richard's insistence that the group remain a controlled study. Later that night, Tanya confesses her fear of water to Morty, while Mindy admits her fear of heights; Mindy's boyfriend, Gerald, tells her in private that he fears religion, as he was raised by a Christian zealot. Richard himself admits to Morty that he is afraid of commitment, and cites his mother's death in the cabin as a significant childhood trauma.

Tanya has a breakthrough with Richard, in which he reveals her fear of water is actually a metaphor for her fear of emotions, which he surmises based on Jungian theory. Meanwhile, Morty begins to surface inexplicably in different places at the cabin, posed outside windows and in the hot tub. When Richard accuses Ashley of placing Morty in the hot tub to frighten Tanya, Ashley returns his engagement ring to him. When asked where Morty came from, Richard recounts how his grandfather acquired Morty from a Native American man who carved the mannequin for him.

The group go out for a night out at a local Christmas-themed amusement park owned by Uncle Pete. Mindy is attacked in the park by an unseen assailant and raped. Gerald goes missing, and the group suspect their troubled acquaintance, Vance, is responsible, as he has made numerous sexual advances toward Mindy; furthermore, Ashley believes Vance could be the unknown rapist who has been sexually assaulting women on campus.

Vance flees back to the cabin with the intention of stealing money he suspects is concealed in the house. Upon arriving, he discovers the money beneath a floor hatch, but is killed by an unseen assailant and dragged under. The others arrive shortly after, but cannot locate Vance, and subsequently find their tires slashed. Pete and Tanya leave to the Christmas Village to obtain a vehicle, but become separated. Upon arriving at the park, Pete finds Gerald's crucified body in one of the buildings.

Meanwhile, at the cabin, Troy attempts to initiate sex with Leslie, but stops when Leslie implies she is Troy's biological mother. Traumatized, Troy flees into the woods. Leslie follows, only to find Morty dressed in Troy's clothes; in a matter of moments, Leslie quickly ages. Richard, after checking on Mindy, finds her apparently possessed, and able to animate Morty. Speaking through Mindy, Morty accuses Richard of causing his mother's death: Richard's father murdered her after Richard found her in bed with a lover, and buried her body in the woods. Richard and Mindy's physical fight ends with him throwing her out a window to her death.

Ashley flees the cabin, and encounters Troy in the woods, who reveals himself to be the campus rapist. He attempts to assault her, but Ashley kills him by striking him with a large branch. Uncle Pete returns to the cabin alone, and Richard explains his recollection of how his mother was killed. Pete denies this occurred, but Richard subsequently realizes Pete was the one having the affair with his mother, after spotting a matching tattoo on his shoulder. Ashley and Richard flee the cabin, with an animated Morty pursuing them. In the woods, Richard confronts his mother's grave, facing his greatest fear. They subsequently save Tanya, who is being attacked by Morty. Richard and Morty face off, and Morty relents, calmly walking into a pond and disappearing into the water.

A young boy embarks on a mission to save his mother after she is bitten by a Nazi zombie. He must save the Ginseng King from a three-headed king.